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As a Windows Sysadmin, my life would be a living hell without PowerShell.
They seem to realize that users don't necessarily want to be linked to a Facebook account. For example: you no longer need a Facebook account in order to use messenger. Hopefully they're smart enough and willing enough to apply that same philosophy to this product.
Ask HN: Appcelerator's pros, cons and alternatives?
If code reuse between platforms and native user experience are desired, is Appcelerator a good option in 2016?

Most opinions I'm finding are years old, so I'm not sure if they're still relevant.

The official site sells it really well, and both the IDE and the analytics platform seem like good products.

Any thoughts? What are the alternatives?
> For example, gRPC automatically does periodic health checking so you never see a connection hang forever.

So, a simple setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE) call?
I don't know if that was really a "decision" or an unfortunate compromise. DOS inherited /foo style command line parameters from CP/M, and DOS 1 didn't have a hierarchical file system, so there was no conflict with the path delimiter character UNIX was using. When DOS 2 introduced directories (and brought over the cd, md, rd, etc. commands from UNIX) suddenly we had to choose between massively breaking backwards compatibility or using something else, like \, as a delimiter.
I figured it was a play on "auto" -- as in, automotive.
None of what you said has anything to do with my point that the pre-mapping and then LIDAR-localization approach taken by Google is the only approach shown to work.

You're making a point about end-to-end trained ML systems; if anything, that's an indictment of Tesla's approach, not Google's more traditional sensor-based-approach.
* That we know of. Tesla et al. have not publicized urban driving videos/examples, so I'm assuming they're not capable of it as well as Google, right now.
It's funny how you throw that number out, 6-8 years. There is no natural assurance within the economy that the bad times will end. The lows do not have to bottom out. That was the lesson of 1929.
It hid CPU/architecture differences

That's not a binary thing. If you hide too many differences you're internalizing limitations of the worst contemporary architecture.

Also, I think it would be odd if someone, who as you carefully summarized had written assembler for a half dozen different architectures, didn't have in mind some loose notion of portability. And, FWIW, I remember reading at some point that Ritchie and/or Thompson felt some sort of vindication when they discovered how easy it was to write a C compiler for other machines.

"C as a portable assembler" is something of a straw man. I don't think anybody with even a passing familiarity of the actual history believes that Ritchie and Thompson had such specific and directed goals.

Another way to spin the history is to argue that you had two engineers who had programmed on a wide variety of architectures, and who were familiar with a wide variety of languages, create a new language that was simple to compile and made pragmatic assumptions about architectural dependencies. For sure they weren't trying to create a universal assembler. Rather, they were driven by pragmatic needs.

Allowing yourself to be directed by actual, manifest requirements without foreclosing future opportunities is arguably one of the best approaches to engineering.

Did C succeed despite it's conceptual shortcomings, or _because_ of them? I think your essay presumes the former without giving enough consideration to the latter.
Just came up with an improvement to the above: Divide by Blur, with 0-20% blend. However, not over the RGB image, but only over its its L (lightness) channel in a LAB colorspace separation. Then, recompose. That looks really natural for brightening the shadows and reducing highlights.

Look at the picture of the little girl peering out of the back window of a truck on NASA's Retinex page, as enhanced by Retinex:

http://dragon.larc.nasa.gov/retinex/pao/news/

Now my version:

http://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/nasa-image-girl-truck.png

The reflection in the glass is brought out in a less cheesy way that you might not guess is the result of processing, if you don't already know.

I did a decompose of the image to the LAB color space (Colors/Components/Decompose...). Then
I used a blur radius of 200 pixels on a copy of the L layer. Put into Divide mode and blended at a bit over 30%, and recomposed from LAB back to the original RGB image.

(That's a simplification; of course I had to struggle with Gimp to preserve the ID of the L layer, which is destroyed by a straight "merge layer down" after which the recompose operation fails with an error. I in fact made two copies of the L layer, and did the processing and merge operation between those two copies. Then I did a select all to copy the resulting layer to the clipboard and pasted that into the original L layer to replace it.)
This is because 99% of who were are goes on in the subconscious. That doesn't make the subconscious not "us", its every bit as much us as our conscious. They are just two separate parts of who we are. Your subconscious mind constantly decides what information it's going to send to your conscious, while your unconscious mind is always aware of what's going on in the conscious mind. Source: I have a conscious and unconscious mind.
Wait, so who is going to finish paying off my $90,000 in RIT loans that my white family couldn't afford?
Depends on your use case. For a simple website with maybe a form or two, React is overkill. When you're dealing with hundreds of pages with dynamically rendered elements, it helps to keep things consistent and DRY. React helps achieve this through the use of components. For example, let's say I want to allow any button on my page to send a tracking event to Google Analytics on click if a certain attribute on the element is set. With React, I can add this feature for every button by modifying the `Button` component I built. This ends up being a lot easier than having to manually bind the tracking callback event to every `<button>` element that is rendered at some point (and also guarantees that event delegation takes place within the component rather than some other module in your application).

