skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the instructions are pretty terrible! What might be a better way to do it? The best that I can think of is something like: "Click here to start recording, and click here to choose a running application. The first menu item on which you click will be chosen as the target."

(In fact, I seem to remember some sort of 'macro recorder' from back in the Tiger days that worked on the level of literal mouse motion (and was fully as fragile as it sounded, since it obviously relied heavily on the exact position of things on screen). Does anyone else remember something like that?)
To me this thing where employers tell you not to discuss your pay always seemed like a strategy to keep wages low. I think if anything should be discussed freely between employees it's wages. I could see this being something that contributes to employees that stay with companies making less than those that move around. Those that stay around don't talk about wages and don't see how much they're getting screwed by their employers.
> do I need to build a doomsday bunker ASAP

No. The cost of building and maintaining a bunker is higher than any chance of ever realizing a benefit. This is true for any doomsday type scenario but if you live in a place with dangerously high winds or tornadoes a cellar might be a good place to weather a storm.

> stockpiling supplies?

Yes, you should always stockpile food and water in case of emergency [1]

[1] http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/foodwater/prepare.asp
Personally, I wasn't too concerned with Google knowing my actual identity, but more with the prospect of tons of information leaking to anyone who I ever meet. For example, it's no longer possible to anonymously review or rate android apps. They retroactively changed all older app reviews to be by "An anonymous user", but now all reviews and ratings are done under your Google+ account, so I just stopped reviewing and rating apps.

If I were to rate and review apps as I would prefer to do, then anyone googling my name when they meet me would find my Google+ account, then it would be trivial for them to click around and find out essentially a list of all the apps I use on a regular basis, and how I use them. I don't know that there's anything too personal at the moment, but given that that information is essentially out there forever, I don't want to accidentally rate some app that might reveal my political, religious or cultural affliations (which could bias a future employer or landlord), or something else that might be very telling about my personal life.

For me, Google having a huge trove of information on me only matters to the extent that they'd ever show it to anyone else. I don't care what they do with the data internally, I've disclosed it to them, but it's clear after the Snowden documents that Google doesn't have the ability to fight government intrusion into their databases (making their huge troves a very tempting target), and after the fiasco with Google Buzz (and this nonsense with Google+ and the "real names" policy), it's become obvious that they don't seem to have the sort of mindset that is appropriate for a good steward of my private data. It's sad, because they provide many great products, but they are simply not trustworthy - as that becomes more obvious to more people, I imagine it will start to affect their bottom line.
How about a -1 that affects ranking ONLY to people who enables the feature and follows you?

I mean, if I follow an expert in his area, it makes more sense to me to see that he doesn't endorse spammy-website.com, than to see he endorses "Chrome Beta for Android".
Programming is to math as engineering is to physics
I see this as a sign of weakness for Apple.
My gut feeling is this is a sign Apple if feeling vulnerable.
I know I do hit Command-Q instead of Command-W almost every day on my Mac. I've installed a big keyboard macro application so that I can remap "Command-Q" to "nothing", I literally don't use it for anything else.
You can even just paste the URL and it will work. Apparently some clever-dick is looking at referrer information.
Agreed, I think of this as the "Vine" model of interaction and it's what I'd prefer. Plus leave off the icon if the webm video has no audio track.
But only animation via script, not declarative animation.
A few years ago I had some problems with my credit report being corrupted with incorrect data. The official mechanism for correcting errors is to file a dispute for one item, wait for something like 30 days while they review it, then you can file another dispute. In my case there were more than a dozen errors (including bullshit like an alternate SSN, alternate birthday, etc.). I did some digging on the internet and found out an alternate method, which is to print out your credit report, make note of all the disputed items, add a cover letter and any supporting evidence, then send it via certified mail to a secret PO Box you can't find on any of the credit reporting agencies' websites. It worked like a charm.
I like this ... easy to use, provides a quick solution for a quick problem
> What's the alternative, Exchange?

MongoDB + Rails. Lotus Notes (in addition to being a flawed mail system that I wish on no one) has a ton more engineer-years sunk into it than many of the NoSQL databases + web frameworks ever will.
Is this only for the Enterprise? ( BTW IBM Notes Sucks )

PowerPC?
And the Fab IBM is trying to sell but no one wants?
> Does the number of comments really change anything?

My understanding of regulatory proceedings is that the number and substance of the comments tends to play a role but (in a way, somewhat opposite of many legislative proceedings) the substance is a lot more significant than the numbers. The purpose of the comment period isn't to get a pulse of popular opinion, its to assure that the policy analysis underlying the regulatory action is able to consider all relevant information, including information that may not have been apparent to the commission's staff.

The individually most effective comments, then, are probably those like Mozilla's, which not only makes very specific recommendations, directly addressing the points raised in the call for comments, with strong support and analysis behind the recommendations.
phones and tablets and pc's are commodities, big iron boxes and enterprise expertise are not.

