skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Android app is actually pretty decent; you use it Swype-style, but rather than employing Swype's predictive method, it's 100% deterministic, so you know what you're going to get every time.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brentandjo...
You really see the pragmatic, poker playing mentality that Gates has been described as here.
Let me put it this way: You see things that other people don't.
I can assure you he has no relation to Tsu.
As far as typos go, it's a great one. "Flagrantly borrowed" is a cliche. "Fragantly borrowed" is a fresh turn of phrase. Did he sent Jason flowers for using this example?
In one word, freemium. I think there are some things worth paying for and others not. The first things I want to implement are the things that would require payment.

And you're right about finding a target market, the initial target would be others which I'll have to talk to.
I guess I don't get the need of the standing desk. Can't you just take regular mini breaks and go walk around a bit? It doesn't even need to be outside or for a long length of time. It would be healthier and cheaper than a standing desk.
Xeros bead washing machine system set to save water and energy in the home
Hmm, I think there's something seriously wrong with this story and graph. I think there's always been plenty of one-on-one violence at schools. Either with guns or knives. I think what people really worry about are the shootings where someone wants to massacre a lot of people, not just the football jock that made his life miserable.
Well, Java caught up somewhat with version 8: with lambdas and Streams to provide LINQ-like functionality - which, however, isn't equally good imho, and not extendable because it's not based on extension methods. And unfortunately I have no access to these goodies anyway, as an Android dev :/

Ah, and then there's still the inferior, type erasure based generics. There is nothing on par with C#'s awesome async-await. There's no yield return semantics (when used properly, you can create very clean and robust code thanks to it). You've got to deal with the infamous checked exceptions (I think it's the consensus these days that this wasn't such a good design choice after all). No single-root type system (so you've got Integers and ints, and the latter aren't objects) etc. And there's more, even little things like var keyword or partial classes that don't exist in Java (like many language features, partial classes can be used for evil, but it's very helpful for dealing with autogenerated code). Operator overloading. Nasty and weird syntax for annotations (in compare to C#'s attributes).

Some of these can be a matter of taste for sure and I'm not interested in language flamewars :) I write both Java and C# for living, just personally I prefer the latter.

It would be real big if Microsoft purchased Xamarin and made it free (or much cheaper). They've really gained momentum in recent time and it feels like they are getting recognition from MS now.
The future is disappearing: How we fall short of our technological promise
To be fair, F# has its counterparts in the JVM world (like Scala or Clojure). I used the rather niche Kotlin lang on Android, for hobby projects so far, and it's pretty nice, too, even if not fully mature. More similar to Scala, I believe.
For my home storage systems I've been looking at using Infiniband instead of Ethernet beyond the 1 Gbps link layer (for iSCSI and FCoE LUNs to boot thin clients off of). The cost of Infiniband switches is far lower than Ethernet and comparable 10Gbps cards are a bit cheaper, too. With Ethernet you don't have to think about software compatibility much and since Infiniband is available on enterprise class hardware a lot, you'll get a fair chance at support across OSes too.
What insurance company went bankrupt?
The first couple of times Lessig replies, and tries to summarize something Snowden said or give some citations, I can't follow him very well. Also I can't make out any question in his remarks. Strange interviewing style.

> But even in that context though, you made a pretty strong distinction between people who would leak in the context of CIA activities and people who'd leak in the context of what you had done. So this is again a narrower conception of what you think the appropriate role for a whistleblower is, because you had a much more visceral sense of the risks that would come out by releasing information about the CIA.

Sorry, what?
Puer – more than a live-reload server, built for efficient front end development
Or possibly it's the bystander effect at play? This strikes me as somewhat less nefarious, and slightly more likely, given how unmotivated our nation tends to be to act on things more important than voting for American Idol winners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
It bewilders me, that when somebody says the truth, he is called a traitor; but when somebody lies, he is called a patriot.

Reminds me of 1984, where lies are called truth and truths are called lies.
The reason I don't is battery life. Running a server of any kind kills my phone in record time. I could leave it plugged in, but then it becomes a very expensive and underpowered server. I prefer to use old laptops because the cost/power ratio is more favorable (and those old IBM thinkpads are like the energizer bunny. they keep going and going...)
They compare the degree of correlation between their identical and non-identical twins. If in both groups, twins show on average the same level of procrastination/whatever trait, you can infer that the trait is not strongly genetically linked. If the identical twin group shows more correlation between siblings than the non-identical twin group, then you can infer that the trait is strongly genetically linked. You can read more under the first few paragraphs of their data analysis section.
> Why not fuzz it on the device, before sending to the server?

Because you can change your fuzz algo instantly vs. waiting for users to download updates. Your not allowed to push code without review with iOS apps, so you couldn't send an updated lua script for example like you could with android.

