skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just occurred to me that a language could be made embeddable using eval() alone, with okay performance. We just need to take a page from SQL's book and introduce "prepared statements" for eval. A string of high-level code with placeholders could be parsed only once, and converted into an object you can "call" using different values for the placeholders. I'm pretty sure this isn't a new idea, though.
Are there better alternatives to TC - without drama, fluff etc? Mashable is not good, RWW is just okay.
The homepage is really usable and (IMHO) looks rather nice in Firefox w/ noscript. Which was kind of surprising because a lot of websites don't degrade well with JS disabled.
Something I found out recently: there are many courses that pull their course material when the course is finished. Even if you are/were enrolled, you lose access. I found this out from the Statistics One course (since you mention statistics), which cut me off in the middle.

Obviously, you can avoid this by downloading all the videos and slides as soon as you have access.
they're focused on risk-reduction and would prefer all production software to be written in Java. - this is cancer, so to speak.)

I know only one way to reduce a risk of running a software - choice an appropriate hardware, and run as less software as possible.

You must know your hardware and your software. That means it must be compact, readable and easily modifiable, so that you can quickly adapt and fix it, on the go.

So, I would choose a well-defined, mostly-functional, small, simple language, with decent compiler directly to native machine code and very thin FFI, to use specialized OS services.

It could be a solution from http://scheme.com or Gambit-C, not anything that begins with J.

So, in my opinion, a native compiler for, say, Arc to x86_64 (written in Lisp) with UNIX integration (NO Windows support) would be a better solution. Unfortunately, it doesn't exist yet.)

It seems like Go is taking the same approach - they have very thin layer of abstraction on top of an OS (post of Plan9 core libs) they have native compilers, and comprehensible runtime. So, this is real, available better solution.

There is Erlang - almost the same underlying principles, but complicated with a VM.

In order to reduce risks you must have deep understanding of what you are running.
HN front page does it for me :) Anything that is worth of a note will get there.
look, The conlusion here is ridiculous.
When playing a violent video game, you will see a rise in adrenaline. I'd be willing to bet that if you participate in any adrenaline-heightened activity for 2.5 hours and then go right to bed, you'll see sleep loss.

"Video games and sleep loss" what a crock.
This was submitted just 2 days ago for anyone wishing to see the existing comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857287
Life: Not being frugal, spending too much, getting into consumer debt and a too-expensive rent contract, which shackles me in my current job and prevents me from fully pursuing my dreams.

Programming: staying at a company that works with Visual Basic, not learning Ruby/Functional Programming/jQuery/any modern stuff basically.

I'm fixing point 1, which will free me to fix point 2 hopefully :)
Vice Magazine & McAfee are like a match made in heaven. Glad to see that they made their way down to Belize.
> instead said they would only block sites related to child abuse

Thats how we started here in the UK. It may sound better, but it's simply putting you a bit higher up the slippery slope. We'll see you at the bottom!
They had very different circumstances:

Bill Gates was the son of wealthy parents, his father was a partner in the law firm Preston Gates & Ellis, his mother was on board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way.

Bill got a sweetheart deal from IBM, in part due to his mother serving on the United Way board with Jon Opel, chair of IBM.

Steve Jobs was adopted by Paul Jobs, a mechanic and a carpenter, and Clara Jobs, who was a payroll clerk for Varian Associates. Neither of his adoptive parents had the opportunity to attend college.

Jobs sold his minivan and Wozniak sold his HP scientific calculator to initially fund development of the Apple I.

If you have the option of being born to parents with extreme wealth and connections, I highly recommend it over fundraising.
It hasn't kept it for itself, it is still submitting patches and releasing new versions. The toolchain is no longer supported, but Apple also provides patches to the open-source toolchain.

Lots, lots more at http://www.wocommunity.org/page/default but as others have said -- this is essentially a (very nice) Java framework with some Eclipse tool support.

What I really miss is the Objective-C framework, with EOF, and native Mac tools, bindings etc.
I have no background at all in IT security, but I thought the passwords would be encrypted using a RSA system (the public key would be used to encrypt the password, the private key would be used to read them). The private key would be generated randomly when the browser is built, making it unique, and inaccessible (unless maybe with a debugger, but that's not something that could be done in couple of minutes).

Maybe what I just said is stupid and not feasible, in which case I'd be curious to know why.
Yeh hope people don't think we are spamming - we wanted to launch on a quiet day (Saturday morning) and just get some stats to see if people knew that the bookmarklet existed (if they installed it) and if they knew to save it. Based on this we've made improvments over the weekend ready for launch today.
Pidgin has good writeup of the rationale for locally stored passwords being plain-text. https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
True, but that requires much more technical know-how.

