skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Illustrator is an absolutely fantastic tool for print production and design. It is not a suitable tool for SVG, hasn't been for many versions (if it ever was).
Using strict data structures is usually the simplest way to regain predictability:

data QueryExpr
= RelVar !Text
| Restrict !ScalarExpr !QueryExpr
| Select !(HashMap Text ScalarExpr) !QueryExpr
| SummarizeBy !(Vector Text) !(HashMap Text ScalarExpr) !QueryExpr

Excessive strictness can cost you performance if you end up evaluating things you didn’t have to, but ASTs should probably be strict. Using Criterion for benchmarking helps find the sweet spot.

I have found Haskell’s library ecosystem quite good—any time I’ve needed a library, there has been a suitable one. In the rare case that changes are necessary, maintainers tend to be responsive and helpful. We probably just work on different kinds of software.
It seems wrong to say both that he has the "social instinct of a cockroach" and that he's selfish (implying his oversight was a choice). I'm inclined to believe it's the former, given that he is making a post like this. Social instinct is not easy for many programmers, myself included. Your comment almost amounts to assigning blame via the butterfly effect.

edit: rewording my first sentence per comment below
Like breaking most other encryption schemes, the algorithm isn't usually the weakness, it's the implementation. In this case, an angle grinder "breaks the crypto" in about 30 seconds, assuming they use top-quality locks as a base (which I doubt)
I regularly switch between iOS, Android and WP.

I've never felt I was missing the notification center, but I don't want to be notified by more than a few apps, so maybe that's just me.

On your other issue about finding rarely used apps, I don't actually find this is much better on either Android or iOS. You still have to go hunting through screens to find the app you're looking for.

But realistically, for most people, how many apps do they actually use? I'd suggest it is less than 15, excluding Games which go in the games (xbox) tile.

Maybe Windows could do a better job with separating out more app groups similar to games, like media to hold all your video and music related apps.
Eclipse has always been terrible, but IDEA on the other hand is the best development environment in existence, regardless of platform. Even Google finally realised that Eclipse is a dead horse and switched the official environment to IDEA.
I don't get it. For me and most of the people I know < age 50, "Windows" is pretty much a synonym for "bloated, insecure, junkware"...

Who in their right mind buys a windows phone?
First, Hadoop has two parts, HDFS and MapReduce. This so called benchmark, compares only the computation part of it. For people who say Hadoop is slow, they never really understood what Hadoop is. MapReduce is meant for processing big data in a batch oriented way and not meant for real time analytics. However, there are many technologies that work on top of Hadoop that will give real time analytics capabilities like HBase,and Impala. Column oriented storage is available in Hadoop too, Parquet. Also with the Hadoop, the real power comes with the availability of UDFs and streaming. Please don't do any stupid benchmark like this without getting to know what you are comparing to.
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> You can't simultaneously say that he has the "social instinct of a cockroach" and that he's selfish.

I'm pretty sure you don't need social skills to be self-centered.
Plus you can get VMs with vulnerabilities to test against.

But don't hack other people. Bad things lay that way.
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Arguably if data fits in memory but particular software (Hadoop) doesn't keep the data in memory then that particular software can be considered unoptimized. But he should really be comparing against Shark anyway.
Perhaps the analyst's report is inaccurate.
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Ah, but the consistency of ZFC itself is undecidable from within ZFC! [1] I see what you're saying; it's quite the rabbit hole, however.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_undecidable...
Molecular Chemistry. Im trying to keep the questions more general though and more open. More about sciencec in particular and less about niche fields.
And your platitudes don't actually address the points raised.
I'm the coach of a high school Cyber Patriot team and it is really interesting.

The high-schoolers are more hungry for information and more interested than the College CCDC team I work with (a very top team).

With that being said, there are so many outlets for these younger hackers to practice. CTFs everywhere on the internet, cyber challenges are all over the internet, and there is always something completely new to learn (Oh...you learned WebSec pretty well...but what do you know about exploit development).

The problem is we need more people who know what they are doing to work closely with the high school students and keep them focused and keep them exploring the discipline.

A bored student without Allen Pallers thing here will usually be a bored student with it. The CyberAces weekend in my state is in March. What are my high schoolers supposed to do until then if they are truly bored?
99dresses (YC W12) Takes Clothes Swapping On-The-Go With New iPhone App
> we won't see another full release until SVG 2 which is expected in 2014, over a decade later!

HTML4: 1998

HTML5: 2014
I think the big one is /r/gtamarket
Something important that seems to be missing from the website's available information: what happens when you hit the limit on free messages but haven't paid?