My impression is the opposite; there's only one iPhone. The whole BYOD thing happened because if you gave employees Blackberries they'd still go out and buy iPhones.
What's the problem with Bluetooth here?

No mesh networking? That has been in the pipeline for quite some time now, and will hit the market big time:

http://www.csr.com/news/pr/2014/csr-mesh

Disclaimer: I've been part of a Dutch consortium with companies that developed their own mesh standards and did not understand that you need to "board the smartphone train". This is why I'm skeptical w.r.t. anything that does not just interface with smartphone technology.
Confusion is part of the enterprise market.

As soon as you figure out what a product actually does, you realize you could replace it a shell script that took 30 minutes to write.

The point is to get managers to buy something from IBM so they can have push notifications.
If you enter a '.' as your surname, will G+ omit this when displaying your name?
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I think it's a good idea. I agree that it can be a bit boring in between the downtime like minimaxir said, but if you build a community in your chat it's not bad.

An example is twitch.tv/dvcolgan who is streaming at the time of this post.
I believe that the main reason it is hard to see the benefits is that we dont yet have the interesting infrastructure inside that house that an IoT will allow.

ie, I think it is actually too early in the IoT life cycle to really visualise the impact it will have.

Let me explain - currently our lighting and applicances are designed entirely around the idea that they will be manually operated and standalone pieces of equipment.

Once that assumption is taken away, and houses are built with a different assumption, suddenly magic begins to happen - imagine that instead of a few lights in the lounge, there was a ceiling and walls covered in thousands of LED lights that could be independently controlled via the internet.
The average home could literally have lighting shows.
An entire wall could be utilised as alternately a television or a photo viewer, even a wall in every room.

etc, etc. Use your imagination here. The point is that the impact of an IoT on the average middle class house as they are built today is currently pretty small because neither the house nor the contents of the house were designed with an IoT in mind.
Once we actually have an IoT houses will be build from the ground up with different assumptions .

At least, that is my opinion.

tl;dr: The IoT has a chicken and egg problem.
The people who work at Microsoft are just regular humans, too, you know. Why does it make you so gleeful to hear this?
I think GP meant (1) the use of "it" as the implicit name of a single argument closure and (2) string interpolation syntax.
I've had similar experience while dealing with Comcast installation techs.

The installation tech insisted that he needed to use my computer to complete the installation. My computer (running Debian, so using it was out of the question anyway) was sitting right in front of both of us. I told him that he didn't need to use it (which is true) and he insisted that he did. Then I told him that I did not have a computer. We could both see it, but only by insisting that I did not have a computer was I able to get him to complete the installation without using it (he made a short phonecall, and that was it).
In the last few years I've been surprised to learn just how many legal protections we have in the workplace. Neither I nor most of my friends, for example, know much about Title VII anti-discrimination protections, and many thought they had far fewer protections than they actually do.

When are we, as workers, supposed to learn about these workplace laws? In high school, my law and government classes never talked about them. In college, the CS program had a semester on ethics which included copyright and patents, but not on workplace law. My wife's business courses, OTOH, did cover them.

Some organizations have HR training for employees, but the usual primary goal of HR seems to be to keep the company from being sued for breaking the law, which is different than educating people about their legal rights.

Unions would be one possible sort of education, but there isn't much unionization in software development in the US. Trade schools might be another, but the US leans strongly towards university-style academic training than trade schools.

The best I've come up with is a talk, workshop, booth, open space, etc. as part of tech conferences. But I don't know enough to do that, nor do I know anyone who can.
I've worked with IBM.

Your post all seems to be very consumerist. IBM sells servers. Apple does not sell servers. IBM sells their own server hardware. IBM dropped their x64/x86 servers recently.

Apple makes consumer hardware, IBM makes expensively marked up enterprise hardware.

IBM makes TERRIBLE software, apple makes shiny consumer stuff, the absolute most that will come out of this is sametime and or notes getting a small bit more attention from IBM on iOS products. Most of IBM's crap is a thinly veiled customisation on top of Eclipse, it makes me laugh thinking about how that will translate to an iOS device. IBM's server side software, while marginally better - what apple hardware is that going to run on?

IBM clients couldn't give less of a hoot about samba shares in OSX. This news will have approximately zero effect.
Congrats to the entire KDE team!
LOVE this. I've dealt with the pain of multiple CoreData contexts in different threads and ugggh. This was easily the longest part of our Streak app development, as we needed it to be fast, offline, and fully synced. This is definitely a way better API that accomplishes the same thing as CoreData. If its actually faster too, wow, just amazing.

