skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite amazed how the author has not made any mistake in the presentation. I wonder if using APL leads to a different state of mind where tool is out of your way or was it simply a well rehearsed demo?
Wealth over Work
Web and Computer Systems
Well, if you want to obfuscate a constant string in your code, you can, e.g. by generating it dynamically from summing two hardcoded integer arrays. Not to say you should, but you can.
Node.js and the Enterprise; Why Not?
Naur’s “Programming as Theory Building” (2011)
This is a great example of how to lie with statistics, or what someone can claim by applying just college-level statistics. Those trend lines are completely worthless.

See the trend lines for Futurama: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0149460
The difference between all the episodes make having a "trend" very doubtful. Especially season 5 is a wildly varying season where if you take one episode away the line would completely flip.

Much the same can be said for The Next Generation http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0092455 where you have basically clouds where seemingly at random a line is drawn through it.

Yes, I know there are statistical methods for determining trends, but without data on their accuracy they are pretty much worthless. And you really should use a threshold for those accuracies if you're presenting this kind of data to a very wide audience.
SoftPatent: File System Event Tracking
Agree. There is must be more abstract way to present ideas than text. In this way, programs are easier to understand and modification, and have less errors and bugs.
Seen their safety video they play in lieu of the flight attendants talking? Great job.
Core GNU seems to often be quite passive-aggressive about its Windows support.
I asked Alan Glynn (the author of The Dark Fields / Limitless) two days ago on twitter if he had based it on Modafinil. His reply (in a public tweet):

"Thanks - no, all made up, wrote it nearly 15 yrs ago, before I'd heard of modafinil, certainly before the nootropic boom."
I didn't downvote you, but I have to wonder why you didn't just edit out your self-described spiteful bits, instead of leaving them in and pointing out that they are spiteful.
Even if it were thousands, giving someone money before something done is an investments, and investments can go bad. Especially if it's just a few thousand, what did you expect, that he'd continue to slave away at the project for the few bucks you gave him?
What makes you assume that's even on the table? What manufacturer is going to give away the fruits of their power imbalance so readily?
Libertarian nonsense huh, despite what I said being completely true on amazon, and me not being a libertarian but a bleeding heart liberal, I'm just going to say you're trolling for a political argument with such idiotic abandon that I'm not wasting another breath on you. Go troll reddit.
I'd say go for it if it will support you to finish the project. I think now that kickstarter is common people are a bit more accustomed to giving money to projects and not necessarily expecting immediate results.
I agree that the problem is not error recovery, but is more generaly described by Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building"[1]. With that, programming is hard because creating a theory, collectively, and teaching other people about it, is hard. Making it easier is therefore solving the problem Douglas Engelbart envisioned solving: Augmenting the Human Intellect

[1] http://catenary.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/naurs-programming-a...
Why don't you want it from Sony?
No, that is not sufficient.

The point is getting designers to shift paradigm and start writing React components. This is a major shift, because while the designers I've worked with have all done a little JavaScript here and there, it's seldom much more than copy/pasting some jQuery code from Stack Overflow.

HTML/CSS is their home turf. To you, the CoffeeScript literals might be just as good as the JSX stuff, but to someone who's already out of his comfort zone because the markup is in the middle of all kinds of weird React.createClass stuff, it's a very major difference.

JSX really strikes a sweet spot here.
I have 16 years sober after ending homeless and literally in the gutter (no millions passed through my hands but it was still a lot.) I had been fighting with it for 20 years watching everything and everyone slip away as you have. This is better than that.

Yes, it was AA that supported me through it. No, I am not religious now and wasn't then. I was just willing to suspend disbelief long enough to try something. I am at a loss to explain why it worked but that doesn't matter.

Despite what many people think AA requires no faith or belief of any kind beyond acceptance of the fact of your situation.

Many read "Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity" as a statement of belief in a spiritual solution. It is not that at all, it is merely a hypothetical that is pretty hard to deny on the face of it. Bill and Bob were really, really smart.

Take that hypothetical, suspend disbelief, do the recommended prayer and meditation with the caveat "I don't know if this has any real meaning but, whatever" if you need that and see what happens. That's what I did. I don't question the mystery of my recovery I just marvel at it. You can choose your eventual spiritual path or none at all later in the game but you have to have a game left to play to do that.

In summary, believe nothing but try anything.
> Does Google Play have a public API for downloading APKs? Does it work for paid apps as well?

There's no "public API" but have fun: https://github.com/kanzure/googleplay-api

(because otherwise how does Google Play itself participate in downloading apps?)
Take my advice with a huge grain of salt. Also, the below advice is base entirely on the assumption you live in the US. I do not know how other countries operate so I can't comment.

1. Take some time away from school after high school. I know people want to rush and get it over with but moving forward when you are in this state some times can create the opposite outcome you want.

