skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most blog providers support pubsubhubbub(the worst protocol name ever). It allows you to avoid polling, by having the content producer notify you of feed updates.
...but it sounds as if he did neither of those things, so surely not that smart?

(the parent I replied to has been deleted, but it suggested he was found guilty of 'being smart')
The point was about the garbage collector compacting memory regions, thus moving objects around. If you don't pin your array it could leave "hello" somewhere in memory when it's moved before you zero it.
It depends how you call it.

cat file | pv | nc ...

and

gzip < file | pv | nc ...

and so forth will result in a throbber as it can't query the pipe for a length.

If you demoggify the first example to:

pv file | nc ...

you get a progress bar on the sending end without manually specifying a size.

Even without a proper % progress bar, the display can be useful as you can at least see the total sent so far (so if you know the approximate final size you can judge completeness in your head) and the current rate (so you can see it is progressing as expected (so you get some indication of a problem such as an unexpectedly slow network connection, other than it taking too long)).
Yes, a child that stops continuing their education is subsequently reducing the amount of knowledge in their mind - and thus the amount of new conclusions they could derive (if they bothered to maximize this information). It is unfortunate.

Discussing things in terms of the "universe" is simply with respect to an alternate universe. "One universe no babies are aborted" and the other "Universe where babies are aborted". The former has greater opportunity for outpacing the information than the second. True, my first argument is not making much of a statement about society or morality - just information.

1C) Correct, but it should be noted that there is a difference between the /gain and loss/ of information in a system, versus merely the /total/ information in a system. So here are the differences: "+1 +2 = +3", "+1 -1 +2 = +2", "+2 = +2". While a family might eventually have 2 children after they aborted 1, that is not necessarily mutually exclusive from them having had 3.

I unfortunately have to play the http://overpopulationisamyth.com/ card. While I understand that vast majority of people are frightened about and do not encourage people having "large families", it is all based on an irrational fear originating in Malthus' wrong mathematics. He forgot to calculate for technology.

Technology, interestingly enough, is a direct result of available information within a system, and the collaboration of multiple minds. This really is where the (seemingly obscure?) comments on "universe and information" become consequential to human behavior and development.

2. True -- history is a massive selective bias. And this is my point, great people come from horrible as well as fantastic backgrounds.

2A. No no, I was actually saying that abortion could have killed Hitler in the same way it could have killed Da`Vinci. I was being realistic.

2B. Yes! There is a uniform distribution of a variety of potential personalities (from opposite extremes of Hitler and Churchill, and everywhere inbetween) in the continual development of a human from zygote to adult. You will get diversity.

Abortion, instead, shrinks this diversity. Which is bad, because then you don't get the extremes that push humanity forward (as well as the ones that push it back). But a plus-sum gain is always better than a zero-sum gain. Abortion, by its virtue of destroying information, is a reduction.

Because I am interested in the /origins/ of the woman that was or was not aborted. If she was not born, how can I talk about her?
I’m going to start using my own domain address for email 100% now. I’ll still push it through Google Apps premium because I love using Gmail. But if Google ever kills off Gmail then I still have full control of my email address.

This is good advice in general, regardless of which email service you use. Even further, it's good advice for any service you use that has a public component. I love tumblr, but if they were to go out of business tomorrow then foobar.tumblr.com isn't going to mean much. If you're using it as the backend for a blog at your own URL though, you can switch services without requiring your readers to change their habits. Whether it's email, blogging, or anything else, I think maintaining control of the entry point(s) for any publicly facing services you use is really important.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry to hear that you're disappointed about the price. We've considered selling the book separately, but it's all really a package deal as there are quite a few references to the spreadsheet throughout the book.

Ultimately, we chose to price the book based on value. It's less about whether you're paying $79 for a book than it is about paying $79 to cut hours, days, or even weeks of pain and mistakes from the process of launching an application.

As far as the money back guarantee. I stand by it, and fully plan on processing those requests immediately should any come in.
I made a game using android and Tasker, a text adventure called Caedere.
I made the game solely on my Nexus7 using Tasker and photoshop touch.
It's a bit of an experiment to prove that everyone has all the tools
they need in their pocket to make games.

