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This is a fantastic extension! Browsing is fast and efficient, and creating the token for my private repos was painless.

A "search for files/folders named ..." feature would be a nice bonus, too, so that you can quickly get to the right spot in a big hierarchy.

To the author (https://twitter.com/buunguyen): please add a donation link somewhere so I can send you a thank-you (or you can just e-mail me with your PayPal/other address; my e-mail's in my profile).
In practice you'd be namespacing your tags, so it'd be things like <polymer-ajax>, <google-slider>, <facebook-like-button>, etc. At scale you want this, as reading the code becomes quite confusing when you rename each component to your own custom name. It does make typing them out quite a pain (as anyone who's worked with YUI or Google Closure can attest), but that's the price you pay for large-scale development.
I understand the concern. This extension is open-source/MIT [1], hope that brings a little peace of mind. If not, you can just pack the extension from its source instead of installing from Chrome Store.

[1] https://github.com/buunguyen/octotree
In my case, my new number (for my android phone) is associated with someone else's iPhone. I could not de-authorize that person's iMessage token. I handpicked that number but had to give it up thanks to iMessage's implementation.
Just came across this. I remember MakeSpace got some press a few weeks ago. I tried looking for a similar product but didn't see any - this this is definitely one.
The more I know about science, the more I understand that there's so much we don't know that there's very little we can say we know for sure, if any.
Tom here from Scirra (it's awesome to spot links to Construct 2 in the wild!)

Yes, Windows only for now. We stuck with what we knew to start off which was Windows development.
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More evidence that vitamins and supplements are bullshit. While people with specific conditions may benefit AFAIK there is no pill you can take that has actually been proven to improve the health outcomes on otherwise healthy people.

All this confusion is the natural result of the combination of profit seeking and the difficulty of medical research. Maybe someday they will find that magic pill just not yet.

NY Times had a bunch of good article on the subject at the end of last year such as this one:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2013/12/16/a-challenge-...
My friends and I have never ran into this issue switching from iOS to Android. The main thing to do is to disable iMessage on your old iPhone before you get rid of it; that should unregister it on Apple's servers. If you do that, then you should be unregistered unless you have another device hooked up (i.e. Mac).
Well, let's start with a reasonably understood system: HN karma. Behaviors that follow guidelines are upvoted; behaviors that violate them are downvoted. Guidelines are implicitly created (customary law) by edge-case upvotes and downvotes. What does it not address that your system would need to?

(This is not a rhetorical question; it would help me understand what you're trying to achieve.)
It doesn't seems to be using any Chrome api, so porting it to the Firefox SDK should be a trivial matter.

See https://gist.github.com/Spittie/93adf218040d470abd40 (http://81.4.126.121/i/1400019350.png), probably the hardest part is "fixing" the css if it's using some only webkit- feature. Also I'm not sure if it's possible to load local images withing the page-mod api, but embedding them as base64 images is easy enough.

EDIT: oh well, Enjoy: https://github.com/Spittie/octotree
No pull-requests because I've moved pretty much everything to make it working. The right way would probably be to use some build system, but who has time for that? :)
Is there an easy way to extend this so that it can also be used when accessing Enterprise Github installations, e.g. `github.mycompany.com`?
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Okay ... let's look at those 1400 years.

Start of the Greek city states. Greece counts between several dozen to hundreds of religions. 500 year later, 3 big religions left. Roman republic + empire, starts out with hundreds of religions. When it ended ... 2. 200 years after it ended, only one religion really survived it. Or you could take Africans in America. At one point African genes were pretty much the only genes of 18% of the population of the United States. Currently, about 2% of Americans have majority African genes, a number that's dropping exponentially (but obviously only once per generation).

But as I said Google "island species" and read around a bit. It is part of the original theory of evolution, described by Charles Darwin, and pretty much the only part that has survived almost unchanged.

Essentially, diversity can exist where large natural barriers separate different groups, so that when individuals copy eachother, they copy, imperfectly, one of their own group. Because small errors make the groups drift apart, diversity occurs. The result is that an ethnic barrier gets created along the natural barrier. When the barrier goes away, because of technology, climate change, military conquest, or a natural disaster, so does the ethnic and/or ideological difference. It does not go away by merging both races or ideologies, it goes away because one of them dies out, to be replaced by the other.

