skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're programming in Rust, and you care about things working, you probably want to stay with Rust at this point.

I'd love to get people actually playing with Myrddin, but remember the joke I made on the page about broken compilers, miniscule standard libraries, and debugging in assembly? That wasn't a joke.

Play, but unless you're sure of what you're doing, don't depend on it actually working. Not yet, at least, although it's getting there.

As far as performance goes -- I've put zero effort into optimizing, and depending on the style and features you use, you tend to get between 2x (for purely numerical code) and 8x (for heavily union-using code with value semantics) overhead compared to C right now. Some basic optimizations should bring that down really quickly.
I like to take a long phrase (usually some lyrics from a song) and convert it in to a mnemonic. By combining the first letter of each word in the phrase, and converting some of them in to numbers or symbols, I am left with a relatively secure password that it easy to remember.

For instance...

"Cause I know that time has numbered my days
And I'll go along with everything you say"

Becomes...

ciktthnmdaigaweys

Becomes...

c1k77hnmd41g4w3y5

I use this system for all of my passwords. I try to use a different password as often as possible and never have to write them down. Frequently used passwords have gotten to the point where inputing them is an exercise in muscle memory.
In a country where corporations seem to have more power over the government than its people, it more effective to target the corporations than the government.
All caps is yet another poor choice. Microsoft seems to have a knack for deteriorating as many things as it improves in each new version of Office or Windows.
Tools are useful, unlike facebook.
>That's not the context discrimination is being used in here. In that sense, having separate bathrooms is also "gender discrimination". Are you against that as well?

Yes. And gender separated sports leagues. I believe people shouldn't be defined by their gender, which is a problematic term in the first place.
That's a good point; the way I see it, the general social justice movement is largely a movement against hierarchy, and for valuing all people equally. It is naturally allied with feminism in the sense that both see the elimination of the gender gap as desirable.

I personally consider the SJ concepts destructive and anti-progressive: hierarchy can often be efficient, there is nothing fundamentally immoral about it, and since people's contributions to society are not equal, treating them equally is neither efficient nor just -- similarly to how treating them unequally based on superficial criteria such as gender is inefficient and unfair as well. But, we probably have a philosophical disagreement on this, which is really fine -- I wish the anti-efficiency and anti-growth people would stop calling themselves "progressives" though, but that's quite another topic...

I would have absolutely no problem with the feminism/SJ alliance, except for the empirical observation that when you hear someone proclaiming themselves as a feminist, most of the time it's a SJW in disguise, and then we have an unfortunate situation when a valid position is supported by entirely unacceptable arguments... Which is pretty much the reason I felt I had to comment on this, as I don't want people to consider the two concepts as identical.
You must be exciting at parties.
4 years ago, I met my fiance on OkCupid. Our percentages were: 11% Enemy, 71% Friend, 69% Match
PPW in the UK ? Really ?

Post Dunblane, all handguns are illegal in mainland UK. The only exceptions are for law enforcement/armed forces. [We'll ignore diplomatic missions using immunity/convention exceptions.]

Northern Ireland does have PPW (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kin... and, handily for this topic, an FOI response on PSNI website http://www.psni.police.uk/firearms_applications_ppw.pdf).

Without getting into all the republican politics, Northern Ireland is distinct in terms of the legal system and status compared to the mainland (of Scotland, England and Wales). You cannot use an example from NI to extend to the rest of the UK.

I'll leave other commentors to discuss how sensible it is to talk about bringing guns into what seems to be a pretty hot debate on the street. One comment I read recently which has stuck with me goes along the lines of "there is no situation which resorting to violence will not make worse".
It is extremely difficult to legally buy and conceal a handgun that conforms to California law. You also can't pickpocket a gun to anyone carrying it appropriately.

Try to take a gun from a cop and see what happens.
This doesn't make sense to me.

The people who care the most about not being tracked or having their privacy invaded probably do not have facebook accounts or do not stay logged into their account. Thus, it won't affect them. The people who still use facebook obviously don't have a problem with it.

What's the point?
Intercom is an exceptional example of tackling a large and hairy problem with dauntless focus. As a user, evangelist, fan, and investor - I'm proud of all of you and excited to see what comes next. My favorite part of the blog post? "fundraising is a pseudo-achievement" - smart, smart smart!
I hate this because I am in support of freedom.
I love this because I am in support of freedom.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-12/msg00...

RMS says "freedom" is worth sacrificing functionality for. GCC is a monolithic mess of shit that is virtually impossible to debug, and produces incorrect code very frequently. Being forced into a terrible architecture where everything is smushed into everything else just to prevent people from being able to use gcc as a front end and something else as a backend is absolutely a case of making the code worse for the sake of trying to further a political agenda.
I'm saying it is MORE reasonable than showing up at someones house, not necessarily the best course of action. I agree there are other reasonable courses of action as well, as you outlined.
I know, I am a dinosaur that forgot to die but... you'll take Office 2007 from my cold dead hands. My wife, however, left it because it doesn't open newer Word formats; she uses OpenOffice.