For screw ups although they could of just fuzzed it further when they received it from the user on the server.

These apps are curtain-level privacy, mostly meant to keep you private from your social circle. Expecting any more without it being a pain in the ass would be a UX revolution.
So this is what I don't understand: there is supposedly 5x as much dark matter as matter. With that much of it floating around, how is it possible that we ever convinced ourselves that general relativity is true? Dark matter is supposedly embedded inside galaxies to the point where stars within those galaxies move faster than they otherwise would. Well, shouldn't the same be true of our galaxy? In fact, shouldn't it be true of our solar system? I just don't see how it's possible that we ever collected data in support of GR only to be surprised later by an anomaly nearly an order of magnitude bigger than the base data. If someone who understands cosmology could please explain this to me I would be most grateful.
The author makes a familiar point, though it's worth repeating, if only as a reminder to stay humble.

That said, I can't help but recall a quote from one of the greatest pro golfers:

"The harder I practice, the luckier I get" - Gary Player

Note: the logic only flows one way, in that working hard does not mean one will be successful. Also, there are scant examples of self-made (eg. not inherited) successes without working extremely hard. In other words it's a mostly necessary, but not sufficient condition.
Some people want to paint Uber as the heroes. Others want to put the the regulators and the taxi monopolies in that seat. I'm really getting the impression that both of them are assholes.

Uber may (sometimes) provide better service, but they certainly haven't shown any inclination towards responsibility. E.g., as we see here, when a municipality promises to impound Uber vehicles, Uber happily lies to their drivers that everything is sorted out, because manufacturing involuntary martyrs does a much better job of making Uber look victimized than proceeding through normal channels would.
Would that still be the case if a significant part of transactions went through Bitcoin?
Would a piece of masking tape on the leg suffice as a memory feature?
Wait... Whisper's editorial staff and Editor In Cheif?

I thought I read that wrong. Why does whisper have an editorial team?
You could replace every instance of Epic with Siebel and find hundreds of similar quotes when Salesforce prepared to take out the leader in enterprise CRM.

As a consumer, the EHR space seems ripe for revolution. 5 years from now, they may not be the leader, but I expect they will own a sizable share of the market and introduce a serious competitive threat to existing players.

I would count the following in their favor:
1- Their cloud design makes rollout easy compared to a data-center installed product.
2- Their existing and growing mobile offerings could be a disruptive option for both health care providers and consumers.
3- The AppExchange Marketplace allows a wide spectrum of 3rd parties to easily integrate into the core platform. This has proven to be a very powerful added benefit in other markets (disclosure: I presented on this topic at Dreamforce earlier this month).
4- Low overall cost of adoption. It is very easy to develop custom solutions on Salesforce. I could see some potential customers opting for a small pilot that proves the value of Salesforce over an existing install.
5- A provider still adapting to changes from ACA could use this as an opportunity to make a change. Ideally, Salesforce would have done this a few years ago, but there may still be enough Obamacare disruption to gain traction.
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It's not at all clear to me what your objection is. You don't like that the developer is in the UK ? Doesn't seem very rational. You think there are lots of development teams working on this, not just one in the UK ? Okay but the article is about the one in the UK.
The idea that applications should be consistent across OSes is not really pointless, it just happens that for some reason the webbrowser is now one of the major platforms for applications instead of java running in the browser. Also in the 1990s there was not a clear indication that x86 would dominate the whole market and in particular for non customer facing applications there really was no compelling reason why they had to look good or "native", so Java certainly looked like a good idea, as did Smalltalk.

The incentive for Sun probably was in part that they wanted their high end workstations to stay relevant and maybe eventually develop cpu's that accelerated java execution.
I'm not sure, you'd have to measure the cost of Bitcoin computers versus costs of the parts of the current system of transaction that it replaced.

It would be difficult to measure!
What'll happen in 10 years?
All of the top level comments in this thread dismiss this (intriguing) idea. What is it about the hacker community that makes us so quick to find fault with new ideas? My guess: We are people who are struggling with difficult problems all day, so the first thing we do is spot potential problems.
The chances you will become a Jr. ROR developer are really high. The question is, what do you want to do with it?

ROR is a great entry into coding, and building applications, however Rails is really abstracted away from Ruby. You will eventually (likely) need to dig into Ruby, but that's completely fine. You can build a lot with Rails, and it's a lot of fun. I sometimes recommend ROR before digging into JS or a different language but that might just be me.

Best of luck.
What if you could give criminals a pill that will erase their memories permanently. Then re-educate them and release them. Will they end up in a similar path as before? Was it their genetic induced impulses or their environment that caused their criminal situation? Or a combination of both? Should you heal them? If you do, will they end up living normal lives and have kids? If they have kids will they pass on their genetic impulses to their children and create a future problem?
If it makes you feel any better, we went with SugarCRM instead of Salesforce, and the primary non-financial reason was exactly this: my team actively pushed against having to create interfaces to and program against Salesforce.
tips at techcrunch.com is your best bet, everyone at the company is at the end of that email. do a short email with a story hook in it.

