skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apache OpenOffice Brand Refresh Project
The scientific method can get iterative. Observe / purpose / hypothesis / experiment / result / conclusion. It gets harder when all one's hypotheses' test cases conclude out as "Well, it's wasn't that". Or when the bug's intermittent with no apparent relation to one's domain knowledge.

That's the time one must apply heuristics such as (A) expand one's domain knowledge through research or talking to others, or (B) expand one's observations on the subject, or (C) expand one's hypotheses into the realm of "Oh it's just not possible that...", or "Let's try something that looks really 'stupid'...".

Of course, heuristic (C), being presumption-checking in face-saving disguise, has been the most fruitful heuristic in all my years. Those successes often become the best "teaching moments".

But here's a success story that followed heuristic (B). It goes back to the early days of the MITS Altair 8800[1] and its "S-100 bus"[2], a physically large passive backplane bus for the 8080 CPU. My employer sold complete systems comprised of that hardware with general purpose business software we wrote (using 1979-and-later versions of Bill Gates' first commercial product [3]).

We had systems that would intermittently "cold-crash" with no observed relationship to anything "rational".

So, observe: Pull the boards out and inspect them for bent pins on chips, cold solder joints... nothing. OK look at the backplane connectors, topside: No dust or bent pins. Finally turn the emptied chassis upside-down and look at the 100 solder connections for each of the 18 or so card slots. Get out a magnifying glass because this will take some time...

...and there they were: Three "cakey" looking broken solder joints on the bus. Evidently, the backplane board flexed enough (or the S-100 connector pins themselves ccommunicated enough flexure to their solder joints) upon board insertion and removal to break a weak solder joint on the bottom of the big PC board that was the backplane bus. Resolder all 1,800 pins and promlem solved for the lifetime of the machine. Found the same failure mode in a couple other boxes in the time 7 years I worked there, otherwise maintaining software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE-696
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC
Hey, I'm in similar situation (also located in Poland, doing remote work for a US-based company). I'm currently using PayPal for money transfer, mostly because it's instantaneous and easy to both deposit (for the client) and withdraw (for me). Could you summarize why you prefer currencyfair.com over it?
I think you are aiming too broad. "Just a job - any job" makes it very hard to decide if so done reading can or cannot help.

Can I suggest taking something you enjoy or work well on (maybe webrtc / html5 audio/video from your so comments maybe?) and focus on that. Look for companies hiring in those areas, google for the libraries and see who has them on their pages. Contact those people

I know it's a fair chunk of work but you are much much more likely to get a good position out of it being focused and proactive.
I never found it to be a big deal, unless you're trying to copy algorithms from another language nearly verbatim. There's not really any math that relies on 0 indexing,
Agree on car loans and credit card debt, but...student loans? That's the elephant in the room, and arguably as necessary as mortgage debt. (You can rent a small apartment, but you're shut out of many career-track jobs without at least a college degree.)
Mug Shot Websites: Profiting off People in Booking Photos?
This year's Pwnium was focused on Chrome OS, while Google also sponsors Pwn2Own: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/01/show-off-your-security-skil...
wow, this is very cool. pledged.
Reading http://golang.org/ref/spec is such joy after having lived through C/C++ for the last many years. I still love C++, but if I can get away without having to use it, then I'm all for it.
I'm moving house next week and won't have a connection to the internet for a little while. I'd rather pass the time playing SimCity than watch crap TV after work for a week or so.
aka dum dums as I understand for a solder to use something like hydrashock in a war zone would be a war crime - also the police use of tear gas is a little dicey legally if you used it in afganistan.
"No posts yet". Does that say something?
Countable.js—live word-counting in pure JavaScript
The first impression I get from this picture is that it looks photoshopped. A closer inspection reveals that it's not the picture that is shopped, but the model.
The irony is that your guide to happiness in life is basically exactly how it works. If you want to be happy, the solution is...become happy, and there's no other trick to it.

