skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried the new maps when they first released it. Clearly the search was different in some ways because simple directions searches simple wouldn't work. Since the, obviously, they have ironed out those bugs. But in the intervening years, every time I've tried the "new" maps I've run screaming back to the "old" maps because of the terrible UX. Are the search results "worse"? Maybe not. But the same results presented in a nearly-unusable manner probably "feels" like worse results.
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Does your manager know that so much of these meetings a redundant? A good manager insulates other employees from this kind of meeting brutalization and avoids adding to it if at all possible. Unfortunately, there are many managers that think they exist to hold meetings.
There is a fantastic interview with Levine which explains it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Fkj427wDE

Beats' streaming service has a recommendation engine that is a combination of automated and manual curation. And iTunes Radio has shown that is Apple may be fine on the first but clearly fails at the second. What Levine mentions during the interview is how they know which producers and DJs are coming/going etc. So clearly they have extensive insider connections within the music industry. That is definitely worth spending money for.
You can always monitor the swarm for some kind of analytics.

I understand Netflix does this to some degree to determine the popularity of some shows.
I guess we need to define what you call an Audiophile first.
I dont consider myself one. As i think spending over certain amount of money is just silly. In that regards i am just a consumer who expect high quality headphone within a price, that could be around $200 - $300.

To simply put, if you are heavy Bass listener. And dont listen to any type of music other then Rock / Hip Hop. Then may be Beats is perfect.

You could argue most audiophile would embarrass themselves with blind test, but the traits in Beats are so different that any normal human being should easily distinguish it.
At night I suspend by closing the screen.

In the morning when I leave (the laptop stays home) I hibernate, which copies memory to disk, encrypts the whole disk and then shuts the power down. When I come home I power up, entering my long-ass encryption password, then wait half a minute and enter my shorter login password.

I hibernate so that if someone breaks in, all they get is the laptop, not the data. I don't worry about the NSA [hi guys], they already have the data, or they can beat it out of me if they care.

I think if I regularly carried my laptop during the day I'd hibernate rather than just suspend, because some day the laptop will walk away.
Because some of us grew up with him.
Visual Studio has a browser ;)
Yes, is is designed for storing QA pairs, but it doesn't mean it can't be used for anything else.

I believe you misunderstood the use I have in mind for the WHY questions. The idea is not to create cards for things you are trying to understand, but for things you already understood.

These things you describe are about learning. Flash cards/Spaced Repetition Systems come AFTER learning. Say, for example, you meet an expert and because of that have a great insight about issue X. Truly, real "insights" take longer to forget than rote memorized facts. But can you say you will remember this insight in 6 months if you don't serendipitously encounter it again? 1 year? 5 years?

That's where a reviewing system comes into place. And it's not because such a system is designed for things that mostly need to be rote memorized that you can't use the "question" as a trigger to revisit something of a different nature.
I had one client; where I stopped working for two weeks because of an administration issue. Throughout that process; I was pressured heavily to continue working without resolution. Things were falling through the cracks and it looked bad on the department [and me and my manager] to have these problems.

Well, we eventually sorted out the administration issue on a late Friday; and as a customer service gesture I worked over the weekend to catch up.

I caught up on the two-week backlog that was crippling the department in four hours. It was at that point I realized how much time I actually 'work' for this client verse how much time I spend in meetings with them.
Have you looked at OpenStreetMap? Is there anything in particular that it lacks compared to Mapbox?
Prosthetic Arm From Segway Inventor Cleared by FDA
Beats headphones have very heavy Bass, a little bit overpowered Treble, and low Mids. This is basically what you get if you try to make a cheap headphones and add a lot of bass on it. This makes them fun for HipHop but sucks for everything else, specially anything with vocals.

They are, however, pretty good looking (imho), sturdy and extremely comfortable. They have also become (amongst non-geeks) the go-to headphones if you want something good as they don't have time to research the differences between HD598 and HD650.

If you buy a good pair of headphones that are balanced (eg. Sennheiser HD598), you can use a equalizer on your computer to make them sound just like Beats.

Basically, you can make Sennheisers sound like Beats, but you can't make Beats sound like Senheisers.
I'm developing a SaaS application that is essentially a LoB in wolf's clothing and I went with Knockout for much the same reason, I'm not a strong javascript programmer but I rapidly realised if I stuck with just jQuery I was going to be in maintenance hell.

I've really enjoyed working with knockout (so much so I've even written "components" with it (ajax file handler a la gmails but with previews etc) and I've found it to have just enough structure for the stuff I need on the front side.

It surprises me that it's not more popular than it is but maybe there are reasons for that I simply don't know or understand.
I've concluded programming is the mental equivalent of manual labor.
Good clean work that makes one stronger but generally at the bottom of the food chain and therefore exploited, and it wears on a person before long.

