skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a question, since this has been bugging me with other js MV* frameworks lately... Is the set() method necessary for updating single attribute? All browsers have supported getter/setter APIs (__defineGetter__ and Object.defineProperty), why not take advantage of them? Being able to say this would be cool:

div.color = 'blue';

instead of:

div.set({ color: 'blue' }); or div.set('color', 'blue');

Or would this cause other problems that I'm not thinking of?

Edit: my ruby cap is on a little tight today. Javascript programmers might not expect extra logic to be run just by updating a property. I still think it would be cool though :)
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I don't want to get too involved in this thread, but to further what you're saying: people from a background in the arts are also much more likely to care about how their code looks as corequisite to programming (or even reading/learning about code).
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Think of it as the Cambrian Explosion for code. Evolutionary processes occur outside of biology too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion

This is how most major advancements in human civilization occur, not in bio/techno/etc monocultures.

Don't forget to thank Stallman and early FOSS advocates.
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Amazon how has them in stock. I have prime, but I assume it's free super saver shipping for > $25, and no taxes (collected) in many places.
they have bandwidth caps.. so if you get more than a few GB of traffic in a month, they'll take down your page.

and in an article posted here a few days ago (about their initial scaling), they referred to people using Dropbox as a CDN as "illegitimate" users of the service.

So it's probably fine for your (unpopular) personal blog/website.. but I wouldn't use it for anything serious
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I thought there was going to be a clever joke about him spinning, but alas.
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Walmart is already the world's #1 retailer. The know the e-commerce is a big deal, so now they are trying to become the world's #1 e-retailer as well. Or, to put that equivalently: Walmart is trying to unseat Amazon. They're going about it in a decently smart way, too. Which is to say, they're taking advantage of the fact that they have the resources of the third-largest corporation on the planet to back them up. One aspect of that is that entire companies count as "off-the-shelf" software.

Walmart Labs is actually far away from the HQ that is far away from the HQ. Walmart Corporate split off Walmart.com into a separate group in the Bay Area because there wasn't enough tech talent in Bentonville, Arkansas to meet their needs. Walmart Labs is now a split of a split, in a separate zip code than the Walmart.com offices (but still Bay Area).
TeX has a rather unintuitive trick for this. If you have a period immediately after a word followed by whitespace, it is taken to mark the end of a sentence. In order to indicate that a period does not end a sentence, you prefix the space by \@, for example, in `Cf.\@ Something`.

Just in case that sounds too simple, there is an exception for initials: `P. G. Wodehouse` is treated the same as `P.\@ G.\@ Wodehouse`. If you want to cancel this, prefix the period by `\@`.

This kind of thing makes Latex a hard sell to a general audience.

See http://latex-alive.tumblr.com/post/827168808/correct-punctua...
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If you want a quick overview:

Kindle notes and highlights
https://kindle.amazon.com/work/the-now-habit-procrastination...

powerpoint presentation
http://hashref.com/summaries/TheNowHabit.pdf

3 part youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Si3Gb1WSg
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Thanks! With Prime I get it 5 days sooner for less money via Amazon.
I don't think most newbies can dedicate 10 hours a day, seven days a week for six months either. When I first started programming it was hard to sit still for more than an hour and remain focused. Really in the end her time elapsed over the course of six months will probably be equivalent to my time elapsed over my first year and a half, and I was dangerous by then.

So I agree, this isn't a good measuring stick for newbies who don't have the same time or focus.
Really cool project, but I don't think it would speed up my tests, as none of them use time like the examples in the article. For example, If I need to test expiration in Redis, I would just mock out the call to redis to return an object or nil.
> It just aggravates me that Google doesn't acknowledge the issue.

I guess my point is that "the issue" might not be storage deterioration (for which you'd be inclined to blame Google, or Samsung). Perhaps the ROM you're using (sent to you by your carrier, right?) is the issue. If the custom ROM solves your problem, you'll both a) learn that the issue wasn't storage degradation, and b) make your phone usable. Again, if you're considering getting a new phone anyway (because it's slow), it's worth a shot. And it's kinda fun to hack into your phone, anyway, right?
What, you mean Snowden's not a celebrity?
Fat binaries are limited, and people will simply provide the parts for the platforms they currently care about, without care for future platforms.

That's fine for most things, but web content is something that we do want to always be accessible.

It is hard to adopt the strengths of native execution using all the lowest-level tweaks specific to one platform, because that inherently limit portability by definition (and often also security).

I share your goals, but don't think there is an obvious better compromise than the one we are all already making on the web.
This device is really appealing, but I am extremely disappointed that it can only mirror chrome tabs. I'd be much more interested in this device if they would throw out some native applications to mirror a whole screen like Apple's Airplay can.
This can be done on older versions as well but the app has to declare itself as an Accessibility Service, which is a massive hack. Google are fixing that by mirroring that specific use case in a separate service.
> The technology derived from this "arms race" can benefit far more than this field.