2. When you feel better, enroll in a local community college and work your way back towards transferring to a university. Apply for financial aid.
But you could probably vote for yourself...
Meson is project to create the best possible next-generation build system
Wow! I've managed to infuriate someone enough to downvote my OTHER comments too! That seems strangely reminiscent of behaviour I see on those other, filthy casual websites.

Fuck all y'all. I consider this mission an 11/10 success.
There are plenty of gays who don't want and don't approve of gay marriage on theological grounds. One example:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10729717/Brian-Sewe...

You can be an atheist and still appreciate this argument as I do. As for the resignations, fine! Let them do what they want to do. Is it a big deal?
I would think that Windows file system filter drivers are prior art.

https://www.google.com/search?q=file+system+filter&biw=1600&...
IBM Tech Group Leader: It is too late to stop 24/7 biometric tracking
What worries me is the large list of 'unsupported PHP features': http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.unsupported.php .

I know they can be considered bad practice, but in practice you use at at least a couple of them at least once in every project! And you use it because the alternative would be even uglier. (Also, what's the point in having a language with a separate namespace for functions and variables - Perl and Common Lisp being the only other ones I know of - if you can't at least have fun with variable variables and using a string directly as a function :) )

...also, they've "downgraded" PHP's closures mechanism. I mean, with:

return function foo($a, $b) use ($outer1, $outer2) { ... }

...PHP managed to do things better then all other dynamic languages - finally a way of being explicit about what variables from the outer scope you drag into a closure! The Hack guys totally missed the point - they've made everything stricter, but they relaxed this constraint and reverted one of the few good ideas in PHP.

Their VM may be awesome, but their language is horrid - they take away the "fun" features of PHP but don't fix any of the bad language design issues. It's like throwing away the baby and keeping the bath water - yeah, the water will keep you alive for a few more days in the desset, but the baby can actually be fun to play with.
Goddammit, I got sucked into thinking that MiniDisc's were going to be the FUTURE
how much space do you need? ~225k sq ft seems like more than adequate to have a mansion and a farm...
it's about 3.9 american football fields in area.
If you're interested in getting a taste of APL while keeping in ASCII, you might want to check out the J programming language. Ken Iverson (the creator of APL) had a hand in its development. J implements most APL operators and is sometimes known as its successor, along with K and Q.

Get started here:
http://www.jsoftware.com/help/learning/contents.htm

This family of languages really leads to a new way of thinking, evident in the J incunabulum (the C interpreter that started J, purportedly written in one afternoon) [1]. The code looks really dense and borderline gibberish at first glance, but I found it very expressive after a good read.

[1]: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Incunabulum
Terrible article. "It needs a beer holder! For your beer! Roll Tide!" Come on. Here's a better one: http://www.space.com/25231-nasa-z2-spacesuit-tech-design-vot...
Vehicle battery pack ballistic shield (Pat US 8286743)
Thanks! Yes, unfortunately many people have differentiating ideas about what Kickstarter should/shouldn't be, so I really have to tip toe through a minefield not to piss anyone off.
> Why are they doing this? I haven't the foggiest, but I like this!

They've been hiring people from the Linux community, they can't expect to have hired them without discussing the matter of licenses of their work. Most GNU Linux programmers are very much license conscious.
Sure. We're building a single page webapp here at http://izooble.com. Our frontend is Model-View-Nothing with React for the view and TypeScript for everything else. We build with gulp, and avoid browserify because it makes debugging more difficult. Therefore, we generate a debug and a production build: the production build simply concats all generated JS, and the debug build keeps the separate JS files with source maps back to the .ts sources. We autogenerate the index.html.

Some of us code TypeScript in Visual Studio, which is awesome. Many just use a text editor and `gulp watch`, though, which works remarkably good as well. I wish there was good TypeScript IDE support on other platforms than Windows. The entire team has previous experience that makes them think strongly in terms of classes and object. TypeScript is a very natural fit for a team like this, and made us productive very fast. Prototypal inheritance, not so sure.

On the backend, we do C#, hosted on Linux with Mono (we have devs running Linux, Mac and Windows, we're just as cross-platform as your average Python shop). We use ServiceStack v3 for the API and PostgreSQL for data. We heavily rely on stored procedures and Postgres-specific features (such as returning cursor sets instead of gigantic joins) for making the backend very lean and simple.

We use Docker for running stuff locally and in production. Our designers just run the backend docker containers locally with a single click (in Vagrant). They never installed Mono or Postgres anywhere.