I still love it though. It beats politicking for a living.
That's a network-centric OS? But won't they typically be used in bandwidth-constrained places?

I was going to worry about how much memory was required, but it looks like Android 4.4 can work with 512 meg of RAM.
What is "Supreme Court Law" exactly?
If you don't know what "Beats" is, it sounds like you should do some research on your own.
Commercial backing.

I know that sounds somewhat daft but I like been a paying customer as it means I can get some support plus the documentation for mapbox is lovely as well.
How many would have bought an mp3 but didn't because they could hear it on the station? How many went out and actually bought the mp3/cd because they discovered it on the streaming station? How many went to a concert of the artist after discovering them on this. We don't know these.

It's possible that the artist has actually made more than the statement amount if people went out and bought his material after discovering it on streaming. Or maybe not. But back when CDs were the only real option, I remember buying many, many CDs for only one or two songs and being extremely disappointed with the rest of the album. As a consumer, I believe I grossly overpaid for music when CDs were the norm. Just because an artist could make X amount before internet radio doesn't mean they should be making X amount now.
I guess neutrality is what Jimmy meant sounded Flat during the Interview. Where Steve Jobs liked it that way. There are reference that SJ was an Audiophile, so may be that is why he prefer it that way.
To be fair, I worked nearly full-time for several years (37.5 hours per week, government job which also had a ton of paid time off) and then I've been back in school for the last couple years, which pays me a stipend. I also work part-time as a software developer. But, basically, I just don't have a ton of expenses (I don't own a car, I have lived in cheaper areas, I have no children). I will likely end up with a full-time job in the near-ish future. If I had it my way, I would always work part-time, but it is quite difficult to find good part-time work, and that is sad.
Multi billion dollar acquisitions involve a lot of people. It was always going to be leaked eventually. Plus the whole Dr Dre getting drunk and telling everyone on Facebook that it was happening sort of confirmed it.
You're assuming all this money finds it's way to benevolent causes that the majority might agree with (environmental sustainability, helping kids etc). Do we have any idea about how much of it ends up funding quackery and personal-agendas?

Of course, it is their money and they can do as as they want with it but if it has a large impact, I can see the argument for more transparency about the source of funds.

Edit: For example, less than a minute of online searching leads me to this kind of example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Gianforte#Social_and_Polit...
I don't think that's the point at all. Even low-wage work would be more satisfying, in the author's view, because your labor is directly beneficial. You can see the results of it. Of course we'd all like to make more money than a store clerk, but in the quest for money we might end up doing things that satisfy us much less than simple labor would. For my part, as a developer, I'm among the fortunate.
The Wikipedia mentions 2003 and we can assume there was already work going on before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system...

Although the first published papers are indeed from 2004.
Standard disclaimer - this article was originally written about me, and was completely wrong.

(Although this probably is a press hit)
> Why bother spending 30 minutes looking over this stuff and filing it for taxes? That is the sign of hugely dis-functional micro-payments model (unfortunately).

It may also be a symptom of compulsory fees imposed by a third party.
If I had a website that got 14k visits in a month, would I expect to make a living from it? (genuine question. my personal website doesn't get 14k visits a year, let alone a month)
Google knows:

- Home is in London

- Work is in London

- My most recent restaurant reviews are in London

- My IP address is in London

- My location, if you ask my browser, is in London

Stop showing me a map of the US when I open Maps.
If you are developer or some sort of IT engineer, don't automatically think your job is not BS. Like job of developing thin client to a windows server running licensed software to get around license costs of software, where price is based on number of users... Yes, this types of businesses generate TONS of money from essentially the fact, that supplier and customer could not get in agreement for more reasonable license...
I know he was exaggerating for effect but it seems a bit extreme - If everything is breaking all the time you're doing something wrong.
There's an important procedural aspect to this that I haven't seen mentioned yet. This was appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, not the 9th Circuit which is where copyright cases from the 9th Circuit would normally go.

I believe that it ended up in the CAFC because it was also a patents case, and CAFC handles all patent appeals from the Federal district courts.

This is significant because CAFC sets precedent for all circuits. If there had been no patent case, so that the appeal would have went to the 9th Circuit instead of the CAFC, then it would only set precedent for the 9th Circuit. The Courts of Appeal in the other circuits might decide similar API copyright cases differently, and then there would be a good chance the Supreme Court would take up the issue to resolve the differences between the different circuits.

