skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fitbit Surge is coming out early 2015.

Many Android Wear devices have optical HR (although accuracy is usually low).

There's also the Adidas Smart Run, TomTom Cardio, and Mio Fuse/Alpha 2 on the sports world size. (they all use a Mio sensor AFAIK)

These are just the standalone optical HR sensor devices off the top of my head, there are tons of ANT+/BT Smart accessory devices.
It's fairly understandable given that those 30% of airports probably carry more than 90% of general commercial passenger traffic.

Certainly enough to build travel booking engines on, as many have proven - but it'd be interesting as a niche project to provide a tool for arranging/searching for more regional airport transport options. Flight-sharing via local airports, for example :)
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It isn't ironic at all, and I think you are missing the point. A Disney property entering the public domain is a bad thing for Disney. Yes, people can make money off public domain properties. If a Disney property enters public domain then people other than Disney can make money.
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It is unreadable. Lumping code together into big functions just so you can say "Look I've created a compiler in 4 functions" is pointless, unless your goal is to post it to HN to show everyone how clever you are.

This is not how you code when you work in a team or when you know some other poor soul has to come along and maintain it.

I suggest you take a look at [1] then go and read this excellent book by Martin Fowler: "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell

[2] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44936.Refactoring
Say what you will about Sony these days - and there's much to be said - but there is no way Samsung could create something as brilliant as the PS4. Samsung are successful, but I can't think of anything they innovate and lead in, as far as their consumer side is concerned.
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Yeah, I use it and like it a lot so far. It's 20 GB free with a referral. I got mine up to 65 GB.
I agree, and I wonder in practical terms what I could do. I agree that it's everyone's responsibility. Here are the options I see:

1. Talk to the asshole. Fits well with the ideal "take care of it yourself" ethic, but in most cases, I don't think this will go well. Fights, defensiveness, turf, escalation, etc. Works well when asshole is not actually an ass, just ignorant.

2. Talk to HR. Seems snitchy, but it can have real results, since HR often has levers to pull here.

3. Talk to a manager (theirs or yours). Ditto.

My experience is that when you're in an organization, as much as I'd like to "take care of it myself" by talking directly to the culprit, usually talking to superiors / HR is the way to go.

That requires that the HR & management can handle it of course. In most cases I've seen, they know what to do. In a few, they didn't -- and that was indicative of a company that was doomed.
Yes, I also wrote my own C interpreter and the parser was a lot more than a day's work.
Is Skype still encrypted end-to-end? I thought that a few months ago, Microsoft started running all Skype calls through Microsoft servers, decrypted.
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Get local newspapers, radio stations, and evening news to cover it. Post on craigslist. Do things that don't scale (talk to people at bars or on the street, post flyers around town, etc.)

My experience with MeetUp was that all social meetups were single men looking for women. It made for some very creepy gatherings, and my friends and I gave up on MeetUp permanently as a result.

If you can solve that problem (have good gender balance and prevent creepy people from showing up), you'll be a lot more likely to succeed.
Someone did this experiment and wrote a book about it:

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no. it's a company. It's valued on future potential. Same as Whatsapp can be valued at $19billion, despite only having $10 million in revenue. Many examples; there is future monetization potential, that they're already discussing.
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One thing to note is that while Jawbone has a nice API[1] and summary data export, there isn't a way to access device/raw data.

There does appear to be some reversing of undocumented API calls that provide some better resolution, although I don't know how up to date that is: http://eric-blue.com/projects/up-api/

[1] https://jawbone.com/up/developer/endpoints
> There are lots of curious questions here, like why are there more defects in Erlang and Java than Perl and Ruby?

Maybe because Erlang and Java are used for projects of higher complexity (larger scope, more interacting components, etc.)? Did the authors try to address this issue at all?
What fun! Any traveler will enjoy this.

A few of them are mentioned in passing without explanation, like one of our local airports:

> FAT is Fresno, California.

For anyone who is wondering, FAT stands for Fresno Air Terminal.
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> Stewart is extremely smart, should not be underestimated, and HN comments in this thread calling him "incompetent" reflect badly on the person making the comment.

Incompetent may be the wrong word. What people (including you) are getting at is that his arguments are unpersuasive upon examination. It's all just fear mongering.

