skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you looked at Eclipse Compiler for Java? It appears to be an active project.

The appeal of Java was in the write once, run everywhere sales pitch. That's why enterprise software used it widely, running on Solaris, AIX, HPUX and Windows. OSS were less willing adopters - many other choices without the proprietary overhang.

Since Oracle acquired Sun and with it Java, it is seen to be even more proprietary and AIX and HPUX installations are petering out. So there is less incentive to maintain a compiler when Oracle makes various unexpected changes to the language and the licensing terms.

LibreOffice (derived from StarOffice - Sun) is an exception due to two factors. First of all it was created by Sun and as a competitor to MS Office. These days it runs on Windows, OS X and Linux mostly - three incompatible environments which are bridged by JVM.
Do you remember that before Snowden, the whole NSA thing was a tinfoil-hat worthy idea?

I don't think that was the case. Congress voted in the Patriot Act, which could be interpreted to authorize just such mass surveillance. The fact that there hasn't been much political blowback in the country at large indicates that most weren't that surprised (or bothered) by the idea of mass surveillance. Far from a 'tinfoil-hat worthy idea', the real problem is that it had become a commonly accepted fact even before it was verified by Snowden's revelations. I wish it had been tinfoil-hat worthy, then people would've cared a lot more when it was actually revealed.
Quicktime on Mac OS remains a shitshow to this day. I still have not figured out how to use third party srt files for subtitles.
I just found two secret parameters.

To get two extra items, namely ghost and star, append &opt=6358D569C9 to the link. Or use $('body').addClass('secret') in console.

To replace Mario with Toad (only in SMB), append &opt=7F93F702E6.

By using the latter opt, and adding secret manually, you can have both.
Yeah, I know... but in this case it's almost infinitely better. There were others but Daily Mail had a few more images included in the article, and since the content is from Associated Press anyways I didn't think people would mind. However, my comment stands at -3 so lesson learned: everyone hates the Daily Mail site. :)
The web's lack of "installation" is countervailed by its ad-hoc persistence methods like local storage, cookies, cache and sessions, as well as its forms of authentication in relation thereof. You can hang yourself on the web just as easily, perhaps even more so, and I have seen it happen many times. The web also has the intrinsic problem of unpredictability and unaccountability. Entire layouts can be replaced by developers instantaneously on unwitting users.

Most people would not download Office, of course, but use a friend or acquaintance's pre-recorded media. Actually even if it came to torrenting it, it wouldn't be significant of a load.
Thanks it would be great to have a recipe for how to maintain privacy here at UC Berkeley, and also a recipe for how to ensure that the information we want to share can be shared.
It's very easy to detect those kind of fuck ups, you just have to look for them. We don't have the mean to do it, and sometime we are just ignorant or lazy. They are neither.

We assume actual human beings need to press buttons to detect obvious developer errors. I bet if an encrypted communication with any kind of bad (or even just popular default) parameter goes through anything the NSA oversees it gets instantly attacked and put in a bin somewhere with your new software name on it. The machine probably even picks a random name for the exploit once it found one.
Microsoft reached an intraday high share price of $119.94 in December 1999. With 5,160,024,593 outstanding shares, it had a market capitalization of $618.9 billion.

then what? what next?
Porn being the catalyst to widespread adoption of new technologies.
My first reaction was, "Fifteen, shmifteen! When's that Chromecast support you promised coming?"

In all seriousness, as they say, VLC just opens everything. Thanks for it!
Except they already do.

https://beta.apple.com/
By the same reasoning, the most valuable companies should be the dominant suppliers of food, water, electricity and maybe gasoline and basic internet connectivity.
Yeah, that's definitely a possibility. What you describe is more or less the basic property/side effect I was talking about, but much better explained.

You're betting evolution is not that good. One can also bet it better than you can possibly imagine. I don't think you can be sure either way at this point, but your argument seems to be the most compelling at this point!
Yes, if I'm correct you are seeing the dynamic control on the left (forward for acceleration, reverse for dynamic braking) and the air brakes on the right - the big left handle is the train brake (sends the change down the brake line to the cars as well) and the smaller right handle is the locomotive-only brake (often used to get slow down the loco first so the coupler slack will get taken up and prevent bumping the passengers around or damaging equipment). The little LCD display shows some calculations to help the engineer make good braking decisions.

