skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Measure the volume level in the office with a shitty iPhone application or something. Cross reference to health and safety standards for your country. Generally, you will find it's pretty loud - especially if you have salespeople or a cubicle layout. If anyone asks, point to the figures.
I think type theory is supremely interesting, and I'm curious to see how far you can take it. I worry a little that at some point your type system needs its own type system, and then we've just moved the argument about typing one level of abstraction deeper.

I'm not willing to concede that strong static typing is a universal truth though. Too many people much smarter than me seem to disagree.
Since joining the salaried workforce, I haven't worked at a place where wearing headphones would be out of place. Is this something that is common? What industries?
The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence
The only mention of usage in the blog post is "stats from Valve’s own monthly Hardware Survey appear to show a continuing decline in the number of Linux gamers using the service". That doesn't seem to be evidence in support of your claim, but the opposite.
That's a little too hand-wavy for my taste. Like you used your jedi knight intellectual superiority to declare that FB doesn't get it and never will and you do and can clearly point it out.

Truth is, I don't know exactly what FB will do with this tech. But it seems silly to think it will only be within some narrow concept of their existing social network roadmap. I would bet on Facebook letting them stay separate and do their own thing, combining sales and marketing channels where opportunities exist. But only time will tell.
I couldn't get BitTorrent sync working without using their tracker (even restricting it to LAN-only it couldn't find my phone on the same network). The application gives very little debugging info, which doesn't help me trust it either.

I'll be limiting my use of it and hope that ClearSkies goes well.
The choice between NullPointerExceptions or occasional space leaks isn't really apples-to-apples. You could similarly ask if you'd rather have solely impure functions and no isolation of effects, or occasional space leaks. Clearly (probably?) the answer would be the latter.
I'm talking about peer-reviewed work (which the NIPCC stuff is not)

Neither is the IPCC report, taken by itself. It references peer-reviewed work. So does the NIPCC report. Did you bother to actually read any of it?

NIPCC is bankrolled by...

In other words, you didn't bother to read any of it. You just assumed that they must be wrong because of their funding source. Well, guess what? If we're going to judge by funding sources, the IPCC itself is just as suspect. They are funded by governments which have a vested interest in increasing government control over all aspects of life. Government-funded research is not likely to come up with the answer, "No reason for government regulation here", even if it's the right answer.

If you want to play the funding source finger-pointing game, sorry, I'm not interested. I don't care who funds what; I want to see the actual content. See below.

the IPCC, an actual scientific organization

No, the IPCC is a political organization. It's an Intergovernmental panel. It uses information from scientists, but the final reports, and particularly the summaries for "policymakers", are driven by politics, not science.

the false equivalency you are choosing to employ

Not at all. Anyone can refer to peer-reviewed science, and both the IPCC and the NIPCC do so--see above.

Actually, if anyone is making a false equivalency here, it's you; you are equating "peer-reviewed science" with "valid science", which is simply laughable. Many peer-reviewed papers turn out to be wrong, for a variety of reasons: honest mistakes, insufficient knowledge in the field, reviewers too busy to really review, and corruption of the peer review process by political agendas.

If you want to actually distinguish valid science from invalid science, you have to look at the content. There is simply no shortcut; there is no way to tell what's valid science by looking at funding sources, or "consensus", or any other indirect measure. You have to look at the actual content. In the case of the IPCC, there's a very simple content question you can ask: have the IPCC's predictions about the climate matched the actual climate? The answer to that question is "no". No amount of harping on how wonderful the IPCC's process is will change that.

I recommend this as a great summary:

This article makes the same mistake you are making: it looks at process instead of content. There's not a single substantive point addressed; it's all about who is funding whom and what process they are using. Sorry, no sale.
Yep.

echo a >> file.mp3

should suffice.
Utilities are sized by capacity not the use of that capacity. The local water works doesn't bill based on mugs of coffee.

How many bytes go over the network is a function of the protocol used to send bits as bytes. If some bits are used as error detection or correction or handshake, then they are like the water used to rinse the mug and wash the coffee pot and left in the sink and turned into steam. In other words, what is or isn't a byte is subject to debate, but thanks to Shannon, bits are objectively measurable.
Rabbit hole? Pshaw!

Like I said to coldtea, "I'm glad you have your opinions." I have different ones.

Someone who's been on the board and CTO of an organization bringing in $100+ million per year, and whose income in 2012 was over $650,000 is in a position of power. May I dream of ever being on the receiving end of the same sort of situation.

In the realm of "scandals", this is very low down the list. The obvious defense strategy is the one Mozilla is taking: https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/ . It does not end up calling the opposition's views "unfair."
Part of the issue with biotech is that it costs so much to fail. Companies have to spend massive amounts of money just to find out an idea isn't going to work.
Do people not read the blog post, is what I'm wondering right about now because in it, I outline exactly what I want to do with it, what I use it for currently. It was born out of necessity, not because I wanted to slap some weird idea together and throw it out there th change the editing world.

