skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Java or C will be much faster at any computational work"

That is far from clear. I've been using nodejs for some computational work using https://github.com/substack/gamma.js and https://github.com/niggler/bessel and found that the JS version is faster than the straightforward Java implementation.
I was a test zealot all my academic life (it's perfect for building compilers). But in my experience as an iOS contractor, most apps are polished Thin Clients for a remote backend. Which incidentally is the only thing that Objective C is really awesome for. As soon as I write any interesting logic, it is actually a bug, because it should be pushed into the backend. After all, it must behave the same on Android and on the web client.

That leaves us with bug classes like: multithreaded Core Data misuse, "UI can be broken by using three fingers exactly like this", popping a navigation controller as a reaction to a network operation while it is currently being pushed (based on network latency), networking code that does not properly handle session extensions while multiple concurrent threads are in progress, labels use the wrong font, code uses UIKit on the main thread, ...

Good luck writing tests for that and being more cost-effective than code reviews & manual testing.
And if the money's never on an exchange, but just in the network? And how do they prove I own any bitcoin?
Reasonably sure he meant roommates.
You absolutely need those things for a great deal of modern programming. All modern programming? No, but a great deal.

Without that they would have been at a disadvantage. I don't see what is so hard about this concept to you.

Regardless, the simple historic fact remains that Babbage and Ada were both unable to build the machine, and unable to verify their suspicion that the machine was special, and unable to effectively communicate to their peers this suspicion. The prerequisite math for all three of these tasks did not yet exist.
Note the FBAR language:

United States persons are required to file an FBAR if .. . The aggregate value of all foreign financial accounts exceeded $10,000 at any time during the calendar year to be reported.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...

However, if I have my bitcoins here in the US, does that count as a foreign financial account? Or is it more akin to having a local store of gold. I doubt the IRS has any real guidance for these questions yet...
Yuck. Google's not going to be satisfied until either Google+ is integrated into everything and is a huge success, or is integrated into everything and kills the company. Once I leave Gmail and Google search, there's not much left for me on Google.

Edit: also, I think this focus on Google+ is myopic. They want all the data Facebook has on us. You're telling me that they can't put together a good picture of my entire life and pretty much exactly what to market to me between Google Analytics, Gmail, Google Search, YouTube, Google Play, Android, Google Drive, Calendar, Google Books, Google Groups, AdSense, Google DNS, and Maps? Maybe they should take all that Google+ budget and devote it to datamining their successful products. Anyhow, I hope Linus enjoys his own little social network, he's the only one I know who uses it.
What are the "number of things"? As much as people are complaining about Reader, I don't see that as bad PR. I assumed it was something other than the Reader fallout.
I'm sceptic to devs who don't treasure their own string, IEnumerable etc extensions ;)
Facebook smartphone with HTC launching soon
Voxel.js is one: http://voxeljs.com/
I wonder what effect it would have on people's ability to pirate it
Woah! I've been waiting on this for years now. Will be interesting to see how Google reacts...
Tumblr Touts 100 Million Blogs Created With a Historical Timeline [GIF]
Ah, thanks!

I need to experiment with different light source then.
Yes, but the effect is the same: just if we have foreign bank accounts, we must report them ourselves. They are all reported.
C# 4.0 brought support for Dynamic, a pretty damn big change. And of course optional and default parameters, another huge boon.

Then C# 5.0 brought Async, a huge feature.

In terms of making the language more powerful I would call those on par with extending out extension methods.
I would love one of these for LA!
I'm waiting for Uniloc's silly patent 5,490,216 to expire in a couple of years. How can they not even have a reference product sold for this?
Ask HN: What are some good Stripe alternatives?
I always hear about using Stripe on HN, but what are some other good alternatives? Are there any (non-paypal) I can charge micropayments with?
The protocol isn't public and Mojang has always refused to say anything about it. The protocol is RE'd by http://mcdevs.org/ which runs http://wiki.vg. There is no technical or otherwise limitation on authorization, they just haven't implemented it yet.
I was going to buy redstone.io for pretty much the same project. I was only late by 15 days. Oh well, such is life. Wish you luck!
Nick Bilton mocks Google Glass and gets picked
If you're looking for a desktop application , try Abstractspoon ToDoList : http://www.abstractspoon.com/ .

