skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the links from the repo README are broken or in an invite-only area. The main docs I've seen are the markdown guides here:

https://github.com/Famous/guides

The biggest disappointment is what seems like less-than-rock-solid desktop browser support. Support for iOS and Android only with "Broader support for more browsers is coming"?? (After all the discussion of not releasing until everything is rock solid?) I noticed it with some of the initial demos that didn't allow you to rotate the element chart using your mouse, but it worked fine on an iPad. For all the talk of 3d, I don't see anything on par with a three.js in the source.

Seems like React + a physics engine...
Coming up with a measure of how masculine or feminine a name is would be a great application for machine learning.

The two features I can see that makes names more feminine are a larger number of vowels, and ending in a vowel. Maybe consonants are more masculine?
> Agism is definitely an issue in tech, but it's likely that he is not up to date with some of the more modern languages or techniques

Why do you suspect that he is likely not up date? The first part of your sentence mentions ageism, although the second part sounds a lot like it.
There is a link, but it's not what was previously understood.

See the following for a set of markers you should be tracking, thoroughly referenced for further reading. (Skip the first section if ketogenic is not for you.)

http://www.ketotic.org/2013/09/the-ketogenic-diet-reverses-i...
Trenton?
Don't forget Rubella, part of the MMR vaccine that the anti-vaxxers rail against. Fun fact: Rubella in a pregnant woman increases the risk of autism in the child. So, anti-vaxxers are actually working towards an increase in autism.
If you fall on hard times, you can sell things. If you have to sell something like a car that lost value, it won't be as good as being able to sell something like a house that holds value.
The Onion has a similar take: http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-pros-and-cons-of-vaccin...
Indeed. For symptomatic relief, Aspirin is usually a better option at low doses (as long as your stomach does not suffer too much from it, since it causes stomach bleeding).
AA is NOT religious.

It says throughout their books + literature that the only reason it uses the word "god" sometimes is because it's an already well-known concept of what a 'higher power'.. or 'power/force greater than yourself' can be. That entire concept, and the basis for one of their steps, is essentially getting you to stop trying to control the things in your life that you have absolutely no control over (i.e. I can't control what your response will be so therefor I shouldn't worry about whether or not you understand what I'm trying to convey).

There ARE christian based recovery programs but unless you're already a very STRONG christian I'd stick to any number of organizations like AA or S.M.A.R.T recovery.

Btw there is no section on "what if I don't believe in God" in any AA literature... so i'm confused with why you're making shit up when this guy clearly needs real help & not just your speculation. AA worked for me, S.M.A.R.T recovery worked for a close friend, and I'm sure other programs out there have their success stories too.

Using wikipedia as a source for how someone should treat a medical condition (alcohol withdrawal) is not only misleading but in this case dangerous.

Think of addiction like LSD. For those who have experienced it there is no explanation necessary..for those who haven't there is no explanation possible (loosely paraphrased from "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass).
It reminds me a lot of writing Cocoa applications but with javascript instead of Objective C.
For those who prefer links that start at the beginning of the article, instead of the beginning of the comments:

http://violentmetaphors.com/2014/03/25/parents-you-are-being...
> One could learn the vector field at fixed points (just take some fixed points from the training set to use as anchors) and interpolate in some manner.

One such interpolation that has nice properties (smooth everywhere, invertible, can be constructed for any set of pointwise correspondences) are diffeomorphisms.

Unfortunately, the mathematical objects are infinite-dimensional, which makes computation with them somewhat involved, even if they are derived from a small-dimensional set of point correspondences. See, e.g., <http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/MIDAG/pubs/papers/Joshi_TIP_2... for one method of constructing them.
I really can't wait to spend more time learning Rust, but that bit you just put out strikes me as a fair bit more complex than just multiple returns plus "don't ignore your errors, dude, you crazy?". We've got the let-match func() {} construction, the Ok() function (built-in? library?), the => foo vs => return err.. that's returning from the outer function, right? Whereas the => foo completes the let and continues? There's a lot going on in there.

