skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if as a developer you only have to worry about a single platform?

Actually, this was one of my first reaction as a developer. I developed and maintain a scientific software package (treebank search) that I maintain for Windows (>= XP), OS X (>= 10.7), and Linux (latest Ubuntu LTS).

My first reaction after hearing that Mavericks is free was: great, if most people will upgrade, I am freed of supporting the legacy OS X versions.

Hopefully they can bring things to the point where, like iOS, practically everyone will run the latest version. Of course, this would require smooth transitions.
Organovo Achieves One Month Performance for 3D Bioprinted Liver
its more like: If you buy a toyota supra and drop a ferrari engine and other ferrari performance parts into it, you will end up with the same price but a toyota supra instead of a ferrari.

You can certainly spec a PC with the same amount of processing power for much less than $3000
Regardless of eBay's plans, this is good news for Shutl and a win for British startups. Good job!
The only things that really irk me about Microsoft is 1) Windows isn't Unix based, and 2) IE doesn't update quickly enough, , which sets web development for the future back.

Otherwise, Microsoft doesn't bother me.
What is the point of open source, in your opinion? To me, it has nothing to do with bug reports or feature requests.
Well, first of all, bark doesn't just exist in free form in the ground and get moved to the tree, it's synthesized from the CO2 in the air (I'm no plantologist, so this may be overly simplified).

However, the difference isn't in the "grow" part, it's in the "gold" part. If you tell someone "I've found a plant that grows gold", their reaction won't be "wow, what an interesting mechanism", it will be "holy shit, we're rich!".

If you want apples, you plant an apple tree, then you grow apples for free. By that analogy, if you want gold, you plant one of these trees, and get gold for free, which doesn't hold, because you'll never get more gold than how much you put in.
What Superman 3 teaches us about computer programming
Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm[1] is designed to discover strongly connected components (interdependent vertices in graphs) but a side effect is that it does a topological sort (I think I remember it being reversed). It runs in O(|V| + |E|) time (V = vertices, E = edges).

You might want to look into it.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan's_strongly_connected_com...
Yes it definitely makes sense as iOS is free and apple's future is in integrating all devices to work seamlessly. This requires simultaneous updates on all different devices.
> Why are you forcing those two choices? One could be well-versed with the arcana AS WELL AS point out that bit about statically declared variable ..

You're the one forcing the choices.

He's just saying that one should consider another metric to gauge developers, that is knowledge of good software practices over deep language arcana wisdom. And he's saying that whatever the knowledge depth (or lack of) of a candidate on the C or C++ language, he'll choose the one with better software practices. (Of course, the two metrics are slightly correlated, but being an expert on C trivia doesn't necessarily makes you a good developer)

Life is too short to become an expert on C's dark corners, and I'm not even talking about C++'s.
That's true. But if few more developers start issuing pull requests, then the maintenance team could arise out of that, and project would eventually start to also accept bug reports and feature requests. But in this phase, it's obviously that in this time frame the goal of the main and only developer is to get to the point that he has something that "works for him" and has a solid foundation he likes before making it usable to others.

So yes, it's perfectly in the spirit of open source. And no, it's not (yet) production ready for general (non Go coder) audience.
Obama official Jofi Joseph fired over insulting tweets
Despite all the discussion of the 'relevantness' of knowing a language in a so deep level, I think this presentation is genius.
The United States, Falling Behind
> For a video that is available online at any time, for free, it seems that there can be no distinction between the download and the stream.

But of course there is a big distinction: Google controls the stream; it doesn't control the downloaded video. With control, it can choose to a) force you to watch an ad (as you mentioned), it can b) pull a video for any reason, including copyright infringement, content objection, failure to pay a subscriber fee, etc., c) ask you to be a subscriber, for either a cost or at least registration, etc. None of that is possible if the video goes out into the wild and can be, for example, freely traded among users through file sharing or, worse, alternate video hosting and streaming by a competitor.

The videos trove is their treasure, and they guard it.
On ArchLinux Go is pretty massive ~294 MB (compared to the jdk7-openjdk at ~19MB) installed. I, personally, have avoided installing some small programs because they had Go as a dependency, obviously you can compile a binary to resolve this for the editor itself. It seems like quite a bit of work just to generate a screenshot though.
That's exceptionally large, and intentionally designed to look cool on Youtube. The biggest risk is that you could be struck by one of the bottles as it flies - a PET bottle weighs about 60 grams, so you're looking at, 'Owww, I got bumped on the head'. With the exception of one guy who maliciously filled the bottle with glass shrapnel, I couldn't find any examples of anyone being harmed by one.

