skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google strips 8.8 million lines of code from Blink engine
Video Conference + Screen Share Simple and Secure (Skype Alternative)
"Why are we forced to stick with a single fixed-width font"

Not necessarily ;-) Since proportional fonts became available in programmers' editors, I've been using them. See http://www.michielovertoom.com/incoming/desksnap-20101013.pn... for an example.

Sublime also allows proportional fonts, whereas TextMate does not.
Who is the hero - you or the team?
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/29/socialbakers-denies...

I'm sure FB does their best to lean on their metrics and spin the best story but at the end of the day they are publicly traded and those charts are not too ambiguous.

But sure, some of those accounts are fake every year. So a nearly flat gain in the US/Canada could well be a loss in actual humans using the service like they are meant to. I don't have a FB account myself because reasons and so I'm sympathetic to the idea that they may have peaked. Just wanted to give some balance.
even w ordered data, sorting is O(n) isn't it?
I didn't consider that he could have meant the retaliation by the internet trolls.

Yes those technically would be, although I still think using it in this context sullies the term hate crime.
Comments were negative, but still, I learned about Hipmunk through reddit and now do check Hipmunk (and many others) when I need a plane ticket.
Contactless 'charging errors' at Marks and Spencer
MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU refresh
The only actual numbers I've seen, from emscripten author Alon Zakai, show gzipped minified emscripten JS output as comparable in size to gzipped native code:

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2011/11/code-size-when-compiling...
ahh,,, good ol' cheating... trying to cheat in computer games was how i got into programming. it all began with simple memory editing, then learned c++ to write some trainers, then got into disassembler and play around more.

one of the good thing growing up without a game console i guess,,
I had a hell of a time installing something in Ubuntu that required a particular glibc version that was differnt to the system--wide one. Like I said, I'm not Linux expert and I probably missed a trick. I ended up using a different distro.

Would this new distro have helped?
When you compare taxes in California to Canada, do you take state taxes into account? because, e.g. NYC these days is 48% (35% federal + 8% state + 5% city), which is comparable to many other countries that provide 10 times as much in services for those taxes.
If you run it in a VM (KVM/QEMU) you might need to set some CPU flags for the VM (otherwise GMP will assume your CPU has some instructions that it doesn't actually have in the VM):
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/issues/120#issuecomment-14776...

Other than that it works fairly well (in a VM), and you don't need to wait for it to compile all the packages like with Gentoo: if the build server has a binary then it will download that.
Bdelloid rotifers
Map of every known piece of space debris orbiting Earth (image)
>48% (35% federal + 8% state + 5% city)

You can deduct state and local income tax from your federal income tax, so the combined rate should be less than that.
What I don't like about Gatekeeper is that there is no way to revoke Apple's cert and replace it with another. Not that that would protect the activist in question, but it would certainly make a company machine secure against this kind of attack.
When I saw that ridiculous formatted for() in the article, I began suspecting the article was meant as a joke.
Bitcoin ATM Robocoin Makes Money Laundering Easy
They still offer advertising only to cardholders from the US, Canada and the UK. I really need to advertise on Reddit for a Reddit related website.
Back in 1982, I saw a very bright flash on the Moon - naked eye! It was early Sunday morning (5.22 am) on July 18th.

To this day, I'm not sure what caused it, and I've always eagerly followed up on any reports of 'transient Lunar phenomena', or, as in this instance, 'bright explosions'.

I once spoke to Patrick Moore about it, with a full description (I remember him asking if it was summer time - yes, it was). He was similarly intrigued, and promised to look into it, but I never managed to follow up...
Looks great! I can highlight the"MacBook Air" label below the screen. Is it possible to use the  (alt+shift+K) symbol for the Apple logo?
If the window is the length of the data, that becomes O(n log n) -- essentially no better than a sort?

For images and other kernel-based filtering, there is a O(1) median algorithm available: http://nomis80.org/ctmf.html
First American Mission To Sample An Asteroid Gets Green Light
The Moon - it's like have BatWings of steel to protect us from evil.
Looks like they're already overloaded with applications:

"Note: To focus on processing the applications we already have, CIC has temporarily stopped accepting applications under:

the immigrant investor program
the federal entrepreneur program

This temporary pause will continue until further notice."

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/index.asp
On the plus side, you could get some really cheap electronics if you had a soldering iron and some replacement caps.
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This holds true with visitors from every source, unless it's highly targeted traffic.
Yahoo should offer more, this can be the best investment since their Geocities acquisition.
Are you claiming that multinational corporations automatically adjust their country local pricing based on the corporate tax rate in that country?

