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This is invented complexity; there is no need to support this in order to satisfy the majority of requirements.

Just because requirements can be made complicated doesn't mean there should be no support for something simple.

The built-in .NET JSON serialise is very limited; and there are third party libraries (even used by MS themselves for ASP.NET) to address that.
Really neat visualization, thanks for sharing! Would have been nice if you could attach the camera to Rosetta or the comet to follow it though its path, but it's still great.
Stacker isin't so much of a "WUPHF" as it is a Central place for you to Publish and Reply across all your Social Media accounts at once.

Typically, if you are a brand that posts to multiple Social accounts, you then need to login to each account before you can Reply/Favorite/Like incoming messages from fans and followers.
The entire planet!
I would /love/ something that made it really easy to take care of my receipts - that is definitely a problem for me.

I'm not sure what to make of this, however. I signed up and decided to test the service by uploading a receipt (which was actually a random image from the BBC News website). This worked fine, but I have /no idea/ where the receipt is now. What I really want is a dashboard where I can see everything I've uploaded. (If you want an example of a company that does this very well, take a look at Inoviceable).

I agree with some of the security issues that have been raised already. I don't like having e-mails sent to me with plain text passwords - what if I am on the train and someone reads the password over my shoulder? What if this password is exactly the same password that I use for everything?

Secondly, don't forget that receipts will (potentially) contain a lot of sensitive financial information, e.g. your card number. I imagine you could phone up a bank and convince them it was you by talking about some of your purchases - which you could do if you had access to a load of receipts.

TL;DR: It's definitely a problem I'm looking to solve, but I worry about the UX/security of your solution.
They talked about how small and light their charger is. If I were an owner, I'd care less about that and more about getting more charge in less time.
SOME developers in SOME places. Plus, there are a mountain of various things that are "very cheap, relatively" that are all competing for budget.
I agree that Skype is becoming more and more a pain to use but it's hard to leave Skype. Family members who are not tech savvy know Skype, it would be hard switching them to an alternative. Sometimes it's better to put up with something to get the reward.
When that happens for me in Ansible I just drop into Python and write a custom module. They're pretty straightforward.
Thanks! Yeah I have made the basic version for Android. Still a lot to experiment with on iOS though :)
https://twitter.com/esaoperations and https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta seem quite up to date.
Does this not sound like a rather complicated thing for the individual developers to do when 99% of Dart web apps will need to do this?
There is an awesome community here! I am a part of the non-profit Techlahoma Foundation ( http://techlahoma.org/ ), and we support local user groups and community meetings in general in the state. We maintain a list of them here: http://us.techlahoma.org/groups

We also maintain a meeting announcement mailing list for OKC.js (our largest group, 50-60+ people each meeting) here: http://okcjs.com/ (click on "Sign Up!" in the navbar).
People still often directly vocalize their sexism as such. Stating things like 'Its a good idea for a woman'. They probably don't often do it to the person who they are offending face but I have heard it about others and forwarded onto them in the past.

When people you trust inform you that the someone dismissed you for being a woman, then you can know pretty safely. You can keep defending your stance, although at this point I am dismissing you as a probable troll.
If you ever have had a LPG car, you are already used to that kind of things.

I owned one in the past and crossed the border between 3 countries everyday (Europe ...) - so I had 2 different adapters in the car always.
You're right with regards to the claim that South Korea and China have lower labor costs. You're not right with regards to Japan.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ichcc.pdf

If you have better data, I'm happy to take a look at them, but in my limited association with high-tech Japanese manufacturing this was basically the canonical example of "Ridiculously untrue things the Americans believe about us."
Proposed solution to Navier–Stokes equations, used to model fluids, is wrong
Many products are > 1m LoC. I never said those 1m LoC are in one file (or even one repository).
Well I love SqlAlchemy, and DBIx::Class

I also like true RDBMS.

The most important feature of RdbMs is the Relationships for me and the «on delete/on update» combined with FKI and constraint. It makes possible to have complex in relationship that are consistent and that can be added/removed without destroying the consistency of the state in the DB. And most ORM only people I know overlook this part, which is a must for transactionality. Your data stay consistent other time.

Also, people tend to think querying with ORM are cool. They often query DB as random access record. However for me complex query are more like intersection, symmetric difference, union of records based on their joins. And SQL is so good at it.

ORM can have hook on transactions, making it possible to call a webservice on commit and rollback.

ORM can have mixins to help with having password handled carefully.

