skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a reason why anybody who works in a job in which he faces the laws of nature, will prefer a very precise vocabulary and will shy away from using words that could not possibly have an unambiguous meaning. It is exactly the opposite of what for example advertisers, politicians or business people do. They want to keep everything as ambiguous as possible. They do this because in their jobs they do not face the laws of nature but other people. So, it is way less of a problem for them than for an engineer. The bridge will simply collapse if the computations are ambiguous.
No, they're not really. We're building Smart IR Remote (universal remote android app) and AnyMote (hardware, now on kickstarter), and we applied on IFTTT's link over a month ago, without any reply. Didn't even get back to us.
Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific Endeavor
Yes, the system works in a way similar to the Jeopardy Watson. It collects evidences, and weighs them based on their date and possibly source quality. So new results will displace older results at some point.
Yeah, at the cost of huge delay to do the calculations on a mobile CPU.

This bypasses that.
Derived from http://simpsonsscreenshots.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mo..., I'm guessing!
> Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan this month urged the government to directly transfer cash to the poor instead of offering them public services

That sounds like a terrible idea. This opens up the door for further extortion, corruption and exploitation of the masses. Say the government hands out $15 per child for education, there way to prevent debt collectors to harass the poor into paying that money to them. Plus, the extorter knows he can collect at least $15 per child!

I think offering a service instead of "free money" is much more valuable.
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http://telesc.pe - it's great.
Most cars show the current miles per gallon. This naturally dips to a very poor amount when you accelerate quickly.

Instead they should show the rate money is being spent based on the current price per gallon. It would be a better incentive to have a light foot when driving. Going with the flow is going to be the most efficient use of gas, so naturally it will avoid jams.
The NRK article is the more interesting read with lots of in-depth technical info http://nrkbeta.no/2014/08/13/nrk-breaks-new-ground-to-show-c...

Looks like they generated the real-time TV graphics with HTML5, and then reused that same HTML5 for their webpage. The Arduinos were used to automatically control video switchers in sync.
Bullshit!

No it doesn't! Putin used a word Novorossiya. It is a proposed name of separatists' controlled territory. Not a "new Russia".
Sure, but COBOL is also a huge maintenance cost compared to something written in, say, java, which has no end of somewhat versed developers.
Somewhat unrelated: My least favorite part of Sublime is the logo, so I made a new version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7zys0368ddwui8c/st_logo_redesign.p...
You don't need tractor beams, you just need blowdryers the size of Texas. Hence, it's a power problem.
It is modernity. For example, 1/3 of Americans are in debt (and have negative money) but I would call them wealthier and better off then the poor in India who have a few rupees in their wallets.
gyroLens did a similar thing (2010) but they never extended it to shooting video.

http://hunter.pairsite.com/mobile/gyrolens/help/index.html
This is what people tend to assume, but it based more on emotion than reason. Conditional cash transfers have been very successful in places like Brazil. There a few good articles about it in the Economist. Here's one: http://www.economist.com/node/16693323
A very generic question, so I'll put out a very generic answer.

"Business" is about making stuff people want. Business folks work with each other -- many times under low levels of trust and high levels of risk -- to make something people want.

"Programmers" already know what they're doing: programming. Therefore programmers really don't care so much about what people want. Somebody is paying them, so they program. They work inside a tight domain and usually with a small number of people that they get to know over a long-ish period of time.

These are two vastly different universes. Business folks are always using business skills to interact with coders: negotiation, price commitment, conflict facilitation, and so forth. They don't care what whiz-bang you are using to do the job. They just want the value.

Programmers are always applying programming skills to non-programming domains. Why doesn't the business know exactly what it wants? Why do they keep hassling us with providing estimates? How can people who are so clueless about things actually be running the marketing department? Why do they keep pushing for unrealistic schedules? And so on.

Very early on, organizations start stove-piping jobs. Bill is a CPA. He should only do accounting stuff. Joe is really good with people. We're just going to have him do pre-sales. Amit is a database guru. We'll have him do all the DBA work. We need to have some defined roles around here! Where's my job description?

This seems to make sense, but over and over again, this logical separation of concerns comes back to bite. After a year or so of doing just the "DBA work", whatever that is. He starts viewing things not involving database administration as a waste of time.

You keep that up over many years, and allow the company to grow? You've got a bunch of folks who all like the folks they interact with and see everyday, but are deeply suspicious and completely clueless about everybody else. Not a good thing.
This is interesting, but I am not sure that I would have done it with multiple repos. Why not build a single repo with a convention for adding/updating works. As it sits right now, there are 2100+ pages of repos. It also means that in order for me to contribute to more than one of these, I'll need to pollute my own account with multiple forked repos.
Harvard's Loeb Classical Library Goes Digital
What Makes the Internet Possible (Intercontinental Cable Map 2014)
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http://taylordavidson.com/ has a pretty good one, lots of personal opinion, not so much linkrolling
Please fix the Aspect Ratio for the screenshots.
Yes, the fact that they're doing nothing bad to their customers today is an evil conspiracy to hide the fact that they want to do something bad to their customers. Makes sense.

