skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both in the case of Office 365 and that of Azure they are selling you their cashcow (office and windows), only in a software as service fashion.
Moreover, neither is opensource, unlike cloud offering based on Xen or kvm, which are (at least to some extent).
I fail to see how Sun fares worse in this comparison, if this was your point.
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I don't think Pascal is almost forgotten. Free Pascal (http://www.freepascal.org) and Delphi (http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi) are both strong Object Pascal implementations. There's also Lazarus (http://www.lazarus-ide.org/) which is a Delphi-like IDE and libraries for Free Pascal.
> Second-hand is great and keeps a shop with books on the shelves in a neihbourhood but it won't build a distro chain for new work.

Many primarily-second-hand-bookshops also carry new work, often focusing on either local or non-mainstream publishers. (Some bigger primarily-second-hand -- in terms of floor space -- bookshops also are what amounts to a very small new-bookshop, with popular new books -- in front of a larger second-hand shop.)
It's because they are in an unstable situation and that means their struggle has to be greater than those who are privileged.

The ones who succeed, are usually more tolerant to stress and that is a major reason they complete their college.
Brushing my teeth.
Anyone have a link to the article without the paywall?
Fair points. I meant that there's lot of research and proven designs in fixed-wing drones that are much more fuel efficient than quadcopters.
Concerning Accessibility in OS X El Capitan
Would be interesting to validate the voting record in elections according to the DB against the outcome.
Mysterious Android codebase commit
60-70 years? Redlining[0], and it's spiritual offspring, continue through the present day[1]!

0 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

1 : http://www.consumerfinance.gov/newsroom/cfpb-and-doj-order-h...
Some backstory on the project: http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/12/saws-combined-into-aws-cli
OP never mentioned cheap soldering - where did you get that from? The issue (as I understand it) is that the design and manufacture of most electrical components is happening offshore. The biggest fab in the world is in Taiwan. We aren't talking about cheap soldering, we are talking about the semiconductor work that drives most hardware.

We are starting to see a few hardware startups but most of the jobs created are still overseas as manufacturing happens abroad. Most of the EEs I know switched into CS fields because of reasons like this. I wonder where the future of EE lies.
Nomenclature is becoming confusing. In "R" (the statistical programming language), vector is analogous to column, and now in D3, vector is analogous to row.
Also consider these two personal observations:

1) The increase in college enrollment has exceeded the capacity of many in-state schools (a.k.a. the more affordable ones) and influenced many 18-year olds to enroll in out-of-state schools (a.k.a. the six figure ones).

2) From a very young age kids today are taught that college is a no-brainer, and the quality of the college they go to will deeply impact their future success. So do you pick that community college route which is affordable, or that six figure out of state school?

Every part of this is a quagmire, and it's creating more and more frustration and outrage. I have no clue what the end result will be, but it won't be good.
According to these reports, starting salaries for CS graduates are about 4% lower in 2015[0] than in 2014[1].

The recent OPT moves by DHS is proof enough the government is all too willing to help employers in any way possible and isn't interested in actually helping citizens and green card holders fill these jobs.

[0] https://www.naceweb.org/uploadedFiles/Content/static-assets/...

[1] https://www.naceweb.org/uploadedFiles/Content/static-assets/...
Heh. This is fun. At the garden by Kikuchi-Monji (is that even close to correct? going from memory) - the 'golden temple' in Kyoto - I found this great little moss garden labeled "Very Important Moss (like VIP)":

https://www.flickr.com/photos/devindotcom/2201308564/in/albu...
Yea, they have offered at least the option to enable auto updates during OOBE since XP SP2. I agree that Win10 style forced updates has its own issues, especially when they include even third party driver updates in there (to name just one of them). I think it is part of the "Windows as a service" vision.
While this is true, I have found that a developer who can do the following to be very rare:

1. Take a set of requirements, and first identify those reqs for any underspecified elements, or elements where the underlying tech would limit the functionality.

2. Implement the reqs according to the now agreed upon spec

3. Provide adequate documentation and tests for the new implementation.

4. Perhaps most importantly, and rarely, implement the reqs in a manner where the code is not brittle (some small req change doesn't require a huge overhaul) and where other developers can quickly get into and understand the code.

That is, even if you don't need a rock star programmer, if your code base is going to live on for more than the life of the person originally writing it you are going to find that people who can fulfill this role are quite rare.
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That was a joke. And there are several of them throughout the post.

But anyway, I'll bite: stroke order is in no way comparable to your examples. It's comparable to whether you start "5" with the vertical or horizontal line, or an "8" at the top or the bottom.
If anyone wants to learn more about this strategy (sabotage by rule-following), it's called "work to rule". (http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/practice/sp001703.html)
Care to explain why this was modded down? I think the lack of resources for new graduate students is sad, and it blights the lives of many people in science. There are too few tenure track spots, so many PhDs have to wait until their 40s to have a normal job and salary. People are not willing to question authority or publish negative results because that would slow down the all-consuming struggle to outcompete the other 50 people applying for the same fellowship / grant / position / whatever.

