skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that Hadfi probably returned with refugees doesn't mean much, when he could have easily jumped on the Easyjet from Istanbul and strolled through the blue channel. Yes, two more of them also probably came that way, one of whom was on a false passport. So yes, maybe they were Syrian refugees, but all that says is that they haven't been identified. The fact that the only one of them who travelled that way who was positively identified turned out to be French means this is by no means a foregone conclusion.

If it turns out that they were in fact refugees, that still doesn't make it a migration problem when most of the attackers were French or Belgian.
An "actual" piet quine:

http://mamememo.blogspot.hu/2009/10/piet-quine.html

For me the image doesn't load, it's archived on stackexchange fortunately:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/23193/output-an...

$ ../npiet-1.1/npiet quine.gif > quine2.gif
$ diff quine.gif quine2.gif

It's freakin' impressive.
Well you were talking about 'hate' which would make me say I don't like the products because I don't like the company. That's not the case; I actually try Windows at every new version because I have to make sure my products run on it, but it's just annoying for me compared to Linux (and Mac OS X); the productivity is just very low. Objectively I have seen that our employees get more productive when they switch to a unix but that's just anecdotal and not interesting here, but it's not because of hate for MS. I would really want to work for MSR and especially on things like [1]. It would not change my bias because they are, to me again, not good products, however there are products they make which I do like and I would be more inclined to pay money for them if they were less evil. And to me (and I believe a lot of programmers) that means software patents. I find patents in general a wrong concept but you need them (especially in the US) to defend yourself against other companies using them or trolls suing you.

[1] http://www.rise4fun.com/
Damn, that is a fantastic idea... I wonder if it's actually against the law in the US? I don't know if the law is explicit about the 12 people being physically in the same room :)
Rust used to have @ and ~ sigils* but they were removed for legibility reasons and difficulty typing on European keyboards.

* For heap and owner pointers respectively.
Not a direct answer, but..

Are you aware that they have published a book on it few weeks back? Going through it as of writing this. It is very detailed and prescriptive. If you read it, you would have a very good idea on how to run one yourself.

http://www.amazon.com/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/15...
So three of them probably came as refugees. One of those has been identified and it turns out he was actually French, but you still assume the two unidentified ones were "real" refugees, rather than other French terrorists who had fought with IS and were trying the same trick?
Spam very aggressively protects their trademark. So aggressively that it lost a trademark lawsuit against Spam Arrest. (They lost cause people don't get food and junk mail confused)
Arguably those things might still be a useful way for one to make their first forays into Hadoop or Ruby on Rails.
Yay, by the time I drive my 2005 prius into the ground these should be good value on the second hand market ;)
Attendize, laravel based event and ticketing platform
patio11 calls lawyers "professional letter writers"; this does seem to lead to "letter writing as a service" :)
Figure 1 alone is a good reason to peek at the RFC. So glad someone is keeping RFC-style "diagrams" alive :)
D'Oh My Zsh – How I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source project
If you can really see beyond the algorithms, you should understand what I mean.

Exploring a "spherical algorithm in the vacuum" begins being useless at some point. One should explore its properties when used in a real environment. Protocols where OTP usage is plausible and practical definitely exist. I'm not saying that OTP is practical for every possible use case though. In fact, in my first comment here I had asked the OP about how he's going to solve key distribution problem among multiple users. Because when such a simple algorithm is used, the actual protocol matters much more.
If the "forbidden" action was previous to proceedings and carried out in good faith by unknown parties, it would be very hard to sanction anyone.
I've been warning of the potential for issues like this for quite a while and would be really grateful for people's feedback on this approach to try and insulate your projects from them https://github.com/JamieMason/shrinkpack.

Its not completely there yet, but I think there's something worth exploring further in this idea.
Hand in Glove: Google and the US State Dept
They all look the same to me.

<kidding>

Love to see with with more training data.
Regretfully, iTerm doesn't support this, and it's bitmap support hasn't made it out of beta yet.

(also, I can't run the new betas, probably because they're not properly signed)
If you use classic vi modes, I think vi/vim is much more forgiving over high latency than emacs, for some reason.
I use regions to hide the boiler plate and to find the method I'm working on faster when I go back on a specific class (I hide everything else). I never though much about it except it was practical.

If you really have a problem with regions use CTRL+ML to expand them all (CTRL+MO to collapse them all).
I'm no sure I understand why it was an error of forceful to show his MD5 and SHA1 hashes. Can anyone explain?
To add to this: Women are attracted to men who are leaders, be that in the work place, in social situations or, yes, in the bedroom. A lot of books on seduction advocate this.
Actually, we find two issues here:

1) that this huge attack surface existed in the first place. (almost by design)

2) how they "fixed" it. (not questioning their design at all)

The whole bugreport reads like an invitation to find more creative combinations of API calls that their filter forwards to the system. From the first comment:

> They're planning to fix those two issues and review all the remaining API's for missing parameter filtering, but wanted to know if I agree that their design is sound. I said I suppose they're correct in theory, but this is a lot of attack surface [...]
27 iOS open source libraries to skyrocket your development
This ^

It's a people problem, not a tech problem. I love writing in markdown because when I write, my mind works differently than when I code.