Is that what you wanted to know?
Same here. And I got one of those ATRAC players, too.
Tracy Harms did a talk at Strange Loop about J: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/j-language
No, it's primarily an adenosine antagonist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Mechanism_of_action
How to Tell Stuff to a Computer (The Enigmatic Art of Knowledge Representation)
Climate change shifts the earth in Alaska
what does "net-7" mean?
But it gets the target audience to perk up and be interested for more.
Right, that's why I said "effectively": caffeine inhibits adenosine from inhibiting cholinesterase (which itself inhibits acetylcholine.) Isn't biology fun?
Concrete-Dissolving Bacteria Are Destroying Our Nation's Sewers
GNU Make Standard Library: a collection of native GNU Make functions
FLA is most definitely age dependent. There have have been a couple of real sad cases where this has been tested - the case of 'Genie' is the most famous[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
For more reference on mil-spec ballistic tests, see

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a481408.pdf

Section 4, figure 4 (p.7)
Perhaps, but I still hold myself accountable even under the circumstances mentioned above. If any of the original Genesis backers are reading this and want their money back, please let me know and I will gladly return it, with interest (just let me know the email address or alias you donated under and I have a record of the amount you gave (thankfully Paypal keeps history that far back)).
This seems on point: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/02/...

coverage in mother jones: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/vaccine-denia...

Summary: paper shows that presenting research explaining that vaccines do not cause autism does lower belief that vaccines cause autism, while simultaneously also lowering willingness to vaccinate children.

I think efforts to talk to antivaxxers are wasted efforts.
This exists as a service - http://apkscan.nviso.be/ does a scan of your APK and registers requests to servers, lists hardcoded strings and other possible issues.
Magic numbers in polynomial hash functions
It is apparent you have not written many grant applications. :-)

For example, from the NIH (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/writing_application.htm):

Remember the Details! Below are tips to assist you in meeting the requirements on font, font size, margins and spacing. Be sure to follow the format in the instructions and label sections as requested.

Use an Arial, Helvetica, Palatino Linotype, or Georgia typeface, a black font color, and a font size of 11 points or larger. (A Symbol font may be used to insert Greek letters or special characters; the font size requirement still applies.)

Type density, including characters and spaces, must be no more than 15 characters per inch. Type may be no more than six lines per inch. Use standard paper size (8 ½" x 11) . Use at least one-half inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right) for all pages. No information should appear in the margins.
Edible 'Water Bottle' Blob Eliminates Waste
I don't know, but I infer that it should mean getting paid on the end of each week. If the startup suddenly goes bankrupt, you only lost a week.
Can you leave Hacker News? Thanks
Teeny Fish (iOS) with Baby twist [FREE]
I created a "Flappy Bird" alternative called "Teeny Fish" with a twist.

I've included a "Baby" mode that is much easier to play so as to allow small children, as well as aspiring adults, who find that they could go for something a bit easier, to enjoy the game, instead of immediately becoming frustrated. However, as the score increases, so does the difficulty!

The graphics and the music are both original.

Feel free to download it (FREE with iAds and IAP): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teeny-fish/id829754839?ls=1&mt=8

My site is: www.chatzitaskos.com

Also, feel free to contact me if you need anything.

Hope you like it!
I actually started out doing a bachelor of business studies program, but switched to CS as I figured I would enjoy it a bit more. The math has been a lot of work, I don't have a strong math background.

The ability to get a US work visa is something that has worried me. I looked into this when I got approached about a job opportunity in the states a while ago, however it turns out I can't work in the US without a degree, or 12 years experience. That said, I'll have 12 years experience around about the same time I'd complete my degree, so it's probably not really going to help with that.

I think your edit is actually pretty spot on, I probably need to worry less about finding a start-up that's going to make it big and focus more on finding a problem that I can solve locally. The scale in NZ is quite small unfortunately, there are only 5m people here which is one of the reasons I figured I'd need to look overseas.. perhaps it just means there's less competition?

Lots to think about - Maybe I'll finish this semester and then spend the rest of the year working on one of my ideas and see where I get to, if I don't have any luck I can continue my BSc next year while I come up with another idea.
If the car were invented today...
How would you design it?
Try gopkg.in - http://godoc.org/gopkg.in/docs.v1 as a tool-less solution to dependency versioning

I like it because it follows semver (i.e. you can only select the major version), which hopefully will make repo authors conform to it as well.
Your account is dead.
very motivational comment, thank you!

I've been asked before why I don't have a degree when, I've always thought that meant I should have one. Next time I'll take it as an opportunity to explain why I don't need one. =)
Technically "net 7" would mean payment in full within 7 days of completing work (or invoicing) rather than at the end of each week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_30
I'm also thinking about doing some freelance work right now.

