skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you could also describe this as 'Vine creates first real time video priority engine to 'get it right'' for a large percentage of users.
More great Backbone information: http://addyosmani.github.com/backbone-fundamentals/
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I honestly feel that most users would not be offended by this, but might feel embarrassed if this showed while they're showing the app to their parents or a non-close friend. However, I'm sure that Apple (or their censors) take things like this somewhat seriously, which is silly because this is the Internet! There are going to be offensive things every now and then; that's what happens when you democratize the creation of content. I wish Apple would take a more hands-off approach and just throw-up some disclaimer that "online interactions are not rated by Apple" and leave it at that.
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The lack of durable documentation of prior art is a large part of what keeps frivilous software patents valid. It would be difficult to establish the date and authenticity of screenshots, tho. You're usually looking for printed material like magazines or manuals.
Any info on exactly which phone that might be?
Mostly using Stretta's ones. Need to use them more.

I'm working this week to get my modular talking to Live in a useful way using the Monome and an Expert Sleepers ES-3 (8 DC coupled outputs that work as trigger, gate or CV out)
There's a difference between ignoring and leading someone on.
The double-edged sword of the effective spam filters on Gmail/Hotmail/YahooMail is that people don't see these too often anymore?
I agree. I will imagine as a company like Newegg gets a reputation for fighting patent trolls and, in many cases, invalidating patents then they will be avoided. If a patent troll only makes money from its patents then it's a huge risk to have them invalidated. Then, most likely, they will behave as the bullies that they are by going after companies they view as softer targets.

Funny thought, these patent troll cases are turning into Western movie stories. Villain terrorizes small town because group won't defend themselves because of fear of loss of life and/or property so it's easier to just give in. One to three strangers appear then save town by standing up and fighting because they realize they have nothing to lose in the long term.
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This is fantastic! Thank you for taking the time to write this.
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FTC can't protect against patent trolling. Did you read what's written above?
Notepad++ also has a spell checker which is pretty decent and afaik supports other languages.
Heads up for anyone trying it right now:

There are a lot of visitors on the site and the load time can be slow (upwards of a minute in some cases). It will eventually load though. I'll work on speeding it up.
Google has no grip on codecs market. Learn the facts first.
As an example, Yesod doesn't work on the raspberry pi, because GHCi is not in the debian ARM repositories. This is annoying, because compiling everything yourself takes forever on the raspberry.
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Switching to a 90 day planning cycle was one of the best management approaches I ever implemented, and helped me get more done in a smaller period than I ever had before. A few reasons:

1) Shifting from an annual planning process to a 90 day plan lets you try things out faster and learn from what works and what doesn't. It also keeps you away from huge initiatives that quickly become boondoggles without breaking them down into smaller pieces.

2) Once you get to a shorter time horizon, you can get down to specific actions, rather than broad objectives. In doing so, you can actually verify if the goal is being accomplished.

3) Most companies struggle with getting one-off project work done at the same time as their normal day to day jobs. When you have a longer time horizon, people don't spend more time on the project, they just wait until the last minute to get it done. So the further off you put the last minute, the longer you're going to wait.

4) You build momentum by ticking things off the organizational to-do list at a regular clip. Keeping the pace light and fast makes sure things move forward and don't get bogged down (or if they do, that you can unblock them quickly).

5) This last one might sound simple, but when you write things down, you make it harder for people to forget to do something, or what was said, or what the expectation was.
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It's not clear what you mean by "never widely adopted". With the exception of MSVC, are there any mainstream C compilers that don't try to follow the C99 spec?
The tin (foil) hat part was the rubbish about "those who threaten the system". That is just some pre-pubescent fantasy about being an outlaw and "sticking it to the man" to revive a 60's saying in the same vein. The reality was that the prosecutors wanted to seem tough and here was a case they couldn't lose.
I appreciate your comment but I don't think you know what our business is. We're a school with full-time Teachers. We need to teach more and more content so we're going to have to scale our Content Team. This isn't a typical SaaS product with just an app team.
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As far as I can browse, it's usable for about 99% of the web still. 99% of the one I visit anyway. Although Camino itself does have issues when site javascript locks up and 150-or-so tabs are open.
Given that:

1) Startups (some anyway) tend to get a lot of media attention

2) Startups have fragile reputations while they are making a name for themselves

3) Startups tend to have more personal relationships with their customers than more established companies

It follows that startup personalities will encounter stalkers of various sorts. Articles about a potential consequence of this, discussions of how to deal with it and so on seem as on topic as "tips for personal productivity", "how to deal with office politics", "Prosecutorial overzealousness", "copyright" and other recurring themes here.

