skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument is that it requires more motivation for online students to be successful than those in person. That argument could be wrong, but it does not require students to be total non-attending slackers to be correct.

Since you say you're arguing a different point: What exactly were you characterizing as hand-holding?
Varnish and HAproxy
REST+JSON framework
Possibly. There are quite a lot more addresses than two. From page 40:

Over a two-year period (January 2011 to
January 2013) we confirmed 1,905 instances of APT1 actors logging into their hop infrastructure from 832 different
IP addresses with Remote Desktop... Of the 832 IP addresses, 817 (98.2%) were Chinese and belong predominantly to four large net blocks in Shanghai which we will refer to as APT1’s home networks.

Actually their conclusion is not that straightforward:

Either a secret, resourced organization full of mainland Chinese speakers with direct access to Shanghai-based
telecommunications infrastructure is engaged in a multi-year, enterprise scale computer espionage campaign
right outside of Unit 61398’s gates, performing tasks similar to Unit 61398’s known mission.

Or APT1 is Unit 61398.

I don't have any idea of how much of this can be taken for its face value though, as they don't share much of how they have gathered the information in the report. And granted, Shanghai is a big place.
HTML is unlikely to replace native platform development except in some areas where a "cloud based" app makes sense such as calendars, email and file storage... Or in other words where content is document oriented.

The reason is the same as to why Java never replaced C/C++: Performance.

HTML requires runtime interpretation so matter how fast that is made compiled programs will be orders of magnitude faster. The reason lies in the laws of physics and as such will always be an insurmountable factor in favor of machine code.

So called experts have been predicting the end of native programs for many years however it has failed to materialize. When the web catches up and can do something as well as a native program the native program has moved on to even bigger and better things.

There will always be a place for both and the likely future will be just as it is today, a mix of web-based apps and native apps.

As a matter of fact if you look at the current market with mobile platforms included native applications have actually increased.

As a side note, if you are looking at Microsoft as an indicator of the future you will be sorely disappointed. Microsft's "me too" development strategy seved them well in the past however in the last five years it has been their undoing. It is possible that they can turn things around but it certainly won't be with Windows 8.
Racists and sexists generally aren't moustache-twirling villains cackling about who to oppress next. They are simply people who internalized these strange -isms in their culture. (If you doubt this, simply look at gendered dress codes. Many men would literally rather die than wear "women's clothes" everyday.)
Note that it does not include Office for Mac, at least the last time I looked in the downloads library (4 months ago or so). Edited to add: the linked spreadsheet says I'm wrong, so I'll log in and check.
This is a very different sort of security flaw than with Java and Flash. Google Forms was allowing users to create forms asking for information and then send links to other people asking them to fill them out. Which is exactly the intent of the program.

When you ask for a "forcing function" you're requesting a way to let people create forms asking for information in general but not letting them ask for information that people aren't allowed to give out. This may be possible, but it is at least very difficult.
You are right about this, as it is now, it looks more of a vendor lock-in gimmick
I hang around with a bunch of LW people both online and in real life, and I really don't think that I've ever seen anyone deploy the kind of rhetoric you're describing when arguing with someone. It sounds unreasonably dumb.

On the other hand, I see a lot of examples of people being unusually polite and curious about people who disagree with them, and who try to specifically cultivate the ability to drill down to the root cause of arguments and learn as the result of a dispute.
i3 + debian stable

Debian supremacy.
Well then what's wrong with people simply paying out of pocket for basic services? Insurance would be there to cover the truly catastrophic health issues, but otherwise we would all pay for the level of basic service (maintenance) we prefer to pay for.
Someone here should be easily able to implement the following

Use linkedin/Facebook API to get names of all friends/contacts who live in California and then search for their names in the data base. If found, report amount owed!!

Edit: If you want to collaborate with me on this, ping me. Email in profile.
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I use space as my easymotion leader key. So <space>-w goes forward by word, <space>down does easymotion down, etc.

