skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who prefer the better maps?

And, yes no commercial operator has improved the map data, because of the license. But do you think these people/enties will suddenly give back just because they are no longer required to do so? Sorry, but I don't see much sense in this.

And by the way: This is wrong. There was a proprietary renderer that produced very nice maps with a combination of OSM data and non free relief data.
Hadn't heard that quote before. From https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary."
Remember the 33 Google APIs that are no more..RIP http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/07/09/33-google-apis-th...
I'm still waiting for Google Drive for Linux...
Again with the assumption that "startup" is synonymous with "web/mobile app". What about thick clients/desktop apps/consoles etc?

If I were to start my career from scratch in 2014 I'd pick F#, and keep an eye out for Rust.
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Theory: They're dumping to lower the valuation of Dropbox for a possible later acquisition.

"Well, you could sell to us, or we could put you out of business."
at a guess - Betfair.
It's about imperative vs declarative styles in DOM modification, animations, etc. I've been learning Angular the past few weekends, and I've come across tons of SO questions that boil down to "how do I use my familiar jQuery patterns inside Angular?" where the answers are usually "you don't, here's a better way" usually with some Angular directive which fits that pattern naturally. Also, lots of blog posts contrasting the two styles.

As I've gotten comfortable with it, I've come around to seeing it their way. I'll never write jQuery-selector spaghetti code again if I can avoid it. Here's my favorite SO question on the topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14994391/how-do-i-think-i...
I'm surprised that it isn't winning by a larger margin.
Well, I voted twice on the same IP so maybe the results are meaningless. But considering HTML5 > native, iOS is more like 1/4th of the pie.

Objective-C is not a language option, but maybe because it's not a backend language? If iOS/Objective-C people voted for C++, they only have 3% now. So ~25% people want a fantasy iOS app but only 3% know native iOS = Objective-C?

16% of people think Javascript is a backend language? Hope those are votes for Node.js?
1. This is not backup, it's network storage with sync.

2. If Google shutters Google Drive you'll be able to get your data off of it and move it to another vendor's solution.
At risk of sounding heartless, catering to the lowest common denominator sucks. Like supporting IE6-level suckiness. There is more than enough information available in markup for accessibility software to override design choices.
I don't think this is a fair comparison considering those were all free services.
It's certainly plausible, but in theory, the point spread is supposed to account for that effect (among all other natural factors involved in play). As you suggest in your second paragraph.

Intellectually, of course, I tend to assume the Occam's Razor solution (i.e., natural variance and other effects over deliberate fixing) in most cases. I'm not one for conspiracy theories as a first line of thinking. And I think a bigger sample size is needed to begin with.

Another thing to keep in mind is that -- at least in theory -- players aren't supposed to be cognizant of a point spread when playing. If we wanted to detect deliberate point shaving, we'd need to look at instances where the player behaved as if he was very aware of the spread and was actively trying to manage it. For example, he actively takes possession of the ball and runs out the clock, misses easy shots, passes into heavy coverage, and then reverses course to correct when/if he goes too far. Basically, the behavior of someone who's trying hard in either direction, as opposed to someone who just tries hard to secure the win and then lets up.
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Google Drive has been around in some way/shape/form for a long time, I don't think it's going anywhere. And I doubt Google is going anywhere soon (it's probably going to survive five years even if it gets disrupted).

The big losers here will be Dropbox, HubiC, Box, etc. who will feel price pressure.
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I would suspect AWS makes most of their money from clients that manage instances that are in the mid to high double digits and beyond. For these clients its likely that at some point automation has kicked in and the APIs get the job done much better versus having someone spend time clicking away in a browser.
That's a reference to an episode of Chappelle's Show. Probably more of a joke than ency.
Except for the fact that it is integrated in gmail, google plus, android and probably some other services I forgot.

It has generally taken years of neglect for services of Google to be discontinued. Google reader was hardly updated for the last 2 years it existed.

This is a service you are paying for, how many payed for services have been discontinued by google?
Based on what you said, it sounds like enabling this feature will have no impact on existing front-end load times. What about error reporting... are you guys satisfied with where it's at now or do you guys feel like there is more accurate and more in depth js error reporting in the future?
And the greedy consultants who mislead ordinary institutions into thinking that greedy is the way to go.
I can't speak for all companies, but some companies I worked with with honour those bets (places just a second before the goal). They try to find a pattern and ban the users after they find them doing this (and it is getting harder since live feeds are faster and faster) but I never saw a company voiding a bet because of this.
If you still have one, maxwellpalmer@gmail.com.

