skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, and to add:

It's an awesome profession: the tiny chance of becoming rich and/or famous coupled with the safe odds of relatively good pay, benefits, job security.

Every other "rich/famous" profession is completely all-or-nothing: actors, musicians, artists, athletes, etc...
.) Just wondering, are there any languages/runtime-systems based on the idea of a fixed memory layout? No heap just "preallocated" buffers? I remember that was / probably still is quite common in the embedded world. I guess it is done easily with globals in C

.) Any profilers providing information reg. the heap-allocs as part of the execution costs?

.) Any Runtimes / VM actually optimizing the layout of those omni-present List/Array/Hashtable/Bag/Set/Dict of MyObjectTypes to have elements laid out as close as possible in memory? (The position of the actual objects that is not only the pointers to the objects within the containers)

Are we "safe" as heap allocs / gc / memory handling is really of no significant impact compared to other issues?
Or is memory handling an large part of the
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." story?
Comoga/django-constance - Dynamic Django settings
No that controls whether you will be allowed to connect to a host when the host key is not the same as the one previously used (mitm detection).
Learn from the best - again, a leading browser vendor is adopting a feature pioneered by opera. I wonder whether there is any correlation with the demo of a new opera mobile version last week that is essentially chrome with turbo.
i have had a namiki falcon (student edition in plastic, i have the more expensive one but i find i don't like it as much) for the last 3 or 4 years. it is bliss.
Yeah my first thought: is the author 12 years old??
I don't think there is much doubt that the error is on their part. That advice is still good though.
I just started a conversation on Twitter with the author.

https://twitter.com/garyharan/status/307905674279518208
i didn't get the email, and my original password still works, it just took me directly to change password screen.

i guess they're counting on compromised passwords not being used individually to create new ones?
But it isn't natural when the comment is based a misguided moral equivalence. And my point is that they are not comparable. It is as bad as if someone posted a story on Manzanar, and someone replied "Kind of like when my parents made go to sleepaway camp." That would be an insulting to the Japanese internees.
Ask HN: Is HN going to get better formatting? 
Is there any plan to alter the current text formatting options available on HN to maybe include things like links, lists, and similar?

HN does support some things: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

But unfortunately I've been really spoilt by Reddit's markdown engine in particular but also would be happy with just as I said in-line links and lists.

Also while we are talking about this, do people feel that adding more functionality would be either positive or negative to the community?
The irrational fake-libertarian does not care for such arguments. They freak out if minuscule amounts of their money go to something they don't support, and expect loads of control in exchange for this transaction. Did you know if I buy a burger at McDonald's I can totally boss around that entire company? Except it's not really the price of a burger that entitles me to do so; I can just leave some change in the take-a-penny tray.
I've never heard of Tim Pope and as I posted below, my first thought was "this guy must be 12 years old"
Curse of the Zeldman Curse
Pretty much every single company out there has boring programming work to do that would be redundant if they could solve some harder problems (which they may or may not be aware of). Competent programmers will notice the bigger picture and attempt to solve the hard problems. If you want to be hired specifically for hard problems, try academia or some research insititute / R&D department.
>Referral links in book reviews are a problem because of the conflict of interest they create. If the author of the review chooses to put a referral link into it, they create a financial incentive to bias their own review in favour of the book.

OK, some of my observations on the whole issue of reviews and criticism here:

1) Are referrals that different than the publisher advertising on the newspaper or magazine that reviews his books? Or if the author is a friend of stuff in the magazine, or even the reviewer? All the above have been going on for ages in the publishing world.

2) What about a site or blog that ALWAYS puts referral links to the books it reviews, whether the reviews are favorable or not?

3) What about a site that only posts about books they really like, along with referrals, and skip the ones they don't?

4) I think the presence of referrals and quality of the review are orthogonal. Not in the sense that a referral doesn't give a "conflict of interest" to the reviewer, but in the sense that you shouldn't judge good reviews by the presence potential conflicts of interests or not anyway.

5) There is only two ways to know if a review is any good.

The absolute way: read the book yourself and compare to the review.

The faux-bayesian heuristic way: the critic has a consistent track record in his other reviews that tells you that he is good and honest.

6) That said, I think there is also another way. If you read enough reviews, you get the ability to judge the review itself in a meta-level. So much, that you can get useful information about the work reviewed out of it, regardless if the critic is good/honest or not. And I think this meta-reading of reviews is the more important skill. Never trust the review completely, judge it and take the information that you need by also reading behind the lines.

A simplistic example: maybe a review of a programming book is horrible (and paid by the publisher) but it gives code examples used in the book. Just looking at the example code you can tell with some certainty if the book itself will be a disappointment or not.
Yes, the gallery stuff is difficult. I am working with someone who is trying to crack it. She's someone who works very hard, has developed her own (recognizable, and sometimes featured) style. Still, galleries are tough.

