skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>rate [sic] of decay of a certain Cesium atom //

That is time in the same way that leaves moving on a tree is wind.

The instance of the radioactive decay indicates the defined period of time has passed within the local frame of reference. That tells us very little useful about time itself.
You are right, criminals are not profiled for gay/straight/bi/neither orientation, but if they could, a neural network would find a correlation between that column and the location of their next crime.

Thas one column would not be enough to decide with any certainty at all, however, if you pass in age, sex, weight, orientation, race, skin color, religious affiliation, address, marital status, prior convictions, languages spoken, income, has-vehicle, make/model of car, profession, where they work, smokes, drinks, and hundreds of other spot data points about them, a two layer neural network would be able to pull it all in, and use historical data to train against later data, and use recent data to predict where the crimes are going to occur, and it will be eerily right, gathering information gain from what seems out of thin air.
Wear a mask.
This very section is that worries me.

Nobody ever bothered updating it, not when the relevant WSGI spec came out, and not when Python 3.3 announced the byte str changes that would help.

If even Django and Pyramid can have a 3 roadmap --and even implementation--, surely Flask could too.

Seems like they just dont bother, so they put it in the backburner. Which is mighty fine, its a volunteer project after all, but I find said document misinforming, to say the least.
No offense, but your aesthetic sensibilities suck if you think this argo UML is a desktop class application in the realm of natively built desktop class apps.

These apps belong to what I refer to as the "just barely good enough" class of desktop apps. Doesn't look native, doesn't feel native, aesthetics are strictly academic stuck in the 1990's and usability is just north of nominal.

This is a prime example. Fonts, control spacing, inconsistent sizing, 8-bit aliased bitmaps ... it looks like crap compared to a native app like OmniGraffle.
These compains are still making profit. They just aren't making as much as they would selling to Americans.

And that still doesn't answer my question as why companies can use price arbitrage yet we people cannot.
You're thinking of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is in the Department of Homeland Security but is definitely not the TSA.

But anyway, they don't have the power to seize your US-based VPS as you cross the border. That would require an actual warrant which requires actual probable cause.

The author focuses on the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada as the countries to avoid, but this seems crazy to me. The only common thread I can identify is that they all speak mainly English (sorry Quebec). There are lots of places I would avoid in addition to those; Iran, China, Syria, Libya, ... the list is nearly infinite.
What about writing a letter, with pictures and everything, and sending it to a bunch of people who then scan it with or without OCR and then post it online? There could even be a group of such people that, as a kind of public service, agree to do this. They could, for example, burn the original.
Agreed. Ember.js was originally named Sproutcore 2.0 and is a much better successor.
"Twitter succeeded (as it were) because people used it", and they did because the Twitter API is basically the "Hello World" of using a web service !

This meant ANY platform where a developer cared to bring out a Twitter client had it, and hence more people could jump in quickly.

Secondly, really creative users made Twitter what it is today with Retweets and Hashtags.

Twitter would be wise to not start an evaporative cooling effect.
It's pretty much 1:1 to git command line.

Most times when someone on my team screws up a commit, it's because they botched the command line (the inverse of this article's claims). Fix it in Tower in a few minutes in a visually simple way that helps them understand what's going on.

It also makes submodule usage do what you think it should do.
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Aside on SMS:

Armchair economists like to discuss SMS as an example of oligopolies gone bad, but that doesn't pass the smell test. Telephone competition is suboptimal but SMS is uniquely bad in its outcomes; they've done a much better job on all other forms of data. Furthermore, costs vary from place to place but by all accounts SMS is still very expensive worldwide.

Well, it happens that SMS is a technical hack; the data payloads are snuck into the control channel. The bandwidth in this channel is very scarce. The message could be re-routed over the data network, but the cross-carrier costs are still expensive because the receiving phone might have to use the old implemnetation.
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Hoping someone ports this to Vim
Ed: Individual sodium atoms are smaller than individual lead atoms. However, under the assumption that there is some variation in filtering capability's that will let a low % of things in that are sodium sized and slightly larger through you may have to deal with some larger atoms like lead.
HTTP doesn't have pubsub built in.
Opensource it please!
I don't think you should discount different form factors being useful in different situations.

Tablets are great for consuming content, and creating certain types of content, but as much as you can write a novel on one, a real keyboard is better for writing one.

