skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you're right. The syscall does ask for a size_t. It now looks correct. The whole length-after-the-string part is edited out, and the value is indeed placed as immediate (as the syscall wants). Now the binary ends with "hello, world\n" and 14 is inserted directly (b9 a4 80 04 08, ba 0d 00 00 00).
There's a part of this comment which makes me think I'm missing something. According to their website, the Mercedes A180 CDI ECO gets 78.5mpg.

78.5.

I own a car I would consider sporty, and I can still get over 35mpg when driving on motorways at a sensible speed.

I'm in the UK. Are we using some other metric to establish MPG or are cars in the USA really that absurd that they get your quoted 25mpg on a long journey?
I miss EVE but it is all consuming, especially when you're part of a great alliance/corp.

As an member of Goonfleet/Goonswarm, I ran the logistics for the Battle of XZH, where a scrappy group of upstarts from Syndicate waged a weeks long insurgency against a better funded, better equipped force.

We won, at least until they "bought out" the system underneath us, through superior numbers, tactics and logistics. We had our turn around time from death to back on the front (fully refunded and refitted) down to less than 6 minutes. We cycled several thousand ships an hour into the meat grinder.

We kept "Ol' Ironsides", one of our space stations, up via hundreds of shield repairing cruisers (Ospreys) and a game mechanic we didn't fully understand yet, but would soon learn to exploit (moving the zone boundary).

Anyways, I miss EVE, but it is a second full time job at the top level, and I've got other things to do. I'm glad it is still generating epic battles. :)
> yes, you probably love your pets but the same goes for children, that doesn't mean they should be with you when you work.

Well, it's actually not that uncommon to have an office kindergarten (at least in the part of Europe I live in, no idea how it is in the US), for some people, it's a big perk, as it allow people that would otherwise have to choose between an office life and a family life to have both.
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> The "out of the box" defaults of Pascals are something you have to explicitly develop, test and maintain in your C. Which means that even during the maintenance cycle, long after it's originally implemented, it can still break in your C.

Let's not confuse languages and libraries/apis here (that may or may not be shipped with the compiler). There are libraries for C and related languages (e.g. Arduino) that actually do give you a "safe" way to deal with the hardware on microcontrollers.

It's still easy to shoot yourself in the foot in C with a bad pointer access (esp. because there are no helpers to work with strings) but I don't really see how a Pascal dialect with peek/poke would be inherently better.

I do agree that buying one of these Pascal/Basic software products that come with a fancy standard library that does safe access to the hw may help writing safer software but I don't see how that is an inherent quality of the language.
If this is true I'd want nothing further to do with that company.

Good for you! And good for the company too, now they can hire someone else in your place who is fine with dogs.
Hubspot already has Sheperd, which might be what you need, built on top of tether:

http://github.hubspot.com/shepherd/docs/welcome/

But I get the enjoyment of building it yourself too :)
I guess he meant JavaScript. JavaScript is dynamic and JS JITs try to reconstruct types at runtime to improve performance. Java is statically typed and, with a minor exception of generic type arguments, types are accessible both at compiletime and runtime.
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It's only that big because of static linking. Typically you're never statically linking your applications, but in this case it's necessary if you want to use libraries but only want the space-overhead from the code and data you use from the libraries.

It reminds me of a quote I read in the book, Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets (an excellent book on C btw), that read: "Static linking is now functionally obsolete, and should be allowed to rest in peace." I kinda chuckled a bit when I saw.
Google never published any information about it's internal server designs because they suffer from NIH and many times come up with really crappy hardware.

Nobody stole anything from Google. FB's design's are different enough, otherwise Google would have sent David Drummond and his asshole lawyers team after FB. Didn't happen.

Google's platforms team always takes this arrogant approach bragging about their 5 year lead and then come up with broken and buggy products that have to be supported and suffered by various SRE teams.

Their servers are just run off the mill AMD or Intel based design's with a single 12v DC power requirement to make it easier to hook them up to Google's proprietary Ikea racks.

There are alternate design like Manifest Destiny which uses POWER cpus, but they're not in production yet.
All of this is correct except for "never ending". There are no never-ending exponentials.
I can imagine that. "App permissions required: EVERYTHING, plus your firstborn." Why is everyone so intent on messing around with my smartphone? Oh wait, my data.
Sweet, thanks!

temporal@legion~/r/mintia> murder 4421 0 50/50℃ 13:56:10 28.01.2014
murder: Killed process with PID 4421 with signal TERM (15).

Works like charm :).
Honest question, would you feel the same way if you replace dog by baby in your sentence?