Further, speaking a bit more generally: People here are pretty prone to living huge amounts of their lives online. One of the dark sides of the internet is that it has been a great stalking enabler, and those of us who spend a lot of time online in forums, etc, can be at greater risk for general muck-raking, since the volume of stuff known about us "on the internet" is larger.
The necessity of holding people accountable is the first thing I learned when managing folks. As well-intentioned as everyone is, people consistently deliver on things that they're held accountable for. They ignore things that you never ask about or measure.
All you should take from my response is that I don't know why you replied with random nonsense.
It's loading something, and I am not sure what. Is this cached?
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That's just a post edit graphic ;)
This. You can choose not to have a profile on Facebook, but you can't choose to live in a world where Facebook doesn't exist.

I was an FB refuser for the longest time but would still get friends telling me about photos they saw of me on there. Those photos might be 100% public and I would have no control.

We're all affected, unless we literally have zero friends, friends of friends, colleagues or family members who use Facebook — good luck with that.
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"You can argue semantics about whether walking into an unlocked closest is "physical intrusion" or whether the "actual target" was JSTOR but that's all just a matter of characterization. The Feds are not "shades of gray" people--everything is like the show "24" to them. They will assume the worst."

To the extent I am arguing anything, it is against the convenience of casting events into the form of a morality play...or of a Fox Television apologetic for torture. Cartoon characterizations don't require much of us and simple causal chains don't require us to deal with messy realities.

They just make for easy journalism and lazy citizenship.
In other news: Mozilla basically the only major internet company whose business model isn't built on selling your privacy.
For my own clarification, do you mean that, in London, if a developer comes into the office in a dress shirt they stand out as overly formal? Or do you mean if they come in with only a shirt (ie no tie and jacket) they stand out as under-dressed?
The article is about C (as in C11 standard) and not about C++ (as in C++11).
I love this series.

Can anyone give an example of when HAML would be used in the 'real world'? I can't imagine it filling a niche that isn't covered by any of the other templating languages: what would seem most ideal is a combination of say, Jinja and HAML.
Congratulation on having produced the "complete failure car analogy" of this thread, and thank you for your contribution.
>this is another argument that established car companies need to be slow and meticulous.

They need to be meticulous and deliberate. Being slow is a bug, not a feature.
If the HBP is really a success and the simulation is conscious, then the simulation should probably get similar rights and protections as a human. ( Whatever freedom of movement means for a supercomputer is a rather interesting additional question. ) And this would likely mean, that the possible experiments on such a simulation need to be severely restrained. On the other hand, if a sufficiently advanced simulation of the human brain would not be conscious, then we run into trouble regarding the purely physical nature of human brains.

However, I tend to think that a more rigid definition of consciousness is needed ( and may well be one of the major results of the HBP). I think this, because I am thinking about similar complex programs as a full brain simulation, which demonstrate complex behavior, but no consciousness. ( For example very detailed simulations of super nova explosions.)
> They said "This is the worst type-setting I’ve ever seen"...This got me thinking, if the first reactions are not even constructive

Uh, actually, I think that that's wonderfully constructive advice: if someone says that, then you immediately know that your graphic design is such a big problem that nothing else you're doing is even getting through.

I'd LOVE to get advice that's that clear, pointed, and actionable!
Treehouse is a bit different from something like Instagram, the product is is something that can't really be automated by computers: teaching via video. About half of the company is directly involved with writing, shooting, and editing video, split almost evenly between teachers and video professionals.

The team that manages the web app, and most of the other teams, are small in comparison, they are certainly small and effective teams that utilize automation.

I agree with your points on automation, I just wanted to point out there are still things that require human interaction and creativity to produce.
I can't say if you are entirely accurate, but you couldn't have explained that in better terms!
Completely agreed. It was incredibly selfish of Bill Gates to trademark "Windows", just like it was arrogant for Steve Jobs to trademark "Apple". I eat apples all the time! I look out windows all the time! These trademarks offend me.

