skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same procedure (or rather should be) in PHP. Also, better to switch to === or !== for exact comparisons since that also checks type.

(I'll leave out the other warts of PHP since that's been discussed here and elsewhere ad nauseum)
I am little skeptical of VMs but not so much that I don't see any benefit in it.

In theory, VMs should help reduce the attack surface by a lot. For example, all the system calls in the VM are handled by the guest OS. The actual system calls made to the host should be minimal and can be more easily audited.
that game was tetris, and youtube has a fascinating documentary about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn9dO_iL7lo

sillysaurus2: this has some of yamauchi being a ruthless sumbitch.
Understanding Threads in Python
Facebook doesn't have, and won't ever add, an 'export my photo albums, messages and friends list as a series of easily parsable xml files' button, because that would be building redundancy into the product. One of the ways that it locks you in is to to secure all this data, all this work that you've done. The fact that your friends all use it is obviously another significant factor.

Similarly, I CBA to switch from Spotify, because I've got all of my playlists saved in it. If I moved to google play or one of the other up and coming music services, I'd have to rebuild these manually. There are some scraping tools to get this data out but they tend to be painful - "Just right click on each song and click 'copy HTML link'" etc ...
Well, it's not always the ignorant, it's more of lazy minded. You usually don't install the stuff that often or in a such hurry that you can't read a single dialog with 3 simple sentences. People just don't care. And then they get funny search engines installed, which again half of them still don't really care about.
Well your feelings are horribly misplaced. Jonathan Ive has more authority than anyone at Apple (Tim Cook included).
Why should you monitor your competitors’ price?
I think it's interesting, but for me one of Apple's weakest points as a company is its taste in software UI. iOS 7 strikes me as catch-up - Apple is late to a party started by Google and Microsoft, and is trying hard to pretend its been there all along - hard to recognise the hint of insecurity behind their ever-slick advertising, but it's there I think. It's a new area for the company, and a good reminder that Apple has its vulnerabilities. It will be interesting to see how things play out as the design language of the big three (A, G, & M) equalises, norms emerge, and the competition begins to really heat up.
With OS/360 actually you already had

[VM] -> [OS] -> [App]

Which is the approach used by Windows Hyper V and VMware vSphere Hypervisor.
Yeah! I link it now. We can organized the emails very well now.
I am not sure why this is opposite of containers?

Wouldn't it be possible to run a minimal POSIX OS inside a container? (genuine question, I don't know the answer to)
"The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion" http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html
Like the MS documents it is not meant to be parsed into memory but directly dumped from the file and ready to go, they used this in a time when computers were too slow otherwise to do meaningful things to documents.
Due to their success in these earlier years they never had time or lust to change this into a proper parsed format like most file formats nowadays.
This May Be The Best New Feature Of iOS 7
First of all, if you click on anon1358's profile you'll see 3.5k karma... about as much as you have. If you read through his previous comments they are pretty mundane, so I don't think he's just changing nicks for comments like these.

Which is to say that there are reasons to use a different name online that don't involve secretly wanting pg to give you money/help...

It's also true that people doing grand things make more decisions, and hence more bad ones. I don't think that makes discussion of those decisions somehow off limits for discussion.

Like, I'm reading anon1358's comment, and yours. Yours reads like an ad-hominem. His reads like a "As a community we seem to disagree with pg on X, maybe if we band together he will listen". I agree he doesn't seem open to hearing the other side, but I think his tone is much more constructive than yours.
I've had real issues with Inkscape, especially its user interface. It's just not a Mac app. I'd love to see someone tear the gubbins out of Inkscape and place them in a good user interface. (To be fair I have real issues with Illustrator's UI, too. And the App I choose to use isn't a Mac app to the point of being a Windows App on a PC in Parallels.)

