skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that the actual rules are just an implementation detail is why you end up with legislation written by lobbyists and designed to further entrench the incumbents against competition. Say that one of the rules is that you create a list of mandatory payment providers that the"monopolists" must accept; such list shall be regularly updated, and so a board must be created, possibly composed of the industry players. How likely would it then be that a new startup could enter the market?

This is what's happening everywhere, and it's the result of the irrational reaction that we must have some regulation, without really thinking about what and how.
I don't think that 53 claiming there to be no confusion would in itself hold up in court, but I think it could help to inform the public's opinion about how the marks relate to each other, which might get factored into a decision later. I do think that a few years from now, if Facebook's product is successful, it will overshadow 53's brand. While it is technically true that two established marks would be evaluated on who was first, to me it is unlikely that a small developer would win in a suit against a $60B company. The orders of magnitude larger company would aggressively argue their merits and attempt to mitigate the smaller company's. Defending the mark at a time in the future where Facebook has any standing would probably bankrupt 53.
Original article here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132563/infinite_space_...
>* Facebook is supposed to be like a glass through which you can see its contents.*

They should have called the app 'Glass'
And yet it's trivial to write a highly multithreaded application with STM in most CL implementations today.

If Clojure was less inclined to differentiate itself from other Lisps and co-opting the future of the language I believe there'd be far less zealotry on both sides of the fence. IMO Clojure is just fine. I don't see the reason why it needs to persist CL FUD in order to make its case. They're both very practical implementations of Lisp after all.
Mono is widely used in games for Linux, for what it's worth. A lot of independent games have been written in the .NET XNA framework, and Mono has a Monogame component that allows developers to port these games to Linux relatively easily.

Between the Humble Bundles including a lot of Linux ports and the Linux Steam/Steam OS launch from Valve, there's a lot of these ports coming out right now.
large businesses thrive on being able to manipulate regulation to their benefit.

that's what "Large Companies Thrive On Regulation" hints at.
Some people don't resort to pseudoscience when making arguments againsts GMOs.
Actually the multitasking is really useful, when you are on a tablet.
Metro is only great for a touchscreen, that's all. They tried to use it for desktop too, which was the big mistake.

On my Android phone I can't really chat on Skype and surf the web at the same time, I need to switch from one to another every time. On my Windows tablet (the Asus Transformer Book T100) I can do that easily.

Their big mistake was to market it as a desktop OS. They made a tablet OS, that's all.
Zeroes and Ones? Luxury! In my day we couldn't afford the Ones, we had to make do with just Zeros...
It's a lot easier for things to "just work" when one company controls the entire stack.

That being said, as others have pointed out, ChromeCast and Miracast solve different problems. One is something more of a Wireless DLNA solution while the other is real-time streaming.
After spending some time in the JS and NodeJS world, I feel there are waaay too many immature libraries out there.

It's very easy to publish a library in the JS world. Just add some boilerplate and everyone can grab it through npm or bower. In the Java world getting it in a repo through maven is a bit harder. But that leads to fewer projects to maintain and focus on, in the JS world it's a bit too "forked" for my taste.
Unfortunately, in this case there is a correlation:
"In the scientific literature, there is a strong consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused primarily by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases.[2][3][4] No scientific body of national or international standing disagrees with this view,[5]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy
that is freaking amazing.
Ninefold.com has a wider choice of server sizes and is paas similar to heroku
I believe the idea is that by preventing SSH the temptation to just pop in and tweak something manually isn't possible.
Google releases Chromecast SDK
Democrats Introduce Open Internet Preservation Act To Restore Net Neutrality
This how could help in build a C-like or Python-like language? Or you say just make a LISP-like language?
Try again, hopefully I fixed it. There is no fee.
More than I thought. Nice. Well, nice in an "interesting things to come" sort of way.
I do have a technical question on this one, are all of the House of Cards episodes done[1] at the same time? They are actually slowing down the releases of new episodes by dumping them all at once, right?

1) I could see it if they do all the editing at the end as a whole, but it seems unlikely
> although maybe that's what you were referring to as the "crazy" part

Yes. To be frank, in my mind, that offsets a lot of ill will toward the layoffs. Sure, you're getting let go. But you'll have almost 2 years of health insurance paid for, and unemployment for at least a year (plus severance).

Not that bad of a deal.
> higher sea levels

I'm sure we'll deal with it. It's a (good) price for low energy prices.

> Meteorological events could become vastly more frequent and powerful.

I hope so, the weather is pretty boring here.
"thermometers don't use mercury"

uhh... many of them do in fact use mercury..
>> Aggressive JIT languages are historically slow at startup.
Explaining the reason for the slow start-up doesn't make the slow startups faster.

No, but insisting that you want startups faster, when you've been explained the technical reasons why they are slow, doesn't make them faster either. To me it sounds like:

"This ball shouldn't fall to earth".

