skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did think the same way, but started drinking the Backbone / MD / Marionette / Mustache kool-aid back in December.

Really this is a revolution in how Javscript is used in the standard web stack. Huge chunks of the work of a web stack is moving into the client, and the old-skool approach to javascript really does not cut it. (I used to be a javascript maven back in the day - it has taken weeks to get partly productive)

There is a knock on effect at the server end - basically slimming the whole server end down to little more than RestFul JSON servers. This is a good thing, and is pushing a move to smaller frameworks and more composable servers and the whole asynchronous thing.

There is a huge amount wrong with this new eco-system, its messy and there are few clear winners - not surprising as it is still in the process of being built - but it certainly is innovative means to solve existing real problems.

Drink the kool-aid - but a good guide is necessary.
I tried a stand up desk for a while before putting together a treadmill desk. I found with the stand up, my legs and feet got tired quickly while standing and I was too easily distracted by shiny things. The treadmill is a bit more captivating and that helps my mental focus. And my feet don't get tired for hours.
> The space needs a third player

Microsoft?
Calcium can interact with a number of other chemicals, potentially negatively (for the surrounding organism). Although doses are probably important in judging that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_metabolism#Interaction_...
Google’s Michael Jones talks about the future of mapping
This is a sure sign in any presentation that they're done talking about things that will actually sell their product.
The math in auto sales
Google says government snooping should be more difficult (NYT)
5 Key Steps of a Mobile Strategy for Manufacturing Companies
Holy shit do I hate straw-man pseudo-contrarian articles like this.

Nobody who says "do what you love" means "do what you love without consideration for your needing food and a roof over your head". Nobody.

Everybody I know who is really good at what they do is doing something they loved. I have never met a great developer who said, "Yeah, I just went into this because it paid well." They loved something about it and made a career out of it. And thinking about my various successful friends, it's true about all of them, no matter the career.
This is a bit off-topic, but I have been considering retrofitting my roomba with Li-ion batteries but am a bit concerned about the fire risk (partly because I don't want to loose the roomba, but mostly since it is in my apartment.) Is there anything that comes to mind that I should particularly look out for or consider?
something to think about here is, how long has this bug been in rubygems.org? how long would someone have had to modify arbitrary gems? fun times!
Git Support Added to Visual Studio
Odd thesis: essentially that not outsourcing, but outsourcing too early in design is the problem. Well I don't exactly think you can divorce the two...Once you make a choice to outsource larger and larger components, you're inherently losing control of the design and perhaps more importantly exact construction of those components. In so doing you open yourself to design risk. The way the author describes the primary risk of outsourcing as "business profit risk" is odd to me.

Still the article is ridiculous considering the 787's battery problem, if indeed limited only to the battery, seems like it will be a fairly simple one to fix, and an isolated incident.

I like how he lists three 787 problems, two of which are "smoke in cabin" and "fire" as if the latter two aren't likely the same root cause. Sure fuel leaking was an issue too. So we work around it.

This is typical of the internet era where we can nitpick everything and then suddenly a multi-decade project comes along and we don't know how to handle its optimization/fix process.
I'm surprised too. It's baffling that none of the big boxes are competitive online yet.
New Relic for iOS
This reminded me of a very good Wired article from a couple of years ago, "Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why" - http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo...
Just look for homeopathic remedies then. Guaranteed not to have any active ingredients.
Great to the point book. Purchased this book around Christmas and read the first week of the year. I especially liked the Parallel chapter. One thing fekberg, have you tried purchasing the book via create space? I would have given up on step 4 of 16 if the book was on sale.
This is not by any means my field of study but i do agree that placebo components should always be disclosed in order to turn these kind of tests more transparent.

However, how can we prove that something is 100% biologically inert? We can't account for all the unknown effects, is there any such 'ingredient'? I guess that at least the used placebo should be proven to not affect directly anything directly related to the hypothesis.
Immigration: Google Weighs in on its Public Policy Blog
Everybody consumes a huge amount of sugar every day, so the pill is not even measurable compared to your normal intake.

So on average the effect of this small amount of sugar disappears.
http://store.steelcase.com/products/airtouch-height-adjustab...

http://www.geekdesk.com/

http://www.milk.dk/products.php

Or more stationary:
http://www.ikeajerker.com/
if only there was an easy web UI that could help create full stacks with a drag&drop interface and smart sanity checks on top of that
Using several aliases to promote your enterprise is deceitful and yes, there is something wrong with that.
Unfortunately we're not going to generate very much juice. Assuming perfect conversion and assuming that the average person burns 100 calories per hour, we're only talking about .12 watts.
There's a big link on the side. It's been out 6 months.

