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That's awesome. Having used f.lux on all computers, I wish it would just somehow get into iOS (without needing a jailbreak).

On a serious note, have you people talked to Apple directly to get this added either into iOS (possibly the best approach considering how the app store and app policies are structured)?

Also, how did you get this to work on iOS even with side loading (and no jailbreak)? It would be interesting to know.
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Nobody seems to have mentioned that the author works for FreshInbox - an email marketing company.

Sorry Justin, but sending web-pages by email is exactly why email sucks. No messaging apps allow HTML+CSS markup to be sent, and there's a reason for this - it's not readable. Instead send a URI/Link and the recipient can view the HTML using a tool that's designed for that - the browser! Web-pages aren't messaging. That's what the WWW is for, not email. Apple is totally at fault for introducing HTML support in emails, they didn't see the spam coming. Email is a messaging protocol, not a news reader or web browser. NOBODY (except for advertisers) wants SHOPPING CARTS in their emails. What non-sense.
Why wouldn't you sell the pieces to the highest bidder?
This is actually closer to what Grothendieck writes in Recoltes et Semailles:

"Yet it is not these gifts, nor the most determined ambition combined with irresistible will-power, that enables one to surmount the "invisible yet formidable boundaries" that encircle our universe. Only innocence can surmount them, which mere knowledge doesn't even take into account, in those moments when we find ourselves able to listen to things, totally and intensely absorbed in child play."

http://www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/promenade11.html
> "They would never have given the snacks to begin with if they didn’t think it was helping boost productivity somehow."

The same logic explains why austerity on the national level does not work.
> The only way you repackaged the discussion was a cheap maneuver, and misleading.

I object to this. I didn't "repackage" the conversation. I pointed out we had diverging experiences. Telling someone that their experiences didn't happen (his or mine) is plainly silly.
Why does someone dying from alcohol poisoning get no media coverage?
According to Dunning-Kruger effect, and expert should consider his accomplishments trivial in hindsight. Grothendieck and Gauss were mathematicians, not psychologists. It's likely that the predicate of the article is then completely wrong.

Then there is also the impostor syndrome, many students are likely to feel not smart enough.

And then there is the cultural taboo around smartness. Taking pride in ones ability is socially accepted as long as that ability is not intellectual. So in a way idea like this turns into twisted logic: "I'm smart, my laziness in college shows it." And now you get to do that sweet guilt tripping for feeling too smart. There is difference between pride and arrogance. So this self deprecation seems bit needless.

What if we don't consider pride as a sin, but as natural phenomena in range of human emotion. Maybe pride is inevitable for ego? Now if that is true, what should a good student to be proud of? What if being openly proud of your intellect is healthy after all?
I know - I really didn't realise making Pachinko machines was a viable business, but I feel after all the business with Silent Hills and Kojima, that they still need their fair share of disapproval.

As for EA - Yeah, "a bit less awful", but I think SimCity showed that they really haven't changed too much, especially now we've seen what Colossal Order have done with Cities:Skylines
>It's probably more a symptom of how absolutely useless and ineffective

I truly don't believe this.

Any popular uprising that gets large enough, or loud enough, has the capacity to demand change. Sure, the corporate, moneyed interests will push their agenda as hard as possible to try to sway opinion (which isn't always misaligned with the public good, by the way). But at the end of the day politicians will do what they can to save their jobs. Most of them are just ordinary people, after all.

The fact of the matter is, the story of surveillance was sold to us as, "We're protecting you from another 9/11!", and there are many people who really believe that. It might even be true, who knows. Outside of the technorati in SV and urban centers (who, ironically, created the surveillance system), most people really don't give a damn about their digital privacy. Yet. If or when a sensational story happens that involves the "common man" being boned by surveillance, the tide will shift. I'd put money on it.
More googournalism by the BBC there - L750 Betamax tapes run for 3h15m (in Europe) and that wasn't even the longest length available.
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Whether the point being made is correct or not, the article cites just a few prominent examples (such as Snapchat, Dropbox, Square) and makes a bit of a leap that their circumstances extend to the broader technology market.

That said, the article does include hedges, such as "But those companies are very different from Snapchat, making comparisons difficult if not impossible."
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Well said. Similar to work smart not hard. Here's one - "don't work hard, be smart"
Of course, even a chess engine that is stronger will sometimes draw or lose to a weaker one.
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This is a nice interactive example, but it doesn't explain _why_ one would prefer to use a least-squares estimator over any other arbitrary method. For example, one could measure the error in any other L_p norm - e.g. L_1 or L_{\infty} instead of L_2. What's so special about this one?