Here is the link to the play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.davesapien.caedere

Youtube link to the announcement video (which was made entirely on an ipad):
http://youtu.be/FEyD1Eklm-Y

I gave a talk about making games on mobile devices here (Sorry about
the sound quality)
http://vimeo.com/58809322

Caedere is a popup text adventure that takes you through a series of
bite sized tests, guiding you through an interesting and surreal world
full of puzzels and adventure.
Testing and guiding you toward a sinister truth about a you and a turtle.
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I've said the same thing. I term it "blank hardware." We're already seeing some convergence with cheap Chinese smartphones at unknown-to-America low prices. And there's AllWinner, Rockchip, Mediatek, and other CPUs coming on line to challenge current incumbents. A brand name will still matter for reliability, warranty, service, exchange/refund, and the ego factor, but ultimately most of them will be indistinguishable from one another on the inside.

EDIT: Typo correction.
+1 Existential crisis is really cool because it adds a memory game to the mix
I wonder if it passes any federal or EU crash worthiness regulations? Hell I wonder if it will even be a car and not a quadracycle like the geewiz.
This article made me like him a lot.
Yeah this is ludicrous. AFAICT, AT&T effectively published this information to the web, this guy just pointed out where it was.

Not a crime.
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Great List.

From now on, every time I write web code I'll use this as a check list!
In many countries simply accessing a public server without consent is illegal. Here in the UK the Computer Misuse Act contains the following gem:

> It is an offense to make a computer perform a function and for that function to be deemed unauthorised by the owner of that computer

This is fantastically broad. I believe it's similar in the US. It's led to convictions for things like directory traversal, XSS testing, and even people looking for vulnerabilities with good intentions. If you're doing stuff like this, be aware of the risk. Some companies are very good about it (Facebook, Google, etc). Others take a far dimmer, litigious view (AT&T?).

These are not laws that are taught in a civics class. I think it's important that until the laws can be changed (and they definitely should be changed) that people in this field know the risks, and weigh them up accordingly.

I agree with you that Andrew's approach is quite...antagonistic. I wouldn't, for example, go on the record saying I think "a sane society would lynch [...] Carmen Ortiz". Personally, I'm not in favour of public lynchings. This isn't going to endear you to the court, or to those who could help change the law for the better.
I like some of the reasons the OP has listed (great skill set, intellectually curious) and because of those I was planning on doing a PhD after I finish my BSc (4th year now).

However, after careful consideration, I realized that:
1. I am not entirely sure if my enthusiasm will be enough to push me through a PhD
2. You can obtain a great skill set, meet loads of smart people and work on intellectually stimulating problems in industry, too.

That's why I plan to work for some time and then re-evaluate my situation and maybe apply for a PhD, who knows.
Design patterns are signs of deficiencies in the language. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatu...
Didn't he try to extort money out of them after spidering all the information?
I've been doing Android dev for the last six months or so after doing iOS for about two years and actually accommodating different screen sizes really isn't hard at all as long as you have a designer that understands it's not a fixed layout environment like iOS. Actually the dynamic layout tools on Android make things a lot easier in many cases, certainly far, far easier than AutoLayout on iOS (an API I absolutely loathe).
I don't think Google's going to kill off Gmail (at least any time in the short to medium term). On the other hand, I can see the following things happening:

1) Google kills of Groups in favour of Google+
2) If not (1), Google limits Groups postings to only those coming from a Google account.
3) Google kills off one or all of Sites, Offers, Finance, Blogger

Of those, I reckon (1) or (2) is the most likely. Groups (despite being really useful) was already out of date when it was launched.

Of course, that's all meaningless speculation like much of the linked article.

The conclusion at the end though (switching to an email account on your own domain), is relatively sensible (even if Google isn't about to close Gmail (hint: they aren't)). Controlling your own email address, if not the provider, reduces lock in and makes it generally a lot easier to switch to someone else in the future if/when something better turns up.
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Finally a charting library with a decent radar chart implementation. I've had numerous uses for these over the years and the only popular use of them I've seen any time recently was in a few Pokémon games.
It blows my mind that someone could get 10 years for idempotent operations on what was essentially a public API. Put in any other context than "scary computer hacking", it would be obvious to most people that the insecure system was at least as much to blame as this kid.
And my axe!

And the 5th
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The unedited version of wikipedia says something different (that is, if we really are using wikipedia as proof).

I am sure you were discontent with the summary, and had to scroll down to some other section which was closer to your bias.

I am also not sure how you can claim to know that the author /was/ drawing a moral conclusion, when he (just as you note about math) never said anything about it.

You asserted morality to trivialize his comment, I was merely pointing out the logical error in jumping from "biology and genetics" to "morality".

Throw morality out the door, and the point still remains.
It sounds like a perception thing. If the book was $79, or you could buy the book and the spreadsheet for $119... would you still have a problem?