It seems like there's two possibilities with any likelihood, either it gives the user an error or it starts behaving like a regular mailto: link until the limit rolls over - but it'd be nice if the site said which.
Yep, this right here. I'm working on a project involving SVG right now, and support is legitimately terrible in about 50 different ways.
In SOME cases? Major red flag there. Why would you NOT pay your developers hourly wages?
There is far too little focus nowadays on extracting this kind of value from life.
Because of this it's worthless to me as is, a complete non-starter. What a ridiculous requirement, if I want to use this "web designer" I am supposed to rewrite or abandon all my previous work. Good luck getting anyone to use this.
Where does this information come from? Article mentions the research firm (Kantar) but I can't find any explanation on where or how they got the numbers.
Yes. Even more simply, it is an impossible problem in the general case to even determine in a given x86 binary what parts are code and what parts are data (there was someone at RV '04 that published a paper on that result while working on his CodeSurfer binary analysis tool).

This does not, however, contradict my argument: as we can take a binary and generate really horrible C code from it (by just emulating via C, unrolling the instructions) the same result is true of source code; however, we would find that block of code highly suspicious ;P.

Again: if I wanted to give myself a backdoor into a chat program, I wouldn't distribute a backdoor into a binary, I'd provide open source code with subtle bugs that would take people years to find and that when found would look like honest "concurrency is hard" mistakes.

I am not saying that whether something is open source or not is totally irrelevant, but the people I'm responding to seem to be having this gut reaction "if it isn't open source it can't be trusted", so I'm attempting to provide enough context to show that it isn't that simple.
Does anyone know what was used to build this? is this using the Chromium Embedded Framework?
A little disappointing that there's no Linux version and that clicking "Other Platforms + Betas" just takes you to the Windows download. Also it's closed source.

Just telling people this so they can save signing up if it's not for them.
> It’s not supported for production code right now but we definitely want to hear about any issues, bugs or behavioral differences that you encounter. Send feedback and questions to ryujit@microsoft.com. Even if you’ve figured out the issue or a workaround yourself we want to hear from you.

What a nice call to action. They even give you a specific email address to contact instead of something generic like support@microsoft.com
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Total internet traffic is not the total volume of communications. What you're saying is like saying that your county's prosecutor has a 0.25% conviction rate because 1% of residents are charged with crimes and 25% are found guilty. Measurements are useless if you measure the wrong thing.
Oh good, another way for front end developers to avoid learning how to code.
Recognize your name from the old AA days :)
if anyone else out there is considering using markdown
to format e-book files, please get in touch with me --
bowerbird@aol.com -- if you'd like to experiment with
a light-markup system geared explicitly for long-form.

-bowerbird
I think the market this is aiming at is more arduino scale. Would you board an airplane powered by an arduino? Or an apple II, for that matter- Another product aimed at making something more accessible to "software" type people.
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The upper end of five figures is perfectly respectable for that kind of work. I can't imagine people with Adobe product experience are in such short supply to warrant six figures...
Former buyer for Whole Foods Market in the dairy department; arguably the most volatile of all -- Almost any decision I made to order was based on data of last week / last year / seasonal data, etc --

It got pretty instinctual after a while -- Holiday? Better get the baking materials ready! Martha Stewart mention something on her show? Better have 10x available the next day! -- Those scanner guns you see clerks wandering around with from time to time have all that data (well, not the Martha stuff) right there at our finger tips. It even alerted you if something was well out of the norm.
Much of the point of using something like Hadoop is to increase raw disk IO by parallelizing it over many machines. So no, it's not a terribly valid benchmark.
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Sure, I guess. But if you don't trust your own system, it doesn't really matter whether you use their code or not. That said, "Reflections on Trusting Trust" is mentioned far too often, without people fully understanding the fact that it would be incredibly difficult, if not impossible to pull something like that off.
When I was in my early 20's I had an intense email friendship with a girl I met in alt.music.nirvana. Her name was Michaels, and if you search hard enough, you can still find her Usenet posts on Google Groups. We lived on opposite sides of the world, but we kept in touch for over 2 or so years. Then she moved out of home, had no internet access and we list touch. One of the worst days of my life was the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death. Not because it was the day he passed on, but because of what I found. I tried to look her up. I felt she must have found the internet again. It had been some years since my last search. Sadly I discovered that I was never going to get a chance to speak with her ever again, because she had died in 2001, 3 years earlier. I managed to speak to her family, and her father told me that he had often wondered what had become of me. It's still hard to deal with. I have a reminder for her Birthday and the day she passed. It's a weird one really.
> Rough number: (sell 6.8M handsets per quarter) / (expected $1B loss this quarter) = they're losing $147 on every handset.

That's not how it works.