To answer that, we have the Gauss-Markov theorem [1] -- provided certain assumptions regarding the data are met, least squares is the best linear unbiased estimator.

Note, however, that no-one is forcing us to choose an estimator that is either linear or unbiased. What if by dropping one of those two somewhat arbitrary constraints we could get a better estimator?

One example of this is the James-Stein estimator [2], which is a biased estimator that has the amusing property of dominating (i.e., always performing no worse than, and performing strictly better than in some case) the bog standard least-squares estimate when one is dealing with data in three or more dimensions (and a few more common assumptions).

Crudely speaking, the James-Stein estimator produces estimates that are biased toward the origin, when compared to estimates produced from ordinary least squares. It is also possible to define a James-Stein estimator that biases toward an arbitrary fixed non-origin vector -- these variants also dominate the bog-standard ordinary least squares estimator! Personally I find this result both intriguing and also reasonably offensive (which means my mathematical intuition needs adjustment).

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Markov_theorem

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%E2%80%93Stein_estimator
DLove here - iOS developer at Elbi. Love any feedback, or to answer any questions!

So we're a non-profit, building an app to help people connect with charities in new ways.
Some people dedicate their entire life to philanthropy, if you don't have time, maybe you could donate just 5 minutes?
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Brighten a kids day by drawing them a giraffe, as they await an operation in hospital. After the operation, we'll send you an update directly from the kid, and they'll select their favourite giraffe.

Not only does your content directly reach the beneficiary but it also acts as micro-fundraising as users can donate £1/$1 directly to charities via the 'love button'.

We take no cut what so ever, and are entirely funded by private investors. 100% of donations go to charity.
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It's important to look at this change in its true form. This is not a savings. It's not as though employees are filling up backpacks with cans of soda, going to the overpass, and chucking cans at cars. It's not as though $600k in soda is rotting away somehow because it's being improperly stored. No, this is a benefit provided to employees as a condition of their employment. Cutting that benefit is equivalent to a salary cut.

Management is taking money away from its employees and giving it to themselves and the shareholders.
Ivan Reedman, the engineer driving the design of the mini-drone, resigned.
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Funny parallel with this thread from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539100

Despite what the 'Valley evangelists' will say(e.g., Thiel, Andreessen,...), innovation can happen anywhere in the world.
> making C++ the only option to write portable code across all mobile OSes.

Objective-C is also an option. Last I checked there were at least two options for ObjC on Windows and Android. More on Android, IIRC.
The army is a muscle.
That doesn't mean anything, asm.js only increases the amount of positions searched. If it searched more positions and still lost it means it either searched the same depth on average (which means the extra computational power did not finish a deeper search) or it just happened to lose despite it. See if it's searching more positions on average.
MS office post 2007 is an utter mess for novices and power users alike. I say that as a "power user" who used office apps 8 hours a day pre-ribbon and post-ribbon and has to help people who don't.

The ribbons manage to unify the drawbacks of both the button bar and the menu bar that you mentioned:

- it is composed of "rows of incomprehensible buttons" with no logical order (Where is the most-frequently-sought insert-column button in Excel? Hint: not in the "insert" ribbon tab, that would be too easy. Where is the function to create collapsible rows/columns? In the "Data" tab...)

- it has additional features hidden so well that nobody can find them without googling - Excel's most powerful features like creating named cell styles are now only reachable by clicking through several layers of unintuitive unlabeled mini-buttons tacked on as an afterthought. Yes, I have the muscle memory for remembering half a dozen triple-chord keyboard shortcuts like Alt-D-F-F, but nobody who didn't use Office 2002 will be able to use the new version at anything approaching full speed - that is exactly the opposite of UI discoverability.
Good point.

S/MIME might also have some dependencies on PKI that in some scenarios could make it unsuitable for high security scenarios?
No language will replace C, but all of those mentioned will eat some of its cake. Its usage will shrink, but C is here to stay.

D is what C++ should have been. It had some traction in mid-2000s but the Tango vs. Phobos debacle killed it.

Go is the most serious of the three languages mentioned. It has the momentum, solid community, solid tooling, and corporate backing. It's well suited for networked services, but it is not replacement for C.

I'm not so sure about Rust. Unlike D and Go, Rust can replace C (in theory), but I don't think that will happen. Rust has a feel of a hobbyist language in perpetual alpha.
It's funny how it seems that only really smart people do the hard work required for winning Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals and other such distinctions.
Average people are just lazy, that's why they don't succeed!
Very interesting. I'm wondering whether statistics-based photo synthesis is actually viable. The main problem is that many kinds of scenes appear to require a precise geometrical understanding, e.g. sharp shadows that get cast on detailed surfaces by a desk lamp, or that a mirror would precisely reflect another object in the scene from a different angle.