I really still didn't get the "better" on the Ribbon interface.
Why all the rage directed at Google and not, say, the government that institutes these policies? Something just feels 100% misguided about these attacks.
I like the way you put it. Especially the point of how this "panders to developers."

I know I would personally prefer to work where I have some sort of "from designer" reference point. Be it scribbles on paper or a PSD, don't know if I care.
Very much open to!
Shape-shifting software 'defends against botnet hacks'
I'm not suggesting prefixing.
Finally, someone who understands me. Although this is the first time I've been called both a dick and a white knight in the same thread. I'll chalk that up as a win.
Not sure if it is dead or alive. But, the business is extremely challenging with players like cssilize. they charge peanuts with pms and automated quality checks.
But aside from all the great free services google provides, and the money it has poured into its offices and the surrounding area, what has it done?

What have the Romans ever done for us?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
It's real.

Looking at their other stories/posts, I find it - I dunno what I find it, actually. It does strike me as a fight and struggle with everything. A war on life.

Personally, I'm not into the military at all, never have been. I do find that Google's connection with the military (more than just Boston Dynamics) unfortunate. I'm sure they have a reason why they are doing what they do with them, as do all the companies that work with that part of the government. It would be nice (a pipe dream I suppose) if tech companies shunned the military. Singling out this this guy - I'm not sure what good it will do.

Which ultimately leads me to think about you have to be the change you want to see. Harassing people like this is probably not going to get them to change their mind. At all. Reminds me of some documentary I watched (The Corporation maybe?) where some protestors were at an ex-Shell Oil ceo's house, doing their thing. The guy came out, offered them team and biscuits and engaged in a sit down discussion with them on his lawn. Granted, no one changed anyone's minds, but the fact they could engage in a civil conversation - both sides! - was a good thing.

As someone who's lived in SF since the early 90's and seen it go thru good and bad and ho hum times, I think all this tech worker/bus hype is misplaced. I've also lived in NYC and dated someone who completed their masters at Columbia in urban planning. While I'm not claiming to be an expert, I know a thing or two about the real reasons for skyrocketing rents and 'gentrification'. For anyone looking for a great history of NYC, check out Ken Burns 'New York'. Awesome in it's scope and presentation. It get's really interesting and relevant to today when it hits the 20th century and Robert Moses appears. (SF's version of Moses is Justin Herman)

So would I prefer the manhattanization of SF over the detroitization of SF? Absolutely. Is it that simple? Probably not. But for anyone that's been around for more than few years, you remember what the corner of 10th & Market was like before it went thru it's Twitter and redevelopment phase? This is one example and I do feel like it was a dick move on Twitter's part to cry about the tax break. But, if it means the area is cleaning up, then I figure that's better than the way it was.

Anyway, I don't feel like any of these tech protests are worth much or will amount to anything. I feel like the protesters are targeting the wrong thing and need to refocus their efforts on their local government.
Let's pretend Google isn't causing very real problems for the poor and lower middle class in the Bay area. Let's also pretend that we can blame an inorganic "corporation", but never the individuals who design it, steer it, and totally embody it.
Correct. Don't forget one of the most striking differences between free software vs open source software is the promotion of a community of people who add to the public knowledge of software engineering, not merely to make better software artifacts. If you had to choose, which would you foster? An individual truth or a community of truth seekers? FSF is clearly about the latter.
What exactly are your needs? What type of remote desktop solution are you looking for?
The people who care the most about not being tracked or having their privacy invaded probably do not have facebook accounts or do not stay logged into their account. Thus, it won't affect them.

That's a little naive. http://www.zdnet.com/anger-mounts-after-facebooks-shadow-pro...
I don't see any valid issues raised in that discussion beyond the question if 44ish bits of entropy is enough. And it is quite easy to bump the complexity if necessary. Wordlist of 10000 words (instead of 2000) and 5 (instead of 4) words and you get 66 bits of entropy (log2(10000^5)), which should be enough for most uses.

edit: some numbers for scale: oclHashCat claims 2500M tries per second for plain SHA1 with single HD7970 GPU. That would mean that 4 of 2000 word passphrase would be cracked in 1.5 hours and 5 of 10000 word passphrase would take 1268 years.
The OP was, but he deleted his post.

(I think you got the wrong thread)
Supporting the DoD should be unacceptable? Isn't that the same situation? That someone is working for the DoD or NSA needs a job just as much as the next person, he was merely an employee for the DoD, not on top and pushing an agenda.
If the headline were Demonstration at the Home of Developer and this was only over luxury condominiums, would the response of HN be more neutral or favorable?

