skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of those are legitimate points, but quite a few apply equally to IRC. Namely, 1, 2, 3, and 9.
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"Rework", Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson.
I don't agree necessarily both on religiosity and on that being a cause for performance or innovation. I'll grant you that in the U.S. there are a lot more arguments about religion and it is tighter bound to politics. You will find masses of devout Christians all over Germany, but they usually don't go out bullying school administrations into some bs about creationism.
This reeks of limited world-view. While in tech people may be able to hack it and get hired with a degree, that is not the case in other most(all?) other engineering disciplines, finance, education, etc. "2) If your preferred field requires it (Doctor, Lawyer)" understates the situation massively.
The way I'm reading it, he's denying that policies are the only determining factor in outcomes. By his words, it's possible that they contribute to outcomes, but as they are not the sole determining factor, it's impossible to look at outcomes and assign them to the corresponding policies.
its a deliberately opaque system designed to reward group think conformity and insider quid-pro-quo vote manipulation.
1. Closed-source javascript is not a thing, and Ghostery's code is very readable.

2. Technically, anything is subject to influence by third parties, but I'm quite certain you possess zero evidence that Ghostery is actually influenced by advertisers. Implying that Ghostery might do something nefarious at the behest of advertisers (based on nothing but personal paranoia) seems maliciously disinformational.

3. Ghostrank is opt-in by default. You have to intentionally check a box that plainly says you agree to send "anonymous statistical data" to them.
Google Tomorrow will figure out what you needed to do at the remote location, do it for you, and avoid the need for a trip altogether.

Google The Day After Tomorrow gets rid of the need for you to exist at all!
I can't find the study right now, but economists are not stupid, and there are experiment design to combat sampling bias.

One study I remember followed students who barely made the admission cut, and who barely didn't make the cut. To illustrate, let's say people who go to college average 1800 in SAT score, and general population average 1200. This indeed causes sampling bias. So you compare two groups with average 1610 and 1590 instead. The first group went to the college, the second group didn't. This should minimize sampling bias. You get the idea.
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I'm one of the co-founders at Thalmic (Myo).

We get the request for raw muscle data quite often, and are trying to find a way to handle it better in the future. The reason we don't provide it now actually has nothing to do with money (we do have a small number of research groups that pay for this, engineering support, and other services, but it represents a tiny fraction of a percent of revenue).

The reason is actually two-fold:

1. User Experience - Unfortunately you're probably the exception, in that it sounds like you may be able to build a great experience using the raw data. The reality we've found is that it requires a deep machine learning and statistical analysis background to do much useful with the data, considering the need to account for a wide variety of variations in data intra and inter person. What we're trying to prevent is developers attempting to create "custom" gestures improperly (e.g. if (myo.sensor1 > 67% && myo.sensor2 > 30%){output = Rock_On}), which will not work reliably on the population, in different orientations, etc., then the user has a bad experience, and blames the device hardware.

2. Battery Life - Streaming raw data uses much much more power than when we process the data on the device, and recognize gestures directly on-board.

We are considering options to provide this data in some way, as there are certainly good uses in some applications, such as Tennis analysis.

You could quite easily do everything the Smash device does, plus additional information on grip strength, using a Myo armband. It's all about the software!
Spot on.

I also feel like even if you were being charged the tuition of 30+ years ago, you wouldn't be getting nearly as much for your money. I looked through the introductory Russian textbook for my state university and was kind of blown away by how verbose and obnoxious it was. This same school cut operating systems and anything related to low-level programming (people complain that they just want to learn Java or .NET so they can get a job, so I guess they got their way), and rearranged basic English to make it easier to pass. 100 years ago, learning Greek and/or Latin was standard - it seems like there's a noticeable trend towards "dumbing down", or maybe I'm viewing a time period I didn't live in with rose-colored glasses...
People say this because we are enjoined to "do what we love", find our passion. Well, what's so wrong with just doing something you like? Nothing (IMO), but it doesn't sound good. "Complacent" and "content" are dirty words.

The flipside of working in a field about which you are passionate typically goes unremarked upon - sometimes the realities of the job can destroy your love/passion for the thing itself. It's very sad.

My grandfather worked on machines in a factory his whole career, accumulating so much knowledge about the machines that he could know what was wrong with a machine just by listening to it. Then after he retired, companies kept hiring him as a consultant, flying him out to solve their problems. Of this he told my father, "All those years working with my hands, I should have been working with my head." I get to do that, and I have my whole career. I try not to lose sight of the value of that.
Sorry to hear about the error message. Can you email your logs and the storyboard file to support@xamarin.com?
I've never owned an Apple device (and I'm not a huge fan of the company).

