skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched both shows last night on their websites instead of Hulu, which I had become accustomed to.

One thing I noticed immediately: Way more commercials. Where Hulu only had a single commercial per break, Comedy Central had about 3 per break. Another thing was that the commercials they played were more "real." I don't know what experience others have had on Hulu, but it seemed a huge percentage of their commercials were repeats of the same one or two - and often they were a PSA-type of thing. I always found that strange as they only showed one commercial per break and, by all accounts, it was a ludicrously cheap one. They couldn't have been making nearly as much per show as Comedy Central is going to be making now if they can keep all those slots sold. The additional commercials were annoying, but not the end of the world.

It seems that Comedy Central's player is one of those that degrades quality when the connection gets slow whereas Hulu would just stop and buffer. After only watching two shows it's hard to know how well it'll work in general, but it didn't stop and buffer once last night. I often had much more frustrating experiences with Hulu on account of the sometimes frequent buffering pauses. (Mediacom is not the world's best ISP...)

The primary downside here is that I've been using Hulu Desktop as my television provider for a couple months now. After ABC moved Castle to Hulu, I lost all reason to play the website shuffle when trying to watch a show and (aside from the buffering) it had become a very nice self-contained experience. Now that The Daily Show and Colbert are off the network, I'm back to manually switching players which is certainly a hassle.

I'd personally rather have an iTunes-style downloaded media service for television than streaming. It'd be far more reliable. I don't care if the files auto-expire after a number of days of not watching an episode or if I don't "own" the copy. I just hate the unreliable streaming and I also hate messing around with all the players. I think Apple's in a great position to offer something like this (tie TV show downloads with their rental infrastructure, perhaps, and then offer up all TV as a subscription). I longly await for such a solution to appear.
I'd like this for a Smalltalk style OO environment. Strongtalk got partway there.
The comparisons with Yahoo and with Bing are quite interesting.
You gave notice via email?? I talked to my boss face to face a week ago. His reaction was priceless "Oh no.....Really?"
The problem with this is, what if you don't know what your funnels are? What if you don't know what your key events are?

Recording everything into Mixpanel would get very expensive very quickly.
Lately Foxit has been feeling even slower and more bloated than the current Adobe Reader, at least on my setup. I'm pretty happy with SumatraPDF, although it is not terribly featureful so I have Adobe Reader installed as well.
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Unfortunately, in the United States the number one reason people do not retire early is that they are not yet 65 and qualify for Medicare coverage. Even well-off individuals are hesitant because of the potential for adverse personal medical events depleting their nest egg.

Yes, early retirement is not the same as quitting your job when young and presumably good health - however the fact that in the U.S. medical care is tied to the company you work for is a major burden on those who want to quit.
Its not yours. Don't use it.

Why do you think its OK?
... for very small values of epic.
Not usually one to call out typos - but I do love the phrase "higly literate"... :)
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Sure, because static typing doesn't mean you picked the best type, it just means that you picked a type.

If you statically type your function as Integer -> Integer because one invocation in a million uses an integer bigger than 2^63, you are taking a speed hit for the other 999,999 calls. But a tracing JIT can just use a machine integer those times, and only fall back to the arbitrary-size Integer when it needs to.
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Thanks for your opinion. You are not the first one who is not a fan of the scrolling function. I understand that it is a risky implementation where some people love it and some hate it. I can only go this director on my personal site where I can test stuff but would not risk it on customer's site.
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Because who could have predicted allowing Javascript in a document format was a bad idea.
Downloading movies in less than a minute and video phone calls.

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By the same guy that made the secret knock detector.

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They might become the healthiest and most popular restaurant in town.

Or, they might go out of business, as people are made uncomfortable by the calorie count, and take their business to places where they can eat their calorie-bombs in blissful ignorance.

