skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that change is only supposed to apply to rendering of certain images, not text. Regardless, I went down that avenue as much as I could, switching color profiles (as I mentioned) in my display settings and rebooting to see if there'd be any change.

It shouldn't be the issue since ICC was already supported by other browsers, and they're not showing this new text color abnormality, just Chrome.
One trick I found with this is that some sort of "talk" radio, i.e. NPR, is a lot better than music. With music, I can sort of "background task" it, while processing talking requires some conscious effort.
>Looks at the java vulnerability. Has that killed it?

<post type="cynical">

With any luck...

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Agreed. While I totally understand the reasons for going native, it depresses me to see so many people so enthusiastic about it. We only just got out of an era where you had to recode significant parts of a web site to satisfy all the browers.

We can at last write once and use (almost) anywhere... so now we go straight back to boxed off proprietary solutions.
Guidelines for doing Work at Coffee Shops
I'm waiting for the self-referential patent "A method to defend against patent lawsuits" that patents patenting the act of filing patent lawsuits in order to defend against patent lawsuits.
To the one reply to this: You've been hellbanned - sorry guy. I see some great stuff in your comment history, apparently some overzealous idiot of a mod didn't like that you posted that article on controlling a forum.
This isn't true. First net and net/http are great. Second, there are examples all over the ML (even within the last three days) that shows how to create an http client with a timeout-able Dial() function.
aka 'if your work is 90% complete, you are half way done'
As I said in my last comment, Chrome has its own built-in Flash Player. Even if you have another player installed on your machine, the built-in one overrides it unless you specifically disable it.

If you have another Flash player installed, go to chrome://plugins and disable the one that was installed with Chrome. It's obvious by the 'Location' which one this is, at least on Windows. I don't have a Mac so I can't help you there.

It's possible that this is just a problem with Flash 11.3. When I was having the video issues a few weeks ago, I installed the newer 11.4 version. Chrome's built-in player still calls itself 11.3. I don't know if it's that Flash Player version that's having the issue, or Chrome's built-in version specifically. My only specific complaint was that Chrome 22 re-enabled the built-in player without my consent.
Yeah, see, here's the thing: for many projects of noteworthy complexity, it'll be easier to gain an understanding of how to make use of it through a clear set of docs than it will be by slogging through source code.

Good documentation provides context and use cases. Good comments in source code provide clarity as to what the code is doing. They are in no way equivalent.

One of the benefits of encapsulation in software is that it enables individuals to program against a documented interface without spending (although in many cases I'd say wasting) time to understand the intricacies of implementation. You lose that benefit if you're forced to dip into code to understand how to use that code.

You do have a point, though - as an open source dev, it's your time to spend as you see fit. But a quality open-source project is more than the sum of its code.
Shortcat: Spotlight for OS X's UI
Abstract vs. Global learning.

As scary of an idea it is, there are people in the world who have difficulty learning just by looking at the inputs and outputs.
You're correct, sir. My fond memories of webOS must have clouded my judgment. :-) I'll be back with figures in a sec.
Founders & importance of friends
The killer feature of zsh is not the tab completion but the globbing. Really.

More or less, you never need the 'find' tool when using zsh. For example, if I want to find all the Makefiles in this or child directories that have the string 'abc' and have been modified less than 1 hour ago, I can do

$ grep -l abc **/Makefile(mh-1)

If I want to look at the most-recently-modified file, I can

$ less *(om[1])

If I have a symlink 'dir' that points to a directory and I want to cd to the pointed-to directory, I can

$ cd dir(:A)

Clearly, there are lots of codes, but you don't need to remember them, since the tab-completion gives you online help. I can type the '(' then press 'tab', and it'll give me a list of the various codes that can follow and what they mean. There are tons of others. If I want all

*

EXCEPT

*.h

I can use

'*~*.h'

Or for instance, say I have a directory of photos. I want to pick DSC00095.jpg through DSC00107.jpg. In bash, you cry; in zsh I say

DSC<95-107>.jpg.

