skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best way to become good at politics is to have serious political goals and possess IQ and EQ to really analyze how to achieve those goals.

There's also a red herring here - politics (in life, work, government), to me, is a proxy concept for ambition. People generally aren't political just because they like the game in and of itself - it's because they have something to prove, something to achieve, or something to gain.

The real question is: why are some people more ambitious than others?
Yeah, I don't like that culture. It's too easy to get burnt out on.

I refuse to work in an industry that demands that level of constant dedication and availability for work as non-critical to life as programming.
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Our experience teaches us that to have a war you need organized sides, no one can afford a war on drugs or a war on terrorism if the opponents can metamorphize into pleasure or the political will to self-determination.

Mechanical fish is right, RSS is unattractive to people, that is the problem. People don't hate it, it isn't a war.
Recent gcc versions use the fact that signed overflow is undefined to do some unexpected optimizations (in particular, a + b < a will never be true if a, b are ints.) I don't think -ftrapv is going to cause many additional errors, but I haven't actually tried it. (Also, http://embed.cs.utah.edu/ioc/ looks interesting.)
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- If you want just drag and drop use jQuery UI.

- If you want to connect divs use jsPlumb.

- If you want flowcharts use jsPlumb + jQuery UI. jQuery to drag elements on to the diagram div and jsPlumb to connect them.

You can achieve almost every thing what ever is being done here. I have used it personally to create something very similar. jsPlumb is MIT License, so you don't have worry about any thing.
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If you look back a little ways, you'll see he previously asked the same question in an earlier article. I think this video is sort of his answer.
> via some kernel work

Kernels shouldn't be aware of the search path shells use.
Me neither - I normally insist on missing the business meeting I'm going to, or turning around and flying back to a city with a real Best Buy or having a courier fly out with an international power adaptor.

You need something, they are selling it, you buy it
I'm still using the old look for the following reasons:

- using right side chat in the new look results in another vertical scroll bar and breaks how message scrolling works.

- my theme no longer exists in the new look and the selection of themes for the new look is limited (I use cold shower).
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Ah, this makes sense now :) I haven't tried with a window manager. I'm typically in Windows at home and not always on Linux so I'll have to experiment.
I'll continue surrounding "="s in keyword arguments and default parameter values regardless of what PEP-8 says.
iZettle.com - that's the only one I've heard of.

With it being primarily chip & pin in the uk I think that was an initial hurdle for people to get over, so it probably took longer for a UK company to come to market.
Edit: cool, it works!
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Impressive! I especially like the image search and how it jumps right into the app without any preliminaries like a signup page or a plea for cash.

..And it exports in almost every format that matters. I'll definitely be using this next time I need to put a diagram together.
That's not the reason. The reason is that they can bullshit you and get away with it.

I sometimes wonder why isn't there a huge fine specifically for corporations trying to avoid their responsibilities by bullshiting customers. It should be in hundreds of thousands per incident.
Because they do that and they feel free to do that and you can't punish them much for doing that. The worst case for them, they actually do their job.
Wrong in one. That type of thinking is why the GIMP has been a painful program to use.

Don't let the best be the enemy of the good.
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> If there is a "war" on RSS... Where is the manifesto?

Here: http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/05/rest-in-peace-rss/
I thought part of the fallout of the ancient AT&T vs BSD case was that APIs are not copyrightable.

Additionally, GNU Classpath seems to have always been considered A-OK by Sun and Oracle, and they have no license.

You'd need a license to use Sun/Oracle source code. You'd need a different license to get the compatibility test kit so you could call your stuff Java(TM). If you thought there was patent liability, you ought to license that.
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If you think matters of economics were the only, or primary, reason why people attempted to escape from those countries, you are seriously delusional.
It really is, does that imply that we must obscure things just to be on the safe side, even though it is the most common-sensical thing?
I may not be correct here, but from what I can see the major point of contention is page 33 of the Oracle slides.

"When is license necessary:

1. Write applications on Java - No

2. Write classes that implement Java API - Yes

3. Download Java software components - Yes"

I think the stance from Google is that the answer to 2 is NO. And that 3 does not matter since they wrote their own Java software.
> Wrong in one

(I don't like these quick put downs, they imply a finality that doesn't exist)

That The Gimp has been unsuccessful with a different interface to Photoshop does not mean a different interface could not be successful.

