skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't the S3 already have this, or does only my Note II? I've always wondered what it was for (GPS apparently, says another comment here).
It's one of those never ending tradeoffs. The premise of the parent comment strikes a chord with me.

We necessarily can't do terse and readable. To be terse enough we need to encode. Encode is just another way to say obfuscate, in this context anyway.

I wouldn't necessarily agree Perl asks for a programmer to write bad code (saying this as someone who left Perl because he was fed up with write-only code). I'd phrase it as Perl readily facilitates bad code.
It's hosted on github, go and take a look ;).
While direct, immediate benefit to the user seems limited, there are some interesting possibilities with this.

Weather forecasts made up from thousands of highly localised data points? That feels like something Google would want to be involved in - a highly data centric way of improving something we already do which is of interest to many people.

Depends on accuracy obviously but maybe in the future.
Yeah, legal precedent is a double-edged sword.
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Interfaces are Stories
What does the following sentence in there mean?

"but suffice it to say that I learned that the downsides of being imperfect are far greater than the upsides of being perfect"

It looks odd in its context, because the text was about the downsides of being perfect.

Thanks.
UI is visible. Type is visible.
Who said anything about magic? Apache's default config is crappy and it's a bloated web server. It will bring down any VPS to swap of death unless you lower MaxClient etc with even moderate amount of traffic.

More modern web servers (and more lightweight) don't have that problem. They work for most configuration out-of-the-box (and perform better).

I don't know how Apache is configured on this particular router, but I can spot ten httptd-processes in on the process listing. So yes, Apache is likely both a bad choice to start with and beyond that, it is also poorly configured.
I think they're just cheap and aggressive companies. I had one calling me daily trying to "partner". I had to yell at him to get him to stop.

What I don't get is why some of these guys don't approach business like their US counterparts and charge US rates. They could live like kings in some areas of the world. Maybe that's easier said than done. But even the good ones seem to compete on price.
Agreed, this is another good book. I think it explains a lot about behaviors that have puzzled me over the years. I think it can be related to the set of beliefs behind motivation, which is a part of procrastination. It may not help someone with procrastination per se (that may be better addressed by books directly dealing with the psychology of procrastination) but it is part of the puzzle.

In particular it might help with motivation and perception of success/failure.

For those who haven't read it, Mindset sets out 2 main opposing beliefs:

* your abilities are largely "fixed", mostly a function
of innate "talent" that you can't change
* vs. your ability is mostly due to learning,
and you can always learn more

Dweck points out the problems associated with the former point of view, and how a shift in this thinking can transform your outlook on your entire life.
I am surprised sometimes at how controversial this can be when you bring it up.
This is the only thing that's ever worked for me; although even though it's worked, and is trivial to implement, even so it's often not been enough. How can one have a tool that successfully does the job, and yet so often ignore that tool? I don't know. Motivation is a strange beast.
Would have loved an explanation of the down vote.
Submitted a pull request with some basic copy-editing for you.
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The github client is, in my humble opinion, not very good. It's simple but, it's too simple. It's not that intuitive. You still need to know and understand how github works in order to take advantage of the client.

For instance, if you push, and you get some sort of error, the error will be very cryptic for a novice. You'll be googling solutions forever. Why? Because since you don't have a good grasp of working from the command line, you won't know how to implement the solutions that users are saying works.
Whether fair it or not, Microsoft has become an anachronism in people's minds. We heard about their greatness constantly for a decade and a half. It's enough. By comparison, IBM still had some very profitable and relevant products like AS/400 back in the early nineties, but the narrative was invariably about the dinosaur. That brand was tired then too.
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If they're going to pay $500 for it, give them $500 worth of work. Let's see, if you bill $150/hour, then that's 3 full hours. 3 full hours, assuming you type 120 wpm, with 10 minute breaks per hour, that's 18KB.

As stupid as what I described is, I bet it would appeal to the people who think you can clone something like that for $500. Scope is everything!
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Probably the fact that you don't have to use jQuery if you don't want to.
Thanks for this, sent it around to my coworkers who got a kick out of it. (I work in a firm in Linz)
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I read in the Evening Standard yesterday (can't find the link, dammit) that London is now France's 6th biggest city by number of French people.

//edit// Found it:

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/bienvenue-mo...

Later, Afflelou returns to the subject of French taxes. “It’s like saying all talent is the same,” he says. “Like saying Beckham is the same as any old footballer. Now the young French, not even the ones with money, they want to come here because they have no future there. That’s the real pity: they are discouraged from being entrepreneurs. It is not good for the image of France. London is now France’s sixth biggest city.”

