skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but who does that in real life outside the tiny community of extreme hardware nerds? Absolutely such things are possible, but they're increasingly impractical. It's the same reason that people promote widespread adoption of encryption; there's no encryption so strong that it couldn't be easily circumvented at the endpoints by really dedicated sppoks, but the sheer inconvenience is itself a safeguard against mass surveillance.
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I'm not convinced that the iPad was all that revolutionary, I think that 2009/10 was the year when the hardware needed to build a successful tablet became cheap enough to build a profitable one. The equally successful Galaxy Tab launched just half a year later, and Samsung obviously didn't start working on it after the iPad launch. It really was an "obvious" thing given the wild success of smartphones (not that the engineering/software/UX work was in any way trivial).
If you mean what I think you mean by "manually currying", it's likely because behind the scenes, there is a proxy class created for most (all?) lambdas that contains everything it needs to execute, including any scope variables maintained. So there's some extra overhead there, though not as much as you'd expect since everything, even value types, are pulled in by reference in the context of lambdas.
You are handicapped when you have to wear glasses (at least above a certain threshold - I cannot comment for people with only slight sight impairment). Last year I've decided to finally end this misery and got my eyesight fixed. I've gone from -12/-9 (extreme shortsightedness) to normal eyesight and don't have to wear glasses anymore

.. the change is profound but hard to describe. Sometimes, I just stand there and look at things in a distance I couldn't see before, even with glasses. Sometimes, I just look into one direction and try to notice what I can see from the corner of the eyes. An area which was completely non-existent to me before. I've also noticed that my eyes lack certain reflexes which you would normally expect: When I take a handkerchief and one corner goes near my eyes, you would normally expect that they close (corneal reflex) .. but mine often don't and I've hit my cornea at various times, probably because my brain somehow expects that the handkerchief cannot hit the eye "there will be a barrier" .. well, there's no barrier anymore. Then I sometimes stare at objects in half-dark conditions and wonder if my eyesight is still not perfect or if this is the way "normal" eyes see such things (according to all tests my eyes are perfect, so what I see is normal .. just unexpected maybe?). In the end, the most profound change is that I don't have to take care of my glasses anymore and they cannot fault in the worst situations. When I was the best man at a wedding and the nose pads of my glasses broke off .. I'm not angry if I won't have this experience ever again.
That's not different than some open source projects and has no bearing on it being open source. Some project leads call attempted contributors idiots and refuse to even fix security bugs. Some have differing visions for their project. Which projects run by a strict vote, and how would you even decide who gets to vote? Most likely you'd elect leaders that will vote in the benefit of the project... Which is what MS has effectively done.
This post is really surprising to me. I've always thought of Mr. Feld as the giving, caring mentor type -- the near-lone exception to the rule in VC land. I've even heard him speak twice (in Nowheresville, USA) and he was very polite when I shook his hand and introduced myself.

To hear him write in such a holier-than-thou manner... It doesn't compute. Yes, he's important. Yes, he is busy. But I think it's proper courtesy to assume people understand this fact when they come to meet. If they don't then you handle it on the fly and, what's more, you've learned something about that person's interpersonal judgement. Was this a pitch meeting that went awry? Well maybe you've learned not to invest with them.

Regardless, having people Google how to meet with you is absurd on a level that only someone in a yes-man bubble would think is an OK policy to have and then write a blog poat about it.
> I was all over PGP in the early 90s but ...

Here in Europe, especially Germany, crypto parties pop up all over the place since the Snowden leaks. PGP & friends are more popular than ever, and receive more and more attention (although not yet "mainstream").

Is the situation so different in the USA?
I remember having switched to gcc in 1992 on SunOS (sparc) because of nasty bugs in cc compiler.
Did the Youtube Comment Snob people ever do anything more with that idea?
While I do agree that the interview process is arbitrary, I think that having a 50% success rate indicts far more than that.