One thing I'm unsure about is if it's wise to do consulting in the same space my startup is in (fitness & health data aggregation and analysis), or if I should stick to unrelated technical work (java, elasticsearch, angularjs), to avoid potential trouble with non-compete agreements and such.
C'mon. I want you to do it. C'mon hit me. Hit me. HIT ME!
Inspiration linked to bipolar disorder risk
Something like that (typing from memory):

(defun do-integrate (tree var)
;; -- do some crazy symbolic manipulation on the source tree
)

(defmacro integral (expr var)
,(do-integrate expr ,var))
The cartridges in a new printer will typically be "starter cartridges" and contain a fraction of the ink of a standard cartridge though.
Inspiration has been linked with people at risk of developing bipolar disorder for the first time in a study led by Lancaster University.

"It appears that the types of inspiration most related to bipolar vulnerability are those which are self-generated and linked with strong drive for success."

The research team is currently inviting UK-based individuals with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder to take part in an online survey exploring associations between inspiration, mood and recovery.
a free security audit of your app, pretty cool ;)
You got super lucky. Kudos.
I think startups are a viable option for many types of freelancers now.

I've been freelancing in mentoring start-ups for the last 6 months. Everyone told me startups have no money and that it's a fruitless pursuit but here i am talking to 1 new startup almost every single day.

I always give them the first session free (no time limit) and more than two-thirds come back for a paid session.

I've mentored around 60 startups in the last 3 months alone (all around the globe).

Most fun i've ever heard. Incredibly rewarding. In fact, i'm now working on building an actual mentoring platform.

I spend the rest of my time consulting small to medium size companies.
Is incredibly stupid to assume you are not liable for what you own; that's the reason why the cardholders gets in trouble by lending his credit card to friends or not reporting it has been stolen. The same thing with cars; if someone else drives you car you are in big part responsible for what the car is being used for (i.e. a friend and a bank robbery)

Hope that destroys your absurd misconception!
"integration testing" couldn't this just be "testing" or "QA"... Your website doesn't really tell me what you do and what the capabilities of it are... You should have a demo/test case walk thru so we can see multi-level or multi module testing setup and response... I'd be a customer if you can continually test modules and processes.
> So only the riskiest buildings get it.

> So the average customer of the insurer skews ever closer towards the extremely at-risk end of the spectrum.

> So the insurance companies have to raise the rates and deductibles.

This chain of "logic" only makes any sense if you assume that the insurance companies have to offer all their customers the same rates and deductibles. If the building owners can figure out that they're facing an elevated risk, why can't the insurance companies?
That's the thing about tuning based on metrics though. You end up with a product that the majority tolerate, but no one really loves.
Try this reverse version of 2048..
Let's see if you can end up in fractions :P
http://ajnas.in/one/
> In a post modernist web page, every element has border 1px, normally used only for debugging purposes, and a label explaining what type of HTML tag it is and what its attributes are.

Wow, that really highlights the ugliness of the "scaffolding" we use. Maybe we should design something better than HTML, so we can have scaffolding that we're not ashamed to show.
It's official. I am a total gumby. There are minds out there that are to mine as the entire city of New York is to a house brick and half a bagel. And they're all using APL.
> <quote> Now, the abortion that happened after PARC was the misunderstanding of the user interface that we did for children, which was the overlapping window interface which we made as naive as absolutely we possibly could to the point of not having any workflow ideas in it, and that was taken over uncritically out into the outside world. </quote>

And then tiling window managers were invented, and users rejoiced.
Try this reverse version of 2048 game..
See if you can end up with fractions :P
http://ajnas.in/one/
I have observed several children acquiring a first language. They struggle with pronunciation, repeat themselves again and again trying to get words right, mimic, ask for help, and generally work their little butts off. There's nothing effortless about it.

I've also seen many adults acquire second languages and fail to do so. I have also learned to speak a second language fluently as an adult myself.

My hypothesis is that adults' greater difficulty in learning a language is mostly based in fear of failure, social embarrassment, the vulnerability of asking for help, and the necessary process of making a fool of yourself along the way. Children are unafraid to blunder repeatedly until they get it right.
It depends on the illness. Psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, and similar diagnoses, are marked in large part by the lack of empathy presented.
I want to downvote you, but I don't have enough karma. Upvote my other comments and once I have enough karma, I promise to come and downvote yours.
I'm curious why some apps need API to access to AWS. What's the use case? Surely not to spin up an EC2 instance when the user clicks a button? Save files to S3? I'm not being sarcastic, genuinely curious. And what's the proposed solution suggested by AWS?
That may be true, but the difference is that caffeine doesn't inhibit cholinesterase across the board.
What was challenging about it? I'd like to hear.
The site looks particularly nice, and the service looks like it could be useful.
It's hard to say without knowing the app, but my first guess would be for storing files in S3 or pushing a message into a SQS queue.

AWS supports temporary access keys, and one of the recommended solutions is to have an API which generates temporary credentials for a specific task that will expire shortly after.

Edit:

Heres a link http://docs.aws.amazon.com/STS/latest/UsingSTS/CreatingSessi...
this is the most useful post I've read in a long time. thx