skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much for now, I don't think. They haven't improved on the intensity or accuracy of lasers in general, just the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of them. Large scale experimental projects like you mentioned don't generally care about efficiency as much as intensity and accuracy. When fusion becomes mainstream it might matter.
The idea is to have a central place on the web to store user reputation and reviews across many sites. You should be able to have one reputation (Trust Score) for all sites and not have to re-build it for every eBay or AirBnB. Further, a lot of sites like Craigslist or OKCupid don’t even have reputation systems, but could benefit from one.

I consider this a minimal viable product and plan on adding a lot of features, but would like to get some early feedback. Thanks in advance.
My issue with your advice is that I then have to trouble myself with learning Apache or some similar server stack. Last time I worked with Apache, over 10 years ago, it was annoying, to say the least.

What we need is a simple solution. I recommend bottle or flask. Documentation is available. Easy to start. A good community to work with for learners.

Will it scale? To Hell with that. No beginner should have to worry about that. They need to worry about first principles. Then work their way up.
Apps will still need to be modified for the smaller or bigger screens, and I doubt the APIs will be exactly the same either. Plus, this will only apply for new "WinRT apps" and only to Windows 9 devices. So maybe it won't be 4 percent, but it will be 14 percent, at most, like what they have now in "computing devices" as market share.
That's because you are using the tools that you have learned over time and are comfortable with. Someone who has never used make before would find build a makefile non-trivial, with all its implicit rules. Someone who has used Xcode extensively would have no trouble whipping out a simple iPhone app using the tool chain.

Even with Python and the Unix tool chain, you still have to learn new libraries and look up API doc when they come out, unless you plan to keep doing the same old things.

Software career is a process of learning new stuffs from time to time, expanding the comfort zone.
Yet that's basically how it worked for Windows RT, which was 90 percent the size of desktop Windows.
I agree with this, but I also think it's better if you can avoid the weird thing.
So there are several metrics that are not included here. First, what's the standard deviation on that average. How easy is it to be an outlier in this scenario? Second, how strong is the correlation?

More importantly, having a wider face is not a direct advantage. It's an indication of a disposition. This is dissimilar to height of players in basketball where you can in fact be too short to be effective. Because of this I'd argue that while looking at it as an average the findings could be very much valid, looking at an individual fighter will yield very different results. You could find that a thin faced fighter might actually be superior to a wide faced fighter precisely because he is thin faced.
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This is a great point. How many 'full stack' builders do you find ? They obviously exist, but would generally fall under the 'handyman' moniker, which is maybe equivalent to a 'hacker' ?

Unfortunately, the world of software development seems to have been pushed away from specialisation and each person knowing certian topics well, into 'everyone is just a resource - anyone can code' mindset.
http://mean.io is growing rapidly and is becoming the goto platform for frontend developers that have basic angular.js skills.
These developers can write fullstack applications and utilize the growing package library of mean.io.
Read about extending mean.io here - http://blog.mean.io/2014/06/extending-mean-io/ and see some packages in action here -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsTpMnlOw5oa3SXONKtsi9w
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can you pass the salt? http://xkcd.com/974/
As a ruby dev, I haven't noticed any unsurmountable issues (with the exception of mongodb, but I only use that when I'm using node). I documented all of the snags I hit, in case anyone is interested, however by now it's all well documented online.

https://gist.github.com/bendyorke/fd5203aae3b833d4fa2e
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Glad to help. I wouldn't worry about any of this, by the way. If you feel better on this schedule and don't notice any cognitive effects (e.g. forgetfulness of things that happened in the last two weeks or so), then do what works for you. There's some evidence that sleep restriction, which is the term in the literature for what you're doing (as opposed to sleep deprivation), can actually lengthen your lifespan. If you're a mouse, anyway.

But you're at about the limit: the number I recall is 5.5 hours of sleep being the minimum, but there's probably some individual variation there of +/- 0.5h or something.
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Equivalent hardware in the Android universe is the Nexus 5 (plain Android UI), Samsung S5 (using Samsung's UI customization, TouchWiz), HTC One M8 (Sense UI), and Moto X (almost plain Android UI, but not quite).

So a closer parallel would be that 12 core server running Java 1.7 can have its UI skinned by different device manufacturers, and that the UI actually makes a great deal for acceptance of the app in the marketplace.
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It's still not there in Firefox 32, but I read somewhere that a resource manager is planned (including localStorage etc.)
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How is this different from DNSChain?
Something I don't get about the Firefox developer tools is why they make the console logging unavailable if I've defined console as a window level variable, overwritten for the purposes of extending its behavior.

