skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not just the stylus technology: the screen themselves are glass. How often have you written on a glass? Maybe with a marker...

I'm used to the textured feel of paper and the pleasant friction b/w the pen and paper when writing on it. On glass, it just slips...
However, I guess that's just something of a habit. Maybe for future generations, brought up with touchscreen enabled laptops, it will feel more natural.
Actually I think the instances where this bot would be useful are the rare ones. Most images on github are probably for the project's logo or gh-pages branch. It's simply not important that those be compressed and getting pull requests on things that are not core to the project's purpose are distracting.
I have a stylus for use on my iPad ($1 on Ebay).

Using a stylus is better for drawing and browsing, but typing is still much faster with fingers. Since using an iPad involves a lot of typing and it's pushed as a communication device, I guess that is why Apple don't push the stylus.
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This is a very interesting idea. But I hope the service can be blog like (with simple review), so I can subscribe with rss.
That is overkill for a lot of things. For others, it's useless... it's very hard to make good arcade-style "physics" with a full-blown physics simulator, and totally unrealistic stuff may not be possible with it at all... but those things still may need collision detection.
Every moment is the closest moment to date to the extinction of mankind.
I started this little project several months ago based on impress.js

should still work in chrome/safari.

http://stepludesigner.azurewebsites.net/designer
Ahh, we're getting somewhere. Slowly. Not much progress on the ad-hominems, but so be it.

Now that we've debunked the claim that Krugman's assertion is "literally" false, we can concentrate on whether it ("government debt is not like family debt") is BS.

(By the way, thanks for filling me in on taxes being a derivative of earnings; there I was using "debt-to-GDP ratios" all this time without a clue as to what those strange words meant!)

First, of course, is the question of what Krugman is advocating. Is it simply defaulting on the debt? No. In fact: "So yes, debt matters. But right now, other things matter more".

What are those other matters? Exactly the "underlying asset class" you mention. Governments can spend money on either the numerator (debt) or denominator (GDP) to improve the debt-to-GDP ratio, families rarely have that option (spending money tends to not lead to raises, unless you live in Baku).

Greece for example has tried reducing their debt by cutting spending (so far with limited success), with the side-effect of putting the economy into deep recession (+free street entertainment) and actually making the debt-to-gdp ratio much, much worse, now at 170% of GDP:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/greece/government-debt-to-gd...

The other possibly immediate problem with debt is interest rates, but so far that just doesn't seem to be a problem, with rates sub 1%. In fact, with rates this low one might consider it negligent to not use those rates for investments with even modest ROI.
Are you saying Statistics Canada's alleged underestimation of productivity since the 1960s stems from the Harper government's policies?
Why hellban? What's wrong with a normal ban?
My first thought was that yes, this is rather ironic. I realized, though, that Google Docs isn't even intended to be used for advanced use cases - it's intended for that "90%" who don't need those features. Apparently some jobs at Google require those features.

This silly headline got a reposted on a lot of different sites for no real reason.
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just use Box2d would be nearer the sensible route
Banning them and establishing services solves the problem for everyone but the bot developer as far as I can tell...
Could your comments have been on posts later marked dead? I see one comment from you still available from 90 days ago (I have showdead on so I'd be able to see if you were hellbanned).

I'd wager it's either that many of your comments were on a thread voted down / flagged dead, or it's simply a temporary bug as others have guessed.
>So you can be objectively 'ill' but not 'evil'?

Yes. Mental illness is something that can be objectively examined and testified by medical experts.

"Evil" is a BS non medical pulp journalism term that takes us back to the witch-hunting days...

>'severe psychological problems' that cause people to deeply hurt others for their own happiness is within spitting distance of a definition of evil.

Only one is a SPECIFIC case of an actual mental evaluation by a professional and the other is a word that can used to mean anything.

>Also I'm not going to get deep into your halfassed retelling of history but (per capita) genocide is worse than murder is worse than bombing cities is worse than bombing armies is worse than enslaving people is worse than exploiting people. So stop trying to fucking godwin with incomparable numbers.

Really? Do you want to go tell the victims of slavery that they were better off than the victims of German's genocide? Including the tens of millions of people that died under slavery? And that their suffering is somewhat "not comparable" to Germany's victims. Let's see how they'll take your fair and balanced ordering of what's better and what's worse.

