skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the issue with McAfee interfering with file move calls, Unity was logging an error message that said something like "Cannot move file into cache." That was a good clue that a file move operation was failing.

So I ran the app under the amazing API Monitor [1] and enabled logging for MoveFileA(), MoveFileW(), MoveFileExA(), MoveFileExW(), and similar "move file" APIs. It showed a failure on a MoveFileExW() call with the address of the call.

We'd found that Unity 5 didn't have the same problem (but we weren't ready to migrate to Unity 5 yet), so I also ran a Unity 5 test app under API Monitor and found the same failure on MoveFileExW(), along with several retries on the call until it succeeded. This told me just what I needed to patch the call for the Unity 4 app.

For the issue with AVG and wyUpdate, since wyUpdate is open source I just ran it under the debugger, and as luck would have it, the failing mutex.WaitOne() call was near the beginning of Program::Main() in the C# code [2].

(I mentioned WinMain() and CreateMutex() previously - I was writing that from memory and double-checked it now.)

[1] http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor

[2] https://github.com/geary/wyupdate/blob/master/Program.cs#L40
Seattle-based Shift Labs now has three low-cost medical devices in the pipeline
Dreamforce’s ‘Women’s Innovation’ panel: why we should stop babying female CEOs
I'm concerned by the dismissive comments in this thread (which at time of writing is all the top-level ones). What the author says would be consistent with the self-centered drama queen everyone is assuming the author is, but that's hardly the only interpretation of what she says. Is a little benefit of the doubt to much to ask?

The pains of being single often come up here, and to my memory such articles usually receive a positive response. Perhaps it is no coincidence that they are usually from the male point of view?
Posix requires a bourne shell of some sort, not (t)csh, with a binary name of sh. Freebsd provides this through Ash. BSDs have traditionally provided a C-shell, with FreeBSD being one of the few that's kept csh as the default. OpenBSD uses pdksh, and NetBSD asks.
The Cause is your exempt bandwidth,or how to explain why downloading other big files crossing the border through GFW is not so slow as Xcode?
No, filtering in the presence of an excessive number of applicants makes sense if the resulting pool is not worse than the original pool. They're saying academic performance is not correlated with professional competence. That means precisely that filtering by degree results in a not worse applicant pool.
The Strange Death of Lev Sedov (2014)
Lawsuit filed against sites that posted Ashley Madison data dump
I'm also not fan of the fact that nowadays most hackathons are big competitions. And/or overly strict in what you should build, to be able to compare things better. Not every result should be an app or a potentially viable product!

Corporate sponsorship isn't necessarily bad, even limiting scope to products of the company can be fine (e.g. I participated in a very nice hackathon with a guideline of "build something fine using one of XCorps APIs"). Sadly many PR departments love turning things into "events" and do things bigger and more impressive than others.

But hacker culture isn't just hackathons. And of course, in university etc you still can just assemble a bunch of friends and hack on stuff together if you want. Not much needed.
I do not agree, this the worst place to live in haryana, "corporations putting up glass buildings" is not a good metric to measure progress.

I think rural haryana is a better than gurgaon even without 24 hr electricity, there you can at least breathe.
FreeBSD is fine for a single-user system with no expectations of security. Given the number of trivially exploitable kernel issues it has, it's absolutely terrible for a server, shared hosting or any kind of multi-user environment.

Moreover, unlike Linux, there is no grsecurity patch to harden it.
I wonder if the next major religion will be virtual reality based, and its first hundred years will be devoted to the destruction of any evidence against its principles.

The last part of if it's what's even more scary, as it allegedly already happened once, at a great loss.
She is he, the author is Tim Kreider.
I would really love someone to run an objective comparison of James Blake and the culprit. I know it's not popular to apologize for token racist acts, but isn't it also possible that two people just looked very similar and it was simple mistaken identity? I know I come from a place of privilege but i think there are ways to resolve these questions with simple comparative analysis.
But they did decide to nonetheless.

