skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I can tell this targets only Arduino micro controllers.

This appears to be the case[1], in fact it currently needs the Arduino IDE to be installed as well to work, though it appears they plan to expand to a wide range of platforms in future.

> Anyone like to comment on how it compares to other Arduino IDEs?

The official Arduino IDE is pretty terrible IMO, lacking autocomplete, a tree view, code folding etc. It does however make things very simple for beginners, with a big "upload" button making your code run immediately, and has the basics like syntax highlighting.

There are a few other Arduino IDEs available[2], as well as command line tools like ino[3] to compile Arduino sketches without needing the IDE, and there are plugins available for Visual Studio, Eclipse, Sublime Text etc, so you can use a much nicer text editor if you need to.

The articles IDE adds in symbol navigation (no autocomplete yet, listed as todo), and shows you a nice visual pie chart of how much flash/ram you have used. It also has a few other neat features like auto setting the serial baud rate[4]. It uses brackets.io[5] as its text editor, so presumably has all the text editing features that has too.

The main problem with the Arduino IDE is the lack of any debugging support that isn't serial output. No single step, no memory view, no breakpoints. This is fundamentally a problem with the hardware, as to keep the cost low the Arduino was designed to use a serial bootloader rather than a separate microcontroller to act as a debug interface. When dealing with intermittent hardware bugs, this can be very painful indeed. You can splash out on an external debug adaptor and debug your sketch with Eclipse[6], though this certainly isn't as beginner friendly. Similar priced boards like TI's MSP430 Launchpad, or Freescale's FRDM boards now come with debug hardware built in, but they are a lot less beginner friendly.

[1] http://apla.github.io/cuwire/cli/Platforms/
[2] http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/DevelopmentTools
[3] http://inotool.org
[4] http://apla.github.io/cuwire/gui/FeaturesSerialMon/
[5] http://brackets.io
[6] http://awtfy.com/2012/03/29/hardware-debugging-the-arduino-u...
CIA Is Bringing Amazon’s Marketplace to the Intelligence Community
yes u can do it, in ur spare time and on ur local disk. i didn't suggest u to replace production code w/ urs, but just play w/ it a lot to fully understand it.

after reading all ur reply, I think ur problem is lack of practice. no matter how many open source side projects u put on github, they r just too simple/small/repetitive. u need to do bigger green field projects, either on a new job or in ur spare time. build something from scratch, write ur own library w/ advanced features like multithreading etc. develop application on top of it, test the crap out of it. like u said u r not the smartest guy in the room, u have to take lots of extra efforts to do well in this highly competitive field.
Mono is the framework (like .Net) and Xamarin is the tooling (like Visual Studio). Framework is free (essentially) and the tooling is like VS (starter is free, pro is not so free but has more tools)
This thing seems to walk like its blind - is that the case? It responds to the ground conditions AFTER taking a step and slipping, instead of by choosing a path carefully.
The most (un)interesting real time data
>Programming is about understanding with precision. Not about trying until it works.

I think you're talking about engineering, because programming is definitely about trying until it works.
Why Metrics Get Worse with Scale
Is it because I say his sentence was unjust given that me always seem to defend crazy sentences as not being the real ones anyway that you came to me?

Earlier you said I say his sentence was unjust given that me always seem to defend crazy sentences as not being the real ones anyway?

Maybe your life has something to do with this.
To go anywhere people can't, or shouldn't.
Experiment: The dietary supplement market is exploding, but do they work?
pack animal in rough country
To quote /r/ShowerThoughts: "The problem with Tinder is that you only meet people who are at a point in their lives where Tinder makes sense"
Startups with Shorter Names Are More Likely to Succeed, Study Finds
The thing that surprised me when reading about NERVA is that - according to Wiki article - space race partially died out because the US Government explicitly decided they're tired with it and there are better ways of spending money than going to Mars.
Why shouldn't cup size be important to many people?