Imagine that an amazing new interface was developed that was so much better than what any product has now. Everyone asks why this has not been thought of before. Now imagine that it belongs to version 3.0 of The Gimp.

Just because one alternative interface didn't work, doesn't mean we should all give up and use the same interface. With that advice, nobody would ever try anything new.
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Well, yes, as long as that credit card is not somehow linked to an account: if it is linked Paypal will simply refuse to let you use it without logging in.
My personal opinion as somebody who uses RSS quite a lot is that it's never been that useful in the browser - or at least as I saw it implemented. Because I still have to actively "go" somewhere to see the feeds, which is not quite the point for me.

I will be really bummed, though, to see it removed from Mail.app. The Mail client has been the perfect place for me personally because I use RSS as a way to receive notifications. I use it for everything from following twitter search feeds, to monitoring eBay auctions to our own internal error-logging system.

I think RSS suffers from lack of awareness to the average person. I've showed it to a number of people and many of them have gone on to become power RSS users. My wife uses it to monitor knitting sites and to watch for search terms to bring up results on craigslist. It's really fantastic when you know how to use it. But they had no idea what it was or how to use it before I mentioned it.
So they're merely 'Best Buy' branded. If I buy something from your company I expect to return it to any of your outlets, including if I've purchased online.

That's why I love Collect+ so much.
http://www.collectplus.co.uk/merchants
It's almost funny how difficult the Splunk homepage makes it to figure out what Splunk does and if it can help me.

Who designs these things? I gave up after two minutes.
War implies opposition. If there is no opposition, but rather "lack of incentives," then I agree with mechanical_fish that war is inappropriate.
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Based on the potential security/privacy implications of supporting this, I think Google did the right thing by deprecating this.
Does that generally work? Best Buy can't block that?
there are not enough new features to deserve such an increase in the release number. you want numbers inflation like Chrome or Firefox?
He may be referring to binfmt.
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Flagged as well.
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From a business perspective it just means they (the Raspberry Pi folks) didn't make all the money that is to be earned by these boards. So if you walk by a table and it has neatly stacked 5 pound notes on it, and it says "Free Money" are you going to get angry at someone for going up to the table and picking up a stack or three? No of course not.

Now you could argue that the R/Pi folks could have gotten better funding for their causes by taking that money, and they did some of that with the initial 'alpha run' auction they did, but when the wave passes it will be irrelevant.

Now I personally would have sold them for a bit more (we've had lots of conversations on HN about it) and used the extra to fund a small tech support team to keep the problem reports manageable and turn around community discoveries and work arounds for problems into active out reach, but that is just me.

There are lots of factories in China which could make 250,000 of these a day and not blink if they had the parts so I'm not concerned that supply will always be this tight.
Yes me too. This title is intentionally misleading.
Tests against some commonly used software that make use of libssl to load certificates from disk (or perhaps a socket in strange circumstances):

php-5.4.1RC2 (and php-5.4.0): potentially affected (one match for d2i_PKCS12_bio)

tar -xjOf /usr/portage/distfiles/php-5.4.1RC2.tar.bz2 | grep d2i

nginx-1.1.19: probably safe (1 match for d2i_SSL_SESSION)

tar -xzOf /usr/portage/distfiles/nginx-1.1.19.tar.gz | grep d2i

postgresql-9.1.3: probably safe (no matches)

tar -xjOf /usr/portage/distfiles/postgresql-9.1.3.tar.bz2 | grep d2i

postfix-2.9.1: probably safe
(one match for X509_get_ext_d2i and d2i_SSL_SESSION each)

tar -xzOf /usr/portage/distfiles/postfix-2.9.1.tar.gz | grep d2i

dovecot-2.1.4: probably safe (3 matches for d2i_DHparams, 1 match for X509_get_ext_d2i)

tar -xzOf /usr/portage/distfiles/dovecot-2.1.4.tar.gz | grep d2i
One point: the Paypal micropayments tariff level makes sense for stuff under about $12 or thereabouts. For prices above that, it is actually worse.

But yes, Stripe matching the micropayments levels would be kinda neat.
Most Working Holiday visa programs are age restricted to people 18-30 years old, in addition to a lot of other immigration laws change.
To expand on this a bit:

Within the US there are a number of ECNs/exchanges. Each one publishes there own order book including prices and sizes on each side of the book. To get the most accurate information possible on market prices, you need to have a direct connection to each exchange and usually, you want to be co-located within the same data center as them. Unless you're a market maker, high-frequency trader, or run an institutional electronic trading platform, this level of data is not necessary.

