skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protip: Computer science is not coding. Also it is not a science, it is a branch of math.
"Insults to the chef will result in larger portions" MAD magazine sticker I saw posted in an English cafeteria.
Neo4j - The World's Leading Graph Database
Physicists Discover a Whopping 13 New Solutions to Three-Body Problem
I think that the what this really shows is that having a common language you can expect to work on all installs shortens the feedback loop for obtaining and using small programs by leaps and bounds.

Of course, having to type it in from a magazine is quite a barrier.
This is a great opportunity for them to turn a shitty situation into one that will awe their customers. They should go overboard in terms of making their existing and potential new customers happy. While this is a good gesture, I don't think it's enough.
I'll second that, I would pay for something like this for emacs, the constant configuration and switching between linux/windows is pushing me to sublime text...
yup they do, thats why sites like spacebox.io & shoplocket are fine, but others are (probably) just illegally aggregating.
The Entire 'Matrix' Movie in 60 Seconds [video]
um, how is this even a thing?
Tumblr Completely Revamps Search Function to Improve Discovery
Is this entire service just migrating from posterous to tumblr? How long could such a thing last? April?
One interesting aspect to this case is that the majority actually ruled for the government, in that the incriminating evidence was not be suppressed. It's just that in doing so, they clarified some points of law along the way in a way we like.

That matters because it means that the government will not appeal the ruling, even though it might limit border agents in the future. It also means that if the defendent does get it appealed to the Supreme Court, the government would probably be ok if the Supreme Court ruled the same way.
Big ancient companies who can afford to heavily manage and baby sit their programmers can use people like that. Not everyone needs to be a "rock star" in order to contribute.
can you link me to the product checkout?
That's like saying millionaire could not possibly commit fraud - he already has a million! Madoff's case provides ample proof to the contrary, to say nothing of other people operating the finance industry.
Volta's approach seems to be essentially implementing a low level .NET runtime and representing the bytecode as JS. It gives you some cool stuff for free (for example, that low level approach means their type system works almost exactly like .NET's universally) but it does indeed mean that you have to work harder to give JS engines an opportunity to optimize your code. It makes integration tougher, too. In comparison, the best way to describe JSIL's approach is trying to express .NET concepts on top of JS, so it uses JS standard libraries and types wherever possible.

JSIL is theoretically limited in that there are things expressible in IL that you simply can't do in a browser. However, out of all the executables I've run the compiler on so far, very little of the IL they contain is actually impossible to translate - the tricky patterns and opcodes seem to get used only occasionally in one or two methods.

Some parts are definitely harder than others; I've only recently gotten support for pointers and the 'unsafe' class of C# features working: http://jsil.org/try/#5055026 and that's only covering a subset of all the different opcodes defined for doing interesting things with pointers and references. For example, function pointers will probably never work, and IIRC there are a few opcodes dedicated to interacting with those.
I'm not a programmer but. . .unless you're coding an explicitly math-intensive application, aren't there tools that could do any math that's required? Of course, the tool would have to come from a trusted source.
Yes, I suspect the last line of your comment is at the heart of this issue and the doublespeak surrounding it coming from EA. SimCity is, to be sure, a great game. The problem seems to be that the people who control the strings (which, from our vantage point, we can only presume to be EA rather than Maxis) don't care about the reputation of the game and this PR disaster... only about their bottom line. And like so many other things, if money can be thrown at an issue, it's worth it to such a company.

What I mean by that is that I bet EA made this decision not with the intention of "how can we win back the good faith of our loyal customers", but "how can we ensure we make as much money (or lose the least) from this". You know, there is a reason why certain companies involved in pollution-creating waste disposal actually factor in the cost of simply accepting (or challenging) the legal fines for improper disposal into their decision making... if the cost of simply dumping improperly and paying the price (literally) outweighs the cost of properly disposing and cleaning up their business (literally and figuratively), their choice is, unfortunately, usually pretty clear.
Possibly something that most of us haven't thought of/aren't aware of currently.
Hacking Github with Webkit
Pretty much, but really, there's not much point hoping for that as long as the people who actually own the site don't want it that way.

