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Node.js v7.0.0
How did you get into/find side-project ideas?

Ideally I'd like to work on something others could make use of, but I've been having a hard time thinking of something interesting to work on.
Scavenge is just used as a buzzword. Rather than having a battery, the IoT device could be low enough power to use just piezo capture, EM capture, etc.
Most responses I've seen were along the lines of "decent specs but it looks just like an iPhone."
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Better details from a beta tester over on /r/oculus on Eyefluence's tech:

" . . . I'm still not allowed to say how exactly it works but in my mind it's the gold standard for eye based user interfaces . . . Their [main focus] is the UI" (1)

So sounds like a blend between some good eye tracking tech and some GREAT user experience design and implementation.

(1) https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/598clo/google_buys_...
Hi Chris,

You bring up very good issues and perhaps I'm being too optimistic. I definitely agree that there isn't going to be one single mapping of sequence --> energy landscape any time soon or even ever.

But I think there are subproblems that are easier because the search space is more limited[1] or the chemistry is easier (e.g. avoiding chemical reactions or interactions with high energy fields). I think often the major modeling challenge is identifying when it is feasible to take advantage of problem constraints or when lower levels of theory can be used. For example there are a range of "enhanced sampling methods" for molecular dynamics that e.g. constrain the the simulation to a reaction coordinate or assume Markov transitions between states so they can be computed on a distributed cluster.

Taking advantage of these opportunities often requires a fair amount of engineering to build appropriate representations. I wonder to what extent these representations can be learned?
Pow and Powder for Rails Development.

Pow allows you to link an app to open it as http://app-name.dev

Powder is a rails gem that automates the process for you.
An artist is a person who presents something by putting a frame around it. Not necessarily a literal frame, either. A definition so broad as to be applicable almost anywhere. So broad that is risks being all but meaningless.

But I think we can agree that an engineer has different goals than an artist even in the broadest definition of both.

An engineer is someone who uses well understood solutions and techniques to solving problems that involve the physical world. This is distinct from science, which tries to discover new ways to solve problems or learn new things about the physical world. Often you need to use engineering to do science. So often that the scientists spend a lot of time waiting around for the engineers to move them along. (See: LHC).
I love my Pebble, I'm now late to 50% less of my scheduled appointments :-)
I don't know how anyone can actually make a living on Upwork. I tried it out and the majority of project owners wanted to pay under $10/hour with the experience of a senior developer.

The site seems to attract these sorts of employers and I don't have the time or energy to wade through the garbage. It's like a global sweatshop for software developers.
> a great many authors cite encapsulation to be the definite trait of an OO language

Yes this is what I was referring to, Clojure is not OO in the way that many think of OO.

But your other points are right on.
Hey! Okay, this might be the best coincidence I've ever seen. I'm a random guy on the internet that thinks Vault looks awesome and I want to use it for my next project, but I'm having trouble since the documentation is so sparse and thin.

Do you mind helping me out for some good Karma? Check your twitter! :D
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Please explain why.
Heartrate, okay, sure. But all the rest of it, let me suggest that smart glasses + smartphone makes a lot more sense than smart glasses + smartwatch.
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That's not art. That's craft.
During non-GC periods, probably true. But having a realtime filesystem service that is prone to stop-the-world GC pauses is a showstopper for many applications.

Also, a C++ implementation is likelier to use far less memory than a Java implementation, assuming the skills of both programmers are roughly equal.
Gah, got the name wrong. I was thinking of Tomahawk...
I think there's an inevitability about robot armies and police. Unfortunately it will enable scenarios for oppression and dehumanization.

Power always concentrates itself and there is an eternal struggle between the powerful and those below. This is one more tool for the powerful and a transformative one.

I don't see how populations can have a response to millions of bots and will be easily supressed. Never depend on the goodwill of the powerful or anyone. There is always someone who will be tempted to abuse and there is always someone who will give in.
Changing variable names using master/slave to leader/follower.

Here's my comment from the thread:

https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/3veu2t/comment...

The rest of the discussion is a good read too.
I had an apparent MS employee reply to one of my comments complaining about azure's portal saying the engineers know the interface is awful but can't do anything about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773022

I'd assumed it was a design by programmer fail, especially because of the terrible modular design, but it doesn't look like it.

I was wondering, poor performance wise, a client of mine is consistently seeing a 3-5ms lag between the SQL boxes and the website on azure. This seems incredibly high to me, but my experience is generally with SQL server on the same box or on the local network. I've never had a problem like this before, but this site can generate hundreds of queries per request because of legacy code.

That basically adds 500ms to a request just going up and down to SQL.

