skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'Red Wedding' episode of Game of Thrones was the best single show rating I could find - 9.9!
http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0944947

The 4th episode of True Detective was 9.8.
http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt2356777

Check out this outlier on Dexter's last season lol
http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0773262
I've done sufficient with both Angular and React to have decided to go with React for next our project. Its a better fit for this particular project because the "reusable components" paradigm fits what we're doing, which includes building a non-model-specific framework that we can reuse for different models, where the framework renders slightly differently based on meta data provided with the model. We'll probably use Backbone for the model (& meta) & router. I like Angular, and would like to use it for a project that's more concrete and less meta.
And, of course, Breaking Bad: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0903747
I suspect a bug in your proof right at the beginning, where you say "exact result be of the form N + epsilon, with 0 < epsilon <= ulp(N)/2, and N an exact integer". Assuming you're referring to the result of the entire expression including ceil, can we still say that, considering that ceil() is far from being a continuous function?
I know this sounds trollish, but why is the tech community so bullish on Bitcoin when theft seems so rampant/easy?
While the release names based on rappers is quite a fun idea, I don't get why they didn't go for people who are, you know, good at hip hop. I mean 50 cent and Childish Gambino? And especially next to Em and Ghostface. Or is this a good release/bad release kind of thing?
I have been saying stuff like this for years, although not as eloquently or detailed. But now Chris Granger is saying it, and no one can say he's not a "real" programmer, so you have to listen.

I think it boils down to a cultural failure, like the article mentions at the end. For example, I am a programmer myself. Which means that I generate and work with lots of static, cryptic colorful ASCII text program sources. If I stop doing that, I'm not a programmer anymore. By definition. I really think that is the definition of programming, and that is the big issue.

I wonder if the current version of Aurora derives any inspiration from "intentional programming"?

Also wonder when we can see a demo of the new version.
Hey y'all thanks so much for the support!

UserTesting (the folks behind Peek) shot us over a promo code to get the first 100 of you to the front of the line if you want to give it a whirl: ramenreader
Brace Yourselves, RubyConf Portugal is coming
Ha, funny - as a startup founder (https://www.mightyspring.com), I immediately went and signed our site up for a review from Peek. Seemed insanely valuable to me.
If you sell more cars, you should be able to invest more in engineering reliability. The cost should be spread out over many more vehicles. This all goes out the window depending on margins, priorities, and presumably other factors, but for the sake of argument: I'd say both numbers on their own aren't fair.
This is one of those times it's nice that the HN editors force headlines to match the original content. I hope they do this one soon.

Original HN headline: Microsoft changes privacy policy to defer to law enforcement

What MS actually said they'd do is refer the matter to law enforcement rather than investigate it themselves. This is a good thing because criminal investigations come with all sorts of protections for citizen rights and privacy.

If it's just MS doing their own investigation, they can do whatever the want. It's a black box with no accountability.
This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but it made some of the concepts "click" for me.

https://youtu.be/gNZtx3ijjpo (three parts).
Love this. You can really see how some series took a while to get their feet under them.

Star Trek: TNG http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0092455

Deep Space 9: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0106145

Enterprise: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0244365

Or in each season

Game of Thrones: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0944947

Or took a while to hit their stride, then left right after the peak Seinfeld: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0098904

Had a story arc: B5 http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0105946

Or were clearly failing:

Andromeda: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0213327

Sliders: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0112167

Futureama: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0149460

Or are experiencing a revival

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0121955

I wish this could be correlated against ratings data.

And or course: Dr. Who http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0056751

edit:

Also Law & Order
http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0098844

and Law & Order SVU
http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0203259

and Law & Order CI
http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0275140

and the Stargate series

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0118480

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0374455

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt1286039

and Battlestar Galactica

(1978) http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0076984

recent http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0407362

caprica http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0799862
Since those accounts don't really look like spam accounts, we'll take that as a compliment =).
Even as a contributor, the reactions from the React users surprise me sometimes.
It's a known reputable source. The fact that it is also a blog, is not truly related to that.
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It has, very significantly. There is still a 日本語-only mailing list (ruby-dev), but the English one has significantly more traffic (ruby-core). No decisions are made in ruby-dev that are not also discussed in ruby-core.

In addition, it's only that mailing list that's split; the bugtracker is in English, the help is all in English (with one or two 日本語 translations).

It's actually never been easier to contribute to Ruby.
Thank you. "Threads are always better than processes, lololol" really gets under my skin. There are pros and cons to each approach.
I had not known about the Peek service, that's pretty awesome.

