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> The semantic web has a real use case in defining a consistent way of organizing knowledge in the many disparate APIs that developers work with. I think as we build and consume APIs more and more, designing them in an ad-hoc manner will become more of a chore.

I think this is a very small use case and there's not enough critical mass behind it. The main reason being that even if you were able to aggregate all the different API together to build something new and bold, it's such a one off idea that is specific to a developer that it really wouldn't be of a much use investing huge amounts of time and money towards building a consolidated API that would serve multiple masters.

The rise of AI and machine learning really puts into doubt the economic feasibility of spending money and time on a service that focuses purely on aggregating disparate islands of data unless the payoff existed in that particular market.

You don't see a major API provider that provides data to everything, instead you see small enclaves of niche businesses that focus and specialize in their specific consolidation efforts and get paid for it.

All in all, I think the semantic web will become more of a private endeavor, at least for proprietary commercial goals. As AI gains more ground, the need for such a central API or the need to unify all the different data together will slowly die off.
That the SpaceX engine failure was non-catastrophic doesn't mean all failure modes are like that. I'd imagine it's still possible for a SpaceX engine to go ka-boom in certain situations. Modern tech or otherwise, they're still working with what's in essence a large bomb.
You can also easily setup aliases, and there are many unixy aliases built in. For example 'ls', 'cat', other will work. I don't even know the commandlets they're aliasing.
Presumably, if you're reaching across the pad, you're looking at the monitor, and if you're touching something on the pad then you probably can't see through your arms/hands anyway.

That being said, I think a second screen would be preferable all the same, but it would probably bump the cost significantly.
It was an outgrowth of US values and principles, which harmonized with Hitler's in a lot of ways, and he was influenced by many American and British thinkers.

I could easily see a WWII that was the US, Britain, and Germany vs. the USSR.
Here I thought I was being capped around 5gb. I didn't ditch the "unlimited" data plan until late 2013.
Can you cite anything to support this? I find it hard to believe that a court would completely ignore the basis on which consent was given. For example:

"The Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution require that a consent to a search not be coerced, by explicit or implicit means, by implied threat or covert force. For, no matter how subtly the coercion was applied, the resulting "consent" would be no more than a pretext for the unjustified police intrusion against which the Fourth Amendment is directed" [1]

...which seems to indicate that the same notion of "fruit of the poisonous" tree as regards evidence applies equally to consent to search.

[1] Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, 412 U.S. 218 (U.S. 1973)
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I have a fairly common name with first.last@gmail.com and have a whole set of filter rules to get rid of the mail that can't be stopped. Once someone with my name signed me up for what seemed to be every dating website in Europe. I resisted the temptation.
I see some interesting potential to make a three-dimensional experience using camera tracking and perspective effects on the surface.

Although at first I was a bit skeptical of the replacement of a touchscreen with a projector, there are some capabilities of a projector that you just don't get with a touchscreen – mainly, projecting images on real objects placed on the pad. This, combined with a 3D printer, could allow designers to create 3D shapes and project surfaces onto these objects.
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Or that there's some other reason it's undesirable and they have to pay people a lot to do it...
Super interesting. Though would be interested how it works. Is it using JSON/hstore underneath?

Right now reading the code seems to be the only option to analyze it.
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> front-run the rest of the market.

With apologies to Inigo Montoya, you keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running
> saving/processing

This data was recorded. It was not processed, it was not saved, and it was not filed under "lets-take-a-look-at-the-passwords-in-this-log.txt". The engineers thought "Hey, let's capture wifi data in aggregate and do cool geolocation stuff!" and ran with it without considering the fact that, in such data would probably be cleartext passwords.

As for time and money, those are two things Google has an indefinite supply of, so they aren't really relevant.
If anyone who does front end development can't accept the fact that the tools and technologies they use are going to change dramatically every few years then they should probably move further down the stack or onto native platforms. Don't choose frameworks like Angular or Ember because you want to "set it and forget it". Choose them because they make you productive now. If your angular app works now, it will likely work years from now. If it causes you a great deal of stress to keep up with the latest tech, then don't bother keeping up with the latest tech. Continue using angular 1.3 or jquery or whatever it is you're personally most productive with. The sky is not falling, and the only constant in web development is change.
This is a perfect example of the problem the guy you're responding to is talking about.

You are correct, but nobody chooses databases by count-of-good-use-cases. You choose databases by applicability against the use cases you have in front of you and are likely to have in front of you.
The Corruption Perceptions survey is a useful metric. The USA tends to hang with Japan around the high teens in ranking year after year. Interestingly, there is a wider variance in perceptions of American corruption than for other countries.
Well there's got to be a way to test that hypothesis
It was unintelligible for me, and the link posted by your 'troll' enabled me to understand what it was trying to say.

