skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
only developed country Sorry, but the numbers don't support your argument.

Grèce	1502	1511	1699	1737	1790	1995	2008	2076	1993	2068	2000	2182	2116	2037	1880	1654	1605	1619	1658

USA	46390	47087	45582	44599	44508	39250	40150	40716	41817	42065	42013	41501	41717	41945	42116	42815	42884	42636	43443

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&#...

So, both countries has reasonable population growth and the rate of fatalities dropped by a similar amount relative to their populations. What's different is the absolute number peaked in Grece in 1990's and dipped in the US in the 1990's.
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Actually, a low TTL is ideal for testing purposes. While you're correct that a query will never give a different answer, a low TTL ensures that the name won't linger in any resolver's cache for very long, which makes it less easy to discover. This also makes the arbitrary string chosen as a subdomain particularly ephemeral, which is important when testing name-based virtual hosts. Why leave a testing domain stuck indefinitely in the cache of a resolver I don't control? I'd rather have it disappear when I'm not using it.
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There's LeWeb in december: http://www.leweb.co/
The Shift vs Division question was also already asked many times on Stackoverflow in the past.
Steve Jobs will most likely become the Edison of our times.

In every way.
Sylvain and I (dotJS organizers) also organize Hacker News meetups in Paris => ParisHackers.org, that's a good start ;)

Otherwise, check on http://bit.ly/LIoLrMCOPY and https://www.eventbrite.com/home/ for other meetups (Realtime Communication, PHP, Java, Craftmanship, MongoDB, etc.)
LeWeb isn't really for hackers (just look at the price...)

We do a Hacker News meetup called http://parishackers.org Next meetup should be on June 28th!
That's not what I would consider to be a hackers community. Attendees are mostly business guys and the ticket costs more than €1000.
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Now I finally know what the four icons in jQuery UI that shows battery levels can be used for. :-)
Many folks commented on the difference between

x /=2;

and

x = x / 2;

I object to the combined operator (x /= 2) because it is ill-conceived as a language feature. It only works for a half-dozen cases the language writer chose. I can't extend it to my operations. Why would I do that? Lets assume instead we define '@' as a symbol for 'LHS' (Left-Hand-Side). It now looks like this:

x = @ / 2;

How does that add value? Imagine 'x' is '(int)(aRec[RecIndex(p->handle)]->itemCountRef)'

I know, could do that already with /= 2; But consider we wanted to do

x = x / (x+1);

No help in C. But with '@' it becomes

*(int*)(aRec[RecIndex(p->handle)]->itemCountRef) = @ / (@+1);

Much clearer than the alternative

*(int*)(aRec[RecIndex(p->handle)]->itemCountRef) = *(int*)(aRec[RecIndex(p->handle)]->itemCountRef) / (*(int*)(aRec[RecIndex(p->handle)]->itemCountRef)+1);

Sure, you can add declarations of intermediate values in C now. But I'm not sure that adds clarity in the same way.
Are you thinking of Agda/Coq/Idris, which have dependent types? If you understand a bit of type theory, this is an interesting paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/papers/popl99.pdf
doesn't work with mobile browsers(most of them) that don't support window.onerror
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A couple months old, but there's some really interesting data analysis in here.
“Although this result isn’t as exciting as some would have liked,” said Bertolucci, “it is what we all expected deep down. The story captured the public imagination, and has given people the opportunity to see the scientific method in action – an unexpected result was put up for scrutiny, thoroughly investigated and resolved in part thanks to collaboration between normally competing experiments. That’s how science moves forward.”

Couldn't agree more. Whilst there has been a lot of criticism from the science community it was wonderful to experience a bit of drama and excitement.

God knows everyone is looking for something/anything hopeful to distract from the endless bad news.
The rock star one doesn't make sense. Why didn't the bank look at the account to see that he was rich? My bank, for example, once gave me different treatment when they realized I also had a business account with them. There's also the story I heard attributed to Bob Miner of Oracle (see http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/09/oracle.html ). In the version I heard, once the bank learned he was now very wealthy, they let him know he now had a personal banker.

Also, getting a bookkeeper to handle this sort of thing (including bill payments) is trivial, and scheduling a flurry of different addresses which depend on when the statements are mailed, the efficiency of the postal system, and various tour dates seems very shaky.
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You're right about that, but I don't usually find myself in such situations too often, and when I do I just move my head to get a better view straight back (either side/rear). I find blind spots much more dangerous :D.
I think you are a little harsh in bashing the sources. Their value is that they serve as a distribution of press releases from many sources. That is exactly how a press release is supposed to be used. And I can go to a press-release redistribution site and see press releases from various organizations in a related field instead of having to check each organization individually.

