skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel your pain. At my current gig, we target an IE8 minimum, which still severely limits which of these techniques we can use. Microsoft should be tremendously embarrassed by how bad their browser has been for so long.
And no one at Apple seems to notice this loss of 'mindshare' because they're too busy figuring out what to do with all the money people are giving them for the iPhone.
I wasn't even aware of the pyroscope project, but it seems it's an integration of many patches including those I've seen. Thanks a lot.
There maybe some axioms that are analogues to rules of a game and so are neither true nor false.

But in practice, the bulk axioms are chosen and retained because the inventor thinks they or their consequences have some mapping to reality. This mapping is tested through applying the resultant math to some field and getting predictive success. In this regard the bulk of axioms are the same as any other beliefs except they are not arbitrary beliefs, and they are useful or believed to have the potential of usefulness.

And part of the problem is merely semantic. The word "belief" differs from the term "axiom" in other critical ways: "belief" regularly involves a call to action and includes concept that do not go though any tests for consistency let alone predictive success. If one asks "what is the difference between an assumption and an axiom" there is a lot less excitement.

Most interesting, I think, is the idea that basic axioms should be different than assumptions at all. That they can be definitively decided or the part of reality they map to is real and can be found.

I do not see why we would necessarily have evolved the mental equipment to work out every law of nature. No other animal has that, and while we clearly have better mental capacity I can't see why we would have evolved _every_ mental capacity.
It's true that it is non-trivial to get this right with SQL directly. If SQL (or SQL tooling) had some abstraction for such a clause it would be easier to understand that the paging predicates can be added dynamically, based on the `ORDER BY` clause.

In other words, even if the linked Stack Overflow question makes a very simple example, all you need is a unique sort order (i.e. containing at least one key, not necessarily the primary key) and then filter by that.

This is described here: http://blog.jooq.org/2013/10/26/faster-sql-paging-with-jooq-...

E.g.

SELECT player_id, first_name, last_name, score
FROM players
WHERE game_id = 42
-- assuming 15 is Jack Harris's player_id
AND (score, player_id) < (949, 15)
ORDER BY score DESC, player_id DESC
LIMIT 10;
Pita bread can be used to make quick and tasty meals.

Use thyme and olive oil spread on top of a pita and put in toaster over. Very tasty as a side dish or by itself. It's call Manakish.
http://arabic-food.blogspot.ca/2008/12/manakish-recipe.html

Instead of thyme, use pizza sauce and toppings, or ground beef/lamb/chicken with spices like thyme or oregano.

Pita bread is pretty cheap and lasts a long time in the freezer. A few minutes in the microwave will soften up the bread.
I don't think it's a blog spam, as long as it serves its purpose well, which is to let people know the videos are online. For me - it does
You're right that NASD never became a standalone product, but at least the design was technically complete enough to be the basis for real systems (e.g. Panasas).

A technology is only disruptive if it provides some benefit over existing alternatives. Will Kinetic be cheaper than today's drives paired with tiny ARM servers (the storage-industry disruption that is already upon us)? We won't know until Seagate actually sets prices and tries to sell some, but it doesn't seem particularly likely. Will it be faster? Again, possible but not particularly likely. Will it allow higher density and/or lower power consumption? Will it be easier to build applications on top of this new and limited API than on top of the ones we already have? Without a credible positive answer to any of these questions, how is this disruptive?

If Seagate had done this right, especially wrt security and semantics beyond get/put, this might be a better building block for a whole system. That might be disruptive. But they've made such a poor start technically that if they make a dent at all it might well be someone else who achieves the actual market breakthrough. Once Seagate has done all of the marketing, that makes it far easier for someone with a better actual implementation to succeed. Look forward to the WD/HGST Object Drive, with an API that allows you to use one securely without a server to do read-modify-write and metadata management for you. Then I'll cheer.
I am quite late to this thread, but what the heck, I'll give it the ol' college try. :)

HashPix: Search for images tagged with the same hashtag across Twitter, TwitPic, Instagram and Flickr. Create public/private albums of these pics and share the albums with anyone and everyone. Anonymous albums allowed but are made public by default.

Good for:

- Events, e.g. #MySuperAwesomeHalloweenParty

- Contests, #TweetLikeAGhostAndWin

- Festivals #HalloweenHaunts

...anything where you can use a hashtag, really!

Link: http://hashpix.herokuapp.com

2. @updt_me: (RSS/Atom) Feed updates via Twitter DM. Follow @updt_me and send a tweet @updt_me with the keyword START followed by a URL, e.g. "@updt_me START https://news.ycombinator.com/rss". You'll receive feed updates via Twitter DM (hence, the need to follow) when they happen. I'm currently using it to subscribe to xkcd, smbc and a few others.