I suspect it would be, and that raises an interesting question in regard to why I am conditioned to give more weight to etiquette when the issues are more weighty -. this event touches on corporatism, militarism, economic disparities, and the illegal use of public infrastructure for private profit all in addition to basic neighborhood activism.

When did citizenship come to be considered poor form?
"Open" would be a blog post. This is passive-aggressive.
Is this a competitive play by VMWare against Citrix?

Is MDM as a standalone product still viable? Or is it just going to be part of a suite?
I have my CCW (Carrying of Concealed Weapon) license. In Kentucky, you must go through an instructional class before getting your weapon -- and you learn that pulling your weapon out should only happen when you're prepared to use it in a lethal manner -- otherwise the aggressor could fight you for your weapon.

You don't get a handgun as a show of force -- you get one to protect yourself from imminent harm...and some asshat blocking a bus isn't putting you in imminent harm: you're in the bus, and hopefully the bus driver has already called 911 to get the person/people who are blocking the road out of your way.
No, it is not still true. It was never true. It is pure FUD. Apple has absolutely no way to "close the development" of llvm. Why do GPL zealots still post such crappy FUD even when MIT/BSD/apache/ISC licensed projects make up a massive portion of the infrastructure of the net, and no magical closing has ever managed to cause any problems at all?
...I just read that as EczemaScript.
You know you can disable the ribbon so it's not shown unless you click the "drop" it like you would a menu, right?
And this is why you should have a gun in your home, folks!
Welcome to Berkeley, I guess.

Honestly, it was only a matter of time before the dissident left decided that the software community was just another monied enemy for them to hate.

The good news is that nobody really takes them seriously, so if you can tolerate the occasional impotent protest and the (very) occasional WTO-style near riot, you can proceed with your life and ignore them.
Whoever wrote this is a fucking lunatic. I mean, common, "His house is a pompous, minimally decorated two story palace with stone lions guarding the door."

You lost me right there. And then the parts about Google X developing "war robots" and Google threatening to release a "massive amount of carbon"?

Just... no. I thought the protestors had a reasonable argument about Google hindering the development of better public transportation and displacing San Francisco individuals by running private bus services that isolated Googlers from the community, but this is sheer lunacy.
No I just think that your comment did in absolutely no way make this discussion better.
What does left-wing have to do with this?, stupidity doesn't requires a political affiliation. Actually all governements in the world are left-wing by American standards.
Do not those who work for sensitive posts for TLA's not disclose who they work for - this is basic protective security 101
anyone know where i can get data on the last 2 madnesses and the players? also for current season? ill write a little article about my theory =] with some code samples
It is so kind of the developer to even have responded in such a situation. There are people in the streets and 3 are already dead.
Hey I had sent you an email to the email address listed in your domain's WHOIS. Is there a better way to get a hold of you?
Speculation: Gartner's recent negative view on VMware's innovation capabilities caused VMware management to freak out and go out and buy anything "innovative" that was for sale in the mobility arena. Mobility is hot, and VMware wants have a piece of the cake.
The need for singletasking
Just use a modern, secure variant of VNC or RDP. Most have reverse connect options. Assign (dynamic?) DNS entries to everything else that needs managed.

Don't make it unnecessarily hard.
The open one would stagnate because it has over 3 times as many developers, writing over 3 times as much code? You seriously think that?
The server can make an educated guess based on the useragent. If someone is spoofing UA to an older browser, all bets are off, but then they presumably know what they are doing.
Why can't the college dropout simply lie and be uncooperative with giving out the phone numbers of their family and friends?
Jamaican Bobsled Team Crowdfunds Its Way to Sochi Olympics.
A New Thermodynamics Theory of the Origin of Life
I've always been attracted to use a password archive service, but there is one use case that I encounter very often, maybe you can help me by answering how you deal with this.

What do you do when you need to connect in a PC that is now yours? This happens to be very often in parties when people want me to use my spotify.

Also do you keep your rsa passphrase in the archive?

As for what I do now: I integrate the service name in my password in different ways depending on the name. The combination is long enough and has enough entropy that I feel comfortable against bruteforce attacks, but is quite a mind juggle to find my password sometimes.
Hacking is going to easy as ’123456′
It’s at number two, having been overtaken over the course of the past 12 months by “123456″.
The list, compiled by SplashData and drawn from passwords posted online following major web service hacks, such as the major breach at Adobe – the company behind Photoshop – highlights the risks consumers are still taking by choosing easy to remember rather than secure passwords.
Consumers may well be suffering from password fatigue – the inability to continue to create and remember more and more unique log-ins as the number of web services they use proliferate – but that is still no excuse for using “qwerty” (the fourth most common password) or “abc123″ (number five) for protecting their most personal digital information.
Apple is not the largest contributor to LLVM, Google is. The various other non-Apple contributors also outweigh Apple. It would be hugely expensive for Apple to hire all those compiler developers from Google and Intel and dozens of other companies. Why would they do it? What would it gain them other than to be comically villainous.

