skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
isn't it necessary for evolution? Also to keep a balanced variety of species in a self sustaining system such as earth. I suppose without aging, population control would fall squarely on parasites (such as viruses), plagues, natural disasters, and wars over domination of limited resources. Actually i suppose we could be wired differently where organisms don't feel a need to have as much offspring.. But that reinforces the evolution problem.
Thanks for the feedback, I guess ill add an option to turn off rotation (maybe for a point penalty)
Cold (refrigeration)
While we're on the subject of static analysis and valuable feedback, you should take a look at PVS-Studio, which is pretty neat as well, and is comparable to what clang can do (as far as I can tell from their blog posts).
URL has an extra %20 at the end causing a 404.
I generally trust their reporting on most topics outside the CIS. But I watched an RT stream the day of last year's Domodedovo Airport bombing: for every single new expert or witness they brought in, every other question out of the anchor's mouth was "How very comforting is it to the entire Russian people to hear from the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev so soon?"

It is hard not to believe the popular charges against RT after this.
This is probably good news for Yahoo, not really because of the CEO replacement, but because of the board shake-up. The new board is much more likely to do a deal to sell the Alibaba, etc. assets, shrink Yahoo to something reasonable, and maybe do a sale of the US operations.

Also, Kara Swisher is really a good tech journalist -- you never hear drama about her being reported, but she consistently reports accurate news. I wish the rest of the tech journalism community were like that.
Facebook founder renounce citizenship to dodge tax moved to US to escape kidnap
Yeah it's wiser and brings more traffic, links, etc. than one post on TechCrunch. But being on TechCrunch is some kind of a label, it's good for your reputation, especially for upcoming fundings.
Your perception of the US is a bit off.
cool idea. but add a submit button, or listen for enter key. right now clicking on the language of choice doesnt always work.
What evolution problem? Evolution happens regardless, but why should we be bound to the limitations of nature when we have the potential ability to rise above them?
Bitcoinica Security Breach
Digital sales have barely touched lost physical media sales.

Then perhaps the digital offerings are not good enough yet?

It is the robustness of the argument [...]

It is also the ratio of polemics to facts.

Your arguments might be better received if you you backed your opinion with a proposal for a solution instead of paragraphs of undirected ranting against the "evil, immoral pirates".

We all understand by now that you insist on reality being unfair.

So, how do you sell fish to the coast city?

Attempting to block the citizen's access to the ocean is demonstrably not working very well.

My proposal is to make our fish cheaper and have it delivered to your door. So convenient that almost nobody bothers to walk to the beach and catch their own anymore. We are not there yet, not even close. I also propose to take the expensive truck-drivers out of the equation, because nowadays we can magically beam our fish to your doorstep at zero cost.

What is yours? Nuke the ocean from orbit to keep the truck-drivers employed?
The thing they will (should) appreciate the most, and the thing that will keep the bridge most intact after leaving, is to be generous in the advancement of your notice. This honors the trust they put in you as an employee with significant responsibilities by affording them the valuable time to absorb the impact to their company in a managed way. Since two weeks is customary, something on the order of 4 weeks would be in good faith of the trust between you.

Some might say by giving extra notice you risk "showing your hand" and being fired prematurely. However, if you have a good personal relationship, this is unlikely to happen.
Managing JS stack frames using the GC would be very bad for performance. You almost never need to do that unless your language has something like Scheme's call/cc. You may need to promote closed-over variables to the heap, but you don't need to migrate the entire stack frame there.
First, let's assume the majority of users are not going to know why the an app is not allowed and/or why it is sluggish/limited/hampered/etc. From the average user point of view... the biggest difference to me is that when it is banned, the banner (Apple) is the bad guy for not letting it in. When it is severely hampered the bad guy appears to be the creator (Firefox) for making a crap app when in reality the hamper-er (Microsoft) is the bad guy for crippling the app's ability to perform as well as it can.
I thought that too, but it turns out I was confusing two Lisp dialects. At least on Chrome, as soon as you type the correct name, it continues to the next language.
I may be naive in asking this, but WHY?
Why is being "purely functional" an advantage for package managers?
1) From the Kara Shwisher article: "Sources said that Heidrick told Yahoo’s board that it was in possession of a resume that Thompson had apparently submitted showing the inaccurate CS degree on it."