Evaluate it on it's own merits.
"Today, we produce only a small fraction of the energy that we need from solar and wind—0.7 percent from wind and just 0.1 percent from solar. These technologies currently are too expensive. They are also unreliable (we still have no idea what to do when the wind is not blowing). Even with optimistic assumptions, the International Energy Agency estimates that, by 2035, we will produce just 2.4 percent of our energy from wind and 0.8 percent from solar."

That's just one massive wall of text that needs numerous {{Fact}} tags slapped onto it. Something every "climate change skeptic" seems to frequently require when they quote "facts" or "statistics".

"Today, we produce only a small fraction of the energy that we need from solar and wind—0.7 percent from wind and just 0.1 percent from solar." - source? And why is that - is it possible that's because there are less solar and wind farms than there are other energy sources?

"These technologies currently are too expensive." - source? A few issues: governments are introducing carbon taxes to take into account the impact of sources that produce carbon in the atmosphere. The technology has been used for some time, but further research is and will increasingly reducing the cost of photovoltaics and other renewable, less carbon polluting energy sources.

"They are also unreliable (we still have no idea what to do when the wind is not blowing)." He conveniently only mentions wind, no mention of why solar is so unreliable. No mention of geothermal, or even biomass. Perhaps he should also look at energy spot markets a little more to see how the real energy market works.

"Even with optimistic assumptions, the International Energy Agency estimates that, by 2035, we will produce just 2.4 percent of our energy from wind and 0.8 percent from solar. Seriously, [citation needed].
When everyone is a criminal all the time, with selective enforcement, it makes it easier to tax and control. When political winds shift, you can eliminate anybody you want, because you just make an excel spreadsheet of political enemies and then forward it by email to law enforcement for increased survallence, and whamo, felony convictions, how much you want? 1 year? 5 years? 10 years?

The government is just trying to maintain its power over the people, when federal reserve realizes there is no other alternative except to default on the US treasury, there is going to be a lot of unrest, and the internet will be a focus point of governmental rebellion, it's important everyone who accesses the internet is a felon. Especially the coders, like this one, who will be making the rebellion possible.

You got to put the fear in them. We may be the ones, like our founding fathers, who have to write up a new constitution, bill of rights, and spawn a new nation to break away from the defective one. Like the good men of old time broke away from Britain. The battlefield this time around will not be on the shores of Boston, the battlefield will be software, servers, clicks, and smart phones.

As with all battlefields, the side who wins is the one who prepares the most. This is why we are cracking down on website clicking by programmers, rather than cracking down on governmental corruption.
I have a feeling this is going to make the tetris effect much more extreme.
If we suddenly stopped eating meat, we would put several species into extinction. Maybe that would be an acceptable loss, but letting several species go extinct to "prove" how wrong we humans are would not be the way I would promote ecological improvement.

Better to deal with the issues where they are. Over fishing should be dealt with. Countries are just now realizing that the sea doesnt stop at the border. If they could put so much money and effort into ACTA/SOPA, then maybe they could put some energy into fixing this? If US can put countries in a naughty list because some country didn't jump and enforce to US copyright law, maybe EU could put countries on a naughty list because they don't follow follow fishing rules.
Didn't he?

He is tackling the issue head-on, and he is verbose about it. This is the way many politicians are. Not very sophisticated, to say the least. This is his strategy, let's see how will he take the jail time though.
I was not surprised to see the word "Sencha" in this article, but I was surprised to read it took them 12 months to develop the app. Where I work we actually replaced two in-development native apps with one cross platform Sencha app which only took about 4 months to develop. This was with only two developers, and like with most frameworks the first 80% went extremely fast but we ended up fighting against it for the last 20%. The performance, especially on older Androids, was unacceptable.

But instead of doing another complete 180 we decided to instead go with a hybrid approach like LinkedIn did - use native when performance is key, and HTML5 everywhere else. We just re-launched the app using all custom html5/js/css and native ui elements and animations where necessary and it was a complete success. Not only does the app perform really well on even very old Android phones, but it absolutely flies on newer devices. The best part, especially when compared to using Sencha, is that all of our code which was written in angular.js will be used on the web app and native desktop apps. We are very close to having the vast majority of our code being shared between every major platform our users may use.

I love when articles like these get popular because it scares people away from using HTML5 in any way and gives us a clear advantage. Keep fueling the FUD, we'll keep our productivity advantage :)
but they won't be kept down. Chances are they'll go up, since banks will pay for their talent to move to London/Tokyo/Hong Kong and work there.
Eric Schmidt is landing in New Delhi in a day or two. How much of this promise converts into 'invested cash' is something that we all will have to wait and see.