Yes, please filter the bullshit. But submitting from press-release redistribution sites is ok. If it's of further interest, submit the original paper. In this case, the paper (scientific news) is old- it's the step in the business direction that is being disclosed.
Agree. I took my mother to the airport last year(we live in Csnada drove her across border to detroit). We ended up in immigration for two hours. She has visited the states many times before but this time they decided to give a hard time. They ask EVERYTHING. So it wouldnt suprise me if it playe out just how you described.
You may know this already, but running this test on Android ICS (stock browser) and B can't be selected.

edit
http://bit.ly/L2JatN
Short url for easy mobile typing
Type restrictions benefit larger teams, working on larger projects, with longer periods of time between looking at the code (working with legacy code, in other words.) A larger study should be tried.
Also all submitted apps goes through scrutiny before getting published. To make sure they dont violate any top conflicting issues in your distribution store
Reductio Ad Absurdum (e.g. "for Microsoft to support anyone but themselves they thus must support every fringe platform, including those popular twenty years ago"). It's a particularly boring tactic of response and never adds anything to the conversation.
I haven't tested it, but the post claims that this works on iOS, and I've never seen a preference option to disable this.

Someone clever could use this misfeature (what amounts to a data leak) to perform a sort of traffic analysis attack and infer data about your sleeping/working/browsing schedule, and then potentially interpolate travel patterns, business associations, and maybe even correlate to a precise (historical) physical location.

The security implications here are vast (and not immediately obvious), and there is a vanishingly small practical use case for this.

Why does this exist?

"can" != "should", for fuck's sake.
A better ssh client could do wonders. This little thing could be just what the doctor ordered.

http://mosh.mit.edu/

Unfortunately for a mobile ssh client it doesn't appear to be available for any mobile OSes (yet). I would be delighted to see a nacl version of this turn up for chrome. An android client is on the horizon.
Well, they aren't. They just cognitively distance themselves from it because it sucks.

And I say this as someone with an achievement neurosis. I fight this perception of myself and others because it ultimately does not benefit me -- I'd be working hard either way. No need to pile my identity onto it.
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I put an implementation up on github:

https://github.com/alexblack/google-fastbutton

It works crossbrowser (e.g. doesn't break) and has a few tweaks including a hook for jQuery and xui.js
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As an honourable mention, while trying out various ssh terminals for my chromebook I did try this

https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne

That is a nifty and fun ssh client, but my poor chromebook struggled to render fast enough. Quite cool for a slightly more powerful PC though.
Actually you didn't even pick the best benchmark. Almost all dedicated servers support AES-NI which can make a staggering difference to your site's SSL performance. This is not available to EC2 AFAIK.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/clarkdale-aes-ni-encrypt...

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,181676
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rungist - Yet Another TryRuby
This is the Yet Another Try Ruby project, it's possible to run a github's gist in the jruby sandbox.

The main goal is to show in action Sinatra + Backbone.js as another TODO example to help guys to start with these tools.

The code is well-tested and hosted on Github.
It's not impossible, but it does require introspection, and a willingness to change things up. The combination of qualities excludes many people - you can have introspection without action, but it can end up in depression.

It's also partially generational, too. Later generations aren't as tied to their jobs because they grew up in a world where, collectively, employers didn't take quite as good care of employees.
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I think there are several flaws in this study, but alas, its subject is quite inflammatory and it is easy for people to gloss over the details and start drawing conclusions.

Here are a few things to keep in mind, IMO:

- Good/capable/flexible static languages are much much harder to design than dynamic ones. Case in point is Haskell, where hundreds (thousands?) of researches have been working for years to widen the area of expression vs. area of safety. The devised language for this study seems very minimalistic to be useful. Most dynamic languages, on the other hand, pretty much let you do anything even when they have a simplistic design.

- I find that people take longer to become fast/useful in static languages. While you can just throw things together and tweak until it works with a dynamic language, a static one will force you more to know what you're doing. I had a semi-technical colleague who had a much much easier time getting up to speed with Python than with any other static language. Therefore, unless the study involves a long prep time, it will naturally be skewed towards lower devel time in dynamic.

