skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasons I prefer Meteor (in no particular order):

* Fully automated build chain. No matter what kind of preprocessors I use, all my code is compiled, bundled, and hot reloaded into the application. CSS updates are automatically live injected into running applications without a browser refresh. I don't have to write any build chain code, just application code.

* Isomorphic client/server APIs, with code sharing built into the build chain. I'm using the same language with the same APIs in both environments, drastically decreasing redundant code. Clients can simulate server RPCs using the same function as the server while it waits for the server's response. If I want, I can easily make the client's simulation code different from the server's such as when I want to obfuscate something, or simply disable client simulation for certain RPCs. The package system incorporates both server and client assets, allowing drop-in full-stack components, such as...

* The Accounts UI component. A drop-in, automated SRP+OAuth authentication system that's easy to customize and restyle, or build from scratch using the simple JS authentication APIs. It takes minutes to make a web application with a fully-featured and secure authentication system with password-based and 3rd party OAuth login methods. And logging in never requires a refresh.

* Already glued together. Endpoints don't have to be hooked up; they're hooked up from default. Publish data on the server. Subscribe on the client. Add authorization rules, and I have a fully functional web application with realtime data updates, with virtually no glue code.
Product placement, augment digital content with tangible products, live venues, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, build upon existing content (like Hollywood does every time they steal from Shakespeare or Homer), develop proprietary means of reducing production costs, sell cameo spots to fans, invest in the next wave of distribution infrastructure, interactive/custom content.

I'm not particularly creative, so I'm sure a creative person could come up with a better list.
Well you named it. Marketshare is still over 90% on the desktop and most non-tech-savvy users are likely to use Windows as well.
I can't think of any other reason.
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NK-33 is RP/LOX, whereas SSME is LH2/LOX. LH2/LOX cryogenic engines have higher Isp compared to other solid and liquid engines.

ISRO's CE-7.5 LH2/LOX engine[1] has an Isp of 454s.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-7.5
> I think you actually don't want a smart keyboard. You want an intermediate layer that translates your special key mapping into control sequences of arbitrary terminals, don't you?

I'm not sure about him. But for my part, I would love not having to fidget with X configuration, or Windows keyboard layout dialogues to track down which is the right layout whenever I plug a USB French AZERTY keyboard into my laptop with a Canadian multilingual QWERTY builtin keyboard.

And it would be the best if I could use both keyboards at the same time, because unless I mess around manually with input device selectors everytime I plug a new keyboard, my hardware has no way to know its layout.

And that's when I plug a French Mac AZERTY keyboard, and notice that some keys aren't at the same place and I once again need to find the appropriate layout.

Really, sending typed characters as UTF8 strings would be far preferable, and it wouldn't require processing power on the part of the keyboard (the keyboard would just send the strings, not parse them).
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How is this different to consuming a REST API and rendering client side?

You can only view & modify data on the client that has already been published.

Data that you don't publish / is server only, will remain so.
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Somewhat related: lolcommits [1], which takes a webcam shot every time you commit.

[1]: https://github.com/mroth/lolcommits
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A bit too generalized for my taste. If you're solving a problem of passing a well-defined benchmark (or closer to home, iterating on a kitten meme-sharing app), then yes, fail away. If you are solving a problem of putting a man on the moon in the 60s, then you get to coordinate hundreds of thousands of people from education to fundamental science to industry to alloys to god knows how many other things for years. And only then you can launch and really find out if you succeeded or failed - both outcomes have precedents.
Out of curiosity, what does this signal actually trigger?
every time seems exaggerated (given that even something major as Visual Studio installs without requiring a restart). Would be like saying Debian always needs a restart after a bunch of updates. Yes it does sometimes, it doesn't on other times.

tip if you want even less restarting on Windows after installing (and less registry rot): always look for portable versions, if you can't find them first just try to get it yourself by extracting from the installer. You'd be surprised for how many installers this wor. Some installers you can just open in 7Zip/UniExtract and the likes and extract, others can be extracted using msiexec /a PathToMSIFile /qb TARGETDIR=DirectoryToExtractTo
> but in fairness the NK-33's are a pretty amazing piece of technology

And we wouldn't have any at all if Kuznetsov hadn't ignored a direct order from Moscow to destroy all the engines and tooling, as part of the erasure of the N-1 launcher from official history.

IIRC the OKB knocked them off their inventory as them as 'surplus components' and stored them in a warehouse under plastic sheeting.
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GSAP inspired me to create a simple visual HTML5 ad editor based on the library. Check it out at http://tweenui.com/animator
> So? Not everything is about systemd.

