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I can't speak for the GP, but I lived there for a month with my wife and 3 kids. During that trip we spent extended time in Salzburg, Munich, and Vienna, and Vienna was my least favorite.

It's hard to put my finger on why I liked it less. The people weren't as friendly, ethnic diversity increases as you move further away from the city center that I think might contribute to the lack of community feeling. (Language barriers)

There's a lot of "culture", but a lot of it feels very touristy and classical, and not organic or natural to me. I don't know, the city felt a little fake and dreary to me.

It's also not as naturally beautiful as the other two (but to be fair it's hard to compete with Munich and Salzburg).
Then it doesn't work properly in Chrome or something-- it's not letting me drag items to make them bigger than the screen size.
You don't need uptime, but it's nice to have. Repairing a degraded mirror takes a lot less time than restoring from a backup in the vast majority of cases.
Someone needs to do it first
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Tunneling is generally a bit simpler well above sea level - the main enemy isn't ROCK, but water, and keeping things dry.
This is the biggest challenge in detecting life elsewhere in our universe- what will it look like?

The issue becomes even murkier when you consider the existence of other dimensions. My favorite analogy- imagine we lived in a 2D world, where we were just squares on paper. If an actual cube "passed through" our world, it would look just like us, then disappear.
Maybe I'm being cynical, but the dip at 4:00 pm makes me think there is some noise here for the Reddit chart. Also, the best time (8:00-9:00) immediate drops down to the average in the next hour, and then spikes again following that.
> If genetics influences physical traits from height, skin color, facial features, and even athleticism, what black magic in this world makes it so that genetics doesn't even touch behavior or intelligence?

Because we have no evidence that such is the case on a culturally grouping level.

There is no genetic concept of "Chinese". It literally doesn't exist.

You're making this about the possibility of genetics impacting behavior, when the real issue is you thinking cultural boundaries exist in genetics. They don't.
Well, it seems that from the point of view of Genie, if it's required to send the correct code N times in a row, acceptance should be aborted if that is interspersed by any wrong code. In that case, a De Bruijn sequence wouldn't work.
IFTTT and Zapier are spiritual successors to Pipes, although their focus is on APIs vs feeds.

Maybe start a new, open source version of Pipes?
Unfortunately I'm not seeing how that's the CNAME+SSL is possible on the free tier.

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2013/12/13/securing-your-win...
It's a very simple layer on top of PostgreSQL that stores basic JSON documents. Documents are organized into paths, which can be queried, and it supports things like tags and putting documents into timelines, and it does path/document-level permissions.

It does a great job for basic document-oriented content storage, and we use it for many things, but it admittedly falls down for anything requiring inter-relationships between documents (ie., graphs), and it has some other issues. It doesn't support querying on arbitrary fields, so we rely on indexing all documents in ElasticSearch, which introduces a lag problem where the UI needs to explicitly wait until ES has been populated after a change. Also, it's written in Ruby and uses HTTP, so it's not fast.

We're working on a "2.0" that changes it completely. It implements operational transforms/fine-grained revisions, supports multiple backends (such as Redis), fast synchronous updates to other data stores such as ElasticSearch, and uses a faster RPC protocol. Currently writing it in Node.js/ES6, but might rewrite in Go once we see that the design works. It will be open source, if you're interested.
I am one of the developers for houndify.com, so I can answer this question for you!

We actually have an api endpoint dedicated to doing this for you. At the moment we have a concept of "domains" where developers use a proprietary language to help Hound understand topics. Using our api, you could technically do this yourself, and add functionality that doesn't currently exist on the platform.

You could use the hotel domain and get back a ton of pre-formatted data, or you could just get back speech-to-text, or you could specify hooks you want to take action on. I'm not a developer on the actual voice api itself, so I'm not the most informed, but perhaps that answers your question?
>You aren't Gandalf

Thanks for clearing this up for those confused!
I would welcome seeing this extended into a larger and more detailed article, or even a series of articles. Usually I'm a little skeptical of complaint stories because they often strain credulity but you seem to have approached this in a patient and methodical manner.
In a report from 2006[1] they prognosed a start of normal operations in 2017 with a delay of up to four years but also the possibility of finishing early by one year.

In 2012 they seemed confident to open in 2016, but I can't really find the reasoning for that. As far as I can see there were also cost considerations playing a part in the decision.