There are two plausible explanations for this. The first is that he doesn't see the holes in his own arguments; that would substantiate the charge of incompetence. The second is that he does but makes the arguments anyway in order to mislead others who don't. That appears to be the case you're making. But I'm not sure scoundrel is a lesser charge than idiot.
I recently purchased a 991 911 Carrera S and previously owned a 987 Boxster that I tracked. I actually did cross shop the cars and had a deposit down on the Model S before it was even released. Ended up not getting the Model S b/c its simply to big to drive in SF and it was questionable if I could get my condo to let me install a charger.

The model S is no sports car but its rather capable and the low center of gravity helps negate its massive curb weight.

As far as the car not making it around MRLS, thats not true. Every year speed ventures puts on an EV day and there are certainly Model S in attendance: http://www.refuelraces.com/
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there is a whole fascinating theory around that in E. Goldratt books. Basically the maximum output of a system is never when every component is at its max output, but when its constraining component is at its max output capacity, all the rest needs extra capacity around to pick any slack in the system to try to keep the constraining component at its maximum. If the constraining component itself has a hiccup, you're still trying to get the surrounding components not to add their own hiccup in the output, they have to pick their own slack.
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Is it me or is this page really scrambled on Chrome 38/Mac OS X Yosemite? It loads fine, but as soon as I scroll down, the background is black and the letters get scrambled in blue
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React seems to do pretty well on this list (though I don't think it helps with hot code reloading, for instance). It allows for very clean server-side initial rendering (via nodejs) and subsequent client-side updates (with a stateless DOM).
Thanks a lot! The gender topic is especially interesting, because at the moment we have about 1000 users - 70% women.
The research I've seen claims that the benefit of diversity is higher performance, not increased collegiality. They may even be inversely correlated. From a Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern) piece (1):

"The mere presence of diversity in a group creates awkwardness, and the need to diffuse this tension leads to better group problem solving... while homogenous groups feel more confident in their performance and group interactions, it is the diverse groups that are more successful in completing their tasks."

(1) http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/better_decis...
I see the article as an indication of a person who does not know what she wants out of life and is therefore continually disappointed. I've seen this happen to single, non-children white males, too (not excluding myself), at least to some extent.
It's a good question, and my opinion is it's better to be mostly unprotected. There might be areas where protections make sense, say, if there's great possibility of physical (and perhaps emotional) harm. But I think these have to be pretty narrow: if it's possible to use these protections to get a negative review of your art suppressed, then it's a bad protection.
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Correct me if i'm wrong. Are you running Google Plus feedback as a service? because it is like Google Plus feedback

[0] https://www.google.com/tools/feedback/intl/en/images/preview...
A better comparison might be moving to a different country and getting a job there when you don't completely understand the culture and possibly have a language barrier (which I've gone through). You don't feel unsafe, but you don't quite fit in, you feel homesick, you don't mesh well with your coworkers, and you feel a constant background radiation of insecurity because you aren't used to the legal system, the social support system, etc. Your coworkers might make slight jokes about you. They mean well, but it sure as heck doesn't help your situation.

That feeling really (really) sucks. It must suck ten times as much when it's happening in your own country. I really feel for people who are forced to experience this.
The economy never actually recovered from the crash of 2001, is the root of the problem. A crash caused by technologists over promising and under delivering on a "new economy".
My Moto360 monitors heart-rate and I'm fairly certain other Android Wear devices do too.
unrelated to the topic, but I had to smile at "a tad abysmal".
Thanks ! Awesome work ! :)
Makes it waaay easier to check up on load shedding times than the actual site !

One request if you're up to it (or in the mood) :
Load shedding times summary in a tooltip when the user hovers over an area.
Example :
User hovers over Brackenfell area (with map set for today)
Tooltip displays :
Wednesday
Stage 1 :
n/a
Stage 2 :
14:00 to 16:30
Stage 3 :
00:00 to 02:30
14:00 to 16:30
20:00 to 22:30
I have a feeling that the project is a mix of for-fun and to-see-if-its-possible.

Not all programming is enterprise quality, some programming is intentionally not.

Being so dismissive of that, seems a little silly to me.

The demoscene doesn't exist because of a bunch of programmers trying to make the lives of every other programmer more difficult, it exists because people like the challenge.
I do agree that we often can't control the fact that a certain person might be in a position to greatly affect our destiny. And the idea that that person may, as I put it, lack critical thinking skills in a way that really hurts us.

I hesitate to say "that's the price of social progress", because it's very easy to do so when you're not in that situation, but... to some extent I think it is. If you're that worried that your presence on something like the internet could be of great future detriment to your life, then it behooves you to be a lurker, leaving as little trace as you can, and to carefully consider what traces you do decide to leave.

