skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, if Adobe is truncating their passwords to 12 characters that would be a major positive for me in the case of this leak as they'd only have half of my password. At least one of my accounts account from back when I memorized all of my 20+ character passwords was compromised. I'm sure I still have a few accounts with the same pass that need to be reset just to be safe, but it's at least there's something to chuckle about...
Don't forget http://tokbox.com !
Not necessarily true. Ioannidis did a review of 49 studies cited more than 1,000 times in the medical literature -- prime candidates for being replicated or tested by future results. Of those,

- 16% were found by later studies to be wrong

- 16% were found to have exaggerated the size of effects they claimed to detect

- 44% were replicated, and

- 24% were unchallenged and unreplicated by later literature.

So a full quarter of incredibly prominent research was never tested.

Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2005). Contradicted and initially stronger effects in highly cited clinical research. JAMA, 294(2), 218–228. doi:10.1001/jama.294.2.218
> You could have been far more terse.

Yeah, if he had simply stated that he didn't use Windows, you would have saved yourself some time by immediately disregarding everything he had to say, such as his informative summary of the .NET's OSS ecosystem, which you simplemindedly equated to "don't like".
I've seen it on TNW. The swipping gesture like Mailbox is cool.
The Constitution is by no means divine, but at the same time, its word is supreme.

That said, where the Constitution may be flawed, the Constitution also defines prescriptive measures be taken to remedy it.

The Constitution can be, and has been ratified, and is the appropriate measure to be taken whenever it's found lacking. The problem isn't that the Constitution is lacking, it's that those in power can simply 'interpret it' how they wish without fear of reprisal.

The president and legislature can make laws that violate the Constitution, so long as it's done in a way that isn't obviously egregious, and the worst case is that the law is overturned a decade later by a judiciary that, 98 times out of 100, simply defers to the legislative authority of Congress.

If we were watching a football game, and a referee simply decided to ignore an obviously valid touchdown, more Americans would be furious about that than there currently are about abuses of the Constitution, yet it's exactly the same principle.

Football has a set of rules, as codified in a rule book. If a rule isn't working, the NFL has the ability to change the rule, and may do so unilaterally, but at the same time, they're obligated to publish and make everybody aware of the changes to the rules.

Meanwhile, our legislature and executive branches ignore the rulebook of our nation, and a painfully small amount of people pay it any attention.
Let's compare what you're telling me with what I wrote:

> For one thing there is no 8GB Nexus 5.

"you'll notice that the 8GB 5 is difficult to purchase"

You seem to be agreeing with me.

> anyone following Google's Nexus product lines knew that the $199 and $249 price points were obviously clearance prices to move the last bit of inventory out of the pipeline

"I tend to agree that the 4s were priced to move, so it's not a great comparison"

It's very difficult to persuade someone that their views are faulty by only telling them things they've already stated themselves. Where are you trying to go with this?
Sorry - it was http://aaaiiirrr.org/ not .com
That's true. Mono is generally slower than the CLR, though it has been improving ever since Xamarin took over. There's also an option now to use LLVM as the JIT compilation engine in Mono; for server-based applications (where steady-state performance matters more than start-up time), this can greatly improve the performance thanks to LLVM's optimizer.

With the improvements in the latest 3.2.x branch, I think Mono's performance is at least "good enough" for many use cases.

FWIW, I do a bit of F# + Mono development on FreeBSD 9 (and now FreeBSD 10) and have found the performance to be quite good. I wrote an installation guide (http://fsharp.org/use/freebsd) if you want to give it a try, e.g., in a VirtualBox VM.
How is this different from Chromecast?
In the same way that the Nexus 7 denotes its hardware generation, and not the screen size?
It's true that effect sizes are often more important, but it's also true that they're also often incorrect. See e.g.

Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2008). Why Most Discovered True Associations Are Inflated. Epidemiology, 19(5), 640–648. doi:10.1097/EDE.0b013e31818131e7

Most studies are underpowered and are incapable of detecting the true effect. Only if they get lucky and observe an abnormally large effect will they obtain a statistically significant result, so the published results tend to be significant overestiates.