This isn't a Show HN.
This is unlikely to be a convincing argument to a genuinely suicidal person. A crisis line's purpose is to prevent suicide. If you're suicidal, talking to those people sounds suspiciously like those all-expense-paid free vacations where they try to sell you timeshares.

Actually, that's the fundamental problem with this whole discussion. Stopping suicide means stopping people from doing what they want to do, literally with their own life, just because you don't want them to do it. With loved ones perhaps it's understandable, but what standing does some stranger on a crisis line have to try and do that?
To us their actions were trivial. To a trial jury or especially to a grand jury, not so much.

But this specific objection actually undermines your entire argument. If justifiable trivial actions can be maliciously portrayed as crimes, so much more can justifiable nontrivial actions. It's a sliding scale anyway: I'm no über-hacker so I know that many things that are trivial to more skilled people would be initially mysterious to me. This is why just law must be based on the consideration of specific acts that either meet or fail to meet concrete widely-understood criteria. Just law does not punish acts that are in a "gray" area, which cannot be said with certainty to be crimes. When uncertainty is a basis for prosecution, the only criteria we have are the potential misunderstandings of the dumbest jury a prosecutor could possibly empanel. At that point, human innovation and happiness will cease.

It seems pretty clear at this point that you did not in fact need any citations.
10 things parenting has taught me about SEM
It's not quite square one: there's half as many toilets on the train, which probably does save money.
Only if they are running Haskell on their unlocked phones.
Google fighting BrightRoll in video-ad market
"But you know when the data is changing -- when an article has been updated and republished ... or when you've done another load of the government dataset that's powering your visualization. Waiting for a user request to come in and then caching your response to that (while hoping that the thundering herd doesn't knock you over first) is backwards, right?"

I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, but it sounds like you're arguing against lazy loading?

Eager caching is very situational, and not something you want to do unless you can reasonably anticipate the thundering herd or have very few items or have unlimited resources to generate and store a complete cache.

I'm probably misunderstanding though.
Makes sense. None of the other people who design Zynga's games work there either. ; P
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It's going to expire soon and I really don't want to renew it. I'd like to give it to someone on Hacker News, but I'd still like to at least make my money back on it.
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They've totally tossed the old SDK; you use either[0] "Cascades" (Qt derivative, looks like), WebWorks (HTML5), Android, or AIR.

[0] https://developer.blackberry.com/develop/platform_choice/bb1...
Five People Trying to figure out Blackberry 10
NASA: Feb. 15 asteroid fly-by will buzz Earth closer than many satellites
You should look into using their Cascades toolkit. It's based on Qt/QML so anything you learn there will be useful for desktop Linux, Windows, Mac, Ubuntu Phone, Sailfish, Plasma Active and also for Android and iOS soon. It's a worthwhile investment in my mind.

https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/
https://qt-project.org/
Do you not have an issue with your eyes and wrists going up and down slightly as you walk? It seems the visual issue would be a bit distracting and perhaps the wrist issue lead to more typos?

I want to believe there's a way around this: like a monitor that follows your eyes... I guess it'd have to be worn as goggles
It's not that you have to understand the details of the math of encryption or write your own library, you need to understand the processes required to use it. It's easier figure how to use GPG/PGP than use Mercurial or git.

And almost all users, and most IT folks and developers are too lazy to follow processes. Plus management and shareholders don't want to invest the time and money for training or implementation.
I just hope they stop requiring dev builds to go through a signing process on their servers. This alone would do wonders for their third party support.
Well said. I'm gonna go ahead and quote me from four years ago. Skip on if you've read this before:

Not all passions monetize.

At the moment, I'm passionate about rock climbing, travel, surfing and computer programming. If it weren't for that 4th one, I'd be screwed.

I currently run maybe the 3rd most popular Travel Blogging site out there. It's had a good 5 years of passion poured in now, off and on, and if I were to slap ads on it today I'd pull in a buck thirtyfive a day.

I also run a little service that processes the draconian logfiles that Amazon provides for its webservices and spits out pretty analytics. It's a subject that no human being could ever be passionate about and it pays my rent.

Sometimes it's better to monetize something boring that people are willing to pay for.

[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1324610]
Hi Nick, instead of being a dick, I want to first of all thank you for understanding the urgency (despite being on a public bus, you took the pains to get it temporarily fixed somehow). Like others, I do agree that posting on HN does more good than bad, but at the same time, I do understand that it is also polite to inform the maintainers too (which I think in your case they didn't.). Anyway, thank you for being a responsible maintainer!

Once again, Thank you for maintaining rubygems.org! You're doing a great job :)

Cheers,

Neya
Totally agree. I know it's a pain for the admins, but you can't say something like "security is omakase."
Unless you're studying something related to blood sugar, insulin, etc or the user has a condition impacted by sugar, such as diabetes, a small amount of sugar (pills would contain 100-1000mg) isn't going to have any impact.
I know a lot of middle aged women who use fv as the main method of keeping in touch with friends and family. Their games are addicting, but no more than WoW or LoL. Those are considered 'real games', but there is a lot of crossover in the addiction mechanics.

