skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why didn't mesh networks flourish?

Because people want speed. Now that they have been accustomed to what global connections can give, they will not withstand the 1k hops of network between them and Google and the associated seconds latency for each packet.
Harvesting Facebook Posts with Python: Part 1
The quote in the article simply said that you can talk about code for an hour and people still think you are a recruiter. Most people take that to mean that people don't think you currently work as a programmer or more specifically, don't think you currently write code as your primary job function. Yes I agree, if someone talks for an hour about those technical topics, I'd assume they have experience as a programmer. However, I may still assume you are not currently working as a programmer and things I would use to make that assumption have nothing to do with gender.

You appear to be upset when people point out that there may be some non-gender reasons for assuming you are working in a role other than writing code. Please keep in mind that from the article there is very little information about the particulars of the talk in question. However, anyone who tries to fill in the gaps by looking at your lists of topics for recent talks, your website, etc., is going to assume you don't current write much code and that most of your work is done in the technical aspects of the interview process.

If I talk to someone who used to be a programmer but not is obviously working in an HR recruiting role, I will probably consider them to be a recruiter. This isn't an insult...it is just the way we categorize people by what they do currently.
> It might have minor scratches but that's it.

And chances are that's just the glass face, which takes minutes (and a few bucks) to replace.
That's unfortunate, but doesn't surprise me all that much. Not because I think/thought of Larabel as likely to do something like that, but because I believe it's all too easy for organizations that are a single individual or organizations where a disproportionate amount of operation and decision making is really a single individual to make calls based on time and ability, and then fall back to defending that decision ever more vehemently long past the point where it should have been reassessed. Honest trusted feedback is priceless.
Will a chip and sig work in Europe? That's probably my biggest issue is traveling and not having a chip.
Other than "both devices played compressed music files" I don't think there was really lots of comparison between the nomad and the iPod.

But yeah I guess in some way that's true, portable mp3 players of some kind were a rapidly growing market being developed by dozens of companies when the iPod came out. I had an entire series of CD-R/mp3 capable portable CD players back then for example. So the market was open and proven, but Apple provided real innovation in both technology and in digital distribution that wasn't there at all before the iPod. Combined, those were game changers and set Apple ascendant to the point it is today.

Getting most of the major record companies to sign on the dotted line is something I think only Apple could have done.
I lived in a coworking center for about 6 months. Slept on a couch in a dark room, got up at 7am and showered before anyone else got there. Wasn't too bad, really.
You have to scroll to below the list of links that look like they're a footer, and you'll see a big blue bar that shows the 'where to buy' links. It sells for 50 bucks at Sparkfun, you can also buy the kit at makershed.

Hopefully they'll send some to Farnell so we Europeans can get a taste of it as well.
Apparently Apple has their own metallurgists now... nauseating...

"crafted from 18-karat gold that our metallurgists have developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold."

http://www.apple.com/watch/apple-watch-edition/
You use your fingerprint to activate the NFC, so they'd have to bash you over the head and cut off your fingers presumably.
No current gen iPhone that fits in my pocket and that I can comfortably use with one hand? Anyone remember this Apple ad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY4c2mh15Yk
The New York Times published the article from a Harvard Professor. Link in the original comment, as is the paper revealing the backdoors.

Here is the PRISM slide showing the timing of Apples participation, exactly one year after SJ passed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

It's not FUD I'm stating a set of facts here. It is what it is.
You say this like just nobody tried till now. Well, they did try. What happened after they tried?
Google Wallet uses exactly whatever standard let's you tap a credit card to a contactless payment terminal. I assume Apple Pay is the same thing?
It would be a pain in the ass, some sites might pull it off, most wouldn't. There's no network configuration-based solution as simple, straightforward, and noninvasive as a JS overlay.
> If you don't want to accept grammars that may be ambiguous, you lose generality. [...]

Yes, this was the entire point of my message.

