skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Retitle this post as "Major security flaws in iOS" and you've done something brilliant. Intro is malware, plain and simple, but this post has exposed some serious holes in Apple's security which will hopefully be fixed ASAP
Total demand in metropolises has increased. This rise in localized demand has priced out the poor and working classes and has resulted in a rise in overall homelessness.

TFA points out that relocation isn't always a rational economic choice for people priced out of these metropolises and that they turn to other measures such as doubling up on housing or spending an imprudent 50%+ of their wages on rents. This places these people in an extremely precarious position financially and increases their chances of homelessness.
Columbia Journalism Review: On the NSA, the media may tilt right
I also use this setup. Sometimes Sketch can be a little fiddly to get SVG export working properly, so iDraw fills that niche nicely for me.

I'm glad to finally see Layer Styles in Pixelmator, for years this feature has been preventing it from being comparable to Photoshop in the eyes of many. The forum was full of people requesting it, the argument was they wanted to "get it right" rather than rushing, which is valid, but it's not really any different from Sketch or Photoshop, so I'm not sure that was really the truth (maybe a Pixelmator dev could shine some light on that?), that said - it's here now so no complaints :-) excellent work chaps & chapettes!
Part of the purpose of the patent system is to allow individual inventors and small companies to develop technology even if they won't have the resources to produce and sell it. The ideal situation is that these NPEs go out to the large companies in an industry and say "hey, we've got this invention you might be interested in...".

If NPEs are barred from litigating patents, there's nothing to stop those large companies from saying "great, we're going to use this... but not pay you anything, because there's nothing you can do about it".
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The number of "I don't get it." comments on this thread should be a lesson for everyone. THIS is the reason diversity in your company and social circle is important. A forum full of men not understanding how a $3.8 billion company is successful.
Well that was a surprise turn around. Great for the entrepreneur, not so great for the kind natured protagonist.

Also http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/misc/patfitty.gif
Earth-like: Cassini Gets New Views of Titan's Land of Lakes
I doubt they intended something like this to be possible, but what remains to see is whether or not they'll be OK with it. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple disabled :hover and other interactive CSS features within Mail.app in a future update.
I assume your shock is for rhetorical purposes only.

Anyway. There's plenty of feelgood language with destructive consequences on the backend. But I'll point out a lovely bit:
"Bring Basements and Granny Flats into the Legal System

There are thousands of unsanctioned housing units across the city in basements and above garages — but the city doesn’t recognize them. That deprives tenants of legal protections, and prevents landlords from making the kinds of upgrades that would ensure the health and safety of families living in them. Bill de Blasio will end the practice of pretending these homes and their families don’t exist. As mayor, he will bring them into the regulated housing system, ensure they meet legal standards for safety, and work to bring them under rent-regulation, so their tenants will have the same basic protections as New Yorkers in traditional apartments."

Yes. Protections like "gee, if I rent out my basement to someone, it sounds like there will be a bunch of extra regulatory requirements. I'll need to be careful or my tenants might take me to Housing Court and get a free legal advocate like deBlasio proposes in another section, and get me on some technicality, and then I won't be able to evict them. Maybe I'll reconsider whether to bother at all."

And he's right! That's exactly the same sort of awesome protection that existing rent control already provides!
Smalltalk, what of it? I've never used a Lisp Machine, but I did go through a Smalltalk phase. Smalltalk doesn't identify between safe and unsafe method calls, for instance. So sure, you can safely get the underlying instance variables of an object, just like Python's obj.__dict__. But you can't traverse into external structures, you can't use the standard getter methods since you don't know what's a getter and what causes modifications.

And the meta-object protocol is exactly what I'm talking about: extensibility without ubiquitous useful patterns. The MOP might (maybe) be helpful in implementing a prototype, but it wouldn't by itself create a system where goal-oriented traversal and search across an application was possible.
Or, no discernible repeatable method for generating income to ever justify a given valuation. Either one though...
Not really disagreeing with you but want to point out that Einstein had a very ordinary clerical job at the time when he figured out relativity. I even think the discussions with one of his colleagues played an important role.
You should email me tom at buysellads.com

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The "I'm A Mac" commercial series was a light-hearted campaign that people from both sides found funny. As a PC user, I even found it funny. Things feel different in the way Apple are handling themselves these days, after all these years of being on-top, their competitors are finally catching up with a vengeance. Apple have no new product ideas as revolutionary as the iPad or iPhone which were turning points in the portable hardware race that left naysayers struggling to compete in.

Going on the defensive when you feel threatened is a natural human instinct which carries through to the business world as well, it's just filtered a whole lot better generally (unless it's coming from the top as is the case with Cook and Balmer).
What on earth are you on about?