Thanks!
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If the intent is to make an offline backup that can't be found easily you could just dig a hole in your local park. If it's a backup of, say, customer details, that you need access to update sometimes, then the best option would be client side encryption with a cloud drive. The rest is a magic show of busy work that achieves no additional goals.
"Facebook says it is taking steps to ensure video ads that appear on its site “are as good as other content people see in their News Feeds.”"

My buttocks randomly bouncing up and down the keyboard could produce better content than most of the stuff I saw on my news feed when I was on facebook, so that's not exactly going to be difficult...

More seriously and with (slightly) less snark, I'm always shocked when I surf the internet at work with no ad-blocker. Pop-ups, irritating garish backgrounds, "content" plastered everywhere, and of course, annoying video ads. Its like a bad episode of Futurama; some horrible dystopian disfigurement of the internet.

I honestly don't know how people put up with it.

And the other thing that gets me is why don't government/private business install ad-blockers by default? For these large corporations or institutions, I imagine a significant percentage of bandwidth is wasted on "content" (and i use that word in its loosest possible sense) no one really wants to access...
Hold on. I'm not talking in a "Angular vs jQuery" way. I meant "Angular vs something like Backbone that just happens to use jQuery".

I wouldn't build a large app straight on top of jQuery ;)
Anybody using FogBugz and Kiln from Fog Creek? Both seem to be a bit outdated...
> As far as I know Google has no desktop client

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive/?hl=en
Checking? Savings? Today vs. Tomorrow?

Today:
Checking: ~$2400
Savings: ~$250 (I'm just getting started and paying off major student loans ~$120,000 to go...)

Tomorrow:
Checking: $5200
Savings: $325
Absolutely not good enough. Even at $10/mo these prices are horrible. To compare this, Flickr is currently offering 1TB FREE for all photos + videos storage. Even my crummy hosting provider is offering 1TB for $5/mo with unlimited bandwidth plus host of other goodies thrown in. Dropbox paid account was already a rip off. Google Drive is less ripoff, but ripoff none the less.
it definitely is available with betfair - it allows you to filter a huge amount of garbage data because people are always setting 1.01 / 1000.0 positions, and if you don't exclude them they skew actual implied probabilities.
I'm only talking the talk since I'm currently hosted on Wordpress, but I'm starting to think that a static site generator is the best option. Why? Because, a) programming blogs are a bit like academic papers in that they depend on careful markup, and b) they work a lot better when they're minimalistic, with a strong emphasis on the code. With a static site generator, the definitive version of each article can be a simple, easy-to-edit Markdown file; you don't have to reason about HTML/PHP/SQL unless you really want to. The content is perfectly decoupled from the presentation, and you can edit your articles in your favorite text editor to boot.
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Would love feedback - positive or negative
Cool idea! Only critique is the lack of contrast makes it difficult to read
Your analogy involves an escalation, using someone's showing off as an excuse to violate their bodily integrity. That would be like if the government asserted you had no privacy interest in the contents of your hard drive, just because you posted some pictures of facebook. But what we're talking about is data collection where the government doesn't have anything you didn't already share with your thousand closest friends at Google. It's more like distributing a picture of yourself smoking weed among your school, then getting mad when your parents got a hold of a copy.
I don't think you should worry about the reliability of Google "wanting," users to host their content. Considering Google builds one of the most extensive, profitable, and privacy scaring profile on each IP address, MAC address, and user of any of their services for free.

The simple fact that Google can get paid for a service that only helps them further their profiling and profitability in ads and Chrome OS is more reason for them to offer the service.

I don't question reliability. I question privacy, and until Dropbox makes their NSA agreement (which I remember reading they didn't)...Dropbox is my goto!
TBH, we had very limited options at that point and did not at all expect that opening a simple business account at CHASE would take 2.5 months
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See how quickly careless words can brand you as a sadistic maniac :) !!
Emotions get the better of people as a deadline approaches. The market will become an exaggeration of the actual excitement factor of the game.

Hell, emotions get the better of people without a deadline.
No. While Congress tries to limit the outbound movement of capital from the U.S., generally contributing to a foreign company is not much of a tax issue unless you're using deferred earnings (i.e., you're making the investment through a corporation you own) that haven't yet been subject to tax.

If you contribute post-tax earnings its usually a very simple event. Depending on your ownership stake, you have some information reporting, i.e., Form 5471, Form 926, but that's about it. If you don't have to deal with Form 5471 because you own a very small stake in the company, you'll want to have an accountant look into PFIC reporting, especially if the foreign company is engaged in "passive" activities like renting, licensing, investing, etc.

People are scared of Form 5471, but it's really not a big deal. It's also not very expensive, in the scheme of things. If paying roughly $100-$250 for a Form 5471 is too great an expense, you probably don't have the financial leeway to be making the foreign investment in the first place.