Furthermore, what does it matter if it's in a "secure" environment. Does CO2 sublimate faster on one site of a security checkpoint? Does a PET bottle become a lethal weapon when X-rayed in your luggage?

It was a stupid prank. The guy should be fired. 6 years in prison is a ridiculous prospect.
NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Transmissions to and from Moon
That's strange - my desktop background wasn't changed by the install. Perhaps you were using a ML-included desktop image that was removed in Mavericks?

After downloading, it took roughly 20 mins to install.
Wow, that is mind numbingly stupid. Use 150ft range Bluetooth to track a stolen bike.
any screenshot ?
30km is not space (official boundary is at 100km). Also the balloon is not in orbit, so even if they it could go much much higher, the debris would fall straight down.
Space debris come from spacecraft that are in orbit, and therefore remain in orbit for quite some time. That´s why they are dangerous.
I'd like to see them test this in The Netherlands, where, especially here in Amsterdam, it's quite normal for bike thiefs (or junkies) to steal a bike in seconds and sell them for 15 euro just minutes later.

Success of this device depends on the reaction speed of the owner or other Cricket users being quicker than the thief can steal it. Good challenge, but my money is on the thief ;-)
Sketch.app is just great, this was probably the first app I instantly bought when the trial ended.
> I think what we have here is a high performing autist, either that or some form of sociopath: very intelligent and articulate, but decidedly lacking in empathy.

The whole point of what Schneider has spent years writing and talking to the media about is security theatre etc. He is constantly trying to explain and encourage people to make risk decisions rationally, not emotionally.

Characturing slightly, he is the opposite of the national-security loving ideologue who sounds sincere and caring, but really wants people to be more scared, because that gives them more power (consciously or not).

Or do you think a more empathetic presentation is what is needed? For example, should he be saying something more like "A loud bang is undoubtedly scary in an airport, but there was no actual threat to life and the existing security systems caught the person, so I am personally very relaxed about this non-issue, and I feel others should be too."

I could definitely see more empathy being helpful in his presentation, but his core message is good.
Do companies like Netgear not have a team whose only purpose is to try to break their own products? I thought that was a primary source of employment for infosec types.
Now I don't want to nitpick but if you charge someone of "possession of destructive device" isn't the device supposed to be able to destruct something?
If Sublime Text development does go off the rails like TextMate 1 did then that'll be my "fool me twice" moment and I'll concede to FOSS tooling advocates.
>You could say that the rules of C are "random" - after learning the first n rules, you cannot use logic to predict the n+1st.

You're mis-applying things here. The language is not something to be theorized by itself. Like any (edit:spell) other body of knowledge, it has its own set of initial axioms and the 'C standard' which defines the language is simply a collection of rules other meta-knowledge which are based on those. In that sense it is internally consistent. Thats what I meant.
> who then hurt themselves rushing to get out of the area

> at least some wrist slapping

The potential sentence is 6 years. Nobody was actually hurt.
I'll never buy a bike alarm that's just visible like this to the naked eye. This will never work in The Netherlands because it's too visible.

My sights for my MTB are still on the SpyBike GPS track that has an NFC tag to activate, and is completely invisible to the naked eye (So a much larger chance it remains there even if i gets stolen)

http://www.integratedtrackers.com/GPSTrack/Spybike.jsp
The installation of Webix by means of NuGet and Bower
My theory: The library was designed for Node.js, not for ultimate performance. Design for Node.js means "easy to create bindings for", which means opaque pointers instead of structs in the API.
Cool story, but the last time I was looking for a programming job (six months ago) I remember seeing quite a few listings for .NET developers. Probably just as many as I saw for Rails, though maybe fewer than for PHP.
Open Source and Our Government
I agree, its just that nobody should start thinking that iversity is anything new. It's great that it's out there, but it's nothing revolutionary.
This is a common LGPL misconception frequently seen.

IANAL, but even if you make a modified version of Qt and release it, you are still free to use that same modified version in your app without releasing it as open source, as long as you are using dynamic linking instead of static. But, the same restriction also apply to original Qt.

Btw, what you can't do is using modified version of Qt without releasing the source of your Qt modification upon request.
I really wish I could see those videos on Linux. It certainly looks cool, but it seems they need some sort of Windows media player plugin. Was anyone able to see them in some other way?
That is better than the connect at my house. I am moving there!
Another app to get me to save for a new iPad (still 1)
Trust me. Thieves don't wait around for you to respond to your phone. Within one minute your bike is out of range, and so are you. Also, see my post elsewhere in this topic.
Cool, so you can use your iPhone to track exactly which bin the bike thief dumped your Cricket in.
Yeah there are a million ways to deploy for simplicity we choose PythonAnywhere. This was mainly because when you are teaching 200+ students, you need it to be easy, quick, and free (also it doesn't require a credit card to join).

