skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IME it's not only slow, but also very memory-hungry. As a result it's hard to use it to debug heisenbugs, because you have to have a decent idea of where the bug is, so you can start recording at that point. But of course if you know even roughly where the bug was, debugging isn't nearly as hard...

VMWare had record-and-replay debugging functionality which was functionally similar to gdb's backwards debugging, although its implementation was a lot different, which allowed it to scale to recording much longer threads of execution. We used this at Mozilla to find a number of super-tricky bugs; it was pretty awesome. Unfortunately this feature was nixed in vmware workstation 8 [1].

[1] http://www.replaydebugging.com/
Cool - it's great to hear that you guys actually got to put it to a head-to-head comparison with the old ways.

How heavily have you customized Spring, versus how much did you use various Node modules out of the box (versus having to adapt things to your backend)? Do you think part of the productivity gap comes from the large learning curve of your PayPal framework or just from Spring in general?
So much for net neutrality. :(
1st Apache Spark Summit agenda posted, 18 talks by edu & biz
How do they know that it is a statement of fact and not completely misleading if they are not allowed to read the agreement though?

They present it positively, but it might be severely damaging and without reading the text they really don't know.

Obviously trade agreements in general can be good, but this article is about this trade agreement in particular, not the general concept of them, so for them to to start with a positive feel-good spin on something they are banned from reading, does seem somewhat off.
(2011). But still relevant. Here's a more recent comparison of version adoption rates from ArsTechnica: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/window...

Or as an album of just the charts: http://imgur.com/a/3UM4J
There are other benefits too. http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a...
I think it was around Outlook 2007 Microsoft decided that instead of using Internet Explorer to render their emails, they would use Microsoft Word. That's right. Word. And now whenever you try to use even the most basic CSS rules, Outlook fucks it up very badly. Then there is that abomination called Lotus Notes (mainly <8.5). Yes, I have been doing a lot of emails lately and it is the worst experience in web dev I have ever had.

Outlook 2007 makes IE6 look like the best browser in the world.
How can they call it good, if they don't know what else is in there? Did they mention this point?
Don't forget server versions of Windows. Server 2003's IE6 is going to be supported until 2015 and Server 2008's IE7 is going to be supported until 2020. And worst of all, Server 2012's IE10 is going to be supported until 2023 and can't be upgraded to IE11 without upgrading to R2.
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It would be interesting if someone published the 'effective browser technology guide' which defined the set of things that would look the same on all browsers. It might end up with just CSS2 and tables though :-(
No, give an example. I have created a number of articles, but on the other hand I am a (not very contributing) admin so I could be biased. But the difficult stuff I dealt with was in the areas where people argue (which you wouldnt realise). Most of the problems are where there are few contributions (history is terrible).
Some stories will always have kneejerk reactions on sight of the 'trigger word'. Wikipedia story, regardless of content, will have 'dictorship!' detractors; feminism stories will have MRA detractors; Big Brand X will always have 'I hate X' detractors; political stories will always have 'taxes are theft and/or government is violence' detractors. All regardless of article content.
As a Typing Engineer, I am appalled at this denigration of my profession.
A positive analysis !== "NYT endorses".

This is semantics, but I wouldn't describe what the NYT did here as "endorsing the current TPP proposal".
Great component and I would not mind paying for it.

However, if you are going to claim that it has 'Accurate Card Type Detection', you need to make sure that you cover common cases.

E.g. I live in NY and my Amex starts with 3723 and the input form doesn't recognize it.

As a developer, I understand that there are bugs in software. But if you are selling me a component which can not handle my own card, I would really wonder how comprehensive your card type detection is. They link to this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Issuer_Identification_N... which lists 37 as a valid Amex number. I think they need to go through their code and make sure all those numbers are handled correctly.
I sympathize with better default privacy settings too, however you must note that they didn't ask you to remove all references to Ubuntu: They only ask you to remove the logo and the domain name. You can understand they need to make it clear in the cinsumer's mind what belongs to the official sphere of Ubuntu and what doesn't. Also, before saying they're using it against privacy, we should check whether they've asked to take down similar domains with no correlation to criticism or privacy, and they answer is probably yes.

As kcorbitt says, the trademark law requires ongoing enforcement or the owner will lose the legitimity. Have you checked whether they'd let you keep talking about Ubuntu? IANAL, but wouldn't it be correct to keep a website named "Fix Ubuntu" in a domain name such as privacywatch.com? This way they keep the integrity of the brand for the consumers and you stay in the ecosystem.
Awesome didn't find those from the http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware-iso/ page.
I'm afraid it won't. If anything it's just one more browser to have to worry about.

All the installations of IE7 and IE8 in enterprise/healthcare aren't going to budge just because a shiny new IE is out. I don't know what it's going to take for that segment to truly go to zero.

