skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's wrong, I think there needs to be an abstract term to describe all but then use engineer and coder to describe specific roles.
GCC and Mono use it internally, I believe.

It's a very conservative garbage collector at the end of the day. It can be tweaked so as to be completely bare bones, and the performance impact is very benign. Rather, memory consumption is its weakness.
They already kinda do that for Subscribe & Save items, the dates for those shipments are never predictable, and items tend to arrive packaged together.
Godwin's law makes the money laundering law attractive in comparison.
I still think Putin is not telling the whole story about his CU yet, and I think EU is in quite good shape. Only some financial problems in southern countries (Portugal, Spain and Greece) and migration problems in UK and maybe to some extent Germany. So it will most likely not only survive, but thrive further.
On The Media has been running an initiative to get lawmakers to answer basic questions about TSA and DHS policy. The agency has been stonewalling reporters so they've asked that citizens call lawmakers directly and ask a series of questions.

http://project.wnyc.org/otm-detain/
Google SVP of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai now front runner for Microsoft CEO job
That makes sense in a way. Wow, sucks to be them to have built their whole infrastructure on stolen IP addresses.

I wonder how their businesses would cope if for example facebook relocated to the 5.x.x.x range legitimately.
How about this for everyone: regardless what you think about money laundering, if a financial institution in the US doesn't have the proper Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks in place there are HUGE fines and legal trouble. Ask any bank or broker. Once groups start using your cards as a way to send money to their people inside, you'll have all kinds of new friends in the government.

At that point, your ethics are no longer up for debate and the law is coming for you.
It seems to vary based on geography.

I moved last fall from NJ (close to two Amazon warehouses), where I almost always got deliveries the very next day, even for orders placed late in the evening.

In my new home near Austin, TX, it's always two days or even longer.
my favorite use of strace to learn which files (especially config files) are being open by a new daemon/tool:
strace -f -s1024 2>&1|grep open

also remember also useful 'ltrace' - libraries tracing
Moving from the headline figure to some more solid data-reporting, with less emphasis on the black-magic ranking and more emphasis on how to use the information to make a decision, would be a good change to the US News rankings across the board. Currently they trumpet the headline rankings anywhere they can, and then very quietly give out some of the component data (some of which you have to subscribe to get). Unfortunately, what's good for the profits of US News & World Report is not necessarily in line with what would best educate the public.
I can only offer anecdotal evidence from my own life.

My credit union previously offered a text message code when registering a new computer, now they call me directly.

Again it's not much, but I can only imagine they switched it for a reason.
As does NC, since at least one municipality implemented municipal fiber and provided service better than Time-Warner and Comcast.

But you know, it was for the good of the people.
vim users, but of course.

vim 1 - emacs 0
I recall reading an article a while back about a neighborhood that had a fiber network that was put in when the community was built as a selling point. Every single house had fiber in place for TV, Phone and Internet. Sounds great! Right? In theory yeah, but not so much in practice. Every house had a network fee added as part of their homeowner's due. This fee went to an external company that ran the network. This company didn't have much or any incentive to properly manage, update or keep the network running. They had a captive audience. Everybody pays every month whether they use the network or not. Network down? They'll get to it in a bit after they take care of their competitive neighborhoods. And though fiber sounded great, the speeds they were getting weren't much different than other areas near-by on cable modems. So want to forget it and go with Comcast? Sorry, they don't serve the neighborhood as they can't be competitive when everybody in the neighborhood is already paying for the fiber network. I recall the neighborhood association had gone through a couple of different management companies, with pretty much the same result. In short - beware of turning over your network to someone without an incentive to make you happy. Of course, in many areas (like mine) there is no real competition for high-speed Internet. It's Comcast or nothing...
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it is wrong. There are a lot of sociopath control freaks that want to dictate morality to the world, or to have power and control over others. There are many "crimes" that one might participate in that are perfectly valid business transactions such as consumption of controlled substances and prostitution. Right and wrong transcend words written on paper. One might argue that enabling the freedom to participate in these markets safely is extremely ethical and those attempting to restrict these markets are the criminals.
I think that the difference between those is, the Software Engineer (SE) is capable of create and design further than follow instructions or a specific language, and programmer (P) is like coding only maybe one or two languages but with a limit view of the application/services etc.