This only happens for the Firefox tools. Firebug, Safari and Chrome web inspector don't care. We do this so we can enable and disable console statements for debugging purposes. We monkey patched console, and because of that I can't use Firefox developer tools at all. It's a shame.
Committing yes, everything else no. The source person managed the servers, branched and merged as necessary, and oversaw the build processes to be sure we had good dev, test, UA, and prod deployments at any given time.

She hated that job, BTW. :)
A single screenshot of the Windows version would've been nice ...
With The International the final prize pool was set fairly close to the actual event, based primarily on 25% of sales related to this last Compendium. That was where the vast majority of the 10.8 million came from (I want to say Valve seeded the first million but I'm not positive).
This might sound crazy, but I'm on the "other side" of this conversation: I'm incredibly passionate about the management side and "shit umbrella" functions of software development. I'm driven by helping make sure developers can do what they love and do best: code! :)
Only when all comments only refer to local information. There is nothing to check that the comment in that other file that refers to this code was correctly updated.

Some system of backrefs could handle this, of course, but I'm not aware of anything in use...
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"code is data and data is code" has a name: homoiconicity.
Is Naval behind this?
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>The point of these complications is that you are able to travel farther and faster on a jumbo jet than on a bicycle and these journeys will take you to many more interesting places

But perhaps really good tools would offer all of that without losing the ease of use of a bicycle.

The problem is that current tools are working at the toolchain equivalent of assembler - or maybe C, for something like git.

Tools that work at the toolchain equivalent of a good functional programming language - never mind a toolchain with useful AI assistance - haven't been built yet.
This is the first attempt I've seen at using a blockchain for DNS. Looks like an amazing solution to an increasingly desperate problem (as DNS takedowns are the preferred method for internet censorship).
Connecting the keyboard, mouse and monitor was only the first part. The second part had to do with the Desktop UX becoming available on the external monitor.

Those peripherals are not as useful with any mobile OS as they would be with full Windows.
The TOR project gets blocked under "Proxy Sites" category, I imagine most VPN providers will be blocked alongside them as well.
> Oh the irony of an analogy... The point of these complications is that you are able to travel farther and faster on a jumbo jet than on a bicycle and these journeys will take you to many more interesting places (once you are set up, that is).

Yes, but his analogy was about how he got into programming because it was enjoyable like riding a bike, and recently the bike-riding process was replaced by airport-processing-and-jet-flying-process, which is not fun at all. He cares more about the travel experience than the destination.

As an aside, this is also often a difference between "business guys" and "tech guys" - on the extreme ends of spectrum, the former care about getting money doing pretty much whatever (be it selling potatoes or building jet engines, whatever sells) while the latter care about doing what they like regardless of "business value".
I think the point is simply that if using the title (which is purely optional) then it is standard to use the first name. So Sir Stewart would be somebody else.
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>As usual, the media has completely derailed the intention of my talk.

Lol. The connotations in his presentation and his retweeting of all the press it got were pretty clear. Seems to me like this guy is looking for his next gig.
"Having fun, yet? We haven't even begun to code."

Whoah, waitaminnit...

At least some of those decisions can be deferred if you like.

You've decided on Git or some other SCM you're more familiar with. OK, fine. Nothing stops you from using it locally and deferring your decision on where to put a shared repo until later. Same goes for ticket tracking, continuous integration, testing, and so on. And if you want, just skip them for now. Heck, if you really want to, you can even defer using an SCM.

Nothing is stopping you from starting your project, building it privately, sideloading it into your personal device, and deferring almost everything else infrastructure-wise until later.

Yes, if you are building for iOS, you need XCode. If you are building for Android, you probably want Eclipse. But that's about it in terms of required infrastructure.

You almost certainly can 'just start coding' if you want to.

In fact, given that it is smart to 'build one to throw away' anyway, starting out by avoiding the initial overhead isn't necessarily a bad idea.
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This sounds a bit like the same sort of customer-experience related hacks that MSFT used to (maybe still does) put in all their software and that caused so many holes in security. Poor attention to security won't just let US government intrusion, it'll also let in other governments and hackers. Seriously, letting a 'trusted computer' enable that data syncing? They're playing with fire. (feel free to let me know if I'm missing anything here)
What makes you say that? Have you ever used Windows 8 for any length of time?