It's time for an equivalent to Godwin's law for systemd.
On a related note, is there any device out there that lets you create a private key and "burn" it to that device in a way that the key cannot be taken off the device and you instead use the device the same way you use SSH_AUTH_SOCK?

Ultimately, it would be nice to have a way where private keys can not be copied.
So does this mean my 300G phone will be available next year?
Is Ghost ready for serious publishing?
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Ember now feels like a complete framework, but fundamentally any Ember app will be tightly coupled to Ember the framework.

In many ways this is the same as Rails Apps have traditionally been very much tied to Rails.

Having worked on many Rails Apps that have grown beyond the scope of the framework, the apps I build today are as decoupled as possible from the framework.

I hope that the Ember community can grow in that direction too, and at a distant look, it feels like Web Components will be that method of decoupling.

Right now I tell everyone that I'd never render HTML (or JS) on the server, and I hope that JS frameworks will keep maturing with my clients' needs, so I don't have to renege on that approach.
Yeah. I've made that kind of decision a few times in the past — do we use NewFramework or do we develop our own.

It's a really tough call. I've been wrong (and right ;-) multiple times going down either path.

The last time I had to make that sort of choice we went the set-based design / real options path and developed both in parallel for as long as we could. More expensive, but lower risk. I'm glad we did coz the decision we made four months in on which one to drop wasn't the one we would have made at the start.
the hustle – One-page todos & reprograms habits via routine-changing repetition
How about volunteer to work for somebody so you can have real clients that will actually appreciate more. This can also add up to your portfolio.
I guess this either means that you either think that those 85% are running Android on their desktop computers, or that you have a different idea of what a "desktop system" is than anyone else. Android isn't a desktop system except for a select few masochists.

Personally, I want my desktop system to be a real power horse, and despite being built on top of GNU/Linux, Android doesn't seem like a particularly open environment and it obviously wasn't developed with desktop users in mind.
That's why this algorithmic approach is actually a kind of interesting idea. Obviously the all-caps technique is too simplistic, but it would be interesting to try and give political opinions a hysterical rating based on the vocabulary used.

Obviously it wouldn't be a foolproof method; it's hard to talk about the consequences of global warming or NSA overreach without scoring pretty high in hystericalness, but it would still be a neat tool.
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>Reminds me of the comments people first made about the iPhone when it came out; like "how are you supposed to type without a physical keyboard?"

I don't know if that was a common conception at the time; after all touch-screen kiosks have been common since the 1990s. And Palm had discarded physical keyboards in their PDAs as far back as 1996.

More it was a case of 'typing will be much less efficient without a keyboard', which was true and has only been addressed by lateral thinking such as Swype[0], an analogue of which Apple have finally implemented after five generations.

[0] or, as I've just been reminded, Graffiti on the Palm PDAs
I am not sure why even in 2014 we have to pit Linux against Windows. We have surely grown out of that sort of debate.

Microsoft successfully achieved its objective of putting a computer in every home with the help of Windows. We should thank them for that. Linux on other hand has grown leaps and bounds. Android after all is a linux kernel fork. I think as technology lovers we can surely love both and look at them as technologies complimenting each other rather than competing.
The planet is a stone in space with a little bit of water and air. It has at least a million years left,until the Sun burns it down.Planet does not care if it is radioactiv or toxic,it went through four evolutions of life already;ex:development of oxydent being what killed pre-lifeforms,just one of the things that just kind of happen. Human race does not have that kind of time; like a spieces of butterflies overloading the curve of resources we are going to go die by choice;by need,or by accident in a couple hundred years. With how things look right now; the new black plauge is mutating in birds,rats,house cats and dogs;some of the most complex and deadly viruses are made into biochemical weapons and socially people are unable to unite. Those are the problem that needs education and solution.
Will 1.0 be available on the F-Droid store, like earlier versions?
I have some sympathies for the retailers in this. My understanding based on previous reading is that the CurrentC system works by debit, rather than credit, meaning they avoid credit card fees. Most bigger shops like Rite-Aid already use debit (it's why you can get cash-back at grocery stores).

On the other hand, their other stated reason for CurrentC is logging yet more piles of customer purchasing data, which can bugger off for all I care.
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Hm, encryption within the browser... can this be secure? Any pros/cons?
What you say is interesting, but I don't think the article is flawed. What the article implies is that the correct action is not using, for example, electronic tickets to avoid printing your boarding pass, but instead lobby to ask for legislation taxing jet engines which pollute above a certain threshold. Or maybe, increase the cost of water to truly reflect the environmental cost.

Of course, all of these actions will increase the price for you, the final consumer.
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They don't dislike me, they just make me suffer for profit and/or amusement.