For another good example, see

Gelman, A., & Weakliem, D. (2009). Of beauty, sex, and power: statistical challenges in estimating small effects. American Scientist, 97, 310–316.

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/po...
When you get in your car to go to work, you are endangering peoples' lives.
So, uhh... yeah... this is a justification that can be stretched quite far.
Is the "Code A2 $100" prize a cash award or just a voucher to spend on whatever Code A2 is? If not, considering the sponsors, its disappointing that the prizes do not include something monetary for college.

Even $100 barely buys one textbook these days.
Not possible in jsgrep without enumerating all of the binary options (I can't think of a good reason for needing to do that though). It's more suited for doing API changes:

-foo(A, B, true)
+fooWithOption(A, B)
Completely off-topic, but I think linguists would be the first to point out that the two sounds are identical in many American English dialects.

Also, from my understanding, ω is just a degenerate form of the upper-case form (Ω) when drawn really flat and with the edges flaired up [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega
I always use "fetch" instead of "pull" for this reason--I want to update all my remote branches first, and then consider merging with local branches.

It seems that a lot of new git users default to "pull" and I'm not sure why. There must be some really popular tutorial out there that starts with pull.
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe handled most of the work.
I've watched the ecosystem from the pre-1.0 days and it is still steadily evolving. New packages are being developed (and abandoned) every day. Some of them are very mature, others are just starting, and many are just plain bad.

Implementations that stand out, like south, may get incorporated. Especially when they're valuable to the core of Django; all may not agree, but migrations (and class based views) should have been in there from the start.

Others depend on your needs. Don't force me into using TinyMCE as a rich text editor, I'll regretfully make that decision myself. I want to choose the best available package for my CDN host. I'm switching thumbnail processing engines because mine hasn't been updated in over two years.

Importing all of my models into the shell is best left as an explicit modification for those that want it. If it was a good idea, why wouldn't Django do it by default?

Reasons to use Django over other, lighter frameworks:

* The ORM

* Forms – The ORM

* contrib.admin

* Authentication

* Extendable command line interface
MongoHQ and Sunrise App Compromised
Dear Sunrise UserWe have been informed that our database provider (MongoHQ) has experienced a security breach. In handling security incidents, our priorities are to make sure your data is safe, eliminate the control failures that allowed the breach to occur, and to report the incident accurately to our customers.

Here is what it means for you:
Your Google, Facebook and Twitter data are safe. We've refreshed the identification key that allows our servers to communicate with your connected accounts, which means any data that could have been taken by a malicious party is useless before or after the incident.
Your LinkedIn, Foursquare and Producteev data are safe. You’ll just have to reconnect those services to Sunrise, as they don’t offer the same security control as Google, Facebook or Twitter.

If you chose the “Email” option to signup to Sunrise: your Sunrise email and password are also safe. We encrypt them in our database using the industry standard algorithm (bcrypt).
If you connected an iCloud calendar to Sunrise, even though we don’t store any credentials, the security breach may have put some of your calendar data at risk. As a precautionary measure, we recommend that you change your iCloud password and reconnect it to Sunrise: simply click here and then click on “Reset your password” to do it.

As one of the many precautional measures we are taking, we will be logging every Sunrise user out of the app. Simply log back in using the “I'm Already a Sunrise User” button and choosing one of the options that you had previously connected to your account.

Just to be clear, none of the data affected by this incident has any access to your credit card or banking information.

If you run into any trouble or if you have any questions, please email us at support@sunrise.am. We are here to help.
I've got two 16GB N4's I'm trying to sell to fund a purchase of some N5 new shiny. $250 apiece. I hope I can still get that much out of them. :)

I think the price for the Nexus devices is excellent, since you get pure Android and a factory unlocked device from the start.
Cool project! As monjaro mentions, the two examples are not equivalent however - the grasp example replaces every binary expression (alias: bi) with an addition operation with the right and left hand sides switched. This is a very trivial example, but hints at the great power available.