I have it on 2 tablets and one of my workstations and to sum up my experience with it: It's awesome! Nothing else even comes close.

It all starts with the most basic interactions. For instance - there's no other window manager that lets you completely control the OS with just the keyboard and in such a consistent, logical and discoverable way as Windows.
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To be fair the article doesn't just say "avoid unnecessary comments" it actually gives some pretty concrete examples of less than ideal comments and ways in which you can make the need for a comment in that situation unnecessary. The TL:DR; of the article is essentially compile time errors are better than comments for preventing bugs so use the Type system if you can to encode your invariants rather than simply trying to document them in your code. That said, you can't always do that for various reasons so in that case it's perfectly reasonable to put comments in documenting that, but in that case at least try to capture the intent behind the code, not simply rehash the mechanics of how the code is accomplishing that. E.G. "returns a count of how many users have been flagged in the Foo system", instead of "returns user_foo_count".
So, a WiFi-attached device sitting in my bedroom with a high-sensitivity microphone, a proximity detector, and unknown software? I think I'll pass, even though the product seems cool and useful otherwise.

Sure, I've got my cellphone in my bedroom at night and it's got the mic, network connection, and unknown software. But I figure there's a much better chance of someone discovering that Google or Sprint has installed a backdoor into my phone's OS or hardware that's sending recordings illicitly than there is of someone discovering the same thing about a niche product.

If the software was open (such that I could compile and install it myself if I wanted to), and the collected data was open and available to me too, I'd be a lot more inclined to buy this. Those changes would also create the possibility of an add-on developer community that could be constantly providing new software capabilities to the device, which makes it even more compelling as a product. For example, philbarr is asking about a bunch of baby monitor features; those could all be added with software changes, I'd bet.
Like you, I had similar information and I've tried a couple of different paths to figure out what the current state of affairs is. There are some Microsofties reading this, feel free to let me know off line (I'll keep your confidence) whether or not these gains are being translated into bottom line improvements yet.
It's your personal project; no one's forcing you to use version control, a non-standard build system, etc. Many of us spent many years/decades coding without, and personally I never never never want to go back to working that way. It's the standard tradeoff of automation: some extra time up front learning and setting up some workflow tools (download them, write your own scripts, whatever) ends up saving you from an absurd amount of repetitive, error-prone manual activity.
Is the laptop on the front page a hackintosh? Or does the app default to OSX style windows on startup?

Someone bite the bullet and tell me.
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How are Foursquare still going? Most useless app ever.
Viewing some overly crufty sites can benefit from having JS completely off rather than "simply" using an ad-blocker. I'd wager that some tinfoilhats still run with JS off, or at least NoScript almost everything.
the most likely scenario is that the screen is simulated.
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That's because we mostly know just how much time and frustration a good debugging (note: not editing!) toolchain saves. There's a huge difference using IDEA with it's integrated debugger to for example, typing everything out manually in GDB. And here Scala isn't any different - it's noticably easier and takes way less time to debug a complex piece of software since we have good IDEA integration.

And that's what most of people bashing IDE's don't get: it's the ease debugging that's important, not typing code!
I do agree with the author a bit. It's not that all these toolchains are useless (they aren't) -- its just that they should be a far more invisible part of the process than they are. The pinnacle of this frustration was when I used to contract native iOS apps. The sheer amount of crap you have to crawl through to do something nontrivial is ridiculous - and I'm not even talking about getting into the app store.

This is one reason I started to fall in love with javascript. I've been a longtime critic of the language, but I'll be damned if there is not an easier way to build, test, debug, and distribute code.

Growing up, I learned from MS QBASIC - which was an incredibly easy portal into coding. It is a shame no such things are commonly available today.
Ha, good idea. That still seems too good a score. Maybe it should also flag lazy CEO words like harmonize, energizing, innovation, dialogue, synthesize, ubiquitous, ambient intelligence, digitize, maximize, empower, enable, ... etc.

(Unless used for their original meaning, of course.)

Any one is no big deal, but at one per sentence... oof.
Could an alien civilization have completely different mathematics than ours?
So in short: Apple has back doors that they claim aren't really back doors since only Apple apps can use them. If the NSA hasn't been using them already, it is only a matter of time.
I code in Python and JS, but I believe there is more money at mobile these days.
>'A better title for this research would have been "Steroids seem to help people win fights"...I think a more likely explanation is the wider faces correlate to high testosterone...'

Pretty much, the article bears this out even.

