skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C...

I have fondness on the time when HP was American... and Motorola... and calculators were meant to last... mechanical keyboards... when things were simple...

I tell people that the keyboard... the original mechanical one, just God knows how much money took to be designed... how many thousand hours of trial and error it took to be designed... just to get to hp and their new layouts... (don't make me talk about new thinkpads).

Dennis Ritchie was the IBM of programming languages... when fad after fad of JS framework pass, C stands...
I sold my old 5s. Presumably the guy who bought it is happy with it. He seemed like the sort of person who wanted a new phone, but didn’t want to spend the price premium for a brand-spanking-new one.

I hear other people give their aged iPhones to their kids to use as phones and/or portable gaming devices. Others use them as a dedicated jukebox where they entertain guests.
I work for a very wealthy man, and he bought everyone in the company an Amazon Echo because he thought it was a fascinating device. Honestly I agree, it's a very clever gadget and I constantly find more things to use it for. For instance, I just fit out my apartment with Phillips Hue lights, and when I walk in the door I ask Alexa to turn on the lights, and the whole place lights up. Give it a try
If we can argue about the definition of safe, then "America is safe" is meaningless. Why don't you help us out by defining how you measure safety, and "law abiding" for that matter. Is anybody in the US rigorously law-abiding? Based on what evidence?
There's nothing wrong with that. A square is very "round" in the sense that it is very close to a circle in terms of shape, compared to all other possible polygons out there.
Their criteria is clearly biased in favor of data analysis tools. There's no way a niche language could credibly top C#.
Stumbled across this Slackbot the other day which conducts a "standup" asynchronously - the best of both worlds.

https://geekbot.io/

No affiliation, just seems like a cool product. Probably wouldn't be hard to whip something similar up if it's not already on GitHub.
The Haskell one is a bit off, honestly. Web development is one of Haskell's stronger areas, and it doesn't event rank for that at all.
Communication is a problem invented by humans—nobody said you needed to leave home.

Furthermore, the cost of talking to your mother—global industrial production lines, addiction to technology, and the loss of social skills—is extremely hard to weigh. I land firmly on the side of luddite—I value sustainability and social intimacy over convenience. However, it is not even clear that the average techie considers the above problems at all, let alone major ones.

So—again, you're just assuming that I would consider communication worth what we're doing to our children and our planet. It is emphatically not worth it and does not improve quality of life except for problems you cause in the first place.
Nauru is the 2nd roundest I know.
For what it's worth, I also use an iphone 4. I like the size and don't really care about apps that require a more recent ios version.

Unfortunately, it no longer accepts my off-brand charging cable, and even using a (borrowed) official Apple cable results in the dreaded "accessory might not be supported" error.

The repair place cleaned out the port and says the battery is fine. Most likely the port itself has broken ... and that part is not replaceable :(

Now I'm limping along on a loaner phone from a friend and torn between buying another 4 (or 5), or buying a 6 in 2 months after the 7 comes out. :(
I don't buy it. Choose any one of the weights and select only web; it'll put either Python or Java at #1 and PHP and JavaScript way below. That just doesn't seem realistic...
Full text: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PV10pZW...
>when fad after fad of JS framework pass, C stands

Oranges vs apples
Interesting, thanks for pointing that out.

This code is such a good example of the potential value of formal verification tools for crypto primitives.
How President Obama shaped the future of digital health
> only needs to last for 8 hours

I'm sure plenty of trucks drive more than 120 miles in 8hrs.
Or for that matter, HTTPS?
Even if you did lock it, the most likely people to steal something out of it are TSA employees.
What kind of public policy data? What country? The Sunlight Foundation[1] is pretty good for US data.

[1]: http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/
>I unfortunately have to stay quiet about my true feelings about this kind of thing, even though it matters to me a lot.

"That's not a perk that I value because I prefer to make my own food."

You don't have to go into detail, explain that you think it's an ethical problem, tell them you are a vegan, or anything else. Just tell them you don't value it and won't use it.
cheap TV manufacturer Element was supposedly an American manufacturer, but that seems to be a bit of a lie http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/11/12/3591517/element-...

Interesting the article says "shipped out to Walmart, Target, Meijer, Sam’s Club, and QVC." but the title only mentions Walmart.
I think rust needs to slow down in this regard. I have been with Python since 1999 and the stdlib has held it back, I have also used Scala and Haskell and have witness the mess that platform libs on each have caused.

What Rust has right now is pretty amazing. What needs to happen is a way for devs to easily break the dependency cycle and include multiple versions of the same crate. Something that has plagued Haskell. I dunno what the answer is, trait only crates, struct only crates?

If people want to 'curate' (shop) a set of packages, they can make a meta package that exports its deps.

There is literally no reason to ship libs with the compiler aside from the basic verbs and nouns.

