skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this in action at a local maker faire. It uses a laser pointer's lens as the refractor, and works pretty well! Definitely a clever hack, and the bonus is you can easily take pictures of what you find!
Elites, Interest Groups , and Average Citizens
I agree 100% with your reasoning here.

And I want to add also into the mix another aspect I feel is relevant: we are talking about journalism. In the field of journalism (and writing in general), there is incentive to represent bold and challenging ideas. It is clear that they have the white male perspective covered. From that viewpoint, it seems fair that they would seek to cover their bases with journalists who speak from other cultural backgrounds.

If that is part of his reasoning, I rather agree with the sentiment.
Where Google has succeeded is to offer a free service (search, maps, email, android/mobile os) that was either initially or after feedback best in class. And they successfully monetised those products (not so easy vis Twitter).

However, Glass is different. It requires users to pay up front for the service. This is inherently a different model for Google. Adoption is not free, nor just a click away. It will be interesting to see if/how Google succeeds in getting this right (as it will likely precede other forays into hardware).

Fortunately for Google, they have huge cash flows and plenty of cash and talent lying around, so Glass does not look like it is at risk. Having said that, it may take years before adoption (in whatever form that is) will be accepted.
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Like... seriously? Its 2014, not 2004...
People so often jump straight into A* pathfinding on a grid, but in my experience that makes the algorithm really opaque. It's been far easier for me to grasp when I was pathfinding over a simple, explicit graph instead.

That being said, great tutorial!
I think we have a winner for the most poorly named programming language of the last decade. I thought that "Go" and "Hack" were bad, but at least I could type those on my keyboard.
I almost used a fork of https://github.com/nashby/jose-vs-oss for a while...
Please define the difference in this context, especially looking at the funding rewards.
A new version of the map has been deployed. We receive lots of emails with more startups to include, they're pinned. There is also a full screen mode now, and links to the coolest hardware newsletter. Hope you enjoy!
Is the seething rage really necessary?
> That's a fairly cynical and negative point of view that goes against the core ideas on which Kickstarter was created.

I don't think it really does. Kickstarter is expressly a way of getting resources people interested in offerings to launch them when the funds to start the to launch the offering wouldn't otherwise be available, in order to create sustainable businesses that would otherwise not get started because of lack of access to funds to start them.

Obviously, one of the very common things to do with a viable business once it is running -- and one that maximizes the return for people who are best at (or most interested in) launching things -- is to establish the business, sell it to someone interested in running it for the long term, and use the proceeds to start more things.

While particular exits might bother some people, I don't see how its contrary to the core ideas on which Kickstarter was created, or a sad thing. People who are well suited to getting the ball started on something aren't always best suited for later stages.
This is great, but I'd suggest having an instructional module as soon as a user signs on with more details about the different planet sizes, what they mean, and what the "actual" distance would be between the center and the 2AU barrier.
Strobing and scrubbing, retroactive update have been done since the 70s. The problem has been scaling up beyond toys.
I disagree. I think this is the slippy slope of intellectual property. Many people have come to believe that every idea and abstract concept no matter how mundane must become a protected monopoly.

For example, the whole Three's vs. 2048 debate: the issue isn't copyright as no code, artwork, or even gameplay rules were directly copied. But people seem up in arms that someone dare create a new game involving shifting numbers. That 'idea' has been consumed. And it doesn't matter that someone could build a product on that idea in a day or two and feels no need to be compensated for it.
Apple power adapters are not grounded if you use the short plug (the cable is grounded) and they supply up to 85W. You sometimes get the slight tingly feeling when touching the case.
Joe Random wasn't buying Wall Street's CDOs either.
Banks are leery of the cloud for anything they do because even a basic web site can have sensitive (hackable) links to logins for account data. Healthcare companies have the same concerns around private health data.
Newspapers still gotta make money even in 2014.
phpstorm and intellij are enough for me already, but would love the 'time traveling' aspect (I think of it more like a code DVR).

chronon works OK for java, but I do grails work, and the groovy metaprogramming stuff isn't supported in chronon.
Yes, their magnetic power connector is patented. US7311526. (Not that it ever stopped the Chinese who have had magnetic power connectors on their electric kettles and skillets for years before Macbooks even existed from cloning it, but that's a different story...)
Early Stage Startups: The Biggest Killers
It seems like you're trying to imply some kind of negative connection to this fund based on a similar name. What's your point? It's like saying one guy named Joe did something you don't like, so it's interesting that this other guy is named Joe too. Who cares?
Can't load but the mere chance it's anything like either the ancient coin-op arcade game, 'Mad Planets', or the recent Flappy Bird variant, 'Flappy Space Program', makes me like it already.
According to the company's website, their tech gets them up to the 30-300MHz range.

http://finsix.com/power-platform/#section-frequency-innovati...
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Wonderful, thanks! Off to spend some money.
Pre-Order gives you a right to obtain the product or at least get some money back in case the company folds and there are assets left, usually even before the investors see any money. You're a customer. Kickstarter gives you "you're a backer" and in case the company folds you get nothing.
So, OpenIconic seems to have none of the interesting features that Iconic Pro does (responsiveness, CSS styling, etc.). How is it better than other existing open icon sets such as FontAwesome, then?