For most human traders, a consolidated feed is sufficient; that data comes from an authority called the CTA. From wikipedia: "Since the late 1970s, all SEC-registered exchanges and market centers that trade NYSE or AMEX-listed securities send their trades and quotes to a central consolidator where the Consolidated Tape System (CTS) and Consolidated Quotation System (CQS) data streams are produced and distributed worldwide." The consolidation process delays the data by ~100 ms. This is still considered real-time by many people including professional traders.

Most HN readers are getting a conflated version of the consolidated feed. Google's "real-time" feed falls into this category and adding 5 seconds doesn't really matter at this point.
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(Note: I'm a developer of CircuitLab.) It used to surprise me to see just how common it was for people to use general-purpose drawing/diagramming tools for electronics. In fact, Inkscape plus copy+paste is the de-facto schematic tool of choice for the Wikipedia project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electron... ! Nothing against Inkscape -- in fact, Inkscape is what we use to prepare symbols for insertion into CircuitLab -- but it really says something about how painful a lot of electronics-specific software must be that users will jump to general purpose vector drawing tools instead.
The problem of deciding where best to execute code.
Stowe was just speaking at AWS summit, lots of AWS goodness there: http://aws.amazon.com/live/
"While the primary function of the black box devices would be to record and transmit data that could be used to assist a driver and passengers in the event of an accident..."

I'm not even convinced the primary use case is helpful. Most people have cell phones nowadays, and sometimes systems like OnStar. Furthermore, who is going to handle the data (storage, responses, etc.)? How much money are we going to spend on this? Scary monitoring implications aside, this seems like a terrible idea.
> Splunk’s net loss widened to $11 million from $3.8 million a year earlier as the company stepped up spending on sales and marketing.

Do they have a viable business or is this just another "inflate and escape" company?
Can you really do this that easily? I remember one time trying to cancel a payment to a service which failed to provide what they promised and I was given to a resolution specialist. That specialist said they would refund me right away but then bank would do an investigation into the transaction. If it turned out my position wasn't defendable then they would re-apply the charge to my credit card.

It seems like a store saying that the purchase was made with a clearly stated return policy would be hard to argue against to your bank.
The cluster used a mix of 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 1 Gigabit Ethernet interconnects. However, the workload was what’s often known as "embarrassingly parallel," meaning that the calculations are independent of each other. As such, the speed of the interconnect didn’t really matter.

Ah, if only this were true for everything. It'd make everyone's lives a lot easier. :-) Unfortunately there are a lot of applications out there where inter-node communication is incredibly important: computational fluid dynamics, in all its varied forms, is a good example of a latency-bound application. This covers weather forecasting, aerodynamics, dynamic mechanical modeling, and so on.

What I find interesting is that to get to 51,000 cores, they had to use AWS datacenters all over the world. I'd love to know what kind of resources are actually available in any given datacenter. It will vary at any given time, but it would be useful to know how many cores are "close" to each other in a networking sense, for applications were latency matters.
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FWIW, the build process is actually quite simple. The final step accepts the path to a USB stick and automatically makes a runnable image that you can boot into directly. (You can also run a step to start your image in qemu, if you don't want to run it on real hardware.)
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Let me know if you need help securing the domain pinview.com for this.
The article made it sound like returns are virtually impossible. You can only return unopened products? What, exactly, would you see on the back of the box once you buy it that you didn't see on the front?
AMD and Google eye MIPS processor architecture
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I met Derek when I was on vacation in NYC last summer. He took the time to meet with me (a nobody who he just "knew" from twitter) and explained me the big vision behind Greatist. He's crazy passionate and not afraid to make mistakes (which this article shows perfectly.). It's been awesome to see him talk to the "big guys" in the fitness industry all of a sudden. This shows, once again: Hard work pays off, people. Go Derek & go Greatist! :)
The biggest issue is with the move to digital from analogue TV signals. Then you have the issue that any significant high resolution image manipulation requires decent processing power.

Even more complications arise when you also factor in control technologies like HDCP.