So, what is wrong at my opinion, is neither SQL nor ORM but the idea that only one is enough to learn.
The XOR scheme is perfectly good enough

...until someone finds a way to exploit it, as has happened with CD's "weak sector" copy protection schemes. It's only a matter of when it will happen, not if.
I've been happy with my Bluetooth toaster, as long as I don't microwave something at the same time. ;-)
"anti-MS sentiment"

do you mean "ethics"?
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Hah, now the hotel's management is claiming to news sites that it's policy was a "joke" and that they have removed their policy.

What a blatant lie, they deserve to go out of business.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101891812

Does that mean that in court everything in their contract should be considered a joke?
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And the type who has no clue what predominately white Americans spend on predominately black Africans to help them fight AIDS. It's 2014. You can drop the race baiting and nationalism.

http://www.avert.org/funding-hiv-and-aids.htm
I agree that Bayesian techniques can be costly. The argument I'm making is that Machine Learning techniques are best understood as approximations to Bayesian methods. Not for some math reason but for some epistemological reason.

You like SVM? Fine, then why do large margins matter at all? "Intuition" ?
The algorithm is called "Jump". A quick search on GitHub revealed three projects that implement it and they are all written in Go: https://github.com/benbjohnson/jmphash
Thanks so much for the kind words!

We dont have a native desktop client at the moment, its a fully responsive Web-app so you can run it in any modern web browser.

We do have a Plugin for Chrome that makes it easy to Share from any web page - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stacker/bgckommphf...
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I'm kind of interested why you considered Dart in the first place.

Google has such a poor track record in language design, that when I was looking for a compile-to-JavaScript language I didn't even consider Dart.
What about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Navy ?
Always been a huge fan of maplesyrupguy.
they did a very transparent post on the production gottcha a few months ago. https://muut.com/blog/news/april-2014-service-failure.html
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In my experience, in most cases I've encountered, the serialization/deserialization schema does need a few simple tweaks, mostly because JSON is a format used for interoperability (and you can't necessarily force the same conventions everywhere) and for APIs that change over time. And it's useful to be able to make minor tweaks to those conventions - otherwise you've got to chose between something super easy (based on reflection) or something that interprets a map and that ends up looking like vomit copy pasted from the Internet.

I'm against super complex things, but things going into a standard library should be general enough for 80% of the use-cases in the wild (and no, I don't agree with you here), otherwise it's very hard to make changes in the standard library later, therefore instead of pushing for something half-baked, I would rather wait for third-parties to build such a library.

Scala for example has a shitty JSON parser in the standard library that nowadays nobody uses because it is limited and because third-party libraries are better. I suspect, from what you're telling me, that C#'s standard parser is in the same league.
Woohoo! Love this attitude. I just purchased the Zen gift set to keep on my desk at work.
To be fair, the ultra wealthy were already safe. It's pretty easy to avoid sick people (particularly sick people spewing blood) when you can just hang out on your island or on a large estate.
Including the spout for diesel being larger than petrol to stop you putting diesel in a petrol car.
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Location: North-east UK

What I do: Backend engineer / Sysadmin.

Do you need a backend service to talk to your flashy new web / mobile app?
Does your current build and deployment system give you nightmares about the only dev you have who understands it falling under a bus?
Need a proof-of-concept for your latest, hard-to-pigeonhole idea?

I do have experience of the full stack (including AngularJS and Coffeescript; see below) but am looking for work primarily involving the back end of the stack, or server admin / reliability / scaling. In previous lives I've run large-scale Debian installations doing devops before it had a name, and been responsible for servers in Antarctica.

Recent work:

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Buzzwords: Debian, Chef, AWS, Heroku, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Perl, Common Lisp, Ruby, Arduino / AVR, Shell

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Got something you think is a good fit?
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I like how the author has a demo module / "put his money where his mouth is". I'll read this at home. Thanks for posting.
You select the area you'll be playing with at the embark, so yes, the whole planet's surface is generated. But I apart from the surface layer, I doubt that this simulation takes planet core into account, for example: in the game world's it would be filled with SPOILER anyway.
I agree; I am just getting into machine learning currently, and chapter 2 of this book is what made back propagation "click" for me.
I tried to use protobuffers, to find the protobuffer library doesn't work on Windows.
I'm curious who foot the bill for all this.

These people were "missionaries" - does that mean they were over there proselytizing? Did they have any right to be there?
It would be very useful to add a slider for age range, even if bracketed.

Someone who's middle-aged won't really get much use from seeing someone who is in their early twenties, even if the weight ranges are similar.
Yes, I know that is missing some tutorials but you can see some videos in the meantime: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc4XeQMV4vdLCVQ5Z7jXkAQ or the community: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/10543793251523246971...

The popup for password shows up when you are not registered and you attack another player. You can attack not owned planets while you are not registered.