Oh, and that "per capita genocide"? Plenty of it in the hands of European powers too. Check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
By 'plist', did you mean plist xml1 format or binary1 format?
Any plans for another podcast?
So I would have to add another file to my repository that has nothing to do with my repository's content? Thanks, but no, I think we have enough of those already.
As Victim of Gang Rape Dies, 6 Men Face Murder Charges
The script looks nice, though if you don't want to have to use sudo to update /etc/hosts you can also just add entries in ~/.ssh/config. Downsides are that it only works for ssh-based activities.
I would be interested in seeing an age profile. I, for one, removed my birth date after being flamed about my age. I've been programming since 1962 :)
Weird article. "Try taking a screenshot, scribbling some notes on it, and emailing it." Well, sure, styluses are good at things suited to styluses, such as handwriting. Try taking a screenshot, writing 500 words of commentary on the UI, and emailing it -- that's going to be far easier with a keyboard. Does that mean keyboards will be the next hot accessory?

Also, when Jobs did his big reveal, many stylus-based devices had awful resistive screens ("awful" and "resistive" both being descriptive of the screen -- resistive can be good). That's what the accuracy comment was aimed at.
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Well you've conclusively proven my point because its obvious you don't know how to use hibernate properly.

You never lazy load stuff from a view. That is a recipe for disaster. You use a projection or set of projections and populate your model up front. The transaction should be concluded way before the view is rendered. If you get that wrong, your architecture is broken.

The only bit of infrastructure we use is an annotation + AOP which wraps a service method in a transaction and unit of work. This is all container managed. To be honest, it's literally 3 lines of config and works universally.

Verbosity - that's a load of crap. We have 3 lines of AOP config, a mapping file per class and nh config which is about 12 lines of XML. All the config was cut and paste.

The whole thing gives us a model which is portable between engines, proper transaction management, cache layer, schema generation, fully testable data API (we materialise the whole model into HSQL in integration tests) and documentation which is actually good.

It's a no brainer. I suggest you go read POEAA and have a think.
Saw the first one under presentations - http://bartaz.github.com/meetjs/css3d-summit/#/title

Really distracting and I wouldn't want to attend the presentation, like the comments above mention.
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They say I lack experience.

This is customerese for "You have failed to convince me you are capable of delivering positive ROI on this engagement" rather than being any commentary on your experience. The easiest way to diffuse the objection is by getting better at sales, not by getting experience. Everybody in the industry got a paying gig when they had, at the time, no history of paying gigs.

I'm not generally a fan of pro-bono work for technologists, since the market is hot enough at the moment that you shouldn't need to do it. Also, the client dynamics of pro-bono work are leagues away from the dynamics of paid work. Even offering free work scares the heck out of good clients. Conversely, people who will agree to the arrangement may treat your time as if it is totally valueless, which will frequently compromise your ability to succeed at the engagement. The free engagement doesn't enhance your credibility if it ends up sucking due to lack of "client" cooperation, so that doesn't help you any.

You've got some sort of portfolio, right? Side projects you could show off? Blog posts about the development process? You can turn these into something which visibly demonstrates that you're capable of executing on your promises.
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Not gifted, but I have a very good imagination. So does my brother, and that's what the method he uses in the book I read is based off of, so perhaps that's it.
Better question where are all the mighty constitution defenders that go nuts over gun control? Congress just crapped all over the constitution with FISA (4th amendment) and with NAtional defense authorization act (5th amendment) in the name of national security. Yet often the same people oppose any type of gun control citing government tyranny.

How does this make any sense? Dazed and confused.
I'm not a big fan of either of those approaches.

The cross-implementation schema constraints in SQL DBs are pretty weak. I can only express a small fraction of my application logic there unless I want some serious vendor lock-in.

And then regardless, once I'm referencing the same schema from multiple code bases, schema improvements are basically impossible.

If I need to get at the same data from multiple code bases, I think an API is a lot cleaner. And then I'd rather put the constraints in my API code. The tools are so much better, and programming languages are much more flexible.
As always, I'm happy to answer any questions. :)
> If your way is truly better then it should give better results.

How does this logically follow? When speaking of ethics, ideas that are better are not necessarily more profitable. For example, a plantation with slaves would be more profitable than a plantation with unionized workers.
Opt-out sucks because you are forced to deal with it. Opt-in makes the most sense because there are no hurdles to jump in order to not be bothered.

If no one finds or wants to use your service without it being forced on them, it can not be that great of a service.
Great reply. If the Supermechanical guys were as engaged as you I certainly have no gripes.
I admire Amazon. I just don’t shop there anymore.
Hey, check the Service Hooks tab of your Repository Settings.
I guess it's because theoretically the government is accountable to its citizens whereas Facebook is accountable to its shareholders, the citizen can exert some action against Washington via the democratic process, they have no action to take against Facebook other than not participating at all.

There's also the question of motive, Facebook exists to make money and there's the fear that the profit motive may outweigh its users privacy. The government can and has defended its actions in the context of keeping people safe.

I'm not defending any actions by Facebook or government, just trying to point out the differences.