This board hates Zynga a whole lot more than their customers do because we are not their customers. This board is the equivalent of someone from an older generation sneering with contempt as I spend 12 hours straight in a raid.

My point is not to disparage this board, but to point out that anyone who plays modern video games shouldn't look down on casual games, because both have fully embraced addiction as a fundamental mechanic (as television did a long time ago, although it has recently upped its intensity as well).

Zynga is devoid of any emotion or creativity and is only seeking to make money through addictive mechanics, but have you played any SOE or EA games lately?
Out of curiosity, did you try walking in place as an alternative to treadmill? I suppose it's hard to keep going
silent circle
Alpha Centauri is easily the greatest game I ever played; it took the best of Civ 2 (which Brian was apparently the key designer on as well). Coincidentally, its now available on Gog.com cheap!
I don't swear much, but when I do, it always ends up being in Windows parts of code.

Seriously though, I've written a lot of portable code and consequently quite a few of glue layers and there is always something in the Windows API that is done ass-backwards. From something as benign as InterlockedCompareExchange taking 'exchange' first, 'comparabd' second, to mother of all clusterfucks - the IOCP networking model.
I would not recommend Tormail. Or do you know who it runs?
Yup, you can see right in the manifest file that it can only access mail.google.com:
- https://github.com/pehrlich/GTalkSyntax/blob/master/manifest...

And view all the source code, right here: https://github.com/pehrlich/GTalkSyntax/blob/master/javascri... (This is the one file that does almost all the work)

I really would like to make it as safe and constrained as possible, but by nature this is working with personal data. I think the best thing I can do is to keep it all open source, think about privacy, and encourage people to read the code as much as possible.

Anyway, thanks for having a look!
I think you're missing the point. He was talking about this section of the article:

>That way, of course, they can say things in their ads like "[drug name] has a low occurrence of side effects, such as dry mouth, which occurred about as often as they did with placebo."

cooldeal point is that you need to mimic the side effects to make the control group believable. Whether it is needed to use inert components or not would depend on the nature of the drug in test.
EasyWaking 101
I stand corrected!

I have no experience of camping in temperatures as low as -35C. However, I have found that camping in Scottish mountains it is much more pleasant when it is in the range 0 to -10C than just above freezing.
I wish I had known Lamo wrote this before I graced it with a click.

He's also the guy who turned in Bradley Manning (after convincing Manning he could communicate with him in confidence since he was a priest).
It's also possible for skype to run arbitrary stuff on your system at any time, by design, from Skype HQ: http://www.kyrus-tech.com/go-skype-go/

during that incident it was excellent, because Skype admins told complaining users that they were infected with malware.
How would the microservers keep up to date with each other fast enough to be useful? "eventual consistency" doesn't work with real time strategy games.
Hi Steren, yes, we're currently working on a pure HTML5 version of Weavly.

We’ve made the decision to start with a Flash version first as embedding an application like the Weavly player in the Facebook stream is currently only possible by using Flash - and we wanted to be present on Facebook from day one. But getting the HTML5 version finished is our next target and we should be able to publish it within the coming weeks.
Having worked in the pharma industry, this article is complete bullshit.

For double and triple blind (the third blind comes from not even the pharma company knowing the blinding details until after the trial) placebo design is an extraordinarily complex undertaking. A placebo must match the drug in physical appearance, taste, texture, density, state (liquid/solid/gas), and anticipated side effects. Any material difference in any of these categories renders the trial completely and totally meaningless, because at a minimum it unblinds the doctors on the ground.

Pointing out a few random oversights out of the thousands of clinical trials that occur every year is not proof of evil on the part of pharma; it is a testament to the care that goes into their design. It represents a defect rate virtually unmatched in any other industry.

But sure, go ahead and advocate irresponsible alarmism over a non-issue, as if though drug trials aren't already expensive enough, retarding scientific progress and costing millions of lives from drugs that would have been otherwise developed.
IIRC from my time with the PlayBook, everything has to be signed, but there's minimal hoops to getting your own signing key (no fee). Unclear if you could load arbitrary apps that you haven't personally signed, never tried.

Old BlackBerry, everything had to be signed by RIM's servers, even for dev builds. Which is incredibly entertaining when their servers go down while you're trying to get a release out (those days are far, far behind me now)
That's not strictly true. Homeopathic remedies do often include small amounts of alcohol or sugar.
Four Points:

1) Be gentle with yourself
2) Be hard on yourself
3) Go to bed on time
4) Look forward to waking up
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May be worth exploring the differences between "safer" cells such as LiFe / A123 vs the riskier Li-ion & LiPo types.