"Would you really reject someone because of their face, despite their excellent cup size? Similary, would you accept someone just because of their face despite their less-than-excellent cup size?"
Conversely I stay with my bank ( Nationwide ) because they use the device...
Muslim rule and compass: the magic of Islamic geometric design
That applies also to engineering in some degree...
This is actually a pretty nice analytic to watch.

If I were there, I'd be watching it and research about almost any of those measures.
Ptpython: a better Python REPL
AWS Lambda GET Request with HTML and JS Only
I have much disdain for this solution - even though it is a solution - because its a non-builtin tool and has dependencies outside the OSX sphere in order to run.

I wish there were some sort of Guild of OS Developers that could be relied on to enforce the inclusion of standardized tools in all OS's released by its members. It seems that a lack of an organizing body to enforce these standards - or in Apples' case, any way for the public to influence the standards they dictate - is a real problem with OS development today.

Nevertheless, good to know about lunchy. I will try to remember to check it out some time.
Uncanny Valley doesn't apply. It would apply if they put a skin-and-fur-like shell over the body and tried to give it a life-like head, with eyes, nose, mouth and tongue, and it looked almost perfect, but not quite good enough to pass as the real thing; just enough to make it seem off the mark somehow. A white plastic shell hardly comes close; it would just provide a more attractive veneer.
> The first symptom of stagnation is preference.

Love this one!

[EDIT]: I probably didn't understand it the same way. I read it as "don't have favourites, be open to new stuff"
Show HN: Looking for Help with UX and Product Feedback (Meteor App)
Hello!

We're a publishing platform & analytics (for organizations) startup. Our Meteor.JS web application is located at https://goodethos.com.

Our target users are organizations. Which I don't expect to find here. However we're hoping to get some help from the Hackernews community by allowing everyone to use the product and letting us know your thoughts and feedback on performance and UX.

Currently we have the publishing platform part of our software mostly finished, which allows the following and some more:
1. Digital story telling - Writing articles & events
2. Social media (Twitter/Instagram) curation for events
3. One-click template change

If anyone is interested in helping us out, I've created two demo accounts. One account where I'll make the password/username public for everyone to use and the other without a shared username/password.

You're also welcome to create your own account as well.

Demo1
https://goodethos.com/demo-public
Username: demo-public
Password: demo-public

Demo2
https://goodethos.com/demo-private

Thank you very much in advance, please email any questions or feedback to hello@goodethos.com.
Yeah, the pricing improved - but essentially, it is impossible to create the same exe for iOS using the open sourced Mono version because of the way in which the runtime is licensed (strict LGPL.) No static linking, so one must buy a commercial Mono license, which would not be the case for this solution.
Google Play Store: Browsing with Firefox is no longer supported on Android
When I try to open play.google.com from Firefox on my Android device I get:

This browser is no longer supported.

Please use the Google Play Store app to access Google Play.

My Firefox version is 35.0, which is the latest version for Android. So it looks like the walls are going up around that particular garden as well.
Doesn't seem to work. I type in my phone number and click next, and nothing happens.
Indeed, very true. There is always naive hope for the odd one, and I am sure for many it is. But then again, there are quite a few very compatible partners out there, for most of us. All the magic is about meeting them somehow, in right time.
Sorry for that. Its only available in US and India.
That's nowhere near the only problem with Psycho-pass's society.
Maybe you can try to move to a team leader position or similair? You seem to have great experience with a lot of different bugs and strange user cases, and know which questions to ask programmers in a team etc
Why do they have to be in Europe? :-(
Up there with those motivational pictures - banal, empty, of little use to anybody.
No - Mono has crazy licensing restrictions and massive licensing costs for statically linking their framework. Xamarin offer a better option, but there is no "free" alternative using C#, nor could you create one with the Mono framework. The CoreCLR does have the possibility to get around this as the code required for creating a solution is not licensed in the same way. Xamarin's entire business model revolves around the fact that static linking is not allowed using the Mono Framework as a basis.
http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/2iyz0v/what_happened_t... WetRiffs actually was a thing for a bit.

