skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've obviously never developed for a major corporate customer. If I tell some of our large clients "I'm not supporting IE8 and below because it is crap and you shouldn't be using it (or you could install something better alongside if you really need old IE for legacy code)" they will respond with "fine, we find someone who will support our current standard environment then, have a nice day".

We as devs and server/service admins don't get the luxury of dictating what browsers our customers use, and insulting our own higher-ups will do nothing to change that as it is out of their control too.

As much as everyone at my employer would love to drop support for IE8 and lower, it would save a pile of QA time and front-end developer frustration, we don't want to lose lucrative contracts with large investment banks in order to have that luxury and that would happen at this point in time if we dug our heals in on the matter.

Welcome to the real world. I'm sorry to say, but it isn't always nice.
I think Meteor < NodeJS in terms of growth unless Meteor is the Rails of NodeJS (let's be honest, Rails is bigger than Ruby).
> just like not that many new theorems in mathematics, outside of mathematical logic, were discovered using the tools of mathematical logic.

That is plain FUD right there.
Wow, talk about an inflated sense of self-importance.

Is that site just an elaborate joke?
Is CIA-link messing with India's Unique Identification Number project?
yes 100% thats what I meant
"Who are you people?"

Why are you committing before making a feature branch, is this part of some flow? (just surprised me a bit) This is as sick as automated CI gets though.
Every software can have bugs.
I think CAH understands their customer quite well. Others applying this direct approach could be perceived as dicks.
Not very good ones, apparently.
Important to the discussion is superchargers are still being built on JLR vehicles. Instant HP boost is still a defining quality for superchargers.
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For a while I've been researching and planning an engine swap to an all-mechanical diesel engine from the late 90's.

30-35mpg in a big 4x4, absolutely no electronics and it will burn practically anything. Now I have another reason.
I treat my lover the way I treat my mission critical config files: carefully and with patience?
I'd be interested in helping on the front end. No experience with Ruby, though. stephen@sathomas.me
The fact that somebody's built it does not imply that it's generally needed, or even useful.
Silly PR move on their part. They should've given this guy some shush money to prevent this (now) PR nightmare. Shoddy security practices, shoddy marketing and PR. Tsk, tsk.
I do corperate IT work. Firefox & Chrome cannot be managed while IE is integrated with Active Directory. Honestly it is a pain when the end user gets tricked into installing Chrome and now none of their work websites function due to needing a real Microsoft Active X runtime.

Your computer won't boot/Windows corrupted? Sorry you just lost all your history & bookmarks if you used IE I could have transfered them to your new computer for you (IE stores them in a folder, Firefox you can but it is a pain, Chrome you are hosed.)
Python, C#, all the Java-derived languages... basically every C-ish syntax language except for C/C++ itself use + to concatenate strings. And it's an intuitive concept too - adding two strings is concatentation. That makes sense.

The problem isn't + string-concat, it's silently casting numerics into strings.

"foo" + 6 + 6

Should be a compiler-error.
Even if zero-tolerance were good in principle, we really need to consider the burden it places not only on the accused, but on the system. We barely have time and resources to prosecute and incarcerate law-breaking adults. And this sounds really banal, but the paperwork and bureaucracy for all those involved is a real pain in the ass. I was recently involved in a drawn out legal process as a victim...and even though the only thing I had to do was show up and testify, it was such a pain in the ass to coordinate my schedule with the court's, who also had to schedule it around the other parties' schedule...which, when you're an adult, basically means missing work, appointments, etc., to wait for hours in the court halls. I imagine it's just as much a burden on the accused, even if they aren't incarcerated...and if the accused in this situation is already having a tenuous time attending classes and staying focused, well, going through the judicial system process -- and even being exonerated -- is not going to help things at all.

The legal system is slow...and that's a good thing. However, it means we need to be cognizant of that reality before readily throwing people (and children) into that grinder.
For a much more fun depiction, try Outbreak (1995) [1]

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/
And crunching all of this Big Data in The Cloud. Using Node.js. On a Docker container.
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From the thread in the OP:

...to exploit the real power and appreciate design choices takes months if not years...

It sounds like the benefits of Scala are very subtle, and I would love to read an informative overview of them and why they are hard to master.
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You're sort of right. If he'd said "we have zero tolerance for anyone going over 10 mph," it certainly wouldn't have been as funny. Instead, he proclaimed proudly that "we have a zero tolerance policy" and then explained it only applied to people going 10+ mph over the limit in the next sentence.

There's a difference between using the phrase "zero tolerance" to describe what happens in a certain situation and using the phrase "zero tolerance" to describe your policy when it has tolerance built into it.