The component pattern is certainly not unique to React but it is a good design pattern that the framework encourages through JSX, component lifetime cycles, etc. While I can't speak for everyone, React has certainly made my life and the life of developers I work with easier since integrating it.
Australian cities among most liveable due to their size, say experts
U.S. judge rejects Uber's driver expenses settlement
What places are you referring to? Do they offer consulting positions, remote working, etc, or are you referring to full time in office positions? I was mainly wondering about TopTal, as the ability to work remotely, have flexible hours, and not have to deal with politics/BS/bureaucracy, etc are things I strongly need.
Am I the only one that found it weird that she's a programmer but studied music? Shouldn't the field have kept her out?
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LOL, then you're as clueless as evaluating people as you are evaluating technology. If you think mechanically forcing the creation of unnecessary non-reusable classes eschews simplicity you have no idea about that either no matter how many pattern books you want to try hide behind - BTW if you had any clue about Martin Fowler you'd know he'd never reuse Active Records as DTO's (pretty embarrassing given you've started quoting him - go read up on his published DTO, Facade and Gateway patterns). But you're right there's no point in a discussion, you're stuck in your legacy ways (a .NET 1.0 API for your ideal theoretical .NET AR DAL really?) and can't see the approaches .NET has rightfully moved to - there's a reason you'd need to NIH your own DAL to get "your ideal API" you want (hint: it's not because it's an undiscovered ingenuity) - have fun NIH'ing your own tech debt!
Just last week. It was like 120 degrees and awful.

Travel-wise, It was the best option for me, but I totally sympathize with anyone wishing to avoid the experience.
It's happening right now in Brazil with left wing and social movements.
sorry for delayed reply - yes, just like servo aims to be, obviously at present servo is _very_ _very_ alpha and doesn't really work for most things, but I think the foundation is sensible.
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My thought is that these WIP comments remain in the log once a branch is merged into master (shared with the team) and it feels like a messy paper trail.

I am personally a fan of commit squashing, particularly small feature branches and/or when the commits in question are temporary like this. I try to leave a really clean commit log on each branch I work on knowing that it will be merged eventually. Sometimes I'll interactive rebase or rewrite history on these to make it that way.

Not everyone believes in that approach though.
And I have a very hard time even trying to explain that attitude to people over here in Australia. It just doesn't register anymore than it would for Police or Fire.

Setting aside the ethics, this attitude doesn't even make sense on its own because very few people actually pay for their own healthcare costs in the U.S., they use insurance through their work, and that is all subsidized by the government anyways because unlike other compensation you get it has a tax break instead of being taxed as your other income.

IMO, it's just a complete takeover of the legislature on this issue by insurance lobbyists and certain sectors of healthcare, but they managed to get the original laws written so that any change looks like some kind of benefit, even though it's already being subsidized, it's just the businesses and insurance companies that get the subsidy and not the tax payer.
I think skepticism is good. people need to question the systems in place. The US economy is not efficient and it does not provide for everyone. It actively destroys peoples' lives for the benefits of others and holds others down. further, rosy colored glasses lead people astray. Yes, be careful. (It's also still better than the other governments people have tried, but that really feels like winning a lost contest)
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If you're 5 years in, then you will benefit from the experience and reputation you will get at a big consultancy. The extra bit of pay Sears will give you is short lived.

Again if you're 5 years into a career think about a longer term investment in your future. Unless you have mouths to feed now or are dealing with loan sharks take the one that will benefit the most from over the long term. I'd guess that's Deloitte but not sure what your role is and where you want to take your career.
Why does the government think software development jobs can be done by the equivalent of people who have gone to a trade school for one semester? I don't see the government pushing finance career or lawyer boot camps. I wonder how the DOE even made the decision of which boot camps to partner with.
Don't know much about Sandstorm but I agree with the statements.

The best software is often written by one person.

It may defy common sense but I have seen this happen again and again.

I like relatively small, open source software I can edit if I so choose.
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Yes obviously, it is called a hypothetical ("if"). The resulting contradiction is intended to illustrate a problem with one of its premises.

If rights are not for protecting minorities, then they have no point - the majority is safe by construction. There's no way that speech celebrating July 4th would ever be curtailed in contemporary society.
I strongly disagree with the EIU. I lived in Melbourne for 7 years, and while it may be home of the greatest sport on the planet, saying that it trounces a place like Tokyo in public transport and safety from crime is laughable.

