skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm actually surprised that there's so little visual consistency there...

The Stopwatch and Timer start buttons behave differently.

The timer provides some visual feedback because it starts the timer when you take your finger off the screen, you can touch and hold the button all you want but nothing happens until you release it.

The stopwatch on the other hand starts as soon as you touch the screen. I can see how that would be useful if you're timing a race or something that takes less than a second.

Incidentally, my double click/touch interval seems to be averaging around 0.12 seconds :)
So you're saying they shouldn't have gone with an OS that is licensed to Samsung and HTC because they can't "differentiate themselves at all from the competition," and instead they should go with an OS that is licensed to Samsung and HTC because "it could hardly be argued that it was difficult to differentiate themselves."

I sense a possible flaw in that logic.
Great read. I was actually in the process of writing a blog post about the exactly the same thing. at Pusher (http://pusher.com/jobs) we are revamping all our jobs, about us, etc pages but also blogging more about our technical challenges and what we do as a team outside of work. Slowly but surely, we can see the increase in spontaneous applications and the quality.
I know nothing of how it works in Finland, but in most countries the board of directors are legally obligated to act in the interests of shareholders. Knowlingly acting otherwise can be one of the few things that can bring personal liability into the equation. So in theory, the stockholders of Nokia could sue the the board of directors. The problem is, what do you get out of it? They can be stupendously wealthy and it will still not make any noticeable difference to the bottom line. Unless there is a significant stockholder that wants to simply make a point of principle, there will not be much chance anybody has the incentive to pursue it. I hope someone does because at very least I think there is a case to answer here - the whole situation is just too incestuous and dubiously structured right from the start.
Genuinely curious as to your reasoning there. Why use a definite article when discussing a body of knowledge or field of endeavor? Sure, people say "the social sciences" but they also say "social science", "carpentry", "cleaning".

Therefore, if your comment was serious then I think this is a red-handed example of the maths field being snooty. :)
What I learned writing tests for legacy code
Not allowing me to spray paint the word fuck on your house is censorship
Google Launches 'Constitute' Site : Explore World's Constitutions
For those sorts of things I think it's completely reasonable to drop into emacs, vim or sublime and then just copy paste back into your primary IDE.

When it's a text editing operation that you're trying to do (as opposed to a defined transformation on valid source) then it makes sense to use a text editor.

I keep emacs and intellij open usually.
In the paper it is acknowledged, but not in the article; even the author of the article is confused, for they write:

"The graph above shows the simplest interpretation of the data. It reveals, shockingly, that there are substantially more new editions available of books from the 1910s than from the 2000s."

This summary is incorrect. Were it correct, the entire paper would be silly, because of course you're going to have more new editions of older books than new editions of newer books: the newer books need fewer reprints or reasons to have new editions.
Yeah, they've got an extensive partnership with the Association to Prevent Skynet From Happening.
I'm Finished Defending Sexism In Tech (Elissa Shevinsky)
The next generation will replace the institutions of the generation that came before, just as the baby boomers replaced the institutions of the World War II generation.

Whether it will be better is an open question. I don't think the baby boomers did a great job with their renovation.
Can it be fast enough? N9 had excellent UI (so much better than Android even now) but was infuriatingly slow and laggy. Nokia still owns the UI patents from N9.
>The gist of your argument is that since (1) geeks are more prominent in pop culture lately, (2) BBT is a comedy about geeks, then it follows that (3) BBT must be a show for geeks.

No, I'm not arguing anything. I'm not into formal reasoning in common discussions.

What I said is BBT is a show for geeks, period. The other stuff I said to explain why they made it so, not to prove that it is so.

So I offer no "evidence" and no "proof" (that would be too geeky in itself) -- just my opinion that BBT is a show targeted at the general geek audience, take it or leave it.

>Yes, BBT includes geek references. So what? Excuse the "dreadful counter-examples", but ER included medical references, MASH included military references, etc. That's required by concept of the show.

