skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of the fact that a random, meaningless model was tested? This does not appear to be very formal to me.
If you are writing code that, essentially, is taking some data from a database and formats it nicely or takes user input and puts it into a database then managed memory is awesome.

However, almost always, somebody has to write that database code and the code that displays the nicely formatted data (like in actually lighting pixels on the screen instead of filling out some css properties) and even the code that takes the user input. And for these purposes managed memory is a disaster and C++ is the most expressive language available.
It's true, even though humans and computers are two very different things, we both share the fact that we are hard wired to do some things (detecting lines and motion in the human case). I guess the discussion above is not the best example since the symbol "1" just some abstract symbol that represents a lot of things (including a unit; and a base for counting), one can just as easily use the symbol "0" for that (although it is counter to the standard notation, and will need some getting used to).

In fact, it would be an interesting neuroscientifical research to measure the neurological activity that the symbol "1" and "1ˢᵗ" trigger in a programmers brain inside the context of a prose or written English language, and compare it to the activity the symbol `a[0]` triggers inside the context of code.
It looks fantastic. Would love to see the source code.
I found this presentation on test-driven development in C using assert and stdbool interesting:

http://www.slideshare.net/amritayan/test-driven-development-....

It shows that you can accomplish quite a lot without a standalone testing framework. Good luck with writing C!
Then ... 1 Billion years!
Congratulations. Been doing it this way since AJAX was born.

Tell us something new?
Given that e.g. Blender has modal editing and single key operations ('s' to enter scale mode, then 'x' to scale along that axis) I imagine more commands along the path of Vim/Ex would be beneficial for fast mouseless input. And of course macros and such.
No, that's just a failure to set the relevant property bit in the CPU at startup, so despite the RDRAND instruction being present it won't actually run on those CPUs.

It's well known that the Intel RDRAND implementation uses a hardware entropy source to seed a software RNG implemented directly in the CPU. The suspicion is that said CSRNG could be using an elliptic curve CSRNG to carry out the final mixing where the NSA has chosen both the curve and the points on the curve. It's impossible to tell from the outside whether this is the case or not - such an implementation would still pass all known randomness tests. However, if the curve points have been carefully chosen then you can derive the internal state of the RNG from the output and thus both predict future values (until the hardware entropy source re-seeds the generator, if it actually does that at all) and derive past ones (up to the last re-seed).

It's been said elsewhere that using an elliptic curve CSRNG where the NSA has chosen the curve points is effectively equivalent to doing the second half of a Diffie-Hellman exchange with the NSA to securely communicate your RNG state to them. For cryptographic algorithms that depend upon a secure RNG source this is devastating. All communications that use such are source are transparent to the NSA. (The NSA crypto geeks must have thought this was a fantastic trick: the communication would remain completely secure against all other third parties because deriving the magic numbers that let you decrypt the output from the public curve points is next to impossible - it's the discrete logarithm problem in action.)
USA: 6-year old kisses girlfriend in school, gets suspended
"This entire business" only keeps people poor through the dual prongs of criminalisation keeping prices up and allowing people to be thrown in jail and thus making them far less employable.

The drug on war is a combination of christian moralism and class warfare, pure and simple, just like prohibition was. Just like then, the moralists managed to convince a lot of people that it was to protect or save them, and just like then it proved to do far more damage than good.
Is that a good validation test though? I'd have thought that if I programmed it to have a 50/50 chance that it would repeat the previous roll the graph would look about the same. i.e. half a million rolls look about the same as a million.

Edit: which is to say that I thought the issue wasn't that the Intel/via chip's random number generators wouldn't look random in aggregate over lots of uses, but that people are concerned that there could be exploitable patterns in short sequences.
See the commit message at https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/commit/691897e21d....

The unencrypted list is at
https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/b27abbf033c6....

And formatted as JSON at https://disconnect.me/services-plaintext.json.

The encrypted list is also trivial to decrypt with the SJCL code in https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef....
Lightweight EAN13 barcode javascript library
A Simple Guide to Risk Free Startup
Why we removed bosses at Treehouse
> This is not code you write.

One could argue it's indirectly written. If I write C# that generates C#, my coworkers will generally yell at me with good reason if the generated C# is illegible.

One could also argue that the oath doesn't talk specifically about what I write. At work I will try to uphold readability when reviewing coworker's code as well when reviewing it, regardless of the fact that I did not write it myself. I would also be inclined to try and uphold readability when another program writes the code.

> Does a compiler generate human-readable machine language code?

It can, with the proper options and support tooling, and you probably want it to. How else are you going to debug crash dumps from the wild? pdbs are immensely useful to understanding crash dumps even without the original source code to map to. My work computer has a 1TB+ folder named "builds", serving no other purpose than to archive old releases with corresponding assets and PDBs to ensure those EXEs are easily human-readable, in turn making crash dumps easily human-readable.

