skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can sort of rank orthographies on this score, or at least compare them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography#Compariso...

> Languages with highly phonemic orthographies often lack or rarely use a word corresponding to the English verb "to spell" because the act of spelling out words is rarely needed (careful pronunciation of a word is generally sufficient to convey its spelling).
I enjoy not getting into arguments with people who buy into each and every rumor, no matter how absurd it is. Though I'll chalk this up to a difference in gossip culture.

I absolutely abhor rumors and gossip. Give me some facts or some data - otherwise don't waste my time. Other people enjoy gossiping and get excited about rumors and the "mystery" that comes with them.
> At least method overriding is consistent when it is baked into a language

Right there you have one of the two great families of programming. You like things like Python, where there is only one obvious way to do anything, and if it isn’t obvious, you just don’t do it. These ideas are from the other family, where you have a number of small but powerful ideas that you can combine in various ways.

The ones that solve problems and have great timing and get some marketing oomph establish community traction, the rest fade away. This is the UNIX and Lisp tradition.

I can’t tell you whether one is better than the other. I can tell you that the first thing is IBM. And opinionated frameworks. And benevolent dictators. The second thing is startups. And libraries. And tinkerers. There’s no shame in preferring one to the other. Both have produced great things.
So what you're saying is that you can't be arsed to spend 15 minutes to learn a library, but you're ok gobbling up all of ES6/7 without problems?
"One wonders if the problem is the parents." Agreed- no reason the starving artist underemployed son couldn't come home and go back to school for something he could actually get a job in, like nursing. There are 1 year accelerated BSN programs for people with bachelors in other subjects.
Oh yes, you totally misunderstand.
Not really. This is exactly what happened in the 80s and 90s with Vanilla Ice stealing from David Bowie and Freddie Mercury[1], and MC Hammer stealing from Rick James[2]. It even happened outside of rap with The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony stealing from "The Last Time"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_Symphony
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Ice_Baby
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Can%27t_Touch_This
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...
Chrome already blocks extensions not from the webstore on Windows, unless you use a developer branch. See http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/05/protecting-chrome-users-f...
I long stopped using AVG because their business model seemed to transition to largely something predatory - browser bars, hijacked home pages, "tune-ups".
Random Question. What are the prospects for someone entering graduate school in mathematics, say if they have a post graduate degree in another STEM field, later in life? Assuming they can take the math GRE and score well?
Hang on a moment - according to the fine print, their income figures includes "the net return on housing equity". Why the hell would you include that in a supposedly consumption-based measure of poverty? It's not actual income that you can use to buy anything, the only way to access it is by selling your home which you need to live in.
A paper trail without voter secrecy is possibly worse than no paper trail. It's not hard to design a system with both (shuffling the ballots is usually a good measure).
Yes, last time I coded maybe half of a real estate android app.
I don't think this is difficult, but I agree that it is rare. There is very little pressure encouraging people to become one of these programmers. I'm one of them, but it's difficult to actually leverage this into a higher salary unless you got involved with a larger company straight out of college. The interview process doesn't expose this, and unless you write a hit open-source application there isn't any way to prove it.

Instead, employers - even technical people who interview you - play buzzword bingo, indicating that you would have been better off spewing new frameworks into your codebase unnecessarily. The personal incentives for a programmer are completely misaligned with the actual interests of the business.

The approach that would incentivize this behavior would involve giving raises to people who write the sort of code you want to see, but instead raises often come from dazzling strangers who don't know the long-term consequences of your code (ie, getting a higher offer and asking for a raise).
Perhaps you could instead provide an example of a concrete problem that you believe to be difficult to tackle with CLJS.
The policy you are talking about likely has more to do with lowering the cost of vehicle insurance/worker's comp insurance. Our company has the same policy and it helps keeps our rates low because we will be able to rule out alcohol/drugs as a factor in any company vehicle accident. And since you can't rule it out until you have the test... there is a bit of a chicken/egg problem there.

I'm surprised they make everyone in the vehicle take the test, but it makes sense if you think someone would be willing/able to cover for a driver that is impaired.
This is a trivial criticism of a work that I do not presently have time to review, but I can't help but think of capitalist dystopia described in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash when considering the delegation of defense/police forces to the free market.
(1) PDiffs are merged before being applied, and the downloads are pipelined, so it does not matter much anymore.

(2) The cache generation is somewhat slow, it currently takes about 2 seconds on a 2 generation old laptop.

I sped it up a bit now, and replaced a map in that path with an unordered_map in the process.

Profiling it does not show anything obvious that can be optimized, though, most of the time is spent parsing files.

Most importantly, as you can see in https://people.debian.org/~jak/gencache.svg only about 10% are spent in the string code.

