skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook owning mobile? Not hardly. They have users not because of the quality of their mobile experience. Their main app is still a POS. And, they still seem to have an aversion to native development -- their React "native" play is just a rehash of their earlier HTML 5 experiment. The purchased expertise from Instagram, etc is helping, but they are buying users, not necessarily earning them by creating a superior mobile product. The messenger spin off had minimal purpose except to annoy me. I get message notification on the main app, yet I have to open another app to read them? Who thought that was a good idea? It is almost at the same level of annoyance as the Foursquare spinoff of Swarm. Yes, FB kills it when it comes to users, however the cable companies have a lot of users too; that doesn't mean they're awesome. Financially Facebook might be doing really well, but that doesn't necessarily make them some kind of guru when it comes to mobile. When I think "awesome mobile experience," Facebook isn't what comes immediately to mind.
Make sure your project's public presence (website, github, etc) clearly describes its history and your authorship.

Also make sure it disclaims any associations with the team making false claims, either by name ("project X is not created by or affiliated with site Y"), or generically ("project X is not associated with any company or fundraising efforts").

After that, it depends on what you're concerned about. Is it that you think this group is making off with your opportunities? Undermining your own reputation with their false claims – either because they've hidden your achievements, or are falsely implying your endorsement/involvement? Are you worried about more risk if their lies eventually blow up, due to being revealed as deception or failing the in marketplace? Do you simply want to protect third parties who might be conned?

No matter what, making sure the real origins and authorship are well-documented in the project's public presence helps you: anyone doing due-diligence is likely to find the truth. Other concerns probably only need formal legal steps if you find yourself crossing-paths with this team in the marketplace, facing quantifiable damages from their falsehoods.

Note that it's possible they've been sloppy in attribution and cutting/pasting, but truly have made proprietary additions/improvements representing new IP, and intend to operate a real business. (The email-relayed info may have morphed somewhat in the retelling.)

On the other hand, sometimes people run total scams where they carbon-copy an entire website to create the false impression of competence, to raise money for immediate theft. If that's the situation, what you publish and say now could someday prove important in a civil or criminal case against the fraudsters. You'll want to make it very clear you're not coordinating with them in any way.
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> [Denmark] might not get your pulse racing like the Lower East Side or Copacabana, but in the long run a solid pension fund and reliable broadband will always win the day—

This does not seem entirely truthful, at least regarding Danish youth. Danish art and culture is, and have for a long time been, in big demand. Music magazines continuously scope out the different scenes. Maybe most recently, danish punk had an enormous period of exposition when acts like Ice Age and Lower got picked up by Pitchfork. MØ is another example. I have a feeling too that most people here are familiar with Danish design and architecture and I often hear Copenhagen mentioned as the (street?) fashion capital of the world. Furthermore, it seems scandinavia in general is having a pretty big tech and startup resurgence right now. Web 2.0 and the whole App thing seems to fit the general culture well. Perhaps because the living standards are quite high... the smartphone market for instance, is entirely saturated.
Lastly, Denmark is often described as one of the countries where the youth drink the most which suggest a vibrant night life (I can attest to that; there's a way too loud party next door right now. Slap af, det er lige meget.). This article seems pretty good, if you want to read more: http://www.nordicwelfare.org/PageFiles/4207/Gundelach%20J%C3...

Now, perhaps Danes stagnate when they get older, and certainly not everyone works in the arts. Nor does everyone live in the heart of Copenhagen. I do feel though, that Denmark being dull has more to do with certain people having a tiny reference frame than the actual situation they are in or can create for themselves.
Very informative comment, thanks.

I certainly agree that local optimization (as in your response to my "example") usually wins in entrenched situations, but I disagree that it's "hindsight bias". Hindsight bias usually applies when you're responding to a future situation based on previous (idealized!) experience, but if you're already in the middle of a project and deciding what to do, then you're not really in the same situation as if you're starting a new project based on previous experience. (That's a bit mangled, I hope my intention makes sense.)

I'll state plainly that I tentatively buy into the refactor-early-refactor-often mantra, assuming that the language can support that reasonably.