(yes I know you can buy a keyboard dock, but that sort of misses the point, doesn't it?)

And as much as I can play games on a tablet, unless it's a very specific niche where the gameplay revolves around your input method being a static slate of glass (e.g. Fruit Ninja, arguably Angry Birds) having actual buttons for input is better for gaming.

So I can totally see 'normal' people just owning one device that does everything OK-ish (but at least it does everything) and I think for all 'new' normal people that's basically happening, but I really don't think you're going to see other form factors go away. Authors still want to type quickly, gamers still want actual controls where they can exercise muscle memory, and I hackers still want to be able to tinker with their devices and build cool new shit.
No offense taken. Perhaps a bad example aesthetically I agree, but otherwise the experience is good.

Please note that Argo is a heavyweight engineering tool with metadata, not a pretty picture generator. It's an order of magnitude more powerful with respect to semantic modelling.

What it looks like is less important that how it works in that sector.

EDIT: also regarding native appearance. Every web site looks different - should have a common stylesheet for everyone? No.
Good thing it was the reservation code and not the autopilot code. Those passengers should count themselves lucky!
At least one of the suggestions here (using structure full of function pointers as a namespace substitute) is likely to have a significant negative impact on performance. Don't do that.
Quite apart from the ethical ins and outs of this, it's simply a buggy release.

I played around with my new (and unwanted) email address and found the following:

1. Email sent to the new facebook address from the gmail account associated with my profile gets delivered to my facebook messages.

2. Email sent to the new facebook address from another gmail account I own is not delivered. It simply disappears.

This is basic stuff. I guess they did like no testing before they released this f*up to their billion or so users.
Exactly. Developers go where the money is.
Then go recreate it and offer it for free.
It seems possible that the task of optimizing when to ask for ratings is nontrivial.

In any case, I'd be more interested if the rating widget looked better.
FYI, the author of Flask was the same person who proposed and published the PEP on the byte str changes.
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People just don't seem to be comfortable with grey. And this is a problem I especially see with newer devs: there has to be one right way that fully solves a problem.

The balancing act between seat-of-the-pants thinking and methodical problem solving is THE key to business survival.
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Really, what the OP really wants is unclear to me. Anonymity is one thing, but accessibility in the face of governmental restrictions (especially targeted, rather than general) is quite another.
Apple shot first. Google has patents that they can use defensively, I say anything that happens to Apple is fair turn about after the 10.1

You didn't see Google suing Bing over the pagerank algorithm. I'm sure Google has patents relating to map-reduce but distributed computing is still taking off.

If the patent game were played out to its fullest without reform, all innovation would virtually grind to a halt, so a broad gentlemen's agreement is in place not to use patents. Apple don't care, they want to stop innovation so everyone buys their shit. Yes it's capitalism, but it's also marketing, and our consumption choices are the only votes we get in this game.
Considering that this is a molecular dynamics simulation that anyone could produce at home on their computer, with some patience, I assume it will be ready in a few years after their get their grant money.
This title is flagrantly misleading. 'Crashes' and 'plane' should be about the reservation system.
I'm confused. Patents are the cause of a decrease in effectiveness of antibiotics?

I was in Mexico last week and could buy many types of antibiotics over-the-counter without a prescription, and the prices all seemed below what you'd see for comparable generic drugs in the US. Obviously they're not even interested in medical supervision when distributing antibiotics (and a bunch of other drugs). My assumption is that they're even less interested in who owns what patent.

Drug companies pushing doctors to use their products seems like a drop in the bucket compared with policies that make antibiotics cheaply and easily available without supervision from those trained in medicine.

That said, I'm opposed to abusing the patent system by granting longer patents. Protect those willing to create new and useful drugs so they can make a profit... but keep them on their toes by not letting the rest on their laurels forever while they milk some patent dry.
Slingshot (water vapor distillation system)
so give your software away and monetize around services
Good thinking.

I wish a high quality device without pre-installed OS was available.

Great specs similar to GNex, at an affordable price comparable to $350 Google charges for unlocked units.

Let customers run whatever OS they wish.

