skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comic itself does contain violence, so from that perspective I don't think it's an unreasonable choice for a filter to label it 'Violence', and that's my guess as to why it was filtered. Having the category of 'Violence' conflated with 'Terrorism' is ridiculous.
A and B went to offer this together. If B ran away with the money, A is responsible as well. A lawyer might help.

Next time, A, pick your partners more carefully. Sorry, but this is the real world. I understand if you feel screwed, but get your things together and fight to make things right, one way or another. And remember, if Kickstarter is really one of the issues, I give you one word: lawyers.
Well, they have the android appstore: http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?node=2350149011
t3knomanser's law:

http://www.fark.com/comments/7215487/Moores-Law-no-more
This. Either KS needs a few more canned email responses or maybe a team that can actually write custom emails. I would think that with all the money, law, and slobbering fans involved you'd might want to have at least someone who can handle these kinds of situations with care...but I guess the lazy approach is working for them...

Another thought: maybe KS really doesn't want to say that the project isn't going to happen as that would hurt their brand. If a KS canned email admitted some kind of failing, that could hurt their reputation in the eyes of backers everywhere. So they just have to stick with the ignorant canned email and just pass the blame on down to the project creators.
30 out of 577?! Is there no limit on a quorum in the Assembly? Might as well have a king.
This makes more sense. 100ms and over sounds to me like a huge problem, while 10ms does not.
I still use Emacs in 2015, and Emacs is, basically, a strange non-native window system in a window. Smalltalk/Pharo is the same kind of thing, except less terminal-oriented—no?
SKEWED Documentary – Media Violence and the need for pro-social programming
> 2/ Strict key disclosure laws. You can be thrown to jail, if you cannot decrypt some information when requested by a judge. That's true even in the case where you can prove the key is no longer in your possession...

How the heck is this supposed to work when TLS supports Diffe-Hellman?
You can edit it, but your changes will probably be reverted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jason_Quinn/The_%22Your_e... There are a lot of rules which are pedantically enforced, and some areas have been taken over by individuals who will fight to maintain control of content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_is_not...
+1 for ConEmu. It's a life saver on Windows. I know it's a religious issue, M$ vs <whatever> but it is still kinda valid.

I work with some talented C# developers but I'm always thinking in the back of my mind : "what compels you to only develop for windows?".
The initial launch is scheduled for early in the summer.
I can see the high frequency signal being boosted but how is the low frequency response from the key being boosted back to the car as it can usually only go a few inches
Heavily down voted for taking a one line comment about whether more or fewer layers of abstraction is more flexible, and using it to beat your "I hate apple" drum about terms and conditions and control and Muh Freedoms.

You're being that guy, so obsessed with a thing that you see it everywhere and think every conversation is about it.
It wouldn't be satisfying.

I'm an Android user and have given thought to developing on Android but the only things I'm interesting in doing on a mobile platform are synthesis and sequencing. Based on everything I've read.. it seems like it would be a waste of time. Forget commercial viability, it doesn't even sound like it would be worth it to make something for personal use. I get 7ms roundtrip on my Linux music workstation, with my audio interface, JACK, ALSA, Bitwig.. total cost maybe $1600(when buying the machine I was trying to figure out how much I could leave out/how much of a cheapskate I could be).. not a huge sum but it shows how important low latency is. A lot of the people buying music apps(synthesizers, toys) own hardware synthesizers, have computer recording/sequencing setups, or play acoustic instruments.. some of them spend multiples of 10K on their setups over time.. when they pick up a phone or a tablet, they're not comparing it to a flash site or the performance from an integrated soundcard on a $300 laptop.. they're comparing it directly to the immediate physical response of their instruments or the low-latency response of the computer audio setup they've invested in.

High latency feels incredibly sluggish and harms your sense of rhythm; unpredictable latency is just murder. Given that most makers of music software are themselves music makers.. when they pick up a device and see its audio performance is so poor the thought process is something like "If I can't even make something I would use myself on this, what's the point in trying to release something to the public?"