We also hope to expand this chapter in the future to show how to migrate to a real database.

If you have some suggestions about other platforms to deploy on we'd love to hear them.
If anyone gets some Mac binaries up I would love to give it a try.
Can you export to SVG, PDF or some other vector format?
But now you're actually arguing why he _should_ be trusted, rather than just taking it as a matter of faith, which was the whole point of the exercise.
Ok, so they're coming down again. Isn't this a problem as well? Where will they land, a desert, the ocean, a city?
You clearly missed the point. The point is:
>>Having them set off in a secure airport area doesn't illustrate any new vulnerabilities. We already know that trusted people can subvert security systems. So what?

point is that an inside man setting off a dry ice bomb does not highlight 'a breach of security'. His rhetoric on the harmlessness of a dry ice bomb seems to be aimed at the fact that a dryice bomb is harmless, set off by an insider is the sole reason to come to the conclusion that LAX lacks security.
Are you sure that commercial license allows you to make and release modifications to Qt without releasing the source?
Agree with this: pull requests are code reviews. Web UIs with visual diffs make this even more efficient.
Don't you always have a data structures by default? How could you not have any data structure?
I once pushed un-reviewed code that contained

alert("Fuck");

It made it to a single user who was testing it for me, on the other side of the planet. He spoke very little English, and for that I am grateful.

That was my last push without review.
Well.. already got hit hard by coronasdk before.
I refuse to use any non-opensource software / kits.
If we convert demand for two shop assistants into demand for one Amazon worker, that's actually NOT a benefit to the Amazon worker in any way, shape, or form, because supply of labor has increased as well. And that's assuming perfect mobility.

Now you can make big picture arguments about the improvements in efficiency ultimately leading to structural improvements for everyone overall -- that's Econ 101 -- but we've been doing a whole lot of that for the last 20 years and it's mostly making people in China better off and it's not at all clear that more factory jobs in China has positively affected the direction of demand for factory workers in the US.

But don't let facts get in the way of hand-waving theory.

Oh and your ground assumption is that Amazon fulfillment center workers want to be paid more for their jobs. No, they want different jobs. Creating more Amazon fulfillment center jobs at the cost of other jobs is not what they want.
This title is melting my brain.

EDIT: someone removed the ascii art, but I still don't understand it. Pure what?
Fork it! His whole point is that a free and open code base gives you options you didn't have before, isn't it?
Also http://opencourses.desire2learn.com
Water quality and temperature is often an issue. And on some airports, there's an additional security check before boarding – for example sometimes in Male.
It's not open source until we can have the source.

The old repo (https://github.com/UWNetworksLab/uproxy-common) mentions the new repo, which is hidden / not available.

So, not yet open source. So, still closed source, for now.
Well my opinion - fine the guy with the bomb squad response cost not jail.

This will be a hefty sum and will definitely discourage other pranksters but will show that there is at least some sober heads in the government on security questions.

You caused disturbance - you pay for it. But going to jail without doing any damage to anything or anyone is absurd.
ARQ - http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
Duplifinder - http://www.haystacksoftware.com/duplifinder/
airfoil - http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
Pocket - http://getpocket.com/
GifBrewery - http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/gifbrewery/
Can we have a webOS phone next please LG, given that you now own this?
So does the tool just abstract pixels or is it using Vectors? If it is vectors, what kinds of tools does it offer for exporting?

Note that I'm not into designing at all but I might suggest this to a friend for their projects
Good point. It's an error tradeoff between detecting too many false flamewars and not detecting enough flamewars. It might be kind of interesting to study the effects in terms of bias on the actual reported articles vs the submitted articles.
You're being a bit too literal. The name came from the resemblance of a diagram in the paper to a waterfall. The name wasn't meant to constrain the methodology to strict characteristics of a waterfall. The steps are meant to be followed in order. It is gated. But, nothing constrains the steps from being repeated. That is the crux of the difference between Dr. Royce's paper and what the military formed as a standard based on the paper.

I took a college comp sci course a few years ago. The professor talked for a few minutes about the Waterfall methodology. In short, she said "we in academia gaffed by promoting the Waterfall methodology for several decades. It's now cause for laughter in academic circles when someone proposes the Waterfall method for software development."
We develop mobile applications, games, and some pretty hefty/complex server applications. In all cases, compilation time, rendering time and multi-tasking are of pretty significant importance to the developers.

Personally, I just make the websites (python and go) so the performance matters way less to me.

But I still want one.
I was formerly on solar before moving to an apartment. Hence the "I've used an old eMachines PC... in the past." Besides that, the power supply barely made past 200W, which is basically 2 incandescent bulbs.
> "...how many investors can you name who don’t have an active blog?"