What I'm more interested in is why the most passionate defenders of the second amendment never seem interested in government power grabs like this. Isn't the reason for the 2nd amendment to keep expansive government in check, at what point does government become a threat?
One major difference between phones and desktops is that phones are often subsidized.
I agree, and I'd add that if you have some common ground (e.g. Your company is in a sector that is the investors expertise) say so. There is an initial "should I care" filter to get through. Also, meeting in person is always better.
Yeah, coz the UI in Blender really worked out well. </sarcasm>

Ignoring the established ways users interact with things is is great way to make software unusable, or very difficult to use. People need to be able to transfer their existing knowledge to a new product, thus, you need to know what their existing contextual knowledge is. So you NEED TO DO THE RESEARCH FIRST BEFORE YOU BUILD SOMETHING!!!!!
Doesn't have to be stupid. A normal integer in binary representation ALWAYS consumes 4 bytes. With string representation you have 1000 numbers that will beat that as they only need <=3 characters. Numbers in that range are actually used very frequently.
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Where you place the most attractive people in the front row for each photo. ;)

But, in all seriousness, I think it is a fantastic idea to make women feel more welcome in that field, as too many girls I know who are IST majors, or something similar, frequently talk about how they really feel that it's more of a "guys" area.
I don't see how discovering this was true or false has any bearing on the reality of it?

Reminds me of that scientist that discovered that germs are cause of diseases and that doctors are spreading the germs with their bad hygiene. So doctors said "Well I know this theory isn't true, since I'm not responsible for all the manslaughter I'm committing according to this person. He is clearly insane.". And several decades later here we are.
I'm somewhat optimistic in that the EC will tackle this problem and if they do they will have a much better chance at being successful than the FSF.
Please do more of these. There is such a shortfall of SaaS podcasts it almost makes me cry. It's like xmas morning when I see a new Kalzumeus podcast appear in my RSS reader!
Why do we always want to declare a winner?

To be fair, MessagePack seems to be throwing down the gauntlet with their tagline. The parent comment also makes some important points that anyone considering the two should be aware of.
The gates should not be completely closed though. By default maybe, but there should definitely be a way to make it open for the people that want it to be open. For example I received a hp pavilion laptop and wanted to install another os on it. All I had to do was set secure mode off in the bios and it was ready. That is a good solution because it works for both the grandma who wants the security of secure-boot, and me who wants to tinker.
How did you initially market bingo creator in it's earliest stages? Did you go after SEO, paid marketing, word of mouth, etc?
Bolting-on preprocessors that add features to a language without changing its actual model fixes the problem forever, maybe.
Exactly (or I'd have written "... binary- and ...").
So apparently GitHub isn't terrible.
I switched to sweeteners due to too many trips to the dentist and loving sweet things. I started by changing my coffee from sugar. There are many types of sweetener to choose from , so i've experimented until i found something i liked.

But you do have to have a strong enough reason to switch, not something abstract that will happen in 20-40 years.
I do have a github with a few apps that Ive messed around (Im a mobile and web guy). Thats very insightful, I never thought about the ROI thing. I guess I need to learn how to convince people Im worth the price. Tons of people in my area undercut by a huge margin just to get jobs. I do write essays too. How do you better at sales? Are there particular things that you say? I know being friendly and available seem to work, but is there something better? What would you recommend to get better at selling?
Feel free to get in touch with me too - check my profile for contact info. I've lived in Victoria for about 13 years - I moved here from other parts of Canada, so a bit of a different scenario than that being discussed.
Actually I think those OEMs need to get the word out more. It's not the customers' fault if a company has such poor marketing that prospective customers haven't even heard of it.
We do them every time Keith and I have both mutual availability and something interesting to say. Sadly, as of late we've both been very busy. Hopefully mid-January. (If you have a burning urge to hear my voice, I'm a guest on other folks' podcasts more frequently than on my own. http://productpeople.tv/ has a recent interview about my business story and Amy Hoy should be publishing a long interview about infoproducts (like our courses), multi-product businesses, and consulting sometime in the next two weeks or so.)
So are computers with their "free" antivirus included. But let's not care about that.

Why should that make a difference?
Nathan, firstly congratulations - it looks like you have definitely made a successful transition from company employment to self-employment. It's also great to see the variety of income streams that you have.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book and also learn a great deal from your blog, especially as you are so transparent with your failures and successes.

It would be great to hear a little more about how your time management differed in both roles. Are you working less, the same or more hours now? Also it would be good if you could divulge a little more on how the networking you've done has affected your success (if that's possible to describe or even measure!).
Thanks!
Wouldn't a simple uncaughtException handler be sufficient to prevent most crashes?

process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
// log it
});
My take on "Should I care about Scala?" question:

- If you're average or below average developer: the language does not matter. Focus on algorithms and read other people's code a lot.