> Which is why prioritised choice is so appealing to me. It gives control to the user, should any ambiguity arise.

I agree that prioritized choice is a nice tool for resolving ambiguities.

But I don't like PEGs, because everything has to be defined in terms of prioritized choice. That means you don't know if there are ambiguities are not.
Pulse rate monitors, calculators, altimeters. Watches have done these things for years.
Interesting, I assumed it still required iPhone 6 because in the keynote they mentioned some addition to the secure enclave for this. But the website explicitly says Apple Pay is compatible with Apple Watch, and I quote:

> Paired with iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, or iPhone 6 Plus. In-store purchases only.
I'm REALLY curious about this. Will they charge a transaction fee and have it as another revenue stream for them (like iTunes/App store)? Or is it going to be another commoditization of their competitor's/partners products in order to move more hardware (like iMessage). If it's the latter that would be a HUGE deal. I just can't imagine they would be able to resist taking a slice of that $12 billion/day transaction pie, though.
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William Morris discovers and coaches talent. They take a management fee. They intro their talent to film makers who have money. They're really only looking for super stars, but they sign a lot of other people by mistake.
> We’ve already made a huge impact. The Sunlight Foundation recently analyzed over 800,000 comments submitted to the FCC about net neutrality– and found that more than 99% of them supported stronger protections for neutrality.

99% of the comments support net neutrality? AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast must be freaking out.
Unfortunately absolutely nobody agrees what net neutrality means.

EDIT: I can be more specific. People have been constantly talking about Netflix and Verizon in the past year with regard to Net Neutrality, but in fact Netflix was being asked to behave as a big player and to help pay for the costs of running the network. Whether they should be paying for peering is out of scope for net neutrality, it's completely distracting. On a fully neutral net, the traffic from Netflix could kill your visits to HackerNews and PornHub, based on sheer volume. Network operators, though I agree they should have been expanding capacity, took action to ensure the network continued working for everyone.

If we had municipal internet _and_ neutrality, you would have a situation where the burden to expand network capacity is on taxpayers, and whoever shoves the most packets into the core network can dominate everyone.

The Internet would stop working immediately.

I'm certainly not arguing _against_ regulation, I'm arguing against the naivete` of 100% neutrality. There is no greater friend to a small upstart in a garage than network prioritization, but because you rarely have a network service which is _intended_ to be a service provider in your garage, arguments related to this don't much hold water.

It's frustrating for me because I largely agree with the intent and am on the same side as people pushing neutrality, but it's a term which has come to mean nothing and is largely talked about and criticized by people who do not know how to run a computer network. :/
This would suggest that the block device layer under ZFS and/or the VFS above it have room for improvement on FreeBSD.
From a company that keeps your pictures secure comes secure credit card wallet, you couldn't make it up :rollseyes:
Maybe, actually. Return your old gold watch when you upgrade, and get some credit toward the new one. I think they already do this with other Apple devices.

https://www.apple.com/recycling/gift-card/
By 2 grams! Go Apple!
Ah, a standard protocol where nobody implements the standard in the same way. As someone who has been working with FIX for few months, I could totally feel the pain.
I didn't know that link was for that tidbit. Reading now.
Let's say `n` is a natural number then `C(n)` is the Church encoding of that natural number. `C(n)` is a function of two arguments called, traditionally, `succ` and `zero` such that

C(n)(succ, zero) = succ(succ(succ(succ(...succ(zero)))))

where `succ` is applied `n` times. So if you have a normal datatype encoding of natural numbers

data Nat = Zero | Succ Nat

then you can convert Church numerals to that data type very trivially

C(n)(Succ, Zero)

To maybe see the pattern a little more clearly, let's consider something very similar to Naturals---linked lists!