If you are talking about Animoto and that other thing that was posted in here, Replay I think it's called, they're not even remotely similar. For one, VIX is real time, Animoto and Replay upload your videos to a server, do the edits on the server and you download the results. For seconds you have the exact same precision in editing that you do with any other NLE, you can't change anything with Animoto or that other thing except for picking a different theme.

Yes, you can let VIX automatically edit the video, but you can also change any edit down to the frame.

As I said before, you're not going to make a movie with this. You're not going to edit a TV show with this. But there are broad categories of other types of editing where VIX is perfectly suited.

So in summary, I made it because I needed it, I put it out there because I hoped others would find it useful. If they don't, it's no real skin off my back, but I know that's not the case. Will it make me a million dollars? No, not when I'm putting it out there for free. I make the millions with the magazine and publishing platform I built VIX to help me build.

As for the posted video being unwatchable, it's a matter of demographics and taste, I suppose. It's been tested with our target demo for Em Oi, Vietnamese women ages 18-24, and it tested pretty well against slower/less edits. It also "been blessed" by the people involved, including the photographer who shot it, who himself shoots for every top fashion mag here in Vietnam (http://bobbynguyen.vn). Could it be better? Of course it could!

I don't mean to sound defensive, I appreciate that you took the time to offer your advice, but I think you are under the false impression that I'm building a startup around VIX or something, when it's clear in the blog post what startup I'm actually trying to build. If you're interested in that:

https://vimeo.com/68565914 (demo of the magazine app)
pw: finalaspektdemo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlHFhbqzHU (building aspekt experiences)
I find CoffeeScript very readable, and I highly value readability. The extra verbosity of JavaScript doesn't really help me when I am reading code. I read CoffeeScript code faster than I can read JavaScript because CoffeeScript removes so much of the repetitive boiler plate code and lets you focus on the intent of the code.

I don't really understand the ambiguity argument. From the code examples in the article, I get the impression that the author doesn't really understand CoffeeScript.

I definitely prefer CoffeeScript to good old JavaScript.
Interesting article, makes me curious to try the product.

But the article is written by the product guys about how they used their own product to determine what to put next into said product. A product intended to help groups determine priorities without meetings....

It's not exactly astroturfing, but....

Dogfoodturfing?
Who says it has to feel much at all like DTLs of today? I probably do want to be at least warned when the compiler can't be sure my bash is terminating.

And I'd love Bash embedded in a DT. Even if I never write the DT components being able to nicely map Bash -> DT is powerful.

Finally, I'd love Bash with sum types.
> you can create an object that implements the same interface and delegates to an instance of the base type (much less readable in every language I've seen, and effectively reimplementing inheritance without the syntactic sugar).

In case you're hankering for a language that makes delegated composition easier, Go's "embedded fields" are sugar for exactly that:
http://golang.org/ref/spec#Struct_types
what's so wrong with 20 rounds of pbkdf2? I don't know of any attacks that can defeat it in realistic time spans.
How Turtl has no idea when you’re sharing copyrighted stuff: http://turtlapp.tumblr.com/post/81222024691/how-turtl-has-no...
'looking' here means having a person look at the file or possibly having a system run analysis* of the file. Neither happens.

Since you seem to be talking about having their systems touch any bytes of the file, I have a more important question: How would you expect to have a file synced with dropbox and shared via dropbox without dropbox touching the bytes? Magic?

* you know what I mean by analysis, think gmail
I've been using pass for over a year and am really happy with it, particularly the part which keeps passwords in sync over multiple machines.

No mishaps so far. My default behavior with new sites now is to just let pass generate a secure pw and give up any hope of remembering it.

And yeah, I'd definitely use a mobile version.
yeah. what's a better semantic model?
Because the downsides of strictness are great as well. Laziness lets you "decomplect" production from consumption, with a lot of safety, most of the time. I think few who've spent most of their time working in strict-by-default languages recognizes the pain of it. Those who do write opt-in lazy language properties like generators.

So the question becomes whether strict-by-default or lazy-by-default is better given that both kinds of evaluation have their place. I personally have come to believe that lazy-by-default is nicer since there are fewer places where I really demand strictness... but it also basically forces your language to be pure.
This would be disastrous for startups - for $100 you get a say in what we do?

How deep does that go? Change of control events? That would basically mean that a startup would have to disclose that they were in negotiations for acquisition/investment/whatever, with whom, and for how much. That would basically mean potential acquisitions would become public knowledge - it's hard enough keeping them quiet when it's just the startup, their investors, and the acquirer involved.
Syncthing seems farther along. Been planning to test both out:

https://github.com/calmh/syncthing

git-annex with the assistant was supposed to be a dropbox replacement too but I haven't had much luck with it.
Grades are for showing (to teacher and pupil) which students can do the activity in question better than others. There's a lot of BS in modern education that would have you believe otherwise.
Slightly off topic, but I really dislike that initial image that gets mindlessly retweeted around.