What do you think about it so far?
That's more than 70km outside of town, to the east:-) Get closer and you get mountains.
An underrated feature in Python 3
Enjoy your next Bag of Doritos with caution
All toasters are equal, but some toasters are more equal than others:

http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Talkie_Toaster
congrats ! do you plan to include subtitles from another languages ?
we used Tokumx for http://blog.maxcdn.com/learned-stop-worrying-love-logs/ and the write performance vs mongo was incredible. I think the cluster is doing ~250,000 writes per second across six boxes with SSD space being the bottleneck. I'm really curious to spin up AerospikeDB. There's no Tokumx comparison I could find and they talk about very high reads. Curious to see write heeavy applications.
That is super cool! Bookmarked!
Actually, I could support a policy that said:

When we have an experimental treatment for
which there are not enough doses for all
victims, medical personnel go to the front
of the line.

I could also support a policy that said:

When we have an experimental treatment which
has not been proven safe in humans, it may
only be given to those who have given
informed consent.

But what if someone told you that our actual policy is this:

When we have an experimental treatment it
is made available only to Americans and
Europeans, never Africans.

I could never support a policy like that. I would consider it deeply unethical. And if that is the policy being implemented, then there is something deeply wrong.

You are criticizing floody-berry's post, saying things like "there is no please [sic] your type". But in fact, floody-berry is providing actual evidence (albeit circumstantial) that the actual practice implements that third possibility. And if that is true, then I want to know about it -- because I want to change the behavior of my country.
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I faced this prompt too, when I launched Skype just 2 minutes before a critical phone call. The caller at the other end was kind enough to wait for the download to complete.
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I wish every post/tool out there on scraping covered obeying robots.txt. It's a crap standard, but it's what we've got.

"Just ignore it" is a great way to identify yourself as a crappy netizen.
Does anyone know why a toaster icon was picked above other place-holder icons? My educated guess would be paying homage to the old flying toasters screensaver.
DGL is great, but also not "hacker friendly"
>Strongly typed lanaguages are even cooler here ...

No expereince with Slick in particular; but I've been using jOOq[1] which I believe is similar.

To be honest I'm not entirely sold that these DSLs are what I'd consider "strongly typed." I can get jOOq to pretty easily yield queries that won't work if I switch out database dialects. (Ignoring, for a moment, that jOOq will let you embed SQL fragments as strings.)

As an example: jOOq will happily let you write an update query targeting a table bound to an alias. This type checks just fine. In fact this query will even work in Postgres; but it yields a syntax error from the database if you target SQL Server 2008 instead.

Then there's the issue of the dialects letting you use features the RDBMS doesn't support. For example you can build a merge statement regardless of which dialect is selected. If you were to select the Postgres dialect you'll get an "unsupported exception" at runtime.

If a method is RDBMS specific (in practice) then why is it part of the generic API?

---

My biggest beef with all these SQL abstraction layers is that many of them claim to be "write once, run anywhere." In practice I've just never seen that to be true.

I wish they would incorporate some sort of "capabilities" system that could run at compile time. Just imagine: when you swap in the Postgres driver your IDE throws a little red squiggle under the `.merge()` call, "method not found."

[1]: http://www.jooq.org/
That's Wired editing. They wanted a BMW vs Tesla ( see "Range-Handicapped i3", "Epic Road Trip" ) while in reality, BMW just came up with a small charger to improve the current non-Tesla grid.

The rest of the article is more factual. Except for Tesla, most electric car are meant for city use, small range. In Europe it is quite common to live in a flat with no charging facility at night, so there is needs for a proximity type network. ( For example, I spend 90% of my time in London with the car on the street, buying a Tesla is not possible first because it is a huge car, secondly because I would need to take a trip to the one station 20 min from home on a regular basis )
Apparently USB 3.1 -- called SuperSPEED+ (not to be confused with "Full Speed" (USB 1), "Hi-Speed" (USB 2) or "SuperSpeed" (without +, USB 3.0) supports up to 100 W.

A toaster takes 800-1500 W. But you could get a USB-compatible incandescent light bulb.

Perhaps in 2030, the European Union will require all wall sockets to be USB 7.0 compatible. As you plug in your vacuum it will not only receive 2000 W of power but will be able to share contents of the dust compartment with your friends via the Internet of Things. Lost an earring? Your friend's vacuum can now tweet you about it.
Great, just another question, will you expand to other social media platforms any soon?

Just a thought, your user base will likely consist marketers, promoters, social media businesses and people who actively use more than 2 social networks. Your pricing model is good, but if the service is as good as you say its then you may want to price "business" model a little higher.