Am I being crazy for thinking a 5ms latency on stuff that's supposed to be in the same data centre is incredibly bad?

We're also getting random "The wait operation timed out" on DB connections between azure SQL dbs and Azure websites, basically a complete DB hang that I've never seen on a dedicated server setup, the client upgraded to premium, they're getting them even more. That means random users are getting complete failures every now and again. Unbelievable.

I honestly can't understand why anyone would pay for azure, in my experience the performance is an order of magnitude worse than dedicated servers that are half the price. The only good thing about it is easy deployment, which is something that's a complete PITA on dedicated servers until you've spent a bunch of time setting it up.
Did I mention it comes with all the goodies [0] and "DLCs"? but even without that memorabilia (original manuals) the simple fact the the game just runs great is worth the admission price.

[0] - https://www.gog.com/game/one_unit_whole_blood
That's amazing craftmanship you're admiring.

Art has no function. Craft has function.
Especially when IBM Australia has been accused of "ethical transgressions" [0] in a report by the State of Queensland. Although in that case, part of the issue was the government not going after them for damages competently/aggressively enough.

I'm thinking big consultancies either have the "right" connections or are simply better at talking to bureaucrats who ultimately decide what gets funded?

[0] http://www.healthpayrollinquiry.qld.gov.au/home?a=207203
> ... before the description of strengths, he declared with characteristic sincerity that what he was about to assert was “what I would say to my family today if they asked me about Berkshire’s future.”. The result was a flood of favorable reaction to the letter ... as well as a per-share increase for the year of nearly five times that of the S&P.

I like Buffet but this kind of mythologizing doesn't help anyone. The report in question was the 2014 report (http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2014ltr.pdf) which is typically released in Feb of the following year (so early 2015). BRK.A underperfomed the S&P500 in the following year.

BRK.A did outperform the S&P500 in 2014, but unless I'm missing something, the author is attributing the performance in 2014 to the reaction to a letter released in early 2015.
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I'd really like to know more about the "target identification" software, specifically how it differentiates a person holding a gun from someone holding a shovel (or any stick object).
It would have to be an audio device that has that little "ring" of audio in. Sorry, not knowledgeable in this field, someone smarter will be able to clarify, but I've noticed that my headphones that don't have a mic capability have less little "separator" rings on the 3.5mm jack, whereas the ones that do have mic capability have more.

Also your solution seems... excessive...
The article is 10 photos taken in/of Oregon.

This is the first photo http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/wm/live/1600_900/images/l...
Indeed. The purpose of craft is to create beautiful, functional things for people to use. The purpose of art is to create elite consumer goods through which the socially privileged can both advertise and justify their elite status.
I'm curious, Why was it difficult to explain? Given the popularity of CD players, it seems like an mp3 player would be pretty easy to explain.
Since his comment mentioned that he does not care about weight and thickness then batter cases is a perfect solution for that, it's easier to purchase a battery case then an original replacement batttery
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I can't think of another website that made quite the same impression on me as that one did. Maybe it was my young age, or the newness of the medium, but it was like a brilliant magic trick. Like the kind that actually scare you, even though you know better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)
From a sci-fi anthology:

AI fighter jet. Entities on its team are tagged green. Entities attacked by or attacking green units are tagged red.

Rule for interacting with a new entity: If it hurts a green, tag it red. If it hurts a red, tag it green.

Hurt red, protect green.

The bombing assignments increase in their collateral damage until green starts to far outweigh the red. In its emergent processing, the AI fighter AI decides Command & Control back home is a big Red, flies under the radar and destroys the military base.

---

This is another concern for military making automated systems - unexpected consequences & they may be easier to subvert than human prisoners on capture.
Web Bluetooth. Pairing devices with remove websites stealing location data?
re: Halt and Catch Fire -- it's an enjoyable show, but the accuracy seems to get worse with each season. The latest season in particular had a lot of things that made me cringe.

I wish AMC had put the same effort into it as Mad Men, in terms of attempting to be an extremely accurate period piece. I suppose the viewership for HaCF didn't get large enough to warrant it, and/or the showrunners just aren't up to it?
Every bank I checked (and I checked DOZENS) charges business customers to count cash beyond a certain amount. For my business, the amount is cash in excess of $20,000/mo. Yes, they do use a machine. Yes, they still do charge you for it to count your money if you bring in more than that threshold in a given month.

