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MCM2 was my first introduction to this. The hacking of the game was just as the game as the riding was. These would be good examples last week when there was discussion about bugs in Minecraft being just as much Minecraft as the intentional features.
I've been building iOS app with AppGyver for almost four months. It's great. There is a lot of bugs and difficulties, but we've managed to get app that satisfy us and ready for AppStore. And now I'm opening marketing email, seeing that marketing buzz about the new brand name, super exciting, scanning QR of Kitchensink demo app to Android Scanner and getting terrible experience. If I understand correctly we still should use almost entirely different codebase to make it look native on Android 5 Material Design (navigation/tabbar/material components, etc.). And Ionic doesn't help to solve this problem. Maybe https://material.angularjs.org/ does.
My biggest hope is that AppGyver will continue to improve support for Android, but I'm not sure that it will happen in next 4 months, so yes, different codebases or custom grunt hacks.
I found your experience closely mirrors mine with scala. At my current shop we write mostly ruby and scala. The ruby code between developers looks much more uniform than the scala code I believe due to the fact that while trying to please everyone scala hasn't yet developed much of "the scala way". I do hope this changes as I really enjoy scala. Currently my team is experimenting with style/punting tools like stylecop to try to bring a little consistency to our code. Too early to say how it will work out but I would love to hear from others how you try to bring a team style to a code base that will happily let a fully functional developer, a fully object oriented developer, a straight imperative developer, and someone who believes in mixing these things all work side by side. Mentally by giving up the possibility of nothing you have to learn everything which means loading a lot of the scala compiler up into your brain before even trying to read a bit of anyone else's code.
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Great idea but needs more refinement!
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Not familiar enough with geopolitics or global economics to comment on how the regime survives physically or financially but I can hazard a guess as to how they keep up the cultural and intellectual "blinders".

Reading this article I started to wonder how it would read if you replaced the North Korean students with fundamentalist Christians (or Muslims) in a majority-fundamentalist society. Then consider if the teacher was a secularist trying to find ways to sneak messages about evolution or atheism or even material that treated different belief systems with equal weight or validity.

While I don't know of anyplace in my own country where a fundamentalist ideology is as entrenched as the North Koreans' is in Pyongyang, it's still easy for me to conceptualize. In the U.S. there are no doubt schools where a teacher speaking about secularism would prompt students to resist and parents to complain.

With a country like DPRK, I just imagine it as if the most conservative, fundamentalist parts of the US were cut off from the rest of the country and never even had anyone try to argue that man probably didn't walk with the dinosaurs or that gay people didn't murder babies or whatever. Even if there were people who thought it was all bunk they'd probably keep quiet or risk getting fired.

Add to that the fact that in DPRK you run the actual risk of being sent to a prison camp for questioning the accepted ideology and I can see why it might just be easier to play along. Normal people anywhere are typically more concerned with making a living and taking care of their families, not raging against the machine.
Sorry to hear it isn't working. You can help out by sending the output of the browser console and the stats from http://webglreport.com/ to hello@piste.io
It's more like if you had a server and a client. If the client understands the server packet, then it can perhaps do something with it. The packet contains some information. But, the developer may package it in an infinite number of ways. I would say that a 'non-abstract' packet would be one that would contain all possible state of the system. It would be akin to photo-realistic paintings or perhaps photography. But, I would say that an 'abstract' packet would be one that contains the least amount of structure and metadata for the primary information to be passed. Maybe it's not a good analogy - I'm just coming up with something on the fly.

Picasso experimented a lot with this. Take a look at his bull drawings. He started with a very representational image of a bull. Then, he said, 'what if I start taking things away - how much can I take away for it to still be a bull?'

Picasso then went on similarly to experiment with different perspectives. How much can you twist or warp the perspective for it to be still representative of the thing?

Can the artist take away so much that it just becomes a Platonic form? Can it still communicate information (emotion)?

I'm just an amateur artist though - I'm sure an academic could shed more light.
Ambulances may kill more people than they save by driving at high speed http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/03/21/usat-a...
Thanks for doing this! We've been trying to track down a new set and eventually just put in an order at lego.com and hoped for the best for xmas delivery (it's fluctuating between 30 days and 2 week estimate), but this is very useful moving forward.
Well the Santa Claus question will defeat bots for now at least...
http://imgur.com/qX8pWrQ
If you use Bootstrap Sass, you could look into only including the components that you actually use – can help reduce Bootstrap bloat big time.
I hear you. Regarding the prevalence of Macs in business though, I have yet to walk into any business office and see more Macs than PCs unless it's an advertising agency and even then, they still have a lot of PCs and their back-end networks and web servers are usually running Windows. (I'm on the East coast, tri-state area.) Then of course is the Mac's global market share. In the global market, they have about 6%. So, it's a relatively minor OS in my opinion.
> To be fair, wet roads confuse human-driven cars, too.

