skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are trying to attract web developers here, which makes sense since web developers or hybrid web/desktop devs probably outnumber desktop focused devs right now.

Out of these millions of web developers, regardless of which stack they use Javascript is the one thing they have in common whether they love or hate it.

The lines between web and desktop are blurred to a point anyway, and there are plenty of people out there with experience developing rich applications in JS.

I'm guessing the play here isn't so much to get people to write gnome3 apps from the ground up but to focus on making it possible to give rich web apps first class gnome3 support with the minimum of extra code.

Of course other bindings will continue to exist for those who prefer to use them.
Explain(); Understanding Mongo query performance
It was that word "reminisce" that did it. Agree on the utility of the feature, rubbed the wrong way by banking needing to be warm or fuzzy.
I don't know about your simulation, but over here in the real world it doesn't work that way.

Many people don't dry their hands at all in a public bath room (that's what god invented jazz hands[1] for).

By combining faucet and dryer you force these people into the same bottleneck as the hand-dryer users.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuPSIbABYVU
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Can someone clue me in on the value proposition of this vs something like spread shirt ?
> Or an email program without a subject line?

What about email with only a 140 character subject line? Who would want to write more than that anyway?
There is a JSON type but it just validates content.

HSTORE can be fully indexed (gIST and GIN). Just have to roll your own object graphs for nesting if that's what you need to do.

I swear I have typed this exact same comment previously. Deja vu, maybe
Thw whole strategy assumes that battery cost will drop significantly (more than 2x):

http://green.autoblog.com/2012/02/21/battery-cost-dropping-b...

Which may happen, but AFAIK Tesla isn't involved in that kind of research.
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I chuckled because this same exchanged happened in my head when I read the article, my first thought was "Oh great, everyone stuck at the sink" followed by "Would they stay at the sink in practice?"

I've seen a couple of air-blade installations, and in those they have slowed things down because paper towel dispensers allow you to take a towel, step back, and dry your hands while another person gets a towel. Rolling towels (ones where the towel is on a continuous loop) have the same issue of one user at a time.

On the other hand ever every faucet was also a drying station you've basically upped the number of drying stations tremendously and that is a win for speed.

Side benefits of keeping water off the sink/floor are good.

I wonder if we'll ever see anyone taking this to the extreme of stalls with only water and air tools for washing up (Japanese style toilets for wiping, local air-taps for your hands).
Hey Jordan - thanks for sharing your journey! I realize this is the first step in a long journey and this post is for those people on the other side of the fence, who may be anxious about even getting started.

Yes, I agree that nothing beats hands on work! Love the hustle.
What do you like instead? AFAIK there really isn't any good cross-platform client software development environment, particularly if you care about the Mac. My impression is that Java is no more or less crap than everything else.
This is not a game console it is a cellphone!

I am thoroughly disappointed by this project. Part of the vision was to offer console gaming, but with a weak GPU and highly latency IO it is impossible to write any games that resemble the quality of a console game.

Unlike the Wii there is no compensating feature like motion sensing. Additionally this makes it impossible to write games such as the Just Dance, which are extremely popular with casual audiences.

Ultimately, I think Ouya compromised by pushing a technically simpler and underpowered design. This will bite them when they realize that nobody will write real games for a platform that can't handle it.

It is not clear why anybody would want a $100 console that plays no real games when they can get a $150 Wii.
So which regulations are too onerous?

Do you think most of the market wants more speculation, or more stability?
Project Management for hipsters
RIP Sony MiniDisc, 1992-2013
I almost bought one but it's really more car than we need - almost too wide for our San Francisco garage. Instead I bought $20K of their stock and am waiting for the smaller sedan.
The App looks cool, the user experience is better from the perspective of viewing the check-in activity of friends compared to Facebook app
> consider soldiers on a battlefield

One difficulty comes with the definition of battlefield and war. If a battle makes it ok, what does that say about a war on terror, which appears to be perpetual?

> Therefore, so long as there is process (read: a paper trail) then the people involved in these assassination programs can undergo judicial review should their decisions be questioned, e.g. by whistleblowers, when the documents are declassified, or if a review is mandated by congress.

Another issue comes with the types of review. Whistleblowers are illegal and increasingly shut down. Declassification takes ages, and a Congressional review may never happen. When people talk about due process, they usually mean a process that will always happen, not one that is optional.
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They won't offer >3Mbit or can't offer >3Mbit?

