skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's just another confirmation that PC is dead. nobody is buying desktops, only portables. Businesses still have desks but they mostly care about the bottom line.
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The patent system isn't a person or group. It's a weapon of mass rent-seeking built in part by these same companies so that they can reap huge profits without having to actually compete with their rivals. Responsibility for this situation is squarely on the shoulders of these companies and others who have lobbied the patent system into what it is today.

Also, and this is a minor quibble, despite it's frequent attribution to him, there is no evidence that Sir Winston actually ever said that.
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same here. I haven't been to get any feeds via feedly.
It would be great if you always knew where all the objects you own are. For example, if you know you still have some nice LP's in the basement, but you can't find them, you should be able to take al look at your phone and see exactly where they are. (They might show up at a friends place :) Or, if you know there should be some clothes for your kid in a particular size, the app should list all of them available, and show in which box the are exactly.

Not doable yet I guess, but definitely something people will want.
Not all of the roads, out west, for example, are as well engineered as the Autobahn.

But you do have a good point--this doesn't account for all of the difference.
Glad to see this is going well for you. I met you back in 2009 or 2010 I think when you first started doing this and I was doing Affect Labs (FestBuzz), which didn't really work out.

I'm now working on another UK startup (Satago) so might come your way for some grant advice soon.
There are official rallies in Iran orchestrated by those who are in power and dictate policy and when they chant "Death To America", I don't think they are talking about collapse of the empire but literal death. In any case, most of us on this forum do not want the American empire to collapse. My personal opinion is the United States, for all its flaws is a force of good in the world. Often times, Europeans adopt holier than thou attitude, conveniently forgetting their own troubled history with colonialism and heavily relying on the United States for defence
6% of USA adults are redditors. That's larger than some ethnic minorities.
Modelling and Simulation using Matlab
The fields in this demo are being echoed back from the server, so if you see values in them then it is indeed proof they are being leaked.
Many pleasure crafts avoid the area now by either going around the Cape of Good Hope, or by shipping their craft overland.
Using CSS Shapes to Enhance Visual Storytelling
I actually have quite a bit of experience with facebook's chinese -> english translation... my experience is that it doesn't work.

Here's some chinese text that a friend of mine posted to facebook:

好怀念以前在swis的日子，虽然当时在的时候一直抱怨，那也难怪，那时候日子的确很销魂，销魂归销魂，至少那时候大家都在。至此之后，就走了好多同学，也来了很多。这是我两年来最喜欢的一张图片，没有之一。

Here's what Bing Translate makes of it as of today:

Well miss the old days at SWIS, although at the time have been complaining about, it's no wonder, when days are ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy, then at least everyone was. After now, there's a lot of students also came a lot. This is my favorite picture in two years, not one of them.

Here is my punctuation-preserving translation (be warned that I do not approach fluency in Chinese; I'm mainly working off of a dictionary and rudimentary knowledge):

I remember the days at SWIS fondly[†], even though when there I always complained, that's understandable[†], those days were very overwhelming, but despite the overwhelmingness, at least then everyone was there. By now, so many classmates have left, and many others have come. This is my favorite picture of the last two years[†], without exception.

[†] Notes a clause that in my estimation Bing Translate did not screw up.

(For those of you who read Chinese, you might notice that my english translation includes a lot of elements that just plain aren't present in the Chinese text. For those of you who don't: that's going to be necessary in any chinese <-> english translation.)

The thing I've found Bing Translate and Google Translate most useful for is knowing when some otherwise-nonsensical characters are the standard rendition of a foreign name, which isn't something I'd notice on my own. They can also sometimes recognize slang that isn't present in my dictionaries, but that's of questionable usefulness, since I can't distinguish between "google accurately recognized this badly-documented slang term" and "google's translation is completely unrelated to the original text, which is why that meaning doesn't appear when I look up any of the words".
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>I don't like the fact that they're doing it, but presuming that they should operate in total transparency just so that the silicon valley "proper thinkers" won't assume the worst is fairly naive, IMO. They believe they're fighting a critical intelligence war, and secrecy is an integral and necessary part of that battle.

This would be a much more sensible argument if they weren't going around outright coercing Silicon Valley's tech companies into becoming their tools.

If the NSA wants to spy on everyone, they should do it the hard way!
Awesome. I'm in. As a guy who restores old consoles as a small hobby, having detailed photos of the interiors, parts and circuit boards available will be huge.

The kickstarter's only got about two days left. He's met his goal but personally I'd like to see this get even more support.
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iOS 4 was such shit on the 3G it ruined that phone for nearly everyone who bought it, only a year later...
I'm sure people study the source code of the frameworks a lot these days. Most of the things are related to structuring code in an understandable way. MVC and MVC are design patterns and do not necessarily need a framework.
This is interesting, but why is there such a huge gap between raw php, and most of the php frameworks?

The one PHP framework that seems to do well is yaf. However, Yaf is actually written in C and is a php extension. I would expect it to do better than all the php frameworks, but that doesn't account for the huge gap between raw php and the other frameworks.
How hard would it be to remove the jQuery dependency? It looks like it really only needs $.on/$.off/$.one/$.emit, which could surely cut the actual size down a lot from 94kb.
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> Think of it this way: Your argument for giving someone a BSD licensed piece of software and then suing them over patents in it is "Yeah, I explicitly granted them the right to "freely redistribute and use it", but i didn't really mean for them to be able to do so"

Lawyers are a conservative bunch. So I'm sorry, I just don't believe that a lawyer would be so rash as to allow his client to expose himself like this.

But let's get down to brass tacks. Has there been any significant case law supporting this position?
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One thing I like about Knockout, is that not every property in a model (or $scope in ng) doesn't necessarily need to be observable. I wonder if using something like Knockout for the data-binding layer could help with some of this, natively. (Not that Knockout doesn't have it's performance issues).

