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Yeah, this is right on the money. I've worked in data sync the last four years, supporting an app that's used in rural parts of the developing world. Unfortunately offline sync was the only available option. What I learned from the experience is that sync is a super hard problem, that conflicts are inevitable, and that you should sync as much information and context as possible. Sync the higher level business actions, not low level data. Because when there's a conflict, you need the extra context to allow the user to resolve it in a sensible way. If you only synced low level data, you frequently find it's impossible to recover from some kind of conflicts.
San Francisco has a dearth of new restaurant concepts because of the insane real estate market -- new restaurants stick to tried-and-true formulae (artisanal coffee, artisanal toast, $10 ravioli) because they'll go bankrupt otherwise.

Local regulations also prevent foreign multinational chains from opening restaurants here, just as they prevent domestic multinationals like Wal-mart. (Din Tai Fung chose to open their new location in San Jose instead of SF.)
Then OS the previous version that got them purchased by Dropbox.
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Show HN: Engineering team accidentally changes SEO elements...so I built a tool
I can't tell you how many times some folks in engineering/UI/product teams accidentally change/break on-page SEO elements (or analytic tracking codes) - so I built a tool to monitor pages and let me know when a change is detected.

It's probably best suited for larger companies that have multiple teams and frequent release cycles. It's easy to forget to verify every single element.

I don't care how much training or cheat sheets the other teams have, accidents happen - it's pretty much unavoidable at large companies.

I thought I'd share it here.

It will also monitor Google PageSpeed (Desktop/Mobile), competitor sites, and track pages that require a username/password like a QA environment.

The way I use it is to look at my page-types (homepage, product detail page, state-specific product page, etc.) and then track 1 'representive url' for each of those page types/templates.

This cuts down on noise and allows me to track sites that are small or large. Lastly, you can toggle sensitivity/elements tracked.

Anyways, hope you like it and would like any feedback!

Here's the link for SEO Tripwire: https://www.seotripwire.com

There's a 30 day free trial if you just want to kick the tires.
I seriously question your claim and would require some citation. The Nexus 4 call quality is abysmal and the dual microphones to cancel out background noise seem to only amplify it. It's not just my phone because I've had 2 now, I love the phone but it's call quality sucks.
It seems like you'd be saving yourselves a bit of labor by automating, then.
They're usually out there but so few people know where to look or bother to do so that it's pretty frequent that white American families just end up at some chain resturant instead of noticing the little Thai place around the corner.

I grew up in a census designated place and there were plenty around where I was. It wasn't a super low density region or anything and a city of a few hundred thousand people was maybe a 15 minute drive. But I can't agree stronger that it isn't like you have to be in SF or NYC to get exposed to cuisines from other countries.
Swift, where semicolons are optional unless you have multiple statements on the same line.

Also C++, C99, and Java if you count // comments.
It looks like they sell training and support. Are you aware of them being profitable with those offerings? If so, that's great!
? How does Javascript use semantic whitespace?
mischanix has a good point. Why not whip up a local native version and use that for feature development and debugging? Then you can just do final QA on the emscripten version.

And if it works well enough the native version might be a good option for your power users to get better performance.
Is that 10μm repeatability or precision? Does it take into account the surface roughness (i.e. the surface roughness plus positioning error is less than 10μm) or is it just the positioning error? How much does your kerf width vary?
It always feels awkward when reading such a note, seeing that it gets a lot of upvotes and never heard about any of these products before. What was mailbox? Like many other people I'm pretty unhappy with the mailbox choices I have nowadays. In fact, I have to use four(!) mailbox programs to handle everything I need. Pain in the trashcan, I tell ya.
The response was a vacuous non-response that didn't address any of the technical points. If Qualcomm provided a detailed technical response I'd love to see it.
This is a pretty insightful article. Summary:

There are two models of mammal reproduction strategies (fast and slow). The fast model are adopted when there's little control over a dangerous environment. Rabbits, who breed fast/frequently and die young, are examples. The slow model is adapted when the environment is secure. Elephants, who breed infrequently, are examples. People who grow up in dangerous environments (unstable/abusive) breed fast (ie teen pregnancies). They also tend to choose short term rewards over long term. The mentality of people in the fast model can be unlearned (ie 50 Cent).
Yeah, the "Fry's" + packaging kind of gives the name away that it's not an actual turkish delight.
> There always will be a debate on global warming.

That seems mostly a US problem. In the rest of the first world, even in BRIC countries, there does not seem to be any debate on Global warming but on the economic repercussions and the fairness of the measures considering First World countries polluted as much as they wanted.

Actually, considering the complete lack of controversy in the scientific community, the US position is rather strange. I guess it is just easier internally to sell wacky conspiracy theories than some hard truth like "it is not our economic interest and we are the world leader, so sorry guys".
I agree strongly with these comments.