On the other hand, we don't require absolute precision, it just needs to be plausible enough to fool our eyes. If a shadow just looks roughly like the object that it casts, that should be enough. It seems to me that this still would require at least a rudimentary geometrical understanding/abstraction which will possibly require in comparison to this technique extremely sophisticated neural networks that can perform things like mental rotation, path integration, object recognition and have an understanding of object permanence.
I haven't tried that app, but it would have to be pretty awesome to pry me away from Podcast Addict. The latter isn't the prettiest app on the world, but it gives me a ridiculous amount of control over the listening experience.
We develop our game on Mac OS X and port to Win32 and Linux. Using CMake, SDL2 and C++11 there is very little code that actually needs to be rewritten. The windows build process is just a python script that pulls, cmake configure, compiles and zips the latest build.

The code that is completely different on the platforms is stuff like HTTPS requests, open file dialog, create/delete folders.
There is art from obsolete technology right here (scroll to bottom): https://gundersen.net

An art installation from floppy boxes called "Resistance to Change".
You might be surprised that NeXTStep used Objective-C for device drivers in the kernel.
In my experience, most employers think this way, but they don't like to acknowledge it. I've had bosses that talk a lot about "win-win scenarios" and how we're all working together to this common goal, all the while creating a very worker-hostile environment where people are pushed to work much more than they feel comfortable with, with regular emails praising the workaholic who works so much he never gets to see his kids. The unspoken message is, this is what we expect of everyone.

These same people get profoundly uncomfortable if you respond to their platitudes with reality. They prefer to keep up this illusion of cooperation, because it makes them feel better.
90%. You can expect that about 90% of people who play your game have pirated it. This figure has kept constant since the day Doom 1 was new. There are exceptions of course - when the game is tied to hardware copy protection, the number can go down to 0%, but for a PC game with purely software copy protection that is already cracked, the figure is 90%.
I haven't used VS in many years, but I like what you describe. I don't know if this will be helpful, but these are my alternatives in Xcode:

> For instance if you want to do a find/replace in VS you can double click on a word do Ctrl+H and the word you selected populates the search box.

Your workflow sounds nicer than Xcode's here. While I don't often use find+replace, I do use project level find constantly. My muscle memory shortcut for this is:

Cmd+C, Cmd+Shift+F, Cmd+V, Return

I'm pretty sure I use this hundreds of times a day. Especially when analysing unfamiliar code to trace its execution paths.

> Ctrl+F2 code bookmarks

These sound really cool. A bit like numbered unit groups in Starcraft.

The only similar mechanism in Xcode is quick open. Cmd+Shift+O then start fuzzy-typing the name of a file, method or declaration and hit return to jump to it in the editor (option+return for assistant editor). I have actually changed my quick open shortcut to Cmd+Shift+D because it's easier to trigger one-handed.

> In VS you have a stack of source code windows that you can easily move about via Ctrl+W+n

Unfortunately, while a stack of source locations is maintained in Xcode, you can't jump to a direct location within the stack.

What I do here is use Ctrl+Cmd+Left and Ctrl+Cmd+Right to navigate back and forward in the history stack for an editor window. So, for example, if you Cmd+Click a symbol to jump to its declaration, you can press Ctrl+Cmd+Left to go back.

The one thing I like about Xcode's version of this is that it keeps track of source locations rather than files or windows. So you actually navigate back/forward within the same file (if you were jumping around within the file) as well as between files.
OYO ties up with partners for the entire inventory. Even the hotel name is rebranded as OYO. So from a customer's perspective, they would assume this is a hotel chain.
For many of us it is not an option, if it isn't in the official SDK.

Since many years I only work with platform languages.

So Google doesn't offer it on the NDK, it isn't an option on Android, even if third party do make it available.

Microsoft still isn't fully done with their clang integration, so still not an option as of today.
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I'd like to hear the pitch vs Pocket Casts too, but I think there's definitely room for someone to improve over Pocket Casts. I bought Pocket Casts and ended up never using it. I went back to an old iPhone with Castro, which I really love.
At high level chess (which this is), white has a significant advantage over black. Always picking asm.js as white (and not providing a setting to change it) is a bit disingenuous.
When applying for coding-related positions, you are usually given a language-agnostic online test made of 3-5 tasks to be solved in 60-120 minutes. Not sure it proves anything more than your ability to game the testing system but, hey, that's what analytical skills are in their eminence.
Even more ultimately, muscles are brains.
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Irrespective of the common cold, vitamin C is uniquely beneficial in many different scenarios. Negative paper on vitamin C is almost non existent.