Especially in California.
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great! thanks for the info and link. If you have a chance, I'd love to hear more about your experiences and challenges with the approach. thanks!
No it is not. Just because you have a one bad experience, doesn't mean that is how the enterprise works. There are hundreds of thousands of enterprise shops out there. We don't do anything like the craziness you guys are talking about. We make it work with the easiest code possible. If necessary we refactor when we need to make a solution more generic.
> Another place where macros in Lisp fail is that they may evaluate an expression twice

Strictly speaking, macros don't evaluate their expressions at all.

Square is a bad example, though. Macros are not for writing function-like expressions; they're for extending (or more generally transforming) the syntax of the language. Inline functions and compiler macros are more appropriate tools for things like square.
I think the question that rhodri poses is an important one. For me, satisfaction comes from more than just the solution to the immediate problem, or the amount of money I'm being paid to solve it. Satisfaction comes from knowing that what I'm spending my life on is meaningful in some greater sense.

Other ML fields like robotics and deep learning have virtually limitless applications that may benefit society in some way. Of course, I have heard the arguments for statistical arbitrage being useful by way of reducing inefficiencies in the market and providing liquidity, but this is far less tangible.
Which companies had cars here? I've been impressed with some European car makers and their self-driving cars, especially Volvo. They seem to make cars that handles true driving conditions, while American makers have idealized conditions, especially the Google car.
Can anyone who understands this better than I do explain whether this replaces Fig, and if so, which parts of it?
I was wondering why they would need employee negotiations until I realized this was in Finland. In the US, you would come in one day to work and you badge would no longer work!
I take it that it's not openly published, but just in case, feel free to drop the url or at least this guy's name.
The problem with the mountains though is that these conditions can manifest themselves in a matter of minutes. Last time I drove through the mountains, it was sunny on the way up, but as we were leaving it was already overcast and within 10 minutes we were in thick fog and a near blizzard. Also, roads completely iced over 1/2 way through the 30 minute drive back down the mountain. I'm not sure any AI would have done better than I did in this case.
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Car engine stripped down and rebuilt – in stop motion
Not everything that posts submissions to HN is a browser that will honour the maxlength attribute. For example, there are various mobile apps that scrape HN and allow you to submit urls.

Server side validation is entirely appropriate.
And my earliest iPhone's were pretty poor at getting a GPS signal and drained my battery like a madman. Within 3 years that had all changed dramatically. So I'm not sure how much weight I place on current results in an area advancing so rapidly.
Non-lispers don't always realize that more parens can actually be a feature :)
Ok, quoting someone who has no clue what they are talking about is useless. I can say the sky is red but that doesn't make it true.

I feel like I'm reading the article to you, but OK.

> We asked Pai's office to provide further details and sources for the claims in the letter and received a partial response. Pai's office provided us links to three articles describing Netflix's refusal to join the newly formed Streaming Video Alliance, but no sources for the "fast lanes" claim or the accusation that Netflix changed its streaming protocols to prevent "open caching software" from working.

If I were Netflix I wouldn't join that alliance either, have you seen the members?? It would be like China, North Korea, and Russia creating a "Freedom Alliance" and then calling out the USA for not joining it claiming they must hate freedom. A name means nothing (Citizens United anyone?) and I don't trust this SVA as far as I can throw them. Pai has either been horribly mislead or is purposely spewing lies. Anyone can make outlandish claims which is EXACTLY what Pai is doing here.

Netflix has had Open Connect around for MUCH longer than the SVA existed yet Pai tries to phrase it as the SVA asked Netflix to join, Netflix said "Fuck you" and went and created OC with the intent to give their data an edge. That's NOT what happened at all. Netflix has been fighting this peering stuff for quite some time and developed OC as possible workaround. It's not Netflix's job to provide an open caching system they everyone can use and further more even if they had the ISP's would have still told them to go jump in a lake.
Just downloaded this and had to share. I have Bose IE2s, and am not necessarily an audiophile, but just turning on Boom makes the sound INCREDIBLE.
The picture recognition test is particularly annoying. Even in their example, of "match this" (cat), are we to assume we're matching all cats, or just cats of that color?