Domain names are less important lately, I guess. I just want something short so it's easy to type on a soft keyboard and put in a QR code.
Can We Avoid a Digital Apocalypse?
i wonder if other languages can start targeting the CLR, and have a competing cross platform runtime to java that's got a big name behind it.
An objected-oriented BASIC on ARM (2007)
I wouldn't worry much about people whom I granted access to my computer, (though it could be worrisome if someone else got their hands on their credentials), I would worry about people who got access fraudulently. But that requires tighter security policies.

Regarding Windows, it's all explained on MS website (just a Google search away), and it seems quite potent, but a default consumer OS doesn't push for stringent requirements for each and every application being installed. It's up to the user to setup the adhoc policy, and hook up VNC to it, I guess. The good thing with application markets and distro supported package repositories is that in theory all this could be included in the package and verified for conformance by the repository maintainers.
Exactly, it's a disgusting attitude. IMHO, our future robots shouldn't be built by people without some sense for aesthetics.
Ask HN: Does Hair recognition exist?
im doing an automated art experiment. My goal is to draw 1 set of vector points around the face and a 2nd set around just the hair. Is there anything out there that an do this with a 95% accuracy?
"But it cannot be done from couch, can it :)"

Or from work.

For some people, between work and other responsibilities there isn't much time to meet women in bars. Colleague of mine has pretty much no time left after work and school, he met his girlfriend through Tinder.

A friend of mine is a boatsman who's 3 months on, 3 months off. Finding a girl, dating and building a relationship is hard in 3 months. He used Tinder to find dates for when he came back home. He's now in a relationship with one of them.
Indeed. I love Arch and generally it has been very reliable for me (more so than Kubuntu or Suse ever was previously). However, the transition to systemd was one of the few times where I had a issues. Systemd is pretty mature these days, but back then it was much buggier and less well-supported.

In the long run though, I'm glad to have made the switch. I find it much easier to maintain. I also use FreeBSD at home and while I love it too, some aspects of maintaining it don't feel as nice (I suck at writing init scripts apparently).
I really like how things are going forward. Being a .NET developer since 2004 and a Mac user since 2008 I can't wait to use my beloved tooling finally in production on Linux (and on OS X for development).
Scala did but I think they abandoned it.
> I still find words in English that I simply don't know how to pronounce. I can give them a try, but unless I've heard someone else say them, I have no idea.

...and even that isn't much of a problem if other people supply the correct pronunciation in a fun happy helpful way, instead of the sneering or sarcastic manner often used.
Show HN: HitByWords – browse, explore and share news by Word Cloud
Startup Seeks to Improve Weeknight Bar Scene. Launches Indiegogo Campaign
> Rewriting bits of high performance assembly in bytes (not opcodes) as Mac’s as refused to generate the desired instructions.

Ouch. They should really look into using clang and its integrated assembler. All mnemonics should Just Work. as on mac is a patched up binutils 1.38 version.
The concept of redis has always baffled me. A hash table is a very fast data structure. As soon as you put that in a dedicated server, the cost of the actual lookup is instantly eclipsed by the need to parse a text protocol and do network I/O to communicate with the client.

So I'd be willing to say that the problem here isn't that the kernel stack is slow per-se, but that workload is too small as to make the overhead look ridiculous, when it'd be very much acceptable if your server did more actual work.
laughing out loud <-- yes I typed it out
While I've tested a lot, these are the ones that I actually use in prod:
- AWS S3 for static storage + Route 53 for static websites
- Ink (Filepicker) and Ospry.io for uploads
- Parse.com for persistence and user management
- Firebase.com also for persistence but for cases where auto-synch is required.
- Madrill for transactional email
- Newrelic for monitoring
- DigitalOcean for cloud hosting
AniJS Studio, a visual tool to add animations to any web without coding
You should try shuffling around this pipeline a bit. Instead of:

See face -> Score face -> Yes them only if score is good

Try:

See face -> Yes to all -> Score the faces of people who Yes you back

Also would be really interesting to create multiple Tinder profiles with different pictures, and see the beauty score distributions of people who Yes'ed each different picture.