The Church encoding of a linked list, `l`, (also known as its right fold or recursor) is a function of two arguments traditionally called `cons` and `nil`

C(l)(cons, nil)

such that the following equations hold

C([] )(cons, nil) = nil
C(a : as)(cons, nil) = cons a (C(as)(cons, nil))

In other words, it changes a list like

a : b : c : d : e : f : []

into

cons a (cons b (cons c (cons d (cons e (cons f nil)))))

for whatever the choice of `cons` and `nil` were. Again, if we take the standard constructors for a List

data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a)

then we can apply them to the Church encoding to immediately transform it into its data type

C(l)(Cons, Nil)

Finally, take note that the `cons` function here is the same as the "reduction function" talked about so much in Clojure transducers (also: everywhere else). It's really fundamental to the type of lists and streams.
If only Apple Pay, had, paid for some good engineers, then their keynote stream may have worked!
Aren't they both digital abstractions over NFC payments (e.g. PayPass)?

I have a feeling on the terminal side, it looks just like like a plastic card with PayPass.
This is going to throw advertising firms into an epic tizzy. The de facto mobile web ad size has been standardized around the 320px (320x50 usually) width of portrait iPhones since basically the dawn of smartphone advertising. Now suddenly they have 3 widths to worry about just for iPhone.
I hardly use half of my 16gb model... cumulonimbus computing all the way.

I'm sure they do the research on storage usage... From my personal experience, I have never even heard a complaint about storage space. That doesn't mean I wouldn't appreciate a buffer but definitely not a deciding factor for most. And heh, they give you options
Pay? What about paying for decent streaming. The keynote was a more like a bum note.
I tried it. Compiled fine. The example conf file has some chinese comments in it. Most of the basic configuration is pretty obvious.

I started the server and it serves an index.html with an upload form which is nice. The upload response is an HTML page, too which states in the body where the uploaded file is accessible.

There I got curious… how would one use zimg uploads from app? I think the common use case would be: User upload images to a web app or an API app which then POSTs the image to zimg and puts the image location into a DB.

I tried POSTing images using curl having the vague hope the response would be something more machine readable than an HTML body. At first that seemed to be true because I used the wrong curl parameters and zimg couldn't find the image within the POST body and responded {"ret":false,"error":{"code":1,"message":"File type not support."}}. But once I got the curl parameters right (curl -XPOST --form userfile=@9393.jpg -i http://localhost:4869/upload.json) zimg again responded with HTML. Adding an accept header and/or a ".json" postfix to the URL didn't make a difference. Am I missing something?

Is there a possibility to restrict upload to local network only but allowing public download?
It doesn't use your card's number, it creates a virtual card and gives that number to the payment terminal.

https://support.google.com/wallet/answer/2676665?rd=1
Anyone else seeing a 'Phishing attack ahead'?

Chrome is complaining that Google Safe browsing detected an ongoing phishing attack.
Did... you even read the article? Yet that's all it shows: People suddenly feel that their phone is slowing down. It doesn't show that our iPhones actually became slower.

And provides some possible reasons related to consumer psychology.
I hope this helps as many children out there as possible.

But I'm actually more worried that this, left as it is, is just going to be used by mothers and fathers of children with autism, or the adults around them, as an indictment that they weren't "good enough parents".

This was a common refrain leveled at mothers of children with mental illnesses not that long ago, and it would be unfortunate indeed if we let that type of accusation creep back into popular wisdom, to the extent that it's unfounded.
Apple Pay uses industry-standard EMV contactless protocols over NFC (and MSD contactless for backward compatibility). This makes it compatible with a wide range of contactless payment terminals in deployment today.

So if the last section of the article is correct that means ApplePay will be compatible with Mastercard PayPass terminals?
If this is true it would be really easy to roll out ApplePay as for example in Switzerland most terminals are PayPass ready.
I don't see anywhere in this site's copy where they suggest that you integrate your test code into the same code that you're testing?
Love it! Very funny, lol.
print out some additional help text that explains that you shouldn’t try double-clicking it from explorer again.

