skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing everything is a side effect of the architecture.

"The virtual dom is an implementation detail of React.js. React Native demonstrates that many rendering contexts are possible."

This was kind of the exciting point all along :).
DOM just happens to be the output of a function that people are most interested in at the moment.
but people have been talking about using it with canvas and other stuff, too. It's a generally-useful way to map functional data to render-trees.
The three most popular distros are all based on Debian (Mint, Ubuntu, Debian).

Ubuntu was/is intended to replace Windows, including in the enterprise. It's backed by a for-profit company called Canonical, which makes its money by offering enterprise support. The benefit of Ubuntu is that Canonical patches/supports LTS versions for a long period of time, and you can rely on those a little bit more. Another benefit is that they pay people to maintain packages, so you can always find Ubuntu repos for things.

Mint is basically Ubuntu with a more "classic" desktop bundled with it. You can achieve the same thing by using XFCE or some GNOME-alternative on Ubuntu though. It really depends how deep you want to go with that stuff.

DistroWatch offers a guide to choosing a distro[1] as well as a ranking in popularity[2].

I used to love Fedora, but it was too buggy for me. I've heard the latest release is fantastic, though.

elementaryOS is getting a lot of buzz right now, so look into that as well.

1. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

2. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
Reach out to sword fans who are active on sword forums, blogs, etc. and offer them a couple swords to review.
You can also use Instapaper.
I have mixed feelings about this.

On one hand, I would like to see tech companies in my country (the USA) have access to all international markets, and vice-versa.

On the other hand, I understand why governments like China, USA, etc. would want to protect their local infrastructure and competitive advantages.

I listened to a good interview with Catherine Austin Fitts this morning and one of the topics she talked about was how corporations are becoming more relevant than governments. When I see how corporate (and I include the military industrial complex) interests have usurped control of my government I find it difficult to disagree with her viewpoint. Who knows what will happen in the next few years, but it will be interesting to see how much corporations publicly get in the face of governments who get in the way of their business interests. One example of this would be push back against central banks affecting the value of money, etc.
Cool, commendable effort. One frustration I have is the (possibly soft) requirement for showing your work ala github profile or something else. I've noticed quite a few job postings where they ask you for a github profile. All my code belongs to my employer and I can't put stuff up on github. Not sure how people who are in this stupid situation deal with the new reality that github is your resume these days?
Amazing! Wish it was theres last year I went. Hopefully I can make it again this year!
The Mozilla Foundation regularly leads or joins in political action relevant to its mission. For example we campaigned against SOPA/PIPA and CISPA [1], submitted a Net Neutrality proposal to the U.S. FCC [2], and have testified multiple times to the Librarian of Congress and elsewhere in favor of DMCA exemptions and DMCA reform [3].

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/01/17/mozilla-to-join-tom...

[2]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/mozilla-offers-fc...

[3]: http://www.cnet.com/news/growing-pressure-in-congress-to-fix...
US industrial production beat Japan.

108 U.S. Aircraft Carriers bearing down on the Main Islands had a little bit to do with surrender.
Indeed, the dwarves are for the dwarves.
It's actually in What Do You Care What Other People Think. About half the book is dedicated to it, and it's an incredible read.
Tractors are now routinely used with GPS-based hands-off driving, just to get precision rows. Trimble Navigation and John Deere offer that. But few go all the way to driverless operation. There have been lots of demos, experiments, and startups, but full driverless operation is still rare. Autonomous Tractor Corp's site still says "will be demonstrated in the field in the fall of 2014".

Automated precision driving is a big win, because all the field operations work better if they're precisely lined up on the rows, and driving that accurately by hand is wearing. But equipping a tractor with all the sensors needed to avoid obstacles and accidents is still difficult. It's necessary to distinguish between tall corn and someone standing in the corn.
I'm actually not too surprised. It seems like Amazon feels like they have to have every online service possible, however, some of their services could be better if they focused on fewer.
How would it be relevent even if it was? You either accept the fact people are free or you don't. Whatever is your judgement on a specific topic should not matter when talking about tor. Be it child porn, human traficking, banned journalism.

Why would US's judgement against child porn be better than <insert a country>'s judgement on journalism.
Solid recruiting tool! Finding top notch Engineers anywhere is tough no matter where you are - props to people who come up with an innovative approach.

Our startup based here in NYC is doing something similar, lets do a hackersurfing coast-to-coast marathon?

http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/legal-hr/2014/03/11/4-t...
Techstars Raises a New $150M Fund
Hi, I'm Jordan from the React team. I'm happy to answer any questions about React Native, but @vjeux will be giving a more thorough talk tomorrow that you won't want to miss (if you're at ReactJSConf), so I might wait for him to answer some of them.