2) The board brought this guy in to gut engineering and research among other departments, so I doubt they cared that he was an accountant. You don't need to be a genius to hand out pink slips.
edit: yes.. was a bit sleepy..
Can anyone explain advantages this might have over, say, Synaptic?
It's a string. I merely removed the errant apostrophe.

What's the point of good code if your data is bad?
Doesn't work for me on Linuxmint. Can't submit for some reason?
No crime-ridden neighborhoods where many of the residents live in government housing?
"Competent employers do not have an expectation that they're going to get a heads-up before you start interviewing."

1987. My sister didn't know there was a root user on a Unix system. I found out she was interviewing after seeing her resume in her home directory.
You do realize that there are plenty of gay men in the tech industry, don't you? You also know that "behaving effeminately" is not characteristic of all homosexual men, right? Consider, instead, a tech environment dominated by gay men and the article is about, as you put it, "how those geeks keep men out of tech by finding them attractive and behaving nerdily."

Scotty79 may be onto more than is immediately obvious, and you do his idea a disservice to dismiss it so quickly. In the OP's article, the victim of the gender-based injustices writes that he wrongly thought he had left the harassment and the immaturity of others behind him--back in high school and college. I'm almost certain, however, that many gays, of any gender and in any industry, feel the same way when they have to deal with their coworkers saying things like "that's gay," "no homo," "don't be a fag, man," and for the gay men in particular, "don't be a pussy," "stop acting like a bitch," "quit acting like a girl," etc. It's quite obvious, too, that the misogyny carries over when men are criticized for "behaving effeminately," as if there could possibly be an absolute definition of femininity and that it is wrong for men to approach it, even slightly.[1]

As mentioned earlier, Scotty's suggestion was not about imagining the struggles of a straight man trying to break into a typically 'gay' industry; it was about writing from the perspective of a "straight man working in [an] environment dominated by gay men." That is, any environment (the tech industry, in our case) which is hypothetically dominated by homosexual men in a way similar to the female dominance found in the OP's article. The main difference between the two posts would be that, as per Scotty's suggestion, the story's protagonist would be the sexual target of other men--giving a, perhaps, more faithful glimpse into the tech world women have to deal with every day. The OP's hypothetical role-reversal throughout the entire world and history, while somehow still attributing the same brutish machismo to those running things, is an interesting change indeed, but it depends quite heavily on the reader's willing suspension of disbelief.

At any rate, I'm glad Rob took the time to write "Men in Tech." I was really worried, for a moment at the start, that the narrative would turn into one of those, "men can hypothetically deal with this type of harassment, why can't you?" I'm so glad it didn't.

1. It's worth reading Michael S Kimmel's "Masculinity as Homophobia," since it discusses how men fear being 'unmasked' as either gay or effeminate, and so overcompensate by emphasizing the perceived homosexuality or effeminacy of others.

http://www.stthomas.edu/diversity/files/Masculinity_as_Homop...

http://faculty.ucc.edu/psysoc-stokes/Masculinity.pdf
It automatically advances when you get the answer right. If it's not advancing, you're probably entering the wrong language (even if you think you're right; there are a lot of similar looking, but obscure languages in there). I agree that it would be nicer if the author made it more obvious as to how it worked though.
Flaws in the equation aside.. pretty inspiration stuff
iOS.