I understand the charging strategy for A123 is much simpler to implement than for Li-Ion (may not even need a micro controller) but i'm not 100% confident in that statement!
For video-calling there aren't that many except Jitsi, but I suspect there will be more encrypted WebRTC web apps soon.

For mobile there's SilentCircle, but it's $20 a month or something.
Who is Amanda? I think you mean Nick...
Why open source search with Solr is good for news organisations
add an sd card then? simple solution 64gb now or 128gb soon, up to 2tb eventually. Cant do that with an ipad
Brilliant RIM's name is now BlackBerry
Even side-effect free constructors can make this pattern painful. Consider the case where we're trying to maintain the invariant that all Points always have valid numbers for all their coordinates:

var Point = function(x, y)
{
if (typeof(x)!='number' || typeof(y)!='number'){
throw new Error("...");
}
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
}

Now you're forced to pick an arbitrary point when setting up the prototype, which is kinda gross.

My point is that people write constructors with the expectation that they'll only be used for constructing meaningful objects.
A worker's struggle
Oh my, and here I code song lyrics into my code.

I wonder if the copyright police can get me.

As to the article, I have seen some creative ways to embed messages into code, including vertical arrangements and clever use of capitalization; string the capitals together etc which combined with texting can say a bit.
Indeed. It is well known that SSRIs studies were biased because of this, because SSRIs have a lot of early side effects, which break the blinding. Knowing that you're in the treatment branch increases the placebo effect.

That being said, the opacity of the manufacture process is concerning.

Studies with active placebos should have a third branch with inert placebos, to assess the incidence of side effects.
The PC was a success mostly for Microsoft. With the commoditization of hardware around a single software option, PC makers were squeezed and their margins are exceedingly thin. It's the "thin slice of a larger pie" metaphor. It's just that Microsoft has the whole OS pie, while every hardware maker has a vanishingly thin slice of it.
$135/day or $1.35/day?
RIM Launched BlackBerry 10. Hands-On Demo.
A good, thoughtful post. Cheers for it.
Holy hell, I didn't know about the "Alpha Cenbtauri" connection. That was the first Scf-fi strategy game I ever played. It changed my life. Hopefully he's moving on to something better than Zynga.
"The fact that you actually lose/gain on a fight differentiates the game from any other MMO."

Could you please expand on this? I'm interested in this point, but I haven't played Eve or other MMOs.
Hmm. That's for private gems. Interesting, but a different use-case. I'd chip in to pay for someone to maintain "rubygems.org" on a professional basis. It's awesome that some people take their private time to support such an essential service, but I'm with the grandparent that it might be good if it were run on a paid-for basis. Maybe through donations or similar, so that access is still free.
it is not the product but the methods which raised the ire
It's fascinating; what we would consider an ancient piece of technology performs a wide variety of tricks to overcome the optimizations done by telephone networks. I especially liked the part where they transmit data in order to measure the status of the phone line.
They've also been very happy to give data away even without warrants, about some Wikileaks supporters:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/09/skype_gav...
A new UI is only a bad thing if your customers like the old UI. People were actively leaving the BB platform just so they can learn a (not shitty) UI - so this is on the whole a good thing.
The (real) differences in key action are dwarfed for me by the layout of a laptop keyboard and the terrible ergonomics of the mouse-analog.
I guess they really needed to get one of these "rock-star" executives.
This seems like a ridiculous blog post.

Only 6% of clinical studies list what their placebo was, so the conclusion from that is that there is a concerted effort by drug companies to unscrupulously modified the outcomes of their studies by choosing biologically active placebos. That's a bit of a stretch.

Typically what is done for a study is that drug company will manufacture the drug for the study in tablet form, complete with fillers and binders (inert ingredients used to make the pill). Then they will manufacture the same tablet without the active ingredient. The drug has to be identical in shape and color or else the study isn't really blinded, physicians could tell that patients were getting two different drug. That's the reason why drug companies make their own placebos.

Also, the example of using olive oil instead of clofibrate has two possible explanations: 1) clofibrate is soluble in olive oil so they likely gave one set of patients clofibrate +olive oil and the other just olive oil (negating the effect of olive oil) OR the study was just poorly done (yes it happens) and it would be obviously to anyone familiar with clinical trials (including the people at the FDA).

I could go on, but it doesn't really seem necessary. The article speaks for itself.
I really don't understand your comment about "limitations of the format". If you mean the Farmville model, why would Zynga be tied to that, beyond their own inability to innovate?
Is there something similar for San Francisco?
Sure, but it shows the UK government has no problem jailing UK parliamentarians. What makes you think they'd act differently for Australian parliamentarians?
True. I use Opera on desktop, so I should know to use the distinction. I just hate the browser alternatives on iOS so much I repressed them. :)