This is not the DOM. This is not a web view. If you know ReactJS, you can build native apps with React Native.
There's a (small) issue with the application form. I linked my linkedin profile, but didn't include the http[s]://, and it threw an error, but then continued submitting the form anyways.

Everything I submitted was kosher, but just in case you're getting any incomplete forms and wondering why.
People Working from Home in a Snowstorm May Be Producing More Than You Are
How about free housing and food for engineers who already live in SF?
7 Habits Dangerous to Your Blog
Very promising! As a (past) Titanium developer, FB Groups being in the wild for a while comes as a relieve to my hears.

I'd bet Angular going Native first, though, I guessed it was coming with 2.0
Digital Rights Groups Oppose Fast Track for the TPP
> But when individuals flag up problems only a third of it is taken down.

Because they don't give enough importance to these requests, or because many of the requests are invalid? If it's the former, that's something that content hosts should be held accountable for. If people flag stuff for you for free, you better use that information...
One Source of Truth to Rule Them All
I honestly don't know of anything that fits your criteria. I know Go recently got an iOS port, though. Rust is definitely too young. No idea about OCaml.

Unfortunately, the most portable language is JavaScript, and that isn't what you're looking for.
I'm not sure it is that important. If the tractor has some failsafe to just stay in the field, then somebody standing in the field is going to have a bad day. They're in the way of some industrial operation, and its their fault.

I know, children and kittens etc. But plenty of other industrial processes are dangerous and don't deal with it; why should farming?
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"I say with confidence as a former UIKit author: React's model for the UI layer is vastly better than UIKit's. React Native is a huge deal."

https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/560511204867575808
There are many reasons why we picked Polyester, the number one being that our product needs to be washable.

If you look at the tech specs section on http://lunasleep.com you'll notice from the drawings that a mattress pad is composed of multiple layers, if we use natural fibers for all the layers, say for the filling (batting), the product would never dry and could grow mold (that's why ALL the heating pads on the market and most mattress pads are made of polyester).

One thing we could do is think about a premium version with the top layer (and maybe the bottom layer?) made of 100% cotton. Such a product would cost a little more (about $30) and take a little longer to dry completely after washing.

Would you guys be interested in such a premium product?

EDIT: formatting
Read about Sit/Lie and how SF voted to criminalize homelessness in 2010, and you'll see why these "hostels" for tech workers are needed now more than ever.
Not so. The AI was always there. We originally intended to use Text-to-Speech for output but rapidly found that TTS couldn't deliver the vocal nuances and timing required for the experience we wanted to deliver - this after all was a game where humour and quality of writing were crucial - hence the move to pre-recorded chunks. One of the heroic and oft-unsung latter-day development efforts on the game was the design of the pre-recorded chunks for assembly on the fly at play time and the mechanism by which they were assembled and delivered.
> but I do admire Java for making it significantly more painful to write mutable rather than immutable classes;

Out of curiosity, how does it do that? As far as I know, everything in Java is mutable by default.
When I checked the link, it showed that the laptop comes with Windows. How is the driver support for Linux(esp. fan)? Which flavour are you using?
I doubt it would happen at runtime in iOS/Android, though? They would need to ship a JS interpreter that gets run on application startup, parse the React files, instantiate the native controls and create a bridge between them back to the JS interpreter?

Well on second thought I guess Appcelerator Titanium does something similar. So it's native UI only, but with the added overhead (JS interpreter + bridge, larger binary size, slower startup, etc.).
Police Complain About Waze, Encounter Streisand Effect
Importing spreadsheets with column headings and data rows is bad enough - my biggest struggle is with spreadsheets used as fillable forms. I've spent tons of time working on generalizable tools for extracting this kind of semi-structured data but in the end each group of files requires a lot of custom work.
No luck, I can't see the article with that link either
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That's usually called a relocation bonus.
So does it use PhoneGap or something like it?
Great read.

>As far as anyone knows, there has never been a gas attack on an American ATM. The leading theory points to the country’s primitive ATM cards. Along with Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, and not many other countries, the U.S. doesn’t require its plastic to contain an encryption chip, so stealing cards remains an effective, nonviolent way to get at the cash in an ATM.

