skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The company was acquired, but according to the original announcement, it wasn't to work on Titan, but on a new graph database product. Sounds like maybe that didn't work out?
That's a weak complaint – even if one of their products was not the best, it doesn't prevent the rest from being.

That aside, Apple's keyboards aren't bad IMO. I'm pretty happy with them generally – they have decent durability, enough key travel, and are relatively quiet. Certainly better than the keyboards provided as standard by any other major computer manufacturer.
An automated coach kind of sounds cool, but why limited to programming interviews?
That's what investors want you to believe. In fact, it's the other way around. Execution multiplies idea.

Ask any rich guy, wall street investor, they'll tell you the most scarce property in the world is idea, including the very idea that influencing everyone to downplay the importance of ideas.

Doing is a commodity since centuries ago. Better execution is just another form of idea, but become cheaper overtime.
Thirded. As someone said elsewhere, this is one of those "okay wow the future is here" things. This, more than a hover car, would do the trick. Major quality of life improvement.
Over the last 25 years I've heard the "Tap Plastics" radio commercial in the Bay Area so many times that the jingle has burned into my brain.

But I can't compare them to Canal Plastic Center.
south korea specifically picks only tall soldiers to stand guard at the border. They do it on purpose to intimidate the north koreans. It is consider special duty in south korean army and you must be hand picked. The US does this shit too, to be a flag bearer or part of official honor guard you must be over 6 feet tall
This is not an argument that applies much to, say, the mighty Carnegie Mellon Tartans.
From the national anthem of Canada, O Canada:

"The True North strong and free"
It's not clear to me that private businesses having research labs is entirely new. The mouse came out of Xerox Parc. Unix and C came out of Bell Labs. And so forth.
That's an excellent suggestion, thanks! Coming soon!
It is like they started the essay before they knew they could actually come to a coherent point.
There's a scene in Annie Hall[0] that you might find quite satisfying.

I was a literature major in college. I enjoyed writing (thinking, erroneously, that I could make a career out of it) and reading, so it seemed like a logical choice at the time.

By the time I graduated, I came to loathe the subject. I still believe that there is immense value in the exploration of literature, but for me that value results from a personal and intimate relationship with the subject matter, not from engaging in a dissection of it with some literary "expert."

I think the way we teach literature (and the arts in general) is misguided.

[0] http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/misunderstandin...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
Took 3 years (see https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/5811/support-two-fa...), but finally there. Now it's time to find security bugs in this implementation.
Fun Fact: The poem also directly lead to Edward Thomas' death as he took it too seriously and decided to enlist in the army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_(poet)#War_servi...
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Going along with your postulation outright, I'd note that most of the drugs consumed by musicians wouldn't be called "performance enhancing" in the context of general terminology - alcohol, grass, hallucinogens, downers, stimulants - pretty much mess with mental capacity and function, not really "enhance" them. A couple cases can be made for certain uppers, but I kind of look at the relationship of drugs and musicians as one rooted in self-medication moreso than performance related. I have heard of orchestra/symphony types using beta blockers.
Small group?

It went down to estimated 1500 worldwide. That is plenty.

Note that last common ancestor of the most differing human ethnics is something like 180-200k years ago.

Furthermore, with the advent of denser living and agriculture, evolution sped up quite a lot.
Count me as another lover of their keyboards.

I've even bought extras for work just so I don't need to use any of the crazy things they have here. Long travel keyboards annoy me, I vastly prefer the chiclet style keyboards.
Bingo!

In the same HS, I had an art teacher who was great. I gained an appreciation for abstract, 'modern' art, even if I didn't necessarily like everything I saw. She focused on how things made us feel, and if, for instance, they evoked images of other things. Stuff like that, which was all about suggestion and how elements in the image worked together, but without wrong answers or D's if we disagreed with her.
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This is gold.

I wrote a quick and dirty chrome extension that adds these names to the dashboard:
https://github.com/pierceg/Amazonese
“It seems to me that Hughes wanted to be a writer more than he wanted to write; the difference isn’t always obvious, even to the person doing the wanting, and talent, which you feel ought to be a clue, may be a red herring.”

Wow, that sounds like me and research!

“Some see procrastination as a rational preference: the procrastinator has chosen immediate over deferred gratification, pleasure over work. But generally the failure to work goes along with a failure of appetites: a lot of the time I’m chained to my desk as a ghost is chained to the spot they haunt. It doesn’t even have the glamour of writer’s block.”

