skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Adding further polish are cClever sound effects and a catchy music score add further polish.

Might want to have a look at that copyediting.
@UIApplicationMain is the key there, from what I can see. An Objective C iOS app typically includes a main.m entry point which calls UIApplicationMain and passes the AppDelegate. This seems to have been removed in favour of what Swift is calling a "declaration attribute", which presumably does the same thing.

In this sense, the code is even less clear than the Objective C implementation.
So what would be your rules of thumb for when meetings are worthwhile?
The problem is he gave up RSS in order to give up what he calls news, but I don't get news from RSS.

News has been redefined as journalistic agitprop to gain pageviews of people in the right attitude to sell them an advertising message. I have very little interest in that.

On the other hand I like astrobites, and some of the arxiv RSS feeds, and others along those lines. They are news in some definitions, but definitely not news in the "news industry" definition.

Its like the difference between getting your weather news report from weather.gov or from the weather channel on cable.
Android developer here with a Macbook Pro. I'm honestly thinking about taking the leap and getting an iPhone, depending on how the 6 looks like. But Swift enticed me very much.
Salling Clicker was the biggest thing I missed in the switch from so-called "dumb phones" to smartphones.
I found an error in your copy on the contribute[0] page:

"...Sign up for the mailing list to be notified when Stripe Guides is ready for contributors to start adding content."

That should probably be Swift instead of Stripe.

0 - http://www.swiftguides.io/contribute
Occasional, unmonitored use changed my life for the better no question about it, and I still feel that way even though I haven't touched it in years. I can't think of another drug that I could say that about.

If you're waiting around for the DEA to decide to write you a permission slip then you may end up waiting for the rest of your life. The government probably views this drug as the most dangerous one in existence and I'll try to explain why:

MDMA seems to have the power to help people heal psychological wounds and come together despite their differences, but that's a nightmare for a government who rather have populations remain afraid of one another, fighting with one another, and relying on the government to solve their problems. The government sees it's role as manifesting order out of chaos, and if people are not psychologically conflicted and fighting with one another then a day might come when they begin to feel that they can work together to solve problems on their own without the need for nearly as much government supervision.
Perhaps their companies aren't going to IPO, they are getting acquired instead. I think HOVR.IT was bought by Slyce last year. Intel bought a MaRS company 4 years ago as well.
Yeah, I really encourage you to try bigger font-size -- don't be afraid!

The 65 char per line is to strike a balance between how often the reader has to skip to new lines, and how far that trip is. Why 65 exactly? It's more than 60, but less than 70, and its a nice round number I guess. Here's an article that discusses it a bit more:

http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
I think the tricky thing about Allscripts is that it doesn't have a sole, dedicated patient portal like Epic does (which is where the healthkit integration is). Old Allscripts customers are using Medfusion, newer customers are using Jardogs software, and other places installed patient portals by companies like Medseek (Dignity Health comes to mind). Lots of integrations would need to be built to various portals for that to work.
Here you go: http://www.gnustep.org/experience/Windows.html
OVH uses something like this for all of their newer server offerings.
For anyone who thinks that $15 minimum wage is a bad idea, what do you think is the "correct" value for a legislated minimum wage? Is the current value also too high? Should there be such a thing as a minimum wage?
I'm honestly surprised at the amount of reactionary responses on this thread. Everyone is so quick to take up arms against this man because he's systematically eliminating distractions from his day to day. Some people are making wild jumps from point A to point X -- postulating that he'll be friendless and alone, telling him that he's selfish, theorizing that it's not going to work, calling him a robot.

None of us are in Matt's situation. Stop projecting your moral compass, fears, and/or insecurities on him.

If it works, I envy his ability to cut out noise from the signal.
This statement is a response to articles like this [1] that have been floating around lately.