There are some good music apps for Android, some that I would even say are very good efforts, but they're very few, and still suffer from latency pretty badly.
Oxford English dictionary lists the following definition of "poach": "take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way". seems reasonable to me, the connotations are your own.

Company A takes or acquires Company B's talent. it's not about Company B owning the person, it's about Company B possessing an employee, the abstract.
You will be scalesimilated.
Since this site requires JavaScript in order to work at all, is the source code available under a free license? I'm interested in participating, but not if I have to use proprietary software to do it.
>> Q: Why do minor scales and harmonies create a sombre mood?

> A: Well, I can't be completely sure why minor scales and harmonies create a sombre mood, but it's Minor.

>> Q: Do you know Eliza?

> A: Are you kidding me? Eliza would just pose as a psychiatrist and could actually answer barely anything. I have a larger database and outsource questions to the internet as well.

Cute!
What do you mean by a more personalized package?
Microsoft apps will be bundled on Cyanogen Android devices
> I have to use Windows at work every day, and every day it will make me howl in frustration. How do people cope without a decent terminal?

You should probably stop torturing yourself and install Cygwin + mintty (or kitty/puttycyg). Never had any major issues with Windows and the CLI after discovering it. Anything it can't do, I launch Powershell, but that's mostly things Cygwin can't do easily (like working with Windows/.net objects).
Scalingo's CTO here, if you have any question, I'd be glad to answer them.
Besides the knee-jerk reaction, it all depends on what you're defending against. If the NSA went around opening Truecrypt containers for every criminal case, their cover would be blown. So if you're keeping stuff from the local PD or thieves breaking into your house, even a supposedly backdoored app is better than cleartext.

That said, TC has been audited by what I hear is a reputable group of people, who say there's no evidence of severe crypto vulnerabilities.
A true quine graph would have to include the "N" constant, too.
I don't think they are trying to make money on this anymore. I believe they have hundreds, or maybe thousands, of these phones in their warehouses that they have been unable to sell. At this point, I'm guessing they are just trying to recover as much of their investment as they can.
It bothers me that Snapchat being "playful" is seen as a good thing. Please don't be playful when people are trusting you to do a job that is important to them, like delete their photos.

First, I find it pathetic that Snapchat has to use these kinds of sales tactics. Are they really that unable to find talent? The idea that there's hot demand for top talent is fucking absurd in an industry where engineers are thrown out by 40. There are plenty of good engineers out there who aren't earning half a million. Some are female, some are older than 40, and some didn't go to Stanford, but if you can't get past that, I don't know what to tell you.

Second, "playful" is often annoying, and I for one am fucking sick of the juvenility/neoteny of the tech industry. I didn't even like it when I was young and supposedly a beneficiary of it (I wanted people to look up to, and there were few, just as now) and I especially don't like it now that I'm "old" (31) by tech standards.

I want for us, as an industry, to get to work and solve hard problems, not be run by middle-aged underachievers who give millions of dollars to unqualified, juvenile hacks like Lucas Duplan and Evan Spiegel who come up with shitty ideas like this and think that it's cute.
IMHO to really change your whole life perspective, you must experience a traumatic event, not reading a book.

Anyway I would say that a book can trigger a change of perspective on a particular aspect of your life:

'4-hour workweek' - Tim Ferriss (on lifestyle)

'Get Things Done' - David Allen (on organization and productivity)

'The Way of the Superior Man' - David Deida (on relationships)

'The prince' - Machiavelli' (on business and strategy)

'The little prince' - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (on meaning of life)

'The Feynman Lectures on Physics' - Richard Feynman' (to make you remember that you are just average)

A lot of other books had broaden my perspective of life even if they weren't enough to trigger a change. That list would be immense.
few incorrect assumptions. almost none ridiculously rich (and here we can differ what it means) got there by simply putting in few extra hours. People that stuck in jobs and doing extra hours actually ended up paid less than me in long run, sometimes the difference is massive.

