skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular Quora answer does not reflect highly on the LayerVault folks–it makes a lot of ad hominem attacks and comes off as immature.
The wrong thing to do is nothing.

I encourage you to work out what you could do that could help this situation, anything, and do it.
Heroku for static content is always terrible, I am always surprised at how many people host static sites on Heroku, it is really easy to host of S3 buckets and it is much faster for static pages.
The connection is accepted, and a single-threaded web server will do the queuing.
That was before he released an expanded version of Portal 2 on PS3. He's moved from MS to Sony over the years.
Worse case scenario that I can think of is that they use the same password for their email as they used for the in-app auth in the App they bought.

Next step would be for the app creator to login, see what they can use to create requests for other personal credentials. Facebook password reminder, they get in, then they have the user's DoB and family information (for those stupid companies still using "what's your mothers maiden name" password reminder questions).

You could probably do a fair chunk of damage, but that's all based off the fact that the user would have to be silly enough to still use the same password over multiple services. Yes I know... we've been telling them for far too long, but people still don't listen. They think that if their bank password and their email password are different then they are safe.
> If anything, verbs do nothing without a noun to do them, and nouns need verbs to do anything.

This is only true in natural language. Formal math languages are generally verb-oriented, hence functional languages are verb biased.

> So perhaps we should just acknowledge the value of traits, objects, and functions and move on.

The only thing we (OOP vs. FP fanboys) generally argue about is whether the noun should come first or the verb, which has significant implications in how dispatch is done. It really does determine whether your designs are more naturalistic (noun first) or mathematical (verb first).
I'm not sure which point is hard to believe, but hoping this helps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Judaism
Boycotting the CS final to get an A
You mean because they'll crash before then? Otherwise I don't follow. Surely there's always a limit to how many simultaneous requests can be processed at once.
I've found the best way to avoid them is to wear a suit and to constantly look at your smartphone like you're an executive who's aggravated with a business problem. If they question you give terse responses with a hint of being annoyed but without being rude. Or even be a little rude but apologize highlighting how you're dealing with a problem at work. They tend to move on.
Why would they say that? GIMP hasn't changed much, aside from adding a single window as an option recently.
I checked my mailbox and BOOM, there it was. I got a shipping notification the next day, which was cute. But in SF, I'm less than an hour's drive from their fulfillment center, so others will probably be better prepared.
If the user is already setting a password in the app, couldn't the app just ask for the user's email address? It doesn't seem like having the email address for free really buys a malicious developer that much.
That's what they've been saying for 60 years with no end in sight. The other consideration is that neither South Korea or China wants a flood of refugees. But I tend to think that if China wanted it could be done and over quickly and the rebuilding could be assisted by the whole world through the UN.
With Dota 2, I think they are set for life.
Coworking in 7 countries in Asia for less than $10k
The US Postal Service's Bold History of Innovation
Yes. Only the South Koreans can make that call, as they have the most to lose. If they decided to invade, and asked for US assistance, I for one would support that, to the extent of volunteering to fight.

Alas, from an historical standpoint, North Korea is a relatively small aberration as long as it remains isolated and weak. The thing that I don't understand is how such a repressive regime could possibly have developed nuclear weapons. It seems somehow unfair, not to mention dangerous for the rest of us, that advanced science can be done in such an environment. I've always assumed that anyone smart enough to do such work would be smart enough to refuse to do it. But I guess I am wrong.
Every flight I've been on in the last several years has allowed you to bring a lighter on board.

Edit: looks like that changed in 2007.

http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/lighters-and-matches
> Of course, it's easier to work with both real objects AND real functions/closures/lambdas -- I can use a hammer and a screwdriver :-)

But do you hit your screwdriver with the hammer, or do you twist your hammer with the screwdriver? This can be a real problem if one programs in Scala.
Maybe you're lucky? I fit your description and have been pulled aside for additional screening several times.
An organization called resource.org, discussed on HN [1] [2] has been purchasing and publishing standards and other documents that are parts of laws.

I haven't heard of them being sued yet, although they're prepared for it; that may change soon [4] [5].

The actual releases are available at [3].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5025381

[2] http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/liberating-americas-secret....

[3] https://law.resource.org/pub/12tables.html

[4] https://law.resource.org/pub/table12.html

[5] PDF link https://law.resource.org/images/rfcs/smaccna.20130205.from.p...
Wasn't flight 93, according to the official version, hijacked by four people using pocket knives?
Just to note, I am in no way claiming Java is superior. Java is inferior in ways I think are not the ones Yegge claims.

For me, these are the things Java sucks at.

1) There is no easy way to create lists or maps. Look at python; how easy it is to create a dictionary. In Java, you have to "write code" to put elements in a map.

2) Reflection is very weak. It is not type checked at compile time. You have to write a lot of garbage just to run the show.

