skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attaching custom exceptions to functions and classes
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> I would find stopping five times a day for prayer to be a bit of a distraction

(Disclaimer: Not a muslim)

I think that is exactly what the prayers are for. They remind you that the only thing that matters in this life is submitting to God and to thank Him for His blessings.
Facebook now worth less than what Microsoft offered for Yahoo in 2008
AFAIK VMS and NT behave that way but Linux is much lazier. Especially if your swap is dynamically allocated (as in OS X) you don't want to swap out unless there is actual memory pressure.
India's street children bank on the future
Main branding colors should be consistent - where unique colors will crop up is for things like borders, hover-states, text-shadows that will not necessarily work again in another context.

Coderwall also deliberately has a slightly different color palette for each area of the site so it's not a big surprise to see our colors quickly stack up to the 44 colors the article mentions.

It might be a little excessive to have >100 colors like some of the sites mentioned.
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Am I expected to have 32GB of RAM to play Steam games? Even my office computer only has 8GB of RAM.

I've stayed out of PC gaming for a long time because it seemed to have a fetish for spending lots of money on graphics cards.

EDIT: Am I being downvoted because it's stupid to ask about 32GB because obviously every Real Gamer already has that, or because it's stupid to ask about 32GB because obviously no one needs that?
Another really great resource. It's really encouraging to see the nascent community that's grown up around RubyMotion!
How are you guys reading this if there's no `wp-config.php`? :)
If the gp meant that, then the US would have a 4 ocean navy. I'm not arguing the size is the biggest, I'm arguing that the reason it is the biggest is not due to coastlines on two oceans.
> Is there some moral or legal obligation that a service's price must tie directly to its immediate costs?

Yes. Verizon and other wireless telecoms have built their businesses on the back of a limited, public resource (namely, wireless spectrum) leased from the government (and therefore the people) of the United States. Therefore, they have a moral (should also be legal, but isn't at the moment) responsibility to act in an ethical manner.

If this were a market without such barriers to entry, I would say that they're free to do whatever they want, because competitors would enter the market and force them to change their policies. But when it comes to wireless telecoms, it's not possible for such competitors to materialize.
High five and well-done! You and your team earned it :)
Understood. But this isn't Mein Kampf, or even Michael Moore. In fact, most of the work isn't even what you'd call political.
That just happened. I was able to few a few pages and then I got the wp-config.php missing error.
According to another source (http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201208...), he's created three water reservoirs by constructing two 10-foot dams and one 20-foot dam.

Calling it "collecting rainwater" implies that he's just filling up a plastic barrel from a downspout. A more accurate phrase might be "disrupting the watershed."
To paraphrase Richard Feynman: you're not right; in fact, you're not even wrong.

No I don't find Swedish cities interesting. But I did not start quizzing you about U.S. cities. If you started quizzing me about Swedish cities, then it would be fair for me to quiz you about American ones. The issue of cities is irrelevant; the concept at discussion is "turnabout is fair play." The guy who asked about Zurich wanted to show how stupid Americans were by trumpeting his culturally specific, regionally biased knowledge. To show how this was just snobbery, an American did the same to him. It doesn't matter if you don't think America is interesting; that's not what this is about.

Note: I actually like Europe; I'm just trying to prove a point.
Minor note: Clojure's STM applies to any number of variables.
Brilliant timing for launch w/the recent DropBox debacle - did the Authy team push launch to draft on that story?
Cosm - building the Internet of things with Pub/Sub
> there's not been a good Mars movie

Pfffttt.... Total Recall?!
Slices makes creating lists of people to follow on Twitter easier
You are mistaken if you think that hunting was the primary source of food in times before agriculture. For many tribes it was (and still is, in some parts of the world) a secondary "luxury" which augmented the gathered food. As you say, hunting can easily fail, or game can become rare because of environmental hiccups. This happens more often than you should think - there are times when deer can't be found for weeks. Blood sugar was mainly kept up with berries, roots, and fruit - nibbling all day long. Fat stores are not so easily accessed - if they were, then all-week-fasting would be the way to go for fat-loss (which mostly leads to muscle wasting and short-term water loss, and a mighty yo-yo effect). Yes, one can use intermittent fasting to lose weight, but weight-loss usually only kicks in after 2-3 weeks.

I agree that Cheerios are a bad idea generally, but I'm not pro fasting or skipping meals for weight loss. Fat is stored as an emergency reaction to high blood sugar levels, and you get exactly that when eating more between the fasts (you have to). You constantly expose your brain to too much and too low sugar levels, resulting in highs and lows in your ability to focus (and also your mood).
Pentagon Tells Staff: Stop Surfing Porn Sites at Work
The book I'm currently going through (after a year of using the techniques I learned as a kid to successfully follow random recipes) is Cooking for Geeks (http://cookingforgeeks.com). None of its advice is obviously wrong so far, and it's not telling me that I need every single kitchen gadget, which I like. But of course, I don't really know enough to know if it's wrong.
I've never been to Australia, so I can't comment.