I think I answered that objection in my original comment: while those shows also contain references, the difference is that BBT "is all about the geek references, and nothing is generic and universal".
Why B2B Startups Are Suddenly So Sexy
I'm sorry that your ~14 day old website didn't make you millions on all the name and email addresses that you could have harvested and sold to the highest bidder. Good luck with your future ventures.
This is worth a watch
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_suarez_the_kill_decision_sho...
It's a serious coalition of NGOs. http://www.stopkillerrobots.org/. They call for a ban on "robotics weapons systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human".

Lots of weapons already meet that requirement.
It's not so trivial when your phone breaks and you're stuck with an old Nokia for two weeks. I managed to disable iMessage through some weird lost/stolen procedure through Apple support but that required human intervention. iMessage was pretty new back then, I hope they've since then improved on this (e.g. an option on icloud.com or something).
Graphs seem to strongly suggest that copyright shouldn't last more than 20 years at best.
There is no data provided here. It's just a company blog saying how its product can be used.
No-one said it was outright untrue, but neither has any company ever detailed which 3rd parties are responsible, so there's no way of finding out just how big a problem it really is.
The goal of copyright has always been to promote business interests. Once upon a time people thought it was worthwhile to balance those business interests with the interests of society at large, but these days the only thing politicians care about are business interests so this is what we get.
"Now so you think major computer companies are dumb to advertise and probably risk $5 a click for "computer" when users want a link to Wikipedia?"

I am not sure what that sentence means, but to be clear I do not think they are dumb for buying ads on "computer". Those ads surely see many eyeballs, and many of the people who google "computer" likely see those ads, probably think "neat", and click them.

Seriously, what the hell is your angle exactly? You are all over the place with your accusations. Is your complaint that they put ads at the top now? I thought your complaint was that links to Dell/etc were not organically in the top results... Do you want links to Dell.com at the top of the page or not?
Quit Hating on iOS 7 & Be Constructive
Can't argue with the best set of development and debugging enterprise tools under single umbrella.
Thanks for the question. Right now we have some heuristics to automatically take out passwords but we want to add the option to only send the URLs by default, and only enable full tracing selectively. This would help with privacy but also with the bandwidth consumption.
Is there a place I can log my vote for the next blessed client to be for Node.js? The existing offerings are nice, but I'd prefer one written by the big dogs.
New domain bitstress.com being used in dns amplification attacks
Will there be a Go edition, or at least an official JetBrains Go plug-in for the community edition?
A web browser? ;)

I can do Google Hangouts (covers voice, IM and text messaging) and email in the browser. I can do a lot more as well. Or do you consider each web app to be a different piece of software?
Well, if this woman has severe PTSD from combat I'll give her a pass. For some reason I doubt it though.

I don't mean to come off as a heartless jerk, and I'm certain I'm going to be proven wrong in some cases, but, like I said before... I just get the feeling that this woman enjoyed the whole thing at some level.

I come into contact with rude people like everyone else. I don't run off and write a blog post about it.
Bummber. Oh well. I stay Idle.
Body Image and Giving the Finger
She didn't have a problem with one Delta employee, she had a problem with multiple Delta employees who harassed her, ridiculed her, and questioned her disability. If I had been treated that way by employees of any organization I'd be livid, and must less restrained than she was.

By your logic, Rosa Parks still got on the bus right, so who cares?

If people don't stand up for their right to be treated equally, then we all lose.
Google is a saint, don't you know?

They are one of the biggest corporations, spy on you on every possible occasion, fuck over thousands of small businesses, extract every bit of wealth out of e-commerce ecosystem, but they are saints!

Never badmouth google again!

I can't wait what Larry will think of in the next 2 years. He has to increase the profits but can't be fucking small website owners indefinitely. What will he do then? Replace the first page of organic results entirely with ads? Remove any website that doesn't use Ad-Words? Replace all online shops with its own more pricey alternative? Offer selling your neighbour internet data for $199 per year?