Expression Design has a very simple, powerful interface: scroll is zoom, space bar is pan, unmodified click is select. I'd like to see someone make an SVG editor with a cross between it and Bret Victor's Gestural Zoom And Pan.

http://worrydream.com/#!/GesturalZoomAndPan
I went through a couple moleskines, cahiers too. Tried the Lamy Safari, the TWSBI, the Signo Bit, the Sliccis, etc. There's something to be admired there but I've moved on. Bic ballpoints on 32lb printer paper on a clipboard is simplest way for me to write. No ink reservoirs, no scratchy nibs, no bleed-through. I never run out of room. It's simple and it works.
He quotes a textbook chapter in his conclusion. So the idea that you have to at least be careful with your statistics is orthodoxy, not some missing component of the field.

(I realize that doesn't make any guarantees about common practices, but it is maybe a little capricious to repudiate the entire field)
The 31 Startups Twitter Has Acquired
Thank you, that was enjoyable. But...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem and the uncertainty principle suggest to be that while it might be possible to create a model which appears indistinguishable from an existing person, and could be considered "similar enough" philosophically or legally, by definition it would have to be considered a 'different' object because perfect copies are impossible.
opendomain: you're dead. Not sure why (I had a look through the comment history, and couldn't find anything that stood out). FYI.
He didn't have to change anything. He wanted to.

And when you see the iPhone 5C with iOS 7 it's pretty clear why.
facebook also removed rss support for their webpage
I read that as "BlackBerry to cut up 40 percent of employees", I'm not sure which headline would be worse....
I use Wisdomap. One level about Mind42 but I can't collapse parents. I use it to make outlines. Click text mode then manually add the format after exporting. It's a pain. Does Freemind export formats in HTML?
Then maybe Jon Ive is just not very good at software design. His changes to the iOS UI seem like what an amateur designer would do (brighter colors, lots of random ugly icons, inconsistency throughout the UI, and so on). It's like this is his first ride in software design.
If we're discussing serving it to the browser, just use gzip and get the same size savings without any of the minification!
I hadn't sent a message with my updated phone, just did to test this out. When you send a message it gets a colored talk bubble and then shifts up into position. During the shift the keyboard/text entry field stay on top. It doesn't last long, it would probably look cleaner if they'd made the talk bubble stay above the entry field (so that it doesn't get cut in half).
Although I'm a perfectionist and I believe a lot of these issues should be addressed, the tumblr itself bothers me. It's the logical culmination of Fail culture where hipsters in armchairs laugh at the inadequacy of everything while producing nothing. All these things could have been constructive criticism in another context, but here they just serve to further someone's twitchy compulsion to be entertained for another 5 seconds on the internet.

Yes I'm getting surly in my old age.
You're welcome. Glad you found my response informative.

HN commenters are indeed a fickle and random group.

Cheers.
Agreed it's totally organization dependent. Basically fishtoaster said what I wanted to say more clearly than I did. It requires thoughtful management to get right. But I think the same is true of any office environment, open plan or no. I think the article is a bit unfair and essentially saying "badly managed open plan offices are bad."
Another one, if you go to the timer app from the slide up control center, the "pause" is 2 pixels out of being centered. You can just about tell with the naked eye but if you open it in photoshop it's 2 pixels out.

It's not a big deal but I thought Apple would be well on top of stuff like this
If anything exactly the reverse has happened. Previously we had some skeuomorphic and some natively digital UIs from Apple because different design groups did things their way.

IMHO a fundamental, ground-up revision of the UI was inevitable and indeed widely expected the moment Johnny Ive was put charge of UI design. I can't see him even considering taking on that job without making sure he had as much authority over that revision as he would ever need.
I generally find I'm perhaps more sensitive to lower frame rates than more casual gamers!
Given the way iOS UI are developed, the right choice would obviously be different screen size, same resolution...
Nope. VLC will play anything out-of-the-box.
It's a social problem: those who don't want to work 50+ hour weeks are made to feel as if they're a bad employee. Those who don't need to work 50+ hour weeks are steadily assigned an increased workload until they are. It's a nuanced situation that I doubt a legal system could address without introducing horrific unintended consequences of the new laws, as new laws so often do.