I've met a few rich ones, dated one, and simply put, there is nothing in their life I envy, and I wouldn't change for their life no matter what (rich in millions/tens of millions of usd). There are only few really important things in life, and only few things that make people really happy (no, new phone ain't one of those).
When comparing how they spend vacation, I end up with much more creative, adventurous and full experiences. When comparing how to spend free time, similar results (but here it's also about personal preferences).

I'm not advocating money-less world, but most of us here have/can have enough to cover all we really need. If you see a long term happy person, money ain't the primary reason he is where he is.
If it's final I guess the TODO section should be empty ;-)
So after you factor in the cost of supplies, mobile device cases and the Ghostlab license, is this really that much of a savings? Is it worth going cheap on something that is going to hold $3k - $5k worth of devices?
Collaborative robotics software development
If all you have to do is Java then absolutely. I hop into IDE's all the time for refactoring work VS or Monodevelop for C# IntelliJ for java and so on. But I work with much more than just java and C#.

Shell utilities that work with plain text can deal with a whole lot more than java. Claiming that an IDE occupies the same place as a shell in a developers toolbox misses a lot of the reason why shells are useful.
Well we want to reward our early adopters and beta testers.
Art of OKR: How to Set Goals and Stick to Them
The article suggests that, since both companies are founded by Stanford grads, they have similar social networks and so are drawing on the same pool of talent.

I have no idea if that is true or not. My two cents are, "why do you think its just Uber?" Its cheap to add filters, maybe they have them for Google, Apple, Facebook, etc. Maybe having one for direct competitors like WhatsApp is a bit much.
Well A lives in Canada while B lives in US. Good luck on suing A anyway. And it looks like business B was in charge of the Kickstarter campaign, not business A. B is responsible for the backer's money , not A. That's my understanding of facts so far.

You cant sue business A because business B was in partnership with business A but business B robbed you. A contractual obligations were toward B, not the backers. A didn't launch the kickstarter campaign nor was responsible for managing Kickstarter's money.
FullContact Company API – Add rich company data to your apps
Excellent research - thank you for doing it.
CEO cuts his pay by almost $1M to give his employees big raises
It's not a convention at all. It's just unnecessarily confusing (and irritating). Hopefully the mods change the title.
> but the development approach, tooling and processes that was forced upon you.

As opposed to the ones you're trying to force on people?

A lot of people, yourself included, aren't even able to quantify why Windows is inherently bad. I can think of a few reasons, but I am not here to help you since I am not randomly criticising developers based on platform, you are.

> How do people cope without a decent dev mindset?

This is meaningless in and of itself. You will need to expand on it. Your entire post reads like "unless you're developing MY way you're wrong."

I find these rants about "use SSH and VIM!!!" pretty funny given Sublime Text's popularity on Linux as well as things like Eclipse. Do those work over SSH? No? Guess those Linux developers are as bad as Windows developers in your view, right?
Institutional Amnesia, Cargo Cults and Software Development
You can be as snarky as you want, but the fact is, I don't want the average dumbass on the street to have that much power over my life, and neither, I suspect, do you.

There has to be something resembling meritocracy in any functioning organization, and that includes a government.
How and why BackBee CMS went open source
That's correct - the point of the article was to illustrate that the CA is likely to add things, not that you can omit the basics - hence the minimal example including Country, Location, etc.
Who knew Tor wasn't going to be useful only for people in countries like China, Iran or Saudi Arabia...but also France, Spain, UK, US, Australia, Canada...you know, the "most freedom-loving democratic countries" in the world.

There's definitely a coordinated effort to pass these laws together now, to make it seem like it's the "sensible" thing to do after the terrorist attacks. FBI chief Backdoor-Comey has also been making rounds in European countries to push for total surveillance laws "or else it might hurt their relationship with the US". This may especially work in weaker countries where a partnership with the US is regarded as a god-send and they'll try not to do anything to hurt that partnership. In other words they'll do anything the US government tells them to do.
I had already bought a ticket.
> Because if you don't understand "an IDE , OS rolled into one" then you don't understand what Smalltalk is anyway.