With verioned and properly name-spaced imports, one could use different curated libs.
No, the two disclosures just happened to come at the same time.
Shouldn't I be seeing tons of job posting for R then? I don't get it.
JS, too, right? Forget "large" standard library, there really isn't any standard library at all
Well, assuming they leave it alone for a while.

Apple has developed a bad habit of abandoning compatibility with their developer tools. While this is somewhat more excusable with Swift, given that it's fairly new, it's pretty annoying to have to (e.g.) basically relearn Xcode from scratch with every major release.
If voting machines are that insecure, then you should be worried about Chinese hackers, and Arab hackers and even American Republican hackers. Let's be frank, voting machines that are insecure can be exploited by ANYBODY who cares to influence an election and those with the most to gain/lose are members/supporters of the parties whose candidates are standing for election. In other words USA hackers should be your main worry. If you can secure the voting systems against them, then you have a chance at a fair election. Otherwise all bets are off and all the foreign hackers will be battling over who controls the vote.
This is an interesting approach. The idea of overlapping clusters is appealing, you're probably familiar with the LDA family of algorithms that provide nice data structures for this.
I am not referring to the present, but the hypothetical "prices continue to rise" the parent comment mentioned.
What separates the surface and iPad Pro? I get your saying desktop applications, but from a HW perspective that are basically the same device and the OS is equality capable. It seems more like the Surface just has better applications for artists, unless I am missing something.
Couldn't you say the same thing about any of the other paradigms? Everyone likes to think that they'e forging ahead on the one true path and leaving the others behind.
Strictly speaking, it's possible for different sorting algorithms to produce different results if you sort using a weak order rather than a total order.
It's very misleading.

The only reason R is there is because of mentions in research papers which is weighted at 100%.

Java is #1 for jobs and StackOverflow.

Python and Swift is trending + hackernews mentions.

C/C++ are always up there.

Javascript is 5 or 6 always.

Shouldn't surprise anyone.
LogMeIn merging with Citrix's GoTo business
For the sake of pedantry, SHA-512 eats 1024 bits, resp. 512 bits for SHA-256, at a time. It's the chaining variables that are of those lengths.
I think Java as #1 is realistic. Maybe within the Bay Area it is not #1, but for the past twenty years companies have been putting business logic and code into Java application servers, a lot of which is connected to intranets or the web.
Microsoft Pix uses AI to help your iPhone take the best pictures
.. or Ionic, or Cordova, or PhoneGap.
My favorite is not even in the top 48.

I will have to turn in my Hipster Membership Cards :-)
I'm glad to see D in the top 30, I would love to see it get a hype boost along the lines of Rust/Go, it is a very nice language.
Can you give some brief examples of how you've done that?

I wouldn't mind if I never had to use awk again...
I guess at least 30% of them are not being used right now as they are not supported by the latest OS. What a waste.

The industry has a problem that we are not trying to optimize software so that we can do more with less hardware, instead, we make more powerful hardware to ousted old hardware, with the help of more complex software.
The reason why players are more valuable than managers on a sports team isn't because the market is efficient. Players put butts in seats. Nobody goes to a game to see the manager, even if he's the guy running the show. People like big name stars. They sell tickets, so they are more valuable. Big name actors can make more than directors. Same reason. They sell tickets. Most us us don't work in a market that works remotely like that.
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That's the point. A lack of a note doesn't mean lack of having had your bags searched, mussed, lightened.
What am i reading?
the 77 million round was done in the past (it might of been over multiple rounds grouped up into one number with part of the amount being more recent) some of the same backers in the round announced "officially" today are also mentioned in this article in 2012 as backers http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/11/14/site-live-for-ex-ap...
For all the corner case clarences out there, this is some forward thinking stuff that you should grok before you turn it down.
Introducing Oodle Mermaid and Selkie (data compressors)
I wonder how the Citrix acquisition/merger will affect LastPass, especially some of the security aspects.
I don't think you're missing anything. Having the right apps matters a lot than the OS capabilities.
Also see http://www.radgametools.com/oodlewhatsnew.htm and http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com more generally
Similar to your experience of traveling with specialized equipment, whenever I fly with my skis I find them to have been searched with the handy pamphlet included inside.

It's at least pretty good proof that these checks aren't random (which is truly a good thing).
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a
worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating
systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around
and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.

Theo de Raadt
The "big corporate sponsor" argument often comes up when discussing language success. Google doesn't really put more than a few people's time into Go, the rest is open source. Other languages like Python didn't have any real backing until way after success.
Rust will already allow you to have multiple versions of transitive dependencies.
Why not? Every science/statistics/math/finance/economics person I know uses R. Lots of slightly more 'casual' users, but it's gone completely mainstream. Universities around here have it installed on most lab computers.