Grasp has two different query types, the default, squery - selector query, CSS style selectors, and equery (-e, --equery) - example query, JS code examples with wildcards.

In the grasp example above, we are using squery. jsgrep is similar to equery. You could do the following search in equery, and it would be more equivalent to the example you posted:

f(__ < __, __ == __)

The only thing missing is the named wildcards for easy replace - that's a good idea and a feature to add to grasp 0.2.0!

You can check out the docs on squery (http://graspjs.com/docs/squery/) and equery (http://graspjs.com/docs/equery/)
If `git config receive.denyNonFastforwards true` is configured on the remote repository then this is prevented. This is the default on modern versions of Git.
I don't think the technicalities of the size of the hypothesis space or its uncountability matter. We do studies over large numbers of hypotheses, of which we know a priori only a few are likely to be true. Genome-wide association studies, for example, will study thousands of genes knowing that only a few will have true correlations.

In any case it is an entirely reasonable assumption that of all tested scientific hypotheses, a small fraction are true. We often do not expect them to be true. (A clinical trial may test thirty or more hypotheses, such as "this medication causes diarrhea," and may expect most of them to be false. But they have to check just in case.)
FWIW, South won't totally be necessary after Django 1.7. Django 1.7 is getting support for migrations built-in.
You should also read the responses to that article, such as Ioannidis's, which is scathing. They're all open-access, thankfully, and you can find them here:

http://simplystatistics.org/2013/09/25/is-most-science-false...

Jager and Leek put their code on GitHub, so the commenters were able to review their code and tinker with it to see what would happen.
The Chinese dynastic system was never designed to be an iterative, democratic system that aimed at providing the pursuit of hapiness. Our system has lasted through changes equal in turbulence to that which we are going through now, just a different flavor of it. The Industrial Revolution as merely a single example.
This is why you always normalize your timestamps to UTC for storage/logging. To explain in a bit more detail, here's a thought experiment. You are in California, and it's 2012-11-04 1:30 AM. You need to save this time to refer to it later (pick your favorite reason).

If you assume you are storing times in your time zone, why can't you determine the correct time the timestamp refers to at a later date?

Why is your location important?
I tend to treat the history of the master branch as immutable. Working with a remote branch that needs to stay up-to-date with master has, in my experience, required rebasing and force-pushing the branch.
GM has had problems well before 2008. Perhaps that put them over the edge, but I recall reading articles around 2005 and 2006 talking about the performance of companies like Toyota and Ford versus GM.
By that definition, any language that has user-defined types has tuples. Proper tuples are represented as a kind of type, not just a Tuple class.

As far as sugar - if the language is Turing complete, then every feature is syntactic sugar. You need a perverse definition of power to suggest that being able to properly handle tuples via deconstruction doesn't increase the power of the language.
That only works with templates that extend a base template, not ones included inline.
I'll give you a hearty amen on the virtue of throwing out ideas.
For those that TLDR all you have to know is that it's The Atlantic and leftists don't like the constitution because it get in the ways of their nefarious and devious plans for the country.
Ok. So, they've managed to "save" that dinosaur from an instant death, delaying the inevitable to a next, future round of corporate heroics. What about all the smaller companies that had to dump their staff on the streets and did not get massive bailouts for their "salvation"?
Built-in to the language itself?

Very few mainstream languages have that.
That's one of the least-plausible Microsoft trickery ideas I've heard of. Anything that makes Mono play catch-up also hurts every existing .NET program.

Even if they had some magical changes that kills interop (like, what, I don't know), Mono still works with all current apps at that point, and only developers adopting the new, not-compatible system (and thus discarding all their old libraries) would be affected.