That would be a very nice, automatable dating A/B testing experiment.
Want to Be Successful? Learn to Say “No”
As a POSIX-loving, open-source-breathing guy: platform availability being equal, why choose Java over C#?
> In term of spelling French is much worse than English.

Is it? Certainly, multiple sequences of characters map to the same sound: the final vowels in et, est, thé, années, soleil, clef all sound identical (at least to my ear: there may be some subtleties of pronounciaton that escape me).

But from what little study I've done of French, I don't remember the opposite problem being as bad: a given sequence of characters is generally pronounced in one way. So if you come across an unfamiliar French word, you can take a punt at how it's pronounced, and the odds are you'll be correct.

There are of course exceptions, especially with proper nouns (Moët, as in the champagne, is pronounced moe-ETTE not moe-AY, Freddie Mercury not withstanding), but these seem to be fewer than in English.

[Edited for grammar.]
You mean like these[0]?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages
> but I think everyone's opportunities are diminished by this

I share your frustration, but I've also become very cynical about this. If people didn't want it this way, they wouldn't do it. It seems to me in my social circle, partners are chosen first and foremost for the function they perform.

"I needed a full-time mother for my children" "I didn't want to be alone anymore" "I felt time was running out" "I wanted a man with more status" "I wanted someone who's more down to earth" "I wanted someone to be there when I get home from work" "I wanted better sex" "I wanted someone who looks up to me". Almost everyone I know can and does distill their relationship into one of those sentences. You might think it's bleak, but people think nothing of it apparently.

So I came to the conclusion that my ideal, to hook up with people who are interesting and whom you can love for who they are, this ideal practically doesn't exist in the wild. And if we're indeed mostly choosing partners for their function, I don't see how any opportunities are diminished by playing arbitrary (and sometimes inhumane) games. I may not like it, I will certainly not participate in it, but it seems to work out for pretty much everyone.

This is only marginally related, but when my cat died, do you know what the most frequent first response of friends and family was? It wasn't "oh, so sorry, I know you loved her very much", or even "so what, it's just a cat", though both ends of the spectrum were certainly present. No, the most common reaction was: "are you getting a new one?"

To most people, it's all about function.
Some of these games come bundled with our just-released (an hour ago!) Applesoft / Integer BASIC compatible interpreter at http://discorunner.com (along with around a thousand more)
WebOS (or a variant) seems to be in LG TVs, http://www.cnet.com/news/hands-on-with-lgs-webos-smart-tv-is...
The only problem with these is that they never have good support for device features (GPS, NFC, Bluetooth, MMS, etc.). If you just need to build a static app that doesn't need any kind of mobile device feature, just build a web app.
those are some good examples and make sense, thanx!
I've checked out quickly both Reapp and Touchstone. At the moment Reapp seems more mature: has better tooling (e.g. the command line tool to generate projects), uses Webpack, has quite big UI kit, etc...
Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing (2003)
Those are all short and sweet. There were many more large games. Well, large by BASIC standards - 500-1000 lines of code was large back then. There was a Stratego-style game where you didn't take turns (capture the flag with tanks and missile launchers). There was a D&D adventure (no, not Adventure) where you had random encounters in the city, dungeon or wilderness (called AG for the initials of the author). There was an orbital-mechanics trading game called Patrol where you traded at Mercury, Venus and Earth for goods, and could do inter-system combat with other NPC ships you encountered.
My reply was semi sarcastic, and targeted at the assumption that being old equals having a useless life.