I'm also pleased to see Fortran is still going strong. Great language for crunching numbers.
I think the question is more—if you start by assuming they've seen in your bag, then what does gaining evidence to become more sure of that hypothesis get you? And, in contrast, what can you do with the information that at least this time, they didn't look?
"The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole"

If we assume one iPhone to be 5 inches then we can span the equator to the North pole 12.7 times (5 inches is .127 meters).
If you don't need or are interested in what other people are working on, maybe your team is too big?
Two more cents from the peanut gallery:
I really just don't like the guy, and don't like his show.

I think less of people who champion Howard Stern as talented. And worse of those who emulate him.

I've watched lots of Howard Stern, I've watched a lot of pornography too. I've watched beheading videos, and videos of people being humilated and tortured to death across the unholiest realms of the internet.

I watch these things and listen to them, as bald facts of life, and they have been engrossing at times. But I wish hell upon all of it, and Howard Stern's shit falls into the same category.

I'd make so much of all that disappear, if I could, no matter whether it were right or wrong to do so.
There was talk about being able to run Swift apps on Android in the future. If it becomes official i think the community around swift would be pretty large.
But C didn't have competitors with large standard libraries, so it didn't suffer as much for it.
I'd love to see what HN folks can come up with. Me, I'll just start spamming my coworkers in IRC about what I want to get done in the morning.
My father fought in this war, came in with the main U.N. invasion, fought in North Korea before being shot a couple times and sitting out the rest in a hospital in Japan trying to beat a new found morphine addiction. He very rarely talks about his time there, but pictures of modern South Korea make him stop in his tracks.

My wife is Korean, and her father and his brother were the only surviving family members from their side. Orphaned at 8 or 9, my father-in-law remembers very fondly American soldiers volunteering time to come to the orphanage and play with the kids, bring them candy, whatever.

It's not entirely impossible that my father may have been one of those soldiers giving my father-in-law chocolate. When my wife and I announced our engagement, my father-in-law felt it was deeply appropriate for the son of one of those soldiers who may have saved his life to marry one of his daughters.

If you want to better understand that kind of bond, I recommend watching this documentary on a reunion between a Korean orphan and her Turkish soldier guardian (the Allies were a U.N. force and Turkey was a major contributor of troops). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98KBGvZymMA

Sometime during the war, in order to slow the southward advancing Communist forces, all of the bridges crossing the numerous rivers in South Korea were destroyed, leaving hundreds of thousands of fleeing refugees to crawl over wreckage and ford rivers on foot. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Flight_of_Ref...

So rapidly and completely displaced were people, and so decimated the country had been, that families who were separated in the rush away from the war often never found their relatives again. In the 1980s a short run of shows trying to reconnect families swept the nation as people desperately tried to remember the names and faces of their long-lost, hopefully still living, relatives. At one point the show ran for 13 hours a day. Over 10,000 families were reunited -- decades after the war had ceased.

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/18/world/war-scattered-korean...

http://www.koreabang.com/2013/pictures/photos-in-1983-all-of...
Not necessarily; looking at it another way, having lots of programmers who are interested in R might mean that the job market for them is fairly saturated, meaning recruiters don't have to advertise as much or as long
I'm probably about as cynical--at least about other people's data--as they come, but this seems pretty plausible to me.

It's been known for a while that humans can detect <SMALLNUM> of photons. I think people have looked at the fine structure of a rod and determined that it should have very high quantum efficiency. Finally, direct measurements of the electrical activity of individual (isolated) rod cells suggests that they do respond to single photons.

However, the intact retina has some "normalization" circuitry, which might wash out the signal from a single rod. Even if it makes it out of the eye, the signal has to pass through a lot of cortical processing before the subject consciously perceives it, so these results are a little surprising. However, there is some data suggesting that rats can detect the activity of a single cell in somatosensory cortex (Houwelling and Brect, 2007)[1], so it seems possible.

In summary, it doesn't seem totally outlandish based on what we already knew but...replications are good.

[1] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/full/nature0...
Thanks for your insight :)
What are "reasonable security practices" for maintaining strong, unique passwords over several hundred sites?
There can be more than one problem, including having a small standard library.
Those are just webviews.

Nativescript, titanium, xamarin, or qt is where react native would be categorized with
Yeah, I really liked how DirectX did versioning in that respect. Lets you improve the API while preserving backwards API and signature. If you can give Microsoft something it's that they do backwards compatibility well.

I don't see why that couldn't be worked into this idea.
> A square is very "round" in the sense that it is very close to a circle in terms of shape, compared to all other possible polygons out there.

Regular convex n-gons approach a circle in terms of shape as n increases. A square represents n=4. For any n>4, the polygon will be closer to a circle in terms of shape than a square, no?

