skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article goes even further and makes the claim that "every TV has a black frame", implying that Samsung had no choice for their tablets, and shows a mock-up of a tablet with a red frame for comparison.

In fact, Samsung makes TVs with red frames, which they brag is a feature:

http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/jsp/faqs/faqs_view_us.js...
http://www.pause.com/wp-content/gallery/08-07-23-samsung/08-...

So designers at Samsung are perfectly aware you can make the bezel other colors.
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They've done it before. See Farewell Dossier

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
prn is for printer and there are many such reserved device names

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#Device_files
I agree. That is a good metric. Some say you should only build products that you would use yourself. While I use surveys, I don't think I'm the target market. So, your metric of building something that can keep you focused is much better.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of Car2Go. Their price rates
http://www.car2go.com/sandiego/en/affordable-rates/
might give a good idea about how expensive using a driverless car would be if it existed today.

Assuming, that the San Diego prices can be applied to Francisco, it seems like taking such a car from downtown to the airport would be about the same as the BART subway.
I assume, that would be too expensive for a daily commute.
Exactly.But how do you do what is right (push forward - which is go down) when all your instincts tell you want up (pull)?
This is the same as driving a car in a rally. Drivers there know to drive into the slippage to recover control. But if you're a normal driver you'll do exactly the opposite.
My question is - do they train enough to break their instinct?
You can't have files named like the old DOS devices: CON, LPT, AUX, PRN etc. This is originaly due to CP/M backwards compatibility, it didn't have directories so magic files were udde to pipe stuff to printers and other devices.
My only feedback to that is I'm not sure it's your place as survey company to guarantee anything to my customers. I'm just hiring you to get the form filled out, you should let me handle the rest.

Kudos to separate processing however.
That seems like a pretty silly design. Can you imagine if cold war era ICBMs did the same?
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Maybe a picture frame designer should have patented it 100 years ago.
I'm sure you don't object to my right to contribute to a
campaign

Why are you sure of this? How do you know wpietri doesn't support publicly-funded campaigns? Your short post sure does contain a lot of assumptions.

And what's with the link to a citation-free Heritage blog post that, not surprisingly, begins with, "It has become an article of faith on the left [...]"? Next time, please link to an informative paper published by an organization like the AEA. Thanks.
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So this 146821 line monstrosity isn't even theoretically usable?

(You know, I could rewrite Redis in less than 146,000 lines of code...)
I was about to say the same thing myself. For some reason, a lot of developers (including me) go through a phase in which they generalize as much as possible as early as possible. This completely misses the obvious: It is harder to plug into an abstraction, especially a bad one, than it is to do the simplest thing and generalize later, when you need to.

Oh, and by the way: death to injection frameworks. I want my java code to be readable, tangible java code.
Facts that form a good starting point for understanding that Samsung's defense is not open and shut:

(1) Some copying is legal.

(2) Some copying is illegal.

(3) The line between (1) and (2) is not clearly drawn.

(4) Many companies copy Apple -- some legally and some illegally.

(5) Samsung copies Apple a lot closer then most other mainstream (read: non-pirate) companies do.

...

The problem with Samsung is why (5)?

To say "that's the only way to design something" flies in the face of (4). Why can't Samsung differentiate their tablet as well as (say) the HTC Flyer?

They appear to be interested in looking as identical to Apple's products as possible -- to the point where Samsung lawyers can't even quickly say which is which when a judge holds both products over their head. When the copying is this blatant and close, accusations of piracy are unavoidable.

I'm not saying Samsung's guilty of crossing the line between legal and illegal - that's what experts and lawyers and judges are paid to do. But I'm saying they are knowingly closer to the line then most companies are comfortable being and that it's silly to casually dismiss the idea that Samsung could have infringed Apple's IP (as people here frequently do).
https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/100
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A comment at TFA by benatkins has a nice answer:

they probably mainly want feedback from the project maintainers at this stage, and the project maintainers can apply a patch just about as easily as they could apply a pull request. (It's so big that the web view isn't likely to be useful.) Also this will probably be going into a new branch if anywhere, so does a pull request to an existing branch (which is all that's possible AFAIK) even make sense?
Actually I think a bigger problem is that Java programmers (not C++) create hundreds of interfaces. Thus Java becomes an artifact hell (EJB 2.0 was a nightmare).

Abstract classes on the other hand are very useful but most Java programmers think... "well what if in the future I need...".

If Java just had traits/mixins, closures, literals, and some syntax brevity it would be a pretty damn descent language... oh wait that's Scala.
The Target near me is an interesting case, because the set of registers is so spread at least 30 checkouts, maybe 75m across. The time it would take some of these bumblers to get to the single line and then walk to the check out would cancel out a lot of the gain.
You might want to calm down on the unnecessary attacks.