For people that know Smalltalk, "a Smalltalk environment" contains more information than "an IDE, OS rolled into one" (which you also could possibly apply as a description to some javascript environments or a whole number of other things that could exist, it is not like Smalltalk is the only way to build such an environment)
That is true.

For example, in assembly we can create a higher level language with an absolutely air-tight, precisely tracing garbage collector that is free of issues like false retention.

We cannot do that in C. That's because there are areas of the program state that are "off limits", and the compiler generates "GC ignorant" code.
I haven't been an Apple fan since I was a kid, but I always enjoyed reading Siracusa's reviews a lot.

I'll be sad to see him go, but I don't fault him for quitting, nor do I fault his reasoning. The best reason to quit something is because you know it's time to quit.
I did for a while, but I have to admit the charm is wearing off.
My guess is that the large buffers are covering up for scheduling issues. On my devices (Moto X, Nexus 7) I can regularly get Android audio to stutter by connecting the power or switching apps. (And it'll happen on its own sometimes when it picks, as it so often does, a terrible time to update apps.)

The easy fix to that is to make the buffers bigger. Doing that, though, increases latency. The hard fix is to do what Apple has done and build for audio from the ground up.
And it's pretty easy to leave everything you have and know behind, and start over in a new country where standards of living are totally different.
Its response to your first question is in fact exactly right, because you didn't ask what you thought you asked. Your brackets are in the wrong place. You asked:

e^i(pi)+1

which is:

(pi * (e^i) ) + 1

which is:

2.69740975.. + 2.64355906... i

So it was right.

And sqrt(i) is sqrt(sqrt(-1)) which is (-1)^(1/4), so again, it was right (excepting that it put "you" instead of "i")

So it did better than you think.
"Et merde!"
So depends on your use case, I guess. What are the other viable alternatives? If this were for an office where it was always going to be up, then no, I would go with something sturdier. But for something temporary.. ?
If you take out the word "purely" you're absolutely right.

Few serious guitarists would resign themselves to exclusively playing through an iOS device. Nearly all serious guitarists will do it on a regular basis though, which is the more relevant point.
As always, one must consider their own threat model and make an informed decision. I personally would use BitLocker over TrueCrypt, but LUKS over BitLocker.
I used to be of this opinion, but then I ended up working in a .Net startup and, a few years later, did a project in ASP MVC.

Once I figured out Visual Studio, it got the hell out of my way and just let me work. It is really one hell of an IDE and, I'll be honest, I miss it sometimes. Windows itself needs quite a bit of tweaking to be used as a serious development box, but armed with some patience and good paht thai, it wasn't even the most horrible experience. Of course, we often had Ste. Ambroise Oatmeal stout in the fridge, so I may have been feeling bulletproof...:)

Of course, I'm in my late thirties and remember building awful websites with Windows ME. I may not have an opinion, I just may be a sadist...:)
Are you recommending Resharper for navigation, auto-fixes, auto-styling, or something else? I hear Resharper thrown around a lot but it isn't clear what people find it so invaluable for exactly.
Highland.js
Both 'take' and 'acquire' imply possession.

RyanDrake is making the point that companies do not possess or own their employees. To use language implying they do is insulting and demeaning.
Self-Driving Car Revolution's Unintended Consequence: Lots of Puking Passengers
Click the language bar of GitHub, see CoffeeScript, close the tab
It seems as though this is the consequence of the new business models where the business (in this case Kickstarter), don't actually own anything. And for that reason, aren't legally obligated to actually do much.

This could be said for other sites like Uber, and AirBnb with similar business models. The good thing, in AirBnb's case, is there is an insurance policy for issues that happen.