So much this—instead of working hard during the day then doing something fun in the evening, one procrastinates all day doing half-fun things (like reading low-brow internet news sources, ahem), then spends the evening wallowing in self-flagellating guilt, and angst, since the deadline slowly comes ever closer! How to break the cycle? The next time i write a paper, my time management will be better, i promise! The next review will be in on time, really! Who is being deluded? The habit must change. That sounds like the self-flagellation phase, cue the coda!
I see. That's why I partially blame the teacher in that situation. I think a critical part of teaching is to contextualize the material in the larger picture.

I had a math teacher in high school who, when I asked why I had to learn the quadratic equation, answered with an asinine anecdote about someone asking her to recite it in a social setting. Mathematics felt similarly arbitrary to me at that point, and I was turned off to it for an unfortunately long period of time.
I'm moving less for a PSR and more for a core library that abstracts cryptography details away from the user. The average PHP developer can't be trusted to Encrypt-then-MAC, so why burden them with the responsibility?
There's been research [1] into making programmable thin-film membrane mirrors [2] using the piezoelectric effect.

[1] http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/2004/04126... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane_mirror
Precisely why I think "Metro" is the worst of the three, and Material Design is the best, because at least it allows for some hierarchy in design.

I've always thought Metro was terrible, but others seemed to love it for its seizure-inducing animated colors splattered over the whole screen.

Apple's design is bad mainly because it's inconsistent and amateurishly done in its mission to be "flat like the cool kids". Metro is bad on purpose.
I would say that right now, Apple isn't really trying. Things have always varied from application to application, but right now it's a real hodge-podge. The tiny link targets in particular drive me nuts. I've been using the iPhone for years and sometimes I look at an app and I can't tell what is "click-able" and what's not.
>Frost's intentions with the poem weren't straightforward

But, it doesn't tell us what Frost's intent was. I did a Google search and didn't find much.

> The manner in which you dismissed the new way of looking at them indicates that you are more interested in retaining the old meaning.

Boy - you make a lot of assumptions. I read Orr's article and disagree with his conclusions. I'm not interested in retaining anything in particular. Frost's intentions with his poem are irrelevant. I read the words and draw a conclusion. If I listen to a piece of music, I'm moved in a particular way irrespective of the composer's intent.

>You took it and read it as an attack on, well, what exactly?

I think you've implied much more than what I wrote (irony?). My only issue with Orr is that I perceive him to be smug. "The Most Misread Poem in America" is a purposely inflammatory title. Is it really possible to "misread" a poem? Poetry is not non-fiction. It is intended to be subtle and have layers of meaning.
The leading complaints about the "Edit Alarm" screen is kinda weird...unless "Apple’s new direction" means Apple's new direction post-2006.

The new: https://unicornfree.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_7374....
The old: http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Apple-iOS-S...

There was always a "time-wasting dial." The labels were always "styled with more visual impact than the actual data." All four different types of data elements were always "styled the same, with the same visual weight."
Dry erase board lined with IR sensors to record pen strokes [video]
Will there be a recording made of the session? Hope so.
A hackathon by any other name would smell as sour ;)
For it to be enforceable you have to have proof of what it was, which is very difficult to get unless you have recording of your interactions.
Not sure if it's this article or not (wouldn't surprise me), but there's a number of "one way mirror" plastic/acrylic sheets on Amazon, with Prime shipping. But all of the larger, more practical ones are sold out as of a few minutes ago, hah. ;-)

Awesome project.
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At this point, a lot of decisions that were once skeuomorphic are now a matter of tradition and user expectation. For a whole generation, the image of a floppy means "save" not because of it's physical history but because that's the icon everyone else uses for "save".

Abandoning choices like "button means clickable" and "colored and underlined means link" isn't just a move to flat design, it's an attempt to retrain users on software conventions that have transcended their physical origins.
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Better late than never! There is a RFC for that as well (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7465).
You won't become a physicist from watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos, but I found it immensely educational. It's worth knowing what science knows about what the universe is and our place in it. Of course you aren't going to become an expert in astronomy, but you don't need to be.

Many, certainly not all, but many of these videos are educational in the same sense. They give a layman a basic grasp of a complex subject. E.g. this video on the immune system won't make you a biologist, but it's still pretty informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGOcOUBi6s

These are the kinds of videos that teachers might show in a classroom. Certainly they are way better made than the cheesy, poorly made educational videos I saw in school.

And to be fair, all of this stuff is entertainment, even Cosmos. There's no practical value to me to learn about how stars are made, or how the immune system works. But I find these things interesting.
Yeah, but honestly if doping was allowed in pro sports its a much strong assumption that college and high school kids would dope more then if kids would smoke more legal weed.

