skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Ionic Framework[0], which is basically Cordova + Angular = Mobile Development. If you know Angular, it's a really good place to start, along with ngCordova[1].

If you don't know Angular, then straight Cordova isn't so bad. I actually did some Google Glass development that way. There are Cordova plugins for just about every mobile function you can imagine, with varying degrees of quality. To learn them, I basically took sample projects and examined them, made a few changes, and checks to see what broke.

If you know C#, you can also look at Xamarin[2]. I don't have any experience with it, though.

Edit: formatting

0. http://ionicframework.com/

1. http://ngcordova.com/

2. http://xamarin.com/
Conversations with Datomic – Part 2
(I'm the CTO and cofounder of Quantopian)

I am incredibly excited to try my hand at Stockfighter. Hopefully some of the things I've learned over the last few years at Quantopian will be useful, but I expect I'll learn quite a few new things as well.
To add to the anecdotal evidence I had exactly the same response. Most of the emails are light and fluffy. It's refreshing to receive something with some real meat to it. I've gone from initially being on the fence, to being very excited after the first email, and more so after the second.
Investors Say HTC Ain’t Worth Squat
Aren't they very late to the game? Why even port PHP in the first place? PHP is even more brain damaged than C/C++ and it should not be supported at all if you want to sell your platform on security. In contrast, Python has real documentation, has proper module organization, and is popular for scientific computing. IBM has seriously been living in a cave. No wonder they are failing.
Wow that was an adventure, on the negative side I've now stared at RPG source code.

So many winding passages in enterprise computing, so many people wandering around them.
Famous out-of-towner comes and marks your territory? What are you supposed to do, respect him?
What does it take to get 501(c)(3) nonprofit status?

Do you think we can do it if we want to make the Qbix Foundation around our open-source platform?
I don't agree. The reporting party should feel guilty about not putting effort into providing system information and troubleshooting further and reporting their findings. This is exactly why Stack Overflow works so well: low quality questions are downvoted mercilessly, and closed if they aren't improved within a short time period. It is also why automated reporting tools provide a good amount of contextual information along with the error and stack trace.

Furthermore, not including a description of the issue along with the stack trace makes it impossible for other users to determine if they are experiencing the same issue or something else (since it is possible for two different bugs to produce the same stack trace, or even the same error message).
Ah, okay, well that example makes it clearer. It wasn't clear from your example (or from my local test) where you just show this:

class Todo
# variable defined in class scope
var count = 0

Which compiles into this:

var count = 0;

And also your example page elides the IIFE that your compiler surrounds all output with, implying (falsely) that it's global.

As for ST, I think that for me based on my brief experience, you might want to add more compiler warnings to the watcher. (Basically I messed with Imba locally with two ST windows side-by-side, looking at Imba on the left and js on the right, treating the watcher output as compiler output.) Don't get me wrong, ST feedback is great, but the watcher feels more canonical. Besides, not everyone has ST!
I'm not sure if being rich has anything to do with it. I think it probably has more to do with the type of flying. Even though they talk about "airlines", the stats are really just for "scheduled air services" as far as I can tell. Indonesia has a huge number of scheduled air taxi services compared to countries like the USA, Canada or Europe. So it would be more fair to compare the stats with the air taxi operators in rich countries, which have a much poorer safety record. There's a big difference between landing a two-crew 737 on a 2 mile runway with a Cat III ILS and SOPs, and a 250 hour wonder landing a bush plane on the side of a mountain.

Look up "worst place to be a pilot" on youtube.
> 'clippings' looks really excellent. I would go so far as to say this is a game-changer for me as it currently stands.

Midori, my personal favorite iOS J/E dictionary, has had a feature like this since I started using it, so for at least five years or so. =/ See the "Text Translation" section: http://www.midoriapp.com/features/
I like the simple format of the articles...and without ads. Not sure how long that will last ;)

One piece of feedback. When I'm halfway down an article and swipe left it puts me halfway down the next article. It would be better if I was back at the top of the next article.
Backing your FOSS project with a non-profit organization is a great idea. Creating your own such organization, on the other hand, usually isn't unless you're a very large project (on par with LLVM, Apache, etc).

Instead, consider joining one of the several umbrella organizations that support FOSS projects (including managing donations and legal issues), such as Software Freedom Conservancy (which covers projects like Git, Mercurial, QEMU, Samba, Boost, Inkscape, and PyPy), or Software in the Public Interest (which covers Debian, PostgreSQL, ffmpeg, LibreOffice, MinGW, Arch, freedesktop.org, and others).
Stackoverflow Developer Survey 2015
Having a vending machine model where it interacts with the balance and price is a good call.

I would also think about renaming either your refund method or your refund variable. It gets a little confusing.