I used to use space as my "clear all searches and clear the echo-line" command, but decided space is too big and easymotion is too good to not pair them. I now use <leader><leader> to do the all-clear command.
Basically, a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack aimed at networks of people, rather than networks of machines.
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What code? The only stuff in there is to respond to changes in underlying data or pass click events to their rightful handler. Also, making something prettier, more readable, and easier to maintain seems like the opposite of obfuscatory, no?
Yup. You can happily pay for private insurance, or pay out of pocket for private care, and you'll be able to get all the drugs that the NHS thinks are too expensive for the benefits they bring, or surgical procedures that are considered experimental.
A calendar that thinks like I do
Better, you can type palete.cpp and it should still be the first match.
Yes, I agree here. I've written a fair whack of plain HTML, whilst having used some preprocessors before, so I have some thoughts.

Writing plain HTML purely by hand is a pain. A massive pain. Don't do it. If you're writing HTML by hand, you're writing well over half of what you should be writing. There are tools out there that help, my number one favourite being ZEN coding.

ZEN coding is a set of tools, namely an abbreviation engine, for writing and manipulating HTML. The abbreviation engine allows you to write CSS selectors in place that ZEN will expand for you, which alone is extremely powerful. For example, the if we want 2 unordered lists of 4 links, we can write:

ul*2>li*4>a

This would be expanded to:

<ul>
<li><a href=""></a></li>
<li><a href=""></a></li>
<li><a href=""></a></li>
<li><a href=""></a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href=""></a></li>
<li><a href=""></a></li>
<li><a href=""></a></li>
<li><a href=""></a></li>
</ul>

ZEN further provides hotkeys for navigating the blank spaces in this generated code where I'd likely want to fill something in.

This is just the start though, it really comes into its own when you realise the power of Wrap abbreviation.

ZEN coding dramatically increases the rate I can write HTML and it did this within a couple of days. I remember when me and a colleague would receive a Word doc which had to be completely marked up. My colleague would take it up using a hacked together solution - he wasn't a very good programmer but had more HTML/CSS experience than me. This would take him around 2 hours to complete (70+ page doc). When he left, it was down to me. I completed it in the same amount of time using just ZEN coding (I'm not crazy though, I did write a better tool which cut that job down to 5 mins).

I advocate it so much I demand any new starter to learn it as a priority - the difference in productivity is phenomenal.

With ZEN coding, I don't need these abstractions. I can just write HTML and I don't need to recompile every time I update it.

I urge you all to try it. It will change your perception of writing HTML. Funnily enough, I now find it therapeutic.
Because software people get's no respect
Accelerate and Automate Provisioning and Management of Zend Server
Please stop using Twitter Bootstrap
This is really cool. Question: what are you using behind the scenes to smash the properties in the yaml file into your index.html? I didn't see anything explaining this (unless I missed it).
Sorry, I read your post wrong. At any rate, the analogy still applies - it becomes much more expensive to buy auto insurance after you've gotten into an accident. If you are prone to sickness, I can see why health insurance would also be harder to obtain.
At my hospital it generally only affects placement after discharge, but I'm sure it's variable.

My primary point was that while most things can be debated, it's absurd to claim that people don't get treated in the US.
I use ; quite a lot after "f"orward, but I rarely use ,. Just doesn't come up much in every-day work.
I mostly have the habit/ability to sleep exactly 8 hours from whenever I go to bed, regardless of the time of day or time zone, with no alarm clock.

I had much insomnia as a teenager and through age ~24. Even as a child, for who-knows what reason, I would resist sleep. While living alone, and working for myself, I decided to try free running sleep. Within a couple of months my sleep normalized to exactly 8 hours (who knew???), regardless of when I went to bed (which could be as ridiculously late as 6 or 11 am, I might run get a cup of coffee from the corner diner and enjoy a little morning air before going to sleep)

Now, 15 years later, I still tend to sleep exactly 8 hours. It is less reliable because I no longer live alone, and occasionally jet-lag or work excitement will defeat me, but all in all the free sleeping approach makes me very happy. My policy is to only use an alarm when I have a specific appointment which I don't want to miss, and to keep my phones etc. silent while sleeping.
"Why would I want to write a cloud service front end 3 times..."

