skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is application, QR codes are a very useful technology for trying real world items to digital assets. Where the problem lies is that most of that tying is just tying junk advertising in the real world to junk advertising in the digital world. Therefore there has been no incentive for people to actually learn why qr codes are useful and how to utilize them.

One of the best uses I have seen for QR codes was at Disney's Epcot center, during the food and wine festival. At this festival they have little kiosks set up that sell an array of items from an international location. This year they actually had QR codes on each countries sign, if you scanned it, it would bring up that countries page with a list of the items that the particular kiosk was selling along with some history and ingredients of the dish.

It was a well though out use for QR codes and I probably taught 30 or 40 people what QR codes where that night and how to use them, while standing in line. They offered value in their use of QR codes and therefore people where willing to expend the effort to learn how to use them. By the end of the night I saw a good deal of people scanning them.
I have wondered the same thing all along. And whenever I complain about the non-semantic nature of bootstrap use, people justify with that same, "but this is just to get started" argument. So that's what everyone says. But I don't think it's what anyone actually does.
I was and I do. My company (I was the CEO and single founder) was acquired by LinkedIn. However, "verbal offers" are very tenuous ground. You'd have to prove that the offer was believable, and that finding out was not a waste of time. Also, nobody said that he avoided a formal offer. Who knows who was the person who (allegedly) was handing a term sheet.

By the way, a term sheet is usually first sent over email, as it will be redlined several times before anyone signs it. As the CEO of a startup, a printed term sheet without the corresponding email trail would be very suspect.
I agree very strongly with the sentiment of the article, and would like to add that I think the flipped side of the "I don't understand" is just as important.

I.e., You're trying to explain something and someone doesn't understand, you should be patient with the person. I don't think it's always (or even greater than 50%) the case, but enough times after finding out what the lynchpin of understanding was there are ways I could have improved my first explanation.
He forgot to mention how programmers need to add each project directory to $GOPATH to be able to include files stored in project subdirectories. Talk about a braindead idea.
Setting Goals + The Problem With To-Do Lists
The way Google apps behave now is way different than they were when ICS came out initially, especially things like swiping to show menu on the side. While Holo has been there for about a year, the details were never filled in by Google with a flagship first party app. Holo provided the polish, the usability in Google apps come from the way they attach functionality to gesture.

So I guess it is news-worthy for other people unfamiliar with how Google iterated their apps on Android to know that finally Google has nailed down pretty much all what it wanted to achieve.
There have been suggestions that this woman's son has issues in part due to abuse at the hands of his parents: http://sarahkendzior.com/2012/12/16/want-the-truth-behind-i-...

I don't know enough about the situation to make a claim one way or the other, but it's worth taking note.
Except that police have been outgunned many many times in history, generally by guns that were/are illegal or nearly impossible to get. Tommy gun vs revolver ring a bell?

I do agree that full auto wouldn't help an inexperienced marksman, he'd likely just waste more ammo. However, an experienced marksman could also easily do just as much damage with a bolt action gun. The key is that it's really easy to kill people with guns if the other people don't have guns. If you outlaw guns, only the criminals will have them.

Fwiw, the military uses select fire guns, i.e. guns that can be both semi auto or full auto. Generally aimed semi is more effective as you waste less (running out of ammo is really really bad) but there are times when full out is good for things like providing cover.
You know what I like best on that page? Your "dp pd bq" animation. The smallest things blow my mind.
It must be a very vocal .001% of the market
Really? I know this is a subtly different thing but is it possible to name a company that has always delivered what it said it would when it said it would? Apple would be my nearest candidate, but they have messed up here.
Why does it matter who is responsible for a mistake?

Because the person who makes the mistake is often in one of the finest positions to suggest ways to prevent the same and similar mistakes not just by him, but by others in the future. In all, that adds great long term value to the organization.

Accepting responsibility does not mean "blame" or "scapegoating". Blame and scapegoating is something done by others in the organization and reflects on a poor culture than someone accepting responsibility.

It does mean seeing a situation objectively. If Mary broke the site and she knows why, it helps no one to keep that a mystery. It helps everyone if the environment lets her come forward and say it was her mistake, this is the fix and this is how we will prevent this category of mistakes in future.

In fact, in order for this to work, you have to go out of your way to make sure that "responsibility" is not used to blame or scapegoat. If it is, people responsible will stop accepting responsibility.
If you're supposed to know it and don't, then what do you do? Pretend you do know it and suffer in silence?
Yes, guns also help people to defend themselves. For every mass shooting with a guns I can give you twenty articles about someone defending themselves and saving their lives and others with the use of a gun.
afaqurk, perhaps you should change the story link to https://wrapbootstrap.com/help/buyers/bitcoin
You mean principal. Pretty sure they try to avoid principles.
Sure, the way I see that in order for the 5 whys to work, you still need to know that Joe made the immediate mistake. Now, as part of the process, you create ways to prevent that mistake. When doing that preventative analysis, the other whys should pop up and the solution may well be something beyond Joe.
Make a personal plea at the beginning of your semester stating that it's okay to say "I don't understand," and that even instructors say that often enough.