You should also think about the fact that your refund method's case statement doesn't have a default. That means if someone doesn't put in either "y" or "n", you're screwed. Same situation with menu. You should always code for the unhappy path, meaning that you should think through for when someone decides to screw with your program.

In your menu case statement, I don't understand why you can't just do this:

case input
when 1
name = "Coffee"
price = @items[:coffee]
... #end of case statement

vend(name, price).

That'll DRY up your code at least a little bit.
You might like "Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation" by Sam Peltzman, who analyzes this effect with statistics.
Country Themed Wedding Ideas with Western Cowboy Style
You actually seem to be getting downvoted. I don't know what to call that...
trace is the thing I miss most when I'm not using Common Lisp.
Clef Cooks 100 Dinners
I don't think migrating from Angular to React is real work. If it takes a long time, it's probably best to stay with Angular. A failed company using Angular is the same as a failed company using React. Better to spend your time iterating on the product and acquiring customers. If you succeed you can always migrate later. It will cost more, but you will have more resources too. Doing something like that in an early stage startup just has too high of an opportunity cost. It's exactly the kind of fake work Altman is talking about.
The Shoah: The Biggest Hoax of the 20th Century?
A cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics
I'm fingering my monitor but nothing happens.
Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla (2000) [video]
Be careful drinking that koolaid.
The World's Most Innovative Companies
Perhaps you could see it as justified and something to feel sad about.
Aozora Bunko (http://www.aozora.gr.jp/) is the only legitimate source I know of for ebooks (and they are free). Long term it would be really great to get some Japanese publishers to commit to ebooks, but I know that historically they have been strongly, publicly resistant.

The Wakaru app does allow ebooks reading with a dictionary, but I always found it clunky and I don't think it allows easily generating cards from a book, the dictionary was less useful than yours looks, and it doesn't learn your vocab over time.

For audiovisual context, I'm really thinking of:

- images to match vocab items (potentially auto-sourced from a Creative Commons licensed image search engine)
- images from articles to match sentences from articles
- sound clips to match text taken from audio captions
- video clips OR audio clips + screenshots to match sentences from video subtitles

Regarding image rights, I would say that there is a huge amount of stuff in the public domain or liberally licensed (e.g. on Mediawiki). But you could also allow the user to add their own images, where they take responsibility for making sure they have the rights.
Quite the edit there. The start of the discussion was someone saying he found it hard to feel bad for those outed by the leak and then you writing some paragraphs about how he was condemning those individuals. All I was trying to add was a little nuance.

> Are they "guilty" even if that very action of them (signing in to the site and "just looking") effectively reduced the total number of cheats in the world?

This is what I was talking about, it's a classic defense of cartoon depictions of child pornography, which I find immoral. Go to a therapist if you're struggling with the temptation to cheat on your significant other, not a dating site for cheaters.
Inside Gitmo’s Surreal Recreation Spots, Tiki Bar and All
Dismissive, sure. And Sam's article is trivial and condescending.

"Work smarter" is a vague, cliche platitude.
It might be impossible to make significant change without making some group worse off. My point is the net cost of BI is simply the added benifits to very low income people as long as your also removing other subsidies. And we are already handing out a lot of subsidies.

Which subsides to remove becomes an open question. EX: With BI do we still pay post doc's a small amount for living expences?

PS: If nothing else BI is an interesting comparison point for the current system. EX: You get more from SS as a married couple than an unmarried couple.
So it does, and it looks nicely executed too. Wish I'd found it back when I had an iOS device.
Srandom: Fast /dev/urandom PRNG
I work in Tokyo and speak okay Japanese, but sort of hit a plateau after college (partly due to knowing 'enough for daily life' and partly due to having to work and no longer having to go to Japanese class).

So my study lists consist 100% of words and phrases I hear and don't understand when I am out at the Japanese semi-mandatory drinking-with-coworkers. I currently use Japanese.app, but am open to switching since it doesn't sync vocab lists hint hint :-).

So I study off my actual experiences here in Japan. I too was instinctively skeptical of the "games, songs" bit. (Although, I notice that text is not actually on the website.) I think "learning off your interests" is better, too.
Its great how you can edit comments isn't it? Both quotes were edited.

Still... I suppose that my original post remains the top here says something. Cant reedit something with no parent. too bad. ;)
You might like this paper.
Multi-view Face Detection Using Deep Convolutional
Neural Networks : http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02766
Google discontinues Flu Trends, starts offering data to researchers
> 1. I actually just finished implementing romaji entry

Great! I didn't see a need to put it this bluntly in my initial comment, but having to manually switch input methods is enough of a deal-breaker for me that I was going to uninstall the app... but now I will leave it installed and wait for that update. ;-)
they arent exactly super convincing, I wouldnt be surprised if something like super2xsai + GS4xHqFilter beat those examples :/
> Please, let's try to keep the jokester replies to Reddit.