I haven't spent any time using Rust, though, so maybe that construction will seem more natural when I get around to doing that.

Anyways, someone upthread called Go 'simplistic' which has both positive and negative connotations, and I totally agree. I'm happy with a simpler setup that solves 80% of problems really well and maybe there are some pitfalls you can fall into if you don't check your error values. As long as I'm not completely hamstrung by the simplicity (generics would be nice), I find the lack of features to be a win when you add up all the non-features that I don't have to think about it.
During the H1N1 craze in 2009 (I remember it very well), governments from all countries around the world were fighting to get enough stock of Tamiflu in case of a global Pandemic. Even at that time I thought this was ridiculous, not just because the risk of Pandemic was overblown (and the media played a huge part in it), but also because there had been no clinical trial suggesting that Tamiflu would be working against that particular strain of H1N1. Pure waste of taxpayers money by uninformed politicians reacting to panic.
Google's Project Ara Module Developers Kit Released
AmazonSmile: Amazon Donates .5% of Eligible Purchases To Charity of Your Choice
I haven't had a look at the extension definition itself, but I find this really hard to read. Can you or someone else give an explanation of what's going on? It seems to me that the brackets are all wrong, I would've expected

pattern (x :< m <- minView) -> Just (x,m)

but that's just basically view patterns/pattern guards. Basically I can sort of see what's going on here, but only in this specific case; I can't see how one uses this elsewhere.
Try around Elizabeth. At the very least you'll find the practice of spelling a name any way you want to be more common.

You're correct about the English name revival with Oliver going from 50th to 1st in the last decade.
I think there are two issues:

1) The link between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol.

2) The link between cholesterol and heart disease risk.

The former exists because research has shown that a large number of people don't seem to see an increase in blood cholesterol when they increase their dietary cholesterol, as I mentioned in the article.

The latter exists because people with seemingly healthy cholesterol levels, still develop heart disease, which has led to looking for alternative risk indications e.g. number of cholesterol particles vs total amount of cholesterol - the theory being that smaller, denser cholesterol particles may carry less total cholesterol but are more likely to cause plaque build up in the arteries.
3. Wrap, and use a good editor

Many editors don’t fully support soft wrapping, sadly. But if you’re lucky enough to use an editor that includes the necessary features, there are no problems with soft wrapping. Soft wrapping has the advantage that you never have to manually re-wrap a line. These editor features make soft wrapping useable:

Display noneditable symbols at wrap points to mark them as nonimportant linebreaks. In Vim, `set showbreak=->` to display “->” at wrapped lines. Emacs supports putting arrow symbols in the “fringe”. Visual Studio has a preference to enable this.

Indent wrapped lines at the same indentation as the start of the line, optionally plus extra indentation. Vim does not support this but there is a patch for Vim that makes this enable-able with `set breakindent`. Coda supports it fully, with customizable extra indentation. This is the least-supported, most-important feature of making wrapping useable.

Separate logical-line movement and visual-line movement. Pretty much every editor supports this. Logical-line movement is really only necessary in macros, anyway. In Vim, it’s j/k (or -/<Enter>) vs gj/gk. In Sublime Text, it’s up/down vs option-up/option-down (or some combination like that).
Desktop? I thought they were building for phones.

http://m.infoworld.com/t/mobile-development/famous-were-buil...
Snatch, snitch, snake...
don't forget to share your findings )
Of course it's a PR move, what else could it possibly be? PR is important, best to get out in front of a problem than be caught playing catch up.
Mission Impossible?
Thomas, in relation to my question and Daniel's answer, could you kindly explain the direction of the subset relation you are talking about there?
This is a very small symptom of a much more dire malady: scientific illiteracy at all levels of society.

The scope of science covers all existence, and yet, it has increasingly been confined to academia and research. The applications of scientific discoveries are nowhere to be seen in politics, economics, or law.