I think are similar but I see a SE with more potential to develop things, a P too, but I think his scope is limited to what he/she knows, no go further.
I suspect what this really means is that Facebook doesn't need explicit identity markers anymore to work out who you are. That's done and trained. Now they benefit from additional metadata like "I don't want this message to be sent with my standard identity".
Furthermore, I wish I had known earlier how much I could contribute to the open-source community by simply downloading a product, walking through their documentation, and submitting corrections, and little usability improvements to both the interfaces and documentation. It's an easy way to start learning your way around the code and internal architecture.
you can, last strace argument can be a command you want to strace
Nice UX analysis. Thank you! May seek your help later.
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It's hardly even a modern phenomenon.
If you only accept the 4 biggest card issuers, you can get away with some dead-simple code to indicate to the user what card type their number indicates they are.

Personally, I bind an onkeyup event handler to fade in the appropriate icon based on the first digit of the number. This is not safe if you accept more than these 4 card types, (we don't).

function detect_cc_type(number){
return {
'3': 'american_express',
'4': 'visa',
'5': 'mastercard',
'6': 'discover'
}[number[0]];
}
Do government employees enjoy full protection from the First Amendment? It's not a simple yes or no answer. Whether a given utterance is protected depends on a variety of factors, but probably the most important one for low-ranking TSA employees is that the speech must be of public concern to be protected. I suspect that a front-lines TSA officer who writes a letter to the editor about the TSA would be entitled to First Amendment protection, per Pickering v Board of Education.

Here's a bit more info, with summaries of relevant cases:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/publice...
> charge more for missing or incorrect CVVs.

Wait, what? Can transactions still go through without the CVV, except the merchant's transaction fee is a bit higher? They're just not declined outright?
That gets into Heritage Foundation semantics over "what does rich mean." Of course we can shift the definition of "rich" around until everybody (or nobody) is "rich," but I don't think that leads to any meaningful discussion (unless the point of the discussion is, of course, to engage in a semantics argument over that meaning).
Do you also want my DOB and credit card number?
IMAP, I stab at thee
Cool site! I will have to give this a closer look later.
Am I wrong in predicting this to function as a massive PR failure for him? It'll be interesting to watch it pan out. Regardless of political persuasion this is really something completely new in politics regardless the motivation, intentions, etc.
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Why would it be a big story? It has been a dozen years.
I've actually had really good experiences with T-Mo support. They have different tiers of "support" but if you get past what is essentially the "weed-out" tier, they are by far the nicest and most helpful telco support staff I've worked with.

I came from AT&T and can't compare T-Mo to much else. Do any of the telcos have what you would consider to be fantastic support?
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Why we don't take a page out of the Israeli's book is beyond me. They have been dealing with this for much longer, have made the mistakes we are currently making, and have learned from them.

Their airports don't have long lines and pat downs by ill-trained employees (lines of course exist, but they are shorter and not what we in the US are used to). Instead they hire fewer, educated and skilled persons, many of whom are, behaviorists to determine potential threats. It works; the last successful airport attack in Israel was in 1986, and they have prevented many since.

I remember reading about this in an interview with an ex Israeli defense minister years ago, but I couldn't find that article. This one sums it up though: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/11/yeffet.air.security.is...
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The same reason forms make your enter your phone number in a particular format.

It's easier to make the user do all the work, and lazy developers can't be bothered to do simple things like strip all non-digits from a phone number.
That's an unfair characterization of NYTimes behavior. They sit on stories when the editors agree that releasing the information would do more harm than good.

For example in the Levinson case, NYTimes withheld information for 6 years: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/world/middleeast/a-disappe...

> The New York Times has known about the former agent’s C.I.A. ties since late 2007, when a lawyer for the family gave a reporter access to Mr. Levinson’s files and emails. The Times withheld that information to avoid jeopardizing his safety or the efforts to free him. On Thursday, The Associated Press disclosed Mr. Levinson’s role with the intelligence agency. In a statement, the White House said it had urged the wire service not to publish its article “out of concern for Mr. Levinson’s life.” After Thursday’s disclosure, the Levinson family said it had no objection to The Times’s publishing this article.
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I agree that the press in the US is neutered. They're petrified of appearing adversarial because they know their access will be cut off.

It's a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy if they never test the length of their leash-- they could easily make a story out of "we said X and so our access was cut off, this isn't right" but it'd require an ounce of spine.
I feel like TSA is relaxing some of the security measures, just a bit - perhaps so there is no major media outrage so people will still trust them. Here and there there have been times my fiancé has not been made to take everything off and get a patdown. Scanners feel like they're decreasing in number so you can at least try to pick the metal detector lines again.