I used template heavy C++ back in the late 1990s, rolling container classes implementing smart pointers it was tricky to get good code compatibility across a range of compilers: Edison Design Group, icc, MSVC++, gcc. Ultimately I found myself reassessing the tradeoffs in using C++ for many projects.

Fast forward to 2015 and the situation is much better - even for "soft" embedded scenarios. GCC and clang have good reach and MSVC++ is evolving with the language.

Engineering decisions are often about making tradeoffs and with the state of C++14 and things like C++ Core Guidelines and good support for RVO/move optimisations I find the appeal of C++ has broadened again. And there is good support for modern C++ on many platforms.

Of course there are platforms out there where C++ is still not suitable. For example I'm currently doing a lot of 8086 real mode work, where due to external constraints all the code has to be written in assembler. Neither C or C++ are candidates for me in this work. These platforms will always exist. But many embedded platforms with smart phone level of processing power are solid targets for modern C++.
Zimbra is no longer part of VMware, fwiw, they were sold off.

Also...Zimbra...holy crap. Not a good product.
I find it's still a fairly good indicator. Last time I was looking for a new author I went back and compared the author's average rating. Authors I like were 4+. Authors I think are OK scored about 3.5. Authors who I won't read again were generally 3 or so.
Asking a book to change one's life within the course of a year seems like a tall order.

That said I recommend Chade-Meng Tan's 'Search Inside Yourself'[0].

Chade-Meng Tan began his career at Google as software engineer and later transitioned to teach a course – that this book describes – on emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and self-awareness. Allegedly, the course was quite popular at Google. I highly recommend the book.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achi...
.kniht uoy naht tnatropmi erom s'ti spahrep os ytilibadaer stcapmi xatnyS
I'd like to see a more recent comparison, honestly. Where can I find that? (10 years, for instance)
> So, no, webm, VP8, VP9, Google’s new stuff, etc is not "free of patents", it just happens to have patents which most users don’t notice.

As I pointed out above, that isn't true except in the narrow sense of if you try to sue for the invalidity of the webm patents specifically, and then you'd lose your license to the webm patents and only the webm patents (never mind that if you tried to argue that a software patent was invalid because all software patents should be invalid the court would throw it out so fast that likely no one would notice what you did).

You can object to that narrow clause, but no one ever claimed the project was "free of patents", just that it was royalty-free and that it includes a patent license grant for any patents covering the code and format.

Moreover, as (again) I noted above, every Apache 2.0 licensed project has the same clause, so you have a lot more windmills you should be tilting at right now.
Seriously how can you even like Outlook? Yes people need to use it, but want? Does anybody really know other mail programs and wants to use Outlook?
George W. Bush and Obama on a vast number of highly salient issues, such as healthcare.
and that case.
By shielding, do you mean that astronauts could live inside or behind the asteroid, just using its mass between them and the sun?

I mean that the habitable modules would be located inside silos embedded within the asteroid, so that the living space would be entirely surrounded by radiation shielding mass.

That would be pretty dark and cold.

The problem in space is generally getting rid of heat. Vacuum is a great insulator, insulation material is effective and relatively cheap, and radiative cooling is fairly slow. The other thermal problem is exposure to direct sunlight. The asteroid as a shell of massive shielding would help in this regard.
Would it really be all that expensive though. We are going to have to send tons of mass out there eventually. Is there anything fundamentally different about a lunar orbit that would make such a base not as useful. I understand it was not designed to experience large acceleration forces but could we not use this as an opportunity to test ion drives and/or other low impulse drive mechanism? Slowly inch it towards a linear orbit? Then send astronauts to meet it in orbit with a next gen reusable lunar lander? On a SpaceX heavy and or SLS?
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> Actually science is very much the consensus among practicing scientists.

Unfortunately, philosophers of science might add. They'd observe that a good determinant for a new theory to prevail over an old one is, well, when the old guard retires.

Not discounting the value of scientific literature mind you. Or the fact that we've indeed been seeing what looks like warming of late. Merely pointing out that a consensus does not a Truth make, that the consensus has remained unchanged since the 1970s [1], that the bloody mess is rather chaotic in nature, and that we're still learning new things about it every year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...
> I hope all the people I refer here die painful deaths

:0

You're not making a great case here...

> that you wish upon innocents

Show me where I've wished bodily harm to people who are innocent. Hopefully what you're saying is a language misunderstanding, I do tend to use some flowery language when writing in English...
I've never been lucky enough to visit Turkey, though I have some hope of attending a conference in Istanbul next year.

I _have_ gotten to stay with two separate Turkish AirBnB hosts here in the UK -- and both times were amazing. I'm sure it's not right to generalise from this small number of examples, but Turkish hospitality is clearly a _big_ deal. Even just visiting Turkish friends in their respective homes, there seems to be this feeling of great pride in hosting a guest.