The Supreme Court can, of course, still take up this issue, but they are much more likely to take a case if there is split among the circuits. Here's the Court's statement on this [1]:

Review on a writ of certiorari is not a matter of
right, but of judicial discretion. A petition for a
writ of certiorari will be granted only for
compelling reasons. The following, although neither
controlling nor fully measuring the Court’s
discretion, indicate the character of the reasons
the Court considers:

(a) a United States court of appeals has entered a
decision in conflict with the decision of another
United States court of appeals on the same important
matter; has decided an important federal question in
a way that conflicts with a decision by a state
court of last resort; or has so far departed from
the accepted and usual course of judicial
proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a
lower court, as to call for an exercise of this
Court’s supervisory power;

(b) a state court of last resort has decided an
impor­ tant federal question in a way that
conflicts with the decision of another state court
of last resort or of a United States court of
appeals;

(c) a state court or a United States court of
appeals has decided an important question of federal
law that has not been, but should be, settled by
this Court, or has decided an important federal
question in a way that conflicts with relevant
decisions of this Court.

A petition for a writ of certiorari is rarely
granted when the asserted error consists of
erroneous factual findings or the misapplication of
a properly stated rule of law.

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/ctrules/2010RulesoftheCourt.pdf
'aint your money though!
We may be talking about the same phenomenon from different points of view. I have evidence but I really don't want to name names - but anecdotally, I have pointed out massive issues (like not even escaping user-provided variables in inline SQL queries) to clients, and seen it dismissed as less important than just getting live.

Maybe my comment was a bit too biased and hyperbolic, but I've certainly encountered that attitude.
> It's worth nothing that if this approach becomes popular

I hope so. In the 90's we had strong typed languages with native compilers, somehow we got into this VM detour because everyone wanted to create applets.

And those languages[1], for multiple reasons faded away.

[1] Oberon(-2), Object Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

These days, the Boss Key is probably mapped to the "minimize" keyboard shortcut.

//well, at least that how they used to do such things; a new solution may be needed in the "open plan" offices that have been trendy
"We" would presumably be the types of people who read the magazine. According to the about, that would be:

"window-herb growers, career farmers, people who have chickens, people who want to have chickens and anyone who wants to know more about how food reaches their plate"

and given the staff members are all US oriented, it's most likely assuming a US readership and US food culture.

Thus we, who are random fly-by strangers to the magazine, shouldn't really criticize harshly when they don't take an unexpected audience into account.
I think that matches what I was trying to say. In the individual distribution, Person A prefers Artist 1 and his listens are worth more because he used the service less.

I'm not saying this is worse necessarily, I'm just not sure why it's better.
The guy I work for really has no idea how easy certain tasks are once you automate them. I have done nothing to correct his misconceptions.

(I'm a CS grad student, working under a professor who somehow got tenure despite being unable to program his way out of a cardboard box. I swear, half of this job is tricking him into thinking I'm doing his work, so I can focus on doing actual research. ...I really need to find a new advisor.)
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Dre wasn't really the type of rapper to brag about his money.
I found another way to not feel bad - I started drinking. At least I'm not pretending to work anymore! Win-win.

What do you mean?
I think you misread the parent, it was “contacts”, not “contracts”. As in “insider connections”.
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I feel like the defunct PLEAC site page on Haskell sums up most autodidactic folks experience with Haskell:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_haskell/index.html

Oh cool, you can do everything, right up to something useful. At which point you should use this library for side effects, no wait, this new library, oh wait, have you tried this new feature that's only in the latest GHCi and w/ the right Data import? ... eh, maybe I'll pass.

Still doesn't stop me from playing around now and thien. Right now the resources here: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/

and the new book Beginning Haskell, seem to be alright.
I find it a mess, personally, at least on the desktop. I have no real complaints about the mobile version.
It does taste like that :) that is Mate taste, learn to love it.
This comment also servers as a short history of the development of iOS 7.
I've used it for 8 months, and did not observe any negative side effects in the nature of those you mention.

One thing that I would consider somewhat of a disadvantage of an explicit repetition system is that you need to really take care of how you engineer the questions to match the way you would normally encounter the knowledge they refer to in real situations.

For example, read the section on "Two-way connections" of this article, also linked somewhere else in this thread: http://rs.io/2014/04/05/anki-10000-cards-later.html
I recently switched to matcha from coffee buying into similar claims of 'long lasting jitter free zen concentration'. Have been happy so far. Has anyone tried both matcha and matte? How do they compare?
Hopefully, the 'salt' passed to HMAC-SHA256 is a pepper (preferably stored outside the database), not the same user salt as what bcrypt uses. As for scrypt, it definitely has great potential, but I still feel it's too new and not as well understood to be used 100% correctly in production by most folks (see also http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/03/why-i-dont-recommend-scryp...).
For security stuff, if you can't find a well-tested implementation to re-use, I always suggest referring to the OWASP Cheat Series [1] - there's a nice one just for password storage [2].