That might just be me with my TSA PreCheck and recent international non-US-destined flying talking though. Protip: fly business/first class or be part of PreCheck and revel in the pre-9/11 style of security. You know, the one where I wore all my jewelry, a sweater, and my boots through the metal detector, set it off, and the TSA agent just waved me through with a smile. Where I also didn't empty my water bottle or unpack anything at all - in fact, told not to even think about unpacking. Oh I feel so safe!
Or Ctrl+Alt+V, which is the shortcut for Paste Special.
Never realised Facebook was turning 10. It made me realise how many years 'Facebook is dead articles' have been around with no indication it's even dying, kind of put them in perspective.
One thing I fail to understand is how they failed to inform me, with this magical new ETF refund feature that they have, that I couldn't preorder the new Sony Xperia straight from the website and get my ETF refund. Now I have to go trade both my old AT&T device and my new T-Mobile one back at the store and get a new new Xperia Z1S, even though their own website for device trade-in says nothing about this.
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Haven't these people ever heard of trade unions? This is exactly the sort of exploitative employment situation that calls out for unionization.
Because even educated people aren't educated in every area of knowledge. Your average American newspaper reader doesn't know too much about Ukraine. That's not a good or a bad things, just a fact. Much like I don't expect an average European newspaper reader to know too much about Kentucky or Paraguay.

And in the service of serving the audience, providing some background in an approachable listicle format is quite useful. Especially considering that many readers probably know that Ukraine is in the midst of turmoil, but they may not understand the root causes.
As usual, the issue is quite a bit more complex than presented here. In modern America, government employees' free-speech rights are broader than they used to be, not narrower. The underlying principle here is that when you identify yourself as a government employee, you are in some sense speaking on behalf of the government, and as your employer the government has an interest in regulating the speech of its officers, not least to ensure an accurate reflection of its legal position. The author would [edit: probably - I haven't checked] have been perfectly at liberty to express the same viewpoint without self-identifying as a TSA official. A century ago this would have been an open-and-shut case...in favor of the government.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/publice...
Agreed. The add-on thing sits wrong with me. It's weasely.
> It's harder to "steal" a chip card since the information is not sitting on an easy-to-read mag-stripe. It's not clear that chip cards would have avoided the Target thing since the fraudsters infiltrated the terminal software. I'm guessing more current terminals/software is simply harder to compromise. "Chip & pin", as is widely used in places such as Canada and Europe, might help a bit since you would need the PIN to shop off-line. But it would have minimal effect for online shopping since PIN is typically not requested.

Limiting the fraud to online only would have greatly reduced the potential damage. There was a reason why carders were making physical cards to use, it's muuuch easier to get a transaction through. Address verification and CVV (not part of Target's dump because it's not on the mag stripe and is not collected by Target) would catch anyone using a stolen number online.
Are they still offering this plan?
Is there a good string handling library for C?
Yes, which uses ETW, which is the equivalent to DTrace for Windows and something that should be known about (but by and large isn't) for Windows opers
I really like that the folks at Github recently changed their stance on this. http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug

[edit] Wow, those comments. Lewis' Law in action... maybe I should have linked somewhere else.
Good points!

Slide 25: Many gigantic websites allow you to experience the product without throwing up an immediate roadblock. Tumblr comes to mind.

Slide 26: It's all about providing behavioral cues to the user. You could easily have the "you might want to wait an hour" message pop up only when they request the confirmation be re-sent, for example.

Slide 30: Yep!
You'd probably want

"%.*s"

or possibly even

"%*.*s"

if you want it space padded. In principle you can bound your space usage and avoid an snprintf with such constructs; in practice, it's probably better to still use snprintf (if you're using standard-library string functions at all).
Why does softonic.com rank so well with automated search content on Google?
Softonic is a download-website from wich you can download applications for windows, mac, android, etc... and it is supported worldwide in 13 different languages. It's greatly indexed in Google even if 90% of Softonic's pages are pure automated search pages.

Let me explain you their seo structure for the english version http://en.softonic.com/.

Let's start from download pages.

They are all subdomains where the string before "en.softonic.com.com" is just the name of a program. For example: http://emule.en.softonic.com/. They have around 10.000 subdomains all well indexed on Google. Try to search "Download Emule" and you'll find it. You can also try "Download uTorrent" or different keywords but you're going to find it anyway.

Every download page has links to other search pages.

Open again http://emule.en.softonic.com/. If you check the left-bottom corner you can find a section called "Searches". These are all links to auto-generated search pages. For example you can find: http://en.softonic.com/s/download-free-emule-5.0 .

Every search page is not noindexed (for Google) and links to other search pages.

