skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Samsung has a well documented history of not doing anything in situations like this.
https://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+phone+bugs

They will likely not fix this in any phone but the Galaxy S3 and note 2 or when jelly bean is released for them.
Windows? Come on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
will this last long? with twitter's new "rules"?
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What about if you rerun the genetic algorithm with the fitness function being the size of the final compressed+gzipped file? Maybe that could counter-intuitively reorder the CSS so that there are more long runs of repetitive rules which result in an optimum final level of compression.
Why should you have a choice? Taking this article to it's logical conclusion, no obligations nor rights should be granted to you. As another commenter above mentioned so brilliantly, individuals don't have rights. Rights only arise in groups of individuals.
MD5 is not suitable either. The illusion of security is almost worse than no security.
I don't think option A ever hurts the former employer, or at least only in the rarest of circumstances.

If I apply for a job and it's down to me and Candidate X, both of which have n years of experience in software development, I am going to be pissed if he gets the job because I'm an honest person and he's "padded" his resume for every job to where he now has n+2 years of experience.

I think the reason this gets such a visceral reaction from folks on my side of the argument is that there's no way to know how often this happens (my guess is truthfully that it happens more often than not, even just the "padding" of a month or two to hide or lessen stretches of unemployment).
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Can't tell if you're trolling at this point or if we're both misunderstanding each other. http://store.apple.com/us, the iTunes store and the App Store all rely heavily on sidebar navigation. Vertical content containers save space in addition to giving the user an area of the page that is generally relevant to what they're on the site for (shopping carts, advanced search, related content/archives, account information) without needlessly cluttering the more important horizontal space.
It's very hard to do Test Driven Development in Go because there is no mocking library that can help with stubbing constructor or static method.

I feel that people who jumped ship from dynamic language such as Ruby or Python to Go have no idea what they are giving up. Maybe they never practiced TDD to begin with.

Heck, even Java is more friendly with TDD by using Powermock or JMockit library.
Anecdotally, everyone always has their email open anyway (I do, everyone I work with does, my family aways does), so the extra step of checking your email is trivial.
>>Some day someone will find cancer's penicillin.

Quite unlikely, since "cancer" is simply a term we use for a great variety of different diseases.
Works on stock Galaxy Note too
Does everyone hate MongoDB? - 25 Sept 2012

Headline Problem: Too many people are ranting about MongoDB.

Mistake: Too few data points. Overly defensive of MongoDB.

Comments: You should probably learn more about Riak. The "From MongoDB to Riak" is light on details but isn't really hand-waving. The author is saying that having a masterless database results in less fretting. http://wiki.basho.com/Riak-Compared-to-MongoDB.html

Also, why two rage faces? Can't you get your point across without resorting to silly memes?
Mo’ Pixels Mo’ Problems
Tutorial: Playing around with MPlayer
This tutorial handles about the usage of the wonderful media player MPlayer. It explains several options, lists some useful keyboard shortcuts and handles about tips and tricks that can be used to enhance your multimedia experience.
There's an easy solution to that - renounce your citizenship. What's that? You want to keep your American citizenship? Then you must abide by the social contract underlying that grant of citizenship, which comes with certain benefits/obligations no matter where you are in the world.
Or you could have a script that, when notices the user agent to not be mobile, shows the IMEI version, but otherwise shows the reset version :P
finally a site with enough data to make a credible recommendation on hosting companies, any chance you'll cover overseas markets at some point?
Is the speed of the electrons quantized, or can you "tune" the period continuously? Either would be useful.
md5 is not really much better than plain text (I imagine a few Amazon GPU instances could crack most of the md5 hashes very quickly). bcrypt is the way forward in most cases.
I don't think Iran's primary motivation for wanting nukes is US nukes. It might be, in part Israeli nukes, but I bet it's primarily conventional war with the US and/or Israel. Iran likely believes that having nuclear weapons of its own will discourage conventional attack.

That line of thinking isn't unreasonable. As far as I know, there has never been open conventional warfare between two nuclear-armed states - just minor skirmishes.
Because it's not that important. In most cases what someone could do with my account is to view articles I have paid for, either piecemeal or as a subscription. It's much more in their interest than my interest to keep that private.

They've sent me my cleartext password several times before I finally wrote it down in a place I could keep it safe, and I was always thankful.

Also, the default password is something very simple per account. I don't want to go into any more detail on that.
This is more or less what I hint to at the end of the article, I did look at it very fast but it did not yield very interesting results. The way I see it that this might be related to the fact that there is really no link between the different genetic operators and the deflate algorithm. Anyways, I'd love to be proven wrong, in case anyone wants to fork the repo and try that.
I don't hate MongoDB: I use it on scenarios where it is useful (eg: forms apps collecting semi-structured data, ETL apps pushing/transforming data to achieve geo-near queries etc).