You cannot escape the reality that if doping is allowed then doping is required.
Tony Hoare: Invention of the null-reference a billion dollar mistake
I would look at what your future competition is using as reference point.

http://stackshare.io/trending/tools#
Ah, infographics: made for people who prefer to be entertained rather than informed, and made by people who prefer to be entertained rather than informed.
How are buildings in NYC designed with an expectation that they will flood? I haven't seen much of that, especially pre-Sandy. Post-Sandy there are some buildings with mounting brackets for walls/sandbags if there's another flood but that's not really designed in.
Started to read this, but lost interest halfway through... which I found kinda ironic.
$ ./a.out kjv.txt

Hmm... Why is this taking so long?

^\
$ db core
...
a.c:28:strlcpy(dst, src, 8);
...
> d src
0040000: 496e 2074 6865 2062 6567 696e 6e69 6e67 In the beginning
0040010: 2047 6f64 2063 7265 6174 6564 2074 6865 God created the
0040020: 2068 6561 7665 6e73 2061 6e64 2074 6865 heavens and the
0040030: 2065 6172 7468 2e20 4e6f 7720 7468 6520 earth. Now the
...

Oh, that's why.
More or less.

Microsoft, Apple and Google are all pursuing variations of what can be called flat design.

There are many variations in flat design though. In the small details, Google and Apple have as many similarities as differences.

One of the differences is that Material relies heavily on shadows (one of the very few good design ideas from the first versions of Android). The most important buttons are usually elevated.

Color is also used to inform the user. The accent color of the app is used to color clickable elements.

I am currently in the process of implementing material design in a large scale mobile android app. So far it is going extremely well, the new design direction respond to many of our gripes with Holo and is good enough in order to be able to make a strong point with the product team in order to implement it instead of making a frankenmonster between iOS design & Holo like we did in the past. Time will tell how well it performs with our users.
Their material "whitespace" design is really functional. /s

New Google app: http://imgur.com/HWZDjXK

Youtube redesign on an Android tablet: http://imgur.com/a/ciqgD

Youtube on a phone makes you realize why they're pushing 5.5"+ phones: https://i.imgur.com/2d0Neg2.png (yes, that whole large card is an ad, while top 25% of the screen is static)

Landscape is even worse: https://i.imgur.com/kEYoHyM.png
That's never happened before when industries have become automated. It's not likely to happen this time.
iOS+8.4+jailbreak+for+Windows+and+Mac
Uber didn't buy CMU's robotics department. They hired the employees. CMU didn't get any money out of it.

It's good to see robotics finally happening. I used to be in that field; I had one of the DARPA Grand Challenge teams in 2005, and was a visiting scholar in robotics at Stanford in the early 1990s, where I figured out how to get legged robots run over rough terrain. It was all too early back then. Now I'm too old.

Nobody is making any money yet, though. Other than teleoperators for the military, vacuum cleaners, and industrial robots, there are no robot products that sell in quantity. Industrial robots with some limited AI are now available[1] but sales are small. This still isn't a commercial technology.

[1] http://www.rethinkrobotics.com/baxter/
Although not short, Nathan Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over" is a fantastic history of the complicated and diverse roots of software. In the intro he states, like the comment above, that the history of software tend toward linear histories of hardware development. In his book however, he shows how management strategies, training centers, universities, corporations, and the programmers themselves attempt to control the meaning and production of software. The first chapter does a great job of summarizing this trajectory.
Most drivers need the income. They leave en-masse in protest and there's a lot of incentive for poor drivers to defect from the protest and pick up even more fares.
The Road Round Robin-ed?
I've had a lot of trouble as well. A constant source of frustration is the seemingly unnecessary split between contacts and messages. I don't understand why they're not under one roof and instead frustratingly claw myself around to get to the right section. If I want to send a message to someone why do I have to exit messages to scroll through a list of my contacts? It's ridiculous.

Another one is that for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to access the search for app feature until recently. I knew it existed, and I guess it's a downwards pointing tap in the middle of the screen but it took me forever to find it again and then to actually figure out what I had done to trigger it.

Then there's the loading my phone with apps I have no use for such as Music, Playbook, and the Apple Watch app. I understand these have useful features to people but I don't understand why I can't at the very least hide the damn icons and instead have to either create a folder for "Shit I don't use ever" or delegate them to some far off slide screen.

It seems like it goes on and on and while the old iOS's did look a bit clunky, everything was very clear in my opinion in terms of functionality and I'm not exactly sure why there was a move away from it.

And this is all a shame since Apple's hardware software integrated and closed source environment is a terrific way to make a phone in my opinion where I barely have to worry about malware since apps are checked by their App Store team, everything looks standardized and decent because of the components they provide, and things run really fast (at least until your phone is two generations old) because of their language support and hardware integration.