Make it clear that struggling is a perfectly normal factor of life -- in fact one could argue that intelligence is a measurement of someone's history of struggling.

One could even go so far that the top 5% of any class are simply people who have 'struggled' the most, or more to the point people who have stumbled (and overcome it) the most.

Here is an excellent article researching teaching methods in Japan:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/12/164793058/struggl...
(So why did you post, then?)
There's an entire mobile OS made by them, full of nice apps.
News in general:

@reuters

@bbcworld

@theatlantic

@australian

@japantimes

Science (and popscience):

@carlzimmer

@edyong

@sciam

@plos

@plosbiology

@sciencecomedian

@gizmodo

@boraz

internets:

@ccc

@wikileaks

@wired

@timoreilly

@wiredopinion

@boingboing

@slashdot

couple rails-people:

@tenderlove

@dhh

@headius

and of course:

@newsycombinator

@shit_hn_says

I've got many more but these are the ones I just pulled together scrolling through my feed.
SQLite only makes B-Tree indices, not hash or bitmap, and there are no clustered indices, for instance. But there are indices spanning multiple columns, there are ephemeral indices (when doing an n^2 query would be prohibitive), there are self-analytics (to gauge the efficacy of using an index in a query).

It's an entire book, so it's tough to say in a small comment box.

If you're doing queries across a 5MB database on a phone, you should be fine with or without optimizations.
I don't think 90% of the population can even understand Godel, Escher, Bach, let alone translate it in any meaningful way. You're asking too much from a computer. Perhaps in 30 years that can happen. I think computers will be able to translate very accurately at a middle-school level within 10 years.
That is also true of a revolver, or a bolt, lever, or pump action gun. The point is that the above poster has no idea what he is talking about, and as such his opinion on the matter isn't as relevant as it would be if he actually educated himself on the subject.
Ya, but you would have that problem with anyone you outsource to. At least they don't trust Samsung with assembly.
Good point. But I don't see a way to edit URL in the edit menu.
Can you provide an endpoint for using the API? How can we evaluate a service if you don't let us try it.
Sorry, did I miss the part where this was just a competition to see who's worse?
So, that means I shouldn't have to login to my account to unsubscribe, correct? I find this annoying as I tend to click on the unsubscribe link from my phone, and not have the login details with me. I've seen several prominent companies that do this, including Mint earlier today.
I believe my website will be something similar. Not quite a blog but more like a tech journal of projects or whatever with tutorials/screenshots. Something I can look back and say 'yeah I know how to do this and I understand what is happening to explain it (with screens etc)."

Even if nobody ever reads any of it I figure I will get better at writing and communicating, which is always a plus.

My biggest issue is being so green in the personal project department. Most of the 'problems' I want solved are done already.
Seems like Bitcoin is being rapidly adopted as a viable currency choice. For a while there I wasn't convinced Bitcoin was going to survive the issues it faced, especially all of the controversy surrounding fraudulent Bitcoin exchanges and wallet services that disappear with users Bitcoins. It's good to see some credibility being restored in the currency finally with notable sites now accepting payments and donations via the pseudo currency.

I think we'll see a true turning point of this pseudonymous currency once the likes of Google, eBay or Apple adopt it as a means for accepting payment.
Living in a country where you're learning the language is a good way to get used to saying 'I don't understand'. When I was really bad at the language I just often sat there and hoped someone would translate for me but as my confidence increased I was able to say 'Can you rephrase that for me' or 'I don't get the cultural reference'. Now I love asking questions, as so much extra knowledge comes with it and you can get people to go off on wonderful tangents.
> this analysis is not at the correct level of abstraction for maximum understanding

That, by the way, is exactly the reasoning I used when dismissing the claim that "women have affairs to increase the genetic diversity of the sperm that compete for her egg". There are various different depths of causality and levels of abstraction at which one could view women having affairs. That particular level is one which provides almost no explanatory benefit.

(Unrelated point below.)

In addition, it may also be wrong. At previous points in time scientists have claimed that there was an "obvious" evolutionary reason why women DIDN'T have affairs. The argument, as I have heard it, states that in primates the male of the species gets the most genetic diversity by having as many children as possible with as many females as possible. But since the female is limited by biology to a fairly small number offspring, she is better served (evolutionarily) by remaining loyal to a single male in order to increase the degree to which he will help provide for her offspring and thus increase their survival rate. (Remember: it's not the number of offspring, it's the number of offspring times their survival rate that counts.)