If "success" is a coin flip, that means that EVERYTHING inside a company failed--interviewing, hiring, training, management, everything. If even one of those things was working, the success rate should be better than a coin flip.
And a lot of that research Apple will not have to do in this hypothetical situation - how much of that cost was manufacturing and how much was r&d that only needs to be done once?
Probably a bug; at least Nokia Maps has no such thing: https://www.here.com/discover?map=14.1088,120.63979,8,normal
I sometimes play with the focus when I'm taking videos. Sometimes I'd want the focus to be very up close at first and then focus more on the background while recording. Also, it's not always easy to tell if the object is too close/far to focus on, so the picture might not come out too well.

If you're thinking Snapchat and the video lasts until you release, the focus could perhaps be controlled by dragging over the area rather than tapping.

Overall, the focus isn't that big of a deal, but, to make as many people as possible happy, I would find a way to include as many features as possible. Flash is also a very important feature that wasn't accounted for. On top of that, how would the user go about toggling between the front and back facing cameras?
> Matte screen - That was an issue. I am typing from the last matte screen
> MBP Apple made, I didn't like the gloss. I've seen the newer machines in
> person and while they do reflect more light they're much better than they
> were years ago. The better contrast and color saturation would be worth it
> to me when I replace my laptop.

I am still rockin' my 2009 matte screen 15"! The ipad air 2 screen (in stores) seems like the new reduced reflectivity coating helps quite a bit. I am hoping they bring that to the next rev of the laptop screens.
https://asciinema.org/ also does the same thing :) They're really nifty to use
Mozilla is still feeling the effects of poor choices made by Netscape. If you want a real open source browser, try Konqueror - with (IIRC) <1/3 as many developers as Mozilla they wrote a complete open source browser from the ground up, with a rendering engine so good that Apple and Google adopted it to build their browsers on top of.
Well, satellite view also shows that there is nothing there. I think OP wanted to know how it got there, though.
Ah, well that makes sense. Though could you not store last position on the client then just sync on connect? Like, if handling so many events was too much a challenge. Or are crashes that big of a deal? At any rate, I guess that allows you some leeway with the writes - a few minutes of unavailability doesn't hugely impact anyone eh? Fun writeup.
Well on the plus side, sqlite has no daemon and pretty much requires no care and feeding.

However, I also think it is totally wrong for this use case.
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Little known fact: the lack of copy/paste in original iPhone OS was a nod to anti-plagiarism and also an attempt to disrupt the education space
I'll tell you what: this device is great, really

BUT: a microphone where I and my wife sleep and have sex? you either put an HARDWARE switch to turn it off (or even better, permit me to unplug the cable) or not gonna happen in my house
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It's just a map error. They happen all the time - once they had a super thin park that ran from Pittsburgh to Texas - it was sort of fun to try to trace it all the way (I gave up, but someone persevered all the way to the end of it).

You can report it to google - there's a report link on the page.
Steal even more of your personal data, I'm sure.
I've been using Safari without flash for a while now, and it used to be like that, but lately it's been extremely rare to find any which aren't html5 compatible.
Qualys Releases Security Advisory for “GHOST” Vulnerability on Linux Systems
Really impressive architecture, but, doesn't building the whole thing in Node, makes it more compatible for non-blocking calls?
This is obviously a personal preference question. I use a Linux laptop and a MacBook Pro daily. Most days I spend more time on Ubuntu. In case it matters, the MBP is brand new top end. I run Ubuntu on an older Dell Precision, yet its still what I prefer.

Since you're already on Ubuntu, I'd stay with it.

Linux is just great for development. 1.) I find the shortcuts on Linux more natural (for me). 2.) I use a lot of open source software and everything I use targets Linux. 3.) I find it easy to develop on the same OS that I deploy. 4.) I'm super used to Linux.