Edit: apparently a very difficult Dolostone section was less proplematic than anticipated (again, couldn't find an english source for this)

[1] (in three languages but no english, sorry): http://www.parlament.ch/r/mm/2007/Paginas/mm_2007-04-27_9519...
True, but a different type of help.
Ah, ok, that makes sense. Thanks!
Can someone please enlighten me on the context? Assume I know nothing about what Kaggle is, what the contest is about, and even what 'overfitting' means.
The headline also included "Peace with Islamic State", but it wouldn't fit in the title field. I figured the other two issues were of more interest on HN.
This is an amazing product. Have you tried talking to VCs or anyone about someonr adopting it somehow?

I wonder if it would be possible to build something similar using IPV6/some kind of P2P/STUN/TURN/UDP hole punching/swarm/ethereum / any way to make a distributed system that does the same thing. Or maybe just volunteer running Node on their own VPSs.
This is great! It still looks like you have to go to SF for the windows installers; am I missing something?

Do you know if there's any plans to move away from SourceForge? If I was in charge of the project, I'm not sure what I'd do. Maybe move all active development to github, but not abandon the SF repo to malware injection?
> The theft isn't of an object, it is theft of compensation due to a creator. Duplication isn't the issue.

Based on my limited understanding of copyright law, it does in fact concern itself with actual duplication, and is rather mum about compensation.

You can infringe by, say, altering something that is freely distributed in a way that is not permitted by its license (for instance changing the copyright notice to say that you created that work, rather than the author). The author could be adamant that permission to do that is not granted at any price (so that it's not an issue of compensation, but purely about unlicensed duplicates with unauthorized alterations).
I found this article a couple of years ago, probably here on HN, and it helped me through a dark time.

I find myself coming back to it very often, or sharing it with others.

I found a lot of peace with this quote:

> I keep looking for meaning, but all I've found so far is that in order to be at peace with the present, we must be at peace with the past, because the present is a product of the past. Accept. Accept. Accept. Learn to love the present moment. What happened, happened.
So if someone were to say that Spanish culture is X, where X was negative, you wouldn't consider that racist either? Perhaps 'racist' isn't exactly the right word, but that seems like splitting hairs.
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I can assure you it would be an operational nightmare for many medium to large companies to have to have technicians open up computers to flip a switch on the hundreds or thousands of harddrives whenever they need a firmware upgrade (and it's more common than you think).

See https://laur.ie/blog/2015/06/ssds-a-gift-and-a-curse/ for an example of the pain of being unable to flash yourself: "An awesome contractor for Samsung agreed that if we drove over batches of drives (luckily, they are incredibly close to our datacenter) they would flash them and return them the next day."

What happens when companies get sick of having to flip the switch? They would leave it in the insecure position all the time.
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I was doing similar research a few months ago and came across http://structureddomains.com/. These guys look pretty solid, but I haven't inquired about their pricing. You might give them a call.
> I really, really can't understand the bystander effect unless there's an immediate threat to one's personal safety
> I just don't understand the logic of people who just walk on by.

It's not logic, it's irrational. It's an example of the typical human brain process being less than logical. There are all kinds of reasons people don't stop. They don't know what to do. They feel inadequate or unqualified to help. They don't want the social pressure of being the only one to be doing something different.

There is a famous experiment involving a bunch of people in a room who are all secret participants except for one person. They all ignore the bleating smoke alarm, and even the smoke when it comes into the room, and the study subject will do so as well. There are lots of other experiments about this too, with some fascinating videos on YouTube.

But the central answer to your question is that it's behavior that is irrational and not founded on logic.
Why did it fail, do you think? I thought it was an outstanding product in terms of both functionality and UI, but it never seemed to gain traction.
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False. Amazon had positive net income in 2011 and 2013 of $631 and $274 million respectively.
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Aluminum is fine, but foil that's only a couple hundred microns thick will only provide useful shielding above say 100 kHz. Fine for microwave shielding, but audio frequency EM waves will go right through it.

Also aluminum foil is a pain to work with in many ways. Can you buy a cheap premade aluminum enclosure that's as thick as the copper mesh you have now?

Examples:
https://www.google.com/search?q=aluminum+enclosure+electroni...