I guess whats important is to gain an active user base first and then decide to slightly change the pricing model later on.
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Does these antibodies actually train the recipients immune system to produce more of them? Why or why not?

Why can't we pursue a similar technology to treat the common cold, or MRSA for that matter?
Could it be that the superuser.com OP changed the icon?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff5... mentions a toaster made by "Fabrikam, Inc.", a fictional Microsoft company.
Could it also be a Microsoft easter egg?
Just out of curiosity, what is Google's track record in language design? I don't remember any languages coming from them besides Go and Dart.
I just looked them up, the climates look pretty dismal? 9 month winters basically?
I think this is a prime example of how pay scales recruiting policies are very difficult to apply across a multi million person organization. If you change the rules for cyber positions, you must consider changing them for all positions. Rank and pay scales are the same across any GS position and across military ranks at this point - perhaps we should think about paying those with key skills more money, but that argument is extremely tough to implement and get legislated.

Result: "Forget it, let's just hire some contractors."
peaking too early.. :P
And that the ones who refuse to listen to basic instructions will be less safe
For fed and contractors, another day, another database
I have also used MyBatis in few projects and recommend it for applications that are database centric. I would use ORM only if the requirements call for object persistence and be DB/SQL agnostic.
I'm betting the Mapp Pharma, pharmaceutical company, paid for everything. After all, this represents an incredible opportunity for them to test their drug.
Most ATM cards from a bank (US) will charge you if you use some other bank's ATM. You frequently get a fee on both sides.

Their words are crafted carefully. They are a financial service provider. They are looking to rob you / stay in business just like most other financial service providers and will use most all the same tricks to ensure they stay in business / don't leave money on the table (in your pocket).

Bitcoin moves the ball to keep people attached. Bitcoin keeps getting more similar to fiat - except for the benefits of fiat all the time. This doesn't end well. Invest in Magic the Gathering cards now - to the moon!
Guess how many databases the General Services Administration is juggling to keep tabs on federal contractor compliance?
Italian films from the 70's used to overdub all the vocals, and of course it wasn't exactly in sync so it looked terrible.
As a pro photographer, this could very useful. Is it possible to post to my business page on FB and not my personal page? They have the same sign in, and I simply switch back and forth from the FB menu. I have never found a social media manager that can handle this.
Yikes. That link crashes Iceweasel (Debian Jessie) for me.
Though there's something weird, it's definitely a good work.
> Gosh, all the crazies crawl our of the woodwork now...

Please stop with the name-calling. We at Hacker News should be better than that.

> Look, unless you have some actual proof, speculating that because they were white, that's why they got it is just conspiracy theory wackiness.

No, it is speculation, but it is not "conspiracy theory wackiness". An extremely plausible theory is that these two received the drug while others did not because they were American. Your own posting suggests that. floody-berry posted three links to other health care professionals who happen to be African, who had died in this outbreak.

> As others have pointed out, one of the victims was a doctor, the other some type of nursing staff, who flew over to Africa from the US, of their own volition, to help look after Ebola victims. Have you done something like that recently?
>
> If I was risking my life every day, to try to help Ebola victims, I'd want to think that I'd at least be covered.

Indeed. So what about Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan? He was lauded by news services and governments around the world for the enormous difference he had made in the treatment of Ebola in Sierra Leone. I would want someone like him to be covered too.

But he wasn't. Why not? Is it, as you suggest, because the company decided "perhaps for legal or whatever reasons" (your words) that they should only provide the experimental drug for Americans? Because if so, I think that is TERRIBLE -- and I think that the laws (or "whatever reasons") should be changed. Because it is unethical to say that only American lives are important enough to save with an experimental treatment.
There's also Wasteland 2, which as I understand is damn near close to release.

Further out is Elite Dangerous, and even further, Star Citizen.
I wrote a blog post some time ago:

http://blog.dantup.com/2014/05/web-development-sucks-and-its...

And while responding to comments, I read a little more about Dart and it started to look quite appealing. I spend too much of my day maintaining and debugging legacy JavaScript written years ago in sub-optimal ways.
So? I realize you're not saying anything negative, but let's remember that she was there in the middle of a terrifying epidemic, helping people.

I'm not particularly religious, nor am I a Christian, but I don't feel the outrage that so many others do online about missionaries. To the contrary, I have a deep appreciation for anyone helping people in the midst of medical emergencies, regardless of motivation.

Now, do I think that American Missionaries, or any ex-pats, should have priority medical care over others, particularly local medical staff? That's the real issue here. What were the criteria for finding patients?
I look forward to the day all your receipts will go directly to an email address associated with your credit card (or to a database on your credit card website) rather than needing to play the paper receipt game for returns/taxes, etc.