What's needed is for somebody to set up an equivalent site with better moderation policy. I'd love to take a shot at that, but I'm up to my eyes already, I just don't have time. Probably the same is true of most people here, but if you ever run into anyone who is looking for a project, please point them to that idea.
I wonder what happened to Heroku. They used to be awesome. They still have elements of being awesome, but seem either resource constrained or self destructive. I find it hard to believe Salesforce wouldn't give them what they need to do things correctly -- ranging from "go multi-AWS Region or move off AWS" to building a decent load balancing system to handling this fiasco.
I don't feel qualified to predict what professions will be well compensated in 50 years. Some of them don't exist yet.

5 years? Still no idea.
The update was Monday: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/03/stable-chan...
There's a difference between being able to buy a Rolex and believing the guy on the corner selling Rolexes out of this coat pocket sells genuine ones. First has to do with the ego, the second only with lack of the common sense.
As one of the owners of the Chrome Windows sandbox, that level of inaccuracy hurts to read. The correct statement is that Nils and Jon's pwn2own exploit bypassed the sandbox by using a Windows kernel vulnerability that's exposed in every process on the system. You can argue about the extent to which you should be able to rely on the kernel to enforce its guarantees, but the component that failed isn't a point of debate.
I want to see whether Apple delivers on Tim Cook's alleged, cryptic comment. Given some of the very clever things Apple has done technically (GCD, neatly adding closures to C, Thuderbolt,...) I remain hopeful Apple has at least one nice surprise left for the Mac Pro faithful.

But don't assume it will be a new Mac Pro. Why not a new portable that can transparently offload compute-intensive operations to the cloud, and seamlessly utilize external acceleration via Thunderbolt?
Tramitar la curp
Curp es la clave unica que se utiliza en méxico como mediio de identificacion para los tramites de actividad comercial
Many students take one or two classes before they realize its not like any subject they have encountered before and inability to independently figure out difficult problems leads to F's in the class.
I stand with that reactionary right-wing organization, the ACLU, in declaring the Citizens United decision a victory for free speech and necessary for a strong democracy.

IMO, when "progressives" talk about Citizens United they show their true colors...
"And a result of this public outcry, we've decided to remove the DRM that is crippling this otherwise great software." - Said no company ever
The lack of detail is almost a guarantee that they will limit the 'free PC download game from the EA portfolio' to whatever they feel is the minimum necessary to calm the masses. If they were giving away anything more than the bottom of the barrel you know they would be proclaiming how amazing they are for giving away another "full price game" or something similar. Also, 10 days gives them enough time to say "We fixed it! SC works great _now_. You should be happy to get anything on top of the full game you already have."
I think the value of almost any math class is that it teaches you to think logically, weed out noise (in data). . .both of which are valuable traits for programming.
I was wary of the elderly on-line scam defence tactic. He spent a significant time on the internet and was familiar with electronic communications. And it took me only a few seconds to find out that lived in L.A. at the time of the scam. That was less than basic due diligence.

His "greatest dream" was to win a Nobel by factually verifying "through experimentation" an amazing prediction. Any great scientist must balance the odds of failure against the price of failure and he seems to have forgotten basic methods during that step in this particular experiment.
What sounds really strange to be in that paper is that a physicist needed to multiply 200 by 2000 on paper. How hard is that? First-grader should be able to do it.
I have to say one of my few regrets about the Steve Jobs era at Apple was that he didn't bring HyperCard back to life. I realize that by the time he came back that the web was already on the rise, but if feels like a missed opportunity — not just for Apple but for the industry.
+1 to monit. I have an app that does a lot of scraping via Selenium, headless using xvfb and Firefox. If the Selenium scripts fail, Firefox never closes. On an EC2 micro instance, it doesn't take long before 40MB+ FF processes kill other things, like Tomcat (which runs my queue processor). I use monit to watch the root URL, and when it fails, it fires off a handful of scripts that restart the various pieces of the application.
I have a pretty good vim setup with pathogen / git submodules: https://github.com/chris-ritsen/dotfiles
For now, I have different branches setup for different systems. The build process is usually the same, install git / mercurial, python, ruby, then build vim, build commant-t.
Did Heroku make a mistake? Yes. Did they mislead and lie to their customers? Yes. But is it worth pursuing a class action lawsuit that could ultimately ruin them - if not financially, but force their mgmt team to focus on this damn suit rather than fixing the damn problems? Hells no.