- Static languages start shining as the project size/time-line grows. Key affected areas are refactoring, intra-team communication and incremental improvements on the code. To test for this, it would be interesting to stage a time lapse where developers are asked to modify their previous parsers after, say, a month of total separation.

I think a more interesting study would be to hire 20 highly decorated Python devs and 20 highly decorated Haskell devs and give them a few different computational tasks, overall adding up to a large # of hours. Naturally, the study needs to limit usage of 3-rd party libs and take other normalizing measures. Then we may get a sense for what the state-of-the-art in both fronts have to offer.
My guess is that they've improved their training support, like with the "remote control software" option under Platinum Tech Care Plan. Early on it's cheaper to provide phone support to a small number of customers then it is to set up a comprehensive training program.
You get my upvote. I had never heard of this before. Definitely interesting and something to keep in mind nowadays.
what has this militarist nonsense to do with hn?
Nice work, Adam.

(Also, long time - how are things?)
Have you also used dynamic languages extensively as part of large teams at your employer? Dealing with lots of people over long periods of time is messy, no matter what language/tool you use. I think the claim is just that static typing gives you better results than dynamic typing. All relative..
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Re. ABS, one study seemed to indicate that when drivers have ABS they tend to adjust their risk taking upward

"Among a total of 747 accidents incurred by the company's taxis during that period, the involvement rate of the ABS vehicles was not lower, but slightly higher, although not significantly so in a statistical sense. These vehicles were somewhat under-represented in the sub-category of accidents in which the cab driver was judged to be culpable, but clearly over-represented in accidents in which the driver was not at fault. Accident severity was independent of the presence or absence of ABS."

http://psyc.queensu.ca/target/chapter07.html
You need to translate things for an international rollout which takes time. Plus US is a known devil and easier to rollout and look at numbers to fix the glitches.
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Cheers.

Things are good, at least assuming I find a new job at some point soonish.
this looks great. Any chance we can get a schedule of the talks? I didn't find them on the website.
I think you could implement verification of the implementation by allowing a user to retrieve their own password hash. Most would have no idea what to do with it, but a few people who know what's what could use that to verify that they're using the algorithm.

This does not detract from the rest of what you said, of course, and I agree that this wouldn't really be useful.
As far as i remember you are not the first to do something like this. I will try to find the other project. You have done a good job but if you wish this to be more than a learn project i suggest you to dedicate some time to the style ;)
Opening "Hacker's Delight", which you (as a C++ programmer) surely have in your collection next to "Code Complete 2", we find:

"Apparently, many people have made the mistake of assuming that a shift right signed of k positions divides a number by 2^k"

Surprisingly, the top few answers do not give the correction for negative numbers, which in "Hacker's Delight", is to add 2^k-1 to negative numbers before shifting.

Obviously, this ignores optimization and readability arguments, which although important, are probably less important than correctness.
I guess the tap-event in jQuery Mobile is based on this or am I wrong?
If anything, it is my experience that static typing makes it much easier to refactor large amounts of code.

I remember numerous instances where I make a large change in one Haskell module resulting in a few changes in the module's external interface, the compiler systematically warns me of all the 20 other modules that needed changing, and lo-and-behold, if it compiles, it works.
That doesn't seem like a fair comparison. A fairer comparison would be if the car companies continuously replaced your car with a free upgrade. I could cope with that.
Not really bad math. The math appears to be perfectly accurate. Misleading by conflating disparate statistics, yes.
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Yeah, I'm more coder than graphic designer, certainly. Cheers for looking.
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Indeed. It feels surprisingly native despite this, though.
Most disappointing was the fact that the top comment focused on x=x/2 vs x/=2, the latter of which I believe is more confusing than not. In any event, none of the three options ought to make a difference when you have the luxury of a compiler, which can choose the "best" way to do it.

When you're programming a microcontroller YOU are often the compiler and therefore need to know the relative clock times for each command. I remember one chip where the division command could take 100 cycles while a shift was 2. Big difference there, and you'd definitely pick the shift.

One of the later comments there focused on actually decompiling the resulting code. I was surprised that the compiler did not produce the same output.
I'm always surprised when I look at the top questions and it's full of stuff like "why does $#^$&%*# work in perl" or "what does c=c++-1 equal."
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The server has apparently melted, so I can't react to the content. That said, HN is usually a fairly safe haven from political troll baiting. Would hate to loose one of my favorite refuges from that kind of nonsense. Let's keep our community out of politics, there's plenty of other noise out there for us to drive each other crazy over...
Yes, I was able to read that in both your comments, as well as in the paper.

