skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very wary about loading JS from random CDNs. In my opinion, the negative aspects outweigh the benefits by far:

- The CDN gets to decide *what* code is delivered to *which* users. Could be a prime target for, say, another FERRETCANNON.
- If the CDN is compromised, so is your site.
- If an attacker on a local network manages to inject poisoned cache data into requests for said CDN, your site is compromised.
- All of your visitors are disclosed to the CDN owner.
- If the CDN goes down, your site does so, too. Note that the inverse doesn't apply: the CDNs superior availability has no positive effect on your site.
- Loading from another host may cause an unnecessary DNS lookup and will cause an unnecessary TLS connection.
I've developed a basic ticker app to quickly see the value of 1BTC in various currencies. Underneath is a graph that updates in realtime to show you the historical value.

Apple have denied my app on the grounds that it's too simple. The whole point is it's simple. My counting app is simple, this is much more complicated that managing 1 number, but they won't allow it.

Interesting...
IBM to developing self-destructing chips
But the source title is in fact more precise this time: "Replaced js with 1 single HTTP request".
There's also speculation that the spike in "Bitcoin Days Destroyed" (essentially sum of (transaction size * days since last spent)) today was MtGox bringing cold wallet online: https://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed-min-ye...
I agree with this sentiment.

For development purposes ('grab the latest version, from Google because it's convenient') I'd go with Google, for a production deployment not so much.
Well, this is a source directly from the UK, which features (as far as I know) the most extensive CCTV surveillance system in the world in London.

http://library.college.police.uk/docs/what-works/What-works-...

This source claims "CCTV is more effective when directed against specific types of crime; it is effective at reducing theft of and from vehicles, but has no impact on levels of violent crime."

So I should amend my statement where I claimed CCTV doesn't deter criminals from committing acts of crime. Apparently there are some ameliorative effects for property crimes but not for violent crimes.
"Censorship is the mother of metaphor" - Borges
Why experiment when frameworks make hard-coding so sexy?
I'm not sure if you're allowed to but I do it all the time and haven't been banned yet.
I don't understand how everyone believes this to be so true, that its a massive conspiracy theory because Apple is supposedly about to launch their own payments platform.

Bitcoin is nowhere near popular enough to be a threat to any rumored Apple payments platform.
Malcolm Gladwell would love to get his grubby little hands on that fact!
And that, folks, is arguably the single biggest contribution to Apple's success. Every hero needs a villain, and if Windows had actually been good instead of merely the lesser evil I think Apple would have had a much harder time of breaking into the desktop market. I know it's "cool" to shit on Windows and Microsoft, and I actually despise Apple products, but let's be frank: Microsoft had a great opportunity and they blew it. Windows 8 will not return them to their former place of glory.

Microsoft had huge mind share. Everybody's aunts and uncles were all running Windows in the XP heydays. Microsoft has (had?) enormous talent but it's seemingly been squandered. Their design decisions in the last decade or so seem to continually shift from one boneheaded idea to the next. Using a modern Windows is an exercise in frustration from start to finish, as Bill so helpfully illustrates here.

I've never worked at MSFT but every single bit of news I read about them points to massive, systemic cultural problems and I think those problems manifest themselves in what could have been a truly stellar series of operating systems.

IMHO I truly think the only thing keeping Windows in the OS game is gaming. As soon as gaming on Linux (or even OSX) becomes viable I believe Windows will cease to exist outside the mobile space.
So is this going to be like a squash - ie we'll have to make sure all of our systems are running the latest schema before doing this?
You could make design changes using github's web interface and submit a pull that way.
They actually already do this with their retail stores: You can scan products with the Apple Store App and pay for it using your Apple ID and its charged to your credit card on file.
Have you ever had a client? If not then you should go with any of the above. Just prove to yourself you can get paid.

Regarding how to get a higher pay you've got to put yourself in the mind of a potential client. What do they value? Just clear communication? How much money will it cost them to use you and will your work for them return its value (ie - they paid you 10K but the investment made them 100K).

Feel free to ping me if you've got more questions.
No problem with German news, but please remember how poor Google Translate is. When you have the option, try to pick an English article — or do a proper translation yourself.

http://world.time.com/2014/02/06/victoria-nuland-leaked-audi...
Well, I watched, and nothing happened.
Perhaps to keep hard dependencies down? I guess pyinotify is installed on a lot of environments already or something.
No idea of the validity of this, but for non UK readers, the Daily Mail is a very poor source of information on anything scientific.
Exactly. Just the same way that every music label would make "Gangnam Style" and "Friday".
I wrote a Ruby wrapper for the DogeAPI and DogeChain APIs
I grew up in communist Czechoslovakia. Maybe people will disagree my account, because I was quite young, but it's interesting. We didn't have gangs and certainly didn't have bad neighbourhoods (maybe 1 exception). It was a totalitarian state, and people were very afraid of police, but the surveillance was nowhere as pervasive as it is now in the U.S. (all the surveillance was done by people, not much technology).

