skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if I buy a tablet of roughly that form factor, I'm going to buy a 7 inch over a 7.9 inch because a 7 inch fits in the inside breast pocket of my coats and a 7.9 inch does not. As it happens, I'd prefer an Android anyway for a few reasons, but just saying that there can certainly be a real, substantial, practical difference between 7" and 7.9".
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The Russians are doing this, too.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts-...
Sure; reasonable, just unclear.
Living in USA I assume.
Is Swiftype suited for ecommerce? (i.e. product search)?
Do you have something for mobile apps?
I couldn't find info on these adapters. From what I can tell this is very Backbone specific. Can you point me in the right direction?
I don't see the vice versa in academia at all. Where is this OOP hype that you think exists? Even OOPSLA changed its name to SPLASH to de-emphasize objects.
Not for senior devs in my experience.

I initially got a number of recruiters. I think they scrape the ruby/rails-users mailing lists and send out spam. I'm also on every Rails job association I can find, and in the RoR LinkedIn list, etc.

I've stated my rate to contractors and tell them I want a 40hr/week remote paying the same with same benefits I have now or enough extra to pay them, and they don't talk to me again.

For senior Rails devs, I've been told (by http://mirrorplacement.com) there are periodically 120k/year USD to manage and dev team lead (close to a SF-area rate) for easily 50-65 hours a week. That's like 73-96k if it were a 40hr rate which isn't that good for a mid-level developer in SF, which is where a few of those positions' companies were based. For remote senior dev who can't work those hours easily, but need that rate to jump, it won't work.

If I contracted and managed my own projects, I could make more, but I don't have the time for that. It is a matter of rate and how much time I want to be spending. I'd like a Rails contracting agency that needs 40hr/week remote developers and will pay them >100k/year + reasonable family benefits and is flexible with time. That isn't common.
I feel like the reason you don't see a web app development model that takes from the best ideas from both PHP model and the Rails/Django model is because by the time you've been exposed deeply enough to both of these approaches to truly understand the benefits and flaws of each you are way too cynical and burnt out on the idea of tooling around building "the next big web framework." Instead, after watching trends come and go, you just take whatever you can get for free and go out and solve real problems with it.
I know of two modes for OCaml: TypeRex[1] and Merlin[2]. I've used both, and they both work reasonably well. The problem with TypeRex is that it requires changing your build, so it's not an easy option for companies that have some sort of custom build system in place.

Happily, by the time I got around to working at a company like that, somebody had written Merlin which does not need anything like that. It even worked with js_of_ocaml, which was very impressive. I thought it was a very good tool.

[1]: http://www.typerex.org/

[2]: http://kiwi.iuwt.fr/~asmanur/blog/merlin/

Emacs also has good support for a few other languages. Haskell has ghc-mod[3] and scion[4], for example.

[3]: http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/ghc-mod/en/

[4]: https://github.com/nominolo/scion

Similarly, there is ENSIME[5] for Scala.

[5]: https://github.com/aemoncannon/ensime

You can also use eclim[6] with Emacs, which integrates with Eclipse to offer rich functionality for Java.

[6]: https://github.com/senny/emacs-eclim

Of course, Emacs has language-aware editing for Emacs Lisp by default :). You can get similar support for most other popular dynamically typed languages as well.

So yes, Emacs does support plenty of languages like that, although almost always through a plugin. Happily, with the new package manager, installing and managing plugins is now trivial.
Has anyone used the real-time rocket stuff?
Perhaps I'm missing something, what about static methods prevents you from having a mock AuthorizeNet class implementing the same interface but with a submit() method that just returns fake data? Perhaps there is something specific to the testing framework you use that makes this clunky?