It doesn't work so well for money because there're at least some external constraints on wealth, but for happiness, it really is purely mental and your "guide" will work perfectly well for most people. Well, the ones who're willing to take enough of a leap to follow it.
If the problem turns out to be that AT&T and Cogent's peering links are overloaded, and the links between AT&T and Hurricane Electric don't have similar problems, then your border routers should be setting localpref to something low for any route with AT&T's ASN learned on the Cogent BGP session, which should send your outbound traffic to AT&T via Hurricane Electric except when your he.net link is down.

The opposite direction looks more problematic. Some ISPs will let you tag your routes with BGP communities that say ``when advertising to AT&T, prepend some extra copies of some ASN so that AT&T will be unlikely to send me traffic via this path.'' http://www.onesc.net/communities/as174/ does not list any communities which would affect how Cogent advertises routes to AT&T without affecting how Cogent advertises to all of their other peers. On the other hand, while 174:3001 is an extremely coarse tool, your traffic ratios may be sufficiently outbound only that sending most of your inbound traffic via Hurricane Electric might turn out OK, even with Hurricane Electric being only 1G and Cogent 10G (although this change might make your network less robust in the face of a DDOS attack, and you might want to drop 174:3001 when dealing with such an attack).

If the overloaded links are only overloaded in one direction, then you may only need to do one of these things, not both.
I'm glad the world seems like a brighter place now. I didn't see your original request, but I know some of that feeling. Keep with it. Picking yourself up, and letting others pick you up is something to be really proud of.
Resveratrol Protects Diabetics Against Heart Disease
BME aka Black and other Minority Ethnic groups
Practical x64 Assembly and C++ Tutorials
Don't be disappointed! This is slick, and easy to understand. I don't really want to digest the javascript Facebook is using to learn a new tool/concept.
You'd probably have better luck with a "Light corners of C++" talk.
It won't execute though:

[23] .got.plt PROGBITS 0804954c 00054c 000014 04 WA 0 0 4
[24] .data PROGBITS 08049560 000560 000010 00 WA 0 0 4 <---
[25] .bss NOBITS 08049570 000570 000008 00 WA 0 0 4

66: 0804840a 0 FUNC GLOBAL HIDDEN 14 __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx
67: 08049568 5 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 24 main <---
68: 08048278 0 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 _init

The main symbol is a relocation in .data, not .text. Which is as you would expect given that declaration. You might be able to get around that by doing something like

unsigned char code[] = { 0xf0, 0x0f, 0xc7, 0xc8, 0xc3 };

int main(void)
{
((void (*)())code)();
return 0;
}

But these days NX will usually ruin the fun.
The best way to give back might be to collate and share with us the advice you received (private issues anonymised), so that we and our friends who may need it can also benefit. Here on ths thread, or on its own thread, but linked here. Good luck and seriously thank you for having the courage to ask the question! There will be many silent people on this board who still don't have that courage, but are longing for some help.
That is one of the finest examples of being technically correct--the best kind of correct. Spec is fulfilled but everybody knows the answer is useless.
BeerQuest was built using Objective C so no easy port over to the Android platform. We are looking into supporting Android in the future though.
memmove() has proper memory moving semantics, and can deal with overlapping buffers.
What's the reason to use Apache OpenOffice over LibreOffice, again?
"Journey Through The JavaScript MVC Jungle"

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/27/journey-throug...

An open source Backbone book:

https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals

And a free lesson in Backbone from Code School after signing up for Coderbits... (usually $30)

https://coderwall.com/p/dwqwvw

Addy Osmani also has a great site that does the same todo list app in many different MV*'s:

https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc

That should be a good start!
I know this may fall on deaf ears, but couldn't you people join forces and create ONE open-source office suite? We now have LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and history tells us this trend can only get worse over time.