In my market (healthcare, mostly in the US):

IE7 throughput: 1x;
IE8: 4x;
IE9: 0.6x;
IE10: 0.5x;
IE11: doesn't register.

IE8 is the most widely used browser, followed closely behind by Safari 7 on iPhone. After that comes Chrome 30 on Windows.
this literally doesn't work for me.

i start typing in a known prefix for master card

514101

and after i type the `0` the cursor (for who knows what reason) jumps to before the 0 and i end up with

5141 10

(note the 0 and 1 swapped)

works fine in firefox; breaks in chromium
You present a number of licence choices but I think what you really need to consider is who you believe your potential competitors are.

Are they (small) consultants / consultanties who are likely to install your system for other to use and either provide feedback for environments you don't / won't have access to; or provide patches.

Or are they companies like Google / IBM / Oracle. If the later you should always choose a copyleft licence like AGPL.

Why?

Well all those companies, when they have the chance to release Free Software pick BSD / MIT style licences; because all of them have the engineering resources to fork something and take it in-house and improve on it AND continue to pay the 'stupid tax'.

But if look at something like the Linux kernel, which is GPL'd, all of them have had to contribute back.

You should pick the licence that makes things easiest for you.

Each comes with its own set of communities; I know people who will not contribute to GPL projects, whereas others never contribute to BSD / MIT projects.

Plenty of organisations make money from GPL software (e.g. Redhat) and plenty do from MIT (but I can't think of any atm - late night, wine, etc.)

Summary: Pick what is right for you, and ignore nay-sayers. You will have customers - if the product is good - no matter the licence.
Too bad TPP isn't it, and they will try to pass it anyway.

Besides, that sort of thing should be made public, and not signed and agreed upon between countries in secret.
I met Jack Dorsey in South Park, and all I got was this blog post
"I haven't formed an opinion on TPP yet because its outlines are unclear."

None of us can construct an informed opinion because the content is being deliberately kept secret until it is too late for anyone but the privileged few to have a say.
More importantly is to build recycling tech so that such disposable items can be broken down into raw material for 3D printing more ... whatever.
Do people generally surf from Windows Server though? Or run webapps using Windows Server? I could see someone using Windows Server to go to a website and download a file needed for the server, but that should only affect roughly no one. If your website supports SMB or enterprise customers and your downloads aren't accessible on even IE6, you're massively misjudging your audience (and putting too much into your web development).
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Can you explain how commercial-grade support for a library that hasn't been tested by many people is better than a community of people who have run and tested a library? What exactly are they going to do for the support?
Agreed, seems like at the end it's "nothing to see here".
This. No research has been presented at all. Just a rambling twitter stream. No respectable researcher starts spewing statements about a new threat without doing enough analysis first to at least publish something to support claims.

BadBios could just as likely turn out to be an art piece.
Kinda random question but does anyone know of a simple email template app for use for something like internal company emails?
It does matter this time around because there's no direct backwards compatibility for older games.
That may have been true back in the day, but certainly not anymore.

Most idiots nowadays have migrated to Arch.
But they are talking about it as if this was it. They may not be very obvious about it but:

1) They are talking about a "good trade agreement"

2) They're talking about TPP-only in this article (since there are no alternatives anyway, nor do we know about the specific issues in the TPP, since they're keeping it secret).

My guess is most people will make the cognitive connection there and assume that the "good trade agreement" is the TPP.

Either way, I really don't care what NYT thinks about it, or doesn't. What I care about is for TPP to become public, way before they even try to pass it in certain countries.
I don't have immediate need for it, but I'd take the other side of the bet from all comments saying "That is too expensive. OSS will eat your lunch. I bet I could do it in a weekend."

It's a brilliant idea for a project and we all should be absolutely kicking ourselves for not having done it years ago. Do you know how many tens of thousands of dollars of dev time I've seen thrown at this, across a dozen companies operating in waste-causing parallel, to produce something less usable and less likely to increase sales across the company? Do you know how many hours of my life I've wasted on it myself? The mind boggles.
>Windows XP still accounts for 46.6% of Windows users

And yet it's suppose to be retired in ~6 months.

EDIT: Newer data isn't so bad. XP accounts for between 20%[1] and 10%[2] marketshare today.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201210-201310

[2] https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOper...
You cannot "steal the block". You must commit to the full solution (including who it pays) before testing it.