As I said in my original comment "I just want to point out to others that this is one side of the story", because some people wanted to have the names of the company and people involved to make sure never to do business with them.

On one hand, you have the (short) account of one person who was there; on the other, you have some information found on the web. Neither is reliable, they just give some hints at what might have happened. My comment was just pointing that out, since some people wanted to go do some public lynching.

So you see, in my opinion, your comment should be "downvoted to hell". I was careful to emphasize that what I found wasn't "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" either. Here's a sample: "it looks like", "this is one side of the story", "it looks like", "it's not clear", "and again I don't have the whole story either".

So no, I'm not the plague of the Internet. The unnecessary outrage and name-calling is.
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I owe him more than that, MVC is epic, and has pretty much fuelled my love for .NET. If it were scientifically possible (Arnie didn't really father a child in Junior, right?) I would have his baby. I'm nice like that.

But alas he sought pastures greener and I am happy for him. My dabbling in git from my windows machine hasn't been smooth to say the least. Hopefully Haack's new role will remedy that, and for that I will fund further research into male pregnancy.
"slate boards where disappearing gradually circa 1930": http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Schiefertafe...
As long as we're fantasizing, why limit to extant or extinct governments? Do you think a clean slate government design wouldn't be a huge improvement over any government ever present in the world?

Your parent post is absolutely correct about the major flaw in a democracy, and despite your insinuation, this is not, I believe, an unfixable problem.
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Ok, corporate donations are not linked to what everyone inside a corporation decides but rather a small set of people whose interest don't necessarily align with the shareholders or the workers at large. Handing disproportionate power to middlemen breeds corruption without the counterbalance of risking large personal fortunes or publicity.

This same argument also disproves the idea of giving personal tax breaks on large incomes as apposed to corporate tax breaks for small businesses. AKA middle management don't create jobs so tax breaks targeting 'job creators' that include them are misnamed.

Edit: The above is a position piece just like those people at the Heritage Foundation are paid to create. There is nothing wrong with suggesting you find credible sources that are not simply spouting propaganda.
It sounds like Google hired the founders (probably with a nice signing bonus), and threw in enough money to appease the investors. The investors' terms likely included liquidation preference, so I'm not surprised you didn't get anything.
As far as I can tell, maven was invented for java devs to be able to download any jar from any where without any concern for where it actually came from or any requirements for it to be a replicable process.
While I prefer the old syntax by a long shot... I hope this does help Opa gain adoption.
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Historically speaking, as governments and politicians gain more central power, they tend to get more corrupt. As governments get more corrupt, they forcefully accumulate more central power. It is a positive feedback loop.
SproutCore has supported this since 2007.
>I'm willing to bet the original crashed and burned and that this is a mockup.

this is after falling from 20km height after being hit by a surface-to-air missile. Would be enough to produce a very closely resembling mockup :

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/u2-wreckage....

>Iran doesn't have the resources to land one of these intact, themselves.

Pretty much the same believe was held about Soviet Union surface-to-air capabilities before the U2 incident (and the belief was true right to exactly the point of the accident as it did took 14 missiles to score the hit)
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This reminds me of Donald Knuth’s advice in the TeXBook: anything that you find yourself repeating three times is a good candidate for wrapping up in a macro.
The Amber claim is "if you’re a Backbone fan, I think you’ll love how little code you need to write with Amber".

Can anyone explain the differences between Amber and Backbone, why Amber might require less coding?
I prefer Electronica while drinking Mt. Dew.
Aren't we programmers also living in the limbo of work and study to forget our nihilism? Or maybe it's just me.
The programming mini-world with its mini-quests and mini-heroes, disconnected from the cold reality.
And they didn't die or disappear, they just joined another group. It just happens that the barrier is quite thick.
But yeah I'm still a bit worried by what you say.
You have a few errors on your A_Ramblin_Wreck page...

The Georgia Institute of Technology is a world renowned school, and has an electrical engineering program that is commonly ranked in the top 5 in the United States.

and a few here:

I am currently pursuing my Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a telecommunication trackmaybe use the word emphasis instead of 'track'. My interests of specialization are security and wireless networking...

Though you did say work in progress :)
I've been playing Skyrim lately and I can only describe it as endlessly entertaining. I had the very same thought that the article talks about.

Skyrim is almost completely realistic-looking. At some point in the near future, the games we play will likely be indistinguishable from reality, or even more likely, much better than reality in every way.

