skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if this was just an employee loyalty test? At initialization the android could run this act if the employee was relatively new and the corporation could gauge employee loyalty. Add a NDA and you also add a hazing component to it.
What's “closure” in Programing Language?
I love my Transformer! I wouldn't give it up for an Ipad...
If you are confident (really confident!) that you could deliver in 6 weeks, go for it. The publicity from launching at a large-ish conference should make up for the additional stress caused by a hard, external deadline.
Apperently Sari Koshetz doesn't deny anything

http://www.popehat.com/2012/03/08/in-which-i-strongly-cautio...
Just because both the GPL and the media industry both rely on copyright does not make them equivalent. If anything, it's exactly the opposite--a company not complying with the GPL is making information inaccessible to the public; a company enforcing normal copyright is also making information inaccessible.

The GPL is basically an inversion of standard copyright: where copyright is normally used to restrict access, the GPL ensures access. So it's pretty easy to see how not complying with the GPL is similar to aggressively pursuing piracy or using horrible DRM.
Kids these days...

Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
Really interesting. I'm in the process of starting a 501(c)(3) myself and I'd love to know if there are more companies out there that do things like this.
Eric Ries joining New Context as General Partner
AngryBirds for Chrome and Android is built using this lib
Maybe it was?... Perhaps the man is a very good actor.
Now we send our money to DC and never see it again.
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Only self-proclaimed licensing boards? If you want an alternative licensing board, the osteopathic boards are it. Otherwise you're just engaging in ideological privatization for the sake of privatization; you don't even have a rationale for what's wrong with the licensing boards we do have.
I agree with you about the importance of ecosystem on the iPad vs the iPhone. However, if you're going to compare an iPad to an iPod - it's not just ecosystem that made the iPod dominant but Apple's willingness to introduce a whole line of MP3 players, from the $80 shuffle on up. They haven't shown the same willingness to introduce that kind of variety to either iPhones or iPads.
I don't think that the team at Loopt deserves anything less than a huge amount of respect. They built something big and it did not work out, it happens. It's easy to sit and play armchair quarterback but I doubt anyone who has ever tried to make something big would chalk this up as a failure.
No one one learns how do ride a bike without a few scrapes but eventually you do learn. I'm certain Sam and the team will know nothing but success if not in this venture than the next.

Good luck guys!
Cliff Young would be a good one to add to this list: http://www.elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young

More on him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)

Summary: 61 year old sheep farmer, shows up at an 875 km (540 mile) ultra marathon and enters. No sponsor, no fancy running equipment--he's in overalls and work boots. He won, setting a new record for the race, knocking almost 2 days off the old record.
The problem is that they rearranged a fair portion of the libraries, so you would need two full trees of .py files, and it would require a lot more work to figure out which set was running at any given time.
Apple broke the cartels?
Actually it was Napster and bittorrent that broke the cartels.
Apple saved what was left of the cartels.
I think it's closer to 'my friend has invented anti gravity; but its big and huge and clunky and extremely expensive and he is going to spend a couple years in a lab working on it before he tries to raise money. i think he could raise money instantly; how do i get people with money to look at the antigravity thing'

but maybe you are right that he is right to have reservations.
"Ant? Why do I know Ant now? I didn’t know Ant 2 days ago. Is it really necessary to have to learn a build tool to perform such a common task?"

Ant is the backstop to the build the IDE makes automatically, in cases, like this one, where there isn't a parameter you can set in the build options dialog.

You might not like ant, or having to learn it. But it's not an unusual choice for Java builds. There are many cases in more-complex Android project builds where ant is necessary.
Good god man, focus your argument!

Responding line by line like this is tedious for the reader, petty and plain unfair to the author. It's not a dialog - yet you're arguing it like one.
You're looking for quant schools in New York? There are tons of those. The most common degree is the Master of Financial Engineering or equivalent. QuantNet maintains a list of the top programs in the US:

https://www.quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/

But you should think very carefully about whether starting a new degree like this is worth it. Firstly, you'll notice that the tuition for all of these programs is very high, so there's a strong financial commitment to this.

More importantly, an MFE is extremely specialized; it's not like getting an MBA or an advanced degree in computer science, both of which will open doors for many opportunities. An MFE leads to a very limited set of employers since these programs don't teach the general programming or statistics or even finance skills that are widely applicable to other industries.

Lastly, without any prior experience in the field, a degree alone isn't very attractive to employers. And given the devastation that has occurred to the industry over the past few years, there are plenty of unemployed experienced people that you'll be competing with for jobs.