After the Velvet revolution, it was always argued that the rise in the crime that followed was because it's now less surveillance and less totalitarian. Fair enough. Later I visited Western countries and saw they have bad neighbourhoods and gangs, and a lot of surveillance. I have trouble believing that argument now.

The point is, you don't need all this, and I want to get this out. History shows, there is probably a way how to structure society (I mean getting rid of gangs and bad neighbourhoods) without resorting to too much surveillance.

I think for a justice system to work, people need to have options. If they have option to have a good life, then they are less likely to commit a crime. I don't buy this will reduce crime or gangs or bad neighbourhoods, because these people don't have good options to begin with.
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Great for companies, but when it comes down to it I only care about people. Why in the hell do I want to become some sort of surveillance pawn to be quibbled and harassed by Walmart and Target so they can squeeze a few marginal dollars out of me.

One is not even a business, since they don't pay a living wage to their employees and rely on US taxpayers to prop up the Walton fortune.

The other (actual) business has apparently never heard of PCI compliance or decided it was a hassle.

Sounds awesome.
Just to clarify: I'm asking what strategy/approach you use -- hand-written vs. generator, bottom-up vs. top-down, backtracking, ambiguous, context-sensitive, semantic actions, etc. Sorry for the confusion.
Double keyboarding? That's certainly new to me.

Not sure I think HN should be a place to post memes like this all the time, but still: thanks for posting.
The "short" long is fantastically tasteless, it's not like source compatiblity with Win16 is has resulted in 64-bit builds of apps appearing.
Well for Apple it would probably be their own PC business. maybe they sold that when I wasn't paying attention.
A Good Way to Form Habits
and if you're in range to shoot at it.. You're probably in range if its camera... I can see people who try this being charged with all sorts of crimes! I don't think there's any doubt that shooting at someone else's property is a crime.. Even if that property is, potentially, involved in illegal surveillance..

Worse though, what if they confuse a manned aircraft for one of these and succeed in shooting it down?
White to move and win
Microsoft... like the Surface. Ring any bell?
There's a huge difference between AAA developers and indie developers. To say that a AAA dev would make games like Flappy Bird if they knew it would work is like saying a teacher would have chosen a career in underwater welding if he knew how lucrative underwater welding is.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

So this is what the pair programming experience is like!

I like to imagine the next scene is the two >1000 hacksaws explaining ssh, remote X and basic Cisco admin to the yank-happy cord monster.

Ever been on IRC? It's exciting stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ
even the signup link doesn't work in the homepage
Here Comes Explode (or, how everything changed one Friday afternoon)
Ah, thank you for that link. I so far hadn't seen an English-language article on the incident, so I submitted the German one with some more context in the comments.
I did enjoy this, it looks like we took a very similar approach! Great idea to make it accessible as a bookmarklet and to let it run easily on certain sites like Wikipedia.
Having two pivots in Quicksort reduces the number of swaps (# of comparisons is the same).
IOS Dev Tools
Comparing it to the GDR ("East Germany") would be more apropriate, I guess. And you'd avoid Godwin.
It is still to ambitious. Should be called an HTML&JS editor.
Here's some excerpts from his recent comments that suggest sincerity by someone who has a very different worldview than many of the participants here.

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize:
"Given that Snowden has undermined Pax Americana, I find this nomination surprising."

Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft:
"Sure, I'll take cheaper parts for my car, and I love getting something for nothing, but on the list of humanity's problems, non-GPL software is very, very low."

Watchdog Report Says N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End:
"They're not committing crimes against the American people. Not one American has been found who has been demonstrably harmed by any NSA program. Without harm, there no criminal act."

Startup failure post-mortems:
"If you can't create a successful company, what makes you think you know why a company was unsuccessful? It's just more mental masturbation."

Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned?:
"I suspect the fix will result in a large change to the code base and you want to always own/understand the code for some reason. So if you can't fix it yourself, nobody is allowed to, either."

NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress:
"The real question is: has an human looked at Congressional metadata, or are they likely to do so? This question was not asked because, given the data protections in place, the answer is likely no."

Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move:
"If Emacs moves to git, can we call it by its proper name: git/Emacs?"

It's not a worldview I understand at all, but it's good to have diversity. And I'll admit, the last one is genuinely funny.
Wow, that's sickly cheap!

Seems to be owned and run by OVH France.

But without encryption and private keys, i'd rather rent a server and use Duplicati.
Rob Pike seems to share your dream, at least in part:

What hardware do you use?