A little competition is good, but most STEM careers are a ridiculous vow of poverty at this point. If we're not going to fund it more (and we should...) we should at least be honest to kids about what's waiting for them. The idea that there was ever a shortage of STEM graduates is really a very deceitful piece of propaganda, when the real shortage is funding.
This is awesome! I made an iOS- and OS X-based interactive one for Halloween recently as well: http://justinmiller.io/posts/2015/11/17/mirror-mirror/
As Raymond Chen would say, the code is on the same side of the "airtight hatchway". There's nothing Chrome can do to protect itself against processes at the same privilege level, much less against processes at higher privilege levels. Any blacklist check Chrome does can be nothing more than a speed bump.
For organizing your papers, Paperpile (http://paperpile.com) is an excellent up-and-coming reference management tool. It integrates with Google Drive and has a full-featured PDF annotator and note-taker. It's helped me out tremendously in organizing my academic research.
There is also the intention to produce, which is easy to forget when the rhetoric gets thick in protectionism-promoting circles.
India has enough sun and engineers to figure out how to do solar on a massive scale.
US developer salary levels
Saying Apple is more favorable towards mobile web development is quite a bit of a stretch. WKWebView simply gave developer access to the webview underneath Safari, and replaces the outdated UIWebView.

Apple recently introduced Swift, an entire language framework that's aimed at native app development.

User experiences is the where the biggest gap between web apps and natives are (average users don't care about seeing that https at the top). Web apps also cannot adopt the latest hardware features as quickly as native frameworks can (TouchID, 3D Touch, etc). So for a platform like iOS (and Android to a large extent) where it's all about vertical integration and optimization, we'll see cutting edge native apps for a long time.

I'm not saying mobile web doesn't have its place, and there are plenty of terrible apps out there that should just be a mobile website instead, but native apps do have certain advantages that won't be matched anytime soon.
I bet they love re-writing 600 SOPs when the software changes.
I agree with the literal sentence. I disagree that with its implied extreme. Most jobs don't require rock star programmers. Most jobs require people that can do more than cobble together a series of StackOverflow answers. This implies that most jobs need to have competent developers.

From my limited experience, competent is getting harder to find. I go into a JavaScript SPA almost daily. I'm not a big JavaScript guy, but I grok functional programming and the language. I constantly see things that make me go, "Huh?" This isn't that they're doing advanced JavaScript things. It's that they are doing it wrong (one person used a regular for loop to side-effect create a new array). These poor practices add up in general, and specifically in an AngularJS app where you've got to accept a layer of magic in the view binding.

Hopefully we get better at competent, especially in dynamic, mostly typeless languages such as JavaScript.
In response to a comment claiming outsourcing was the issue, I responded with this and thought it relevant to post here:

FWIW, the very cap on H-1Bs plus the decreasing attraction of coming to the US is the very reason ALL companies are going overseas.

I once did a research on outsourcing and the pivotal reason I found for outsourcing was not the "cheapness" of the foreign markets, but the decreasing flexibility and opportunity to continue development at home, and this decrease was dominated mainly by inability to find people to do the work. It may seem hard to believe but it isn't once you add up all the pieces. While factory workers may seem abundant and easy to find, finding upper-level factory operators across various disciplines from IT to Management to Operations was very difficult. Conversely, the two places where they were the easiest to find was China and India in that order. After all, who wants to work in a factory when they grow up anyways?

So what do companies do? They go above and beyond plus bend backwards to make overseas operations feasible. This problem is not just limited to factory workers, or electrical engineering, but any industry that has a hard time finding good quality workers. My industry of civil engineering is probably going to go next.

I could write an entire paper on this, but I will stop here.
You should understand that your logic can be used to prove that any profession is in short supply. Exceptional accountants are in short supply, so we should hire them in droves from India. Exceptional cab drivers are in short supply too, so we should have a visa waiver to bring them from Europe...
Thanks, that's really useful
Before you just allow them to do this to you:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisabrownlee/2015/12/24/tsa-body...
I tried this last year and was blocked after the scraper visiting 500 profiles for 24 hrs. not sure if tarpitting would have allowed more than 500 in 24 hrs. requests were spread with a random sleep of 1-5 seconds.
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Further - who is obligated to know that the testing field kits are inaccurate? Can police purchase marijuana dowsing rods and legally use those as probable cause for a search/SWAT raid? It seems to me that the rate of false positives would be roughly equivalent given the numbers stated in the article.
TechCrunch has an interesting array of articles, but can be pretty noisy when you just want to know about interesting startup activity. This scrapes TechCrunch every hour, going back a few years, and aggregates articles mentioning startups, scraping their funding amount, investors, relevant categories, and founded year. You can search these articles by category, funding amount, and/or founded year.