If they have to make very careful sets of photos to avoid confusion, then the sets of photos will be small enough to build lookup libraries for bots.
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Away we go!
oh man i feel the same.....
If you like Scala but find it too scattered then there's always Haskell* :)

(*) Not that there aren't a thousand reasons to not choose Haskell. This is merely obligatory temptation dangling.
It's actually illegal to rebind symbols in the package common-lisp:

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/11_aba...

[edit]

And as a note, one ought-not rebind symbols in other packages without taking into account macros from that package. This is the Common Lisp solution to the hygiene problem: don't bind symbols from other people's packages unless you want to change the behavior of other people's code. Any macro that only relies on the bindings of unexported symbols (and symbols from the CL package) is hygienic by default to users from other packages.
A programmer complains that different programmers have different styles of programming in Scala ...

and ... switches to a lisp. You know, languages that execute code by rewriting the syntax tree of the running program ...

This ought to be good.

This is not meant to be disparaging against LISPs. I'm just alluding to the fact that while there are 5-10 ways to do the same thing in Scala, all looking very different, working subtly different, there's 5000 different ways to do the same thing in LISPs.
It makes you wonder what we don't know about today. What are some of the things that we see with wonderment that in 50-100 years people will have the same reaction that you do with radiation today?
Cool. It seems to satisfy the A & D of the ACID properties [1]. The C is not-applicable as there isn't a notion of schema or constraints [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database#Constraints
Yeah but this was clearly UNDER optimized for the security of 100 TB of SSNs, Salaries, and Movies leaked. All of which is classified as sensitive (i.e. anything that can be considered a financial loss to the business).
Really like the way the garage thing works. Simple but I can see how it just works.
I think the risk here is that you're aiming the bar for 100% perfection (very high) when the accurate bar to compare it against is human drivers (far from 100%) So self driving cars just need to be better than your average human driver. That's a much lower bar from the parking lot fender bender to the prevalence of speed in fatalities etc.

EDIT: Changed to "100% perfection" from 0% to remove any confusion.
Can't be too specific, but I often need to solve differential equations, find closed form solutions to some integrals (mathematica helps but is often not sufficient), build models which strike a good balance between realism and tractability. Find which properties are important to preserve in models and which aren't, etc.

chollida1's comment is spot on and I oscillate between 1 and 2.
Agreed, but think the positioning of it isn't useful - why not up top?
Azure is growing like mad, and in most corporations it's listed as 'AWS', 'Azure' and 'everyone else' when discussing the cloud. I've had multiple meetings where I was the only person who'd even heard that Google had an option...RackSpace comes up more often than Google. This article is pretty clearly paid for by Google, in a battle that they are really late in arriving to.

And given Google's reputation for support (fully warranted in my experience), it's going to take a lot for corporations to shift away from AWS. It's actually astounding how much market share Azure has gotten already in spite of AWS.
I hear what you're saying but when you check the picture, you see that the tips join perfectly, which is extremely unlikely to occur randomly, especially when there seems to be more than one zigzags.

[http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.22191.1417622702!/image/...]
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for pre-ANSI C most of these questions are answered by "it depends on the compiler" which is why ANSI C happened. Of course the answer is still "it depends on the compiler" for this behavior, since it's not defined what it does in ANSI C, just that it's not portable to do it.
Possible credit card breach at Bebe Stores
The 'select all' checkbox on http://getflakes.com/preview/tables.html has no effect my Chrome.
Yes, but your iPhone wasn't exactly the first mobile device with GPS; having a smartphone with GPS, Wifi, etc and decent battery life was a solved problem, even if Apple couldn't do it at the time.
How much higher than 0% though? Human still have a high number of accidents, but that's because we drive a lot. The 0% error for human driving is very, very, very, very low.
Agreed, was coming in here to comment on as much. I don't think anything on the demos really stood out quite as much as the grid forms does. It's closer to what people who might be replacing a paper form would probably like.

