skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit perplexed by his issue with the realism of
futures in which we wear mini-dresses and three-piece suits, drive gas-burning automobiles (or hovercars: it's just a rabbit/smeerp replacement), carry handguns (or blasters: see rabbit/smeerp), eat the kind of food we eat today, live the kind of way we live today, and most importantly think the way we think today.

Especially after an article attacking space opera tropes.

Frankly, if the sci-fi of half a century ago had assumed that a decade or two into the next millennium we'd live in neat little houses on suburban Earth, don suits to go to work in our (non-flying) car, eat hamburgers and worry more about humans in other countries than alien empires it would have been absolutely right.
> It is not targeted to people who want to build a long lasting business primarily based on the app.

This is a vast oversimplification, but the general idea in business is to _identify your core value and make that your core competency_.

Whether the rest of the business can be outsourced, or staffed by a low-paid expendable grunts, or downloaded onto your vendors, is a question of tactics.

If we buy that general idea, we buy that some businesses may have software, but its not their core value proposition, and therefore that it’s ok to outsource it.

(I once met two founders who wanted to do a daily deal type business with high-end fashion items. I know nothing about this business, but I recall they were adamant that their “secret sauce” was sourcing the product to sell, not selling it. Thus, they were talking to consultants about building their deals site for them.)
Thanks. I'm actually one of those people who was under the impression that USA data was fairly complete.
Like so many other things, this isn't "back end less" or "server less" - it's just running on someone else's servers.. So you have zero control, are dependent on them, and potentially expose sensitive information about your users to them.
Sounds like a non-technical product manager's dream....
Clicked on article expecting it to not be very good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
"Mt. Everest stands 8km tall." In many cases, it's all about moving away from declaring a property of a subject ("X is Y") to using the verb that causes the subject to exhibit the property.

I'm familiar with this concept but this is the first time I've heard of it formalized with a name, or used outside of creative/narrative writing. When I was in high school, a writing teacher made my class perform an exercise to memorize a superset of the "to be" verbs. The rationale was that, while these verbs are direct and objective, they are "flat" and fail to engage a reader.

In the case of descriptors/properties that simply require too much wrangling to find an appropriate verb - the case of color came up elsewhere in these comments, as in "the barn is blue" - the guiding rule is that those descriptors shouldn't be the focus of a sentence in the first place. "The barn was blue" is not interesting enough to stand on its own as a sentence and something else needs to take the verb. "The blue barn loomed over the landscape" or "The blue barn dominated his thoughts."

Writing a Wikipedia article in this style is certainly an interesting exercise, but given the goal of a Wikipedia article I don't think it's a good fit. An encyclopedia entry is not narrative and needs to be direct and objective.

As an aside, her exercise proved to be oddly effective, as I can still recite the list from memory: am, is, are, was, were, have, has, had, be, been, being, do, does, did, can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must. :)
There's nothing 'ironic' about believing that different changes to language have different merits.
The biggest problem with any of these "login as a service" systems is that on the web, you need to be able to set a secure (HTTPS only), server-only cookie in order to provide a persistent login. You can implement that on your own server on top of this using their API, but it makes the amount of work much closer to "rolling your own" than "paste one line of JS on your static html site hosted in s3."

The alternative is to either force a login on every visit, or store a session token in localstorage or similar, where any XSS vulnerability opens your sessions to an easy exploit. Auth0 and Stormpath, which are the 2 of these I have looked at most closely, seem to do the 2nd of those. Not sure what these guys recommend yet but I imagine it is similar.

On mobile, this does not matter as much due to better filesystem access that an app will usually be granted compared to JS in a browser tab, where you can save your API key/JSON web token/etc.

Auth is hard, but the cost-to-benefit of outsourcing seems fundamentally limited at this time due to the storage problem on the web.
Probably more the traces they leave in your mind.

We have a slightly bizarre illusion of separate consciousness, but it's impossible to grow into a full adult human without being connected - in many different ways - to the wider human network.
Is it really so arcane to `grep PATTERN FILE` or `grep PATTERN` <kbd>Alt .</kbd> (if the previous command was `cat FILE`)? Is it also arcane to `pgrep PATTERN` instead of `ps aux | grep PATTERN`? Is it also arcane to `egrep 'PATTERN|PATTERN'` instead of `grep PATTERN | grep PATTERN`? Personally I prefer the "correctness" of this sort of approach, but the tools are just a means to an end and understandably people have varying preferences. Ironically "legitimate" was probably not an accurate choice of words.
Enjoyed the article. It made me pine for the days when I had time to dedicate a day to just play with code.
Unfortunately many PC motherboards ship with really poor DACs. If you use an iPhone, or an iMac, don't bother though. Their DAC are truly excellent. The only reason to upgrade would be if you have high-impedance headphones, or low-sensitivity headphones that require a more drive than these DACs can produce. Note though that the iMac DAC has higher output that most cheap external DACs, so chose accordingly.