And I guess part of the point I'm trying to make is that these people exist regardless. Maybe you smoked pot all the time in college. In 1970 there wouldn't be an online record of that. In 2014 a careless friend might post a picture of you smoking up. Our hypothetical person who wouldn't hire someone who ever used marijuana still exists regardless of whether or not he knows that you've smoked. 45 years ago you got lucky and there was no way for him to know. Nowadays you either don't engage in behaviors that you think might be objectionable to other people, or you just say screw it, and accept that there may be consequences.
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Good eye. I suppose it's been updated.

I think a more successful campaign would have been FLY GAY (GAY was one of the options they could have taken), but I suppose the code might outlast the novelty of the marketing campaign.
Agreed - code should explain what code does. Duh.
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"assigning Canonical the ability to re-license the code outside of the GPL"

I think is more about ownership and IP than re-licensing. Copyright assignment adds value to Canonical as company, eg in case it is acquired.
> I can see that in terms of bandwidth, SPA can be more efficient then normal HTML page. But this makes a few assumption. First, that your JS package never changes. As soon as 1 character changes in your package, the cache is invalidated and the whole package needs to be downloaded.

Sure, but there's strategies against this, right? Generally, vendor and 3rd-party code doesn't change often, so minify and stick all that together. Then, you've got your core application code, which you attempt to keep as small and fast as possible.

I will say, I'm not as experienced as the author of this piece, but at the end of the day I feel like the author is making blanket-statements that honestly don't hold up to the reality of what users actually want. I think it also makes assumptions about your stack, and your resources- yes, if you've got incredibly fast, top of the line servers, server-side rendered pages are probably a better idea, as the time difference between a json payload and the page being rendered by the server is much smaller.

On the other hand, even a cheap rails(ie slow) server with a CDN handing off the client code can shove some JSON out no problem, and it can do it very fast, even the worst-off users usually only at 300ms for total receive time- a time which generally, is 100-200ms slower than your average server's render time of the page alone.

Furthermore, it lets you offload who is delivering said content- if a CDN is giving up all that Javascript, then the initial render times may actually not be that much slower than if it was server rendered.

----

I also get the feeling a lot of people are making the mistake right now of assuming that because there's been a lot of evolution in the frontend framework world in the past 2 years, that it also means we're hitting peak performance, which couldn't be further than the truth. Angular apparently(I'm going off of what I've seen many say about 1.0 in the post-2.0 world) completely bungled performance the first time around, but it'll be better next year. Ember is already well on its way to being fast, and by summer of next year is going to be blazing quick with all of the HTMLBars innovations.

I think we're barely getting started figuring out frontend frameworks. Even if right now it may not be the best idea for your personal use case, I'd check back once a year until the evolution slows down to make sure you don't end up regretting not jumping in.
Every single one of the Polar watches that have been out for decades?
I think quite a few large companies would love to see an Android fork without Google. Unfortunately ditching the Play Store is not as easy as it sounds.
I'm not arguing with that. But the interest here is that the search engine wants to provide quality results. The government should not be in the business of deciding what "quality results" means, at least not in the general sense. A government passing a blanket law that allows an artist to suppress honest, legal criticism is a bad law.

While libel is not a criminal offense, if you make it too expensive for someone to commit it, they will stop. Maybe there's an extreme outlier here and there who might bankrupt himself with this sort of behavior, but that's not what the law should be optimizing for.
Wow, that's horrible, but I'm also upset you put it on robbiep. It's random advice on an internet thread titled "Just had a heart attack" under a comment "Can someone with some medical experience write about what are exactly the warning signs for a heart attack?".

That sounds like there was more than ample warning about the subject matter. If it's triggering, you might not want to seek it out?
The nice thing about the paper is that they try to put data where others put guesses, rants, expectations, and believes. Arguing with data is actually difficult (and rare) in the software engineering field.

The practical result is that language choice doesn't matter since the effects are very small.
It would help others to evaluate your claim.
Curious to know how Dubai international airport got the code DXB. It doesn't seem to make sense.
Apples and oranges. The issue Erica is concerned about is her social discomfort at work, not her team's performance. Also, the study you cite was measuring gender and length of group membership diversity, not racial/ethnic diversity.
Why does nobody ever mention BitTorrent sync as an alternative in these discussions? Is there some reason why it's not favoured that I have missed?
Edit: Just in case this reads as baiting somehow, it's not it's a genuine question.
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I got a laugh out of your story - thanks!