For a single-country corporation, I can see the argument. Why add a complex corporate tax -- instead make sure to tax only those that extract money from the corporation. The tricky part is ensuring this extraction is properly taxed (i.e. if you as a CEO get a $5 million dollar Ferrari as your corporate car, that is tax-equivalent of getting the money).

Things get awfully complex though when your $10 billion/year in profit corporation happens to have to pay $10 billion in intellectual property fees to the Virgin Islands holding company.
>[...]the root of all evils[...]

Pun intended? ;)
I think it's a subtle way to weed all those companies out, that don't get reddit. I mean, if you don't understand the reference, how can you understand Reddit and its users?
"With friends " is _not_ a registered trademark, anymore than "drink " is a registered trademark of Coca Cola.

In addition you are so completely wrong about the communitys feelings towards Zynga (and you presume malice wrt. Cupid) that my guess is you have a personal bias in this game. Is that correct?
Why waste a good opportunity for more PR?
No. Being scammed would have been to sign up for tution at the old rate, but having to pay the new rate.

This is merely a rip-of.
Yeah, but rounded corners in phones :) not whiteboards.
Anyways the whole patent-thing is getting ridiculous.
I think in the Nix world, you would have two or more different glibc versions at different paths. Then the applications are configured to link against the required versions. Nix has extra build metadata that calls GNU configure as far as I can tell, and that is where this knowledge would lie.

So you can run two programs side by side with different glibc versions in Nix. On Ubuntu, I think this is mostly not possible, as you have found.
I will never understand why people yell into the phone on the metro. It's loud and talking louder doesn't, magically, reconnect the call.

I wouldn't call this a new trend. You have a number of youths in close proximity and 2 ear cups. It makes sense to use the speaker when more than 2 people want to hear. I used to do the same when I was young and mixtapes came on tape. Now, some idiot sitting alone and singing along I find annoying.
Lazy.js: Utility library for JavaScript with lazy evaluation
Actually google doesn't seem to have much problems with abandoning standards lately.
The regular ones work well enough for me. I know my fiancee's already talking to some companies about producing a thin-tip marker especially for this.
If you went to a video rental store (back when those existed) and the guy recommended 3 videos to you and 1 was a clunker, you wouldn't be annoyed.

Can you speak for yourself? You're kinda proving the point here. Know yourself, but don't pretend to know or speak for others... that goes for everybody, orders of magnitude more so for corporations.
Why are they always foreign? y cant they type normally lol
Go Circuit: A new abstraction for developing and maintaining Big Data apps
Facebook’s stock has lost 31% of its value since it went public one year ago
Hacker News Meetup: Sofia, Bulgaria
I'm in Sofia for a few weeks and want to meet more fellow geeks. I've set up a Meetup-page (http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-Meetup-Sofia/events/119998422/).

If there is enough interest, I will take care of the details and arrange a venue etc.
i use Sh to interface with my cmus player.
from sh import cmus_remote! :)
Klout – Measure Your Social Influence
Skype backdoor confirmation
Okay, I'm very confused. First, the brothers make this statement about the device:

""It's basically like a money laundering person's dream," says Russell. "That's why we're not operating it."

But the article follows up with:

"The brothers have chosen to sell them instead while providing full technical support. "

Doesn't their first statement (that this is a money laundering dream) - somewhat defeat the second (that they want to sell these. In the United States, no less?)
How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners
Yahoo, please walk away when there's still time.
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down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have
a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.

----

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Interesting, thought provoking posts, but you seem to have used two different tags that pop up in search:

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/tag/project-allocation/ (the Discomfort is Bad piece)

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/tag/closed-allocation/ (the earlier Only Real Option piece)

There's also the more systematic Quora/Forbes piece:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/11/26/what-is-open-al...
Over the past 50 years, the government has significantly deregulated the airline industry.

Is my sarcasmometer broken?
The utter lack of control on the part of the customer, having neither an approval step nor the ability to switch the card off seems to me to be a fundamental flaw in this payment method.

This system was pretty much designed to be abused.
> Tumblr feels that Yahoo’s $1.1 billion offer as “too low” and view it as “only a first offer”

And then later in the paragraph:

> sources say the company only has a few months of cash runway left.

This must be a joke. If you have a few months of cash runway left, $1.1B is more than enough. Seriously. There is no circumstance when this isn't true, unless you have massive non-cash assets on hand.

Yes, I'm aware that they could go raise more money and try to hold out for more, but let's be serious here: they make (effectively) no money and they're being offered well over a billion dollars. Billion -- with a 'B'. This sort of public posturing is just obnoxious.
This doesn't sound right. It's a subset of javascript, you are still shipping javascript to the browser... which is then parsed and then jitted in said browser. Which is an extra step above bitcode, where you just jit it as is. Albeit it's specifically crafted to be easier to optimize but it is still javascript that you are sending to the browser.

I feel like someone is trying too hard to make javascript into something it isn't and shouldn't be. Javascript does it's thing pretty well, why is there no room for other tools in the toolbox?
Given the nature of the Silicon Valley echo chamber, I don't think they'll have any difficulties in getting the message to Yahoo.
Does anyone know if a comparative study has been done comparing the word/colours that people with synesthesia see to determine if there is any pattern? I'm wondering the same thing for auditory/colour patterns, it could have interesting applications for lighting at live music shows.
The biggest problem with Reddit advertising currently is the pricing. Even if you're advertising on a large subreddit - the only way to target your ads, really - it tends to work out rather expensive for what you're getting. Obviously some people are making it work, and it's probably cheaper on the really large subreddits.

The reason for this is their odd "pay per day" system, which has a $30 minimum.

However, they're moving to a CPM system soon, I'm told, which will make Reddit a very interesting ad opportunity.
KFC Bandit
I agree that some of the patents are absurd when I hear the generalization of some of them, but seeing as I have no experience in patents (another headache), I'll keep my mouth shut :x
The two-pivot variant has a smaller recursion depth in addition to avoiding the multiplicitous median issue, but does come at the cost of extra swaps. But in the end, quickselect is what you use when you don't worry about pessimal performance.
Interview on Clean Code development and common mistakes
Just placed my order :) please let me know if you guys do get the fine tip markers in, I could really see me needing it.
I've advertised something that wasn't universally loved on Reddit. Nothing particularly bad happened.

I've not used the system extensively, but I think if you don't choose one of the most aggressive subreddits and don't do anything really dumb, you'll be fine. Reddit users seem to accept advertising as a necessary evil.
Time for RF-blocking wallets to become more mainstream perhaps? That gives control back to the customer.
Remember Yelp?
My fiancee will be posting up updates on IndieGoGo site about that definitely :)
The approval step is "you hold your card within inches of the pickup". What these people were probably doing (their protestations to the contrary) was holding up a wallet. Which does work, if only one card in the wallet is contactless.
Barring wallets that block radio signals, yes - there are tons of them.

Outside those, I agree, there's quite a large possibility for issues, though this seems weird that it seems to be happening from significantly larger distances than it's designed to work under. To such an extent that I suspect some / all of these people are simply not remembering correctly - they swung their purse between hands, bringing it near the reader, or something. People are forgetful, and this is way way outside what anyone else can replicate that I've seen.
Case in point: I had to upgrade some Debian VM's with Postgres 9.0 to Wheezy with Postgres 9.1 a while ago. They were messy combinations of mostly Etch + parts of Lenny and Squeeze, as a legacy of rushed upgrades. And while upgrading Debian version by version mostly runs smoothly with apt-get, there are some very nasty gotchas:

- You always need to upgrade apt and dpkg step by step, as if you're careless, you'll leave your system with an apt and dpkg that can't install most of the following upgrades, including the next available version of itself due to external dependencies on packages that are only available in a format your current version of dpkg/apt does not support. You then need to downgrade. Problem is you then run into utter dependency hell. Generally the solution is to --force-all install an older version of dpkg from /var/cache/apt/archives, then update and try again.

- If you're not very careful with the apt sources when doing a Postgres upgrade, you risk having Debian install 9.1 and remove Postgres 9.0. Problem is, if it removes 9.0, you can't run pg_upgradecluster, because that requires the old Postgres to exist and be running. Now, reverting is suddenly a big problem unless you add the Postgres teams own Debian repository.