A bunch of Macs at home, Macs and Linux at work, plus of course the Google compute clusters. When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now everything isn't connected, just connected to the cloud, which isn't the same thing. And uniform? Far from it, except in mediocrity. This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary. I sorely miss the unified system view of the world we had at Bell Labs, and the way things are going that seems unlikely to come back any time soon. (...)

What would be your dream setup?

I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should be someone else's problem, one I'm happy to pay to have them solve. Also, storage on one machine means that machine is different from another machine. At Bell Labs we worked in the Unix Room, which had a bunch of machines we called "terminals". Latterly these were mostly PCs, but the key point is that we didn't use their disks for anything except caching. The terminal was a computer but we didn't compute on it; computing was done in the computer center. The terminal, even though it had a nice color screen and mouse and network and all that, was just a portal to the real computers in the back. When I left work and went home, I could pick up where I left off, pretty much. My dream setup would drop the "pretty much" qualification from that.

http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/
Or they might be simultaneously members of the groups that believe Apple is behaving in an anticompetitive fashion against bitcoin and they never should have had this whole ridiculous app approval regime which has managed to stick around this long regardless.

In which case, that the approval process was gamed is largely irrelevant, because it's ridiculous to begin with.
I thought Google+ was proof of that.
Especially when the person doing so is trying to whitewash Russia's mistreatment of gay people...
> it usually leaks memory

Citation needed.

Integers matching valid pointers to allocated objects are rare - only common on 32-bit when running near limits of virtual memory space. Which is a bad idea anyway.

Language runtimes that eventually move off Boehm, such as Mono, usually cite other reasons.
These are very good questions. The thing is we actually stopped at two pivots. But you can try to obtain the recurrent relation for three pivots by you own using the steps provided in the post.
Tbh I've never seen a Surface or bothered to look them up. I had assumed these were just branded tablets manufactured by third parties. Looking now, I still don't see why MS are bothering with them exactly, but the consensus seems to be it's only a way to try and bootstrap the Windows tablet market.
I thought he was implying they had a stake in another non-Mac business. Mentioning Apple otherwise seems odd, seeing as they predate all the other players in the PC space.
To sum the article up: "Here are a couple of references to hot headlines like NSA spying and protests at Google bus stops, mentioned purely to make it seem reasonable to push a very simplistic political agenda."

>>> In advancing their case that Silicon Valley’s profits only benefit the few, critics often note the structural advantage of tech companies, which allows them to build massive businesses with tiny workforces. (In December, Twitter flirted with a valuation of $50 billion despite having just 2,300 employees, while Dow Chemical, worth a similar amount, supported more than 23 times as many jobs.)

How is that a bad thing? I think I'm going to call for Dow Chemical to hire 25,000 more people, hand them some test tubes, and shut down it's manufacturing plants.

>>> Silicon Valley might need to spend a far greater share of its treasure to maintain a general faith in its good intentions. It might need to wade more deeply into politics, not to secure tax breaks for itself but to force the development of affordable housing and transit in the Bay Area and beyond, so its neighbors don’t lose when it wins.

You can't make housing affordable (other than making it less attractive). You can subsidize it, which is a charitable thing to do, but the price didn't change, just the person paying the rent.

>>> Were either company to lose the trust and optimism of its customers, it wouldn’t just be akin to ExxonMobil failing to sell oil or Dow Chemical to sell plastic; it would be like failing to drill oil, to make plastic.

This author has a very weird view of the world. People don't use Google because they like Google, they use it because Google has solved entire swaths of problems that are very handy to have solved (like finding things on the internet, and email that isn't awful). Are there privacy concerns? I guess, but honestly outside of people who complain about privacy as their actual job, people clearly don't care even a little.

>>> If inventing new modes of communication or collaboration was seen as a mercenary act—as no nobler than drilling a well or devising a mortgage-backed security—then such platforms would never thrive, because their value tends to arise from a long, slow, unprofitable process of experimentation.

Anyone who actually understood the valley would see that not only is it the most mercenary place imaginable, but also that this is exactly how it should and must be. Competition breeds efficiency and innovation. You can start a company here and succeed exactly because you can compete on the same terms as the big players, and if you build something better it is very hard to stop you.

The message should be more "hey idiots who seem to have time to stand around protesting that someone is using a bus stop, spend less time protesting bullshit and more time trying to make money if that is a major concern in your life" and less "making money means you have obligations to cough some up whenever anybody with less money notices".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper
Are we seeing a thawing of relations between Google and China now?
Maybe in London when you get a hotel room doorknobs do not fall off?
Nothing wrong with trying to do something different. Committees are too slow.
I can't seem to find their privacy policy and ToS document is in French. I think I'll pass.

