skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, let's use a memory unsafe language, handle memory management by hand and just completely ignore the fact that no human being has ever managed to consistently write bullet-proof code in it.

Using software which automates memory management, engineered by the brightest minds on this topic, is for hipsters, right?

I guess you also roll your own crypto and implement stuff in assembler “for performance”?
interesting...

seems "Ubuntu" hasn't fared quite as bad? http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=ubuntu&t=wee...

EDIT: Seems Ubuntu may have overtaken a huge portion of Linux searches, but maybe growth started to fall off with the introduction of Windows 7?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=ubuntu#q=ubuntu%2C%20...
predictable? how so?
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I am an avid RequestPolicy user. In fact, you'll find my name on https://requestpolicy.com/about.html

RequestPolicy would help against this sort of attack when performed cross-site. However, there is still a leak if a site can identify that you're the same user they previously saw. RequestPolicy wouldn't help against this as it's not cross-site.
I feel like every time I get deep enough into a topic of mathematics, Gödel inevitably shows up to say, "things beyond this point are provably unprovable!" It's simultaneously vexing and fascinating.
Isn't it obvious that the official task of a totalitarian agency can be different from the actual job it's doing??
Where does Israel fall on the "immigration is essential to startups" spectrum? Most of the Israelis who are involved in the tech industry are first or second generation from Russia or the US, right?
Something people should remember when talking as though bringing down the US government is a great option.
Sorry. Next time I'll search prior posting, you can delete this link.
While we are looking at reasons why this crash happened it may be worthwhile to consider Malcolm Gladwell's suggestion in his book 'Outliers' that Korean cultural legacy, where the High Power Distance ratio between bosses (the pilot) and their underlings (such as the co-pilot) were responsible for a series of Korean Air crashes in the 1990s.

"In addition to weather and pilot fatigue, he blames those crashes on crew members whose cultural legacy made them too deferential to communicate clearly that the plane was about to crash"

http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008/12/04/malcolm-gladwell-...
Took pretty well to this URI regexp from Ruby. Impressive!

http://www.debuggex.com/r/y47J4d_L02NwJrXq/0
Why do you think your government is scared?
Isn't it obvious that anyone can accuse anyone of anything? Usually it's more meaningful when they have evidence.

[edit: since this is receiving downvotes - clearly we have evidence that the NSA is dangerously overreaching and should stop. We have absolutely zero evidence that it is their mission to keep an elite in power 'at any cost']
In my experience, scaling down an image makes it look sharper. A blurry image will often look perfectly fine when sufficiently scaled down; which is not surprising, because a blur with a five-pixel radius at camera size can easily become a fraction of a pixel at web size. Similarly, scaling down counteracts camera noise, because each output pixel averages out the noise between several different sensor pixels.

Of course, you can always make them even sharper with filters if you want.
Also to fund the military. But anyway, I think that the declaration of war mentioned in the Constitution is talking about the decision to go to war, not just some formality of whether we call it a war or not.
"""
The majority of passengers who replied to the Safety Board’s questionnaire were carrying at least one piece of carry-on luggage. Only 25 passengers (6 percent) reported having no bags with them in the cabin. Of the 419 passengers who reported that they carried on bags, 208 (nearly 50 percent) reported attempting to remove a bag during their evacuation. The primary reason that passengers stated for grabbing their bags was for money, wallet, or credit cards (111 passengers). Other reasons included job items (65), keys (61), and medicines (51). Most passengers exited the airplane with their bags.

Passengers exiting with carry-on baggage were the most frequently cited obstruction to evacuation. Twenty-four of the 36 flight attendants who responded listed carry-on baggage as an obstruction. Overall, 37 percent of the passengers indicated that retrieving carry-on baggage slowed the evacuation; however, in five of the evacuations (cases 9, 16, 24, 27, and 32), a majority of passengers believed that the evacuation was slowed by carry-on baggage. Further, 70 passengers and 8 flight attendants reported arguments between passengers and flight attendants regarding luggage.

[...] The Safety Board concludes that passengers’ efforts to evacuate an airplane with their carry-on baggage continue to pose a problem for flight attendants and are a serious risk to a successful evacuation of an airplane.
"""

http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/safetystudies/SS0001.pdf (page 66-68)
Very neat to find local trends. Try drawing a boom (immediate spike) at some point in time to find something that trended highly back then.
It's not necessarily as bad as it seems because this is relative to overall search term popularity. As more non-techies adopted the Internet, the prevalence of all techie topics declined, some more than others. E.g. Python is more popular as ever, but it's search term interest peaked in 2006, even though it's absolute search numbers increased nicely.

I don't think google do trend graphs for absolute search numbers, so one way to approximate that is to compare the graphs for competing terms using Google Trends (1). So to get a feel for how popular Python is, compare it's trend graph to say Java or Ruby.