Without any info of what is trying to be built it's useless. The minimum viable product could well be the image on the right, if say your product was trying to scale the delivery of cute looking cupcakes.
How Turtl has no idea when you're sharing copyrighted stuff
I'm the OP. It takes some persistence with paperwork and followup, and a recording costs 30$, but here is the form: http://sfdem.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=1268
I like the concept of SpiderOak and have used them before. However, their software was way too buggy and would stop syncing / working randomly for no apparent reason and their support was unable to help.
Mini-review: People who already use Office will love Office for iPad
It's not much different than most big American cities. Same rules of personal safety apply in Oakland.
TURN over port 443 specifically using TCP not UDP should get around most firewalls.

If a provider is using DPI and trying to disable ssl network wide, you will still have a problem.
But, again, the purpose of patents are to protect inventions, not ideas. The idea that VR now has a viable market is not patentable. Unlocking a phone is not patentable.

I don't think any software patents should be granted, but the biggest problem with them in practice is how they are allowed to be written: "a system that does thing X" now is a patent on anything that does thing X, essentially a patent on that idea. Software patents often give the illusion of specificity, but if you look at e.g. the "Siri patent", you see that it really just says it searches multiple databases and displays them in an order based on some heuristic. They're written in a way that it could arguably cover a huge class of inventions, again, essentially patenting an idea, not an invention. This can be especially bad when it gets in front of a jury, as it seems all too reasonable to them that that description does in fact match the competing product in question. Just look at Newegg vs a patent on "A method for transmitting data comprising a sequence of blocks in encrypted form": http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/11/jury-newegg-infri...
If you enter your password into a system that they control at any time, they have potential access to your files and can be ordered by the government to change their code so that it does collect your password in order to enable decryption of your files.
Why businesses are interested in virtual reality
One could just as easily make a stupid comment about how it's not wrong for them to come into your house and steal your things. Who said property rights are right? Who says? Why? Because it is illegal? Why do you think its wrong? What does wrong even mean in this case? Care to enlighten us?

Sure, we can debate the merits of intellectual property or property rights or whatever, but it's not really relevant to the parent comment, you are just picking a fight. Few think it's ok for people to just take things that aren't theirs, and few think stealing music is ok either.
Why controversial blog post titles get clicked and why...
Upgrading your iOS game from a pre-release version of Cocos2D?
Simple. Truecrypt (or whatever other encrypted filesystem you prefer) volume on Dropbox. Files in partition.

Dropbox has no idea what is on the volume.

(In an ideal world, you'd have a filesystem set up that was a separate encrypted file for each file in the virtual filesystem, with an additional encrypted file that contained the virtual directory info. But this is simpler.)
"change to social norms will require integration"

Sorry, but how about trying to relax a little bit and simply ask your manager if it's cool to wear headphones?
QE without funding welfare is dangerous. Increased consumption would benefit everyone with more money flowing through the whole society. Yes it avoids inflation this way, but I think it solidifies the power and wealth gap.

We keep the financial sector running, while we forget that the financial sector serves not itself, but really the rest of us: it exist to provide funds efficiently where it is most needed for our development.
Are the leaked Android 4.4.3 features true?
"A bunch of Android 4.4.3 features leaked"
http://www.gsmarena.com/android_443_features_leaked-news-8166.php
... or so they say. I do happen to trust them (and use them), but they absolutely could read your files if they want to: all they have to do is release an updated version of the sync app that does save your password when you first sign in. Or they could start saving passwords when people sign in via their website.

Now, I don't believe that they'd do this maliciously (rogue employees aside), but there's always the possibility that a government agency could secretly require them to actively try to capture a particular user's password the next time they sign in.
What a bunch of doublespeak bullshit. "We're not looking at your stuff, we're only computing a hash of your stuff and comparing it to a blacklist!" Right up there with "we're not recording your phone calls, we're only recording your phone call metadata."
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Come play pokemon on my my real DS  twitch.tv/twitchplayshardware
Update: The hackathon is now over. They need the camera for the steam now. Thanks for playing pokemon.

I fully opened sourced the hardware and software (I will do better documentation after the
hackathon)

Software: https://github.com/mrandrewandrade/TwitchPlaysHardware

Hardware and build: http://www.hackster.io/392/twitchplayshardware/
I think there's some decent 1970s style office space in places around 20th/Broadway -- where Pandora, Kaiser Center, etc. are. I personally prefer mostly-private-offices, with some project spaces, to the "SOMA style" warehouses open plan offices. I haven't looked in a year or two (if I were getting office space, it'd be R&D/lab/light industrial plus office space, and I'd be fine with a bad area and a big fence/gated parking/armed guard).