It's a risk.
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I lurve some Groovy and Grails. Seriously, if you are a Java developer you need to take a look at this. Even if you're a curious Ruby/Python/PHP developer, this might help dispel some of the FUD about Java-based apps.
This sucks for Hulu, and this sucks for the consumer on a convenience level, BUT at the end of the day, I'm happy to hear "rumors" that Comedy Central is making money by doing this which only means to me that the shows will stay available online longer for free.

I think there's a learning curve to this Internet entertainment business, and if we want to keep our expensively produced entertainment, maybe it comes at the price of having to visit other websites and watch commercials.

Beats a subscription payment if you ask me.
Such as, for example, Java. Java probably had the first tracing JIT-based VM outside academia.
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Epically small values of epic.
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I Still never understood why Adobe thinks reader has to do so much. It just has to show a paper. If they would have stuck with that all would have been fine. But they will always be Adobe..
Apparently Mozilla liked Metalab design so much that it was getting ready to actually use it in their product. Price happened to be too steep so they passed.

What Metalab should do is that it should contact Mozilla and tell them: "Look guys, we saw that you put much effort and actually introduced our design into development version of your product. We think it really looks great so maybe you should reconsider and purchase this design from us. We can give you discount on this."

Instead they went "This is mine. You have not paid to touch it. Don't touch it! Hey, everybody!!! They are touching it but they didn't pay me!"
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In light of this, could someone change the title?
Groovy is a unique and appealing language for developers that use Java to write "Business Apps".

You can start out writing plain Java code. Then start to add a little Groovy syntactic sugar. Then increase your dosage of Groovy syntactic sugar. And before you know it your code looks a lot like Ruby.
Hmm, conducting heat well in one direction and not conducting it well in the other.

Isn't it against thermodynamics?

I mean - make two containers connected by that material, if it works as it is described - temperature gradient between these containers will grow with time.
Don't confuse "No Java" with "No Javascript".

I feel like this post is trying to be tricky in its wording.
I wish I could upvote this 10 times. I stopped reading the dailyWTF a long, long time ago because: a) the stories are embellished to the point of being pure fiction, and b) the writer's work is so long-winded that it's just painful to read. I suspect that the author thinks he's being funny.
Imagine what would happen if Firefox rendered PDFs natively.
I've been researching data compression the past days, because I wanted to write an article about an interesting algorithm (Compression algorithms are fascinating, unfortunately my studies didn't touch the subject).

I don't know if I'll write the article after all, but I'm glad I don't have to wade through the pile of source code of algorithms for which I found no good explanation...;-)
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I went back to Adobe after finding Foxit failed to lay out some PDFs correctly (legibly).
All planned in advance. See, e.g., http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/01/29/...

Relevant quotation: "After a one to one-and-a-half year shutdown in 2012 to retrofit the rest of the machine and make other preparations, the LHC will attempt to double the energy, to 14 TeV in the center of mass, in 2013 and accumulate substantial physics data."
So this article really touches on a hundred different topics but I wanted to point this out:

"If your job can be replaced by a computer program, chances are, it will. In fact, Goldin and Katz suggest that prosperity and equality in the U.S. will need a workforce that has more of the mental agility of a Leibniz or a Kircher in order to adapt to rapid technological change."

I really think this is key to understanding this "underclass." It is like a surfer riding a wave, as long as you're up front everything is ok but once you get behind (and fall off the board) it gets harder and harder to get back on. It sounds a little singularity-ish, but we really are seeing an acceleration in the rate of change of technology and culture (or cultural norms like the acceptance of technological interruption at any point).

So I think the question that comes from this is what responsibility do we as a society have to help those that can't keep up with this change? We were just talking about internet access as a human right the other day, so where does this play in?

Is there some sort of digital welfare that we need to set up? Is the fact that non-agile workers can always fall back on retail jobs good enough?
This is a really cool graph to see. The gold medal hockey game was the most watched television event in Canadian history by far with 80% (26.5 million people) of the country watching some part of the game.
I'm sure that just about every water utility in the country has a very similar graph for water usage on that day.
Three things:

First, those are questions for a variety of different positions all mixed together. Product manager candidates get asked different questions than engineering candidates.