Jason Kincaid's book is really really good:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Burned-Out-Bloggers-Guide-PR-ebook...
It's interesting that this got posted so soon after the Plover stenographic keyboard

The plover and perky links can be found in the comments section of the "Engelbart's Violin" article. It's like the gift that keeps on giving. ;)
But you can get a low-spec Jelly Bean phone for $20, with charger, wifi, bluetooth, camera, and battery. I love my Raspberry Pi's (and PogoPlugs) but cheap Android phones are pretty attractive devices too, especially ones that can be rooted without much trouble.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/net10-zte-whirl-2-no-contract-ce...
Looking at their updated 'My Knox' app, it requires a Galaxy S5 or Note 4. One of those devices was released less than a month ago. Do they simply not care about customers on older devices?
I wonder if this lack of being able to set / keep goals correlates to math which often involves goal setting then working backwards to find the right steps to reach a solution. Are procrastinators worse at math?
Yes, if you don't mind committing perjury.

The Fifth Amendment doesn't help you here (for those of you who think it might). You can only use that to avoid incriminating yourself criminally and, then, it does not simply permit you to give whatever answer you want. When you invoke the Fifth you have to refuse to answer the question, you can't just lie.
btw, adblocker-AR for the occulus reality browser blocks those.
Note that windows do serve an important safety function in the event of a crash. They allow assessing the conditions outside before opening doors, for example so that passengers don't try to evacuate into a fire. They also allow light inside, which is another reason why window shades are required to be up during takeoff and landing.

Stats including phase of flight http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
Besides what other people have said, this link [0] gives a pretty good summary of the arguments for and against.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/30/wheat-much-more-than-yo...
Space is largely empty; this is a crucial point I will come back to.

Assume a spherical distribution of (dark) matter, with density small enough that we can ignore relativistic effects (which is almost always the case). If you are inside the spherical distribution at a distance R from the center of that distribution, the only effect you will feel is that of the mass inside a sphere of radius R, centered on that distribution. (This is well known for any inverse square law; I can explain more if required.)

The average density of normal/dark matter is very, very small. Inside our solar system, the dominant gravitational effect is that of the Sun: any dark matter having the expected density (from other measurements) would contribute only a tiny amount, so as to be essentially undetectable.

On much, much larger scales, such as the scale of galaxies, far enough from the center (and assuming the dark matter is essentially a spherical distribution coinciding with the galaxy), the cumulative amount of the additional gravitational pull is enough to be detected. Remember that the distance to the nearest stars is huge. Yet, our Sun is within a galaxy. So, as I wrote above, the average density of normal/dark matter is very, very small. However, over such large distances as those of the size of galaxies, the cumulative effects can be observed. However, distances involved within our solar system are such that no additional pull from dark matter (comparing the motion of say Mercury to that of Jupiter) is expected to have a visible effect.
The system is working exactly as it is meant to - it's the one we elected, put in place, and are all a part of. You seem to be defining the system as one where the government bends to the will of the people at every moment (true democracy), but the Founders never intended that to be the case for America. In fact, they knew democracy wouldn't scale from their own experiences and historical precedence, and purposely created a Constitutional Republic, to protect us from that possibility. True democracies, almost by default, end up in mob rule and tyrannizing the minority. I'm not sure you want that.

Now, the reason why the Snowden revelation is significant is because the constitution is directly being violated (namely the 4th amendment, Bill of Rights). It could be argued that some of the problems you listed are also violations of the constitution (namely campaign contributions and corporations being defined as people), and I would probably agree with you, but we can't just throw it all away because it makes us unhappy.

I'm optimistic because the constitution has been violated throughout the history of this country many times before, and the result has always been reversion to the mean (either through a constitutional amendment or the violating act became irrelevant over time). Ironically, two of my favorite presidents - Lincoln and Obama - were two of the biggest violators. Hopefully, we've learned our lesson that the candidate's promises matter less than the era they come into and the system they represent.
> One if the major things .NET had in it's favor was MSR to actually figure out generics. MS Corp viewed it as an academic and experimental feature and would never have gotten it implemented on their own. From what I've heard, Delphi's mastermind was not in favor of them, but I don't have a quote for that.

According to Don Syme's blog posts, certain "product team members" said that "generics is for academics only." However, he did not name Anders Hejlsberg as being one of them.

Here's the blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2011/03/15/10141602.as...

Also see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2012/07/05/more-c-net-...

