skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out the status reports to the Apache Board of Directors (http://stdcxx.apache.org/status/):

(05/11)

No changes. Stdcxx continues to be dormant. There was a flurry of emails
on the stdcxx-dev list suggesting continued interest from the same two
parties (ARM and Sun) but no new work.

---

The Attic is where retired Apache projects go.

(02/2012)

A vote to move stdcxx to the Attic failed. The majority of stdcxx
contributors voted in favor of continuing to maintain the project.
Several inactive committers stepped up to help with the project.

---

I do not think that this was a surprise. Regular status reports stopped completely after February 2012. It's also notable that Chris Bergström was proposed for the new chair position, see http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/stdcxx-dev/201306.m...
Yeah they have 4.97M in large bold letters and then 4.97 billion shortly after. Also in the last paragraph they do it again with the $19x and $20x figures.
When I first read this I starting thinking this is a good start but I think these companies are just trying to save face. Now that these programs have been exposed in more light both sides, the government and the companies who participate, are just trying to minimize the impact without telling the full truth about other programs.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/nsa-admits-i...
Do San Franciscans have to pay a broker $5000 every time they move? If not, the city is still much cheaper than New York.
Well, not exactly -- there's an enormous unit test suite, and most changes come with associated tests to prove correctness (tests, in turn, are deemed correct by automatically running them on a dozen different versions of windows).

Regressions still happen, of course -- we might not be testing the right thing, or we might hit an edge case where implementing something completely correctly caused an application to break that was secretly relying on one wine bug hiding another wine bug.
This is quite awesome - Visual Studio support would rock!
No, HN detects duplicates automatically. And if that mechanism fails, either the article just won't get upvoted, or it's an evergreen that is OK to repeat now and then.
The Surface RT experience was summed up best for me by the wife of a Microsoft employee and friend of mine: "it makes me feel stupid". I guess she'll be sticking with her iPad.

Me, I didn't think it was that bad. Though I, too, wondered "why wouldn't I just buy and iPad?" Seems that's a question everyone else asked themselves.
I think, in the case of Detroit, they will both be taking pretty painful hits. Snyder is serious about this. The bankruptcy administrator is likely to be unsympathetic. And very little help is likely to come from DC. Couple all of that with Chapter 9 providing all creditors with FAR fewer rights, and I think the writing is pretty much on the wall.

The only thing the creditors can try at this point is to get a judge to rule that Detroit is not eligible for bankruptcy. Slim chance there... but we've all seen stranger things happen.
Trolling Or Just Pure Stupidity?
Notice that the nutters never have any explanation for why conspirators would

1) bother with the 3rd building (are not the first two enough? The third didn't even get much publicity, it surely did little to rally public support)

2) wait so long after the collapse of the first to blow the 3rd (why wait? Surely one of the conspirators should have pointed out that a wait would only serve to make people suspicious. take it down seconds after one next to it falls and everything will look much more "natural")

3) bother with C4 at all (aren't planes slamming into buildings horrific enough? Controlled detonation of them afterwards adds very little but VASTLY increases the chances of something going wrong or the conspiracy being uncovered).

Conspiracy theorists almost never put themselves in the minds of the alleged conspirators. They latch onto things that are odd or unusual but the explanations they offer never actually reduce the oddness. WTC7 falling a few hours later is odd... it being blown up deliberately a few hours later is even more odd.
Not to be too cynical, but I wonder how many government employees see themselves as dedicating their lives to public service, as opposed to those who simply prefer a government job over a private sector job.

I think the whole public servant thing is largely a myth.
What is the hypothesis; black people killed Detroit?
Why is your username in green?

Is your program for the desktop, the web, mobile, tv or all?
I commute from Oakland to Menlo Park. It's kooky how it's either a 40 minute drive (consistently) or a 100 minute bike->BART->shuttle, the latter being way more stressful due to transitions and multiple failure modes.
There was a recent RailsCasts on Foundation if anyone is interested: http://railscasts.com/episodes/417-foundation
This is surprisingly cool.