Speaking about the vitamin C and common cold, since you don't have any good papers in mainstream medicine that tested Pauling protocol you must turn to those groups that did so and use it in every day practice - orthomolecular practitioners. I am sure you will recognize this is considered frindge science by mainstream medicine but that is irrelevant since they didn't do the job. The situation is similar to that of vitamin C and cancer. Original claims by Pauling were not tested and instead we got Moertel studies on Mayo clinic that concluded that Pauling protocol does not good, except that they didn't test it at all. Check out the history here, highly informative paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2981594/

Most of the experiments were done by Dr. Cathcart who treated over 20000 patients using vitamin C and extensively documented it. Book "Ascorbate, the science of vitamin C" by Hickey is also very informative.

But don't limit yourself to common cold, just look everything that vitamin C does in the body, and I am sure you will change your opinion.

The fact is, AA is the main anti-stress molecule for the animal body (thats why they didn't delegate production to plants and still produce high quantity of AA from glucose on daily basis), just as GSH is primary endogenous antioxidant and detoxication agent.

Humans did have some adaptation to GULO loss for sure, but modern lifestyle sure as hell topped that in other direction.

The major problem is dosing as half life of vitamin C is very low and you have to make the dose right in order to neutralize it or effects are not impressive. See this graph by Cathart:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/images/titr.gif

which says that symptoms start to disappear only when you are very close to bowel tolerance. Notice the dose also - 1g per day is non existent compared to ~100g per day that Cathart used. I tried that many times, and it works for me. It is especially true for alcohol intoxication where the same protocol will bring you back from nonoperational to fully normal person in few hours.
How long is it going to take the employees to leave - especially the best ones?

Employees are motivated by intrinsic motivations such as feeling valued. These little things help it. Sadly, the CEOs need to go back to business school and re-learn organizational behavior.
> Xcode doesn't even have file tabs, but sth. I'd describe as big "whole-UI-tabs"

I think this is an intentional interaction design. When you are always working with hundreds or thousands of source files, tabs kind of lose their meaning. The fuzzy-search quick open panel and project-wide find become your main dependency for quickly jumping around your codebase (with the benefit that you don't need to touch the mouse).
> Java FOSS code is often faster, more secure

But uses significantly more memory and requires a VM.

The VM probably is written in C, too.
Ensure is also intended for complete replacement of meals; they just don't market that way in the US to the general public. They do to doctors, and they're more open about this use outside the US. From https://ensure.ca/en/faq :

For how long can I use Ensure®?? How many servings do I need to consume each day to meet my daily needs for
good health?

Ensure® products deliver complete and balanced nutrition Ensure® products can be used daily. Individual needs depend on many factors — age, gender, level of activity, health status. Please consult your health care professional for details related to your health.

Can Ensure® replace a meal?

Yes. Ensure® products are complete and balanced, when used in appropriate amounts they can be used to replace meals.

Basically, if you're going to do something like switch to Ensure or Soylent or anything as your sole meal source, talk to your doctor first, but if the doctor doesn't object, Ensure is as usable for this purpose as Soylent.
Has JustEat been hacked?
Interesting benchmarks. One hopefully constructive critique, if you say things go out of memory, it'd be really useful to know what your setup is. Maybe you've got a big array of massive GPUs or you're running it on a more normal consumer GPU+box.
They are shifting capex to opex. The complexity of solution that can perform OK on aws is significantly higher then complexity of solution that runs on metal. There are use cases for which aws will never be a viable option. AWS in general is a bad option for anyone but Netflix (Netflix consumes over 30% of aws resources if they make a mistake that causes even 30-40% spike all AWS customers are f#$ed)
...if there is the main company in the Valley backing it up, in this case.

(I sort of agree with you, BTW, but I don't think this is the best example).
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I think you've missed that part

>for succeeding in graduate school
The tech I used:
Ruby + Rails + Sidekiq + Python

services:
Kimono lab

also Postgres + Redis, hosted on Heroku + Digital Ocean
No, what you shared is basically the conclusion I've come to...it's still ongoing and undecided. The Alice decision clarified some things, but my question still remains unclear. Thanks for taking the time to comment though!
Nice, but it seems to be a very low-pace project from the looks of it (the dates of publications are far apart)
Another very well presented albiet brief introduction on this topic is this Ed Yong TED Talk https://www.ted.com/talks/ed_yong_suicidal_wasps_zombie_roac...
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