If you want to go out in the CBD, you can come in on rail and switch to trams, but navigating to any specific location outside the 3000 postcode is not fun. Everyone knows you need a car to get around.

And don't even get me started on the violent crimes around pubs and clubs, the number of times you see broken glass and missing windows on cars parked in the streets, or the entire suburbs conquered by the illicit drug trade.
Prepare for the rapid inflation of coding school tuitions.
Science works via repeatable experiments and inductive reasoning where hypothesis are tested against observational evidence. Until they have that in-hand, it is but interesting conjecture whose plausibility remains untested.
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The BeagleBone's CPU has a normal ARM processor and a pair of PRUs. (This is much like how the Cell processor had a normal Power processor alongside some Cell SPUs.) PRUs can control GPIO pins running your dedicated, hard-realtime code without an OS, and they can do it while Linux runs on the same chip.

http://beagleboard.org/pru
Pretty sure focal length would affect things as you say, but also physical dimensions matter too. My program assumes fixed focal length and then picks the page dimensions that work with the assumed focal length -- almost certainly not the correct ones.
but didn't Otto employees end up making a ton of money, way more than what they would have at Uber? given that otto was pretty young?
Interesting. For me it was eye-opening because I had naïvely assumed all the construction was either for road repairs, or to build new subways; not the utility companies cutting up the road:

> But unlike Paris or Tokyo, where tubes and wires are usually bundled inside a cavernous sewer system or tucked underneath sidewalks, much of New York’s underground infrastructure lies within five feet of the asphalt surface.

> Last year, the [transportation department] issued 223,271 permits, about half of them to utility companies.

What do you propose that they do, though? Ideally we'd build a utility-only tunnel like Paris or Tokyo, but there's no space. You have the subway further underneath, and the sidewalks have basements.

Without a massive overhaul requiring eminent domain or a fire, the only solutions are better construction techniques, which they're looking into.
I went out of my way to connect with recruiters because it extends my network. Two benefits:

1) It makes me a 2nd level connection to lots of people I probably do care about.
2) It ups my visible number of connections and makes me look important. People see 500+ connections and assume I'm someone important.
I love firewatch but if that's your reference game for technical power it's a really bad sign. Compare that to Paragon or Street Fighter V on Unreal 4. The difference is massive and growing. UE4 is a real deal AAA professional tool set. Unity is great for indies and mobile game devs but has yet to produce anything as technically advanced as UE4.

Certainly doesn't mean that all the UE4 games are better in anyway, I loved Firewatch but it's not a crowning technical achievement.
>stuff like this is misleading imo. its exactly the sort of place you expect to see quantum effects - because its in the universe and at the appropriate scale.

Isn't this a few orders of magnitude above where you'd expect to see quantum effects?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300454
> Absolutely anyone can create code, put it online and then have others use it fast.

And after 2 years remove or change it in a malicious way and break thousands of other packages and projects. Because it's absolutely anyone.
Hence the tagline on the blog: "Why do it by hand if you can code it in just quadruple the time?" :)
Having lived around the Windows world since Win 3.1, I cannot get over the sneaking suspicion that somewhere deep down Microsoft is working towards an attempt to "embrace and extend" Linux. Maybe it's just me, but they've gotten rather interested in Linux lately and they are reaching out to it in seemly innocuous ways. I hope I am wrong.
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Cool, can you point me to some lawyer bootcamps, this whole time I thought that was a heavily regulated industry that required degrees and a bar exam to be qualified. Really stoked to let my wife know she didn't need to take those CPA exams to practice too.
Logistics and transport, human or material, isn't a good job. It is a good paying job. One of the last good paying jobs you could obtain without any higher education.

Nobody really wants to do these jobs, except maybe a bike messenger, and that only last so long.
> The paranoid in me wonders if in the future we'll have to resort to projects like this

This has got me picturing my store-bought laptop with monstrously large, homemade processors bursting from the case that I can use for sensitive tasks. I wonder how close this is to the realm of possibility.
very few non-recourse loans in the housing market these days. a 20% decline in housing prices, and there's limited - zero systemic risk (ie the banks via linked derivatives that the author's so worried about); only the owner loses.
Oddly, this has been on my mind as well.

On the one hand, rail is much cheaper per-mile than traditional roads, for both construction and maintenance.

Rail is also more efficient in terms of goods hauled per unit of fuel spent, and controlling carbon emissions from rail is massively easier than doing so from individual trucks.

However, rail itself is fundamentally... unegalitarian, maybe? Rail lines can only be used by those with the capital to run rolling stock between well-specified endpoints (typically large urban centers), and on specified timetables.