It's very configurable and works well with Dropbox .
Yes. Just 10 patents?! This seems like a joke. It just makes it seem like they cherry picked 10 patents that are probably bogus, valueless or would generate too much bad PR if they ever used them anyway and instead of throwing them away, thought they could make a little PR exercise out of it.

If Google believes in the principle of this move then it should be putting in a very large number of patents, at least every single patent that they have acquired primarily for defensive measures (we hope, most of them). If it doesn't believe in the principle of it then it should not be doing it at all.
Maybe for you. Many highly used web services require non trivial backends. If you have an html5 app that uses local storage, you could host JavaScript for $5 a month, sure.
Might be worth mentioning that there are people that live inside the exclusion zone, like Naoto Matsumura. He stayed behind to take care of all the animals.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/japan-farmer-fukush...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/pages/Naoto-Matsumura-Guardian-of-F...
Data science is important these days. I learned a lot from a presentation I went to a Microsoft's offices recently. Check them out if you'd like. http://www.verious.com/board/AKumar/the-hive-a-b-testing-inf...
I'm not sure how micro you mean, but Dwolla comes to mind.

https://www.dwolla.com/
Fair enough. I indeed _haven't_ used rauth, just read the docs. And indeed, OAuthLib's requests shim is a bit rough in terms of tests and docs, but the OAuth1 use-case is quite solid—it doesn't do the dance for you, but every subsequent request is the bulk of the work (in my experience). For that application, the API's seem pretty similar to me—you can instantiate a requests session with a set OAuth auth object and make requests like "session.get(some_uri)" without the magical per-service mapping.

I guess I just feel like tying to one specific service is too specialized. Libraries like requests should be providing you with enough primitives to be flexible and enough abstraction to be "simple," though we clearly disagree on what constitutes the appropriate balance.
In the source code it looks like some resources are being loaded through Cloudfront? Do you have any way of blocking these resources from being loaded on that domain?

Or better yet, can you change one of the javascript resources to detect if the domain is pixanyday and display a warning?
It is entirely sexist to see an attractive woman and assume that she isn't intelligent.

It's one of the hidden sides of sexism in our society that annoy me. I try to catch myself whenever I find myself doing that, and have been pleasantly surprised.

A side effect of this is that those women that are attractive and intelligent tend to begin to hide it. So you get self-reinforcing behavior from society. Things like guys belittling smart women etc... The whole thing is annoying from the perspective of a guy that loves talking to non-white guys about programming or almost anything interesting. /squirrel banter mode off.
ideally is the keyword above.

but in reality even trivial stuff like changing the brightness will not work in ubuntu if you change the DE.

also, buy a newer laptop with the new intel sound drivers (the architecture that is replacing AC97) and tell me sound works out of the box. There's dozen of implementations and none follow the standard correctly. the driver code is a spaguetti hell. and on top of that, most mixer apps tries to add more decision logic...
While I applaud the desire to teach meditation, I'm a bit skeptical of this.

For starters, this is a sales page, and the author is promising a lot of benefits, but fails to mention that meditation is sometimes stressful and unnerving. It perpetuates the popular hope that you'll gain mild superpowers from meditating like improved balance, learning, and memory.

How do they plan to provide "objective" feedback? Physiological and neuronal instruments are still very simplistic. There are a good number of dedicated researchers (Richie Davidson's lab, anyone affiliated with Mind and Life) trying to get decent neuronal measures of meditative states, and they've barely begun. I doubt something simple like muscle tone, heart rate or EEG is sufficient. Even in fMRI, the voxels are too large, and the acquisition rate too slow to adequately capture and isolate many effects.