This is for business accounts, which have vastly different fee structures than consumer accounts, because businesses have more money, and also because it costs them money (either in employee time, or having machinery available). Do you let your customers use your time and stuff for free? No? Then why should the bank? Hence why they charge.
Or rather, art's primary function is expressive or communicative, while craft has other primary functions.
The primary function of art (it may have others, but this function is what defines it as art) is to create a response in the person experiencing it; it is not without function.
I agree to a point... C# is fairly unlike ruby in its idioms. You will be able to write C# in ruby fairly easily but it's a language that doesn't benefit much from that.
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Or any language that runs in the backend and compiles to JS for the frontend. Rxample: if you have a Rails backend you might consider to use Opal for the code shared between the server and the browser. This JSON logic would be there.
Is it really accurate to describe this as a "Vulkan implementation", or would it instead be considered a "Vulkan wrapper/translation layer"? It appears to be the latter:

MoltenVK is an implementation of Vulkan that runs on Apple's Metal graphics framework.
Last time I checked English was the 3rd most spoken language on the planet.

- Chinese

- Spanish

- English

You mean in tech?
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TL;DR. Self drive will create jobs, not eliminate them.

I read a lot about self drive putting truck drivers out of work - and I think I disagree.

My bias - I own a factory and we ship and receive goods constantly, from overnight envelopes to pallets. I would say that we get every normal form of delivery at least once a week. UPS, Fedex, USPS, dozens of trucking companies, dozen of supplier owned fleets. Shipments outbound last month were over 50,000 pounds. We are small, but that is still a lot of shipping. Enough that I know what I am talking about.

I am a self drive enthusiast. I look forward to its everyday use, and I have spent 100s of hours trying to think through the implications (and how my auto parts company will fit into it).

With this perspective, I can't see how the driver will be replaced until we have intelligent humanoid robots. The delivery and pickup environment is different in every building. Drivers are also collecting money, and delivering invoices, and doing all sorts of other tasks that the truck simply won't be able to do. Driving the truck is only half the job. Whenever I send a delivery to be done by one of my staff (we have no dedicated deliver person; it's whoever is available) then the instructions to actually get the thing there would be a nightmare to explain to a computer.

Example-- (Recent deliver to auto dealership: Go in the side door, not the front. Find Sarah; if you give the box to Jane she will not take it to the back. Find Sarah, she will get the box to Gary. They are expecting you. Remember! Side door, the one marked "Do Not Enter". The front door is for retail customers, we are a supplier and they need this right now.)

I do hope that the advent of self drive will lower costs, and thus my shipping expenses. Shipping by the pallet is not that cheap; sending 500 pounds (225 kilo) only halfway across the USA costs me just under 50 cents per pound, or about $250 USD. Freight companies can charge gigantic differences by small changes in address. I am all for their disruption. I once had to pay an extra $100 because the address was on the wrong side of an 8 lane bridge, literal highway robbery.

If shipping costs drop, then I will bundle free shipping to my commercial accounts (98% of business), not just to retail accounts. Supplier owned fleets will deliver with smaller minimum orders to be competitive. This will all cause the need for drivers/attendants to INCREASE not decrease.

Its possible that the job of "truck driver" may turn into "automated truck interface person" but that would not be a net job loss; it would be a transfer into a different category. If my shipping costs drop, then my number of shipments will go up dramatically while at the same time the size of shipments will likely get smaller. Why order by the pallet, when by the case is the same price.

As with the e-commerce revolution, this is going to happen over a period of decades not years. Even now, 20 years of Amazon later, e-commerce has not broken the 10% of retail yet. All the handwringing over lost jobs is going to happen way slower than anyone thinks.
Is that true? The way I see phones being sold aren't because people are choosing one feature over another, it's they have to live with the best "set of features". Usually this means they are stuck choosing the less-terrible phone, rather than a phone that they actually want.
It's about 18F and I think they mean "flounders" not "founders".
What are you, personally, interested in? Where do your passions lie? What do you want to learn more about?

Try to build something, anything, it doesn't need to be complicated or awesome or even original, that scratches a personal itch. In the course of doing so, you'll gain experience using other people's code. Perhaps you'll run into a bug using their code. That is one of the best ways to get started. It's a small change and you gain experience figuring out how other people write code and interacting with the maintainers.

Or, perhaps one of your favorite pieces of software has some annoying thing it does, or some missing feature you really want. (If you aren't a user of open source software, now is a great time to start!) Try to fix whatever it is that bothers you / or you consider missing.

Above all, do not be discouraged if your change gets ripped to shreds or outright rejected. That's known as learning ;)
Elsie's has been gone for a good couple of decades. I loved their sandwiches and thick frappes (which were called Westerns as I recall).
Then they have a problem. Undefined Behavior.
(also note https://github.com/plaid #financialapi)
Sure, there are always additional complexities that add to the whole picture. This thread has been discussing the top marginal bracket.

You've posted the bracket for US single filers.