The reality is that GCC is stagnating because a lot of things people want to do are just not very easy to do with GCC, due to architectural decisions that were made for purely political reasons (and these arguments have been going on since long before LLVM even existed).

It used to be that academics, students, post grads and hackers who wanted to do something interesting and new with a compiler would start with GCC. That hasn't been true for some years now. Pretty much all the interesting new projects are based on LLVM. And that isn't because of Apple paying people. It's because LLVM has modular design that gives you a stable clean interface to various things while GCC only offers unstable and complicated internal data structures.

So increasingly people interested in studying and developing compilers are hacking on LLVM and GCC is left only with developers who have a very strong political agenda that motivates them to contribute to GCC. Unfortunately for RMS most compiler developers don't work for free out of their basements. They are well paid and work at large companies and so any emotional or political arguments about freedom don't get any weight with their bosses compared with the ability to actually get shit done. So they are switching to working on LLVM.

As detailed elsewhere in these comments RMS knows full well that the political decisions limit the functionality of GCC. He says he is happy to pay that price to prevent anybody using GCC in a project that isn't GPL licensed.
ugh that looks horrendous. I tried this out at one point with a song lyric that was around 7 words. Took me about 20 seconds each time to type the password (had to sing the song in my head every single time).

Now I just use the xkcd method. e.g. forest monkey jump truck

I have a different password for everything, which is something like 50 different passwords. I know around ~15 of them by heart - the rest I almost never use (I store them on google drive behind 2FA for when I need them)
Check that the phone's IMEI isn't also being associated with each of those SIM cards and your regular one.

Just switching SIM cards may change what account info you're using, while still providing plenty of information for determined investigators to use.
Heh heh--uh, fortunately I have not encountered a site that ordered me to change my password and forbade me to use an old one. If I had to deal with that scenario... I guess I would create a file that had, on separate lines, "[site name] [number of resets]", and would change the main script to take a hash of [site name] + [secret phrase] + [output of "grep '^'$SITE_NAME' ' [that file]"].

Also, if I wanted this to work with multiple accounts on a single website, I would have to include [account name] in the input to the hash function.
I'm seeing a strong parallel with occupy wall street. Clearly there are differences - these people seem more militant for one - but this is clearly a movement born out of an emotional response, if not shear jealousy. These protesters are uninformed at best, and their tactics will not yield any results.
I feel so much better now, I did the same thing. It's such a weird list, too. Doesn't he know about putting more than one app on the screen in Windows 8.1?
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I only found out yesterday. US news sources are too busy talking about some polar vortex junk.
I've made this argument before, but I've always found Microsoft's recent obsession with killing the desktop as hugely harmful to their own business.

The fact is, Microsoft has seen this future coming for some time. They got themselves into antitrust trouble for going after Netscape and Java so aggressively in the 90s because they were afraid of OSes becoming commodity software.

So, how have they reacted to a world where operating systems are increasingly commodity software? By throwing their competitive advantages in their bread and butter market -- the enterprise -- out the window (no pun intended).

Applications have to be rewritten to run on Metro (and thus the cheap RT devices they so desperately want to compete with the iPad), central management of RT devices is not any real improvement over other devices, and whereas in the past they made the mistake of trying to shoehorn a desktop OS onto a touch device (e.g., XP Tablet Edition), now they've gone the complete opposite direction and tried to make a touch-centric interface designed for small screens in a world where 24-27" displays aren't uncommon.

While Microsoft needed to do something to stay relevant, they've so badly mismanaged the transition that I think the end result is going to be an acceleration in line of business applications moving to web applications that run anywhere. Again, that's something that's already happening, but the entire W8/RT thing has done Microsoft absolutely no favors.
I wrote 2 paragraphs but I erased them, I'm sure you understood what my exact point was, but since your comment is not constructive at all, making stupid assumptions, comparing possible Kardashev civilizations with history, I will just post a link[1]. If you care follow it, if not, I don't have anything more to add.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold#Cultural_history
Is there a "how to" in using this with PHP framework X?

Perhaps HHVM just need to be installed and then a change to your Nginx/Apache config needs to happen?

Serious kudos to FB and the developers who are making this happen!
Rarely would I agree with Dvorak, but his conclusions here aren't too far wrong.

If you live with a Chrome OS device and Windows machines rapidly the Windows machines get relegated to "legacy apps only" status (this coming from someone that really doesn't like the overall Google direction). MS need to face the fact they've lost the client war, and focus on their true killer apps of Excel and Exchange. Exchange should be the core of their business, not Windows.
The support is of good quality or bad?