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It has the developer sanity that web development lacks with its Frankenstein mixture of HTML, CSS, JavaScript to make <div/> behave like native widgets.

Have you ever tried to use any web design tool capable of matching Blend for UI design?

XAML is what web could have become if XHTML and its sublanguages had been adopted properly.
MkDocs: Generate and Serve Project Documentation, with Markdown Support
Anecdotally I've found my Charge HR's measurements to be most accurate when I'm stationary, but querying several months' of data via Fitbit's API showed a few instances where my heart rate was supposedly 200 while I was sitting at my desk, which I feel like I would have noticed. (I know what task I was working on because I correlated my heart rate with RescueTime activity logs. It's interesting that my average heart rate is highest during Kerbal Space Program.)

I'm most interested in monitoring my resting heart rate anyway, because I take that as a good measure of my overall health. If it increases by 10-15% I'm generally getting ill.
>we found that answering factoid questions isn't the most critical function so we haven't prioritized it, but it's coming

This should be priority number one. As others ITT have been saying, your marketing and PR departments have been writing checks that the product can't cash.

When people see that Watson can't do what it does on TV, you lose a sale, and that potential customer is now going to be skeptical of IBM's future marketing claims.

It doesn't matter if "answering factoid questions" doesn't have much real-world value — it's first of all what you're marketing the product as, so it should have been done and omigod amazing yesterday, and second of all the reason why your very smart marketing and PR people are pushing that angle is because it's a demonstration that is immediately and intuitively impressive to technical and non-technical people alike.

Getting a computer to "answer factoid questions" viscerally screams "major breakthrough!" in a way that "general visual classification of earth imagery" simply doesn't. It wows people at the sales meeting instead of boring them.

IBM needs to make sales. You need to build up a userbase toot sweet before Google et al start moving into this sector in a major way, as indeed they already are. There's a limited pool of enterprise customers, they don't change vendors often, and you need to get as many as you can as fast as you can, before Google/Amazon/whoever does, or you're done.
Xubuntu Network Manager Icon (nm-applet) Missing? Here's the Permanent Solution
I have not stopped using rails. Its mature and works well. But i love elixir and i think phoenix is the future rails.
Saving 10 people at the cost of killing one person is still a tragedy, unless you're UtilitarianMan or a psychopath.
Why is astrophotography hard?
A site listing campsights that is behind a login wall. Is that intentional? What's the logic?

This is publicly available information.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/search/Palm+Springs,+CA,+Unit...

You're competing with Google, you put up a massive barrier to anybody coming to your site, or even your site being found by search engines.

Step 1, make something useful

Step 2, don't shoot yourself in the foot by turning away users
I've kept a modest watch on battery technologies, and there are some interesting developments, though most are fairly modest.

You've got the fundamental problem that battery energy storage densities by weight are ~1/100 - 1/50 that of liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Synthetic analogs of petrol, kerosene, and diesel would be quite useful (though expensive). All but irreplaceable for some uses (heavier-than-air flight, marine propulsion).

Among batteries, you have:

1. Liquid / molton salt batteries. Some of these have highly abundant substrates. The problem is the 300-600C+ temperatures they operate at. Especially in vehicle applications.

2. Metal-air batteries. Iron and aluminium particularly. Here the oxidation is supplied from air. You're consuming the (anode?) in use, and it's got to be replaced, but that can include recycling. Abundant but problematic.

3. Fuel cells. A reaction, typically of hydrogen and oxygen, producing electron flows. The problem is the reaction chamber, which usually requires scarce catalysts (e.g., platinum) which are a) expensive and b) rarer than lithium.

4. Advanced allotropes. Carbon or silicon or other materials which are abundant but offer unique properties in new molecular forms. While this is well outside my area of expertise, it's an un(der) explored area which might pack some suprises.