>Why subject everyone to your random complaints?

Pot (with throwaway account), meet kettle.
Thanks @alexobenauer I appreciate.

Your point about user sessions is absolutely right and I completely agree with you. Solution should be made for a problem and one should not expect solution to fit into a problem somehow.

My challenge is solving a problem for future presents a paradox, future is unknown with nothing to compare to...
it becomes even more challenging when present is working just fine....

here is what I wanted to solve...

Entertainment industry is going thru a tectonic shift. For the first time in history, creating(smart phones), hosting(Youtube, Dailymotion) and distributing(Social media, Youtube) content is never so easy, cheap or accessible to everyone.

We are going thru a Content Democratization (Content Spring). New content is created every second, new stars are born everyday. According to Youtube, 100 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

But, just as any democracy, Content Democratization is bringing chaos to video watching experience. How would you find entertainment you really want to watch? How would you personalized your video watching experience?

That's where Joday comes in. Joday cancels all the noise and delivers high quality entertainment relevant to YOU (by curating, organizing for easy access by channels etc and by personalizing to recommend new content based on your taste)
I also built one, the very first glider collided with some civilians and the 'shrapnel' took out my gun as well. Would be neat to be able to save patterns.
"Hands. They've always done amazing things..." That's a great beginning for a video parody of some Silicon Valley startups.
> server: nginx/1.1.19
> Powered By: PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.2

why 5.3 ? and ubuntu3.2 !!!
I suppose you'd need a much bigger sample size but I'd be very interested in a continued analysis on how many of those that responded went on to get offers and how many accepted. The comment about salary ranges got me thinking about this, giving me a range probably increases my response rate but then if I am later offered the low end of the range am I less likely to accept than it I hadn't been given the range? Maybe, so it isn't at all clear to me that maximizing response rate maximizes hiring rate.
This is a neat idea but I'll bet in practice it is very tiring to use.
Only if there are an infinite number of positions, i.e. if space is infinite or at least continuous.
Having the lights on in your living room or exercising your vocal cords still fit your description.
I think there is a major disconnect for you as an English speaker. Try picturing the situation in reverse - you go to the app store, search for "music making app" and click on result after result only to see a bunch of Chinese characters, or words that make no sense because they weren't translated by a human. I guarantee you will feel spammed, rather than: These words are not relevant to my "core experience"! I'll just deduce that "Toys" actually means "Play"!

Case in point: I am that "russian person". When I search in Russian, I am doing it because I want to get russian apps - that is, fully localized apps whose UI is natively Russian. I positively hate it that the app store is full of apps that were "search optimized" like you suggest.
> That little gem should be running on the corner of the front page of every newspaper and television news program every week forever until someone is finally horrified.

No, it needs to be the headline or top story, period. Running it in the corner every week relegates it to insignificance in pretty much anyone's eyes. Just as with the Snowden revelations, the constant bombardment of news stories will lead to information fatigue. People just won't care, and while they won't consciously accept it, their subconscious will add it to the ever-growing avalanche of shit they deal with on a daily basis. They will be come numb to it.
>If I'm interested in the 12th search result, is that wild? //

How do you know you're interested in the 12th result. Either you did a search and all content displayed is in unknown positions or you already know what you're looking for in which case the scroll is entirely irrelevant, no?

Libraries have 2 main use cases I'd warrant:

1. You go to the library find just to find something to read or some media to consume.

2. You go to the library with a specific piece of media you are looking for (whether that's a title or a content requirement, doesn't matter for this analysis).

Now my local library addresses both of these (physically and in virtual presence). They have shelves with things indexed and categorised for those in use case 2. They have categories of type, displays or new acquisitions, monthly subjects of interest and such for those in use case 1.

It's similar again to visiting a museum, you can go to visit a specific exhibit[ion] (use case 2) or you can go to see what they have (use case 1) - personally I do both.

Now if the museum instead of showing lots of exhibits and having teaser displays and such just had all the exhibits locked in rooms and you had to ask for the key to the specific thing you wanted to look at, then it would make for a far from rich experience except for the very few who already know the content of the museum in depth.