Also, Translating accounts is not very difficult. You simply apply the appropriate exchange rate (the average rate, or the year-end spot rate, depending on whether you are translating the income statement or the balance sheet). It takes at most a few minutes if you use any sort of organized accounting system or software.
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This is great and all, but I really wish I knew why they won't make the audit logs accessible to users. If someone has a hack for this, I'm all ears.

Need it for compliance documentation.
Can you send me some of that random-butt-bouncing text?
Disappointing that they are delayed again, but they are really good at communicating their reasons for delay and sticking by their product's quality. I'm patiently awaiting my two week supply that I expected in December.
EDIT: Sent.
Do I understand correctly that your stable 'master' branch is always ready for release? Basically it means that changes (fixes) should be relatively small, otherwise they are released via channels, correct?
The scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7ut7L-X1NQ

What always stuck with me was the end: "No one was coming for this dog, I hope you realize that. Nobody around here, no one who passed it, not even the guy who hit it. I hope you realize that. Don't you ever tell me to get real. I know what fucking real is, okay?"
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In my experience, projects written in frameworks like Rails an Django have a tendency to end up with business logic sprinkled everywhere:

Persistence + Business <-> Frontend + Business

You end up with business logic in ORM code, POST validation, Javascript form validation...

You usually want:

Persistence <-> Business <-> Frontend

That way you can extract a business API and be transparent whether it's making SQL queries, talking to a webservice, a file, or something else.

Another mistake IMHO is going crazy on OO and having, e.g., an `Order` object encapsulate everything like validation, persistence, reporting, serialization, etc... You end up with an object that retains so much state that it's hard to test. By coupling data and function you also end up in a corner trying to do bulk operations efficiently, falling into an awful idiom of iterating objects and calling a method on them, leading scalability issues with N*M queries, and so on. The testable/scalable route is following a functional approach and designing your business API from the start around functions that deal with sets and take all the necessary state as a parameter, or data structure that represents the current state.
The situation described above is far and above the norm in the industry. Bad code, bad management, bad practices, bad developers are all the norm. The abnormal situation is one where things aren't FUBAR. FUBAR is the norm.
Why is that? My motivation for picking Android is the larger market share. Even if you have engineering preferences, to me what really matters is getting it out in front of a wider audience.
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Reminds me of this: http://web.archive.org/web/20071219073644/http://jyte.com/

Back in the day when OpenID was still the future.
I hear you and I don't disagree with you. I just freak out when I open a console and $ doesn't exist :)
> Speed reading anything you need to truly comprehend is probably a bad idea. However, if you have a few documents you need to get through or you're reading something that isn't that important, these methods can still be worthwhile.

If the purpose of reading something is to understand it (aka comprehension), then doesn't this supplied conclusion basically defeat the purpose of anyone trying to attain speed reading?
The patterns of drone strikes and raids points to JSOC as processing an ever-growing kill list directed by the POTUS. Feel free to peruse Dirty Wars docu.
Diversification: Google may suspend/delete the account you use for many of its services, for a reason relating to only one of them.

Support: If Google suspends/deletes your account, you're pretty much done. Their interactive support is below the level that other companies commonly provide.

Risk: Google raised prices 3X+ for Google App Engine on short notice. They could do the same for Google Drive.

Dropbox works flawlessly for me (including w/ Linux) and doesn't have the issues above. In this case, you do get what you pay for.
I think PD had a lot of support not only because people liked the implications for osm, but because there is somewhat unlikely it's even possible in many countries to copyright this data.
Actually, I'm not sure whether it's a misconception or not. What you say about applied volatility is true, but if your excitement is proportional to effect on the odds of the outcome then that is still what you're measuring. I have no idea whether that is actually the relationship, though (but hey, you could measure it!).
Kryder's law will hold true, but right now that's not enough for me to leave Dropbox.
This is bipartisan issue. If Bush&Cheney administration goes down, so goes Clinton&Gore. Either everyone protects everyone else, or all go down together.

The CIA was granted permission to use extraordinary rendition (torture flights) in a presidential directive signed by Bill Clinton in 1995. The practize was started by George H. W. Bush in 1993.
There are lots of places in the world where bandwidth is rationed for very real reasons, e.g due to oversubscribed cell towers.
For what it's worth, I use ng-min which will automatically generate the safe syntax when minifying. I like it very much because writing the safe syntax does not feel "dry" enough to me.
Wasn't Wave used quite a bit internally?
Depends. If what you need to build is actually a simple interface between database and front-end over an XML or JSON API, Go's not that much heavier than the alternatives, with the promise of more performance in the future and with less code than many other libraries require. Plus if you host on Google App Engine, it's free to start. Even the HTML templating has built-in context-aware output filtering for XSS prevention.