Nice template for an emotional appeal you've got there, dawg (seriously, wtf are you going for with the vernacular embellishments)

Your argument justifies malfeasance without penalty for any entity. Swap out 'Heroku' for Monsanto, Microsoft, or banks that launder money for drug cartels and read it again. See if you still buy the reasoning. If misleading and lying to customers (your words) isn't enough for a lawsuit, what is?

(Not saying Heroku is equivalent to any of the above companies, just illustrating the lack of reason in parent post).
It is worth noting that Blizzard has a policy of 30day refunds, which had no noticeable affect on the PR catastrophe called Diablo 3.
Damn that summabitch! I typed that whole monstrosity into my TRS-80 Model III the month that came out and it didn't work! I spent a whole summer debugging and got some things to work but the program never ran right. Granted it might have been the few subtle differences between M1 & M3 but still, my first frustrating experience with hacking someone else's code. I was 17, what a waste of an irreplaceable summer.

Don't suppose any body has a text file version? would still like to copy & paste it into QBasic and finally make it work right. Just outta pure spite.
Their certificate looks fine to me. What is amusing is that even though they strip out critical display elements from the website (probably css), they still manage to display insecure content.
I found ranger slow. I use cetus (its fast and you can select files with a hotkey (https://github.com/rkumar/cetus). There's also a shell version which has a lot more functionality and even a vim mode (since some people here are asking for vim like behavior: https://github.com/rkumar/zfm)
Then I suppose my whims are leading me away from Ubuntu.
Ideally look at the kinds of problems that are difficult and important and that we have a long way to go in, such as nanotech, biotech, and materials science. Compensation ought to be more or less irrelevant, you just want to do something worthwhile and get paid enough that you can keep doing it.
Doubtful, since most of the EA games I see on origin are either old or are "buy the game cheap, buy lots of expensive expansion packs" model.

Giving SimCity buyers who bought on pre-order or release day a copy of Battlefield or The Sims is probably a great economic choice for Maxis/EA; they're the same people who will likely buy lots of expansions.

The exception is what, Mass Effect (old now)? I guess there's Far Cry 3 and Assassins's Creed III (although AC has expansions and the Season Pass model, too)?
Ana Somnia - lights out
Just in case anybody was still on the fence, Ubuntu has now officially jumped the shark.
Pandora's CEO Is Stepping Down
Offering, and charging money for, a monitoring tool (New Relic) that doesn't monitor a very important part of the Heroku request cycle is pretty blatant. It was probably pretty profitable too!

EDIT: comma placement.
out of the topic, i bet this guys a Filipino. Gwapo means handsome or good looking in the local dialect
> The visual design and structural layout of the documentation is certainly not of Stripe's creation. That's all Jeremy Ashkenas.

For those curious, he's referring to Docco:

https://github.com/jashkenas/docco

http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/

Which is used on the Coffeescript annotated source (amongst other places): http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/grammar.html
Pretty much true. FlatUI is great, but as a designer, you will want to build something more unique and while FlatUI could be a good start, it will not be the end product.
For a developer, fast prototyping and building normally means that one simply utilise the top layer element from repo like this(FlatUI) and focus more on the underlying code.
I remember reading this when it was new, and typing it in. Not very usable as a Lisp programming environment, running doubly interpreted on a 1.78MHz 8-bit CPU. But, it was certainly nifty.
Only lawyers think it's a good idea to deploy lawyers into the routing mesh.
I had the plastic one used in an exterior location, which isn't a good idea – was always finicky and difficult. The metal one seems to be more reliable. I wouldn't trust it somewhere I cared greatly about security, but combination locks aren't generally great in those cases.