These words should not be trademarked. Plain and simple.
I think most of the factory is automatic from watching the Tesla Factory video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToVqccRd6Hg

I'm not sure though.
Just chiming in that I loved the marketing. A little humor goes a long way.
Microsoft doesn't make a C compiler. They have a C++ compiler that can also compile C90.
It seems like this would be a particularly handy syntax for random behavior in game programming. I usually use `if random() < .15` as an idiom for "do 15% of the time", but this is way more readable.
No I wouldn't, I've dealt with them extensively. I have no idea how that is relevant though. If Enterprositous Corp X needs a way to do replacements, they install one. They would have to install node and a ton of other crap anyways, why do you pretend installing a single trivial binary is beyond hope of possibility, but installing a huge language+framework ecosystem is totally cool?
I remember seeing this last July or August, but I lost it. So glad it resurfaced!
So I thought hey, it could be a good idea for a startup
Really I wouldn't want just a busybox terminal. I already have that on Android. It's ok, but has limited functionality. What I'd want would be the full range of typical GNU commands.
Clang supports some parts of C11, see http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#c11 for details.
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Ah, interesting, had actually looked into GHC and knew there was no GHCi support for ARM (also, ARM is only a Tier 2 platform), but did not realize that made it impractical to use Yesod. That kinda sucks.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms
I love both companies, but you realize Mozilla makes most of their money because of a search deal with Google, right?
When I think about creating lifelike responses, I tend to think of action potentials. Have a counter which tends to decay toward zero over time. When you attempt to do something, nudge the counter upwards. When the counter exceeds some threshold, do some behavior and the clear the counter. Note that this kind of mechanism is inherently stateful.

That said, I think that incorporating randomness or hidden variables into a user interface is rather misguided. Making a system harder to reason about takes control away from the user- it's basically an even more severe version of the problems with "Do What I Mean" in general.
Won't work, most people have no concept of their freedoms and how they are threatened. They typically don't realize the problem until the freedom is already taken from them.

To get through in an immediate way you have to educate them on how much it costs them in monetary terms. For example, often it is cited that juries give ridiculous amounts at trial because it "isn't their money". I fully believe that many think this way. But if the affected party are organizations that receive money from the public for their services in return, in the end it is their money they are giving away.
Sorry, I meant "you can argue" in the sense of "it is possible to argue."
Light guns hit home video game consoles with Shooting Gallery on the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Because the included shotgun-style light gun was only usable on a Magnavox television, the game flopped. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Zapper then fell into the hands of American kids in October 1985...

A light gun that worked with all TVs was also included with the Telstar Ranger console (a pong game console developed by Coleco and distributed by Sears) in 1977. The gun was used with the skeet games supported by the console and worked pretty well at a distance from about 4 ft (although tracking a large bouncing white block on a black screen was probably not that technically challenging).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar_%28game_console%29

Incidentally, my brother and I had our Telstar Ranger gun (black plastic, very gun looking) confiscated by airport security when we, perhaps unwisely, tried to carry the console, paddles and gun in our carry-on.
But most of their money comes from companies that do sell your privacy (ie: google for being the default search engine).
That's how I won for years. You just keep the controller at your side and hit it at just the right time..
I'm kinda scared that it turns out there's twice as much code in the final result. I understand, that this example is just for educational purposes but, I think, the conclusion that it's better to leave this jQuery-based piece code "as-is" is much more educational.
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I'd rather go for Sailfish.
I find it's better to have a culture where everyone holds each other accountable on a continuous basis, rather than a privileged few lording over the rest periodically.

See: Valve, Github, WL Gore and Associates

Not that you can't run a company that way, but you start to introduce too much overhead for too little gain, and you start to look like the traditional, highly hierarchical, command-and-control companies. Once you start down that path, it's really, really difficult to come back.
Sailfish will have normal coreutils which come from Mer repo.
Lucky, I just recently got a chance to see one at a mall kiosk. It's certainly a beautiful vehicle. I hope Tesla does well.
This is just fantastically put together. Thank you for doing this.
That's good. Terminal is a norm for regular mobile Linux, and not some exotic third party application like on Android.
As much as I love Mozilla for precisely this reason, it cannot go without remark that the majority of their funding continues to come from the metaphorical privacy antichrist, Google. This could change as early as 2014 when the search contract is due for renewal.

Can anyone comment on Mozilla's future revenue plans? Are they aiming to license Firefox OS?
What exactly is the business model?
"Lifelike responses" — nice.

I like that "action potential" idea – I was trying to think of a good implementation for "do something twice a month per user" — decaying counter is a nice idea.

I'm with you on willy nilly making parts of your UI random — my use case is for changing up the text in greetings, general play with copy, and once in a while showing something like a tip or a "welcome back" message. Basically, small touches that convey a small sense of variety (vs. RANDOMLY DONT SHOW THE NAV!)
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Clang has implemented a good chunk of C11, I would say you can use C11 on OS X, iOS, Linux etc ...