I'm waiting with trepidation for the moment when the LibreOffice and Openoffice document formats become mutually incompatible. When that happens, Microsoft will win again -- not by being better, just by being bigger and by not splitting into competing fragments.
Some dark corners in C
Good example on JS hoisting and function declaration tricks
If the Android app NetQ uses it, then I'd say that is meaningful.
> He has no motive to smuggle drugs.

Because .. he already had a job? A whole lot of crime is committed for reasons other than financial.
Ironic that this chapter fails to get its own point:

> Turning over a popular magazine, I find a queer and amusing example. There is an article called "The Instinct that Makes People Rich." It is decorated in front with a formidable portrait of Lord Rothschild. There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only "instinct" I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as "the sin of avarice."

And:

> If these writers, for instance, said anything about success in jumping it would be something like this: "The jumper must have a clear aim before him. He must desire definitely to jump higher than the other men who are in for the same competition. He must let no feeble feelings of mercy (sneaked from the sickening Little Englanders and Pro-Boers) prevent him from trying to do his best. He must remember that a competition in jumping is distinctly competitive, and that, as Darwin has gloriously demonstrated, THE WEAKEST GO TO THE WALL."

One of the hugest obstacles in front of most of the people on this forum, who profess to desire to make more money, is a vague and bothersome belief that money is somehow evil.

How can an intelligent person not see that the statement "rich people are avaricious", deeply held as a core belief, is a block against any likelihood of getting rich oneself?

I'm sure the book as a whole is full of useful wisdoms, but this particular passage seems short-sighted to the point of not even being able to see its own nose.

There are many issues with a large proportion of the self-help articles, books, speeches and so on, but to declare that limitations of the self are simply not worth considering is pretty dumb. As any high-achiever knows, most of the battle is not against reality, but against your own limitations. Being aware of those limitations and of how to shift them, remove them, or push beyond them, is essential.
Try the recently launched on Android 'Craft Beer' app.
Comparing an Integer With a Floating-Point Number, Part 1: Strategy
Analytics - Keeping track of the pulse of your startup
Efficient Memoization using Partial Function Application
If you didn't learn from an experience, chances are high the blame lies with you and not the experience.

Here are some things you can easily learn from this article…

"Smart" people are easily duped.

Things which seem obvious at first are often less obvious -- did you originally assume he was innocent, a bumbling professor? What about after the texts? Did you believe he was innocent then? Did you WANT to?

What is it that kept you reading the whole story? Something the author did? A technique you could use yourself?

Etc etc etc etc. If you expect "learnings" to present themselves to you on a plate, labeled "Learnings," pre-selected and pre-digested for you, you will never become as wise as you could.
"At least, let us hope that we shall all live to see these absurd books about Success covered with a proper derision and neglect." - G.K Chesterton, 1908.
As someone who spent 10 years selling cars, the salesman really is "talking to the manager". There is just incompetence and slow workers everywhere. Also, often times that manager has 5 salesmen in line wanting an offer to give their customers. Throw in folks who need the dealership to get financing, etc and it is just an inefficient bottleneck. Lots of companies have tried changing it, but it seems the old school method keeps being the best way to maximize profit.
I believe that the rules were changed this year to require full disclosure. Prize money was upped to commensurate.

Pwnium was ChromeOS only, while the sandbox escape portion of this attack was Windows-only (possibly 32bit Windows only as well?)
Remote Development: To be (there) or not to be
Generally, I like this idea, but it will be interesting to see how it pans out. My sense is that innovation prizes are mostly the whims of the wealthy - they are the modern equivalent of patronage. Performance-based patronage with a dash of magnanimity. Crowd-funded innovation prizes will probably not have an iconoclast to give the enterprise focus and visibility. That's not deadly, though: it's easy to imagine a crowd-funding site which solicits two things, money from ordinary people and endorsements from celebrities. You know, Paris Hilton's smiling face encouraging you to give $20 to the Singularity Prize.