Seems the real problem is a tech-hostile government making life difficult for legitimate developers.

Liberty is important. Really important.
Why IBM Thinks Bitcoin Technology Will Change Banking, Household Appliances
> "What the author says would be consistent with the self-centered drama queen everyone is assuming the author is, but that's hardly the only interpretation of what she says. Is a little benefit of the doubt to much to ask?"

If you're referring to the author of the linked article, it's a guy. If I may ask, why did you jump to the conclusion it was written by a female?

> "Tim Kreider is the author of “We Learn Nothing,” a collection of essays and cartoons, and the forthcoming essay collection, “I Wrote This Book Because I Love You.”
Exactly how have they taken the lead here? They bought a bunch of bolt-on stuff and slapped together some software that works in a very limited way. Am I missing something?
And yet, command-line commands are much more explicit than a click or drag in a GUI, which depends on all the implicit state in the rest of the application.

Really, in both cases, some things are implicit and other things are explicit, these aspects really don't set the two worlds apart. But trying to teach or instruct someone, it's much easier to communicate a specific command-line command, than explain where to click / drag (especially when GUIs are re-designed all the time).
I am looking at a dataset from 01/01/1996 - 12/31/2012

The table that contains individual reports has 407,141 rows in it, these are distinct reports.

There are also 3,796 deaths reported in those 407,141 reports.

Since you included some samples from the SYMPTOM_TEXT column, let me provide a few as well:

Hypotonic, Hyporesponsive episode, Infant died: Reyes text Syndrome. Vaccine given for routine immunizations.

child found dead in bed 14Jan90. Had full check up 12Jan90 with immunizations DPT/HIB/Oral Polio

Pt admitted with H-Flu meningitis on 24Jun90. Pt expired on 25Jun90. Pt received HIB vaccine at 18 months of age.

Our office became aware of the infants death by an acquaintance of the family. This person also states that cause of death was determined to be S.I.D.S.

Relapse of ITP: 18 year-old female with immune thrombocytopenic purpura, diagnosed in 1995 and in remission from 2004 to 2011 following treatment with Rituximab. Relapse in early April, 2011, followed administration of Gardasil vaccine on 10-26-10 and 1-7-11. Relapse of ITP led eventually to death from intracranial hemorrhage on 07/06/2011.

Infant reportedly co-sleeping. Found nonresponsive. EMS took to ER - 24 hr in PICU - arrested and died.
Wechat... Yikes.

Tinfoil scenario: China govt slows downloads of official apple releases while simultaneously working to promote and popularize state-infected p2p/unofficial releases. Devs will do what it takes to get a copy
You can probably verify the output of the compiler. This takes some effort, and 99.99 and a few more nines of developers don't do it, unless they're stepping through assembly trying to find a bad bug or performance issue.

On the other hand, if Apple is doing transformations on the code you give them (e.g., you hand them LLVM bytecodes or whatever), then the process is harder because Apple's doing the code gen and optimization. Still, you should be able to notice utterly foreign basic blocks and system calls ("hey, when did our app start calling mkdir?").

While I wouldn't discount this as a vehicle for state level actors to distribute malware ("stateware"?), and while we know that in practice this "many eyes" stuff doesn't really work out, this type of tampering would be detectable after the fact, with detection easily automated once discovered in the wild.
If there is an online platform that
If there is an online platform that allows you to a) crowdsource all knowledge that supports or dismisses an insight/conclusion/hypothesis to see how many percent true it is, and b) weigh between two (or more) opposing opinions/theories of different experts/parties/camps of thought in relation to each other, would you use it?
Prevalence of micronutrient deficiency in popular diet plans
A coffee session is a great idea. Thanks!
What a ridiculously useless and distracting comment stemming from ignorance on the origins of morality. Even secular morality originates from some manner of cultural common good.