After I've typed in the glob, I can press 'tab', and it'll expand the glob in-place, letting me know if the code worked without executing. I can then undo to get the code back and have it live in my history.

This feature alone is enough to make a switch worthwhile. It did take me an hour to set up my .zshrc to work like bash, but this has easily paid for itself.
it's unlikely the server exists solely for xmpp.

adding an xmpp server (prosody) to a box adds infinitesimal cost and load.

sms is COSTLY FOLLY
Hell yes. This is where all my ideas and inspiration come from. Its a place where lucidity is common. I actually keep a notepad and pen next to me in case so I don't forget it if its interesting when or wake up.

Better than anything mind bending and more healthy too.
I just got back from a 2 week vacation to Ireland. I planned and executed most of the trip on the fly using Google Maps on my iPhone 4S (3G data is cheap in Europe, even for nonresidents on prepaid SIMs!) running iOS 5.

Just out of curiosity, after I got back, I upgraded my iPad to iOS 6 to see whether all the complaints I'd read about Apple's maps were legit. Then I went and looked up a bunch of the places we'd traveled or stayed in Ireland, to see if the new maps would have gotten the job done. Short story, it would have been a lot harder. In the spot checks I did, the roads are there, and in one case the driving directions are better than what Google recommended, but it mostly didn't know what I was talking about when I searched for businesses, like hotels we stayed at.

Google has amassed a huge amount of really high quality data, not just roads but also businesses and places, which nobody else has. I don't know if there's widespread appreciation for how hard this is and how hard Google's been working on it (one example, and I'm sure this article is slightly politicized and the timing of it appearing now is no coincidence, but still, it's mostly fact: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...). Hopefully Apple has the staying power to go amass the same data, but it's an uphill battle.
net.Dial is a special case at the moment. It will have natural timeout behavior in the future, just like Reads and Writes do.

See the comment here: http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/dial.go?s=3003:3074#L110

Edit: In practice, this isn't really a problem at all unless you're calling Dial something like a hundred or thousand times a minute and they're all timing out. Goroutines are very cheap. Still, it is an issue and will hopefully be resolved in Go1.1: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=2631
Startup idea: crowd sourced prior art search?

I remember performing this swinging procedure as a child. Surely there is some video evidence of someone doing it somewhere.
If (usable) builds come for the Galaxy Nexus, I will be forced to try this out :)
I don't think untog was talking about the overhead of executing zsh upon starting a new session so much as the mental overhead of the mode change from zsh specific features to those of another shell.
This - asking me to commit $60 for a whole year, without even giving me 15 or 30 days to see if it works for me really puts me off.

There seems to be an overconfidence from the developer that they have the perfect solution to something that isn't really a problem.
BTW, anybody interested in python coroutines should go read the greenlet source. It's pretty readable, well commented, and is the best way to get your head around what's happening to the stack when you do a coroutine switch.

https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet/blob/master/gree...
using their own automated process to trickle queries into Google Maps APIs and highlight major discrepancies with their own answers

Cool idea; I wonder if it'd run afoul of copyright laws though.
Such a great comment. You've improved my life.
So for those curious, but not curious enough to sign up for WPengine's "course", here's the first email:

"I just wanted to say hello and thank you for your interest in WP Engine. I saw that you filled out our speed test form, and wanted to let you know that there is a real person over here, and that I'm interested to hear how you feel about us so far.

Do you have any questions or concerns? Can I help you make a decision either way?

Thanks!

Trafton Esler
Lead Developer Champion"

There are so many things wrong with this email I don't know where to start. My only hope is that they inserted this email into the sequence /after/ Patio11's involvement; otherwise it's a warning sign (along with the awful video on the sales page) that his course is not all it's hyped-up up to be.

Good luck anyway, there's a sucker born every minute.
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Actually, the open letter also recommends Google and Nokia maps, via their websites (because native apps don't exist).