This is the only reason to get a different DAC. These DACs have lower output impedance than most DACs under $500.

Edit: http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/iphone-5/audio-quality.htm
I'm afraid this is a glimpse into the not so distant future where software developers are next in line after taxi and truck drivers

As a reasonably experienced developer I am 100% convinced that I can manage an outsourced software project and get more value out of a freelancer than someone who isn't a developer.
“Market Rate” is for Lobsters
Respect the task – a symphony of success
I have a set of Etymotic Research earphones, they don't do noise cancelling, all the noise reduction is from the design of the plug.

[1] https://www.etymotic.com/consumer/earphones.html
HTY360Player: Open-Source 360 VR Player
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/360-vr-player/id1061464612?mt=8
Github: https://github.com/hanton/HTY360Player
Is that a new tool?
Perhaps it seems that way because we are so used to identifying with our names? Not only that but in typical American etiquette we commonly follow up questions of identity with a nonchalant "what do you do?"... I just met you and I'm already seeking job/rank/social status. It's like we are just dying to box people into a convenient category.

If you think about it, a human being has 3 different identities:

1. His true self. Unfortunately we will never know the real Jack, just as we will never really know ourselves.

2. His appearance. This is the sum total of your interactions with Jack. The empirical Jack.

3. His being. You could call this Jack's spirit, or the effect that Jack has on you.

#3 is distinguished from #2 because Jack might be a real jerk, or he may have done something that seemed jerkish to you. Either way, it's clear that he both 1) did something and 2) it had an effect on you. There is an ongoing relationship between you and Jack, and while people are known by their actions, they are not confused with their actions. Therefore we must differentiate between Jack's actions and Jack himself, and so we call the man "Jack" though we often think we are talking about the #1 definition of selfhood when we call him that. But as I mentioned, you truly don't know Jack.
Yes, that's always been the case as I understand. The fusion stage is to get the bomb to do its exploding thing before it propels itself apart and thus just scatters debris everywhere.
We've done this before, RAD tools in the early 2000s and then a few years after that it was workflows.

It doesn't work.

One of the skills of being a programmer is to change a business workflow, which are often very vague and even very inefficient and open to interpretation, into a logical workflow.

Business people just don't have that skill, so what happens is that you need a bunch of programmers to operate the RAD tools. But the RAD tools have a bunch of restrictions and quirks and don't quite do what is wanted so the programmer is asked if he can just tweak it a bit.

And soon those little 'tweaks' are taking longer than building the whole thing from scratch.
Or it could use a really good developer who also can design - on a contract basis. Several iOS developers can do that well enough to ship an MvP. Even more can also spin up a backend with an admin interface on Heroku in no time. Even without any background jobs. I think you guys my underestimate the concept here.

I am just mad I didn't come up with it first :-/

The developer doesn't need to manage invoice, other peoples schedules and any questions. That's taken care of by the service in question.

Specific ideas in.
App Out.

This would be great for a developer who wants to get an outlet for creative (design) ideas as well.
Oh, most of those words at the end of your comment are actually allowed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime#Allowed_words

E-Prime just removes "to be". So you can have other simple words, like can and have :)
It's a big step (and fraught with diplomatic problems) that a government agency is saying this openly. Have any other (major, Western) governments or their agencies done so already?
Ou profile at the VB profiles
I do not know if it is insane in general, but in the case of french political responsible, I would not bet on conspiracy theories: most of their acts seem to exhibit a complete lack of anticipation.
"On top of that, a lack of collaboration with U.S. intelligence means that if Anonymous and GhostSec are running the same game as the Group — creating moles within online ISIS communities — the good guys in government could end up investigating the Anonymous moles instead of the actual terrorists."

Pardon my ignorance, but is it even an option for civilians to coordinate with a national intelligence agency?
Pirate Bay's .org Domain Suspended Pending ICANN Verification
What we actually meant is that Multi-Factor Authentication is the same as Two-Factor Authentication but with multiple options for the second step. We are going to fix it ASAP to avoid confusion.
Thanks a lot for bringing this to our attention.
Joseph Carpue’s file drawer experiment – and a murder mystery from 1801
>It’s true that many governments have been set up during
such storms; but in those cases it was the governments
themselves that destroyed the state. Usurpers always create
or select times of disturbance and public fear to get destructive laws passed—laws that the people would never have adopted when they were thinking coolly. One of the surest ways of distinguishing a legislator’s work from a tyrant’s is through the question: When did he choose to act?

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/rousseau1762.pdf
Building Real-Time Dashboards with Apache Flink, Elasticsearch, and Kibana
There are a ton of IEMs like that. Please see /r/headphones and the various wikis in the sidebar.
How do you compare?