For another, $590 for a weekend is a bit steep. In most buddhist traditions, the teacher receives nothing except by donation (the buddha explicitly forbade charging for teaching), and what fees there are, are for accommodations and food. If you do a Goenka retreat, you can get a whole ten days for free, since they operate strictly by donation.

Looking at the instructor's bio, he lists a lot of his math and martial arts training and experience, but nothing about where and with who he learned to meditate. This, and the tone of his writing, suggests that he's picked it up from reading, tried it for himself, has experienced some slight changes, and now believes he's qualified to teach it.

All that being said, if you were to go, I doubt this will be harmful, and it may be beneficial in the long run if you come out of it believing you can meditate more. I think the more likely scenario is that you will spend a bunch of money, and develop a relatively simple understanding of meditation.

If you're in the Bay area, I would suggest checking out places like Spirit Rock or SFZC/Green Gulch/Tassajara instead.
As a former Yinzer resident, I recall the James Carville line about Pittsburgh and Philly, with Alabama in the middle.
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> As others have pointed out, Mozilla has been less than receptive when similar situations were reversed.

That's a long conversation, and I likely know nothing of the non-public aspects of it. From what I know of the public stuff, I don't think it is the same in reverse. I do see the general similarity you refer to, I just think there are some fundamental differences that explain the different responses.

Happy to discuss this more if you want.

> Perhaps "quirks" isn't the right word for things that are idiosyncratic but legal either by standard or de facto convention.

I still don't know what you mean, can you please say what concretely in the spec you are referring to?
Why not jump into RubyMotion and use these testing tools?

And Apple's WWDC session about acceptance tests using Instruments UI Automation specifically handles UIAlertView.

I think the problem is that iOS apps are getting dumber and dumber while their UI bling gets more complicated/asynchronous. The value of tests is too low for The One Widely Accepted Testing Framework to emerge.
Converting timezones in browser address bar with DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha
For middle-tier journals I agree. But people actually do check the latest issues of the top-tier journals. Journalists in particular check those almost exclusively. If your article is coming out in the newest Science, there are a lot of people who will see it when the table of contents comes out.
Musk: SpaceX to Attempt Falcon 9 First Stage Water Landing
I was wondering if they were going to build their own OS, to be honest. Maybe they'll fork Android?
So they did not even read the entries, they pretty much just picked them based on popularity or some other random factor. It is amazing that they did not see how that could go very wrong. Sad because I read some genuinely interesting submissions but instead it was basically just a popularity contest.
My favourite is probably String.NotNullOrEmpty, I really hate to prepend ! to stuff.
Ok, you have to describe what you think the honest and up-to-date conversation about parallelism is then.
For humor, there's always http://www.routergod.com/ Sadly, it hasn't really been updated in a while, but it was technically fairly accurate.
Great map, but the financials are a bit misleading. Maybe a note qualifying the salary numbers with a message indicating that the stated number is more of a minimum would help.

Take Mission for example - would you really spend $2250 per month rent on an 82,000 salary? That's nearly 2 weeks' take-home pay after taxes. Good financial practice says that your rent/mortgage should only be 1 week's take-home pay. A responsible spender should make closer to $120,000 to be spending $2250/month on rent.
Book Depository getting more popular than Amozon? boom, they buy them.

GoodReads having better Google positions for books than Amazon? boom, they buy them.

I am personally a little afraid of this monopolistic behaviour. But hey, capitalism, I guess...
While I agree with you, I'm having a hard time explaining the article in a single short sentence. I actually found this link inside a long thread on a closed LinkedIn group discussing potential law, so it's not just one lawyer talking about it.
The adage is based on the fact that you can't "undo" a cut too short. If you need a 6' board, and cut it to 5'10", you've probably just wasted a perfectly good piece of lumber.
Krugman is using the term "income from labor" and "income from capital" in a tax sense, in the context of payroll taxes, because in the tax code we distinguish between "income from labor" and "income from capital gains." But of course we still live in a world where all income ultimately derives from labor applied to capital. E.g. when Google throws off a fat dividend, that's counted as "income from capital" for tax purposes, and Krugman is saying we should tax that to fund the retirement system. But Google, of course, makes it's money from engineers. If Google didn't have engineers, it wouldn't have any money. If they don't have enough engineers, they make less money than if they do.