As far as static properties go, if you're mucking with those you're back into the world of storing state, which OO is more suitable for, but the whole point is to avoid doing that wherever possible. :) What I was getting at before is that we really use a mixture of both real OO and procedural with class-namespaces-static-methods wherever each thing makes sense, but given the nature of what most backend PHP is trying to accomplish, the latter ends up being the majority.
head explodes: this announced the same day as a paper showing how to use an iphone accelerometer to reverse engineer keystrokes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6456360
Might work for some people, but I'm personally used to using a fighting gamepad that has six face buttons in the standard 'Capcom' orientation.

People who learned Capcom fighting games on normal pads are usually OK with triggers, but I learned on a stick, so using the triggers goes against my muscle memory as I still use a stick regularly as well. My fighting pad, however, is much more portable than my stick.
Trackballs really aren't _that_ terrible for precision in FPS. Not pro level, but heckuva lot better than the joystick control consoles currently use. I found I had a harder time in StarCraft than I did in UT2K4, but both were quite playable.

I used a Logitech Trackman for seven years, and the biggest issue was that the force required to move the ball around wasn't constant; it would vary depending on how gunked up the little rollers inside had gotten. I had to clean mine out every day to keep it smooth.
100%.

They send an email every month prompting members to visit the site to select a pair of shoes or skip.
Congrats on launching. I built a similar idea and found it to not be profitable:

http://babygra.ms

If you figure out how to make this profitable, when you consider printing costs and marketing costs, please share! Long story short, I found you have to give people one for free, and this kills your margins. Send me an e-mail if you want an Excel spreadsheet that proves this :)

I posted some details here:

https://t.co/w2r59Ah6LN
Yes, we have a number of ecommerce customers. And we have mobile SDKs for iOS and Android and a mobile web-optimized search experience: https://swiftype.com/mobile
I am completely against create actual files to make mocks.

I use PHPUnit, the de facto standard for testing php code.

To create a proper mock in it, you use getMockBuilder()
If I understand your question rightly, yes. Looking at the Github history, we did actually have 6 branches over the life of the project. All were extended technical experiments of one sort or another like trying out a new templating approach. 2/6 were merged. But all normal coding was pushed to master with no branching (beyond a local checkout and local commits, which are a sort of branching, but none of those lasted longer than a day). There, any checkin triggered tests, and any build that passed the test was pushed live.

If you want others to see the benefit, I'd encourage you to pick a specific area of the code, test the hell out of it, and make sure that a) tests are easy and quick to run on dev boxes, and b) every checkin is automatically tested. I'd start small, and one good place is a chunk of important business logic. It's even better if you use the tests to support refactoring and general cleanup of an area people know is messy.

If you do this right, then people will have two experiences coding on the project. In the tested code, it's pleasant and safe. In the messy code, it feels dangerous and scary. Over time they may get it.

Note that this is really hard to get off the ground in an established company and in an existing code base. So if they don't catch on, don't feel like it's you. (I generally cheat by being the first person on greenfield projects, so the first line of code written is a line of test code.) Also, if you get stuck while trying to clean up legacy code to make it testable, Michael Feathers' book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" is very helpful.

Good luck, and feel free to drop me an email if you end up with more questions.
(disclaimer: not a designer)

My theory is that they're all blindly copying Apple. The thing is, Apple does that for occasional highlighting (ad copy, e.g.), not for gigantic blocks of text. Any long-form text on Apple's site is in black (or near-black) text on white (or near-white) background.

I sure wish they'd stop doing this. Do they not actually want people to read their blogs (or whatever)?
IMHO, controllers will not work well enough for FPS for a foreseeable future.

Trying to play sniper with a controller is just hopeless.
Sending you something you don't want is worse than adding a credit to your account for a future purchase of your choosing, IMO.
Wow - you're a racist bigot!
> Ah. How are they gonna transmit data?

If there only were some sort of non-electronic version of email.
Rage of the Privileged
Maybe we can all use the internet without the NSA watching during the shutdown too.
Yahoo! and Google ids are very widely used across the full spectrum of government and bureaucracy in India, in large parts because the official email offered by government body NIC is horribly unusable.