Apple won't allow us to submit apps built with Xcode 4.1 forever. (4.1 was the last to include GCC.)
I agree with what you're saying. I'd argue that Bitcoin sites are at even higher risk than old-school financial sites because (I assume) the FBI actively investigates bank hacks, but not Bitcoin trading site hacks. If I were a bad guy, I know which I'd target.
ah, I see. that's why it never worked, apparently I guessed most of them wrong ;)
Yeah, look how far transcending the limits of nature got us. The planet is polluted and rapidly warming up; and biodiversity, food and water supplies, and other natural resources are dwindling, all because of us trying to get out of the niche nature had provided us.
Because the majority of our software ecosystem does not in fact treat wrapping this way. Moreover, the common solution trivially handles both situations.
Yes, Europe. Maybe there are different laws? Some decade ago you used to get plastic card with grid of passwords. Now it's usually SMS verification for every transaction (and sometimes for login).
So you are claiming ("when they do use them they do so to kill innocent foreigners, execution style") the UK police make a point of discharging firearms to kill innocent foreigners? Is this some kind of policy to cull them? Tourists are annoying, sure, but they bring in money. Killing them seems kind of idiotic, as does your comment.
I don't understand this. In particular I don't understand the sense in which it is "purely functional". Surely a package manager needs to mutate the state of a system, which seems to be an inherently non-functional operation--? If I have a system S1, and then I do S2 = install(S1, "firefox"), does S1 still exist?

This bit is also interesting: "Runtime dependencies are found by scanning binaries for the hash parts of Nix store paths (such as r8vvq9kq…). This sounds risky, but it works extremely well."
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Israel's Butterfly UAVs
Thailand Inks $32.8 Million Deal for One-Tablet-Per-Child Initiative
Warehouse Clothes
Fantastic quality ex-chain store garment. This matching set comprises a vest top (with thin adjustable shoulder straps) and shorts (with elasticated waist and pleated bottom hem), with the shorts having a 'heart' design throughout, with the vest top decorated with a large vinyl Snoopy character print.
It's pretty common for commercial banking... which is good because in the US the laws protecting you from loss due to hacking are much weaker for a corporate account.
Great demo and a pity that it didn't make it to the front page
You use the word proven as if it means something. The work you list is no more proven in terms of building production systems than any other research work.

Additionally, I find it interesting to note, that if you had in fact been very familiar with all the work you mention. You should actually have noted that many of these systems go through significant effort to sidestep the GC.
Other than among humans and animals under the care of humans, don't almost all animals die from causes other than old age?

That doesn't show that aging isn't necessary, but it indicates that aging doesn't have to continue until it becomes a cause of death.
I hate to use anecdotal evidence to support your claim, but here it goes:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/11/california-woman-permanent...
The about-nix page is rather helpful on why you would want to use nix:

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2609700/download/1/manual/#id49...

From my cursory glance over nix's advantages, it sort of looks like the vagrant deployment system, but for package management. Or maybe something akin to Chef and Puppet (of which I have no familiarity with whatsoever).
To everyone who "doesn't understand", go read the "about Nix" section of the link.
The declaration and use syntax of pointers is not 'virtually identical.' int* a; could be used to set int* b = a; or int c = * a; or int* d = &a;

Also for arrays it's unfortunate the syntax is like it is, because int a[10];, is of course a pointer and would be a bit more intuitive in the form of int[] a = new int[10];

Also you say * before the variable 'looks like dereferencing is intentional.' but is it really? what's your source?
2) That's what I was thinking, so a CS degree wouldn't matter. If Yahoo was worried about looking bad, my question has to be: "Why just now and not before?"
Nice call, equation updated. I'm a designer not a programmer :)

Regarding your point, I completely agree. And is why I shared this little strategy. I suppose its a form of scheduled anti-procrastination.
American propaganda condemning the rocket internet for doing copycat companies, completely ignoring that 99% of tech companies in US are just copycats... even the most successful.