"It fell because of gravity".

"Explaining the reason it fell, doesn't make it go upwards".
Yes, I know that. My original point was that even under current law no SPECIAL permission is needed to cover a song.
It doesn't seem to be quite as polished as the iOS version and I don't think it's using BT-LE, although at the moment I can't remember if the Pebble was supposed to.
Is there a link to the source code or blog post? Seems like this would be a great starting point to build a game on.
I'm curious why you felt anonymous callbacks were problematic in a significant whitespace language. They seem to work just fine in coffeescript, as an example.
> I'm not too keen on Ruby, the smug Ruby developers I've known have turned me off to it, but I realize that's kind of a stupid anecdote to carry with me too.

Yes, it is the wrong thing to pick up on.

I've been doing PHP for a little over a decade now. If I had to start all over, or if I had to start as a developer right now, I would still choose PHP. The amount of money, productivity, benefits and satisfaction I have gained from working with PHP has been enormous.
I was actually there for the hackathon and got to try this out. I couldn't dodge a single bullet.
When I hear the general media talk about "bitcoin", I assume they actually mean all crypto-coins unless they cleary indicate they're talking about a particular coin.

Like when my parents refer to all videogames as "Nintendo".
I used to have trouble with it dropping the connection a lot, but it hasn't been a problem lately. I recommend adding the 3rd-party Pebble Notifier app to limit which notifications get sent over. It even has Tasker integration.

Edit: there was one case where a Pebble update didn't work (maybe got interrupted) and was basically bricked until I connected it to a friend's iPhone. So I would say overall, the Android version is a second-class citizen, but generally usable.
Any laptop you can really get more out of by turning off unneeded background applications.

Underclocking the CPU is said to improve battery life also.

Newer intel CPUs. DDR4 RAM, and SSDs use way less energy than their predecessors also. So there really isn't much room to get this wrong when purchasing a laptop.
> Climate scientists are very well aware of this.

For example, the IPCC report itself.

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/070.htm
Is there any proper source for this?

The wiki page states that the Alliiertes Vorbehaltsrecht ended when Germany was reunited in 1990. The only sentence indicating anything else seems to be a reference to some "secret contracts seen by Josef Foschepoth", but with no further details.

This is the same author that is being interviewed in your second link, so it sounds a bit like this is just one guy trying to sell books...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boehm_garbage_collector
Yes, the question of "Is there AGW?" is not a debate, at least among scientists. The important question is "how much do humans affect the warming of the earth?" To date, we have not been able to determine this accurately because there are so many factors (our CO2 emissions, emissions from cows, volcanoes, under-sea vents, emissions reduced by trees and plants, increased output from the sun, etc - let alone measuring one of these accurately across the globe). A million variables, no way to isolate any two of them. There might be a "consensus" but that does not guarantee accuracy - I encourage you to write a computer program that will determine the global temperature next year, and see how accurate your prediction is - you will likely find it impossible, because among other things you do not know which volcanoes will erupt and how much more radiation the sun will output. 10-20 years ago, the consensus was that sea levels would rise by a few meters, but that has not happened.
All the geegaws on a modern engine make it less important.
That's also wrong. HTML is not the document to read.

HTML is a MARKUP format. The document you're meant to read is it's rendered output in the browswer.

In fact the original TBL's HTML vision included tools to work on the HTML, not manually editing/reading the code.
How to redirect www to naked domain and vice versa with Nginx?
I prefer my macros type-checked.
Anyway I can get one of these for the project managers in my office?
> Why is a shared entertainment media experience important?

Just some thoughts:

When I was younger and Lord of the Rings made a comback, most of my friends read the books in a hurry, discussed some big events, played with sticks and that was it.
With Harry Potter we had to wait in between each book. We spent hours discussing the books, re-reading them looking for clues.

I can't really watch a series alone, I have to "share" the experience with someone.
If you are an employee, don't give up your salary for stock options. Stock options should be bonus in addition to your salary. Pick either Co-founder with less/no salary + equity or employee with full salary + stock options.
We are social creatures who still sit around the campfire and discuss our shared experiences. What we shared has changed and where and what the campfire is has changed, but that is humanity. We connect over the common events in our lives to the point that we have events that whole generations remember, refer to, and sometimes measure time since.
Creators have a right to be paid indefinitely on their work if market is there. Period

That doesn't sound like the grounds of creative control. That sounds like indefinite copyright absolutism.

https://twitter.com/georgeb3dr/statuses/428717219724288000

Also, don't read that Twitter discussion I linked to. A lot of people are being just terrible to each other.
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Not necessarily. I don't know how HoC is produced, but with similar shows (short-season cable dramas) like Game of Thrones, the series is usually shot and produced before the first episode airs.
Uh, dammit.