Starting in WWI, and ending with the Cold War, was the era of institutional science. During these times, scientists were respected and their input considered at every level of government. Yet, once the Cold War ended, it was back to business as usual. Science funding was cut, and scientists were exiled back to the lab, and replaced with financiers.

The MMR/autism zealots are a small blip in a much larger, metastasizing sickness in western society. Scientists, who are experts in the empirical rationalism which made the west what is today, are now marginalized and discredited as advisors to the public.

You reap what you sow. As NIH and NSF funding is cut, and STEM grads fight for dwindling employment opportunities, cases like this will become more and more common.

A society without science at its foundation is doomed to struggle in the dark forever. Tragically, it appears even those gifted with the flame of elucidation neglect it, allowing it to dwindle to embers, putting them back into the very darkness from whence they came.
The original article points out that Jayden was especially popular among minorities in New York, so I doubt that this particular trend is particularly closely tied to race.
Their marketing: "Famo.us provides a powerful JavaScript framework and developer tools designed to build rich, fast web applications." Yeah, it looks like it's mainly targeted toward mobile devices, not that it was clear before today. Earlier reports mentioned desktops together with mobile, like this one:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/famo-us-is-a-gaming-engine-...
"...it works on nearly any platform, including desktops, Android, and iOS."
Sadly, that's not really true. I know some highly literate, otherwise intelligent people, who can make their way through a work as dense as R. J. Rushdoony's (lucid but misguided) Institutes of Biblical Law, but who still believe that vaccines are a corporate and governmental plot. I think there is a flaw in some human brains that allows healthy skepticism to become overgrown into reflexive disbelief of all commonly-accepted fact. I've argued, cajoled, ridiculed, and persuaded them, but they absolutely cannot be moved. It really breaks my heart.
Yep, all but one are white.
Still not sure what to make of this project, but found this paragraph in their license agreement [1] of interest: "3.2.2 Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, Google grants to You, a limited, worldwide, royalty­free, fully paid up, non­assignable, non­sublicensable and non­exclusive license under Google’s Intellectual Property that reads on (i) the MDK, (ii) Module Interface Technology and (iii) combinations thereof, to make, use, sell, offer to sell, copy, display, import, distribute, modify and create derivative works of Module Interface Technology."

How is Google assigning the UniPro[2] interface license necessary to make these modules?

[1] http://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/project_ara/...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniPro
One of the upsides to such posts is they can trigger comments that reference more rigorous sources. While I don't think this is intentional it feels like a variation on the trick of getting an answer to a question by either saying something can't be done or by posting obviously wrong or otherwise flawed code.

Basically, xkcd 386.
A couple of things:

* A lot of people say that Tesla is having a hard time because they aren't doing the whole dealership/franchise thing & wanting to sell to people directly. I feel like this is the fallout of something like that, the ease of someone going after them directly.

* If you watch this 'lawyer' & his YouTube videos you can tell that he's going after these companies merely because of the "days" it's been in the shop/getting fixed & nitpicking about some issues that in all fairness, are probably fabricated.

* Watched the video about the door handles, I find it hard to believe those don't work as designed but it is a possibility.
the < $300 is distinct from > $300 & > 4".

My Nexus 4 for example retailed for < $300 and is > 4"
try this: http://www.amazon.com/Walden-Henry-David-Thoreau/dp/16194939...
Perhaps this goes without saying but, I want to warn against taking medical opinion/advice that is found on the internet, especially from a forum that mostly revolves to Software, Tech, and Startups.

> Aspirin is usually a better option at low doses (as long as your stomach does not suffer too much from it, since it causes stomach bleeding).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reye_syndrome
I believe this is the news release from Cochrane that the BBC article is based on. There is more detail there on why they believe Tamiflu is ineffective:

http://www.cochrane.org/features/tamiflu-relenza-how-effecti...
Cochrane is very good at what they do. This kind of systematic review is the highest standard of evidence when it comes to medical research. It's worth checking out some of their other reviews:

http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane-reviews/top

Note that these are abstracts of the full reviews (which they charge for access).