Unionizing is only effective in situations where employees can band together into a shared social framework. During the industrial revolution this was facilitated by the massive size of workplaces. But at each studio there are usually less than 30 devs.

I think ultimately the solution is to start our own companies imprinted with a culture of employee well-being and work-life balance. If it's a success, and it's located in a gamedev hotspot, then all of the top talent will want to work there. This synergizes well with free market aims, because competitors who don't get top talent soon go out of business.
If you gonna say UI in general, Apple's iPhone and iPod interface were designed first before Android caught up... Microsoft is even later... just saying. If you are talking about flat UI, then yes, Android advanced it. However, I agree 5c and flat UI make the current Apple reek insecurity.
Seriously. Xvid became immensely popular for a reason. Using Divx for recreational purposes is living in the past.
Shiny Reddit redefines how you browse the front page of the internet
Not familiar with Linux kernel development practices, but wouldn't have any semi-capable static analysis tool caught this?
Well we don't say Parisien are unpleasant persons for no reason.
I used to work on simulations of industrial lifting cranes. Crane operators would use the simulator to plan a lift before going out into the field to execute it. This was 'round about 2008, when New York City had all of those cranes fall over in one year. Luckily, none of them were any of our customers, but every day was a new test of patience as we waited on the news to tell us what company was responsible so we could check out customer list.[1]

I'm now working on DOT road signing systems. The software I am writing will be used to figure out when and where to put up speed limit and warning signs.

What is really, super concerning is that, though I am capable of doing all of the math and physics that the job requires (and there is really no reason for you to believe me on that point, which makes the situation even worse), none of the other programmers I've ever worked with on these projects could.[2] The companies that hired me just got lucky that I typically go with the least-effort job application process and am too lazy to be constantly applying to jobs. There was no vetting process, it was just "take the cheapest guy we can get".

When people could die as a direct result of a programming error on your behalf, it tends to change your perspective on things.

[1] When the company ignored my analysis that certain parts of the data was logically inconsistent (this system used look-up tables to do everything, very little was actually simulated), I quit. As far as I was concerned, the fact that none of our own customers had been in the news was mere luck and I had no interest in being on watch with my hands tied behind my back when it finally did happen.

[2] The most recent fun defect I had to fix involved someone having added two angles together, one in degrees, the other in radians. That prompted this little thought-experiment in code: https://github.com/capnmidnight/UnitsOfMeasure/tree/master/U.... It works for some simple things and has an interesting side effect of helping document the code, which I realized when I failed to convert a particular poorly documented section of the code to this system.
IIRC you can get slightly more gain with a very aggressive minimizer and gzip than gzip alone.

It's completely pointless for a browser extension though.
"Women in tech" is a gender problem, and I think that there should be some separation. Nothing negative of course. For example - we could praise then them for their bravery (fact).
Hit-and-run by idiotic speeder.
"Slightly" is a good word, it's an extremely low barrier of entry and if somebody wants to read it they will manage to do it.
The style is similar but the actual functionality is nothing like iOS 7 from what I can see.

I have two Windows Phone 8 devices and an iPad. And indeed, they are nothing alike. Live tiles are a central concept in WP and does not really have an equivalent in iOS 7.

Another use difference (although it's a bit undermined by Microsoft's Facebook app) is that iOS is app centered ("There's an app for that."), while Windows Phone centers around hubs. E.g. you wouldn't go to the Facebook app to look up e.g. the latest Facebook status updates for a person. You go to that person in the people list (or that person's live tile) where you have information of different social networks integrated.
Thanks for doing so - we're adding a settings pane where you can turn off the auto-edit functionality. I'll update the gh issue once it's live.
> not only writing with my Namiki Vanishing Point fountain pen on a nice piece of Rhodia paper

> That emotional reward really helps reinforce and perpetuate good habits

Please take note of the fact that a large part of the "emotional reward" is the fact that you use a Brand Name fountain pen on a Brand Name paper.

