skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem is that it's not really a newer and easier approach, it's a newer and slightly different approach. Javascript was a perfectly good language to begin with, Coffeescript just made it shorter and with a bit different syntax here and there and with a feature or two for handling closures better. Not bad, surely, but not really that great either. My experience working in Coffeescript so far has been that it's still important to understand the javascript it's going to be translated into, to understand the subtleties of closures and scope as they're implemented in coffeescript.

Why, then, use coffeescript? It's so much clearer for me to simply see that an anonymous function is being defined to pass this scope and do this yada yada, and while longer, I much prefer that over a language that hides the true meaning in an attempt to reach some sort of syntax simplicity that doesn't really have that big an effect in the end. It's not a protection of an investment, it's that I can't imagine ever being able to use or understand Coffeescript without also having an expert grasp on Javascript. I don't know of anyone who knows Coffeescript on its own. You still need to understand what it's doing, fundamentally; or at least, it's useful to; or failing that, it's right to understand it.

I don't know if I want a developer who knows only Coffeescript. I don't want someone who doesn't understand what it's being compiled into. Frankly, the same goes for other languages: you really should understand what assembly fundamentally does, and how your IF statements and loops are translated. It makes a ton of sense that we don't write our code in ASM these days, but for Javascript it just seems lazy. Javascript is a perfectly serviceable extremely high-level language. It's not that hard to learn or to work in, and if you know it well, it's actually quite nice and has many interesting features. Coffeescript, as a rejection of Javascript, makes little sense to me because Javascript just isn't that bad.

However, Coffeescript as a response to wanting another language on the web; wanting a slightly clearer syntax for writing asynchronous callbacks and classes and whatnot—sure, that makes some sense. It just still feels dirty. At its most basic level it just feels like a lazy hack, because it's layered on top of this other perfectly useful high-level language that might be 50% more lines of code, but would work perfectly fine.

What it really means is that the browser is the new CPU and Javascript is the new machine code. It's just another layer of abstraction. In the end, I don't like it because Javascript is just not that hard. I imagine this is echoing the arguments of C die-hards upon the advent of newer, higher-level languages. It all makes sense, but sometimes it's hard to swallow.
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On a side note, I recently learned about the app Fooducate. You scan the UPC and it grades the food based on various info. It found every one of my GF foods which surprised me. It's well done and has good info IMO. And it's free. Android/iOS compatible

http://www.fooducate.com/
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Boxen is rad. We've started using it for new machines at Shopify and it's been really helpful.
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I have to say that, while I haven't looked into the details, this is quite impressive. It runs really smooth on my not-so-great desktop. A good sign that Javascript is no longer the great bottleneck it used to be.
And iTunes... My wife spent hours last night trying to clear PodCasts off her iPhone. There are setting for how many episodes to keep in: iTunes, iPhone Settings, the individual PodCast in iTunes, and on the individual PodCast in the iPhone. How these settings play together, well, who the heck knows!
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Add to that:

* I'll be available to apply any security patches as they become available without the need to draft a Statement of Work.

* I'll make sure backups are happening as they should.

* [If your project is public facing] I'll run your split tests and continuously optimize based on the data we collect over time. I'll send you a PDF report at the end of each month that details where you were the month before, what's changed, and what the impact (uniques, engagement, financial, etc.) was to your business.

* ...

Now you're looking at a product that your non-active clients can subscribe to that delivers insurance (hosting, backup monitoring, smart-guy-with-root-access) and continuous refinement.

Throw a $XXX/$X,XXX price tag on it, set up automatic invoicing, and you now have recurring revenue.
Dropbox WILL upload in the background for IIRC 10 mins as well as when you move around.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/500/en
Wow, yeah, it looks like Everpix is exactly what he asked for, and more, including multi-platform support (not just iOS), and for exactly the price he specs -- $5/month.
One sensor that I have not seen mentioned anywhere is GPS. The pair I tried a few weeks ago had GPS built in and it worked when glass was not connected to a phone or WiFi.
TL;DR:
Google Glass runs on Texas Instruments OMAP4430.

Google Glass has a built-in Accel, Gyro & Compass.