BTW: Am I the only one that thinks it's fishy that Google's claiming (a) they only had 3 months notice of this change and (b) 3 months isn't enough to produce their own iOS maps app? I don't believe either of those claims.
Link for later.
a zero you-cost alternative is hosted xmpp server: merely add a few Resource Records to yer zone.
Every issue I've had recently with something breaking has been with Chrome - we see new issues cropping up almost weekly.

As much as I hate developing for IE, I know the issues at hand and know the solution to fix it will be stable - with Chrome, not so much.
In August 2008, after being very publicly pilloried by customers and none other than Walt Mossberg, then one of the biggest Apple fans in the press, Apple also apologized to customers. That time? Mobile Me had completely fucked the dog, leaving users locked out of their email and other services – for days.

Arguably a much more catastrophic failure, though limited in scope by a smaller user base.

Apple went on to fix those issues in Mobile Me, rebrand it iCloud, and everything has been gravy ever since. Apple's stock price went from $175 in August that year down to $97 that October. Today it stands at $667.

So if you could, given this context, explain what makes iOS 6 maps point to deterioration in the company in a way that Mobile Me did not. You will receive bonus points if you manage to do so without invoking a red herring in form of the death of Steve Jobs.
Might be time to put a 24 hour wait period on allowing comments. You know, to let them think about what it is they're about to post.
I do not understand why a payment processing company would be receiving general cease & desist requests or DMCA takedown requests. What am I missing?

EDIT: Tried to clarify that I am not limiting the scope of the question to DMCA takedowns and DMCA cease and desists. Rather DMCA takedowns and general cease and desists.
Wait, what day to day operations?
james4k just posted a link to the source where the comment by Brad Fitzpatrick actually says it's broken in the manner under discussion.

// TODO(bradfitz): the timeout should be pushed down into the
// net package's event loop, so on timeout to dead hosts we
// don't have a goroutine sticking around for the default of
// ~3 minutes.
I think this is their "extensive beta and data collection period". Just using the entire iOS 6 customer base as the experimental set.

I think it would be kinda cool if they'd push the new maps as an app available for iOS 5, and if Google had their native iOS maps app ready, and the transition weren't so abrupt. I realize the mapping subsystem is baked in more deeply, with various APIs and libraries available to all apps on the system, not just a standalone app, but it would still be helpful to have the standalone apps. (If Apple Maps were available as a standalone app, that would facilitiate the "extensive beta period" you suggested without all the ire that they've attracted this way; and I really hope that Google Maps is coming back to iOS at some point real soon now.)
This personal blog post is referring to one of the top 100 local newspapers in the country. You may not like advertising, but this paper is 130 years old and has won a Pulitzer prize. It's the paper of record for the Riverside community.
Here you go: http://blog.openwebosproject.org/post/32477144913/news-flash
Branded for Life
I totally wake up every morning and think, "I can't wait to check my email!"
Great answer. Thanks. Hopefully I'll get to see some of those talks at Pycon.
فيديو وصور جنازة الفنان احمد رمزى اليوم السبت 29 سبتمبر 2012
Israel Loves Iran
This was proposed here on the CSS WG public mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/0473.h...
Run Revel (A Go Framework) Apps on Heroku
Relevant, I think:

http://www.ginandtacos.com/2012/09/24/tab-a-slot-b

In it, the author speculates that one of the reasons that kids have such a hard time following directions is that they never learn to read them, because nothing comes with directions anymore (you just "figure it out"). It's sort of the dark side of ubiquitous discoverable UI.
Mass Effect Trilogy Coming in November
There was a really great project called Maker Factory that was geared towards this http://makerfactory.com seemed to never quite get the community it needed to take off
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins: 'we have a clear shot at being number three'
It's orders of magnitude more complicated, and generally for no good reason. There are often conflicting CSS rules, or 100 lines of cruft when 10 lines might work just fine.