WebOS, Android, iOS, Windows, any one in particular or all at once.
Higgs Boson found?
There really isn't much choice in the smartphone market, despite 20 flavors of Android. If your friends have iPhones, that's what you want. Android is popular among the muggles because it's cheaper. Very few people I've met buy Andeoid because it's better, they buy it because of price. The only Blackberry users I know use it only because of their companies. The average consumer doesn't care about 'morals' when they buy something -- if they did, no one would buy Chinese products, the only chicken sold in stores would be fre range and Wal Mart would have gone out of business a long time ago. People either want the cheapest or the best, not necessarily the 'rightest'.
I have yet to find someone who thought themselves a gamer before mobile gaming became a thing, who actually likes more than a couple of mobile games.

They are mostly utter garbage, more in the Zynga 'social' angle than anything else. The majority of what's left have incredibly simple gameplay mechanics, because the control schemes open to you just don't allow any more complexity. apart from the gyroscope, which I'm not convinced anyone will ever use well, all your input methods involve you obscuring the screen with your fingers!? And can never provide feedback to the user!? Madness.

Mobile gaming is huge, and it makes money, but mobile gaming is a bit like 'social' gaming: it is not actually 'gaming', as gaming is on other platforms. These things exist side by side, one does not replace the other.
The entire media space, for example? TV, magazines, newspapers, radio, …
"by not putting much thought into the touchpad, the company blew it"
I'm a bit confused. Are you the same company as http://www.dailycred.com/?

I can't find any mention of each other on either site. It looks like you're hotlinking their Bootstrap files?
It's not about brevity. Do you like extending functions that are called in 1500 places by adding another un-named parameter?

Unless the function you're writing is something that intrinsically should always take the same parameters that it starts with, named parameters are better.

If I'm implementing

function add_one($number){ return $number++; }

then there's no need for named parameters. If I'm implementing

function send_email($args){...}

then I'm going to go with named parameters.
Marketing is very important, as important as the product as my last statement mentions. I think the post was incorrectly interpreted. I was only speaking to when the product stops innovating and everything is solved by more marketing.

The meme isn't 'marketing screws companies up' since without marketing or a product there is nothing. It's when the focus goes off the product and into marketing ether (same problem with only making product and doing no marketing).

An example might be demoing a product that isn't available for another 6 months to a year. It's a balance but the moment the focus is off delivering product first it is over.

The twitter API group verses the marketing group I can bet most of the people in the API camp were developers/product people and the marketers were not. Where do you want the focus in your company? The product or the marketing? One usually wins out or takes the reigns, both extremely important. I think for longevity product wins hands down.
A recent development on this matter...Samsung has moved to ask the court to stay the injunction

http://www.slashgear.com/samsung-demands-apples-galaxy-nexus...
Beautiful; this is exactly the type of minimalist wiki I've been wanting, but never got around to making for myself. A few points of feedback:

- The pricing model is unclear. Are the account upgrades a one-time purchase, or a monthly cost? The amount seems reasonable for the former, and too much for the latter.

- One of the great things about wikis is the ability to create new pages from within the content, just by typing [[new page]] or whatever. It would be great if clicking an empty link spawned a new page form rather than a 404.

- Once immersed in a wiki's content, the title bar should disappear, or become less prominent in some way. If I'm using this to share info with friends or collaborators (the best use for a wiki), we want to focus on our content, not the site itself.

Nice job.
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I am far from an expert here, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis#High_pressure_p... and http://urila.tripod.com/desalination.htm/ both claim one needs Over 20 bar of pressure for reverse osmosis. I doubt anyone can suck that hard (apologies for the pun)
We have not trademarked the Coding for Kids name yet – on purpose as we consider this a community movement and community owned project.

Trademarking does not mean you plan to making something proprietary. It can be a means of preventing exploitation as much as anything else. If you don't contest this abuse of the mark now (by showing that you had already used it in the stream of commerce, then you may lose your own right to use it in future, especially since the other party has asserted ownership of the mark. Trademark protection is not automatic in the same way that copyright is. Ideally you should consult a trademark lawyer, but at least check out Nolo's resources: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/trademark-law
The WHOIS for dailycred.com shows it registered to Julius Schorzman, which is also the name of the person giving the positive testimonial at the bottom of the page...
They can just as easily make a version without the camera. I know it defeats some of the point, but it would still be a good way to get notifications, directions, etc
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4) Google Shopping should be compatible with Google’s brand decisions.