TFA states that most of the elderly still enjoy being part of a community and contributing to it, sharing their time and the food they grow. So in addition to being healthy and active, they have some kind of beneficial peer pressure to take part in the community. I doubt you'd get the same feeling of happiness and belonging by taking a daily dose of anti-depressants, but I have no experience with those. As for being alive, there's more to it than merely being not-dead :-)

I must admit I reacted mainly to the "ineffectual life" part of the comment which, to me, sounded like "they're not building a startup or trying to send people to Mars so it's useless", but there's a good chance I misinterpreted that part of the comment.
Then OpenTable an automatic reservation service, Yelp an automatic review service, Amazon Prime adds an automatic gifting service and finally a way to produce children just by sending in some sample DNA. Perfect efficiency!
Holy haberdashery, Batman!
Different stylesheets for different media – don't do it
I see a trend here, I'm also solving most cases with no-backend solutions. In your opinion, what would be the downside of Firebase? Did you have to work-around any limitation? Also, did you try Backbonejs as well? Can you compare it to Angularjs? I am thinking about giving Angularjs a go but would like an opinion from someone who's already using it in prod.
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Lets call it Netforce and make it part of the FBI instead :)
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>> lost world of the past

It's not like the past won't become the future again.

Getting off-topic for me here, but...

From "The Fate Of Empires" 1978, by John Glubb, who was Lieutenant General and commander of Jordan's Arab Legion:

"The works of the contemporary historians
of Baghdad in the early tenth century are still
available. They deeply deplored the
degeneracy of the times in which they lived,
emphasising particularly the indifference to
religion, the increasing materialism and the
laxity of sexual morals. They lamented also
the corruption of the officials of the
government and the fact that politicians
always seemed to amass large fortunes while
they were in office.

The historians commented bitterly on the
extraordinary influence acquired by popular
singers over young people, resulting in a
decline in sexual morality. The ‘pop’ singers
of Baghdad accompanied their erotic songs
on the lute, an instrument resembling the
modern guitar. In the second half of the
tenth century, as a result, much obscene
sexual language came increasingly into use,
such as would not have been tolerated in an
earlier age. Several khalifs issued orders
banning ‘pop’ singers from the capital, but
within a few years they always returned.

An increase in the influence of women in
public life has often been associated with national
decline. The later Romans complained
that, although Rome ruled the world, women
ruled Rome. In the tenth century, a similar
tendency was observable in the Arab Empire,
the women demanding admission to the
professions hitherto monopolised by men.
‘What,’ wrote the contemporary historian,
Ibn Bessam, ‘have the professions of clerk,
tax-collector or preacher to do with women?
These occupations have always been limited
to men alone.’ Many women practised law,
while others obtained posts as university
professors. There was an agitation for the
appointment of female judges, which,
however, does not appear to have succeeded.

Soon after this period, government and
public order collapsed, and foreign invaders
overran the country. The resulting increase
in confusion and violence made it unsafe for
women to move unescorted in the streets,
with the result that this feminist movement
collapsed. "
Does it work in Chrome?
The only D-Bus tool that is nice in the command line is qdbus, and that stems from Qt. I wonder why the original D-Bus writers could not write a decent enough command line tool for it.
Usually, in cases where people claim great age, its because they're using their parent's or grandparent's birth certificate.
"improve your face". See South Korea plastic surgery stats: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/04/daily-c...
Symantec must pay $17 million to world’s biggest patent troll :chuckles:

The headline was the best part, tea please..
No More Markup
Looks like, Reddit is down
Because we code too. What's the problem?
Do not buy Apple Watch
What do I set the arduino folder to under linux? /usr/share/arduino?
Ms has a terrible records of abandoning Ms-related tech followers by technology renewal: vb->.net，wp7 !-> wp8.
To many developers,ms is irrelevant.
And after using onedrive/Office365 for a long time, the experience is poor:sometimes even on a wp/lumia,bugs like file
loss and page broken is usual。
Works in the Dallas area on TWC.
> programming is definitely about trying until it works.

Sounds like you need some more meta. If "trying until it works" is your algorithm, why not have a program execute it for you? ;)
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What is even more embarrassing, is the lack of proper acknowledgment from the French Telecommunication provider (Bouygues Telecom?) regarding the safety of their customers' data.
There are a few books that could do with a javascript or Python "translation".

"How to solve it by computer" is one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_it_by_Computer
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