He looks pensive for a moment, then looks up: “Soon maybe it will be the fifth!”
I'm curious, what connection to Canada does a Tehran-based web development company have?

http://www.cira.ca/why-ca/ca-101/who-can-register-a-ca/
I think the author is saying that it is better (he is happier)to live with the downsides of being imperfect than to live under the pressure of trying to be perfect, never succeeding, and getting limited upsides.
The problem is that there are cases where the original inventor really is the person without the resources or time to file the patent first. It goes both ways.
Whoa, the performance os that site is TERRIBLE, specially the parallax effect.

It almost asploded the Mac! Poor thing.
(a) It's not preinstalled.

(b) I can't place Skype calls from outside the Skype application, likewise for chats.
Melbourne, Australia has also been voted the world's most livable city too :P
lol. You can also put "if you even accidentally see this page you owe me a quadrillion dollars" but that doesn't mean it's binding in any way.
It would not be an economic disadvantage, and wanting to leave the EU is certainly not "idiotic".
> Anyone with a good AV suggestion? I want something light on system that has Firewall as well(can go for separate Firewall as well), free options preferred.

Use Microsoft's Security Essentials and the built-in firewall. Nothing else is enough better to be worth the cost, performance hit or reliability hits (MSE isn't magically immune to those but it's tested by the same people and they have a stronger incentive to keep the Windows experience competitive).

That's for the easy end of security risks: since traditional AV is becoming less and less effective there's increasingly little benefit to cancel out the costs of using it. The way the AV industry sales tactics are increasingly relying on sleazy fear tactics mirrors this: the traditional players are used to a certain recurring revenue stream and really don't want people to start questioning how effective it is.

The real benefits come from disabling plugins (or at least click-to-play) and keeping internet-facing software on a fast update cycle - Chrome or Firefox, etc. Since the exploit cycle is getting faster, it's about staying ahead of it and finding defense in depth improvements (e.g. not having Flash installed, keeping truly sensitive data on separate systems, using two-factor authentication everywhere, etc.) to reduce the chance of a simple exploit getting whatever the attacker wants.
Also worth pointing out that Courtney Powell is not a mother, despite the letter stating the contrary. But I guess lying to United isn't really a big deal.
Don't forget the hosting costs of like, uh, $15 for three months. $985 profit in 1 hour!
I opened it on 2011 27'' iMac (16 GB RAM, 2.7 GHz Core i5, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB) in Firefox 19.0.2 and everything was smooth, and CPU was barely used at all. I'm not sure why your Macbook which should be a faster machine is sweating on that page?
Exactly. Developers really get their panties in a wad over this. Get over yourselves.
Learning a profession involves learning copious amounts of information that you do not use in your every day job.

A lot of it is conceptual work providing you a solid basis of knowledge and understanding that you will build on when you start to actually work in your profession. You may not think you use it daily, but if you didn't have that foundation, you wouldn't be able to do your job very well.
They're talking about the launch: they're NOT talking about the phone. Is that what Samsung wanted?

There's also the turn-off factor: quite a few people will basically say: "Screw Samsung. They're asses."
What would you suggest for a general developer meetup? I'm in Linz and was thinking about coming up and seeing Metalab and going to a developer meetup. Any good events coming up you would recommend?
The amount that you save on inventory and warehousing could offset that risk. Plus depending on your niche I would imagine that the risk varies.
Ha ha.

"We want Scotland to be an independent country! And that sacrifice its independence to the EU."

Yeah, that's logical.
The patented IBM multi-pipe: the evolution of Unix pipes
Photos of children from around the world with their most prized possessions
Small nitpick: I doubt Vienna's got 20+ universities as the infographic would suggest. It's far more likely what you meant is "faculty buildings" or something to that extent.

I would also venture a guess that most of those belong to a single University of Vienna.
Ahh, was looking for some new css property - it looks like it just sets position:relative on the content it wants to highlight, and then uses z-index.
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Because Apple consistently wins awards for support while Google.... doesn't believe in it?
What moron outsourced mission critical software like this? I'm not sure I'm buying this story.
Just tried it out and my phone doesn't report any position (however inaccurate) if it's only seeing 3 satellites. Also, although it's possible in principle, I doubt the timing information on a consumer phone is accurate enough to get a possible fix from 3 data points.
"Unless you're actually suggesting that the sexual pleasure response is itself an incidental consequence of something else that just hasn't been optimised out yet?"

No, I'm just suggesting that it's possible to do activities (sex for recreational purposes far above what's needed for reproduction, rock climbing) that have a pleasure reward without a specific evolutionary reason for the activity, if it hits the pleasure circuits anyway.

It may be there are a variety of reasons (bonding etc) or it may be that humans have just found a way to hit their own pleasure button without it being so detrimental to species propagation that either the behaviour or the reward evolves out.
Ah, yes of course :)
It did crash my chrome tab..
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> This is exactly why Google is closing down Reader.