Sure, I guess...

> Why wasn't the moonlanding a "waste" of money, talent and science?

The moonlanding was a major advance for mankind, independent of all the long-term benefits that have since arisen. You're comparing that to bitcoins?
>however worth noting that the average usage of tablets dramatically favors watching movies and videos over reading Word documents and PDFs.

The average use also favors using the web over watching movies and videos, which works better in the 4:3 format.
Then I don't understand your ambivalence.
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Perfection is always ideal, but if you find a great team player who just doesn't believe in your methodology, which do you pick?
Fuck bitcoin, if custom chips are that much cheaper the GPU power in cracking hashes then most key streching algorithms are worthless.
Screen-casting from the desktop version of Google Chrome is a (beta) browser extension. From 2 mins of Googling (I'm no expert), it looks like you can detect those trivially.
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Thanks for the heads up!

From the marketing point of view I think we're pretty well set up. The closest major doughnut vendors are about a 45 minute drive away and the closest small doughnut shop is about 3 miles. We would be opening up a couple hundred feet from campus. (Although there are still grocers that sell doughnuts nearby.)

I think we could kill it, but then again I feel like I'm walking on especially thin ice with all the legal stuff; this is also an area I'm unfamiliar with and with a physical space to manage as well as employees, things could get messy.

Thanks for the advice, I'll make sure to do my research if I go through with it.
Yes, this adds support for a bunch of recent running/biking sensors that are currently iPhone 4S and up only.
Github and source control are the very first things out of my mouth when someone expresses interest in programming. They were the first things that were recommended to me. I basically say to go get set up on github and walk through the tutorials, and 'follow' me while you're at it. Instant community feeling and the new programmer can always Stack Overflow 'how to revert my last commit'. It's low-hanging fruit to get set up.

Next, I usually suggest grabbing an introductory reference and a bunch of small projects (usually my go-to is Project Euler) in the language of their choice. What she's doing is exactly what I'd recommend if you were brand new and wanted to get a feel for the landscape.
Ah, yes you're right. I'd like to be able to Bluetooth pair my iPhone or iPad to my Apple TV for remote purposes. The keyboard is nice, but overkill.
A few lines down there is an adblock with 8 stories, 4 of which have faces of celebrities.

They may actually be violating something there.

Unrelated, but one of my first jobs was for an online merchant that used very underhanded methods. They would do ad buys on Yahoo and then setup mod_rewrite rules that would show different ads to anyone from a Yahoo subnet. Therefore the ad rep would approve the ad buy, but actual users ended up seeing completely different content. Very, very seedy.

This was also my shortest job ever, and I was not offended when the owner threatened to sue me if I stole the "company secrets". Hah!
If this works as an access point I wonder what the pairing will consist of and how easy it would be to stream "things" to neighbor's houses.
I like this, but we also would want to take the pre-selling period as an opportunity to build the brand a bit.

And again, there are legal issues with food vending even if it's someone else's stuff.
AirPlay also lets you use the Apple TV as a second window for iOS apps. Basically, you can just create a new UIWindow and assign it to the Apple TV and then it won't mirror your app, it will just display whatever view you have on the screen. It does have some lag time though so its hard to do real time graphics on the Apple TV.
Last I read he's staying in a fairly decent hotel. Not sure how he's paying for it(maybe donations, maybe he saved his money).
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There's an even better chance that the whole tree is rotten.
I like the idea of 3rd parties designing new looks for google glass. With smart phones, all the customization is in the display, and I guess the case. With glass, all i have is the choices someone else gives me. It would be great if the choices were not just expanded colorwise, but look wise. these glasses aren't necessarily for me, but i think it shines a light on a cool concept of reskinning google glass.
how would you compare it to github.com/component/reactive ?
hipster-y? This design was considered hipster-y in 2005, at least in Europe. In today's terms this is pretty basic.

Looks definitive better than the original ones.
No, every LLVM frontend (e.g. Clang) has to do so all the time for things to work.
Thanks for your reply kohanz. If you click on the underlined words in http://www.lishman.com/project/185#card/571/file/8007 a relevant section of the source code will be highlighted. I am looking to improve this with different types of highlighting in the future.
this is the first time I've seen APL... and I have to say, as a competent programmer who knows a good few languages backwards, I now know what it must look like when my wife looks over my shoulder when I'm coding... total alien hieroglyphics!
Maybe he has a prosecution complex? Are you sure you don't mean prostitution? Procrastination? Prostate exam?