I hope it's something that English culture can learn from.

Edit: hope I'm not coming over as patronising here. Just thought I'd share a more positive view.
No, I'm taking of white americans, who supposedly (and perhaps actually) mainly eat in bland chain restaurants, have watered down ethnic chains, and usually always search for the nearest McDonalds whenever they are abroad.
Yes. It's excellent sci Fi with some fantasy elements. There's a completely different writing style that is a bit reminiscent of Asian movies, which I thought was pretty cool.
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Actually "warming -> melting ice -> less reflection of sun -> less heat" would go other way around. If you have light surface it's likely that lot's of visible light is radiated to space. If you have blue sea instead it's likely it radiates only infra red. Which would be bad with elevated CO2 levels.

The most believable negative feedback I have seen is about increased cloud coverage. Clouds should then reflect visible light back to space. At the same time water vapor is the most significant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. We really don't know how it's going to turn out.
Of the listed features he suggests. All of them are C++11 features that are supported in Clang,GCC and VS. Which gets you the 3 major platforms for computing,mobile and cloud computing and through ARM the vast majority of cost effective embedded hardware.
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I don't think weather chaos is that bad. Us humans are adverse to change, but that change will be both good and bad. Between that and the sea level rising it will cause a lot of resettlement and moving around, but hardly the end of the world in itself.
I think it varies, region to region. I once tried and failed to persuade a roomful of Midwesterners to go to a Russian restaurant. Southerners (at least in Tennessee and Kentucky, probably in Appalachia in general; I can't comment on the Deep South) are pretty willing to explore new foods, in my experience; and in the Northeast and on the West Coast, curiosity about food is ubiquitous and routine.
> Pay developers millions of dollars internally then they release what they work on as open source code.

What do they release as open source code, apart from TextEdit? I am really surprised by your comparison since it seems to me that the two (bash, vim, top, netcat… and Apple's open source code) do not compare at all.
Most people aren't active readers. Goodreads users are active readers. Amazon bought Goodreads (and other sites like Shelfari) because that's where the readers are.

I read 74 books so far this year. Most of them were purchased from Amazon.

Also, Goodreads has an active review community, and good "by reader" data for recommendations (as opposed to Amazon's "by account" data. If Amazon were smart, they'd be working very hard on improving recommendations with their Goodreads data.
Well, in Turkey, Turkish Delight is not as popular as people may think. Probably, tourists eat more Turkish Delight than Turkish people... I eat more of this sweet here in US then back in Turkey. Looks like another article that just enjoys stereotyping.
> for at least ten life-size holographic displays.

I remember reading somewhere that the bandwidth of the optic nerve is about 10Mbit/s. Given that we've had 10Mbit/s Ethernet for years, couldn't it be said that we already have the hardware to build a display that is indistinguishable from reality, and it is now "just" a coding problem, in that if a 10Mbit/s stream contained exactly the right information the brain would interpret it as reality?
Unlike the ISS, B-52 airframes get pulled in to base for regular inspections, teardowns, period refittings/reftrofittings, et cetera.

We can hardly park the ISS in a NASA hangar, refurbish it, and send it back on its way.
Platform lock-in.
PAs fill much of that role. Yes, they do require physician supervision, but at many practices you can make appointments directly with them, never seeing an MD.

The last time I needed a basic physical, I saw the PA. She ordered blood-work and reviewed the results with me. I'm sure one of the physicians signed off on everything, but as far as I know, she did the work.

Likewise, the last time I had the flu, I made an appointment with one of the PAs. She did everything, with the physician just signing off on the prescription at the end.

Post-surgery, my follow-ups were with PAs or NPs, not the physician. He did drop in to say "Hi." but that was about it.
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It's a ditch dug around a castle to stop people getting in. i.e. the 'wall' in the walled garden.
Y'know, I used to feel the same way. But using a decently configured Vim or Atom, programming in Nim (which is white-space sensitive) has been perfectly fine. Not good, not bad, it just _is_. The language itself is great, too.
B52s can be completely disassembled in a shirt sleeves environment and we've barely explored on orbit construction. The ISS can't be stripped down so far which is actually causing an issue with bacterial growth in places that can be reached on orbit to be cleaned. At a certain point things that are hard/impossible to reach will reach the end of their lifespan and the inhabitants are in too much danger.

https://www.rt.com/news/iss-bacteria-mir-mutation-765/
Sending is easy. Receiving and sorting and filtering is harder.
That's the trick, all Estonian government services + all private services which benefit from strong authentication or authorization have implemented the ID-card log in and signature functionality to their services/apps/websites.

So whether I send 5€ to my mother, or I sell my car to a stranger on other side of the country, or I submit my yearly tax data, or I complete my 1 000 000 € M&A deal, I use my digital identity (PKI infrastructure) to sign the transaction.