Open http://en.softonic.com/s/windows-7-full-version-free-software-download . At the bottom you can find Related Searches. If you click one of this links you are viewing another search page, for example: http://en.softonic.com/s/download-free-emule-5.0/english.

Every auto-generated search page is well indexed in Google.

Now how many automated search pages are indexed?

Millions. Exactly only 2.400.000 for the english version (i get this number searching "site: http://en.softonic.com/s/"). Another 5.730.00 for the spanish version ("site: http://www.softonic.com/s/").
The question is really of role. What role does a star programmer play as opposed to a star software engineer. Ideally, a software engineer is supposed to bring in engineering qualities and therefore have a good idea of reliability, scalability, safety, error handling etc. A programmer on the other hand should ideally focus on getting the best of the platform/tools. So, I see an SE to be more broader but a P to have more depth.
This seems to deserve mention here: https://openhatch.org
Well, if I am wrong - good for EU and all the best to them.
Oh snap, I just posted that same link ;)

I do urge participants to look into this, because the 'bill of rights > everything else' viewpoint frequently expressed on HN (and the US internet in general) is both fairly recent and misguided in that it implicitly assumes a two-tier constitution.
I see no problem with this setup if the homeowners association own the network, and can bid out managing the service to private ISP's. That's the ideal setup, IMO. Consider the data pipes a utility, but let free market forces drive service.
I would punch my friends if they tried to stop me.
But for elementary school age me growing up with my poor single mom, when I could string rebates and sales together to build a computer inside $5 case with similar deals on components, it's crazy magic. Thank you lazy people, for making my childhoodd hobby (and the consulting career that has followed) possible.
> nobody seriously believes that having more wealth makes you smarter.

There are comments in this very thread that indicate there are people who do. Anecdotally, I personally know several "well off" people who very seriously believe that being wealthy implies being smart.
While I think the TSA is largely a sack of shit, Israel's solution is hardly a panacea.

Israel has basically 1 major airport, and 2 minor airports. They further are based heavily on profiling. I don't expect the Israeli model would fit well to the US, which has 19 airports with more traffic than Ben Gurion, and a much more dynamic set of threats.
Yeah, in practice I think it's converged to a similar sort of thing, though the Kansas version does have better-intentioned origins. Rather than having a bill covertly written by lobbyists and then sponsored by a Congressman who claims to be advocating it but actually had little to do with its drafting (as happens at the federal level), the original idea of some of these state-level practices was to open up the legislature to citizen-proposed legislation. Some states (like California) went all the way with a robust citizen-initiative system where citizens can directly propose legislation that has to receive a vote. Others developed conventions more like Kansas's, where the norm was that legislators are supposed to forward reasonable legislation for a vote even if they don't personally advocate it, and this was done quite openly ("I'm forwarding this bill by request of so-and-so"). So the response to a citizen asking the legislator to sponsor a bill becomes three- rather than two-valued: the legislator could draft and sponsor legislation in their own name to that end; could reject it entirely and refuse to introduce anything along those lines; or third, they could pass the citizen-written bill along for a vote as-is, without working on or endorsing it themselves.

I doubt it really works like that in practice anymore, if it ever did (my guess is that, if you aren't important, your chances of having a bill you send be seriously considered are pretty small), but I can see why it was an attractive idea.
True.

But if all the splinter third party candidates got their act together and mobilized themselves and developed a solid platform, they could certainly make a run themselves.

I hate to use Jesse Ventura as an example, but he really was a true independent candidate, with a solid platform and didn't act like a politician. What he said resonated with the people of Minnesota who were sick of the politicians, sick of the promises and infighting. He did a lot of good when he was in office and fulfilled his campaign promises.

A lot of people look at the light rail in Minnesota as a huge success, but it was Ventura who believed in the project from the beginning and actually got additional funding to keep it going when both Democrats and Republicans were trying to kill the project.
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Interesting, thanks. I would consider the plight of the poor and inequality in the US to be of larger concern than the terrible, terrible effects Occupy and these protests are having on the fragile rich.
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I really would be more careful with this site if I were you. You need to get pictures of the receipt or something, because if not you are just going to get alot of carded giftcards which will just have the money revoked shortly.
Me too, except I lived here all my life.
For a good example of how to do this right, see skeuocard:

http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/
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Awesome work!

Nitpicking/design language question - would you use the term "affordance" to describe the avatar silhouette itself? To me, that's just a clue, an indicator, a hint to the general action possibility (affordance) of setting up an avatar.