This isn't particularly a criticism of Debian (though I dislike the fact that dpkg and apt-get have external dependencies - if there's anything that should be built statically, it's a package manager) - if you do things carefully, and step by step, things will work fine and you "only" need to learn a couple of rules of thumb (First, always make sure to upgrade version by version, apt-get update, apt-get install dpkg apt). These are hairy edge cases... But they'd be so much less of a problem with easy rollback and/or ability to pull in multiple versions easily.
A look into the EC Council hack
But it can solve a lot of problems for iOS development if you don't want to go trough the store.
Actually, the offensive nature of the humor would make it a great hit in Israel, if they released a Hebrew translation.
this seems like a strange assertion to me. why not? you can do amazing things with static analysis and runtime optimization, and that operates on the AST / some intermediate state, not the source code. if anything, higher-level languages (ie, JS as opposed to bytecode) lend themselves to more automatic-optimizations than lower-level ones because intent is encoded better.
Preventing XSS from within HTML elements
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Beauty of code : How to write graceful PHP code
What is the startup city of preference in Canada? Waterloo, Ontario?
It will be interesting ... also why the group is called Sofija, Bulgaria ?
Holy misunderstood Accountancy Batman !

I thought you were quoting the accounts of Cards Against Humanity - 1mm usd on Internet hosting seemed a bit much.
I don't see how docker fits in there. Don't get me wrong, it's a great piece of technology, but it's very platform-specific and has nothing to do with the web as a platform in its current state.
Ha! Back in the day I had to exchange my Gameshark 64 four damn times. Ended up getting an off-brand device called the Xplorer/Xploder (one of those, depended on whether you were NTSC or PAL) 64 that worked a lot better.

Ah, the wonders of throwing Zelda: Majora's Mask into debug mode and L-Button Moon Jumping everywhere while dressed as Fierce Deity Link outside boss rooms.
That's not the name, but the location.
I have not tried freeconferencecall.com, so I'm not sure :) However, uberconference does things like text/email people their dial-in info automatically. If you invite someone, it will also let them dial-in without a PIN most of the time, I believe. It can also actually call the invitees if you want it to, rather than waiting for them to call in. It's also unclear if freeconferencecall.com allows you to dial in using a computer—uberconference lets you dial in using Chrome (only Chrome, because it uses WebRTC). Uberconference also has some pretty fine design, but it does not have screen sharing at the moment.

Hope that's useful for comparing; I think the companies themselves can probably be clearer about any differences.
I think she is already trying to fix Flickr, in fact.
I think one big difference is that if right now I play the GL demo on Firefox using asm.js, it works.
If I play the same demo on Chrome.. it works.

Now if I play nacl stuff on ANYTHING else than chrome is does NOT work.

For me its not about having a nice language, it's about being standardized.

Else, I can just provide C binaries, they're faster than nacl anyway.
Yeah I know. I mean it is Sofia not Sofija. Maybe just a typo on your side.

Sofija, Bulgaria
Founded May 18, 2013
I read that sentence differently: Not "Tumbler will decline the offer", but "Tumbler (the platform) will decline in usage, just like geocities did"
"Einstein's Greatest Blunder" was REALLY a blunder!
Ah, yes. I had to pick that from a drop-down. There was no 'Sofia', only a 'Sofija'.

I've reported the bug to Meetup.
> Now if I play nacl stuff on ANYTHING else than chrome is does NOT work.

That's purely an adoption-by-browser problem.

> Else, I can just provide C binaries, they're faster than nacl anyway.

The whole point of both nacl and asm.js was sandboxing.
tiramisu irc client went opensource
AOL felt their pageviews for this were "Too Low".
HackerNews does the same when it hellbans people. Let's just say it works for some kind of spammers (the less professional ones).
We seem to be heading for a future where every website says "Don't look at this, download our app!".
Phosphor?
There's also the fact that some "AI" consisted of redoing - poorly, out of ignorance - what had been done previously in fields such as operations research, optimal control, computer aided design, etc.
Not cryptic but vague, which I can imagine if he's an employee.

If yuhong is indeed a Yahoo employee and could give an inside view in the changes Marissa is making, I'd love to read a blog post with more details on that.

If he can make Marissa sign off on it, that would bode even better for Yahoo as an employer.
In the video on the website:

Date: US date format
Weight: metric
Size: metric
Speed: imperial
Explosion: metric

Consistency is key.
FWIW this will no longer be an issue when everything moves to the user's phone. You'll choose a default 'card' but will be able to change it to a preferred card before any transaction.
AMT is 28%, so past some level of active income, you never go below 41% even with those deductions (which are not always possible, despite the "common knowledge" about it. Oh, and AMT trumps childcare, mortgage interest and almost any other deduction as well).
> I had a hell of a time installing something in Ubuntu that required a particular glibc version...

I have been in the same situation. But big changes in glibc that break things are very rare, most glibc version updates are backward compatible.

> Would this new distro have helped?

Yes, but it might have required re-compiling some packages.

Btw. NixOS is not such a new distro, it's been bubbling under for years now.