Because you want native platform look and feel? Will you have WP tiled layout in your iOS app?

PS: you could use Mono.
Cool, browsing through your demos now!
This is incorrect, and there are many examples to prove it. For example, alleles conferring lactose tolerance increased to high frequencies in Europe just a few thousand years after animal husbandry was invented. Similarly, recent increases in the number of copies of the gene for salivary amylase, which digests starch, are related to agriculture.

Basically, the response to the change of the environment of a species depends on three factors:

1. Heritability
2. Intensity of the selection
3. Number of generations that selection acts.

What this means is that 10,000 can be more than sufficient to fully evolve the ability to eat and digest dairy and grains.
You may be interested in the results of a big voluntary annual survey here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/fp5/2012_survey_results/

It has some questions that do a reasonable job of surveying people's beliefs on transhumanisty and Yudkowsky-y stuff like AI, cryonics, and many-worlds. Going by the survey, the population is more heterogeneous than you give it credit for.
It'd be really interesting for me to know how many companies/larger projects have been build on top of Backend-as-a-service. I can understand the use case for simply storing passwords etc., but I'm really wondering whether you can create a complex product on top of them, though I am biased as a full-stack developer
Making a million dollars in any given year is still the stuff of my dreams.

I'll get there though.

I don't know much about programming, so this question might seem a little dumb, but how did you write Apple Writer?

And how did it end up being used in Apple's O/S?
I really have no idea why my cat is owed $5.98 by Ace Hardware:

http://scoweb.sco.ca.gov/UCP/PropertyDetails.aspx?propertyRe...

The address they have is correct.
I didn't change the title. A moderator must have done it.
Isn't Android basically Linux? Android looks pretty good (definitely so, as of late).
I mentioned I kept track of all the food I ate in June 2012, and even after increasing my calories after going on low-carb, I still lost weight. What part of that did you not understand?
Which websites are they talking about? Also, which browsers are infected (Chrome only or Safari, Chrome, Firefox etc)?
At a former Facebook internship, I worked for the insights team. Think Google Analytics for Facebook Pages, Apps, etc.

One of the things I built that term was a tool to visualize user retention, implementing triangle heatmaps, which I believe were invented in-house by Danny Ferante.

The idea here is to exploit the very quick visual pattern matching we're able to do as humans, and turn that into actionable cohort analysis. From the screenshot in the article (http://i.imgur.com/qBbkZv8.png), I think we can agree that it would become unwieldy with a large number of datapoints.

Compare this to http://imgur.com/sOQ4vrm, a screenshot of the triangle heatmap generated for tcreech's Cover Photo Finder Facebook App. The x-axis represents the cohort (the set of users that installed the app on the same day) broken down by day instead of by week like the article (hence patterns are more granular). The y-axis represents number of days after installation. Each datapoint is then coloured to represent the percentage of users that return to the app on (installation date + number of days).

A number of patterns are captured quite easily:

- A vertical pattern is local to a specific cohort. A new promotion or redesigned sign up page often results in this.

- A horizontal pattern is local to a specific vintage. If your app has a trial period that expires after 7 days, then you'll see your retention plummet across all cohorts horizontally at y=7.

- A diagonal pattern is local to a specific date. If your app is down on January 2nd, then there will be a diagonal blue line (0%) across all cohorts.