Beats look a lot better, for once.
Exactly, and they committed crimes using cars ! I mean, it can't just be a coincidence, in the previous Charlie Hebdo attacks, the guys also used a car to escape from there ! If we ban cars, then no more attacks, it cannot be any simpler than that !
It is relatively easy to produce NDK outputs from Swift : https://github.com/swift-cc/tools
That's not very useful though. NDK is by design very limited and can't interact with almost any of the platform APIs

The Android framework team could theoretically make the necessary work to allow Swift code to :

-dialog with the framework APIs (so we would need need some kind of API bridge)

-compile to oat or bytecode format so that it can be read by ART (the vm used by android).

They would have to throw away and restart from scratch a lot fo the tooling though.

The Android frameworks team discussed the adoption of a new language during the fireside chat of the android dev summit.

The language in question was Kotlin (which would IMO a much bigger contender as the next language for Android). Their response was that adopting a new language means a massive amount of work for them and some very hard questions to answer like 'what about the people that still need/want to write in Java ?'.

Adopting Kotlin is not in their plans right now (it might change if in 2 years 90 % of the devs write their apps in Kotlin), especially since Kotlin already outputs bytecode, so it is 100 % compatible with the java APIs of Android.

This is even far less likely to happen with Swift :

-Apple controls the future of the language, Google can only lose from such a relationship.

-It is not compatible with the java APIs.
It's not an in-depth critique, you're right. But there are some interesting themes here, and by mentioning 1984 I'm referencing some deep questions in (what I hope is) a fairly shorthand way.

To be more explicit:

1. Do people 'think in a particular language' such that limitations in language limit their thought? This is something that psychologist have considered. The other comments in this thread suggest to me that there might be something in this.

2. Is it dangerous to allow any kind of authority that tells people what they can/can't say? If the answer to #1 is 'yes' then would such a group be too powerful to be allowed to exist?
We just launched the website and we are getting our certificate right now.
However, the underlying api is on HTTPS. ;-)
How do you define "quality"? Do you automatically assume that sound quality is the most important component of headphone quality, for everyone? Why?
I'd look at this as outsourcing your MVP. Come up with an idea, have it built, and then you figure out how to market it. If you get product/market fit, you can invest in building a technical team.
The background image choice clashes with the font color which makes it hard to read. http://i.imgur.com/epctfAh.png

Any plans to support subresource integrity?
Mobile App Buttery Brings the Power of Analytics to Alcohol Delivery
It’s open-source software that’s eating the world
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/353/
I use etymotic in-ear headphones with the two-flange tips (I prefer the rubber flanges over foam) and they do a remarkable job at isolating from external noise, allowing me to listen to music at a quiet (read non hearing loss inducing) level.
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How do you define "better"?

For a lot of people, how headphones look is far more important that difference in sound quality they won't be able to perceive.
Ritchie language: power of C and convenience of a high-level language
If a public government figure comes out and makes a public statement like that - there will be immediate follow-up for proof/concrete evidence.

When the national intelligence agency "independently" makes such a claim, it allows the leadership to defer proof. Additionally, it provides a subtle message of credibility and hints that "they" know something "we" don't.
As we replied to a previous comment, we just launched the website and we are getting our certificate right now.
However, the underlying api is on HTTPS. ;-)
I'm getting really afraid of these authoritarian opportunists. Seems much more likely to have an impact on my life than terrorist attacks at least...
It’s time for doctors to apologise to their ME patients
The ISIS Oil Trade, from the Ground Up
I have a question for all the folks out there who preach the "give them all jobs" line to ending terrorism: What happens when oil has no value cause we don't need it anymore? You know, the same oil that bankrolls half the paragon countries on the planet like our good friends the Saudis.

In case you can't tell, I believe that line of reasoning is complete garbage.
Consciousness: here, there and everywhere?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism#Origin_of_term

""Terrorism" comes from the French word terrorisme, and originally referred specifically to state terrorism as practiced by the French government during the 1793–1794 Reign of terror."
Auth0 doesn't just provide authentication, it's OpenID Connect provider which is really where it becomes an attractive option.
They don't even support Android, and now they prioritize Dart. HAHAHAHAHA.
The future being unevenly distributed, you can program today in Minecraft yet its very unpopular. Or rephrased its very popular to look at what statistically almost no one produces. Also VLSI hand design is kinda like programming and is also not popular.

There is a cognitive load issue where most people are not very good at 3d (source, the intro to drafting class I took). There is a self selection effect such that all the people "we" know are good at 3d games, but most people in general are extremely bad at 3d. Then again most people in the general public are also awful programmers or procedure designers in general. Most people are not draftsman or programmers, although this is a political opinion in direct opposition to the stated goals of the "everyone must code" movement.