Second, yes, Microsoft tracks the effectiveness of interviewers based on the outcome of the interview loops and the performance of the people who get hired.

Third, all of the questions listed, no matter how trivial they seem, are dispositive. I've interviewed engineering candidates with PhD's from top tier universities who couldn't reverse a linked list when asked, or who couldn't even explain basic concepts in their putative focus areas. You have to ask the seemingly stupid stuff -- it's a continual surprise.

Full disclosure: no, I don't work there now. Yes, I used to, a very long time ago.
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Well is that really true? They've bundled loads of features into the format, the other readers might be safer but only because they don't support those features and they will try to add them at some point. Also PDF is based on postscript which is programming language. It's sufficiently complex that's is never going to be very secure, and after all the main problem with Office documents was Macros.
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This reminded me of Rands' piece at http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/01/04/wanted.html, which is also an interesting read about getting people to actually show up.
The Systran system is quite old, check out how Hofstadter thrashed it some years ago in his "Le Ton beau de Marot"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Ton_beau_de_Marot) (awesome book on machine translation and literature in general, BTW). Looking at these I thought that (i) Google totally blows the competition out of the water in French, Spanish, and German (I even found the German translation slightly more readable than the human one - "uneasy dreams" sounds better than the human's "anxious dreams"); but (ii) the Russian and Arabic translations are not very readable. Too bad they didn't provide a comparison in Chinese.

Many old school linguists often scorn the no-model, statistical approach to machine translation that Google adopts (my advisor was one of these), opting for more semantically-based models instead. I have yet to see results comparable to Google's (i.e. in unconstrained domains) from this school.
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Worth every penny: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
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sumatra PDF is also a better option
Corporate stuff! They want Reader to be ubiquitous so that the competition can't get in.

Reader doesn't just have to show a paper in an office. It could have a form. It could have a CAD drawing. It could do all sorts of magic that a business can come to rely on.

Imagine how much simpler it is to send a PDF to a client to sign and "submit" as opposed to managing faxes.
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When I started learning Rails i just read through and followed the steps in here:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

I ended up buying a couple books, but while being ok, weren't as good at addressing the fundamentals as the guides.rubyonrails.org site.
My boss is 3000 miles away. I wish I was able to talk to him face to face :p
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I'm late to this, and I wish I could avoid the gross generalization, but it seems that Hacker News has a bias against Metalab.

The comments on You're Killing Me, Zappos (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=812729) could be boiled down to "You can design a shiny mockup, but you can't make a successful, money-making website."
I don't know what the author wants from Microsoft. I don't know about the other questions, but the technical questions seem fine. What does he want them to know if not how to do a preorder traversal without recursion? Name some obscure feature of Microsoft SQL? That will get you people who know specific pieces of software well, not good programmers. A good programmer should be able to quickly develop complex algorithms, irrespective of the environment or language. Everything else is pretty secondary to that.

I can tell you that my hardest question from my interview was developing an algorithm to get the greatest increasing subsequence from a sequence of integers. Will all good programmers be able to solve this? No, probably not. Will all the people who solve this be good programmers? Probably more likely. Microsoft is trying to find the best of the best and asking tough questions will get you much farther than random knowledge questions (which can be picked up in an afternoon with Google and documentation anyway).
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Why do you think that they are taking value away from Metalab by using the design as a mock-up that is never intended to be a final product?
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Two glaring problems with this (superficial) article:

(1) No modern OS gives up the password hash without a vulnerability that can probably be used for things worse than reading password hashes.

(2) No modern OS uses a hashing scheme that gives up "good" passwords, and no hashing scheme can protect you from horrible passwords.