I wrote up a work term report for the University of Waterloo detailing triangle heatmaps: http://zeroindexed.com/triangle.pdf

Video released by Facebook explaining triangle heatmaps: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=3707283286197
Well yes, but Haml/Emblem are trying to answer the question of where tooling should belong. Is it better to "abstract" syntax with your development environment, or in the source code itself?
Ah, Bolivia! I lived in Cochabamba for about 5 months and loved it - walking, buses, taxis - so easy to get around. What's the dev scene like down there?
Finally, a sane person! I wish there was a light-syntax open-source version of XAML...
This is normal, family, doctors, and friends are dangerous:

* Hey, you no longer have enough milk! Try giving some more integration with artificial milk.

* You'll end killing her because of co-sleeping!

* Co-sleeping will increase chances of SIDS!

* Let her cry, otherwise you'll always carry her in your arms!

* <Other bad advices here>

And so forth. My advice is: don't listen to them, they tell you this with good intentions, but the reality is, for a shitload of years since we exist small babyes co-sleeped with their mothers. This is how it's supposed to work.
Unless they can prove (to themselves) that no customer data could have been obtained, they have to disclose this due to laws in several states, including California.

Aside from that, I believe it is ambiguous as to whether or not publicly traded companies have to disclose incidents that may have adverse effects for investors. In some cases, ambiguous errs on the side of not getting sued or sanctioned.

It's good that companies are coming out. I work in infosec, and it's constantly a battle with clients who take a "it can't happen to a big company like us, we have a professional IT department" mindset. It is happening, constantly, and things only improve when there is awareness.

I also like the forced disclosure to deal with the "they probably won't hack us, and if they do, we will just fix it later and quietly cover it up" companies. There are a fair number of those as well. Doing things right costs money that they think they can get away with not spending. Usually, that translates to externalizing the cost to the customers who get hacked for using their products, or get their data raided.
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> The user interface in MS Office is so much more refined, there's a greater depth of time saving features, and it runs so much faster that spending money on MS Office paid for itself right away.

How much of that is it you wanting to use a familiar UI rather vs MS having "greater depth" ?
if you hold the glass long enough, the water will evaporate. so... yeah.
>Linux is completely inappropriate for the desktop, unless you are so inept you only use a browser (get an ipad instead), or you are sufficiently skilled you think nothing of switching window managers

I see how frustrating your experience with Unity was, and it certainly echoes my own, but does it warrant such a conclusion about Linux in general? For one thing, there are alternatives to Ubuntu on the desktop. For new users who are not completely helpless with computers Linux Mint LTS with MATE is likely a better choice than Ubuntu. MATE is very Windows-like; there's a lot that can be configured through the GUI in that DE and, FWIW, I have had a good amount of success converting Windows users to it.

As for those who are "so inept [they] only use a browser", well, not all of such users can afford an iPad, especially not in those parts of the world where they have both significantly higher prices on iPads and a lower average income than the US (e.g., Eastern Europe), and even Ubuntu with Unity delivers great value to them. It's an application that's not to be taken lightly, either.

Finally, Ubuntu makes it relatively easy to switch your the desktop environment. I admit I haven't seen any usability studies nor have I seen someone try to do it but I imagine a motivated middle-level user with sudo rights should be able to follow a tutorial on YouTube [1] on how to replace Unity with Cinnamon or MATE even if something more advanced replacing Ubuntu with Linux Mint is beyond him or her.

[1] Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJYiPFodlg and many others.

Edit: If you have access to gcc/g++ at work but not sudo rights (which is a very crappy situation to be in indeed) you can try to compile a different WM/DE in a local directory for your use and then create an ~/.xsession file to start it.

You must have done this already but for the benefit of whoever else might struggling with overlay scrollbars I'll note that you can disable them by putting

export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0

into ~/.xprofile.
The simulation was a huge resource drain in SC4. So I can see how offloading it would be a speed up. That said, if it's such a drain on today's insanely powerful desktop computers, they must have an insane backing server infrastructure in place to support it. I've got 50W worth of processing power available for the sim engine (investing half of my CPUs; still far more power than I had for SC4), are they going to put up 50W of processing power while I'm playing?