[1] - http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/05/31/mars_build...
E-Mails from an Asshole
It's a blaming tone. "And we think that you will also know it when you cross it." is a statement that will assuredly not be true for everyone whom they believe 'crossed a line'.
Thanks for clearing that up. I misread the example in the Swift Programming Language reference.
Some Thoughts on Apple's Metal API
How do you specify public vs private members? The language seems to be missing private/public keywords, and protocols (interfaces) are automatically generated.
I think most people on HN agree that employees should be paid proportional to the value they create. In fact that is an underlying reason many folks choose to work for (or start) a startup for equity rather than a big company for a salary. With equity, the more value you produce the more you make.

For the rest of America, you typically work for an agreed upon sum (salary or hourly wage) with your employer. We call this a mutually agreeable contract since no one is forced to work for an employer in our modern society (we have valid laws to prevent this scenario). If an employee does not like a given wage, they can shop their skills around for another employer (or start their own company) in order to gain a higher wage. We call this the free market.

I am a libertarian all about math. But even putting math aside, with the logic above why is there a need for a minimum wage?
Who's the accelerator ? (feel free to ping me by email if you prefer)
Worth noting that Intel already has a many weaker core design -- the Xeon Phi. While it exists as an add-in "co-processor" right now, in 2015 it will become a stand-alone platform via Knights Landing.
Don’t Let Ideas Die Because of Your Ego
We're not talking about imposing a 2pm meeting... we're talking about two people who agreed to a 2pm meeting. (Imposition is something else entirely.)

Also, one thing I'd observe is that there's a difference between social occasions and business. Even as an American, when my family says they're going to show up at 2pm, I don't sit there at 1:59 at the door tapping my foot. However, business is different; if you've mutually agreed on 2pm and you come in at 2:40 pm without having checked or communicated, there is a problem there in many cases. There may have been further scheduled events for 2:30 (odds are good you're meeting with someone who has lots of meetings, statistically), or whoknows what. The casual approach to time risks having three unrelated meetings that were scheduled to be separate trying to happen all at once.

Whether firm or casual time is abstractly "best" is a hard problem, but when it comes to business effectiveness I don't have a problem saying punctuality is a benefit to getting more stuff done. "What if I don't want more stuff done because even that is an American thing to say?" Well, surely we'd all rather then get our things done so we can hit the bar freely later? And it isn't an American truth that businesses really need to accomplish things to survive and thrive, it's the nature of the Universe we live in, where we must work for our sustenance, however distasteful you may find that.
This. People sing to the heavens of how stable OSX is and how it just works. I've had as many if not more issues than with my Windows 7 Samsung laptop.

Wifi constantly needs manually disabling/enabling, Bluetooth Audio crashes are common, I average one full system crash per month, display settings reset themselves magically and Finder is infuriating. I should be keeping a log of all the issues I have.

This is on a 2014 Macbook Pro.
According to Wikipedia, both C++ and Objective-C "appeared in" 1983. I otherwise share your sentiment.
Bring me a rock (2012)
Thanks for correcting me, you are right! It has 64 RISC cores alongside dual-core ARM.
So like iPython notebook?
Inside the Fixing: How a Gang Battered Soccer’s Frail Integrity
Most meetings are primate dominance rituals.

That means they're unproductive. On the other hand, if you force a venue change, you're just going to get hyper aggressive git commit messages or something equally stupid to show "who's boss". The only solution I'm aware of is to select employees for hire based on likelihood of not being "into" primate dominance rituals, at least not at work. This is pretty hard to figure out at the interview stage and once a company is eventually infected, its plague dynamics time, and much like a bad flu season, work grinds to a halt.
Faire enough. I didn't list prices because I was not sure but now I understand some prices (even if inaccurate) are better than non at all.
I am thinking:
1 Active Project + 1 Archived Project, Unlimited users 9USD/mo
3 Active Project + 2 Archived Project, Unlimited users 19USD/mo
5 Active Project + 3 Archived Project, Unlimited users 29USD/mo
Mathematics is the only way I know how to solve technical problems from first principles, and not get stuck when existing solution X doesn't fit problem Y.

