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> What can I do to lower the barrier-of-entry to just write code, and stop fiddling with files, folders, modules, repos, function naming, etc?

If your goal is to write code with as little overhead as possible, put your code in a JavaScript file and bring it into the global namespace of your site with a <script> tag.

> I feel like I write the same couple of functions over and over again, reinventing the wheel again and again.

If your goal is to organize your code so you don't have to write as much of it, then fiddling with files, folders and modules is a worthwhile investment of your time.

At the risk of inducing JavaScript fatigue, I recommend using a tool that will compile single JavaScript files out of multiple linked CommonJS modules. There are two main tools that do this, Webpack and Browserify, and they're by-and-large interchangeable. Use Webpack if you want to be told which one to use.

> I want naming conventions for files and folders as well as functions themselves.

Naming conventions are orthagonal to the actual organization of your code. Be aware that different projects use different conventions, and hopefully make peace with that. For your own projects, find a style guide you like and stick with it. I like this one: http://nodeguide.com/style.html.
Please read the linked article again. Any statement made about members of the empty set is trivially true. This is also known as the Principle of Explosion[1]. It's not lying; it's formal logic. Some further reading: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/137890/why-is-it-sen...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
That is a common suburb design: it tends to fail on the generational level. New Urbanism has a long list of evidence about the problems with suburban design.
But that's the same argument that I was making about KeepassX itself before. So if I'm trusting for the dependencies to get watched well for not being compromised, why then look into KeepassX itself, wouldn't that apply for the app itself as well?
Coincidentally, I saw these state by state migrant origin maps for each decade in animated form on Twitter this morning (showing numbers resident rather than numbers flowing in)
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/28/from-ireland-to-german...

Some predictable phenomena (Cubans being the most common migrant group in Florida from 1970 onwards, Mexicans being the most common migrants in Texas and the West Coast initially and then most places) and some weird ones (why were Laotians so common in Minnesota in 1990, and why is the Ethiopian diaspora the largest in South Dakota as of 2013?)
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Yep, the author subclassed native UI elements and added CSS styling support. It’s definitely native though.
Josh from DailyDrip here. My first realization that this was here was that we started getting a ton of traffic. :) We just ran the first Remote Elm Meetup today so my attention was elsewhere: https://www.bigmarker.com/remote-meetup/1-Elm-Remote-Meetup-... (yes, I know our company name is misspelled in the url :-\ )

I'd love to chat with anyone that wants to know what we're doing and why we do it :)
I'd think the RIAA would be much happier if music wasn't available for free so easily. And YouTube is a great place to find music legally. Getting free money isn't great at all if they think that the free money is from other companies destroying more profitable distribution channels.

I definitely don't agree with that. But companies wouldn't have sued YouTube asking for over a billion in damages if they wanted to do business with them.
If you read the article, you'd know that was a "pirate" sign erected by one of the homeowners.
If you're looking for a full-featured bot framework for python that supports slack, check out http://errbot.io/en/latest/
Yeah, but I still wonder how often people copy comments around like that. It's not like that was some great writing or anything, but it was copied word for word.

Maybe it was some bot, but that's an odd bot.
It's taken by another Microsoft product.
What are the advantages of such a notebook (and the others mentioned below/above) over a general tool like Vim and Emacs?
The only thing that really matters is (1) and if your revolution requires military defections to succeed then you didn't need amateur firearms to begin with.

Unless you believe a bunch of randoms with rifles are a match for a professionally trained army equipped with the latest tech. In which case I think Iraq may wish to disagree with you.
His tactics have been to further publicize things they rely on while also pissing off community members to point that subversion is less likely. I'd say he's doing opposite of what CIA or FBI would want him to do. Whereas, Tor is actually funded by an organization connected to CIA propaganda groups and is used by military intelligence.

One is working for spooks, whether harmlessly or not. It's just not Jake that's the one. Strange the conspiracy theories focus on him instead of Tor.
With due respect, this is a politically charged issue so I'm dubious of trusting random people, such as the author of that article. Are there more established sources around on this issue?
Because KeepassX is way less used (and its source code checked) than ... QT for example, so rogue functions added into KeepassX will be have less visibility than one added into zlib.
Lately I've been thinking that the whole MRA/gamergate/anti-sjw movement was some kind of PsyOps meant to undermine the Internet, but it felt too crazy conspiracy theoryish. That inciteblog post and this article (http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/24/undercover-police-...) makes me wonder if I'm right.
The BBC makes great content and it costs money to do so. It is a large organisation and suffers from lack of agility so changing the funding model is very difficult. Great programmes are made [as well as the usual dross] but to maintain their brand they must continue to do this and need a guaranteed revenue stream