Above the dynamic control on the left you see a small rotary lever - if I'm not mistaken this is the reverser, which simply selects between forward, neutral, and reverse. As a fun fact, this lever pops out and is used as the "key" for the train. For safety reasons, the engineer removes it when they leave the cab so that it's difficult to get it out of neutral.

The big red button left of the dynamic control is the alerter acknowledge. This is the dead-man protection on locomotives and I suspect may factor into the conclusion on this investigation. When an alarm sounds, the operator has to press that button. The alarm becomes very jarring so it might have brought a confused or unconscious operator back to attention.
> What it's doing is massively dangerous because it's basically performing fuzzing on the underlying device and who knows what that might trigger.

Yes, this exactly. Most of the systems these chips are attached to are tiny embedded processors with very little RAM and no memory protection. It's almost a given that a non-negligible number of these systems will crash on this kind of input. The FTDI chip wouldn't even need to be in a critical signal path if it's spewing garbage all over memory.
I have answers to all your points, but I can't help but think you'd just come up with ways to debunk all of them. All I can say is that I wholeheartedly suggest you take a step back and ask yourself why you see roadblocks everywhere instead of opportunities. Skepticism and even a little cynicism is understandable, and I indulge in it every once and a while too. But it seems to me like you're going out of your way to convince me (or more likely, yourself) that it's impossible to change your situation or make an impact in this world, and that's something you should really examine. I say this without a hint of derision or condescension.
'Everyone could know what I was doing': the millennials not using social media
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What happens when you get stoned every single day for five years
I dont think it's possible since it seemed pretty lock down to me. I just always replaced it as my main player since that seemed to be the least hasle free way than mess with the OS featured player to get it to work right
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As far as "screech to a halt." is concerned, it's maybe a little on the exaggerated side, but I'd believe it. I've worked for 5 different companies of varying sizes from 5 to 1000 employees. All of them have used Google Apps to run their business. Email, Calendars, Docs, Basically the Apps suite in it's entirety is the core of communicating and information storage.

There's arguments for backups, etc but in reality if the common business person working at these companies sits down and none of their Google products work, their day will halt.
Erm... What? Distributed, eventually-consistent API broker in
Platform-as-a-Service cloud data model on-line management? And frobnicating
bulbulation zipfing-free?

What the heck does it do and how would I use it? The only thing that makes
sense on first look is dashboard.

Not to mention that text on the website displays on just above 11cm at the
bottom of my whole 21cm display height. I feel strong urge to duck while
looking at it.
I think this is a common sentiment everywhere.
I wonder when WhatsApp will be finally morphed with FB Messenger. I figured it would be about now or soon since it's been growing expoentially
How many times is this story going to be submitted?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11016549

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11016504

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11015864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11015692

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11015181

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11014648

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011676

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011663

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011654

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11007305
> It plays literally everything

In the ten or so years I've used it, I've only come across one file that VLC wouldn't play (excluded DRMed files) - a (possibly malformed) 24hr long MP4 I recorded a few years ago. Pretty much everything chokes on it (VLC crashes straight away), though oddly enough Windows Media Player handles it fine until you try to seek to a different time.

I've dabbled with other media players/codecs in the past, but usually end up back at VLC not long after due to its versatility. Impressive stuff.
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What is glycemic index?  (Part 2 on carbs)
Or, How many websites did you browse that serve ads from Google last quarter...
How Snead bookshelves made America's biggest libraries possible
Sure, but at the end of the day - youre talking about ONE feature "Slow/stop train when not assured that the eng is actively at the helm"?? Arent you?

What is so complex about this? A car has a similar system: the gas peddle. Stop pressing it with your conscious foot, and the car will slow down. The difference is that a car MUST have appropriate steering... the train doesnt.
Yes, framebuffer reads (glReadPixels) are bad for everyone.
never realized VLC has been around for so long!
I feel bad. First Mayer had the no work from home thing just to save money and now she's doing this. I feel soon Yahoo will be spun off in to a few different entities if they keep going this way
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See also
"the directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility"
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1024
yes, but no numbers on profits out of those segments.