Looking at the numbers ($1000 per startup) however, it seems more like a sales pitch, rather a publicity stunt, to appear in the national news. If so, they've done it quite successfully but it is also a very sad start.
Vietnam’s Microchip Industry Keeps Getting Bigger
It is awesome to see that Smalltalk, after all this time, is being driven forward like that !

Just be careful: once you get deep enough into the beauty of Smalltalk, you will be changed forever and it will be hard to go back.
He talked about it, but I don't think that actually happened. The chat log was used against him at the trial anyway.
Check out LMAX. They've built an exchange that runs on Java. Their engineers are constantly talking/blogging about getting Java to perform well. "Mechanical Sympathy" is the buzzword they've coined.
I agree. The only mistake the user made with the search query: "pink impact resistant iphone 5 cover", is failing to realize that she probably only needed to search for "impact resistant iphone 5 cover". Products on this page may already have an option to choose pink. The fact that Amazon shows a lot of related products on a page is basically a form of category search, anyway.
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Incidentally, he's definitely right that Earth Hour doesn't really do anything to help climate change. No argument from me there. It's a Sydney Morning Herald publicity stunt.
From what I read in another article there were various nasty and/or more clearly criminal things that he discussed/joked about doing although from what I understand he didn't actually follow through on them and they just released the information to journalists to make AT&T look bad.
I was attracted by the basic looking design, but I can't work out how to do anything. Why am I subscribed to a huge number of random feeds? How do I get rid of them? How do I view the content of the feed instead of opening a new window on the original site?
> "One universe no babies are aborted" and the other "Universe where babies are aborted". The former has greater opportunity for outpacing the information than the second.

This is the basis of your entire position and it is both false and reduces to absurdity.

Having more babies does increase the genetic diversity of humans. Genetic diversity however is not the only or even primary determining factor in just about any measure of human success, including generating Churchills.

Absurdity: This creates an imperative to reproduce as rapidly as possible and maximize genetic diversity, without regard to the resources or environment available. Why is a fertilized egg more valuable than all the unfertilized eggs that could be fertilized - in this framework, they it is equally imperative to bring both to life?

Even if "overpopulation is a myth," that does not mean maximum population is a virtue.
The black arts of attracting funding seems to be what junior academics spent considerable amounts of time doing when I worked in academia - mind you that is going back a bit so wouldn't surprise me if things have changed a lot.
I've read a preview version of the book and it's worth at least double what he is charging for it.

You'll save yourself so much money in the long run by grabbing it for $79. Work smarter :)
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That's a great example. I don't agree with what Westboro said, but I support their right to say it. As Chief Justice Roberts explained in the opinion for that case:

"Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and -- as it did here -- inflict great pain. On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker. As a nation we have chosen a different course -- to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate."
I would fully support a increased import tax on meat from countries with lower standards of animal care. In Sweden where I live, meat produced here is about 2x more expensive than meat made elsewhere. I would also like to see a max amount of h20 in the meat, as meat made from "where it is cheapest" tend to be made of 20% water. Both would help in making regulated meat more competitive against imported unregulated meat.
100km per charge is about 62 miles. That's less than what's advertised for the Nissan Leaf. Given the cost, I also wonder how well will it hold up to EU and US crash tests.

Also, the brochure says it's top speed is 83km/h (51mph). The Leaf can do 150km/h. Additionally, the kerb weight of the E2O is 830kg. The Leaf is 1521kg & the G-Wiz is 400kg.

This car isn't a revolution, it's just a built up G-Wiz. The E20 and the G-Wiz have similar speed limitations and range. So this is just a competitor to the G-Wiz (which is also built in India by REVA).

Here's the link to the brochure. http://www.mahindrae2o.com/pdf/e2oFutureofMobilityBrochure.p...
I immediately thought of Welltris: https://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&biw=1920...
ha. looks like we are actually mostly in agreement then. Lets meet back here in a year to review our respective plays :)
I did know some colleagues who went to work for large corporates in research labs - but they seemed pretty rare in the UK. Most stayed in academia or left to work in finance - and some even left to found startups (like me!).

Out of interest, what are some examples of the "research facilities" you are talking about?
This is so entertaining. Thanks for sharing. I will spread the word on this one!
It’s a part of my paleo fantasy, it’s a part of my paleo dream