5. Biocells. Life does some amazing things with enzymes and other agents, including maintaining an exceptionally high voltage potential across cell membranes (see Nick Lane's book, recently mentioned here via Bill Gates). Humans utilising biological mechanisms to provide electricity might offer another out, though this again is highly speculative.

The advantage of my #s 4 & 5 is that they could rely on highly abundant elements arranged in complex molecules to perform desired functions. Experience suggests that such molecules are difficult to come up with, degrade quickly, and have narrow operating bands in which they're viable. But at least the abundance constraint is removed.
No, because desktop and server Windows 10 machines have to be compatible with arbitrary older binaries that were written against the Win32 API. The Xbox One version of Windows 10 can leave out the backwards compatible and more easily targeted parts of Windows, and only support UWP apps, which are sandboxed and thus are less exposed to various types of exploits.
None. But AFAIK the US is obligated by treaty to defend Japan against any external military threats, meaning any potential conflicts Japan might have with its neighbors would be fought on Japan's behalf by the US. Japan is ostensibly pacifist because it's "military" isn't Japanese, it's American.
I think there's a bit of confusion about Pack prices vs Cell prices. The $145 is cell only, which is one of the reasons it is so much lower. There don't seem to be consistent pack-pack price comparisons.
Some Nit picks (sorry, I couldn't resist the pun):

(0) Are the covariant virtual types they advertise actually sound? In their Employee/Office example, what prevents me from doing this?

var e: Employee = some_boss_object
e.office = office_with_no_fridge

(1) If you hate copy-pasting, inheritance is not for you, because inheritance is literally copy-paste automation. If you hate copy-pasting, you come up with designs that don't require copy-pasting, whether manual or automatic.

(2) If I monke... I mean, refine a class in a module Foo, will the changes be seen in a module Bar? Is there some way to limit the scope of a refinement?
There are multiple meanings of traits flying around in different languages. Some traits are type classes (Rust), some traits are mixins (Scala). The former are not really related to class-based inheritance, while the latter most definitely is (linearized multiple inheritance as defined by Cook & Bracha, not the mixins of CommonLisp). Self and smalltalk style traits are even more different.
Binoculars are handy, but I wouldn't get anything cheaper than the Nikon Aculon series (usually $80-$120; they used to be the Action series). Sharp optics, wide apparent field of view...
Yes, that's quite an elitist response... Just don't... listen to this advice. You only live once. Try what you want to try, enjoy with what you want to enjoy. You can always "don't" (i.e. stop) if you won't be happy, and do some other things which makes you happy...
In my experience, these kinds of connections are QoS'd on a per-port/protocol level, so every client gets an equal amount of bandwidth on that port. If you can get a tunnel or vpn connection going on a less used port you'll generally get far more bandwidth. Being on a non-standard port also helps since the systems are often under provisioned for the size of the NAT table they have to hold.

That's all assuming you can get an open port between a remote server and you, but usually there's at least some way to get a connection on not 80/443.

That said my experience is pretty out of date so it could be different these days. Thinking back, since I figured out that I could tether my motorola v710 for free 10 or so years go, mobile internet has gotten faster and far more reliable, (though a lot more expensive once smart phones made data plans more than an underutilized $5/mo gimmick on feature phones,) I've rarely used public wifi.
If the world you live requires you to be a hyper conformist, to lead a peaceful, happy life, will you raise your children as a free thinker?
How pushy is it in regards to buying consumables? I don't mind F2P with a $2-$5 "no ads" unlock or similar. (I'll get unreasonably angry if I see a single ad after that, though)
Joel test scores are (somewhat) outdated – you should ask something else
They're probably not trying to compete in the global market for space launches as much as simply reduce costs for the Indian national space program. Most people often forget that SpaceX is a US company, and hence the services it supplies are subject to US laws, specifically, export restrictions and sanctions.
One thing he didn't talk about is clock drives. They're essential for photography, but they're also good for keeping the scope on target if you want to let other people look through the scope. Especially at higher magnifications, the thing you're looking at will move out of the field of view in a few seconds without a clock drive. The one disadvantage of Dobsonians is you can't put a clock drive on them (well you can, but it requires two motors instead of one. And high magnification is not really the point of a dobbie anyway).
http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/isro-rlv...