Does anyone know of anything like that, but that's _not_ random, where I could actually send volunteers from my current users to my sight, and have their clicks and voice recorded and sent to me? Is there such a business that works well at a reasonable price?
Nice, but you should make it work automatically and "online" just from camera image, without setting additional parameters.
At this point, does it really matter if the diagnosis was legitimate? The treatment clearly helped him improve his life dramatically.
> Lots of people won't do this and will just bounce

That's a huge assumption. The only way to know for real is to A/B test. You may be surprised by what testing will tell you. We constantly A/B test landing page designs at Ordoro, and have often found results that are counter-intuitive.
Imagine all the things not invented yet that would make the Internet seem boring. Like Star Trek style holodecks for example.
I think this improved programming vision starts at a higher level language like Clojure/JS/Haskell and builds on that.

To allow the everyday Joe to use simplified programming all the way down to machine code is a harder task. Languages like Haskell try to do it with an advanced compiler that can make enough sense of the high level language to generate efficient machine code.

Of course you'll still lose performance on some things compared to manual assembler but with larger programs advanced compilers often beat writing C/manual assembly.

Honestly the bigger performance problem is not wether you can make a high level language that generates perfect machine code but wether you can get through the politics/economics of JS/Obj-C/Java to distribute it.
I think you're applying an extremely narrow and inconsistent criteria for deciding what is and is not a disease. Humanity as a whole, in the modern era, does not know how to treat mental health issues very well. We don't know what causes them, and we don't know how to fix them. Yes, for the most part, it's guessing. That's why there is no strictly scientific diagnosis system. But that doesn't mean there isn't a physical cause, It also doesn't matter a hill of beans to anyone that needs treatment for or treats mental illness. And neither is this distinction true for all mental illnesses, nor is it limited to mental illness, nor is it criteria for excluding an illness as a disease.

You're also misunderstanding the role that treatments for mental illness play. Psychoanalysis, meditation, medication, many of our current treatments for many mental illnesses do not cure you. Neither do most of the drugs we use for other, infectious diseases. It's akin to taking cough syrup when you have a cold; it just masks the symptoms until the disease goes away. Valtrax doesn't cure herpes, it just pushes it down and out of the way so the sufferer can live a more normal life. Cutting out cancer doesn't necessarily cure you of it.

The entire notion of "cure" is specious to begin with. There aren't any magic potions you can drink that restore your HP and get you back into battle. The only thing that makes sense to talk about is treatment. Treatment varies between all diseases, all patients, and over time for that patient.

For me, getting enough sleep, eating well, and staying hydrated properly are all parts of my treatment for depression and anxiety. They don't cure. I can have a bummed out day where I don't want to get out of bed even if I've been taking care of myself perfectly, just the same as I can still get a cold if I'm washing my hands religiously. But if I don't keep up with taking care of myself, it happens significantly more often.

The problem is that there are people who are suffering who could be treated and they are not seeking treatment because of social stigmas around treatment.
Not to be confused with react.js[0], which is the first result if you search for "react js" in DDG.

[0] http://reactjs.com/
Law and Order was fairly consistently awesome, as I expected: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0098844
I enjoyed watching the demo and reading the post. I hope you continue to think about this and innovate.

Something that I feel like is missing is the abstraction quality of programming. That is, the idea that I typically have very little use for a particular graphic when writing a program. I'm trying to express "whenever the user hits this button, flip over the top card in this set, move it over here, and then make the next card the top card" or whatever.

Some of Bret's demos look to me like he's thinking directly about this, and trying to discover where the abstraction fits in, and how direct manipulation can help to basically "see" that the abstraction is working. Perhaps that's a good guide to where direct manipulation could really help -- for anything relative complex, it's a big pain to see that code works. A direct manipulation system to basically flip through possibilities, especially into edge cases, and make sure they work as intended would definitely help out. I don't know whether that's the final way you want to express the system -- language is really powerful, even a million years later! -- but a way to see what the language does would be really awesome.
I just worked by way through TNG and DS9. TNG took a while to get it's legs...in today's environment it wouldn't have lasted past season 2. But then it became great television for the rest of the run.