I mean, I get that this is a 'freemium' version designed to entice designers to upgrade to 'pro', but if I have no intention of upgrading, the purely open options seem preferable.
While the author does have an interesting point about how Netflix could be a bigger hub for information, is it really a "big growth opportunity"?

To create (good) content for solely information consumption would require a lot of leg work on Netflix's end, and would it really help their return? They would have to hire content creators, change dev infostructure to be both in/out of a paywall, manage the content, etc. Netflix is basically a household name already (even my grandma uses it), I don't know if ranking higher on SEO is really going to be cause of a large growth spurt.

> "Netflix needs to put all of this valuable content outside of the paywall in order to provide value..."

Netflix already provides a magnificent amount of value to customers without doing this. "Needs" is a very strong word to use in that sentence. Yes, it may help, but it doesn't "need" to happen for them to provide value. Also, maybe not doing this is the value. By making people sign up to see content, reviews, trailers, etc. it actually gives them more value. Yes you can find that information on other sites, but why give it away for free if people are already willing to pay for it?

Netflix could use the money saved from a project like this to get more and more shows/movies on their network. A bigger library of content is what will make them have more and more growth, not awareness via SEO. Awareness is something I think they already have that down pretty well.

However, I think this could come into play and be a more helpful strategy when more and more competition comes around (other than just Hulu and Amazon) against Netflix. Or when they have a more significant amount of original shows in their library.
When I was learning A*, I found the fact that it was introduced on a grid helpful because the idea of the metric on the grid is very intuitive. But, different strokes, I guess.
Had a conversation with two of our C-level folks a week or two ago specifically about deadlines.

They'd used the word "crunch", and also were talking about "marathon, not sprint".

I explained that they really shouldn't use the C-word unless they were ready to deal with the consequences--especially with folks from the gamedev industry or startup stuff, there is a lot of psychic baggage with that.

~

If you tell me that we're doing a crunch, I take that to mean that the product deadline is paramount--bugs that can't be papered over a distant second, and everything else is not worth thinking about. Crunch means that I work whatever schedule lets my team write the most code fastest, and that we are released from any obligation other than "make this date". If that means working until four or five in the morning, and then stumbling in around noon, and telling a veep to fuck off and get out of the way, that's what it is.

The c-word is something that has cost people their marriages, has cost companies millions in technical debt, and has cost our industry a lot in untrackables--it's the nuclear option.

~

They thanked me for my explanation, and promised not to use the c-word again unless they really, really meant it.
But non competes are hard to enforce whereas having releted work/ip belongs to the employer is prity much custom and practice.

The employee employer relsionship is very one sided
JavaScript OOP "Done Right"
If you have to use it frequently I would recommend just getting the European charger: http://store.apple.com/de/product/MD813ZM/A/apple-usb-power-...

(Yeah, Apple doesn’t do prices below €20, but it’s a pretty nice and compact charger. It’s longer than the US charger, but very flat, which I think is a better form factor in many situations.)

All of this is to say that these adaptors are super annoying, look ugly, add bulk and are easy to forget, so never an ideal solution.
Elm normally generates <noscript> tags that are pretty good. It has come in and out of the compiler for various reasons, so it should be back in again at some point. Sorry for the trouble!
I do not think she is able to recognize slow development from fast one. However, "littered with bugs" is a red flag for both team and the process (whoever sets it).
Almost instantly.
But I would disagree that that drive the issue in any way.
Usually worse, it seems most people use chef or puppet. I understand what you are saying, but I am saying I believe otherwise. Operations has always relied heavily on automation. We managed several thousand unix machines with 3 or 4 people back in the 90s and it was totally normal. Devops started for the same reason cloud started: to put a new buzzword on what people have done forever, so that it can be sold as a new silver bullet.
Many new standards related to XML technology adopted by W3C
Thats the point, ultra motivated contributors will do this, semi motivated contributors can be coached into it, people that just want their stuff to work may not, but all of it is useful, putting a barrier in front of that is wasting developers time.

And I am not speaking solely about small projects, I experience exactly the same thing while working on Firefox OS, at nearing a million 'issues' its definitely not small.
Great comment, and I agree with all your points, except:

> Yes, blame the designers for ridiculously high turnover, where you have 3 people in the same position within a year.