(I un-downvoted your first post)
Web equivalent of fizzbuzz?
For sure, he's also not obligated to not sell this information to the highest bidder.
I didn't claim anywhere formal methods are worthless or have zero real world impact. I said that the dream of formalizing all reasoning turned out to be a pipe-dream, and it did, as in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_program#G.C3.B6del....

Is that superstition and folk science? I also don't see mathematicians using mathematical logic to prove theorems in "ordinary" mathematics, hence the comment about "business as usual". I know formal methods are an active research field and successfully used in specialized applications in CS, but the article we are commenting upon is claiming studying formal methods is the best way to learn programming, which is similar to saying learning mathematical logic is the best way to learn mathematics, which is non-sense as evidenced by the attempts to do this.
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Also, you should take in account that when that happened Max also tried use his twitter following to embarrass the people who disagree with. Thats a pretty crappy thing to do in his position.

https://twitter.com/MaxTemkin/status/401226933779701760

I don't care about his politics and opinions, I like the game at how it originally was created: something incredibly horrible and vain.

EDIT: Don't like a card and own the deck? Throw out the offending cards. Don't like the card you hold? Ask the group what you have to do to get rid of a card/don't play it.
No, it's not. But that discussion is a bit off topic here.
It also knows if you meant to use the other variable: https://twitter.com/pt3mm/status/272315627522367488/photo/1
Yeah, it's not perfect but right now we're solving this with tolerance thresholds on the image diffs.
Interesting I am in the process of doing a cheeky spec job application to my nearest f1 team - will probably hand deliver it to the factory - maybe its time to dust of my old FORTAN skills.

I suspect engineers with expertize in cooling electronics will be in demand as if the kers/battery conks out it will destroy a cars race now.
Edit: TL;DR I think you make the mistake to assume that games and ads targeted at men imply that there are no ads or games for women. It is OK to target games at men or women imo. I seem to recall a lot of ads for gender neutral Wii games, too.

--

It's probably true that a lot of games are targeted at men. Presumably because more men are into buying them than women. So what? There are enough games with female protagonists.

I am a man and a lot of "hardcore games" don't appeal to me (the ones that advertise on the box with "choose from 300 different weapons"). I scratch my brow and wonder about the people who enjoy that kind of thing, and move on. Luckily there are many, many good games, too.

Most games I picked for myself also have female main characters. For example I played a lot of Left 4 Dead, Tomb Raider, and many RPGs which almost always have a "customize your character" option which usually means you can play a female.

I hesitate to mention it, because I don't want to consign women to certain genres, but I don't complain about games that are about horses or whatever, either.

There are also big budget games targeted for women, like "The Sims".

Do you think a lot of women would like to play hardcore shooters? I don't know, but frankly, I am doubtful. I am not saying they shouldn't, just that perhaps companies have tried to estimate the size of the market before gendering the main hero.

Do you happen to know if the games with female heroes sold a significant amount of copies to women? I don't, but would like to know.

Edit 2: I think in most games where you can play a woman you have to do the same things as the male characters, so what do you mean by "the roles they offer for us to play"?
there is IntelliJ IDEA distribution with bundled JDK 7 (replace ideaIU-13.dmg with ideaIU-13-jdk-bundled.dmg in download link) but it isn't recommended because of JDK related issues
Meh. This guy did well, and I thought the post was cute. You should try yoga, I think.
Linux Format. "Top-down meddling" was cited in this story: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/future-staff-fed-top-down-medd...

(I used to freelance for Future years ago, and the standing joke was that, at the time, all their magazines were "something-or-other Format". When they launched a cross-stitch magazine, we were greatly disappointed it wasn't called Cross-Stitch Format.)
Aye! Its not a perfect analogy but I was pointing out why people should reward the guy if he didn't exploit the situation in a wrong way. In this case, it was the whole source available to him. Albeit, he was more or less inclined to report the bug but what if he hadn't and probably sold it somewhere? why shouldn't the company reward for his effort.
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Yeah, hoping for that as well. If I'd still mainly work on Java I probably would buy the upgrade right now. But I switched to 90% C# - 10% Java.
What happens when you EMP an hospital do you think?
Yes, I think it is very much happening right now. I think that the sophistication will grow and grow as more ad dollars are converted to the digital world.
In our experience Scala has been a superb alternative for large Java projects. Practical experience vs. your opinion/speculation?
Has there been any observed correlation between public hysteria over disease outbreaks and lower airline ticket prices? I'd love to scoop up a cheap ticket for the Rugby 7s...
The old magazine was Linux Format. We left because we were prevented from making the magazine as good as it could be by layers of management that didn't understand (or care about) Linux or our target audience.
I've a Samsung-based phone where the headset-jack (it has a mic, it's a headset-jack not headphone-jack) has taken years of abuse and still going strong. Jogging with an armband and using it in bed and getting snagged and clipping it to the jogging stroller and subsequently forgetting I was tethered when I step away.... none of that did damage.