It's frustrating.
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Hear, hear. In exactly the same way that some of the current bad design decisions were made as an overreaction to the worst excesses of skeuomorphism, people often exhibit an unwarranted negative reaction to 'flat design', just because some of it -as in Apple's case - is so awful. It is entirely possible to adhere to the concepts behind flat design, yet still differentiate between a label and a button. Just because Apple can't do it, doesn't mean it can't be done.
If you use a "SQL on Hadoop" engine like Impala, you can use any standard ODBC/JDBC based tool, like Tableau, BIRT, Pentaho, etc. We have used Tableau with Impala quite a bit and that combo seems to work reasonably well. The SQL on Spark engine would probably work just as well, but I haven't tried that yet.
On first glance I thought the mirror said "Wear pants today" as if the mirror should know whether or not my legs will get cold...
That is pretty atrocious. All the initializing setq's could just be init forms in the let.

Now you might think that this is also unidiomatic:

(setq totalCnt (1+ totalCnt))

Turns out, though, that Elisp doesn't have modify macros, except in the CL compatibility package.

What Xah is doing is the same as the accepted SO answer for incrementing a local variable:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6858894/how-to-increment-...
10G WiFi gateway runs OpenWRT on 64-bit Freescale QorIQ
I don't worry much about inserting wacky storage devices, as I run Linux, and I don't have any kind of auto-run enabled.

But this would still work on my machine, right? (I mean that the key combo would be entered; it might not actually bring up the web page, depending on my setup.)
A Guided Walking Tour Through the Fundamentals of Git
Exactly. Point of the poem is how a marginal different in options will later be construed as "made all the difference", and thus the colloquial memory of the poem is construed as "made all the difference" when the point of the poem is that there wasn't a meaningful difference but would be remembered as though it was.

Hard to describe precisely because the "life imitates art" is so recursive/tautological here.
awesome explanation on how TCP slows everything down,
I'm going to try this PacketZoom SDK mentioned in the article.
Sure, the floppy doesn't communicate anything to anybody except as a cryptic artifact of the past.

But other design language, like buttons and underlined links, communicate based on the necessity for some sort of language. Changing this language to something else should not occur unless there's some tangible benefit to the change.

Language changes all the time, but normal language change happens in the course of two-way communication between people. UI language is more one-way, it's like a speech that's delivered to an audience. If a speaker delivers a speak using an entirely new language that the audience doesn't understand, there had better be 1) some benefit to the change of language, and 2) clear communication to the audience about what the new language is.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have failed on both points 1) and 2) in too many cases, IMHO. Languages are fashion, to some degree, but they are also functional. Flat UI has in too many cases placed the emphasis on looking cool and pushing "forward" over the primary point of a UI, which is to communicate to the user.
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So...
1)But you stated the founders are scared to talk to customers so how do you ensure that this particular problem is fixed? Is there a clear process the founder how to follow? Do you have a sales coach training them?

2)So are you saying you only take founders who have been successful in a venture before based on this response -"If you have noticed, the entrepreneurs that succeed in one venture, are more likely to succeed in their future ventures irrespective of the domain."

3) I am just trying to understand the thought process behind your marketing pitch about what you want to do. If your background is development, why not stick to that alone instead of throwing all the others in?
You can update it by remoting into the phone or having it pull down configuration changes from a server periodically.
If that happens it will only be a short term hit. You can say anything about capitalism you want, but nothing beats it if you need a particular thing and have the money to pay for it.
It's not just the children but anyone outside the realm of a "pure competitor" who winds-up harmed unfairly by doping.

The average professional cycling or the average professional American football player is not wealthy and is not competing purely for the love of the sport. Rather, they are only moderately well-paid, not terribly likely to reach the true big time and working extremely hard just to stay in the game. Often they come from impoverished backgrounds and view sports as their way out (and often it isn't). Essentially, competition is their work. It's fairly morally repugnant to create a work-environment that impels someone to use dangerous drugs just to literally stay in the game. It's not as bad as the factory owner that dopes his workers with speed to improve production but it's headed in a similar exploitative direction.
Maybe the answer is to extend protections to more workers, not take them away from some.
>> Is Apple Radio really going to add that much to your bottom line?

They will try to use radio in 2 way:

1. Make it unqiue and hard to copy, to add one more reason for people to use their device.

2. When making content deals, it's hard to get good deals if you come without a large crowd of subscribers.So apple plan to to use your radio subscription as content negotiation tool, and than upsell you a tv service - and there's a lot of money there.
A lingering question of mine: "Has anyone _actually_ done UI research since the 70s or are all these 'innovations' just bullshit?"
Thanks for the tip. I've been exposed to Cython a little, but my experience was very ugly... will check this out.
The Imposter Syndrome in Software Development
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