skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We live in a period when technology looks very organised. But that’s a fluke, a feature of the history of engineering that reflects what we’ve learned to build. When we start just going out into the computational universe and finding stuff that works, it’s all going to look a lot more bizarrely random."

This parallels my understanding of how humans will perceive the post-singularity world.
it still gives you time to "sign out all other sessions" in your browser and change password immediately. granted, you may be afk etc but still better than nothing at all...
When it arrives, it is actioned and disposed of (properly) immediately

What about "important" emails in your inbox that you have not yet had a chance to take action on? Can you be taking action on your email 24 hours a day?
thanks. I enjoy reading your posts, keep 'em coming!
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PIC - because of its simplicity.

On the PIC, I get the feeling of being "master of all I survey." The instruction set and system architecture fit in a magazine-sized booklet.

The AVR, on the other hand, is a ball of goo, quite like the x86.
and then what?

they just wouldn't open any message to do with banking, password resets, or anything that MAY be a canary? i'm ok with that.
I meant more the "it's ok if this is null" part. Does that comment not mean what I'm thinking it means? Because invoking a method on a null object will throw an exception.
Could you explain? Right now I'm using Jade on the server and Jquery Templates on the client. I'd love to use the same templates on both.
Utterly unintentional and somewhat hilarious misspelling on my part, especially since I used to work for a startup that made a statute search engine.
So the thing I keep wondering is, where is all this data going? Outside of the high-profile Lockheed Martin attempt, have there been any reports of accounts, particularly consumer accounts, getting hacked as a result of these attacks?

Also, is there any indication of who is behind these attacks? For arguments sake, I'll buy that Anon was behind the Sony attacks, but RSA? Lockheed Martin? Major banks like Citibank? Those are huge targets.
This is also known as "literate testing", as in Python's doctest. I have collected some information on it here: http://arrenbrecht.ch/testing/.
Seriously. It was always obvious Apple would do this eventually. The kid's app wasn't a novel idea, nor did it have a novel name or icon, it just did something everyone and their mom knew Apple would implement eventually, but just hadn't yet. This app was a hacked stop-over gap to put in place obvious tech. This article is really over the top.
This feature has been one of the persistent justifications in my organization for spending money on Weblogic 10 for a time period unknown to me. Seeing this in Tomcat makes me hopeful for a world free of application servers...someday.
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Let's see how it goes with tying MacOS installs to iTunes accounts, which is the practical outcome of "via Mac App Store only" for the 10.7 release.

I suspect it will raise enough hackles.
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Probably their lawyers got to them. They have a near monopoly in legal music downloads (market share at 70%), so if their app store policies led to Rhapsody or Rdio going out of business it would look pretty bad in the eyes of regulators.
Hello.
Maybe this is the last thing you want from others, but I'll say it - I'm sorry for you. Although I, like many others, have been in situations somewhat similar, I have to admit that it doesn't match the depth level. Therefore what I'll say doesn't have an empirical-derived proven value. It is just a outside perspective that I hope you'll find useful.

1. Priorities in order. I see you worry about a lot of things, like unemployment, loosing professional momentum, your parents, your depths, and about a lot of other multiple aspects of your life. As a former entrepreneur, I'm sure that you can find a way to deal with each one accordingly. I would consider first of all my sanity, especially the mental stability, no mater what.

2. Discipline. Manage your own life and improve the chances of getting needed and desired targets. Peace and free time would be incentives to new ideas, which are essential for getting back on your feet.

3. Research. Study everything that looks promising (for new opportunities).
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I'm with you.

This opinion is extremely unpopular though because it requires so many lifestyle consumption changes for all of us.

It's like knowing you have a serious illness, but putting off a visit to the doctor's to confirm it, because then you'll have to take steps that'll impact your lifestyle (I.e. quit smoking / drinking / drugs).
What is the best way to absorb the material from a book?
As I get older, I find that I don't remember the things I read in books (programming books mostly) nearly as well as when I was a teenager. Do you have any tips or techniques that I could apply to help make the subject matter "stick"?
all situations except for DB schema changes

For that there is Edition-based Redefinition: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/availabi... (2009)
At the time there were many schematics available to program a PIC right off the serial or parallel port. I used one of those until I built a WISP628 which is an upgraded version of the idea.
You should really automate that... at least then you'll be faster than the intruder (at least if he/she hasn't already changed the password :p)
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You can mark messages un-read again in the gmail UI.
You never know how much authority you have until you exceed it.
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I would love to see this get popular. This would be such a great community resource for all levels of Rails developers.
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Learn by doing! Get your hands dirty.
If the books show an example, put it into practice!
It's the best advice I can give - that's how I learn the best.
What if somebody triggers password recoveries on all important sites using your email address?
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TLDR: You can't be above the law, but we can.