Fuck Google, they are toxic to e-economy. Entities this big shouldn't exist.
Android Device Manager - Remote locate, lock and wipe.
you're fortunate its only one downvote. I'm no G+ fan but you do realize your comment is exactly how people mock Facebook and get downvoted to oblivion.
I haven't seen any lately, but it is good to hear that it lives one somewhere. I remember seeing survey around 2005 in a online store I commonly visited, but they stopped.
Using WebSockets on Ruby and Phusion Passenger
Specifically, the sorting algorithm as described by Edwin Wilson (1927) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence_...) and a more technical digest of the Reddit implementation by Amir Salihefendic (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19588).
It is hard to build sales and marketing channels when you're just starting up. That is why majority of us start with closest circles - friends, family, friends of friends and friends of family... In many cases doing business with friends is inevitably.
If you believe that, you live in the GoogleMatrix! There's some MBA looking over your shoulder, maybe without you knowing and that MBA is giving feedback to your VP. Look on the bright side, you may be gullible and are destroying many small businesses (those free loaders don't buy adwords!!) and lives but at least your stock options are worth double or triple with this revenue enhancing method.

When you're desperate to increase CPC, issue mass penalties on small businesses sites, and your ad clicks increase after each major updates, what are we to make? Believe some Google corporate crap or trust your judgment?
I could not find all my numbers again.

Also remember that mid-2011 Symbian manufacturing stopped (thus all new sales at the end of the year were of old phones already shipped).

Yet from your own link, it states that Symbian still was ahead of iOS.

Anyway, I DO have numbers from Brazil: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/03/android-smartphone-sales-le...

(some other numbers I had were also from Kantar, unfortunately their site is TERRIBLE)

Note that in 2012 Brazil STILL HAD 22% of new Smartphones being Symbian.

Also, several other countries in 2011 still had some good Symbian numbers (like first or second place).

Suddenly stopping selling Symbian to switch to WP7 made no sense, even worse when claimed it was to make it different (when other manufacturers ALSO made WP7 phones).

I just wish I could find the 2010 and 2011 numbers for all the BRICS again, but today that is seemly very hard :(
Seconded....
The country where an iPhone costs up to $3,500
IIRC in ... 96 there was a change in stock holding rules for new stock issues - IPO holders could cash out much faster than before, leading to more turnover and investments. It's a bit hazy, and I'm not a stock guy, but that's my recollection.
Mozilla's New Fira Typeface
I wish you a lot of luck, but important exercise. because luck alone doesn't make anything. I know you are a constant guy and you will continue exercising until you achive what you want.
When I meet you last week in Spain, immediately I realize that you were more thin and muscular. Congratulations Miguel.
There's something important missing from the post. Interviewing. Interviewing is a horrible experience for most engineers. It's often costly in time and in preparation. Keep this in mind if you're hoping to hire anyone that's not still green in their career. Provide honest insight into the process for candidates. Keep your engineers from getting into the usual pissing contest during the white-board "dance" and under-graduate level homework details that don't really tell you anything about someone but are often just an excuse to technically "haze" a candidate.
In Currency the U.S. is Dominant, Europe is Fading, China Is Irrelevant For Now
$25000 Controversy
This article is bullshit. I have never in my life experienced anything more stressful than running my own software company and being responsible for making payroll.
You recall wrong: PvZ was originally a PC title, though it was on ios for a year before being ported to Android. While ios was popcap's real moneymaker, the PC version was itself a breakout hit.
I believe the newer ones (2012) are much harder to get into. While the older models used magnets to hold the screen in place, the newer ones use adhesive. You now need guitar picks and a heat gun to get into it. See ifixit for details:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2544...
I do. When I bought my Macbook, 8GB of RAM were extremely expensive. So I waited, and when the RAM got cheaper, I upgraded.