I signed up and then realized I hadn't updated my LinkedIn profile in a long, long time. How much will this affect the results?

To be honest, I am quite a lowly foot-soldier in terms of work-experience and, therefore, not expecting too much. Just curious to see how this space develops.
Couldn't find the code but here's some more info:
http://mhackswinter2014.challengepost.com/submissions/20138-...
It should run on SSL even if it is localhost. Self-signed cert/adding a personal CA is a valid config.

If you are proposing to be secure, I would think that you want to cover security (encryption in this case) for both in-flight and at-rest data in both local and internet facing configurations.
Author kind of tanked their own argument with this one:

> (which was great if you were on the East Coast, but West Coast / Best Coast knew not to check the thread until after watching it

Same answer here -- if you haven't watched it yet, don't look at the threads.
Sorry, but just as you are worried about having to spend to pay the cost of cleaning the air, others are worried about the cost of having their homes flooded or go through a prolonged drought ... therefore, it is good to try to think on both sides too.
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>Also, any time anyone complains about CSS, I just show them some pre-css code with `<font>` tags and `bg-color` properties and insane tables. That gets them to shut up pretty quickly. :)

Nothing is insane about "tables". It behaves as a classical grid based layout system, even though it was not intended as such. That's why it was such a good fit.

As for the "font" tags and bg-color properties, nothing strange about them either -- at least nothing worse than a style="" tag. Besides, that's the formatting part, which CSS is quite good add, we're talking layout here.
Suggestion: you really need "here's what the syntax looks like" example(s) on your home page with some non-trivial code (more than just hello world). Ideally, show the sample and the JS output side by side like on the CoffeeScript home page: http://coffeescript.org/
Technically, this has nothing to do with the Right Hand Rule. That is just a human convention to assign a positive and negative signs to a particular direction. Electromagnetism doesn't care about our silly human notations.
Sweet jesus I cannot read that font.
Many people. I personally threw $100 in because why not? Its a small amount of cash to lose. I am willing to bet more then 300 people have spent more then $100.
Ha! When I was in school, we had to push the electrons around by hand! You kids had it easy!
The amount of 'bad/wrong' frameworks that are present in PHP (as an example, don't mean to hate-monger) is astounding. These are usually the 'discontinued' ones that people have gotten used to and find a hard time moving on from, so in some cases I think it is reasonable to look for a new framework rather than continuously hacking their way to the finishing line.
Bitcoiners out there do you likke David Lynch?
This basically describes the business end of the company I work for.
The problem is that a chosen few got help to put their apps on there and be first-to-market, while everyone else was left in the dark with no documentation and not even an expectation of when the SDK would be released. Up until today it supported a tiny subset of what it claimed - MPEG-DASH playback had to be done via dash.js, which can't even run smoothly on the device, SmoothStreaming playback was completely impossible unless you rolled a complete HTML5 player from scratch using MSE.

Meanwhile, the Netflix app isn't even a proper HTML5 app - it's literally flashed onto every device sold and opened via a command. The Hulu app's player is named "chromekey_player.js" so presumably they were able to start before the Chromecast was even called the Chromecast.

While Google are under no obligation to provide an even playing field, it wasn't a great start for the platform - hopefully things will be better now.
>sexist environment they had to contend with

HAD to contend with....

In modern times women outnumber men in college.

Still 1:100 ratio of women majoring in Math and Science.
Still a ratio of 1:100 Nobel prizes to women.

It's kind of hard to blame the 'sexist environment' of the past half century where women are free to do any thing they want yet nothing has changed....

So where does that leave your argument?

Maybe women just are wired differently than men.

Is that idea allowed into the 'women are victims' circle jerk?
I find most people resort to pseudoscience and ignorance of the history of what they are currently eating when speaking against GMOs.
You can. For worldwide coverage you'd need at least 500GB disc space and 2-3 days of data crunching (assuming 32GB RAM, 8 cores, SSDs...) to build the Nominatim database. Photon is using Nominatim's database as input and will take another 2 days (if I remember correctly, met the author last year) to build.
(I work on OSM data professionally)
Why restrict to developers only?
Skyrim virtual reality demo uses Oculus Rift and omnidirectional treadmill
It's a measure of productivity, not necessarily quality. Sure it's possible to be productive without being effective (pass a lot of shitty laws), but it's impossible to be effective without being productive (pass no laws at all), unless there is little to fix, which is most certainly not the case.

When people complain that this is the least effective Congress in history, they mean it has spent all of its time debating and posturing, rather than actually passing any laws.
53 has chosen to use generic single word nouns for their products. Paper, Pencil, Book. When you do that, you do not deserve the consideration the author is expecting from Facebook.