ADDED: Right. Thank you for pulling my head out of abstract, regular convexness. IRL FTW. :-)
Mashable used one of my artworks without my permission
time to start reading the posts, lady. the browser extension is exploited to reveal all passwords without requiring anyone to type in anything.

you're all idiots.
"I wonder what would have actually happened if MacArthur had expanded the war as he planned, before Truman clapped the muzzle on him."

I like MacArthur, and he is an amazing general. Inchon landing was a remarkable gamble that proves MacArthur is a tactical genius. In my South Korean heart, I want to believe that MacArthur was right. But when I think more about the issue and the historical context behind the war, I think Truman made the prudent choice.

WWII is still very much fresh in everyone's mind. People know even the smallest spark can trail-blaze its way to start the biggest war at an unimaginable. The Korean war should have stayed as a proxy war and ended as a proxy war. I am glad that the war had not spilt itself to becoming full scale war between communist side vs capitalist side. Also US's use of atomic bomb in Japan during WWII was viable because Japan did not have an atomic bomb. USSR did. If US used an atomic bomb against North Korea, that would be an open invitation for USSR to use it. So yeah, I think Truman was right in the end.
It's worth clicking through to the interactive page that lets you pick different criteria.

R is at #6 measured by "trending", but only #12 measured by "jobs" (below assembly).

Some of their methodology seems a little handwavy (which to be fair is no different than I've seen with other similar rankings).

For instance, the number of questions asked on StackOverflow confounds the popularity of the language with the difficulty/ambiguity/poor documentation of the language (e.g. a poorly-documented language might well result in a disproportionate number of SO questions).

Straight Google search results (as opposed to Google Trends, which they also use) would only seem to prove that a language was popular in the past. There are lots of Google search results for the Roman Empire, but that doesn't mean it's still a going concern. :-)

CareerBuilder and Dice were headhunter cesspools, the last time I looked at them. I would be very wary of drawing any conclusions about popularity from those (or similar) sites.

And so on.
R may be niche as a programming language, but it's mainstream as a tool. It's a language used by many, many amateur and non-programmers. There are more people out there that have data to process than there are programmers.
This article seems to paint an awfully rosy picture of what were, on the whole, pretty awful places. In particular it's nice to talk about all the "ideals" of raising people up into the middle class, etc., when the reality was that company towns were explicitly used to impose and perpetuate debt slavery: you'd be paid only in the company's scrip, which was what you had to use to pay rent on your company home and buy things in the company store, and of course the prices were set to ensure you'd never quite be able to live on it, despite being required to live in the company town and shop at the company store. That meant you went into debt to the company and worked more to pay it off, but could never earn enough to clear the debt, and would recruit your children from a young age (remember when we didn't have those awful child-labor laws meddling in the "free market"?) to work for the company, too, carrying it on to the next generation.

This is the source of the chorus in the song "Sixteen Tons":

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store.
Or they could just use a ballpoint pin to open the zipper, as another commenter on here pointed out.
I'm not sure what it is, or if it's justified, but I've always hated having to explain what I'm doing and why. I think that I will involve people as needed and when needed, and assume others will do the same. Most senior engineers I've worked with have been this way.

Are there effective teams who don't do anything like this at all?
At our remote company, we use http://Jell.com which was built for this purpose.
Well, a lot stops me. Social life, love of culture, a lack of skills, and a taste for modern cooking. But I'm not advocating that; I'm advocating a look at progress based around sustainable, high quality of life. This involves actually making arguments for high quality of life, which is a very rare practice beyond mentioning technology. I think there's a lot to be said for non-materialist culture, if you can find a good way to encourage that, and families planned as well as we are able to.
Just cut them off, that's what the TSA does anyway. I stopped buying those because apparently the TSA just cuts them off when they don't happen to have one of their own keys handy. They threw the cut locks right back into my bags along with the note declaring they had searched them.
Stick with Anathem. Bang for buck, it's a really economical opening. The book is fabulous.
True, but if you could do day to day testing without a VM, even running automated tests against it, that would be a huge timesaver. Then you fire up the VM once a week (or some reasonable interval) to confirm it's 100%. There are platform specific bugs, but most issues I see now with Chrome or Firefox are specific to the browser, not the platform.
Just watched all of that, thanks for posting. As an old (young?) Ren & Stimpy fan, I had no idea of the backstory. Also, even though Howard Stern's dad weighed in, I'm not sure who I side with. I can honestly see both sides to the argument and that's... unsettling.

Bonus Godwin's Law reference for those that didn't want to watch, it's about 45 seconds from this start: https://youtu.be/PheypE68BKc?t=30m32s
50 years from now, our kids wont remember Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, it will be Mark Zuckerburg sitting on a stage ready to release mosquitoes on to the audience.