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No action is truly perfect, or without blunders. Every choice one makes is a unique expression of one's being in this universe, and all actions have consequences. You alone are the actor of that fantastically unique path. So the "perfection" is to be seen, later, in retrospect, how no one else but you traveled that path that led you to this moment.

I hope I did justice to it. I myself am retraining my thinking to be more aligned with the Buddhist and absurdist philosophy. 30 years of an Abrahamic religion can have some serious and long-lasting hang overs.
Astronomers use cosmic gravity to create a 'black-hole-scope'
and his son is kind of infamous. Not mainstream, but a lot of people know who he is and what he's done.
Not to mention that it requires node.js, which is quite a massive dependency.
Concrete buildings aren't solid concrete. There are still a few WW2 bunkers around these parts, because it's almost impossible to demolish them, by design. And even those aren't solid concrete by any stretch.
I seriously doubt "stereotype threat" is going to survive much longer. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022440514...
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Computer History Museum: http://www.computerhistory.org/

In particular, Software Preservation Group (SPG):
http://www.computerhistory.org/groups/spg/
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/

Even more in particular ;-) -- the videos at the Oral History Collection: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/

They're also on YouTube -- https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/playlists -- but the ones above have synced transcripts.

To get a flavor, take a look at the one with Bjarne Stroustrup, really enjoyed it:
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/vid...

// More in this category (with some big names): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQsxaNhYv8daKdGi7s85u...
Folks with septic systems still need them cleaned, and outhouses need to be regularly evacuated.

Decreasing population density simply serves to make us less productive. And really, the author's argument only sounds like it's reasonable because of the massive increases in productivity an the technological advances we've had as a race, through our obsession with work and achievement.

I don't think many of those 2 billion people would say they prefer to poo in a box hanging over a river, then have to get their drinking water out of that river, over more sophisticated alternatives like separate potable, gray- and blackwater management.
Democracy Without Full Transparency Is Plutocracy
I think we can agree that there are genetic differences between men and women. The issue is reverse engineering them by cultural results is really hard. We can see the start point (DNA) and the measuring point ( For example: Higher IQ), but how we got there is really complex. Do the genetic differences really mean that much? I honestly don't know, and I think the key here is to study genetics not a genders achievements or test results. DNA is a lot less biased than the culture and world we have created.
How about a fire-safe with a female USB port on the outside, and a male USB port on the inside - both connected? That would be cool.
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Very few elites start with total control. Most of the reforms that have led to modern liberal democracy were taken voluntarily, even if begrudgingly.
I had a series of Acorn machines over the years - I used a trusty A/410 with 200mb hard drive as my main machine right up to the early 2000s and taught myself both design and programming with it. I knew that thing inside and out.

At the time - and I still sort of do - I thought that, despite its idiosyncrasies, RiscOS was way ahead of Windows and the Mac. For example the Mac only got scaling scrollbar widgets with System 9, and the boot time was amazing. (Upgrading from RiscOS 3 to RiscOS 4 by carefully prising out and replacing a bunch of ROM chips was fun.)

In hindsight they made the right choice, but I was bitterly disappointed when the parents bought a Mac over a RiscPC. Teenaged me didn't let them forget how unhappy I was for quite a while...

Getting RiscOS ported to the Raspberry Pi was a great move, a real blast of nostalgia, but I'd love to see what a modern-day version would be like – 64 bit, great graphics, lightning fast, weird extra mouse button.

It makes me happy that their technical legacy lives on in ARM, and their educational spirit is continued with the Pi.
Sounds like you need to do a bit more reading on the subject.

> "If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like. Stalin and Hitler, for example, were dictators in favor of freedom of speech for views they liked only. If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise." -Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent

But of course, you probably already do understand this and are just willfully ignorant.

> Shame is a tool for fixing shitlords or, if they are unfixable, rendering them powerless.

This has told me pretty much everything I need to know about your viewpoint. You're a bully and you relish silencing opinions you don't agree with, while thinking you hold some kind of moral high ground. Whatever gets you through the day, I guess.
Quoting clearf from the previous link to this, which was only 5 hours ago:

"The rebuttal: http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2015/...