One question - CoreData works really well with built in UIViewControllers like TableViewControllers. Any chance you'll be releasing some code that makes wiring up changes in the models to the controls that are displaying that data?
Probably because alcohol requires an above-21 person to sign and receive the delivery, which adds complications to GSX if no one is home when they deliver.
The comments on this post motivated me to search a little, and I found this.

Title II includes more than 100 pages of regulations
that common carriers must follow
to ensure they act "in the public interest."

...From http://www.dailydot.com/politics/what-is-title-ii-net-neutra...
A lot of people here are sceptical but I keep looking for products on Amazon I just assume would already exist but don't.

Three examples:

I was recently looking for a door chime ("door bell") and since I have WiFi already all over the house I wanted something that could piggy-back off of that to increase range but also maybe send the notification to my phone or similar. Doesn't exist. Only ye-olde style RF doorbells no different than what they sold 50 years ago.

I wanted a motion sensor that wasn't part of a security system, just a single stand alone motion detector which could send a text message ONLY during set hours (e.g. 11 pm to 6 am) when motion was detected. But nope, also doesn't exist (in fact there is a serious lack of variety in motion detectors, the closest I found was a Honeywell one which set off a doorbell when motion was detected, but cannot be shut off based on time of day).

I want to know when the clothing dryer is done. I often don't hear it. I have WiFi, but yet I cannot receive an update digitally yet. Why?

I cannot speak to everyone but for me personally I WANT this stuff. I'd happily buy this stuff. It doesn't exist. Where is it? Make it and I'll buy it.
"Cosmic rays" are not the same as "cosmic radiation". Cosmic rays are charged (massive) particles which are moving at relativistic speeds, and are not electromagnetic radiation. In contrast, cosmic radiation consists of photons.

I see the wikipedia article for cosmic rays [0] does state they are radiation, which is misleading and should probably be changed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_rays
Like light.
The US developer culture seems to be very Apple-centric, so Google is fighting an uphill battle in US, and I don't think that's easily changed with a few marketing bullet points. In US, if one has a Mac (which most developers do), it's almost guaranteed to want an iPhone, too. If one has a Windows machine, maybe they'll want an Android phone, maybe they won't.

Of course, Google should still do more to promote Android to developers. However, it should be much easier to get developers from most of the other countries, since that's what the vast majority of people use there.
This seems to be one of the more inaccurate clones (gameplay wise) I've seen.
OK, but they only have one representative in the House. Nonvoting, IIRC.
Everything you say is true, and that only covers the forward problem: given a multi-level model with stochastic dependencies at each stage (like winds, fragmentation, etc., that you list), calculate the overall distribution of the output.

At its simplest, the forward problem is like a functional composition:

y = F( G( H(x) ) )

where F, G, and H are all noisy, and you want to characterize y.

@gliese1337 nearby, in an excellent comment, addresses the more complex inverse problem: when you have outputs (y's above) from such a process, how do you determine the most likely model (F, G, H) that produced it?

So for example, if you have a bunch of crater ejecta, what can you tell me about the mass of the incoming objects?
I appreciate the information, thank you!
IBM's level of paranoia is truly inspiring.
The Preppers are going to really flip over this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepper
It's like Apple have bought IBM for the grand price of absolutely nothing. All the upside, none of the risk. (Someone in Cupertino was taking notes from the Wall St bailouts . . . )

For IBM this has to be their last shot before sliding off into oblivion, with their resurgence now looking incredibly temporary. All they really bring at this point is customer relationships and service monkeys, with the former being what Apple are really after.
As a few minutes of WebCollage http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ usually illustrates quite well.
Its good see PR is still written in english.
Do you know it is possible send Cisco commands via SNMP
"Cancel my service"

"Can you cancel my service?"

"I won't be answering any of your questions, just cancel my service".

"Cancel my service or transfer me to someone who can"

The use of worlds like "Please" and "I'd like to" just tells them that you'll indulge their scripts and tactics. It's not rude to steamroll a system intentionally designed to make it hard to cancel.
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(Disclaimer, IBM employee)

Sure there are many companies using Lotus Notes, but there is way more enterprise IBM tech & software out there (in use at large companies) than you realize ... WebSphere Portal, IBM Cloud, Rational, Tivoli, DB2, Cognos, Tealeaf, Watson, etc etc
Sorry one more question - Android?
I don't know if that's "funny" (curious I'd say) or not. It seems that Apple's push is towards iOS and more away from OS X. More and more it seems that iOS features are making their way into OS X and not the other way around. Maybe once you can easily develop apps for iOS on your iDevice you might see the death knell of OS X and bigger hardware. Just speculation on my part ;)
"Radiation" doesn't necessarily mean electromagnetic radiation. After all, alpha- and beta-rays are also called radiation all the time.
That reminds of this quote from Mike Haertel:

The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. ;-)
http://www.goldcoastoutfitters.com/node/698
It's also standard Markdown for [links][0][1], which is arguably the lingua franca for nerds on the internet.