With some more polish, this could become a real wave-maker.

You could consider making it a bit more of a "freemium" model. Something like allowing users to set up 1-2 private coding collaborations for free, but without any version control, terminal-sharing, or the other bells and whistles.
Apartment hunting in Chicago is a dream. Each apartment you visit is nicer than the last, and $2000 a month practically buys you a palace.

Meanwhile in New York, you pay a broker $10,000 for the privilege of paying $2500 a month to sublet a room a family of cockroaches only uses at night.
I haven't tried mint, but Ubuntu is a crap experience on my mac. I had it on a separate partition for a while, but I just couldn't stand all the graphical glitching.

I work in linux all day long, but i love osx. I have never, ever, thought to myself, "man, I wish I was running linux."

To be fair, while at work, I never think "I wish this was osx" either.
So how do you actually get a bug fixed in Wine? There's a whole lot of blockers for anything based on the Wix installer.
And reimplement it from a closed source spec, which only adds to the legend.
As stated by Kahneman happiness (pain) level is felt in retrospect as an average of the most happy (painful) moment and happiness (pain) level of the last moment. If you have kids you have an easy happiness peak (say their first smile) and are likely to be less lonely in your old days.
I'm not sure I'm understanding you. Are you suggesting that current retirees should get nothing of what was promised to them? What are they supposed to do? Seems like this would put a lot of old folks into a desperate situation and only worsen the city's downward spiral.
Bridges generally do heal themselves - they have a small colony of symbiotic (parasitic?) humans that take care of them. Some bridges fall into disrepair because their symbiotes have been compromised.
http://www.retrode.org/

Even ripping your own, legality is still probably a bit of a grey area.
Where have you decided is a good place to live?
Not quite. Around 70% of the time, I'm in pure Chrome OS. The 30% I start a GNOME 3 session is to edit in Sublime and do some light image editing, and since GNOME 3 is pretty much full-GUI now without many config files, it's one setup and done.
> Hamtramck festivals
> Pączki Day

hah
> in order to prosecute a bullshit "war".

Two wars in fact.

> It's enough to know that the government and the media lied their asses off

Life doesn't offer up points for being thoughtful and wise after the event.

The USA invaded IRAQ looking for WMD and trying to blaming Saddam Hussein for 9/11.

Even before the war started it was a well-known fact there were no WMDs and Saddam Hussein had no links to 9/11 and anyone who thought about this rationally knew an invasion was not a good idea.

But as you said the government and the media lied their asses off and the unwashed masses where taken in hook line and sinker.

The majority of the citizens of USA, UK, Australia and Spain all supported the plan to invade IRAQ.

Move on a decade and those same citizens now think it was a big mistake.

Well it too late. You can't put the genie back into the bottle.

Through their collective stupidity, the citizens of the USA, UK, Australia and Spain will be paying for that big mistake for years to come.

What's unfortunate the ripple effect of that big mistake affects us all.
I've found that ASUS's Zenbook Prime is well supported under linux, has a higher resolution screen than the MBA, good battery life (6 hr is still good, right?).

It could use a magsafe-like power connector, though.
The name is green, because the account is still new. After some days this changes.
Switching to Linux Mint fixed this for me.
Sticking to LTS releases was actually the worst way to do this as it meant catching 10.04 which was effectively a "one off" UI, resulting in two changes to the UI rather than one big overhaul.

My mother started off on 8.04 LTS. When upgrading to 10.04 LTS the window buttons changed sides and there was a new theme (this is enough to throw many users). When upgrading to 12.04 LTS there was a change from Gnome to Unity.

My mother now chooses to use a Mac because she was fed up with her computer "changing" each time I updated it. I doubt I could convince her to try any Linux distribution again - there are no perceivable benefits for her.
Given the history of infiltrating activism groups, and the fact that Anonymous requires effictively zero effort to infiltrate, I'd put the probability at just a shade beneath 100%.