Kickstarter definitely needs to do something (maybe a rating system) to stop these cases from happening as often as they do. As for the backers, maybe just spend less on the amount you're funding.
Yes, the flashing hand (countdown or not) has always been a warning that the light's about to change (like a yellow light for cars). Before the countdown clocks, it was meant to say "don't start crossing" but in most cities people didn't interpret it that way and would start crossing if they were fast walkers. Even if they didn't know how much longer it'd be flashing. The countdown clocks add that information so they can make an informed decision.

I agree that LA shouldn't have bothered with the countdowns if they're going to consider starting across the intersection after the countdown has begun to be jaywalking.
https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope
This seems very linear. If one refuses to answer the "which state do you live in?" question, for instance, you're done. No further discussion will b ehad. People don't converse/learn this way.
As a fellow old soldier in the Platform Wars of the late 90's and early 00's (and the guy who often gets confused with you, and vice versa), let me welcome you to Fiddler's Green :-)

It's not so bad here. At first, the transition from "guy who does this thing that's really important to me and my tribe" to "guy who used to do this thing that was really important to me when I was part of that tribe" is kinda terrifying. Then you realize that this is the fate of everyone who helped create A Moment, and it's kinda cool once you settle into it.

Sure, there are a few people who have the talent and energy to keep forcing themselves into new Moments, but even Madonna is old now, and all she did was stave off her "hey, you used to be that guy!" phase by a decade or so. And at what price? At some point, doesn't chipping away at and polishing and spit-shining and agonizing over your latest cultural product start to feel more than a little bit like slavery? I know it certainly did for me. Being a slave to your own brand is no way to spend a life.

Speaking of Madonna, I find that I sometimes identify with interviews given by older musicians, like an interview I read with David Gilmour where he tells the reporter something like, "please stop asking me about Roger Waters... I'm in my 70's and that was only 17 years of my life and it was a really long time ago."

When I read that, my first reaction was, "oh man, is that my future?" But my second reaction was, "whatever he thinks of Roger Waters, and whatever he's done since then, he did some amazing work in those 17 years that touched a lot of people and became a part of who they are." There much worse fates than having a truly excellent slice of your work define you when you're 70. There are plenty of other people who've done a lifetime's worth of equally excellent work in total obscurity, and would love for someone to care enough to ask them about any part of it.

Anyway, I imagine that, like me, you're not out there looking around for another Moment to insert yourself into, but it could be that a new Moment will find you. After all, isn't that how it happend the first time around?

Now, back to work... Fiddler's Green is a nice place to visit and catch up with old friends, but we're both way too young to take up permanent residence here :-)
Perhaps you missed the section, "How Android’s 10 Millisecond Problem and Android Audio Path Latency Impacts App Developers and Android OEMs" and in particular the bullet points with specific examples of the problems high latency causes.
>> You can't count position and velocity (i.e. d(position)/dt) as separate degrees of freedom.

Sure you can, and must. velocity is a controllable and it's also very important that it be controlled as close to zero as possible when Y=0. Parent is correct, technically they care about 11 degrees of freedom, but rotation rate about the length is either a non issue or well regulated somehow.

I'd really like to see the controller they're using. Wonder if it's fancy, or fairly simple with some large matrices.
I could see how that would be true in some cases, but in cases where the startup hadn't launched yet I would assume there's a lot less to audit.
But instead they listened to a minority of their users that really cares about privacy and dedicated time and resources to fixing a hard problem.

At least that's the spin. Perhaps there was some other reason why HTTPS was necessary.
Doesn't the goblins comic guy still owe content from the fundraiser that bought him a house a few years ago, or has that been resolved?
Ink: Rock solid freelancing contracts generated for you
Somewhat shameless plug for my CGA project that I did recently for my own edutainment:

http://www.paradigmlift.net/projects/teensy_cga.html

My next iteration of that project was going to be to create NTSC output instead of digital TTL... so I'm pretty excited to see this, as the DAC on the dev board I used should be able to create "artifact colors" like this I think
"Fascinating, being a bit bored sounds fun."