That ends with:

> Planetary scientist Professor Dave Rothery of the Open University posted in a comment on Facebook, “The Guardian and the RAS disgraced themselves today with the ‘top scientists’ argue case for life on comet’ piece today. I’ve just sat through the talk behind the press release and I think it fair to say that the audience was polite but entirely unconvinced. Diatoms [a type of micro-organism] in comets, my arse!”

Moreover, that rebuttal link was submitted on HN 14 hours ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9842364.
So it's a PenTile display [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family
Are there any future plans to incorporate ipython notebooks?

If you could run ipython notebooks as a service, I would think you would get a significant number of users.
I used Bochs quite a bit while doing some kernel hacking, and found it to be pretty interesting to work with. It is very lightweight in a way I didn't know VMs could be. I highly recommend its use for low level hacking tasks.
I'm not sure that your first claim is accurate.

Even allowing that it is, the distinction to my mind is that the work is distributed amongst many (in the case of a less urban environment), and the imperative / compensation balance is tilted in that environment more towards the individual, as they have a greater interest in maintaining water and food supplies, handling waste etc.

To suggest that one of the advantages of work is that you can visit a doctor on your way to work ... well, I'm not sure if you're being funny with that one.

A less centralised or urban society doesn't necessarily mean that you're further away from someone with medical skill. You may acquire more skills yourself, people with those skills may also be keen to escape the centre of cities, technologies may provide a mechanism for you to obtain mostly remote access to the relevant knowledge and skills, etc.

Plenty of non-urban citizens of western countries have sufficient and satisfactory access to doctors, for example.

Aside, and I realise this sounds snarky but the intent is not -- would you mind defining (or at least providing some examples of) the 'more productive members of society' in your assertion there? I'm guessing you don't mean the health professionals that they are consulting.
ShareLaTeX is a fantastic product, thank you for making it. It's very much a Google Doc for LaTeX. I used it very extensively when I was in university. Given how many auxiliary files are generated/needed when compiling LaTeX, keeping those files in the cloud was very painless.

I think an interesting avenue to explore with that product would be more templates/easy-to-start documents/quick tutorials.

LaTeX is the standard in some parts of academia (math, CS, stats) and not others (my brother, a biochemistry student at a public research university with 30k+ students, say nobody has even heard of it there) - I think the amount of market that is still using Word for academic papers (often because they do not know of LaTeX or think they don't have time to learn it) is very significant. ShareLaTeX is definitely a step in making LaTeX more accessible for that segment but there's definitely a long road ahead too.
That very small number of women are those on which you can observe the pattern on their skin. However, the two types of cells (the cell calico pattern) are present in all females.
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Sub-pixel rendering isn't really worth it on high DPI displays like this. It also doesn't work that well with iOS's CoreAnimation compositing model. Blending sub-pixels properly across transparent layers in particular is difficult.
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Pi is a small, full featured computer to run Linux, this is a nice self-contained computer for experimenting. What I really like about the micro:bit is that it has lots of cool stuff built in (accelerometer, compass, display, couple of buttons, wireless connectivity). It's a nice little package and I can instantly think of little projects you could do on it to experiment with children.
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Consistency perhaps, a good educational tool's lifetime can be measured in decades if the teaching resources that support it are rich and well produced, so control over the base device would enable the investment into said resources.
Aldus did Pagemaker; Adobe bought Framemaker.
I interviewed Steve Furber for a magazine feature about the ARM many years ago and he confirmed to me that Sophie pretty much designed and implemented the whole ARM instruction set in her head. It worked first time when switched on.
TempleOS and broken Ruby FFI/C binding libraries are the two main drivers making me want to learn C. Writing stuff within TempleOS would be more fun!
It's a trap

Low priority issues can sometimes linger around for a very long time taking away precious focus of developers and creating distractions from adding real-value-features.
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You are definitely correct when it comes to non-software developers needing tools to do data analysis that allow for a lot more iteration and ad hoc exploration.

How do you see this competing with / differentiating itself from RStudio? The python support?

In the statistics department I was recently at, R was the lingua franca and Rstudio was how we wrote it. I have not found a better product yet for ad hoc exploration than Rstudio but will certainly give this a go.
Make contacts with the local FAEs (field application engineers) for the major chipmakers (Freescale, NXP, Atmel, etc) as well as the distributors (Arrow, Future). Maybe even some of the sales guys if you're comfortable with that. Ask for invites to their sales and tech conferences (you get blasted with these all the time once you're working).