If people want to start programming trade schools, that's fine, but that's not "Computer Science", or "Software Engineering" for that matter. Engineering means being able to solve novel problems in an applied manner. You can't do that without mathematics.

Calculus is ultimately symbolic manipulation, as another commenter said. Mathematica / Matlab can do calculus. So should you.
> I heard scuttlebutt that they're shipping Microsoft DLLs. That's a big no-no in our offices.

Yes, exactly the same redistributable MSVC and Direct3D libs most games ship with. What's wrong with that?
Got it, shitty landing page. Fair enough.
> obviously these arrangements will affect your salary

I don't really find this obvious or self-evident. One of my very biggest complaints about the economic climate today is that all of the productivity gains go to the owners, and very little to workers. If I as a worker am producing more, it follows that I should be working less, or paid more (which amounts to the same thing.) to do otherwise eliminates jobs that would otherwise need to be done, and takes advantage of workers.
I'm surprised that a minimum wage job provided 401k, health insurance and paid holiday and vacation. Does anyone know how common that is?

Also, did the company drop its 401k program entirely? I don't think you can exclude certain workers without getting in trouble.

[apologies if these are answered in the article, it's blocked here]
It's tough, but eventually it should pay off and once it does then you should be able to focus your efforts on stopping it happening in the first place.

I've always found it's a good idea to keep in touch from the start at an early stage (not too much though, don't make them regret they signed up in the first place). You won't always get a reply but people will be more open to your emails when it's less out of the blue. Try to make them relevant to the stage they're at though (just signed up, just started using stuff properly). You could probably automate some of the earlier parts too. I find people are usually pretty happy to help when they think they're making a difference.

Hope it works out for you!
> If you have 48 runnable threads from 48 different tasks running on your machine, you'll get pretty much linear performance increases

Only if the tasks are trivially parallelizable. Any sequential dependencies among those tasks limit the effectiveness of parallelization. This is exactly what Amdahl's Law says.

> my humble laptop can do 8 threads at once, it's about time we started building office suites and browsers to take advantage of these processors.

Multiple browser tabs or open office documents are trivially parallelizable (eg, processes). The work within those tabs or documents is not linearly parallelizable -- running JS/macros, handling input, rendering, etc. Existing browser/office suites already do a pretty good job of splitting these tasks up, but they can't be split up arbitrarily into $core_count chunks.
So... like a smalltalk environment? Or something like jsfiddle for javascript?
"The Shulgin Rating Scale is a simple scale for reporting the subjective effect of psychoactive substances at a given dosage, and at a given time. The system was developed for research purposes by the American biochemist Alexander Shulgin and detailed in his book PiHKAL"

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

PLUS FOUR (++++) [...] If a drug (or technique or process) were ever to be discovered which would consistently produce a plus four experience in all human beings, it is conceivable that it would signal the ultimate evolution, and perhaps the end, of the human experiment.
Why does the rest of the world end up with such crap politics? What are you doing right in Scandinavia?
MIT designs small, completely autonomous fixed wing plane
We spent around 6 weeks trying to wrangle Juju and MaaS into a working state in August 2013.
Skimming through my notes we surmised the following.

* Auto-enrollment of nodes was tough to get working.

* Overlay and config management was weak and better handled by Puppet. Though Juju beans were touted as able to handle this.

* Juju 1.13 and maas 1.3 do not support isolated juju environments in the same maas cluster. No idea what version it is at now.

* Juju charms "local provider" is potentially very compelling but wasn't in a workable state.

In the end we abandoned it.
I live in the western part of the US (Colorado) and 600 miles doesn't actually take that long to drive. I regularly drive to my parent's house - which is about 550 miles - in 8 hours. I'm essentially driving the speed limit the entire way with no slowdowns except for one or two gas/restroom breaks. I would imagine driving that distance in GB would involve a much lower average speed.

