skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes a few frames for the camera to switch off. Even flat on your back it would be a one in a million chance that your camera ended up being perfectly still with the front axis aligned with the gravity vector for any prolonged period of time. You are breathing and shifting slightly even when relaxed.
Of that 1.1% I wounded how much is Samsung? I'm picking they had a bigger growth than android.
I totally agree with this. I'd much prefer a separate Euro post.
> Not just "down 6%" but from 7.0 to 1.4% marketshare.

Yeah, that drives me nutty. That is not "6%" down, that is "6 percentage points". The pertentage drop is far larger than 6%.
Mostly for the gluing and custom node editing, but also I really like keeping my rabl files (presentation) outside of my models
What they give you actual two-way binding for DOM manipulation and rendering between client and model. They also, generally speaking, place very few requirements on your model which is a very good thing.

Angular is exceptionally flexible and one of the first tools for building client-side JS that really impressed me. That said it is fairly complex (and not that well documented) when compared to Backbone, so I can understand why not everyone would be impressed. Cavet emptor. As an alternative Knockout is pretty simple, it's just not my thing.

Backbone is a neat tool and what it provides most people is a somewhat predefined structure to work in. Coloring between the lines is really useful. However (as the parent said) it really does very little other than that in the end really. There is almost nothing that Backbone does that a sensible use of jQuery binding and data attributes can't do as well or better. It's just that most people will find it easier to learn Backbone, which is great don't get me wrong, but don't be surprised to find people (like myself) who have moved on.

(Also the way model are done is terrible, I've never liked it it always got in the way of whatever I was trying to do.)
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Great info about PIOPS and nice talk-through
This is one with English sub-titles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz04IBZqfFE
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I am mostly familiar with Clojure as opposed to CL (have read a bit of Practical Common Lisp) or Scheme (have read a decent chunk of SICP), but there are some pieces here and there.

Clojure is immutable by default, which is a pretty big difference AIUI. It also has a pretty strong emphasis on concurrency, including a bunch of primitives for such. It uses STM.

A bunch of data structures are first class, like vectors, maps, and sets. There are literals for each of them, and you can use maps and sets as functions. You can also use keywords as functions against maps to e.g. retrieve the :name value from a list of maps:

user=> (map :name [{:name "foo"} {:name "bar"}])
("foo" "bar")

Lambda literals are nice:

user=> (map #(* 2 (inc %)) [1 2 3])
(4 6 8)

They can take multiple args (e.g. %1 %2) instead of just %.

Threading macros are somewhat closer to Haskell's syntactically straightforward function composition:

user=> (->> [1 2 3] ;; this'll be the last arg passed to each fn below
#_=> (map #(* 2 %))
#_=> (map inc))
(3 5 7)

I'm sure there's more. Maybe a more experienced Lisper can chime in.
What is incomplete about Fragments? My company uses ABS for most of our apps, and support < 4.0 - most of our applications rely on Fragments heavily.
> the DMA vulnerability would be the equivalent of a safe with a door where no key is needed in the back.

More like a safe where the "master key" was leaked and wasn't disabled in the models that were sold.
I don't see how this situation is an issue of patents, really. A company that is decidedly keeping its prediction technology secret to gain an edge in a market which is entirely about being better at prediction than the other guys is not going to patent and therefore open source their technology no matter what happens to the patent system.
Yttrill, I see that Felix is 12+ years old. I remember reading about Felix on Lambda the Ultimate a few years ago. :)

Over those 12 years, what are some of the biggest changes (in the language or its implementation) you have made? Where the changes mostly evolutionary?

https://github.com/felix-lang/felix/commits/master?page=135
> ... and "in the long run" everything would work out, right?

Don't be silly. The world would still be a horrible place. Heinous acts would be committed every day. People would be murdered, tortured, and raped. There would still be a lot of violence—it would just be a lot less than what we have today.

> In other words, your model assumes that aggregate consumer demand for a particular basket of goods will "stay still" long enough for bad actors to get weeded out. But this is an empirical claim, and one that has been shown to be frequently false. Indeed, its falsehood is in part responsible for the 2008 financial crisis.

Of course there is truth in all of this. But how is the government a better solution?

> The world is always changing deeply and unpredictably. In the imagined scenario above, your needs for insurance wouldn't remain constant, and neither would the base of providers.

Again, that's true of insurance just like it's true of cell phone providers, automobile manufacturers, etc. Again, how does government solve any of this?
If the price of patent filing was to increase it would increase the barrier for people that don't have a lot of money. Filing in the US starts at $390. http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee100512.htm. I picture a person without a job and lots of time on their hands coming up with something truly unique and amazing, only to be met with an even larger barrier to entry to make sure some big company can't rip off the idea and go to product with their budget. People already face daunting forms, making the process harder only negatively effects poor people that can't afford a team of lawyers and paralegals.