Overlaid is the reality that the BBC is a political issue in the same way that the NHS is. Changes are not enacted by the BBC alone, it requires government approval of the direction of travel. The pillars of the UK [or maybe just England] are the NHS and the BBC. This may be a broken model in the current World and many people may understand this, but changing it will take a generation of persuading a nation that the delivery method should change. Murdoch has been trying for at least 25 years.
Broad public benefit is not the same as optimal traffic utilization. There's more to life than what can be quantified / sold / made to go faster. I think this goes to the heart of the idea of what humans are for. People in the tech world tend to think humans are machines in a cosmic factory used to maximize economic output.
U.S. Supreme Court lets Google advertising class action suit proceed
JVM's are a specification.
I'm not sure what you want Microsoft to do in that case. When a new product (Trello, Slack) appears and it turns out tons of workers and enterprises like it, Microsoft has 3 options:

1. Ignore it, and hope it turns out to be a fad.

2. Buy them and rebrand it

3. Try to launch their own competitor version

1 isn't really an option, and between 2 and 3, I'd rather Microsoft did 3, so we can have more competition. The fact that it's a closed platform and tied in to all their services is just kind of unavoidable; it would be kind of silly of them to launch a new product and not tie it in to O365.
The DMCA is completely irrelevant in their case, no matter what anybody claims, as they're not based in the US.

I realize that the idea that something is out of reach of US supremacy is a tough pill to swallow for some kinds of people, but come on.
I guess my point is that many of the people you meet abroad, like myself, are absolutely not trust fund babies. You obviously don't need money to travel to third-world countries where most people have less money than USA. At the same time, a lot of the people you meet traveling absolutely are trust fund babies and they are pretty insufferable.
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I couldn't find a decent map of where the Zika Virus was in the US from the CDC so I made one.
>The legal system in western countries is very biased in favour of rape accusers.

This is patently false. Conviction rates for rape are far lower compared to other crimes[1]

>Shield laws are a concrete manifestation of that

Shield laws make it so news reporters cannot be forced to reveal their sources, I don't see what this has to do with rape cases.

>Being asked a few questions is in no way comparable.

Being forced to re-experience a traumatic event by a party determined to discredit you is pretty horrible.

Also, you should look at the case linked. The accused was found assaulting the girl in an alley by third party witnesses, and received six months probation.

[1]Kelly, Lovett and Regan, A gap or a chasm? Attrition in reported rape cases, 2005
The way I know it goes along the lines of: "multilayer perceptrons with no more than three layers can learn any function to arbitrary precision given a large enough number of inputs".

But like halflings say, neural nets are not alone in this. Decision Trees can learn any binary decision diagram I guess (they can encode arbitrary disjunctions of conjunctions). I'm pretty sure there are similar results for other algorithms also.

In any case, you can represent a function as a set-theoretical relation and enumerate its parameters- and there you go, learning done with arbitrary precision. That's not what makes neural nets impressive. So what is it?

"Shallow machine learning" is a worrying neologism. "Shallow" and "deep" only apply to neural networks, really. You couldn't very well distinguish between shallow and deep K-NN classifiers, say. Or shallow and deep k-means clustering. I mean, what the hell?
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Exactly. Most of the problems they mention for police apply to other tactics. Only difference is that the police (a) might punish them if they're lying or (b) might protect people via locking the guy ip if they think they're telling the truth. Unsubstantiated claims in social media are so much safer. ;)
More random, I'd say.
The problem with just logging like that is in the reliability of the logs - what if there's a defect in the position sensor? The pedal (and thus the logs) may report throttle at 100% and breaks at 0% even if it was the other way around.
This guy should be packed and shipped back if there is any sanity in the legal system here at all. What a loser who ruins other peoples' life for his ridiculous greed.
As a beginner of RN, this looks really helpful. Thanks for posting.
The editor is WebKit based too and uses some open-source js widgets. (/Applications/Quiver.app/Contents/Resources/html-build)
I'm very slowly building myself what he calls a "programming environment" using python and rethinkdb.

It is very much just targeted at my own use. I'm not doing a lot to make it work well for other people, or non-programmers. But I still think it's an interesting technique that people here might like.

https://github.com/traverseda/rethink-tools

Python provides a way to import whatever functions calls.

Rethinkdb provides a generic data store. I can add fields (keys) to objects (rows) as needed. This is somewhat analogous to pythons duck-typing.

It has excellent network transparency. I'll soon by trying to get a rethinkdb server running on my phone, so I can load text messages into it.

I can also do basic queries across my data.

We'll see how it goes.
Pretty much anything that requires vehicles to use their brakes funds terrorism because every stop requires subsequent acceleration. Sure, the net effect from adding one stop sign is negligible, but it's tragedy of the commons. If everybody does it then it adds up.

And it's not just wasted fuel, it's wear on the vehicles (which harms used car reliability and negatively impacts the poor), stress on the vehicle occupants, time wasted, delayed emergency response time, etc. Multiply by a hundred million stop signs and turns into something worth optimizing.
First: no, this is not plausible.