In Canada, you have three choices. British Columbia/Vancouver, Ontario/Ottawa, and Quebec/Montreal. The rest is frozen tundra.

Russia? Leningrad (or whatever they're calling it now), Moscow, and the Black Sea region (might as well go to Ukraine/Odessa for that). The rest is frozen tundra.

So yeah, China and India. It's not about size. It's about the diversity of cultures and climates.
Question: (2009 15" MBP, 8GB 1333MHz RAM, 7200rpm HDD, Mountain Lion)

I have zillions of apps open.

1GB wired, 3.25GB active, 1GB inactive, 2.55 free

757,197 Page Ins

0 Page Outs

It's confusing... If I haven't "swapped out" (page out) anything to disk, then how come I've "swapped in" (page in) 750,000 pages from the disk?
For just a moment, I thought that Monsanto corporation had been acquired, and thought: "oh, nooooo."
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understood they're not always the same thing - I often see a beachball with 6gig free, which used to perplex me a bit, now it just bugs me. :/
Missed opportunity: promo video should have been 1 second long.
Doesn't Twilio already offer 90% of this functionality?

> queue jokes about Microsoft security

Cue, not queue.
Humans absolutely do display herd behavior. This has been documented in financial markets and other venues.

However, they do it (by definition) on a time scale that is perceptible to other humans.
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I do really like the tour you've built after signing up. But I agree that more screenshots etc would be great before signing up.
Ad publishers and public communications media are marketing infrastructure.
Humans are susceptible to cascading runaway "ethical" failures. I'm thinking the $2 billion UBS loss. Humans also don't scale very well so risk tends to be distributed across several of us. Perhaps robots should be setup in the same way; that there are several of them with different algorithms tuned for different levels of risk... or perhaps it really doesn't matter all that much because this is one firm and not the entire system so the risk is already distributed correctly.
If you're able to build the solution using Twilio (or anything else), then I'm pretty sure Authy isn't for you. I think it's clear that their eventual product is going to be a simple, drop-in that enables two-factor on your mom's knitting forum.
"What does it take to start a new religion?"

Well if you are in the US, the religion has to be recognized by the government. If it isn't recognized then you would have no protection.
Facebook drops below $20
How large were your tasks? The rule of thumb I use is that no individual task should be more than 4 hours. If it comes out longer than that, I break it up into subtasks. It is much easier to estimate small things than big things.
Ask a house contractor for an estimate and you will find out how off he is when the house is being built.

Ask a bridge builder for an estimate and you will find out the project is delayed for years (see Bay Bridge retrofit).
I was responding to the comment that established "X must be done in time T" or the company fails.

In a perfect world, estimates would come before deciding to proceed, but in 95% of the places I've ever worked, the project necessity is decided first and the estimates are asked for afterwards.

In reality, the project often settles for a shoddy subset of the original vision in order to make an arbitrary date, when they could have had the same exact subset at much higher quality if they had merely proceeded with the important parts first in a lean/agile manner, using micro-estimates (if bothering to estimate at all).

A bigger problem with estimating the solution of unknown problems is that confidence in the estimate varies inversely with the precision (or usefulness) of the estimate. I could estimate all my projects with 99% confidence as "somewhere between 1 day and 1 year".

That's not a useful estimate.

Or I could estimate "this will take 42 days" and be wrong 99% of the time.
> Every OS guarantees that file-backed pages be committed within some reasonably short period of time

Just curious: is that "short period of time" usually in order of seconds or minutes? (I know different OSes have different defaults; I just want to know a ballpark figure!)
Mountain Lion uses like 300mb more on my Macbook Air (probably some of the new stuff running in the background like Notifications) but I don't feel the difference in performance. It's not much slower or heavier than SL during real world usage. It does on the other hand feel better than Lion (I really had regrets when I first switched to Lion, particularly before the bug fixes). But I don't think Lion's problems had anything to do with ram management. Some of the animations just felt particularly sluggish, even if the computer had lots of ram free, and lots of other little things like that.

By not switching to lion and waiting for ML you dodged a bullet.
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Really fantastic news. Congrats!!
You can't call this a Wall Street philosophy; Facebook was trying to grow massively before they were public. In fact, that's where the growth was happening. At any point in time they could have decided to remain where they were, with the money they were making to pay the bills, and stayed private. They didn't. Instead, Facebook told us that they were going to, essentially, grow the company to 5 or 6 times the current state.