OP was pointing out investor's criticism of Apple as a one-trick pony due to iPhone - I am pointing out that outside of ads, nothing generates any significant profit at Google either, even more so actually.

but whatever, HN really is the wrong forum for certain topics.
My favorite, and sadly, mostly forgotten resolution. Or should I say aspect ratio.
As long as you, the developer, feel that you contribute positively to society, then I would say there is nothing wrong with engaging users.
Ask HN: Would you enroll in a clinical trial if you were chronically ill?
if it is so mission critical, why can it only be financed through ads?
Stop Worrying about Building the Wrong Thing
Tracking Your Funnel Long Term: Funnel Analysis with SQL and R Part 2
Google Apps has 50 million users, iCloud has 125 million

Edit: to clarify, my source[1] said 5 million orgs with 50 million individual users. Not counting Gmail obviously

[1]http://blog.bettercloud.com/google-apps-stats/
50 Years of Data Science by David Donoho [pdf]
Why can we be so confident? I assume the probes would use the most minimal amount of mass possible (and still propel themselves and replicate). Our instruments are capable of tracking fair-sized asteroids in our solar system, but not tiny objects (which could have been designed to be difficult to detect). Though it's possible that the extent of their 'probing' would just be to announce their arrival in the widest swath of EMF possible.
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
Sprint Nextel provided iDEN service across the United States until its iDEN network was decommissioned on 30 June 2013. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEN#Operators)
I feel like this comparison of the two started during the handset wars. If you'll recall they were very chummy companies before that with Eric Schmidt sitting on both boards. With the handset wars cooling down a bit I think the comparisons are becoming a lot less apt.
Both of those scenarios are more probable. But neither is anywhere nearly as probable as human error or human malice.

In the case of human error, it could be as simple as a bad cut-and-paste. In that case the number likely has a half-dozen or so factors, some of which should be found relatively easily.

Malice is, of course, impossible to verify.
This is correct. When belts start noticeably tightening, I'm out the door (or soon to be). Companies know this, so it's typically business as usual before dropping the bomb.
One of the first programming hobby projects I ever did was a level editor for a similar qbasic game called mono space. So fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_K6yB3OsGs
That's my main use case. I've got my personal blog [1] setup as a Static Website Manager repository and connected to my personal AWS S3 bucket.

Whenever I need to make a little change I can edit locally in my editor of choice, commit and push to SWM where I can preview the changes before merging to my production bucket (all without installing Jekyll locally).

If I don't have my machine, I can also just login, edit the text and then follow the same preview/merge to deploy workflow.

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Could you do a blog post or something to show what you did?

I used it until I got the crashes just like parent.
Which is a rumour and hasn't been confirmed?
One of my close friends died nearly three years ago, and his family and I spread his ashes in a national forest... possibly illegally, I'm not really sure.

I've returned to the spot a few times. I can still find his ashes! They weren't spread out very much when we first dumped them, though I've spread them out a little since, so some mountain flowers can grow among him. His ashes form an odd cement-like sand. I'm glad our national forests aren't littered with ash piles, but I am glad that I can come back and find my friend. I wonder how long I'll be able to find Nick's ash pile.
The little Fermat test requires you to test all "a"s in order to remove false positives. For most numbers, testing a few thousand bases is enough but you have Carmichael numbers that break the test.

There are better primality checks, but they all have downsides (either slow but provable or fast but probabilistic). Finding prime numbers can be shown to be easier than finding factors (see: how GIMPS checks for primality), but that doesn't make it easy.
The Ivy League specifically are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University. The Ivy League is actually an athletic conference, but the term also refers to those schools as a group in general.
The Cyclomatic Complexity of Nashville
I'll never be able to say enough good things about VLC, it changed the way I interacted with video permanently. I haven't thought about a codec in years.

only wish I found it sooner.
> There are legitimate criticisms of the language that aren't "inane".

Please don't misquote me. I did not say criticisms of C++ were inane. Obviously there are many legitimate criticisms.