That said if I had to develop a phone application for my company tomorrow I'd develop for iOS first and Android second.

There are good reasons for picking either platform but Apple has a single big chunk of the market which simplifies development and testing (Android has gotten better at this).

> Maybe if iOS wasn't the default platform for all the hipster developers, Apple would start giving a damn about small developers.

Nothing in this article mentioned anything about hipster developers no implied it, so apart from making you look a tad silly I'm not sure what the point of that bit was.

In addition not all small developers are hipster developers which seemed to be the implication.

Companies always provide better service to those customers who earn them the most revenue, this is not something new, try getting an engineer at Google to explain why they broke imap again if you have a dozen people using it then try if you have 10,000.

In fact prioritising such stuff by revenue is an entirely rational viewpoint when you have less than infinite resources.
Vancouver seems like a fine place for a startup to me. Better weather than the rest of Canada, same timezone as SF, very short flight to SF. One of Canada's startup success stories, Hootsuite, is in Vancouver. There are lots of video game studios and branch offices of American tech companies (Amazon, MSFT) so there is tech talent around.

(I live in Vancouver)
> I generally understand the full stack from assembler all the way up to managed code and beyond to the cloud.

Please let this be the new definition of 'full stack developer'. I cannot stand the current definition.
> But, unlike the version that consumes a third-party component, it doesn't have nearly any failure modes that would confuse your tests.

That's all fine until you need to test handling the third-party component's failure modes.

> Note that a trivial gateway-implementation, like MemoryDataStoreGateway, isn't a mock!

Probably not. Though it depends at which point you insert the "trivial" components. If you're using a trivial component to unit test a collaborating class that isn't at the edges of the system, then that's a mock and it's helpful. It's not the only helpful technique or even the usual one, but "mocks are never helpful, always avoid them" is silly thing to say.

A mock store for one unit test is far more lightweight than a MemoryDataStoreGateway, and allows an easy way to simulate server errors, so sometimes it is a better thing to code.

> This is what "dependency injection" is really about, actually: not inserting mock-objects ... but rather allowing you to plug in ... versions of your collaborators.

It can be about both. They are not exclusive.

> Instead, you can just make your objects discover their collaborators through a service registry

You may be happy with every object reaching out to a global singleton. But I'm going to stay well away. Thanks but no thanks.
Not C# but give kivy a try. Cross platform and in python. Great for student projects and those looking for open source alternatives.

http://kivy.org/docs/gettingstarted/intro.html

Other open-source alternatives are haxe and phonegap.

http://haxe.org/

http://phonegap.com/

Comparison site:

http://www.riaxe.com/blog/top-cross-platform-mobile-developm...
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I'll concede, I'm a little under-protected when it comes to spam in my email, and sectioning my usage out to different emails would probably be a very big improvement upon that.

Still, this ought be more a pet-peeve for myself. I can't see how obscuring my email would bother you, except perhaps in the line of thought that you think it does NOTHING to avoid spam, and I am just wasting a tiny amount of everyone's time by having them parse it while not benefiting personally. I figured if there was ever a profile a geek would write a scraper for, HN would probably be it. It was a single line of defense I saw others use, and adopted.

Appreciate the conversation. The mostly undiscussed behavior of email format preference in HN profiles is something that has always strangely held my attention; I consider myself a geek for micro-behaviors in this and most any community though.
Even with analogue SLRs there were times when rangefinders (also mirrorless) had advantages. You didn't have the massy mirror to move, just the shutter, so there were timing and noise benefits.
Did you not pay attention to Microsoft's BUILD (Microsoft's version of WWDC) conference this year, where they gave Xamarin the limelight and official blessings?
This years F1 cars are brake by wire. It let's them control the kinetic energy recovery better.
> it's amazing how pervasive this myth is

Is it really so amazing?

Virtually everyone doing research in this area has a massive vested interested in the ivory tower.
Biocentric universe
Since Chrome forked WebKit, it's been going downhill. For the past little while, with each new version of Chrome, I notice more annoyances and bugs. I recently switched back to Safari as well, and while it's not perfect, it's better than Chrome IMO.
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It's a rap genius annotation. If you click it with javascript enabled, an annotation will pop up on the right hand side. Looks like on the main site it's designed to degrade gracefully so it just navigates back to the article itself, but on the hosted site the urls aren't re-written correctly.
Always ask how numbers like that are computed.
I live in the US and paid my loans off in one paycheck after graduating. The way I did it was by going to a cheap community college for the first two years to get my associates degree. I got government student aid which paid for the entire tuition/books with some extra to live on.