My phone is a Samsung Focus, which came out a year before the G-Nex. I'm surprised the G-Nex gave you so much trouble.
Clearly, you are being sarcastic!

If not, I am amazed by your naïveté.
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As I read it, he didn't use the credentials to take the source code; he found the credentials in the source code. He used the credentials merely to verify the credentials were valid.
Who is saying that this is data? It's just an inspiring little anecdote. Even if he hadn't sold his company the time spent hustling to get it started might still have been more valuable than getting A's on those article summaries.
Depends on your perspective. For a tmux or screen user, this would seldom, if ever, be a concern. Even for those that don't use tmux or screen; why add more code and complexity to solve what amounts to a (arguable) workflow disfunction (i.e. endlessly switching projects in a single shell window/pane). I mean, I'm sure it happens, but this is your trade-off for simplicity.
While I whole heartedly agree with schools taking the approach of helping kids instead of simply handing them over to the cops to deal with, the problems are much deeper. We have allowed socio-economic and cultural factors go untreated for too long, thus placing more of burden on the school system with having to deal with these kids and their issues - most of which should not have anything to do with schools.

I firmly believe if these issues were treated at the root source, instead of burdening school districts, I bet the kids would have less issues in school and would be more successful academically. We just have to let teachers focus on what they do best - educate our children.
Now I feel bad for slowing up my current pet project by getting bogged down writing polygon collision detection when axis aligned bounding boxes would have done for prototyping. (I'm not as quick as Notch!)
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> Nobody wanted to take the time to help you or understand you

On behalf of several ex-teacher friends, a minor correction -- there are teachers who care, and go out of their way to help the special cases; but the system treats them just as badly as it treats the special kids themselves, so they tend not to stay in that career for very long.
I agree with his main point, but to be honest, on most of the games I've worked on I've had something playable very fast (1 or 2 weeks)... Its all the details beyond basic gameplay that take all the time and really make delivering a game hard.
In Germany, looking for a job and doing actual interviews is legal for 3rd party country citizens (non-EU) - you only need to get back to your country and change the visa when you'll get an offer.

Isn't this similar in USA? I mean, looking for a job and doing interviews don't need work permits, thus can be done with a tourist visa.
I understand your point. Consider this: using Xamarin you can get native performance on iOS and better-than-Dalvik performance on Android. Is there a good tool chain for that in JVM/LLVM world that supports Scala?
Forced induction is now much more common in the US than it was five or ten years ago, even on gasoline engines. Most new BMWs in the US are turbocharged, Ford is EcoBoosting the venerable F-150, and GM has an interesting mix of turbo- and supercharged engines.
"foo" + 6 + 6

>Should be a compiler-error.

Why? "foo" is already a string, getting "foo66" from that makes perfect sense to me.

6 + "foo" though would be crazy.
It should absolutely be in the interest of companies to reward security researchers who find flaws in their systems. Otherwise, they will be screwed by the less scrupulous.
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I'll throw my hat in with all the other contenders in here. I've written a tool called goat which wraps around the normal go utility and sandboxes it to a directory, as well as providing versioned dependency management.

It's very simple and easy to use (there's only one new command), and adding it to a project requires no changes to existing code. We've been using it where I work and it's been very effective.

V1 is going to be released soon, check out the current version at https://github.com/mediocregopher/goat
I'm noticing yet another instance of HN modifying post titles. I originally titled this post "Finding Prezi's Source Code" specifically because I did not write the article. Now the post title reads (at first glance) as if I'm taking credit for the author's hard work.
For you or I that is an easy solution.

For a large organisation IT/TS cost is a problem with that solution. As well as managing everything else about their user's machines they'd have an extra app/service to maintain (whichever VM solution they go for) and an extra OS (XP in the VM) to somehow keep up-to-date for each user. Not insurmountable by any means, but far from zero hassle/cost.

Once an ancient version of IE is out of support, assuming that is the app you are running in a VM in this case, you also have an extra complication: making sure the VMs can only talk to your intranet sites that require it, as you don't want your users browsing more public hosts with a potentially insecure UA. Again not rocket science, just some routing/firewall tweaks, but something that has to be added to the support cost of your environments.

Depending on the licensing deal the company has with MS (or relevant distributor) there might also be extra cost involved in providing a second OS instance to all your users.
I'm currently a sophomore and I might satisfy these - any idea if these would work?