For one you need to have a keylogger available when the victim is away from the computer. The keylogger may also be detected by a virus killer, now or it he further. The key logger most also send the passwords somewhere, leaving a forensic trace (or the culprit must get access to the computer again to retrieve the passwords).

The chrome "hack" on the other hand can easily be done if you have the opportunity and require no technical know-how or preparations. It also leaves no trace.
If I want to read my password I need to enter my master password again. Even when I'm logged in. You could log into the website without the master password but reading the password needs it.
It's not tax avoidance either. It would only be tax avoidance if they moved from one EU country to another one that had a lower corporate tax rate. This is their first European office - it makes perfect sense to choose the location that brings the greatest benefits to the company.
He's amazing..I was stunned while looking at his work. Especially learnable programming.
I use this http://keepass.info/ and this chrome plugin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromeipass/ompiai....
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MBA developer talk will help you look smart. :)
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Here's the main link
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What do you folks think? Would you want to use this if you were training someone ? I appreciate your help and thoughts
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Made me lol. Siegler openly admits to lying in the articles he writes.
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>And none of this addresses the fact that you are optimizing the fck out of one of the least expensive components of launch cost by introducing all sorts of unnecessary complexity.

As I understand it, construction of the rocket is the most expensive part of a launch system. The point of skylon is to create a reusable single stage to orbit space plane. Shouldn't skylon's reusability make it "optimize the fck" out of one of the most expensive components?
The feature was called DHTML Behaviors. Here's an introduction from 2000:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ms531079(v=vs....

Back then everything needed to tie into Win32 somehow, so of course they introduced Binary Behaviors:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753685(v=vs.85).as...

"A Binary Element Behavior (or binary behavior) is a Component Object Model (COM) object loaded by a Web page and assigned to an element type in the page—either a custom element tag or an existing HTML tag. The COM object is then able to customize the behavior of the tag by implementing the IElementBehavior interface. Customizations include any options available to scripted behaviors and more advanced behaviors such as Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) rendering.

Because a binary behavior is a COM object, a binary behavior can execute any code after loading. For that reason, the security profile of a binary behavior is very similar to that of a Microsoft ActiveX control, and the same security considerations apply. Binary behaviors, like ActiveX controls, run with the security credentials of the user running the browser process. This means a binary behavior cannot only render to the screen, it can also potentially access local files, configuration settings, or network resources. Accessing a page that loads a malicious binary behavior presents a considerable security risk."
On Linux Chrome (or just Chromium?) can use your system keyring to store passwords in a fairly secure manner. Now if only a) Firefox did that, too, and b) they could agree on a common standard so that you could share passwords between browsers.

See e.g. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxPasswordStorage
The real article which contains much more detail is here:

http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci...
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The SF Weekly article is from 2009. Wonder where the things stand now and after the new mayor.
Golly that sounds terrible. San Francisco must be an unbearable cesspit. Oh wait, that's right, it's my favorite city in the US, has a better than decent public transport system, and given a choice many people will pay extra to live there.

I've heard some amazing stories of mismanagement and excessively liberal policies (e.g. Homeless people being paid stipends by the city) but there are plenty of well managed cities I would move out of in favor of San Francisco. (My favorite post in the linked thread was a comparison of SF to Saudi Arabia.)
Maybe JWZ is right when he says the city of SF is clueless about business. It certainly seems to be clueless about the nighttime entertainment business, which is where his rants and his increasingly bad temper seem to come from.
Back in the days , making a flash site meant making an accessible fallback as well, and i always designed a pure html fallback for each full flash website i made ,Heavy javascript sites are not accessible by magic.

The irony is this site would have been smoother using flash. On my mack , this webiste is pretty slow and hard to use.
You'd be surprised how much of a filter bubble HN is. Unknown unknowns...
Oh main post links aren't clickable .. Adding them here (let's see if it works)

Linux cloud lab: http://simtry.com/labs/4e3e64bf9b156e40a3000006

To find out more, check http://simtry.com/labs

Cheers
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> it just means that if this was raised by organisations that don't have a clear commercial interest then it might improve the visibility.

It might improve the thrustworthness, but I doubt anyone else on the planet has more power to increase visibility than Google. Also always, in terms of visibility, big commercial entities > any non-profit, except maybe Wikipedia.
I agree, really great design! But then I'm biased towards flatness.
I'm loving Go, it doesn't have a lot of libraries designed for Machine Learning, but it's easy to write wrappers and we have one for Bayesian operations: https://github.com/jbrukh/bayesian

I'm investing my time in learning this language: I'm sure it will be more widely used in the following years.
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and the Imagination GPU is just as closed as the Mali

Imagination is much, much worse than Mali. Mali has been pretty much fully reverse engineered (see limadriver.org). Given that libv will finally publish his new Lima driver version with textures support etc, an oss GLES driver for the Mali is pretty close. The remaining difficulty is the shader compiler (especially the vertex ISA is a bit esoteric).