Edit: Hopefully, "at home" would then mean "at the daycare", otherwise it's a bit irresponsible...
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I think the blurring of the line is good for all sectors. Let's not assume that people who aren't in tech somehow don't deserve to have the same perks.
Why not just contract with a nearby dog day care center and provide subsidized rates for employees? This way the dogs are cared for during the day and distractions in the office are kept to a minimum.
You cannot turn back the wheel of time.
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"not preprocessing itself [...] just someone writing things badly"

I agree with that, but I think that is precisely the point of the quoted post: CSS preprocessors, not unlike compile-to-JS languages, try to make you write less, at the cost of pushing you to write badly.

Of course, with a full mastery of LESS, you will not make those mistakes. But you will probably make them a lot while learning to become such a master.
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You fail to understand consent.

Consent is not saying yes.

Consent is meaning yes. It may or may not be measurable. If there are pressures that mean a person has good reasons to say yes when they do not mean yes, then it is not measurable. Consent that can't be measured must be assumed to be absent.

Consent does not exist if a person is in a power relationship. The pressure to say yes comes from the fact that a guard, here, is in a position to dispense favour or disfavour.
The standard messaging app isn't installed by default on modern android phones (nexus 5). You can of course install 3rd party messaging apps.
If the juice of the article is in the Guardian why is the New Yorker linked here and not the article from the Guardian? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartp...
Surely "Bittorrrent" and "The pirate bay" are two separate things? In what way are they destroying bittorrent by attacking a single tracker/index? Isn't that analoguous to saying that trying to block or shut down any random web server serving something illegal is an attack on HTTP?
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I used to play, maintained being independent up until I got my blockade runner and some game time, then backed off to do life things. I never really did get into the mining since the end result would having to be to trade, so I put focus on the market and finding a niche as a middle-man in one place or another.

For what it is, it is a well developed community a cut above say, Call of Duty. Or at the very least far more advanced at scamming.
Yay! for workplace pet equality. Just like everything else work-related, dog lovers (I'm one) should not be disproportianately favored over gecko/spider/snake loving peeps.

Also, let the inter-species pet wars begin ... right in the darn office. I'll get the popcorn.
Maybe, but I'm not thinking about deserving and making workers feel good; though I'm all for it in every industry, in some this is a requirement rather than perk. You can treat people like slaves (and many do) in grocery stores or internet bookshops with little negative impact on productivity or profitability, but I wouldn't want to see or use code written by people in similar conditions.
There's a rock with "Unicorn Lair" written on it in front of the unicorn lair, and it took 1600 years to discover it? For that reason, and that reason alone, I don't believe them.
Would not have thought that their relative usage is actually decreasing. Probably not for "serious projects" (now define what that means ...), though.

"While pull request usage is increasing overall, par-tially reflecting Github’s growth, the relative number of reposito-ries using the pull request model has decreased slightly."

This could easily be due to Alice's using GitHub for her own master's thesis and stuff ... :) Very unlikely to receive a pull request for these kinds of projects.
It doesn't look to me like macspoofing is proposing this- just saying it's what the courts have decided.
A shame that took two weeks and four deaths.
I love that the war "started by accident," just like so many real conflicts. I'm not to familiar with EVE, but it sounds like the game glitched and forgot who owned a key area, which people are now scrambling to claim. is that accurate? if so, will the developer make any kind of restitution to the faction that list the territory due to the error?
It's nothing like elite.

The combat involved in this battle is sorting a list by name, double clicking a square and then pressing F1. Once that square disappears, double click another square and then press F1.

Oh, I forgot, you might align your camera in a direction of a different square, which represents a local planet, and double click.

Occasionally, and especially if your name starts with an a, the whole screen will start flashing indicating you're the square the enemy is targeting. Then, unless you have spent an extremely unhealthy amount of time playing the game and are in a titan, you will die instantly.
I'm not sure. Civil codified law would make the judiciary less able to say "well, we tried X, it doesn't work, let's do something else". Anyway, I'm referring to something more broad than that.

While Dutch politics is still, well... politics, it seems like there is much more of a pragmatic approach. People expect the government to be effective. "Is policy X working or not?" is a common theme on the news, there are lots of statistics and reports, and politicians aren't trying to always spin their way out of them (though it certainly still happens, just less).