But the more surprising thing is that Skyrim has a system that randomly generates more stuff to do than you could reasonably do in a lifetime of playing the game. Now, it's essentially the same thing over and over, but there's no reason to assume that games in the future won't become even better at this. The key point is that there is stuff to do in the game that someone didn't have to manually create.

The logical conclusion is that at some point in the future, there will exist an endless supply of stuff to do that is more entertaining than reality, not just in the current "addictive until you eventually get bored a year later" way, but in the "automatically generated by algorithms so complex that the game is constantly new and surprising and you will never get bored" way.

I wonder where that will lead. Maybe it's the ultimate bread and circus for the populous, where one could lead an extremely happy and fulfilling life in a virtual world with essentially no cost to anyone.

And if you take a step back, that's exactly where we are today, at least in the developed world. For the most part, if you abandon all the trappings of the modern, virtual world, you can live a happy and fulfilling life for nearly zero cost. But we choose to buy cell phones, TV's, and other forms of entertainment that aren't really necessary.

Beyond the necessities, it's all entertainment, including that 40 hour job that you don't really have to do to live or that startup you founded because you believe it will make your life better.
You could do 1 survey @ 25c and charge them in 4s? I think $1/ea is a bit steep as well.
No, the reason it's that wide is because that's how wide PDMI cables are. They are all about the same width. It's a standard.
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Thanks, I actually have a long history with roguelikes and tried to write a 7drl myself once (zengarden. you're a monk, and you tend a garden. occasionally you get stuff through the letter box, has a notion of crafting that I took from df. that's it). While many roguelikes are just tweaks of the hack model, the form itself allows a solo dev to focus on gameplay and build something complete. Hence, the genre has stacks of potential for innovation.
Look at the instructions to create a branch out of a commit.

Just

git checkout -b 2.4_win_uv 3fac86ff1d

would have sufficed

Instead, they give a mini git tutorial.

This comment is not a taunt at MS. Just that they have tried to learn git and the process, given that git now has a very good implementation on Windows and since they are trying to do something similar here - bringing Redis to Windows - it doesn't look good.
I really disagree. The forced constraints of Twitter are its greatest virtue.

I can follow 200+ people only because I know that they'll be forced to be concise in what they say and how they say it. Google+ felt unwieldily at a half-dozen people because at some point each of them would succumb to the temptation to write a 1600+ word post, and no matter how interesting I found them, it turned the act of surveying my timeline from a nearly effortless, quick glance experience into a depressing exercise in reminding myself that there were endless reams of text I was falling behind on and could never hope to find the time to catch up with.

I have the same problem with RSS readers; beyond some very low limit, it becomes dispiriting to see how much stuff I will never find the time to keep up with, so I stop using the app. Twitter doesn't have this effect on me precisely because it forces everyone to be brief and digestible.

A "New Twitter" in which I have to curate my timeline down from 200 to 6 is a Twitter I just stop using.
I wonder if they contacted Redis author before starting to work on this. You know, with the patch so big and radical, there's a possibility he doesn't even want to accept it.

What then, all this effort for basically nothing except a fork, which you then have to continue maintaining etc.
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>they have to point out alternative designs that could have achieved the same effect.

And this post proves that those alternative designs would make for a decidedly unappealing tablet experience. If Apple designs their products to be the bare minimum that looks good, they don't have the right to be surprised when other companies come to the same conclusion.
Given its 'alpha state' it won't likely be merged in the main Redis anytime soon.

Though it is at least a validation by Microsoft of how good Redis is and its wish to see it run natively on Windows.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but casting the result of malloc is generally considered bad form in C, isn't it?
> There isn't really any clean, low-level websocket implementations for node that worked anymore after recent versions of Chrome and Firefox.

Not true. I continue to use https://github.com/Worlize/WebSocket-Node with great success.
At that point why not just write your scripts in Javascript, and run them with nodejs?
Totally agree with the death to injection frameworks. Where I work a lot of the devs love to talk about "dependency injection" and ways to have some abstracted thing in .NET handle it for you.

My preference has always been have a constructor which takes in the interfaces required. Its very explicit, makes testing a breeze and with no magic is much easier to read.
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Indeed. ICBMs perform a celestial fix in that case.
This clearly looks like an anomaly that the plane should detect and correct. Or at least announce somehow. The computer should average only when controls are consistent with each other.

You never know what's the time when you have two clocks.
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I would say this is an unrealistic view of how elite college admissions work.

These days, having perfect SAT scores, good grades in AP/IB classes, and ordinary involvement in extracurriculars is a weak approach to getting into an elite university. It takes some extra-ordinary achievement in some extracurricular to make you stand out from the mass.