Now, we could have a future where capital really does generate production by itself (everything is automated by robots). We're not anywhere near that point yet. For the foreseeable future, even to the extent that profits from Google, Facebook, etc, are counted as "income from capital" for tax purposes, it still depends fundamentally on human labor.
Ah, if only SF housing was so simple.

> "$100,000 is very reasonable, and you should be able to live anywhere here."

$100K is really not total-freedom money in a city like SF. Take the FiDi and Mission Bay for example - $3200/month for a 1BR means $38,400 in rent every year.

That's spending $39% of your pre-tax income on rent, a deeply inadvisable amount, if any sane landlord would even allow it. Even if we drop the rent to $2500 to open up options in the Haight, Castro, and Mission, we're still talking about $30K in pure rent.

Nowadays I'm in NYC, where no sane landlord will let you break the 40X Rule, where your monthly rent multiplied by 40 may not exceed your pre-tax annual income. On $100K that's $2500 a month - and that's an absolute upper bound rent. $2500 is totally feasible in SF, but you definitely won't have your pick of apartments. A income of $100K would be well-advised to stay under $2500, where pickings are increasingly slim.

> "Also, bear in mind most people live in couples"

Citation needed. I know a lot of people who have roommates in SF, but SF is a notoriously single city. I'd be extremely surprised if >50% of SF's population is living with a spouse or partner.

Some quick Google-fu:

In fact, it looks like as of the 2000 census[1] that 38% of the city lived alone, and 56% of households do not have a spouse or partner living there. I wouldn't call that "most people".

[1] http://sanfrancisco.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm

Side note: it's crazy that you can rent places in good parts of Manhattan for cheaper than parts of SF these days.
I wondered about this too, if it gets to the point where you can buy significant goods and services with bitcoin then it's basically a tax evaders dream.
Thanks for your interest. I'll add a link.

The startup is called Gliph. Gliph is a digital identity platform. Our goal is to allow people to communicate and transact with privacy and security.

https://gli.ph

https://gli.ph/s/privacy.html

Today, you can use Gliph to send text and picture messages with other Gliph users. It has a few benefits over other messaging tools:

- The messaging system is hosted, so you can access your account from either the iPhone, Android or Mobile web.

- Either party can delete messages from both sides of the conversation, delay messages, and set expiration on messages.

- The system allows you to be anonymous, we don't require entry of any personal data such as a phone number used by other messaging clients.

Gliph's Email privacy tool is called Cloaked Email. We debuted it in August of this past year. You can use a Cloaked Email address as substitute for your real one while signing up for websites. Cloaked Email:

- Helps protect you from data breaches.

- Allows you to communicate with sellers on sites like Craigslist using your normal email client, without revealing your actual address.

- Has Chrome and Firefox plugins to easily integrate email privacy into your web experience.

Some other points about Gliph and privacy:

- We don't log IPs except for rate throttling.

- We encrypt all personal data entered and set sharing to private by default. When you share data with another user, it is encrypted using public keys of both users.

- You can turn on a feature called Lockdown Privacy Protection, which removes password reset and makes your account data inaccessible by anyone without the password.

- We have a generous privacy policy that puts ownership of user data in user hands.

We launched in March of last year, and have an iPhone, Android and mobile web clients.

I'd be pleased to connect with you on Gliph. You can find me at Dice, Heart, Lightning.

Here are some more links:

iPhone app: https://gli.ph/iphone

Android App: https://gli.ph/android

mobile web: https://gli.ph/m

Company Blog: http://blog.gli.ph
It's common in the social sciences, economics, and law to use ssrn.com as the main pre-print server. Lack of LaTeX knowledge doesn't seem to be an issue: people just post manuscript-version PDFs exported from Word.