For me, I really think that every situation is "global" vs. "local" optimization thing, and I'll argue towards "global" whenever I can, even if it reduces productivity in the short term. Michael C. Feathers' "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" was very instructive in this regard.
Sensor dust is the worst. I switched from shooting on Canon DSLRs several years ago and now shoot on Sony mirrorless - the NEX-7 and a7R. Because I exclusively use primes I tend to swap lenses quite a bit and as a result my sensor gets dusty fairly quickly without a mirror to shelter it. Even with a blower bulb it tends to show up. This isn't much of an issue because I also like shooting wide open including down to f/0.95 and sensor dust is never an issue when shooting fast, but then I'll decide I need to go to f/11 or slower for a landscape shot and boom, I've got smudges in the photo thanks to the dust on the sensor.
Old Uber source code on NPM
Follow these steps:

wget http://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/-/uglify-js-1.2.5.tgz

tar -xzf uglify-js-1.2.5.tgz

vim +15650 package/tmp/app.js -c 'normal zt'

I stumbled across this when my IDE decided to include node_modules in its search path. It's just javascript and also pretty old (circa 2012), so I doubt Uber cares that it's public, but it's interesting (and somewhat ironic) to see the non-uglified source. Any ideas how it got there?
This isn't cool. The idea that you can 'measure' attention using a Neurosky device is fairly close to being an outright lie. To measure EEG from someone riding a bike in a controlled environment isn't an easy task. To claim that you can measure EEG using a Neurosky device as someone cycles a bike around NYC is simply lying.

This is EEG / BCI clickbait and it doesn't do people working in the field any good at all.
Apple still supports Widgets, which are canned JavaScript built to run in a special Dashboard app. (Does anyone still develop Widgets?)

But this still misses the point about HyperCard, which was that Hypercard was its own toolchain. To get started with it, you didn't have to:

Install a separate editor
Learn a separate editor
Install a build system
Learn how to build a project
Learn how to share code
Deal with dependencies

It's the no-separate-toolchain feature that made HyperCard so accessible, and which was influenced by SmallTalk.

Modern programming is a nightmare in comparison - including modern app programming.

Just because Apple uses Objective-C doesn't mean it's approaching app development in a SmallTalk-like way. Getting an app out of Xcode and into the store is a horror story of provisioning profiles, debug vs production builds, sandboxes, entitlements, and so on. Obviously people manage to fight through this, but it's a long way from being friendly and accessible.

IMO only VBA gets close to being a successful no-separate-toolchain environment - which is one of the main reasons VBA became so popular.

(You could argue Python is, but I don't think it's equivalent, because unlike VBA and HyperCard the first thing the user sees is the editor, and not a product that's obviously and immediately useful, but also happens to include a code editor.)
Is it on topic?
I've noticed a few online publications do this lately. They basically attach additional, recently-published articles in an endless feed as you scroll down to keep you on the site longer (similar to Pinterest/Facebook feed/Twitter).
As a dane I don't feel negative about the law of jante (even though it is formulated negatively to lampoon the Scandinavian mindset).
I find it communal and egalitarian. But I guess that viewpoint is hard to understand for people from more competitive and individual societies.
All I will say is, when I have a question about Lyman spectroscopy or the history of the National Football League, I find Wikipedia to be a very valuable resource and guide to further reading. But when I have questions involving powerful religious entities who have historically tried to downplay their involvement in various scandals, exerted undue political influence for many centuries, actively tried to cover up atrocities, promoted ridiculous beliefs, or simply tried to make someone or something look good or bad in contexts where the facts are not always unequivocal, Wikipedia is the last place I look.

It's simply a matter of using different sources appropriately to research different subjects.

Edit: And another thing. Here in the US, we can't even agree on what constitutes "torture" now, much less assign precise frequencies of occurrence to acts that might or might not have been considered "torture" at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Attempting to boil down a complex historical picture to a simple numeric figure like "X tortured people 2% of the time, while Y used torture in 5% of trials, therefore X was better" is a fertile ground for fallacy.
Long time since I did any optics but this basically just convolution. The impact at the output plane of dust/imperfections on the lens is (approximately) a 2D fourier transform of the dust/imperfections. If you have a single dust particle (essentially an impulse) on the lens this will be convolved into a dc response at the focal plane.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_optics#Fourier_transfor...
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They seem to trying suck up a significant proportion of Android and iOS devs in the London area. They are producing lots of interesting libraries too, shame they are Facebook.
Yep, I'm on a Fuji x-pro1 mirrorless. Ended up getting a boulder of dust on my sensor when switching lenses at the top of Castillo San Cristóbal in San Juan.
Thanks...

I try to stay away from memes and the likes, so unless it is pretty obvious, they usually go over my head :)
It's always easier to complete work on a per-job basis rather than hourly, and in my experience clients like this structure as well. A lot of good suggestions in this thread. One addition I would make is to check out MotivApp.com, really useful freemium tools freelancing.
I was just pointing it out :)

I solved 50 of them, I usually use Java, or Mathematica which feels...cheaty but sometimes all it takes is a paper and a pencil.
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Now, I would say Twitter’s users are worth 2-5x as much as the average FB users because the product is just much more “upscale.”