As for the Mac, the hardware casing is amazing...it's so thin and nice. As for RAM, CPU, its definitely very good, but not the highest end configuration on the market.
When I saw the headline, I thought it was about Google Glass. I had to read it thrice to convince myself it is just about glasses. Holy cow, am I in dire need of a vacation or just brainwashed?
On the sample link which one was your banner?
Talk to the teacher and ask him if you can join his class as a listener, unless you are a reknown ahole, or have severe hygiene issues, he'll most likely say yes.
You get no voice, so if you have doubts or whatnot, Google, Books, and your own reasoning will be your only ways out. You also get no qualifications of any kind, but you don't study for the piece of paper you get at the end of the course, do you?
Take it easy, anon.
you might want to google "equally successful" (http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/04/11/exclusive-apple-vs...).
> people were just expecting iPad to split the earth in half

... and it did.

This time last year, 42% of Americans over the age of 18 had a tablet, of which 75% had an iPad. That is, 31% OF AMERICAN ADULTS OWNED AN iPAD.[1]

Only 78% - at that time - had a laptop of a desktop, of any brand[2].

1/3 the number of people who own a computer in the US own an iPad. That is market penetration that beggars belief, for a product that didn't exist 5 years ago.

[1] http://marketingland.com/pew-50-percent-in-us-now-own-tablet...
[2] http://www.pewinternet.org/data-trend/mobile/device-ownershi...
It's important, but not enough. I don't think it's important enough, to buy a super-powerful (future) iphone, for just that, for enough people.

Consider PCs: also used for gaming, and certainly much more powerful than xone/P4, but PC sales have slowed.
Boy, that put me on a Wikipedia hike trail on subjects I had little to no knowlegde of. Thanks!
Can you send me your statistics for the last year? Find me on zq@matchingheads.com
I'm not sure how this will work with Cursive, but Cursive already provides nearly all of this functionality out of the box anyway. Cursive has colourised REPL output for ages, the test results have a graphical diff, and its Java navigation is way ahead of anything else. Cursive will do some stacktrace prettification if you have clj-stacktrace or Aviso pretty installed, but it doesn't automatically prettify all of them - I'll be adding that soon.
>> The "continental" idea is that the Press (news) is not supposed to be a business first and foremost, but a kind of service to the republic first, and a business second.

> This is dangerous because it is a lie. If the newspaper can't sell itself as a business, it can't buy ink and paper, and it shuts its doors. The business aspect is inescapable unless it's owned and run by the government, which is even more dangerous to press freedom. If you deny the business aspect, you can't analyze it, and you can't see if it biases coverage.

"Continental" press is highly subsidized.
That article is wrong. The quote that you gave, is contradicted in the last paragraph of the same article:
>> Recent research by Dutch scientists found that by increasing skin temperature the sleep quality in elderly people could be enhanced.

Also the study, that the article links to [0] says:

By employing a thermosuit to control skin temperature during nocturnal sleep, we demonstrate that induction of a mere 0.4 degrees C increase in skin temperature, whilst not altering core temperature, suppresses nocturnal wakefulness (P<0.001) and shifts sleep to deeper stages (P<0.001) in young and, especially, in elderly healthy and insomniac participants. Elderly subjects showed such a pronounced sensitivity, that the induced 0.4 degrees C increase in skin temperature was sufficient to almost double the proportion of nocturnal slow wave sleep and to decrease the probability of early morning awakening from 0.58 to 0.04. Therefore, skin warming strongly improved the two most typical age-related sleep problems; a decreased slow wave sleep and an increased risk of early morning awakening.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18192289?dopt=Abstract
How does your project differ from CouchDB? I mean, if there's one database that puts sync, realtime change feeds, and master-master replication at its core, it's CouchDB (and Pouch, Touch, etc.). It would certainly be my first choice for doing anything "firebase-like". What does gun do (or plan to do) different/better?