The large number of vocal people complaining specifically about how much worse Google+ is than the old reader sharing system (search for "sharebros" or http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/googles-lost-social-network) would suggest this is not true.

With the exception of hardcore introverts, most people like the idea of sharing - but only when it's actually doing something they like rather than the gamified meaningless actions Google is chasing right now.
I think a lot of the backlash comes from a misunderstanding of how this affects prior art. The name "first-to-file" makes it seem like you can take some invention that has been published but not patented, and patent it, preventing the actual inventor from using the invention. That is not the case.

Only the inventor is allowed to file a patent. Under a first-to-file system, anything that has been made public can still be used as prior art to invalidate a patent.
Mine too -- same config. Love the resolution, but the 2D performance has been disappointing from the start. I upgrade my MBP every year, and hoping that we see some improvement this year in the graphics handling.
You are changing the z-index of the "focused" element but you need to check if one of the parents have z-index defined already because in that case the effect doesn't work.

Instead of looking for a workaround I would suggest that since you are already aiming for modern browsers maybe you should use SVG (clip-path) with CSS {pointer-events: none} so you have a real "hole" and you could use 4 dummy divs if you want to disable interaction with non-focused elements.
geez..you don't really take such drugs, do you? Have you ever tried turkish coffee? A friend of mine is a coffee junkie, but he got a racing heart and felt immensly active after one cup. Something he never felt before and we coded until 4 in the Morning :) hehe However he'll stick to less coffeinated drinks in the future.

Even coffeeine should be used in limited dosasges. So, please don't recommend drugs anymore.
I do this and call it "constructive procrastination". I quite often wash the dishes because I'm putting off writing some code, for example.

In your specific case I think it's even healthier. I can't work well or think straight if my environment is cluttered, it feels like it's cluttering my head as well. Identifying things in your environment that affect your performance and taking control over them is KEY to productivity and happiness.
Yeah, I posted a job for some rails help. I specifically said Russian developers only. I must have 40 Indian applicants and several who called me. Not a clue how they got my number. It's not publicly listed anywhere.
This is an interesting point, but I think it's important to take 'fear of failure' the right way, which is not [always] literally a fear of failing at task X; but instead as a trained predisposition to not attempt things. In the same way that a basketball player can habitually and automatically pull up for a jump shot every time he drives left; or a person can open the refrigerator every time he comes home and throws his keys on the counter, so one can habitually and automatically defer doing things because the consequences of poor performance have burned that delaying tactic into one's behavior.

Or so the theory goes -- as someone said up-thread, Piers Steel did an extremely thorough meta-analysis on the topic (gated article here, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886900...; he eventually turned this paper into a book) that denies this perfectionistic explanation and instead breaks the issue down in terms of utility theory and temporal discounting.

Which is fine; but I'm not convinced that the two may not be describing the same phenomenon from different levels of abstraction, in the same way that you can describe bird flocking behavior at the level of Newtonian mechanics, but describe it a lot more succinctly and meaningfully using Craig Reynolds's Boid model.
Neat, but honestly I had hoped for some more than just a story; i.e. history. Vienna's history is incredibly rich! How can that simply be ignored. People don't talk about the Holy Roman Empire anymore!

Perhaps Austrians are still coping with 1866.
Facebook Android app enables silent updates (bypassing the Play Store)
Facebook Android app starts to act like malware, gives itself more permissions for auto-downloads without asking for your approval. --- "The latest update of Facebook's app for Android appears to be ignoring the normal route of outing a new version through the Play store, using the app itself to push the update to users. It also alters the app's permissions, allowing it to update without your approval."
I assume the citation from the 20 is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Austria...
Yes and Clojure has a lot of syntax too. However that is still nothing compared to the syntax of other languages, like Java. The amount of syntax in a langage like Java is just maddening: even keyword (like final) have totally different meaning depending on their context.

So while I think that it's somehow wrong to always paint Lisp dialects as "having almost no syntax", I do also think that it's totally correct to say: "Lisp dialects have almost no syntax compare to mainstream language".

P.S: don't get me started on JavaScript where syntax gets inserted for you automagically, leading to bugs that can be very hard to track (re- Crockford on the error that inserting automated semi-colons in JavaScript was).
You're the 2nd guy in here recommending drugs. Shame on ya.

Nootropics like ritalin are like steroids in the 70s. NOT studied well enough and they come with a price.
What is a membrane?
Am I the only one who would love to own an iPhone and an Android and use both? I wish that was easier to pull off.
Sorry, but these are not actually examples of VSO word order. "Is," "was," and "wander" are the verbs in your example sentences.