I have always assumed this is why distances in the US (reasonably far away from the coasts) are "not that far".
That's why I mentioned WINE in the article. It costs nothing and would be a much better port than they attempted with Eon.
Programmers here? But they haven't ever heard of BASIC? LET has been used for variables least since 1968.
My perspective is as an East Coast American (the D.C. to Boston corridor) where punctuality is highly prized and dealing with South Koreans, who have a different cultural feeling about time.

Among the South Koreans I know some characteristics jump out

- The 빨리빨리 culture (quickly! quickly!). Do every labor activity, no matter how trivial, at the maximum possible tempo. Koreans coming to the U.S. frequently complain about how slow their interactions are with Americans (particularly cashiers). The idea of pacing yourself, running a marathon and not a sprint is a foreign idea.

- Everything stops for food. Fast food of course exists in Korea. But no matter what's going on, how critical it is, or how behind everybody is, my experience is that Koreans will drop everything during meal time and take a remarkably relaxed view of meal-time. This may have something to do with how many soups Koreans eat, but my American sensibility, of just powering through a garbage lunch as quickly as possible because it's getting in the way of my work day, had a hard time adjusting to this for years.

- Koreans tend to be perpetually tardy. On the waiting end, I've noticed that universally Koreans seem to be mildly irritated by the tardiness of their peers. On the tardy-party end the reasons for being tardy are complex, with about as many reasons why it's unavoidable as reasons why it could have been avoided.

- Planning group activities seems to be a group event rather than a leader-focused organizer's role. This means if a bunch of people get together to go do an activity, it means lots of waiting around until group consensus, and lots of questions from everybody if this or that scenario is agreeable to you ("sure", "I don't care", "I don't know", etc. are not acceptable answers, the consensus building requires your input). Then, much later than is necessary, and probably after a few internal rounds of "voting", a plan will suddenly crystallize and everybody will suddenly move into motion and execute. And the downside it seems like there's a lack of organization and planning for your day, on the up side, there's lots of variety.

With Americans it seems like a group will get together, everybody will ask for ideas, most people will say "whatever" or "I don't know", and eventually a leader will emerge who everybody follows for that day's activities. The consensus oriented activity planning Koreans do is a little maddening to me, even many many years later.

Some of this is rather recent. The 빨리빨리 culture in particular. Before the war, Koreans were generally regarded like Southerners in the U.S. are. Leisurely, taking their time, no reason to rush [1]. It seems that some of the characteristics above are from this older cultural attitude, but the quickly! quickly! culture seems to be the result of the reconstruction and industrialization boom.

1 - http://gypsyscholarship.blogspot.com/2012/06/koreas-bbali-bb...
That's their hope - after 1.0, they want to open-source it.
That's the point - they are not making product, it's just "coming soon".
The assertion that this whole argument is built on (and is not explicitly mentioned) is that creation, or work, is the ultimate goal in life. I believe the author to be mistaken here and would urge the author to re-evaluate the truth of this statement before taking some of the more extreme measures the article mentions.
You are right. Google has completely fractured message on Android. You have to install 10 different messengers to be able to talk to different factions of people. Also since they want to push Google Hangouts' online feature their messaging app is quite confusing.

I stick to Anroid for innovations like LastPass's 'fill into applications', link browser, Pocket, etc. They are so tightly integrated with Android that it is very pleasurable to use.
Dropping at 2000 feet per minute is not quite free fall, but it's a long way from a drifting dandelion seed. I wonder if the balloon payload left a crater.
A company just appointed an algorithm to its board
The case is "In The Matter of a Warrant to Search a Certain Email Account Controlled by Microsoft Corporation" [1,2]

In this case, it's about an e-mail account provided by Microsoft (an American company) but physically hosted in Ireland.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/25/us-usa-tech-warran...
[2] http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2341902/us-court-cloud-c...
Never heard of it. Googled it, their certificate is broken and it seems to be fetching stuff from fishy domains name. I stopped there. If you used trackDuck tho I'd love to hear your feedback about how/if it differs.
Then use state "EQUAL" and nopreempt options. This will make your VIP failover only when one of the hosts dies and keep it there regardless of whether the new host came back up.
(1990)

Not so much news, as history; but why this history, here, now? Yes, China is not a politically free country and employs a substantial amount of violence to keep things that way. So do a lot of places. There are more recent examples from China if you care to look carefully for them.
If he were just writing about what he's doing, that'd be one thing. But he's not:

> It’s a tall order; there’s no question about that. But I really need to do this, and I think you do, too.
It doesn't stay constant. I didn't assume it stays constant either.