(3) We don't want to recover from errors. Error recovery masks problems.

(4) ABI breaks: We try to avoid them a lot. We added tons of dpointers everywhere these days, so we can extend stuff as needed without breaking ABI.

Sometimes you do need to break ABI. For example, offsets were 32-bit sometimes causing large files not to work correctly.
I read that as saying the fix for the first issue, which wasn't sufficient. If it was for the second, then they would have submitted it directly first like they did the first, not by uploading to the webstore.
Oh right, that makes sense but does not make async code organize the way synchronous code does (as async/await sugar enables) but is a fair deal if you don't mind your async code using a different organizing pattern or if you specifically want it to be that way... :)

Re: cats

Not a big fan of abstractions that don't contribute to code simplicity. What is the percentage of programmer who dig monads? Less than 1% probably.
That's definitely a big source of confusion, but in the case of Wei Zhang, he uses the Western name order on his own homepage and for his e-mail address.

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~wzhang/

(Yes, it's possible that someone else originally chose this order for him.)
Hey guys, feedback welcome. And I'll try to anwser any questions you may have.

For instance: "Do we need yet another flux library?"

Well, why not? The ecosystem is still evolving. By bringing in more ideas and refined approaches, we may well reach equilibrium sooner.
At one point it looked like Microsoft was going to kill the scammy Windows "security" industry by releasing their own anti-virus. But then they backed-off and now MSE seems to be purposefully curtailed.
Exactly. The Corporations™ don't pay taxes; their customers do. Plenty of lower-tax nations are able to provide free or nearly free university, healthcare and other benefits. It's not a collection problem; it's a spending one.
> So one son decided to blow $200K on a journalism degree

$129,000, not $200K. $189K is the combined amount of the two sons.

(And "blow" largely because he got a journalism degree, apparently, for what appears to be a goal of an acting career, which is just mind-bogglingly weird, and not particularly because of the $ amount.)
I hope the family continue to push their case...

How can they do that? TFA clearly describes judgement in favor of the defendants' (i.e. the cops) summary motion to dismiss all elements of the suit completely. Read TFA more closely, please.

[EDIT:] The comment to which I reply seems to misunderstand TFA to have referred to a summary motion by the plaintiffs, which is not the case. If appealing to a higher court rather than just getting the fair trial to which one is entitled seems like a trivial thing, then one must be either fabulously wealthy, or an attorney. We're certainly out of the $25k range mentioned in TFA.
Funny, I came here to point out the same observation. I found the gaffe a bit disturbing.
FindGrp() is somewhat slow as we do not store the untruncated hash value in the groups, so we have to compare all strings (well, we order them on insertion, but it's still 2 to 3 on the average - an average 3 integer comparisons would be nicer).

But fixing that requires an ABI break, so it has to wait for a chance. Like in a year or something.
As far as I can tell, only the first issue was fixed. Is the XSS issue fixed as well? There doesn't seem to be any acknowledgement of a fix on the page after that's mentioned.

And loading http://webtuneup.avg.com/static/dist/app/4.0.5.0/interstitia... still shows an alert, the issue has not been fixed.
>As horrible as many of things the US has done in the name of its citizens (and on its citizens) one thing you'll never see happen here is internet censorship

You mean the same place that had the Hays code for movie censorship and that gave free reign to Senator McCarthy to prosecute its citizens political ideals (and stop them from writing and making movies and plays influenced by them), and to E.J. Hoover to do surveillance, blackmail etc in an even larger scale?

Or the place were any crackpot teacher/parent association can get something like The Origin Of Species or A People's History of the United States out of a school's curriculum?

The main reason they don't do direct internet censorship is because nobody cares. There are so many sources, so many confused opinions, and so many conditioned citizens, that anything posted is just a drop in the ocean. They just need to control the "serious" or more mass appeal media, and that they do (from the NYT and WP to FOX).

When the press was really influential and the people were more radicalized (e.g. back in the days of unions or later with student protests etc), not only they did censorship and pressure on journalists as to what to write (plus "character assassinations" a la Hoover), but the government started directly manipulating and dictating what would be written to change public opinion (Operation Mockingbird).
I've kind of wondered about how you can tell -- do you know of an example that's online anywhere that makes it clear how it looks different? (... when written with a pen or pencil?)
That would mean that the State is actually making some deep analysis.

The level of analysis here is very very shallow: a set of registration numbers jotted down by a police officer on a parking lot 5 months before. The rest, which is already not much at all, is at best heavily biased dice throw, or as the author suggest simply planted evidence.

No deep connection check ( like government monitoring database for activities like on reddit trees ), background analysis (why would a rich family start a home pot operation in the first place), no basic policing work ( electricity/water consumption, movement, contact with dealer, ...).