Good for:

- Avoiding RSS inbox pile-ups due to procrastination/lethargy

- Ensuring authors get the page-views their blogs/sites deserve

- Following 'thoughts' rather than 'people', i.e. no more "I just ate broccoli. I #WIN." when you just want to read, "The 7 habits of highly-successful techpreneurs that you must cultivate before bedtime."

Coming soon:

- Ability to subscribe to feeds via DM - for those subscriptions that you'd rather not announce to the world. wink wink nudge nudge

- (Almost)instant PuSH updates using Superfeedr. (Still trying to figure this one out, actually.)

Links:

http://update-me.herokuapp.com

http://twitter.com/updt_me

Why do these make me happy?

Because a year ago, I wouldn't have dreamed of being able to make a comment like this. I was (and still am) an utter newbie with no knowledge of any kind of programming. Deep-dived into Python/Django and the results are up there for you to peruse. Granted they aren't awesome like most others in this thread but hey, it's a start. :)
There is a company in Montreal called VYV (I am not associated with them but a friend works there) who are doing lots of projector/projection type work.. I don't know if they work with lasers but they are definitely working on solving the whole multi-projector and distortion mapping stuff that you're tackling..

They might be interested in talking to you, they're still fairly small and startup-ish but they're doing big things..

http://www.vyv.ca/
you can easily detect a browser's features with http://modernizr.com/ as a fallback mechanism.
I like to make ramen with sandwich beef strips. The sandwich beef comes thin sliced so it broils in like 15 minutes, and I slice it into thin strips. A whole package of it is a good ratio of meat to ramen for 1 package of ramen & it makes 2 servings. Add a tablespoon of butter & a little steak sauce for extra flavor.
My guess is that those particular scanlines were being read out at the instance of the impact, which momentarily flexed the circuitry and caused funny things.
This is somewhat unrelated, but what's the general consensus on the security of EC2 for very sensitive computation?

For example, I have a client who has some algorithms and data that are potentially quite valuable. EC2 and other AWS services would be a huge help with their project, but is there any way measures could be taken to ensure that no one - even Amazon employees - can get to their code and data?

Edit: devicenull makes some good points - I guess I had the CIA's $600 million AWS contract in my head when asking my question.
Is the 'minus minus' being converted into a dash throughout?
A number of users out there use pirated Windows XP with IE6, specially in Asia. Check IE6 countdown on www.ie6countdown.com
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You seem to be thinking you're refuting my "loss of mindshare" argument, but you are actually refuting the "iPhone sales are dropping" argument, which nobody here seems to have made.
This is of more than theoretical interest in Denmark (where the study was done), because both public and large private employers have a mandatory health-and-safety oversight process, which needs to be guided by some solid facts about what actually contributes to health and safety. The typical setup is that health/safety statistics from various sources (like the health-care system) are collected and cross-referenced with employment, and if a workplace or department is an outlier on any of those (e.g. significantly above-baseline levels of new mental-health visits), the information is presented to a standing committee made up of both management and employee representatives, which is tasked with investigating why this is the case, and coming up with a plan to address the issue.
It's released with GUIs in both GTK+ and QT btw
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It is worth mentioning that "keyset driven paging" is sometimes also referred to as the "seek method":

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p7lgl/sql_pagin...
Oh look ma, vanity even in the grave. If strangers have a reason to know who you were, they will.
Not only do they send you an e-mail about this, they even have an API call for it: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/monitorin...

Anyone who's surprised that this happens has not used EC2 very much. It is this way by design.
It's perhaps not safe to generalize the results from a study on Danish public workers. Billions work in deeply unfair, disrespectful management structures. Many are very harsh and dehumanizing by western standards. I would be interested to see a broader study to see how culture impacts results.
I'm using rasterbar's libtorrent for a project of mine and I find it already downloads as fast as uTorrent (likely because it implements uTP).
RPython, the Python subset that PyPy is written in, is compiled to C. (That said, it is a fairly restrictive subset, and the compiler is very much designed for interpreters and nothing else.)
At our company we also support IE8. I almost never touch the CSS and HTML files for that. I just load some polyfills that make IE8 more compatible [1][2][3][4]. It seems like magic, because those scripts give me support even for Foundation 4 out of the box ( they dropped legacy IE8 in v.4 ) and I don't have to think that much for websites such as caniuse, etc...

The downside is that most of the CSS work is done by javascript and if you are one of those IE8 users you will be unsatisfied with the pageload speed, but given the bad architecture of IE8 you will not be surprised by that fact. Although the pages using those polyfills work pretty good.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/
[2] http://selectivizr.com/
[3] https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond
[4] https://code.google.com/p/css3-mediaqueries-js/
If you're in to XBMC and Raspberry Pi's, allow me to introduce you to a project I've been working on:
http://www.xbmchub.com/forums/general-video-addon-discussion...