What a strange claim.

As an aside, recently the Facebook app (at least on Android) embedded its own web browser, so instead of going to Chrome when you followed a web link, it would open in the Facebook app. You can reconfigure it to use the external browser, but the power of defaults mean many won't.

This seemingly small change has a big impact because if you open a link you want to share, the Facebook app restricts you to sharing it via your wall, versus the traditional Android app where you might share it over hangouts, Google+, email, etc.
Came here to express something like this. Some neuroscientists I talked to recently for an article I wrote who specialize in brain-computer interfaces and neural decoding told me the mass market EEG headsets are basically trash. I don't trust any work done with them as the primary source, this project included.

The article, if you're interested: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/wishful-thinking-can-...
Yeah you second point seems off. I have meet English people complaining about talking to danes. I was told that if you ask a dane "How are you?" as a greeting, danes would reply with a long winding answer of how their life currently is.
My biggest takeaway from an amazing post:

> When there’s a complex list of pros and cons driving a potentially expensive action, Reid seeks a single decisive reason to go for it—not a blended reason. For example, we were once discussing whether it’d make sense for him to travel to China. There was the LinkedIn expansion activity in China; some fun intellectual events happening; the launch of The Start-Up of You in Chinese. A variety of possible good reasons to go, but none justified a trip in and of itself. He said, “There needs to be one decisive reason. And then the worthiness of the trip needs to be measured against that one reason. If I go, then we can backfill into the schedule all the other secondary activities. But if I go for a blended reason, I’ll almost surely come back and feel like it was a waste a time.”
The worst practitioner of these practices in my opinion is Cusip Global Services.

They say you can't label column in your database "Cusip" without signing a license agreement with them. Furthermore, such license agreements make you force similar licenses upon all your business partners.
But all the money in a be portfolio is made in the extreme cases. I don't think selecting risk averse entrepreneurs gets one there.
Which would make it against the law and therefore illegal.
However, I think it's more accurate to say retailers don't mention the word Super Bowl because they are likely to be sued, irrespective of whether there is a credible claim, trademark or otherwise. I think in the vast majority of cases there is no such legitimate claim.

The same situation occurs with the Olympics. The IOC sues entities not because they are worried that someone is going to get confused about their brand but so they can charge those entities for using it in their promotions.
Google is legally obligated to do so by the DMCA's safe-harbor provision (otherwise they lose their safe-harbor status). The problem is with the people who request the takedowns.

In particular, the DMCA (17 USC 512) requires that, in the takedown notice, the sender must state that they have a "good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law", and anyone who "knowingly materially misrepresents under this section that material or activity is infringing" is liable for damages, both to the person who posted the not-actually-infringing content, and to the service provider in their act of taking down and reinstating the content.

This should be a safeguard, and a sufficiently enthusiastic legal team ought to be able to make the argument that there is a lot of knowing material misrepresentation going on. (It's hard for robots to have good-faith beliefs!) But I think very few people have been trying this argument in court. The EFF has been involved in a few, relatively tiny cases, which seem to have been successful, but nobody's been fighting this at scale.

https://www.eff.org/cases/lawrence-lessig-v-liberation-music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp.

17 USC 512 is pretty readable: I'd recommend reading through it so you understand what the law is and how best to use it to our ends.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512
What level of development skill should I have before I start freelancing? What kinda of project should I be able to code to show clients I am experienced enough with PHP/JS/CSS to be worth there time?
The goal is to avoid `if` statements. It is true that a good system will let you deal with many dimensions and data types, but you might be thinking, "I only want this for (x,y,z) floating point data", but there are a few algorithms that require slicing the data into different views and this precisely where things like iterators that are eventually vectorized make the scheme computational tenable.
> Pass-By-Value: Detect const-ref parameters that would benefit from using the pass-by-value idiom.

I don't get why to make this change and the justification (after following 2 links deep: Want Speed? Pass by Value) is a 404.