So you can go into a ton of debt for a degree with limited opportunities that likely won't come anyway.
The AI pleading for its life, in a very convincing way, seems like something that could occur by a very intelligent AI attempting to manipulate humans... I imagine an AI could be able to give all the right body language, intonation, etc cues to manipulate humans much better than current humans can. Theres no telling what she is going to do now, because all we currently know is she is good at manipulating a man into not killing her.
And then when everyone has decided to go nameless at conferences I shall wear a shirt with my name and contact info I plan to share. That way I will stand out from the crowd and everyone shall remember me.
Simpler Tiles, a new ruby-based mapping library
"find the tiny thing that turns into the gigantic idea"

I like this, or it at least validates some of my thinking. All of my startup ideas are small and modest, something that will help me and maybe some people like me. But I have no idea where the idea will take me...
Big Picture: Japan's nuclear refugees
Did you read the scientific research on this topic? I don't know if this specific device works but tDCS has been shown to work in multiple studies.
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How to Analyze and Debug C/C++ Code with PVS-Studio
"Every band is the hottest thing since X"

Yeah, I don't listen to shite music that gets marketed that way, let alone 'Bush'. Do you actually let movie blurbs guide your viewing? Or buy music because of hype? Really?

Lucky Charms aren't actually magically delicious, either.
Mika Mobile ends Android development
I think I tend to agree. I have an iPhone, MacBook Air, and iPad. My use of each is vastly different - the Venn diagrams hardly overlap.

My phone is primarily used for light-duty consumption of text content (email reading, twitter, etc.) and gaming when I'm bored (waiting rooms, transit, etc.). And, of course, voice communication. Web browsing, reading eBooks, etc. is quite difficult on the small screen, retina-display notwithstanding. I always have my phone with me.

The iPad tends much more to web browsing, sending email (it's difficult to send an email of any length on a phone, much easier on the iPad), playing games, etc. I have it sitting next to my couch and when watching a "live" TV show (you know, the things with commercials) I'll absent-mindedly pick up the iPad and thumb through Tweets or HN or Reddit etc. The battery life on the iPad is considerably better than my phone - so when I go on long trips I'll use the iPad as my time-killer. My iPad is within reach 100% of the time at home, and 100% of my time on vacation and long trips.

My MBA is used for hard-core web browsing (researching lots of data, figuring out problems = e.g. lots of task switching), programming, writing papers (the physical keyboard can't be beaten; I don't own a bluetooth keyboard so don't know if I'd write on the iPad), etc. I work on my laptop, but in general it stays put (strange, eh?). However, I may take it on short or long term trips if I know that I will be doing any work or needing the power and flexibility of a "real" computer over the iOS devices. This is becoming more infrequent, however.

In short:

iPhone: Portable gaming device and light-duty text consumption. With me 100% of the time.

iPad: Web browsing, gaming, and video player. With me 100% of the time at home and long trips/vacations

MBA: Hard-core computer-y stuff that you can't do on tablets or phones (or just too painful to do). Rarely travels with me on vacation and long trips.

Apple has done a perfect job positioning all three devices right in the sweet spot of what I want to do. They own each of these scenarios. This is why I firmly believe that Apple will never produce a smaller iPad or a larger iPhone - it doesn't create a "new" space that isn't already overlapped with the iPhone or iPad, and in the weird not-quite-phone, not-quite-tablet space it inherits the weaknesses of both.

In order to see a smaller iPad or bigger iPhone, Apple would have to carve out a distinct space in the market that isn't better served by the existing products. That seems quite difficult.

Android manufacturers seem content to produce a panoply of devices without regard to actual utility and devoid of real strategic thought. As long as they continue to flail about, I see no reason why Apple won't continue to dominate the market.
I didn't realize that. I assumed it was a signal that the sources weren't reliable/knowledgeable. I learned something new today, thanks.
Windows 8 & Metro with Mouse and Keyboard - Super User Blog
On Useless Testing...
There's not a whole lot of substance in this article. It's a bunch of opinions that are unsupported by any evidence.

It may be true that college confer benefit, but that needs to be demonstrated.
The graphics are much, much better than something from 2005. For reference, here's a screenshot from a well-regarded 2005 console game: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/82/Gun_Showdown.j...

Especially for the PS3 hardware, the polygon count, lighting solution and facial animation are quite impressive. While this isn't a game but a tech demo, it's still impressive for what it is. I don't see how calculating digits of pi is a more worthy way to demonstrate the capabilities of hardware specifically designed to render 3D scenes than actually rendering a 3D scene.
Compass/SASS Mixins for Simple Retina Images on Websites
I had to write enough custom logic to get around the stupid non-blocking brokenness in Play! Scala 1.x that it would be largely non-compatible anyway.
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This is really great stuff. Kudos to the Edgecase/New Context teams.
I was surprised to see Typesafe throw its weight behind Play.