Where I lived, I was so far from the telco that the copper gave out after 1Mbit. And we weren't scheduled for U-Verse. Remember, all U-Verse does is shorten the run of copper wire from your house to the DSL cabinet.
How easy would it be for someone else to make an OpenJDK build with Windows installer and auto-updater, but no crapware?
Fed economists propose patents be abolished
This is great, but I'm really looking forward to support for animated fonts in Firefox.
How do others in the space generate revenue?
As other posters have mentioned, one big drawback of the Dyson Airblade (stand alone unit) is that it's loud. 90 dBA loud [1]. I've never seen more than two Airblades in one restroom, with this combo unit, there could be double that number. That could lead to an unpleasant environment for guests of the establishment and potential OSHA violations for employees.

From using it, it appears to me that most of the noise is caused by the turbulence of the high-speed airflow interacting with hands and the enclosure (Fullerton's paper comes to the same conclusion). In that case, all you can really do to reduce the noise is reduce the flow speed, which reduces the effectiveness of the dyer action.

[1] http://www.acoustics.org/press/159th/fullerton.htm
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It is worth noting that re-releases are coordinated by the copyright owner. Trademarks are not relevant here. It's also worth noting that most of the games you see that people actually want to play still have their copyrights held by relevant parties. Square-Enix re-releases the Final Fantasy series--and they still own it. Street Fighter or Mega Man re-releases? Capcom still owns it. Super Mario Brothers? Nintendo owns it. Phantasy Star? Sega still owns it.

Most of the games where copyright has bounced around are quite abandoned and not resold at all; in the "abandonware" situation I'd be much more receptive to the idea of emulation to play them. But those are generally not the games that most people pick up emulators to play.
Very accurate assessment, but although battery technology has proved to be a hard nut to crack I think it might happen within the next few years.

There are sectors of the economy that dearly need electrical storage and are willing to pay for it, primarily electric vehicles and renewable energy. Over the last few years it has become obvious that this is a huge market, and that there are enormous amounts of money involved for whoever improves the technology. This, hopefully, means that it will be the focus of research, grants, startups, and business.
Brilliant! I've been waiting for a better UI for ages...
$100 for games, XBMC, plex, pre ordered. Will probably get Netflix on there too right? Nice little media center and controller with the bonus of multiplayer games. So worth it.
I understand this, which is why I specifically said it wasn't wrong. Just saying that serious issues could arise when a less experienced developer shares their Dropbox folder and others treat that folder as their own clone of the repository. This should never happen because we know better, but the realist in me says its inevitably going to happen at some point.
No emoji support??
Electric tech is clearly developing and generating buzz.

And yet oil probably won't get too much more expensive for decades, while solar is ridiculously expensive without any clear prospect of becoming cheaper (currently parts are only as cheap as they are because the Chinese government is subsidizing their production, which can't last forever). Burning gasoline is not going to stop being economical and reliable any time soon.

Also, given the expensive reality of solar and the way we generate electricity, electric cars would still be getting their electricity from plants which burn coal. Perhaps in 20 years we will be using more natural gas than coal, which at least means we're not depending on the Saudis - but still we'll be using hydrocarbons, fracking, etc.

The only way electric vehicles will become mainstream is if the government mandates this. Seeing the way the Obama administration's "clean energy" agenda has tanked (even among the liberal base preoccupied with drones and Manning), there isn't going to be anybody to support this kind of action when it makes all transportation more expensive and thus makes everything more expensive. In a country which is physically very large, with an economy driven by domestic spending.
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If your idea is better than FeedDemon's implementation, clearly that's a business model worth investigating. Freeware->Shareware/Nagware might be a great option. I think it comes down to whether or not you can create a better experience, and whether or not you think it's worth your time. There are plenty who want RSS to go away forever...
>Except for one issue: it actually slows down the efficiency of the bathroom.

With one exception, every bathroom within my memory had the drier as a bottleneck, typically at a ratio of 3:1 or worse.

Having a drier per sink would actually improve the efficiency.

The one exception was a older building which had towel dispensers over each of 5 sinks. They eventually replaced them with a single dispenser on the wall at the end of the row. Problem was, towels would inevitably fall in the sink and cause a clog.
Any link for job postings in Shanghai?
It's not that "dishonesty doesn't matter" it's that you really shouldn't expect a company to go out of its way to call attention to its own screwup. They only want to bring this to the attention of people who need to know for security reasons, and they directly emailed all of those people. The sole purpose of the blog post was "oh, in case you heard about a security breach, you'll be happy to know that we've mitigated the problem. Aren't we doing great?" Even if you think the answer is "no," there is really nothing dishonest there.
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Ah, yes. I agree.
>It's a valid question.