Move constructors are great and it's awesome that a bunch of what used to be copy-constructor overuse in C++03 can now be done without deep copies in C++11. But I don't understand why explicitly move from something that is explicit and guaranteed to be cheap (pass by reference) to something that might be cheap if everything has reasonable move-ctors or (if not all ducks are in a row) might simply degrade to incurring the C++03-style over-copies. Does not seem like a strict improvement to me. Seems instead like blindly applying this to existing code will slow it down in some cases, possibly dramatically.
Re "Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited." - maybe someone should write to the NFL to ask their permission to talk about the game with their friends? Or send in a picture their kid drew and ask if they can put it on their fridge? What would they say?
The best tip I ever learned is don't price by the hour, price by the job. You can use an estimate for the number of hours you think it will take as the basis, but don't tell the client your estimate, just say, "This job will cost $X, and here is what I will deliver."

The reason this works well is because it benefits everyone. It benefits you because you know what you are going to make, you don't have to worry about the client saying "oh can we make this one change it will just be an extra hour right?".

They benefit because they know the cost upfront and don't have to worry about overruns, and they know exactly what they are getting from the detailed spec that is required to make this work.
Always liked the single player vs multiplayer framework of breaking out products.

John Gruber's podcast, touches upon this in the recent episode with Ben Thompson as a guest
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2015/01/24/ep-108
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There are questions about the general efficacy of measuring brainwaves

I'm afraid this underestimates the case somewhat. As I wrote in another comment, people in the field have been very frank with me in their total distrust of toy systems like Neurosky. Anyone claiming to track moods or mind states right now is hugely overstating their capabilities. I like the idea as much as the next guy, but at the present it's not questionable, it's simply impossible. We don't have the tools or the data with which to adequately apply them.
I'm a neuroscientist with a decade in fMRI and that criticism is unwarranted. Scalp based EEG is inherently noisy but if hundreds toward thousands of people are using these, there's a real chance the signal could overwhelm the noise.

What's the alternative? A bunch of lab-based studies? Those have their own severe problems. Research isn't zero sum. Every little bit counts.
The tire noise of electric cars makes them sufficiently audible above a relatively low speed. Also note that conventional cars which are coasting are much quieter than conventional cars that are accelerating. As an electric car driver, I quickly figured out when I need to be very careful around pedestrians -- a bit more often than in a conventional car, but not that different.
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To be honest I think alot of programmers copy and paste, unless it is something that they use often. If there is a module that you rarely use, or have never used before, why would you know how to use it off the top of your head? Also, some things you may be able to do on your own but copy and pasting could save you the time that it would take you to type those X amount of lines.
Google does it because otherwise it would harm their business relationship with the NFL, not because of the DMCA.
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Lots of people care about the Super Bowl. It'll be the most watched TV program of the year. Does that answer your question, or was it intended to be rhetorical?
You can get 1.5% of that processing power in a single graphics card now. So in 7 years, we should be able to buy that much power for about $350 :)
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I meant compile an open source java script interpreter and bundle it, not compile the javascript.
Oh yeah, good idea. That should generally improve the results.

There's a bit of art to it for sure that can improve the results. You may also have to do some pronoun substitution in the summarized sentences (and then decide to do that before or after calculating the synthetic score) so they make more sense.

I find it's hard to tell how well all this will work until you just do it. Not every kind of text works equally well and the only proof that it's really working is "does the summary make sense or not?"

It's also possible that for long structured documents like laws or contracts, that you don't want to summarize the whole thing, but treat major sections like different documents and do intra-document summarization to maintain understandability.

Here's one that does something kinda like what I was writing about above.

http://textcompactor.com/

note I think the correct measure is not TF-IDF, but TF-ISF (Inverse sentence frequency) for single document summarization, but I might be wrong.
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Not a whole lot new in this article, though its "experimental" results confirm well-known phenomena regarding camera lens performance. In particular, small front-element blemishes do not in general significantly degrade optical performance.

That said, dirt or scratches become more important when there is greater depth of field, for example, shooting with ultra-wide angle lenses stopped down to small aperture. Naturally, how much image quality degradation is acceptable depends on the circumstances, there's no single rule that can be applied.

I wouldn't try to get into the laws of physics/optics governing these considerations, there are plenty of sites on the web for that. However I recommend taking a look at the LensRentals site for its wonderfully practical, entertaining lens information (including info re: user-level lens testing): http://www.lensrentals.com
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I don't think Kay was claiming popular music is _universally_ tasteless; that would be ludacris. He's lamenting that taste is not important to music's popularity. That you could think of a particular example of developed popular music would seem to support the claim that pop music is, in general, undeveloped.
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"You're ripping us off!", Steve shouted, raising his voice even higher. "I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us!"

But Bill Gates just stood there coolly, looking Steve directly in the eye, before starting to speak in his squeaky voice.

"Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

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