Getting a fair trial in court most certainly involves prosecution:

prosecution n. 1) in criminal law, the government attorney charging and trying the case against a person accused of a crime. 2) a common term for the government's side in a criminal case, as in "the prosecution will present five witnesses" or "the prosecution rests" (completed its case). (See: prosecute, prosecutor)
That's not right either. On the Galaxy Nexus, there is a single /data partition. A subdirectory of this is mounted (via a FUSE gadget which enforced FAT-like semantics) for use as the "sdcard" partition, and /sdcard is a symlink to that. (It's a symlink so it can be redirected for different device users).

There is no action that can be taken on an "sdcard" partition on a GNex. It has to be done on /data.
"Streams from the internet" isn't inherently superior. There are things about it that are nice and things about it that are not so nice.

1. it requires the dongle to have equivalent internet access as the 'controlling' device. So it would seem you'd be out of luck if you wanted to stream from a mobile device using a cell modem, to a chromecast on a display in, say, a hotel, conference room or cabin without (unfiltered) wifi access to the internet.

2. sometimes internet-streamed video, even when possible, is far inferior to just soaking some processing power from the mobile device. People who locally-save video content for performance/quality reasons aren't going to be wild about it happily ignoring that local store to pull down a choppy/compressed stream.

3. it seems to limit the stream to codecs the device supports. So one can't likely chromecast from an HTPC that's otherwise perfectly capable of streaming xvid/divx/etc.

multi-user queue-ing is nice. Airplay really should pick that up.

But I'm not at all wild about "it's own internet stream". While the pros are neat in certain situations, the cons are a deal-breaker for me.
Or just call it Quebecistan. Nobody will bat an eye.
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Uh, the iPad Mini's screen is 1024-by-768/163 PPI. The first-gen N7's is 1280x800/216 ppi. The N7's screen is noticeably nicer.

I can't speak to battery or speed as I haven't had a lot of hands-on time with the Mini, but I will note that the N7's slimmer aspect ratio means it fits nicely in a pocket, while the iPad Mini just plain doesn't.
Absolutely. I had a CS professor who lamented how much more time students spent playing games than studying, but acknowledged the fact that the video games industry is a gigantic stimulus to the computer hardware industry. Because games are always pushing the envelope of graphics and resource consumption, there is a reason for companies like Intel, Nvidia, ATI, AMD, etc. to produce better hardware. This hardware has led to benefits in the scientific computing realm, and may not have been developed without the bankrolling from gamers.
The universe is governed by math. There's a surprising amount of math in everything.
Is this the Art and Fear book you're referencing? I searched Amazon and found a few.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Fear-Observations-Artmaking-eboo...
ES5 specifically has Object.defineProperty. Which works on all current browsers and Node. Rich what do you think?
They just added it in the last hour or so.
And free shipping too! Google is charging for shipping.
Congratulations! I'm impressed how you just got started rather than waiting for "the perfect moment." Your persistence and progress are inspiring. Also, your work doubles as a collection of engaging content ideas for teaching beginning programming :) Thank you!
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Would you care to elaborate why you have curly apostrophes and em-dashes?
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just added a cask for this so osx homebrew-cask users can check out the project with `brew cask install maratis`

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/pull/819
It's pretty easy.
See the photo gallery here for an overview of the setup
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/24/4553368/hands-on-googles-3...
Why don't they just partner with Warby Parker?
I don't have an iMac, so I can't say :)

But seriously: IMO, that's where the market is heading.
Isn't control of the radio necessary for the security and integrity of the cellular network/spectrum?
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If I could ask, how did you find your own way around that feeling?
It's worth noting that you can use an OTA cable to plug a USB jumpdrive into it just fine.
I don't get it. I have an HTPC, and I watch Youtube on it all the time. I will often pause what I am watching to look something up related to the video I am watching. I don't have a personal phone as I get by fine with my work phone. It's a blackberry, so not compatible anyway. Also, when watching TV, its with the family, and we all are interested in what we look up. As far as I know, this only does some video, and doesn't send web pages to the screen. Yes, it's $35, but it's pretty limited from what I can see.
personally, I already have a massive library of AMD modules, using a second module system, even if it adds a feature is confusing for people who join the project and makes for ugly code.

Also I don't like having to organize unrelated code into factories and services just because that's how Angular wants to view the world.
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What is this in current $/hr?
But don't "consume" any energy cooking it?
I was half joking in my post, I hope that was clear.

I did not know there were physical protests going on. I suppose the media isn't as willing a partner on this issue and isn't helping to spread the word. Normally, one disgruntled hipster with a bone to pick can make the news, might need to call in the wto hooligans...

Definitely some wagon-circling going on here by those in power who seek to maintain that power.
> As much as we'd like to think the only bad outcome of a terrorist attack is loss of life, that's not really the biggest outcome. It is the impact on society, like it or not.