Needless to say, modern technology has been tearing down most of those barriers. If the result is diversity, that will be the first time in history, but it is plainly obvious that there is nothing all that different between the current time period and previous time periods where for some reason populations mixed. The result will be the same : only one culture survives.
It's interesting to see that they allow http://www.site-annonce.fr to use their ads.

I think there is a lack of a geolocalisation service on the lbc website.

I know that http://www.spothers.com/fr/ is working on it. A umpteenth tentative to beat lbc.
That's not usually the way textbooks work --- they often try to support many instructors who each want to cover more or less the same core plus some nonoverlapping material that the instructor wants to teach. When you add up all of the nonoverlapping material, it becomes less clear what's "most worth your time." Some textbooks present the material as "here's the core" and "here's some other stuff" but I've mostly seen that for advanced texts -- books for high-level undergrad & grad classes.

Compare something like Schaum's Outlines to an undergraduate text for the same material for an example of what I mean. The outlines are pretty pruned down.

edit: just to add one more thought: we read all the time about "opinionated software." Pruning down the material requires understanding and "opinion" in the same way --- textbook authors almost invariably have the understanding, but are usually economically discouraged from imposing their opinion on the material because it can discourage book sales because instructors with different opinions tend to choose a different book. Lecturers don't have the same concerns, so they can prune more aggressively. Authors of textbooks that will never sell well (e.g. the advanced texts I mentioned earlier) don't have the same concerns either since they're never going to make a substantial amount of money off the book, so they can prune pretty heavily too.
This turns my whole world upside down, next they're going to come out and say snake oil won't cure my rheumatism.[1]

[1]http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/peddling_snake_oil/
I forget where I am in a particular task item

Forgetting is my number one problem right now. I also noticed there's some kind of unconscious filtering going on in your mind. Even if you write down the tasks your mind prioritizes them on its own.

What I wish list software had was a way to push those less important tasks in the background.
First, a headline relevancy rant: the headline here is both vague and misleading. "Researcher: 1970s Inuit heart disease fish oil study flawed" maintains the word count of CBC's article while conveying far more information. The headline as chosen is akin to a headline in a Poughkeepsie, NY, newspaper headline "3 killed in house fire" ... where the fire in question turns out to have been in Osaka, Japan. A human tragedy, yes. Likely highly relevant to most in Poughkeepsie? No. Would those with friends or relatives in Osaka be better served by the more accurate headline? Yes. As given the headline is linkbait -- it fails to provide sufficient context to determine whether or not the article is worth reading.

Fish oil has been tied to multiple benefits, not just heart disease. Claiming a blanket lack of efficacy for fish oil supplementation presumes that 1) there is no heart disease benefit (all we know is that there are methodological errors in the Inuit study) and that there are no other health reasons for supplementing with fish oil. From the Wikipedia article, identified (all specifically tied to studies).

• Cancer

• Cardiovascular

• Hypertension

• Mental health

• Alzheimer's disease

• Lupus

• Psoriasis

• Pregnancy
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"Proves" is a complicated word. What they did was provide evidence supporting the hypothesis that Omega-3 supplementation does not make a significant difference for people who already have heart disease.

While not ground-breaking, it's something. And if you gather enough meta-studies showing "Supplementation of x in y circumstance had no significant effect", then it starts to become reasonable to claim supplementing x in general is not worthwhile. (I'm not saying they have done that, but I'm pointing out that this is part of the corpus of data we need to test a supplement in general.)
In a well-designed library, it does what it looks like - whatever "~" means in the language of that domain. In a badly-designed library it could do anything. Just like .add().