Then you ground the box same as your mesh is grounded now.
This a disappointment if not an unexpected one. I used pipes again just a few weeks ago to do some simple modification of feed but thankfully ended up taking another approach (not a pipes replacement I just wrote some code for it). Pipes was a really cool tool and it will be missed. Does anyone know of/use any alternatives?
Was it a CHASE card? I've seen reports of Compromised Chase credit cards on Flyertalk [1] and a couple of them mentioned use of a cloned card in Brazil.

Edit:
[1] http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/chase-ultimate-rewards/168257...
I worked on Pipes briefly, shortly after it launched. It was really two distinct products rolled into one. The visual interface was groundbreaking and stunning-I think half my team was hired on the strength of that demo. No one could believe Javascript could do that.

The backend was an extremely useful tool for munging RSS feeds. With any kind of support, or even benign neglect, the product would have been successful. It took a lot of active mismanagement and folly to keep Pipes from living up to its promise.

Hats off to psadri and the other Pipes creators for a really stellar piece of work.
I've used this pipe as my Hacker News RSS feed for the last 5 years, which flips the link structure so the main link for each entry is to the comments.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=0e19519adf0515251...

Thanks to whoever made it. I guess I'll have to find a way to do it myself now.
The vast majority of american rail infrastructure is based on diesel, not electric trains, which vastly complicates tunnel constructure due to the level of ventilation required.

For instance, the Cascade tunnel in eastern Washington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Tunnel) can only handle ~one train per hour because they basically have to replace all the air in the tunnel every time, which takes about a half hour even with giant fans.

Tunnels, especially deep ones, are also extraordinarily expensive, that's why modern rail is built on viaducts, not in tunnels, because it's just much much cheaper.
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There was recently an article by facebook about how they're building/deploying a cold-storage datastore[1] which amongst other things, uses custom HDD firmware:

"The biggest change was allowing only one drive per tray to be powered on at a time. In fact, to ensure that a software bug doesn’t power all drives on by mistake and blow fuses in a data center, we updated the firmware in the drive controller to enforce this constraint."

There's been plenty of speculation that this is similar to how Amazon Glacier works - lots of mostly unpowered disks, with custom firmware.

I presume when they're buying in suitable quantity, they can get direct manufacturer support with these sorts of modifications.

[1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/-under-the-...
You're being sarcastic, correct? Or trolling?
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And said software is typicaly bloated and buggy relative to its Unix counterparts. The MVSC runtimes are popular solely because Windows is popular.

Wine is a stopgap for software that's still reliant on Windows. The preferred approach would be for that software to instead be properly ported, which would include using a proper libc and executable package format (like ELF).

That said, my opinions aren't representative of everyone in the world. There are projects like Wine and (more interestingly) winelib that implement the MSVC, and those are popular projects (the former more popular, though the latter closer to being solely MSVC on Linux).
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I don't see why this technique wouldn't also work for methods, especially with the addition of computed property names [1].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I absolutely detest the sarcastic, cynical replies that always appear in the comments of stories like this. It feels good to write them, but reading them just fills me with a deep sense of defeat and sadness and they contribute little or nothing.
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My sarcasm readings are off the chart for this one.
I think the bystander effect is overplayed for variety of reasons, mostly for political narratives (people are worse than before, less religion means worse people, people suck in general, city people are bad - country people are good, etc). I'm constantly seeing people intervene around me. I think its popularity is proof of how far divorced the social sciences can be from reality and how people thirsty for a narrative will find that narrative.

I sometimes read /r/letsnotmeet and a lot of stories end with "...and no one bothered to help me" when a woman was being harassed. The top comment is almost always, "Did you ask for help? Scream? Signal anyone? Do anything?" The answer is always "no."

The top commenter often reminds the author that what seems terribly important to you may look like an everyday conversation to others. The harasser looks like he could have been the girl's boyfriend to someone on the outside. The stories that do involve pleas for help all seem to end with someone helping out. People want to intervene when they realize there's an opportunity to do so.

There's something perverse about assuming we're all cold calculating machines who don't care about others. It seems like the truly shitty people want to believe this to make themselves feel better about their own apathy. Its classic projection.
To Europeans wondering what this is, these are companies that track every financial transaction of Americans in ways that would violate dozens of privacy laws outside the u.s., and have become the de facto source for determining credit risk, rather than a simple search of court records for open or pending debt issues.
Just wait; I'm going to obtain an exclusive distribution license on DNA from the oldest bacterium in the world. All life will then have to compensate me every time any cell divides.