As it is with Archive.org, if you know the content breadth, the sections, the actual content in detail then you don't need to use the scroll, you'll be going direct to the content you know you want. If not then they have chance for you to browse and view content you may not have known was there.
This looks interesting: I've often wanted something with more features than just kvm+libvirt but less complexity than OpenStack or other "private cloud" projects. The one thing that worries me about the pitch is the emphasis on the management panel. I don't want to create a VM in 5 clicks, I want to create it in one API call.
This is exactly why the GOP probably won't lose the house anytime soon, but national elections almost always go to the democrats. The GOP will probably pick up a bunch of senate seats this year because of low turnout and an abnormally strong anti-incumbent bias, but they have almost no chance at winning the presidential election in a few years.

At this point, the parties have devolved to mirror the culture wars that have beset this country since its founding: urban vs. rural. There's money on both sides - agriculture and mineral wealth in rural areas, and finance/industrial wealth in urban areas, so it's not a rich vs. poor thing. It's almost purely a sociological divide along relative geographic lines at this point.
Is it perhaps this issue? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11544048/how-do-i-suppre...
Else, I'd suspect caching issues (check the "caching" tab in Fiddler, see if anything unexpected is there).
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Distributing a digital document in a way where everyone in the world gets it at very close to exactly the same time sounds like an incredibly difficult problem.
The Aha moment for me was watching the beans spill on the touchpad and getting immediately digitized and put into a presentation.

They also should have taken a real necklace, placed it on the touchpad and had it instantly digitized, then manually manipulated around the woman's neck.

Very cool product. I love seeing highly imaginative products, especially coming from well established companies.

Suggestion: Maybe whoever was in charge of this development project could push thru that super-cool HP logo and branding that HP was too scared to implement: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/14/please-save-hp/
Unless Google or Mozilla affirmatively knows that a given user understands the implications of broadcasting their SSID, I don't think it's reasonable to assume that everyone still broadcasting their SSID is doing so deliberately in the informed-consent for mapping sense of the word. That doesn't make Google or Mozilla bad...I just don't think it's a reasonable assumption for organizations to make.

It's hard for me to think of ways these organizations could reliably know whether people don't mind their SSID being mapped or used for related purposes without asking them.
Glass is not projected into your eye, it is simply a screen placed near your eye, with special optics so you can actually focus on it.
Well, the PD found out that we were scraping and publishing data when a superior asked them about it. They were embarrassed and ambushed. Imagine your boss asking you "hey data guy, when did we start sending data to the paper?"

The data itself was public safety information and there was every reason to publish it. Anyhow, our access got cut off and when we inquired about it, they setup a meeting at their headquarters instead of providing any answers. That morning, I showed up at their deathstar-looking building with my editor and we spent 30 minutes getting chewed out by guys in uniforms, suits and badges for "incorrect geocoding" and other false information that we were publishing.

We said that yes, there were some errors but that we took every reasonable attempt to validate it (see http://pp19dd.com/2009/02/vessels-in-distress/). After the guy running the show vented, he showed us the proper way to geocode and correct errors during which time I was thinking "uh, why not send us the lat/lng that you're showing us here, instead of berating us?"

The compromise was that they'd add "precint zone" information to the dataset, and we could proceed so long as we checked whether a geocoded point was within the zone. We promised to check this process with a point-in-polygon algorithm, and the guy was happy as a clam that we took note of his work and gave him respect. After that, he eased up and showed us some of the other cool stuff the PD data guys were working on. For example, they pre-plot escape vectors for burglaries so when cops are dispatched, they first go to where bad guys are likely running to, not where they ran from.
" That is unless you're buying all the new military toys to subjugate the citizenry."

According to what I've read (relating to the US) unnecessary military equipment is generally supplied by the federal government or via funds acquired through "civil asset forfeiture" (theft).
"JSON documents are stored relationally, not as a blob/jsonb."

How is the transformation designed, to go from a structured document to a flat set of tables, akin to what an object-relational mapper would do?
"The problem is that under the terms of their MCX contractual agreement, [the merchants] are not supposed to accept competing mobile payments products like Apple Pay, according to multiple retailers involved with MCX, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. If these retailers break their contracts, they will face steep fines for doing so, these people said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/technology/apple-pay-runs-...
CurrentC is the holding the shotgun to their feet yelling at Apple, "Don't make me do it!"
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If you don't mind my asking, what do you mean by this? If you're doing non-trivial client-side development, then you are probably already managing the details of your building/minification/testing through Grunt or something like it anyway. Does the issue boil down to, "Needing a Node.js installation on my laptop to do client-side development is fine... but having a JVM installed on my laptop sucks because ermahgerd-old-people-enterprise-uncool"?
Fits well with the new Material design. I feel that some of the latest software design trends drift apart from the hardware design trends, where you once had Holo + a black phone or the metallic feel of the OSX interface + a metal macbook
Clip Studio Paint has a really good touch UI. It doesn't replace Photoshop for photographers, but for illustrators it certainly acts as a replacement.