(It's normal for the same symbol to mean different things in different domains, even in Java. If a and b are BigIntegers, a.add(b) means one thing; if a and b are Wicket components, a.add(b) means something quite different. Wicket remains a respected, well-designed library even though it "overloads" the word "add" in this way)

(Another reply points out that it has the same meaning on numeric types - bitwise negation - as in Java, but I doubt that's what you're asking about)
It's a pretty deep flaw given that Inuits apparently didn't have the same level of access to doctors as the groups they were comparing them to and therefore heart disease amongst them simply wasn't being reported in public health records, despite no actual underlying difference in the rate of heart disease.
> I think it is important for design/dev to have a mutual understanding of one another, but I don't think you can truly be a great designer and great developer in one. Having an understanding of the other perspective is important. You'll never meet a surgeon who specialises in brain and heart surgery, why should design and development be any different?

What is the definition of "developer" here? Does it include HTML and CSS? I love working with designers who can translate their designs into actual layout and styling because it seems a lot closer to what they're good at than it is to what I'm good at. It seems like there's quite a bit of gray area in these definitions, but building front-end application behavior seems to flex similar muscles as building back-end application behavior, while tweaking CSS seems to flex similar muscles as tweaking element widths in photoshop. I'm genuinely curious what the common designer point of view is on this!
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Doing the same thing everyday at the same time sounds horrible

Wait -- are you opposing repetition or the thing that you do?

If you could do something you like everyday at the same time, wouldn't you want to do it? Are you protesting against not having found something you want to do?

Although I agree with your point on balance,
you may want to revisit this "dehumanizing" feeling you mention, because some of the world's most touching work came from creative minds that were fiercely disciplined. The surprising thing is you might turn out to like it:

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

- Milan Kundera
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Great plan! They allow their infrastructure to decay, then cities/counties seize their infrastructure through eminent domain and run them as local utilities. The local utilities get regulated as monopolies, so they won't be sending every single deferred upgrade dollar ("profits") to their shareholders. A new crop of ISPs all have access to the network at regulated rates, people get a choice of ISP, competition blooms in the desert.

Or, y'know, the FCC rolls over and gives them what they want, and they continue to be less innovative and spend less on network upgrades as per usual, and they spend generously on brib--er, lobbying and campaign financing.
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And I think this is a reasonable choice, primarily because you've made a choice (as opposed to many business owners I work with who are at effect of their circumstances).

Colin, I don't think I've had a chance to acknowledge you for supporting / allowing Patrick to write up the article I linked above. That was a brave call, and few business owners are bold enough to stand up while someone calls their baby ugly. (I think it was a masterpiece article on his behalf, and that Thomas makes a good point in his response here too AND I support your ongoing choices. I'm on the record as a long-standing fan of the picodollar.)

Tarsnap is, at least on HN, a great case study in the pricing and product choices startups have. I would make different choices regarding pricing (hence my grandparent post), but I would never have the capability to create a product remotely comparable - and the product is more important.
> If you don't find it acceptable, what do you propose as an alternative?

So far, the best alternative for id that I've found is...

Email address.

It's highly available, free to create, and you can pick your own letters/numbers that are meaningful. It can even be your name. Definitely better than phone number digits at being an id that I can share with my friends or those who I want to be able to contact me.

(For voice calls, I primarily use FaceTime Audio because they support email as id. But I also have skype, voip number for backwards compatibility, etc.)
You're certainly entitled to that point of view but then you have no right to complain that the companies in question aren't investing as much in infrastructure as you'd like them to.
I'm about to graduate from Berkeley, a so-called 'top' school. Besides the name of the degree, I can't think of anything that was particular top-notch about my education here. Class sizes were big and are only getting bigger. The intro CS class had a few hundred when I took it. Now? It can have up to 1100 students. I would say I've only had 4 good or great professors (enthusiastic, interesting, smart but also good at teaching) my whole time here - one in CS, one in EE, the other two in humanities. Everyone else ranged from useless or unbearable to okay. Many were simply too smart, so to speak. In other classes, the lecture powerpoints did most of the work for them.

In fact, most of my learning took place while taking notes independently on lecture notes / slides (rarely the textbook, although sometimes they were okay), sometimes watching lectures from other schools, and then trying to apply the knowledge to projects and practicing for exams. Discussion sections were only occasionally useful, generally for the more difficult classes where I actually needed an empathetic person who recently took the course to explain things to I.