Of course, this theory was in vogue at a time when lots of people (erroneously) believed that men had affairs but women didn't. MY conclusion is that it's extremely easy to fool ourselves with evolutionary-sounding excuses for social and cultural behavior and that one should approach any such explanation with extreme skepticism.
I would often do this in class (or at work, in meetings) either because I really didn't understand, or because I could tell a bunch of others didn't. But it is fine to phrase it something not being clear, asking if they can try to explain a different way to make it more clear, or trying to rephrase whatever it is myself.
I don't think you get the idea. "Building software" by itself doesn't mean anything; software is made to have some utility.
The parent is not talking about code, if you're starting a business, the industry defines a major part of what you do.
You are right on.
The realities of the browser environment make it impossible to do what you describe. It's been possible with native clients for a long time, but has always been pretty cumbersome for non-geeks--I've been working on a native client solution that would be easy for non-geeks to use and provide a few different levels of security (which come with varying levels of convenience) that are all better than the "plain-text everywhere" option most people use now.

I posted a link to this yesterday and don't mean to spam, but the topic has come up a few times in the past day, so: http://parley.co
Because matthieuh is an obvious Android fanboy :)
AngelHack: the gold standard of a hackathon
anyone know why bitpay was chosen over coinbase as the processor ?
Slightly silly question, but can anyone tell me what font he uses on the first couple of code screenshots? Something about them look astoundingly clear, and I can't figure out what it is about them.

(I wish my code looked like that)
> The sort of immutable container logic that people associate with FP is against the nature of C++...

My argument is that C++, a multi-paradigm language, benefits from not being bound to purity and that being able to mix imperative and functional code is a good thing. We aren't stuck in pure-land so we can insert IO where it needs to be, not where it propagates, but neither do we need to be stuck in state-land. Functional programming is not against the "nature" of the language, it gives us the freedom to choose.

> Because the first does not copy the container and its elements...

This is a quality of implementation detail. It would have been detrimental to the point of the article to waste time showing optimizations such as "if F is a function X to X, use the in-place version". But I assure you, my optimization testing has shown there is little difference between the code generated by this and vanilla <algorithm>. In fact, it is at times better.

https://github.com/splinterofchaos/Pure/blob/master/samples/...
That may have been why it was mentioned, but within micro applications, that is getting the relationship flipped.

Micro models estimated from agent's optimization problems are more frequently estimated using MLE (John Rust's GMC bus paper being a canonical example, though still true in the current literature e.g. Nevo, or Bajari and Hong).

Micro models estimated from aggregated data frequently lack agent-level optimization, and those are the models more frequently estimated with gmm (examples here would include the hundreds of papers based on Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes).

So, this explanation doesn't seem to hold in micro contexts.

Though, as the previous commenter pointed out, macro is quite a bit different, and your explanation is probably correct there.
1 million miles flown in 1 year
And my thanks to everyone who chimed in. I found it an insightful discussion. A great example of the reason to keep reading the comments on Hacker News.
Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks! (And thanks to andrewf as well!)
I disagree. Building software does mean something, it is what you are doing every day. If I am building software, I am writing code, testing, deploying and designing user experience workflows. All of that is the same no matter which industry my end users are in.

Sure your product is made to have some utility, but it doesn't have anywhere near the impact on your day to day activities that people think it does.

The industry defines a major part of what your software does, not as big a part of what you do. I think it's an important distinction.
Ah, I think only admins can change it.
Look at my bag full of awesome things, a bag full of nothing (poof)
New YouTube layout is crippling to small-scale YouTubers & the overall UX
What he REALLY wants to do is work for Notch, or some company that is doing a fun and interesting games or educational stuff. He likes team projects. Anyone need a 13yo beta tester that is into the digital game/educational world?
Wonder what happens when the patient has multiple pacing nodes - does it organise to make one (correct!) or go back to having ectopic nodes (oh dear). Pretty impressive either way, but the research mountain here must be huge.
Defensive copy and paste coding
Mass murder is pretty cheap it seems.
I am interested in a good movie search api. i currently use tmdb.

from the "original search site" i tried spiderman and spider man.

no results.
Versus what I do:

- See the ad

- Take a picture of it with the native camera-app (android).

- Get at home behind my pc and notice google has uploaded the picture to my private pictures and displays a notice about it on my homepage (google).

- Since I'm home anyway I can take a look at the site of the ad, etc.