$934 million of that $965 million loss comes from a non-cash charge for inventory and supply commitments. In other words, they lost money on the phones they did not sell. Assuming they can scale down linearly, this will not be a recurring expense.

Excluding non-cash charges, and adjusting for taxes, Blackberry lost $248 million last quarter. This is how much they lost on the phones that they actually did sell.

But even that's not quite good news. Because Blackberry sold only 3.7 million smartphones last quarter -- the 6.8 million number was for first quarter. So $248 million / 3.7 million = $67 loss per phone.
Care to enlighten the non-Scots?
> Linux did hand Microsoft it's lunch--- in areas where the users who know what they were doing get a say.

> Linux has always struggled with the non-technical user and ridiculous OS-size gui's have to be written for Linux just to make it palatable by the common user.

I disagree with both statements. I found myself as a technical user that knows what he is doing and I do prefer to work Linux on the server side but I cry of frustration using my linux desktop at work. After all these years it still feels like a buggy hobbyist OS, with visual glitches everywhere.

I think the reason why Windows won't dominate the server space anymore is because Linux is free (as a beer) and a good gui doesn't matter too much over there (it is even inconvenient)
Even worse is this with "Sponsored" links/likes on Facebook ... When it pops up on your wall that your dead friend liked a page or something like that ... Creeps me out.
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This has happened to me a few times, now. Friends from high school and college passing away far too soon. At the time, I knew them well and we were very close. Of course, growing up and moving away and life progression takes you away from those you knew early in life to those late in life.

My friends were all Facebook users, and I knew them before FB existed. We were connected through those services, but we didn't really communicate. They were wonderful people, all of them, and every time I learned of the news of their passing, it was through Facebook.

My parents still read the newspaper, looking for the news about "who died". (They are also interested in the weather, but that's about it.) Nowadays, it seems social media is our generation's obit distribution system.

In the end, I'm thankful for their images on Facebook. Even though we were no longer "daily" friends, I still miss them.
Have a look at http://logo.designcrowd.com/ for logo design crowding, my company did it and is very happy with the result. Don't cost much.
John McAfee Announces Decentral, a $100-NSA Thwarting Device
Not just blackmail material on the president, but on every family member, friend, colleague, and political ally. There's no reason not to suspect that this has been the norm for decades.
Intel in Deal to Acquire Sensory Networks For Around $20 Million
I don't understand: can you just use it to create graphics and effects or you can also work on logic to build something interactive?
And now they will steal your bike and your bike lock.
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If it makes you feel better (worse?), even the big guys do this; I recall reading SAP HANA marketing materials which did a similar thing to OP[0]. With enough precomputation and knowing which data to skip, you too can achieve better than linear performance; though at least they aren't suggesting they are churning through the entire dataset in a few seconds.

[0] http://www54.sap.com/content/dam/site/sapcom/global/usa/en_u...
Automotive Linux Summit agenda announced
It's used in conjunction with logrotate.

Long-running programs will happily continue using the same file handle until they are signaled in some way to reopen the file path (usually in response to USR1 and HUP). See Nginx, Apache httpd, MongoDB, etc.
So you write a lot of text attempting to hide the fact that you are not capable of even trying to see how the Christianity would look like when purged of all additions, especially of those by priests. Paul was a priest. Authors of Gospels were priests from Jerusalem, Caeserea, Antioch, each with his own biases, who mixed different souces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-document_hypothesis
Do read a little of Biblical scholarship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_studies, there are a lot of people who work to figure all that out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoptic_problem
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According to [0]

>Depending on the privacy settings of the deceased person's account, friends can share memories on the memorialized timeline

I'd love to know which Privacy Settings control this ability, it's interesting they don't specifically call out the relevant option.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/help/www/103897939701143?rdrhc
I'm a cyclist too and although I like the idea of not taking out my key to unlock it, it's the LEAST painful interaction I have with locks. I almost never carry a lock (and most other weekend road bikers don't either) because:

1) The good ones are heavy and bulky.
2) They're hard to transport. We're wearing spandex, a lock does not fit in our back pouches and all available mounts on the frame are being used for water bottles or emergency pumps.

This basically means restaurants and coffee shops that have seating outside or allow bikes inside get a ton of business from the bikers in the Bay Area.

Santa Cruz has bike lockers but I think you have to put in a quarter and carry around change. I would love short term storage in the city that can use an app or credit card to unlock and you can choose to extend it with the app. Anyone know of anything like this?
as the owner of the lock you can manage permissions through the app.

