skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Based on Spring" is not Spring. I worked there for a bit, they called it Sparta, and its appeal to the top tech brass was they could restrict which objects are available for use in the library they provided for you. The subtle message behind it was, we can hire anyone as long as we limit what they can do.
Django 1.6.1 Released
Too many people would rather not deal with the difficulties of reading foundational works. The task of reading coffee-table folderol is much easier than having to actually rethink what you know when you read works that have stood the test of time. I, too, am guilty of having read too many coffee-table books and have only really started to learn now that I avoid those books. Picking up a kindle and a tablet have especially helped in my newfound pursuit of knowledge because, ironically, the most valuable books/articles/essays tend to be freely available online.
To me personally, Bitcoin is dead already. It's turned from a nice idea to a speculation tool. Get Wall Street involved and it will become worse than USD! I won't even mention the fact that China owns over 70% of the market! The whole thing starts to stink badly!
It seems to have some kind of filesystem. You can write files, there's /dev, /root, /tmp and /usr, and vimrc and color settings.

Not really sure how it all works, I only took a quick look.
Padrino (it's like sinatra++)
> dumbed down

???

Longer columns doesn't take higher intelligence, it just strains your eyes.

http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

Have you ever seen a print edition of the NYT or WSJ?
The point is not to protect apps that are overreaching, by intent or just sloppy permissions, but to reduce the chance of unexpected behaviour to the customer (or if you're tinfoil hat , "the product").

The implementation on the part of the developer may be tiny, but you still have to have give those companies time to make and test the changes. Look what happens when companies move the Send button or whatever on their UI-- I tidal wave of internet bile comes rolling in. An app developer might appreciate a heads up before deluging their inbox/tracker with complaints and 1 star reviews.
Phalcon on Windows Azure - installing the framework and setting up URL rewriting
Moore’s Law and the Golden Age of PC Gaming
Selling Bitcoin / Litecoin on eBay, an eBay Live Help Transcript
How Shutterstock won The Hunger Games
I will question a solid assumption for the sake of sparking a conversation:

Does a higher open rate for a customer correlate to higher revenue generated by that customer? Straight forward logic would suggest it does, but does it?

Here's an example: you are a SaaS business and you blast your paying but fairly inactive clients. What if all you are doing is reminding them to cancel?

Yes, it's anecdotal. But I have seen this happen more than once.
No bet. :)
What is the point here? That we have a new high-tech defensive system that is going to make our enemies give up? That our enemies won't figure out a way to counter this new defensive weapon? And then what? Repeat cycle until when?

I guess my point is that it seems we are on an endless cycle of "building a bigger gun" because we are scared of what the other guy has. We spend an outrageous amount of money on these ventures when instead we should be figuring out how to live on this Earth that has a finite number of resources. If we don't change our course than humanity is doomed - either we will run out of resources or everyone will be killed off using our latest and greatest defensive weapon.

I think Einstein says it best: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
iDoneThis is quite an inspiration: a simple idea executed well. I'm also using it and trying to get my team on board. I should remember this example and reach out to iDoneThis in a few months ;-)
The impact of variable latency is well-known among people who actually study human factors. It makes it hard for your brain to internalize interactions and make them automatic, and it increases the feeling of frustration.

In video games specifically, where I work, it is well-known that you would rather have a game that runs slower, but with a solid frame rate, than a game that has a highly-variable frame rate that is faster on average. (This is more of a continuum situation than a discrete action like a tap, but the basic principle holds).

P.S./edit: Double-tap only means zoom because that is what they happened to implement. It is a convention easily changed. Look at how heavily Apple just revamped their entire interface, for an audience that is arguably much less savvy than the Android audience.

Using double-tap in this way was a mistake; it is an easy mistake to fix if you have enough design vision to know where you are going.
This is exactly the case. Someone noticed it somehow (source / activities dump, I forget) and figured out how to launch it. And last I saw it wasn't actually removed, it just had stronger permissions on what was allowed to launch it, which broke all existing launchers. There may or may not be a new way to launch it.