DSM-5 has been disbarred? Not that a book can be disbarred.

Mocked? Oh, wow. An online website of cultural criticism published an opinion piece on a medical classification and diagnostic tool. I guess we better throw it in the trash.
I will let the "market" judge me by modding this up or down, but I for one think your opinion of your own powers of prognostication to be overrated. You make no case except "listen and behold my awesomeness."
Driverless cars are further away than you think
Unequal treatment of NPEs acts against specialization of skills/division of labor. Invention, Manufacturing, and Litigation are three entirely different skills. If an inventor has to start some token manufacturing operations to monetize his patent, that manufacturing will be subscale and inefficient. If the manufacturer has to litigate and cannot sell the patent to litigation specialist firms, they will be distracting themselves from their core business.

The ability to sell an asset is an important one for an efficient economy.
Peg + Cat - I’m probably conditioned to recognize es
Firstly, the spacecraft is not a big data consumer so it makes sense to concentrate on downlink bandwidth. Secondly, the telescopes on Earth can be much larger and use much better equipment so it's easier to pick up weaker signals.
So am I and I've mostly used a subset of C features to solve many problems. I've also seen some C 'experts' fail to come to a proper solution even if they know all the features.
I find it really impressive that a company can roll out incremental changes to 100,000 devices in a week. I wonder if the author somehow got it mixed up and the updates to each weekly device aren't necessarily a week old. It's just rolling updates hitting every batch every week. That would make a little more sense. I think some other people have said in the comments that some changes just wouldn't fit into a week's time span. I suppose it would also make sense if all the changes were somehow tiny in nature.
I think people decided that this was something worth discussing. A lot of times I won't necessarily agree with or like the post that I'm upvoting, but I upvote it so that it gets more visibility and then I can read other people's opinions and analysis of the thing at hand.
I don't think any complex macroeconomic explanation is needed for the issue described in the article (and the vacancy rate in NYC is very low). It's simply local income inequality. NYC has a much larger number of rich people, and only a limited supply of housing. This drives up the cost of housing, especially in Manhattan.
Several good Bootstrap resources here -

http://mashable.com/2013/10/20/bootstrap-editors/?utm_cid=ma...
Perhaps just extending their runway while they see cheap capital.
"I can think of no more fitting epitaph than the final clause of the original ARC copyright statement:
'If you fail to abide by the terms of this license, then your
conscience will haunt you for the rest of your life.'"

Deep.
If you treat community discussion as a search for optimal morals, I fully agree with you. However, I stand by my original point as top voted comment already decided on the immorality of the JFK-Mimi affair as immoral without meaningful debate.
Wow, I had no idea the ARC source was open. IIRC, at the time PKARC and PKZIP were legendary, and the Sea guys got a bad rep from the whole situation. But reading that post and the ARC license now, it sure does look like Katz was a putz.
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To be the best entrepreneur you must bag groceries
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A lot of people thought those high risk mortgages were win/win. Best case scenario: the mortgage gets paid back at a healthy RoI. Better case scenario: the borrower defaults and the mortgage owners end up with real estate that is getting more valuable by the day.

Of course, the borrower gets screwed but who gives a shit about them. And if the housing market tanks the whole thing falls apart, but the market can only go up, up, up!
>Python 3

No.
Can't We Do It All?
Much of the Android OS's middleware layer is implemented in Java, and runs in a Dalvik VM instance. Many parts of the OS are implemented as Service components and accessed through remote procedure calls - the same way installable apps can provide APIs to other apps.

Contrast this with the history of the CLR in Windows mobile devices. It was not taken seriously as an application platform. None of the built-in apps used it, never mind it being the basis for system programming. Android is a Java OS in a more meaningful way than running a CLR for some subclass of apps, which certainly doesn't make Windows a "C# OS."

Try writing a non-game Android application with every Activity component as a NativeActivity subclass. It will be painful to code, more painful to debug, and it will disappoint in performance.

I'm not just shilling for Google's architectural decisions. Prior to Android being released, I was working on wireless device OS that used Linux and a Java VM for userland software. I am very familiar with the performance increment obtainable using a JIT in a mobile device, and, as an alternative, in using a precompiled Java runtime. As in Android, the heavy-duty pixel-pushing in that OS was done in a graphics stack implemented in native code. Much of Android's widget set is also in native code. Unless you choose to do heavy computation on an Android device, you are not going to get a large advantage from a JIT, especially if your bytecode interpreter actually does perform 2X better than Java.

As for heavy computation on Android devices that's what Renderscript is for.
I've been teaching Python to my kids (both in middle school), and had to explain zero based arrays. Fortunately, all explanations automatically translate into "yet another stupid thing that grown-ups do." ;-)

Being somewhat of an old timer, I understand the justification of zero based arrays based on making the hardware simpler and maintaining a tight coupling between the representation of a program in source code and its implementation in hardware. Zero is special because all of the bits are the same. Arrays are zero based because the physical location of the first element is the same as the memory location assigned to the array itself, plus zero.