That said, I'd guess that much of the irresponsible vigilantism of Anon probably is still the work of idealistic teenagers and so forth.
I completely agree with you. I am very appreciative of being able to read these documents, but it clearly will cause little or no harm to the us or the intelligence community.

About the only thing that was in the manning cache that probably significantly bruised US operating power was the diplomatic cables. And that was just because the publicity and bluntness undoubtedly lead to some personal grudges that closed some doors for entirely human and entirely undiplomatic reasons.

The only people that didn't know everyone was listening to everyone were members of the public who didn't want to know. Now that they know they just don't care.

Economic power surely is the only killer. Mass espionage programs are probably quite beneficial economically, or at least if you're willing to share state and private intelligence like a large number of countries are. I would be very surprised if the US doesn't adopt that practice more and more over time. It's essentially already begun - if you run large networks data sharing is quid pro quo for heads up on state intrusion activity and reports of data exfiltration. We just don't steal secrets and give them out for favors yet.

Countries do occasionally commit suicide though. While a popular revolution in the US feels inconceivable at any point within our lives, the primary factor behind them is usually way too many pissed off poor people and radical imbalance in wealth and little room for economic advancement. As US economics begin to resemble japan's more and more you might have the potential for a forceful rejection of policy being so captured by wealth and neo-liberal philosophy. Hard to imagine though. Globalization seems to have ended that whole concern.
It's far away from, well, everything, there's not much happening on the coast, generally very foggy.
I'm no Ch9 expert, but my understanding is that a receiver will be appointed. That person is not elected. So while the politicians retain executive power, the purse strings are taken away from them.

There will be much unhappiness and gnashing of teeth before it's all finished.
I plan to make it for desktop
Fix Sublime's PHP and SASS variable selection
Windows can't open a raw socket. I find that really irks me for some reason. Overall, I find Windows superior after using Macs for a couple of years. The UI of Windows feels much better for getting things done, there's more third party software, and Apple's software engineering is amateurish compared to Microsoft. But then I remember, you can't open a raw socket. I'm also steeped in Linux from the olden days, and the win32 meets Linux ports get to be a bit of a pain... cygwin path conventions, DOS path conventions, emacs port path conventions... use a backslash here, forward slash there.. that stuff can get to be a serious pain if you bring a lot of UNIX style stuff to your Windows work. Even though OS X doesn't hold a candle to Debian for well-packaged open-source software, big plus marks for not hitting this UNIX-meets-Windows compatibility nightmare.

90% of your peers using a Mac is a good reason to use a Mac. But I have to admit people feeling superior for using a Mac is ridiculous.
Does it allow side-loading of unsigned apk's? That wold make it very friendly for some types of hackers.
Linaro enhances Linux support for ARM Big.Little
ThreeAudio.js – HTML5 Audio API
Because people love classics.
Google has been fighting it.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/google-fights-nsl/
for example.

Just because not every fight is public doesn't mean they aren't happening.

Yahoo fought for 5 years before their fight became public.
OK, not to be the devil's advocate... but why are you so sure that nothing phones home? The mere fact that nothing on your network connects to https://bigbrother.com/snoop.php?suspectname=aclevernickname... is not solid proof of nothing phoning home. There are many ways of communication over a network, are you sure you check all of them?

If your answer is 'yes'... you should check again :-)

As to you having 'audited' all code running on your network, I can flatly state I don't believe it. I don't doubt you'll have looked over the source for a part of it but there is a difference between 'looking over code' and 'auditing code'. Take the Linux kernel for an example: as of 2013, the Linux 3.10 release had 15,803,499 lines of code (source: Wikipedia:Linux_kernel). Linux for Workgroups has even more. Glibc is good for another 1,188,385 lines of code (source: http://www.ohloh.net/p/glibc). The gcc collection spans 6,242,908 lines (source: http://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc). These are only those projects you mentioned (' I appreciate that you've never decided to do an audit of GCC's, glibc's, or your kernel's source, but understand that others have. I am one of them.').