Meanwhile, the source code keeps moving more and more towards having a real runtime-permissions-manager. Honestly I think they'll have something soon, but probably not before 4.5 or 5.0. In the meantime, I've been loving XPrivacy, it's probably more granular than anything they would release anyway (and I've had exceedingly few crashes, blocked data is faked not broken).
I noticed how the web site photos have their EXIF info still intact and the photos at the bottom (two of) are from an iPhone (5 and 4S)

I bought my foam mattress from Ikea for less.
I did read the article. Sorry, I conflated pinch-zoom with double-tap zooming. facepalm
Great success bookmarked that link
Their node.js "framework" is really just a couple modules sitting on top of express, and they are all open-source.
My experience is similar: Java will get you 80% of super-optimized-compiled C++ speed for the cost of more memory (although you may choose to give Java less memory and pay in speed), and will get much closer to C++ speed with some work (off-heap memory, etc.). However, Java has the upper hand in two scenarios: 1) long-running applications that are developed by a large team – those usually make heavy use of virtual inheritance for the sake of good engineering, and the execution profile is not static, so the program can greatly benefit from JIT optimization; and 2) fairly complex multithreaded code – Java's incredibly useful and well-implemented blocking and lock-free data structures, as well as an incredible work-stealing scheduler (all expertly programmed by Doug Lea) make great use of a general purpose GC, plus Java usually gets them about 5 years before C++ (if C++ gets them at all).
I think you guys are missing the point. Most of these effects are caused by ALL news, even high quality sources like The Economist and HN.
There's already something similar on the market called http://www.boxed.com/. Pretty sure they use Amazon fulfillment centers to carry it out.
Oh, that's a nice idea. I'm going to go and implement that in Ready. (https://code.google.com/p/reaction-diffusion/)
Apologies for not being more precise. I've been inspected by customs before. The whole discourse was short, only minorly inconveniencing, and the people I dealt with were pleasant and professional. At the end of it I thanked them for doing their jobs so well. I wouldn't "raise hell" after such an event.

However, were my possessions to be searched and confiscated in such a violating manor as described by the NZ Herald article, I'd most certainly be filing complaints, and perhaps speaking to the press. This is all that I meant by "raising hell."

I'm worried not because I'm an international terrorist, but because at the end of next week I'll be a former US defense contractor who is immediately departing the US after quitting his job. I'm sure this raises some red flags. I have every intention of complying with my employer's and government's policies regarding all of the procedures for leaving my position, but with this level of institutional paranoia I'm still worried.

That said, if I were to bet I'd say this fear is as irrational as you suggest and everything will go fine.
Florida citrus crop at risk
According to Paul Nahin[1], Richard Feynman had a probabilistic argument that Fermat's Last Theorem was true, which can be dated to before 1963 because Feynman later wrote that Morgan Ward (who died in 1963) told him that "the same argument would show that an equation like x^7 + y^13 = z^11 would be unlikely to have integer solutions..."[2]

[1] Number Crunching, 2011.

[2] The remainder of the quote is, "...but they do, an infinite number of them!"
This is one of those things where you don't realize how nice it is until you have it and you consider what life would be like if it was gone.

There apparently is a full time employee at Costco's headquarters who's job is to test... toilet paper. They really put a lot of resources into making sure that the things they sell are quality - which makes shopping there easy. For any item x, if Costco has it, I can safely say "I'll just get whatever Costco has" and be confident that not only will I get a good price, I'll also get something that will last longer than a few months.

