skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't count the unsafe sublanguage, Rust, SML, OCaml, Scheme, Java, and Lua all have simpler semantics than C, and that's just off the top of my head. It's debatable, but I would even argue that Haskell and Swift do. Undefined behavior is really subtle, and there are parts of the spec that compiler developers haven't even come to consensus regarding the meaning of.
Best tool is a stretch, it's a tool.

If we can get tools like Rust which have better memory safety guarantees while offering much of the same performance, then hell, why not?
It's easy to see why just by looking at the hundreds of CVE's throughout the years, often caused by memory unsafe operations.

Not that I don't like C, but there's many better alternatives out there.

And this is coming from someone who stubbornly sticks to writing D in C-style, but knows what Rust brings to the table.
Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books
Things are right. There's nothing wrong with Facebook having a liberal bias. Every tech company full of young smart people is going to have a liberal bias. They aren't the government, they don't have to be unbiased. Conservatism isn't exactly popular among the non-old non-white population despite any anecdotal data about young conservatives you might know. Young people and minorities skew liberal, that's just how the world is.
I can implement the C++'s value semantics in Modula-3, which is a systems programming language with GC.

Don't mix GC with Java.
This is a big deal because "the system" has shown a lot of hate toward things that oppose it. Even Stephen Colbert (our would-be go-to celebrity) has clearly aligned with the propaganda. The system is about to have themselves voted against and so now it will align with the new power.
He should have cited the woman who spilled hot coffee on her. The legal precedent being set by the court was "if it's hot enough to hurt someone label it that way" and to do that they had to award punitive (you screwed up and we're punishing you) damages. If they just ordered the company to pay based on medical costs it would have basically said "this is your fault and you should pay for her medical care" but by awarding punitive damages the court was trying (and succeeded) to send a message about what is and is not acceptable.
no, because URLs are still counted (probably because of this workaround).
Oh, right, now I get it. Another option is for the macro to define a separate function type typedef (properly mangled with the line number) for the function type and then use it to define a pointer to it.
Cool. I imagine someone will make a GPIO "backpack", but it would have been nice to have a few out of the box.
Okay. How many man-hours does it cost in wasted time? Is its supposed "value" worth that?
Wait what?
in the US, laws are judged on exact wording first, and then intent only if the wording is unclear.
(2012) Lisp: It's Not About Macros, It's About Read
Well there are often times where you may need to send more data than fits in a 1280 packet, so what do you do then? Ans: cut over to TCP.
i wonder why this isn't default bash history behavior? Wouldn't it be way more useful this way?
What have you tried so far to cut down on screen time / distractions?
Removing something is almost forgivable if it survives as a low-level configuration option.

Yet Firefox has changed behaviors that I can’t fix anymore, such as always remembering everything in a Downloads list (they outright removed any way to prevent this so one has to manually clear it).
I think people should learn Scheme or Python to learn programming, and C to learn our architecture.
Microsoft gets a lot of flack for these breaking updates, but I wonder why more criticism isn't directed at manufacturers who pack laptops full of obscure and poorly-written drivers.
Misconduct attributed to designated whipping boy.
I don't think this is a problem that's specific to any one bias, nor will it go away when "rogue employees" are dealt with. I think this is an issue that's inherent to turning dials to tune what you want people to see in any kind of content-aware way.

I also don't think that's necessarily problematic, but it probably is for Facebook because it has a near monopoly on its particular type of service, and because it gives the appearance of being content-neutral.
This isn't about Silverlight vs Browser HTML.

This about creating "Native" apps using JavaScript and html as an interface for native apps. Fundamentally it still using the same components C++/Com store and .Net store apps. They've just written a language adapter for it.

XAML is alive and well in the WinRT apps.
Lawmakers Slam Frontier for Bad Internet, Phone Service
If you're a smoker, then not so much. In order to smoke at Heathrow, for instance, I have to go landside (sometimes through passport control) and back, with no problem, sometimes more than once if a flight is delayed for a long time.
I started using this Chrome extension to block Facebook trends: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-facebook-tre...

I checked the source and it just seems to grab the div and set the style to hidden. It's not perfect, because when I open Facebook sometimes Trends are visible for a second, but it's much better than glancing at the section and being drawn into clicking on whatever celebrity news or other headline-of-the-moment is trending.

It's kinda insidious--I don't watch TV or read celebrity gossip sites, but when the Trend says some Kardashian posted a selfie that people are talking about, I'm tempted to click and see the photo just to see what the discussion is about.
I am curious how many of these medias actually admit that they are biased themselves?
are bots going to be confused because there is no limit now ? or are they going to step up to the next level and write essays ?
You make .Net store app, and then distribute it how you want? Thought that was obvious.