They tend to have their ears to the ground and their hands in a lot of local companies simultaneously. They know who is hiring and who is being let go.

that said...

I've worked for a hardware startup and I can say from experience that normally if someone has come up with an interesting circuit or board design, they were the EE that designed it in the first place.

It's more rare to see come up with an idea, grab a bunch of VC money, then hire a EE to whip up the product. VCs don't like throwing money at phantom hardware. If they do get money, they will be looking for a lab tech to help with prototyping and bench work. It's not glamorous, but it's a foot in the door and a track upward to real EE work eventually.
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> Everyone should be able to pursue any career they want to, but there should be no surprise when you see gender disparities across different occupations.

Even the word "disparity" (instead of difference) assumes that there should be some sort of parity between sexes. And I use "sexes" because "gender" is likely incorrect in reference to genetics. Unless they find some genetic link to it, in which case a lot of arguments will need to cease.
The introduction points rightly to a broad range of problems in our internetted communications. However, I highly doubt that any formal or automated system can help with that. For starters, how would you force users to use it in a consistent, or even correct way?

Even if we assume it just works, it's only good for people who want to live in a village where they're always the same person to everyone else. I don't want that. I want to live in a city where 3 blocks down the street they never even heard my name or saw my face. I want the freedom to be a “good citizen” in one circle and an absolute a-hole troll in another. And if that should violate anyone's minimum requirements for bigotry it's really none of my concern.

[Edit: Wording]
You wouldn't necessarily.

Main use-case I believe was FirefoxOS -- at least the first time I heard it mentioned was during an FirefoxOS talk where they discussed other hardware-y APIs and trying to get them standardised.

It would also be useful for an OS that supported HTML5 native apps. Additionally having a standard API gives projects like Phonegap an API to 'target' when exposing native device APIs to JavaScript.
Both "Why Gender Matters" and the study linked in your parent are discussed rather critically here http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=261
Greasemonkey extension with some script like https://gist.github.com/robbyrussell/46193 (I didn't test it but it should work)
To be fair, as someone who has worked at the BBC, the amount of waste going on there, in terms of time, people and resources, is astronomical. 1000 people laid off, as sad as it may be, is not surprising at all.
There appears to be good support for this. http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.com/2013/09/are-girls-too-no...
"I am infinitely more comfortable with an Apple device collecting personal information than I am with some of the competing products from other companies"
Just off the top of my head...

- Disable the HTML5 Vibration API if battery power is low.

- Increased network activity is battery is full or charging.

- Project how much time a user has to complete an activity before the battery runs out.

- Change page colour scheme to reduce battery drain.

This is a really useful API - especially if it reduces "range anxiety" for mobile users.
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It definitely helps, thanks.
>Because e == f, and if f is true then e is true, in which case f is false

e != f, because they produce different results. You could say e() == f(), each having the previous answer choices as arguments and each requiring them to be false. But since e() evaluates to true, f() can't be true.
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The problem is that art is what a system of galleries and museums establishes as art work. How unfair or not this is I might agree. But artist is not a condition that you can claim.
I agree that there is a bit of arrogance, which is a psicological condition that is very tipical in artists, so it should be no problem. The problem is that in this case this work is not only outside the institution but also outside the discourse of art. I'd like to know what message you read here. As someone that has been tought to look at works of art since I have memory I tell you that the only message implied in these pieces is the inner world of the author. I respect it but art is a metadiscourse, art is always about art, or at least provides a means to refer to art history. It can be about literature, take a look at Lovecraft or Allan Moore. Those are artists. The technique is good, even impressive but dificultness is not needed in art. Museums would be filled of ships constructed inside bottles and they are not. So I understand this negativity because it's not only arrogant to claim to be an artist at the age of 20, but to claim it without having been interested yourself in art history much. Art is not about artists, that is some romantic stuff we've been told from 1800 and stoped working 50 years later, until the new media started emphasizing in personalities so insistently. So of course attitude is really important, but I think the one showing the wrong attitude here is the one claiming to be artist. There is nothing wrong in not being an artist.
>Psychologically, the more relevant variable for success in live is motivation.