At the moment SSD prices are still high enough that it makes sense to buy an iMac with small SSD now and upgrade to larger SSD in a few years; but unfortunately that's no longer easily possible.
Since you seem to agree with him, perhaps you can explain his complaint to me. Is he upset that Google displays ads? Or that commercial pages for particular products are not the top organic results for searches on generic topics? Is he upset that people pay for ads (shocker!)?
Why I run obstacle races
The Lambda Calculus is so tiny how can you view it as anything but trivial?

Just 3 syntactic forms building up an expression tree:

Expr = Lam Name Expr | Var Name | Apply Expr Expr

And one reduction rule:

reduce (Apply (Lam name body) arg) = subst name arg body

At least assuming unique names (no shadowing nonsense), you can't get much simpler than this...
Python in general is an awesome fun language to work in this just makes the language even more better and fun to work with. Thanks JetBrains!
Of course communicating a signal good enough to remotely fly a plane going mach is an impressive feat.
> As for John Q. Public, that's about to get WAY more interesting, since general solicitation is now a thing.

It may not be as entertaining as the .com bubble, but there's potential here.

I mean, just look at http://www.wefunder.com/terrafugia. If that's too over the top, even http://www.wefunder.com/casetext is mind-boggling. 2% interest, an $8 million valuation cap and no discount on a $1.3 million convertible note for a startup that says it can't start acquiring paid customers until its "enterprise software is ready to the security standards that firms demand -- likely in six months"?
Are you arguing that because voting was involved, the majority of Americans thus must approve of the things the government claims it doesn't do and/or would never voluntarily reveal?

The press is a hugely important part of democracy, because it's their job (in theory, anyway) to keep the populace informed of what their government is actually doing in their names, vs. what they claim to be doing.

If the government is lying about what they're doing (and doing things that are contrary to principals they're pretending to uphold), whistleblowers are necessary.

I agree that if you live in a democracy, you're going to sometimes disagree with policies the majority things are fine. If I think legal abortion is evil but politicians who explicitly support it are elected, I should not "exert more leverage" by threatening to detonate a dirty bomb if the laws are not changed in 72 hours.

Whistleblowing is different -- it's the act of revealing information that was intentionally hidden from the public. Certainly, it may be breaking laws (and the laws may in general be justified!); that doesn't mean the whistleblower's decision is automatically wrong, or that they're cheating the normal democratic process. On the contrary, in most examples they're exposing others who are cheating (by hiding pertinent information from voters, thus affecting their votes).
Sure, or the right to free speech but not in my living room.
The content is all contained in the base download so there is no wait for the user.

To serve from our own server there would be a delay - Apple also has a serve that lets you deliver assets from their server, still a delay, but much faster infrastructure than we could afford.
if something moves at high speed then there is less time to evaluate a target. that means less information and a higher chance of errors.
I feel it should be headed by a girl called Yoshimi.
When is "no offense" ever attached to a compliment?
I think the thesis here is wrong. Customers ARE reporting issues. They're doing it on Twitter. If Apple's ignoring them, that's Apple's failing, not the customers'.

Companies should make their policies adapt to their customers, not demand their customers adapt to their policies.
I would disagree that Carmack's work at id "was not particularly groundbreaking".

Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake were all absolutely ground-breaking. Probably ditto for the megatexture stuff in Rage.
No, it's kind of like the freedom to kick an obnoxious person out of a private establishment because they are disrupting the other patrons. YouTube is not a government institution.
Honza Král, the Python client developer, also tweeted that he has "an experimental port of pyelasticsearch on top of the official client":

https://github.com/HonzaKral/pyelasticsearch/tree/elasticsea...
bin/pycharm.sh
ERROR: Cannot start PyCharm
No JDK found. Please validate either PYCHARM_JDK, JDK_HOME or JAVA_HOME environment variable points to valid JDK installation.

I wish this had been mentioned up front, before I spent all that time watching videos and such. :/ Nothing against java per se, just that it's a giant runtime/security-surface that has no bearing on my Python work.