Last year I found myself in a situation where I needed a stereo receiver. Knowing nothing about receivers, I did some research on them so I had a basic knowledge of what I needed - and then I checked Costco. It turns out I could have skipped all that research time and just trusted that Costco's offering would fulfill my needs and have the best value. In the very unlikely event that they're wrong, I know I can count on that extraordinary return policy - which I've only had to use once or twice in the two decades I've been shopping there.
Oakland and East Bay folks interested in participating can come to the MADE http://www.themade.org this afternoon, around 4 or 5, when the Ludum Dare will be starting. We'll be hosting open hours for game jammers all weekend, all for free. Come make some games!
My favorite: http://startupstyles.com/collections/posters/products/forgin...
I don't understand. I hold your opinion in high regard, because your views are almost always well-researched and supported; if not with evidence, then usually with experience. For what it's worth, I strive to express my views with the same quality and clarity as your expressions.

So your reply is somewhat disconcerting, because it seems to indicate that you think the claims are bogus. And if you think so, then you have good reason to feel that way, since almost all of your views are, well, reasonable. (An aside: would you please write something articulating your deep hatred for Soylent? It was shocking to discover you felt that way, and that I didn't see anything wrong with Soylent, so I've been silently hoping to someday see a writeup from you in order that I may find reasons to change my own view.)

In short, I accepted long ago that there's roughly zero chance of going through life without unintentionally believing in crazy things. Everyone does, at some point. Therefore the most important thing is to keep my eyes open for evidence of my own crazy beliefs, so that I can constantly reevaluate them.

So your reply seems to be strong evidence that someone I respect thinks I'm being a bit bogus regarding cell phone tracking. If that's the case, then I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject so that I can revise my own.
Perhaps more interesting: can you modify the rules of game of life in some small way so that it can achieve objectives on its own?
"You've won the game!"

After this nothing happens on click to "Next level" except disabling this button.
I'm the CEO of Casetext -- we'd also like to use this opportunity to get feedback on our new annotations interface.
Ah - perhaps OpenJDK has a larger presence in the open source community than in the pure-play commercial software community - makes sense, thanks.
The truth is often hidden in plain sight simply because most will never go looking for it.
I do this as well, though it seems in my field this is fine and acceptable behavoir (Unless you're from a competing research group...)
The need for two fingers to navigate a page annoys me far more than text size.
...authored by tlrobinson?
I need a Cal King too!
If anyone want's to simulate this on there own computer you can use this: http://golly.sourceforge.net/
Encrypt messages based on ssh public keys with easy import from github
Fewer guns, fewer suicides
Which suggests that take-home #0 should be:
Don't build a pile of crap in-house framework.

Sniffing that out before too late is the tricky part...
That's absolutely true. I was not commenting on whether or not they need solitary confinement. I was stating that the claim in your second paragraph--that violent criminals almost always pose more danger to society than non-violent criminals--is not true. It would seem several people strongly disagreed with me...
Big Data Platform as a Service At Netflix
> Our primary success factor was starting with a rough draft. We didn't like our v1 much—an all cotton tufted mattress—but that didn't keep us from launching with it. This gave us a chance to experiment with problem/solution and to start collecting feedback right away. We had to do quite a few returns at first but we iterated constantly until our customer satisfaction was high enough for us to start getting referrals.

Putting myself in your shoes, this seems like a scary way to go about things. I'd think, "those first returns are from unsatisfied people. They'll give the product bad reviews and that will put the score in a negative rut it won't be able to pull itself out of. Yes, the next version will be amazing because of the initial feedback, but now we'll have bad reviews so people won't even give it a chance."

Would you mind explaining how I'm thinking about this the wrong way? Perhaps you never put v1 on Amazon and that's how you avoided my concern? But doing so seems like it could limit the feedback you get on v1.
I haven't looked at your implementation, so I'm basing this on the statement "then() will actually accept functions returning regular values, too" in your grandparent comment. Because of this you don't have a true Monad (as in your Promise implementation doesn't satisfy the third monad law).