She doesn't blame the designers anywhere. The only one she blames even implicitly is herself, in the paragraph that follows on the one you quoted.

> Not surprising that she's (according to Crunchbase) only raised $500k.

You seem to be implying that raising half a million dollars is a failure, but perhaps you're still using irony there.
Cant wait to hear.... raining in NYC also, looking for a ray of sunshine!
While I get the need for page views, I really wish problematic aspects of any tech movement could be discussed in a way that actually improves things rather than tears them down.

You hate xyz? OK, but apparently xyz has enough merit to get the attention of quite a few people, so let's identify the problem areas and make xyz better rather than resorting to hyperbole and melodrama.
This is just from what I have read on the internet, I am not by any means an expert.

As far as I know, graphene is just as good or a little bit better than currently producible carbon nanotubes. There are a few other materials out there such as colossal carbon tubes and something being called carbyne ( linear acetylenic carbon). Carbyne as far as I know is supposed to have better properties than any of the others but is only a predicted material from computer simulations and some small traces of it supposedly found in interstellar dust. So far, there has been no real success in creating it in a lab.
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There are about 50 or so time travel debuggers in existence. I want detailed comparisons now. Just joking.

Really, you can examine both systems and make your judgments. It's not like this is a paper with a comprehensive related work section.
From my readings, I don't think it was a central doctrine. Here's the relevant writing from Berg: http://pubs.xfamily.org/text.php?t=156

He seems uncertain about it and couches it more as a possibility. The prediction is actually a timeline of world events involving the Antichrist that begins in the 1970s, so they would have known decades in advance that it wasn't coming true. Certainly by 1986, when Flor Edwards says she was thinking "I would be twelve when the world ended [in 1993]", they would have noticed that the Antichrist hadn't created a one-world government as predicted.
What is the "_sm_byp" query parameter seen on countless URLs?
Enter "_sm_byp" in any search engine, quotes included, and notice in the results that all the listed URLs have this query parameter -- make sense we searched for it.

However, all these URLs are clearly unrelated. How come they all share this parameter? Where does it come from? Maybe there is an obvious answer to this but I've been unable to figure where it comes from.
Google does invest serious cash in futuristic technology outside of it main business lines, things like robots, drones and construction software. I don't think they lack "goodwill" for innovations.
Clash? C-lambda-ash? C-lambda-a-ess-aitch? C-lash?
Vagrant can help developers who make OS and Games :). It can be used for simple testing on another OSes and environments.
I was using Hugin on Ubuntu Lucid so about then. Can't remember any big issues but doing full sized stitches as TIFFs did use a lot of memory and take some time (swapping).
It’s an unwritten law of nature that development always
takes longer than predicted. Because I’m a non-techie
boss, my engineers know that I don’t understand how much
time they will need to complete a task, a deficiency
that I’m sure they sometimes exploit and that I find
incredibly frustrating.

A) Doesn't understand domain, doesn't understand the problem.

B) Automatically assumes some weird laws of nature.

C) Indulge in paranoia and mistrust to compensate for ignorance.

D) Blame others and get frustrated.

E) Write an article about it
Seriously. I spent more time trying to figure out how to read/say it than reading about it. C(lambda)aSH? clambdaash? Oh, CLaSH.
"Full stack" in the entire 6 years I've been developing has meant front and backend. Not, "I can spawn VM instances and code."
I fully understand that, having worked in that world for the better part of the last decade.

The reality is, adoption of cloud in the enterprise is growing, not shrinking.
Interesting language, I'll be interested to see how Clash develops.
Clam-dash. It makes your shellfish go fast, or your car smell.
You are both right and wrong.

Children are not identical to adults, and treating them like they should be free to make all of their own decisions at 5 years of age would be negligent.

But they are like adults in many ways that we tend to ignore - they may not have a great conception of which things can hurt them how badly, but they have a sense of dignity, and they have a sense of independence. They want to make decisions for themselves, and they need to interact with adults that treat them as a rational peer to whatever degree that is possible.

Give them what freedoms you can, and respect them enough to explain the real reasons for the rules you impose. Sometimes you may find that they aren't very good ones at all, when you try to explain them - when that happens, admit that it wasn't a good rule, and work out a better one with them.
Or it got eaten by a big "Bug"
You're not being negative. I'm just trying to understand the extent of the problem. I'm a student, and I've lived in worse than that for about $820. (It was right next to campus).

According to google maps, this was about 10 minutes away from the heart of San Francisco (when there was no traffic). I'm guessing google doesn't paint the whole picture, and it really is as far as you say it is.