"The hypersonic flight experiment (HEX) will be followed by the landing experiment (LEX), return flight experiment (REX) and scramjet propulsion experiment (SPEX)."

Notice - scramjet. I think it isn't reusable space program like SpaceX's. It is more of an advanced tech development program with "spaceplane" being a goal. Dovetails nicely with the current active development of 7Mach Russian-Indian scramjet missile BraMos 2.
CS papers about it might disagree.
This should be integrated into pgcli [0] [1]!

[0]: http://pgcli.com

[1]: https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli
Japan's refusal to surrender - so as to bring an end to the vast war Japan started in Asia, and the separate war Japan joined with the Axis on when they declared war on the US and Britain - was the justification for the second bomb. The fact that they refused to surrender after being nuked once, very strongly makes the case that it was unlikely they were going to surrender without an invasion or more nuclear bombings.
I think it should be noted that this isn't strictly "CSS-only"... Considering you need a css preprocessor to make it work. That's just me being pedantic of course, because this is actually pretty neat.
This is an interesting article, and a "devector" is something I've never heard of or considered before, so I'll leave critique of the data structure itself to others. But I have some constructive criticism of how the data is presented. Since the graphs / performance comparisons are such a large part of the post, I think it's relevant.

First of all, and most simply, when presenting multiple charts please use the same colors for the same lines on each chart. Here, the charts without the "vector" line use a different color scheme, making it harder to compare them at a glance.

Second, absolute timings don't matter here, only relative timings do, so showing absolute time on the Y-axis doesn't really make sense. Instead, I would use percentage from a baseline of one of the data structures. I think choosing the "deque" line for that purpose would make the most sense, given that it's the standard data structure from double-ended access.

Here's a rough version of what that looks like for the first chart -- https://goo.gl/bg5mrN -- Hopefully it makes the relative speeds of the different solutions more clear (I only put in the data for "deque" and "devector").
Wefunder is hiring an engineer to help save the American Dream
I use recidive[1] jail to ban an IP if it tries again and again.

[1] https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/blob/master/config/jail...
Theoretically, yes. But I've played plenty of F2P games without dumping a single cent in, eventually hit the paywall and delete the game. (I think the minute you pay a single penny into the game, sunk cost fallacy sets in, so I avoid starting that in the first place).
SpaceX is within 1-2 years of the Falcon Heavy; same timeline for the Dragon 2 capsule (reusable) for carrying humans into and out of space. Blue Origin's timeline to orbit is a quite a bit longer and filled with a lot more question marks.

With that said, there is value for India in having their own cheap space launch system which can't be blocked off by the US on a whim.
That's quite an "I haven't read the article" response. The author doesn't absolutely forbid dabbling with astrophotography, he simply says that it is very hard, not suitable for beginners, and backs it up with good arguments.
India launches reusable mini space shuttle
Canal is just Calico with different lipstick for now. Just a new company so a new name with features planned for the future.
Fair point in the article about SEO for technologies being an issue when trying to find help. "Lambda" has a good chance of leading to irrelevant results, even if there was a lot of experience with it documented online. It's a good reminder to try for high entropy names.
I agree there is a disparity between the Bolt's cell-only cost vs Tesla's cost all-in on a pack. Regardless, the cost is below $200/kWh, and it appears that the cost decreases will continue.
I like these static doc generators .... all except the compilation part.