3) The getters/setters are a hell. Not to write them mind you, but the amount of cruft that creeps in, that you have to filter out to get to the heart of the problem during reading.

4) The constructors: A a = new A() (wtf....)

5) piss-poor Generics.

6) File Operations are pure crap.

7) One class per file? Omg.. For a long time, I thought i sucked at OOPS. The single biggest reason it took me long to get acquainted with OOPS is because of one class per file. Any other class is a new file, a context switch in my mind. In Java, Objects are first class entities; it should be cheap(in terms of things i need to look at) to define, create, and switch between them.

Finally, I think Java sucks because of its verbosity. And a subliminal style that it supports. There are a lot of programmers in Java who think the best way of multiplying two numbers is to add one of them other number of times . Somehow, everything should be drawn out.
We've had Battle Rap, Gangsta Rap, you name it Rap.

Maybe this is the start of Off the Rails Rap.
It just launched today https://plus.google.com/+GoogleConsumerSurveys/posts/EGKJTW8...
I would challenge you to provide examples of US gov't supported terrorist actions. Note, I'll ask you stick to the commonly held definition of terrorism which is the intentional targeting of innocent civilians in order to incite terror.

I think this hinges somewhat on the meaning of the word "innocent". What I think you mean is innocent in the sense of "uninvolved", rather than in the moral sense.

It's no secret that the CIA (among other US agencies) captures, kills, and torturers people in other countries. But it's my understanding, at least, that the US does not purposefully do so to "uninvolved" citizens of those countries. These actions are done against violent members of the ruling class actively opposing US interests, and their allies. None of these people are "uninvolved" in the sense that charges of "terrorism" would require.

To put it more bluntly: the US does not attempt to incite "terror" in uninvolved citizens in any country, ever. It just not how our government works to achieve US goals abroad.

Whether the US policy of intervention abroad is good or bad is certainly open to debate, and the reality of "collateral damage" is ever present. But I don't think that US intervention abroad counts as "terrorism", under the standard definition of the word, which is why arguments that try and equate the two tend to fall on deaf ears.
The Executive Order The Press Agreed To Keep Secret For Five Hours
I met a TSA airport agent a few months ago and, naturally, asked him exactly this. Apparently, the TSA purposely does not release accurate statistics as a security measure and that he and his colleagues have definitely stopped a lot of potential, but minor, scenarios from happening.

I could be wrong and uneducated about this, of course.
I hate sounding like a broken record, and this isn't really aimed at anyone in particular (just a few comments have irked me), but if you haven't seen this talk from like a decade ago, please watch it before you post on things concerned with privacy.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8C71542205AA51E5

"Privacy is dead, get over it - Steve Rambam"
The problem isn't TSA. The problem is that we and the world have not delivered a sufficiently severe set of consequences for engaging in terrorism.

If you have small children you've seen this at work a million times. It could be about not touching a hot pot or not abusing the cat. Sometimes you can repeat your "don't do <x>" a million times and it simply does not register. Kids are wired that way, and, I suspect, most of us remain wired that way for some time.

When does the behavior stop? When they touch the hot pot and get burned or when they mess with the cat too much and they are attacked. Just to clarify, none of these things happened to my kids because (a) I got lucky and they tend to listen and, (b) we don't own a cat.

The point is that TSA and a bunch of other measures none of us like (Patriot act anyone?) were a reaction to an absolute failure to communicate, in no uncertain terms, that terrorism has severe and dire consequences. Almost unimaginable consequences that not one person on this planet would want to provoke.

We are not a "hot pot" or a "cat" in the eyes of any of these people. We are a country and a people to be messed with because the consequences just don't hurt enough. And so is much, if not all of the West and Europe. This is a problem when you have an ideology and people who are living 800 years behind the rest of the planet. No? Ha! Go ask their women, their homosexuals and anyone who dares express such vile things as wanting women to be educated. Maybe 800 years is too small of a number, maybe it's more like 1,500 years.

What consequences am I talking about? No point in going into it. The opportunity was lost over a decade ago. I am not sure I am smart enough to even begin to imagine what could be done today.

You have to turn the environments within which would-be terrorists are cooked-up into environments where not one person would even consider the idea of terrorism due to a clear understanding of the consequences.

Do that. Accomplish that. And you can shutdown the TSA, Homeland Security, the Patriot Act and all else that is making our lives miserable and expensive.

Yes. They won. Why would anyone doubt that? Look at all you've given up in the name of security. Sad.
I don't see the address or phone number.
I do see zip code and email.
It's OK to feel your emotions and make decisions based on them. Life isn't a business where everything comes down to a cost-benefit analysis. There are real people living in these conditions and I bet they're wondering why nobody is helping them. If you were in their shoes, how would you feel about our inaction?