NB: New major release which fixes most of Raspberry Pi issues is scheduled for tonight.
That is very cool. Is this just-for-fun/-learning or do you have any real applications for it?
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Personally using qBittorrent (on both Mac and Windows), and I'm really satisfied so far.
Now all I need is an app that will keep posting cat pictures to social media for me after I'm dead.
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Exactly - Apple products are expensive - despite their usability, not all users are willing to pay a premium for that. On the other hand, if there was a highly-usable free alternative to Windows (which Linux seems like it's well on its way to becoming), that might be a different story. Of course, being free, Linux doesn't have the marketing budget that Apple does - so I don't see it stealing too much of Microsoft's market share any time soon.

(And then of course there's the fact that Windows machines are actually subsidized by Microsoft, making Windows effectively cheaper than free. Plus all the other factors that make folks Windows users - the proprietary software, use in schools, etc.)
Lustre: France provides information to US (and others) intelligence agencies
I met a startup that was doing this back at TNW Amsterdam, but can't remember the name. Very useful I think.

Be careful with security, cf. what happened to Buffer!
You can add the sentence "Find something to read, watch, play or learn when you are bored" to the landing page.
In my opinion you shouldn't punish 96% of your users because of those 4%.
As others have mentioned you could use something like modernizer to take advantage of progressive enhancement. That way the users with modern browsers could benefit from newer technologies and the legacy users could still view your site properly.
It's more work but I think it is worth the effort.
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I've learned a long time ago to treat traditional servers in a rack like they can disappear (or get compromised) at any time for a huge range of reasons. You can never be too paranoid.
I saw it in a few places, but often it was typeset C - -
Your mother wants access to her content. Same with my partner Ruth. She is happily using CentOS (with the Stella repositories for multimedia) on an X61s with Ultrabase for surfing and watching videos and DVDs. It gets the job done, and I had the Thinkpad around anyway when her iBook stopped working.

Does your brother need access to specialised software (e.g. having to hand in College/University work in some Windows specific system or using business applications)?
Current unemployment numbers: Berlin 205k, Baden-Wuerttemberg 232k, Bavaria 250k.

So much for that...
The grammatically correct generic pronoun in English is 'he':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Generic_he

Anything else is just politically correct nonsense.
Not really. Live migration requires shared storage, which is yet another bottleneck, and yet another point of failure.
The limits of investigative journalism
"This doesn't cause religious disputes, and indeed mathematicians are happy to jump from one set of constraints to another."

For me, that is the difference between an axiom and a belief. People with beliefs think their beliefs to be better than those of others. With axioms, that is not so. In fact, mathematicians like to doubt their axioms "do we really need the parallel postulate" was, for centuries, a subject of thought"
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Someone, give this this guy $90mm.
No. You don't control the execution environment, so if it's really that valuable it can't be trusted.

After all, you cannot stop someone from taking a full snapshot of the VM and grabbing all the information. Encryption is no help here, as the VM ultimately needs to store the key in memory.

If it's really that valuable (lot's of companies seem to overestimate how much people would want to steal their data), then it really should never leave hardware under their control.
I think this is pretty big news and confirms many of the speculative reasons we had for why French government did almost nothing in reaction to the recent news that the US spied on 70 millions French phone calls just last year.

Sorry for the Google Translate, I assume most people here don't speak German. I don't either, I got the info via the French http://reflets.info/.
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The camera shit its pants!
It looks like OCaml's C-- predates this C--, but has had an influence on it.

From Xavier Leroy, one of the lead Ocaml developers [1]:

I think I'm the one who coined the name "C--" to refer to a low-level,
weakly-typed intermediate code with operations corresponding roughly
to machine instructions, and minimal support for exact garbage
collection and exceptions. See my POPL 1992 paper describing the
experimental Gallium compiler. Such an intermediate code is still in
use in the ocamlopt compiler.

I had many interesting discussions with Simon PJ and Norman Ramsey
when they started to design their intermediate language. Simon liked
the name "C--" and kindly asked permission to re-use the name.

However, C-- is more general than the intermediate code used by
ocamlopt, since it is designed to accommodate the needs of many source
languages, and present a clean, abstract interface to the GC and
run-time system. The ocamlopt intermediate code is somewhat
specialized for the needs of Caml and for the particular GC we use.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria/9436/
Perhaps your sample of younger people are just short of time and have the applications they want working in the way they want?

In defence of 'younger people' generally I hand my X60 Thinkpad running Debian Wheezy with the default Gnome 3 desktop around sometimes in class. It does not take them long to work out how to access Firefox and a maths video on YouTube after suggesting they press the windows key. They generally find the trackpoint harder to deal with than the actual interface so I take a USB mouse in with me.
I used a nicotine spray. I have done for a few months now, it works sublingually. I used it (and patches) to quit smoking, and I'm nearly there, only a few weeks left.