I suspect you are not understanding my point, or what I said about the meaning of the use of the word "significance" when used in statistics.

edit:
Say you flip a loaded coin that is 50.1% likely to be heads. Now you want to test whether this is loaded, and flip the coin a certain number of times and count the outcomes. If the number of times you flip the coin is too low, you won't be able to say the coin is 'significantly loaded'. It might be either way, you don't have enough data. If you flip it enough times, you will be able to say something about it -- i.e. that either it significantly is, or significantly isn't loaded.

However, in vernacular English, you would still say that the difference isn't very significant. Who cares if it is 50% or 50.1%.
I've read somewhere about Vim meet-ups at the Mozilla offices. I would really like to attend but I couldn't find any info.
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A lot more resources on touch/tap events here https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Touch
Most folks haven't been exposed to creative activities since the 2nd grade. When they took the crayons away (only babies use crayons). Its deplorable that the most creative species on the planet provides so little support for expression, even quashing it. Color inside the lines! Park between the lines. Be a team player. Sit down, shut up and listen to the teacher.
There have been patents in Europe for quite some time now.
Dude, that's like, totally SO not true.

You might want to read the HN posting guidelines - your comment history suggests you have not done so yet. I have no interest in continuing a conversation with you, based on the level of discourse evident in your previous comments. Have a good day.
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I saw this item which appears to ask about rate of submission to HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4083310

I happened to have some data handy, so I graphed the number of items submitted per hour for the first 7 days of June. This is the graph.

To answer the question as a "per day" number, here are the numbers of items submitted per day, using BST day boundaries:

Fri Jun 1 : 732
Sat Jun 2 : 409
Sun Jun 3 : 357
Mon Jun 4 : 738
Tue Jun 5 : 799
Wed Jun 6 : 805
Thu Jun 7 : 763

First item numbers for each day were:

Fri Jun 1 00:03 4050886
Sat Jun 2 00:03 4056301
Sun Jun 3 00:00 4059458
Mon Jun 4 00:01 4061963
Tue Jun 5 00:00 4066417
Wed Jun 6 00:00 4071429
Thu Jun 7 00:02 4076648
Fri Jun 8 00:02 4081786

Thus going by item IDs, the number on each day were:

Fri Jun 1 : 5415
Sat Jun 2 : 3157
Sun Jun 3 : 2505
Mon Jun 4 : 4454
Tue Jun 5 : 5012
Wed Jun 6 : 5219
Thu Jun 7 : 5138

The ratio of comment to submission is then:

Fri Jun 1 : 7.4 comments per submission
Sat Jun 2 : 7.7 comments per submission
Sun Jun 3 : 7.0 comments per submission
Mon Jun 4 : 6.0 comments per submission
Tue Jun 5 : 6.3 comments per submission
Wed Jun 6 : 6.5 comments per submission
Thu Jun 7 : 6.7 comments per submission

Edited to remove unwarranted precision in times
What bwoocelli said. With the caveat that "tech in politics" stories are interesting. But ya - no "x is lying about y", please.
I hope someday they can explain why 186282 miles per second is the limit in the first place.
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so the navy uses gnu/linux to kill people or spy on them? if so, then this is one of the most horrible days in my life.
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Facebook's apps on the app store do not make use of the option for a custom EULA, so nothing there needs translation. If they are already launching for the US store, what possible benefit could there be to withhold the app from the many (small) european app stores?

(And then proceed to put up huge banners in the other apps hassling users to download the new facebook camera and pages apps - even going so far as to provide a button that sends you an international SMS with a link that doesn't even work)
it would be interesting to have those warnings go directly to the car black box, even when disabled, it might help in case of collision.
Or have it send the "log" every month to the DMV and remove points from the driver's license, and revoke it when it reaches zero, but this sounds too Orwellian to many people.
Considering it's an open source project, and it would probably be pretty easy to deduce the specific algorithms used without pestering the author, I'd say they aren't experts either.
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Since Google doesn't tell you why they're showing this warning to you, and only tell you to follow standard security guidelines ("don't get phished"), I suspect people will quickly be trained to ignore this message.

My girlfriend received the warning message today. She has already activated 2-factor auth, so I'm really not sure what she's supposed to do with this information.