What if Nazi Germany stopped short of trying to invade western Europe and Russia yet still had it's concentration camps? Would you have argued that it's not worth the cost of war to put an end to them?
Because these two blog posts are happy about the setup of the Play store, it is not a flaw anymore (with or without quotation marks)? It surprised the app developer in the OP and it surprised me. It may be very, very old news, but I read the internets quite a bit and still didn't know this.
A lot of people who use Xcode don't realize you can use many of those tools without it

A lot of people period, don't bother to use the analyzers and instruments.
Over many requests, both should average to N requests served to each instance assuming a uniform random distribution.

The real issue is being able to figure out instances to avoid when some requests end up being slow. To put it another way, ideal balancing in this case isn't about evenly splitting all requests, but evenly splitting all processing (or waiting) time.

If you can guarantee that requests tend to take pretty stable and uniform time, then random or round-robin distribution should give good results. If you can't, some requests will be stuck waiting behind others and their waiting time will accumulate. You'll see worse behaviour when two or more of the bad slow requests get queued one after the other.
You get what you pay for. When I'm paying for a $16/megabit @95th on a 10 Gig port, and I get hit with a DDOS, it's my providers problem, because I'm not paying $16/megabit for DDOS traffic, so they need to stop that stuff before it gets to me (ideally without impacting my customers)

Contrawise ,if I'm paying $2-$3/megabit @95th on a 1 Gig Port, the amount of support I can expect during a DDOS is pretty minimal, so I end up having to take the hit - but my damage is limited to $3000/month so I don't really care.

Any time I see a "We don't charge for Bandwidth" service, I interpret it to mean one of (A) We'll throttle you once you exceed our unspoken limit, or (B) We'll discontinue your service. (Drop your port from 1 Gig down to 100 Megabits, or slower, traffic shape you, etc...) once you breach that limit.

There is no sustainable third option for those who provision reasonably high quality transit, and those who believe there is will one day wake up with their internet property offline, or seriously degraded.
I had the opposite experience once. I forgot to empty my bottle and the TSA agent apologetically said I'd have to throw it away or re-enter. I was frustrated and asked if she could just empty it for me. She said no, it was against the regulations. In a frustrated tone I told her how I thought that was ridiculous but was never rude or disrespectful. I even made it clear that I understood her position and that she had to follow the rules. I decided to throw it away. As I put my belt and shoes back on she handed it back to me on the sly, empty. I was very thankful knowing that she had gone out of her way to help at the risk of being reprimanded.
AIUI, the point is that a sane dose of LSD doesn't taste bitter, so if one rejects any bitter blotter then one would be erring on the side of caution - possibly rejecting perfectly good LSD due to a bitter ink or paper, but avoiding the great majority non-LSD psychedelics.

It's certainly preferable to identify a substance before tasting it, but it's not too late - spitting the paper out and rinsing the mouth out is likely at least to reduce the absorbed dose.

A perhaps more pressing problem is the risk of anxiety due to an innocently-bitter piece of blotter - I imagine a borderline-bad trip could be made much worse by a persistent fear that it would last >24h.

Of course, real caution would mean not eating anything cooked up by criminals in an illicit lab...
High cost/risk associated with switching providers, and frog-in-heating-water syndrome.
A pocket knife is a rather absurd weapon anyways to anyone with common sense. Sure it could be used as a weapon, but it's not something that would keep passengers from stopping a terrorist in 2013. I don't know if pocket knives were technically allowed or just overlooked because of the above reason. My reference was in regards to the obvious (guns, swords, explosives, etc). I was at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix in the late 90s and the entire airport was shut down when someone went through security with a gun.

Pedantics aside, airport security used to have common sense. Now, it's been tossed out the window for zero tolerance "no need to think" policy. It doesn't mean we should return exactly to the laws of the 1990s for airport security in the US, but the "security theater" for the sake of making people think they're safer by inconveniencing at best and harassment/theft/groping at worse is ridiculous.
A Thompson hack virus is found in the wild (2009)
Denying it certainly makes no sense, but we could do with more people having a healthy fear of it; perhaps then we might start doing more about it.

People who think of death as "the next great adventure" (as phrased in the Harry Potter book series), or any number of other cached euphemisms, will have relatively little inclination to actually fix it, or even think about it.
Vince Vaughn And Owen Wilson Movie About Being A Google Intern
The argument there would be that the user "provided" the app owner with their email address, where at this point Google is just giving it to them. Don't get me wrong, I'm on the, I don't care side.

I was in a store one day when the clerk asked the customer for their postcode, the customer went nuts saying that he shouldn't have to tell them. Three minutes of arguing could have been shortened to "INSERT FAKE NUMBER" if he was really that against giving his real post code.
What would the motivation be for doing this? If for anything other than historical interest, is there anything a 23 year old version of Photoshop has over GIMP?
Yes, this is the same story.
Cyber Attacks Against Uyghur Mac OS X Users Intensify
Facebook Releases Friends Organization Tool
That's the one thing I really miss. It's almost inevitable that I find myself needing a Leatherman at my destination (after all, you're away from all your other tools).