While I understand they need a web framework in their stack, and Play is more RoR-ish than Lift (which makes it more marketable I think), I dunno, some of the gymnastics Play 1.x used to pull off its magic seemed a little over the top to me.

Like using bytecode rewriting to add language-level features like properties. Yes, Java sucks, but we who use it understand that and accept its imperfections. I'd rather fix Java proper (or use Scala) than have a web framework think that it's their job to somehow fix a lackluster language.

Just seems like it'd lead to a lot of bloat/code in the framework that isn't "just serve this webapp as simply as possible".

That being said, what Play got right did look really awesome (the compilation error reporting in particular).

Anyway, will be interesting to see what the Play 2.x release will look like, given it looks like Typesafe is having some amount of involvement in it?
That's the difference between the user-space interface, and the kernel ABI. The Linux kernel ABI has no compatibility guarantees. If you are linking to the kernel, you are considered to be part of the kernel, and thus you are expected to keep abreast of any ABI changes (preferably by getting your module into the kernel tree, so that anyone changing the ABI can fix your code too).

The Debian kernel team tries to do a reasonable job of tracking kernel ABI compatibility changes, and updating the number when the ABI does change, to avoid having to recompile and reinstall everything for every patch to the stable tree. In this case, they decided that the ABI change was only intended for a single, in-tree module (KVM), and that they didn't have to increment the ABI number for a change that shouldn't affect anything else.

This is really just an example of the Linux kernel developers' two approaches to compatibility. For the kernel ABI, they make no guarantees whatsoever about compatibility. For the user space interface, they are supposed to never, ever change the interface in ways that will break existing programs, though there are sometimes disagreements about what precisely constitutes this interface and what is outside the bounds of it.
The Issue With Code Paste Bins, and the Solution
i have to ask. who is chris dawson? i am suppose to know this, but i dont.
Very interesting article. I am interested to see how the use of mouse and keyboard evolves as more OSs/UIs move towards a touch based interface.
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The Portal 2 that could have been
Dog Mushing (unless you're a dog). Archery.
I'm a fairly confident programmer but I haven't spent much time in mobile development. I'm sure I can finished a core feature or two and have it ready for launch.

My worry was that if I launch a product with half the core features, would that make it harder in the future to launch a fully-functioning application? (if people didn't like it the first time)

Thanks for you response!
I generally like this style guide a lot. It makes (in my opinion) the more rational choice on some items (like no nested closures), has a lot of good tips (like named closures), or makes a definitive decision on stuff that could go either way, but is better to have something chosen over doing both (like tabs versus spaces). But this:

"Keep your functions short. A good function fits on a slide that the people in the last row of a big room can comfortably read. So don't count on them having perfect vision and limit yourself to ~10 lines of code per function."

I can't tell if that is a joke or not. Given the rest of this seems serious, I have to believe it too is serious, and I don't understand how this can lead to good code. Some functions simply have more than 10 lines of logic. In these cases, to follow that rule would either involve A) breaking up the code into other functions because "that's the rule" or B) combining lines of code unnecessarily, making the code less readable. When I write a function, I'm either trying to make logic reusable, or abstract away logic. How much logic is of much less importance.
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There are instructions on how to create your own icons from the standard set available here: http://icondock.com/free/mono-social-icons

Took me about 5 mins to upload the github icon and edit the CSS file.
The word is always used with an implied context, yes, but that context is never just 'the present' with all circumstances staying as they are.

To call something 'unbeatable' means that there are still variables that can come into play in the contest, but they don't even matter. The victor is already decided even allowing for the most extreme probabilities.

For many or most of the items in the list you were replying to, the contest was not over when the crown was lost.

The OPs list was intended to show that many companies lost their tremendous advantages in a variety of ways, that the variables are such that the iPad shouldn't be labeled as unbeatable.

And of course, no one really believes the iPad is unbeatable in any meaningful sense. It's just hyperbole for being in a dominant position.
Really don't get this... 4 years of CS took me the furthest I had ever been away from computers since getting my first pc at age 11. All the programming assignments took 3-4 hours with 4-5 a semester tops. Meanwhile for calc and physics I had to invest hours PER DAY. None of those hours with a calc book taught me anything about social mores - being a professional - I learned much more about that when contacting producers to license content (having to fake being an adult) when I was running some very profitable porn sites at age 15.
Steve Jobs was already worth $100,000,000 at 25.
Also, 3aa<Esc> appends 3 a's, but 3aa<C-d> appends only 1.
that actually answered my question. I don't know the html spec that well so I didn't know if both "<" and ">" were reserved characters. From what I understand of what you're saying, it's only when ">" comes after a "<" that is has special meaning.
Click the "view demo" button. http://webdesignerwall.com/demo/css-social-buttons/
The article mentions 'learning to learn' amongst the benefits of going to college, but surely a programming 'superstar' who didn't go to college would know a hell of a lot more about learning on their own than someone who had a tutor all throughout their college years.