Would this really be the reason why there hasn't been a gas attack in the US? Even if a criminal stole an ATM card they would still need a PIN. How does a criminal get the PIN? Especially in a non-violent manner?
'Ship's surgeon' in some cases meant they went through a training course, which taught them how to amputate and extract teeth. Most often not a doctor in the modern sense.
Native APIs are exposed as JS modules. And XHR, for example, is polyfilled in terms of whatever native capability exposed. You can totally use npm modules, provided any module that it uses is polyfilled.
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Hi Jordan, when you say native apps what platform(s) will it be possible to target? E.g. windows, osx, ios, android etc?
Just because there are lots of applicants doesn't mean there are lots of qualified people.
Can you let us know a bit more about what this is? Native to what? Android / iOS? Desktops?

Does it allow you to render native components with JSX as opposed to only DOM elements? Can you mix the two, somehow?
Many devices don't offer local storage to Netflix. Also, if your device crashes or your internet drops, there is a good chance that you're going to try and watch on a different device.

It makes for a much better customer experience if we don't have to rely on your device saving the information and calling home appropriately.
Who cares? It also could have been written in Perl, csh, C, APL, Pascal, or Fortran, and it would work exactly the same.

Can we stop shitting on cool things just because the technology being used is "trendy", or you're sick of hearing about it?
Valets Using Square Card Readers for Tipping Is Awkward
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Depends. There could be a build step that compiles all that logic. Or there could indeed by a JS runtime.
You were modded down, but I tend to agree. Randomly printing slash characters is not a valid way to generate anything that could be called a "maze," and it's consequently not a very interesting thing to optimize.

I suppose that if you fed it with a source of true randomness and let it run long enough, the output would eventually contain all possible mazes with unit corridor width. It may be more precise to say it can't generate a labyrinth, or a dungeon with rooms.
Yeah, my react code has WM_PAINT all over the place.
Dumping data out of medical devices, of late, has become a topic that might be of interest to this community. In general, the law requires that a patient be able to access all the medical data that they generate; it's part of their health record, and (with very few exceptions) they have a right to know the contents of it.

Unfortunately, as patients begin automatically generating data -- for instance, pacemakers that automatically dump ECG data to a doctor's office, or implantable neurostimulators that automatically dump EEG data -- there have been real concerns lately over whether they can access the data in a standardized format (or, in reality, whether they can access it at all!). Companies have been somewhat reticent to give patients access to what they perceive as proprietary machine learning data that their device has collected.

Hugh Campos discusses this in a talk he gave at one point: http://boingboing.net/2012/09/28/why-cant-pacemaker-users-re...

It would be interesting to know if patients have access to implanted EEG data (perhaps they could use it to measure sleep, if they could access it?). They should, but I'm not holding out hope.
I suppose they would say that the threat is that the videos serve as propaganda pieces for these organizations, including use as recruitment tools.
Does it run using JavaScriptCore? Can we implement something like Hot Module Replacement a la react-hot-loader[1] for it?

I dreaded my Xamarin build times..

[1]: http://gaearon.github.io/react-hot-loader/
To clarify, I'm refering to

> I find France's own crackdown on non-protected free speech during and shortly after their legendary march for free speech to be much more ironic than a business obeying local law.
Fantastic Idea!

Just one thought as I was playing with your site, I wish there was a way to center the text on my pinegram. I wonder if this would be less of an issue if the anchor point of the text was in the center and not the left corner.

Edit

Does your CNC support any unicode characters? Hearts, PI, Fractions, Copyright...
"learn once, write everywhere" - I like the sound of that! But I guess in the spirit of React this is still only the "V" in MVC right? I don't suppose they are planning to broaden the scope to anything other than rendering views. So if you want to use this to build native apps, I guess you are going to have to integrate another cross-platform solution for storage/sensor APIs?
Haha, hopefully by you! We are giving security a very high priority and we hope the community will try as much as possible to break it to send us feedback and suggestions.
There will be more detail tomorrow, but at a high level:

* JS engine on a background thread

* Communicates via batched, async messaging protocol to a native (objc or android) server running on the main thread (basically create_view(), update_view(), destroy_view(), on_event() etc)

* Plug-in for React that speaks that protocol

* Tools to make cross-platform dev a bit easier (standard text component, cross-platform flexbox layout system)