[0] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link
[1] see what I did there
Already the "bookmarks" for most folks is already a dumping ground that they never look at. For myself, I know that if I were saving pages to a spot, I would be in major trouble with just a massively growing pit of pages I'll never slog through.

So, I would think it would be great if you could "triage" pages you wanted to save for later. Even if I could move them from a "to read" to a "read" pile would be awesome. Didn't know if you had any pointers on making that happen.

Edit: I should say, btw, I actually do use my "don't close tabs" for the train. My commutes are typically small, so I don't do large readings.
Maye they finally reached a critical mass in their social graph of real people that it might be possible to match the anonymous, active people.
It's still possible to change your mind. Also, some things to consider: (a) Yonatan is the tech lead for G+. This is something he would be an authority on. (b) I also work for Google, have no particular reason to be loyal to Vic [I've opposed the names policy from the start], and I'm also willing to vouch that Vic approved it.

So if you still don't think that's enough to believe it, well, that's your prerogative, but I doubt anything is going to convince you in that case.
I don't know about the inner workings of Mac applications, but isn't there a resources file that exposes menu items? Seems like this could be accessed via some kind of API.
Both are heavily in flux, but google has more experience running containers at scale than anyone. The underlying features in the Linux kernel, cgroups, that containers use, were written almost entirely by google.

Give it 6-12 months and look at both would be my suggestion. That being said, I'd bet on the google stuff as they understand this problem better than anyone.
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What do you mean by "Traffic is dirt cheap if you know where to look"

Are you talking about where to go find traffic for your website? Do you mind sharing?
Can't wait for iOS/2 Armonk with CoreDB2 for iThinkPad.
They want to use carbon dating on a person that is still alive... that's not how it works. Carbon dating measures how much the carbon 14 is left in you because it decays and goes away if not replaced by new carbon 14. Carbon 14 is created in the upper atmosphere and absorbed by plants. What it really measures is the period of time since the last plants you ate died.
Sure, but legislation that throws out 99% of existing patents will never fly because legitimate businesses who have spent billions of dollars on them. The only possible political solution is to filter out trolls.
Perhaps you are configuring them differently.

I have a test box with all recent 5.x versions installed.

1000 WP front pages, identical php build configuration:

5.4 28.081s, 28.673s, 29.458s, 28.017s

5.5 26.402s, 26.448s, 26.522s, 26.523s

5.6 25.774s, 25.643s, 25.752s, 25.670s

NG 15.083s, 15.100s, 15.052s, 15.066s
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Thanks for the kind words! Regarding wiring this to a TableViewController, we have some code samples already for Swift[0] and Objective-C[1]. Right now you get notified of changes and refresh, but we’re very interested in exposing a reactive-style binding mechanism as well. The storage engine underneath supports that very well actually, so stay tuned…

[0] https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/tree/master/examples/swift/RealmSwiftTableViewExample
[1] https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/tree/master/examples/objc/RealmTableViewExample
But not typically at the so-called "cosmic" energy scale.
Being offended gives some people a rush. He could just be an addict.
Until you start nesting them and doing exception handling...right?
Cosmic rays are particle radiation [0], so its not misleading to state that they are radiation.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_radiation
"For this we apologize"

There's a lot of sniping at Google here, but I think they deserve some kudos for using the A word in corporate communications.
Yes. It will be rendered in G+ as a mononym.
It's not true that most deploys are a protocol change - only changes that would also change Java serialization's serial UID will cause GWT-RPC clients to become incompatible.

I routinely deploy a new version while hundreds of users are online and nobody is the wiser.
Rays usually means em-radiation. But cosmic rays are misnamed from (as they tend to be radiation, but not rays).
Yes but that is only because Lotus Notes is an absolute pile of crap. Exchange in itself isn't that good either.
Android is coming! We have an internal build that’s almost at parity with iOS but still needs a bit of tuning and is missing a few key features like Migrations. We’ll work to release & open-source it soon. You can register to be notified of that [0].

[0] http://realm.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=2aab5198c2f56b...
What libraries/tools did you use to make this game?
If I want to write a web application and I go to the API reference, it's unclear where to start. It should say whether each library is browser-only, server-only, or works in both places. For example, is kotlin.dom a client or server API? How about kotlin.io? It says that kotlin.io writes to System.out which is a server-side concept, so I'd guess it's server-only?

It would also be nice to see examples of how to embed kotlin-based JavaScript in a web page, how to call JavaScript from kotlin, and how to expose a callback function to JavaScript.

A good way to help web developers get started might be to port the examples from the React front page to Kotlin.
There's a reason they're always green accounts.
Minor UX issue: on level up, it scrolls the page back to the top, but on my laptop I have to scroll down just a hair to see the whole board. Very annoying.