I was about to mention work that had been done by a guy "bunnie" and discovered it's actually advanced from a hack to an actual product:

* http://kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=NeTV_Main_Page

* http://adafruit.com/products/609

Looks like that could be exactly what you're looking for. :)
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I agree with the above. the laptop is not IP, just property. If it's wiped clean there isn't really an issue. You get a $1500 laptop in exchange for your shares. If you don't think it's worth it, then ask for some more cash or something.
Does this mean you've never bought an expensive item online?
From http://gimpfoo.de/2012/04/17/goat-invasion-in-gimp/

"At the time this article is written, about 90% of the GIMP application’s core are ported to GEGL, and the only thing really missing are GeglOperations for all layer modes... GIMP 2.10’s core will be 100% ported to GEGL, and all of the legacy pixel fiddling API for plug-ins is going to be deprecated. Once the core is completely ported, it will be a minor effort to simply “switch on” high bit depths and whatever color models we’d like to see... The port lives in the goat-invasion branch in GIT. That branch will become master once GIMP 2.8 is relased, so the first GIMP 2.9 developer release will already contain the port in progress."
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I'm not sure where you got that idea -- it's not at all true.

"or=" is the same as "||=", and means: Assign the variable on the left to the value on the right if the variable is falsy.

"?=" means: Assign the variable on the left to the value on the right if the variable does not yet exist (ie. is either "null" or "undefined").

Two different things, both useful.
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This is definitely happening (the Temple Run clones on the Market come to mind here), but in this case, the malware's not on the Market, I don't believe - it's being distributed on other sites. So I'm not sure the walled garden stuff matches here - you can download cracked iOS ipas all over the 'net, too.

The unfortunate thing here is that users are going to try to install this stuff by hook or by crook not caring from whence they get it. It's tough for developers or for Google to police this (although, with control of a search engine, you've got that - but policing search results this way is also a slippery slope. You could lock down side-loading, but that's draconian and easily subvertible anyway. You'd be surprised at the number of non-computer savvy folks who are rooted/jailbroken).

I'm not sure what the solution is - education helps (and wide proliferation of this particular malware campaign helps get the issue in front of the public a bit), community self-policing helps (see Cydia, Cyanogenmod communities), but when someone wants something and can't find it for whatever reason, they'll do anything they can to get it, no matter how dangerous.

Seriously, I once had a woman email me very upset--someone emailed her an apk off a pirate site and she was having a heck of a time getting it to download and install on her Blackberry Torch! Please help!
RapidShare Publishes Anti-Piracy Manifesto for Cyberlockers
That's because they're a log analysis company trying to ride the wave of Big Data hype. It doesn't really fit but if you squint and look at it in the right light you can imagine that it does...
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try websockets, if fails, use comet.

It's not rocket science.

(Mibbit has been using websocket in production for 2.5 years or so)
many intellectuals with degrees to fill up a room

Doesn't inspire confidence, and shouldn't.

they cannot just be dismissed a priori

Correct. They can (and should) be dismissed by observing that they contradict reality.

That it happens to be considered "god given fact" in the society you might live in, is no proof that it is right.

Don't know why you assume I'm just parroting something I've heard elsewhere. And it's not considered a "god-given fact" in the society I live in, anyway.

Contrarian theories are also quite common elsewhere.

Again, the standard of truth is not how many people hold a view, but whether ot not it is correct.

The guy was alleging that there exists a small cabal of uber-rich who control the world. That's pretty clearly not the case.
To me it appears as though social network/social mobile apps are the way to swing for the fences, insanely high risk with the potential stupidly big payoff if you manage to win out (aka entrepreneurial lottery). Not the smartest way to build a first business but eh.
The push away from something very well understood and easily explained (syslog and SIEM aggregation) to calling themselves "big data" and "business analytics" is kind of lame, IMO. I assume they were pushed to do this by the investment market, since big data is hot.
Apparently it's not hard, as long as you don't care about your work being merged upstream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop
You're implying that the user interface and metadata of a site like twitter has no development or maintenance cost?
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same in opera.
apparently, this was published in 2006: https://twitter.com/mdowd/status/192986878138523648
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Have you tried this one?

http://www.gliffy.com/
new information always changes things.
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harris.... that is pretty slick. what database are you using? i don't think i would pay for it.. but it is slick. maybe you could put ads in it.
Here is our background:

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Since ?= looks so familiar, any chance of an elvis or defined-or operator in coffeescript?

if a? then a else 0

becomes either

a ?: 0 (if you like groovy)

or

a // 0 (if you like perl)
Losses have not scaled as revenues have. A cursory look at the financials shows a management team making prudent decisions: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1353283/0001047469120...
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Using mongodb for backend data storage. Works GREAT for storing tweets/json etc!