Ideally I could do anything that sort of feels right and the computer will just figure it out.

Markdown is the closest to that^ that I've ever used. It gets out of my way, which is what I want from a tool.

The lack of pure fancy spec is a feature
Other than people "winning the lottery", and C-level staff, how many startup employees would be affected by this?

I'm guessing not many, but that's not really the point. The possibility of "winning the lottery" is very important for startup recruiting.
With pixel graphics, we're kinda back in blit/Oberon territory and with vector graphics, you'd basically be doing Tektronix 2.0.

The latter had some merits because your whole system was a terminal, but I don't quite get what this gets us in a system where you can have as many graphics contexts as you want anyway. Especially if the rest of the window where this graphics is embedded is ancient constrained technology.

I'm not a big fan of the Bell school of tech, but I definitely understand Rob Pike's source of pride in testifying that he never wrote a cursor-controlled terminal app...
While not a new result, it is very scary none-the-less. Some of those drugs are a daily goto for many people to handle various issues. I hope medical professionals will take this result into account before recommending them for any longterm treatment.
Are Poppy childminders exclusively women? I found it interesting there's not even a token man in their graphics https://www.meetpoppy.com/caregivers
The US used a standard issue $5.50 flag on the moon
The Finnish Model
I don't assume malice, I assume they care more about profits than my long term health.

They have 0 incentive to look for long term consequences of the use of their products.
Not true. I personally built a markdown extension to be able to use classes. Still escaped all html.
I get why you'd have that impression (due to his mental illness), but TermpleOS is certainly not outsider art. While unconventional in some ways (and not sharing the aims of commercial projects), it's no more a piece of outsider art than e.g. KnightOS. Its code isn't bad, the design is certainly not idiosyncratic. It has none of the "classic" traits of outsider art that other hobby projects don't. You can read its code much like that of any other kernel. And IIRC, Terry Davis has the kind of academic credentials you'd expect from someone writing an operating system, too.
Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform (2005)
...on a 32 physical cores machine.
That actually sounds like a good plan!
A complete DIY quadcopter kit
And how do you look, having used a package manager that allows such an action without preparing for this eventuality?
Someone broke the Internet or why you may want to mirror your dependencies…
> Why is this always being brought up?

Always?

There are very good reasons why now: Because who doesn't know the context would not understand why Tor people attempt to assure the community "everything's all right" now or even "always was"?

Also worth noting the names that appear there, like "SRI International," "International Broadcasting Bureau" (your tax money at work?) or even "Omidyar Network."

It is very insightful to see so many players there and investigate their background too.

Also worth noting, one of those involved in Tor development who also had access to some NSA files, Jacob Appelbaum, also wrote about what was being logged about the users of privacy tools, Tor included:

http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html

"Among the NSA's targets is the Tor network funded primarily by the US government to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states."
It's a new kind of incompetent-but-too-big company: "too big for google to not give you free expert security review". Well, it's just for companies that can make google's stuff look bad when they enable users to be badly infested with malware.

The magnitude of it in this case is pretty funny ... can you imagine Comodo "security suite" or whatever just 3 months ago? A special secure browser without secure origin policy, a local poorly secured vnc server, a scanning and parsing engine that continually exposes itself to un-trusted input but has ASLR disabled ...

Most of these are not really complicated, they're bad feature ideas. But mass-market security products are feature-driven, not security-driven. So it makes sense that they suck at security.
It's pretty common, to name only the ones I'm more used to Ruby has gems, Java maven, Perl CPAN, Node NPM, Python pip. All languages have package managers nowadays and has been like that for a long time. They give you the way to make local repositories but I don't know anybody doing it. Maybe developers working inside some companies have some process to go through the company repo. Setting up the repo and maintaining it is quite an overhead and somebody has to pay for it. But I agree that it's the sane way to work, maybe not the most profitable.

Edit: typos
"It's not Tesla" is probably a good thing. The build quality and comfort inside the car is shockingly bad for something that has such a high price tag. Plasticy finishes, sub-par seating - let's fact it, the only thing it has going is a widescreen display mounted in the centre of the console and serious acceleration and range. But the inside of the Tesla is a joke in the luxury market.
Zapier is hiring a lead writer to write about SaaS and web apps
I have read the post and I still have no idea what NPM is.
Reminds me of when Claude Picasso formally objected to an Australian pizza shop called "Pizza Picasso", their tag line "Pizzas of Art".