The whole society is a lot less concerned with black and white framings like grand economic theories, philosophical stances on law and order, or enforcing morality. They're more concerned with things working.
How about 20 feet python? I am sure it loves dogs... :-)
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The weapon used by Nidal Hassan was an FN 5.7mm pistol, and was privately purchased.
Except in the medical field. I draw the line at seeing a dog, except for aid, walking around a clinic. People are disgusting enough as it is, complicating it with canine/feline borne vectors doesn't help.
Absurdly interesting comment for those of us who aren't lawyers with this specialty. Thanks.
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"The discovery of the unicorn lair, associated with legend about King Tongmyong, proves that Pyongyang was a capital city of Ancient Korea as well as Koguryo Kingdom."

Their logic is infallible.
Looks like they have a working autoupdater.
Anyone who doesn't need more than 6 digits of decimal precision but can't be arsed to scale everything in to a fixed point format.
Just played with it a little bit. It's really cool. Do you have the same for android as well ? Or are you planning to launch anytime soon ?
Many ISPs block or limit torrent traffic, whatever the content. Mine has been doing this as far as I can remember. Have to use encrypted mode only.
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We're using GoCardless at Pwinty to bill our UK based merchants- works really smoothly, and much cheaper than collecting via debit card or PayPal as we have to do in the rest of the world.

Best of luck to them- especially after hearing they're rolling out to Europe as well- exciting times!
No problemo. On the topic of TAO I highly doubt subversion at the factory. Though I do believe the monolithic designs of the day from Samsung and Apple surely delight intel agencies like the NSA. Must shorten delays in redirecting shipments substantially!
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The thing is you'd only be "trapped" with no access to the natural beauty because everyone opts for cars instead of public transport.

Norway has a population density about 1/10th of the US (to get away from the "but the US is so big" argument that inevitably comes up), yet when I lived in Oslo, I could stroll along the main central city streets, and catch light rail to pretty much the middle of the woods in 20 minutes, regular rail to the central mountain massifs in a few hours, or a bus to the beach in 15 minutes.

That only works because of heavy investment in public transport over decades, probably in part because car ownership became common much later - Norway wasn't particularly wealthy until the oil revenues started pouring in in the 70's. Culturally the car has never gotten the same position as in the US. Even households that have 2-3 cars will often rely on public transport for commutes.

There'll always be areas where not having a car is impractical because of density - not everyone can sanely get away with not having a car in Norway either; and there's always be places that will be tricky to get to without a car - whether rented for the trip or your own. But the US is in the current situation because you've favoured the car for so long that everything is geared for it.

Of course it's self-perpetuating. I've spent quite a lot of time in the Bay Area, without a drivers license (never bothered to learn to drive as I've never had any use for a car in Oslo and now London), and if I'd lived there I'd have gotten a license as quick as - I'm generally quite flexible about walking long distances just for the walk, and happy to take things easy and wait for a bus or a train , but even somewhere like the Bay Area with a population density well over the places I grew up had so horrible public transit coverage it'd drive me crazy.
Probably the same way an office full of smokers deals with it. If everyone agrees it's not a problem than it's not a problem. If even one person disagrees then you follow the rules.

I believe it is also the same for food allergies at school. If one child has a peanut allergy, birthday cakes are out.
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> ..or hosting an ad-supported web application on a bank of servers"...

"On a bank of servers"? Surely you meant to say "in the Cloud"?

What is this, 1999? ;-)
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Dogs bite, it may be out of playfulness, but they bite

If it was an aggression bite it would've been more serious but this doesn't look like the case.

But apparently SparkFun is mature enough to realize that and hasn't gone into an exaggerated reaction. Banning them should be ok.

Props for them!
qsort strikes me as a bit of a crappy benchmark because of the type erasure. Your compiler likely isn't inlining or applying vectorisation. Vectorisation would likely benefit 32bit floats on a 64bit platform more than doubles.
reddit.com/r/pyongyang has more such gems.
It's North Korea, do you expect any less?
The Netherlands has a net neutrality law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#Law_in_The_Nethe...

As a consequence, blocking or limiting Bittorrent traffic is not allowed.
Hey! Fancy rats are adorable in the office, especially if you have shoulder rats. You're just being ratist! :)
I gave a talk once at an agency in Brooklyn. It was rife with dogs. A little shih tzu proudly trotted across the presentation area right before I started speaking.
Just nuts is right. 3:1 ratio of people to dogs? That's a dog park.

I can enjoy playing with a dog periodically, but I would definitely prefer to not spend a lot of time (much less work 40++ hours/week) in that environment.

That said, it's a company choice they've made. Reversing it it now or even severely restricting it would probably mean attrition of a large portion of their staff.
Well, do they?

Some people have rats as pets and carry them around. I fail to see the problem with that.
I don't want to be operated on by a stressed-out doctor who's at the end of a 36-hour shift either.