(Note: I'm referring to Optimization #2 & #4, specifically)
I really love the minimal approach and a lot of it echoes my experience as well.
One thing that I would love to see (mostly because I haven't found good solutions for it myself) is how CSS fits into the whole thing. The way I see it, CSS touches several aspects in the MVP pattern. There is the view part, which is strictly how things look on the screen but there is also the presenter part, which includes thing like, 'now show this thing', 'animate this, and when it is done, do this'.
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>So far, the sharing economy’s impact has been largely unseen because we (and the Bureau of Labor Statistics) are used to counting employment in whole jobs, or part-time jobs, not something-I-do-on-the-side-while-I-freelance jobs.

I hope it stays that way. I know it's not the best case scenario for the metrics, but I already report enough to the government as is, please don't frame reporting more info as a potentially good thing.
For someone who never heard of you, your book or "zen programming" before, there is not enough information either here or on your site to make a purchase decision.

I would respectfully ask a few questions. Who are you? Why are you qualified to write a programming book? Why are you qualified to write a "zen programming" book? How long have you been a programmer? What concrete things will someone who studies the book get out of it?

I read the intro of the site, the description of the book on the site, the testimonials and the Ten Rules of a Zen Programmer and still don't know the answers to these questions other than seeming platitudes.
I am shocked that Google's "ads in search" business was patented before Google was founded, and no one ever asserted this patent. Bill Gross' overture said they never patented it.

Imagine for a second that Google will have to turn over a portion of the ads revenue from the past 10 years? It makes up 97% of their revenue...
How bout you fucking die as a service?
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I'm not familiar with OWIN. However, a GitHub user named @damianh is working on an OWIN implementation. Perhaps reach out to him and offer to help? :)

[1] https://github.com/damianh/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/nowin/no...
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Compass in Pure CSS (animated)
If you allow arbitrary JavaScript, then I'm sure you realize that you can't "just walk the AST" ;)

At compile time, you have no idea which identifiers are incoming data values — to be supplied by the caller of the template function — and which identifiers already exist in scope.
Also, I think some of these optimization concepts (reusing DOM) are probably just generic "good ideas' for almost any JavaScript framework, handling DOM creation. Some good ideas that probably can be used by many devs.
You're paying for the service, not the stickers. The stickers are a portion of the price, the rest goes towards to the rest of the service.
Sure, you could use tools that target the HDL as an IL, if you wanted to write that code yourself and then ship it to your customers as a binary blob, as their HDL compilers need to be specifically licensed, and aren't, as far as I know, something designed to be used as a back-end component in shipping software.

But that limits its usefulness for something like, say, writing a GLSL compiler so you can use your FPGA as a GPU, and are then able to run arbitrary GLSL code on it.

I agree that it's definitely a much different than writing a compiler backend for a CPU. You are definitely going to have different abstractions that will apply well to it. But that's fine; that's what I'm interested in, writing a compiler for a very different kind of platform. The problem is, as far as I can tell, they don't document their actual bitstream format, so you must use their licensed tools any time you actually want to compile something new for the FPGA. And that precludes a lot of use cases.
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This looks really promising can't wait to try it out.
>Google has not done this, Microsoft and Apple have.

Google's Motorola Mobility has sued others based on patents in their portfolio.
I doubt it will do any such thing to either company. The article states that Rockstar is acting independently and regardless of any promises that the consortium made (which includes Apple and Microsoft) that they are moving forward.
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Trivial Ideas Are Deceiving In Their Simplicity
I COMPLETELY agree that in the realm of timely causes that the TrueCrypt audit is a very crucial short-term need. Even if you don't use it (and I can't think of may reasons not to!) someone or some project that you like or use probably depends on it. And not being able to say with certainty that it has not been corrupted this needs to be answered.

As far as the EFF and ACLU meh...neither particularly excite me there are distinct differences to be sure. But it is the similarities that make me feel nonplussed about support. The way I think of these orgs if there is something specific you think they do well and more importantly if it makes you "feel good", then give. As for practical results there are other places your money could be better spent.

Practical application over Pontification
Riot does templating, routing and separation of concerns rather beatutifully, I would say. Those are the things most frameworks are build for. What do you see missing?

The amount of Todo MVC code in Riot is actually smaller than in Backbone but like I say on the post the focus should not be on the code size but on simplicity – and this is why Riot advocates MVP a lot. Actually Backbone also seems like a MVP framework to me.
Which tool did you use to make those MVP diagrams? They look gorgeous!
And then let's not forget the number of people dying of treatable diseases they can't pay to survive!
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yours is a straw man.

tne choice isnt between apple and google or microsoft.

the choice is between proprietary vs freedom software.

dump your apples and macs. choose archlinux, gnu and linux-libre.
I think having a name sounds like a good idea that could be quite hard to do in the wild without making the stickers larger. Take for example my name (Nicholas Smith), which isn't overly long, but it'd take up a bigger chunk of sticker space unless we truncate it to Nick Smith. Which is still reasonably big, so you have to either increase the sticker size or truncate further until it's N.Smith and it loses the persona attached with a name.
They just said that I shouldn't do it much. They were fairly polite about it. I seem to recall there being a line in their user agreement that mentions prohibition of audio and video streaming, though I suppose it's not really enforced unless you exceed the limit consistently.
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I would not call this a framework but a jQuery plugin with a hip name
A million years from now, the only thing left of earth, floating through space, discovered by an alien race...
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how would you build a web component in riot.js? I would compare the complexity to an angular directive or ember web component. How could riot.js help me structure a phonegap/cordova app in which adding a library like jquery isn't necessary with tools like AngularJS that doesnt depend on it?