I'm still happy with Geany, gvfs, meld, and terminal, etc... though they might not be as flashy. :)
And I believe a set of very fast computers can acquire data that aren't accessible to a human (merging multiple camera feed, cross corelate with radar, heat signature etc) and compute trajectories and strategies accordingly.
Maybe if you've been doing it for 10, 20, or 30 years, but even still... how disingenuous to claim that few should or do have the hobby of tinkering with hardware. Not to mention, it's the very epicenter of what provides a market for Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and every breadboard and sensor therein.

You'd have just as many model train enthusiasts, if that were the largest form of personal transportation and everyone had one at home (Re: cars, car enthusiasts, etc).
> I find it somewhat ironic that you say this in a comment! Why not read the damned blog post and be left alone?

Because he said Youtube, not comments in general. It's perfectly non-ironic to expect different things from different sites.
How can we take advantage of this market opportunity? Is it fairly easy to ship to Argentina under the radar? Can you bring a bunch of them in your luggage?
Just wanted to reach out and say that using your tutorial, I taught myself what I needed to know to talk myself into my current job. Thank you!
You lost me when you compared the civil rights movement to a couple of rude airline employees questioning this woman's right to carry her dog onto the plane. False analogy much?

Also, you're setting up a straw man here. I need once excused the behavior of the employees past their initial skepticism. I was commenting on the way in which this woman presented the interaction.
The balance of power shifts all the time. Don't assume today's paradigm will be the paradigm of tomorrow.

For example, if the skies of tomorrow are filled with inexpensive drones, it's grossly cost-ineffective to fight with long range guided missiles.
I'm not allowed to name any of my G+ accounts "sep332". Which sucks because that is my primary online identity.
Communications jamming maybe? If a remote pilot could get disconnected, having a local pilot would be more reliable.
While they don't go into detail on which type of data link which is responsible for controlling the aircraft I am going out on a limb saying that it's controlled via BLOS (Beyond Line of Site) instead of typical LOS, they did not state how far it flew away from that coast so I am just guessing here. I have worked on a lot of predators, reapers, and also inside their GCS'. No one has came close to "Hacking the data link" there has been attempts to jam the signal but no loss of aircraft due to it.

Source:
I worked with the Reapers and Predators (deployed and at home) in the Air Force and as s contractor working for L-3 Communications as a Satellite Engineer (Responsible for the datalink).
yep - this is totally designed to be a more scalable lead-gen strategy (top of funnel).

Next post will be on effective interviewing by/of engineers. I find many companies don't tend to do that in a scalable way, either.
Vertical Farms being used to produce vegetables in Singapore
The fluctuation in market cap does not provide or withdraw financing from the company. The rise and fall of their shares is irrelevant and means that investors anticipate higher earnings and have therefore revalued the company. I don't see what you're getting at.
Many dns amplification attacks have made use of the domain isc.org due to it's large size and entry count. It looks like someone has now registered and setup the new domain bitstress.com, as a possible alternative. Note the large number of odd entries in the zone.

Some people have been using iptables to suppress dns amplification attacks, by referencing isc.org with variations on the following theme/hash:

-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport 53 -m string --hex-string "|03697363036f726700|" --algo bm --to 65535 -j just-drop

Here's a new variation for the new bitstress.com domain:

-A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport 53 -m string --hex-string "|0962697473747265737303636f6d00|" --algo bm --to 65535 -j just-drop
I deal with this by using the Chrome extension "YouTube Options" [1]. It takes a bit to setup, but it works pretty well by filtering out various fluff crap like comments, increasing the video size etc.

1 - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-options/bd...
I keep this picture of Elon Musk open permanently in one of my Spaces. When feeling unmotivated or risk-adverse, I'll imagine what he would say if I was sitting in the backseat of the Tesla.

http://imgur.com/4tsZOIf
Lies Your World Map Told You