Would love to hear peoples' thoughts!
I'm going to do my own digging when I'm not mobile but do you or anyone else know if there is a generalized library to provide an auto completing CLI like SAWS? That would be super useful for a lot of tools.
This wouldn't be so problematic if college (state and community) were free. By most estimations, the cost of making college free is around $60 billion, which is not that significant.

Just force corporations to pay proper taxes, use that money to make college free, and you'll be doing wonders for this country's citizens. Alternatively, consider that the Iraq war expenditure could have paid for college in this country practically through the next century.
Drunk driving is a far cry from drug possession. For one thing, you can get drunk frequently, show up to work on time, and never touch the wheel of a car. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
For CS graduates, I see the 2014 Salary as $62,103 and the 2015 Salary as $65,004. Which is actually a 6% increase. The 2014 was a 6% increase over 2013. So more than 10% increase in two years. What are you seeing?
Another comment in this thread makes it clear permission was asked in multiple countries, and every country was perfectly OK with it.
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I read an interesting take on that: that in the Star Wars universe, immense superweapons aren't once-in-a-trilogy special cases, they're standard practice.

> One Death Star is a horror; two Death Stars and one Starkiller Base and whatever horrific murder innovation the First Order will come up with for Episode 9 is something more like the inexorable logic of history, grinding us all to dust.

https://gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/tolkien-the-fo...
There are much more serious omissions if you're trying to build a web app that works with Apple devices. For example, despite all the protestations about how necessary it was to kill off Flash and use HTML5 for playing multimedia content instead because Plugins Are Evil(TM), it is actually a plugin rather than Safari that is playing a video when you visit a site on an iPhone or iPad. As soon as you want to do anything interesting with all the extra power that making audio and video just two more types of content on the Web should bring... even basic stuff just doesn't work. Except for every major device but Apple ones, that is.
Actually there was a 6% increase in salary between 2013 and 2014. And the "data" for 2015 is derived from mere 705 "# of Salaries".

There aren't any new recent moves by DHS regarding "OPTs". The proposed change in "STEM Extension", won't come into affect at least until mid 2016.
Well, the thing about Apple's approach is that they can't hand over encryption keys if they don't have them.
How does the U.S. differ substantially from a classic "police state"?
Can a class action lawsuit be started to deal with this sort of criminal incompetence?
I'm pretty sure starting salaries at big companies are strictly increasing. There is just a larger increase in the number of lower paying jobs. Which may simply mean more CS job opportunities in more cities that have a lower cost of living then the previous average.

Finding truth in numbers is hard.
I think it is in their best interest to control, but I've seen that spun as the end not the means. Apple's ultimate goal is not control of the app ecosystem, but to improve end-user experience. Control is a necessary part of that.

And the narrative I'm referring to is web VS. native. like one is going to kill the other. We keep talking about this battle but there is no winner, each has their place. period
The brutally honest answer would be that I prioritize its development above everything else. I have no idea if this is sustainable in the long term, but I don't plan on slowing the development down as long as I have an income.

When I was finishing my PhD I turned down several industry opportunities for fear of having to stop development. I am currently a (tenure track) assistant professor but increasingly worry about academia's lack of respect for library development.
Kinkakuji (金閣寺) is what you are thinking of.

I don't think you meant to reference 菊一文字 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiku-ichimonji )
Amazingly, none of the browsers listed (Edge is oddly missing) support the full ES5 standard. Date handling is the only remaining issue in major browsers.
That makes even more sense. The waves would be slamming the ship onto the bottom which would be attempting to drive the rudder through the ship every time. This would threaten to break the ship up very rapidly.

By cutting the rudder free, it would no longer be breaking the ship up, but it would leave a major hole where the rudder post came in, resulting in scuttling the ship.
That makes sense, thank you for the explanation. That said, I suppose I'm still disappointed that a security vendor would manipulate extension installation to bypass checks on a platform, but I'm not particularly surprised that it's the kind of thing AVG would do.
That is a difference of degree not kind. Without modern technology (shelter, heat, clothing, potable water, easily obtainable food) I'd quickly perish where i sit as would most others of our species. Sending people to a planet that is entirely hostile to our existence is only a variant of sending people to Antarctica or undersea for months (years?) at a time.
If I have a windows machine or VM, I simply don't run anti-virus. There's no point. At Kiwicon last year, some French researcher showed how most anti-virus scanners were so badly written, he could exploit their scanning engines with basic malformed PDFs and JPEGs. Most of those scanners run as the SYSTEM user, so you basically can control a system with a PDF.

...but I hesitate to tell non-developers to uninstall their anti-virus. I don't want to be responsible for them getting exploited, but I usually do tell them why I don't run anti-virus and that the choice is up to them.