Other than that I found your points on how the current system doesn't incentivize creation but dissuades it instead good, I can say I've been put off from a few of my ideas because I find a patent that's a bit too close and I really don't want to have to face that. Maybe one day when I have billions I can be a renegade, not yet though.
I'm not fond of making the crack either, to be honest, but I was annoyed by the subtext of what was being said: people make things that are ugly to me, so I don't like customisation.

For the record, I have had two android phones. The first got cyanogenmod put on it, not for UI (though it was prettier than stock), but because I was having reception problems and the carrier was dragging feet in upgrading their image (one of the good things about iOS, this one). The second phone runs stock carrier UI, which I haven't changed.

I didn't take the insult personally for me, but it does annoy the living shit out of me when some people say that others should be personally limited because of aesthetic opinion. There does seem to be this form of opinion that because Apple does design really well, that any design choice made is perfect, therefore the default position is 'apple is right and you are wrong', despite apple making some design blunders along the way.
As an aside, Mike Patton apparently speaks Italian fluently, having been married to an Italian woman, and IIRC, he recently did an album of old Italian pop songs. Perhaps he and Celentano have sung some of the same tunes, which is kind of a funny thought.
Ams is far better than rabl.
Sigur Rós regularly does that, including all vocals on their 4th album "()": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vonlenska#Vonlenska
Exacly. A much better way to collect this kind of data is too see the usage of mobile browsers. If you could get this data from de 100 most visited websites, and make a medium, maybe you could get a better 'market share' number.
The share of phones sold in the quarter is of most interest to investors. The share of installed base is more interesting to developers.

One major difference between the two that is often overlooked is that if someone upgrades their old phone and stops using the old one, it counts toward the former, but not toward the latter. Developers only really care about new users, and users who are switching platforms.
Cisco Phones allow Eavesdropping; Pwned in seconds.
I am the dermatologist referred to here. I am sorry this poster had such a bad experience with this medication, but I want to correct some things he/she said. First of all Accutane was not found by coincidence - it was very intentionally synthesized in the mid-late 60s. It has been known for years that high dose Vitamin A clears acne, but at doses so high it was harmful to the liver. So Accutane was developed to maintain the good effect on acne (which is to shrink sebaceous/oil glands) and get rid of the hepatotoxity (ill effect on liver). But like high-dose Vitamin A it is a teratogen, which is a medication that has a bad effect on an embryo. Lots of drugs have this same issue - when you pick them up at the pharmacy they come with a sticker or insert that says "don't take if you are or may become pregnant" but the focus is on Accutane because acne is such a common condition and mostly occurs in teens and early twenties, a sexually active child-bearing population. Many of the other drugs with this same issue are used for less common conditions in much older patients.
And yes, it can be sun-sensitizing, like many meds.
As for the mood effects: lots of studies looking at this - all designed as retrospective studies comparing group of adolescent acne patients treated with Accutane with acne kids treated with antibiotics (NOT compared to kids who have NO acne, and so have one less thing to be unhappy about). Studies consistently show the Accutane treated groups have LESS negative mood issues than their antibiotic-treated counterparts - basically because their acne is gone for junior high/high school/college. AND this prevents scarring - we can always prevent scarring, and can never really undo it. In fact , there are recent reports of patients suing for scarring that resulted from NOT being prescribed Accutane!
I am sorry about all the lawyer trolling of the internet for business and am aware of all the online support groups around purported ill effects of various drugs - nothing I can do about it.
It is true that Hoffman LaRoche stopped making name brand Accutane in 2009 - but only because they couldn't compete financially with the four other companies who entered the market with branded generics. And in fact a fifth company has just come out with another competitor this past month.

After the patient and parent watch the video, I go back in the room and spend as much time as they need with whatever questions they may have - and then for girls I excuse the mom/parent to the waiting room for a careful and confidential contraception discussion!
Two-way binding is a neat trick, but I hate that it clutters my markup, and almost always I need to augment it in some way. Backbone's declarative events hash is universally a better way to go for that.
Hi, Memoto founder here. You can in fact double-tap the camera to have it take a photo at once. It will also be bookmarked for easy retrieval. If you want a viewfinder as well, the Memoto app allows you to take photos the normal way which end up in the same timeline as the rest of your pictures.
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That was what attracted me, too, as I was starting a new project yesterday, but it turned out that the User model stuff is not as straightforward as I expected. In particular, a number of external applications/libraries have hard-coded references to auth.User, so those need to be patched.