"Where," "when," and "whither" are interrogative pronouns. They are the objects of the "to be" verbs. These sentences are actually OVS.
Patches accepted?
Their marketing and docs seem to suggest otherwise. This docs page has client-side Javascript: https://www.firebase.com/docs/web-quickstart.html
In case you were curious about how they do it: http://i.po.st/static/script/post-copypaste.js
We need collective code ownership - and it sucks
I think that I've got a place for you http://www.reddit.com/r/INTP
Thanks for writing the article and for sharing what went wrong. I really love your advice for not taking funding and connecting with mentors and peers.

I'm sitting in my comfortable chair so I don't know what the other side of the field feels like but I am curious about the advice regarding not setting plans or deadlines. This might be a personal thing but I always found myself more focused and more likely to do something if I have a plan and/or deadline.

Does your advice specifically mean don't go back to the corporate world by X months or does it extend to all aspects of trying to find that right idea?
He sure doesn't look like a native of Pakistan.
I don't get it. You have a list of rss feeds. stick them in another client. What am I missing?
For me it rarely works. I know, what you mean, sometimes it does, doing one thing makes my body follow with others semi-automatically, without thinking about each one. But most often I just do this one thing and then stop. I can then do another, and another, but each with the same effort as the first one.
it won't be
I am also curious. Why do you feel the need to ask this question? Are envy because the guy made a nice tool or what?
It depends on the complexity of the highlighted element, but you could also just clone & absolute-position said element.
Most of the time the real stuff isn't easily crawleable without writing a pice of software just for the source.
But you're right, there should be a possibility to get such apps to work without any code.
If I wrote a crawler for images from a DA-artist, I didn't want to rewrite it for every other one...

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Wow.

Wow. Wow.

What a great way to do an on-site tutorial.

Thank you!!
that's funny because I've had the opposite experience with my bank (Societe Generale). I've been able to call them up for most anything and they've been super reactive. Maybe it's all the fees I pay
are you mad? it never had any particular level of intelligent discussion. You could only have one deep nested comments.
You can probably make it work on OSX too - the toolchain is very similar.
More interesting than the barometer is the thermometer in the S4. Has any other phone included one yet? Crowd-sourcing of weather data is an interesting concept, but I wonder how useful a thermometer will be when phones will most often be in pockets, indoors, in a car, etc.
Getting the stamp on the 20 euro electronics purchase is in the customer's best interest as it is a proof that he purchased the item there and so can get warranty service from the seller (I don't know if "warranty" is the correct term here, in German we have two words for two concepts that wikipedia both links to the English "warranty" and that most people confuse anyway: "Garantie" (cognate to "warranty") which is a voluntary service offered by the producer, and "Gewährleistung", which is a legally mandated service by the seller. The stamp documents your right to get "Gewährleistung" from the seller who puts his stamp on your receipt, and usually the producer's "Garantie" requires that stamp, too).
I like this explanation the best, primarily the first few sentences. Motivating yourself is really as unique as you are, and as stated, if you're not naturally gifted at it, it takes significant trial and error to work at.

For me, my primary limiting factor is that I tend to burn out easily. Currently, I plan a couple or a few days a week that will be "productive days" where I run errands, tidy things up around my apartment, and generally tie up loose ends (bills, finance, make appointments, etc.). I used to work on trying to spread it out more evenly through the week, but I found the quality of my work really decreases the longer that I try and keep up the pace. I need a day, or two, or even longer sometimes to get back in the "productive mood".

I know these things, and being aware of them helps me plan accordingly, and set realistic goals. I've been doing this since college, and the quality of my work has really improved, because I tend to work best when I want to, and relax best when I need to. These cycles come about naturally, and I try to exploit them.

Everyone is different. And the important thing is to constantly try and improve, even in little ways, at even a seemingly glacial pace. Small goals for me snowball into larger ones. But it's all about really coming to know yourself.
Amazing, Raspberry Pi has been applied for many areas, however, it has computation limitation.

Now, it looks like GPU Virtualization has broken the barrier, and make a big move to the new world of Raspberry Pi.
Internet's 'bad neighbourhoods' spread scams and spam
Funny how we ridicule freelance sites like elance and their seemingly ingnorant project requests and race to the bottom pricing model yet celebrate low budget - super fast development feats of engineering like http://blog.zite.com/2013/03/14/google-reader-is-dead-so-we-...
For $500 one could easily install roundcube, add some branding to the default skin, and still have some budget left for ramp-up support or doing some additional tweaks.

From this point of view, the project and budget is actually quite reasonable.
Thanks buddy. I think I'll have those features for next version.
Bubbles lets you send doodled or hand written messages over the web. For example, two users can doodle and play tic-tac-toe on the same mail.

Application is SVG based and it scales fonts(text) and vectors. What do you guys think?
>> If iOS is beating Android, why can't Windows Server be considered beating Linux by the same metric?

A lot of people do consider this the case.