For the last element, I just remember the mnemonic "up to but not including."
Shame is toxic as it silences opposing views with emotional arguments. Please refrain from using shame as strategy to win discussions.
This is exactly the rebuttal that was given for Facebook 2 years ago. Facebook has been hitting or besting their numbers since IPO. Yes, creating a valuation for a company that doesn't make money is going to be somewhat inaccurate, but companies that solve the chicken egg problem and gather mass have great value in the digital age. Even if you take an example of a website that failed like Myspace, they made enough revenue off ads to justify their valuation before they tanked.
This is your brain. This is your brain decoded.
This might explain NYC a bit, given the large number of bankers and banking firms there - 5.2 times more than the average, is their pay:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-22/chart-day-average-n...
I don't quite understand your reasoning. A creator as an explanation for the origins of the universe is as simple as anything else.
> So now Phil Katz is dead. He drank himself to death, alone in a motel room, a bottle of booze in his hand and five empties in the room. One can only guess what drove him to such a tragic end, but it is a fitting demise for a man whose professional reputation is based entirely on a lie.

> I can think of no more fitting epitath than the final clause of the original ARC copyright statement:

> "If you fail to abide by the terms of this license, then your conscience will haunt you for the rest of your life."

What a stunningly vindictive and spiteful thing to say.

This is the very first time I've ever heard anyone say "he deserved to die because he stole my code."

(Don't worry, I'm not shooting the messenger! I appreciate your posting this - it's a fascinating look at human nature.)
Shame on you for not getting your priorities straight and putting your family first!

Not really. I am only saying this because I've seen you shaming someone in other thread and wanted to show you a first-hand example that shaming is bad for constructive discussions.
So I guess what he said about the price wasn't true at all, unless he was counting the 128GB iPad with mobile data instead of the Wi-Fi version.

IMO, if the Pro 2 had a keyboard option kind of like the Lenovo Helix, it would be the ideal device. As it stands, its really nice, but the lack of a true laptop conversion kit is a deal breaker in my case.
its fairly amusing sometimes to think about what exactly firms like redhat, canonical, digium, etc are actually selling..
I started teaching kids Ruby on Rails with Nitrous IO virtual web environment and it's pretty good.
https://www.nitrous.io/join/ByKc2ypawx0
I appreciate the data point, but I must admit that sounds very unreasonable, unless you're considering the employer as the attacker. Would the same apply if an employee were using a VPN at work?
Exec-PC (huge BBS based in Milwaukee, WI) was full of anti-SEA propaganda in those days, which was just bizarre and I didn't understand why at the time.

I also didn't realize the code was open. If only we had github in BBS form in the 90s.
WTF?

The term 'tragedy of the commons' was coined at the time of the biggest transfer of land from common ownership to private interests in the history of GB. It describes the very benefits the businessman in the OP describes - the profit motive of efficiency due to privatisation. It is in itself capitalist fodder.

Over time it has may have come to signify anti-capitalism. Perhaps the only thing that kept the tragedy of the commons in check was social responsibility. Which, by virtue of remote capital, has been decimated - once again, as the OP describes.

Your argument about feeding the millions is both common and fallacious. The world population has increased more than sevenfold from that time.. the increase in population much more closely mirrors the increase in production, than production does the increase in need.
Ligature symbols actually addresses this. there just aren't enough of them for my needs.

http://kudakurage.com/ligature_symbols/
in-browser programming seems like a great way to get people interested in how code works.

here is an earlier site called RubyWarrior that works similarly.

https://www.bloc.io/ruby-warrior/
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I need more information if you want me to look into this issue.

We have paid out on such issues before but there is no hard rule. In general we err on paying out if there is any question. We have paid out before when a submission wasn't a bug at all but lead us to some part of the code that we ourselves then found a security bug in.

It is in our best interest to payout whenever possible. More payouts = more submissions = more security bugs found and fixed.
I was expecting this to be a random lat/lng and asking you to pick (for example) the most prominent feature displayed in the map. A major city or a famous mountain or something.
This article is full of details and well worth a read. It's kind of a bummer for me, because I can't wait for the day when driverless cars replace the clueless drivers of Minnesota among whom I have to commute. But the technical challenges of bringing driverless cars into routine consumer use are still immense.