So I'm using Django 1.5, but I'm using the old User->Profile setup, but I'm storing relatively little on the Profile.

EDIT: I've not found User->Profile to be much of an issue. I only store extra data in the Profile and don't have ForeignKeys against it, so I don't actually use the Profile that often.
> R&D into new computer algorithms is a non-trivial investment, frequently requiring years and millions of dollars.

There is a strong opinion among computer researchers that pure algorithms are indistinguishable from math, and thus should be unpatentable. The math guy doing research on sound waves might be slightly annoyed when he gets denied a patent, but the guy working "on a computer" with the exact same math, doing the exact same research, gets a patent because he described the math "on a computer".

Of course, we could just start letting math also be patentable, because it too requires non-trivial investment, frequently requiring many many years and millions of dollars. That is, if the work behind something alone is enough to qualify for patentability.
Biologically, you'll be a different person in much less time :-)
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It sure is a mistake to label them that way, but that's how they are usually labelled, so making his point this way really makes the point best: it may cause some reflection by the masses who really mislabel. Emphasis on "may".
I'm keeping my eye on Meteor. As it stands I don't feel that anything in the Node ecosystem compares to the daily ease-of-use I find in my Rails environment (and I know Rails isn't exactly a peach). I like that you guys seem to be trying to do some things different, the fact that you're not using NPM could also be considered a boon rather than a defect. I'm not sure I how much I like NPM, but I'm arguably not a Node expect.
When "what's appalling about patents existing" is the emotional argument,

I thought the argument is actually that they exist in the way they do, not in them existing at all.. ?

"what would be appalling about patents not existing" is a good counter-argument.

Then someone make that argument; the post I replied to didn't IMHO, and here is why: If patents didn't exist, you wouldn't do the same R&D in the same way as you would do in a world with patents. So that's just apples and oranges. "If this chair didn't exist, the person would fall on their butt!" No, actually in that case the person wouldn't even have gotten into a situation where they need a chair to not fall.

Which is of course something that is often claimed, that we need patents to "encourage innovation". But consider all the inventions that are made at more or less the same time by people who never heard of each other. To me it's obvious that (large chunks of) invention are more inherent in the laws of physics and human society than in individual inventors. "I made this" actually means "everything up to and including me made this"... sounds less grand, is so much more true. But I guess taking credit for pre-existing things and squeezing money and power out of them is something we actually got used to. Doesn't make it true though.

To me it's all bogus anyway, I don't even buy the claim that a bunch of molecules and the memories others have of them constitute an entity called "John Carmack", as if that was a real thing. But with that outlook it's very hard to influence the political process, or even to just make sense to the average person.
Updated the article, thanks for the advice
Oh? Do you have more info on that?
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Pretty much the entirety of the Cocteau Twins discography is this. A few Enya songs as well.

Also: "Bork, bork, bork!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo

EDIT: Let's be honest here, quite a few ordinary pop songs are also gibberish masquerading as coherent language.

EDIT: Richard Feynman even got into the act once as a young man. Ironically, he was an English speaker doing gibberish Italian:
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-surely-youre-joking-mr-fe...
The reason why this drains entropy is because when you start a new process (for example "cat" in this case), the kernel passes 16 bytes of randomness at exec time for the benefit of userspace. This allows for fast stack randomization, without the overhead of explicitly opening and reading from /dev/urandom.

Due to the internal kernel interface which gets used, this draws from the /dev/random pool, thus decreasing entropy_avail, although it is not a blocking call. There has been some discussions that the userspace randomization should use a CRNG, or perhaps draw from the urandom pool instead.
Well, look at one of my examples: RPL_NAMREPLY, which returns a list of nicknames in the channel, prefixed by channel privilege. One privilege is returned at a time according to the protocol, despite the fact that a user can have multiple privileges at once, such as +vo. If such a user is deopped, your tool won't know that they are +v unless you have taken the steps to gather this state previously (this also means there is a period of time after joining a channel in which you're not in sync with the channel modes the server is seeing).

There are extensions to the protocol to support returning multiple privileges in RPL_NAMREPLY, but now your tool has to support both modes of operation. Additionally, the usual medium for discovering these extensions, RPL_ISUPPORT, slightly differs between networks, and today there are now multiple ways to query a server's capabilities, so you have to support RPL_ISUPPORT, PROTOCTL, CAP, and possibly others I haven't seen, and their features overlap. Also, none of these are officially standardized.