Whenever I'm designing a system that is replacing paper, though it's been a long while. I find it best to start with as close to the paper version as practical. There's a lot to be said for making something that is familiar.
I run http://LaunchSoon.com for more than 7 years. It's a simple script that allows site owners to easily create a coming soon page. It made about $50k since I've created it.
I'd like to see a detailed explanation of R's scoping. It's not just lexical scoping; callees can deliberately manipulate the scope their arguments are evaluated in, for example. So you can call a function and pass arguments that are available in local scope, but the arguments are lazily evaluated, and the callee might evaluate them in an entirely different scope.

Typically this is done for manipulating datasets. You might have a data frame with columns Width and Height, and so you want to be able to call do.stuff(Width, Height, data=foo), and have Width and Height automatically taken from within foo. But sometimes it crops up in unexpected places.
That's liquid oxygen or liquid hydrogen cooking off.
I think colours for names of buttons are OK. I hate having to jump between CSS frameworks and trying to remember what the correct class is - danger? Warning? Error? I know what I want is red, and any time I want to change the class of a button or message/alert your core intent is to change the colour - so you might as well skip that abstraction IMO.
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Yep. Looks like the only thing with any functionality attached is the search. Which is funny because with the search at the top of the page I could see how it would lead one to believe that the rest of the buttons might have functionality attached to them as well.
@ jeff, the compiled download zip is down for openc1
NASA's Orion launch scrubbed, rescheduled for Friday
After School: the latest anonymish teen app courting controversy
I had to think a bit before responding, but university PR departments regularly report questionable findings. The two you picked are obviously highly politicized topics, so it's obvious why that would cause an uproar.

I agree that they ought to be held to a higher standard, but I think that the motivation of scientists for not doing so is more out of apathy, and less out of a desire to seem more mysterious.
Hmm yes the 'decentralized' version history would be a problem, true.
Ask HN: [UK startups] has anyone worked with Growth Accelerator?
http://www.growthaccelerator.com/

Their self-description is "GrowthAccelerator is a government-backed service that helps ambitious businesses to grow through coaching, workshops, masterclasses and match funding. We can help you with business development, leadership and management training, access to finance and innovation."

They don't focus specifically on tech or startups -- their "success stories" page lists a number of companies in a range of industries, from engineering to insurance to restaurants. But they offer coaching and apparently can do investor introductions at some level.

OTOH they do charge for their services, which is a bit of a red flag for me.

So, has anyone here used them?
Yes, and all of it. It's largely the same thing, in Docker core.

That's just Compose, though. The other two are completely different beasts.
I wish more things looked like this at work. There's apps that look like native apps, there's bootstrap apps, there's all the custom CSS floating around, there's whatever's new, there's the stock CSS sheet that comes with the plugins...

Keeping to principles like this at work or for work environments would make it so much easier to have unity. I'm not saying everything should look like this, but that not everything needs to stand out for the sake of standing out. Using the same app every day undoes the need for over the top "visual cues" and complex overlays and material concepts. We need fast, interchangeable stuff, that works with large amounts of data/fields/etc when the content doesn't fit looking like apple.com. :)

I wish you guys luck, and I'll give it a shot the first chance I get.
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Every list of best practices, for every LISP, agrees that macro use is generally a "use rarely" thing. And Clojure seems to have developed idioms around simplicity.

Scala, on the other hand, has wildly diverging sets of best practices. The feature set is huge, attempting to appeal to pure functional programmers in their academic ivory towers, and the grizzled Java developers who believe OOP is the one true way, and everyone in between.

It's easy to -say- that there are 5000 ways to do the same thing in a LISP, and only 5-10 ways to do the same thing in Scala (both statements being hyperbolic, presumably; there are infinitely many ways of doing each, after all), the meaningful variations you are likely to see in the wild are far, far lower in Clojure than Scala. And will likely be based on different understandings/expressions of the problem, rather than on different language subsets that the author prefers.
With security you either pay for it now, or you pay for it later. These companies who make lots of bad mistakes seem to have opted for the latter.
I worked at a hedge fund at the start of my career, though it was somewhat atypical as it was a very new fund and had more of a startup environment than a well established hedge fund. The work was a fantastic split between analysis and building new software to run the fund.

But to your point, the CTO of the fund was a pure math phd who got into finance/coding when his advisors asked "Ok so now how are you going to make money". which is common for most of the heavy duty quants I know.
Very nice work. Given the prevalence of Bootstrap and Foundation, it would probably help adoption if there were options with those as the base styling lib.

I know there is a lot of work in the custom sass here and this is currently a one-man project. May be a good candidate for a "Roadmap" and "How you can help" section in the repo's Readme.