'The researchers speculated that one causal mechanism may be higher testosterone levels - certainly past research has shown men with higher basal testosterone have wider faces, as well as greater strength and aggression.'

Though it's surely often misapplied, the terms 'gh/steroid/juice jaw' didn't develop out of thin air.
Try using it as a terse alternative to Yelp, its verbose reviewers, and its shady review collusion.
If it's a backdoor for Apple, then it's a backdoor for anyone who can figure it out (other apps, hackers, government agencies alike).
Is it my imagination, or is this problem fairly JavaScript centric?
I think this is misunderstanding the role of math in science. Math is not used to "prove" scientific results, per se. Math is used to construct models, and prove that certain results would be expected from a given model. That doesn't mean the models work in the real world; all sciences use experiments to test models to see if they describe actual observations.

In this sense, you always need to be careful about replication, regardless of field. If you can't show replication, then there is no guarantee that the model will always match observations, no matter how much math went into the construction of that model.

In Physics the main problem is isolating variables, and setting up appropriate conditions. The good thing about Physics is that once the environment is set up and the experiment is well designed, it is easy to re-run the experiment for more trials. With chemistry and biology, this is usually the case as long as you have clean reagents in a clean lab, but you are introducing more factors of what you have to control as the complexity of your system scales up.

It is hardest to replicate results involving humans, because with humans you have a lot of complexity, so you know you can never control all influencing factors. Usually in the social sciences, it is easier to hope these factors cancel out with a large, non-homogenous sample size. The problem as these experiments like SPE demonstrate is that it is hard to build an ideal sample and, if the ethics or practicality of your methods are questioned, rerun the experiment to replicate results.
I don't think that's necessarily true. I think you can use it to quickly identify passages that may need more work. As with all suggestions, take them with a grain of salt, but so far even with highly edited work, I find it can be useful.
The standard Lucene indexing model will be faster for simple flat documents

SIREn makes sense for any document with 1..* nested relations. The performance boost is proportional to the number of nested objects.

Further, SIREn also is truly schemaless. Which means that the type for a property can be different in different documents. Something that is likely to happen in complex scenarios.

ps : I work for siren.solutions.
I also consider it to mean proper use of something. But figured it was just me ascribing extra meaning.

For instance, (assuming no context is provided) if someone said they utilized a fire extinguisher I would assume they meant to put out a fire. If they said they used a fire extinguisher, I would be wondering what they used it for (to propel an office chair , kill a mouse, cool their beer). Context of course almost always exists.
It's just a screenshot of the Mac app, placed on a placeit stage: https://placeit.net/#!/stages/laptop-restaurant-wooden-table
What I don't understand, is that they say they use the super-data from these 50 Million people to give personal recommendations in the new Foursquare app.

Now I presume they want to broaden the appeal of Foursquare beyond those people that like check-ins, but does that now mean that the check-ins from Swarm continue to power the recommendations in Foursquare? Is it relevant to use the data from early-adopter-types for an app that is meant to have mass appeal?
I know, wouldn't a constellation of nukes in low earth orbit be amazing. It would only take 200 to 300 seconds to deorbit from LEO.
> The problem is that comments visually bloat the code and make it harder to understand.

That's a good reason to avoid breaking up logical blocks of code with comments.

Its not a good reason not to comment.

> Bad code with useless comments is worse than bad code with no comments.

That's a good reason to have code review (which includes review of comments) to ensure that there is neither bad code nor useless (including out of date or misleading) comments.
Kind of glad Apple just confirmed the services are there and ignored him otherwise. I'm sure he has a nice career ahead of him of complaining the cp command in the adb shell on Android isn't hard coded to ignore any path with DCIM (user pictures) in it next and other nonsense. Honestly, he isn't helping anything and he is just making it harder for Apple to fix broken phones and provide better customer service in general.

Wonder what he thinks of amazon MayDay showing your screen to custom support remotely. Users love it since the custom support can now guide you to exactly the right settings and other things, but I think privacy nuts like this will have seizures.
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Right but you could just cover a little bit with your finger or a piece of a sticky note or something. Actually I guess I don't really know how bar codes work, does the whole thing need to be visible to read it?
It works for me, only requesting location.
I've always found Foursquare quite useful from a venue discovery PoV, if not the whole "find where your friends are" angle.

I can think of more than a few apps that are more useless.
Foursquare has been promising this since the beginning, it's why I keep using it and checking in. Hoping this lives up to the promise, since their current recommendations are pretty static.