Six months ago? Zero. Today? Four, off hand. This blog post has some sound advice about evaluating whether your startup should seek outside funding, but it is based on the false premise that the only VC money worth taking comes from the top-tier VC firms like USV, Sequoia, etc.

There is a whole world of capital investors outside of the ones you read about in the news. Think of it as venture capital for the 99%. That doesn't mean all startups should take outside money; it only means that you shouldn't believe that just because USV wouldn't invest in your company that no one would.
If the prosecution asked for a punishment that is congruent with what damage that dry-ice prankster actually caused it would be a step forward. Politicians (I include elected officials such as the district attorney) do have to put up with public opinion, but they are also in a position to nudge it this way and that.
Thanks for the insight.

By the way, you could make Python's list's adding of one element at the back worst case O(1), too, if you were willing to waste some space.
Levels of uncertainty
I am so tired of people suggesting that balloons "go to space".

Yes, Felix Baumgartner set a new record and his jump was a great accomplishment. But it was not a "space jump".
I just wish they'd gone ahead and made iWork free across the board (or perhaps for Mavericks users), rather than only with the purchase of a new device.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-f...

Just Google stories on what it's like working in fulfillment centers for online retailers.
Especially when changing useragent to iPad Just Works
"Sketchology is based on technology called vector drawing. Previously the sole domain of thousand dollar professional tools, algorithmic breakthroughs bring that power to something that’s useful, simple, and beautiful."
> I don't think anybody who knows what an "exothermic reaction" is would suggest that dry ice sublimating is a reaction. It's a phase change, sure, but it's not a reaction.

This is being overly pedantic. What if the "inadequate pressure vessel" contained shrapnel that exploded out with the pressure change. Would it still not be a "bomb" because there was no chemical change involved?
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But why not let people post issues, so others can fix them?
I don't know, code review without running the code is a very very light variant, too light to call it code review I believe.
Works only with Apple phones/tablets :(

It works over Bluetooth so it will alert you if you stay in distance of 150ft (45.72 meters). I wonder if you can use your phone to listen music over Bluetooth while staying connected to the cricket device?

I have got my bicycle recently vandalized because the thieves could not brake the lock, so they destroyed everything they could and left with just the seat - it was in the night in front of the building where I live in :(

I would love to have a solution to keep thieves away without adding too much weight - in my case a loud alarm would have been enough - but I cannot imagine one small and light enough for a bicycle.
I always take an empty water bottle with me. I always travel with a water bottle, even on short (hour long) car rides. Usually a drinking fountain is provided outside the bathrooms. Better yet, find a restaurant with a soda fountain, those always have a water dispenser on them, and you can add ice too. Just enter and let the staff know you are filling up your water bottle, they won't mind.
The videos need the Silverlight plugin.

This might work for linux: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
It is still pretty trivial to find a job in Python, Ruby, or JS in just about any metro area in the US. I do not know anyone in the node.js community that would even go to someplace like monster to find a job. Most of these positions are found through networking with the community, which tends to lead to finding better quality jobs anyway.
Musk Calls Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars ‘Bullshit’
> My first reaction after hearing that Mavericks is free was: great, if most people will upgrade, I am freed of supporting the legacy OS X versions.

And if software developers cease to support older OS versions, those people with old computers that cannot upgrade have a stronger incentive for buying new hardware.
No unfortunately. While it's fairly trivial for me to support, the performance difference (a factor of more than 100) between Sketchology and other vector drawing apps makes it impossible to actually load the exported file anywhere.

I tested against Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, iDraw, and Inkpad and was unable to load a file equivalent to drawing for more than about 2 minutes in Sketchology. I'll have a more in depth technical analysis of this soon.
I think I'd prefer MiG-29 ride: http://www.skyandspacetravel.com/included_sky.html

Not as high, but much cheaper, sky is already pretty black and you get a chance to control the damn thing.
The first formal description of the waterfall model is often cited as a 1970 article by Winston W. Royce,[4][5] although Royce did not use the term "waterfall" in this article. Royce presented this model as an example of a flawed, non-working model.[6] This, in fact, is how the term is generally used in writing about software development—to describe a critical view of a commonly used software development practice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model
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Even as a windows user, I don't need/want silverlight.

But it looks like the videos are also on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AIswMnWfkI
YouTube for Android will soon work as a background music player
I love ST. Bought both ST2 and ST3 licenses and never thought it was not worth the money. However, it's getting silent and the maintainer does not really care about taking care of the community. I was hoping that it would not be like TextMate.

But I guess I should not be "hoping" for anything when it's about my text editor.