In this case, I'm obviously alluding to the morality associated with environmentalism, which acts as an umbrella for why anyone cares about the destruction of an external resource: self-interest.
See for example http://time.com/3901378/netflix-internet-traffic/ Note that the metric is actually downstream peak time consumer ISP traffic which is a little different than "40% of the Internet," but the fact remains that Netflix is using FreeBSD to serve a phenomenal amount of traffic.
That could be the greatest thing in the world, but it doesn't make it a native app.
can someone explain to me is ES7 tied to the browser version/type, or usually all the popular browsers support it out of the box?

because I couldn't find any information on that
Apple Confirms Discovery of Malicious Code in Some App Store Products
If you think it's easy to win government contracts then I invite you to do so. It can be lucrative.
Abacus (YC W14) Is Hiring Account Executives
My favourite: "Myth: systemd is unstable and insecure people who outsource have no future. "
I don't know if that's true anymore. Programmers don't make finance money, but they make doctor or lawyer money (higher at the bottom end, maybe a bit lower at the top end). Programming has pulled far away from the low six figure ceiling that used to apply and still does in most engineering fields, even for people with elite qualifications.
Not for me: https://i.imgur.com/bzScUUn.png
> Attributes like a11y, embeddability, composability, and effective resource sharing tend to simply fall out of well-designed platforms. The web has an effective answer for none of these desirable concerns.

...what? The web is better than most native platforms in these.

The web is accessible. It has many features for screen readers and such, but more importantly, it is inherently flexible and allows content's form to be adapted to the reader's needs, thanks to the separation of content from style. A single web page, unmodified, can work on a desktop PC with a mouse and keyboard, a capacitive touch device the size of your palm, a stylus-input device the size of a laptop, a printed page, a screen reader, a ten key mobile phone from yesteryear, and more. The web lets users define custom styling that meets their needs, lets users selectively remove content (ads, for example), etc. No native platform is that flexible. Yes, some sites break screen readers, but this is true of native apps as well.

The web is incredibly embeddable. Any web page can, with one line of code, incorporate any other web page, and it "just works". You simply can't do that with native apps.

The web is composable as well. Sites can load JavaScript from each other very easily.

The web also supports resource sharing in various forms, but people don't necessarily use them.
To clarify, the California DMV carefully defines an "Autonomous vehicle" but has carve outs for collision avoidance systems [1]. While adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist are mentioned explicitly as collision avoidance systems, automatic lane changing is not. So we weren't comfortable adding that feature until the DMV published their regulations for the operation of Autonomous Vehicles (which still hasn't happened) and we met those requirements.

[1] : https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/bkgd
It's complicated. ES6/7 support isn't binary. But sites like this help: http://caniuse.com/
My favorite:
> Samsung vows counter-action over Apple Maps flaw results in anti-depressant-like behavior in mice
Being alone should be a respected lifestyle choice or affectional preference.

If a person would rather be partnered, then there's usually some issue with the "quirks." You can't swim out of your lane.
Next RPG Maker Will Change Ruby for JavaScript
Think of all those poor, decommissioned teletypes we could put back into service. Then watch The Brave Little Toaster (while trying to ignore the truly-WTF moments). Then weep that this isn't a rely future.
Furthermore if you live in Washington state, please support Initiative 1401 (http://saveanimalsfacingextinction.org) on the November ballot. This initiative would help with reducing the amount of illegal ivory coming to the US. Washington state is a strategic state because a lot of illegal ivory comes to the US from China and Washington has large ports so restricting it in Washington state will go pretty far. California has already passed a similar law.

We are also looking for volunteers who would help out with the campaign outreach efforts. If you are in Washington state and have 2 hours of free time every now and then and want to help out, email me at adamnemecek at gmail.com.

Furthermore, over at /r/babyelephantgifs, we've been running a fundraiser to help some conservation organizations, you can read more about it here https://www.reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs/comments/3gppt7/he...

You should for example consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation[0][1] which fights the poachers. The
founder, Damien Mander[2], is an Australian ex spec-ops sniper who is using his military experience to train the park rangers since they, unlike the poachers, tend to be poorly equipped and trained as well as understaffed.