Second, a question: exactly what is it that people think Jacob Appelbaum did to make him Public Enemy #1 of any government? He's not an especially important Tor contributor. Tor is not only funded by the US Government, but it began as a project at the Naval Research Lab.

He's a spokesperson for Wikileaks, and Wikileaks has gotten itself engaged in serious legal issues with the US Government, but he's far from the only person who's done that, and it's not at all clear why anyone should believe he's ever had an important operational role with WL (as opposed to being an advocate).

Why would Appelbaum be singled out for "black ops" like this while Glenn Greenwald is spared? Greenwald had an operational role in leaking intelligence secrets from the US Government; not only that, but he's still sitting on a large cache of documents and gradually leaking them out.

A Wired article today suggested that Appelbaum had "close to rock-star status" in the hacker community. Which community would that be? His reputation in the security hacker is minimal; he's known primarily for being known.

What's so important about Appelbaum that he'd be a state-level target? For any government?
Always makes me laugh when WWII games are trumpeted as being 'authentic', 'realistic', 'true to life', etc. yet never seem to know which insignia or flag the Germans used.
Roads are subject to wear and tear. Higher traffic means more wear and thus more repairs. Repairs for most roads come out of municipal budgets. Municipal budgets are paid for by property taxes. The homeowners bought that road. So who's got an entitlement problem here?
I refuted some of the claims, that which I am able-- most are completely impossible to respond to because they are so vague.

The prior claims of Jake plagiarizing that I've seen are patently untrue, and I think I refuted them conclusively the last time I saw them made: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.otr.devel/155...
You should probably add the _Ask HN:_ tag...
In short the advantage is the same as sublime over vim / emacs.

Or the disadvantage is the same that sublime suffers against vim/emacs.
You can say that for just about everything
Tell them then!
Did this happen in Germany or US? And if in Germany to an American or Americans? Point being, would he be extradited here to be tried according to US laws. If so, the accusers are at an advantage. If not, German law might be legitimate gripe. Cant say more on that given it's not my expertise.
Skype is one good historic example of the shift that OP is referring to. Leaks have shown that, since purchase, Microsoft has been unusually cooperative with the NSA with regards to Skype. [1] They also removed the P2P aspect of Skype infrastructure and replaced it with a traditional server model, coincidentally around the same time that NSA docs describe intercepting skype messages with PRISM... [2]

[1]: https://www.eff.org/files/2015/01/28/20141228-spiegel-guide_...

(August 2012)

[2]: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/skype-replaces-p2p-s...

(May 2012)
Not all roads are created equal. Residential roads have different maintenance and capacity than main roads.

If traffic increases due to shortcut traffic, towns will have to increase budgets to accommodate more wear and tear upkeep.
>without some kind of public showdown that involves social media.

Maybe many tech communities are capable, and you just don't realize it because they're not having public showdowns.
Given that TPB doesn't actually host any content that could be taken down by a DMCA notice - they are DMCA compliant.

Their response to "take down links to this hash" is "you don't own that hash" which is true.
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Once upon a time Javascript was tiny.

Unfortunately, the web became the only app platform that was perceived as being politically neutral, and so there was huge pressure to add features to it. These features all hugely increased the complexity of HTML renderers, and with complexity came bugs.

Could you build a smaller, simpler, safer web? Sure. It's called HTML4.
Google "rape conviction overturned DNA evidence." Happens too much.
Sure. In Haskell for example you can turn type errors into warnings with a compiler flag. If you then encounter a type error at runtime the program will crash, much like in a dynamic language. And if it turns out the change was a dead end, just git checkout master and you're done.

However, if not, you'll still have a list of compiler errors you have to fix to make the rest of the program work. This alone lets me refactor with confidence, much more so than every dynamic language I've ever used.
At that point, why not expand "public" roads?
I'd never heard of your site before but after looking at your video library I'm about to be a customer. Great, great work.
I live right up the street from your company I think ..Hele/Keolo "The Shack"

I built and owned and ISP for 14 years ..yes full data center in my basement (intercape.com). I learned it all working for Cape Internet a regional ISP bought up by Earthlink. Sent my credentials to your company but no reply. I am not a programmer .. my best skill set is troubleshooting and building servers (bind,apache,qmail etc)

Have not been able to find work here yet. So I went out and got 4 CompTIA certs. Hoping for something soon. If you know anyone that needs a good admin ...william 3897569
>Single-threaded sequential 1KB writes for a total of 4GB, without even oflag=sync? Bonnie++? Sorry, but these are not "good benchmarks to run" at all. They're garbage. People who know storage would never suggest these.

As a non-storage person: what should I be using instead of dd and bonnie++?
I wrote that it was banned; I did not say that enforcement was flawless.