When (and if) I'm in position, I'll of course return it to them via manual karma.
Thread safety. If you write an API never forget that people may want to use it in more than one thread.
I hoped they change meteor and opened it to other databases. The mongodb only option was the reason for us to stop using meteor.

Most of our customer projects use "old school" sql and only a few nosql-databases.

Waiting for Version 2 ;-)
Interesting.. . ...
install google picasa, collect all photo's in a single folder.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill

Personally I think he meant that eventual success is often achieve by applying this strategy.
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Hmm, I'm not so sure I appreciate the Chocolately support. I've found the packages really spotty as to where they are going to install, what options they are going to use, whether they bother to provide an uninstaller. I think a large part of that is how Windows manages installation and libraries though. In an ideal world maybe everything would provide MSIs, but they alone are not a silver bullet.

I hope Microsoft take the Updates side seriously - having many separate auto-updaters on the system all taking different views on when they should run is a nightmare. If they created an integrated third-party application update system I would love them for it.
Most of those smart folks are probably retired now - need more immigrants:

http://xkcd.com/984
Working on http://datapath.io, which is an SDN solution for WANs. We open the internet routing system to DevOps and provide anycast routing to cloud users and remote transit provider bypass.
Having a package manager is one thing, having a good curated repo of packages is another. I doubt MS Will have the balls to say that all their "partners" (most of the AV vendors, Oracle, ...) whose entire business model is based on crapware or bait & switch will somehow be banned from the repo?

Currently it seems that both the apt and choclatey versions of Java actually come without crapware. I have a feeling that if this kind of install becomes the default then the crapware will be bundled there too.
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Very well put.

In my experience tablets are also replacing books and tv.

I suspect that in a lot of houses the parents are now using tablets, the kids are using PCs/laptops and the tv is mostly off.

Well this is how it is in our house :).
Our tv now exists for netflix via chromecast once or twice a week.
https://mega.co.nz/#!bcxjxKgA!_vRRYgQbzmGxTXkAnLRG2DNuR9HhNS... is a UK Z3 firmware, I'm working on extracting it with 7zip and unyaffs. Unless someone wants to adb pull from their own Z series device.
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Perfectly legal is way different than not pursued ...
Sane and consistent are two words I would never use with Powershell. Well, it's consistently insane, but I imagine that's not a typo.

Or-Do-You-Enjoy-Over-Verbose-Capitals-And-Dashes-As-You-Enjoy-Shift-Ballet?
This is awesome! I am not familiar with how compilers/VMs are generally implemented, but the tracelets and guards idea strikes me as very general - in particular, it looks like this approach could be applied to provide type inference to any dynamically typed language. Has this kind of thing been tried before?

In terms of optimization, is it possible to create tracelets that are not continuous regions in code? Roughly, if you identify two non contiguous tracelets, having the same inputs, and can guarantee the inputs havent changed in between, then you could merge them together. Because bigger tracelets would mean less guards and better performance.
Yes but the Man in the Middle could very well be the author of the e-mail to Micah, didn't he? Micah would then have tweeted a fingerprint leading to eavesdropping.
So, what exactly is your definition of a desktop system? If we're going to have this discussion we should get the agreement or disagreement over that definition out of the way. To me, it is a desktop computer. I'm inclined to include laptops in that definition as well. Basically, it's the kind of computer I'd use to get my computer work done at a desk, with as little regard to what exactly that work entails as possible.

I haven't used Windows 8, but it still seems to have a greater market share on desktop systems than Android. Judging by the above link, Windows 8 alone has a greater share of the desktop market than the category of systems based on Linux in its entirety.
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Descriptive names are good (to some limit). You can maybe add something else (a remote repo? Something else), or maybe it isn't unthinkable that Add-X will eventually be a feature. You can always make an alias "inst" so it's better to keep the underlying command long and descriptive.

Also: these should be edited with autocomplete.
No, Google was sued because in process of doing this, they "mistakenly vacuumed up e-mail messages, user passwords and other communication", that is, they recorded actual data packets instead of just the AP identifier.
Anywhere to know those "heuristics"?
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It's not built on top of GNU/Linux, but on top of Linux. If you count using GCC and binutils as GNU part then we should start calling things Intel/Linux if someone uses ICC and other funny things.
video, like movies or what? youtubes?
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Interesting concept - as a freelance developer myself i'll give this a try
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I am hoping for a world where developers have a choice of a technology, without being limited to legacy semi-modernized languages like HTML and JS.
Steroids2 will change the game by boosting ionicframework with a fully declarative native UI.
Really bad sign is we don’t know.
Good step, now the rest of Windows... I mean, Program Files containing the binaries is not even in %PATH%. I assume improvements will be made here too, but I wonder.
If so, it's better to discover now. Later on, lives could be lost in a similar situation.
Now tell me the shortcut for scrolling without a mouse. Quickly.
It works on my WiFi-only Nexus 7.
SQL support is on the roadmap [1], along with other great features [2]. By the way, it is also possible to use Meteor mostly for the backend and use a framework like React or Angular for the frontend, although I don't know if there are big advantages with such a setup.