No other category takes up more space on my hard drives at work or at home. Even that really big one nobody tells mom about! All dedicated to keeping that stuff human-readable.
Mendley even uses its reference styles and ,I would guess, quite a bit of code in the background.
Hotmail used to do this (they might still). It was horrible.

About once a year or so, I'd log in to my creaky old hotmail account from the 90s to find that they'd deactivated my username for inactivity. It's still the 2nd contact for some old accounts, and the only way into MSDN, so that's not cool. The only way to turn it back on is to upgrade to whatever their current flavor of "pro" is, pay $10 for the month, then immediately cancel it.

They take the further step of completely wiping all your old email while they're at it, so you come back to an empty inbox with no hope of finding that old email you were hoping to fish out.

Rows in your database are free. Don't do this.
How to build a fake Google Street View car
i'm actually pretty surprised that most people totally ignore their caffeine addictions, or don't realize that they actually have a problem at all (probably due to the fact that they just don't stop taking it).

as little as one cup of strong coffee a day can lead to physical dependence, which for some people can cause quite extreme withdrawal symptoms.
If you live there, it's not unspoilt.
If you love nature, stay away from it, you have a bigger footprint in the country than in an urban core.

If you have a partner, it's not about the freedom of owning a car. Many couples/families own multiple cars. You can still own a car for "freedom" but live your daily life with one car less.

One car less.
>never mind my instinctive aversion to recurring billing.

That's not an argument. Another can even have an "instictive aversion" to paying up-front.
Over the last few Google search algorithm updates, exact match domains (EMD's) were devalued. This could be one of the reasons why you are not ranking as highly for the term "pizza codes" while the previous domain was.
Well hopefully the google car comes available. No DUI anymore because you're not driving the car.

If it's all automated there are no traffic violations anymore. So the system won't be used for this.

I'm all for safe traffic!

Things liken an Arabic Revolution are not possible anymore.
* 3 years too late
* Should have done this at the high end
* Fork? So no play store? Ugh.

There are so many people I know who would never have left the nokia brand if they'd gone this way instead of the MS way. Rather than go down the pan and then get snapped up by MS they could have been competing with Samsung.

And I don't mean like the others compete with samsung for the scraps, they could have captured most of the european market for android.

Actually scratch the first point, I think half the people I know with high-end smartphones would probably still make the switch to a well-made, high-end nokia android. The other half use iOS :)
I wouldn't say SEO is a major hurdle, there is prerender.io (http://prerender.io/getting-started#ruby) and countless other services which help (I made one).
I think you're mistaking the order of action. Yes, the US is a signatory to many UN treaties, but this isn't because the UN released the treaty and the US reluctantly signed up. The US is a founding member of the UN, and uses the body to enforce American values on the world. The UN convention on narcotics is a product of the US war on drugs, not the other way round. The US use trade sanctions as a stick to force others to sign up.
I'm bookmarking this, this is an awesome reference.

Since this article was written, __cmp__ is has now been deprecated. The article already mentions total_ordering and you can use that instead.
They probably should have checked the term "sharking" before calling it - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sharking - big in Japan a few years ago.
Nutty by name, nutty by nature. Turns out he was working on "smart drugs" and had a vested interest in alcohol being restricted to boost his market!

http://www.livescience.com/4060-hangover-free-buzz-star-trek...
Hmm, but if you found out later that Quake's codebase was ugly, would you think less of John Carmack? I love beautiful code, but its an ideal to be achieved... It can't be as important as the product itself.
And how you change your password (fingerprint) ?
Has this got anything to do with the fact that, given relativistic length contraction, from the pov of a photon the universe is two dimensional?
Google "Dutch American Friendship Treaty" If Netherlands interests you.
Saving the mother's vs. a baby's life, prolonging painful life vs. euthanasy... There are so many ways medical moral is not obvious!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. 'nuf said.
"Breaking news: we live in the matrix!"
You have to get back on the horse that bucked you.
Exit is what gives power to voice. If you're at a stagnant company where nothing changes even though it's clear that change is necessary, even the suits will sometimes notice when half their staff quit.
Fuck JP Morgan, they are doing this to make money, as usual, for their benefit, BTC and other virtual currencies are for the good and benefit of THE people. SCREW BANKERS, OR SHOULD THAT BE WANKERS!!!!!
These guys are fucking crazy. In the entire European Union, this WILL get the driver and likely anyone involved with this behind jail for driving a vehicle not licensed for street usage!

Basically, you alter the car with not-licensed-for-street-usage components (these self-made things e.g. alter the ride height of your car from the one spec'd in the vehicle ID card), which in itself invalidates the car's insurance (it's not a vehicle legal to drive on a street, thus it is not insured, thus you are not allowed to drive it!).