That kind of extra-ordinary achievement is easily gamed by people with privilege but much more difficult for the rest of us in the 99% (well, the 90%).
not without the same sarcasm I think you missed !
[Edited for tone which I guess is the reason for the down votes. I appreciate the quick response below.]

Most of this patch is adding libuv, which is included in its entirety due to "the version included in the patch is different than the one available on github, some changes have been added to the code". There is also a lot of cleanup. Also a small nit, in the patch instructions:

git checkout 3fac86ff1d
git checkout -b 2.4_win_uv

is equivalent to:

git checkout -b 2.4_win_uv 3fac86ff1d

Here's what would make it more easily reviewable.

1. clone redis

2. clone libuv

3. make whatever changes needed to libuv as its own commit.

4. add libuv as a submodule to redis.

5. perform all the misc compiler cleanup stuff to redis as its own commit; usually you want your cleanup/refactored to happen before you perform functional changes.

6. add the ms-specific code as its own commit.

7. push up the new commits to the two forked repos.

This would make it all a bit easier to review. The only questionable part is adding libuv as a reddis submodule (4). Maybe I'd leave that part out initially and instead just specify the equivalent manual step needed there (clone our fork of libuv into X and checkout Y).
Part of my reasoning for not wanting to name the company and founders was this exact reason

And I salute you for that. Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to confront you or to expose the situation more than you wanted. (what I read is very easy to find anyway) It was more intended to the commenters who wanted names even though we had only your short account to go by.

Clearly, that kind of situations has happened to many startup employees (and will happen again and again…). I worked myself for a startup that folded, most people took their severance package and two months later the company was apparently sold. I don't think any of the employees really know the details of the sale, but I'd very surprised if it turned out that I had missed out on a big payout by not buying my options… :)
I think they use Perforce (or at least, a heavily patched version they can "Source Depot"). That might have changed since Team Foundation was brought out. I don't think they ever used visual sourcesafe.
It's reserved for compatibility:

"Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file:

CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. Also avoid these names followed immediately by an extension; for example, NUL.txt is not recommended."[1]

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...
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"If you're worried about a candidate advertising a lot, that's pretty much a vote of no-confidence in your fellow Americans' ability to weigh options and vote rationally."

One's ability to weigh options is predicated on the fact that people have awareness of the options and their implications in the first place. People don't have perfect knowledge even before millions of advertising dollars flood the market with misinformation about the options themselves, let alone the implications for same.

If you're truly interested in maintaining the integrity of our democracy and our discourse, it's hard to imagine why you'd be in favor of more unrestricted money. The fact is that vanishingly few people are wealthy enough to participate in this flavor of democracy, let alone make any sense of it.

"Isn't this in itself a repudiation of democracy?"

It's a strange sort of democracy you have here, where some voices are obviously more equal than others.

"This isn't going to be rehashing the Glass-Steagall myth, is it? See, e.g., [1]"

Wow. The future more than a little pwned this guy. What about the billions of dollars BoA and JP Morgan took from the gov't? How about WaMu? And in what universe CDOs, et al, not risky investments?

My understanding about Glass-Steagall isn't so much that it directly led to the crisis, although for all I know maybe there's some intricacy there that I'm missing. Rather it allowed banks to use depositors' money to play Wall Street, and during the financial/housing bubble over the last decade or so, this meant you could become fantastically rich. So you make money, you buy up other banks, and you become progressively closer to "too big to fail."

AIUI, more and smaller banks -> more resilience, more diffuse risk rather than big, big chunks of concentrated risk in a few, critical places.
This is even worse... it's deceptive. Of course they couldn't make it compatible without paying Apple (who would probably wouldn't have allowed it without egregious licensing fees), but if it looks like it works and doesn't, that's just doing their end-users a disservice.
Do you really need training to say "I'm pushing the stick backwards now", "what are you doing over there?" etc

Surely that sort of basic communication about what you're doing should be one of the first things you learn...
And remember, there is a document advising you might be a terrorist if you have more than seven days of food onhand.

Oh that guideline would never be abused, would it?
How the hell do you make an easter egg site without including the Konami code in the site itself? I mean I know there's the part where you get to test out your code, but you'd think that it would be available some time before that.
I honestly believe it is a marketing technique. Look at the number of tweets announcing the secret 'pro-tip' it something that pro twitter users can use and feel special (because they use DM /swipe up/ and have multiple accounts. The rest of the users aren't hardcore and dont care about getting to those things in 2 taps.
> "... is a no-brainer when you think about it."

Then it's not really a no brainer, is it? :)