Why not? If a large number of your users want to double-click it, why tell them that they are wrong? It sounds like you already support it now anyway.
Here's a size comparison (iPhone 4, iPhone 5S, and a generic 4.7 inch phone (LG Volt)):

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Apple-iPh...

I wouldn't describe the change as "negligible." It actually looks quite a bit larger than the 5S and MUCH larger than the 4.

PS - I actually like large phones. But I also have big hands. I just disagree with your characterisation of it.
It's surprisingly unattractive, but I think people here may be underestimating the quality of the interaction design. Of course it's impossible to know without trying one, but they've clearly put some thought into it. The video is worth watching: http://www.apple.com/watch/films/#film-design
The implication from Tim was that Apple was not trying to make money off of this. He said that ApplePay would be successful because competitors tried to turn it into a profitable system for them, instead of focusing on making it work.
This is Apple's way: Release a product at a high price initially to capture extra dollars from early adopters with the extra money while also buying time for Apple to work out kinks in there production chain and also reduce costs as efficiency increases. Six to twelve months later cheaper Apple Watches will come out.
If you took away the artificial sweetners and sugar from Ruby, it would just leave the bitter taste of Perl!
I'm not an iPhone fan by any stretch of the imagination. But I recognize the importance of Apple playing a major role in the smartphone market in terms of making the competition much much better than they would be otherwise. The glacial slow response from Apple on things like phone size is really strange. I can really only attribute it to a larger picture shift in focus and approach between Apple and Samsung.

There's other weird uneven things going on though in the internals. 64-bit CPUs and 1GB of RAM? 16GB base models near the end of 2014?

I'm sure there's strategy behind it, but as a consumer it's just weird.

The important thing is that it doesn't really matter. When people like my mom go into the phone store, they'll see nice big, and in their minds competitive, iPhones for sale and will now give them a second look.
No one's forcing you to go to college, y'know.
Not much use as a watch then.
Yup, me too!
I think you need to read the Times article more carefully. It's about how correlation is not necessarily causation in big data analysis, and uses the iPhone theory as an example.
Firefox is saying the same thing for me. In fact, I thought that was the point of the link (to show apple.com is marked as a phishing attempt).
It sounds like they both definitely work with your standard contactless card reader. My worry is that Apple will have an Apple only reader as well. I'm not saying that I think they will, but I wouldn't be surprised, either.
Which sort of makes sense with today's announcements, they said they had the ability to now detect between taps and presses with the Apple Watch, that technology seems like it could be easily integrated under a trackpad as-well...
Exactly, the dm's time is worth more than everyone else's.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't there no connection between Apple and the leaks?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/69iobxqcu6ie2v0/Screenshot%202014-...
Remote things are in plans after 1.0 release: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-744

As for the Eclipse we don't have such requests but may consider if it becomes popular.
It might be covered under bartering.

http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html
They've been issuing them for a while. It's not chip and pin, but chip and signature. afaik no major US bank issue chip and pin yet.
I think Parser Generators don't have a good name as they often generate code that isn't currently fashionable, but was quite reasonable at a time. Take Lex/Yacc: global variables are now bad practice, not to mention testable interfaces.
Mostly it's my preference, but it seems like major software projects usually have an easy install path for Ubuntu (oftentimes a custom PPA, which is an Ubuntu-specific feature). But if Ubuntu is supported, Debian oftentimes is as well, so Raspbian would probably be fine.

My bigger concern would be the ARM architecture / switch off x86 in general. Even getting Crashplan (a Java program) working was a PITA due to that.
Exactly, and my Nexus 5 is the largest I will go for a phone. It's my line in the sand. If I upgrade (and it may be a long while before I do), it'll be to a Sony Compact. The new Moto X was on my radar until they made it bigger.
I do think that acting towards group goals is important for humans, but, I don't buy that it is exclusive to humans.

One example that comes to mind is the bubble net feeding practice of humpback whales. In this process there is division of labor: some blow bubbles, some herd the deep fish. Then, after the fish are corralled, the whales take turns eating the fish.