Understand that an individual who claims to have audited all code on his or her network does not come across like someone who grasps the magnitude of the effort s/he claims to have conquered. This individual either has superhuman powers and unlimited time, or the individual overestimates the efficacy of his or her 'auditing' efforts.

Rationalwiki has just the article to help you decide which of these two is the most likely: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
I never understand this phenomenon of how shares instantly drop in value based on a single quarter of earnings that don't meet 'estimates.' Suffice it to say, I do understand a bit about markets, but maybe somebody can educate me further.

There is no way that individual investors are moving the stock enough in the minutes to hours post-earnings report to actually affect the price, so I'm assuming this is 'market makers' that are selling off shares and pushing the price down. But my question is... are they selling shares because they predict other people will sell shares and so they are simply 'beating' the rest of the market to avoid the predicted loss? Or are they selling the shares because they actually believe they are worth less due to the report?
Physicists have made great contributions to molecular biology, but this isn't one of those cases. This one is so wrong at so many levels it's hard to to justice to it. Much of it just misinterprets things we already know.

In the article it says:

Davies and Lineweaver claim that cancer is actually an organized and systematic response to some sort of stress or physical challenge. It might be triggered by a random accident, they say, but thereafter it more or less predictably unfolds.

There's nothing new here. Cancer is basically deregulated cellular replication and proliferation. These are core processes in multicellular organisms, so of course they unfold predictably. The trigger is often a mutation ("random accident") in a key regulatory gene.

The article says the new theory "challenges the orthodox view that cancer develops anew in each host". But we know that the mechanism of proliferation does not develop anew in each cancer; only the trigger is different in different cancers.

The physicists say “We envisage cancer as the execution of an ancient program pre-loaded into the genomes of all cells,” and that "it will express genes that are more deeply conserved among multicellular organisms, and so are in some sense more ancient."

Since cellular replication programs are deeply rooted and ancient because they are fundamental processes, this shouldn't be surprising.

"Sure enough, cancer reverts to an ancient form of metabolism called fermentation, which can supply energy with little need for oxygen, although it requires lots of sugar." Guess they are unaware that your muscle cells do they same when they are starved for oxygen! Anaerobic "fermentation" is a standard part of our metabolic system under certain conditions.

This goes on and on...
Not sure it'd be sufficient, but the entry-level model is considerably cheaper. $350 for a Surface, $500 for an iPad.
I realize that Zillow's "Zestimate" isn't exact in a lot of cases, but even at those firesale prices there appears to be a large gap between the asking price and the Zestimate.

Me, you could give me the house and I still wouldn't live in Detroit.
Agreed. I am not good enough to judge the whole article on physicsworld but the author seems to be bullshitting on at least some of the things he wrote.

For example:

> Evolution builds on what has gone before (our remote ancestors were fish),

Fish and us share the same ancestor. It doesn't mean that our ancestor is fish.

For people who aren't familiar with the matter... It's like saying my niece and me, we share the same ancestor (and has several similar properties), versus, my niece's ancestors were me or vice versa, which is plain out wrong.
DUPE -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6067055
you wont be - hn is smart enough to consider your resubmission equivalent to an upvote. Dont waste those valuable seconds ;)
I can't speak for the OP but the main reason for me would probably be nostalgia. The second reason is that I could probably download every single ROM ever produced for these systems and store it on an average sized flash drive. Finally, I don't know much about pirating on the 360 but I'm personally not inclined (read: lazy) to mod an XBox.
I just tried to be funny and point out that bringing suicide bombers before the court after the fact does not work.
This is becoming my sort of goto config.

I used to have Windows and xwin32 and I would run my stuff on FreeBSD or Linux, and use Windows as my "mainstream OS when I needed to print things and/or listen to things."

Eventually my gear could run the Linux server in a virtual machine. Then I started running Windows in a virtual machine to avoid browser vulnerabilities (create a clean instance, browse for a while, then burn it).