[1] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Cheat_Sheet_Series
[2] https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet
It seems as if you're using a weird definition - "backdoor" just implies that the functionality exists, not that it has necessarily been utilized.
Because Microsoft wanted to compete with Java. The initial versions of .NET offered their own version of Applets as successor of ActiveX.

Actually, the early designs from .NET were COM based and known as COM+ VOS. If you read the design document you will find many similarities with the new Windows Runtime.
The bulk of my clients pay me hourly, on an as needed basis.

I've had a few clients; where it sometimes it feels like they are making stuff up for me to do just so I'll be available when real work comes down the pike.

I have mixed feelings about this.. on one hand--billable hours. On the other hand--it is not satisfying to do things with absolutely no business value.
Work on LLVM started in 2000, FWIW.
Dan is a total fucking moron - impulsive, know it all that is nothing more than a two bit dev ops back office it guy. Get a life dan....as you said you cant even exercise some options at this point - no surprise that you haven't had a success. Victim, no one owes you anything. Be thankful that you even conversed with fred cause thats the closest you will be to success.

your the worst example of a self serving tech guy with expectation of entitlement. Thanks for tanking peek after blowing 32 mill in capital...

retard retard retard
Xtreme Mac Tango Bar: http://www.xtrememac.com/en-US/products/audio/Tango-TRX/tang...

It's OK if you use it with an addtl. subwoofer.
Nobody cares what audiophiles think except for themselves.

Beats has a 67% market share in particular amongst younger audiences who are the most valuable demographic in the music industry. Clearly Apple must be seeing that al a carte sales are stable in the higher ages ranges but they are losing to Spotify, Soundcloud etc at the younger ages. So from a hardware perspective creating some lock in between the headphones and iPod/iPhone could be very lucrative. The type of lock in that Apple is rumoured to be developing right now i.e. in ear health measuring functionality.

On the software side it's not the technology but their manual curation abilities, inside connections within the industry at all levels and understanding of younger markets. Apple failed miserably with iTunes Radio and are desperate.

So yes. Given that iTunes is the key to iPod/iPhone sales which in turn is the key to Mac sales I would say it is easily worth a tiny $3.2B.
Beats is an aspirational fashion brand. Apple have risen to dominance as... an aspirational fashion brand. They seem very aligned: high-margin, relatively expensive, weakly aspirational electronic goods which play a huge role in pop culture.

Not only does Apple get a well-aligned brand poised for growth, but they also eliminate a potential threat in the weak-aspirational electronics space.

Apple and Beats are also unique: they're the only two weakly aspirational brands I can think of that present organically in haute/celebrity culture. Both brands have managed, somehow, to punch up and mingle with strong-aspirational / luxury products while still being accessible to a large audience. You're more likely to see a movie star, rapper, or trust-funder get out of their Ferrari wearing an Audemars carrying an iPhone than a Vertu, and Beats headphones rather than Sennheisers.

That's a powerful, rare achievement in brand position and it makes sense for one company which has truly mastered the art to snap up an upstart that seems to be on track to accomplish the same thing.
Cool, I was just thinking.. if only Qt Quick bindings existed.. and there it is.. just wow!
Yes, beginning, I think it will get much worse.

Currently people are still free to write and publish without paying rent to a patent holder. I don't think ycombinator, for example, is yet paying anyone other than their host/ISP to run this site. But you know someone is going to patent blogs, and web pages in general, they're gold nuggets just waiting to be picked up off the ground.

We here are more aware of it because it's affecting us first. That the general public hasn't been directly affected and probably isn't really aware of what's happening also shows that it's only the beginning.

Food is still free, as in libre. Anyone is free to raise their own chickens, vegetables and goats, notwithstanding zoning laws, and to trade seeds and stud services. Monsanto and their ilk are working hard to push self-reproducing seeds out of the food chain, and blanket the earth with Roundup so that only Roundup ready plants will live. I'm assuming animals, via cloning and mules, are in our near future.
"Roll your own" is exactly what causes trouble. It's never right and always painful. We need a general, widely-vetted solution that doesn't make me want to yank my hair out.

"Don't check in sensitive values" is not an option. Credentials must be kept track of and maintained somewhere. Storing them in an ad-hoc manner without version control doesn't just invite trouble, it demands it.

We have password managers for desktops and mobile devices. We need an equivalent for servers that accounts for the fact that the credentials must be highly available, multiple people must be able to use them (whether or not they get to directly view them), some of them will be technicians with limited training following someone else's procedures, and regardless of knowledge and skill, there will be half-asleep people taking emergency actions at 3AM when shit has hit the fan.
What research are you working on?