(I mean, nothing wrong with a project that duplicates others, but it seems odd to focus on master-master replication without distinguishing yourself from the most popular DB that's already built around that.)
doesn't C# already have structs ? how are records different from that?
You are making a prediction. How can that be accurate?
Related: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/lingui...
In business, number of units sold is not as important as number of units more sold.

It's meh because it isn't increasing in sales, not because its sales are low. If they sold 20 million last quarter, but had an constant year-over-year increase in sales, it wouldn't be considered meh.

I'm not sure I agree with this thinking either, but that's the explanation at least.
When I go on a trip, I always take my tablet instead of laptop, just because its smaller and I won't be tempted to work.

My tablet can't replace my laptop at all, but it's a great device for traveling, reading, and watching videos.
The vast majority of the app i'm now developping for the ipad are professional ones. I think the pro market still has a huge growth potential.
May I ask your age? I'm 40 years old now and have been thinking of getting my eyes fixed as well.
For the first, probably some textbook on SPICE simulation and/or upper-undergraduate EE texts, perhaps verging to RF engineering expertise. I used to need to worry about these things at My old job at MIT Lincoln Lab, but my boss said estimating true parasitic inductances and capacitances is way more of an art than a science in real systems. What you should look up and be famiar with are 'strip line' and 'micro strip', which take advantage of the layering and ground planes to get transmission lines with controlled characteristic impedance.

For the 2nd, you really need to get into solid state physics if you want to understand the details of CMOS, which entails some requisite knowledge of both quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics/thermodynamics. Maxwell's equations alone won't cut it.
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Nice! I think that if you use vanilla JS (even ES6), the class support adds more hassle than the gains it provides. For example, setting proptypes completely at the bottom of the file seems, well, cumbersome. It's a bit like putting a function signature after the function body. From that perspective, using the old React.createClass syntax seems to keep everything together a bit nicer.

However, if you want to use e.g. TypeScript with React, than this is a very big thing! Up until now, it was always a bit of a hassle, and with this change, it's completely straightforward (especially if you don't want JSX). You'll also need propTypes less because you can just use TypeScript interfaces for the `props` constructor parameter. Plus, TypeScript already has property initializers and all that, so all the other annoyances that you get when doing this with plain ES6 classes disappear with TypeScript.

I'm currently really considering porting my current project back to TypeScript for this single reason. The bad mix of TypeScript and JSX is what mostly holds me back. I'd like my view code to be somewhat understandable/hackable by designers and JSX really matters there. Any suggestions?
NewWind Raises €1.1M for Its Urban Tree-Shaped Wind Turbine
I think the part about the coin flip is misleading on two counts:

1) if you chose randomly from the pool of job applications, does OP really think you have 50% chance to fail / not fail? (probability doesn't work this way)

2) what does it mean that the hire "failed"?

EDIT: I do agree with the general sentiment of the article though.
As an electronics undergraduate most of us preferred digital electronics, analogue seemed like black magic. I'll always remember one of our analogue electronic lecturers scoffing at us when he had to cover a digital lab one day, saying digital electronics is just high gain analogue.
Downvotes seem unwarranted, this is the definition of "predatory pricing", which is just a company using the profits from one business to undercut in another with the intent of forcing competitors out of business.

Though I don't know that it really applies here - they're unlikely to drive TWC-Comcast out of business by pricing low in just a few areas. It's more of a concern when it's a large monopolistic company doing it to regional competitors to maintain their monopoly.
Structs have names. Records don't.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_type_system and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system.
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Doesn't even need an article.

Year 1: Apple fans buy it because they always buy everything apple sells.

Year 2: Some other rich people buy it, because they were shown it by apple fans.

Year 3: People buy it because other tablets aren't as mature; people start realising that doing normal day to day tasks on a tablet sucks.

Year 4: "Everyone has one", while at the same time most are actually shoved into cupboards or buried under desk clutter.