> It's all about data collection to spew more adverts at people.

The way they do this is the single most ethical way of doing advertisements. Non-intrusive and trying to predict what you actually need. They're pursuing the ultimate goal of good advertising, i.e. connecting your needs to the best way to satisfy them, but hell, they're evil.

We can discuss side effects and externalities of their data collection, but that's a completely different thing than assuming malice.
Google Chrome for Mac Will Finally Go 64-Bit
Entropy = disorder/randomness.
Riak based NHS's Spine infrastructure transition successful
iRules are a horror that should've been killed at birth.
I have read before that drinking coffee before a short nap is a good combination. It's nice to read that someone has actually tested it. I can't always do it at work but I have used this method at home and it works well. One other suggestion I follow is that I don't take short naps lying down. That encourages my body to go into a longer, deeper sleep. I nap sitting in a comfy chair, in a quiet, dim room if possible. It's very refreshing; I'm more alert and productive for the rest of the day.
So far as I know, it doesn't. What makes you think it does (or makes you think someone else thinks it does)?
Sorry for the late response - i'm across the Atlantic.

I wonder, with the API , would it be possible for a startup to build such "second opinion service" , with reasonable costs ? will you block it?
This solved it, thank you!
Or don't - it's incredibly badly written, in the sense that it often descends into grammatical gibberish, even without worrying about the physics the gibberish is trying to describe.
Yeah, that's something I hadn't considered, now more obviously I'm not a lawyer or I wouldn't have begun by assuming that all parties are acting in good faith ^_^

Publishing some documents or code before you had worked there would have been a good first step. Paying careful attention to any open source licenses that were published along with any code that your company might have put out that you want to reuse, from while you worked there, an important second step. Remember that just because it's public, doesn't mean it's open or free. Maybe they have a claim to what you want, and you are more talented than all their engineers: this is an off-the-wall idea, but you might consider licensing some of their IP as an olive branch. I know you said you don't have much money, but you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. You haven't really said why you want to leave, other than "assholes in legal won't return my calls."

And going back to what you said tptacek, just because it doesn't exist yet, or it's actually yours, doesn't mean a lawyer can't get his grubby mitts on it anyway.

If you haven't thrown in the towel already, maybe there is still a chance you can negotiate for what you want. I'm sure it's not only that countersigned non-disclosure document. Good luck!
I prefer to code and have avoided management. I explain it to people as "I would rather drive the race car than manage the race team."
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From another perspective, one repo should allow you to gain more traction as all stars/forks/pull requests/commits will be aggregated on it, and thus produce higher visibility on GitHub (and probably anything that scans github stats).

Additionally, using a single repo would allow me to fork and specify my own styles that I want applied to any work I "compile", and these might be hyper-specific.

I'm actually willing to help consolidate these repos if you're willing to go in this direction. I'd also like to hear reasoning for multiple repos if there's something I'm missing.
Some technical info may be found in this PDF

http://systems.hscic.gov.uk/spine/future/workshop.pdf
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Which findings of Kurt Godel? Care to explain? Because for example this seems like it has nothing to do with the incompleteness theorems unless one doesn't understand the incompleteness theorems at all and is just hand-waving.
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I studied physics at the University of Maryland, one of the better (top 20) physics programs in the US. I was surprised at how often questions were answered with "that's for the philosophers to think about."

Granted, there's a lot of material to cover, I don't think that's an appropriate response–especially when delivered with contempt, as it typically was.
Not disagreeing with your other points, but these days there is a Windows binary (https://atom.io/faq), too. On Linux you can build from source.
'Real science' - thanks for that. ;-)

I think the issue I'm trying to get at - I suspect there is less value in null proving a lot of social science hypotheses - the impacts are smaller than physical constants of the universe (or finding say, that the Higgs Boson didn't exist) - if I prove, because my empirical work says so, that discourse can be meaningfully (for a given value of meaningful...) analysed in a new way, that's great, and will advance some other work. But proving (even repeatedly) that it can't be won't really change anything, imo.

I guess though, the main issue is: I'm sure as hell not going to get published saying it, which ties back nicely to the point made in Nature, really.
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Building http://treble.io, a community management tool for twitter. Finally taking beta testers!
I wonder how it performs when there is power failure? Does it glide well?
In addition to javascript cookies help as well. Many don't handle cookies.
But the whole point of the multi verse model is that universe also exists.
Multi verse theory afaik is just a mathematical construct of the various dimensions we can observe in a space time framework.