That's a very dark view of mankind. You are basically saying people are so stupid that it's always going to be that after the loss of life, we'll invade lots of countries and spend a trillion dollars, and give up all of our freedoms.
See, I THINK we would have a great product-market fit, and I KNOW the traffic is good for this particular location. I just want to see HOW good the fit and traffic are, namely if they're good enough to support a $3k/mo rent, employees, and a decent salary.

That's pretty awesome about your family's recipe, and a shame that a chain like that could decrease sales so much.
I agree with social security, as it's simply a direct monetary transfer program, and I personally view these, such as progressive taxation, as vastly preferable to Federal control of services for many reasons.

But, Medicare is a state-owned Insurance company, and if I remember correctly, constitutes around 50% of the country's health spending.

Also, Do your numbers include contractors? My understanding is that there is a trend of using contractors in all areas of the federal government, and I personally consider contractors to be defacto federal employees. They have the advantage of not being able to belong to public unions, which I consider anti-democratic, but the disadvantage of losing the sense of being a patriotic public servant participating in the betterment of the Republic.
Not mine:

http://drum.jupo.org/

blog post here:

http://blog.jupo.org/2013/04/30/building-social-apps-with-me...
Your points do ring true.

Here are a few more mistakes founders make:

1. Resistant to talk to target market

2. Focused on adding more/better features

3. Involved in pleasing one or two early customers

4. Taking nay sayers seriously

5. Losing steam at later stages when growth does not happen as planned
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My mistake, I looked at the price in the Play Store and looked at the wrong one.
It's pretty [1] standard [2] to not include cords in product pictures.

1. https://www.apple.com/appletv/

2. https://www.apple.com/imac/
Just ordered two myself from Amazon - and now Google Play won't let me cancel my order there. D'oh.
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LOL, exactly. Just like SQLite "holding" iOS and Android together, even though both mobile OSs use SQLite as the data store of choice!
You may be over-thinking this a little.
How cool! Keep it up!
I like the setup since it doesn't require my phone or other device to be connected to the internet. Also, "bootstrapping" would be problematic since I have 2 or 3 devices that I keep my codes on. I switch between them often and I don't always carry the same device with me all the time.
If you have dozen of cars or dozens of houses, I would think you are being just as excessive and profligate as tptacek thinks you would be with dozens of fonts. :)
> Putin's government has been working constantly to undermine America's foreign influence

Can you elaborate on that? Any concrete examples of how they were doing this?

From the same Putin's regime we hear the same about the US, although just guesses, no facts. I'm curious how the west sees that.
Don't worry - they already heard it while you were making it.
>That's just blatantly false. Distribute your binaries with source.

No it's not, do you know what a 'guarantee' is? Unless the code in question comes with that as a _condition_ there is no _guarantee_.
Reposting a dead reply to your comment:

> There are already patches for the IR blaster in CM10.1 (or 10.2 now). You have to cherrypick them though, as of two weeks ago they weren't merged yet.
I fly twice a year. Why the hell would I want an app for a flight booking company? It's this sort of mentality that really gets my goat when it comes to mobile.
Yeah, but this is the size of a USB stick, with that comes the expectation/assumption that there is no power cord.
Unlocking the phone does a factory reset, right? So you won't have access to any data that your phone holds (unless you were able to export it or store on SD card).

And, if I understand things correctly, custom ROMs do not have Google Play. Well, in reality they do, but I believe Play .apk's floating around are just warez. Maybe I'm wrong on this matter, though (please correct me if I am). But if I'm right, then, legally, phones flashed with custom ROM should not have access to Google Play.

So you're certainly allowed to put whatever software you want (if you can write, build or find one, huh) on your hardware. But, at the same time, you're not welcomed to tinker with Android as provided out of box, except in a way you're allowed by vendor.

I'm not advocating hacks to get root by any means, though. They're security holes that are exploited in a lack of better ways.
Maybe some non-democratic governments will become hostile to Bitcoin, but democratic ones will most likely not try to stop it because they eventually do what the people want.

Case in point: even the US Treasury Department's FinCEN bureau recognized enthusiastically that Bitcoin offers "potential" and "holds great promise" to US economy: http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/speech/pdf//20130613.pdf
V2 feature requests:
Support MHL (Power over HDMI)
Windows Chromecast audio driver/chromecast monitor. So any media player can play to Chromecast...
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I am not sure why the division between apps and the web is even a useful one. What is the difference between a tab in my browser and an app on my taskbar? The app was likely downloaded from the web and sends/receives data from the web. The difference is how it caches data; which has always had a huge impact on user experience.

The most important thing is to find better ways of synchronising data between a user machines and the web. It should be possible to download a complete document as a file, use a web cache to render it, and then submit edits to the cloud as a diff. The user shouldn't need to worry if this is happening locally or not.