It's the same as if you'd change the exhaust for an illegal tuning variant, add a N2O booster, add under-floor lighting etc. DO NOT EVER DO THIS IN ANY EUROPEAN COUNTRY.
I'm not saying you are wrong, but to me the tone of your comment reminds me a lot of the comments people used to make back in 2000 when some "finance experts" pointed out that a lot of .com companies were going to implode fairly soon....

[NB I have no stake in Bitcoin financially but I do think it is technically very neat and potentially game changing but having a few scars on my back from the .com crash I do tend to worry when I hear arguments that amount to "you don't understand, this time it's different!"....]
Another Marathon guy here. Spent some summers ago just playing the first two games through, they're still great. I especially like the music.
The Marathon community is still alive with AlephOne (http://marathon.sourceforge.net/), an open source port of the Marathon engine, with multiplayer support.
I think its obscure for the people used to use scrtipting-languages.
>If he were indeed an expert in Finance, he should know that the value is driven by demand and supply, and not by what one guy thinks it's reasonable.

And if you have given it ten seconds of thought, you would have understood that demand and supply are not arbitrary ranged values, and that their levels can be estimated just like anything else, given enough information.
We didn't learn anything from it, we had no idea what caused the Black Death until well into the modern age, centuries after it actually happened.
The article you posted is from well before Nutt was kicked out of his post, and it was common knowledge that this was an interest of his.

You've stooped to an ad-hominem, implying that Nutt's statistics are somehow faulty because he's got an interest in something which might "compete" with a drug he identifies as more harmful, without providing any evidence that he's wrong. That's slimy.
I was referring to accounts that were active but clearly not being used.
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frankly, most of the list is fluff. I would put up there with user privacy, user experience. The mot annoying, dangerous, and demoralizing thing programmers can do is create insecure and badly designed software.
You're right, it is generally desired, even Stroustrup (author of C++) doesn't want you to manually manage memory unless you really have to. That's why there are smart pointers and why you should work with values as much as you can. You can even plug a garbage collector in in C++.

But when you're working in a constrained environment, you need the option to control all this in much detail. C++ is one of the very few options you have for that.
The DEA budget is less that $10 per US citizen. I'm all for saving that money, but it won't even buy the stationary for a "sweet social program".
> People have preferences, sure, but I'm sick of subsidizing suburbanization with my tax dollars. The public sector spends about $150 billion per year building and maintaining highways: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/120x.... That's not counting local roads and streets. Nobody blinks an eye at that. But they freak out that Amtrak has been given $13 billion in federal subsidies in the 40 years since 1972.

Wow, never thought about it like that. Thanks for the comment.
Which is cool, and that's why I like SketchUp. But AFAIK you can't switch to 'text' mode in SketchUp where you can edit the history and rebuild the scene.
Seattle's high-speed Internet project delayed due to money problems
For those not into poker slang (like me, I had to google it):

Nosebleed refers to very high stakes games where the minimum stake is usually over 200$/400$ per round and more, with an open end ;).
As a Romanian web developer working remotely for a Western company active in the adult industry and collaborating with video-chat studios in my hometown (Bucharest), I'd like to add my 2 cents:

I'm actually in touch with the studio managers here and I can tell you everything happens 'by the book', we are not a 3rd world country. The girls are not enslaved, abused or forced into anything, instead they are recruited through the usual recruiting methods (media), they even work legally and get their pay-checks in time. They can quit whenever they want, all of this happening in complete discretion. You probably know that the websites they work on are blocked within the same country for obvious reasons.
Of course the morality of the girls may come into question, but that is strictly up to them. They are just taking advantage of the economical discrepancy between eastern and western Europe (average monthly wage here is around 400 EUR).
Yes, there are people spending massive amounts of money on video-chat and things can degenerate quickly (affecting your private life) but same thing happens with gambling sites and no one bats an eye.

As for working within such a company I could never say that I became numb or feeling morally wrong. I've had the opportunity to work with quality people on challenging technical issues and it has been a prolific period for my career. The way I see it is as being strictly business.

As for Romania, it really is a good place for startups.
There are a lot of competent people here wasting their value and time on jobs and wages that some of you would consider ridiculous. But that's just what history left us with and it may take a while for us to get in line.
> "Their prose is better thought of as an artistic performance than a functional machine."

Nail on head. The relationship between the words of the above and reality is similar to the relationship between a painting of a landscape and the real landscape. It's not that the painting is not valuable in itself, but it would be a mistake to think that it says anything about how the landscape actually works
in my experience age has nothing to do with it. it mostly boils down to misinformation, or knowing or having known people who's lives have been ruined by drug abuse (these people also often can't discriminate between 'use' and 'abuse'), and not stopping to think how this situation was brought about in the first place, or how destigmatization of the whole topic could maybe have prevented the whole thing from getting out of hand.

