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Almost all FTP programs have sFTP support built in (and I can't see FTP programs starting to call themselves SFTP programs). I know transmit for mac does support sftp (and a few other things like amazon s3, webdav), so despite this being an FTP program I would expect the iOS version to support sftp.
That's quite valid :) However considering Sandstorm was crowdfunding, and I was interested in their idea and so did a minimum of reasearch and followed all their posts, I'll retort that in this case, it's their problem.

As a counter-example, it was pretty clear to me what Cap'n Proto improved over ProtoBufs.
afaik, devices are namespaced already.

http://lwn.net/Articles/564854/
the first thought into my head was, well is it made outside of the states and does someone make it correctly?

Surely someone does it right, somewhere.
As an elixir programmer who loves erlang, programming elixir is programming erlang (compiles down to the same thing). It makes some things a lot easier than they are in erlang- a lot- and syntax is just one of them.

But the really are, in a fundamental way, the same "language".

Elixir is just a lot easier for newbies, and rubyists.

I think it's prettier and more fun, which is why I choose it, but I switch to erlang when needed, and regularly use erlang libraries in my elixir projects.
You may be interested in Subsonic[1] and an iOS client like iSub[2]. That lets you download music to your phone from your ahem cloud server. Also to any other computer. The Android app[3] is nice as well.

[1] http://www.subsonic.org/
[2] http://isubapp.com/
[3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforg...
The article is referring to a brand of colonialism mentioned, also next to Spencer's name, earlier on:

> The philosopher Herbert Spencer famously argued that competition among men for survival was not only inevitable but good. [...] In retrospect, it is easy to recognize his theory of nature as an unacknowledged description of nineteenth-century England... It was only natural that colonial regimes brutally extracted resources from Asians and Africans unable to resist their guns. Those who survived at the expense of others were simply proving their own fitness, and their enemies’ weakness.

Or, as I specified in my original comment, "the colonialism of his day".
That's how you get extra credit.
That's fair. Is it something that will make your startup scene "happen"? I'm not sure about that. Having the right kind of investor culture seems to matter more. Obviously you can't have a Silicon Valley in a repressive culture, but even the difference between SF and Boston is too great. I don't know how things are in Scotland.
I think that was just a joke.

http://xkcd.com/1067/
I don't know how it works for outside developers, but I've discovered that they use it heavily for some of their own media projects including, for example, their video product Yahoo Screen. What that means for longevity is probably an open question.
I'm sorry to hear that! Hmm. Have you tried electrodes? 415 volt three-phase can sometimes catch their attention.

(Ahhh, the BOFH stories ...)
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Prompt has been my experience with them on iOS as well. It still works just as good as the day I bought it. But for some reason seeing the old iOS keyboard boils my blood. It's a weird nag, but my soul confirms it's legitimacy.
Well done and educational to boot :)

Suggestions:

* The looping music gets annoying quickly. Fortunately there is a button to disable it but making a longer loop may help.

* Sometimes the flasks overlap the mice or other flasks. There should be some kind of minimum distance between items

* Slightly lowering the tubes or making the liquid drop a bit faster would make it better -- its a bit too much about luck at the distance it is now and can get frustrating.
I once has one that was designed to take ~20 hours, and was given a week to do it. Needless to say, I didn't get that job.
I was paid for a days work, when after the initial interview to test that I knew some really basic programming (think Fizz-buzz, but slightly more interesting), they brought me in to solve a real problem in their app. And I did, and they hired me. It was quite brilliant, actually, and they paid me for the days work at a decent rate. I was impressed.
What a weird world, where giving a networked device the ability to upload, download, and manage files is described as a "super power". Crazy.
It's interesting you think the current tax system is immoral (sorry, I wasn't getting that from what you wrote earlier).

Are you suggesting that nobody should pay taxes? That we have no public anything? (schools, roads, police, etc.)

How will our society function without taxes?
Is it? I thought the huge deal of all these slick printers is to do the razor blade business model.

Nobody seems to want to make the printer with cheap highly compatible plastics and if they could limit the models you can print even better.
Wow this is amazing! Can't wait to get my hands on an Intel Edison to try it out.
Yeah, it's been a while since I've looked... I really need to have a good multi-platfrom VM host in whatever environment I use... usually VMWare, because I do a lot of work that brings me into windows, mac and linux which was the biggest drawback last I looked.

It will be cool to see what happens in the next couple years though.
It sounds interesting and definitely presents a much nicer form than something like TripAdvisor. Do you pull data from sites like that or just the people who run the activities/tours?
The solitary confinement practiced in Pelican Bay is a gross affront to humanity. In a hundred years and change, it will be considered the great moral blemish on the early 21st century, and our children's children's children will be disgusted by our complicity in it.