The article notes, about an expected transitional phase of development when driverless cars augment rather than replace human driving, "An important challenge with a system that drives all by itself, but only some of the time, is that it must be able to predict when it may be about to fail, to give the driver enough time to take over. This ability is limited by the range of a car’s sensors and by the inherent difficulty of predicting the outcome of a complex situation. 'Maybe the driver is completely distracted,' Werner Huber said. 'He takes five, six, seven seconds to come back to the driving task—that means the car has to know [in advance] when its limitation is reached. The challenge is very big.'"

My dream is the dream of fully door-to-door driverless cars. I think the article "Why Driverless Cars Are Inevitable--and a Good Thing"

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000087239639044352490...

by Dan Neil of the Wall Street Journal, published last year, is a good commentary on why ordinary people will mostly be glad to use driverless cars, and regulators and insurers will be glad to nudge drivers to use them. But that's only if they work, and it's not clear how soon driverless cars will work reliably and be manufactured inexpensively enough to become routine on our streets and roads.
Yeah, factoring in where the money came from takes the moral in a completely different direction.

In the end, a lot of people are getting cheaper food, and more fish is being produced with fewer workers. The suffering is caused by unexpected change, not because the corporate fishing fleet is inherently bad.

I would argue that the poor working conditions are caused by the temporary oversupply of fisherman, not by anything inherent to the job structure. Once that oversupply is corrected, you end up with fisherman working for a good wage to provide cheaper food to thousands of people. The community as a whole can work fewer hours and enjoy more of their life.

So capitalism ruthlessly exploited the people it pushed out of a niche, a one-time cost to a small group of people, in exchange for permanent good effects for everyone.

Obviously it would be better if the company was giving good wages from the start, and a social safety net kept that small group from suffering at all. But even with that terrible side effect, the search for efficiency was a good thing.
But see this:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/us/20100803-wiki-L...

The FBI quoted a similar statute when asking Wikipedia to remove its copy of the FBI seal. Wikimedia pointed out that their encyclopedia article does not "convey the impression" of endorsement and refused to take down the seal, and the same defense appears to work here.
Should be "laser" with the quotes. Also, LLCD isn't catchy - the project should be renamed to "The Allan Parsons Project".
An interesting approach, although one line of javascript will solve all samples beyond the first one (didn't bother writing extra code to handle your demo case):

$('.trueletterimage').each(function () {$('#userdata').val($('#userdata').val() + $(this).attr('src').split('.')[0].split('/')[1])});

Copy paste into the console and enjoy.

Ok, obviously the above is mostly in jest. I always enjoy seeing new captchas, despite most having major flaws. I do have to echo other comments that mention the user difficulty issue. Using this in production would require more explanatory text than your average captcha, and it does seem to take a little longer to figure out than, say, a recaptcha image. That said, likely the bigger issue is one of image classification allowing bots to solve most of them.
If they were truly a monopoly, they would not have seen it as important to respond and revise Windows 8.

Obviously things aren't black and white, we're arguing the degree of monopoly of MS. Consider, yes, eventually you hit the elephant hard enough with a 2x4 and it responds. It didn't respond much even then. And even government granted, official monopolies respond a little bit criticism.

Real monopolies can abuse their customers and have no qualms about it.

Many people would view MS as being just that way. But sure, maybe there's some leeway. But "no monopoly power" is bending the stick ridiculously far in the other direction. I mean, MS is convicted monopolist. They already lost a lawsuit in the 90's. [1] MS' strangle-hold PC operating system remains the same even if other markets (the web, the phone etc) have risen. (Edit: Consider, if MS did face competition in the PC operating system market, they might feel pressure to improve the PC rather than just milking their position for the purpose of entering other markets.)

And besides, it's not like they didn't have a public beta program in the first place.

Now there's some counter evidence to all your earlier argument. All the beta people were expressing shock and horror and MS did ... nothing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
For me, ST is my primary work tool. What I paid for it is completely insignificant compared to what I earn.

Speaking as someone who used Textpad from 1995 until when I discovered SublimeText last year, I love the functionality and keyboard shortcuts that have been built into it. For example, the developer appears to have lifted CTRL+F2 / F2 for bookmarks directly from Textpad, and I'm very happy they did.

I for one am happy for the developer to move at his own pace. It is very solid for my purposes, now using the Ubuntu version having switched from Windows.
This reminds me of something I once read of Ralph Nader:

Karen Croft, a writer who worked for Nader in the late 1970s at the Center for Study of Responsive Law, once asked him if he had ever considered getting married. She reports: "He said that at a certain point he had to decide whether to have a family or to have a career, that he couldn't have both. That's the kind of person he is. He couldn't have a wife—he's up all night reading the Congressional Record." [1]

There's a part of me that admires the sense of devotion to a personal vision or mission. I believe it's this unrelenting, screw-the-consequences, type of drive that create greatness.

At the same time, as a young single man in his 20s, I am still wrestling with my own personal choices and opinions on this matter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader