skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having supported Windows in production in wild, real world environments and worked in security research....

Windows has a giant attack surface because of the sheer indefinitely-legacy-compatible, multiverse-sized codebases of unsafe, unprovable, low-level code in C/C#(CLR)/asm.

The last beta copy of Windows code I reviewed looked like it was maintained by thousands of contract programmers and interns on artificial deadlines whom can't spare a second to clean up nasty technical debt.

With Russinovich and Azure's leader promoted now, I hope they're gonna nut up to take a stab at incurring temporary customer wrath by remaking Windows from (mostly) scratch with less duct tape and more lessons learned. It could even go full open source (for core OS, Visual Studio and shared libs) to dig at Apple (whom is already semi-open source). Given their resources, they could do a modern, nearly ground-up, respectable-as-OpenBSD OS in a combination of functional/multiparadigm languages and not fail too terribly at it if it's previewed/seeks feedback early-and-often. Maintaining marketshare is about taking-on hard-but-necessary choices for long-term gain, not seemingly safe moves of tacking on some tweaks and security add-ons to the overall status quo.
there's only one groups opinion that matters your potential customers. talk to them and see what they think.
The most popular type of home in every major American city, charted
Yea, but try charades with a chinese speaker over IRC (or some language without any shared linguistic history)... suddenly charades with hand gestures is easier. The parent comment's point was that it requires a similar linguistic background, you've merely pointed out that abstract symbols aren't universal.

Too many comments are making this a black and white issue. In reality there are going to be some cases where text excels and others where pictures excel. But I suppose that isn't as interesting.
PM Narendra Modi's Talk at Digital Technology Dinner in San Jose
Dex UI: futuristic interface built with openFrameworks
> Lastly, I'm curious why two 501(c) academic institutions are even fighting for this patent.

Their choice to freely license it to the academic community only increases the likelihood that, depending on licensing fees, the technology will generate huge revenue from industry.
Costco prints the unit cost on every price tag. That's not enough for your heuristics?
> Today, Costco alone sells more stuff every year than Amazon by far.

Perspective
This is a republication of the original, previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218915
If you are after "enterprise" grade solutions that cover the core of issue management, tasking, ticketing and testing -- take a look at Countersoft Gemini.

We compete routinely with Jira and win deals by providing fully loaded 50mb zipped solution that runs on Windows servers, integrates with AD/Outlook/Exchange, etc., custom Apps Framework and obligatory RESTful API. Just the things that "demanding enterprises" look for.

No idea if this helps you.
September 27 / September 28, 2015 – Total Lunar Eclipse – Where and when to see
I used to worry over having unread books around, but now I prefer a library of unread books from which I can browse and pick. A library of books already read is just for show, or just takes up space if you are not referencing them or re-reading them. Tsundoku is the way you should keep your library, but preferably not on the floor and nightstands. Guilty:)
The Sharing Economy Attracts Older Adults
"Any one language cannot solve all the problems in the programming world and so it gets to the point where you either keep it simple and reasonably elegant, or you keep adding stuff. If you look at some of the modern desktop applications they have feature creep. They include every bell, knob and whistle you can imagine and finding your way around is impossible. So I decided that the shell had reached its limits within the design constraints that it originally had. I said ‘you know there’s not a whole lot to more I can do and still maintain some consistency and simplicity’. The things that people did to it after that were make it POSIX compliant and no doubt there were other things that have been added over time. But as a scripting language I thought it had reached the limit."

From an interview with Steve Bourne in 2009.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/279011/a-z_programmi...
Twitter != anything related to true software engineering. Twitter == majordomo wrapper.
In other words, it's all Drudge and Fox's fault.

This "study" is utter nonsense.
>not really a bug

Imagine a car turning off traction control in a pouring rain every time you stop at the lights because 'Hey,no tire spin in the last 5 seconds!!1'
Sorry, what does this have to do with Startup/Hacker culture?

I suppose someone wanted to make the oft-stated point of how archaic and backwards Saudi Arabia appears from our cultural perspective. Perhaps capitalizing on this latest bout of online xenophobia towards "Islamic-looking" minorities.

Either way, a waste of space on the Hacker News homepage.
I don't think the current use of it is much interesting.

But bringing pressure sensitivity back to touch screens could allow things like on-screen keyboards on tablets that allow fingers to rest on the screen without constantly registering input. Meaning that a OSK moves one step closer to a physical keyboard.

Edit:

And i just reminded myself that supposedly there is a company working on how to use static electricity to give variable surface texture. So you could perhaps recognize the location of keys by your fingers brushing over rough patches.
Nice one, I've never heard it phrased like that.
Value of life in Africa isn't much unfortunately.
NJ - 15 minutes from NYC - 50k will be used for some growth hacks and living expenses at my dad's house . . . . just hustling man!
I think that stretches the definition a little too far. A warning sign of that type is different from textual symbols in that it's readily understandable to someone seeing it for the first time. I agree with the author's thesis in general but that is a rather good exception to point out.
See my comment above, but take a look at Countersoft Gemini. Enterprise flavored, all-in-one type approach that can be self-hosted.

The gotcha? Runs on Windows Server which probably doesn't compute for startups but works well for typical enterprise shops that have stacks of Windows Server.

Self-hosting is still a huge market but one that is more and more under-served.
Did you read your link? The numbers "were self-reported by
shark fin vendors in the Guangzhou". Hardly scientific and it's only from a single city in China.

I'd trust NPR over that source. NPR claims that while shark fin soup sales dropped slightly, harvest & hunting of sharks is still going strong.

Though, the real point here is that China isn't and won't do much about it. Oh, they'll put laws on the books and make a big show of it as they do with everything, but it's just talk for the most part. Enforcement of those laws is another matter entirely. For example, their pollution and environmental regulations rival that of the U.S. So why doesn't China mirror the U.S when it comes to its environment? Because they don't enforce those laws. And when they do, a small bribe to the inspection team is usually all it takes to get them to turn around and take the day off.
This article is a demonstration of what i mean with how Apple get attention in media that other tech companies does not. His one article about another phone in the archive is at first glance about the Moto X Pure, yet it quickly ends up talking about phone ergonomics in general.

And other than iPhone he his articles are about biology in various forms, even when supposedly bringing up Pixars (memory).
How Assassin's Creed recreated 1868's most powerful city
This does happen: Drug Dealers, Iran.
If I hadn't decided to move to JIRA I'd still be saying Atlassian sucks because of the lackluster Bitbucket issue system. It was my biggest complaint because I was being cheap and not wanting to spend the amount of money I spend on a day's lunch to get a better tool.

JIRA does feel clunky, but after spending the time configuring it, I find it helps me more than getting in the way. I've tried a number of other tools, especially for Agile development, and I ended up feeling like our team would need multiple told to get things done. By trying JIRA out on work projects and personal ones, I'm now a bit more productive, and my team is getting there too.

The price felt a bit 'steep' after the 10 users, but I've convinced my company that the price per user is nothing as it's how much we bill our clients for a few minutes if our time.

The listing makes sense, they've been profitable for a long time, and should have a possibly sustainable share considering EPS and other requirements of shareholders.
I've read a couple recent articles about the Y combinator on HN, and it seems like an interesting theoretical concept for e.g. showing that lambda calculus is Turing-complete.

But while it might be useful in minimalist contexts like the lambda calculus without much built-in functionality, what problem is it solving in this context?

It seems like a much more straightforward way to accomplish the same thing, without needing the Y combinator, would be (in Python syntax):

def trace(f):
def wrapper(*args):
print("called with args", args)
return f(*args)
return wrapper

fib_trace = trace(fib)

Why is the Y combinator needed for this? I don't get it.
No sarcasm . . . How is it not possible to survive for a year for 50k? . . . We do not need an office or need to hire any employees - we just need some hustling cash! . . . where are you guys from?
I don't know much about how denim processing has changed over the years, but I wouldn't be surprised if a pair of jeans today will also last 100 years in the same conditions.
Can you elaborate on why you feel its conclusion is necessarily bogus?
> I think the frame of reference is the programmer intent.

Sure. However, that is secondary. The sort of mistakes that you mention can be caught during code review or unit testing, completely independently of what the actual user requirement is. This post, evidently, does not involve such a case.

> The code is doing what the programmer intended, even if that is not what the user wanted.

Your perspective appears to be inside-outward. It may be helpful during a performance appraisal, but does the business no good!

Edit: inside-out --> inside-outward.
Cypherpoker – Mental Poker
Code: https://github.com/monicanagent/cypherpoker

Blog: http://patrickbay.ca/blog/?p=650

Blog2: http://www.torontocitylife.com/2015/09/19/totally-mental-poker/

Reddit: https://np.reddit.com/r/cypherpoker/
That was a truly confusing experience the first time I clicked when the machine was off. The click was a lie, yet I swore I felt mechanical travel.
i just see the infinite space for Amazon to grow...
Provisioning a Development Environment with Packer, Part 1 (2014)
It seemed less substantive, and we often switch to original sources in cases like this (as the guidelines mention, they're preferred).

Not a strong opinion in this case, though; happy to change it back.
Why? Because Twitter as a company hasn't produced effective revenue? Twitter (or their employees personal projects) has brought us Bower, Bootstrap, Typeahead, Flight and many other fantastic open source tools to make devs more productive. I think they are a great company to take advice from in this specific area.
It's an interesting theory, but one of the confounding variables may be the emergence of the internet as a dominant news medium during the same period. The ability to choose your online sources of political information (e.g., Drudge Report vs. Huffington Post, etc.) would presumably trigger the same mechanism of action for polarization.

It's also important to note that, even if it's true that deregulation originally contributed to polarization, that's not necessarily a strong argument for re-regulating these industries. Access to specialized content is an inevitable, technologically driven market trend, because people prefer experiences that are tailored to their tastes.

In a sense, the polarization we see may have been lurking within us all along, masked by the limited choices available for expressing political or cultural preferences when choosing which media content to intellectually consume. Once we are able to act on those preferences, the previously subtle differences become self reinforcing.
Reminds me of the amusing "Watergategate"[1] sketch from the British comedy show "The Mitchell and Webb Look". I mean, the joke is sort of in the title, but it's still funny to watch.

There's a point to it to, similar to what the article said: language evolves in interesting, sometimes convoluted ways.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB9JgxhXW5w
Why Windows 10 is the most secure Windows ever
But that's not where the growth is. In many engineering fields, the majority of degrees are going to foreign nationals.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/12/new-report-sh...
Quebec dairy farmers panicked over Trans-Pacific deal
Another fun way to test is to press with your nail compared to pressing with your finger tip.
So how did turkey happen?
CEDatum can grade and often repair stylii at least.

Another big problem is that people who don't know about the format who have it often stack the disks on top of each other, which basically destroys the ones at the bottom.
And the discussion descends into the exact kind of security absolutism that he was warning about...
New formula makes liquid flow batteries organic
America’s most secretive court invites its first outsider
Several years before, in 1997, the GAO caught the State Department paying a consultant to write op-ed pieces in support of the Clinton administration’s policy on Central America.

This is terrible. What will all the Washington Post journalists do for work if some sleazy internet spam company gets all the juicy government contracts?
Without restricting speech too much or engaging in substantial censorship perhaps it would be a good thing to start discussing what exactly differentiates news from entertainment and start saying who can call what what. Many countries do similar things with foods, in terms of defining exactly what, say, cheese is and must contain. Perhaps labelling laws for entertainment might be helpful in preventing people from consuming too much entertainment disguised as what most people would consider to be news. Of course, you can imagine how difficult it will be to implement but just because something is hard doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.
I'm not familiar with planet money, but I'm fascinated by how they never challenged the assumption that warehouse stores & buying in bulk save you money. The closest they come is when one of the hosts admits he impulse-purchased 12 gallons of carrot juice and the interviewee laughs.

Then the story goes into how Jet.com and Costco are cheaper than Amazon, gets a couple other types of digs in on Amazon, and proceeds to expound on the wonders of how Jet.com gives you 24¢ off for each box you buy that ships from the same warehouse.

It really made the whole thing come off like a native advertisement, to my ears.
Because fib is recursive, pretty sure you will only get one printout, not one for each call to fib.
Reminds me that at one point Heinlein requested that any letter etc he had sent people were to be returned, so he could burn them...
> In your position as devil's advocate, how does your parallel to Halley's comment provide any justification to your counter-argument?

I was merely pointing out that NdGT comments, while factual, were not really on point. I could also have said, "So what...?"

My arguments against the term supermoon are:
1. It piques public interest and then fails to deliver.
2. We have proper terms for the events that are occuring and should be using those terms instead.

Certainly these are stronger arguments than "But it doesn't look any bigger!"

But you're trying to place my "devil's advocate" role in the wrong context. Clearly the frequency of lunar eclipses has nothing to do with the term supermoon.

> how does your parallel to Halley's comment provide any justification to your counter-argument?

I think the point was rather clear. You were trying to argue that supermoon eclipses were not uncommon because they occur for, on average, 10% of all eclipses, but that was not the right metric. The occurance of these events over time is the correct metric.

> It's not actually significantly naked-eye brighter but requires instruments to measure.

It is 33% brighter. I would be surprised if that isn't detectable by the human eye. It certainly looks brighter to me tonight.

You don't need serious instrumentation to measure the change in size. Hold a quarter up to it so it just blocks out the moon. Measure the distance between your eye and the quarter. Now do the same when the moon is at apogee.

If you want to get technical, I don't really understand why it matters whether the difference is naked-eye visible or requires instrumentation. The prefix super- doesn't require it.

> Should we celebrate when Jupiter is at perihelion?

Are we celebrating? Certainly we "celebrate" in the form of news articles and increased observation when Jupiter is at perihelion, and, as you note, this event occurs once every ~12 year–more frequently than perihelion-sygyzy of the moon, Earth, and the sun. Although I think if it coincided with an eclipse of Jupiter by the Earth we would probably be too busy panicking to celebrate.

But these comparisons to other astronomical bodies don't hold water. The Moon holds a different place in our collective consciousness than these other astronomical bodies. Ask someone to point out Jupiter and most people won't be able to do so. Ask them to point out the Moon and everyone will be able to do so.