You can even use Clang on Windows if you need (MinGW, Cygwin or compiled with Visual Studio). I'm not sure if you can integrate Clang in VS for example, or if it is possible to access the OS C libraries from Clang.
A coworker of mine met a guy from a dating site, had a lousy date at a TGIF/Applebees/etc's, decided not to pursue and ended up with a serious stalker issue.

- Hundreds of texts over the next few weeks

- She didn't provide her address to him, yet he ended up tracking her down over the next few weeks

- He would drive 60 miles or so every morning before driving another 40 miles to start his 6am shift so that he could tape or nail a 10 or 20 page hand written letter to her door frame

- She would routinely leave work to find him asleep in his car in front of her house

- In a fit of rage over being ignored, he drove into and smashed down her garage door causing thousands of dollars of damage to her home

- Several arrests later, his behavior hadn't changed

She finally had to get a restraining order and have him arrested for violating it, the police contacted his place of employment and he was fired (he held a position with serious privacy and security restrictions, which is probably how he tracked her down) and to this day, a couple years later, she still has to look out her window before heading out to work to see if he's there.

All of this over a single 90 minute meeting over food to discuss shared interests.
you're not forced to use it, though.
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This is a testament to great design and engineering, turning around an otherwise ugly technical requirement to kind of a neat effect in itself :)
Based on many of the cases that have come from there, I would state that they are no more familiar with technology, software, and patents then any other district. It's just that for some reason or another they are pro-plaintiff in these cases. The articles suggests the possible cause of that lay in the judges themselves since Newegg was apparently not allowed to argue to invalidate the patents in the first place, which was stupid. A higher court agreed and reversed the decision so I fail to see how the district's supposed familiarity with such things were a benefit to anyone.
I respect this point of view and somewhat agree with it, on the other hand I have received great benefit from Apache, BSD, etc. licensed software. So when I contribute to OSS I make sure to use similarly permissive licenses. Yes there will be others who profit from the OSS and don't contribute but I don't think that there's a way to prevent it.
Note that Mozilla wasn't #1 on the list. They were just added to the list (at #20). Amex is #1.

http://www.ponemon.org/local/upload/file/2012%20MTC%20Report...
> One, he was part of an all but not understood minority to the rest of the population, a hacker. Two, it's routine to portray neutral hackers (our sense of the word) as evil hackers (everyone else's sense).

His motives might have neutral but his actions were not, at least in this case.

But either way, I wish we would all take a step back and critically examine why it is that it is so easy for 'hackers' to be portrayed negatively.

Part of it is because "they don't understand", sure.

But there's another large part, which is the feeling of helplessness. Computing controls more and more of everyone's life with each passing day. In the past people could take control of more of what was important to them. They could tweak with their car's engine and chassis, they could put money in the bank and feel reasonably safe it wouldn't have disappeared to some identity thief by the morning, they could go home secure in the knowledge that their work would physically be still sitting on their desk when they went back the next day.

Now computers have taken over everything and there are very, very few people who actually understand what's going on. And when the "average Joe" sees someone taking advantage of that, for whatever reason, it is natural to feel distrustful. You trust Aaron and I trust Aaron (even if I disagree with his methods), but why should everyone trust Aaron?

The past two weeks we've seen a chorus of criticism from hackers regarding a justice system that they don't understand. Much of the criticism is accurate, and much of it wasn't even in the right ballpark. This isn't even the only example, just look at the strictly-technical debates about open source software like Ruby on Rails or systemd where FUD is the rule. So if even the very smartest of us are liable to this type of behavior, why should we expect any better of the general public?

People in general want to think that at least someone understands hacking besides the hackers and is working to keep them safe from those few with the means to destroy those computerized things which are becoming increasingly valuable to them.
I think the better word would be "a tradeoff". It's an unwanted feature, but it's an expected and tolerated consequence of the design.
> BSD is not viral. If you incorporate BSD code in your
> code, then you're free to licence the result under any
> license you choose.

No, you're not. You are not permitted to change the license of someone else's code. Their code remains under the BSD license, and you have to comply with it when you distribute the combined work (e.g. keeping copyright notices intact).
Why? No serious C development happens with MSVC today, and yet C is still one of the most widely used programming languages. The world has long since moved on, and C11 will be adopted by gcc, clang, icc, ibm's compilers, pelles and others.

As a professional C programmer, I really couldn't care less whether or not Microsoft decides to implement C11 or remain in the dark ages. That ship sailed years ago.