Your maximum torque can be extracted by the right gear from the maximum _power_ peak. That means even with diminishing torque with angular velocity, if it diminishes only slowly, it's still worth going to higher angular velocities.

Example:
Say if you have a motor that has
100 Nm of torque at 100 radians/s, which is 10 kW of power, and
80 Nm of torque at 200 radians/s, which is 16 kW of power.

And further, you specify that you need to have the maximum torque in the wheels at 10 radians/s.

With a 10:1 gear ratio, when your wheels run at 10 radians/s, your engine runs at 100 radians/s and provides 10 kW. Thus the torque at the wheels is
10000W / 10 radians/s = 1000 Nm.

With a 20:1 your engine runs at 200 radians/s and 16 kW and wheel torque is:
16000 W / 10 radians/s = 1800 Nm.

More torque at the wheels with less torque at the engine!

Of course, with a fixed ratio, the latter vehicle would be limited to a lower top speed. That's why we have gearboxes and variators etc.

With an electric motor though that has better torque at lower speed, you can often try to design for a compromise so that you don't need a gearbox and might not even need a gear ratio at all.

I used SI units since you get extraneous confusing factors otherwise.

Here's an example of a brushless motor power vs rpm. You can get maximum torque for your selected angular velocity by operating at the max motor power and using the right gearing.
http://www.mcpappyracing.com/images/dyno/chart_power.jpg
In S. Asia, S America, Middle East and Africa, app developers use HTML5 over iOS
> You can write a udev rule for that

Yes, please, let me spend time fixing distro BS instead of, you know, working.

I don't remember any time when Wifi worked out-of-the-box in my previous Linux laptop. It worked if I did things manually (wpa-supplicant and stuff), the NM widget? Never worked and made things harder

Another issue: opening and closing the lid doesn't have a consistent result, and sometimes it just keeps the laptop running.

This is for the basic functionality, and sometimes even things that worked before stop working.

Older distros had to be more manually configured, but when that was done it was good to go, today it is even harder to shut down the non-working stuff.

So yeah, it's Mac for me from now on. Recovery from Time Machine needed some "Linux style hacking" once, but apart from that it's a breeze
Instead of the linear, multi-active and cyclic times paradigm, another approach I found interesting is the one proposed by Philip Zimbardo neatly presented in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

It presents individuals as being either past, present or future oriented. Apparently, the closer we are to the equator the more present-oriented we tend to be (because there are less seasonal changes).
Is there one typography book you'd recommend in particular to start with?
> I excommunicated a family member from my life a while ago. I thought I was protecting myself and my family, but I was really just prolonging my own pain. I have since forgiven him and cautiously started letting him back into my life in limited ways. To me, that's an example of really letting go.

Congratulations on making progress on a relationship that works for you. I'd like to point out, though, that for many with abusive or dysfunctional relationships with a family member, stopping contact is the letting go.
Amid Fake Reviews, Consumers Are Skeptical of Social Media Marketing
Thank you. Will work on improving that.
Haha thats hilarious.

I currently work for a fully remote company and it's completely the opposite.
We do one weekly status meeting which is usually 20-30 mins. Then project planning/troubleshooting/teambuilding meetings as needed usually around 2-4 hours per MONTH.

EVERYTHING else is discussed/solved very efficiently via IM.

I hope to never work for a company with meetingitus again, big waste of time and resources.