Microsoft sorta has done this, with Silverlight and WinRT. They required different stdlibs and a bit of runtime tweaking, as I understand. Silverlight was handled by Mono, and WinRT - not sure if anyone is interested, as it's really for Windows Metro applications.
Thank you for a very informative and helpful reply! However, I would like to see this work validated before I fully accept his conclusions.

Regarding the 24%, if you look in Table 2 of that study, of the 12 that were "unchallenged and unreplicated", the notes for 10 list follow on studies that would reveal problems with the initial study, were the initial study to be "wrong."

That leaves 4% that are "unchallenged and unreplicated" yet have 1000 citations. So I would be quite interested to know the take of the researchers in the field on those papers, and if they would agree with Ioannidis' assessment on those 2 papers.
> Mattel, the world’s largest toymaker, fired the first salvo, suing MGA in 2004 . It alleged that designer Bryant had conceived of Bratz while on its payroll and accused MGA of bribing and secretly hiring Mattel employees for projects on the side. MGA hit back, claiming that Mattel spied on its salesmen by masquerading as toy buyers, rearranged Barbie and Bratz displays at Wal-Mart and other stores and paid off retailers to favor Barbie over Bratz.

Is it too much to wonder "why is any of that described conduct even legally questionable?"?

I mean, say you're Mattel and you have a nasty, exclusive, NDA-ridden contract with some key employees. MGA surreptitiously hires those employees for side projects. Obviously, you can have a cause of action against the employees. But against MGA?
Credits go where credits are due: http://thomasjbradley.ca/lab/signature-pad

"All the credit belongs to the incredible work by Thomas Bradley, who authored the original signature library and Square for the blog post that outlined the approach."

Not so sure from the page why a fork was justified... I have been using this solution for quite a while on a project which needed signatures for fulfillment. More than happy with it...
These days most devs would enjoy Abrash's awesome story telling ability over the intricacies of long forgotten x86 chip instructions for software rasterizers.
In this case, the person probably thought he or she was pushing "feature-wip" or something similar after cleaning up that branch's history. Not necessarily unreasonable. If master is out of date then

git push -f

throws away any remote commits (under old behavior).
That's a good point. I didn't consider the fact that possibly many discoveries have a very low prior expectation of truthood.
Similarly, in Mandarin Chinese the tone is generally ignored when singing. However, in Cantonese the tone is "tak[en] ... into consideration" http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2010/12/06/tones-in-...
I don't want to build on a codebase that needs 5 extensions out of the box to be sane.

I want to build on a platform where far more than 5 extensions are needed to be sane -- I want the vast majority of my "core" functionality to be provided by an extension.

Far too often "Batteries included" means "Batteries soldered in with a thick layer of epoxy on top".
I can't believe they actually posted 15 megapixel pictures for the slideshow. 37 of them. Made my connection slow to a crawl for quite a while.
Use short names in cases like this:

Guido, John Resig, DHH and Pamela Fox
The biggest problem F# faces(or faced) is it looks very foreign to a journeyman c#/java/c++ developer. Significant whitespace and lack of curly braces does not look quite odd now, with the proliferation of Python, Ruby etc. Prior to 2005 or thereabouts, it was a huge challenge.

Part of it is a community problem as well - the leading lights of the Alt .NET community pretty much cold-shouldered F#. Don Syme & team waged a lonely battle to bring mindshare. Till f# 2.0 shipped, I can't remember more than 2 or 3 significant developers who were actively developing F#. Things are looking up now though.
Where's the teardown of one of these devices? I'm not going to believe it until I actually see some evidence of it from a reliable source.
Surprise, surprise. The latimes is trying to blame it on conservatives - mentioning Rand Paul and Adam Carolla.