Take a look at the email ids for officials, including cabinet ministers, in India's Ministry for Communications and IT: http://deity.gov.in/content/people-and-offices

Aside from being a massive security risk it's also hugely embarrassing to some of us Indians.
Which means interception and time limits.
The linked article explicitly states that the author has found (albeit anecdotally) that good engineers are very very productive in PHP. I've found this myself as long as you don't go writing code that sits in PHP's "hmm, what'll happen if I do this..." area.
I've been coding PHP for almost 8 years now. The number of times that I have come across anything even close to that example is precisely zero.
Your comment is good. "Apu Fuck-knuckles" is not. You should change it while you can still edit. It completely occludes your otherwise decent comment.
I really wish there was an openssl cookbook that upgraded openssl to 1.0.1 on centos. Seems like something someone can automate.
Lack of contrast is a design trend that's been going on for quite a while.

However, I don't think the example you cited is a particularly egregious example of lack of contrast. It's not ideal, but it's much better than the gray on light gray body text I've seen before.

There's actually a formula you can measure this.

http://juicystudio.com/services/luminositycontrastratio.php
http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

The color code of #626566 on a background of #FFF yields a ratio of about 5.9 to 1.
That is why something like lavabit is important for India.
You said especially in academia. I just meant that OOP is fad-like, too.
PHP may have a bunch of ways to shoot yourself in the foot, but you get a new foot back right away. IMHO the oddities in PHP rarely hit you, and when they do you'll pick it up right away in PHPUnit, fix it, and walk away.
Every once in a while you meet someone who's really good at remembering not just your name but the little details of your life, your interests, what you last talked about, etc. It's either a gift or the person is disciplined enough to keep notes and review them before you next meet. Either way it's impressive.

Now, with an app like this, it will cease to be anything remarkable. Yeah, someone you met two months ago seems to remember everything like it was yesterday, eh big deal, he's just using Refresh.

I don't really know how I feel about it, but it seems like it's cheating somehow.
That's not "faster" (i.e. it doesn't take less time to run), it just has less delay from when it send back the first piece of output.
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Another hard example: A start up wants the cutting edge tech so they use hphp. The company ran out of money before it finish complied.
> I don't really know how I feel about it, but it seems like it's cheating somehow.

I used to feel the same way about phone numbers: before cell phones arrived, I prided myself in knowing the phone numbers of all my friends by heart, but these days, I can barely remember one more phone number besides my own.

I felt a bit bad over this for a while, until I realized that I preferred to use my memory for things that are more meaningful.
All I can say is... I don't get upset by much in this world, but this is one thing that turns my heart to such table-flipping, redhot, searing rage.

I am so glad to see this, it makes my soul glow.

Down with these abysmal scum of the earth.
> mysql_escape_string vs. (sigh ) mysql_real_escape_string

ouch
Thank you for saying this. Logical arguments, especially around fuzzy notions like the feel of a controller, are useful for prioritizing the hypotheses we test. But not for deciding on them.

Given 15 different controller designs, use logic to figure out what order you test them/build them. But at the end, it comes down to the feel.
Every year since I joined the military in 2003, the government has pretended that they weren't going to pass a budget and that Soldiers won't get paid. They are generally full of shit about this issue just like they are full of shit when it comes to nearly every other. Please stop electing career politicians for public office, they only want to hurt you.

The last time it actually happened was in the 90s, and it only lasted a week or so.

It's possible that the Soldiers won't get paid, but it will be the result of a bunch of wealthy old white men throwing a tantrum (both democrats and republicans alike) because they didn't get their way.

Once again, please stop re-electing congressman and governors. More importantly, please stop electing them to be president. They are almost universally evil, in addition to being incompetent, selfish, and petty.
I believe GroupMe, which was acquired by Skype, was started at a hackathon.
Send it with a person in a diplomatic bag. If it gets intercepted it will be an international incident and you'll know 100% of the time that you are compromised.
You keep mentioning Lavabit, even after they shut down?
For every apartment that is rented out on Air Bnb a hotel room goes vacant.