The whole
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Idea.
I'd agree with Stewbrew. SocSci is PACKED with people trying to jam new theory into already crammed areas, because it's the only way they'll get on; although I agree that the studies and experiments are based on sometimes fleeting assumptions or hypotheses, it isn't because of a lack of theory.
It happens when you're competing. Suppose you're trying to find some buried treasure that you know at the end of one of the roads. But another tribe is trying to kill you, and will be waiting at the end of one of the roads. In that case your best strategy (and theirs) is to make the choice of which road to take probabilistically.
Maybe asking what things REALLY are has no meaning. Do objects have characteristics apart from what we can (physically) interact with and measure ? If thoses characteristics exist but aren't measurable can we say they are real ? Does it make any sense ?

I often use this line of thought to talk about God with open-minded believers. If there is a God that created our reality and acts on it, then the effects of these actions are real in our sense and thus measurable. It then follows that God isn't separate from the natural world and can be observed like many other natural phenomena we don't look at directly. Without a chain of interactions this wouldn't be possible.

What I mean is our reality is one of interactions. What is real to us, and what can be called "existing" is what interacts directly or indirectly with our senses and our minds. What we mean by "nature" on a large scale is ultimately internal structure. Once we hit a level where internal structure doesn't make sense anymore, I'm not sure what we are looking at and what the word "nature" can be made to encompass.
> The do no evil line is bullshit. This is not a benevolent company by any standard.

From the linked Slashdot article - Google patented Loon-related technology, describing it "as just the ticket for those well-to-do enough to pay a tiered-pricing premium to get faster internet access while attending concerts, conferences, air shows, music festivals, and sporting events where a facility's overtaxed Wi-Fi simply won't do."

Picking on this is like saying that Elon Musk is an evil liar, because if he really cared about good of humanity and electric transport for the masses he surely wouldn't start with an superexpensive car for ultra rich, and then move to expensive car for moderatly-rich. Obviously, the whole argument about "Roadster bankrolling Model S bankrolling $35k Sedan" is just a bunch of lies trying to hide how evil he is.

That's basically what I'm reading from your argument.

You know, altruism involves money, and quite often the best way to do something good is to make it profitable.

> Look the bottom line here is these guys betrayed us. They are traitors, and we need to cut them out of our future.

If so, then long, long before Google you need to get rid of GoDaddy, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, BMW, General Motors, General Electric, Coca Cola, Nestle, Walmart, every other mom and pop store and pretty much 90% of other companies who betrayed us in many more ways, heavily documented and not alleged. Seriously, saying that Google Is Bad is nothing but a signalling game around here.
points for faux outrage.
Some philosophy consists of the exploration of formal systems, and some of it consists of expressing opinions in a weird parody of the above. (Go read Socrates's arguments* and find all the logical flaws and fallacies that his conversants conveniently ignore. We may like some of his opinions, but to believe they're derived with rigor is laughable.) The problem with physicists getting into philosophy is that they're generally only doing the second, less useful thing.

* Of course it's just Plato relating what he says are Socrates's arguments, so there's that too.
Well, now that's an entirely different question. "Would Android have worked without google apps?" versus "Can a stripped version of Android compete with an entrenched Google Apps version of Android." Big difference. Either way, the lack of access to Google Play apps hurts Amazon Fire a lot more than lack of bundling with any previous Google services.
Wovenware Awarded Best Citizen Experience at Tech Summit
I posted these once before and seems like nobody noticed at the time:

Fred Nachbaur of the internet, one of his interesting projects:

announced on rec.audio.tubes:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.audio.tubes/swgQ...
(his early links are long dead)

Here starts one preamp discussion:

http://www.ampage.org/homebrew.cgi?cat=sg&sb=&so=hl&page=989...

If you like, then here is the rest of that story:

http://www.dogstar.dantimax.dk

And don't forget this:

http://www.dogstarmusic.ca

With lost artists go lost arts.
I didn't know that there are no infinite sequences that have a distinct start. Somebody should inform those pesky natural numbers.
"The difference between Camera.shoot() and Gun.shoot() can be important, and when you want to upgrade a library you need to know what you're implementing."

If I went looking, and if the archives are still there, I could probably find posts from myself on comp.lang.python complaining about "duck typing" for just that reason.

I was wrong. In the 10-12 years since I posted that, I've been programming in nothing but "duck-typed" languages, and I have never once encountered that problem. Not once. Not even a little. Not even close.

When theory conflicts with reality, I unapologetically side with reality.