And while I like the performance-based approach, unlike patronage this places a great deal of risk on the shoulders of the innovators. If they are independently wealthy, no problem. But most scientists aren't. Which means they'll need to get funded, which means dealing with capital. Now VCs are already, quite directly, in the research game. But even $10M prizes are small. Indeed, a $100M prize might be too small if there are many competitors and the challenge takes years. These prizes would have to be a lot bigger to compete with the kinds of payouts startups can yield.

Or perhaps the idea is that people compete while they are not doing anything at their day job at the Swiss patent office?
That may not be much help for the poor in HK.
Perfect! My four-year-old has begun to ask me sometimes at bedtime why people have to die. Now instead of merely saying prayers with him, I can tell him, y'know, your cells count down their telomeres because otherwise cancer would be even more inevitable than it already is. Thanks, popular expositors of science, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown! At least I learned something. Psst, you researchers over there, you're gathering your material for another chapter in this story, right?? P.S. I only have to ask Wikipedia "Telomere" (which refers to "Hayflick limit") to get my answer: Yes, and there have been revisions to this chapter too.
They promised us flying cars, and all we got were these electric cars and Bloom boxes!
Innovation prizes? I could not disagree more.

If you've seen the excellent RSA animate talk "Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us"[1] you'll see that it's quite the opposite. When it comes to mentally challenging tasks, people want autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Just pay them enough to take the issue of money off the table.

Personally, that really agrees with me. My ideal situation is to be funded via a sustainable crowd-sourced funding like Gittip, so that I can continue doing what I'm doing now: _not_ working at a deadend business that's only concerned about making a profit, where I hate working for my boss. Instead, I want to[2] create amazing software tools that make our world a better place to live. I really enjoy software development and want to make it better, funner, more efficient. I don't care about money beyond just making enough to pay for rent and food. Money and food are just in my way, stealing away from the time I could be working.

Thankfully, I still have some savings that'll last me maybe half a year before I do have to find a way to make a living again. But really, I want to keep this up.

My current life: wake up each morning, absolutely free of any commitments, and think to myself: what cool things can I do today to make the world better?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc#t=294s

[2] https://github.com/shurcooL
This has been done better. Check out the PDF:

https://jeena.net/php-the-good-parts
I did a similar App for restaurants in another country, however, I did an Android and iOS version and found that much more people are using my Android app. The conversion rate seems to be better on Android as well.

So, I'd love to see this App on the Google Play store since I am a huge fan of great beer and the bars where to find them.
It does test knowledge. Nothing wrong with knowledge.

I expect they asked some other questions too.
Fantastically annoying - an opinion that was sadly beaten in to me rather than being plucked out of thin air. Any language that indexes starting from 1, and can't be configured to index starting from 0, is broken as supplied. Lua makes a number of very poor decisions, in my view, with this being among the worst. I don't think it's quite the worst, but it might be... at index 1, perhaps.
You mean..they changed their marketing speak. Suing because buzzwords don't work the way you think they should isn't a very good basis for a lawsuit.
Makerbot Brings Us One Step Closer To At-Home Replicators
I worry about peptide comparison
You've accurately described the predicament Boeing is in with the 787 battery packs.

There obviously is time to pursue further domain knowledge of how these batteries fail in the field, but pressures of the market are now in full force.
Yup and it's not showing up anywhere. Maybe it wasn't that important to many people but this is really interesting. Other things make it to the front page but the open source letter submission got buried quick.
> But economically speaking, sound decision, just poorly executed.

I'm not sure it counts as a 'sound decision' if you take a very risky option that hasn't panned out well for competitors in the same market on the premise that if you beat the odds, you'll get a bit more money.

I think EA underestimated the cost of their "always on" DRM, and didn't adequately assess the risk against the payoff - and now have taken a business hit from it.