On a side note, meta-research deserves more funding!

http://blog.givewell.org/2013/06/06/meta-research-update/

edit: I linked to the wrong review before (not the one under discussion), so I edited that out. As gwern mentions in another comment, the link is broken in the BBC article. nairteashop found a different news release which seems to be the right link:

http://www.cochrane.org/features/tamiflu-relenza-how-effecti...
What's your main differentiator from an app like say, InvisionApp?
The about section of the website is completely blank for me in the latest firefox. The docs and the guides pages on famo.us redirect me to a login page. Am I missing something?
This American Life did a fascinating episode on this issue.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/u...
They don't need to be on one line. If you really want to pretend that having them on one line is a problem, then put them each on their own line. You can even be needlessly verbose if you want to:

do
a <- GetBar foo
b <- GetBaz a
c <- GetCat b
return c
It's not too bad on iOS7. But nothing to rave about either.
It's interesting to see this. Realplayer Cloud has been doing the video part of this. Moreover, they let me cast it on Chromecast. How is this any better for videos?
I named my son Quinn - it's a celtic name, even though neither my wife or myself can claim any such ancestry. And no, we didn't really give whether a name sounded like a particular ethnicity even the slightest thought when we named any of our kids.

We generated large lists of names and would read them off to each other. Both of us just liked the sound of Quinn - felt modern yet traditional, masculine, and so we though, unique. Unfortunately it has become the "Sean / Shawn" of this generation - gender neutral and all too common. I feel a bit like Johnny Cash and the "Boy Named Sue" where I hope he doesn't hate me as he gets older. Honestly though, in our small town there's only one other Quinn (a little girl about his same age) and everybody in town knows him because of his unique name and even more special personality. So, guess it's alright in the end.
Absolutely look for an internship. What would a job offer you, other than money (which you say you need) and experience (which you absolutely will need if you ever want to get hired)?

In the business world, you are judged on one thing: WHAT DO YOU COST? How much money do I have to spend to get you?

Some people (whom you mostly do not want to work for) will only want people who cost very little. These people love interns because they are slaves.

Most others assume that really good people always know they are good and act like it. These people consider anyone who can be had cheaply as marginally competent.

You can see the attitude in some of the advice you're getting. If you're any good, why don't you open your own startup and produce something that suckers Marissa Mayer into giving you $14 million?

If you haven't done that-- and you're willing to work for free-- how good can you be? Not very, obviously, ESPECIALLY if you live in NYC, where people in power still like to refer to themselves as "Masters of the Universe" or "Big Swinging Dicks."

There is only one exception to the rule, and that is the Roger Corman rule. Roger Corman was a low-budget filmmaker who hired a ridiculously high number of good directors early in his career. The list starts alphabetically with Peter Bogdanovich and includes James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante, Jonathan Demme, Curtis Hanson, Ron Howard, Jonathan Kaplan, Nicolas Roeg, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Robert Towne. Corman's pitch was very simple; "I won't pay you squat, but I will let you make a movie, so you learn how to do it."

There are companies (JSeymourATL mentions the type) who do the same thing for technology. They'll can't get people who are destined to work for Booz, Allen-- unless they get them for the first or second job. They'll hire you, give you tons to do and work your butt off until you outgrow them.

But even then, DO NOT VOLUNTEER OR INTERN. And only go with them if you can see that you will work a lot and learn a lot. Don't take a job that drops you on password resets at a bank call center.

Remember, everything you do from now on will be judged. DO NOT, unless you work on open source, WORK FOR FREE.
I wonder if it's simply that the DTLS heartbeat is modeled on the ICMP echo-request packet? Pings also contain a blob of up to 64kB of arbitrary data (in the case of ICMP, this is/was handy for detecting pattern-dependent link problems). Unlike DTLS, though, the length of the payload is determined by the enclosing protocol, not redundantly by a length field in the packet itself.
I remember picking the classic mode under control panel settings to find things where I was used to finding them.
But the blue screen of death was occurring far less frequently which was a big relief.
That's much more to my liking, but still, we've got multiple ways of doing option types and now I've seen 2 different operators, which I presume are overloaded to deal with those types somewhere? Or we're dealing with a ton of built-in types and built-in operators to deal with them?