Similarly, trade between the CSA and the U.K. was "banned" as well, but there were successful blockade runners.
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>> it's not just about "learning features"

So, I'm in no position to prove this, but my intuition is that any machine learning algorithm can be configured in a semi-supervised learning set-up, like deep nets have. You could train a decision forest classifier for instance to learn in an unsupervised manner. An algorithm I'm developing for my MSc dissertation is essentially unsupervised recursive partitioning, a.k.a. decision trees (only, first-order rather than propositional).

Well, possibly not _any_ algorithm. But I get the feeling that many classifiers in particular could be adapted to unsupervised learning with a bit of elbow grease, at which point you could connect them to their own input and, voila, semi-supervised learning.

But like I say, I don't reckon I'll be in a position to prove this any time soon.
This ginned-up gender conflict is neither germane nor relevant to the discussion; comments like these are a big part of the reason these Appelbaum threads on HN are so awful.
First of all, it can be relevant if the provider of the domain is subject to US laws. But right now it's relevant because TPB claimed to be DMCA-compliant. Whether or not they legally have to be compliant is not relevant to whether they are compliant.
I have read some Dutch research which showed tha tomatoes grown in Spain had significantly lower CO2 emissions than the same tomatoe grown in the Netherlands, including the transport to the market, which I think was in the Netherlands. I have the paper (in Dutch) lying around somewhere.

The main reason was that the Dutch heat and light their horticultural crop and the Spanish did neither (or much less). The Durch have significantly higher yield per sqm, which is necessary, as their infrastructure (greenhouses, land) is much more expensive. It is slowly changing, as the Dutch are building low energy greenhouses now, but I am not certain if it is fast enough. The greenhouses in place are relatively expensive infrastructure to replace and the profit margins are negligible at the moment.

From an environmental point of view it is tricky, as the Dutch use a lot less pesticides on their horticultural crop than the Spanish do. So it us not all obvious what is better or worse. Although I read recently that in total the Dutch use more pesticides than any other European growers, but I think that is on outside crops, not those in the greenhouse.
A fine point in an ideal world. The problem is that as traffic increases, the number of people that drive in a way that doesn't respect the safety of the neighborhood increases. There's a distribution of types of drivers at play here--more samples necessarily results in more observations of people driving poorly even if they are outnumbered. People who have a tendency to look at their phones rather than the road due to their use of an app probably skews the distribution a bit as well.

I'm all for utilization of public infrastructure, but I'm also sympathetic to the homeowners who observe the safety of their neighborhoods decrease as a result of increased traffic volume.
Downloading aviation transponder data from GOMX-3 satellite with Gnu-Radio
How about gyrocopters for personal flight? They seem stable, and inexpensive. And I think you get stovl?
Craigslist is for in person deals. Craigslist itself warns against shipping items[1].

[1] http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams
I forget what the thing you just did is called, but you've managed to switch sides. :) I'm the one who said there is no unicorn version etc. ....

You can't fix that in a library. There is a sequence of escalation. Failures are formally checked-for and counters are incremented, alarms are sent, actions are taken...

You may not be interested in the Second Law, but the Second Law is interested in you.
What is complex about logging video footage with sensor overlay (or still shots)? Plus it gives you evidence that any jury can understand.
May I argue that it is uncomfortably low? The estimated percentage of women that are the victims of sexual assault is an order of magnitude higher.

(See for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United_S...)

> 23 percent of women and 4 percent of men reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact

Even worse, 3% of false positives is a twenty-eighth of the percentage of unreported rapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#United_States

> Only 16% of rapes and sexual assaults are reported to the police
It seems obvious that the current application paradigm does not scale.

I have over 100 different apps on my phone, and that number only keeps growing. It seems like there's a new app for everything nowadays. You'll soon (if not already) have an app for your car, your door lock, your fridge, your fan and your shoes. How is a person supposed to navigate all of these apps and get the most of it's environment when drowned in that uncalled-for diversity?

I probably have created over 1000 online accounts, and I don't see that slowing down either. The lack of communication between apps makes it very difficult for new players to receive any significant contribution from their users. Why would I invest in a platform/service that can disappear the next day and force me to start over? The semantic web seems to provide a quite elegant solution to this problem.

It seems to me that we're only going to overcome this problem once we stop designing UI by hand. Once we shift our focus away from guiding the user experience, and put the effort toward improving the semantics of the data, will the generalizations of UI emerge and unify all experiences under one language.
If you are interested in this you might also like https://devarist.com - a daily journal for developers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11847858
> It has no notion of how well-lit a street is, or the incline, or how many cars are parked along the curb.

GPS also has no notion of speed traps or potholes, but Waze does because they crowdsource it. They could add a way for people to report routes that are undesirable for other reasons.