Edit:

taken from the commment directly below mine at the time of writing:

I've got addicts and alcoholics in my family. My cousin died from overdose. I've got close friends who killed themselves with drink. Lots of you do too.
Exciting times? IMHO, the last thing we should celebrate is new ways to get a buzz on.
C++98 with TR1 comes close enough, it's what I use for lack of C++11 compiler support.

The funny thing is that "C++ as most people know it" is pretty far from "C++ as it was intended". Luckily, C++11 is nudging everyone towards the latter.
Interesting. I own an Asha and pleased with it. Would buy a low-end Android from Nokia, but I won't. Because it won't be from Nokia, it'd be from Microsoft.

I'd rather just buy a N9 and put Sailfish OS on it. :)
Quite right, and lot's of places don't. You can ask them how many Datacenters they have.

Seriosuly though, you're right, if nobody offered subsidies, they would all be on a level playing field and market forces would win out. However, it only takes one to break rank and the free market is gone.
How many people in the world are dabbling in all the virtual currency, maybe 5% of the world, how the fuck does that devalue the crap dollar that was devaluing anyway.
There should be more discussion about how to minimize the incredible damage caused by drugs and alcohol.

you may not see it as such, but that's exactly what's going on here.
What is a sentence shortening service?
Well, using the technique the Romans used on us. Figure out who is already powerful in the country you want to conquer and convince them they will be better off. Instead of King of X you will only be Duke of X, but look at all this lovely stuff, and you can borrow a legion to knock off your rivals if you need to.

But the important corollary of that is that the lives of the common people got better too. Not so in Afghanistan.
It's a myth that if Nokia made a high-end Android phone now/recently they would have gained a massive user base. If it was so "certain" that every commentator makes it out to be, they certainly would have tried by now.

And yes, they are too late. They were doing their thing, and suddenly iOS and Android happened. But WHEN they decided to go down the MS road, they were already too late for Android. They would have ended fighting for the scraps, as you call it. At least now, they have a differentiating factor to them.
Thanks, it's a lot of fun too :)
I hope you've settled somewhere with a more conservative gvt that has everyone's best interests at heart (sarcasm). Perhaps your new home is in the land of the free?
My commute is about an hour a day.

There are many ways to turn this into productive time. Think. Listen to audiobooks/podcasts. Run through a few key work phone calls. Catch up with friends.

I really enjoy my commute.

I'll also point out that while that's theoretically $3660/mo if you aren't productive throughout any of the drive, that's not actually something many people can convert into cash. Many people spend time during the day with various items to unwind or provide a mental break from work. Working more is not always a goal. I don't want all my time to be spent working or sleeping.

You also have to account for where you spend your down time. I chose to live near friends and family in a place I can raise my kids. If I didn't live where I do, I'd be driving out here on the weekend and maybe once a week.

In addition, if you're living in town with kids and you want a quality education, you might be able to bill more $ a month (presuming you're building a business where you're selling your time, which I'm not and I don't want to do), but you're going to spend more money on a quality education or a house.

Everyone has different circumstances. My math works out for me. It might not for you.
It was to be expected.
You should really try a newer Lumia with Windows Phone 8. It works really well. Differently than Android and iOS, yes, but that's not necessarily bad.
Cocaine, if provided at pharmacies, at near-production cost, would be so cheap that you wouldn't need to rob anyone to pay for it.
Oh come on. No one robs a granny to buy another single malt. There are people who abuse anything, sure. But it's a stretch to say alcohol is a net negative on society, millions of people enjoy a drink. But crack unquestionably is.
really following this
Start a Rails 4 full-featured application with uWSGI
> the hardware needed to run android well outstrips that needed to run windows phone well

It is a myth. The worst (and only) SoC where WP8 runs is the Snapdragon Krait. On this configuration, Android runs very well (see also Nexus 4 or Nexus 7 2013).

Added to that, WP8 phones have lower-resolution displays (Lumia 520: 800x480, Moto G: 1280x720; Lumia 1020: 1280x720, Galaxy S4: 1920x1080), which drives down the needed RAM for your framebuffer, it's backing stores, textures and assests.
I really did want to test...but I gave up.

I didn't have a mashape account and I didn't want one at first, but it was necessary to test, so ok, let's do a signup with github... and then I'm asked for my credit card credentials for the freemium plan (wich is free)...so... sorry, but mashape went to far for me here.

Isn't it possible to test with curl or another language (without going through the mashape process...) ?
Mounting something on the roof rack doesn't count as modifying in that way. If that was true, bicycle racks would be illegal.

I can't speak for the entirety of the EU, but I know for a fact that in the UK mounting something like this (assuming it's securely attached) is not illegal.