You realize the linked to article is entirely about a joke about regular expressions. I can't imagine a thread where a joke about regular expressions would be more appropriate.
This is a touchy subject and my statements are merely conjecture to kick off a discussion:

Given the greater proportion of males to females using the service, is it fair to infer that men are more likely to cheat, or more likely to premeditate the act of being unfaithful?

If the latter, and we assume both sexes are just as likely to cheat, for women it's more likely to be an impulsive act - one of passion - whereas for men it's a planned behavior.
Another misfeature of D
I just want to remind you FAA (and military) has a lot of UFO reports as well, not a single confirmed crash tho.
Abandoning the Work I Hated
No, not at this time.
A lightning strike or earthquake is not a human mistake.
Minimum wage guarantees you will make a minimum of $0 + all eligible welfare benefits.
I think part of it is that if they deliberately stifle their own copy-protection, it might make it easier for malware or pirates to learn how they did it and do the same.
Yeah, unfortunately I find the content in Aozora Bunko not all that interesting. Or at least, I don't know how to find good content in it. I actually built a proof-of-concept of a "Books" tab in Nihongo using Aozora Bunko, but I found it sort of unsatisfying, so I never pursued it further. I haven't used Wakaru before, I'll have to check that out.

I'll explore the audiovisual ideas more, that's pretty interesting, thanks. I'd love to have user-generated content in the app, like the ability to share decks. Seems like that could be a good way to handle image rights as well.
“Do things that don’t scale.”
This is why our first hire was a lousy mountain climber.

:)
Manage and understand your personal data with Sherbit
Yep, Midori's great, and I even took some inspiration from them for the Clippings UI. For me, the big difference is that Midori's version isn't integrated with flashcards.
memrise.com handles media how Blahah described. User-submitted and it's the users' responsibility instead of Memrise's responsibility.

Mnemonics is essentially audiovisual cues to aid learning. Memrise is largely centered around them.

You might be able to borrow concepts, although this is making an assumption that you have not heard of Memrise.
Regardless of how you might feel about this talk, I feel like it's awesome because it's so entertaining :)
Using R with Spark on a Hadoop Cluster: SparkR
Alex Rampell
Right, I thought your README was far too wonderful to confine to a comment on a thread.
Why should someone feel guilty because they made something, shared it to the world, but one day realized they didn't want to or couldn't continue to maintain it?

To suggest I should feel guilt for admitting I can't maintain all the personal code I've opensourced for other users suggests I ought to have kept it closed source, which seems like a net loss all around.
Avoid D-Bus bus activation
I've been subscribed to this for about a year:

http://www.hndigest.com/

It's a great way to keep up on HN.
It has nothing to do with companies not trusting each other (although it's true they often don't). Companies don't use their competitors' services because they're...competing. Not because they don't trust them. Often, if there is an area where one company isn't competing with another, they'll form a strategic relationship in which they "trust" each other to provide services to their respective customers.

So not lack of trust, but rather competition is driving the phenomena you're describing.
Thanks, that is exactly how we make money.
This is mentioned in the article. (and links to rsc)
Appple Sometimes SUX (And makes me so angry)
Brazil JavaScript Tomorrow
I disagree
I'm sure some people want his art enough to open their big wallets but that should not detract from others who's minds were actually opened, and whom I believe to be the majority
While you are mechanically correct, your ideas would absolutely be hugely valuable, you have the benefit of already knowing what macroeconomic trends and historical events will happen.

Put another way, you could probably make exactly the same amount of money, if not more, with a "back to the future 2" scenario where you had zero ideas, but had a chart of various events that you could wager on or invest based on.

When we look at it from that perspective, it's only execution - can you correctly execute about the information you already have.

Soooo - yeah, it's not a great analogy. In general, having a perfect knowledge of what happens makes for bad analogies.
We think this market is going to end up like email, there was hotmail with 2MB but no private user is paying for unlimited email storage now. Our offer is like Gmail, except long term we want to make money from an application marketplace instead of advertising.
Niall Ferguson on the Meaning of Henry Kissinger
Power move
Not the coder's karma. Patrick's karma.

Patrick is saying that if someone is incompetent gets through with scripts, they'll still have to pass a chat with Patrick before Patrick puts his reputation on the line with a CTO.
How do you read nytimes "all the time" with the paywall?

Edit: I'm confused by the downvotes. I wasn't trying to turn it into a discussion about whether paywalls are right or wrong, I was just drawing out that either the parent was not reading nytimes all the time, or they were evading the paywall, or they were paying for access. They're talking about how Twitter should get value from giving readers access and using nytimes as an example - but it seems like a terrible example, given that nytimes actively tries to prevent people from reading more than 10 articles/mo for free.
A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function
Right. Fundamental ignorance about encryption is one of those areas where there is zero distinction between Republicans and Democrats.