Google Glass has a "glasshub"

Google Glass has a "Proximity" sensor.
Exactly. I wonder how many here manage to pry their eyes open.
Wish there was one in my area
Yes, I don't have 70GB yet, but my Google Drive account currently has 100GB of allocated space in it. I can get up to 1TB If I want. I can access all of them from the gallery app on my phone ,and a web page on my desktop. I can print them via any number of services. Also if I use ChromeOS I have essentially filesystem native access to them.
There's a much easier way: get Medicaid's reimbursement data. Contrary to popular belief, hospitals do not lose money on Medicaid patients. They just lose a whole lot of profit margin.
It is possible to use Bundler even in Rails2 -- if you are getting a lot of pain from that class of problem, it might be worth it.

Although, really, Rails 2.3x stops getting even security updates very soon, it might make more sense to focus all your energy on getting off Rails 2 -- although I know very well how incredibly painful that is. You're in for pain no matter what, sadly.
I thought most camera JPEGs contained a thumbnail in the EXIF. And there's absolutely no reason to store 1024x1024 "preview" versions either, or whatever it is it is doing to to take up so many gigabytes. Last time I looked at iPhoto, there were no obvious ways to move images around volumes (in fact, there were no obvious ways to even have folders within folders) (actually - i don't think it even supports folders; the "albums" it generated seemed to be only stored in some opaque hidden meta-database? Talk about lock-in!)
Then the members of those governments should be indicted on a long list of felony charges against the rights of human beings on this planet. The general people suffer because all the money addicts need their fix, and so they pay our politicians to change the laws to accommodate their needs. They don't care about us and they never will as long as they control the printing presses.
Totally. I read the whole manual when I did my driving test, but I still got some a copy of the questions they'll ask to review just before the test. This is definitely a much better choice than some source-unknown papers :D
It's funny that this article proclaims to combat yak shaving while it actually promotes it.
"'Blitz' name is a bit tasteless."

The only way I can see that it is really tasteless is if it refers to the Sweet hit of the early 70s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballroom_Blitz
Dropbox definitely knows about it.

https://www.dropbox.com/features/photos
It's probably worth mentioning in any TL;DR of this that the so-called 'glasshub' reports winks as well as IR and proximity data (using the latter two technologies for the former-most?)
He had a daughter who went on to have 4 kids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Scott_Fitzgerald So presumably they get the money.
In this thread we learn that Apple is really bad at sync. Again.

The problem is that Apple seemingly cannot escape from the users-owns-1-computer-which-is-the-master-to-1-iPod setup from eons past.
So its not just 'simulate', its more like 'virtualise'. They want to examine neurons in a real worm in real time and then model that. You know all those sci-fi books where people upload their minds into software? This worm is going to get there first. Hope they give it somewhere nice to virtually live.
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It's a standard use case for an average consumer who probably doesn't take that many photos and doesn't have much of a clue about backups. It's not a standard use case for anybody who is either a serious photographer or a geek....
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iPhoto is the worst, just a straight up terrible photo management program. Adobe Lightroom is not that expensive and is far and away better - mainly for the fact that it actually allows you to manage your photo files, instead of hiding them god knows where. Also, it doesn't cache your entire collection of photos so I can actually open and use Lightroom with 14k+ photos. iPhoto would shit the bed and crash my computer if I tried to do that.
Interesting website, thanks for informing me! I don't think my portfolio would cut it at the moment and I've yet to develop a showcase website for the apps I have made / worked on.

Despite this, I think I'll aim to flesh out my portfolio for ooomf and create said website.
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Well yes, as this is compiled for asm.js-capable browsers (i.e. Firefox for now), it will be so slow on anything else that it will just crash.
I prefer having a VM built with Vagrant (and in our case puppet) which runs the same configs as our servers while having my development tools (editors etc) installed on the local machine. That way all my apps run at native speed, and the server replicates (almost exactly) the production environment.
I'm new to Meteor, and just briefly scanned the homepage, but does it offer pre-built admin, same as Ruby and Django?
And I hope none of us ever pay a visit to Guantanamo.

But seriously, yeah, of course there's a difference, but government is also often in league with organized crime, from local levels of corrupt cops and drug leaders, to international levels of the CIA and arms traders and 'our' 'freedom fighers' -- I bet this is also true in Sicily and Naples, that many parts of the government act in league with organized crime.

But yeah, to go back to the actual topic/thread, mainly, I think the guy is right that the government is the other main actor which is going to keep it's security exploits to itself, and just use them to monitor you silently. (And that's probably more likely in the US than any other country on the planet, at the moment).
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I'm glad this came up; I've been thinking about it for a while.