Didn't go well for Claude. Pizza Picasso is still open for business here in Sydney.

From article:

In September 2001, an intellectual property hearing in Canberra threw out Claude's objection. In his summary, the hearing officer, Jock McDonagh, included this memorable sentence: "I am not aware of any connection that Pablo Picasso might have had with restaurants or pizzas in his lifetime. While the mere mention of his name might immediately evoke images of his art and artistic genius, it does not likewise summon up visions of pizza."
Which is actually about IPv6 networking peculiarities/issue within a VMware, just fyi.
> I think what actually is a knee jerk reaction being irresponsible with your dependencies and blame others for your lack of foresight.

Er.. actually I don't use NPM.

> He doesn't owe you anything. You and other should be thankful for him to have allowed you to use his code. Fuck that entitlement bs.

Yes but I belong to the adult world, so if I had a package that load of people relied on, wrongly or rightly, I wouldn't just drop it knowing it would be harmful to other projects, just for the sake of causing chaos. It's all about the mens rea.
BallSpectrum
Eg: You assume malice
And? 32 cores are very affordable.
What you mean by that? It used to be possible to republish a version (it broke our build when a dep was republished with a breaking change, that's how I learnt about it) but this was fixed some 2-3 years ago IIRC
Seven reasons against blogging
Loss prevention using this tech is tough, especially since it's trivial to defeat UHF RFID tags' detectability -- on purpose or by accident, by placing the tags against your body (fundamentally different from EAS). Plus, the things you're most-keen to track (high-value items) are also the most likely to contain metal; metal mucks w/ RF propagation and energy harvesting, and therefore requires special (more-expensive) tags.

This idea dates back to the early days of UHF RFID... it didn't work back then, and not much has changed in the technical fundamentals that would make me think it has suddenly become possible. There are some new uses cases in retail... but they revolve around new (non-checkout) business plans.

I would LOVE nothing more than to be proven wrong... so I hope they find a way to make it work!

(I happen to be an expert in this field... happy to talk more, as it's still a major interest area.)
I think the point is the author is a new person.

You meet someone at a conference and the next conference he shows up again and you should know right away he's not actually somebody else.
That is how some trademarks work. Google is by now a famous mark and, as such, gets additional protection beyond what mere mortal companies do: http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Famous_marks

I guarantee you won't last long if you start a Coca-Cola School of Hairdressing, even though the beverage company doesn't compete for that business.
Unless it changed since I used Arch last time some years back, Pacman still don't have mandatory package signing.
One's complement calculator
> but I've seen widespread usage of "patent troll" to mean anyone abusing patents

Or, on Hacker News, used to describe a software company defending their trademark of a programming language name for a language they sell and maintain.
In the past which startups were ground breaking and innovative on demo day?
Hug of death. Cache https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EDeYMv...
It seems the parallel aggregation increases efficiency of queries linearly with regard to CPUs, close to "perfect parallelisation." I have some 8-core boxes running PostgreSQL and this is still good to know.
I agree, and I think that it is actually pretty cool that there are some solutions that could put previously uneconomical enforcement to become economical. I do get the feeling though that this wouldn't be as much of an issue if corps were not continually trying (and succeeding) to prevent collective action against them (eg class action suits).
fair enough, but i'm still shaking my head. these places can't have QA departments.
Amazon's Raspberry Pi and Alexa Voice Service Demo Project
Most of this stuff is available over the counter - so medical professionals don't even need to be consulted. I hope they pull it behind the counter if the results are corroborated. It would make handling allergies a pain though.
The court can't punish you for not being able to do the impossible. That's ludicrous. "We have shut down all of our servers, yes. We can't stop people from downloading this, no"
I prefer the Hundertwasser framework, developed by 100water. Not sure how they achieved that, but this framework almost forces me to produce beautiful code.
Actually it's not really that expensive, when we buy dell machine's which costs like ~4000 Euro we get something like 16 core's. The most expensive thing in a server are prolly SAS disks.
Bijou Commerce secures £2m to help fashion retailers with mobile monetisation
With the author so against standardization of his child, why aren't them pushing text/commonmark instead?
It depends. (IANAL.) If the fork is no longer licensed under the GPL, and the distributor is the copyright owner, then the fork is not under the GPL. Use an older version which is under the GPL.

If the distributor does not hold copyright to the source code, then the distributor's statement that a given fork is non commercial is meaningless.

If the distributor holds the copyright to some of the code, and not others, then it's complicated. The Kallithea fork (see http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html ) dealt with a similar issue by going to the previous unambiguously GPL'ed version of the code.
That sounds super neat. I wonder how you could bootstrap a IPFS package repo from an existing one like npm's.

EDIT: just came across an IPFS backed npm registry mirror project: https://github.com/diasdavid/registry-mirror
Wait, I'm German and I use bread whenever I mean Brot. What am I doing wrong?
BOSS::Make those sales numbers! You have 12 dealers in that territory who should be feeding you leads!