If your only concern was profitability, there are a huge number of engineering companies who achieved success despite, or perhaps because of, encouraging long hours and driving their employees to the ground. That's why profitability is not my only concern.
WTF is this on HN?
Yes, an attack on a particular protocol is an attack on that particular protocol. The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
because it includes "north korea" in it's title.
What are they loosing? There doesn't seem to be much evidence of them setting anything free at the moment.
"The old book 'Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam' (Revised Handbook of Korean Geography) complied in the 16th century wrote that there is a lair west of Pubyok Pavilion in Mt. Kumsu."
Revised by the Ministry of Truth?
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Well, I can understand why SparkFun might limit work from home:

1 - They're a hardware company. You can't take most of the equipment home

2 - EDA software is usually very expensive (and sometimes hardware demanding), so you can't just install it in a laptop
If this happens, I will hide my phone and insist I don't have one until they give me a real key.

This is a complete privacy and security nightmare both from the potential of cracking it and from installing an app that will probably grab every permission it can.

It's also going to be entertaining seeing people with dead batteries begging a charge from people in the lobby.
i bet the majority of these fools believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old.
Some places has daycare in the building, blurring the line between home and work even more.
At the very least you should always enable ZLE compression to deal intelligently with sparse-like files.
A dog is not equal to a child. Not in any remote way.
This is one of the times I wish HN had a "saved comments" feature.
All of those examples are possible in safe systems programming languages like Modula-2 and Ada, with the difference that only the tiny spot where it matters is marked explicitly unsafe.

Whereas in C there is no way to distinguish between unsafe and safe code.
Is that actually run by a representative of the DPRK? It seems that way, but.... it's on reddit.
Aside from zoo keepers. I imagine they're happy working in a place with animals wandering round.

Ridiculous example yes, but your acceptable working environment and someone else's working environment can be very, very different. Clearly having animals wandering around works well for SparkFun, as they seem to be on the ball with their business.
If you're working there, it would be a case of the 6th worker, you, replacing 4/5 of his peers with a shell script. Would you deserve a raise?

If you're being anecdotal, you can justify whatever you want. In the aggregate, wages have lagged productivity, corporate profits have skyrocketed while US wages have stagnated relative to inflation.
IANAL either (although married to one!) - what about the matter of consideration as a requirement for a contract in some jurisdictions (although apparently not my native Scotland).

i.e. Might there not be a requirement to pay a nominal fee to enter into a contract-based "license" in some places? Which would seem odd.... :-)
Always face your exit. Hauling tactics. :)
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Thats not really an excuse. VNC+VPN is around for decades.

I worked for hardware manufacturer which produced 50+ pound UPS units. They do Arduino boards.
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Ahh I see, I wasn't thinking from the perspective of a marketplace seller on Amazon.

I do know that in fraud prevention it's common to not explain what the problem is, because it tells fraudsters which filter they've tripped (and potentially how to evade it on their next attempt), but it certainly doesn't help genuine people caught in a false positive.
If only it were so easy as just making these cute little computers, dropping them off in some slum with no supporting infrastructure, and saying "Good luck!"...

And that spiky-haired mascot...could you make a more loathsome looking thing?
I think it's amazing that it has kept growing more and more hardcore. I have the impression that if I started out as a complete newb now in EVE, there would be no way for me to get up to speed and be one of the big guys, running a titan(?)

It's somewhat the opposite with WoW, that it's been consistently dumped down since Vanilla. I've been playing for all 10 years, thoroughly enjoyed all of it (although some expansions were better than others) and the time I had to spend to grind flasks and potions for vanilla Naxx was about 10 hours of killing lowly mobs, grinding away, just to be able to afford 5-6 flasks, which would last me through a raid night. That's 16 hours for 1 night of playing. And we raided every night.

Now, I have a job, I'm still raiding at the highest level, yet I can log in, knowing my character is already fully decked and ready to go, the same second the raid starts. I have to spend about 30 minutes each week, just getting stuff for the remaining time.

It suits me perfectly, due to having a job and a social life (With the people I raid hardcore with normally, so our schedules match), but I do sometimes miss the sense of accomplishment you would get from pushing something for several months, like in the start/middle TBC and vanilla days.

I'm happy that EVE is still able to have such an environment, for the people that wants that.
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Related: this episode of TLDR "RIP Vile Rat" has some tidbits on the diplomatic system in EVE, and interviews with the Goonswarm leader.

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/tldr-11-rip-vile-rat/
How is this different to a normal install of Linux on a flash drive plus recycled PCs, exactly? The page is full of talk about how they're doing great things, but no real info on what the device actually is.