3. I've been covered on CNN, Quartz Magazine, Business Insider, Valleywag

4. This one seems a bit iffy - I control entrance into a pre-accelerator program (would this count?)

8. Founded and currently running Startup Exchange at Georgia Tech. I'm not sure how they determine distinguished reputation, but I run a pre-accelerator program, and I'm about to launch a student-run venture fund. (this might also fly as #2)

Any idea if I'd qualify?

Also, getting extraordinary entrepreneurs to recommend me definitely wouldn't be an issue.
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Sometimes I want to look competent, strong, eloquent, sturdy (good for martial arts training), etc. Sometimes I'm ok with pretty or cute. No, it's not the same. Don't reduce us to just pretty, please. Look beyond. (Some don't, which is why too pretty can be a problem if one wants to be a kick-ass hacker or such.)
You seem really unnecessarily angry. Not every single post that has to do with a VC or a startup doing well needs a grandstanding "this is horseshit; vc's are bloodsucking vampires; stupid kids get off my lawn" type of response.
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The redacted names are kind of pointless, because they're not redacted in the images of the emails.
Every single post about JavaScript is filled with people in the comments talking about how much they dislike JavaScript. Not sure that's a great example.
Yeah the cars needed to be slowed down. However the Restrictor plates were the wrong way to do it.
My $.02 on this is that Prezi should have not awarded the researcher the cash under the bug bounty program, however they should have given him a reward anyway. Awarding the money as part of the bug bounty wouldn't be fair play under the rules of that program, but he potentially saved them a TON of money and problems. As such, he should be rewarded somehow. Further, had he been less than honest, he may have been able to leverage the code itself to find more than one $500 bug.

I think Prezi should have done something like this:

* Acknowledge the problem and the seriousness of it

* offer a reward, but not under the bounty, just a "thanks"

* Have him sign an NDA about the source itself, and the specific details of the issue, and the amount of the award

* Allowed him to write up the experience should he choose (good PR for prezi)

* (maybe) offered a contract for the researcher to find more such issues, or announced a different program as a result of it.

The reasoning behind doing it outside the program is that Prezi needs to walk a fine line between saying "just attack everything and we'll pay you!", "we are too process driven for our own good", or they end up getting bad press from people who tried to follow the rules not getting anything, but cheaters are getting paid.
Please don't do that! Wide lines are my pet peeve!

It doesn't make sense to use width just because you can. In fact it's a bad idea because it's much, much harder to read really wide text and code should be written to be read. You don't see (good) web pages, books or magazines with really wide text because it's really hard to read.

Also people sometimes work on small screen laptops and there you are constrained by width.

e.g:

http://www.maxdesign.com.au/articles/em/
http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability

I know there are actual studies that show reading comprehension based on line length, I've read them before, but I can't find them now.
Meaning: we haven't tested it yet, so of course we've seen no adverse effects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_error
Ok, anyone else's school have a tradition of catching mice in their dorm and "help them earn their jump wings" by making a napkin parachute and tossing them out a window? If not, this sounds like some Academy grads have been having a little to much fun (the Navy and to a lesser extent, Air Force have a heavy presence on Guam).
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Hi everyone!

I'm going to be in the bay area approximately January 3rd to January 12th. I'm currently a grad student at CMU, and I'd love to meet up with some people and grab some coffee or something.

Also - any recommendations on where to stay? I've heard some pretty awesome things about the co-ops that have been forming, but I have no idea who to talk to about visiting.
Sure, we have deep-rooted social problems, but right now we are reinforcing those problems via our school system. We will never solve those social problems if we are starting kids off in life with criminal records.
Neat idea.

What's the underlying technology creating the QA environment? A virtual machine? A container? How is it being configured? A CM tool?
Agree completely. Basic little 3D engine is easy to do because it's been done so many times before. Any of the complexities are well known and it's not like Notch hasn't made a similar block based 3d engine before. The author talks about not making an engine and just making a game.. but there's no game here yet?

The hard part is always the details and the new stuff.
A lot of the trouble is the way B2B products are sold.

Consumer products are bought by the people who use them, so the quality of the product, as experienced by the end user, sells the product.

B2B products are usually bought by somebody other than the user and making the sale is a matter of meeting a checklist of imagined requirements, endurance of an interminable sales process, politics, etc.

In B2C there is some possibility you can do a job you're proud of, but in B2B the nature of the sales process precludes that.
On the contrary, since they know no buildings are higher than three stories, they could just fly above the rooftops instead, without impeding the view.
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Can you share any more details on how the image diffing is done? BBC has a github repo called Wraith that uses ImageMagick and PhantomJS to accomplish a similar task (without the awesomeness of on-demand testing environments). Always curious to learn more about how people are solving the GUI testing problem on the web.
The camouflage performance of pink in a realistic setting could play a role; you'd have to have a very pink world.. hm. (Unreal Tournament maybe? In my mind it was kinda purple..)