You can create your own business store if you want, or you distribute the app through a file.
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True.

I had this totally naïve idea that EU could introduce higher tariffs and trade restrictions using a score based on political freedom, social security, etc, and the goal would be to tax but not remove too much of the cost incentive for trading.

Part (or most, or even all) of the money should then be used to fund education and healthcare back in the country the money came from, while avoiding too much political campaigning.

Maybe it's totally unrealistic, but I can't really see any other way of protecting the rights that we have fought for.

Interestingly, this would be virtually impossible in Russia as they more or less have legislated against "foreign agents" to minimise the opportunity for the west to meddle with their affairs.

It could work in China, and most likely in India and countries with large groups of poor people.

It would also be virtually unacceptable for USA, unless the social component was removed. As it is now, EU would have to increase the tariffs to compensate for the poor social security in US...
And also to hide the fact that their Objective-C GC attempt was a failure.

It is true that their ARC semantics is a better solution to Objective-C's memory management semantics, but they needed to do the typical marketing stunt of selling a failure as something positive.
That's partially why I left Demand.
And the msnbc one? And pbs? I can't name any unbiased news source in the US.
> Some significant numerical algorithms can be easily expressed with nested loops

Like for example?

Just to clarify, I'm (obviously) not suggesting that nested loops be eliminated from the language, or that common optimizations on nested loops be eliminated from compilers. But having specialized code to recognize a clever idiom for counting bits is IMHO going way too far.

It's true that I'm not intimately familiar with numerical algorithms, so I could be wrong about this, but my impression is that the number of "significant numerical algorithms" that can be easily expressed as nested loops is not that large: dozens, not hundreds. Unless I'm wrong about that, I stand by my position that the best way to handle these is to enumerate them and then allow them to be expressed directly.
jQuery is still much more pleasant to use than native methods when working with collections of DOM elements. If you do much DOM manipulation, you'll end up writing helpers that replicate aspects of jQuery to grease your workflow. The real issue is that trying to manage state by directly manipulating the DOM becomes a nightmare as the project grows, and newer frameworks can mostly take care of that for you.

So jQuery is still wonderful at what it does, but there isn't much reason to be directly manipulating the DOM now that there are alternatives.
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It looks like this must be the successor to Deliroll, which was described in an absolutely fantastic talk from 2013[0]. I've been hoping this would be open sourced for years. Really glad to see this!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXj5nayS7Yg
Glen Beck actually wrote a piece after the meeting saying he took Mark at his word, and complained about the tenor of the other conservatives in the meeting: http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/05/19/what-disturbed-glenn-abo...

> But until then, based on our research and my personal experience with Facebook, I believe they are acting in good faith and share some very deep, fundamental principles with people who believe in the principles of liberty and freedom of speech.
I am not saying that it is absolutely true, just that it is the notion many have: In the US you can do something stupid and blame the manufacturer for the damages, if it was not saying in the manual, that you cannot do it.

Combine that with uncapped and ridiculously high compensation claims plus class action lawsuits, which are not a thing over here, and you get a comical impression.

As I said, this may not be totally true, but even though the European Commission brings up stupid ideas once in a while ("Let's introduce quotas for netflix!"), I would say on the global scale the image of the EU legal system is quite okay.
I think Synology has a rack mounted product, but it is still a terrible idea ;)
I don't feel that he should share some of that blame.

There's the line about malice vs stupidity. But on the flip side there's an interesting aggregation of circumstances.

Woman makes disturbance, distracting passengers, and multiple TSA agents so they're all dealing with her, not working the line.

Man puts his MacBook Pro in X-ray. It comes out the other side and a TSA agent, not distracted by incident, hands it straight to another woman who it's later shown was with the woman making the disturbance before the checks, but is not paying attention to her now, and doesn't seem surprised to be handed a laptop that's not hers, and promptly wanders off without her 'partner'.

That seems more than a little coincidental.
I think this election has demonstrated the media's bias fairly well.
Major Google AdWords Changes Announced
I get why this is news to many people, but when you get down to it, a company removed its own arbitrary limitation. It's really difficult to give a shit about such things.

EDIT: I'm aware of the original reasoning for the limitation, so perhaps "arbitrary" is not the best adjective.
Reminds me of how here in Norway the postal service demand a flat fee for these things. Thus you risk paying more for the fee than the duty if the item is price just right.
I'm not disagreeing with that, what I am saying is that some languages offer up a power to perpetrate real horrors that some other languages don't. For instance, much as I love Common Lisp, I'd hate to work in a group with people who don't know how to write macros but do so anyway. There are all sorts of things one can get up to in C or assembly that you can't get up to in Java (deliberately treating a chunk of memory as if it were a type other than it really is, for example). Some languages like Smalltalk don't have a way of enforcing privacy on APIs, unlike say Java, so on a large project you can find out that someone you don't even know has just started using your private APIs and you are now obligated to support them as if they were public APIs, restricting your own freedom to change internals. These are all problems I have run into.
It's good to see Suzanne popping up in so many places!