In my opinion, the "good habit" that rich people like you should reinforce is charity and not generating happiness just from the fact you're able to purchase premium vanity objects.
The newly re-designed iCloud
I installed iOS7 for the first time this morning, and it's way too early for me to tell. The colour scheme is a bit jarring, but it's also very unfamiliar so time will tell how well I get used to it. Some of the setting and new functionality seem a bit odd or confusing, but no more so than I'd expect with a new interface. The huge configurability in the camera app was a bit of a surprise.

Right now I have absolutely no idea how much I like or dislike the new design. I've been able to do everything (very few things so far to be fair) I wanted to do, and encountered some small frustrations and nice surprises. I'll see how I feel in a week or two.

How long have you been using iOS 7 for?
Then let's make STEM look more social when career choices are made.
Especially if he hadn't ignored his doctors with homeopathy! Every time I think about it, I wonder how anyone could fall victim to such things. Imagine Steve Jobs being thrown into prison for 20 years. Homeopathy was just as horrific, because it gave him an excuse to ignore his doctors and allow the cancer to fester.
Too late, but on Windows, use Exact Audio Copy or ImgBurn.

I have a list of useful software, but I haven't published it anywhere. Maybe I should do that.
Bears repeating that the keyboard shortcuts in freemind, particularly enter and insert, remove the need for the mouse.
They are much quicker than circle and line drawing with pen and paper.
Great examples. I hope you're sending these to Apple!

One I noticed is a very slight difference in weight between the carrier text and the data status.

It's so slight, almost the difference between "sharp" and "strong" in Photoshop.

Also, people, easy on the "way to criticize but not offer any constructive criticism!" OP is effectively filing a ton of bug reports, which is a good thing.
When Cassandra came out, before they built a query language, their suggestion was to manually build indeices. Your data would be in one key value store then an index on the data was just another key value store with your data keys as the value and the index as the key.

It works out well enough if you never need ad hoc queries.
Awesome that you could read his mind after reading a 4-paragraph rant, huh?
Maak kennis met de nieuwste verwarmingstrends
Oh? I thought that militants in that region of the planet were programmed by religious discussions in the first place.

Maybe we do not share the same definition of what a "militant" is, in Saudi Arabia?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-grand-theft...

The target this time is 30fps for both platforms, and it holds at that point for most areas.
As practised here:

http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/08/an-innovation-lesson-from-dr-se...
You'd pay a hell of a lot extra for such a router. It wouldn't be much help in finding out what happened though.

Such a thing would be much better implemented as a windows application firewall. It would be able to detect which app did it, which dll initiated it (so you can catch IE extensions in the act), and it would have a hard drive available for storing the results. This sort of tool does in fact exists as part of pretty much every antivirus product.
Nintendo Visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi Dies
I'm not talking about UI in general, I'm talking about taste in UI - style and general good looks. I don't know how everyone else feels on this, but for me Apple has stuck far too long to simply ugly styling on both iOS and OS X to convince me that attractive UI is a part of company culture. Some of Google's efforts (Now, Maps) and where Microsoft is heading (e.g. it's new websites, Outlook, Windows 8.1) have all impressed me much more. I think Apple is clearly trying to retrofit company culture here.

But I wouldn't say Apple "reeks" of insecurity... We don't really have any knowledge about how much they have up their sleeves, and they've had a long time over the last half-decade to lay foundations for future maneuvers. Besides, if they can convince the everyman that they thought up modern design all by themselves, they could gain a massive advantage here.
Maybe I was not clear (its pretty hard).

I think that there will be a home hub, a technology helper, supplemented from the cloud, but anchored to the family home network point, that is the natural place to deliver a wide variety of services, digital backup, net nanny, finacnes fridges etc.

Make something the gateway to the house and that something will be defended by house owners as much as the physical house itself - it becomes the virtual avatar for the house.