The PowerVR devices on the other hand.. their drivers (and hardware) are very byzantine, layer upon layer of obscure interfaces. Even the kernel drivers are closed/obfuscated. Therefore the reverse engineering project is going very slow. I don't understand how it is a way forward.
Not sure how true this is. I'm based in dublin, and there's 40 people in final year engineering, plus about 100 in final year computer science, plus another 30 misc. final year students that will be looking for development positions from one university in Dublin. There's 4 major Irish universities in Dublin, and I'm in the smallest of them, so there's probably 900-1000 grads from CompSci/Software Engineering from just Dublin alone.

Add to that the pub standards meetups, where there's regularly 1-200 people there, and I know of plenty of other people that don't travel to the events. There's a large amount of talent in Dublin, and I would imagine all the other cities in Ireland too.
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Guys i have a question is Mcafee safe?
>This code contains a lot of knowledge VS use of pre-build APIs.

It contains a lot of general knowledge about 3D graphics, and absolutely 0 specific knowledge about the environment in which it's running. All he's accomplished by doing it this way is show off that he knows trig and prevent any of it from being hardware accelerated.

>If a programmer reads this code and understands how every part works

But he never will, because the code is illegible.
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In what world is 34.77% to 35.72% "falling"? I think you are looking at the IE line.

Also, IE is way more aggressively advertised and promoted than Chrome is. I've probably seen this ad over 100 times since March:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYRbYzgAvSA
> You think that the experience of selling 1 company (viaweb) trumps over the experience of funding over 300 companies across 7 years, 2 of which are worth at least 1 billion dollars?

No, but I really got the impression as YC grew over the years, from what was reported of it, that PG modeled it, at least initially, after his own experience. Doubtless it has changed over time as they've learned.

My point was merely that there is not necessarily a "build a company to last years" in the group's "DNA".
> Free time: only if you don't consider all the free time lost by all the people who died as children (extremely high premodern child mortality).

That's only relevant if all those children died due to some specific form of government being in effect.
FYI, our WebSense filter at work filters this for "potentially harmful content." Likely a mistake on the filter's part, but thought you'd like to know.
Cool thanks - we'll double check to make sure we haven't got anything controversial as part of our default content!
Same thoughts, I think it may be somewhere in the middle. Sell last year's textbooks and also hand made stuff you make so you can make some money? :)
They did take objective measures, via polysomnography. It's one of the novel aspects of this study. Interesting that perceived difficulty getting to sleep after gaming was greater than that recorded via the polysomnography.
The abstract says “novel, violent, fast-paced video game”. I assume the actual paper would also name the game, but I cannot access it.
But you don't make any money right now, right? Because there is no "tag" parameters in the URL.
I hadn't heard of LINE before, but a couple of reasons might be Symbian(^3) and S40, both of which WhatsApp supports but LINE apparently doesn't.
Im sorry if I came off as if everything made in the US is terrible and everything made in Europe, is the best ever, that certainly wasn't my intention.

It was merely a comment on the probability of increased profits, from the assembled in the US markings, you have to remember that about 60% of Apple profits (and still climbing) come from outside the US, and outside the US, the markings would not mean as much.
I think we are being too harsh on Uber. People are not feeling as bad as journalists are making it out to be. It's always fun to go after success especially when the failure happens to be the very differentiation that made it successful. Also Uber's trajectory of growth would not have been remarkably different had it dug in and paid the entire 2X pricing. No one but the Govt can do that when real costs are involved. People will forget about it just like we forget what the financial institutions did in 2008.
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Correct - we are waiting for Skimlinks to approve our application. We just wanted to test the idea first..
It depends how they structure the company: where will the workers be, are they going to cheat on their tax using a dodgy licensing scheme, etc.
Uhm, and? I’m confused and don’t really know what you want to say there. Maybe other activities also have the same result, but this study doesn’t seem to doubt that or claim otherwise.
This is not a security issue, as many have already pointed out. In this way it is related to the 'stored password XSS vulnerability':

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847505

Two things that need to be debunked.

First, Chrome does encrypt stored passwords. If you open the SQLite database in your profile and query the logins table you won't see a plain text password. For more on how Chrome stores passwords and the code behind it, see this post:

http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/how-google-chrome-s...