I'm not trying to sell anyone, code however you like -- I prefer the situation of "simpler environment, don't write bugs" to "really complicated environment that makes it theoretically impossible to write bugs". I bet I can still write bugs.
Wait. When I click "Security Check" in my LastPass Tools... menu (this is in Chrome), I get taken to an internet-hosted web page where I'm prompted to enter my master password. [1] I am not taken to a chrome:// page or some other client-side tool.

I take this to mean that I'm giving LastPass's web server my actual master password, and that they will do server-side decryption of my Vault and have server-side access to my passwords in cleartext.

Is that accurate?

[1] https://lastpass.com/index.php?securitychallenge=1&lang=en-U...
I am a big fan of Dropbox. I have tried other cloud storage/sync providers at various points of time and had a sour experience - Box: couldn't figure out how to sync, SkyDrive/OneDrive: refused to sync, Google Drive: was so slow that I tried to speed it up by copying over existing data from another machine and it created two copies of everything! In over 3 years I haven't faced a single problem with Dropbox.

Selling to the enterprise is a very different thing though. Quality comes way down in their priority list. The bureaucratic strongholds in enterprises require compromised quality at every level in order to maintain their fiefdom. I know Dropbox needs to make more money, but maybe this is not the right direction in which to probe?
Exactly... All the lies the online guys talk about online ad revenue and that building brand "engagement" is the next thing. Its utterly insane. There are micro swarms of interest that fades, as fast as it starts around viral issues. These are all being driven by 15-25 year olds... who don't have much money, don't pay much taxes and don't vote... not a place to spend money unless you're building a game.
Would it make more sense not to abandon all that work but instead just run the project on Windows??
No you're not.It's pure hypeware, after 3 years of development and 5+ millions in VC funding they cant set up a simple gh-page with a basic tutorial and exemple on launch day... Big backlash against this framework starts in 3,2,1...
Yeah, I remember reading the same discussion in Slashdot ten or more years go. I also had the reason in the back of my head, thanks for reminding me :). This is nothing new, really. I hope we don't get a submission about how some contemporary CD's from Sony have a rootkit...
Nope, your definition of simplistic is precisely what I meant.
How many people want to rent space in the cloud to store all their photos? If our home did it we'd have to pay 2x $199 (200 GB each) or 2x $499 (500 GB each) per year -- plus buy computers with storage large enough to ferry this around (or external HDs).

Apple offers "photostream" as a free, transactional mechanism to move photos from phone to computer -- the central storage and usage of photos remains at home. Why would I pay a cloud storage company $400 or even $1,000 per year to keep my own photos?
The Fear Of Failure
Probably the slowest and worst clone I've seen. Hopefully that's not a reflection on famo.us.
Everyone always uses this take down and its stupid.

Why would you trust your friends keys to validate say, your bank? You wouldn't. You'd trust your government, and various regulatory bodies to do that.

You'd trust friend keys to validates your friend's websitss or the like.

Different trust paths for different things. This is really the problem with UX on all crypto at the moment though - way too absolutist about 'trust', rather then considering use cases.
What do you use for caching that uses the hard drive? Redis?
Which is sad because the massive unity code base is stuck in the C# dark ages.

On the other hand, mono is 'open source' so it's kind of rubbish for Xamarin to be asking license fees when they have their own (pretty rubbish) competing game stack with monogame that they have a vested interest in (not commercially, but Xamarin developers work on it).

I find this sort of 'kind of open source but actually you have to pay us ahahahahaa~' thing pretty distasteful.
Also slime for Emacs is great