That said, Rails, or any language developers are more familiar with, can be faster. At that point, I'd argue even static HTML pages might be one of the fastest MVPs to put together...
But seriously not to answer a question with a question, though I am going to... but maybe the better question is "why do frameworks like Backbone need to use jQuery?"

Base angular is incredibly compact and I have yet to really run into a wall with it compared to projects we have tried to do in Backbone (that sounds like we have had problems in backbone we haven't I am just saying the experience is comparable). It seems to me like the best reason to keep jQuery in something like Backbone is to make it easier to integrate existing jQuery libraries... which is maybe worth reconsidering anyway.... see argument #1
Man, Grails / Groovy never get any love from these poll authors! C'mon, Grails rocks people... :-)

Seriously, I switched all of our development from Java/Tapestry/etc. to Groovy/Grails a few years ago, and really couldn't be happier with the decision. Grails isn't flawless, but it mostly "just works" and makes my life SO much easier than before.

No, it isn't the "flavor of the day" like node.js or what-have-you, but it works, it stays out of the way, and gets the job done. And it lets me leverage the decade plus of experience doing Java that I previously experienced. What more could you ask for?
FB is clearly gasping for every last bit of money lately. Other day I saw nearly every ad on right of my page like it was a porn website. Each ad features scantly naked women with captions like "She wants you now". When you click on those links you land of completely irrelevant websites trying to push some maleware.
It will be interesting to compare the data and graphs presented here to historic win probability charts provided by Advanced NFL Stats[1] for the NFL and Fangraphs[2] for MLB. See how Vegas stacks up against models based on historical data.

[1] http://live.advancednflstats.com/
[2] http://www.fangraphs.com/wins.aspx?date=2013-10-30&team=Red%...
If Google were to buy Dropbox what sort of benefit do you think they would get from it?

I know there have been stranger acquisitions by Google, but I just can't think of any benefit to Google if they were to purchase Dropbox.
That rarely happens in our experience. With our internal board, we know who is working on what and in what area of the code. Plus, all code is reviewed by someone working in the same area.
"Why can't I find a list of some of the largest and most robust systematic reviews and meta anlyses ever done?"

The Cochrane Collaboration is the closest thing I know of:

http://www.cochrane.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Collaboration
Well, it's just quite a different attitude from what you get in France, for instance, where, eg, the gendarmes use open source heavily. I'm not quite sure what you want to show with your report, by the way. That the governmental Danish IT department is considering open source as a way of saving cost? I did find this [1] though, which seems to back your position, but at the municipal level.

1: http://opensource.com/government/13/2/danish-municipalities-...
Yes. Being a "US person" includes citizens and permanent residents.
http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Class...
"fixing government, curing cancer, improving medicine, rebooting our space program, fixing education, etc."

-- There are a bunch of startups already in these areas...
The pointer semantics do bring a great deal of complexity to the language, but it's inherent complexity. Other languages with manual memory management also have these concepts, but they're not baked into the language semantics. So you still have to understand them, but the language gives you no help.
This is really aggressive. It's so aggressive that it feels strategic. Google is trying to shift the market here. I think they have come to the realization that at a large scale people are not buying their philosophy that you can put everything in the cloud. By and large, we're putting selected things in the cloud for the purposes of sharing, but we're not making the cloud our primary location for our storage. That's what Google wants. They don't just want the docs that you like or need to share in the cloud - they want your whole hard drive up there. So they have calculated how much a "normal" person might be willing to spend on that and worked backwards from there. I strongly suspect this is going to accompany a wave of marketing and a big push for ChromeOS.
I'd be happy to talk. Hit me up at jonfnathanson @ gmail.com
Agreed. And at least it's more clear that dependencies are being injected.
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Okay well...go ahead and prove it then.
I don't know how you arrived to that conclusion. OSM's success, popularity is determined largely by the quality of its service compared to other providers, which in turn determines the amount of user contribution. By allowing Google/Apple to use this data, their marginal value in relation to OSM increases, which in turn disincentivizes potential users from using OSM, thus making the project less popular.

Google/Apple already benefit from superior distribution/marketing, but lack in quality (at least in geo-data, many have reported OSM to have more roads, better coverage. Most of the paths, trails in the forests and mountains where I live are covered by OSM, which is why I use OSM while mountain-biking. Google is far from reaching that. Others have reported similar findings.)

Thus, as I see it, OSM is giving away for free its main superiority.

(Alas, in the name of the Church of Emacs, OSM, stop this non-sense).