Since I did well at community college, I was able to transfer to a larger university in-state and get some decent scholarships (A transfer scholarship offered by the University as well as a SMART grant offered by the government).

Keep in mind I lived with family which might might not be possible for some. I also worked low paying jobs over some of the summers, but not throughout the academic year.
I don't have a product on the market so perhaps I'm being incredibly naive, but why didn't the OP throw Apple under the bus? It seems to me a better response than panicking, using up all your free support e-mails (to no avail), and etc.
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"Culture" is also a very common way to explain random effects with something you can be proud of.
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Under this "right to be forgotten" If I were a politician, would I be able to get all the articles and blog posts about my embezzlement/swindling/corruption/what-have-you conviction removed from major search engines before an election?
> even if you somehow did manage to survey a statistically significant number of python programmers, you'd still be missing a large swath of the python community.

Depends on how the survey is done. If those engineers, artists, scientists, etc. are using Python, they're using Python, and there are ways to survey that. For one thing, you could look for users of the major Python frameworks listed in the Wikipedia article I linked to elsewhere in this subthread, like NumPy or SciPy.

If you want to claim that, for example, a scientist using SciPy isn't a real "python programmer" because he is only writing "glue code", I've already answered that in another subthread. Application logic is not "glue code". The scientist's application logic is in Python, so he's programming in Python, even if his job title doesn't say "Python programmer".
Apple's storyboards and xib files are essentially XML serialized views. Apple deserializes them at runtime and its a feature built in to Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Since Xamarin is just wrapping the native libraries it is easier and more compatible to just follow the same approach.
What I find confusing is why the API would be acceptable on an iPad and not on an iPhone. It seems unlikely that Apple would be willing to devote the resources to testing the element on one and not the other, or that the software behind the two implementations is different enough that testing would not carry between the two. And, if that were the case, surely it would have been easier to just not release the API at all?

Rather, it sounds like someone at Apple decided that popover widgets provide a poor user experience in small form factors unless they are carefully designed, so they disabled the API on the iPhone to discourage careless use. Obviously, the same restriction would not apply to Apple... which is unfair but understandable, given that "We know design better than you" is basically Apple's value proposition.
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Ok, now that is odd.

Clicking on this match and then on the advanced analysis link, shows that their match forecast is:

41.6% Korea
29.0% Draw
29.4% Algeria

So you would think that they would assume a win for Korea. But what seems to be happening is that instead, they are using their most likely correct score to determine the match winner. For this match, their most likely score is 1-1 (13.0% chance)

That seems a pretty flawed way to pick the most likely winner...
> it's better to be the giver than receiver

The war spending, coming at the same time as the derivative crash, could be blamed for speeding the end of American global preeminence. That's likely to have a negative effect on quality of life, and those were avoidable errors.
Great stuff! As an IB fan I am excited to try it out!
I'm so happy I did a degree in the UK in the 1980s when the fees were paid by the taxpayers and as my parents weren't very well off I got a full grant as well. As far as investments go that investment in me by the UK taxpayers paid off pretty well....
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From a technical standpoint the "translation" is pretty much a standard Model-View-Presenter approach. This allows both us and you maximum flexibility when working with and extending Xamarin.Forms. We expose to users the same API's we used to implement the initial set of controls.
Google/Facebook/Twitter - yeah that took years of scientific study and research. Weren't they all started by 2 people with a great idea?

Truth is, US 'innovation' is all about ideas, whereas a high level of collaborative intelligence is used in Germany.
I'd feel better if I didn't get "This certificate was signed by an unknown authority"
It's time for soylent green pallets.
> Taxing consumption vs. taxing income promotes more savings and less consumption.

Right, but I don't want "more saving and less consumption" as much as I want more people to be able to afford to choose whether savings or consumption is best for them, and taxing things that the poor do more than the rich promotes less people being able to afford to choose whether savings or consumption is best. Marginal propensity to consume is pretty strongly negatively correlated with income at all levels, so even with poverty-level exemptions that create some progressivity at the lower end, consumption taxes are overall regressive in income.

> Also, in theory, you simplify compliance and decrease evasion as your tax income comes from businesses and not individuals.

This only makes sense, even in theory, if you start with the presumption that the average business is less likely to seek to manipulate things to minimize tax (whether through avoidance or evasion) than the average individual, which is an assumption which could use some justification.
But as always, no Linux support, sadly and a no go for me :(
Or implement a second provider to fall back on.
Even with Apple-related headaches, developing for iOS is far simpler than developing for Android. You don't have to worry with making your application compatible with thirty different version/device combinations—more like eight. Additionally, iOS development is more profitable than Android development, despite having a lower userbase.