It will probably be called Jarvis.
It's not ad hominem -- I'm not saying he's wrong because he's a coward. I'm saying if you're going to be so judgmental and flippant about a process you probably have never been involved with, and also so personal as to call out a person by name for their own decisions, don't be cowardly when you do it.

He could have very well-placed criticisms actually, I don't make any assessment one way or the other as to that question.

Bottom line -- the guy wants to hold PG accountable to some imaginary (but popular) standard, while evading accountability himself.
It was the NES, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10NES

They eventually lost I believe, and some developers worked around it by making cartridges that would pass through the chip from an existing game.
Setting animation speed is also available for jailbroken iOS devices, if anyone's interested. The Cydia app is called FakeClockUp. I like setting it to 1.4x.
This is why unit tests suck. They are but a simple exercise in basic code interpretation. A computer can easily do it.

What you want to test is the interface of your module to the rest of the application and whether it satisfies the published contract, and preferably if it handles weird cases correctly.

Those tests cannot be done by a tool.
I assume he was talking not just about UI functionality, but UI look and feel. In that later respect, MS and Google definitely were ahead of Apple. Hell, the design trend is even called "the metro look" by some in the design community.
Mail springs to mind, quiet a few people moved from different smtp/imap hosts to others.
I did not encounter this myself and it's somewhat spoilery to post it here, but very much worth it:

http://www.insomniacgames.com/a-hair-tearing-out-bug/
FYI, sometimes called "Yoda condition". I _think_ I was taught to do this when I learnt C (~20 years ago). Wikipedia indicates that the name at least has been around since 2005.
I still use sparrow; love that app.
Yet you can still checkout and compile it yourself if you want. You have the power!
Good collection. iOS7 is an obvious improvement over previous iOS versions (perhaps with the exception of the icons) and has done a good job of bringing iOS up to date visually. Worth remembering that there are a lot of inconsistencies in Android, a good article is here:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/09/18/ux-things-i-hate-abo...

Don't get me wrong, I much, much prefer Android and can't ever see myself moving back to iOS, but always good to measure things in balance, nothing is perfect.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-grand-theft...

The target this time is 30fps for both platforms, and it holds at that point for most areas. Overall the PS3 puts out the lower frame-rate for synchronised in-engine cut-scenes, typically by a matter of two frames-per-second and rarely much more. Curiously, the 360 version is the only one of the two to drive upwards from the 30fps target on occasion...
Not everyone can offer constructive feedback, but most people can have the problems brought to their attention and understand them. Even if you had constructive criticism, how exactly would you go about alerting a developer at Apple?
Please don't do that...
Interesting about keeping a JVM running for compilation. I'm curious about doing just this for my day job but can't seem to find a good explanation. Do you have any resources to point me to?
No game in the history of ever has sold that many copies on day one on PC.

No game in the history of ever has sold as many copies on Xbox 360 or PS3 as GTA V just has either, no? ;-)

That said, I think I agree with the inferred point that simultaneous PC release wouldn't have had a huge impact on revenue.
Siri's search result UI is a game changer and has a real chance of disrupting Google imo. Siri's UI is customized for a mobile device, no ads, and it uses search results from Bing, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yelp and Wolfram Alpha. Missing from the list is Google.

All they need to do is somehow figure out how to add web search to Spotlight, use the exact same UI and Google's in big trouble.
Thats interesting. But its sound vs vision.
Hyperloop doesn't terminate in Oakland, and even if it did, that says nothing about the southern terminus, which is in Sylmar.

The whole Hyperloop thing is back of the napkin wank.
Yes, but this is fair comment and nicely put:

> question is now closed, I think 528 "answers" is probably enough, no? :) – Jeff Atwood

It is annoying, though, how so many useful SO questions get closed for various reasons when they are just the question I want answered. Perhaps the real problem is Google giving a lot of weight to SO answers, even when they are closed?