Even if it is, it's not the one you originally posed. Above, you inquired whether or not Wikileaks is considered to be an affiliate of Al Qaeda.
Anyone else having trouble getting "export OPENSSL_NO_DEFAULT_ZLIB=1" to work on Apache 2.2.22, CentOS 5.9?

I have tried it in /etc/sysconfig/httpd and /etc/init.d/httpd (in start) and SSL tools still report that compression is on.
What do you guys think about using about.me as a personal business card? My personal homepage design is getting really long in the tooth and don't really have time for at redesign.

Would you prefer the about page at about.me or using your own domain and design?
What were your thoughts on MongoConnector? (https://github.com/10gen-labs/mongo-connector/tree/master/mo...)
Managing Rails Complexity Part II
If you have a bare repo in dropbox, you are essentially using dropbox servers as your git server; except it might silently drop stuff in all replicas on a merge conflict. Or whenever it fancies (dropbox had at least one all-replica data loss bug before). But in return, you don't have to do a 'git push' or 'git pull' or 'git-legit sync'.

Personally, I think it's stupid. If it's a non-secret project, host it on github and do a '[le]git sync' every few minutes (from a cronjob, if you insist).

If you don't want to expose it on github, why on earth do you trust dropbox to keep it?
PostgreSQL is awful for storing unstructured data. It is the most cumbersome, clunky syntax I've seen for a while and it lacks ORM support meaning you are forced to manually write it.

Making developers productive is an important aspect for choosing a database.
Python is dynamically typed, but it is still strongly typed. It throws type errors consistently when you try to do things that don't make sense. Contrast with Javascript, where {} + {} is '[object Object][object Object]'.
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Right now we support emoji if the browser does as well--for example, Safari on the Mac.
Excel's Xlerator does better job. And there is no walls to touch (accidentally) while drying your hands. And no moldy water pool at the bottom.
I was just with LegCyte, today - love seeing tech startups in DC tapping into local problems like legislative efficiency.
At least Michael Dell is putting his money where his mouth is and giving the money back to shareholders.
So why doesn't a huge car company buy them and put Elon in charge of everything? Or is this just too far fetched?
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Yeah, I'm sure you are. :)

The sad thing is that this will probably work. He's not going to make a million bucks, but I'm sure the number of idiots who will donate will make it worth his while.
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No, the problem is stating (known to be) extremely controversial axioms of an ideology as self-evident truths without reason and justification. It’s unnecessary bullshit.
Congrats on deploying your app Jason!

All of the lessons learned in your article are really good ones, particularly about reading documentation, and even copying code at first. It's something we struggle with at Treehouse, we want our courses to be as smooth and error free as possible, but it's a bit disingenuous to portray building an app as something so smooth.

Developers encounter errors, Google error messages, and dig through docs all the time. We're trying to integrate some of the bugs we encounter into the videos, to hopefully shed some insight onto how to troubleshoot when errors inevitably occur.
In 2009, in Davos, Vladimir Putin's response to Michael Dell's question provided a glimpse into the long term challenges faced by Dell and others (IBM, HP, etc).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMR1BZ9aYM8 (first 6 minutes)

The BRIC nations are competing and it's showing.

IBM has sold its PC division to Lenovo, HP flirts on and off with exiting, and Dell has declared itself a services company.

Another insight is the sheer number of desktop computers up for sale on CraigsList and the staggering number of pallets of used equipment up for auction. They're metaphors for the shift/restructuring currently taking place. Those systems aren't necessarily being replaced. Many of them represent desktops used in jobs that no longer exist.
Yeah that's a potential problem if people are doing that. I certainly don't recommend sharing a repo directory among multiple people via Dropbox.

I don't share my sync folders publicly at all, they exist only for my own convenience when it comes to switching between different systems as needed.
Talk to end user's if possible to understand how they view / use the software. A casual chat or explanation of a bug that irks them is handy.

Documentation around batch , down or up streams is important.

Tell them about any dodgy piece of glue code that the entire system relies on, can't be replaced (Because Dave left) and is to costly to refactor.

And as you mentioned, fixing a small-ish bug in the system. Introduces them to the code base, the release process and any red tape.
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We're going to need something as fossil fuels run low and coal becomes increasingly stigmatized. Solar is an interesting field to explore, as is wind, hydro, tides, and other non-fossil energy sources. Sooner or later, one of those fields is going to generate electricity efficiently, even if only because fossil fuels (very eventually) get more expensive. Researching these things now means that there will be more options later.
It is never too late. I am assuming this is about doing a startup. I am in my early 40's and I am trying to do two startups on my own with nobody helping me, with a crippling mental illness, while on disability.