Year 5: People have realised tablets are impractical. For serious tasks, a computer is better, while for portability, a phone is better. Sales are now driven by replacement with new models and the 2nd world consumers buying their first, while most ipads are sitting in a cupboard or on a shelf somewhere.
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> Indeed. I use an iPad to make drawings for online lessons. It made drawings well when I got it in 2012, and it continues to make drawings well.

What all tools/apps/stylus you use? What's the entire process is like? Can you show some of your videos?
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In a way I'm in a pretty similar situation. I have a desktop for my day job, and an iPad mini 1 (1st gen) for evening browsing (so that I don't get sucked into work if I use the desktop machine).

There's been 3 updates to the iPad mini since mine, and felt zero need to upgrade. I'm very happy with my ipad, and most certaintly don't think it's meh, it's just apart of my evening cycle that I don't even think about any more.
Excellent, excellent ... but do you get halo effect at night when looking at lights? :)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5858550/f-records-vs-net-...
Really impressive. Curious to know why are you using RabbitMQ and redis? You can use redis as a queue cluster with celery. Any specific reason?
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8859199 for a great discussion (329 comments) on Brooke Allen's APL hiring story.
In my opinion the problem with iPad is iOS. Not saying that iOS is bad it's just not as good enough for tablets. The iPad Air 2, for example, has a huge amount of power in it's CPU and it's not by far being used on OS level functionality like multitasking. Until Apple makes iOS more appealing and functional for tablets people will find it boring or "just another version of an iPhone/iPod with big screen". Also there are some good and cheaper Android tablets in the market. For these reasons people don't feel excited about iPad as they were before.

I owned an iPad 3 and now an Air 2 and i can say that the hardware is top notch and it still continues to be probably the best tablet of the market overall. I also use an Android Phone. :)
Yeah, the phone just sticking to the seat was surreal. It's hard for me to imagine that kind of acceleration (and I've owned some quite fast cars).
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Would gas travel faster if it didn't have to drag the car along?
It provides just as much addition as running redis in a docker container. As for the "libcontainer explicitly doesn't claim security as a feature" do you have a source for this I'm curious ? Running things in containers provide isolation and should provide an extra layer of security (I no expert so prove me I'm wrong :) ). In the future it can provide resources isolation (CPU, memory ...). Also, at scale, I don't know anyone who is ready to setup namespaces and stuff manually.
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I'm not an expert, but losing France as a customer of cocoa (especially now after the panic about dwindling supplies, see http://www.ibtimes.com/chocolate-crisis-world-running-out-co...) doesn't seem like a huge deal. :) Also "oil" is generally pretty salable, there ought to be other customers.
Google Chrome comes packaged with a Flash player (at least on OS X), so here is what I do, very simple: no Flash, use Safari most of the time, use Chrome as a fall back.
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That looks like somebody messed up while converting image data to vector data in their GIS.

Sometimes you see stuff similar to this when you have a bunch of coordinates and a few of them are corrupted - then the lines would shoot off somewhere, and sometimes you might not even notice it. BUT this doesn't look like that - hell it could be pastefuck.
I'm in the same boat, my tablet gets most use from my son. For kids it's a great hing. Before reading age, though - once he can read he'll get a proper computer and I'll teach him programming...
Well not really as it doesn't run in a container. Might be a static binary though. Sure sc-redis could make much more sense for something that is really hard to setup (sc-<dependency-heavy-thing-here>).
I'm a bit scared of what will replace mixins.

I've worked with C++ code bases where inheritance went crazy, and also with C++ code bases where composition via components was well supported and somewhat enforced. I'd love to see ES building in some kind of default support for composition with components if mixins are out.

See also how Unity3D does it: http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UsingComponents.html

I'm very happy to see JavaScript advancing, but I really hope we don't end up falling into the same holes other OOP languages fell into and then had to slowly educate and build themselves back out of again over the years. Frontend seems to be very good at rediscovering the old-new.
The Spanish government has screwed the Spanish economy up. No thanks.