Solitary confinement is literally torture, and can drive people permanently insane. People can be placed into solitary confinement after being "validated" as gang members just for having political writing in their cells: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/solitary-confine...

This article discusses this only casually, which ultimately makes its author complicit in these crimes against humanity.
My experience with this (as a C and C++ developer who's worked with embedded systems before) is those kinds of job postings tend to require an engineering degree, and most electrical engineers I've talked to want to do hardware not firmware (and didn't like their programming classes).

You could try either relaxing the degree requirements, or reaching a wider audience -- I generally don't see firmware jobs advertised on HN and StackOverflow and those are basically the only two places I ever pay attention to job ads.
Depending on your existing volume of applicants you might also ask them to attach a semi-trivial C assignment to their application. Yes, this is accessible to anyone who can google, but you might weed out the disengaged who don't care enough to read the instructions that way.
Grr.. I don't get why they didn't just embrace node, and release some native/platform modules for use on OSX.
Older models become collectible, like other luxury watches?
YQL runs a huge amount of the internal infrastructure at Yahoo. I'm surprised you saw it down for 48 hours unless you were blacklisted for abuse.

There is an open source clone from eBay that isn't quite the same: http://ql.io
You get a customized binary tied in a server-side database to your campus single-sign-on identity. Everyone gets different passwords, and the passwords are validated server-side to make sure you didn't just GOTO the success reporting routine.

There could easily have been a secret embedded in each bomb, reported on defusal or detonation, to prevent people from detonating each other. The project was graded on an absolute rather than relative scale, so there was little incentive to spend time on something other than defusing your own bomb.

(The project was called "the binary bomb." We all had a great time telling our friends that we were up all night at the library defusing a bomb.)
It is still running, it now uses YQL as the backend:

https://pipes.yahoo.com
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The woman who wrote this book has been gathering anecdotal evidence for decades on the topic "simple sugars vs complex sugars", and claims that her diet of simple sugars helps about 80% of people with GI problems: http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

I've followed some of its advice and have been very happy with it.

The main takeaway is this: Fructose and glucose are easily absorbed in the small intestine, while complex carbs are not. Instead, they are fermented mainly in the large intestine, by bacteria that specialize on that over time. The problem might be worsened by insufficient stomach acid and digestive enzymes (e.g. weakened pancreas). If you have a microbiome that has tilted towards a non-optimal constellation, then you can do damage control by eating as few complex carbs as possible for a time. That means no sugar, no grains, no potatoes or rice, not even sweet potatoes or yums. The book also recommends to employ powerful probiotics (e.g. homemade yogurt that ferments for 24h). I personally have been doing water kefir for a time (which is a wild ferment, so a bit risky) and this helped my IBS a lot. I might take a ubiome test sometime and check what exactly is wrong with my microbiome.
I always though this was especially weird because someone who would get that amount of use or more out of one probably wants something _really_ awesome and not something cheap. Maybe even something that could print metal?

I get the super cheap novelty use. After that I thought what you want is a service to send your design to and get an awesome quality piece back.
With the privatized prison system in the US, it's more commercially viable to have people stay in that loop than not.

I'm not sure that there is any incentive to help people out of that loop with so much profit for everyone in the chain (police departments, lawyers, judges and most of all, the private company that runs the prison). The only net loss in this loop are the taxpayers who pay for all of it.
Any views on the new Panic Sync [1] functionality being rolled out with this app?

Presumably entrusting your passwords/keys to a third party is a bad idea, regardless of any assurances given?

[1] http://panic.com/sync/
Have you not come across Appcelerator/Titanium?
The FreeBSD foundation is one of the charities that smile.amazon.com donates to, so if you're not already using it, consider purchasing the booking through smile.amazon.com so 0.5% of your purchase goes to them.
Ah - I thought it was sarcasm. Didn't get the Einstein reference.
It might be expensive, but you could make the entire prison a Faraday cage (although not sure how that would work if people are allowed to go outdoors).
Not to mention the gangs that profit or get their own employment from keeping prisoners in this loop...
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For developers that have the academics, but not the experience, I've always said that the industry needs to adopt the apprenticeship programs that other trades have. Where you do a mixture of work for the company, and trade schooling run by the industry to teach you the specific skills you need.

For example, an IBEW apprentice will do a lot of gruntwork on the job site. Pulling wire, for instance. But they'll get exposed to how things are done, to trade industry expectations, and what a project looks like from start to end. Part of the week, they spend in a classroom learning the specifics of their trade. Not just the high level theory, but the nitty gritty, based on real world applications and problems. This apprenticeship lasts from 2-5 years depending.