When I first started programming professionally and read this quote, I thought it didn't really apply to me. I do a lot of low-traffic webapps and never really felt like I did much trade-off with premature optimization. It certainly sounded strong to say that pre-mature optimization was the root of all evil. Hell, I messed up so many other things that I would have picked any one of them and thought it to be more of a problem. But I respected the person saying it, so I kept it in the back of my mind.

Then I had an epiphany. Pre-mature optimization isn't just about performance, and it doesn't even have to be about only programming. In your business, are you focusing on automating something that will only save a miniscule amount of time? Are you building a feature that will rarely ever be used? Sounds like pre-mature optimization to me. And the problem is not that the end-product won't be better; the problem is the opportunity cost. You're trading off a whole host of other things that could be worked on instead.

Pre-mature optimization for me comes down to reassessing where I am at every stage of building a project and asking myself: am I focused on the right thing? Because if not, I'm wasting my time.
Same here. I have about half as many photos as you, but my iPhone is my only camera. It's very frustrating that my only option for photo management is to just remove old photos from my phone until I hit a sweet spot of maybe 500 or so.

Is Android any better?
The amount of the fine is interesting: "starting at $25,000 a day".

Despite official's assurances at a number of points that this new policy wouldn't target smaller startups--and the article implying that this policy would mostly impact "companies like Facebook and Google"--it's hard to imagine $25,000 even registering with a Facebook or a Google.

Perhaps the small start-up need not worry about this new policy change, but it sounds like the medium start-up might.

Fines "starting" at $25,000/day. Where do they go from there?
Even though the embed code has HTTP for the image url, it's still possible to load the images over SSL.

https://www.positivessl.com/images-new/PossitiveSSL_tl_trans...
This is exactly it. The company I work for is fairly open, and I know how much they pay every pay period for my health insurance, and it is about 3x as much as I pay for the plan.

This guy's company sounds like they changed providers, pushed almost all the cost to the employee (under the mask that it costs the employee the same), is saving a ton of money, but tells the employees to blame the ACA.

While I work for a decent company, they even tried to blame some crap on the ACA trying to explain why the premiums went up this year. Except, they went up the same amount the year before, and the one before that also.
Adobe Revel does all this for $5.99 per month. They have a free version for 50 photos a month. it syncs low-res version on iPhone for those out of sync cases.. see http://www.adoberevel.com/
It would be cool to integrate route choice (suggest a variety of routes from short/hillier to longer/flatter) using the API at http://bikesy.com
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It reduces the triplicate pains in the ass caused by trying to manage three physical devices bought from Apple....

However, note that if you just move all your photos to an external hard drive, you don't have a backup.
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> And all you get is 5.4M / 4K of unreadable bytecode.

It's just gzipped. ungzip the files (turns 5 MB into 50 MB) and you can read them as plain text javascript.
You expect us to PAY for people's hard work? wtf is this? /sarcasm
It is up to individual cameras to support thumbnails and the resolution either way is postage stamped. The large 1024x1024 previews are for the large thumbnail view of your photos/albums (try it in iPhoto and you will see).

And the metadata is stored inside the iPhoto/Aperture library package. For Aperture at least it is an open standard XML file so there is no 'lock in' what so ever.
Flickr's new client is pretty bad all-around. I wouldn't bet on them to get it right, much as I would.
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I think there's a meta argument encoded in the sampling bias discussion. That being: some people want to expose NPR as just another media center that produces watered down content labeled as science with a complete lack of journalistic integrity. Other people want to believe NPR and perhaps a few other select content producers are publishing articles such as this with the utmost respect to the material. I.e. Things like page views are not considered when it comes to telling a somewhat complete version of the story.

I think this case falls under the lack of journalistic integrity, regardless of whether the overall claim is right or wrong. My view is that when a science article wants introduce the idea that reality may be different than conventionally believed, the goal should be to write an (at least mildly) well rounded, informative piece, not a strictly persuasive piece. When the first response in hundreds of armchair physicists' minds around the world is surprise that selection bias wasn't even mentioned (mine included), I think it's fair to say the article falls more into the persuasive category.
Would you be able to share at least some of your current salt config? This is one idea I've been thinking a lot about lately, but never managed to get beyond the obvious package names, which is trivially installable with one command on a good Linux distro.
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"otherwise people wouldn't be fighting each other over who gets elected"

Perhaps you're not familiar with the way campaign funding works. In short, the parties band together to increase funding that, while really only good for making it easier to get elected, and is therefore somewhat self-perpetuating (e.g., I need money to win, to get more money, to win, etc.) - it is still money, and people covet it.
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>If you love automation why is your development environment manual?