And yes, things break all the time, often for unknown or unexpected reasons, and it's sometimes close to impossible to figure out why and fix the bug.

The enterprise software world is scary.
If I understand correctly it's the latter. Make sure the z-index is set on the position:fixed element, not elements inside of it. See http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/09/Stacking-Changes-Comin...
Learn about HTML5, CSS3 and a little bit of Javascript, enough to understand and utilize jQuery like what bartonfink said. This is as front-end as front-end gets for web development.

Do not worry about design or templating, knowing a bit of Photoshop/ Illustrator is good, but it should not be your priority considering you can buy high quality templates from ThemeForest.net for $10 - $30, or even hire a designer if your budget allows.

Also, you may want to consider working with a web framework to make your life easier, like Django or Flask.

This is from someone who comes from a similar background as you. My background was in C, C++ and Objective-C, and I do mainly embedded systems and low level programming. It took me a few weeks to learn HTML/CSS/JS and another few more to get comfortable with Ruby on Rails, and 1 year later now, I can basically build and prototype any web application I can think of.
This is really cool, I started playing immediately and wanted to keep going. Good job.
If you look, you'll see that the DMCA is not mentioned anywhere in this post. They're receiving demands that they stop serving certain users, not to take down copyrighted content.
I'm guessing there's some ripe patent territory hiding behind the artificial constraint of declining to offer customer service.
For the second issue, please read http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/09/Stacking-Changes-Comin...
Proverbs then are exactly like profanity :)
If they include even a bit of exclusive content, I'll have to buy it, even though I bought all the games individually upon their release. Even with the controversial (and to me, disappointing) ending in 3, this was still the best game series I've ever played (from a storyline and overall perspective point of view). Now as an adult, I think about Mass Effect the same way I thought about LOTR as a kid.
I enthusiastically tried to use SkyDrive a while back but two things stopped me: no linux client and the Mac client required Lion (while my laptop is stuck on snow leopard). For me, the whole entire point of cloud storage is that it works seamlessly across all the platforms I use. If it doesn't do that it's got little value compared to the solutions that go across all the platforms I use.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a designer to redesign the site for fun and portfolio.
Errr ... "a lot of"? Django is a Python web framework. All the things built on Django use Python.
Could you please file a bug at http://new.crbug.com/ with a link to an example doxygen-generated page showing the issue? This doesn't look like something I'm familiar with.
How do you teach Haskell from first principles? Did you start with the lambda calculus and Core?
Ah thanks, it's images from other web pages.

The rectangular border on the "drag an image here to find cats" area flashes like it's accepting the drop and then ... nothing.
And what if you want to do two things? Then you try to use monad transformers until you collapse in a heap.
I don't disagree :) It's just that we had to start somewhere, and we decided to start with PowerPoint. Part of that decision was also that Word and PowerPoint have some architectural similarities so we wanted to start with one of those two.
Pretty funny - found this one that made me laugh:

"Despite the results by Qian et al., we can disconfirm that the much-touted real-time algorithm for the improvement of the
transistor runs in &#x3a9;(2n) time. This may or may not actually hold in reality. Along these same lines, the frame- work for
NMAP consists of four independent components: wireless methodologies, voice- over-IP, the appropriate unification of systems
and Byzantine fault tolerance, and robust theory. This seems to hold in most cases. Therefore, the framework that our application
uses is solidly grounded in reality."
As I said earlier, I didn't mean that Chrome is completely, literally broken. I meant in the sense of a user having just updated their version of Chrome, going to a site, and not being able to do anything. For me and a few coworkers, this was exactly what happened to us when we started noticing these two issues last night. These two relatively minor CSS bugs have broken the functionality of a site we have been working on to the point where it is unusable.
Yelp's points of interest are frequently at the wrong location. I've noticed this using Yelp's native app, which displays things on Google maps, ironically (ironically because Google knows the correct location if you search for the same place by name; I heard that Yelp stores lat/long for each place instead of letting Google look it up by name).