For a regular web-app with less exotic needs, my store of choice is PostgreSQL these days.

And next time I have to handle large scale data, I will probably use Riak.
Congratulations, you have just realized that you are owned by the Tax Farmers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k67_imEHTPE
It's built off of the Votizen API, which I believe has pivoted to only focus on FB
Well of course it's not exciting, but that's exactly the kind of examples I like hearing about because now I know I should always have detailed logging off.

Anyways, I'm sure a lot of us would appreciate it if you wrote about your experiences, regardless of how mundane they are.
I can think of several cases where throwing an exception is counterintuitive to Mongo's design and applications. Let's say, if your app returns control to the user while storing data asynchronously, throwing an exception might not be the best way of handling errors. In fact, if throwing exceptions were Mongo's default, I wonder how long it would take for a blog post entitled "Mongo blew up my app" to appear.
The quote is substance, but the entire article lacks substance. Just quoting something does not a substantial article make. There's so little discussion or analysis that they could have just posted the quote and said "Argue in the comments".

Whenever one of these things floats up like "Woz likes Android! News at 11" I constantly slap myself on the forehead when it's taken super seriously, as Apple now is so far removed from what it was even 15 years ago. Is it surprising that people involved decades ago think it's not the same, or have moved onto something else? No. Not even a bit.
Thanks very much for open sourcing this. Keep up the good work - everything you post is great... great information, and great code. Thanks again!
Safari has no secure site indicators for popup windows
Most bank websites (at least in Turkey) open a popup window to get your credentials. I realized there is no way to tell if HTTPS is used if you use Safari.

Here are some screenshots: http://i.imgur.com/71G2Z.png http://i.imgur.com/vHQEa.png

This is very dangerous since it is not very hard to use mitm attacks to redirect user to a similar unsecure website.
I am one of those people that does very much care about Apple's "walled garden". The only reason I would get an Apple device is if I had to develop an app for it.

I have a friend who is an Apple fan, so I can see a lot of benefits to the Apple kool aid as he keeps on showing me all the useful things he can do on his Apple devices.

But what happens if I want to install an app that I want but Apple hasn't approved, well I have to jail break my Apple device, and that, right there, is the failure point and the reason I will never get an Apple for personal use.
According to Henry Sumner Maine, the development of law in the west was one of movement from status to contract. According to Mr. Mattheij, it hasn't gone far enough, I gather.
On top of that, the SSL server supports compression, session tickets and insecure ciphers, so that's three possible attacks to try.

What's REALLY weird: my browser is showing a different cert than OpenSSL is. My browser shows it's signed by PositiveSSL, but when I connect with 'openssl s_client' I get this:

depth=0 C = --, ST = SomeState, L = SomeCity, O = SomeOrganization, OU = SomeOrganizationalUnit, CN = ip-10-119-98-53, emailAddress = root@ip-10-119-98-53
verify error:num=18:self signed certificate
verify return:1
depth=0 C = --, ST = SomeState, L = SomeCity, O = SomeOrganization, OU = SomeOrganizationalUnit, CN = ip-10-119-98-53, emailAddress = root@ip-10-119-98-53
verify error:num=10:certificate has expired
notAfter=Feb 24 01:08:21 2012 GMT
verify return:1
depth=0 C = --, ST = SomeState, L = SomeCity, O = SomeOrganization, OU = SomeOrganizationalUnit, CN = ip-10-119-98-53, emailAddress = root@ip-10-119-98-53
notAfter=Feb 24 01:08:21 2012 GMT

Not only is it self-signed, it's expired. I actually don't know what the fuck is going on here.
Plastic isn't shatter-proof, either, especially not if it's sturdy enough and thin enough to be considered a replacement for gorilla glass.

Even if plastic were shatter-proof, I'd much rather have a display that's clear and breakable than one that's unbreakable but scratched all to hell. I've never had a pair of glasses (high-end plastic lenses) that didn't get noticeably scratched within a couple of years, and they get a lot less abuse than my phone.
Although this concept certainly has its flaws, I could see it being useful for something where it was a site that most people would rarely log in. But for a store, I'd prefer having my credit card in the hands of something more secure.
I can't argue with your post. I just wish the world worked differently than it does.
Lots of things will survive heat-death, but they will all be in maximum entropy, thermodynamic equilibrium so you can't perform any useful work after that.
Bottom line...I DO NOT like the OO approach Mongo takes. I am in love with POS (Plain Old SQL)
The only real issue with Paypal is unfortunately a huge one if you're unlucky enough to get caught up in it - their overly-aggressive "holds" on funds in accounts. Other than that their customer service is better, their site easier to use, and they have the benefit of a huge network effect already in place. Paypal even called me a couple of days ago to verify that a transaction (I was the buyer) was legitimate. In the past they would have just rejected it and left it up to me to contact them to convince them otherwise.
Sebastian Thrun: Learn. Think. Do. That's the Udacity experiment.
Traxo on a roll, acquires GoMiles
Facebook, There are Better Ways to Display Mobile Ads
Ah, somewhere along the line I got the impression that in Mongo a "database" and a "collection" were the same thing, but that's not true. Glad to know this was just my mistake!
...if you get a cheap [HDMI] cable, you may find out that it doesn’t work well (or at all).