Also, since DNA controls what you look like, including your silhouette, you will have to pay me every time you allow a light source to cast a shadow of yourself onto a flat surface.

Also, when you take a bath, you displace a volume of water corresponding to your shape. That is an unlicensed copy.

Your footprints in the dirt or snow, ditto, not to mention the fingerprints you leave on everything you touch.

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Man, think about it. Millions of years of evolution (based on continuous unrestrained copying and alteration on a massive scale) lead to Man. What does man do? Put three guitar chords together with some puerile, hackneyed lyrics, and insist on compensation from everyone that hears the crap.
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I understand your tendency to talk about the downvotes, and I don't think you are being rude/baiting.
Readers here are probably more interested in your argument/contribution to the discussion itself, rather than your opinion of how your argument will be received (discussion about being downvoted).
Additionally, a broader point to take away is that downvotes and discourse work differently here than on reddit (despite what reddit's general rules claim).
It's a Japanese company doing it no?
What photo are you referring to? I don't see an F-22 picture in the Ars link.
> Isn't the logic behind it that someone else is going to help so why bother?

Its an emotional response, not a logical one, so trying to explain the logic behind it is probably pointless. OTOH, if you assume pure rationality, its may well be usually justifiable: even though most people aren't actually explicitly weighing factors, where people don't intervene its quite conceivable that the expected marginal increase in experienced utility from intervening generally exceeds the expected marginal cost.
This is interesting, and of course geopolitics and strategy factor into the decision to acquire the bomb. It's certain that other nations, were Iran to be nuclear armed would feel the need to escalate (Israel) or would otherwise intensify proxy conflict, etc.

I am certain that sabotage efforts are sustained and a critical part of the US-Israel alliance. Beyond the Stuxnet episode and the subsequent Mossad/CIA assassination the history here is dense.

For countries who want to use nuclear readiness as a strategic deterrent, it does make sense to have a short breakout period but not necessarily be already stockpiled.

It's an interesting proposal. My presumption would be that the ideal scenario for Iran would be what was suggested above: that Iran acquire a stockpile, let other countries know that they have them, but not have them in a truly official capacity. It seems like keeping a short breakout period would be less ideal than having a semi-secret, well protected stockpile.
I thought this was Apple-funded?
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I use Bootcamp on all my Macs and regularly boot natively into Windows. Most of my PyParallel development is done in Windows 8.1 running on my iMac 5K retina.

The only complaint I have about natively booting into Bootcamp/Windows is that the touchpad driver isn't anywhere near as nice on Windows as on OS X.

The fact that VMware will happily boot a virtualized instance of the Bootcamp Windows partition (when I'm on OS X) is pretty damn fantastic too.

In the past I've also been able to do the reverse: use VMware to boot OS X from within Windows.
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This type of use of H1-Bs is really frustrating for people that legitimately have developers who have a true need for the visa.

I've hosted FWD.us events, and I've applied for a number of H1-Bs (among other visas). It's hard to advocate for immigration reform when you see abuse like this.
I can understand why Pipes would be shut down by Yahoo, it was a impressive technical feat but it definitely appealed to very small developer focused crowd.

I feel like IFTTT is our best bet, while it doesn't do the "Unix pipe" that pipes offered it at least provides some usability to the process.
Project idea: use a Raspberry Pi to control your garage door opener, and a battery powered microcontroller in a remote to use a challenge-response scheme to open a garage door.
Make it easier for H1-Bs to change jobs and companies will be less compelled to bring underpaid foreign workers.
I have had CPR training on one of those dolls. Probably half of the class broke rips and I broke probably all the ribs in both sides.
What does this same scenario look like in 30 years?

Sorry to have to let you go, but please continue to perform your tasks so that your roboplacement can learn your function?
The OpenCV Python API is actually pretty good. I've been compiling and using the latest stuff off of master for the past couple years and when I took Computer Vision Fall 2013 at GMU.

However, I don't think that much of it is generally useful without a basic understanding of CV. The documentation is pretty good[0], but it will be hard to apply them without understanding the tradeoffs.

The CV courses I've taken focused a lot on lecture slides and handouts rather than a comprehensive textbook (although I've heard good things about Programming Computer Vision with Python[1] as an introductory text).

0: http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/imgproc/opening_closing...
1: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022923.do
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Seems absofreakinglutely amazing. Congratulations to the team. Amazed that this isn't front page everywhere yet.