HN and the internet being what it is, I'm sure someone can pop up here with some horror story about when it happened to them, but I would contend that it's still something so unusual as to not be worth planning for. Maybe just a twinge in the gut if you really did declare an interface with just a Shoot of no parameters and no return value, but... if nothing else, in the Go world, the odds of you having a Camera.Shoot() and a Gun.Shoot() method are low anyhow, and the odds of them conflicting even lower. First you have to declare an interface that both of them fully implement. If you have a .Reload method on your gun, but not your camera, you can't accidentally cross them. If you have a .Reload method on both, but the Gun takes an Ammunition argument and the Camera takes a Film argument, they can't cross. And from a pure software-engineering perspective, you have to a have a program in which you are using the same exact word for two completely different concepts, which can happen, but is bad practice and still takes some work.

Honestly, worry about it when it happens and not before.

"If you're using an injection framework in Go,"

I see no utility in using an injection framework in Go. You just inject things. People keep creating injection frameworks with ideas ported from Java and posting them on /r/golang, but they don't go anywhere because they have nowhere near enough utility to become self-sustaining. There's a pattern more useful than an injection framework that I often use: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2929 (For the purposes of this conversation, I highlight the part of that post that comes after "But Go does have two attributes that make it easier than many other imperative languages.")

Go has a much lower paperwork load than Java. Superficially, on paper, they seem like very similar languages. In practice, I find using Go to be only slightly more painful than Perl or Python, with the pain generally paying me back on the order of single-digit days anyhow (when I start doing aggressive unit-testing-backed refactorings that are unsafe in scripting languages). It isn't anywhere near as paperwork-ridden as Java.

(That's probably why I've come to grips with the lack of generics. Yes, it causes me pain, but it comes up less than you think, and in general the rest of the language is still pretty slick. It's not like it's as complicated and paperwork-ridden as Java, and then they took away generics.)
German minister calls for anti-stress law ban on emails out of office hours
In the comments, he says Google is not longer even processing the authorship data.
For me it was refinement. I was always an easy sleeper (> 3min i could be a sleep). But when stress piled on, it made my mind more of a clutter. So I started picturing a black background and drawing a number 1. But i had to draw the most perfect 1 I could visualize. Serifs, font what ever you want, just perfect. I would time it to my breathing. So 1 would be done in one breath (inhale and exhale). Then 2, then 3 etc.

The catch? if i had stray thoughts, i would have to start back at 1. I never get that far (101). But i always managed to clear my mind and fall asleep.

After reading about other people's techniques, it seems i stumbled on things like breathing and visualization.
Y Combinator – Incubated
So far as this is concerned peer review may be part of the problem, not the solution.
Hacking the Bottom Line
What if we live in a universe/reality where anything that can happen, does happen. And the reason for this state is because it just is.
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Haha oh I can.
So do you also make the argument that a river is and evil Capitalist because it deprives a drowning man of oxygen? A salt plain has power over a dying mammal that can't find food. Is that also evil Capitalism? No. Capitalism is about best dealing with the fact that the universe owes us absolutely nothing and that the only consolation for that is freedom, voluntary association and opportunity. You can't diminish all forms of 'power' because it's within nature itself.
I have been waiting for a mailbox-killer for quite some time :)

Some companies that have tried include:

BufferBox (YCombinator backed, bought by Google)

business.financialpost.com/2012/11/30/google-snaps-up-waterloo-startup-bufferbox/

SwapBox

https://www.swapbox.com/

DHL and others have similar services:

http://images.computerwoche.de/images/computerwoche/bdb/1841...
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When you're playing the game of "make a single-service product, get millions of investment dollars, sell it to Facebook or Google for billions at 1000x revenue premium while still not profitable and cash out," don't be surprised that the people on the other side of the table with the actual money are playing the same high-risk long-shot maximize-output game you are. They just hold all the cards.

There's no altruism in this game.

Edit: autocorrect
"Meetups, conferences, whitepapers/articles/books, and the occasional class (either online or in person)." -> those are all good, but none of those are what's technically known as deliberate practice.
That rather depends on how competent those "no end of developers" are. From my experience of Perl+Ruby developers, I'd be amazed if even 1% of Java developers were good enough to migrate an existing system without catastrophic results. And those 1% are a) hard to find, b) very expensive and c) likely already tied up and hoarded like gold-egg laying geese.
There's http://turbolua.org/ that's inspired by Tornado.
Most nightbus experiences start off feeling like fun (yey everyone is in party mood!), become somewhat riddle with a threat of general menace (think A Clockwork Orange) and end up, if you are going far enough, being suicidally depressing because you've sobered up. If you end up falling asleep you will end up in essex, alone and abandoned