What I said was the reason people get so upset about C++ must be inane. IMO there's no good reason for an adult to get upset over a programming language.
For students who are just learning to wrestle with the programming concept, python is far superior because it lets the student focus more on what to express and when, and less on remembering silly things like curly braces and semicolons.
I see your point, but to be honest I'd probably pay not to have to attend Christmas parties at many places I've worked at. I suspect I'm not alone in feeling like this. Point being I don't know that this is really much of a perk......
Any examples or tutorials? Last time I tried this (which wasn't very long ago), I would only occasionally be able to step across Rust code and Xcode would often crash on me.
well, you would need a way to get the raw data into the brain tissue, and a way to get the results out, no?
Apocalyptic headline aside, all this really does is prevent corporations from having their cake and eating it, too. If you're directing (and profiting from) the labor of a large population of workers, you can't hide behind franchise or contract agreements to avoid labor law obligations. If it's 'war' at all, it's a war on a common form of corporate labor fraud.
My point was children, in the abstract, are easy to overgeneralize. In reality, it's difficult to say how any given child will react to any given stimuli. Few rules might work for one child but not the next...and there is no rhyme or reason to it.

Children are complicated things. Just as adults are complicated things.
No need to congratulate me! This is what people should be doing if they want to be free from a job or industry that provides them no enjoyment.

I too will be getting out of tech when I "retire", or rather, focusing on using my technical skills in a more philanthropic way. I'm tired of the circular "what was old is new again", always having to prove yourself to a new team, all that jazz. I can lead a very comfortable life on a beach in Belize while I hack on things that matter.
>Would you like to risk someone contacting you and possibly threatening with legal action because they would believe you might have taken part in their data being held hostage?

My dad used to tell me, "You haven't hit the big time until someone tries to sue you." Think about all those unicorns getting their first big funding checks followed immediately by patent trolling lawsuits.

I wonder how someone could simply shut down a 180 million hits a day like that. Just cold turkey.

What if instead he did two weeks notice to pay wall instead. Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution. Keep the price low enough and they might just stay forever.
Is “Fragrance” Making Us Sick?
iCloud users are mostly individuals. Google Apps users are largely businesses with users of their own.
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Pi would be a horrible source. Why would you want to use a deterministic digit generation function to generate your entropy. Even if you always used very large digit offsets. I can't imagine it being a remotely good idea.
Interesting. I havent' delved quite much in to C but no doubt I will try to get more in to it during my spare time. IT's a good basis that some other high entity languages drew their cues from
You're making the mistake of thinking other people evaluate products the same way you do.

How many people do you really think tested the copy and paste functionality on the original iPhone before making their purchasing decision?

I think almost no one.
When Mayer took over at Yahoo, I thought it could go either way-like everyone else. These tech companies are really about perception. I was waiting to hear, "Look at what Yahoo is doing!". Just didn't hear it.

I was suprised she didn't fire more people.

I thought it was a mistake to bring all telecommuting employees in.

I know she meant well, but all she did was irritate employees. There was no way these employees were going to bond, and magically turn into a Google love fest.

For some reason, I still think about happily doing your work at home, and then having to come into work and bond. Yes, I think it's important, at innovative companies, for employees to be present, all around the camp fire, but it's someting that needs to be done from day one.

In my world, I still stumble upon a yahoo page, but it's usually by malware on my old laptop I just haven't fixed. I'm glad they haven't changed their look, and then suprised.

Yahoo reminds me of just how dispensable these companies are in the bigger picture. Yahoo could dissapear, and I wouldn't even flinch. I don't even know anyone with a Yahoo email anymore.

Their next CEO should be an unknown, who's really into his/her tinkering stage in life. Young, crazy, motivated, bursting with angst. Gave this person a strong financial team, but don't hire the right looking candidate on paper.
Apple's P/E was quite low even at the height of the iPhone growth. The expectation for what Apple will sell tomorrow is nothing, because they'll be out of business, and it's been that way for a long time.

Meanwhile, since Google was founded, Apple went from the Mac company to the iPod company to the iPhone company. Apple has a proven ability to reinvent itself, with more agility and success than Google or really any other tech company. But this has never been reflected in the market. The perception you mention is based on who the companies are, not what they do.

Apple could announce all of those products tomorrow, and the needle wouldn't move. Apple is doomed because Apple, and Google is the market's darling because Google.
> Half of Colgate Social Science majors are in the top 5% of income earners? Half of Tufts humanities majors?

Only ~30% of the population gets a college degree, and a college degree has a large impact on income. Add that these are good schools and that most students in good schools come from wealth, with all the other benefits that entails, and I don't find those numbers surprising.