I think my point is that, as an untrained person, I can look at something and say, "I like that." But, how do I know that I like the right stuff? Maybe it doesn't work with the message surrounding it (does that even make sense?). I have no idea how to judge that. How do I know who does?

For the coding analogue, I don't think it's "pretty/beautiful" code (except by proxy). Suppose I write something for you that shows off the art that you want to sell. This is a unique app to you (let's say)- Your plan is to generate traffic by blogging about art, and have your stuff tactically displayed throughout to prompt people to buy it. I build the app, you click on it and it works exactly the way you think it should.

Now, you take the app, integrate it into your site, and stick on adwords because you need to make some short-term cash while you iterate your long-term strategy. But my coding sucks, and my script doesn't play well with adwords, and your site fails in a way that you can't see- perhaps you don't get the credit for the clicks you actually generate.

Mind you, I'm not claiming to have answers (I wish I did). But it may be helpful to compare and contrast the plight of artists with that of other professions that are self-identified. When I was growing up, car mechanics were among those professions also. What creates distinction?

Maybe there are two types of distinction to consider: professional prestige and financial success. Some authors, for example, have high professional prestige but you can't find their work at Hudson News (airport book store). Others are quite the opposite.
I'm not sure they even bothered to create their own interface. All the evidence so far is consistent with Lightning being USB 2.0 OTG plus a few extra pins for a lockout chip bundled into a proprietary connector. (More accurately, the usual multiplexed USB 2.0 and TTL serial that smartphones tend to have.)
I still don’t quite understand why they litter one’s $HOME with this – creating a small setuid binary that checks the signature of a given .deb and then installs said Debian package system-wide, plus keeping certificates of purchase in one’s ~/.Steam directory appears to me to be a much more viable approach. This would allow for the easy specification of dependencies, would avoid having to re-download a game for multiple users and would allow easy ‘clean-up’ using just apt-get/dpkg. After all, package management on Linux is a solved problem (or as solved as it will get).
You're welcome.

Have you tried pitchbox? I tried to make an account for Developer Auction and they required a previous employer. I didn't bother with pitchbox after that.
That is a false comparison. Google's business is to make money on ads, not hardware sales. The R&D at Google is for a completely different purpose and much harder to measure in terms of efficiency for an outsider.
Open Source Events Get Burned By PayPal
I read this article a few years ago, does that entitle me to recognition? Obviously not. It just struck me as taking credit for non-accomplishments.
Macbook Pro 2012 here. I only experienced one issue which is somehow similar and caused by resuming from sleep when the webgl tab is still the active one. Then Chrome and everything else from MacOS will hang for 1 minute until Chrome figures out that WebGL crashed. But I do not have to hard reset for recovery. Just wait a minute....

I always close the tab before closing the lid.
The article links to a NYTimes piece[1] where China is said to have rejected the idea of using a drone over a foreign country.

"China considered using a drone strike in a mountainous region of Southeast Asia to kill a Myanmar drug lord wanted in the murders of 13 Chinese sailors, but decided instead to capture him alive, according to an influential state-run newspaper."

They eventually caught the guy and he was tried, found guilty, and executed yesterday[2].

"A notorious drug lord told how he longed for his mother in a chilling final interview - before being marched to his death live on Chinese television. Burmese gangster Naw Kham was one of four death row prisoners paraded before news cameras in China today as they were escorted to an execution chamber in Yunnan province."

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/world/asia/chinese-plan-to...;

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286460/China-broadc...
Actually, the entire reason I made this site was because I thought the way MacRumors visualized the data wasn't very good. If they had done a better job, I wouldn't have needed to make this.

As for credit... what should I be crediting them for? I'm just collecting a list of dates and then visualizing the data.
This is probably the greatest endorsement for working at a company I've ever seen. Working @ Github must be great.
Most interesting is the adoption rate at the bottom. Seems like IE users virtually never upgrade, wtf?! At one point IE6 share even grew, how is that!?
Indeed. Maybe I'll post the data on GitHub or something.
Google Chrome on Linux Mint 13 (Ubuntu 12.04LTS). Probably same issue on Chrome on Windows 7.

The reason I didn't mention my hardware at first is because nobody ever gives a damn about typography. I've tested these bugs cross-platform often enough, but nobody ever replies, so I stopped doing that.
Has anyone ever calculated if there even is a profit to war?

Do expensive weapons really sell in war situations?

And I don't mean hand-waving. I mean hard facts. When are the dollars spent, and who gets them? Does war-time inflation eat up the profits?

Also I don't buy the oil-grabbing argument any more. Even Iraq is producing for the market price. Even new deals on investments can't really be counted as free oil...
I'm missing the most important graph: combined mobile & desktop browser market share.