I guess the only reason why "Arrington copycats" hate them is that they create and execute successful copycat companies.
Lehrer responded to this review at his blog: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/on-bad-reviews/all...
This made me laugh:

AV Rule 6
Each deviation from a “shall” rule shall be documented in the file that contains the deviation. Deviations from this rule shall not be allowed, AV Rule 5 [specifying the process to deviate from a "shall" rule] notwithstanding.
Maybe his part of the brain that controls fibbing is damaged.
Well, the obvious answer is that it is an advantage for the same reason that being purely functional is an advantage in other situations.
More specifically, the benefit of having no side effect in the package management is that it greatly simplifies the management of multiple versions of a given package. It also simplifies the rollback of an unwanted operation in most cases.
Not a perfect metric as he admits, but a great deal better than nothing. One thing that has bothered me from the beginning is the problem of the user's retention of the information. How do we do a min/max of sufficient complexity to deter cracking but allow the user to remember the password in question? This last is one reason that I've kept up interest in bio-metric efforts for security.
I think of it as git-for-system. All the data lies in the store/repository. Nix offers you to pick different isolated branches as needed.
I find it hugely amusing how people still make out piracy as the problem.

It isn't. It never was. The problem is the insistence of an industry on their
business model in face of a technology that made them obsolete. Their continued,
stubborn refusal to accept reality. Their audaciousness to demand that this very
technology be regulated to fit their business model again (which is both
technically impossible as well as undesirable on a scale of "impediment to
the entirety of mankind").

Piracy - or, how it actually should be called, Free (as in Speech) sharing of art,
culture and technology - is probably mankind's biggest achievement. And here we
are, arguing over an irrelevant industry that thinks it's entitled to a working
business model for all eternity, and happens to excel at loudly crying at the
shoulders of politicians and lie like a whole regiment of troopers.

We should embrace free and unlimited sharing of what amounts to a non-scarce
resource, instead of buckling down to the prolonged sissy fit of a child that
doesn't get what it wants anymore. It makes no fucking sense, both economically
as well as logically, to limit something that is infinitely available.

I'm positive we'll be past this farce in about a decade, with the pirates ultimately
emerging as the victors, because it's impossible to halt progress forever, even for
the copyright industry. The more they entrench themselves in their vain fight, the
more satisfying it will be to see them crash down.
I hope this thing with Zhou and Bitcoinica isn't going to screw up my company's all Bitcoin IPO: https://glbse.com/asset/view/DMC

We're seeking 200k BTC for a self-green powered mining farm at our own DC up here in Maine, so we profit from the mining farm itself, having nearly no cooling needs for the DC, selling power generated back to the grid, and also renting excess space to other companies who want out of the way DC space in a quiet part of the country.
Good TVs are very expensive and people tend not to upgrade them very frequently (10+ years seems commonplace)

This would give Apple a 10+ year lock-in to their ecosystem. They could then sell iPads as controllers and additional displays. And if the computing power in them starts to get underpowered for what people want to use them for they could sell add-on boxes connected via Thunderbolt that would have as low latency as anything inside the TV housing.
Same is true of the software industry, y'know.
http://nixos.org/nix/ summarizes some of the advantages of this approach. To summarize, it promises to be fundamentally safer and more flexible than traditional package managers. Package management, IMO, is an area where a "purely functional" approach could really shine, since correctness and replicability are so important.
I still suspect he stole the 18k bitcoins, the guy is slippery.
I think the core of the issue here is a societal difference towards firearms, and how that results in the training and education of people. Gun ownership is fairly high in the US, relative to Europe and seen as a right having requisite responsibilities within some circles. One of these responsibilities is training in the use and handling of firearms. From childhood on, I was always taught to "never point, and most definitely never discharge a firearm at anything you do not specifically intend to kill." Most of the ranges I practice at have the same sort of messaging ubiquitously placed on the site.