There is a lot of stuff just on the other side of 980 at Grand, too, but that's approaching warzone status unfortunately. It's weird when a Taco Bell and a pot dispensary gentrify an area (the east side of 980).
I confirm almost all of the signs.

The state of urgency hasn't stopped my productivity completely but it certainly has slowed it down.

My fix for now is this:

STOP MULTITASKING, ONLY ONE TASK AT A TIME! (seriously!)
I missed this in the rush yesterday. This kind of thing will be Kevin's call, not mine. Thanks for the good wishes.
The Worldly Philosophers is my favorite. It will take you through economic history as told by its great philosophers and break down the differences between the schools of thought. It has been my trusted guide on economic theory for the last 15 years.

Here's a link on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Worldly-Philosophers-Economic-Thin...
Simple! By redefining "not looking" to mean "totally looking, but in a way that we've decided doesn't count."
So, You Made the Front Page
Solving Boggle from a photo
AirBnb won't be replaced, it'll be made illegal. It's exploiting - in a significant way - something which was already illegal in a lot of places, or certainly skirting neighborhood ettiquette (i.e. not illegal, but do it enough and there'd be good reasons to make it so).

It runs the very serious risk that there'll be crackdowns in popular cities on AirBnb style subletting, and once that happens their income base is only going to go into decline from then on out.
Mining Association Rules with R and Postgres
The problem is that peer-to-peer isn't a very efficient way of doing group video chat to begin with...much better and simpler to just use a central server in that case.
Oculus founder didn’t expect “so many death threats” after Facebook deal
Dogfoodturfing! But we don't call it dogfooding anymore right? We call it champagning? So Champagneturfing?

Anyway, quick clarification that this is a article written by the product guys about how they use their own product in their other job. So not exactly as self referential as suggested.

-one of the product guys
Pretty much every program humanity has produced is grossly defective. Certainly there's nothing I use heavily that hasn't failed. IMHO shipping more garbage more quickly is not a problem worth solving.
How would the file get to the truecrypt volume? Wouldn't it be significantly more expensive to run the app on encrypted hdd?
I used it for about 6 months, and realised that it simply wasn't worth the hassle. Yes, it looks a bit prettier and the destructuring is nice, but it adds a level of ambiguity that just ain't nice.

The lack of explicit scoping is horrible, and the lack of actual named functions is annoying.

The only thing I use now is JSX (when doing ReactJS), or TypeScript when not using JSX, as that adds actual value.
The trouble with using hashes is that they have no context. Suppose I own the copyright on some file and issue a DMCA takedown against somebody else sharing it with the world. In that context the takedown is totally legitimate. But now the hash is on the list, so what happens next time when the file is being shared in some totally different context? What happens when the copyright holder wants to share the file? What happens when some other third party wants to share the file with a small number of people in a way which is unambiguously fair use?

You end up over-blocking, unless you include some option to bypass the block, in which case why even bother? It's not like you could inform the copyright holder when someone shares the file without invading users' privacy and opening up the system to abuse against political speech.

The whole thing is a mess because the fundamental problem is that the cost of most infringement on the internet is less than the cost of evaluating whether that use is infringing, so you end up with a high error rate no matter what you do. It breaks the founding assumption that copyright is not in tension with the First Amendment and makes you choose which you want to sacrifice for the other.
I don't care so much about having a good experience, but I like the near-guarantee of an acceptable experience. I can't think of the last time I had a hotel stay that was below acceptable. I vaguely recall having to switch rooms once over an HVAC issue they couldn't solve. The total inconvenience to me there was well under an hour and that's probably been 10 years (and a corresponding 200 nights in hotels).

Do you find a hotel room unacceptable in some way significantly more than 10% of the time?
Numbers like that are likely to represent gross pay. Military personnel deployed to combat zones are meanwhile tax-exempt, and receive comprehensive benefits.

The arithmetic for comparing deployed military and private contractors is probably similar to the comparison between full-time employees and freelancers.
My point had nothing to do with the particulars of a supposed patent. Just knowing it can be done is a non-trivial obstacle in solving a problem. Add onto that general information that's usually discussed in relevant circles, and you may have enough information to "recreate" the solution to the problem. Judging the difficulty of a problem from this vantage point is the flaw I was referencing.
Open Internet: Clinton vs. Obama
Dad Turns Videos Of His Toddler Into Insanely Cool Action Movies
Also HDMI is a much nicer port. DVI is still that horrid old giant screw in bollocks.
"...just 'cause the owner was still staying there."

Honestly, my favorite part of a hotel is not having to share a living space with a stranger.
Why the (CoffeeScript) arrow matters