I don't see why this model wouldn't work really well with programming.
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Google should be funding the heck out of this guy. Privacy concerns are only going to get bigger in the future, and the reason for that is simple: companies like Google are inevitably going to want more and more data. So at least they should be trying to do that in a privacy-friendly way.
I'll just chime in to join the chorus - their software is top-notch, Transmit for the Mac especially. I've paid for it, but it's been so long ago - and so many versions ago, I can't really remember when that was! It could have honestly have been 10+ years ago. They've never asked for anything more from me. Thank you, Panic!
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mercury is (intentionally) a much smaller and less featureful library than React. IIRC the biggest difference is that React components are stateful while Mercury prefers components to be fully stateless, with all the state living in the root.
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> I gotta ask the people who say that women are different from men: [...] You do know that women are people, right? Like, half the people, 3.5 billion women.

Let's examine two claims:

1. "Group A is genetically predisposed to different behavior than Group B, to which I belong."

2. "Group A is culturally predisposed to different behavior than Group B, to which I belong."

You claim that making statement (1) indicates that I disbelieve in the personhood of people in Group A. I assume that you do not believe the same about statement (2)--that is, it's possible for me to notice that men are more likely to be murderers without claiming that women aren't people, as long as I accept "culture" as the only explanation for the difference.

I claim that both statements (1) and (2) are compatible with a belief in personhood of people in Group A. And this is much firmer ground, ideologically speaking. If presented with strong evidence of genetic differences between two groups, I am not forced to either deny the evidence or give up and accept that some groups aren't people anymore. I can simply say "even if the two groups are genetically different, this doesn't change a thing: personhood is not determined by someone's genetic similarity to me, people deserve respect, and prejudice is wrong even if it is somewhat predictive." Finally, in a situation where genetics clearly affect behavior or personality--for example, Asperger Syndrome--I don't need to shift around my values to claim that yes, autistic people are still people.
I just downloaded an update to Transmit. They update it. I am not sure where you are coming from at all.
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Can't help but think that you shouldn't be trying to create truly 1px lines on hi-DPI displays.
I use to be in the same boat as you. Even though Google technically owns Waze, and some 'waze' reports show up on Google Maps, Waze is still superior. The main things I like about Waze that GMaps does not have:

* Voice notifications when objects are in road ahead

* Voice notifications when red light camera has been reported ahead

* Voice notifications when police have been reported ahead

Those are the 3 main things I like, though there are other features that Waze have and GMaps does not. The 3 things only work if people have actually reported them, so you'd need to be in an area where waze is used heavily (i'm in SF and it works great).
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Writing a news article makes one complicit in crimes against humanity?!

Wow. The standards and actions required for being designated an utter bastard have slipped a long way in my short time in this world..
IMO it was more like your landlord popping a free CD in your mailbox. A minor inconvenience if you don't like the CD but nothing more.
Thank you very much for your feedback!

That's really what we need at this stage. This is a very first fresh version of the game, so there's a lot of improvements we want to do.

The idea was really make an educational game!

- Overlaps you can still reach the tube
- Music loop we want to improve ;) (imagine for my girlfriend listening this loop for 2 months already!! hahaha)
- The drop speed increases as you progress, but maybe need a review!

Cheers!
Pet peeves, falling for anti-cigarette propaganda.

In moderation with a healthy diet they are as fine as Twinkies and 32oz Mountain Dew.

Like Mountain Dew they are abused so perhaps abstinence is best, depends on personal will power.
>Let the person know that (a) the computer is in working condition (i.e. no drivers are missing) (b) the network works (i.e cables are good, switch is good, DHCP is enabled, etc.)

So you lie to them? I don't understand what the point of this test is. My first inclination is to open up a term and ping google but I would be pretty annoyed that your "first-wave" test involved actively lying to a candidate.
All you've shown is that people disagree with you. The question asks about truth.
The article fails to mention that cash often means electronic cash. Here in Germany a lot of things are paid for with EC cards. They are like cash and are paid directly from the usual back account. This is usually cheaper than using a credit card - especially for the dealer. So this has nothing to do with 'payment of the past'. Electronic cash is widespread, but in the form of debit cards. I don't need a credit card for paying at the supermarket, shops, train tickets, ... I just take the EC card. Since most people have enough money on the bank account, these everyday transactions are painless.
Yeah, you could basically TEMPEST-harden the whole building. That would significantly increase the cost of building prisons, though.
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> I gotta ask the people who say that women are different from men: [...] You do know that women are people, right?