While I can't speak to the experiences in Germany, I would presume that a society that largely eschews the personal possession of firearms would have a built-in perception that anything is better than pointing one at a person. Whereas, in the US we might argue that the weapon should not be drawn unless you have every intent to take a life. (Outside of practice towards targets.)
Never use hard tabs
yeah but that's cheating :)
I just made a change to make the tolerance greater for RI and DE, I hope that helps. If there are other states that are difficult let me know, unfortunately I don't have a tablet to test on :/
It's hard to be sure without a full transcript, but there doesn't seem to have been any actual humor. Or plausible attempt at humor. Just serious sexism in a flippant tone.

Why would people laugh at this? There are three possibilities:

* Classic Flippancy: The idea of women outside the kitchen is absurd to the point of humor.

* Self-Parody: This level of sexism is absurd, and we're laughing at the character with the microphone. This is Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat" schtick and it's very hard to pull off because of Poe's Law.

* Commonality/Relief: This is what we've all been thinking but can't say because of the PC police. It's such a relief to be in a safe space where we can say it. This is the how most "observational humor" functions.

Options 1 and 3 are seriously misogynistic even (especially) if the audience laughs.
The parent comment might just be pointing out an amusing coincidence.
I feel this could do with an Easy/Medium/Hard option. I've been programming for about 30 years and I can honestly say I've never heard of Falcon or Piet.
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You're right - I misread the product description (updated parent post).

I was assuming they'd be doing something tricky like asking for INSTALL_PACKAGES (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...) and dropping something on the device. Thankfully they don't do that.

As someone who has hacked on Android before (ie: http://unrevoked.com), I wouldn't be surprised if there were ways to silently install packages, or even just tricking the user into allowing an install of a further package.

Quick googling leads to this: http://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/28/a-peek-inside-the-g...
The lights.

A NYC cab's lights look like this:

|O|Number|O|

Where "O" is "Off Duty" in smaller letters.

If just the Number is lit, they're available, on the clock.

If Just the Os are lit, they have a fare.

If both are lit, they're available, with destination discretion.

If none are lit, they're not working at all.
NoSQL Everywhere? Not So Fast
I just made an update to improve the tolerance for RI and DE, let me know if it is better now.
Ask HN: Which states offer the best tax incentives for web applications?
Ready to try and hire developers to build a web based business that has been keeping my sleepless lately. Will be self financed initially with the hopes of gaining momentum after having a working prototype. Want to take advantage of tax incentives available. Which states offer the best incentives and what are some top tier development firms in that state?
At the very least you'd also need

3) Software patents expire after three years instead of twenty

which as far as I know would be a harder change to make than abolishing software patents completely.
The christian bible also claims that a man gathered every species from the earth and saved them from an angry god's globe-encompassing flood by stuffing them all in a big boat. What point are you trying to make, exactly?
AV Rule 25
(MISRA Rule 127)
The time handling functions of library <time.h> shall not be used.

Yes everyone reinventing their own broken flat tire date routines is the way go. If they used the same silly rule on the F22
that explains
http://blog.utest.com/international-date-line-bug-caused-fig...

Time related code is really hard to write.
How so? I would see it as a lot fairer if we'd all follow a liberal approach:

I can't force you to give me things.
But neither can you stop me from sharing them.

I completely reject the illogical, nonsensical crazy idea that you can own
virtual, abstract things. It's impossible by their very definition.

Die Gedanken sind frei.
Facebook Founder Gives up US Citizenship to Avoid Paying Taxes on $100B Payday
I was hoping that they would announce that Scott Thompson was leaving Yahoo to spend more time with Carol Bartz's family.
First yum - "a package manager written in Python" and now Nix - "a purely functional package manager". Well, I for one do not care the least which language or paradigm my package manager is using. What I do care about is compatibility, reliability, speed and correctness. How is Nix improving the situation for the user?
I m on Mint and it works.LMDE though. Chrome.
The Lisps sure aren't easy
Score:
30/52 (57.69%)

Damn, I thought I was good at this.

edit: 46/77
I guess, after 75 it's only undefined (so my score should probably be 46/75)