In my experience, this problem with Yelp's data is worse in Europe than the USA.
Except they will do another marketing shift and it will surely be called something like "Windows Z" by then.
What is the best Domain Name Registrar?
So, I've used Network Solutions, I've used Godaddy, and both fall short for various reasons I'm sure you are all familiar with.

Network Solutions is overpriced for what is now mediocre DNS hosting (I'd say even Godaddy is better for this now), I remember the days when you registered through Internic directly.

So I'm wondering, is there a really good DNS registrar out there that is not overpriced?

I'm willing to pay a bit more for quality, but not UltraDNS pricing ($50 / mo entry level).

All suggestions appreciated.
WWWhat is the point of the WWW prefix?
seems like the behavior ought have a toggle in

about:flags

(chrome is forked from chromium)
We've found that when the ELB health check returns non-ok, the ELB will immediately kill any requests in flight to that box. So it's kind of impossible to do a real "drain" with ELB. Are you seeing different behavior?
Talking about 'promotions' and 'management' at your age seems a little blinkered. Even if you end up being a cog in a wheel, I don't think you should optimize for this. Having a comprehensive and broad world view, bringing things to the table besides your core discipline, these are just as important.

It also seems the days of higher education just being about a window of time around the age of 20, might be numbered. The education model of the future may be more about life long learning. That suggests you can go get new skills as you need them. But if you ever need some personal development and new experiences, that time will be now.
I've found that moving my alarm clock from the nightstand to my dresser has made all the difference.
Trying to read some of that 'paper' was really funny. Definitely worth a look.
Meanwhile I've been enjoying a jailbroken iPhone for over three years now. How many important iOS updates have there been anyway? All I can recall were the SMS exploit and the PDF exploit for which there was a fix available on Cydia sooner than Apple provided an iOS update.
No they cannot. That sort of "track every phone all the time" behaviour would be illegal under Data Protection Directive.
Does anyone know where we can find actual user reviews of this? I like the ballsiness of requiring payment just to see the beta, but I don't know what I'm getting for my $60.
Hard to come back from what Blackberry has gone through. They missed a tremendous opportunity to grab developers to build mass amounts of useful and valuable apps. With Apple and Google growing so rapidly it's a lofty goal to even shoot for 3rd but I think if anyone can do it Blackberry can. :)
The page references http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-make-a-windmill , which is a 404 ( s/make/build/ )

Also, s/Wtpfl/Wtfpl/
>The idea appears to be that array languages have builtin functions for operations that would require map/reduce/etc in the applicative programming paradigm. I agree that is convenient, but the downside is that only array operations that are supported this way are the ones that are anticipated by the language designer. If you want to split up an array in some way other than intended, you're back to applicative programming

I can't see why this should hold for all array languages in general.

If the language has some mechanism to let you add new operation that are on the same "class / level" as the built-ins, then the above does not hold.
Of note is the Microsoft patent (US8181265) that cites it for "Secure machine counting"

http://www.google.com/patents/US8181265

I assume as joke or hidden egg.
From http://research.swtch.com/gotour

Q. What are the limits to scalability with building a system with many goroutines?

The primary limit is the memory for the goroutines. Each goroutine starts with a 4kB stack and a little more per-goroutine data, so the overhead is between 4kB and 5kB. That means on this laptop I can easily run 100,000 goroutines, in 500 MB of memory, but a million goroutines is probably too much.

For a lot of simple goroutines, the 4 kB stack is probably more than necessary. If we worked on getting that down we might be able to handle even more goroutines. But remember that this is in contrast to C threads, where 64 kB is a tiny stack and 1-4MB is more common.
Seems like Stripe handled it well - they offered to wire the money to the OP and pay the associated fees. No harm, no foul?
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it might be relegated to

"works as intended"

"feature" territory

akin to permission management issues in code.android
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6266