(Suzanne is Blender's monkey mesh primitive and logo. Blender uses it where other programs would use the Utah teapot. You see it in the character modeling icon on that page. Wikipedia about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blender_(software)#Suzanne)
Obligatory link to the Story of Mel:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
How does I2P defend against traffic analysis attacks?
I would expect `bitcount` to mean sizeof(x)*8. Population count or Hamming weight is the canonical name for this operation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8

Everything other than #2

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10

Everything other than #s 1.3, 1.4, 2.3, and 3.3
While quietly pulling off the ability to have PNG and GIF profile images against what stated in the documentation [1], leaving only poorly encoded JPEG [2]. And JPEG images are double compressed.

[1] https://support.twitter.com/articles/127871
[2] https://twitter.com/vmdanilov/status/735142731945803780
Are you asking me to get you to pick against .NET in favor of Rails/Django/Phoenix/Play/Grails/Laravel/etc?
The fact that he went to the meeting suggests that he had some questions about bias in media.
VW emissions scandal a couple of 'rogue' engineers as well....
It's WinRT via .net/C++/js for future apps. Everything else is legacy supported.
> just as it's easy to write, it's also easy to manage and measure people writing it

I think you nailed why I don't care for writing Java perfectly.
I don't know if this was the original Techcrunch title, but it is extraordinarily misleading. The proper title is the current article title:

Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules
Wikipedia: You don't own Wikipedia
>As a runner, I really don't see the point.

You can send a SOS and listen to spotify.
Honestly, I'm just excited.
I made the switch to carry-on only last year for all my travel. Too much waiting around at baggage claim, too much risk of luggage being lost (especially with transfers), etc. Checked baggage fees weren't the motivator, as most carriers allow one piece for free and I've never needed more than that.

With cameras, laptops, and other expensive items, I have to carry on at least one bag regardless. Now, it's one or two bags (roller luggage, plus laptop case, usually).
Internet scale packet timing collection only works when the traffic is not messed with when routing through TOR. It's quite a headache when {proxy}.appspot.com is used, or technical documents are exclusively routed through GoogleCache, or even CoralCDN for that matter.

There's even users who configure BitTorrent to use TCP instead of UDP so that it's very difficult to write DPI rules to parse out the TOR traffic. Couple this with meek, VPNs and traffic shaping tools and it's quite bothersome for them.
I don't like anything on my wrist or arms when I run. Maybe I can clip this somewhere on me that is not noticeable.
I've got this tiger repelling rock to sell you. Only $2B per year!
If you think twitter is bad for hashtags, I recommend staying away from Instagram.
Are there really that many new projects in COBOL, or is it almost all maintenance/extension of existing code? That's where I'd put the cutoff.
I was quite surprised at the very reasonable position Glen Beck took. Very interesting.
This is one thing I don't understand. Why do you want them to speak fluent English?

If all your family, everyone you interact with, and all the media speak your native tongue, is speaking a fluent second language that important? How is your second language and how often do you use it?

Despite all the good researches have proven in bilingual people, the only advances, which I would consider a success, in second language educations, is that you can pick up the language much faster when you actually interact with a community that speaks this language.

Programming language, on the other hand, you can use it to create stuff, which makes it much easier to practice and improve. If the Japanese can add this curriculum without compromising their pupils's play time, it's going to be an easy success.

Now if they actually write

2 3 加え

instead of

2 + 3

I wouldn't care.
The peanuts picture is funny, but it's 100% the simple. logical, and safe way to do it.
WPF and WinRT share similar ways of working.
Thats because those things avoid PR shitstorms.

You see the same thing with what Reddit has on their default front page.
In this case they undermined a major new technology (XAML) three years after introducing it.
There is no straight forward way to do that on an open platform.
Nobody wants to run with a phone on them. It's not comfortable at all.
> I pre-ordered a Time 2 today

Backing a Kickstarter is not "pre-ordering". Kickstarter is not a store. Maybe you feel more confident because this is Pebble, but the distinction remains. Buying something from Kickstarter is not placing an order for something. It's investing in an idea.
Angular 2 has Ionic & React native ;)
«Now that Microsoft support VB6 until at least 2025»

Microsoft only supports the VB6 runtime. The VB6 IDE and editing tools are no longer supported. Building new projects or new builds of VB6 applications is dangerous and unsupported.

«VB.Net is falling in popularity (only 12% of .Net developers»

So what? C# and F# are both good languages, and it makes sense if VB.NET is a good stepping stone to one or the other. VB.NET isn't going anywhere, it's also a good language for those that want to use it.