Mobile phones, tablets and PMPs (like the iPod touch) increasingly replace desktop computers and notebooks for browsing the web.

According to Statcounter [1], 14% of all web traffic in the US comes from mobile clients. Compare that to 8% a year a go and 3% three years a go. In Africa [2], mobile already makes up 18% of web clients.

Granted, Statcounter is just one source, but I think it shows the trend quite well.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-US-monthly-2008...

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-af-monthly-2008...
NV?
That sounds pretty nice. What's the overall tech scene like in Portland?
Redirect manager, seo, payment and solvency Symfony bundles
In Astina, we are using Symfony framework for many web projects.

Since we've developed few bundles that we use frequently and that can be useful to many of you - we've decided to opensource it.

On our Github page, you can find:
* Seo bundle - Allows management of page title, meta description and meta keywords
* Payment bundle - Integration bundle for risk checking services
* Redirect manager bundle

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I would personally enjoy some kind of hack that causes the White House to respond to successful petitions with something other than glib dismissal.
Interview with Crowdbooster CEO Rickey Yean (a YC startup)
Are any of the people mentioned "notable"? Not to sound glib, but none of the names of the experts stood out in any way
I've yet to receive an email so I just went to their site.

Upon logging in with my (presumably) exposed password, I was given the option to enter a new password immediately. Their password reset should fire off an email instantly, not using a batch delivery process, with a confirmation link that then logs me into their system with a one-time key, forcing me to change my password only then.

Yes, that is marginally more complicated, but it's miles more secure. They just gave a free password reset form to whoever is sitting on their database dump for any trivial dictionary passwords they're able to bruteforce. Not doing a mass password reset would have had the same effect.

FWIW, I've also yet to receive any confirmation email that my password has been reset, another potential security problem.
Good points. What's funny is that by posting this, it's almost like temporary fame, albeit to mostly techies like myself, but none-the-less it's kind of ironic how that happens.
Well RSI and CTS are quite closely related, and as someone who has latter I can say that touch screens are worst possible input device possible. All swiping gestures cause static strain, especially to wrists, which makes long time touch screen usage impossible. Even using touchpad gets painful fast, my laptop has to have "nipple" controller. Also all keyboards I use has to have clear actuation point so I can use as little strength as possible to type.

Game controllers are not better. Excerpt from wikipedia: "RSI is also used as an umbrella term for non-specific illnesses popularly referred to as Blackberry thumb, iPod finger, gamer's thumb"
You aren't, but it's a mistaken thing to dislike: there's no value to rephrasing it as "I believe you should [do X]" or "I am arguing that you should [do X]" because that's necessarily always true anyway, i.e. no article can ever be anything other than what the author believes and argues for. So 'softening' the language would be inefficient - it would use more words while adding nothing of substance.
Indeed, I've always found this version much better: http://i.imgur.com/VFcsm1m.jpg
Then please humor me and either point me to such an answer or repeat it here. When I walk into a store and pay with your service, what is the experience? Your answer need not mention digital signatures (unless you are referring to the actual signing on some sort of touch screen as you sometimes see these days; and in which case i know your solution is a non-starter for deployment reasons) or encryption.

And enough with the "troll" stuff. I am not remotely such. 16 very successful years in the payments industry.
Current users of a paradigm tend to stick with it. Takes a generation to raise a new set of users open to something new. My father is a hunt-and-peck typist obsessed with knowing where his files are; my daughter's second word was "iPad" and will have little notion of files.
Reading the reviews on the Apple site, the passthrough Lightning connector on the adapter is apparently charging-only, which you can do just fine with MHL-through-microUSB IIRC.
Javascript is on.
Oh, interesting. Did they give a reason? Was it legal? MacRumors has been doing this for some time, I can't imagine that there's anything illegal about it.
In that case Windows 7 also has a misconfigured freetype.
My guess it that PBS still needs to control distribution of their content because it is still a valuable source of fund-raising revenue. Revenue from DVD box sets [1] and international licensing deals goes back into producing new shows. Setting their content free on BitTorrent would quickly erode the revenue generating potential of that content.

[1] http://www.shoppbs.org/home/index.jsp
Presumably you can just boot into windows on your Mac, right?
I don't agree with Gabe's conclusion that "post-touch, and we’ll be stable for a really long time"

As you said: "where I'm looking", "where I'm gesturing", and "where I'm thinking" are all possible - but totally different. I think if post-touch gets critical mass, we'll see a much more diverse and dynamic space of interfaces. An implication is that which interfaces to support would be a much more important decision - right now you can just default to building a web app and a touch app.
I do like the idea of a "flat" team/company - but I'm finding it hard to see how it would work with a company that does work for other clients. Clients expect deadlines, and progress reports and so on. How do you handle that without a project manager to keep things on track?
Dude, this guy has bigger problems than you being confused about his semantics. You are just being unfairly picky.
After years of the highest satisfaction with Chrome on Windows, lately I've been experiencing many annoying crashes. This is also true for some people I know.