I have had an iPad since the first version. I also have had various touchscreen "tablet" PCs prior. The problem is not the hardware now its the software -- and the software has gotten so, so, so much better. I can do real work from a tablet and a phone. The best practices devs first discovered and now proliferating more widely. That takes time but we are seeing the results now.
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As w/ everything. Great software makes great hardware. Only 8 apps at launch (not that it is actually bad per se) and I find it hard to believe that it will gain traction among current developers. I can't think of any reason to start developing for sprout, a platform with zero users right now. Users won't buy because no apps, developers won't code because no users; it will be interesting to see how HP will manage to solve this.

Still, it's good to see a big consumer-oriented company like HP trying (at least) to innovate in some new way.
Screens are [comparatively] cheap, esp. Vs a custom projector + touchpad + 3d camera set-up. I don't think they went this route to save on production costs.
Thanks for your feedback tcooks. uPanel is still a work in progress and it's not ready for download yet, I'm working on it! :-)
I see there is a leaderboard, so users have a nick, but can we contribute anonymously without signing up?

Also, why do you need access to my photos?
As the Wired article references, the hope is that this will kickstart a consumer-driven frenzy akin to the PC industry's trajectories.

It's a long time in coming, notwithstanding that regulations and FCC compliance seem to be the biggest regulatory obstacles preventing this idea from becoming reality earlier on during the evolution of mobile devices.
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Hi, I work for Poynt on the PoyntOS and applications. First thing first, Poynt Smart Terminal is a Secure Payment Terminal at the core that provides credit card payment processing functionality to any merchant that needs to accept payments in their stores. This is analogous to the traditional payment terminals that you might probably notice every day at a lot of merchant stores (cafes, salons, grocery stores, etc.). Poynt Smart Terminal enhances the credit card payment processing functionality by supporting more payment methods (MSR/NFC/EMV/QR Code/etc.) so the merchant doesn't need to worry about carrying multiple devices in the store and be able to serve more customers. In addition to that, Poynt Smart Terminal runs on Secure PoyntOS (powered by Android) to provide an application platform and framework for developers to build apps and solutions for the merchants and distribute through Poynt. Developers can take advantage of the PoyntOS to build unified solutions for the merchants that run on the same device where they are used to process payments (unlike various solutions today in the market that require additional hardware like ipads, dongles, etc.). Shopify is an online platform that allows developers to build solutions for their merchants hosted online or on devices. Now with Poynt Smart Terminal, developers can build PoS apps using Shopify platform that run on Poynt Smart Terminal too. So I would probably say they are complementary, not competing.

Cheers!
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I'll try and keep this short. I have two competing job offers. The first would give me 20% more pay, and practically complete control over my daily schedule. I'd need to get my own equipment, which would set me back about 7 months worth of the difference in compensation. I'd be the sole developer working on their API.

The second involves long hours, 9 hour days. I'd receive top of the range equipment, and be pairing frequently with both the CTO, and the Design Lead, both of whose work I admire, in a primarily frontend software engineering role. It involves new, unfamiliar tech, as well as tools I'm accustomed to.

I'm excited by the first option for the agency it'll afford me, and by the second one for the learning opportunities. I'm stuck on which way to go. Any advice?
This looks pretty awesome. Looking forward to giving it a whirl.
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I do not work for Poynt, but it seems more like they've forked Android and created a hardware/payment platform for different POS solutions - note that they've already partnered with Vend and Intuit, and offer an SDK out of the gate.
There have been many games written in that direction (including one by yours truly: [0]) I actually think this turning things on their head is refreshing!

[0] http://phonons.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/cells-a-massively-mu...
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Well, the state boundaries themselves are gerrymandered in some cases. Do you think it's an accident that a straight line through Kansas City divides Missouri and Kansas?

At some level, all boundaries are arbitrary. Not to say they couldn't be more just and logical, but it's not like the Texas panhandle is some sort of platonic ideal.

An interesting show that goes into the history of state boundaries: http://www.history.com/shows/how-the-states-got-their-shapes

...there may be superior written sources out there. I'd be interested in them if anyone has any.
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Hi - they are not related to each other in any way. Poynt.co or GetPoynt.com is the new Smart Payment Terminal that was announced today.

https://getpoynt.com/about
I actually wanted to create something like this. Does it do ssh key injection when VMS are created?