Also see the story from the other side: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/scottwil/archive/2007/10/24/working-...

I wonder if MSR's implementation of generics in .NET 2.0 was why F# got bundled into Visual Studio as a first-class language. IronPython, IronRuby, etc. never got that type of internal buy-in and got spun-off instead.
You know, there's something about these damn Fujifilm cameras. My Finepix F100fd knocked out perfectly exposed shots, with fantastic color and skin-tones all day.

Even my GF1 can't seem to manage the same thing, though my D70 does pretty good.
Fascinating talk, thank you. I was curious, I saw it mentioned that stenographers have their own styles around the edges of the language.

Would it be possible to capture each users' idiosyncrasies, and work them in to the core to keep it expanding? (Perhaps using statistical analysis of shared chords?)

A goal could be to have the best of both worlds: flexibility to customize as one sees fit. Yet, also have the idiomatic ways bundled in. That way a user could minimize the amount of time spent tinkering, if they so wished.
Working for a fortune 20 health care company, one of the top 5 ehr among other fields.

We are in the process of switching to sales force over ms dynamics for a new crm and document management system.

Suprised to see them enter this space. Its growingly dominated by epic and other big players.
Generics in C# don't do type erasure. That's one of the "language nerd" features that's a big win. Most other stuff I can think of is kind of surface level. (Though nice to have: Property syntax, native interop that sucks less, IDisposable, closures, extension methods, linq)
I totally agree, however in the meantime they invested in the medallion and Uber is trying to make it worth nothing.

It would be nice if we could find a way to somehow compensate the drivers for that investment instead of saying "you're dumb and should not have bought into that system, now your medallion is worthless".
Maybe you need to chill out, eat some healthy food, enjoy nature.
I totally agree, I am just saying that I feel bad for the drivers who already bought into that system and will lose rides to new drivers who didn't have to. It would be nice if the cities could work out something with Uber and Lyft to help the old taxi drivers get something out of their large investment.
As someone who writes for one of the big EHRs, writing a CRM is like generating a Rails CRUD template app, throwing out an open beta, then convincing some people to try it out. Writing EHR is like then having to do the same then white box test it with unit tests and integration tests, black box test it, UI automation test it, meet ridiculous amounts of regulations like defects per amount of code and auditing requirements about design and meetings for every code change, getting certifications, deploying it to half a dozen test environments before it hits production, live test runs at clients who are all trying to competitors as well, and absolutely massive amounts of bureaucracy in place for handling incidents and remediation and all the legal mumbo jumbo and required response times that go with them, then finally maybe getting someone to use it for real. Writing medical software is a nightmare and difficult to enter into.
Thanks for the links. My sentence was poorly written, I mean't I couldn't confirm the 10% fees. I did know that cc acceptance is mandatory.
The first thing I do in the morning at work is to set goals for the day. Very small concrete goals. 1 to 5 things that you can do in a day.

As long as you work on the right things and make constant progress, you should be ok.
Oh I think you absolutely can. In 2002-3 I worked at a PR firm in DC and identified a shortcoming we were experiencing regarding broadcast TV monitoring. I quit my job, built a distributed TV ingestion system + SaaS interface and signed 75 customers to paying subscriptions over the course of a few years.

Did I have any "passion" for broadcast monitoring? Absolutely not. I merely had a passion for starting a successful business.
How do they prevent you from ending up with pockets full of the cleaning balls?
First Keystone Risk Retention Group Inc. It's in grandparent's reference link (emphasis mine):

"The taxi owners contend their existing insurance continues to provide coverage for 30 days, despite the insolvency of First Keystone Risk Retention Group Inc. ...
The insurance company was ordered liquidated Tuesday by a South Carolina judge at the request of the state insurance director"
I want to start off by saying I dont actually know the answer to your question - but I believe it is because gravity is weird all the way around. It is basically imperceptible at the micro level but is dominant at the macro. Its by far weaker than all of the other forces (38 orders of magnitude!). Even at solar system levels, gravity is strong enough to keep the planets in orbit but the solar tide is minimal. My sense is that while dark matter is abundant, even if our solar system was full of it you probably wouldn't notice. I don't think we did notice it until we started to look at things on a galactic scale. (if any of this is wrong, and it very well might be, id love to be corrected)
if there are no competitors, there likely is no market. ideas are rarely unique (and even when unique, are quickly imitated). execution is everything. don't see increased competition as a bad thing. Rather, view it as confirmation you are onto something. keep going. be prepared to fight. and do it better.
Thanks caraboga. I was contemplating this setup a year or so ago, and great to learn your insights from actual implementation.
It looked to me like Supermicro JBOD enclosures would be superior (mainly hot swappability) if a bit more expensive, would you agree?
OP also posted 3 weeks ago. Was wondering where I saw it before.