Educating the politicians is a fool's errand, but educating ordinary people can thwart this kind of nonsense.

A great example is John Oliver's seminal "can the government see your dick pics" piece[1] ... I have never encountered anybody who couldn't relate to that piece (including those who don't actually use their devices to send dick pics). We need more stuff like that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
I said:

> Everyone had an AOL keyword. AOL isn't dead, but it fell hard. Ubiquity isn't enough.

Every business having a Twitter account won't save Twitter any better than everyone having an AOL keyword saved AOL.
I've heard of Memrise, but haven't really spent any time playing with it. In fact, I just checked my phone and it looks like I downloaded it at some point and never opened it. Adding it to my list to check out, thanks!
Self-driving vehicle circles Waterloo campus
What's the transaction cost for payments?

I'm a client who's just looking for a cheaper/nicer way to send payments to my freelancers.
That's something! And I truly believe they don't just say these things, they know that people can turn their startups around, so hopefully it will be a more attractive application the next time you apply.
The Spartan series and Xilinx ISE are dead now. The new future is Vivado and 7 series FPGAs. I guess Vivado is better in some ways but it's integration with version control software is pathetic.
“Metroid U” Created with Super Mario Maker
If the choice comes down to having a sleep deprived surgeon do your surgery, versus not having the surgery, then some people will choose the sleep deprived surgeon.
It's not dumb at all, nor hard to understand. Those stories are material which references that person and their criminal record. The reason that those stories exist is that the information was leaked.

Those leaks were almost certainly Google's fault. Either Google leaked the information themselves, or they leaked it indirectly. If we read the enforcement notice, it claims that Google at first complied with the order to de-index the web site which published that person's criminal record, but Google also notified that website owner. In other words, they tipped off the owner, which can be regarded as a form of defiance of the court order: agreeing to the letter of the order (performing the delisting) but not to the spirit (earnestly helping to bury that person's past).

So that might be the source of the leak; maybe the website owner's feathers were ruffled, and they reacted by gleefully leaking the story to the media. Such a reaction is so predictable that it's likely Google tipped off that website owner on purpose in order to generate the leak. Knowing that the leak will reveal details about that person, and knowing that the Google index will in turn pick up the stories resulting from the leak. Also knowing that they could refuse to delist those stories on grounds that they are are noteworthy stories of recent interest, representing the journalistic judgment of their respective news organizations that Google has no reason to second-guess.

Google should have removed that index entry quietly, without notifying the website owner. Then the removal could easily have gone unnoticed and there might now not be any stories mentioning that person.

They are now simply being asked to mop up the leak that they caused.

Whether or not you agree with this "right to be forgotten" business, you have to agree that particular twist in the plot isn't any dumber. It's just more of the same.
What's intriguing about this is that the output isn't really real. The best place to see this is the bark patterns on the trees in the last 3-way comparison. The output is convincing and yet not quite right. The neural net didn't know, so it guessed plausibly. Keep scaling and I bet you'd see Google inceptionism style dream details slipping in.
There is probably a really obvious disproof of this, but I thought of what might be an interesting concept to explore in a sci-fi story.

When they mentioned that there could be a whole other class of particles rather than one type of dark matter, it made me think what if dark matter is just an adjacent universe and for whatever reason gravity can interact between universes. So it would make sense if galaxies in neighbor universes tended towards places in our universe with high gravity, i.e. our galaxies. Especially if both universes started at around the same time.

But then I guess that would probably mess up orbits of smaller things. Although space is big so maybe not. Just a thought.
I never thought the problem was the product, rather it is the management and the community. What's valuable about hacker news is the people who are involved, and what's great about Quora are the people who give a response.
It's not helpful that most people spam useless tweets constantly. It took a while, but I finally set my twitter to follow news updates perfectly.
If you know some C# and C++, my recommendation is to dive straight into the respective native SDKs (Android and iOS) and not let yourself waste time or get distracted by frameworks like Cordova or Titanium (or whatever they call it now). Cordova can be a good strategic choice for certain types of companies making certain types of apps, but if you want to learn mobile development, my opinion is that they'll just be a distraction (and I say this as someone who tried and floundered using this approach until I committed myself 100% to native SDKs).

For Android, an excellent resource are the example apps found at the CommonsWare website, who also have an accompanying book. Download these examples and start playing around with them, or use whatever approach you used to learn webdev [1].

Otherwise, Google's docs are pretty high quality.

Finally, even if you're a Vim/emacs kind of guy (like I am), I recommend using Android Studio for Android development, at least at first. It has some excellent resources for learners (like a very good autocomplete).

1. http://commonsware.com/Android/
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue #91
I like the Avnet MicroZed which is built around a Xilinx Zynq. The Zynq is a latest generation FPGA and dual core ARM on a chip. There's a decent community and all the development tools are free.
Time to flush the toilet.