For example, literally no one I know that I used to play Sim City with for hundreds of hours as a kid purchased this game - precisely because of EAs decisions regarding always on DRM and their history with Spore design. They've effectively driven away over a dozen people in their 20s, perfectly willing to fork over $70-100 on a game they like. (Or $200 or $300 or $1000 on a really good game they like; I'm looking at you table-top guide books, trading card games, and minifigures.)

I consider that exactly the opposite of 'sound decisions'.

tl;dr: You have to assess the risk that you're going to poorly execute your choice to make a 'sound decision'; I'm not sure EA did.
Title is a bit sensationalist and makes no mention of the two Win8/IE10 exploits found at the same event. Nor FF for that matter.
You are already helping by telling your story here. People who feel the same way you did now have a story of someone in their situation overcoming their depression. Your example is already helping others.

As such, anyone who feels the same way should feel free to comment here to reach out or just vent.
What Does Pi Have To Do With Gravity?
It isn't GPL/LGPL basically
I wrote a compiler for a subset of C, and I'm happily aware of all of these 'dark corners'. That's why I would always recommend writing a compiler for a language if you _really_ want to understand the language.
ipairs is gone in 5.2
hahaha. cruel!
I think the problem in HK is the number of undocumented immigrants. No papers, no open borders, surrounded mostly by water, these people are easy to exploit. I was told that many of the construction workers' (building skyscrapers) wages barely amount to the cost of the day's food.
Find a subject matter you have a passion for, research the field of existing apps (because every genre is now saturated) and then make a better app.
Fantastic idea actually. Comments on this page are fascinating.

This too: "The fourth address was robbed in 7 hours"..."I did not tell anyone about my test"! LOL, nuts.
KeePassDroid is lovely.

I've never understood the argument against complex, unique passwords when there are numerous robust, free, and cross platform tools for pw management. It's far easier to manage one database of generated credentials than to remember even a handful of sets of simple auths.
I actually would have no problem with them just telling me "hey you can't use this card because it's in another account." It was the severity of the action that was the most frustrating part. I'm still not sure why when the card was in my account to start with it let my wifes purchase go through, that just doesn't make any sense at all to me.
Are governments here for the sake of their people? Or are people here for the sake of their governments?
Ubuntu used to be one thing, and it was exactly what I wanted.

Now they're something else, and that's OK, but it's not what I want, and that's OK too.

At the moment I'm hanging on to the parts I want by my fingernails, running the nicely minimal Lubuntu. But I think the writing's on the wall that eventually Ubuntu/Canonical will have no interest in supporting the various Ubuntu derivatives, and I'll need to fall back to something like LXDE on Debian. And that's OK too.

Ubuntu used to be one thing. Now they're something else. That's OK. So long, and thanks for all the updates.
No clue, but Java security seems to be a hot topic right now. OP's post history is very bot-like, a single fluff article every day, never more than one, and one comment on registration day, no more.

But it's altogether possible OP is just very consistent and persistent.
If you have to pay a monthly fee, why should you have to pay upfront? That doesn't make any sense. If the monthly fee gives access to the game, then the client should be freely downloadable with a monthly access fee to play the game. If you pay up-front, then you should be able to use it without requiring any additional payments.
I just bursted out in laughter!
It looks like there is quite a bit of data already for Austin users (which makes sense for SXSW), but I just tried this in San Francisco and it looks pretty empty.

Is there an existing data set out there for beer? I know there are a TON of beer review sites, but I'm guessing none have an API or a way to integrate.

If you want this to take off I'd suggest trying to get a few early power users in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle to light a fire in the Pacific Northwest as this is definitely micro-brew country.
I'm using this if you don't mind.
Do these people have access to cooking facilities? Also a lot of the stuff there is being bought in bulk, and I imagine that storing stuff might be a problem. And of course, there is the omnipresent fact that many poor people do not have the time/knowledge to prepare many kinds of meal.
I can't imagine that would be anything but noise. 99% of my function calls have pointers passed through, not arrays.