This isn't true. NYC already prevents a lot of short-term visits because of the high nightly hotel rentals. If that price becomes cheaper, then more people will travel there.
Who the hell tries adding 4 to a product identifier?

I wish I could use static typing too, but when I can't I use vars that are somewhat intuitive.
New form of photon-based matter is essentially a lightsaber
Perhaps I wasn't very clear; in your article, you contrast the apparent non-addictiveness of pure nicotine with, to quote directly, "the addictiveness coming from MAOIs & other compounds present in tobacco." And it is precisely the latter part of the phrase "MAOIs & other compounds" that I was asking about when I said "other compounds."

The implication seemed to be that there were other things beyond MAOIs in tobacco that were (or helped nicotine to be) addictive; is that not the case?
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does anyone know if there was a presentation that went along with these slides. it would be great to be able to see it. @briantford if you see this, we'd love to see more of the meat behind the bullet points. cool stuff though!
Airbnb would make recognizing that it's your property nontrivial. They don't show a specific address until a reservation is accepted; the point on the map is randomized and can be a few blocks away; photos are supplied by the host and may not match photos the landlord has (if the place is sufficiently well decorated and not distinctive, it may be hard for even a human to determine it's the same place).

If however you licensed some good facial recognition technology, perhaps you could compare the face in the Airbnb host's avatar with that on the ID each of your tenants supplied when applying for an apartment. It would be far from bulletproof, but could get you somewhere. In a less-densely populated place maybe you could even get away with "notify us if someone named Bob offers a new room within 0.5 miles of 622 Cedar St", perhaps hiring low-paid humans to sanity-check the results before passing the notification on to the landlord.
I like this question. I think AngularJS' latest presentation echoes some of your issues with the complexity of adding in multiple javascript packages with different loading mechanisms.
I was a student at the time, but it seemed like GCC was like the Linux of its day, causing a lot of upheavals in the compiler market. GCC code was so fast compared to what was out there.
So? The model/architecture behind lavabit is what should be replicated for all government communications. Don't provide it to citizens maybe, but do safeguard their own communication.
I've already added it to my "Here's the advantages of Dvorak, you should totally join my cult" speech.
I am neither racist nor bigoted. What I am is opposed to spacefaring nuclear powers who are utterly incompetent at their jobs. They put all our lives in danger. If the Brits pulled this crap I would insult them with "Johnny Fuck-knuckles". (For example, "I am staggered that Johnny Fuck-knuckles would send agents to fling around office equipment at the Guardian's offices.")
Can anyone please point me in the direction of an open source project on Github that can showcase to me the 'elegance' of all these other programming languages that have the scale and adoption of some of the more well-known PHP community pieces?

I feel like so much of the bias towards PHP is either an unfair comparison (language to 'rails') or a bad taste left in the mouth because the person worked with a nasty domain specific language like Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, etc.

PHP is like pop music; there is a lot of it and 'true' artists think it's beneath them. Nevertheless the public demands and craves it, and most of the big web applications that are open source run on PHP.

If you feel like PHP is a blight on the world, by all means go out there and disrupt the community by launching something that gets widespread adoption the way PHP software has.
How do you know they won't do a thorough sweep for bugs? How do you know their mode of transportation? If the Russians are doing it, there must be some merit to the solution. Granted it doesn't sound logical. Your worthless assumptions aside, you seem to have a lot of hate pent up there.

No need for name calling, Cletus. And it's sad to see this in someone with 12 yrs of professional experience as a "software and electrical" engineer.
Fair enough. But it also imposes time limits for critical communication.
They would be done in the way that I personally do, or at least something similar. The private key is split using Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme into several pieces, which is then printed as a high-redundancy QR code and then hidden. The key only needs to be 256bit, so there's not a lot of data to hide.
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I don't think bringing up deprecated functions is valid criticism. Everyone uses PDO these days.
The switch() statement isn't really evil, right?
I would use a $10 a month host like Dreamhost or BlueHost or HostGator, (everyone hates one of those) get it working, then worry about scale.