DS9 started pretty solid, and became one of the best written pieces of sci-fi TV quickly for a long time.
Since Warp is meant to be a drop-in replacement for GCC's cpp, do you plan to include a traditional (pre-standard) preprocessing mode? This has been a source of some agony in FreeBSD, preventing clang's cpp from fully replacing GCC cpp on some ports (mostly X11 related due to imake). So far the partial solution has been ucpp.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Traditional-Mode.html

https://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndClang/CppIssues

http://code.google.com/p/ucpp
It does not matter how much it costs now. Simple facts that it is possible and technology to produce it exists are important. Within a few years economy of scale and technology optimizations will bring flexible e-ink at affordable price.
I'm optimistic about our field and hope the machine/deep learning crowd don't crack AI so quickly (allowing computers to program themselves obviously puts us out of business).
Oh I see. I think the best answer to your question is the Hack example site https://github.com/hhvm/hack-example-site. It contains the source for the Hack site along with build instructions.

Although it's not an MVC site, they do a lot of inline HTML ...
If FaceTime is available on Android, why does your next tablet need to be an iPad? You know you'll still get the same video quality using a cheaper Android tablet, after all.
" I assume he's very much interested in seeing D in use in more places"

Yes, I think you are correct and this is what I was getting at. It seems like a propaganda exercise to promote D, you only have to look at the end of the article to see this "And join the D language community for the D Conference 2014 on May 21-23 in Menlo Park, CA."

For the record I am very much aware of who Andrei is and the influences he has on certain languages.
Yeah, especially if you think your blog post will get submitted to HN or reddit or TechCrunch... assume that nobody knows what your company does! Those that do will just skip over it, and those of us that don't will now know and everyone's happy.
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Respectfully...

Investing seems like it is fun and easy to a lot of people who haven't done it. I'm not saying it is or isn't, I'm only saying that there's a perception that it's a fun and easy job. That perception might be right or wrong, and might not be a simple binary yes/no.

Sure, there are big plusses, and yes you can make a lot of money doing it. Starting a company is no cakewalk either, and investing is a nice way to get paid while enjoying the ability to talk to lots of smart folks who educate you about a broad array of subjects.

It's also not easy. A lot of investment funds fail. Not everyone is enjoyable to deal with. There are many hard truths.

FWIW I know a VC who left investing to start another company b/c he hated having to say "no" to so many folks, and to deal with some of the other pressures in the environment. There are negatives that aren't always obvious. http://www.quora.com/Venture-Capital/What-is-the-worst-part-...

As to your bigger point about the moral and social value of investing -- I think nearly everyone would agree that religious and community leaders are more deserving of high praise than a VC. In some cases, people who sweep their sidewalks might be adding more social value than some investors ;)

That being said, I think it's unfair to paint every investor with the same brush.

A good VC adds value and helps companies grow and succeed. The jobs created are good for society. A company like Tesla also serves a bigger good -- moving us from fossil fuels to renewables is a good thing for society, and capitalism is an effective tool for pushing that forward. The people who gave Elon Musk money to make that happen are (indirectly) helping.

Not every company is quite so noble. There are certainly lots of terribly useless investments -- http://www.businessinsider.com/a-year-later-41-million-start...

That being said, if we're going to point the finger at the investors, what should we make of the business people and engineers who work on these 'useless' apps? Are they also profiting from socially useless activities? Is there no room in human life for entertainment? Is there no value in an app that makes it easy for families to share special moments with one another?

I think there's a certain amount of acceptance required that not everything in a society will/can be focused on directly moving that society forward in the most obvious way, and being ok with that.
I have a great many criticisms of this deal but how many people would be better candidates for the role of a CTO managing the meeting of new 3D technology and hardware? A CTO has to cover all technology bases, not just hardware, so you can't just name some chip designer with no management experience. Carmack has been optimizing game engines with assembly since the dawn of the industry and is still hands-on having very recently been optimizing game engines on smartphones. He was also head of Armadillo aerospace where they had enormous amounts of custom machining and microcontroller work, you can deride that as "tinkering" if you like.

Google's work specifying and building the Nexus lines, the Chromebooks and their own custom motherboards for their servers, Google glass, their self-driving cars and their recent acquisition of the leading robotics companies also demonstrates how much hardware knowledge Google has. So you are wrong there too.

Facebook has been leading the open compute project and has significantly more hardware resources than people might think just using their web application. The point of buying the company is to get all the technology anyway, let's not forget in all this that they have a working prototype.

I'll agree they both have bad customer service though. But as a victim of Apple's bad hardware and customer service - they sold me an iPhone that had broken reception and didn't replace it for anyone outside of the US where there was a lawsuit - I would argue Apple doesn't really beat them there either.
If the pad and display was good enough to keep up with handwriting, I would be all over this at work.

I've worked with Laptop or iPad/Keyboard and I can make it work, but nothing beats a pen and folio.
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It's a premium price that's partly for early adopters to show off, but when you can read and write Japanese on it (as shown in the product video) the deal is basically made. Lawyers will flock to this in droves, not least because it will be a deductible business expense. The color will be irrelevant to them and the Sony brand will actually be an asset, because they're less concerned about Sony's cool factor than the fact they're in no danger of going out of business.