In fact, the only mention of privacy I found is "respect for privacy" in data security.
Their G2 instances support nvidia grid. You can get an otoy ami that's meant for streaming games.
Not necessarily suggesting that Mt. Gox is a Ponzi scheme, but I can't help being reminded of certain events during the collapse of Bitcoin Savings and Loan:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0

So many investors held out much longer that many might have expected, clinging to the belief that pirateat40 was true to his word, and that the Ponzi stench existed only in the minds of cynical observers.

In the end though, the last groups of investors lost almost everything.
A typo is an error which results from the fact that you are typing. Consistently using the word council in place of counsel -- not even once getting it right, suggests to me that you have not even read enough about legal issues that you have seen the word in print. I understand that it can be difficult to parse the phrase "the council considered the counsel of the counselors before counseling the councilors" -- yes they are homophones in some dialects of English.

In this case, coupled with your exceptionally unsophisticated understanding of the law, and not even a passing familiarity with the issue at hand, I'm more inclined to believe that you didn't actually know the difference until it was pointed out to you. I mean, you said in your comment that it doesn't seem "obviously illegal" to lie about the date when an option was granted. I don't think you even understand what options backdating is, or what was happening in the accounting world at that time. You just seem like a guy who wants to complain that government is arbitrary. Your only evidence for this is that a reasonable CFO would have looked at other CFOs and copied their behavior, therefore nobody could possibly be held responsible.
I would really be interrested in details on how to connect the filesystem between OSX and docker/linux via 9p.

What would be the recommended way? How to install the required software on either system. Host on OSX or on Linux?

On a recent Linux it seems like a modprobe 9p activates the required module and then a mount -t 9p serverIP /mountpoint seems to do the trick.

But what about the OSX side?
TFA asks if a machine can sing, and doesn't mention Vocaloid?
+1 for promoting Boehm GC.

GCC uses it.

edit: also Inkscape, w3m.
The #2 paid app gets around 5-10k downloads per day so he is making a lot more than $400
I quit watching Betas because I couldn't be bothered to wait a week between episodes.
> freelance with the company for a trial period

Agreed. The risk here though is that with freelancing the expectations are higher, your impact needs to be felt in week one (or even day one in some situations) or else you'll loose the contract.

Regarding delivering value, you're right its very tough if you don't know the codebase. Although, if the codebase takes two weeks to learn before you can deliver a feature that means there's a problem with their onbarding. Maybe their documentation was horrible. Maybe their project setup could have been better automated. Often times addressing these issues are ways to instantly provide value to the team. Just make sure everyone knows what your working on.
I'm sorry this happened, but we don't have a lot to go on. What other feedback did you get?
I remember trying to replace a T1 with Comcast Business Cable. It was faster in the office, but variable latency, dropped packets, less usable remote access (just ssh and scp) and more frequent maintenance outages killed it.

IIRC, SDSL turned out to be the better answer (and we really, really wanted to try FiOS, but they didn't support our building).
Quote: "if he brings even a fraction of that attitude to his new role as technical adviser, it would at least keep Microsoft’s product teams on their toes"

But the problem is the issues that Gates saw did not get fixed. Even Bill Gates could not get this stuff fixed. The mess continued.
I'm well aware of their dubious standing in the world of coding problems.

I'm just wondering if there is a domain of problems where people are employed fulltime to solve the problems with Regular expressions.
Sounds like a police state's dream.
Netflix doesn't serve streaming video bits from Amazon. The services hosted in AWS are the control plane for getting ui, video and account metadata. Streaming bits (the ones that would allegedly be throttled) come from their Open Connect Appliances in internet exchanges and ISP data centers as well as third-party CDN providers like Akamai, Limelight and Level 3.

tl;dr: this article is full of misinformation and bad investigative journalism
How An NYU Team Built And Tested A Flying Jellyfish Robot
Encryption is harder to break than any privacy policy.
I started using it a year ago. I'm happy with it.
It's lacking a polished linux client (cli atm), but they're working on it.

On a Sdsl line my upload rate (pc <-> hubic) is 45kb/s, download is 120kb/s. Not mind blowing but it's enough for me, running in the background.

For casual sync and backup, I totaly recommend.
If Google ships and freezes syntax then it puts huge pressure to just go with it. This is not the right way to do things.
They seem to have clients for all the major operating systems. Desktop and mobile:
https://hubic.com/en/downloads

Linux (BETA), OSX, Windows, Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8, Blackberry
I have seen numbers significantly above 5-10K downloads per day for a #2 paid app.
Khal: CLI calendar application built around CalDAV
Jesus that's cheap. Anyone know how good their differential syncing is, or what they are using (librsync?) Are they using inotify or is it a regular tree walk?
True, but return type of free() is void, thus it says nothing about return value. The POSIX says: "If size is 0, either a null pointer or a unique pointer that can be successfully passed to free() shall be returned."
Well, you can always use LUKS, Truecrypt, EncFS or something similar. I'm more worried about data loss. How redundant is their storage?