Plugins vary wildly in how much theme they bring with them.
If ctrl-alt-del was a mistake, Bill Gates should have fixed it himself
This is pretty spot on: http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-nations-gentrified-n...
Hah! You're correct, I don't know where my mind was.

Looks like it's too late to edit my post.
GNOME = GNU Object Model Environment

Also, Linux isn't GNU, but it is GPL.

People get annoyed at the RMS self-promotion, or GNU promotion, but that stuff is important.
I would assume that the cold stored coins are encrypted requiring t of n keys to decrypt using some standard secret sharing scheme. This should stop the 90% offline being an easy target for internal issues and also for physical hold-ups / robbery. I'm not sure if publishing the exact method of this would be a good, or a bad thing.

Having their bank / storage require a fixed notice period before allowing access to the offline funds - like a time lock - would also make it harder to steal the offline funds.

Not knowing their stack outside of the guessed Ruby/Rails, I'd guess the weakest point lies around code deployment.
I guess you can just encrypt it with their public key, email it and have them print it...just gotta be sure they'll actually do it?
My PhD is focussing on addressing fundamental questions in how prions behave like they do.

Often in medicine edge cases provide insight into a more general mechanism or process (e.g. Li Fraumeni and p53/cancer, retinoblastoma and Rb). Part of my work is considering the idea that prion diseases may be very pure examples of a more general process observed in a huge range of neurological diseases, from ALS to Alzheimers to Huntington's to Parkinsons.

While there is some fantastic work going on at the clinical/in vitro side, I hope that a more general understanding of the physical processes governing phenotype will help provide a broader class of treatments.

WRT Eric and Sonia's passion for the research - I've done research in a range of areas, and I've never found a puzzle as fascinating and as engaging as this. I keeps me up at night. I go through flashes of theories and ideas that I have notebooks full with possible hypotheses and associated experiments. The putative overlap in related and unrelated areas of research, from oxidative damage to epigenetic regulation to arguments relating to 3D diffusion within the cellular environment, is extensive and both a source of inspiration and trepidation. Basically, I can entirely relate to that constant feeling of engagement and interest. My work has accidentally become my hobby, and it's awesome.
since specific numbers aren't provided, he could have had 2 orders in his pigeon app and 1 from his prior effort and his claim would be true.

The "boomer age" people I know who want to print pictures and send them to someone go to a kiosk at the drugstore or a copy shop, where they also pick up a greeting card in which they typically like to handwrite a note to the recipient, that was the sort of thing people used to consider courteous.
AFAICT, "good engineers are productive in X" doesn't imply that they wouldn't be yet more productive in Y.
Lessig also took up the fight in Elrded v Ashcroft, a internet copyright case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Lessig eventually lost. Here is his postmortem. You can feel his passion for the fight for what he believes to be the correct interpretation of the Constitution.

http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2004/story_le...
After four weeks, homeless man learning to code has almost finished 1st app
I love this, I could see this being the next wave of programming tutorials, much simpler and fun way to learn how to program. Could you do one for Python? that would be just brilliant.
I supposed one can use carrier pigeons or trained ravens.
The GNU utilties, clib, gcc, all that stuff was just spinning out into the PC world. The software was being ported to everything from Amigas and Ataris with no MMU, and sometimes no hard drive, to Sun workstations. I thought it was pretty amazing - that a lot of hobbyists like me were turning our personal computers into little unix-like machines.

GNU was like this sun, and we were starting to move toward it. It was like we were sunflowers looking for sun... and then meteors being pulled by gravity.

For some people, the FSF and GNU project were more important than DOS or the Mac.