Google Shopping must be compatible with company brand decisions. Our company has a strong culture and values, and we’ve chosen not to allow ads that promote products and services that are incompatible with these values.

Too bad. The 2nd amendment outlines your rights with regard to the government; it creates no obligation on the part of private vendors who do not wish to support particular activities.
My experience has been that developers using a gui make better commits. It is far easier to see what the changes are, see unintended code changes, make a more useful message and only pick a relevant subset of changed hunks.

The command line only folks tend to do 'git commit -a' or equivalent and have messy noisy commits.

Yes a highly skilled developer at the top of their game, paying attention to every detail and pumped full of caffeine is far less likely to do that, but they are rare.
May I suggest never taking daily mail as source for anything uk related.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/29/higgs-boson-ru...

For a actual science journalist writing, try the guardian (basically ben gold acre shamed them into at least trying harder)

Seems it is likely to be yes we are now 5 9's certain it exists.
Charging a fee for entry is definitely not conducive for tourism, but how is it a subsidy to Florida? The article I read says it will be used to advertise, and pay for administrative costs.
You nailed it. The key problem is 'demand' is determined only by whoever has money. Capitalism works because each person gets a say in what is important and creates value for them. The problem is that if you don't have above a certain amount of money, you don't get much of a say. In the age of immense income inequality, this completely distorts the 'demand' generation aspect of capitalism.

What if we divorced 'demand'(what creates value for each person) from money (payment for value created) and gave all actors an equal right to determine demand irrespective of their ability to pay? We are working on building such a world.
Good catch but I saw your comment too late.
No.

I've tried it both ways. Without goals is fine for a year or three, especially if you've been living "with goals" your whole life... Indeed, it can be very refreshing.

...but then, once you've hung out on the beach enough, or read enough books, or watched enough movies, or built enough fun little programming projects just messing around, you realize that you're not building to anything long-term, and you're only on Earth for a few short decades.

Goals are necessary so that, ten, twenty, thirty years from now, you're doing the things you want to be doing. For example, changing the world for the better, if that's your thing, or contributing to cutting-edge biology, if that's your thing.
I received raises like that, in a very conventional corporate environment and with strict cost controls in place, because I was basically saving my manager's bacon -- as I was internally hired to do -- and doing it a significantly less cost than the "conventional" (big iron) route. He had significant seniority within our part of the org and used it to get this done.

But, that was fairly exceptional.

In another role at another corporation, I was repeatedly lauded by my coworkers -- the ones with whom I actually worked and who had real technical chops. But my immediate org structure was more than a bit political, and my role was defined by corporate as a fairly mundane and low-level role. 4% was the cap, and almost no one got that. Ability didn't rule the decision: Executive-level budgets and politics did.

So... You've better assessed your value. Be prepared to move one, before and when asking for it. You may have to. If you have a solid competing offer, this may also strengthen your argument/negotiation with your existing employer. Don't "threaten" them; rather, an offer shows that someone -- an "independent party" or even a "competitor" -- considers that valuation to be fair.

A final caveat: If you get to the point of having that offer, it may be best to leave and take it. As others, I seem to recall, have pointed out, here, causing your existing employer to match a competitor's offer may breed unexpressed resentment on the part of your management. And, regardless of that, they will worry about whether they will end up having to explain and justify the bump to other employees if and when asked about it and without facing wholesale escalation in their wage structure.

TL;DR: Having stuck out assignments having low raises, I'd say you may have to -- and ultimately want to -- change jobs/employers.
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Looks like they are the same company then. raterlater.com is registered for Dave Matthews. Who is listed on Shopobot blog.

I suppose it's a good sign that they like their own product.
I quite agree about the fee, but also fail to see what it has to do with Florida. The fee exists because Congress has never got around to funding a proper entry-exit database for tourists, with the result that prior to 2007 (IIRC) there's basically no record of whether or not someone left the US after the 90-day period of admission for visa-free entry.
I'm often using compact()/extract() in similar, but not necessarily identical pattern. For example:

$foo = get_some_value();
$bar = get_other_value();
my_function(compact('foo', 'bar'));

function my_function($args) {
# optionally provide default values :-)
$foo = default_value;
$bar = default_value;
extract($args, EXTR_IF_EXISTS); # the EXTR_IF_EXISTS is optional, for when we want to enforce sanity check
/* function code goes here */
}

(edits: clarifications)