I think Meteor is a great concept because of their seven principles [3], which I haven't seen in any other framework. I haven't worked with Meteor yet but will start a project in short term which uses Meteor, so I'm very excited to see how this works out.

[1] https://trello.com/c/Gf6YxFp2/42-sql-support

[2] https://trello.com/b/hjBDflxp/meteor-roadmap

[3] https://docs.meteor.com/#/basic/sevenprinciples
I'm not really confident about new version the releasing of version 1 was too long.
Also I do not see a strong open community that support them like Rails, Django o Node.
Of course I wish them to grow in terms of contributors
Obviously this is a little light hearted data analysis. However it could lead to a more detailed correlation analysis. Just for an exercise in data analysis.

What I would be more interested in is an analysis of the lyrics used. I get jarred on a song that uses double negatives and colloquialisms that I have no reference to, it should be interesting to test the reading level of songs to determine how smart the writers/artists are.
Whatever freedom that is, it is not a freedom of choice:

1) markup languages: 1 choice - HTML
2) client-side scripting languages: 1 choice - JS.

PS: please don't tell me about transpilation, it's crap.
They don't offer trials though. A pity, as I think a free 14 day period or something will convince me
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You have to wait until ~2050 for that.
If you don' like algorithmic filters, you won't like the future of Twitter
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C++ has warts but you don't have to use it or "compile" to it.

HTML/CSS/JS have warts but you have no choice but to use them.
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His concerns about JSX are the opposite of those you site, I believe; him (and I) want to use React without JSX whatsoever.

As long as we can always do something like

div className: 'foo',
span className: 'bar'
Custom className: 'baz'

I think we'll be reasonably happy. But nobody likes feeling like a second-class citizen =)
Ah, ok. It's a conspiracy theory. Got you.
Same. And I can think of a couple of reasons why I might have been rejected, which means I now have an area to focus on to develop the company (and the idea) further.
I guess with "desktop system" you actually mean PC desktops. In my definition a desktop system is a system on a desktop. In the past decades this meant PCs but in the last couple of years many users chose tablets as their favorite desktops. They just replaced their PC desktops by mobile desktops for gaming, surfing and emails.

On the PC desktop world Windows is still leading with Win7 and XP, followed by OSX, followed by Linux and others. Linux won't get leadership here but who cares? Linux is a very good PC desktop system anyway, absolutely competitive to Win 7.
We do that too, in our team. Reminds me of: http://delete-your-code.herokuapp.com
Maybe but if you use real DOCTYPE such as <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> then you will see huge difference in rendering.
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You do realize that PowerShell is case-insensitive (you don't need to hit Shift unless you need it for something like parentheses) and there are aliases to ease typing when you're just using the shell? (I wouldn't recommend using aliases in scripts, though.)

Besides, if this is about command parameters, all that's needed is the dash and enough letters so the parameter name is unambiguous; for many common commands that's not longer than the single-letter arguments to Unix tools. And they are case-insensitive, too. No need for Shift here either.

But perhaps you do enjoy the haphazard mix of /parameters, -parameters, --parameters, /p, -p with varying ways of specifying arguments to those parameters, like /x:foo, /xfoo, /x foo, /x=foo that can be found all over the place in the default Windows command-line tools (because that's what the argument was about here). In that case, yes, PowerShell is probably a huge step backwards.
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Google provides an opt-out. They will ignore your AP if you append "_nomap" to the end of your SSID.

Does Stumbler also support this? If not, why not?

Ref: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en

edit: Found the answer to my own question. Yes, they do support "nomap": https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/issues/149
For starters:

"Secretive"
"Christian Supremecist"
"neoconservative Praetorian Guard"
"borderless war"

I'll give you right wing. I've no idea what level his ties t o Bush were, but I believe he still got work under Obama.
I've been trying this on my few remaining PHP based sites and finding it great. Can we now get the same for Python? ;-)
Plus, it seems like puppet is working on a plugin to make use of OneGet. It'll make work much more interesting in the future that I'm actually looking forwarding this happening.

Couldn't find much more on puppet on this topic than this presentation:
http://www.slideshare.net/ferventcoder
It's not just about lost of enthusiasm but also (mostly) about lost of sources (time, money). But what to say? St happens. It's scientifically proved.

http://www.iyqk.com/v/very-expensive-fireworks-compilation-o...