For another point of reference, the top state bracket in California kicks in at $526k (12.3%).
Or, most likely, the concept of the show was different on that point, as on many others.
FoxPro for Unix. The FoxPro part is what kept a thriving consultancy going for years (which we sold before...). The Unix part is how I ended up at Microsoft, ironically (in the 90s) because I knew Unix and a hefty helping of FoxPro knowledge didn't hurt.

I haven't touched FoxPro in over ten years and work primarily on mobile now. But a stint at Microsoft opened up all kinds of opportunity, and that wouldn't have happened were it not for a small company in Toledo, OH cranking out desktop database software. Otherwise I'd probably still be in Indianapolis cranking out CRUD for some insurance company.
I agree, I think there's some confusion as to what "public domain" means in this context. This project is open source software, but not public domain software.
I read this one years ago, said of King Charles II:

We have a pretty witty king,
Whose word no man relies on,
He never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one.

Charles is reported to have said it was true, because his words were his own, but his actions were those of his ministers.
Often art requires engineering (sculpture especially, but some computer games are essentially literary or art projects).

Should engineering require art? Maybe our built environment would be pleasanter if more of it did.
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I am pretty sure the market wants more battery life than "no bezel design", if they thought rationally, and was made to choose only one.

It's rather because of the return on investment. From a company's point of view they want to invest as little effort as possible to generate as much effect as possible. Going from 8 hour battery life to 10 hour wouldn't turn the needle for most people, but having a sexy design or a cool new feature would.

So even if they make a breakthrough making a thinner battery, they would rather use that space to pack something else in, instead of making the battery last longer.

People do want longer lasting batteries. In an ideal world the companies may make that happen, but in a real world where there's competition, that's not easy.

This is clearly a different issue from "what the market wants". In reality, you don't always get what you want.
Oh great. In this case Im back at searching the rest of the conversation.

Thanks for the explanation.
Looks good, but I want to physically connect the landline phone as an audio device too... that solution seems elusive. I could probably assemble a circuit to do it, though I'm not sure I could design one.

I have this Linksys VOIP router that I used to use on my old landline to interface with an Asterisk server, but I don't think the firmware supports this use case.
I remember trying out Zmodem early on, only to find that it obviously had some kind of bug in that it would reliably and consistently drop the line after a certain amount of data had been transferred.

Not so, of course - but unlike Xmodem and Ymodem which acknowledged every packet (and slowed things down), Zmodem would not constantly ack back to the host unless there was an error... So this triggered the modem's inactivity timeout, since despite the constant stream of data coming down from the remote system, there were no "keystrokes" or other packets travelling in the other direction. Hence, after X minutes... Line drop.

Easily sorted with a few AT commands, eventually. :)
> Note that even the POTUS doesn't care, Air Force One is a militarised 747-200.

No president has really had a chance to choose super sonic vs subsonic. There's never really been a plane big enough to support the whole retinue and support apparatus that POTUS travels with that's capable of super sonic flight.
However, part of its success was that Apple realized that by selling more iPods they would also, by extension, sell more Macs. This is why the iPod was advertised with one of the largest and most successful campaigns in history: Apple convinced itself that it could use the Mac's advertising budget for the iPod, because of this connection. So the iPod was really competing with an industry well beyond the iPod, and any other mp3-only technologies could not compete with this. The bet paid off big for Apple.
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why suddenly everybody is talking abt this when nobody noticed it when it was post 2 months back?
cheap, but not 'free'.

See also the later fate of UNIX (-> Novell, ...).
Is art not a craft?
All third party apps (except a single Enterprise tool) do not receive Promoted Tweets. They're only requested and displayed within the Twitter "Owned and Operated" clients.
git's design is exceptional.
I have no issue with creation of such systems, they will come whether or not we do anything. The issue is as always, what will the other guy actually do. Then you get rogue actors. So in that train of thought I doubt seriously any treaty will prevent them from being developed and even deployed. Now they may actually become beneficial in the field as they could distinguish between friend or foe and needless to say losing one of these compared to a soldier is preferable if it makes the wrong choice (it wasn't friendly)

What I would prefer to see is rules, by treaty or law, that prevents law enforcement agencies from implementing any automaton that can kill or otherwise harm. Any action where a robotic unit is employed to incapacitate or harm up to and including death should require a human operator with regards to law enforcement.

I also see the great benefit to having this technology be employed in fire fighting, fire rescue, and disaster assistance.

tl;dr there is no stopping the military from having these but there needs to be means to stop law enforcement
But what exactly is achieved with information hiding, hmm? :)

Now there forms many schools of opinion, and in many of them it suffices to have data immutable and value-like, and suddenly it doesn't matter if the information is hidden into opaque memory addresses or not.