There is also the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust[3][4] which takes care of elephant and rhino orphans (most of whom are orphans due to poaching). For $50 a year, you can become a sponsor of a particular animal and they'll send you photos and updates about how your sponsored animal is doing. You can for example sponsor this little fella [5]who was rescued a while back. This sponsorship is a pretty great gift.

[0] http://www.iapf.org/en/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Poaching_Fo...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Mander

[3] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sheldrick_Wildlife_Trust

[5] https://instagram.com/p/4uSGkzgUK7/?taken-by=dswt
You want to not let people build skyscrapers to protect the egos of city authorities that can't build a sewage system that would meet the western standards of 100 years ago? Dubai has problems, but tall buildings aren't one of them.
Tell us more, please!! =)
> you should be ashamed

I know this is an internet convention of sorts, but please don't do it here, even when someone advocates bad policy. HN comments should be free of personal swipes, especially otherwise decent comments like this one.
What? We use System Center Endpoint Protection which is just MSE for Business. It works really well.
This comment is little more than an extended personal attack. Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.

We detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10249056 and marked it off-topic.
http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ and http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es7/ are particularly good for ES since it breaks out things into the nitty gritty features, providing the code samples that are tested.
The example I've noticed is the poor person who doesn't have means for transportation will usually go to the closest source for staple items, like a convenience store. Milk and bread are 50-100% at these stores versus a traditional grocery store and they rarely put things on sale.
Another hilarious title: "Ask HN: Worst examples of really creative ways to combat late payments".
This sounds like an real post on HN, and actually makes sense.

Or maybe "Swift Language Will Instantly Know Everything About the Origin of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman".
Perhaps some sections of interest to readers here would be (from the preface):
Part VII, “Application Areas,” comprises articles on
connections between applied mathematics and other
disciplines, including such diverse topics as integrated
circuit (chip) design, medical imaging, and the screening
of luggage in airports.

Application areas of Applied Math sounds funny though :)
Trying to find the words to express this, I figured I'd check through the comments first to see if someone had already done that, which you did. I don't think we can accurately or objectively comment on the current era we live. It's too present. But I do think you're spot on in some of your observations and I think this period will be looked upon as a interpersonality low point in human existence.
> Private developers will build whatever people want

I think maybe a better way to think of it is that developers will build whatever makes them money -- a good enough proxy for wants in many cases, but not for all.
> FreeBSD is fine for a single-user system with no expectations of security. Given the number of trivially exploitable kernel issues it has, it's absolutely terrible for a server, shared hosting or any kind of multi-user environment.
Moreover, unlike Linux, there is no grsecurity patch to harden it.

Quoted for troollth.
> Imagine if all children were scanned at 6mo, 1yo and every other year until 18... that would be much more valuable data to humanity than some other uses of big data storage out there.

Imagine that instead, upon birth, all children had their entire genome sequenced and recorded. That would be a far greater use of big data storage.

Full genome sequencing costs a third of an MRI.
I wish I could speak for professions such as Medicine or Law, but I can't. I can however speak for an Engineering degree. The following is an example of what a typical CS undergraduate student would study in the US[1]:

● AL - Algorithms and Complexity
● AR - Architecture and Organization
● CN - Computational Science
● DS - Discrete Structures
● GV - Graphics and Visualization
● HCI - Human-Computer Interaction
● IAS - Information Assurance and Security
● IM - Information Management
● IS - Intelligent Systems
● NC - Networking and Communications
● OS - Operating Systems
● PBD - Platform-based Development
● PD - Parallel and Distributed Computing
● PL - Programming Languages
● SDF - Software Development Fundamentals
● SE - Software Engineering
● SF - Systems Fundamentals
● SP - Social Issues and Professional Practice

A typical 4 year undergraduate degree covers 120 credits typically divided among 40 (3 credits each) or more subjects.