I've even resorted to buying one at my destination and giving it to someone as a gift when I leave.

I once bought a cheap soldering iron, hookup wire, and solder in Cambridge, MA and left it behind in the hotel room 'cause I didn't want the security hassle of taking it home on the plane.
Java has had anonymous inner classes for a very long time. They are a bit verbose, but did the job as a first-class functiona alternative very well back in the day, to the point that I actually miss them in C# that did have first class functions (b/c anonymous inner classes were useful beyond just first class functions!).

The only reason it has take Java so long to add lambdas is that anonymous inner classes did the job well enough for many years; the pressure to add them just wasn't strong enough (a victim of its own success, so to say).
Cyber espionage campaign against the Uyghur community, targeting Mac OSX systems
Iceland considers pornography ban
Once Quora started blurring answers like Experts Exchange, I had no use for it. You're holding user-contributed content hostage? Go away.

Complaining about usability on Quora is like complaining about not having privacy on Facebook.
License terms for the Adobe Director exporter for iOS: 10% royalties...
To be fair, the US does have more than its fair share of gun toting idiots.
It can be found within the terms here: http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/director_supplemental_te...
Coincidentally, the CHM has MacPaint's source[0] as well.

(I've honestly not heard much about CHM before. Making sure to find my way there next time I manage to end up in the Bay Area)

[0] http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-...
This looks incredibly, incredibly useful. These guys are going to go FAR with this. I just pre-ordered one. Can't wait!
I believe Mongrel2 (http://mongrel2.org) is close to what you're talking about. It uses zeromq (http://www.zeromq.org) to talk to a backend application and the backend application talks back to the web server using the same protocol.

Not exactly nodes pulling messages off a queue, but closer to something like that?
> More people would die if we did than if we don't.

Over what time scale? I'm not advocating military action--I don't know nearly enough to have an informed opinion--but it seems to me that military action could cost lives now, but save countless innocent North Koreans in the generations to come. One can think back to the Second World War and consider what the cost of inaction would have been there. Concentration camps should not exist and if all other avenues have been exhausted, at what point does one have to accept the risk of dying to end them?

I don't live in South Korea, nor do I have family there, so I understand that words like this are easy for me and I don't pretend otherwise. This isn't our decision to make in the West. But there's something about standing by and doing nothing that just seems unconscionable to me. Are sanctions really going to stop this? And now they have nuclear weapons too? Can this ever get better without getting worse first?
Not sure how much this explains about names in particular, but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_differences...
Linux grows up [2008]
Hmm. I hear what you're saying, but I think you may be underestimating the cultural undercurrent present here. Intelligence does not automatically correlate to respecting freedom of thought or other Western ethical ideals.
I'm hoping that Google will penalize them someday. They download all the content in the page so that they'll get indexed for it, but they don't offer it up without an account to the user.
The only thing I would like on my Chromebook is something like Cmus, so I can play music. Other than that, I am quite happy with it.
Hmm, you're right of course. Somewhere our terms got crossed, I wouldn't call (total requests/servers) concurrency, I'd call that request density.
Cockpit doors are secured now, which really limits the damage a person can do with simple tools.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashshashin

1080 < 1776.
I hit this on Android the other day and quickly closed the page and put Quora out of my mind. I'll never use it again.
I'd guess the problem wouldn't be as bad if each instance could handle more connections/requests than one or two. Allow say, 10 of them, and you will reduce the problem by a lot I believe.
>Without fission, the Malthusian doomers are, well, they are right. And that's going to make for an unpleasant world to live in.

Isn't that a bit of a stretch? These long-scale predictions are always wrong.

We're on the very leading edge of many areas of energy research, any of which could dramatically alter the energy landscape. With materials science, genetic engineering, and nanotech all reaching some level of sophistication, the chances of a 'big' success are increasing daily.

Additionally, the big breakthroughs in the past were largely discovered by the ~5% of the globe who had access to the best universities and labs. The democratization of knowledge to literally billions of people has given earth the potential to collaborate on big projects on a scale the never before seen.

Obviously, nuclear power is the lowest-hanging fruit if you aim to achieve carbon-neutral energy security, but this pessimism about human ingenuity is probably misplaced.
Go with HTML5. It is the current standard, and is the way forward. It's widely supported.

Really, for just learning HTML, you shouldn't be dealing with the kind of specialized stuff that HTML5 addressed, other than its semantic elements. KISS.
Crowdini: A Question and Answer contest to Master the Wisdom of the Crowd
Quora does the same thing in chrome when you aren't logged in ...

PS: I can't think of ExpertsExchange without being reminded of the url fail.