One of the difficult parts is telling anyone else how to use it. Up-down-left-left-right, but only after you pushed it in to reset it? With a standard combination lock all I have to tell someone is the combination, and one of the great parts of a combination lock is that you don't need to copy a key or anything in order to delegate opening it.

So in my opinion it's only an okay lock.
Can someone explain the following -

People are upset with the game -- sounds like it is unplayable Most of those people paid with credit card. I understand the desire to want to play the game, but if EA is being a sh*t, why not go the charge dispute route?
Just Cause 2 Developer on DRM
While the community is ready to dismiss anything Canonical does, they also seem to overlook the work Canonical has done. Unity is far from perfect, but it is functional.

Also, the whole issue of inclusion of Amazon links could be solved with a single command, "sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping".

And it's ridiculous that Canonical gets flak for trying out a new revenue stream (one that can easily be removed if its bothersome), while ChromeOS is championed (which essentially makes revenue off of your web usage, targeting ads, etc.)

If the community tried to be a little less abrasive and actually held reasonable level-headed discussions instead of being dismissive we could actually get somewhere.

Infact I'd argue that it's Canonical's leadership is helping since it has succeeded in bringing generally non-Linux businesses over to Ubuntu - Valve bringing over Steam, Spotify alpha, Rdio, etc.
You don't have to log traffic, your bandwidth provider can do that without your permission.
What are the possibilities of the free game being Sim City 4?!?
Don't forget us rural folk on satellite broadband! We're screwed too.
Am I the only person who doesn't think that science and religion are really at odds, except for in the minds of fools and the mouths of manipulators? Every major religion has the idea of "oneness" wherein the God/Godhead is portrayed as the ultimate underlying energy (or doer) within every existing thing. Where is the conflict?

Atheists like to say "Why invent this idea of God without evidence?", but they can't name who "invented" religion or prove that it was even invented. We were told about it. Also, every existing thing clearly does exist. So there's your evidence. How helpful is that?

Here are some more scientists, talking about the unknown:

You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA

What We Still Don't Know: "Are We Real?" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyH2D4-tzfM
If only they'd copy stripes customer service instead.
It sometimes happens:
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/05/the-witcher-2-patch-re...
Hosted app: basically an external website with more permissions, must by used online

Packaged app: Can be used offline with permissions like a native local app. Think of IPA or APK files.
It doesn't seem to actually use much bandwidth.
vifm is good. If you like vim movements, you can try zfm (its written in shell - https://github.com/rkumar/zfm), and if you like the default hint mode, try 'cetus' -- on the same git repo).

After using vim movements in a file manager, my finding was that pressing 10j or 5gg etc to go to a file is a slow cumbersome way to move around, when you usually just want to open a file/page it or run an action on it. That's why using hints (as in vimperator) or shortcuts for each file is a much faster way of navigating. Just jump with one keystroke.

Similarly it's cool to have vim bindings like "dG" or "d3gg" etc in your file manager (vimfm and zfm have it) but these are not really features that make a difference. It's the speed of getting 90% of your workflow done, and shortcuts/hints are what get that done fastest.
This bit annoys me:

"There are lots of pure community distro's. And wow, they are full of politics, spite,
frustration, venality and disappointment," he wrote.

They may be full of those things, sure, but at their best they also have quality, usability, flexibility, power, and beauty. I hope Canonical succeeds in making Ubuntu useful to people who would never have used it before, but I'm sad that that success — if it ever comes — requires abandoning and insulting people who helped make Ubuntu as prominent as it has been.
EA will ban your Origin account. So if you own any other games, you lose them.