* Designed to take advantage of native platform views, NOT be the next Java Swing
I can't wait to see more details about this. I hope this isn't another botched attempt at trying to solve the cross compiled native app challenge. I've seen and signed up for so many hype machines for solving this problem including plain old responsive web apps, Adobe AIR, Phone Gap, Corona, and Famo.us. I've invested time in learning about all of these platforms, but in the end they all fell short in some way or another. I have high hopes for $FB though because I've really enjoyed most of the projects they've open sourced including React and Pop. Personally, it's been easier for me to just learn and use Swift/Obj-C. The main caveat is that my apps are limited to running on iOS.
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it's because native threads are expensive
Ancient Skull Adds New Insight to Story of Human Evolution
Funny, I've actually been thinking about this problem recently and can totally relate to your dating analogy as I see it similarly. As you know, there are several steps in the hiring pipeline, from introductions (getting to know one another), to qualifying (what you're talking about and which has n > 1 iterations- phone screen to inhouse to multiple inhouse depending on level), to on boarding, etc. You initially want to apply a speed dating filter to weed out the few of interest (a guy/girl can walk into a bar and within 30 secs tell which individuals is of interest to them. You want to get there!)

Moving on to the initial qualifying state, I think the one mistake you're making is assuming that only your company can validate this unknown person. To truly scale, we need to figure out a trust scheme (we sort of have it already with our belief in top ranking schools - you mentioned it is a crappy metric, which I agree, but this has historically been the baseline). We need sort of an SSL certificate like system where some third party(ies) can qualify individuals for your company. Again we sort of have this (on the technical front) with top coder scoring, online tests, SO rating, Git Hub Repo, etc. We need to come up with a standard "reputation" service, most likely related to skill, that can be applied in scale.

If anyone cares to bat around some ideas, I'd be an interested party.
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Andrew Baron left NYC having totally alienated the startup community. Business dealings aside, he just isn't smart. His post on "how to invest" is legend. It starts, as is his pattern, by framing his odd action as "Partnering" with the larger entity.

Investment advice every founder should NOT follow:
http://dembot.com/post/16

His cloudy thinking seems to infect everything he does. Including this post about Ello.

Disclaimer: never had any interactions with the guy. Just a longtime follower of the madness.
This already happens in the US with software and hardware that is essential for national security.

How is that any strange that China wants to do the same?.
The job of the NSA is spying other countries, obviously China does not want other countries controlling their basic infrastructure.

Of course, having the source code means in a couple of years there will be a Chinese company creating the same hardware or software, and with lots of "coincidences" in the code code.

It is not very different to what Americans did with the British.

I have lived and worked in China, I speak Mandarin. There any Chinese commercial companies have to go to meeting with other Chinese companies, so THEY CAN COPY YOU!!

Any commercial company operating in China needs to have 51% Chinese participation. As a western well trained person, if you work there in 49% partnership with a foreign company, they could offer you millions of dollars for making a 100% Chinese company competitor.

The west should start demanding reciprocity to China in lots of ways.
How does it compare to AsyncDisplayKit?
How does it compare to browserify? Is it a drop-in replacement?
DIY Raspberry Pi-powered anonymous browsing box
Seems like you won the pot. @vjeux will be giving a bigger talk about it tomorrow and he's the biggest contributor to the css project (https://github.com/facebook/css-layout/graphs/contributors).
As someone who is just getting into iOS dev is there any benefit (that's at least known at this point) to using React over Swift for UI?
No, because PhoneGap uses the DOM.
Would you be willing to elaborate re my reply to colinramsay?
Russia Considers Condemning the 'Annexation' of East Germany
Great article, though I don't quite understand why it was posted here of all places.
>>I hope that at some point John Q Public realizes that digital privacy and free flow of information are more akin to advancing society scientifically and spiritually much more so than terrorism, child porn, human/drug/weapon trafficking, et al.

The trouble is, there is no way to accurately measure this factor, nor is there any recognition of it - because using the Internet for free and open, honest communication, is the majority case. Unless we can come up with some way of acknowledging the good, and really getting the good counted in a way that is statistically significant in the discussion, this piece of the pie is going to be impinged upon by the loud, attention-getting, criminal activities.

But this circumstance is not unique to the Internet - it has been true of all media, since the days of Gutenberg. The good rarely gets attention; only the violence, the hatred, the terrorism gets real attention in our world. Nobody turns on the news to hear what good has happened in the world - for some reason, this is not interesting to the majority.

If there were only some way to change this situation, we would see some light at the end of the tunnel - I suppose acknowledgement of the positive in the world does happen. But we need to get off our junky fix for the disorder and chaos in this communication age, and figure out ways to measure the good that open, honest, and most importantly free communication brings to the world. We need a metric that makes sense in light of the death statistics, the crime rate, and so on ...
This is very exciting. I've been using React for a bit now and have found it a pleasure to work with. I can't wait for more details on React Native.