This has been shown to be false over and over.
So while it might survive the heat death of the universe, there could be no way to measure it.
According to all intelligence reports by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency and the US's CIA/NSA, Iran is not trying to develop nukes and has fully abandoned their nuclear program. Anyone saying elsewise is simply saber rattling.

What the are doing is developing a civilian nuclear industry. Such an industry---like any other industry---has the potential for making military development easier in the future, but that is not its primary purpose.
Most of your points pertain to placebo controlled trials of antidepressants. No argument there... it's a very difficult area ripe for abuse. I wouldn't however use this as justification that all trials of all drugs are rubbish.

Your arguments regarding non psychiatric medicines are weaker. For example, in oncology trials you state that the practice of excluding patients who are elderly or frail is 'not a good way to find out how to treat most cancer patients.' The reality is that it is very difficult to show any evidence of benefit in patients that aren't fit to start off with. This is because not being fit is a strong determinant of poor outcome. If you include them in the trial then it will be negative, and even those patients who might benefit won't ever get the treatment. This isn't bad science, it is just the required degree of pragmatism when resources for running trials are scarce. The way the research is done in reality is first you give the drug to the people most likely to benefit, and then if it works for them, test it in other groups less likely to benefit by running trials specifically in the elderly or frail groups. When these trials don't exist, and they often don't, the oncologist discusses the options with the patient and family based on the available evidence. They don't, as you seem to imply, give chemotherapy to everyone that walks in the door because Pfizer took them to lunch.

So definitely agree for antidepressant trials. But not for everything else. Although I haven't read Ben Goldacre's book. Yet.
Awesome tool, bookmarked.
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heh, I thought the domain sounded familiar:

http://blog.serverdensity.com/removing-memcached-because-its...
Sure! Will try to do it more often :) I don't often want to write about these things as they are silly mistakes... but, if it's helpful, I'll share!
Apple A6 Teardown
Look into 'fail fast' as a concept. Facebook claims to take fail fast to the extreme.
> to find out about his new daily driver

Where's the part about his new daily driver?
Eric Schmidt is very good at displacing responsibility and target other parties. It reminds me of when he said, "If You Have Something You Don't Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn't Be Doing It". He is displacing responsibility from Google and targeting the public. He has a very passive-aggressive style and it's very affective.
Haven't run it yet, but a simple change to the cost function:
https://github.com/eoghanmurray/css-bipartite-compression/co...
Maybe the assumption to merge more frequently than to split doesn't hold with the new cost function.
Double-tap on the text. Like the article says. It really does work, quite often way better than attempts at responsive design. And then there's the reader functionality in my phone.

The issue isn't, I think, responsive design itself, it's that it's not so trivial to make it work better than device-based workarounds.
iPhone 5 Lightning port dynamically reassigns pins
An exploit has been added to metasploit already

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/commit/3ade5a...
Whisky byproduct could be turned into biofuel
Firefox 18 to be delayed by a week to give engineers time to enjoy holidays
You mean, detailed logging off? Or I'm confused?
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> would a plastic casing surrounding the glass absorb some of the fall?

Almost certainly. As you noted, the ratio of broken screens seems to be much higher on the 4/4S. I've got a 3GS than I've dropped many times, a few times onto concrete. The glass is still pristine, because the plastic absorbed the impact (and has scratches and small dents to show it).
I like responsive design when it rearranges and resizes.

I do not like it when it adds/removes information from the page.
It looks like you want to leave detailed logging off...
Now would be the best time for Google to release a Maps app. While people are still frustrated with Apple's. Apple will eventually (hopefully) improve their maps with time and then people won't care anymore. If Google wants to keep people using Google Maps, now would be a good time to release it.
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Didn't I read somewhere that Steve Jobs was against mobile versions of websites saying that the iPhone was designed to display the same website that you see on your computer?

I know that as a consumer, I get annoyed when a mobile version of a site comes up and the first thing I do is check for the "Desktop Site" link. I just don't trust that the developer has included everything in the mobile site that the desktop site includes.

A well designed site will look and act great on a desktop, iOS device and Android device without extra work.
MongoDB powers my latex doc database, and the CMS my team and I use. It's awesome.