I can't imagine they've really got that. Either GlassBox is simplified, or made more efficient, or important parts of it are run locally. Either way, using it as a reason to have it online-only is a sham. It's just DRM, the same kind as Assassins Creed's online-only protection.

I'll buy it anyway. I wouldn't even care about the DRM, it's everything else that I'm hearing that scares me.
Writing is the easy part (stuff like zencoding tools help with this).

But reading and grokking mountains of HTML code gets difficult for some people (me). That's when these templating languages are a lifesaver.
Twitter open-sources Typeahead.js, a jQuery auto-complete plugin
every bloody doctor, nurse, family member etc. that we discussed this with put the every living terror in us about accidentally killing her

The reason is probably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_infant_death_syndrome - no one is exactly sure why some babies dies without a visible reason, but there are some correlations.

Sharing a bed with parents or other siblings may increase risk for SIDS, but the mechanism remains unclear

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148046
The risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has fallen dramatically in the "Back to Sleep" era; however, half the cases now occur when the infant has been sleeping in bed with another person.
The same problem applies with php using the function `uniqid`. The function does not generate cryptographically secure tokens. Here are 10 generated in a row:

5123ed3e43a9c
5123ed3e43c3c
5123ed3e43c44
5123ed3e43c4b
5123ed3e43c51
5123ed3e43c56
5123ed3e43c5c
5123ed3e43c62
5123ed3e43c6b
5123ed3e43c74
like what? Send sample product to a deaddrop location?
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Experience 3D concert with facial camera controls
I think one of the issues is that at times students are far to separated from the costs. Back in the "good old days" I needed to know where that next class's cost was coming from on top of gas, food, and lodging.

The cost was more "real" to me because I knew where all those dollars came from and where they were going
Look at the exploits over the last few years. JS, JS in Acrobat, Flash, Java. Any sort of VM with sandboxing is fair game. So long for the really low hanging fruit of straight up VB attacks.

Further still, there are attacks through even the most apparently harmless types like maliciously formatted images. If the web was my everyday world, I'd be concerned walking down the street that lines on the street would strangle me.
Plleeeaaaaase change your logo (and "Home") to link to your main homepage instead of your blog's root... more: http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/05/28/startups-fix-your-blog-...
I agree that pretty much anyone who gave a cursory inspection would come to the conclusion that the attacks were from Chinese intelligence. There were still lots of defences of China claiming it could be patriotic hackers, or that the evidence was circumstantial. I think some of this was that if US officials make it clear that they know the attacks are from China it puts them under pressure to act (potentially in a way that would anger China). Diplomatically it's more convenient to pretend not to be sure.
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All the comments have a 'reply' link for me - is it still broken for you?
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Although I agree that MOST of the new accounts are a mix of upgrades and new accounts, I don't doubt that several Gmail users are switching over. Or I should say "switching over"...One of Outlook's great features is the ability for Gmail users to keep their @gmail.com address.

So what Gmail users are really switching to is a less complex webmail service in Outlook. I believe Outlook is trying to disrupt the webmail industry once again, but they are using a less complex model to do so. While Gmail has become more and more complex (not necessarily a negative), Outlook seems to be going back to simplicity.
Just upgraded...nothing really broke for me so looks good.

Nice to see lots of back porting of the security fixes.
I don't see the usual strong admonition to upgrade ASAP. (For example, the December 10 updates said, "All users are encouraged to upgrade Django immediately." This bulletin does not.)

From a quick skim of the 4 fixes, perhaps not all Django sites may be at risk. For example, if they are: already checking the 'Host' header or not using it; not using Formsets; not using multiple tiers of admin users; not using Django's XML (de-)serialization.

But, I'm least confident of that last one. Do all Django installs use Django's XML deserialization for something internal/everpresent? Or is this just a risk for users whose apps explicitly do extra XML operations?
Nice work, you can almost see my office in the opening poster image.

How the heck did you get that domain?
Puppet monitoring: how to monitor the success or failure of Puppet runs