I often think that sex differences people perceive are exaggerated and/or misattributed to biology (including, but not limited to, genetics) when they are more likely cultural, but, believing that X (e.g., women) are different (either on average or categorically) from Y (e.g., men) is not inconsistent with believing that X and Y are both subsets of Z (e.g., people.)
Same with Diet Coda.
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>I agree, but only if you're allowed to use references/google/etc and given a reasonable amount of time to accomplish it. I've had a "real-life" test where I wasn't allowed to verify or look up information, or where I'm giving a very short time to execute, and I've always thought those were absurd.

Employers that do this are ridiculous. As are educators, too. What is this, preparation for when coders are kidnapped by terrorists and forced to recite how to tar/untar stuff on command? (relevant xkcd, of course)
Except this is not C++ grammar, this is simple lexical analysis. And separating by spaces would work fine.
Are you sure that EC payments are counted as cash payments? I remember from some economics lectures that this is not the case. Interesting point, though. I'll try to investigate that further.
> Humorously, that link 404s (because of the quote at the end).

D'oh!

> Later, on the same page: "Use Our Servers..."

Yes, that does sound silly when read out of context; while they do provide hosting for Sandstorm-aware applications, Sandstorm as a platform allows you to just as easily host your apps yourself (of course, not everyone is technically qualified to setup a VPS and all that jazz). Regardless of who you have hosting your apps (perhaps yourself), you could trivially export your data and move elsewhere - kind of like how if one of my company owned laptops is about to fail, I can always copy my stuff over to one of my own laptops and keep running - I don't have to purchase completely new software and try to finagle my data exports into the new programs. If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend watching the video from the IndieGoGo campaign:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMpj9HAyyHs
Appreciate any feedback to the early access core software and we're all ears on feature requests. Let us know if you encounter any sub-optimal output and we'll fix it, hope some of you guys find this useful and live a more manageable life :-P
They are saying what they always say whenever anyone questions the safety/healthiness of their products. Their response is the equivalent of a form letter. It's akin to the statements that the tobacco companies made before congress, well-rehearsed and carefully worded to be deceiving. It's why they always seem to not address the specifics of what the scientific study actually found...because they intentionally aren't addressing it.

It's part of their larger playbook for continuing to poison the US population. That same playbook also has strategies for when regulation is proposed (increase campaign contributions, stress individual freedom to choose and responsibility and begin self-imposed reforms) and they've been doing it ever since the McGovern report suggested that our food might be harmful to our health. Thus far, they've gotten away with it every single time.
Where do you get this information from, because it's entirely incorrect.
Apprenticeship requires a constant stream of mentors. I'm not sure there is an ample supply of professional programmers who would be interested in taking on the responsibility of mentoring in addition to their full-time jobs.
They're not trolling, you are. No one honestly disputes that there are psychological differences between men and women. No one.
>I gotta ask the people who say that women are different from men: are you trolling? Was there some great internet convention that I missed at which it was agreed by consensus to all act like idiots for a few years for some greater good?

Women and men are different, both physically and psychologically. That might not mean women are less capable or inferior, but saying there are no differences between the genres is just silly and disingenuous.
You could be holding the guitar with an iPad on a music stand in front of you so you can finger the chords/patterns while memorizing them.
"This is huge for Facebook — it has become an ubiquitous utility. And my sister didn’t even know Messenger, Facebook’s well-regarded, standalone messaging app, existed. Couple this anecdote with the WhatsApp acquisition and Facebook seems poised to own (utilitarian and functional) communication."

Given how hard Facebook pushes, and has subsequently forced Messenger onto all mobile users, his sister not knowing it exists is not good for Facebook. I'm sure the author is trying to spin it into a positive since he works there, but that's quite a stretch.
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8.8.8.8

Job please 8-)
Nice post but when you say you used deep learning, what exactly do you mean? You describe your method for picking your features and then you used deep learning to find features from that presumably should be the most informative for classifying.

It would be helpful to know what specific deep learning algorithm (convolutional, deep belief?). Or at the very least, what / who's implementation of neural nets did you use in your model and how it compares performance wise to the more conventional tools in NLP (when you give them the same original features to start with).
YQL shouldn't be down for so long. It's likely that the underlying data source/API you were trying to access was down or your API key/IP address was blocked for exceeding rate limits.
As the comment I replied to suggests, changing skin colour doesn't necessarily have anything to do with climate. the point is; if only the pale girls get to make babies then over time skin becomes lighter.

further more, I don't think this has anything to do with Colonialism, if I'm not mistaken, in many Asian countries pale skin is considered a feature of beauty.
Sweet'n'low packets are very common, and so are an easy way for anyone to get saccharin just by reaching into a jar.

Interestingly though, here in Canada, Sweet'n'Low is sodium cyclamate. Saccharin continues to be banned here as a food additive because of that (now long believed to be flawed) 1970's research which linked it to cancer.

I had no idea that Sweet'n'Low is saccharin south of the border!