Parenthetically, this move by them also ensures that everyone who purchased it will lose two games if they charge back the purchase...
The faux candor is cute. The upside is that these troubles will hopefully provide a good case study for future games of this sort. The reviews of Sim City are extremely positive about the gameplay, if the value the server based experience provides to Sim City can be utilised in other games without the issues that Sim City has had the future could be very promising.
The risk their is that disputing charges may result in a ban causing the user to lose access to their other games on Origin.
There was a type confusion in WebKit that got code execution inside the sandbox, and then a Windows kernel vulnerability to break out.
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Ea will ban your origin account, losing you access to any other origin games, if you charge back.
"I don't like X about Ubuntu" -- Response from Ubuntu user: "It's easy; all you have to do is apt-get ..."

"I don't like Amazon lens about Ubuntu" -- Response from fellow Ubuntu user: "Yea, this sucks, I think I'm not going to use Ubuntu anymore"

I don't like Amazon lens either (there isn't even an Amazon.ro so it's mostly unusable for me), but they have to make money somehow.
As someone who has been an active contributor to desktop Linux in the past, and particularly very close to Ubuntu (I was sponsored to attend UDS-O), I have to say that I am happy Shuttleworth is finally taking this much needed stand.

I can absolutely understand the blowback to his sentiments, because really, the diversity of use and mindset in the Linux community is one of its defining characteristics. But frankly, he's right -- if Ubuntu isn't the platform you're looking for, either go find the one that is, or start it.

I don't see Shuttleworth's stance, or indeed the negative feedback from a vocally inflamed (though not majority) userbase, as a sign of Ubuntu's decline. I see it as Ubuntu finally having the balls to do what no other desktop Linux platform has done before -- move ahead with their grand vision on bringing free software to the masses, not just the ones that demand it the most.
I found myself agreeing with a lot of the sentiment expressed in Mark's post but ultimately, I lack faith that Shuttleworth and Canonical have what it takes to pull off the stated goal of creating "an experience that could challenge the existing proprietary leaders." For example, I don't find Unity to be better in any meaningful sense than the "community-driven" GNOME 3. Canonical has come up with some interesting ideas, especially with the HUD menu system, but I just haven't seen real progress towards building the kind of consistent user experience I can find on Android, Windows and OS X.

I'd love for them to succeed, but every passing day I'm looking more to Android as the future of quasi-open Linuxes.
Just print them out on paper in an unordered format.
Even without DIII's always-on DRM it was always going to have a bumpy launch. People's expectations were just insane by the time the game actually hit and they were bound to be left disappointed no matter what. The always-on DRM and downtime just added insult to injury.

I think in retrospect, instead of going the refund route, Blizzard could have listened to people and then set out a plan for the game in the first few months (i.e. how they'll address a lot of the issues).

But frankly if they were going to do that they would have done so during the extended "beta" where most of the same issue were brought up.
>Unity is far from perfect, but it is functional.

If that's the best you can say about it, then Canonical failed.
Is there any hope that this game will ever be pirated? I understand that there is some type of online-only DRM, but aren't some games like WoW played on private servers? I liked the old SimCity games, but probably won't even bother looking into this one for a while.

It's a bit of a different type of game, Diablo 2-esque, but if anyone hasn't tried Path of Exile, I suggest it. A small, independent studio just launched much more smoothly than EA can, is pretty good about how they treat players and is adding content weekly.
>I don't like Amazon lens either (there isn't even an Amazon.ro so it's mostly unusable for me), but they have to make money somehow.

Find another business model, this one sucks.
> And to get us back in your good graces, we’re going to offer you a free PC download game from the EA portfolio.

I can't help but think of the "20$ off your next purchase" pre-order bonus. Which, if you read the fine print, must be used within 2 weeks, and from a select list of really old games, and only applies to a purchase of 30$.
$100 says its Need for Speed Most Wanted (2012). Just new enough to not feel like a cheap jab, but not so new it hurts them in any way.