In other words, Facebook caused Facebook's problems, not Wall Street.
This is 6 months old on a version of XCode that is now two versions out of date. Is there a reason it's being brought up now?
I'm starting to think that completely unrelated riders may be far more effective than filibustering. Don't like a proposed law? Pad it with enough crap until everyone thinks it stinks.
Fatigue? Apathy? Both?

It seems Twitter has not exactly turned out to be what everyone had hoped, which has probably dampened the enthusiasm. Also, it seems the long-term goal is to build an API with no mention of what happens afterwards.

So, aside from crowdfunding, how is app.net a long-term business?

Anyone can write a good-bad-indifferent API and publish the standard, but what differentiates these guys from some other api that does exactly the same thing?
You are severely underestimating the mental difficulty of spear hunting in relation to writing a couple of lines of code.
Unless my mom's knitting forum also is an online trading platform, why do they need two factor auth? And how likely is it that their software of choice doesn't have a Twilio plugin?
I wish them luck, since two-factor auth is something which should be implemented more often.
I've got unlimited data on Verizon as well. I installed Jelly Bean on my Galaxy Nexus a few weeks back and am enjoying free, built-in tethering (it even does WPA2 correctly, the only thing that was missing in previous implementations). I just make sure I don't abuse it so much that Verizon cottons on to what I'm up to. For example, I've got geofences set up to switch to wifi whenever possible, to reduce data usage.
Facebook Stories Follows Twitter as a Pitch for Social Networks
The tech press loves bloodshed, just like the regular press.
That's an interesting thought, but it's more than just being about memes themselves.

I think you could make the argument that it's more about what's behind memetics - via the act of making something that holds true for people in a social context.

It's an interesting way to share something, and remixing in the form of a social dialog allows people to make a lot more than just a simple meme post.
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Are you serious? "Nope" is just informal, it's not any more or less rude than "no".
If you mmap a file, and then access the mmap'ed region, pulling in the pages of the file from disk is considered paging the file in. Watch the output of fs_usage to see examples of this.
That is great news! Congrats!
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It's what works best for fat-loss, because that way you keep down the blood sugar spikes after every meal. I don't do it though because it's too much of a hassle - instead, you can also keep to foods which don't spike sugar levels much in general.
I used it fairly heavily for a while during a move and didn't have any trouble. I'm pretty sure Verizon either can't/doesn't tell, or just doesn't care because relatively few people do that.
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Heh. You are assuming that all of their customers are male?
I want interaction-free TFA in my phone. I want to be able to walk up to a computer, put in my username and maybe a PIN, and subsequently have every website log me in because the browser knows my phone is on the same LAN as the browser or is in NFC or Bluetooth range.

But I would especially want this if the TFA is running on a separate system from the main CPU in my smartphone, only sharing radio/networking hardware at most. This wouldn't be foolproof, but if my smartphone OS company can patch security holes in a timely manner and deliver the patches on-air, then this is good enough for me.

If Authy can deliver the 2nd factor automatically from my iPhone to my other devices through Bonjour, I will rave favorably about them to everyone who will listen.
You are correct, but note that a wildly wrong estimate provided with good intentions is better than no estimate at all.

If I get an estimate for something that's never been done, I want to know that it's a SWAG so I can rate it accordingly. If you go ahead with the task, I'd probably ask you to give me more frequent updates than normal, so we can see if the estimate needs to be adjusted.

I know that a lot of people work for hugely disfunctional organizations, but in most reasonable places, it's expected that some estimates will be wrong and either the task should be killed, or the schedule adjusted.
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Pointing at things asking what colour it is, always happens to me too.

I recently downloaded a handy app, that lets to point your camera at objects and tells you the colour. It's called kleur (iOS), it's pretty cool, has 1500 colours but it's not 100% accurate.
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Client-side sessions are nice because they are simple and you don't need a backend in your server.

But they have cons too:

- If a user changes his password, other sessions will keep active until they expire. This is a problem when (and not if) an account gets compromised. You can fix this easily, for example, including a token for each user that changes when changing the password, but then it defeats the point of client-side: you have to store the last token somewhere in your server.

- With the default implementation of Flask, if your secret key somehow leaks, apart of the obvious problem, anybody could execute arbitrary code in your server. You can fix this easily and without any serious consequences (apart from kicking out all your already logged users) by using JSON to serialize the cookies instead of Pickle: https://gist.github.com/2501926

- You are limited to 4 KB of data. In a server-side solution the user has only a session ID that gets associated to all the data you want in your database.