Also you can apply the same argument to Lockitron. They can grant access to anyone to open your door lock and I believe you have more valuable stuff at your house.
I believe Mark is in the right on this one. If I tell you I am going to sell pumpkins at the high school football game , and you decide to sell pumpkins the week before therefore reducing the market of buyers for me, you didn't hurt the "consumer" you hurt me another seller. You didn't change the price. You didn't really do "insider trading" you simply got to market faster.
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Bitbucket Service Outage
Wow really? Where (in what bubble) do you live?
I do and always have - currently have Windows 7 on my desktop, Windows 8 on a new laptop (had to buy Start8 to get the start menu back to avoid that metro crap). I develop websites in .NET (ASP.NET webforms and MVC) for enterprises. While I'm typing this I'm repairing my VS install because the Resharper keyboard mapping isn't working on this Windows 8 laptop for whatever reason. I guess I should be used to this time wasting stuff by now but I'm not...
If someone manages to steal your bike, they probably damage the lock to get it. In case someone steals your lock or you lose your lock, you can disable it remotely.
What's XSS an usually worth? I'm guessing it varies by product and company but, I would venture to say about $500-1000.

Really puts the $12.50 in company store credit into perspective.
Excellent. Genuine innovation on a platform many had feared was abandoned.

My only regret is the confusing x86/x64 message. Many will interpret perf improvements being due to the 64 bitness of new compiler
It says available for the PC. the button is grayed out for me? Surely people as bright as Google knows PC != Windows? Surely PC means PC running mainstream operating systems like oh I don't know...Linux?
Well, it looks like the mediocre developer's qualities are on display in this tool, as Rowan Manning sure seems to care a great deal about whether you drink beer or not. We are talking about the kind of person who thinks "cutting edge" in a job description is a "fail" because it sets a competitive expectation.
But am I notified when that happens?
You never used Dreamweaver in your life. It has a great template system which make it easy to generate static websites, live inspection with an embedded webkit engine , and a very good style manager. Dreamweaver is definetly productive when it comes to integration or prototyping.
Constantly impressed by the release speed and feature list. Thinking back to 1.4/1.5 (when I started using RethinkDB) and I wouldn't have believed myself had I seen the current features.
It's not like they built their empire on Linux. Oh wait, yes it is.
I know I should not respond to ad hominem, but here we go.

When I was young I used to blame "the right" for every real or imaginary problem in the world. I dreamed of revolution. When you are 20, if you are not socialist you don't have a heart, but if you are still socialist at 30 you don't have a brain.

I have a book for you (seriously): "Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot". This book cured me from "Open Veins of Latin America" and all the leftist crap around here.

Rabid? Sure I'm pissed off with myself for being so naive (even voted for Lula in his first term, just to see the most corrupt government since the end of the military dictatorship) - but not nearly as rabid as the left wing criminal organizations like the MST:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCegy3HMVEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyQKO7B85C0

(watch from 0:22s) when they destroyed 7,000 orange trees and got along with it. They damaged heavy machinery, burned down computers, looted employees houses and stole fuel. And got along with it.

These terrorists are funded using my tax payer money by my own schizophrenic government. Everybody that dares to scream "the king is nude" is labeled as a rabid right wing zealot.
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So that would be the language snobbery argument I mentioned previously?

You make it sound like you think having to be smart to use a language is a good thing.
I started reading it when in college, got tired of lugging a huge dead-tree book around in my bag, and eventually just sort of put it down.

That it was heavy in your bag isn't really saying much about the book. Are you familiar with Russell's Paradox? If reading about Russell's Paradox for the first time demands that you work it around in your head for the next hour as though some outside force is compelling you to understand its implications, then the book is probably for you. If that sounds miserable, then it probably isn't.
Your argument is a bit disingenuous. You say you'd trust simple closed-source software more than complicated open-source counterparts. That's a false dichotomy. Open source X is always more easily auditable than closed source X.

I don't think many people are worried that BT will be evil. I think many more people are worried that they'll be incompetent, and it's very hard to be competent at cryptography. That's why we want the source.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others back NSA and FBI transparency bills
Well, that's been killed off too effectively. All focus is on WinRT (that hardly any are using)
Note that the book is freely available, but the game unfortunately is not (or at least [1] says "distribution denied").

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004256

I remember that the Spectrum version of the game was very good, with full colours (perhaps thanks to very fast 8-pixel jumps), as well as the arcade machine it was based on.
* Finally, you should disclose that this is your project when commenting on it.

I apologize about that. I kind of assume it was clear but thanks for the reminder.

If you want to share bikes, hand-off of keys will be an issue. With BitLock for example you can share 3 bikes between 10 people. with the app on your phone you can geolocate bikes and lock/unlock easily.
I'm not a Python guy, but one good thing that you've done that I wish more open source projects would do is create what looks like good documentation right off of the bat.