I have an event logger, that logs "interesting" MySQL server events to a tab separated file and then out to a central mongodb database. So I can query several servers results at once.
You can now call readlink(2) from a Fexl program.
But will it run on my N900?!
Great site but the design is ruined a bit by the lack of favicon. Well, ruined for me at least.
You should explore automated solutions - there are quite a few around.
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I gave up on Guy Kawasaki when all he would ever talk about is AllTop without it ever being obvious why AllTop matters.
Mongo's wire protocol actually has request IDs, but it appears db.$cmd.findOne({getlasterror:1}) doesn't use that. Instead you have to send it over the same connection as the operation in question, and if you had to reconnect you're just fucked and will never know what you may or may not have committed.
What in particular are you not sure about in terms of performance? With the exception of segmented stacks, Rust adheres to the zero-cost principle just as C++ does.
His arguments are poor. These are the two most egregious.

(1) It Costs More and Takes Longer. Yes, designing something additional takes longer; however, if he compared the time required to add responsive code to the time it would take to setup mobile detect and an alternate theme, than this point may have some more sense even though I'd still side with responsive code.

(2) Non-Responsive Designs Usually Work. No. That's why we're having the discussion. If regular designs worked, there would not be a need.

This is a problem that a lot of companies struggle with. It's fine to criticize responsive design, but bring something to the table.
I'm a scientist and a Christian, and I've reconciled Genesis and the natural world with the belief that God is outside time and space; While his creation took him six days and comprised of six creative acts, those days don't necessarily correlate with the same time within our known universe.
The _sellers_ want an alternative to iOS and Android. A possible reason why none exists on the market--at least not with significant numbers--might be that the buyers don't want it. More precisely, buyers don't seem to want anything that sellers are able to produce at the price they'd be asking for it.

I'm not sure what are the proper rules to anthropomorphize the market, but I'd say that for the market to "want" something, you need sellers to produce something at a price which buyers are willing to pay.

You've got a polished and tightly controlled garden with iOS, a commoditized ecosystem in which to find commoditized phones with Android, and a base to develop one's own walled garden _a la_ Amazon, again with Android. There's nothing very exciting for non-Apple sellers here indeed, but that's a pretty good situation for buyers; I can't think of a buyer problem which would be best solved by a completely new OS.
It's relatively straight forward but the performance would probably suck as Javascript in UIWebView isn't great.
You might be onto something about the merge/split balance. Will definitely investigate in that direction.
This predates Android by years. Special "phone number" codes have been used to control firmware since the very first compute went into a phone. The reason is fairly clear: in the early devices, dialing a number was the only UI metaphor available. USSD itself is actually a standard, such as it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Serv...

Now, of course, it's just a bit of legacy nonsense that gets left enabled simply because it's part of an existing workflow and serves mostly as a hidden gotcha for people doing security analysis.
"it looks like the ARM core blocks were laid out manually—as in, by hand"
I can't believe the amount of positive reactions to this. Am I the only one who is reading something along the lines "Yeah, they don't want us, and we don't care. We won't do anything in hopes of people switching iOs for Android" in this?

If that's true… they must be naive, at least.
This is a nice summary of many of the problems with MongoDB, and a good set of fumbled excuses as to why they might not actually be problems. Most of the answers boil down to "Well, yeah, but if you know how to [long complicated solution here], then it's not a problem," while simultaneously admitting that the problem is present and that the solution (if it exists) is extremely difficult and requires specialized knowledge.

All I can do is laugh and keep on using Postgres...
The basic problem with this post is that it contains zero data about user engagement. One guy can project his own opinion about how he thinks his non-responsive site looks fine on mobile, so clearly everyone else will too, while I can project my own personal experience that I tend to find myself spending more time reading mobile-optimized blogs on my phone, so clearly everyone else will too.

It's been said a million times around these parts, but I guess I get to be the one to say it here: Get some data! Do some A/B testing! Check your bounces and pages per visits and time on site from mobile devices, then try a responsive design and see if they improve (technically, you should split and do both at the same time). What works for one site may not work for another. But projecting generalized statements with no data to back them up doesn't move anyone forward.
Alice and Bob in Cipherspace Homomorphic Encryption
But why would they do that? If they do release an app, Apple maps will be mostly on par someday, and Google will lose those Google Maps users. If they never release a Google Maps app, that'll make iOS a subpar platform when it comes to maps for some time, and will be an additional incentive for some people to switch to Android.

It could be Google's sweet revenge to the pain that Apple inflicts on the Android ecosystem. Google probably has some patents in that area is well...
Unless you use a different account for junk websites than you do your day to day email. I have my work email open all day, but not my personal email, which is also different to my spam email account I use for trials or junk websites. If I need to have 3-4 different email accounts open just to manage my sessions, I could see this being a massive pain. Also if I sign up using my work email to a work related service (so I can use it at work), I might not have access to it at home.