Because I usually do it once in 5 years :-)

My setup: Linux, Kubuntu LTS. Entire system is backed-up with rsync, so I have daily snapshots for last 6 months. There is also weekly backup to cloud and external hdd.

I have primary 250GB SSD which usually sits in my workstation. Whan I travel I physically move SSD to laptop (takes 10 minutes).

If something went wrong and my primary SSD would die: I just boot from Livecd, copy 200GB, setup bootloader and reboot. No need to 'reinstall' system from scratch.

Every six months I take one afternoon and update all my tools (IDE, OS, apps...). I dont use automated updates except critical stuff such as browser.
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Unless encryption itself becomes illegal.
Agreed. They're having some fun. That said, I did stare at the pizza compass the whole way home on the bus tonight.
But you still can't do what he wants to do, which is pretty straightforward:

1. Photos he takes are added to a library automatically (for internet connected devices).

2. That library exists in the cloud.

3. He can access that library from all of his devices.

I also have this problem, and I'd add a 4th point: Please let me back up the cloud based library.

You can't do this with lightroom, either.
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> Dropbox (if they stopped syncing everything everywhere)

Dropbox has offered selective sync for a while now.
Last time I checked though Everpix doesn't do video. I have all sorts of little video clips and I desperately wish Everpix would handle them as well as my photos, I don't want to have to split them up or deal with them differently.
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Let's be clear: there are political conservatives that I respect who are not also raging homophobes that advocate the use of the government's police power to restrict the sex lives of a minority of its citizens.
WW2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz
Actually, Paul (lifeisstillgood) is talking about the Consultancy Masterclass community group, a private, ~80 person group. (More info for the curious: http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/build-a-consultancy)
I don't think that's true, you can create more albums on the device and move photos to those albums?
Should they? Both terms appear to not make much sense even in context, and also appear from a quick google search to have no provenance at all.
Ask HN: How safe are .io domains?
Hi HN,

How safe are .io domains, specifically when purchased from nic.io (the official registrar as far as I can tell)?

Consensus in my Googling has generally turned up negative opinions, but I see that github has a .io domain now, so surely that is some kind of social proof?

Thanks guys,
The high stress environment is getting out of the country. The environment where you get an internet connection again and are in a stable enough situation to recover your wealth at your leisure is not stressful.
This is the single biggest technology related point of pain in my life, as well as the lives of many people I know.

Snapjoy looked like it was on track to fix the problem, then Dropbox acquired it and appears to be doing something...

But it really shocks me to see Apple fail to address these core problems in update after update.

The worst part is that if you have a photo in the photo stream and try to import photos from the phone into iPhoto, it warns that the photo has already been copied. Then if you delete it from the phone it's still not in iPhoto, and photos in the photo stream get deleted after a month or two. I estimate that I've lost a few hundred photos due to this boneheaded design.

Picasa comes close but is useless when it comes to intelligently syncing a canonical "cloud" copy of each photo to a variety of devices linked to the account.
it's our LISP implementation and it's closer to scheme.
I have an io domain with no issues. I registered it from https://iwantmyname.com/, which I would recommend.
Define "safe"?
>Just right click and your photos are there.

Split across different folders depending on whether you have edited them or not.
Very cool. Running very smoothly for me.
Bullshit.

"Big Data" and "Data Scientist" are the latest buzzwords like Web 2.0 and Java were during their ORA hype-r eras.

There is a lot more data. There are a lot more tools and technology to deal with data. There is a need for high quality people that understand how to handle data. But there are no rockstars, there are people that have passion and spent years learning and teaching their craft. But they aren't rock stars. The best may get paid as much as a very well off doctor or business owner, but they aren't going to fill stadiums around the world, sell millions of t-shirts or be targets of media gossip columns.
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well, I would not like to lose the domain because I intend to run a business from said domain. If the registrar is nefarious, I would not trust domains under .io with a company...
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Linked to the UK google site for yucks.
Hit play, and turn the sound up.