It reminded me of a story on Reddit recently about a couple who adopted an Asian baby and then raised him diligently and positively introducing him to Chinese culture, language classes, special efforts with food and communities, etc so he didn't lose that part of his background. At around 18 years of age after almost two decades of efforts along these lines, the father discovers the kid is actually Korean and can't bring himself to tell his oblivious son or wife!
Welcome to the delightful world of Washington, D.C. realpolitik!

A third possibility is that he honestly believes his position is the correct one--or is holding out the possibility of returning to a .gov/.mil job in this or a future administration--and (a) is using the best arguments for his case, however weak or (b) is on a conference panel, not in a courtroom, and is aiming for entertaining one-liners rather than a point-by-point argument that you'd find in a legal brief or congressional testimony.
It's unfair to say that HNers hate fun, only this particular flavor of it that degrades signal/noise ratio too much.
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I second that. First thing I looked for was how they rate tox. Hopefully it gets added :)
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I've been using Jawbone 24, and after it broke down (button stopped working) decided to switch to Fitbit Flex (thought, software will be better). I've been using both devices with Android phone. Its terrible for either of them. In fact, Fitbit one has even more critical quirks than Jawbone (e.g. unreliable alarm synchronization). Hardware is great for both devices. Software is just pure disaster.
Indeed. The lack of a case statement in the run loop is a bit of a giveaway. Excellent work nonetheless.
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I'd dare say the source of truth for Emoji is somewhere in a cabinet in NTT Docomo's headoffice.
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A product can have a valuation. A company is 'a commercial business' and Tinder isn't making any money therefore not engaged in commerce.
They are not puppet accounts they are my peers and friends which I asked to upvote.
All of them are real people that know mean.io and use daily or have used it in the past.
I am not very HN savvy and have no idea what is the right practice to promote something I've posted and that i believe is valuable.
Is there some kind of guideline?
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This also is not code that would need to be written by a team.

The functions may be big, but they also don't have all that much duplicate code inside them. The choice of 4 functions isn't arbitrary either - they nicely divide the problem into:

- next() - splits the source code into a series of tokens

- expr() - parses expressions

- stmt() - parses statements

- main() - starts the processing of the source, and also contains the main interpreter VM's execution loop

Code generation is integrated into the parsing, since it's generating code for a stack-based machine and that also very nicely follows the sequence of actions performed when parsing.

In fact I'm of the opinion that the obsession with breaking up code into tiny pieces (usually accompanied by the overuse of OOP) is harmful to the understanding of the program as a whole since it encourages looking at each piece independently and misses "seeing the forest for the trees".

In contrast, this is code that is designed to be easily read and understood by a single person, showing how very simple an entire compiler and interpreter/VM can be. It doesn't attempt to hide anything with thick layers upon layers of abstraction and deep chains of function calls, but instead is the "naked essence" of the solution to the problem.

Someone used to e.g. enterprise Java may find this style of code quite jarring to their senses, but that's only because they've grown accustomed to an environment in which everything is highly-abstracted and indirect, hiding the true nature of the solution. Personally, I think the simplicity and "nakedness" of this code has a great beauty to it --- it's a functional work of art.
Some people are also clueless (in this occasion - me) but I'm willing to learn.
So asking people to up-vote in social media is a No-No?
Did you not make it through the article? The author described exactly that almost the exact same way.
If you believe this, you should not buy a house in the Bay Area.
And this is the mail that Elle should respond to:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2014-Nov...

In general, many people in the GIMP community found Elle's mails puzzling.

There have been suggestions to take the discussions to a more interactive environment - for example IRC, where most discussion happen anyway, or to the next Libre Graphics Meeting.
I ended up buying a pebble instead for this reason. Has a pedometer in addition to customisable watch faces and apps. Also, a great conversation starter :).
DUB is Dublin. I guess they could have used DBI....
> I would say that I’m fortunate to share a certain sense of humor and certain bit of “geek” culture.

I think this is a key point. The author of the article tries to fit in while at the same time not enjoying or even actively disliking the activities, which makes the whole exercise a bit dubious.
IAC is a tightly managed group, which tends to issue hard objectives and demand large returns. Call it capitalism, call it old-style management, call it whatever you like. It has been that way since the beginning.

I am surprised that Tinder hasn't been monetized, as profits heavily drive management decisions. I've no idea what happened, but I wouldn't be surprised if a major target was missed.

IAC is a very rewarding company for those that deliver results as promised. I enjoyed working at a couple of IAC jobs many years ago, but it can certainly be an adjustment!

Best of luck to Sean, I bet he'll do well.