One easy way to think of Monads is that they are like black holes - you are free to put something into it but can't ever pull it back out. Instead, all you are allowed to do is chain them together (with bind). So to transform the value inside a monad, you must write a function that takes that value and returns the transformed value wrapped in the same type of monad (Promise in this case). The monadic machinery in 'bind' will take care of pushing the result from one Promise into the transform function.
Interesting. This appears to be an attempt to do some market research by Google--to find out which messages are resonating with their audience.

I wonder if it'll work.
The last 4 major updates to DOTA 2, have been unplayable for about 2-5 days. They did an update earlier today, my friend in Australia hasn't played all day because servers are down. I can't play in Singapore at 2-10am, servers are still down...

http://steamcommunity.com/app/570/discussions/0/648814395709...
I don't see any pink region. Tried on an iMac with Safari and Chrome.
That's one of the reasons that we're not fans of memory foam. We use a foam that is breathable and that you don't sink into. Ours has a little more bounce.
Don't take a job just for the money
Jordan Cooper tries to express that taking a job because it pays well is short-sighted.
I wonder if a lot of headway could have been made simply by doing some constraint analysis on the Spring framework and figuring out how to improve the performance. I have a hard time believing that Spring itself was completely topped out. It might have been an architectural choice, or some bloat that could have been taken out incrementally.

Instead they seem to be going the route of "the unicorns will solve it". The overall cost of that approach seems higher - finding unicorns is rare. Finding unicorns that are very good at all areas is even harder. I know there are a lot of unicorns on this board, but there sure aren't a lot of unicorn resumes on a hirer's desk.

I think the value of Spring has always been not that it's super-high-performance out of the box, but that it does a lot for you, and that as you learn more and more of it, you can develop solutions fairly quickly. It's built to make it easier on the developer, not the servers - but it is still easy to improve performance by focusing on constraints.

I think it's easy to blame what's between the keyboard and the chair, but the availability of said unicorns is the one ingredient of the system that is not in an employer's control. What is in control is sponsoring more education, and focusing on simplicity and constraint analysis.
As above; ARM grew from a very low-power beginning (some 250mW total for the original ARM-2 chipset of CPU, IOC, MEMC, and VIDC, running at 8MHz on 2 micron tech, in 1989), and has remained low-power since. Whilst the CPU’s obviously only a part of any server, I’d imagine that the savings in power usage across as many servers as companies like Google and Facebook have are the driving force behind these evaluations.
Yes. JAX-RS (the standard implemented by Jersey), which is part of the often maligned Java EE, is a (surprisingly?) well designed REST "microframework". Java EE in general has come a long way from the monster it used to be, and is becoming quite pleasant.
http://i.imgur.com/U2ipT41.png
Hey drone! Beer me that wine!
I love that. The NSA actions are backfiring.
I am a 25 year old single male, and I am a Costco member. Mostly because I believe in their employment practices, and the quality of the products.

Where else can I get meat that I know has been properly inspected (and if it hasn't, Costco will remove it from the shelves)? Buy fresh vegetables at a cost lower than my local King Soopers or Safeway.

Amazon will never replace those for me, also, being 25 I tend to procrastinate, I don't have time to wait for Amazon to ship me cleaning supplies. When I am out I want it now, drop by Costco I get it now... that's important to me. I don't think Costco has anything to be afraid of.
Thanks for the advice. We've tried to optimize what we intend to carry toward those sorts of things, and a transformer or two is on the list. Otherwise my wife and I are quite happy living a rather spartan lifestyle; for instance, another of our shared dreams is to build a tiny, off-grid, house.
Too slow for me on Chrome.
Facebook self-censorship: What happens to the posts you don’t publish?
I think this vastly overstates Popper's influence. First, if you're trying to say that he's responsible for how science is done, I think that's flatly untrue. Popper's role is to describe and explain scientific practice, and understand how it is effective in producing understanding (assuming it does so--and most philosophers of science tend to agree).