For the most part, though, I feel like I taught myself most of what I learned here - I would have done fine if lectures didn't exist. Mind you, this only applies to the CS program. I took only the required EE courses.

The great thing about the institution is definitely the research. My graphics professor, for example, does a ton of awesome work both academically and professionally. Working with him would have been a great opportunity to get into that industry.

Otherwise, I don't see why I couldn't have just done my education by myself. The only problem would be motivation to slug through the difficult / boring but important stuff. My databases class got quite boring at points such that, if I were teaching myself, I may have just skipped over a good chunk of the class material. I'm imagining that if I just had a person to get on my case and me on them, it would be almost as effective as the concept of a GPA.
Cross-validation (actually, this is mentioned toward the end of the article). Basically, fit the the classifier with a subset of the data and test the predictions on the remainder. Predictions for out-of-sample data will be poor if you have overfitting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_%28statistics%...
This project is such a great technological achievement for both the Webkit and LLVM communities. There are so many 'first times' in this project. This is the first time profile guided information is used inside the LLVM _JIT_. This is the first time the LLVM infrastructure supported self-modifying code. This is one of the very few successful projects that used LLVM to accelerate a dynamic language. This is the first time Webkit integrated their runtime (JITs and garbage collector) with an external JIT. This is the first JavaScript implementation that has advance features such as auto-vectorization. Congrats guys!
Does GCC have a comparable JIT backend?
The point is, why should you have to point that out? iOS 8 had better make it obvious -- "oh, I don't have data on my phone, so make sure it gets sent as an SMS too!"
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pic: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwjCLuk4IxppYXFxR1JSQ0p0MmM/edit?usp=sharing
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The original snake oil -- from the Chinese water snake -- may in fact have been effective, in part due to its high Omega-3 oil content. The pejorative sense came from a mix of hucksterism and cargo-culting: concoctions from other sources (including other animal oils or petroleum-based oils) which lacked the specific constituents of the Chinese remedy:

Well, hucksters that sold patent or proprietary medicine caught wind of the miraculous muscle-soothing powers of snake oil. Naturally, they decided to sell their own versions of snake oil—but it was just much easier to forgo using actual snakes.

(From the Collectors Weekly reference below.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Water_Snake

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-snake-oil-got-a...
Even polish notation benefits from +, IMO.

+ + a + b c d

We can also (with mainstream OO syntax) make add infix and it's still ugly:

a.add(b.add(c)).add(d)
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The app looks beautiful but I think the biggest thing your landing page fails to do is convince me why I need this AND Coinbase or why this is better than Coinbase.
Find files is certainly useful for coding, not so much exploring. I would have no idea what to search for when exploring a new repo. Besides, even when coding with IDEs with find-files feature, I mostly navigate using the tree. Guess I like tree view :).
I think one important point to make is not only about the amount of knowledge absorbed from lectures, but also the discipline and rigor in education.

A lot of comments seem to hail e-learning, remote videos, recorded lectures, etc etc as the future of education, and it scares me if I have to be honest. There is a very important difference between a self-taught student and one that has undergone through formal education, and that is scientific rigor. Not to say that a self-learned person is less knowledgeable or "worse", it's obviously not true and there are always extremes, however actually attending lectures, going through the daily (and sometimes boring) routine of grinding through contents as explained in a boring way by your lecturer.. it's all part of building your determination and character as a researcher.

More often than not I find self-taught people staying at a very shallow level of knowledge, broad and generic, never digging through the details, going that extra mile to properly master a subject in a structured and well-disciplined matter.

In my opinion, that kind of education can only be achieved in a mentor-student relationship and, especially, through formal lectures. Even by just being around other people and interacting with the academic environment, it helps abstracting to a higher state of reasoning.

PS: I only have experience in the scientific academia, not talking about other branches like arts or philosophy or whatever.
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> Still it produced Elon Musk, so it couldn't have been that bad.

You can't look at an outlier to make a statement about the average.
It's not clear he can; he's in Russia, and Russia don't seem to have any more interest in him returning to Ukraine or to power than the Ukrainian government.
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