In addition to the 18 or so above the rest of the subjects include subjects in primary engineering, mathematics, electronics, mechanics, humanities and several others in addition to all the related practical/lab work.

Most lay people assume that getting a degree in CS means learning HTML, CSS, one or two programming languages and most possibly some CRUD application development with a database backend.

Hence the prevalence of 'boot camps' of various natures that create 'rock stars'.

There is no way in heck that a person who is not forced into the degree track is going to be motivated enough to study all of this stuff. A lot of this is very very hard.

Now, after studying all of this, do you think you will use even a small fraction of this in the types of jobs a typical IT/software consultant would do in 90% of the run of the mill jobs out there. NO. However the degree exposed you to subjects that you would never be exposed to unless you were in that field. And this is only an undergraduate degree.

There is more to a degree that what you can learn by self motivation. At least in the technical space.

[1] Computer Science Curricula 2013; ACM/IEEE Computer Society https://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf
> Most poor people don't work at all, and about half of those who do are only part time.

If by "most" you mean ~10% (or were you including children and old people?)

>I can't find any solid statistics, but there is certainly evidence for a 'significant number': http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/policy-brief/low-wage-work-uncert...

I wasn't specifically thinking about people below the poverty line, but was rather intending to include the "working-class" as well.
Instead of making the whole REST API, perhaps we could consider using something like Meteor (or at least offer ways to skip the API altogether in favor of some other mechanism.)
The speaker, Andy Matuschak, is owed a great deal of thanks from a lot of OS X developer for the Sparkle framework to do updating of apps.
I agree, async/await is very nice. Though it is worth pointing out async/await is quite literally syntactic sugar on top of promises. Essentially adding language syntax for common promise idioms.
Whhhyyyyyy ?
Years ago, I would have ended a similar rant with "what we need is designs that just don't do things like autorun and view-attachments-by-default"

But now, the "attack surface" has expanded inexorably to the point where the alternative to AV appears to be... none.

So this just seems to be the modern Internet, where the average user is more or less at the behest of rackets not much better than the rackets that control botnets if they aren't actually infected by them.

I've heard some botnets patch the system and expel other intruders. Yes, now, "everything is free... infection and protection equally".

Is there an alternative?
We could get a monopoly.

Maybe OpenRisc/Risc-V will rise. Who'da thunk in 1990 that Linux would rise?
A New Front – Can the Pentagon do business with Silicon Valley?
No.

If I want to watch people alternately call each other "deniers" and "alarmists" I'll just head over to Slashdot.
Try it in landscape mode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

> About 1.5% of children in the United States (one in 68) are diagnosed with ASD as of 2014

That's not rare.

Doctors have difficulty with ASD because it's triggered by genetics, but also by environment, and manifests uniquely in every individual.
My inspector even crashes when trying to hover over the link node!
More than just syntactic sugar. async/await changes the whole control flow of a method.
Ad blocking “controversy” just foolishness
Am I the only person who removed the `news.` from news.ycombniator.com to see if there was a parody of Y Combinator's main site?
> You're neither. You're not a part of their business model at all.

Sure you are. Platforms have network effects. They're better off if you use their software than if you use Windows, even if you don't buy a support contract.

So the exchange is that you get free software and they get network effects. It's not an adversarial relationship where you have conflicting interests regarding how much they'll be paid or how much privacy they'll take from you, because network effects don't hurt you (as long as the vendor is not a monopoly) -- if you're using the software then they help you.

Sometimes there is a free lunch.

> Your relationship with Red Hat is very different from your relationship with Apple, Microsoft, Google, or AVG. That should go without saying, but apparently it doesn't.

That's the point. "If you're not paying you're the product" is thereby disproved. You can have a relationship with a commercial entity in which neither is true.

Worse, the implied alternative is also wrong. You can be paying and be the product, as you are with Windows 10.

If you want something to take home, it's this: Stop patronizing companies that convert your privacy into their money.
long time lurker, first time poster here. curious to hear opinions on this piece I just wrote. thanks!