ME(1997)::Uh, boss about that. Those 12 dealers hate my program because they get 10% commission instead of 30% commission like they usually do. They actively work against me! Instead of feeding me leads, they are trying to sell competitors product because they make more money!! They hate my program! They make less money!

BOSS:: (hits loop phase of discussion) You have 12 dealers in that territory who should be feeding you leads! Make those sales numbers or your fired!

ME:: well, shit.
<proceeds to make sales numbers by not telling dealers anything>

When money fell from the sky, dealers didn't seem to care if it was 10% or 30% money because it showed up like free money. 0 effort for them. It was hell working with a group that not only I couldn't fire, the corporation could not even discipline them. They were independent dealers. I could make a sale, and they could refuse to process it (happened a few times). In those cases it was then a no-sale. I had to sell the customer and the dealer. Or do the deal without the dealer knowing about it until they received the check. After a year of free money, the worst dealer became the best dealer. He had been around 30 years, a grumpy old codger who was king of his area and all his customers trusted him 100%. His change in opinion (in his area alone) was worth about $25,000 a year in commissions in 1998. Thanks again Bob!

I vowed to myself to never get in a position where I had all the responsibility to make something happen, but none of the authority to make it happen. That vow has kept me out of some situations, and whenever I break it is when I get miserable again. Then I re-vow ...
Funky! This feels like the connect(2) is returning before it has actually done its work, async-style.

Rachel, could you write a small sneaky program (using eg libpcap) to see if the TCP handshake has completed by the time connect(2) returns control to your program, before your first write(2)?
For every single dependency in most projects that honor semver? ^ is just an extremely convenient shorthand.
You should read up on Romanticism then, it's an important period in German history.
This seems to be a really overcomplicated re-stating of Darwin.

There is no "lower level" at which to explain it: Things that are good at making copies of themselves will tend to be more prolific. Restating Darwin in terms of thermodynamics takes a simple idea and complicates it without adding explanatory power, which makes it a poor theory.

Here is how you "say 'Life' in physics": Life is a pattern which obeys four rules:

- Reproduction: The pattern makes copies of itself.
- Inheritance: The copies share traits of the original.
- Variation: The copies can be different from the original.
- Selection: The success of the pattern making more copies depends on the traits which it inherits.

That's it. A tree is alive. A person is alive. A stone is not alive. A virus is alive.

And an idea is alive. It is a pattern in matter which replicates (I can tell you an idea; now there's one in my head AND your head), it inherits (your idea is similar to mine), it varies (you may reinterpret the idea, or combine it with your own ideas), and it selects (you will spread ideas you think are good, and discard those you think are bad). From this arises technology, or religion. We may, with a twist of the mind, think of either as an organism in its own right living in the habitat of human consciousness. (Perhaps all of our species' success can be attributed to the fact that our brains support a symbiotic form of life which can adapt far, far faster than DNA can).

And so by this definition even a solar panel is alive (and the "problem" of physically differentiating the two evaporates); it is just a stranger form of life that spends part of its existence as the plans for its production, coded in the configuration of matter in its blueprints, computer files, and human brains; and whose life cycle includes a stage where it is physically manifests and makes it self useful to its human hosts by providing them electricity. Its design is copied and mutated; some better at providing power for less effort, and thus more likely to propagate and eventually out-compete weaker designs.
Uh... but why?!?
> it can't take advantage of hardware acceleration.

I'm sure that blitting sprites pixel-by-pixel to the screen is much faster without hardware acceleration.

Hardware acceleration only makes sense if you're doing vector/3D graphics or running complex video decoding algorithms.
Most of the programming language Package managers that I've seen either don't have the facility or it's not widely used.
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Yeah, that sort of happens when someone photoshops the founder's wife's head on a pornstar. Twitter style harassment before Twitter was a thing.
Playhead's temporal reprojection antialiasing solution used in upcoming “Inside”
How one developer broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of code
some node modules compile platform specific binaries
We are using Apache Van^Gogh. But it's trendy to use Hirst though.
Only 2.7% of all adults had all 4 healthy lifestyle characteristics
I guess I don't agree that twitter is as mandatory as you think it is.
They're not always sitting idle waiting for one big OLAP query (well suited to parallel aggregation) to come in to exhibit a 25x speedup.

Let's say you've got a web application with some cookie-cutter OLTP queries (which are well suited to serial plans ... no parallel aggregation benefit here). Your CPUs are running at 50% then some big OLAP query is going to come in and get maybe ... 13x faster.

Which is a nice performance improvement, but not 25x.

These numbers are a good validation of the work done in PostgreSQL, but you can't look at it and look at your X core machine, and say "my workload is going to be 25x faster!"