It's ironic and a great pity that an "organisation" which demands transparency and accountability is completely lacking in both. The most respected revolutionaries walk the walk and lead from the front.
This problem is hard to solve.

It is not in the interest of the programmer to allow others to understand his code. That would make him easily replaceable. I know quite a few consultants who write like that on purpose and secure their jobs this way.

Programmers are also not rewarded for clean code. They are rewarded for quickly delivered code. Beautiful code that is delivered two weeks too late is usually a bad idea. This is business logic.

It is easy to measure, how long it takes a programmer to develop code. It is much harder to measure, how much time is wasted to maintain badly written code.

Much speaks against writing clean code, little is in favour. The only persons interested in this are later maintainers and academics.

Lets face it: whats wrong with code that is a bit messy but does its job correct and quick? If the author himself has to edit it and does not understand it anymore, then he/she will refactor. If there is no need to touch this code because it does its job, who cares? If the original author is already gone and there was no time to make someone else familiar with his code and style, think about how people are treated in your company and refactor management instead of code.
In the case of an extension method, it's actually just syntactic sugar the compiler provides. An extension method is actually a static method underneath, this allows null checking to be centralized, and cleaner everywhere a step is used. The method looks like this: "public static IDisposable Step(this MiniProfiler profiler, string name, ProfileLevel level = ProfileLevel.Info) { return profiler == null ? null : profiler.StepImpl(name, level); }"
Ask HN: How would you promote this weekend project?
I have just launched a dead-simple site/server monitoring service, and now am trying to grow the user base. I realize this is a very competitive environment, but I run with very little overhead since it's a weekend project only. I already have two dozen free users, though most are inactive. What would you do to get new users to sign up? Does it make sense to run AdWords campaigns for this type of service, or is the ad space so saturated that I won't get any quality clicks anyways? What other venues are available?

URL: https://www.pingbrigade.com/signup

Thanks!
Looks like Apple is (successfully?) copying Facebook's policy strategy... Two big steps forward, then one little step backwards!
Raymond Chen, perhaps? I vaguely remember this quote associated with Microsoft.
Extension methods can be invoked on null objects (the object gets passed to the static method and you can check for null in the extension itself).

Strange, but does enable some interesting syntactic sugar checking for empty values etc.
Interesting. Can you elaborate on review & print code?
I just DID find it useful. Cheers!
Facebook doesn't take any step backwards.
My problem was more about setting restrictions on what I could charge my customer. If the customer wants to pay the premium for buying from the iphone application, fine by me.

As far as a "reasonable" fee, I think it should be more in the range of what a credit card charges.

young upstarts will still lap the system up

I totally agree here. I wonder if it's a viable long-term strategy. In the first wave Apple's store got a bit of a reputation for having a lot of crap in it.

But they could be doing the following, which I think would be pretty brilliant:

We have a new platform, and a new way of interacting with media and with each other. What is the best use of this? What ideas will be seen as valuable? Well, let's just get as many ideas as we can as cheaply as we can, let the system percolate for a bit and see what is great.

When we know what is great, we'll then steer things strongly that way either by (1) building more stuff in-house and relegating indie applications to the cellar, or (2) very tight restrictions on the devs. This amounts to a huge marketing experiment that they make a ton of money from rather than having to spend a ton of money. Brilliant.
You know, printing. How do you back up your work?
and his biology, he gets from pondering...

Khan on Entropy: In a recent talk he explained how he prepared for his lecture on entropy: "I took two weeks off and I just pondered it, and I called every professor and everyone I could talk to and I said, Let's go have a glass of wine about entropy."

I'm sure you realise that entropy is not a concept from biology, but it isn't clear from your comment.

Since he has a background in engineering, and therefore a reasonable physics and chemistry grounding, I would guess that he had his "glasses of wine" and pondering to make sure he covered all the bases, and thought of a helpful way of explaining it.

Have you watched his lectures on entropy? Is there anything wrong with them? I'm sure constructive criticism is better than calling him names and picking on his research methods.
Facebook doesn't take any steps forward either.
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Oh really?

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-02-18/tech/facebook.reversal_1_...
Your "no access to the product" of course includes a caveat, which is that you haven't paid for the product.

If you apply the same caveat to the EULA-bound Apple products, the net effect is the same: "no access to the product".