I'd rather recommend mdwiki and avoid a needless compilation/tool chain requirement and allow vcs usage:

https://github.com/Dynalon/mdwiki
True, from a gamer's perspective those games are trash, but unfortunately studios discovered it's much easier to make money selling cocaine rather than a fine cuisine.
AFAIK it doesn't have ads, you pay for in-game currency to spend on cards which can also be won in-game. It's entirely possible to play the game without spending any money, although grinding may or may not be fun. I played a bit when it launched and stopped after a week or two.
1 year, lessons learned from a 0 to Kubernetes transition
Marriage agency “Rumbalovetour”
Really this question should be asked in the relevant forum. A better place to ask might probably be:
https://security.stackexchange.com/

The main reason is the clipboard is plain text and shared with everything. I recently had it last week where my other half was using my laptop. The cat walked over the keyboard and she wondered where this person's name had come from. Turns out it was from me using the clipboard 5 days earlier.

It dawned on me then, the clipboard needs a time limit. It needs to clear after an hour of inactivity, it needs to clear on resume.
Even further: allocate the same physical region twice. Please google what "virtual ring buffer" is ))
It can't do binary data.

You can redirect to a file the Lambda function writes out. But that sucks.

AWS Lambda is the perfect use case for something like dynamic image sizing. Except if you use it for that you'll force all your users to do a redirect when fetching images. No easy way to clean up when you do it that way either.
It's true that we (as in everyone working on these problems - not just IBM) don't have this working.

Two points, though:

1) This is probably the most active area of research in machine learning/AI at the moment. The same type of progress that was made in image understanding 2 years ago using deep learning techniques is now being seen in NLP. See for example[1].

2) It isn't at all clear that "making connections" of the type he talks about is needed to generate the types on insights that he claims. For example, the work StitchFix is doing combining analogy reasoning on words along with other non-textual data[2] indicates to me that the current state-of-the-art absolutely could "understand" that Bob Dylan wrote about themes that were associated with anti-war sentiment.

[1] "Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend" http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03340

[2] http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/2015/03/11/word-is-w..., https://github.com/stitchfix/context2vec,
It could be just ignorance. I would bet that the journalist thought that space shuttle is a fancy word for rocket.
After attending and then volunteering at my local observatory for a few months, I pulled the trigger on a Nexstar Evolution 8. Tons of fun to let people choose what to look at on the iPad and the tracking keeps me from having to make adjustments every minute when we zoom in on Saturn to see Titan.
No. PHP programmers aren't "bad", PHP is.
I buy apps so what you're saying is BS.
Was this when it was still in preview? Lambda is still pretty new having launched in November 2014. Reliability and features for Lambda are getting better though [1][2]. AWS seems pretty invested in Lambda, so I think it's just a matter of time until it feels like a 'mature' offering.

1. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-update-productio...

2. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/aws-lambda/
In english?

You seem to be giving good advice to newbees, but the language is incomprehensible to that audience.
Amazon API Gateway supports OpenAPI (http://swagger.io/) via Console and AWS-CLI.

(http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/apigateway/p...)

This approach allows to avoid a lot of the mentioned Amazon API Gateway hassle.

RAML (http://raml.org/) seems to be also around the corner. (https://github.com/awslabs/aws-apigateway-importer)

"API First" is in general quite promising.
> I'm not sure this is such a good thing. Maybe I'm in the minority but my phone and my desktop OS have vastly different use cases and I'd expect apps running on each of them to be different.

But why should they be programmed different?

You can create XAML forms that are optimized for each platform. But why would you want to rewrite your code to adapt to the different GUIs?

Won't it just be easier, as a developer, to create a singular platform with two XAML (one for small screens, one for large screens) that share the same codebase?
It's Australia mate. They don't have much in the way of gun ownership. Once a group of children were massacred there, see the 1996 Port Author massacre for reference, they collectively decided that gun control was needed. I doubt it would even occur to most Australians to kill anything with a firearm.