- If you are using anything other than Java: consider testing Scala ( * ). You might learn great new ways of writing code, especially if you never used Functional Programming before.

- If you're above average developer programming in Java: you have to learn Scala now! Soon having "Java" on your resume without "Scala" will suggest "this person's skills are outdated" or "this is a junior developer".

( * ) I just put together a small starter project, no dependencies:
https://github.com/csoma/Scala-starter
Maybe it's just due to a lack of experience spending hours on Facebook, but it seems like people respond differently to such stimulus. Some people see others doing amazing things and it inspires them; others respond by despairing that they will never be able to do all of that.
IE8 has the 32k limitation. I don't think anything else does.
Right I'm saying it could be a large enough company that they have multiple streams of donations going at once and it was consolidated after the fact. Like international divisions or similar.
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Don't say ridiculously sexist and superficial crap and put an emoticon next to it like that makes it ok. It's not ok.
The documentation standards seem to be insisting on that kind of things. The "why" can only be clarified in the location where it is used; which I did: Changing an array value, changes the original object, while the creation of countering n-tuples requires the creation of new objects mostly equal to the original object.
Facebook is accountable to its shareholders

Check their ownership structure and you may want to reword that.
> I have ported 1K+ lines of C++ to 10 or 20
> lines of Scala

I'm not doubting your claim, but as a general rule that sounds awfully steep. Maybe you got lucky (because whatever you wanted to do was a brilliant match for some standard library function or happened to be tailored to a uniquely "Scala-y" feature). In most cases of drastic code reductions upon language switch, however, it's one of two phenomena:

a) Rewrites are usually more succinct simply because you've done the legwork before; a second solution is almost bound to be more to the point.

b) One wasn't using the initial language properly.

Sure, going from C to Haskell may lead to insanely compressed code, but C++ in conjunction with its mature standard library, Boost, and the multitude of libraries available is such an advanced and excessively paradigm-spanning language that a reduction by not one but two orders of magnitude suggests a less than perfect first draft.
I can think of one: The CEO of a Dutch corporation (BV) needs to receive a minimum salary of €47.000 per year, even if your startup is operating at a loss. You can easily get this reduced by the tax inspector if you show a loss but it's a hassle and you can't reduce it to zero. (So you if you fund your own incorporated startup you will have to pay your saving to yourself, and lose taxes along the way)
It's the parliamentary system, that's how it's supposed to work, no?

If the legislation is bad enough, members can cross the floor and join another party. If the legislation is on something crucial (budget) it's a non-confidence vote and an election is held.
Lots of great suggestions here. I believe the answer will be different for everyone based on their weaknesses and what super power people desire to learn. I've added about half of dozen of these to my Wish List now.

I don't read many books (I want to read more), but when I do I like something engaging, fun, imaginative, and different. So, I'll recommend any good fiction book that engages you. A book you can't put down. You want to keep reading to find out what happens next. It causes you to think, it causes you to imagine. It can cause you to think about things uniquely instead of being told to do so and give all sorts of ideas and new thoughts. If like me, you will end up remembering the characters, the situations for almost life and want to come back to re-read it some day.

My favorite modern day fiction books are fantasy / science fiction, something I would never experience in this world. In order: Shadows of the Empire by far my favorite, no reason off the top of my head and I am not a Star Wars fan, but I love it none the less. Followed by Harry Potter series. It's honestly a very fun read. Lord of the Rings and Hobbit will be popular choices I'm sure, but they just did not catch me and engage me like these 2.
Yes. A bot could try to identify what kind of project it was (are there html and css files etc). That might be an interesting project in itself trying to classify github projects into libraries, web sites, documentation, standalone apps etc.
The title here is simply wrong. According to the details in the post the 0day vulnerability is in IE8, not Flash. Flash was used to heap spray, maybe because the vulnerability was in the ActiveX layer, or maybe because IE8 doesn't have a JIT and Flash's JIT spraying mitigations don't actually work. Either way none of this constitutes a 0day in Flash because ActiveX would be IE's bug and Flash's utility for heap spraying is already very well known.
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Having to know yet another language is annoying, but mongo has one too (and one that's less consistent and powerful).

A good SQL library (like SQLAlchemy) lets you easily build queries without looking at SQL. The only case you might have to is debugging, which is the same time you'd be looking at mongo queries.
Steve Jobs, like the CEO of every other major tech company, just bad-mouthed whatever the competition had that they didn't have. When people like him or Ballmer make a statement that some piece of tech isn't good, it carries no information.