So no irony here, not even Alanis's flavor.
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I did. A Google search for

"error bars" site:optimizely.com

turns up exactly three hits. One of them is the blog post we're talking about. The others are discussions on the Optimizely support pages from December 2010 and January 2011, which are similarly statistically waffly. The older one promises a further clarifying post that never seems to have been written.

If you have found other sources where the Optimizely site publicly describes their statistical methodology, please share them. I think several people following this discussion would be interested.

Otherwise, I stand by my earlier comments.
Example of the decline? What would have been more appropriate in your opinion?
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Yes. Welcome to web development. :)

Snarkiness aside, I feel the pain behind your complaint. That's one reason I think CSS can be harder than actual programming: you have all these unknowns and contingencies to manage.
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I found that reading good books helps a ton. Dry, purely technical books are no good to me: I put them down at most halfway through, because I forgot how it all started.

A good book will keep me amazed from the first page to the last, even if it's a programming book (FYI, Learn You a Haskell for Great Good is such a book - wish all of them were of the same quality), and I won't find it hard to remember what I read a day before. When the author makes the book interesting, I found that it sticks to me much more easily.

So, find good books, that are a joy to read, and you'll have a much easier time absorbing their content ;)
I can't find any documentation about this at all - is there a link anywhere that describes it in more detail? Nothing on the apache site that I can find...

Great feature, but it's not a feature until it's documented!
> the planet is finite. Resources are limited. We'll be running out of them fast.

Our earth is just one of billions of planets in our galaxy alone.
Two big points here, any hacker with a brain wouldn't

1) Rummage through your emails with image loading turned on
2) At least at a minimum be behind a service such as tor..

so uhhh, i guess this is a good idea for alerting you, if that is you are un/lucky enough to get 'hacked' by those that ignore the previous two points.
Why is everyone assuming Apple's being evil here?

Not that they're perfect by any means, but the pattern seems pretty clear: they start off with a restrictive situation, see how it works, and then adjust. (Sometimes they restrict more, then relax; sometimes they stay more restrictive.)

They're engaged in a learning process, folks. Nothing quite like the App Store has been attempted before on this scale, and you know they've gotta be rather conservative at each step. You would if you were in their shoes.

Yes, they're trying to make money, but I see lots of signs that they're also trying to accommodate the needs of users first, then developers.

Never assume malice when it could just be incompetence (i.e., learning from mistakes), etc.

(I'm not shilling for Apple. I didn't even attend WWDC this year for the first time in many years. ;-)
Gets summarised and copied straight onto my task list which is a text file with relevant information within an hour usually (unless I'm out cold). If it takes less than 5 mins it's done there and then.

I use Vim Outliner for task management.
Nobody knows yet, but it probably looks up the phone number in Apple's database.
Yeah, I sure do hate it when Apple responds positively to feedback.
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It smells like hoax, it looks like hoax...

I can't help hoping for the best, with a heavy dose of skepticism. All we have to loose is some time.
I don't think that I can agree with the op on slashdot.

Programming is not about knowing lots of words or grammar. It is about getting the thoughts clearly structured and understanding quickly what a problem is really about.

THIS is quite the same problem as writing text. But, IMHO, the author approached this as someone who does not know how to write text, too. Its not about ingenuous choice of words and correct application of grammar. It is about clarity of understanding the problem and then find a solution how to get to the point clearly and quickly.

If a solution is in the mind, 70% of the way is gone. Then it is important not to give up unless this idea is on paper in the same shape as it was in the head before.
So I think the analogy is a good one, but the op has not necessarily found the reasons why.
From the company that is suing over the use of the word "App" it is ironic.
I feel like I should hurry up and act now...
When I started with accenture 10 years ago, I was the only coder in my startup group and part of the induction was basically to see how well I could help out my team and get them to finish their work.
Does this mean that people like iFlow (https://www.iflowreader.com/Closing.aspx) can start selling eBooks again now? Or is it too late for them already?
I left Accenture (Italy) this january, after 3 years, and just like you I was hired right after graduation thanks to my 'mad' java skills, after about 1 year I wasn't writing much code anymore and SQL, Word & Excel became my only daily companions.

Negatives/things I didn't like during my experience in Accenture:

- Working 10-14 hours a day (^). If you were to leave at 6pm your supervisor
would joke about it ("hey, did you get that part-time thing?").
It's alienating and can be done only if you're young & single.
You are supposed to immolate yourself for the company.