Parent can say whatever he wants here. Visiting a fishing and hunting shop, or picking his friend at the gun range is all that is needed for the police.
Super, widgets on mirror is a cool feature!
Better title would be "The Ford Foundation's Quest to Remake the World in the Way That a Bunch of Elitist WASPs Think Best".
This is a great observation. I wonder when cooler heads will prevail and reform the worker visa program into one which is more flexible (and sane) than the one that exists currently. I understand that there are a lot of difficulties but the present situation just cannot continue unless more jobs are outsourced completely. With the difficulty in obtaining worker visas, US corporations might have to resort to outsourcing wholesale.
When I saw the headline (including the publication) I expected a reference to The Admirable Crichton. But the story didn't really support that, and the tone was too somber anyway.
A few things:

* Tavis Ormandy is the researcher doing the reporting. He's currently employed at Google as a security researcher. Given his reputation, and Google's reputation, I trust that his reports are true reports, rather than fiction.

* The report covers a span of ~13 days. It's entirely possible that the AVG commentary that you read was posted on or after 2015-12-21, the date on which Mr. Ormandy mentions that AVG reports that they're going to be pushing the fixed version of the extension into the Chrome Webstore.

* It's also entirely possible that the AVG commentary that you read is either a pack of lies, or -when read very closely- says a _bunch_ of things but ultimately utterly fails to say anything like "The thing reported by Mr. Ormandy in Google Security Research Issue #675 is actually not a problem. Mr. Ormandy's reports are untrue.".
> Do you want me to try to train the APT developers in some way? That won't work

Try it out, we're always listening and around in #debian-apt on OFTC.
s/federal law enforcement agency/part of the federal security apparatus/ doesn't really change the argument, does it?
Its almost 2016, any Antivirus Software is snake oil at this point. Bypassing _every single product on the market_ is trivial, few nops here, powershell script there and you are in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z7L498dNB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzC8jJ0ESJ0

I could go as far as calling them fraud for giving false sense of security. Recent case of malware swapping bank account numbers on the fly for example:

ESET fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MR2PvX3OBY

McAfee fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go-qqOOE6oY

Trend Micro was also a fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpS501wRvuo but curiously google removed this clip?!?:)
Her target market seems to be living in those communities though. She probably can't start renting tri-cycles in Atlanta and expect the same results.
You don't really need cumulative diffs anymore. Sure, they would be nice to have, but with pipelining and client-side merging of the patches before applying, things are not that much slower.
Yes! I have been listening to a load of podcasts a few of which make me extremely worried someone is onto my idea so I'm coding like mad.

However, looking at it objectively, I think to pull off the execution of this project it will probably take 1-2 months of fulltime work. Anyone know where I can get, say, a hundred grand to help me start a business... If only.

:-)
Yeah, taking the time to tidy up my personal site as well as learning some Go.

Had my last exam before Christmas so I've got a lot of catching up to do from a busy term without side projects.
You are buying a completely flawed argument. The reason there are fewer and fewer American factory workers is that nobody is going to pay for a degree for which there are no jobs. If you are in the US and you have to decide on a degree, would you go to do factory-related work, knowing that companies are moving oversees as soon as they can?

The only way to get workers for a particular field is to have investments in that field, especially in a country where citizens have free initiative. If the industry and the government continue to subsidize companies that open factories outside the US, it is not a big surprise that they will have trouble finding workers for this kind positions. This is the logical consequence, not the cause for this big shift. The cause is that big business want to take advantage of cheap labor and no regulation at third world countries, while at the same time slashing the taxes they need to pay in the US.
>In the end, though, they ascribe it all to their "hard work" and ignore those things -- condemning those less fortunate. Mostly like privileged stable upper middle class students do.

What a caustic statement! Blinded by this much vitriol you are blindly ascribing your opinion to whatever aspect of the issue you feel.

For every "privileged" student, there are "less fortunate" who get a tax break, a student discount, a grant or whatever. The world is a bit more dynamic than you paint it to be.
How Blizzard turned a costly failure into the highly anticipated 'Overwatch'
@yogthos

Nothing is hard to do in CLJS but finding the right way to do things can be hard. For example, why doesn't core.async include promises and even better some async/await equivalent? Why does core.async push CSP as the built in async model to the exclusion of all other async patterns? Why are those only found in some 3rd party libraries?
Federal Judge Hears Hypocritical Arguments in Marijuana Banking
> The actual basis of the raid was a false positive by a field test kit

Yes, but the reason they were being investigated at all was because a cop was recording license plate numbers at a garden supply store.

You don't even have to have something to hide to fall prey to the war on citizens. If the police need an arrest, and they're looking at you, you'll be arrested.
Bernienomics 101: Why student loans carry higher interest than mortgages
The best part of CRTs: phosphorescence effects and vector monitors.

When any other kind of monitor tries to imitate what vector games look like or how things looked on old television sets, they really can't do it justice.

Stella (Atari 2600 emulator) has had a phosphorescence effect emulation as an option for quite some time, but it isn't the same. The differences in intensity in ghost images that fade can not be trivially reproduced.
People with problems and money to solve those problems aka business owners.
I think the argument would be that a country that is trying to modernize a massive population isn't likely to go the route of spending a massive amount of money to R&D a new technology when it isn't really needed.

It's not that they can't, it's that probably won't.
> I read that as saying the fix for the first issue, which wasn't sufficient.

Eh?

The reported issue is fixed. If it wasn't, Ormandy wouldn't have marked the bug as "Fixed", and said "I believe this issue is resolved now". Presumably, AVG has also promised to "...get a professional web audit of those whitelisted domains...".

Ormandy's no hack, dude.

> ...they would have submitted it directly first like they did the first, not by uploading to the webstore.

...how else would AVG get the update into the hands of users? Email a copy to them?
I don't know why your track has to be decided based on how much money your parents have. In Germany, your track is based on grades and tests. And you can still get a meaningful white collar job without going to university.

Very few people need more than a high school education plus on the job education and training. Maybe just doctors, engineers, and scientists. It's just that in the U.S. we use education as a red herring to divert attention away from the real issues. E.g. It's unpleasant to talk about the total breakdown in family structure in inner cities? Let's shift the discussion to forcing these kids into mostly useless college education, as if people in other developed countries aren't working good paying respectable jobs after leaving school at 16.
There doesn't seem to be a way for a company to evaluate the "goodness" of your code in a meaningful way. And even if they did, you will NOT get a raise without asking for it. OTOH, there are those, like you mention, who will leverage other job offers to get a raise and such...so the only solution seems to be for those who write the good code to engage in similar tactics, regardless of the disdain they might have for them.
I think a skilled trade and good work ethic will yield a better life outcome for most of the "bottom half" (pick your measure) of current college attendees.

When did we start looking down our nose at tradespeople in favor of college grads? I'm not sure, but I think it's wrong-headed.
How the Internet of Things Got Hacked
I recently finished an improv class that touched on the importance of eye contact when portraying different levels of "status" while improvising a character. Eye contact was said to be a high-status behavior, and an easy trick to portray yourself as a person in a position of power was to make plenty of eye contact (among other body language hints). The opposite was true for low-status characters. Being comfortable holding eye-contact with someone was akin to seeing them as an equal, which could lead to them liking you more due to in-group bias. A hobby of mine now is to actively play with the level of eye contact I make with people and see how they react - holding eye contact with my boss for a long time, for example.
Reselling such thing is a situation that can't hardly end up well for any parties. Even when the algorithms are worth millions. I'd be surprised a buyer would be willing to invest in it, study it and then turn it into a profitable thing, even if it's sold really cheap or given away. In which case a clever seller would never undertake the risks involved to steal it and put it in the market.

In short, there's no way for this to turn out right (getting away with money), but it can go wrong in many ways (like getting caught). This employee made a terrible gamble.
I don't think that's the implication at all.

The implication is rather that the Hartes are firmly part of the Establishment, and even the privileges bestowed by that membership couldn't help them.
Yes, I'm learning python and flask.Trying to write a simple webapp
> Considering that the USA is one of the few countries that taxes on overseas profits, and has a higher rate of tax than many countries, what exactly are 'proper taxes'?

The higher nominal corporate tax rate is misleading because of the structure of credits, deductions, etc.; the US collects a low level of corporate taxes compared to other developed countries (e.g., significantly below the OECD average.)
They are basically malware. They take over your browser and search bar, obviously diverting all search queries to them first, so they can have a nice little index to sell.
The alternate income measures include net return on housing equity, not the consumption measure.

Net return on housing equity is income that you can use to buy stuff with - for example, housing in a cheaper location + other stuff. Living in an expensive locale is a consumption choice.
Well, if I have person A play the console game of "Life" in easy mode and person B in hard mode, they're both "responsible" for what they do.

But they're also playing under quite different chances and difficulty levels, and facing much different odds. Heck, they're really playing a different game, period.

What's hard to understand about a kid from a well off middle class family with 2 educated and working parents who put money aside for their kid's studies has it much easier than some poor kid with one parent with unstable job and medical bills?

http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate
Yes, everything has limits, and it would be better if you could afford all four years at university. When you can't, you have to think of alternatives. This is one of them.