If you mean that he's responsible for our understanding of science, that's debatable. Outside of philosophy, Popper is extraordinarily well known, and you can't avoid people speaking as if falsification is all there is to philosophy of science. Within philosophy, he is respected, but I don't think his particular views are particularly popular.
This analogy started as a way to explain the scene to friends and stretches further to include company builders, patents, bootstrapping and pirates. But keeping this post under five minutes to read.
PLOS Releases New Data Access Policy Draft
If you had to title an article that you want people to read, what would you do then?
Don't forget the tools and infrastructure that support good engineering (dependency management, build, javadoc, findbugs, checkstyle, PMD, cobertura for code-coverage, better unit-testing frameworks, the list goes on).

I'm sure C++ ecosystem has some of those but whether people are using them or not seem quite obvious: how many C++ projects do that out there? Not as many as the Java counterpart.
عکس های طنز
عکس های طنز
I don't think "we haven't seen confusion around this" is a good answer. Most users will not even understand what is happening, they will just have an ambient level of uncomfortability with the UI that they don't know how to explain (not only due to this, but to many other factors as well, all of which contribute).

Don't tell me that your users don't have an ambient level of uncomfortability with the UI, because we all know that is the case (it is even the case on iOS, now much more than it was with iOS 6!)

If I were the UI lead for Android, I would be scouring the system from top to bottom, looking for ways to simplify and streamline, to increase predictability. All kinds of current UI actions would get thrown away (hint to Google Maps people: Shake is not an intentional UI action, it is what happens accidentally 5 times per minute when I am using your software. It should not be bound to anything, ever. [Apple is just as bad for binding shake to Undo, but at least theirs has a higher threshold now]. It is nice that at least now you can finally turn it off after it activates a few times, but haven't you noticed how everyone turns it off all the time, and nobody ever uses it for the intended action ["leave feedback"]? Get rid of it.)

Anyway, all I can say to this response: "This is why we have the beta, to test this stuff."

Is that if this attitude were actually solving all the problems that need to be solved, Android would have an amazing UI that everybody raves about. That is not the case! Why is it not the case?
Thanks! The more I think in this direction the more I think we need to really push this language or something like it. As much as I love the idea of 'craftsmanship', etc., when business stakeholders hear that language and similar ideas, fear grips their heart. We can do a better job creating awareness of the dollar value of bad code by changing the way we describe it in a credible way.
We'll check on that. Thank you for pointing it out.

Regarding Ikea, we're not really able to compete with them on pricing as a startup and I'm not really sure that'd be a wise move for us once we could. We really just want to focus on fair pricing and a well designed quality product.
They on purpose don't allow balances in USD as maybe then they will be considered a bank. Once you go thru their verification process, you get buy instantly up to 10 BTC/week without waiting (although sometimes they turn this feature off for whatever reason). Also, you don't need to wait a whole week - you get hourly increases of the 10 BTC quota, which is nice... when it works.
> same product can have different names

No, the same product will have different names and feature descriptions, to hinder your comparison shopping. Frankly, this kind of behavior should invalidate one's trademarks.
Sorry, I misunderstood the context. You said something to the effect of 'still don't understand how this varies', except the micronutrient profile was released on 12/12, so that kind of bounds your curiosity at one day, which is confusing.

Unless you really meant the product as a whole in comparison to the vitamin and mineral powder, in which my reply was an overcomplicated way of saying "it's not a basic bulk vitamin and mineral powder."
Variable frame rates is a different issue. For example, reacting within 100ms feels instant, whereas an animation running at 10fps (one frame every 100ms) looks awful.

With interaction response, the faster the better.
Would you mind doing an AMA on /r/entrepreneur?
گالری عکس ازطبیعت شمال
گالری عکس ازطبیعت شمال
Before GPS hardware was commonly available in phones, some CDMA carriers offered phone-based navigation services that relied on tower triangulation. Thus, it's highly likely that triangulated location data was available to emergency services and law enforcement from CDMA networks as well.
I was reading the transcript and got increasingly worried that you were in a vicious circle of being passed on to the next eBay representative. Glad it worked out.