In penetration testing, password cracking is something you do after your first game-over vulnerability, to make the report a lot scarier. The game was over when you got the hashes, though.
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That's one class of Reader flaws, but it's not the reason Reader is such a target.
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So, why American cab service is worse than that of many "developing" countries???
"Fedex fast"?
no way.
The secret of success is slowly make service cheaper and worse, but maintain appearance by making every once in a while things slightly better.
PDF is an extremely complex standard. Libraries like Prawn are deceptive; generating one class of full-featured PDF documents is an easier task than reading all possible classes of PDF documents.

It's also an ISO standard, so there aren't a lot of degrees of architectural freedom in simplifying and hardening it. Remember that much of PDF predates "modern" vulnerability research.
I wait for the headline that reads, Microsoft borrows from Webkit to build the next IE. I'd never use it but for testing, but it would sure make my life as a developer easier...eventually.
Ah, that explains alot
I don't know a lot of people who would put money on Office being safer than PDF, but I concede that it's surprising that the PDF format could even be a contender in this race.
this just in ... hackers leverage physical access to game the system.
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I'm sure I read that Chrome was adding this feature. I heard about it just after the Google-China hacking thing which was apparently partly due to Adobe Reader.
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Bear in mind that the primary reason Reader is the "world's most exploited app" (it probably isn't, but it's one of them) is that it's ubiquitous. It's one of a small group of apps where a break can hand you tens of millions of machines.

Very few apps (I actually can't name one) with that market footprint fare better than Reader is now. Microsoft has poured supernatural amounts of money into Internet Explorer, and they're still getting in the paper over IE zero day.
Right, the real reason Reader is a target is because of its ubiquity (especially in the enterprise). The reason why I mentioned Javascript is because I think it highlights Adobe's mindset perfectly. They refuse to design simple and narrowly focused software.
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The article assumes that you have physical access to computer and the target does have encrypted disk. So getting password hash is trivial. What is remarkable is that on Windows the article recommends bruteforce attack, while on other OS it recommends changing the password. While bruteforce could take more time, its less noticeable, as the real user can log in normally afterwards.

But the real point is that physical access == security fail.
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it is very difficult to compete with USA in the area of computer technologies. America has a long tradition in the area. It is like competing with Japanese or Germans in car-making.
I learned with the Agile Web Development book, but it wasn't comprehensive. The Rails Way is a good book, but it's more of a reference than a guide.

http://gotapi.com is my go-to reference, and I spend a lot of time reading code that I want to learn something from.
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Meh.

1 “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

Curiosity is an important trait, and I'm sure Einstein had it. He did, however, also have a very significant talent.

2 “It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer.”

Perseverance is important, but if you honestly believe you can achieve anything by trying harder, there's no limit to what you can't do. (HT Despair)

The rest of the advise is sound, however, I can help but think that boiling these pieces of wisdom down to fortune cookies is orthogonal to the very point Einstein was making when he said those things.
It wasn't. iDefense retracted that part of their report.
This is a great resource. A lot of the time, questions in #rubyonrails on Freenode are answered with a link to one of these guides.

I think it also helps to think of Rails' code as having conventions, rather than magic. The conventions are actually easy to learn and are quite consistent, stop telling yourself they're "magic".
Well... the names like Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten say a lot... ;)
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I don't think that's the issue. For me its very simple: this is Metalab's Intellectual Property, and it should be respected.

In my opinion, it will be difficult if not impossible for Mozilla to create a truly original design if they are mocking up with Metalab's work.

Agree to disagree.
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Agreed WRT it sounding like a bribe. If you can't walk away from the deal or this "mediator" I'd retain competent legal counsel ASAP.
Interesting factoid ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieserl_Einstein )
I also use SumatraPDF and find it excellent.
Every time someone makes a comment like "X is too complex", I both agree and immediately think back to:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/easter-eggs.html

Adobe is giving the market what it wants. It may be part of the current zeitgeist that software developers have a paternal responsibility to defer functionality in favor of security and reliability, but that notion --- if it exists in reality anywhere --- is extremely recent.

Reader got complicated long before any major software vendor got religion about security.