If I'm in the subway and see and ad for a movie which seems really interesting and I don't want to forget I take my time in the train to lookup the movie, my calendar and schedule when I could go to watch it. Afterwards as that date comes closes I still have the choice to "not buy a ticket" or go trough trailers to see if it's really worth it. On the other hand, later on I often find out I don't have to to go see it, or other activities are more pleasing anyway.
2013 will be more exciting for players.
I think it's quite simple: a bullet to the vital organs was just as deadly 200 years ago as it is today, but you could only shoot one at a time (for some non-negligible value of "a time"). Now, handguns and rifles with high rate of fire and replaceable magazines are plentiful and easy to get ahold of, and they just have a much higher potential for death on a large cape.
This is ridiculous. Parenting is really freaking hard. I'm a father of two small kids but I can't imagine being a single mom of four kids, with one mentally ill, like Liza. I commend her for being so honest and using her writing to get through such a difficult thing like parenting.
One other thing that massively annoys me - one of my email accounts is a gmail account with a fairly generic username, and people are constantly using it to sign up for things - and I'm getting some that have no way to unsubscribe (like BestBuy trying to get me to activate the antivirus subscription I never bought, or asking me to renew - I don't even live in the same country).

So, if you're sending emails, please, please, put a 'I didn't sign up for this account' so I don't have to try and go to the site and reset their passwords and try to get the account deactivated.

Please just have a link to immediately disassociate my email (like Gmail does).
I did this with a college newsletter that was spammy, and had no method to unsubscribe. After repeatedly marking the email as spam to no avail, I set a filter up to send the message to the bin.
The language has such a limited set of keywords and concepts that I think the issue with having a separate way of creating arrays and channels isn't really a problem. For me the killer idea is that of Go's interfaces ... its really great. And of course the fact it generates a standalone .exe with no dependencies.
First and foremost, if you feel you might hurt yourself you need to go to an emergency room immediately.

Second, what meds are you on and what kind of doctor prescribed them. If they were not prescribed by a board certified psychiatrist who specializes in psychopharmacology then I would see another doctor. It is not at all unusual for severe depression to require multiple meds but you have to have a doc who is good put the right cocktail together.

Three, I would recommend a psychiatrist for therapy as well. Social workers and psychologists can be good but there are also a lot of really bad ones out there. If you are thinking of changing therapists, meet with a few and go with one that has good credentials that you feel a connection with.

Four, as a survivor of abuse there are a number of support groups out there which might be helpful.

Five, and probably most important: Don't give up!!!! Depression sucks but it does tend to be self limiting.
I am glad to hear that. If only more companies would lead by example and understand that just because you hired a Javascript or Python gun does not mean they're going to be familiar or understand with the way your company works, its methodologies or best practices immediately. Adjusting to a new environment takes time, there will be questions. The issue seems to be like I said, a lot of places I've worked at have made you feel stupid for asking questions (at least the senior developers anyway), especially if said company works fast and has adopted a methodology like Agile and SCRUM which can sometimes cause a stressed and tense work environment when the sprint period is coming to an end and things aren't going the way as planned.

I wouldn't exactly say I don't know what I am doing, but even I struggle just like everyone else because I don't know everything and it's better to ask a colleague who might than it is to search Google. Managers need to train their staff to be more sympathetic and patient with new hires especially. Some places (by the sounds of it like yours) have created a comfortable environment where it's easy to ask for help and clarification, this is how it should be everywhere.
You should be thankful that you have 1000 murders a year. We have 3X as many per capita in the US.
The key articles from the underlying project in the Lancet

http://www.thelancet.com/themed/global-burden-of-disease

are available for free, after free user registration on the Lancet website.
I interpret this as encouragement to use fully-qualified package names (eg: https://github.com/burke/zeus/blob/master/go/zeusmaster/zeus...), which I don't really have a problem with.

Go code is nothing if not explicit.
I think if semantic markup is important, then don't use bootstrap. Once you use it, bootstrap will always be part of the project's DNA unless you do a true rewrite. But, to your point, that almost nevers happens.
I've been trying to use something closer to ColinDabritz's second wording: "What am I missing that makes ____ unreasonable?" or "I don't understand why ____ wouldn't work". Phrasing it like this hopefully conveys both that I'm aware that there's a gap in my understanding of the problem, not our solution to the problem, but still elicits a response more directed at my particular understanding. It's also easier for me to formulate what I don't understand as "here's what seems obvious, why is the solution different?" than "I don't understand this particular aspect", since I don't know the part of the solution to ask about.
Than again, I though about putting a minified link to a Cv-page with extra info and a way to interact right away. And if you're looking for a job in development/design a simple base encoded url that points to a page where you pinpoint shortcomings in the Site or App/Service of the business for which you made the Cv is for.
As long as the company does business in the US, you have enough of an argument to drag them into court over it. Whether or not that is worth your time (or will ultimately net you anything) is anyone's guess.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/henry_ford_never_said_the_fa...

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/