The system as it exists in the US right now is less efficient, but opens up a lot of possibilities. For example, I live in Japan and don't own a car right now, which means that I basically can't go backpacking. But if I rent a car, then I can go out to more remote places that are less frequented by the non-hiking masses, and actually enjoy some of the sheer beauty of the Japanese countryside.

Self-driving cars and trucks really do seem to bridge the gap between "cheap rail transport" and "private vehicles for everything", but I worry that they will continue just to be a convenience for the well-off (which is what Uber and Lyft currently are, frankly), rather than a means by which to make transportation available to everybody.
I really enjoyed the various random thoughts in the wrapping up section of this post, thank you a good read!
My understanding is you can actually take the bar exam in several states without having attended law school. Regulations can always be changed, I don't see groups or the government pushing to liberalize training requirements and allow boot camps to train someone to take these tests.
> Isn't this a few orders of magnitude above where you'd expect to see quantum effects?

No. Chemistry itself is fundamentally dependent on quantum effects; quantum effects determine the structure of atoms and molecules, how they combine, and how much energy is involved in those processes. That's true whether the processes are taking place in living bodies or not. My reaction to this article is basically the same as jheriko's: this is news?
It's 17x17 miles in a straight line, something that is impossible given the geography of the city and its waterways. I just picked a random cross borough trip from the Aquarium to Yankee Stadium and the shortest bike-traversable route is 22.3 miles despite the 2 locations being just 17.7 miles apart as the crow flies. That is a pretty straight route as well.
Mocking Frameworks, a comparison. ASP.NET
If anything this [1] article would lead the reader to believe since Fannie/Freddie are now spearheading the leading charge their portfolios are further out of line with the market reality.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21705317-americas-hous...
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> England is so lovable now though.

Clearly you feel that anybody of this opinion is in error. Does everyone who posts an article about the nastiness of the (historical) British Empire feel the same way? There are quite a few come up on Hacker News. To me it doesn't seem like England is perceived as lovable at all, in fact I can't imagine where you got the idea.

You mention the Nazis, but I don't think I've ever seen a post about those guys. It's almost as if one needn't hold modern-day Germans accountable for the crimes of their forebears? What a strange idea.
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The old system gave us the savings and loan crisis. Is it fair to say the alternative is to recognize that for many homeownership simply is not an option?
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Yep. This comment at metafilter has been discussed here before, I think, but it's worth linking again:

http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210
Didn't Shift-Insert work for that? (I have vague memories, but it's been a long time since I've fought with it)

Edit: assuming you have a keyboard with an insert key, and that it's not in a ridiculous location, of course.
I highly recommend Kate Ascher's "The Works: The Anatomy of a City" if you are fascinated by underground and other workings.

https://www.amazon.com/Works-Anatomy-City-Kate-Ascher/dp/014...
>That their primary goal is plausibly impossible did not make their active principles any less rigorous than the agendas of more widely accepted conceptual architects.

It's not about "active principles" so much as the fact that - after economics - no other profession manages to maintain social status while promoting such obvious, unquestionable crankery and/or snake oil.

>I think it's worth the read, if only to hear that an architect can actually concern themselves with the well-being of their users vs the visual impact of their design.

And the irony is that when they were done, all they had was visual impact and rhetoric, and no evidence of improvements in well-being.

The visual impact is distinctive. The Mitaka Lofts look pretty cool from the outside (maybe not so much on the inside though.)

But all the nonsense about life extension, "reverse destiny", and links to the immune system is just such obvious bullshit you have to wonder how it was ever taken seriously.

It's self-evident that architecture is important to health and well-being on all kinds of levels.

But it often seem that at some point 20th century arts threw all criticism out of the window and started giving a pass to almost any academic-sounding rhetoric, no matter how nonsensical. (Maybe all the ornamentation moved from buildings to text?)

Unfortunately stating boldly that you're dealing with an issue doesn't mean you actually are - even less that you're dealing with it with insight and effectiveness.
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009) [pdf]
I just now have the chance to use Powershell on Linux, with that Powershell command you demonstrated, I get a command not found.
As "coding" becomes increasingly mainstream, tools and automation grow in sophistication, Moore's Law dwindles, and problems become exhausted and are not replaced (e.g., move the entire economy onto the web) - I worry that this profession is overhyped. These kids might be late to the race.
computer science education and/or coding classes only being accessible to kids from privileged backgrounds

You are full of bs.
Several other major Ottos:

https://www.ottomotors.com/

https://www.ottoproject.io/

https://github.com/square/otto

Disclaimer: I'm an employee of Clearpath, who are behind OTTO Motors.