- Procedures & timetables to fill: I were required to follow the
most cumbersome procedures even for the simplier tasks and file every
single small detail of what I've done in a form somewhere for monitoring
purposes.
While this is a good practice in general, what was going on there
was beyond absurdity. I spent more time reporting what I was doing
than working on the actual task.

- Dressing code = compulsory business attire, Suite + tie (!)

- Managers overlydramatic speeches. Laughable attitude.

- Strong pyramidal scheme. If your non-technical supervisor closed a deal
with the client on a specific feature, it didn't matter if it was technically
unfeasible and risked to put in jeopardy the whole system, you were -ordered-
to do it. obey. Reworking was then very common.

- What matter isn't the quality of your work, it's the amount of time
you spend on it. You're consultants and your company charges the client by
the hours you do. The more you stay in the office, the better is for the company.
Optimization? who cares.

- Most of my coworkers there were really, really, really bored.
Their life was sucked into the office, and the only thought they had on a
typical monday morning was how to make it through the next weekend.

Positives:

- I found some truly talented people, and I learned lots of both technical
and people skills.

- You get to learn some self-discipline, especially when it comes to schedule
your time to reach specific goals.

- On a professional point of view, I grew up a lot, it's a good 'gym',
an eye-opener.

Anyway, in all honesty, I'm glad I've been working there and I do not regret it at all. If I were to run a startup right after university, I would have bit off more than I could chew, probably.

(^) I don't mind working 10-14 on my own stuff, things that I'm crafting with my hands and that I find exciting. Pretending to work 14 hours on a bi-monthly report just because you've got to leave at the same time as everybody else is another thing.
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Apparently, with the advent of internet technology,so many small businesses are aspire to prove themselves in the international market arena. With Internet marketing, many may have some questions about the difference among SEO and search engine marketing.
So what would be the new address? Does it mean giving up "1 Infinite Loop"? Any guesses at a replacement?
I'm currently looking at tools for making distributed programming tractable. NesC is one I've been keeping an eye on, although it is targeting much more constrained systems than I am currently interested in. Here are a few more worth checking out:

Bloom (also from Berkeley, there must be something in the water)- http://www.bloom-lang.net/

Opis - http://perso.eleves.bretagne.ens-cachan.fr/~dagand/opis/

OPA (proprietary) - https://mlstate.com/

Peerium (proprietary, yet to be revealed) - http://www.peerium.com/

If anyone knows of similar efforts I'd love to hear about them.
I use aliases (one shots) for most sign-ups so it's very unlikely to happen. Only 5-6 trusted people know my real address. Also allows me to find the source for all incoming crap email and bin it quickly so I don't have to dredge through it (just drop the alias).
There are more than 6000 lines of CSS behind this, but only the first 500 or so are actual CSS; the rest appears to be images encoded into text.

At any rate, this is very impressive and interesting. I would have sworn it was a Flash game if I didn't know better.
Today's Google doodle lets you play sounds on the 'guitar' and record them
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My friend is still working at Accenture (sigh) as a senior manager and he says the only purpose of the first interview is to weed out the morons.
That was one of the reasons why i politely declined when i was asked if i was interested in a interview for the consulting branch.
A place where people with zero experience are hired, trained in a few weeks and them sent to some client as a "consultant"? No, thanks...
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I didn't get that feel from the book, but then again, I was pretty familiar with conlanging (is that even the correct word?) when I read it, so that might have biased my judgement.

My impression was that part of her thesis in the book was that there is nothing wrong with natural languages. That what looks wrong is, in fact, part of what makes them work.
Before or after this outage?
Steve Jobs describes the iPhone experience at WWDC 1997 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY&feature=youtu...
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I'm the same - worked myself to death while there, but don't regret it now. I truly learnt some amazing skills and life lessons. Now I earn more than I ever did there (10 years!), have far less responsibility, have far less time pressure to work under... and am bored stupid most of the time :(
Well, if they actually wrote that, the developer might not feel as bad.
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Shouldn't that read "two big steps backwards, then one little step forwards"?
I think this is a great idea, but mainly because it provides a template for the best practices when implementing a particular item, like file uploading or infinite scrolling.

Given that, I'd love to see the code for these scaffolds directly on the site, with an explanation about what it's doing and why it's doing it that way, as well as the ability to comment on a particular implementation. I would think that type of community-driven peer-reviewed best practices for common feature implementations would be very valuable indeed.
well, posting it on hackernews is a good Idea, you've got a new user :).
Besides that, I have no plan of promoting

edit: 2 Ideas:
you should be able to name targets, and give them a max value. So if ping time exceeds 0.5 seconds, you get notified.