I seek to better myself, beat my mental illness, and find a way off disability. You never give up, you keep on trying.

If I only were 27 again, I'd have more energy, startups would want me more than a 40something person.

In my lifetime I learned over 37 different programming languages, most are obsolete. I can learn and adapt to almost any modern programming language because I know theories and concepts from the other languages to learn how the modern ones work. Something I can offer that the 27 year-olds cannot is knowledge, experience, wisdom, and learning from not only my own mistakes but the mistakes of others.
John Resig - Re-Securing JSON
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I'm curious now, is anyone over college age (say, 25+) using this thing? The way it's based on impermanence intrigues me more and more, but no one I know's on it yet.
Warm air dryers increase bacteria on hands
fix your anchor font.
Question for you guys: what's your gross margin, if you don't mind sharing that (before things like refunds and shipping)?
Late Review from a young developer of 2012, Hopes for 2013
nice article. I wonder when the time comes for new form factors. When there is no motor, do we have to have front hood, even if it's a shock absorber?
Yes it was a real question, one that you did not address at all. And what does "Git is local onl)" mean? If it was local only how did git replace bitkeeper?

I don't use github. I have a local server running gitolite that I use all the time. There is a cron script that pushes all of the repos to an offsite machine just in case. And this is in addition to normal backup system with duplicity.
Yes.

He faced a theoretical 120 years in jail. Even though that was unlikely he settled because, from the EFF statement:

> "David never should have been prosecuted in the first place, but we're glad that the state decided to stop," said Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). "This is a very good result for David. He very likely could have won if the case had gone to trial, but trials cost money and you never know what will happen."

And this is what he got for settling:

> Under the terms of the deal, announced today, McOwen will receive one year of probation for each criminal count, to run concurrently, make restitution of $2100, and perform 80 hours of community service unrelated to computers or technology. McOwen will have no felony or misdemeanor record under Georgia's First Offender Act.
Contrast Tesla's from-scratch, top-down strategy with those of some existing car manufacturers, which is to add electric motors and batteries incrementally to existing car platforms, which leverage their huge economies of scale: existing plants and parts can be reused.

The same plants which make a million gas-powered Honda Accords per year can be used to make an incremental 100,000 electrics, then 200,000 a year later, then 500,000, as sales grow and technology matures. Ford is using this strategy to great effect with their Focus and C-MAX EVs which are fairly affordable and accessible to the average consumer.

The question is whether electric technology is so revolutionary as to require a complete redesign of the car, (e.g. body panels and frame) in which case Tesla's approach may win out. BMW, for example, is pursuing this route for at least one of their models; they're building a carbon fiber manufacturing facility in Washington State for their new i3 electric, which will use carbon fiber body panels for decreased mass.
One note about copying code:

You'll learn syntax much faster if you hand re-type instead of copy pasting code.
Oh yeah, I got so annoyed with them.

They sent me an email saying that they were able to offer reduced rates. I decided to follow up and they offered $80/mo which was still expensive but less than the ticket price. I said I'd subscribe at that price but had to wait because we were having an issue with their gem when used with Turbolinks.

Regardless, they switched my account to the paid plan right away. I then got at least one email a day asking me to put in my credit card number, despite the issue with Turbolinks. They were so damn annoying trying to get my credit card number that I told them to forget it, to revert my account back to the free plan and that I'll revisit once they fixed the issue and we had more time to deal with it. That's when the had the audacity to say that I needed to pay a 3 month penalty since I was canceling a yearly agreement. Something I never agreed to in the first place. They didn't charge me the penalty in the end but just mentioning it was ridiculous.

I totally lost faith in that company. The product is good to great, but their pushy sales tactics are borderline disgusting.
I just went through the process with a new hire that's pretty fresh out of school, so not much previous work experience.

The first thing we did was give him a big picture overview over lunch along with the other (non-technical) project members.

Later, I sat with him and did a one-on-one high level overview from an architectural/technical standpoint that included:

a) How we got to where we are,

b) Where we are now,

c) And where we want to go in the near future

Only after that did I sit down and begin pairing with him. Initially I pointed him to some of the specific projects he worked on and guided him through setting up things like dummy apps and running tests and then let him do a couple of things (like adding documentation or tests) on his own so he can explore the codebase.

Afterwards, we started pairing on smaller things like bug fixes where I took the lead and basically just talked about what I was doing.

After all that, I started assigning him some of these smaller projects on his own and just checked in now and again when he had a process question. From there, it the ramp up just kind of naturally happens on its own as the dev gets more and more engaged in the project.
In all fairness, you could use something other than Postgres that's also ACID.
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