The latimes thinks the sheeple should just do what their told by the government and shut up about it.
isn't this a repost of another (debunked) article that was on HN a few days ago?
This is legit, but here's the link to their actual blog post: http://blog.sunrise.im/post/65835073540/
RE your point a)

this gets into the semantics of the term dysfunction. I think if we did a point by point walk through of any given portion of the history of US government one could find a bounty of examples of dysfunction. It would simply be a matter of choosing what portions of history you wished to look closely at.

and RE your point b)

This is a far bigger set of assumptions and faulty observations. Firstly not all of those projects constitute a singular 'success' rather than simply the emergent of some system that produces a wide range of results. The funding is simply a component of that and the ultimate determining factor as to whether or not the net result of that funding was better than other alternatives that could have existed in it's absence is something that's not easy to quickly determine.

Reminds me of getting a large and extremely demanding client. Certainly one may be gaining far more money than they ever did prior to having said client, but if the demands and side effects of having the client are too high then even the masses of money one makes, when placed in context to the big picture and the actual desired ends, may not result in an optimal, or even a positive, end.

One needs but look at state welfare in Europe to see an example of this. The state takes care of people and one of the fall outs is that individual persons, beyond what they are obligated to give through taxation, help their fellow countrymen at far lower rates than they do in less socialized nations. There's always unseen costs.
Wow, this totally makes sense. Better safe than sorry!
Is it a terrible idea? Yes. Do I do it anyway? Yes. Do I do it with non-mainstream projects I've never heard of? Nope. Does that make it ok? No, of course not, but that's the level of risk I'm willing to accept.

It's not really any different than downloading and installing/executing something like Sublime Text or Alfred.
everytime when i use google play store's searching service, i would say `fuck you google` again.
this one?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24707337
I find most people that complain about DST actually are complaining about how it gets dark so early. So, they actually want DST year round and dislike standard time.
Email providers have enough address books on file to know how they're doing already :)
He's not paying the tax.
Quite possibly.

I've taken a copy of the most recent standalone installer which precedes the api-warning-nag version. It appears to be able to install over the top of the more recent version, and when my desktop API is disabled I will install it and see what happens.

The change-log of the api-warning-nag version does not mention the warning popups and just lists a higher contrast UI as an accessibility improvement. I think I can do without those kinds of updates if it means keeping the API. Fluxon mentions a forced update, hopefully that was also a featured added with the api-warning-nag update.

The standalone installer has already been signed by Skype, so it can be passed around without worries about whether it's genuine.

(I would post all the version info but am on a different computer)
Yes. It is also the case in plainchant in the C of E tradition (the "ancient office hymns" as well as the psalm, the Benedicite, the Sanctus and Benedictus, Te Deum etc.). It is only somewhat stylized so that it can be sung by groups of people (otherwise people's own idiosyncratic rhythms would produce a cacophony), and terminal syllables of verses tend to be held and elaborated, but it is very much based on the rhythms of ordinary speech.
Nice. I'll also echo what DougWebb said, Improvely is a great looking site.
Yup, several folks are picking it up even though it hasn't been verified by anyone as far as I can tell.
JSBeautifier – Beautify, unpack or deobfuscate JavaScript and HTML
And people use single tone of voice, never emphasize their voice, and never use hand gesture, right?
For anyone curious, here is a reconstruction of the Song of Seikilos mentioned in the article:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERitvFYpAk

It is based on the musical notation found on a tombstone and is, I think, the oldest complete Greek musical piece found to date.
there is no such thing as "underwater" when it comes to stocks. In a big liquid market, like the stock market for big companies, the price reflects the true value.
You're right, you can implement interfaces for C# dynamic extension, but that won't help against existing objects. But I'm out of my league here, because every time I see an API that shows off dynamic, it boils down to saving a handful of quotes. I get the feeling F# added it just to say "yeah, what's your point?"

The benefits of built-in features you mention can be accomplished by special-casing as an optimization. Zero downside language wise, only requires some level of more resources for the compiler writers. For debugging, seems like the same amount of work; either way it has to reconstruct the "async stack". Best of both worlds, no downside.

C# is a great language, probably the best of the mainstream ones I'd say. But I still find it severely lacking in some areas, with no justification other than lack of desire/resources (type inference being the #1 case).