I am almost to the point where I can boot Linux natively and run Windows in a VM (except for the occasional game) but I do less of that so its not as big a deal. I did an Atmel seminar where the whole time my "windows" machine was just a VirtualBox instance running full screen on my Lenovo T430. That was a perfectly acceptable experience.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/google-fights-nsl/
Research on Azure WebSite security: Process Execution and Folder Browsing
Yes. People forget that Yahoo (and others) have been fighting since at least 2008, if not before.
I think Nintendo and Apple have both seen the future of this particular market: casual gamers don't want consoles; they want handhelds that can mirror-play onto their TV when they want a more enriching experience (which isn't necessarily all the time.)

Apple has the iPad+Apple TV set-up; Nintendo has the WiiU as a transitional console generation while increasingly moving all its flagship titles to the 3DS. I fully expect that the next console Nintendo ships will be a lot like the Apple TV--a bridge appliance to point your DS4 at.
Why does the demo have ascii art penises? I think it detracts from the otherwise quality presentation.
But then you have the iPad Mini too...
Seems to have been telegraphed since at least November 2010: http://stdcxx.apache.org/status/2010-11.txt
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." -- Mark Twain
But those Russian gangsters are no more or less legitimately Anonymous than that "rank and file."

Which is why the idea of a 'false flag' Anonymous operation seems absurd to me, there is no 'false' Anonymous flag, any more than a 'real' Anonymous.
If you just want to try out graphics programming you could begin with JavaScript and focus on the canvas element of HTML5. It is a lot of fun.

Also check out the demo scene on the web, there are some people doing absolutely cool stuff.
Do they really think that this is making them look any better in this situation?
This is always something that amuses me about many conspiracy theories, in that the 'big, awful conspiracy' is usually just workaday stuff compared to what's actually known, documented, and admitted.
Anonymous targeting congress
Author here: I don't understand every step of the process either :-) But old chips like this at least seem theoretically possible to comprehend in their entirety. I expect it would be pretty much impossible to reverse-engineer and understand a present-day processor with billions of transistors instead of thousands. But I could be surprised - 35 years from now people may be reverse-engineering Xeon chips for fun. And perhaps posting about interesting things they found in Intel's random number circuitry.
A note from Betaworks on seed investing
From Sublime: Unable to create workspace, maximum recursion depth exceeded.
Some good reads, the list is up to 33 now.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-25-best-startup-fail-stor...
call me a cynic - but I dont get why everyone who has a half decent idea and questionable success feels like they should write a book about it? Why not wait until you have something really worth sharing and where people would pay for the knowledge?
> It means you are being forced.

Could you please elaborate what it means to be "forced" in a democratic, free, law-abiding country?

Do you mean CEO of Google had a gun at their face? Do you mean they were treated to get electricity cut off? Internet cut off? Engineers thrown in jail without fair trial? Please kindly tell me what it means where a free democratic government is "forcing" you to comply with a secret unethical, most likely unlawful and surely unconstitutional request?
Clearly they must.
I'm wondering why MIT still hasn't released its report on how Aaron Swartz's situation was handled.

I think the report was supposed to have been released months ago.
I can't speak for all of them, or even a majority of them, but I do make a point to get to know my representatives (and the candidates who would like to be elected) and have found a number of people who would rather not have to be in government but have found themselves forced their by a sense of "if no one else will do this I guess I will" sort of duty.

For what its worth, its pretty easy to talk to these people. Its hard not to talk to them when an election is coming up.

I sometimes think voters that care enough to engage are a myth. :-)
That will surely remedy the lack of quality games.
Yeah i'm getting flicker with almost all of these effects on my 4S.
Alternatively, "is there any easy way to do Windows Mobile development with C++/CLI if you don't run Windows?"

Obviously, you're not going to have a good time writing code native to a particular OS if you aren't working with that OS. At best, your experience will be subpar. imo
You may be able to get VS2010 hobbling along, but VS2012 is stopped by this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17273