Supermoon, superjupiter, super67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are not incorrect. Why does the moon get special treatment? Probably for the same reasons it often does.
I'd probably attribute it more to the rise of cable TV, period. My family still didn't have cable in 1988. They got it sometime after that when I was no longer in the house.

I would also say that the 2000 gerrymandering was the worst ever due to the fact that cheap compute power allowed the politicians to carve up the electorate very precisely. Safe and majority districts skyrocketed--which shifted the electoral fights to primaries--which moved the politicians further toward the edges.
I'm glad antirez spoke up and clarified. I do think Redis is perfectly acceptable as a cache if you make a few config tweaks and run a second instance.

Many of the developers I work with are unfamiliar with Redis. Maybe they've heard of it and they install it to use Sidekiq and that's it. From the perspective of a newcomer, memcached is "safer" to run because it'll be memory limited automatically with literally zero config necessary. Redis does require the non-default LRU and memory tuning to be a safe cache.

It sounds like my performance concerns are primarily a thing of the past. Glad to hear it and I look forward to the threaded I/O coming after lazyfree.
One main advantage of the Kindle is that my tsundoku is now not as visible to my wife. No more raised eyebrows at the latest Amazon box to appear on the doorstep.

Still have to be sure that she doesn't look too closely at the credit card statement, though...
My other thought-experiment solution would be mixing in lethal substitutes for ivory/rhino horn/etc. early in the supply chain, with the goal being deleterious effects on end users, reducing demand. Although it would be more ideal if it actually killed people involved in the supply line, but there are too many unwitting couriers (common carriers, etc) to make that reasonable.

A more palatable version of this would be a campaign about pre-existing health consequences of using this stuff in TCM, followed by flooding the market with synthetics claimed to be safer/more efficacious.
"In addition, dirt might also be a source of beneficial microbes, although it could just as easily be a cause of bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection."
JavaFX Game Minesweeper in 30 minutes
It is very clever, but I much prefer the idea of building AOP into a language. Code will be much cleaner and probably a bit more optimized as well.

I find it interesting how category theory and higher-order functions are to functional programming what design-patterns are to OOP.
Adorable video of a stick figure fighting a tree
Honestly I like trello the best for day to day issue tracking. It gets clunky if you try to do too much at once but that is intentional. JIRA can be okay but there are a lot of caveats:

* well customized to fit the business (i.e don't let those 'non-practicing-entities' with nothing else to do go crazy creating and reworking convoluted workflows)

* small number of users (or performance sucks)

* well organized (you tend to get 'dumping grounds' of bugs and tech debt that just accumulates). I like trello's concept of card 'decay'.

* deep pockets (you gotta 'buy in' to the ecosystem and not get stingy about who gets access)

* ignore features - don't try to shoehorn, use what you need and forget the rest
> Did you read your link? The numbers "were self-reported by shark fin vendors in the Guangzhou". Hardly scientific and it's only from a single city in China.

Did you read yours? I prefer a source that clearly states where the data comes from. I don't have access to the paper the NPR article references and I imagine that you don't either so we don't really know where the 29% number comes from even.

Are you arguing against the bans or are you saying that they won't work. If the first, your arguments are kind of unrelated. If the second, sure, they might not work. It's worth giving it a shot.
If the price got lower there would probably be less poaching. Combine that with funded-via-non-poaching campaigns against poachers.

And organizations like http://vetpaw.org/
I've definitely seen -ghazi in the "artificially constructed attempt at a scandal" being used several places—some of the Apple press called "Bendgate" "Bendghazi", and the anti-Gamergate subreddit is called "Gamerghazi". So I think it's picking up steam, although we'll see if it has staying power.
I am guessing there real problem is that they don't have any productivity suite attached to their cloud service. Google has Google Docs(which is why I went with it over Dropbox for my small business), which is the best free Office Competitor, and OneDrive has all the might of MS Office.

I think they just allowed commenting and editing Word docs through their webapps recently.

Evernote has the note market cornered. Google Keep looks like yet another silly google experiment that they might one day pull the plug on (like Reader :-( ), and Apple Notes, like icloud, only really works on Apple devices. OneNote just got free, and has got some great features and comes with Windows 10, but I don't think most non-Office365 subscribers even know it exists.
But is that even needed anymore with so many people able to come up with the same discovery simultaneously?

Patents are no longer providing for pushing forward the sciences and humanity, merely rent seeking.
There's advances in structured records since then, but text-mode is still important. JSON is somewhere between structured binary and text; Protobufs define a canonical text version and easy tooling to convert to and back. I've debugged a bunch of applications by making RPC calls directly.
How is linux kernel tested?
A nationwide problem with inequality in gifted education