Personally, if I had gotten a job in downtown SF with 6 figures, and no family, I'd have no problem living there and saving up. It doesn't look THAT bad does it? It's even got an outside area. Just my opinion though.
Well I thought most of online newspapers make money with advertising and offering corporate services and tools... But hey, what do I know.
Your throwaway remark is ridiculous - a quick visual comparison will show you that they're completely different interfaces designed for different products.
I wasn't talking about federal benefits, I was talking about California specifically and the state law in California.

What I am not getting here is how California could control federal benefits? Could you specify which vast majority of benefits prop 8 would cut off? It certainly does not include insurance, taxes, pension, unemployment & disability benefits, survivor benefits, etc. as I see that those are covered by California domestic partnership law. As for federal ones, doesn't federal government controls those? Obama issuing regulation to equate benefits of domestic partnerships to those of marriages certainly suggests it is under federal control - otherwise why would the President do it?
The answer to the bigger question is: not always. But let's assume that in our case, the answer is yes, and we can use a bounding box for everything. Let's also assume that when a collision is detected between two objects, the results of that collision vary depending on what those objects are. How do we handle that? Well, we're back at the n² problem again.

I once wrote a version of Asteroids in C++ in which every object had a particular bounding shape that was used for the detection. For the logic, I still had n² cases to determine the result of that collision. Looking back, I contend that it would have been cleaner to use the visitor pattern, since all the logic in my game was contained in various game objects except for the collision handling logic. [1]

It's good to be skeptical of design patterns. I've worked at several companies where liberal application of patterns really mucked up the code base. But in some cases, they really can be the best solution -- when used conservatively and carefully.

[1]: Looking back I also would have used an entity system rather than "classic" OOP, but that would not have solved the n² case dilemma.
February is using a special suffix, "-phan".

Both "-khom" and "-yon" means "come" or "arrival". Since our month names are basically a Zodiac in Hindu astrology, "Mokkarakhom" could be translated to "the arrival of Capricorn" (Mokkara/Makara) or April "Mesayon" is "the arrival of Aries" (Mesa).
Whilst they may have thought of concurrency problems in the 80s as you outline, the problem of concurrency (and subsequently performance) appears to be a bit more genuine now. Processing power has peaked...fact. Now with most PC's being shipped with multi-processors the need for concurrent software is a real one.

I do appreciate that there is an enormous list of things that are important right now, that software engineers have to worry about such as good user experience, proper abstraction,
security, encryption, privacy, reusability, reliable data storage, good recovery etc etc

However to dismiss concurrency issues in a world with peaked processing powers on a single CPU as something of a fashion-fad! Doesn’t sound to me as in synch with what i've been observing.

Would be nice to hear from others on this1
Is this meant for hardware people or software people? Because I'm a hardware guy and I don't know Haskell. None of my EE friends know Haskell either. I really don't see a serious hardware engineer using this over VHDL or Verilog, even if it is more beautiful or provably better or whatever.
They can if they literally just graduated high school. 1040EZ.

The problem is when you are a homeowner, have family, have a business, etc.
> You seem to be implying that raising half a million dollars is a failure, but perhaps you're still using irony there.

I don't know that I can call it a success either. It's like gaining admission into a competitive university. Hard to pull off for many people, but just the first step on a long road to success if everything goes well.
Also, for what it's worth, Tangle is more of a DOM/UI binding library that you might use to build something like Elm's debugger into your own JS app.
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So, what, you want us to save our outrage for situations where it's actually warranted? That sounds un-American as well as un-internet. (But maybe it sounds very HN.)
Strongly disagree. DevOps is not the simple automation of operational infrastructure. That has been done for decades.

DevOps is about developer empowerment. It's about creating the systems and tools that give developers more control over the operation of their applications. It's about removing Ops as a technical barrier between new code and live code.

At least, (as someone whom most would label as "DevOps") that's what it means to me.
Strangely enough, alternative HDLs embedded in Haskell seem to be a thing. Besides this, there is also Bluespec and Lava.

http://wiki.bluespec.com/

http://raintown.org/lava/
She also links to her personal blog on the posse navigation. This girl goes full circle of self promotion..
My answer to such questions is always 'fire the designer,' but I suspect that is not helpful to you :)

TBH I could live without the initials altogether and just have a blank avatar - not least because your upload process is already super-transparent, I appreciated being able to connect with so many services 'right out of the box'.
The command-line tool / url / package name / ... are all "CLaSH"
Kickstarter's core goal was to help inventors bring their ideas to life and help them fund initial production.
It has since evolved into a platform that often helps their most engaged users find new ideas and get early access to new technology.
Both of these processes benefit from one another, so I don't think that "it goes against the core ideas on which Kickstarter was created".
without having looked at it in much detail, does anyone know how/whether this is related at all to bluespec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluespec,_Inc.)?
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