Which is still pretty small compared to who your parents are (in terms of the upbringing offered to you and the connections it offers).
I find it funny that so much scientific research attempts to prove the existence of a biological contrast that's blatantly obvious, but which has been completely deconstructed and obscured by modern literary theory/philosophy.
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Ask HN: Is genius.com down (as at 8:10 a.m. edt.)?
rap.genius.com is still available though.
I thought Hackers and Soul of a New Machine were both fantastic.
>> Man can be far from being best fit for raising children and still forward his genes to next generation.

> This would seem to predict that men show less variance than women in whether or not they forward their genes

Not necessarily. Ratio of variance of whether women and men forward their genes is influenced with many factors. Extreme men can have less variance then equally extreme women, but average women can have less variance because there is very few extreme women. Also what I'm referring to is about times that shaped modern day men and women. Child of extreme woman had very small chances of surviving back then. Child of extreme man would have had better chances.

> Why would too high intelligence make someone a worse parent?

I'd want to back that up with something solid but only things that come to my mind are anecdotes of absent minded geniuses, emotional volatility associated with intelligence, social misalignment that could get a person in serious trouble (Archimedes?) or simply loosing interest in own 'plain' children.
Not hard. http://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2013-kell.pdf
i'm sure that if the Greeks have the potential of killing as many people and as cruelly as the German do, they would be tolerated and excused, whatever they have done.
It just happens that Greece is a small and weak nation that everybody can safely point a finger at and accuse them of every problem there is.
it does not just happens to the Greek, but to all the disadvantaged.whenever there's a crisis, some group would be targeted. they caused it because they are lazy, they're indulgent, they're irresponsible, they are weak, they're immoral,etc.be it women, colored, the poor,the illiterate, Jews, you name it.
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I'm currently listening to an account of the de-centralized command structure Gen Stanley Mcchrystal put in place to combat Al Quaeda in Iraq and the taliban in Afghanistan. One thing that is clear is that in a fast paced environment (be that the theater of war or a start up) top down rigid command doesn't work. All this is really saying that the the organization that gets through a feedback loop as fast as possible wins. You can call that the OODA loop, lean, holocracy or whatever you want.

I'm strongly in favor of giving up centralized control in the interests of allowing emergent behavior to tackle opportunities as fast as possible. Leadership to me should be:

* Set the direction

* Gather smart, motivated people

* Create an environment that gets everyone on the same page

* Get the fuck out of their way.
Which I thought was the raison d'etre of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's existence (i.e. building educational resources around the Raspberry Pi), and why they have been mostly keeping to the same spec and form factor; they have frequently said that they weren't interested in competing in the arms race of Raspberry Pi clones so would have an infrequent hardware refresh interval.

This BBC + commercial partner effort seems like duplication to me, although the hardware itself may be cheaper/simpler and therefore have slightly different goals.
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Yep, which is why I think it depends on what's in front of you. A human probably doesn't have enough time to analyze the situation and determine whether or not they could do better than holding down the brake. A computer can probably do better in some situations.
Docker uses the same kernel primitives as other container systems. But it tied together cgroups, namespaces and stackable filesystems into a simple cohesive model.

Add in image registries and a decent CLI and the developer ergonomics are outstanding.

Technologies only attract buzz when they're accessible to mainstream developers on a mainstream platform. The web didn't matter until it was on Windows. Virtualization was irrelevant until it reached x86, containerization was irrelevant until it reached Linux.

Disclaimer: I work for a company, Pivotal, which has a more-than-passing interest in containers. I did a presentation on the history which you might find interesting: http://livestre.am/54NLn
For anyone who hasn't seen it, a favicon-based game:

http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/
I know you have some other questions that I am not qualified to answer, but I recalled seeing a similar question asked not that long ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9805056
Very good point, I didn't see that at first, although I'm thoroughly skeptical. My guess is, the author comes from a context where a high level of social control is customary and desired. My taste is just the opposite.
Ah, a script/plugin as a workaround? Maybe, but do the sites with animates favicons deserve so much attention? Do you know any useful web site with animated favicon?
I'm to the right of president Obama, own guns (yes plural) and yet agree with him whole-heartedly. We, as a nation, need to figure out how to stop this violence. Please don't paint all conservatives with the radical right-wing brush.

As an aside, I don't think Finland is celebrating in the streets with shouts of "we're number one".
I don't know much but I didn't see any flash, would you point where exactly.
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29304951/difference-betwe...
You can use recorded data in a simulated environment to test new software in an accelerated manner.