I'm old enough that I was around in the previous 3-d fad, the VRML era, and there were language tokenizers that could translate source code into very abstract 3d structures, although in practice it was completely useless.

Looking with a liberal arts perspective, its like asking why sculpture never replaced literature, now with computers assistance. Could you look at Dyce's famous painting and have any idea it is King Lear unless someone told you ahead of time its Shakespeare's King Lear? A 3-d printed sculpture of Dyce's painting wouldn't be much of an improvement over looking at the original painting, well, it might look cool but it wouldn't help comprehension of the original theater play. Modern tools and energy sources mean marble sculpture is cheaper and more available to the masses than ever, yet despite the new easy tools there are more book authors than ever...

I'll just admit defeat WRT some non-fictional topics. As a kickstarter or movement or experiment someone should make a "thingiverse for geometry" site. Nothing but endless 3-d printable models to use to physically demonstrate 2D and 3D geometry proofs. Can all of Euclid's proofs be 3-d printed it an educational format beyond the ridiculous (ridiculous being 3-d artificial clay tablets of a translation) In my infinite spare time, etc...
Doubts on report that Dothan, Ala. police planted drugs on young black men
Node.js commit: remove use of profanity in source
What MIT grad want's this job..? My guess is that they exaggerate this quite a bit. The xyz graduates are probably the founders :)
It requires that I don’t file a case questioning their validity.

And I don’t want to give up that freedom. As I am sure that I will do so.
I constantly have this Facebook-Ad for the last couple of weeks that says „We build your MVP for 5k“.
They mention that the “the client base moved to enterprise” and I think that, if Gigster is ever reasonably successful, it will end up as a shop making niche products for enterprises who find it difficult to fit such development activities into their budgets and schedules. They will then be directly competing with consultants who today do not provide an 'end-to-end' solution, so to say, to the development problems plaguing these enterprise companies.

But it is mighty difficult to do this kind of niche work because developers will then have to spend an inordinate amount of time acquiring relevant domain knowledge to implement these niche solutions. Hard earned knowledge that will be useless after the project is complete. And the effort of acquiring this domain knowledge will often be under-appreciated and underpaid, cause it is very very difficult to estimate this effort no matter how good an AI have you.
Swift 2 goes open-source
And even if it were, the "good guys in government" presumption is quite a stretch. Especially in this case!
The Smartphone Changed the Refugee Crisis
> The world needs to focus on how we collectively become more efficient while working less / relaxing more.

The world doesn't reward working less. More automation might lead to lower average work hours, but the reduction comes from people losing their jobs and not finding new ones.

So, yes, you get to work less, but you almost might go bankrupt, lose your house and car, and be reliant on government welfare, if you're "lucky" enough to live in country with a decent safety net.
I tried that one I linked above on my macbook pro retina (2013?) and it seems _slightly_ better. Nowhere near the difference to my work Dell though. Guess laptop parts are more constrained too.
> What we need now is a simple program that takes normal human text and outputs a program. Input "write me a program that adds the numbers 1 to 100" and you would get a program that did that.

The problem is normal human text is ambiguous and flawed. Case in point:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=write+me+a+program+that...

Correct, but probably not quite what you intended.
>For the past 3500 years of the Western world, the effects of media–whether it’s speech, writing, printing, photography, radio or television–have been systematically overlooked by social observers. Even in today’s revolutionary electronic age, scholars evidence few signs of modifying this traditional stance of ostrich-like disregard.

>Because all media, from the phonetic alphabet to the computer, are extensions of man that cause deep and lasting changes in him and transform his environment. Such an extension is an intensification, an amplification of an organ, sense or function, and whenever it takes place, the central nervous system appears to institute a self-protective numbing of the affected area, insulating and anesthetizing it from conscious awareness of what’s happening to it. It’s a process rather like that which occurs to the body under shock or stress conditions, or to the mind in line with the Freudian concept of repression. I call this peculiar form of self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis, a syndrome whereby man remains as unaware of the psychic and social effects of his new technology as a fish of the water it swims in. As a result, precisely at the point where a new media-induced environment becomes all pervasive and transmogrifies our sensory balance, it also becomes invisible.

>This problem is doubly acute today because man must, as a simple survival strategy, become aware of what is happening to him, despite the attendant pain of such comprehension. The fact that he has not done so in this age of electronics is what has made this also the age of anxiety, which in turn has been transformed into its Doppelganger–the therapeutically reactive age of anomie and apathy. But despite our self protective escape mechanisms, the total-field awareness engendered by electronic media is enabling us–indeed, compelling us–to grope toward a consciousness of the unconscious, toward a realization that technology is an extension of our own bodies.

-Marshall McLuhan
And sometimes the requirements are clear, specific, and wrong.