Your use of the word hipster is unclear. Does that word even have a meaningful definition anymore?
Whether they have removed apps that use is irrelevant. That they can at any point remove them because of their policies but don't should not be lauded, it just creates an air of confusion that they can use to their benefit as they see fit.
Not really true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788074
Here is a good one: http://www.stopdatamining.me/
You have a serious problem. The valid site is signed with a valid Entrust certificate. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=isapps.acxiom...

Are you at work or on a coffee shop network where SSL traffic might be intercepted?
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I'm not aware of any single real benefit of a US passport over a Canadian passport.
Well, RapidMiner is the number one data mining tool. And it started near Cologne.
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What. No. Developing your own third-party UI components, even components that look and feel like Apple components, is not grounds for removal from the App Store.
So the real problem is not that it's not possible to have cheap company with liability protection, which UG suits perfectly, but being able to borrow money / get investment for a company worth 0€. Those are two totally different things.
PD doesn't apply here though - Monsegur got much better deal than if he had not cooperated.
All they're asking for is name, number, meatspace and email addresses. Presumably, it's so some guy named "John Smith" doesn't prevent them from collecting information on the thousands of other J.S.'s out there.

Not saying I feel comfortable filling out the form myself, but still. It's silly to expect that just a name or email tells them everything about you.
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That's because MS wants to segment the market, and sell Windows to people that don't want to pay as much.

If people refuse to buy it due to privacy issues, they'll segment it by some other feature.
Then you need to dig into the "deep Web" and not just use Google. But most people do not benefit from that information so they won't see it in a Google search.
What most mean by and expect of an ORM—yes.

Extensive use of reflection (in Go, this takes the form of type assertions) proceed to make it fundamentally possible again, but they have lost a lot of conciseness, certainty of safety and correctness in the process.
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I actually get the exact same response. I presume that youngtaff is probably behind a corporate firewall like I am which has the ability to be a man in the middle for SSL sessions. Zero expectation of privacy at my workplace.
> You see lifestyle businesses portrayed as "settling for less" in American media

I only see it portrayed as "settling for less" in American media focussed on serving the executive/investor/startup-founder groups as their target market.

Stable small businesses are pretty much treated as icons of the national culture on a level with baseball and apple pie and set up on a pedestal everywhere else in American media and culture.
No, because it doesn't apply to politicians.

Also, you can't use RtbF to remove all your slippery-slope arguments from the Internet either.
I think many people against Google self-driving vehicle are worried about privacy issue. Well I say please bring out the self-driving cars asap.

IMHO, big part of the first wave of customers to buy self-driving cars will be older drivers who are not allowed (or choose to) drive on their own. My parents are able to drive on their around now but are already getting worried about the day when they can't drive around on their own. They would appreciate a self-driving car.

Only issue for google would be that they won't be providing any useful data to google with their destinations and they are not really online but oh well...
The mentioned paper is titled, "An electrochemical system for efficiently
harvesting low-grade heat energy" and the abstract (pay-walled) is here:

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140521/ncomms4942/full/nco...

Oddly enough, the full paper is here:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/cui_group/papers/SeokWoo_Cui_N...
What about taking advantage of free time to pursue your own interests on the side by passively going through college.

I’ve received plenty of Bs and even Cs for classes that I was incredibly proud of because they came from hardly no time spent at all. Time that I could then spend on reading my own curriculum, starting my own projects, and running my own businesses. - DHH
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
> this is the news website for a startup accelerator.

Something people forget waay too often..
What are the chances Apple allows an app using a competing service into the app store?
Ask HN: I don´t know what to do with my life.
I've been working as IT/ system manager at a call center for about 3 years now. The people at my work are very nice with only a few exceptions.
Among those exceptions there's my boss. She's a woman in her mid 40's, and she treats everyone like they are nothing more than subordinates. She expects people to go out of their way to help the business by staying extra hours and cancelling other appointments to fix problems that may not concern them.
I truly believe she does't realize these things kill morale and productivity, as it's just how her personality is. It certainly makes it a grim place to work at when she's around. I doubt anyone working with me can say they like her.
I might add she rarely give raises or promotions, and when she does, they are disgraceful.
(I know the difference between asking employees to do their work and to treat them like slaves, so if you're thinking i'm just bitchy and lazy, i'd like to say i don't think i am.)
On the other hand, it seems like she's making a lot of money for the directives.

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