Your reaction freaks me out actually.
Well, lots of reasons. For starters, you have to consider the privacy of every person who appears on camera, including students and guest presenters. But let's assume a blanket waiver can be put in place (ha, good luck). Then you have to consider the chilling effects: will people want to have open discussions in lectures (for instance, to challenge a professor) if such questions (which may be read as dissent, or picked up on by outsiders to smear the speaker) are de facto recorded?

Then there's copyright, as university lectures may contain copyrighted video or audio that the university has licensed for educational purposes but not retransmission.

Let's also consider intellectual property, because guest speakers (who may have been paid for their contributions) may not be able to get speaking gigs as easily if a university has put their lecture online.

From a technical perspective, you also need capture and storage equipment. That's not just cameras and hard drives. You need someone to operate the equipment (e.g. framing shots, checking audio levels) because a catch-all wide shot of a lecture theatre is not very compelling or engaging. And all material has to be catalogued so it appears in the right place.

Many universities ARE taking the opportunity to provide lecture recordings because it burnishes their brand and provides a public service. But let's not pretend it's as simple as hitting record.
- Road trips.

Someone should make a novel rental program where you can swap an electric for a fresh one every 200 miles or so, like getting fresh horses. It would let more people try the vehicles while also offering a faster solution for road trips (assuming Tesla owners would get a significant discount).
Let me suggest that the meaning will
require working effectively with
concepts. That is, humans, who
actually have real intelligence, can
read words and identify and work with
the underlying concepts, but apparently
so far no one knows how to program
a computer to do this.
So if you have a million vectors then you have wasted 8GB. It only makes sense if you have a few large vectors.
>And the logic of killing civilians to save soldiers is just .. no comment.

Since their was totally a way to invade Japan and not harm any civilians. Since Japan totally didn't kill millions of innocent Chinese , Vietnamese, and Philippinos. It's not a bad guy good guy comic
When exactly was the last no civilian casualties war ?

We firebombed Dresden too, but you don't see Germany getting a peace day.

And remember Truman's first duty is to save the lives of the drafted men on the front lines.
Entire companies are isolated. So you have isolated game designers working in an isolated country. This has led to several unique understandings of how games should be developed.

Google up the influence of Wizardry on JRPGs as just one well-documented counter-example. Japanese game designers in the 80s and 90s were designing in the 80s and 90s, not during the Tokugawa shogunate.
I like rails. A lot. The syntax is amazing. Period. If you can get a gem or get what you need from rails. It is simply close to amazing.

But dare you. You just go down one simple level. (first level is what you get with rails and for example extending active record.) it becomes a horrible mess of dependencies and magic / structures.

I never found a framework so hard to modify. ( for example writing your own multi category / multi tag gem)

That's when i stopped web dev. It was just mind boggling. This is several years ago. I think around version 3 or even 2? And every version broke the active record stuff...

I really thought rails would catch on in germany. But if you look on indeed there are literally like five jobs in Germany... Maybe I'm not alone with that problem...
If you don't know how to use a telescope, you probably don't know how to get a telescope to track along with the Earth's orbit according to elevation and get an accurate long exposure photograph.

Plus, we're all spoiled by photos made by people with multimillion dollar telescopes... so the end product will be shit probably. There's some cool things that can be done wide angle but those have been done to death.
Wouldn't Californians therefore be in a position to object and warn others of the consequences?
Something’s cooking in Apple’s India business
Usually when you call someone a liar you present plausible proof. No proof was presented. Instead all we got was an opinion of Watson's cognitive abilities from a former Trump University employee.
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> We moved on from lambda as well.

To what, might I ask?
Official Link : http://www.isro.gov.in/technology-development-programmes/reu...

(Posted here before : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11751458)
You can sign with a SHA1 hash but a SHA256 certificate, and have it work on unpatched Win7 and even Vista SP2 with a hotfix installed (to fix a minor problem).
Hype cycle
(4) lock in to a closed mainframe when you can easily duplicate the same design pattern with open stuff.
Awesome game. It's one of the few that I was ok with my kids expanding their iPad allotments to play.