Related discussion: http://flask.pocoo.org/mailinglist/archive/2011/8/15/securit...
Biggest issue with this is the lag time between iOS SDK releases and whenever they update their SDK. Overall interesting, but not something I'd seriously consider writing an app with, knowing Objective-C already. This is more for Rubyists who'd like to dip their toes into the iOS ecosphere, but go in knowing that it's always better to just learn ObjC eventually.
Could you detail your diet and exercise routine? I'm new to intermittent fasting and could use a little bit of advise.
Script does not take care of images and image backgrounds.

You can use, http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/ to render the site into png, and analyze the pixels from it.
Second-chairing trials was the most lucrative work. This mostly involved helping the primary attorney on the matter with pretrial hearings, jury selection, presentation of evidence, and cross-examination of expert witnesses.

Courtroom appearances was a distant second. For about $100-$200 a day (depending on the court and number of cases), I would appear in court on behalf of other lawyers to file various motions and paperwork.
No, I was already talking to them about the story. They just lucked out on the timing.
Do you have a link to that post? I really like your summary here and would like to link to it directly, outside of linking to this comment.
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The genesis of this was back in 2006 when Microsoft started requiring graphics board/chip makers to keep some aspects of their design secret, to support DRM in Vista. That includes hardware details and code, i.e. open source drivers. See http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

I'm actually quite glad that adequate drivers are available, even if they're not open source. That outcome wasn't guaranteed.
Considering all the security issues these days, this is just awesome. Democratization of 2-factor security is really needed. Congrats to Daniel and team!
I use Flux right now to automatically dim/brighten my screen based on the time of day. Wouldn't it be a simple matter to use a similar program to alter the colors on screen to things that are distinguishable by a particular type of color blindness? This seems more efficient than every website reducing their palette to an arbitrarily low common denominator.
Bravo! Keep up the great work.
I'd think the biggest draw would be not developer ease as much as end-user ease. This way, an end user with an Authy account would only have to give their phone number out once, to Authy, or install one app from Authy, and automatically be able to use two-factor authentication on any site that supports it. It's like OpenID for the second half of two-factor auth.
What is unethical about segmenting customers based on the devices they use? Would it be better to do away with all forms of "unlimited" plans and just charge per MB?
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Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi highlights his favorite parts of last month’s Jenkins User Conference in Israel, including eating at the "Hudson" restaurant.
If people were actually to "account for _everything_" they would have, by definition, solved the problem already.

So the time to make the estimate would be 100% of the project time, and the estimate would be 100% accurate, since all the work would be done.

That is reductio ad absurdum, but the underlying problem is, as Donald Rumsfeld would say, there are "unknown unknowns" which cannot be accounted for ahead of time.
Apple Breaks Ground at Mystery Data Center
> The Presto is a rugged 7-inch tablet with a built-in credit card reader

I'm eagerly awaiting the first malware reports.
> There's always a global warming denier...

I did not REMOTELY deny global warming. I said that the propaganda that there's a irreversible "cliff" is false.

> Anything over 100 years is "permanent" as far as humans are concerned.

So the Medeival Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age were both "permanent"?

I think
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Very neat service. The Duo Security team also has a similar product with a lot of features: http://www.duosecurity.com/

They make the X-Ray Android vulnerability scanner (http://www.xray.io/)
If you don't mind explaining, I would appreciate. I seriously want to learn and understand about sessions and best practices. been googling and reading for last 2 days.
Orbital Systems Corp. has an air-launched booster, Pegasus, in regular service (launched off a converted L-1011 airliner). I'm not sure Rutan or Scaled Composites had much to do with it, though.

(OSC is also the "other" commercial cargo provider for the space station, though they haven't started with demo flights yet; they're using their own booster for this, though the first-stage engines are refurbs from the old Soviet lunar program. Literally --- another American aerospace company bought thirty-odd engines that had been built for the Soviet N1 booster out of a warehouse in Kazakhstan...)
I did an upgrade from SL with no issues.
Work Less to Work Better: Experiments with Shutdown Routines
No. Buying the insurance would probably increase the risk as checks would get more lax. And you can't hedge it.
"to reduce the risk of lost data in the event of a power outage"??

Doesn't sound right to me; if the power goes, you're rebooting into a fresh memory image, not recovering to the memory state in the current pagefile.

Eagerly synching back to disk is surely more about making sure you have a minimal amount of dirty pages in RAM at any time, so that in the event that you need to use a lot of RAM for something else you don't have to wait until the backing store updates before the page space in RAM is free... no?

Edit: Oh, I see - you're saying that 'page out' refers to writing a page of data back to disk through a memory-mapped file - it's basically just a disk write, and has nothing to do with memory pages or pagefiles. Hmm... is that terminology distinction universal?