All this adds up to needless hassle when you're trying to implement a full-featured framework or tool. These are problems that should have been officially addressed years ago so that everyone is on the same page.
Don't forget the corollary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspuns_tenth_rule#Morris.2....

:)
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The tech news community is chock full of Apple fanbois. Has been for years.
http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

I have been playing with a Clojure, a Lisp dialect, for six or so months (it seems so much longer), but this was still really interesting to me.
From the article, Samsung grew 1.2% of all phones (including feature phones). So I'd say they almost certainly did grow faster than Android as a whole. I wouldn't be that surprised if Android minus Samsung contracted slightly in the quarter.
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It is probable. Just the probability is low. But it could happen.
They may have been partly in English. Lots of K/J-Pop songs nowadays have English hooks, or use loanwords.
Totally. And there's a reason AMS isn't part of rails-api proper: we want you to pick the tools you want to use. If rails-api (the gem) doesn't work with RABL in some way, please let me know, that's a bug.

You haven't seen the full power of AMS yet, but I have some exciting things planned. :)
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511100

Above was HN submission from early last year, Lisp in 32 lines of Ruby, which was the original blog post of this code by Fogus.
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> Now the insurance says "oh nope, fuck you"... What means do I have of paying a different company? What means do I have of getting word out that they have fucked me? I can't afford to buy off majority of reporters like a big insurance company does.

How do people find out that certain automobile are crappy? How do people know to avoid certain hospitals or certain doctors? I would never make the ludicrous claim that any arrangement of society would be utopia. People will get ripped off and bad things will always happen. It would simply be less common without government.

> you adamantly refuse to explain how a bunch of economic policies via collusion of the players, resulting in a scenario of "play by our rules or else get no way of eating or sheltering yourself" is any less violence than "do what we say or we shoot you". To me the difference is a false one: forcing me to do something with one death threat really isn't different than with another.

In the former situation, the "collusion of the players" is offering a crappy deal (with no physical violence) as an alternative to starvation. That means that if you truly would starve without the crappy deal (which would require you to be incapable of growing your own food), you are genuinely better off taking the deal. I don't see how this qualifies as "violence." You could make a decent argument that it is exploitation, which is a different argument altogether.
I worked for an insurance company for five years. A good one with high ethics. The entire insurance industry is predicated on not paying you. It is the very basis of the business model.

I think you have no idea what you are talking about. None.
Right? And?
You're the one proposing a radical change, onus of evidence and "how it would be better" is on you. By the way "but there would be no government!" is not a valid argument of how it would be better, only a tautological statement of "if there was no government, there would be no government". We have seen governments arise for as far back as there is history, and not really a lot of evidence of how great things are without government, suggesting (but not proving) that a government is a good thing.
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Download all the examples and reverse engineer. That's what I did and I'm glad I did it because I'm loving Ember.
Well that is an aspect of the issue. But the issue that Carmack points out is that: if somebody has patented it does not matter that the competition does not copy, they hire their own dozen of experts and spend their own millions they still can violate the patent. Someone else can come in and rob them of their investment because they came to the same logical conclusion.
Ask HN: What's the best way to hire a programming tutor?
I'm willing to pay market rate to hire a tutor to help walk me through roadblocks that I come upon in learning to program. I have experience with html/css/js and ruby on rails. I'm working on a side project that uses a form to collect input from users and generates a set of documents based on the form answers, which is where I'd like to start off with my questions.

I've tried several of the tutoring match websites and looked on craigslist, but have not had any luck finding someone yet. Which I thought was surprising, given that I'm located in Mountain View and willing to pay.

Is there anyone out there that has experience with this, or that could put me in touch with someone that might be interested? I'm probably looking at 1-2 hours a week commitment. Would strongly prefer someone local that could meet up around Palo Alto or Mountain View. Really appreciate any leads!
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It's going to be difficult to monetize when they are competing against Apple and Google offering free alternatives built into every device they sell.
It just occurred to me, if an entire mobile OS and its apps were written in a language like Go, this sort of bug could conceivably never happen, because with a few coding conventions, nothing would ever block.
Exactly. If you run into something beyond the docs in Backbone you can just step through the code and see what's happening. It seems to do just enough without drowning you in "other people's code".
They are definitely both 100% 'actions'. But google is just being less-sharey with stuff that isn't even part of android. While oracle was trying to claim code that wasn't even theirs.
He is one of the greatest italian artists who ever lived, and in his early years he was also an avid listener to american rock'n'roll classics. The video is from at least 30 years ago. Maybe 40.
I'd like to know from some developers if their apps are monetizing better on Android with the larger install base than it is on iOS.
Safari is a subset of WebKit.
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