The physical ID-card itself is not the most user friendly token in this Estonian infrastructure (requires the reader + op system drivers/soft). The alternative token is Mobile-ID, where the same PKI infrastructure is deployed onto my phone SIM card and I use my mobile device to authenticate / authorize my transactions. At the moment this only works with certified Estonian carriers but in 2016 the next generation of mobile support should make this channel usable over the whole world.
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A simple LaTeX idiomatic tool to handle with large files and long preamble
What if we mess it up and it comes tumbling toward earth?
Second submission after some changes, looking for code review and critics :-)
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Indeed. it was an Explain Like I'm Five explanation. I have learned far more than I've ever cared to learn about pricing options. Actuaries get paid well in part because the exams are difficult. :)

Also, the timing is only applicable to European options which expire on a specific date. American options have no expiration date!
Url changed from http://m.phys.org/news/2015-12-biologically-powered-chip.htm..., which points to this.
Dropbox is giving up on Mailbox and Carousel
I didn't say anything about climate change on the above comment. I only said the argument was not solid.

I'm not "climate skeptic", I'm true believer. I just try to combat these authority heretics.
On the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10690754
We're using Xcode instead of Visual Studio but that's essentially our process. Right now we're focusing our effort on getting the product right on the web first so native is currently on the back burner. A native version will definitely be a good option later on for power users.
>> a profession consists of individuals who have undergone a standard form of training, culminating in some kind of recognized title and degree.

Yes, and basically ending there, except for being able to teach it to the next generation. The professions were things like philosophy, geometry, theology, etc.

As I understand it, the title "doctor" was used by scholars, e.g., PhDs, long before medicine even existed as a respectable field, and physicians started calling themselves "doctor" to assume an air of respectability.

The trades may have been respected, but were a couple of notches below the nobility and the clergy. The idea of achieving a high social status for actually doing something is a newfangled concept.
Will Your Driverless Car Kill You So That Others May Live?
Really an excellent book. I've been through a bunch, but I think that is still the best general-purpose, entry-level game AI book on the market.
Perhaps 'useless' is a strong word. It's good for getting a general idea but too many books hover around the 4 mark. Whereas with IMDb anything 6 and above is worth the risk.
"Selling out" is also to compromise your values for money.
This danger was foreshadowed years ago in this period documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0
Jeff Bezos Wants to Launch Trump into Space
Eh, it's RT, I would take anything of theirs casting the West in a negative light with a grain of salt.
China added 39 gigawatts of new coal power capacity in 2014. They issued permits for at least 150 new coal plants in 2015. They're building a new coal power plant every week, and issuing a new permit every two days. Just the new permits issued for 2015 alone would be equal to 40%+ of all US coal power plant output. While we're at it, let's remember to throw in the recent 14% revision upward in their coal use.

Their coal use clearly hasn't even remotely peaked. All the plans on their table right now call for building a lot more coal power plants.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/world/asia/china-coal-p...
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Yeah the ISS is where we're learning how to actually run a long term space habitat. Each station has taught us more about tons of things that happen here on Earth by removing the effects of gravity so that other forces with much smaller effects can be examined and harnessed. There are other ways we might have gotten this data but there's a lot to be said for having a person there to repair anything that's gone wrong or to change experimental apparatus instead of having to launch it all again.
If you agree because someone says so, that's just another form of ignorance.

If you really wish to know the shit, you find the facts science has provided. There are facts. This "99% of scientists" stuff is making the signal/noise ratio quite bad.
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> China's use of coal has probably peaked. Any developing country would do well to follow China's lead...

Hmm. I think it's more correct to say the /rate of increase/ of China's use of coal has probably peaked.

"China added 39 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity in 2014 — 3 gigawatts more than it added in 2013. That is equivalent to three 1,000 megawatt units every four weeks.[v] At the peak, from 2005 through 2011, China added about two 600-megawatt coal plants a week, for 7 straight years. And, China is expected to add the equivalent of a new 600-megawatt plant every 10 days for the next 10 years. "

http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/analysis/as-u-s-shutte...

China is increasing renewable power generation, but they continue to add coal power generation as well.
Thing Explainer is fantastic. Some of the best presentations of complicated ideas I've ever seen. It's a spinoff from this classic: https://xkcd.com/1133/

Also check out a similar piece on general relativity: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-space-doctors-big...
Actually it doesn't cover the Amiga era. There's been a new book by the same author in the works that does, but it's not yet out.
The server won't send the Content-Disposition:"attachment[...]" header if you use this URL: http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view.... (For me, the abstract page was confusing, because you have to see the tiny "PDF" link and then click it to get to the actual article.)
Interesting, but crazier is that the Zero kicks the snot out of the laptop I took to college in 1997.