«those staying with VB6 made the right decision»

Hah. I'm not sure I agree with "right" from your analysis. Those who have stuck with VB6 in spite of all that has happened in language design and platform changes since VB6 was discontinued have certainly decided to be their generation's COBOL programmers. Certainly there will be money to be made there in ridiculous contracting fees for companies that don't know any better, and that's a possible definition of "right decision", I suppose.
They still haven't shown that there's any sort of anti-conservative bias. Finding a trending topic and using the best source available to represent the information is not the same thing as bias. Conservative sites are, by definition, not the best sources available.
"News" organizations who can barely report on the temperature outside without it dripping with bias who use their platform to push their agendas are stoking anger against another platform for being biased?

It's very beneficial for news media to oust social media as bias. This was a con job from the beginning.

I've never even looked at the "trending" section, anyway. So I guess this is yet another happening in modern American society which is generalized to imply societal importance but that really boils down to idiots yelling at other idiots.
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i tend to think there's a decorum aspect to things, but nobody expects mainstream news to be "unbiased" - it's the WWE of journalism. (not that alt-news or blogs are often any different.)

court cases have established that, really, "free speech" and other things end up meaning that "the news" can lie, distort and implicate whatever it wants, whenever it wants, to fantastical degrees.
Does the media outlet matter? They are all biased in direction or another... The fact that facebook curates their timeline tells you it's manipulated and biased. [1]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everyt...
Oh boy Numbers are racist now
You took the path of reading EULA's carefully?! These documents are painfully lacking in clarity and sincerity. Content generators basically chump subscribers into clicking "I Agree".
It's also sort of believable that it would be people doing their own thing rather than a huge, fairly well run corporation doing something transparently stupid. The controversy probably isn't costing Facebook much, but it isn't doing them any good either, and it's pretty easy to predict that coloring the feed will piss people off.
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Let's not forget that every single warrantless search is a violation of the 4th amendment. Every. Single. One.

Yet we let them do this, because they're holding our ability to move freely about the country hostage.
official announcement: https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more-in-140-characters
(running discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11761583)
Oddly enough there's enough leeway that they are all correct, from a certain point of view.
FB Purity goes a lot further as far as customizing the Facebook UI. I heartily recommend it!
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Are you using firefox? I had an issue recently where my max tls version had been set to 1. Min version was also 1, max is supposed to be 3. Check about:config.
Yea, but not their own recognition of the bias (which is the useful part).
The culture that kept Smalltalk alive failed. So it goes. My understanding is that it had schisms. I've worked with Smalltalkers; they talked like conquered people.

I PREFER - strongly - text-based because graphical based means some obscure binary protocol/file format that bitrots into obscurity. You can always learn to do hardcore text manipulation. You can't necessarily reverse-engineer, say, a Word 1.0 document.

Text is the cockroach format.
Finding an obvious pattern in the seeds implies that the random number generator's output has an obvious pattern. Given the point of RNGs, that seems unlikely.
Try Java with Ninja Framework, it is really nice and the JVM rocks.
When people say we need to teach everyone how to code, I agree. But first we need tools that allow (any) people to code with different levels of knowledge and experience.

Like math: you learn basic Math. Then you have a calculator for basic operations. Then you have MS Excel for general professional use. Then you have MatLab/R and stuff for specific use.

For programming I have the impression that you learn to code and then you, from start, have to learn how to use the most sophisticaded tools in place. And several of them.
Grow partly up on a farm. Drunk raw milk. Self made quark and Joghurt. Played with young horses and cows. Played in haystack etc etc.

40 allergies.

Fuck me...
Exactly. This outcome was clear. FB handled this astonishingly poorly and now it looks like they were lying the whole time. Which honestly I'd probably true since it's so obvious that personal bias would enter.
Yeah, if they use clicks to train the thing surfacing the news items it's pretty likely that the thing will start surfacing click bate.
I also use blender, which has a reputation of being difficult to learn. I've used it infrequently for about 5 years, and I often learn a new way to make my job easier each time.

The blender communities my sibling mentioned are a great kicking off point with some high quality tutorials and resources. The blender wiki is also decent, but unless it has been updated recently, I tend to find it out if date. There are also tons of tutorials for learning the basics on YouTube.

Without having taken a 3D modeling course, I would say that following tutorials that teach both using the tool (blender, 3DS, Maya) and making basic models is a good place to start. From there, find tutorials to accomplish tasks that interest you: animation, texturing, organic modeling, rendering, etc.
You mean the first version of Symfony (Symfony 1, which was monolithic like Rails), and not the current Symfony (Symfony 2/3) which has nothing to do with the old one other than the name.