The reason this doesn't prevent defection is that while you can produce a provable commitment that you're mining with the ES miners in one moment, all other moments you can be defecting and sharing the ES state with your friends.
I agree that terminal server is the most common usage.
Because it's a statement about the potential of a trade deal. Historically, some trade deals have yielded such benefits, and the size of the economic territory involved means that the potential upside here is significant.
If I remember this correctly if it wasn't for the tax breaks Twitter would have relocated outside of SF. So saying SF is losing money on Twitter is pretty misleading. I'd say Twitter is helping the city by building their office in the Tenderlion. Hopefully that will improve the neighborhood some.
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Well, that title change certainly made this post useless. The original was "Soylent is now Rosa Labs", which is a very informative title. The new title of "Rosa Labs" is infinitely more likely to get passed over or misunderstood (as well as making the comments hard to understand without visiting the site).
They should have mentioned the number of titles at launch for xbox one. If ease of making games is such a big deal why aren't there any facts on how far behind their main competitor is.
And what are you trying to say exactly?
Thank you for the explanation, that's insane.
Word-of-mouth marketing means having a story worth telling
Thats an ok article. Its probably not going to get much better alas. But its useful given the fact that its not a very large thing...
> [Published] SEP 27TH, 2011
If I may ask, are you US based? That seems fully out of line with what I've experienced in every US hiring process I've been through, and totally in line with what I've heard about abroad hiring.
"Labs" has been around forever to indicate a R&D company. Bell Labs was founded in 1925, and I'm willing to bet it wasn't the first "labs" company.

Picking a more professional name may make it easier to get funding and be taken seriously.
Am I the only one who thinks it will be pretty neat if it turns out to be performance art?

Sadly the longer it goes without something the more difficult it is to believe. Time will tell of course, hell of a way to ruin a reputation though if its bogus.
First off: Breath. Second: Talk to a lawyer.

I panicked receiving my first C&D, but now I'm more experienced and see them less seriously.

See if your lawyer can get in contact with a human at POF to explain the situation.

Edit: Wow, I just read the letter you pasted. It even has typos. Lawyer up. This seems automated or by a lawyer in a hurry who isn't prioritizing this.
The name is not new... just new to us. :)

We have been doing business as Rosa Labs from the beginning, but wanted to wait a few months before publicizing anything other than the Soylent identity. Soylent Corporation would admittedly have been a pretty great name, but Rosa Labs will be a better platform for Soylent and any other projects we cook up.[1]

[1] http://blog.soylent.me/post/65760097009/as-mentioned-in-the-...
I am indeed in the UK! So yes, sounds like it is a cultural difference. And not rubbish at all.
That's very interesting! Why did they remove that feature if it was so awesome?
Yes it is a stretch.

a. BIOS are all insanely different. A motherboard manufacturer can switch ethernet controllers within a run of a single board and ship an entirely new BIOS. You would need to generate thousands of viral stubs to get the infection spread being claimed, and the malware would need to move around GB of these BIOS so it has them handy when it runs into a new motherboard.

b. Researchers have worked on this and demonstrated it was possible. They had to modify off the shelf hardware to make it work. PC speakers are not designed to emit frequencies outside the audible range. It's like saying "we have the technology for cell phones, and my home router has a radio built in, it must be able to talk to cell towers!"

The situation where I see his claims being plausible is if a state actor has broken in and modified his hardware, and combined it with a viral threat custom built for what they know he has in his home.
If Wikipedia Zero traffic is free, but other traffic onerously priced, other apps and sites can just tunnel through Wikipedia edits. TCP/IP-over-WZ, anyone?
> We must support all of our researchers, particularly the wrong ones.

We must support researchers who behave like researchers. I wouldn't have made the claims he's made without first obtaining ... some evidence. I'd expect people to call me a liar or a loon if I made claims like these without a shred of evidence. This seems more like an art project than research.

Hook the USB to a logic analyizer, boot a disk in an in circuit emulator. Something. ... Don't just speculate about the sizes of ttf files in windows.
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See my edit. I only realized this was published in 2011 after reading the comments.
Don't worry too much about it. FWIW Whenever I see an item on the front page with a contextless title my first thought is that an administrator has changed it.

Back on topic, I'm glad they changed the name. Soylent always seemed like a funny joke they outgrew faster than they anticipated!
Someone please correct me, because I'm sure I'm way off base. But I feel like this article is really absurd.

The Twitter IPO isn't costing the city money. Due to the tax deal struck between the city and Twitter, the city could have gotten more money, if everything else was exactly the same.

The projections are also based on this: "if all employees unload their shares at the midpoint of the offering price range, the lost revenue to the city could add up to $34 million."

Not all employees are going to unload their stock, I have to assume. And I don't think you can just assume everything would have been exactly the same if the tax deal didn't exist, right?

It seems to me that this headline could have been: "The Twitter IP will cost SD tens of millions because twitter left San Francisco due to the city's unwillingness to negotiate."
It isn't so crazy. Imagine that 3900 of those 4000 files never change. Every few years there is a redesign on a section of the site, but some sections haven't changed in 7-8 years.

