skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds more like a use case for eye tracking. What about, say, a torus or sphere of virtual displays accessible via Rift? I don't think I'd actually want that, but it's possible someone might, although the resolution might be poor compared to an ordinary IPS panel -- I'm not familiar enough with the Rift to know for sure.

On the whole, I'm less excited by the Rift, as a developer, than I thought I would be; I'm just not seeing all that much in the way of use cases for it. (As a gamer, though, I'm over the moon, especially since Star Citizen will probably support the Rift.)

As a developer, I'm more interested in new input methods, such as the programming-by-voice scheme Tavis Rudd demoed at Pycon 2013; my wrists aren't as young as they used to be, and given that programming is my hobby as well as my profession, anything that takes some of the load off them will be welcome. (I just wish he'd release his damn code already! I've made a halfway decent start from scratch, in that I've got basic dictation working, but not having to reinvent all the glue from first principles would make life a lot easier…)
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Well any advice I give will be open for everyone to see (competitors included) and limited to the 2000 chars provided by HN.

If you'd like to discuss things privately, use http://boun.cr to hide your email and we can discuss things via email thereafter.

Otherwise, as you've mentioned about your current market, it seems like the market is pushing your tool towards the live-site part of it.

Maybe I should try evaluating your product also. I need to "play" with it to understand how I would interpret its use in the role of a customer.
I had not previously been aware of how extreme the ratio is for men vs women on incarceration. Appears to be 12 to 13 times higher.

(from that wiki entry)
http://i.imgur.com/IyBNmuk.png

Is this because men are much more likely to use + sell drugs, much more likely to be violent, or are targeted more heavily?
Jimmy Johns being shady
>> Unfortunately, such an explanation often gets used as a crutch or an excuse for not aiming higher. How many years did individuals and small businesses have no recourse from PayPal before Stripe, Square, et al. came along? Do we really want to have that long of a gap again just because the new incumbents can hide behind the same "it's hard" mentality as the old?

What's the solution here? If I assume you aren't advocating legal requirements for how easy companies have to make verification (which, let's be honest, is a non-starter since laws generally make it harder to verify than easier), the only real solution is to call out companies that do this, which should in turn spur competition from those who think they can do better. It's unfortunate that it takes as long as it does, but I'm not sure if there is a better system.

That said, writing this post is exactly the type of response that should encourage improvement and competition.
I'm not blaming it definitively on dynamic typing. I'm blaming it on the overall system of incentives that I have observed seem to come up a lot more frequently with impurity and dynamic and/or weak typing.
Exactly as I suspected. However, in those days of delegated hiring, I can see how it will be easier to get interviews with this kind of badge in the cv.
No worries, it won't be long before a helpful mod comes along to change the title to "Issue 62938:	Barometer driver hangs and kills accellerometer on its way." Enjoy the context we have until that happens.
>Tip4Commit recently made a change to revert tips that remain unclaimed for 30 days back to the project. So far, according to Gasparyan, about 20% of the value of all tips have reverted back to their projects.

That might annoy me, if I had sent any tips, or if I had received any. Not that I am opposed to supporting T4C but I think 90 days would be more reasonable, and I also liked some other HN user's suggestion that people be given the option to elect a charity or other project to receive funds.
If anything that is just evidence of how thinly traded and amateurish these "markets" are.
Miley Cyrus is Wrecking LA with a Sludgehammer 
What?! Miley Cyrus is running around Hollywood with a sludge!!
Desired: Oculus Rift as a monitor replacement
What hefty price?

There are zero features in C that Pascal and Basic dialects for system programming don't support. The only difference is that you need to turn safety off explicitly.

I was doing low level coding in Turbo Pascal before I even cared about C.
I think it's because male psychology leads men to being larger risk takers.
- I have old function that I know worked but was hairy and I want my new function to work the same for all values.
Looks interesting. Found a small content issue from the about page: "With Poucher, for each restaurant or bar you visit, you get print a digital voucher."

Good luck.
Nice idea.

Could be a better alternative to store-tracking.
I seem to remember reading that chrome added the ability to "black box" libraries to remove them from the debugging call stack to help with situations just like this.
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SuperShuttle provides cheap rides to and from airports (flat rate, so esp. good for say presidio) and actually shows up at obscure locations or calls if they can't find you.
Can you talk about Windows python packaging - I have been struggling with some of that for some time.

Did you ever have to package stuff like DLLs as part of your code?
Legally, what separates shutting down The Pirate Bay from any other arbitrary tracker?
The dogma is actually quite fantastic.

As it was once summarized for me, I'll give my best tl;dr for those who might not want to read the Wikipedia article, as off-topic as it might actually be.

Heaven is a stripper factory and a beer volcano. This is well known. Gravity is not real. What keeps us here on Planet Earth is the great almighty press of His Noodly Appendages. The FSM actually loves us all, but he loves us who are diminutive in stature the most, and that's why he presses them harder, to keep them closer to the ground.

The first person created by the FSM was in fact a midget.

The Wikipedia article touches on the correlation between pirates and global warming, but does not appear to mention this Scientific™ explanation of Gravity. There's also no mention of Last Thursdayism, an orthodox division of the Church of FSM, which preaches that the world was created last Thursday, as evidenced most obviously by the fact that when I ask, you can't remember what you did last Wednesday.

I am not making this up. There is a lot of information missing from the Wikipedia page.
"Useful" for what purpose?
True, but I find commented out code really distracting while I read a file. It's really easy to use the comment method to excess and end up with a file full of old trash code.

As far as Ember's issue, we didn't see the actual code. There's almost certainly a misplaced pointer somewhere. The author made of not being a JS regular, my guess: missing `var` somewhere.
The meme powers the community and drives its marketing. You'll become immune to it after a short time.
Genius for iPhone is Here
Everyone is dissing Google here. Perhaps understandably so since most folks in HN are advanced users and an advanced search feature was removed.

Google is driven by data and sorry but advanced users are a mere blip in that data. I can bet there was a gazilion user studies that showed that your grandma was super confused when 10 options would pop up when she pressed 'More'. The same studies showed that she was much less so confused when 4 options were presented, increasing engine usability for her.

My point here is that some folks attribute sinister motives (more search dollars), while the actual motive is just to make the interface usable for more people.

(Disclaimer: I work at Google, not in search though.)
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I think he is self-insuring in this case.
Yeah, it kicks your ass when you're just getting started and helps you move somewhat quicker once you have experience. But I have observed what you point out many times. I'm not sure it's worth it, in the end. You learn how to Google error messages, that's for sure.
Things need to be put in context.

It's ironc as much as the fact that in many EU countries, when people protest, they don't get brutally beaten, if they're lucky, or kidnapped, tortured and thrown into the fields, possibly dead, when they're not, or that doctors and journalists are not being shot and killed, and so on.
Hacking the Jawbone UP
> Deleting the code and relying on source control removes the issue from top of mind.

That's the goal. Your top of mind is very limited; use tools like version control to help you conserve it.

> Also, it will require more work to bring back later.

Then you need better version control. You can either grab the reverse diff from the commit removing it and apply that (possibly with conflict resolution against more recent changes), or just grab the original file and copy the block of code out of it.
Firefox FTW.
So to get the advantages of the JWT approach you really have to trust the content of the tokens you receive - if you start validating everything and scrutinizing the claims made in detail (especially against a database table of issued tokens) you might as well use an opaque bearer token?
I agree that keeping commented-out source around is bad, but commented-out source should really not affect program behavior. The typical way of testing the removal of something is to comment it out, see the results, and if you like them you delete it and then commit.
Glyph, currently fundraising on Kickstarter, seems like they're taking a swing at the theatre-replacement headset. Instead of an immersive 3D virtual environment, their focus is high-resolution displays.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/avegantglyph/a-mobile-p...
No problem! Let me know if you have any questions on reddit (username: kbouw)
I assure you it is. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor)
I was expecting an ember vs angular holy war in the comments, not a when-to-comment-out-vs-delete holy war.
There isn't an established cause for the correlation, but I'd be more willing to say it's for the same reason that we have a similar ratio in the military, except more extreme because it's not something we can actively do something about.
As an investor that's a bad idea. As a citizen of a democracy this is also a bad idea... IRS should have no problem with bitcoin, as it's more traceable than cash. You seem to think IRS will kill bitcoin for no good reason, in which case it's your duty as a democratic citizen to object to such nonsense.
The author mentions "The Fifth Discipline" a couple of times. Has anyone read it? Worth reading?
is $136 from some random service really worth a post?
Ember is just too magical. Handlebars alone is larger than a lot of competing MVC frameworks. Avoid.
Yes find a good CPA. But here is how you make sure you put aside enough money to pay your taxes. The worst thing in the world is running a tax return and finding out you have a very large tax bill due but unfortunately the money is all gone. Magic, it is. I have experienced this. A six figure tax bill and no cash? You're working all next year to pay last year's tax bill.

You can pay estimated tax online with the IRS. Set it up for yourself so you can do that.

The IRS says you must do estimated tax payments quarterly. Fuck that. I don't have the discipline to save money for three months then send a big payment. Some sort of character flaw.

I pay every two weeks. Online. I estimate my net profit and divide by two. Send the money. Bang.

Lots of small payments add up. Small payments are less painful. Don't worry. The IRS will keep track of all the payments you make.

Periodically I check my guesses against reality. I do monthly and quarterly financial reports and see if my guess x 50% is too high or too low. Adjust as needed.

The important thing is to get close to the actual tax due. You do not have to be perfect. If you owe $75,000 in tax and you have deposited $60,000 already, that final lump is easier to handle.

TL;DR - Frequent small deposits with intermittent course corrections. Aim for getting close to your actual tax bill, whatever your definition of "close" is.

Disclaimer: I'm a tax lawyer who has really struggled with this personally over the years.
I was also thinking that criteria might prune the filesystem a bit too much. Alternately, if you're a vim hater, "Another good reason to get rid of vim!"
While you're not wrong, this doesn't speak at all to the issue that the OP is expressing. While you might think his/her style is messy, it should still be valid. Commented-out code should behave the same way as deleted code.
It's better to ask what they (or anyone else) can use it for. And Facebook is the treasure mine for all kind of NSA-types.
Why do I need to test?
I think they need to move the majority of components to the neck like LG does with their bluetooth headset[1]. The less bulky and attention grabbing the better it will be when they launch for mainstream users that just wants them for their utility (early adopters may prefer them as they are now for conspicuous consumption reasons however). A second benefit is that Glass apparently has abysmal battery life. Bringing them down to the neck would allow for a much larger battery.

1. http://www.amazon.com/LG-Wireless-Bluetooth-Stereo-Headset/d...
I always use local lightweight tag objects in git for this - if there's a commit that I'm not sure about somewhere along the line I'll tag it REVERTME or something like that.
There is a huge disparity in the crimes for which men are charged (and then also for which they are convicted).

I don't have a citation for the statistics offhand, but from my work in drug policy, I can tell you that men and women (in the aggregate) are convicted of very different drug crimes.

Put another way, if you went to a men's prison and a women's prison and took a random survey just of the inmates who are serving time due to drug-related crimes, you'd end up with very different cross-sections.
It's always done that
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Teaching people the world over how to spam the F12 key to get to the alternate boot menu.
OK, so that's a very link baity way of saying. I don't know JavaScript or how to use source control and when I come across unexpected behaviour in my code I don't take the time to understand the cause.

JavaScript is hard, it's a very loose language and it's implementation in browsers sets you up for all sorts of falls. If you're going to code using it you either need to be disciplined or understand it intimately, preferably both. The problems in the article were not caused by Ember.js
That means Google Translate has a copy of his original and modified texts. Long shot, but still a liability.
I'm an experienced web developer (Backbone is my preferred framework) whose team is migrating to Ember. It has its high points, but on the whole, it's been driving me nuts.

Ember, like most modern frameworks, represents itself as MVC. But it's more like MVCLCTMRA (model-view-controller-layout-component-template-mixin-router-application, if you're following along at home). There are just so many moving pieces, and there's a lot of overlap between them. Should I be using a layout, a view or a component here? They're ALMOST the same, and they don't always vary in the places you'd expect them to. Also, the "model" portion, ember-data, is fairly immature and doesn't seem to be anywhere near production-ready.

There are also some design decisions that just leave me baffled. If templates are supposed to be the ideal place to declare stuff, why does a view's root element have to be declared in a bunch of JavaScript properties instead? Why do some of their camel-case names (e.g. RESTAdapter) violate the (fairly strict) naming conventions they enforce in user land?

I don't hate Ember, and I'm sure it perfectly fits the mental schema of at least one person on the planet, but it doesn't click all that well for me. And it's abstract enough that I don't think working through problems in it is making me better at anything except Ember.

It's also probably worth mentioning that about 80% of the documentation online seems to be in the form of StackExchange posts, and about 80% of those are obsolete, as Ember has gone through a lot of radical changes in the not-too-distant past.
In my mind, a job posting, and the responses to it, are just intended to start a conversation.

Getting all worked up over what is or is not in the posting seem kind of silly to me. If you don't like the way it was written, fine - don't apply.

If you have questions, just apply. If they contact you, ask those questions. If they don't contact you, the answers didn't matter anyway.

Applying for a job is not a declaration that you want to work there. It is a statement that you are interested in discussing it more. All the real information gathering, in both directions, happens during the interview process.
For images that are protected you can use this approach

http://blog.auth0.com/2014/01/27/ten-things-you-should-know-...
What context? Right now the title is empty clickbait: "This bug in AOSP is impeding science. How to best get Google's attention?"
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/linus-t...

Pretty shitty reference, admittedly.
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In a pure programming language with strong static typing this effect would simply be impossible to produce in a way that wouldn't make the problem obvious.
What are you guy, eleven years-old??? hint: most police are men, they don't like to beat up or arrest women
Even just using the VR Cinema demo on the Dev Kit 1 (which projects your chosen video file onto a movie theater sized screen in front of you), I'd rather watch flat videos in a higher resolution VR HMD than in the 'real world'.

It really is one of those things that you kind of have to experience to understand it in your gut, but think about what makes it fun to watch movies on an IMAX screen: it's that the movie theater screen fills so much of your field of view. In contrast a living room TV fills up a much smaller fraction of your field of view.

So you can think of the Oculus as a bigger than IMAX screen that fills your entire view besides some narrow vertical bands along your peripherals. It's a much more immersive viewing experience for 2D movies than any non-HMD experience. It's like you have a movie theater screen strapped to your face.
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If you search for "Linus Torvalds net worth" you'll find pages that back up the $10m figure.

But then again, I didn't see any sources on those pages so they might as well be based on a thread like this one.
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- No more support for 4.4.2. I cannot do anything about it so far.
This assumes that you knew that the code was once there, and where it was. Working on a team with partially implemented features with planned future hooks, it's just easier to keep the intent in the live code (hopefully with some good comments/docs)
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I like the analogy of new small cryptocurrency companies with smaller community banks and their sensitivity to overbearing compliance costs.
The "Genius Recognition Technology™" is actually Gracenote, as noted on TechCrunch.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/28/rap-genius-app/
http://www.gracenote.com/music/
Great, thanks. I'm dirthawker0.
function composition in js can be tricky to visually parse the "types" (especially if curried).
Looking at the specs page, their claimed yield stress is 20% higher than aluminum compared to a factor of ~4x for traditional CF composites.

Also concerns about the fiber content may be misguided. The hard part of CF compoisites is the the layup process, which is what a 3D printer would do. The part can then be vacuum bagged to pull out the resin, as in traditional CF manufacturing techniques.
Ah, my mistake, I confused it with scroogle. I tried to upvote you but I don't think I have enough Karma.
They are (probably, but some times it's more complicated than that) just as bad at all those places that have them.

Yanukovych is still as much a vilain.
I was just commiserating and sharing my own experience.

The problems posted in the article are really hard to judge because the author doesn't actually explain what happened.

In the first example, he doesn't try. Fair enough, it's a judgement call on whether to spend time understanding what happened. Personally, I would consider it high priority, because otherwise you have no assurance that the same problem isn't biting you elsewhere.

In the second, he says something that doesn't actually make sense: "Ember's set function has special behavior for values in the content field". I know Ember's source about as a well as anybody not in the core team, and that statement isn't even false. If I had to guess, I'd assume he's really saying something about how ObjectControllers behave as proxies for models.

I don't mean to write off whatever problems he encoutered -- they are clearly real problems, either bugs in Ember or failures of developer ergonomics. If he could point to the specific actual problems I would personally work on a patch to address them. But I don't have enough to go on.
Perhaps it's not the right thread to ask this, but:

What stops e.g. Pixar from opening up Pixarcoin where they let the community render their next movie? Am I missing something here?
I am considering adding helpshift.com to our app - it's a native helpdesk library which fairly expensive but seems to have great features and it covers android/ios and even has unity integration. Anyone tried it?
If by good you mean not being able to provide food for your family during difficult times, not being able to buy common household appliances even though you and your wife work full-time skilled jobs, not having access to world music or culture because the west is "bad", being randomly stopped and harassed by police until you paid them off, being denied entry to certain schools and universities because of your race and/or religion.

Sure, there might have been people that had it "ok." But my family, all of my relatives, all my Russian friends that immigrated from the USSR/Russia (except for a few die hard Russian patriots that wouldn't admit any fault in Russia even if it put their family to death) all have the same, general opinion of it.

And yes, there were the lazy drunks that loved the fact that they could drink on the job all day, not do a single thing, and never get fired. The incompetent idiots that got jobs in positions they had no clue about, I'm sure they loved their job security. But for the average hardworking people that were trying to create the best life for their families, it was pretty shitty.
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They're not losing, the center of power is just shifting. Netflix isn't any more okay with weakening copyright protections for its home-grown content than Disney or Universal.
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