What I find interesting though, is that while the spray does indeed get rid of the cravings, it (and the e-cigs I've used) is not the same "feeling" as smoking. This is possibly because of the lack of any MAOIs in the liquid itself.

How many of those using e-cigs here are ex-smokers? How many picked it up because it's a socially "acceptable" drug that you can now take without killing yourself slowly? I find it such a fascinating topic!
Non-geeks probably don't know how to use the chrome inspector, right?

Well, they do if they find instructions to follow to do so to retrieve a LastPass shared password.

I would expect that, no matter how they try to obscure it, it will be retrievable even by non-geeks who find and follow specific instructions to retrieve it.

So I'm not sure how much development effort it's worth to try and obscure it further -- if that's even possible.

LastPass probably ought to be VERY very clear that it's merely slightly obscured, not truly protected, from someone you share it with. Mainly because if someone is confused about this, when they find out it's less protected then they thought, they may begin to doubt LastPass's security in general.

If I were LastPass, I'd reduce the level of obscuring going on, to try to make it even more obvious that a shared password is not protected from the sharee.
I've had keyset paging fail for me in MySQL, once or twice in every ten thousand rows, in a "chaser" process that was trying to keep up with a table under heavy write load. I obtained data with holes in it; I think MySQL had allocated the autoincrement IDs to in-progress transactions but not written the rows.
Our studio has been using http://impactjs.com for the last year and mostly loving it.
Screen and asset image scaling for games
Say you're writing a compiler for a language in Haskell, and you want to generate machine code rather than having it be interpreted. Is C-- a natural choice on this platform? Or might LLVM be a better choice?
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“The real problems are with the back end of the software”
When compiling a language you have to compile it "to" somewhere. You could pick assembly, but assembly is so low level that it changes bit by bit depending on the processor. You want a stable target that's "low level" enough to let you optimize things for the machine you'll be working with, but not so low level as to be a moving target.

You could pick C, but C is actually still fairly complex and has lots of undefined behavior. You could pick JVM, but then you'll pick up the entirety of the JVM architecture which is quite large and may include many things you're not interested in.

C-- is another choice. It's decidedly lower-level than C (and thus far lower than JVM), higher level than assembly, and was crafted, as far as I know, under the deep influence of how to compile the pure functional language Haskell (or more specifically, it's System FC style and STG underlying languages).

In the mean time, LLVM took a similar place in this hierarchy and has probably taken off much more than C-- has. GHC, a Haskell compiler, in fact is moving its compilation pathway that way.
And whats the alternative for you ?
From the article: "The standardization bodies have probably had their reasons, but it doesn’t feel at all intuitive to have the CSS width and height of an element affected by its padding and borders."

And not only are height and width affected by padding+borders, they are affected in different ways, respectively. It's just weird. Does anybody have any insight into what the standardization bodies' reasons were?
Those are the exceptions not the rule. And majority of the so-called true 2 bed room are flex twos.

See: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/07/10/average-new-york-city...
That's not hard to do in general. Companies undergoing an "orderly liquidation" achieve this, before accounting for payments to creditors.
Women complain the traditional use of he when the gender is not known promote a male centric society.
Bah! One of the problems with headstone engravings is they erode and become unreadable. This really doesn't help amateur genealogists like myself unless the code is woven deep in to the stone with a sufficiently redundant encoding.

I'm more worried about the potential lack of reliable, public records in the future, given that the likes of the UK government want to do away with the national census altogether and rely on a hodge-podge of semi-private records. Most people alive in the UK today will be cremated anyway.

Not to mention, if this catches on, we'll likely end up with fields of stones that look like ass with no sense of majesty.
Powershell, Powershell, Powershell! Seriously, people, if you have to use a windows system, put some time into learning Powershell.

* Most simple grep and sed commands are entirely do-able. Bit more verbose syntax, but that comes with a hell of a lot of easy-to-access power

* It's all about objects, rather than plain text. This can often be a pain, but Import-Csv and Export-Csv are utter LOVE. Adding additional new properties could be easier, but it is an option and can be used to great effect

* It's basically .Net for the command line, and you can get to all the power locked away in the .Net libraries

* No installation required on modern windows machines. Assuming your network admins are not overly restrictive, you get a proper shell without having to install cygwin
You might consider using a smaller background image, the one you use is 2.3MB! (Some of us have Time Warner unfortunately...)
Look again - this entire website is clearly a joke.
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Just a suggestion: next time try Xubuntu with one bottom panel. Sufficiently close to XP/Win7 interface for ingrained responses.

You could be very cheeky and set the RedmondXP theme in XFCE4 just as a joke.
Have you read the book Allen Carr's easy way to quit smoking? It really works.
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