Another factor I suspect may be relevant for Linux is that the rise of prominent distros has probably sapped away search term activity for general searches for Linux.

(1) http://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore
A nice read.

One thing I'm always wondering is how people organize their code in an AngularJS project. The seed project and others have all directives in one file, all services is one etc. This quickly gets messy. Using different files for each, I have to include a lot of js files in the main page. Not sure what to do.
Damn - I was just on OZ214 back in October coming back from Seoul...
Try these: http://www.adafruit.com/category/63_150
> God made the integers. All else is man made.

"God made natural numbers; all else is the work of man" - Leopold Kronecker. Possibly misquoted by Raymond Ayoub in "Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections".
you could also use a generator function -

def foo(num=[0]):
num[0] = num[0] + 1
return num[0]
Here are some that would work with an arduino, you could drive that via USB. http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/05/23/e-ink-dives-int...
It also could mean that they don't care about the whole affair enough to get involved on either side.
/r/AskHistorians is my favorite, personally.
Most of this is pretty good. I'd add:

- Planning is good. Failed plans allow one to re-evaluate. Plans may fail but one shouldn't fail to plan.

- Be professional. There is very little difference between someone who is paying you $2 for a job and someone is paying you $2000. As long as they are paying you, they expect you to be professional. That payment includes the price of keeping your personality from getting in the way of your working relationship.

- If you deliver and keep people in the loop as you work on things, they will hi-five you.

- Save money. My father's thumb-rule is to have at least two year's worth of savings to sustain his current standard of living. This allows for much more freedom in choosing future clients and projects.

- Making big mistakes sometimes means getting fired. You can make big mistakes and apologize. You may still get fired. It's just business. Keep it professional, walk away and learn from your mistakes.
In indoor climbing arenas, people operating the safety line may unbuckle it seeing their regular partner land safely on the floor, even if they aren't securing their regular partner at that particular moment. Here, the recommended procedure is to always have the one who was climbing release the security line.
Nuremberg, Germany here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_U-Bahn#ATC_and_driver...

We have driverless trains without drivers at all. There is some staff getting into random trains to check for problems (like problematic passengers, etc).

Interesting thing: the migration is going gradually, there are trains with drivers running on the same line than driverless trains, and IIRC this was never done before.
Is this business or personal? I'd be interested to know how much that costs.
care to elaborate what was Cerf's & Co. crucial distinguishing insight?
> Is Venezuela a healthy democracy? Well, we have one of the best electoral systems in the world, so at least you can be sure that the people elected are the ones who got more votes.

The same cannot be told about the USA, either because of the indirect voting system or because of Florida.
I always think that's just a bug in / the inelegance of the "..." notation.
Cool, it looks like the Rachums are Israeli Pythonista brothers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5998675
e^(i*tau)=1 is definitely my favourite, but I don't really understand what x^i means.
Call me old fashioned, but I'd prefer if the rumour and conjecture stayed on Twitter.
This is a great brainstorming tool for doing light blogspam-style "journalism", if your readers don't know about it (which they probably don't). Draw something with a rather unlikely looking feature— a graph that strikes the reader as quite definitely not just random noise. See if you get anything interesting in return. If yes, conjure up a backstory, and write up a post in a confident, assertive tone, that closes with the graph as your "care to explain this?!" evidence nailing home your suspicion.
I would recommend using Yeoman for seeding projects. The grunt system it uses will solve the "lots of js files" in main page problem by automatically concatenate files together.

In our project, we created multiple sub-directories underneath the controller and services folders to organize them by business functions. It's fairly easy to re-organize the file structure in an angular projects.
Government regulations would definitely be the biggest hurdle. Doing this in San Francisco would be extremely difficult, if not outright impossible.
Preview.app in OS X scales the picture correctly. I think any program that uses Cocoa/CoreImage/CoreGraphics etc. to scale images on OS X should get the right result.

However, Safari ignores gamma and produces a flat gray rectangle when scaling down the Dalai Lama image, like Firefox does. I seem to remember that Safari used to do proper gamme correction in earlier versions, but they were pressured to abandon it because it was more important to give the result expected by websites.
If anyone wants to learn AngularJS, I highly recommend Thinkster.io, which launched just recently: http://www.thinkster.io/

I've used it and found their way of breaking it into steps really helpful.
Huh? How's that a generator function?
Wow I have been using Python for years and didn't realize default values were only created when defined. I don't think I have ever been bitten by it, but it would have been one helluva bug to track down.
From what I saw it impacted before the runway. This brings back memories of the British Airways 777 that came down early due to loss of power to both engines (Speedbird 38, Beijing to London). The cause of that was ice blocking the fuel filters which starved both engines. The thing to check here was what altitude the plane was flying at for most of the flight, and what temperature it was at that altitude along the flight path.
Saying that I'm "excited" about a tragedy (I'll remove the word "potential" as so far at least two people have died) is unfair. You make it seem like I'm getting stoked that a plane crashed.

I'm not trying to "hawk" anything, but am trying to help create a system that will help people understand the world around them in a better, more efficient way. If linking to it in this thread feels cheap then I apologize, but that wasn't the intent at all.
Thank you! I feel encouraged to persevere.
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I don't think they were innocently reacting, I think that people innocently[1] let them do it, and that this was Bin Laden's intention.

[1] I stopped short of saying dumbly.
History may not be written anymore, but surely is told by the victorious.
There is an important distinction to be made, though, between employees at Google having access to read the contents of emails and them being able to run text analysis on those contents for ad-able words and phrases (what I was trying to get at by having the bank-generated weight-log in the example). Most people know that Google does the latter, but it is dubious that many people at Google have access (especially the kind of unconstrained access connoted by the term "rifled" in your modification of the deposit box) to do the former.

Also, it is not like a friend's garage; they aren't hosting people's email as a favor. It is more like a rent-a-storage-room place with a peculiar method of paying the rent; there is a business relationship/transaction going on. We trade algorithmic-advertising access to our emails in exchange for them providing hosting.
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:zmsMT3XqC...

ok, so porn links are allowed in this
To add to this, many Americans seem to view the goal of preserving the Union as self-evidently noble. I disagree. Self-government is an inalienable right of free people. The Union didn't just forcibly end slavery in the South, which would've been noble enough. They conquered the South and ruled it. What gave the Union the right to impose laws on the South that had nothing to do with human rights?

Governance without the consent of the governed is illegitimate.
What I'm saying is that if you could use the aggregate cognitive surplus of the people trying to follow the event as it breaks, you could use that to create something cohesive and reliable. Then if you're not a news junkie and don't have any interest in following a story until it has settled down, you're welcome to do so.

[edit] In response to the question above: So is your question why would somebody follow something as it breaks?
Those are interesting suggestions. Cheers
We use GraphicsMagick at 92, as dipping into the 80s has an annoying tendancy to introduce visible noise on something like 1:50 images. It's very annoying to ship that extra bandwidth.

Interestingly, we've done WebP support, and while the files are smaller across the board, visual quality deteriorates really quickly once you start dropping that quality value, even in small increments.
It's not a generator, but his intention is clear - mutable keyword arguments allow for some clever tricks.
Because the guidelines clearly state that anything the audience here finds interesting or noteworthy is relevant, that is why.
In addition to my other reply, see also this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5232822
Edit: scratch the original response here, I mixed your username up with another user's reply. Sorry about that. I still feel you shouldn't be promoting your website/news service in this thread, however.
Stone fruit (peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines) are in season in the summer and easily bruise and get brown spots when they overripen.
Good thing you weren't holding a fork at that precise moment.
I wasn't trying to be rude. I was genuinely curious, since I've seen that phrasing so often.
It's interesting in the context of the issues with the 787, which HN has shown plenty of interest in.

It could have nothing to do with the 787, but show me lots of articles about the 787 and I'm going to be tangentially interested in the 777.

It is also interesting in the context of HN when you think of the people who talk about how airlines need to be disrupted. It serves as a reminder of the stakes- you can't necessarily jump into the airlines business shooting from the hip and hoping for the best.
Thanks - I see your point now. You're right, finding closer peers would be very beneficial in this case.
Wikipedia Entry for Flight 214
This was one of the many projects that got gutted by Plus, I'm surprised that it's still being hosted at all.
To me as a supporter of the European Project, the entire thing is heartbreaking. We now have two crises that could possibly be the defining "history book moments" of our century badly mishandled by the "leaders" of Europe.

The UK managed to stop the EU from speaking with one voice so that each little country now has to send its easily ignorable complaints by itself. Good job.

Today is the day that I, as a continental European, have become a supporter of a swift EU exit for the UK. Trojan horses not welcome.
Forgive my mathematical ignorance, but you've piqued my curiosity and I haven't had any luck in searching - what is DGL?
While true, and quite obvious, I don't understand your point. Are you saying that makes SoCal water importation more sustainable?
It may be worthwhile to read a commercial pilots comments after reading Outliers: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety

(A more reasonable explanation that would have been uncovered with basic research is that foreign airline captains have less pilotmim command time.)
Asian and Middle-eastern airlines have a huge number of expat pilots.

Let's please let race and culture be speculations of last resort.
> That functionality really should be changed for the next major python release

Make lists immutable you mean? Like tuple()? Edit: Or force re-evaluation on every function call (could be pretty slow)?

The best practice is to just use a tuple (immutable) instead of a list to begin with. You can always do mylist = list(defaulttuple) inside your function first thing if you really want to work with it as a list.

Also, both pylint and pep8, two python static analyzers, will all warn you about any mutable default arguments you provide. Many Python developers have these hooked into their editor or precommit hooks to catch things like this (among others).
foss is a nerd thing. The general consumer has no idea what source code is in the first place, they often don't know what an application or OS is, they just click the thing on the screen to make facebook appear.

So it loses search percentage because it isn't becoming a mainstream concept, which is sad. People should care more about their software freedom but they don't even know what software is.
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>only to the glorious leader

while glorious leader sounds good too, after watching "Dictator" allow me to correct you - it is "supreme leader". Btw, the supreme leader suggested that US could have been able to spy on its citizens if US were a dictatorship instead of democracy. :)
I am comparing the official missions of the Stasi and NSA which are significantly different.

If your argument is that the NSA is not acting in accordance to its mission, or that abuses are taking place, or that the NSA is acting like the Stasi that's something else entirely, completely separate to what I'm discussing.

I'm pointing out that these are different agencies with different roles and responsibilities, and trying to draw parallels between an NSA data center and a Stasi archive is not really useful.
Try to do to Russia what Snowden did to USA and you will find polonium in your food. Also falsified elections. Not that good place if you like freedom.
Edit: Former comment retracted. I still disagree, but it's not worth discussing here. Carry on.
I would recommend trying private airplane lessons (on a calm day) Being in control of an airplane helps a lot, and that feeling may transfer to commercial flights.
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Twelephone soft-launches WebRTC 900 number service on their video chat platform
That icing issue has since been fixed and so is irrelevant to this crash (according to CNN).
http://john-sheehan.com/post/18688963163/dont-build-the-best...
I wouldn't read too much into that trend, all desktop operating systems declined:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Mac+OS+X,+Linux,+Wind...

Ubuntu really does win though among the linuxes:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Ubuntu,OpenSuse,Debia...

My favorite linux is on the rise, albeit from a tiny baseline:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Archlinux&cmpt=q

At least the mobile OSes are doing well:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Mac+OS+X,+Linux,+Wind...
The easiest way for banks to deal with this disruptive threat is, of course, to make it illegal. Watch the lobbying efforts first; that's where you'll see "helpful" investor safety rules be proposed that begin the erosion of kickstart models.
Sbaker: FlightAware data for AAR 214. Yesterday (safe) vs. today (crash)
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Sheryl Sandberg Originally Booked on Flight That Crashed
The government doesn't have to though cause it has our money anyway ( and our communications information ).
Right, I get why linux / FOSS in general adoption isn't high. But why declining?
Why not use parenthesis with print so that it works for python 2 and python 3?
To clean the air, Dutch scientists invent pavement that eats smog
When I saw the title for this post, my first thought was "hmm, mutable default arguments are pretty tricky, hopefully that's somewhere on the list". I wasn't disappointed.
Staircase growth then major drop = Yahoo

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:g1F7bodyg...
I wonder if they refuse ingress to the USA based on lack of documentation in these cases.
"...I guess when you measure greatness by body bags filled and broken laws, Lincoln was a great..."

Wow...

If that's all you see in Lincoln... you have really bought in to all of that Southern Propaganda.

No reason to argue the point with you ... clearly you are the type for whom the world is "black and white". Your mind is made up.

I just wanted to let you know, you'll probably be unhappy here in the United States, because the majority do not share your view.
For now, banks continue to profit from crowdfunding. They get a percentage of each credit card transaction.

However, they could be in serious trouble if an alternative payment system becomes popular. The stage is set - NFC and Bitcoin are growing in popularity, and the federal government recently began allowing merchants to charge a credit card fee.

If a taco cost $1.50 with my smartphone, or $1.75 with my credit card, I know how I'd pay.
Pasta Salad spikes (July 4th anyone?)
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=pasta+salad&...
Dear NSA
Why am I unable to view the front door of the US consulate in Amsterdam? I'm not sure why this street looks like it ends on maps.google.com ...
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> Printing your way out of crisis, only result in a sort of roller coaster economy

That can happen in similar situations if you don't as well, though. Greece's typical response to financial crises until recently was currency devaluation, i.e. massive but controlled step-function inflation. That certainly has a lot of downsides. But now that Greece is in the Eurozone, it can't do that. Even post-crisis, the inflation is very low; there is even deflation if you look at local baskets of goods. But that has not kept the economy off of the roller-coaster. It's just been a different roller coaster, and likely a worse one (in the previous crises, Greece never had 65% youth unemployment).
I actually like that it makes a noise for alarms, and somewhat rely on that fact when I want to make sure I don't miss the alarm.
You might want to check yearofmoo.com
I went into this thinking "This'll be an obvious example - one I'm sure I wouldn't make."

I was wrong, and now I know better. Thank you.