I know, it's not the most hacker-friendly analysis, but this really is something innovative and will help teh technology towards becoming ubiquitous.
Also, 'nobody ever died on a motorcycle'.
> But is flexibility a feature or a bug of paper?

This is interesting. I hadn't thought of it from this perspective. If perhaps, down the line of course, you could roll it up like a taquito then you could put it in your pocket.
Our wording is a little off there. Appreciate the feedback, and you're totally right.
You can undefine predefined macros in clang using -U. I took a little time to write some commands that should produce something close to the right defines/undefines to let one compiler's preprocessor masquerade as another compiler's preprocessor:

http://coliru.stacked-crooked.com/a/17122f90ec070d55
"They did not want to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the matter."

With Mozilla?
I think this is going to be needed less and less in react-related posts, that repo hasn't been updated in over 3 years.
It's actually not that hard to deal with text, even in partially edited states. It's just most people don't know how to build a decent incremental parser with fairly good error recovery, but some of us do.
I don't see a bunch of miracle cures that promise the moon, I see a bunch of things that promise, and sometimes deliver, hard-won incremental improvement. The OP seems a lot more like a moon-promising miracle-cure than all the stagnant stuff I'm wasting my attention on.
I first thought of the linux distribution[0], but I do think the name is appropriate since it is a unit we don't often touch (like Femto)

[0]: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org
Hi,
Thanks a lot for the comment. The C++ to Ruby on Rails was just a joke.
Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,
Daniel
Which young technology companies/startups you know which are mostly technology oriented and which can disrupt the market in the near future?
Or better yet

Here is a problem
This is how our product solves that problem

followed by additional features that make your product stand out.
I will not voluntarily use "yum" on a server in a million years.

Debian has always been my favorite, and currently we use Ubuntu on servers as the OS-packages-as-shipped are more up-to-date; which turns out to be quite important in web-dev-land.

Frankly I dont know what CentOS/Redhat does better then Ubuntu nowadays, apart from selling enterprise stuff like JBoss :)
Something about Angular rubs me the wrong way. I think it has to do with dirty checking. Either that or the scope magic that happens. React, comparatively, is quite straight forward. I hope it stays that way, a minimal API and no magic.

The more I look into react the more I wonder if some intermediary representation of the DOM ought to be standardized so that a native "diff/batch" algorithm can be provided as regular functions. I think react would help this cause if it can break up into several projects (react-events, react-virtual-dom, react-dom-diff/batch, etc). Perhaps other projects can adopt parts of react into their own frameworks. Just a thought.
That would be great! Any idea how to locate the text on the image? Since face recognition can be done "online" ( http://auduno.github.io/clmtrackr/examples/facesubstitution.... ), finding text should also be possible.
If you have a condition that causes you to spend a few weeks each year working on non-management-approved activities then it is a minor problem

Disagree that it's a problem. Micromanagement is the problem. Side effects of high creativity (whether a person is or is not suffering from a mood disorder) aren't problems. If we desire progress for this world, then society should adapt to its best people, not the reverse.

More to the point: if you don't trust people to work on what they consider important, then don't hire them. The idea that every iota of work has to be approved by some silly priesthood is counterproductive and idiotic.
Well, my device has just over 40Mb of internal storage. So, unless the app allows you to install to an SD card, it matters a lot!
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I can't find the quote now, but I'm sure that I've read of someone saying (when told that a result had been found earlier but forgotten), "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered!"
The spec says "Compatible with electromagnetic induction-type touch pen input"
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I guess that puts paid to the PS4...
Jeez. That is like sooooo many modern websites.

What is this site? What is thingumajig.io? Its a webby thingumajig? Sign up? Sign up for what? Oh it's a website for web something.

nice font.
That helps. Thanks
True, but still, it's hardly required to be in SV in order to found a successful technology company. And the Triangle area is actually quite a burgeoning startup hub these days... although the word hasn't gotten out quite everywhere yet. :-)
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Imagine you already deal with a great amount of paper by necessity. You can put it in a binder, bend it out of the way to get at physical documents behind it, use it as a live index to other things and so on. It would be perfect for lawyers in court, where you don't necessarily wish to have a laptop on the table r a device that you hold up, but you do have to deal with massive amounts of paper and would like an electronic tool that substituted/integrated as seamlessly as possible into that environment.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-s...

"I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg."-Paul Graham