It's easy to manage a large site that only makes a few changes per week.
I thought I wasn't "worth your time", and yet you're still talking to me. Not very bright, are you?
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http://caniuse.com/ is pretty good for that.
> If Guido van Rossum can have a short resume so can you.

Nice one-liner, but actually Guido van Rossum would probably get hired pretty much anywhere. He does not need to stress all his various skills; he is not currently in need of a job.

Not to say that your recommendation of "2 pages, tops" is wrong, I honestly can't say. I just think the Guido van Rossum comparison is a bit unfair ;)
It's been a few years, but I've started a number of articles on the "Requested Articles" list.

Most are pretty obscure, but thankfully Google Books and Amazon "search inside" gives access to information published before the web was born. There are also some services where you can ask a librarian online to look something up in a book for you. I've had some luck previously with http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian
No, this is more like Monsanto announcing that they have a secret new pesticide that will provide amazing benefits.

Many people criticize it due to Monsanto's track record of causing environmental damage, and due to certain leaks of information that suggest it may be quite bad.

Then you write an article saying that you are all in favor of Monsanto coming out with a new pesticide that strikes a good balance between the interests of the farmer's increased crop yields and the damage to the environment around them.

Do you see what they did there? They not only blew off the concerns of people worried about intellectual property overreach ("balance the interests of consumers and creators of intellectual property" implies that there are two distinct groups of people and that there is some kind of balance between them, which vastly oversimplifies concerns about intellectual property), but by stating their endorsement for this agreement that they haven't seen (even in the abstract, of "we support a good deal that does the right things") they are basically implying that they think the general direction of the deal is positive. Even though they hedge their bets, they are using pretty strongly positive language here.
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I never needed to get into table hell. I used an image map every time. One image. Define some areas with different links. Bingo.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
Ubuntu may not have the right to dictate usage of their name in a domain - see: paypalsucks.org, microsoftsucks.org, ebaysucks.com, etc.
Yeah remember that turning a profit means you pay taxes as a corporation. Growing companies with lots of revenues will, in many cases, take a loss since they are investing that money into their own growth instead of making some profit and throwing close to half that money to the government.
Go Slackware! :-)
You've finally solved for the mysterious Step 2!

It was board members, all along (nobody believed me).
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That is a fantastic resource that every web developer should be aware of.

But it can't tell you if things will look the same, and it only goes back as far as ie8.

Examples:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin....
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/floatIndent.htm...
Does anyone else find it disingenuous that their homepage has the words "Welcome to Rosa Labs" backed by a stock photo of what must be a much larger lab? I doubt their "labs" look anything like that.
I think your point is that this is marketed as a "nutritional" product and yet no member of the team has a credentialed background in nutritional science so the marketing claims may be dubious.

If that's what you mean I think "so what?". Don't buy it. The marketing claims, like so many marketing claims, may be wrong. If the product does not help people then people will stop buying it or it will be like any number of other bogus "nutritional" products that survive on marketing and placebo effect alone.

Being skeptical of a product based on the team that created is valid, but doesn't mean the product isn't valuable. The product should stand on its own. I think that is the nature of a start-up, you create something get it into the hands of customers and experiment. Soylent just happens to use food ingredients instead of node.js.
The poster I responded to mapped out why logically PC, Linux and Android is the best combined platform, but then suggested that it is not really true is intangible reasons ("Not everything can be reduced down to specs and numbers").

I was expressing that I follow his logic and think this logic is valid. And not just for techies like me, but lay people as well.
We’ve seen similar results at our company. Plain text emails always get more click throughs in A/B tests.

And personally I prefer them. If I must use html, I only stick to the basic styling elements with no css.
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“I hate dark chocolate”

“I fucking hate dark chocolate”

What about, "I don't like dark chocolate"? It seems like the author doesn't want to be negative, and profanity increases that negativity. But he seems to take half measures.

I really appreciate the overall point, however -- the manner in which people express themselves can affect how they think.
This applies to everyone.

Obviously it does not apply to everyone. Desmond Tutu, for instance is the patron of a very different Ubuntu foundation - http://www.saubuntu.co.za/ - and I doubt that Mark will be sending him any takedown notices anytime soon. Ubuntu itself is also an existing word that is free to use in its original context. Added to this, even if you are using the word ubuntu to mean the company Ubuntu, then in pretty much anywhere in the world you can use a trademarked word to criticise the thing it trademarks, otherwise critics would have a really hard time writing reviews. Criticism is plainly not imitation and it is imitation that trademark law legislates on.
This would go well with Sendy (http://sendy.co/), a pretty awesome self-hosted mailing list tool. Together it's like Mailchimp for hackers.