I always emphasize the biggest thing you need to do as far as security goes is to run all updates. Never skip or delay updates. The moment Chrome/FF wants you to restart, you restart them. Run Windows update (even though Windows 10 is another beast/debate entirely, if you chose to run it, you should run updates).
Just use promesa/all then catch :)

Moreover, it has funcool/cats bindings, so you can use promises in mlet and alet macros if you are into monad thing ;)
I made one for a christmas present this year. High contrast colors show up great. If colors are close to each other it becomes hard to tell them apart, but you can still see color. Dark colors are hard to see against a black background for the same reason.
I use 60-70 years as a conservative number, so that even the most fervent believers of "it's not because they are black, it's because they are poor" (or similar opinions) can see that people still alive today were likely legally discriminated against based on the color of their skin in ways that most people take for granted.

I would agree that things like redlining and discretionary funding appropriations are still an issue worth discussing today.
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An excellent report on this subject: http://www.cacj.org/documents/sf_crime_lab/studies__misc_mat...

More people should know this. There is a great piece in the Washington Post today about how a false positive result from tea bags left in the trash (which was being sifted through by Sheriff's Deputies after they saw a homeowner shopping at a gardening store, giving them what apparently passes for PC these days) led to a no-knock raid with a SWAT team holding a middle-aged couple that doesn't use drugs at gunpoint for an afternoon.
Maybe Tyrone just isn't college material, even with every advantage he would receive?

Why lower standards? I am sure many college attendees have stories of fellow students who have no place in higher education.

Trade schools are always an option.

College is a scam. Hopefully we see some reform during the glorious presidency of Trump.
All of these things could be easily overcome with better training. The way I see it, the software industry in the US invests close to nothing in training and expects to receive "talented" developers by just selecting a small proportion from a large pool of candidates. This is a lazy and irresponsible way to create a workforce. The time and effort they spend in interviewing could be very well spent on teaching best practices to new employees, so they would be much more productive, instead of just expecting that they somehow "grok" these concepts from the get go.
Obama has already done such a giveaway, writing off student loans for certain schools that were paper mills and shut down once they got any scrutiny. The loser? Taxpayers.

Instead of discharging that debt, he could have offered to apply that balance to genuine, accredited programs (e.g. if the student had $80K in debt principal, she could get the first $80K taken from that balance instead of new debt). In other words, they made that money commitment in search of a degree -- they shouldn't just dump all that on the taxpayers with no societal gain from it.

Another parallel taxpayer-funded debt reduction done by the current administration was to change such windfalls to non-taxable (as regular income, as it always had been), again at the expense of other taxpayers.
You are absolutely spot on. However, to pick a quick nit:

> the glocks they're purchasing for their officers have a tendency to fire even when the safety is on?

Glocks don't have a safety that goes "on" and prevents them from firing. If you pull the trigger (which has a little mini trigger in it which must also be pulled - the only actual safety), it will fire.

Even cops who don't carry glocks rarely carry weapons that have a safety that works in the way you suggest; instead, most LEO duty weapons simply have a heavy trigger pull.
"Google doesn't use AngularJS for Gmail" - IMHO This is non-reason for a start. Why will they suddenly start migrating their main product which was built a long time before Angular was developed. Meanwhile most of the new websites at Google are being developed using Angular - google trends, google fiber, DoubleClick etc.
Windows Update breaks multipart/form-data in ASP
I think IIS development is done by only a minority of Win10 users, right? As a side effect, I think this is a side effect of VBScript/JScript being rolled into the IE cumulative update process, and you can guess what gets more testing.
Funnily enough, I've been chewed out in Japan for writing my Latin numerals "wrong"!

(Also, are there really people who start an 8 at the bottom...?)
>To this end, D3 espouses abstractions that are useful for any visualization application and rejects the tyranny of charts.

Hmm, a lot of projects floundered when they got that (meta/abstract)ambitious, and forgot the plainer beginnings that made them successful. Hope D3 can pull it off.
It is possible to get 9.3 Gbps with iperf/netperf, so the measurement tool isn't necessarily your problem. Try testing multiple connections (e.g. iperf -P) since a single connection usually isn't representative of what people do with 10G.
Hmm, it is disfavored or illegal content originating in the US?

Because I've seen US law enforcement takedown US websites that were breaking US laws but I've never heard of law enforcement forcing US isps block foreign content, even if it is breaking US law. I could be wrong though and I'd like to see an example in that case.

Maybe the government making youtube or facebook take down terrorist content, that would be censorship I guess if the content is not technically illegal but that's a pretty extreme example.
The waterfalls in the northwest make for absolutely stunning mossy walls. Oneota down in the Columbia Gorge is amazing in the summer (possibly also the winter but it's a bit cold to be traipsing up a river then)