Yes it may cause confusion, but they should have used unique names for their products if they wanted the differentiation.
I've also noticed recently that I can cast to my PS3 from the Chromecast icon in the YouTube app, so long as the PS3 YouTube app is running. I see it alongside my chromecast as an option. Presumably, the PS3 Netflix app behaves the same way.
Yes, but it takes a while to get set up right. I think this will make it work:

https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/90563-roku-not-playin...
I think binge watching takes something away, but commercial interruptions take a lot more away, and fixed-hour availability made intelligent television a rarity (Tivo and Netflix enable TV to accommodate a smarter, busier audience and have changed the nature of what gets made).

What most people seem to do these days is: (1) binge watch, (2) discuss what it meant for the week after, (3) re-watch a few months later to get a sense of what they missed due to binge watching. Shows like Breaking Bad have enough depth that it's worth it to watch them a second time.

Still, I doubt the release-all-at-once dynamic will be the norm in 3 years, but I doubt we'll have the arbitrary winter breaks designed to make sure the season finale lands in the 20s of May. I could see an every-two-days release cycle being the norm (so a show like House of Cards would unfold over a month).
They're all done together. A typical show with a standard release cycle is actually holding back completed episodes.

The glaring exception is South Park, which is done pretty much days before release.

Also, sitcoms that are filmed in front of a studio audience tend to be filmed just a few weeks in advance, since they film whole episodes at once. Something like HOC is filmed more like a movie, where all the scenes in one place are filmed together.
I just tested pinging our public RDS instance (non-VPC) from one of our EC2 instances that is loading data ever 1-3 minutes from S3 objects into that RDS instance from within a VPC. 3-5ms ping times. More than acceptable.
I don't think this article is giving enough consideration to what's going on with web application development.

JavaScript is the de facto language of the web, so everyone is using it whether it's the right tool for the job or not. The web is also rapidly evolving its capabilities, so web applications are constantly changing in nature.

YAFS is not really the problem, it's a symptom of a massively developed for, single language, massively used platform. I'm sure it's exacerbated a bit by javascript being such a poorly designed language, but this is more minor.

The solution isn't "research and mold what's already out there to your problem", because this is only addressing the symptom. There's an explosion of frameworks because there's an explosion of different use cases and application goals on the web.

Rather than having to choose between 20 different programming languages, you have to choose between 20 frameworks.
I think it was a poor interpretation of: a single language that is good for prototyping and also good for writing performant code.
"the first slave owner in America was actually a rich black man."

Oh, that's another 'but but but' excuse I forgot, thanks.
> I'm aware this happened with Season Four of Arrested Development. There was a massive hype right up until it was to premiere on Netflix and then … nothing. People watched it, then moved on.

This pretty much happened with HoC season 1 as well. Massive hype for this Fincher/Spacey series and then... nothing until a month or two ago for season 2. On the contrary, shows like "Orange is the new black" didn't have much hype initially and slowly grew as more and more people binged through it and became pretty popular.

Andy Greenwald said it best: "I’ve argued before that encouraging this sort of bingeing does no favors to the art or the audience. It takes a pleasantly coursed dinner party and transforms it into a hot dog eating contest."
http://grantland.com/features/breaking-bad-black-mirror-year...
How Inequality Hollows Out the Soul
It is not just that large companies are more efficient at dealing with regulation; Large companies actively lobby for regulation as a way of protecting themselves from (smaller) potential competitors.

It may be that regulation for the public good is inevitable and desirable, but one cannot assume a priori than any particular regulation exists for that reason.
They just did a leveraged buyout. This is not macro related.
I just signed up.

Initial thoughts: good name, "over coffee" strikes the right no-nonsense note of simplicity. But after signing up and seeing the confirmation "We are brewing up an opportunity for you right now", I still don't know what this does. Oh, I can guess what it does, but you need to let people know what they're signing up for on the landing page.

EDIT: The confirmation email reads as follows:

Welcome to Over Coffee!

We are percolating your profile through our filters. We will contact you with a slow drip of job listings once we have the grounds.

Thanks for signing up!

Ran, Darren & Doug

Your Over Coffee Jobristas

Better, but still doesn't tell me what I'm getting.
I, Cognitect
how do we signup to be a company looking to recruit?
Apply to smaller companies. I run a tiny software consultancy, and we'd be happy to hire someone with that arrangement.
This position is harder to maintain as you get older. I'm assuming you're a young guy and probably aren't even thinking about retirement.
Hahaha.

Have you seen what engine oil looks like past -35C?

Butter. Same color, same consistency. You can cut and spread it with a knife. Those geegaws aren't helping there.

Also, there is a hell of a lot more in a vehicle that's sensitive to extreme cold than an engine.
It seems to me that the number of computer programmers in the world contrasted against the number of judges and politicians who still do not get privacy, security, and technology provides the perfect mix for WWIII via not armed combat but by attacks against spying powers, no matter which country it might be.
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