I had a hard time understanding what the author meant by (what I understood as) 'group goals' versus 'group goals where the group acts as a unit'. They seem the same to me, and the bubble net fishing practice seems to show that cooperation extends beyond humans.
Quicker GPS locks.
Its obviously something that varies from job to job, company to company. But in my experience, these are by far the cushiest of jobs.
Hey if it's heavier by 2 grams - it's premium and substantial feeling than the 'cheap' feeling Note!
Let's be honest here, nobody knows one way or the other. I have friends who are out of space and friends who have plenty. Which one is the truth?
For now only CMake is supported. After 1.0 release we'll consider more: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-274
What scares me is that Stripe knew my email address and prefilled the box.
Might be because of their redirection shenanigans, starting yesterday apple.com was a 301 (permanent redirect) to apple.com/live, might sudden changes back and fro be interpreted as phishing attacks?
They have announced a price of $349
Just curious why no love for ol Bill Joy?
Disregarding generalized parsing because you can't prove unambiguity is like eschewing Turing-complete languages because you can't solve the halting problem: it's short-sighted.

In the context of programming language design, an unambiguous syntax is important. However, parsing technology is not exclusively applied to programming languages. Marpa's support for ambiguity and abstract syntax forests can e.g. be used for natural language processing. 10 in 10 joke tellers concur: Ambiguity in the English language is a feature, not a bug.

Well, when I use Marpa, I don't actually use abstract syntax forests. But the ability to generate and compare multiple parses, plus especially the ability to inspect the parsing state at an arbitrary point during the parse, are great debugging tools to understand why a given grammar is ambiguous.
Yes. Compare it to last year's Moto X (also with 4.7" screen) and the bezels jump out at you: http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Motorola-...
Looks like Apple's commission is ~15-25 BPS for participating banks

The biggest “surprise” over last 2 months is that Apple has squeezed 15-25bps from the 5-6 participating banks at launch (C, BAC, COF, JPM, Amex and perhaps WFC).

http://blog.starpointllp.com/blog/?p=3855
Really disappointed that the iPod touch didn't get any love. I get that it isn't a priority, but I do love the product.

I run a flip phone and the battery lasts a week and change. So does my iPod. Friends with iPhones are constantly pulling out their phones with dead batteries.

The thinness obsession has always irked me. Apparently it's what the market wants, but I wish they would use the space and weight savings for more battery. Were it not for battery life I would purchase an iPhone and just run it with T-Mobile prepaid and no data.
Given the target audience of that blog, those seem to be perfectly reasonable things to leave out. I mean, do you expect programming blogs to define 'API'?
There's nothing that comes close to the iPhone camera on Android, unfortunately. :(
Ok I read it. That "article" states from the very beginning that it's wacky theory. It doesn't even attempt to offer evidence for anything. It's literally just "hey, what does Google Trends show for the search 'iPhone slow'".

Apple has been accused of planned obsolescence before, and the claims have always proven to be complete bullshit. There's a very simple explanation for why people complain about their phones being slow around the time new devices come out, and that's the fact that a new OS is released at the same time (as your link even states), and it's very common for new OS's to not perform as well on old hardware as the previous OS. This is partially because the new OS typically adds more functionality, which takes computing resources to use, and partially because the new OS is predominately only tested on new and current-gen hardware, and not tested much on older hardware. This is very well-known, and it affects pretty much every computing product ever. The only reason you're not really seeing this with Android phones is because a) new Android phone releases don't correlate with OS upgrades, and b) most Android phone users either don't or can't upgrade to the latest OS anyway.
The overriding feeling I had during this keynote is that every feature that I found cool in the watch I would much prefer on my phone.

Cool watch app? Wait, actually that would be cooler and more usable on a big screen...

Haptic feedback? Agreed, awesome idea, but no reason it can't be on my phone and buzz my leg instead of my wrist.
The iPadification of Phone apps is quite a feature too.
no love for Windows Phone?