Second, Chrome does have a master password. Most users just don't notice it, because instead of being implemented in the application it integrates with the operating system.

You need to be logged in and have access to the Keychain to open the file. Most users leave their keychains open by default when logging into OS X.
I'm sorry, but this whole situation - which is not typical HN fare in itself, let's face it - is just such an absurdist farce that no other comment could really do it justice. It really is Simpsons-esque:

Wikipedia -

In 2001, the word "Doh" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary;[8][9] The definition given is:[8][10]

Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also (usu. mildly derogatory): implying that another person has said or done something foolish (cf. DUH int.).

The headword spelling is doh, but d'oh is listed as a variant (as is dooh). The etymology section notes "the word appears (in the form D'oh) in numerous publications based on The Simpsons".[8] Eight quotations are cited: the earliest is from 1905; two others are Simpsons-related.
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VentureBeat.com. Very strong reporting in a few areas, with staff who previously worked at San Jose Mercury News, WSJ, etc.

Ironically, TC has hired away several VB writers.
"Measuring the wrong thing can be worse than not measuring at all."

I'm calling bullshit on that one.

Yes, measuring the wrong thing can incentivize poor outcomes, but movement in the wrong direction is visible and can be corrected, whereas lethargic inaction just lazily drifts into a morass.

You have to measure outcome. Period. We can have great discussions around what kinds of measurements to have and how to apply them, but money should not go out the door without some indication that something is happening as a result of it -- even the wrong thing. In fact, big visible indicators of the wrong thing happening as a result of measurements is a terrific result. If we're arguing over measurement, the game is already lost.

Another way of stating this is that let's say I pick a measurement to implement. It's a terrible measurement, and it causes much pain and suffering. You come to me and say "This is a terrible measurement and causes much pain and suffering!" To which I respond "How do you know this?"

So you show me a study -- another form of measurement! Then we have a conversation about including parts of your study in my measurement, scrapping my measurement entirely, and so forth.

We cannot have meaningful conversations about management without measuring things. Once we start measuring things, the world is wide open about which things to measure. But if you convince me that the act of measuring itself is broken, we have no further basis for any conversation around performance at all. Management has no function. There is no quantifiable return for any possible amount of money I might invest. Very bad.

We don't need to wait around to pick the perfect measurement or do nothing at all. We need to pick measurements -- any measurements -- and rapidly iterate towards finding what works best for us.

If the testing system is broken, and I have no doubt that it is, it's broken based on bureaucrats creating a large, brittle, hard-to-change architecture of testing, instead of just trying to continuously evolve what works best. It has failed because we put the same idiots in charge of school testing that were creating the mess the tests were supposed to fix in the first place.
Show HN: Our attempt at solving the 'no wishlist' problem...
Answer: "I'm saying we are brighter than one of these curly cube bulbs and I can give you any tint to that white light that you want."

Question: "Can you explain this to me like I'm a five-year-old (or a science journalist)?"
What's the point then? Sorry but if a site is not browsable because it is too slow,not scrollable because it's too slow, there is nothing to discuss to begin with.

And clearly it is (slow).

The WOW factor ? been doing all these kind of stuff for 10 years so it's long gone...

the fact that it is done with javascript ?dont care, still did it 10 years ago , faster ,smoother and it worked in IE6... and i'm pretty sure most of that site dont work in non webkit browsers... so much for "run everywhere"

My point is , dont do demo stuff if the tech behind it is under performing. Because you are "damaging" the tech and well as your work. There are better exemples out there of all these HTML/JS stuffs.
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> 1. Couldn't he have linked to some of this stuff?

Probably, but as far as I can tell it's all a Google search away.

> 2. ... weirdly pandering.

Pandering to whom?

> 3. ... is a totally inadmissible position

This one has me flummoxed. Should I, as a professional programmer, have a complete working knowledge of copyright law? As it turns out, I do not, so I erred on the side of safety and never offered any of the articles up for sale. Or did you miss that minor fact?
You don't have to move offices to start doing the road of tax avoidance. It's all about where you channel your money internally if you have two companies operating in different tax regimes.

It'll be interesting to see what they do with the profits from their companies (both the US and Ireland).

If they keep a chunk of income in Ireland and only transfer it to the US during tax amnesties then that's one standard form of avoidance.

If the US Dropbox entity starts paying a large sum of to Dropbox Ireland in order to license some part of the technology then we're in to the cunning world of tax avoidance proper.
Reading code is a great exercise and I've nursed a half-baked post on the topic for years now. However, I'm not sure that code reading is all that's needed.