I don't think it's as good an arrangement as arxiv.org, because it's a for-profit company, so I'm more skeptical of its long-term aims. But it's widely used.
My solution is to (as much as possible) assume that women at technical conferences are technical. If they aren't, it's not awkward, generally. At least it's less awkward than the inverse.

That is something that is in all of our power to do.
If you make money buying and selling bitcoins, that is a taxable capital gain.
Google's going down.
I actually generally really enjoy the company of gamers. They may be funny people, but most of the time they're good people.
How do you plan to ensure that authors test and ship working and performant PNaCl binaries if they and their users are always using the native code?
"This will be a deeper, forked version of Android rather than a Facebook-ified version of Sense."
Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success
Oops, direct URL is http://dashes.com/anil/2013/03/ten-tips-guaranteed-to-improve-your-startup-success.html
As for backing off - bugs happen, can't say they won't - but we fix things as soon as we are alerted of them. We hope you reconsider.
I guess it depends on your personal views, but I don't find much wrong with just using these articles. Some people even leave them "accidentally" open not really by accident (I have some colleagues who conspicuously fail to take much care to keep Google out of indexing their course reading lists).

If you really want to cross your t's legally and still not pay, you can almost always email the author and ask for a copy, and they are typically authorized by their publication agreement to privately send you a preprint. So in practice just using a version you found online is not much different, except that you save the author some time responding to your request for the same PDF by email.
Oops, direct URL is http://dashes.com/anil/2013/03/ten-tips-guaranteed-to-improv...
That Bob Martin post sounds interesting but I can't find it. Do you happen to have a link?
From a technical perspective, using JS as a bytecode is less than optimal, of course.

But asm.js is a good backdoor. Good luck getting some third party bytecode added to MS's and Apple's browsers. There was a fairly popular bytecode used in web apps: Java.
im not an expert but arent UDP Socket connections more like an fire and forget scenario which doesnt create alot of waiting ? Id think that game servers have to compute heavier stuff per tick and have to process all the incoming packets anyway so that waiting for IO isnt really an issue ?
It might make sense to have the game world updating and sending/recieving packets in different threads though, so is that were nodejs makes sense?
The OP made too general of a statement because there are certain cases where V8 can preform better than the JVM; however, generally Java does seem to perform better (ignoring startup time).

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?te...

In the linked benchmarks, V8 only has a decided advantage executing regexes.
Yeah, that's just a hidden surprise for you to discover next time you sync, as I unfortunately discovered when it deleted my entire schedule from a corporate Exchange Account. So not only does it apply to your iDevice, it also applies to any accounts that you've linked to the device and conform to the latest generation of CYA extensions for the Enterprise.
Hmm...this could explain why Zuck started encouraging employees to switch to Android.
> instead they would generate it from statically typed languages (TypeScript, Dart, Haxe)

All of those languages would be terrible for targeting asm.js. asm.js doesn't support GC. Java, C#, Haskell, Smalltalk, all sorts of languages you could imagine wanting to compile to run in a browser would actually be a terrible fit for asm.js.

You'd be much better off compiling to vanilla JS so you can take advantage of the underlying VM's support for GC, dynamic dispatch, strings, etc.
interesting, but didn't microsoft started to try to map the world with that very same approach way before streetview?

i can't remember the name of the project though...
I think they should be all fine. Here's some others' info about it, partly from the (excellent) Arch Wiki, and from a blog:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ThinkPad_X230
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1
http://blog.burntsushi.net/lenovo-thinkpad-t430-archlinux
A genuinely curious question: are there any copyright or trademark issues that he may face for using the likeness of Grimlock, such as with the 3D heads? I hope not, but in this litigious world, who knows.
> attempting to browse the modern web with a 90s browser is futile

And it's hard to imagine stronger evidence that the people designing the "modern web" are not the few who are willing and able to do a competent job of it.