I didn't finish college specifically because I knew how to learn on my own. I acquired the skills necessary for my job on my own time.
Profitable, but underwater. NeXT sold to Apple for half a billion when over a billion in funding had been pumped into it (let alone valuation).

NeXT alone was never going to do what Apple has done. Apple had a sustainable hardware business (after being fixed up a little with sexy designs) that gave them enough manufacturing leverage to do iPod, and iPod gave them enough operations leverage and economy-of-scale to do what they're doing now.
You my friend should check out The Keyboard Company, keyboardco.com

They have tons of choices of blue, black, and brown Cherry switches (I think), you just have to match up their terminology with the right color.

They ship from England too, fyi.
I played around with this for a bit, it seems okay.

It seems to me like a potentially better way to do it would be more so in a Khan Academy style of doing things, where there's a video that you follow along with, and maybe have your text editor in a separate window so that people can work on the code while watching the video, and then exercises that you do after the tutorial video that people can comment on and get help with from other users and the creator potentially.

I personally think net.tutsplus.com does a pretty good job at this, but I think your site could do it better if it offered a more personal experience.
When did Unix stop being a product of Bell Labs?
Because a live action performance would be a pretty terrible tech demo of real-time rendering on a popular gaming console.
Awesome. There's no question that this is what the future of mobile development looks like.
Note: Not sure if the app or the service is to blame. But - disappointing:

From this afternoon. Wife and me are sitting in the sun at the Kikar Rabin/Rabin Square in (more or less) center Tel Aviv. She decides she'd like to have sushi. I pull up the Google Maps app, type sushi <enter>

Map zooms to the US and gives me recommendations in god-knows-where. I laugh it off, go back, search 'sushi bars'. Guess what it does? Riiight.

So this company _constantly_ throws Hebrew at me. After updating maps it showed the TOS in HEBREW (I .. cannot read that) on first launch. It certainly knows (and abuses. Certainly abuses. Abuses all the time..) geolocation. I have Latitude enabled the last weeks. GPS and Wifi were turned on and the map showed my current location quite accurate.

Why in the world would I want to know about Sushi places in the US?

That's certainly fixable (I could get somewhat better results with 'Sushi, Tel Aviv') but I think the gp hit similar idiotic behavior.

Unfortunately that just shows flaws in the Maps search algorithm and is unrelated to Google Maps vs. OSM for example.
Fixing arrow keys in iTerm and Terminal.app for Mac OS X (especially irssi)
Or one of those ab exercisers from a TV infomercial.
It's an important enough issue that I'd vote for such a party if I could. It's not just about raiding a torrent site. I see it as being at least:

- Government for the people. This is often forgotten, but it's the most important point - enforcing strict copyright does not help the citizen. Period.

- Censorship - raiding one site means raiding any site, eventually

- Copyright should be relaxed for non-commercial purposes - not because RIAA it's obsolete, but because in the world of the Internet, this is the way that will insure maximum creativity.

- Hitting the incumbents and setting an example that it's possible
It's not "because they want to do another round." They don't necessarily want to give you the extra money, but the final amount of their return does need to be a multiple of the number they could have invested, not the number they did invest.

Thus they need your company to grow more than you might think they do, and they could block a sale in the hopes that will happen. If you end up needing more investment after the sale has been blocked, that's fine, because they have money in reserve, but actually giving you the money is not the overwhelming motivation.
I'd recommend specifying a mode on those. That i map disables half the text-objects in visual and operator modes.
> Law enforcement doesn't have enough free hands to go after every crime, therefore which crimes are pursued is always a choice.

Misses the point. It's somebody's choice, but it's not always the law enforcement agency's choice. If the FBI director's boss tells him to raid TPB, his choices are "do the raid" or "get fired."

I would guess it's more satisfying to go after real criminals, but they have to follow their orders.
I found ctrl there more useful. Especially for its use with other programs.
"Care to make a long bet on how much of Loopt tech is still around in 5 years?"

More of it than is around now. Location based apps are just getting started.

I think there is sort of a last mile problem for data, in the same way that there is a last mile problem for hardware. As much people come to see the world this way I think we will end up with more and more possibilities for local social than we can currently even imagine. I think this acquisition will be a good opportunity, as Loopt will effectively be able to use these financial tools as bait to get more people into their system.
So if the distributors had rules like 'the scene' and ran paid file sharing sites, we'd all move over there?

I'm buying a 3D printer -- anyone got a Porsche I can borrow for a few weeks?