For myself, it might depend on the fact that I'm using more extensions now, but that isn't true, for example, for my father.

I don't want to imply anything, but this reminds me of when I switched from Netscape Navigator to IE back in the day, not because IE was "better" (AFAIR IE was an exact copy of Navigator, just with a big "e" instead of a big "N" in the upper right corner) but because Navigator was becoming more and more unstable.
Postgres: The Bits You Haven't Found
I got one to contribute.

Q: How do you obtain a random string?

A: Put a freshman compsci student in front of a vim terminal and tell him to save and quit.
That has always surprised me about Wikipedia. So many articles on recommended line width, height, font, etc., and Wikipedia gets away with just one style rule (font-family: sans-serif). Never heard any complaints or noticed that it was bad typography.

Yeah they have more style rules, but disabling them doesn't visibly change anything so they're the defaults.
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> It is true that the stock market out performs other kind of investments but this is only true if you are not investing in let's say 2-3 companies but rather in an index or something similar.

It depends on what those 2-3 companies are. An index is certainly safer, but if you are good at determining growth prospects then you should absolutely be picking your own stocks.
It's interesting that when we think "post-touch" we still think about files and folders ("move the folder where I'm looking"). Maybe we won't need to think about organization -- the computer can handle that, and just play the songs we want, pull up the project we want, play the video we want.
Logical fallacy: Slippery Slope.
Those two aren't exclusive - does your father know what file a given email is stored in? (Good for him if so :)

I think you need to give examples of important content which, at the same time, your father stores with files and your daughter uses an abstraction.
"as far as being a professional artist, well guess what; when I was a kid I wanted to be a poet."
You were certainly not representative of the typical American kid.

I think now kids say, "I want to be a rapper".

If you define art as "that thing that is emo" then you've created a tautology about art.

But if you look at art as things like: rap, creating electronica music, writing screenplays, etc... I think you'll see that society as really embraced art. It's just not called art anymore. It's the same fate as AI.
Yeah, weird stats. I checked some other sources:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp … (IE 14%, Chrome 48%)

http://gs.statcounter.com/ (IE 29%, Chrome 37%)

My own website with 10k+ daily visitors has IE 14% and 35% Chrome
I particularly liked this one: http://www.projectcartoon.com/cartoon/1
Yep, you can do that easily with application fees (stripe.com/docs/connect/collecting-fees).

The money from the credit card payment gets routed to your seller automatically (and we split off the application fee to send to your Stripe account). You never touch the rest of the funds, so you're never responsible for any chargebacks or refunds.
What complicates matters is there's no good way of knowing how many Steam "Windows" users are people who use OS X or Linux as their main OS but boot into Windows to use Steam because of poor graphics card drivers.
Depends on how they break your system. If it's by a well known 0day I would think you should secure your systems and give public notice. If it's by a unknown method and you trace it through a piece of software i'm not too sure. Many vendors like Oracle have a horrible track record of patching vulnerabilities until they become public.

I believe California requires notice within 30 days if it affects any California users.
Yes... and spend a bit more on good pencils. Go to an art supply store, or a good office supply store.

I like German-made Faber-Castel pencils, but there are other good ones. My preference is for medium-hardness (HB and the slightly harder 2H). They sharpen beautifully. The lead doesn't snap off when you are writing. The feel on the paper is smooth and consistent. You'll never go back to generic yellow school-supply pencils.
Oh gosh, this takes me back.

`De Laude Scriptorum' In praise of Scribes by Johannes Trithimeus, Abbotus of Spondheim Abbey, what now, something like 600 years ago!

A delightful and informative early book celebrating this most beautiful and ergonomically satisfying word machine ever made(1). The scratch of quill on vellum, is an itch scratched of divine satisfaction. This is the same Trithimeus who did the first book on Stegonography, absconded funds and stoled books to build up the library. There may be a free pdf out here somewhere. Parker, of the Parker Duofold fountain pen, whose quill recently quipped, "Writing with a ballpoint pen is like writing with a nail". We can mention here also Miller's Canticle For Liebowitz, with perennial novice Francis' inspired decades' dutiful inkish scrivening.

(1)But we must also remember and keep things in perspective, those monk novices were not allowed to get their groove on Fender Stratocasters.
"Dad, you talk funny."
Ok, I concede - lets just use punch cards.
Also the email doesn't talk about the time-frame: when exactly did Evernote discover this activity and how long might they have been compromised for.
I am curios to see what version of OpenGL people have.