skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a graph of the values in the post: http://imgur.com/a/o4jZt

The linear regression has R^2=0,5. It’s a low value and the points are not very well aligned.

I think that this is suspicious, but someone has to do a real statistical analysis to be sure that this is a real problem and not an unlucky coincidence.

On the other hand, even if this is not happening yet, it looks like a interesting idea for the bad people.
Linux kernel is maintained by sane people, unlike systemd/udev: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1369384
Without support for this you can't even reboot cleanly after upgrading init or any of the libraries it uses, because init will keep old deleted executable open and make it impossible to remount root as read-only

Lennart Poettering on how this is done in systemd:

https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/post...
You misunderstand names.

If you want to be pedantic, TeX comes from τέχνη, yet I notice you didn't use Greek letters ΤΕΧ but the Latin letters TEX. Notice they are not the same, but look the same. You also didn't subscript the E.

xkcd is pronounced XKCD, so why not write it as such? See how it forces you to begin sentences with lowercase letters. (By the way, in CSS you would use text-transform and not actually write the lowercase letters since that's just the presentation.)

Do you also thing Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced [ˈalbɪn]) is a real name?

Names are a very complicated things and expecting people to follow every author's sylization is pretentious.
I see one problem with it .. how do I launch vim and other shell commands?

ctrl+z and using other terminals is ok, but it's not the same thing.
I have to agree with this. It seems to me that people that think the web will win haven't tried deploying the same functionality via web and native app - the native app will be faster to develop and better.

Even Google seem to know this in their hearts. The Chrome team recently have started to acknowledge how far behind as a platform the web really is, and things like Google Now don't exist as websites at all.

The web simply has too many cases which don't work. For example, my current headache is the lack of wake lock style functionality, but the layout system is a trainwreck, the language tooling is abominable, and support for stuff like audio is a mess. All it has is ubiquity.
The person you were replying to was being sarcastic.
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These don't seem like very controversial statements to me. Male risk tolerance and female risk aversion are very well documented, although of course proving causality is impossible.

And that is my blog, and I am certainly not a pickup artist.
We're going to enter into an interesting new phase of spying and counter-spying efforts if drones-as-faux-cell-towers are widely available.

"Citizens of [major urban area]. Do not use your cell phone, rogue foreign agents are spying on us with a drone cell tower. Please wait until further notice - the bogey will be shot down shortly."

Or perhaps more likely:

"All employees are advised to use landlines and encrypted channels for the foreseeable future instead of mobile devices, we have reports of drone cell towers for industrial espionage."

I'm exaggerating, but only slightly. There's been enough Orwellian nightmares come to fruition lately to make these projections seem sane.
Everyone seems to be missing the irony of the situation.

Twitter despite loosing $500M a year etc etc is an almost $30B market cap that is bigger than a lot of more traditional companies with a business model!

Whereas, Outfit7 is a 20-something person operation that is brining in millions in recurring revenue every month (200K on Xmas Day 2011).
Anyone have a screenshot of what this looks like in action?
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Mobile as in PC over cell network you do.
Support will reset your password if you verify your information with them. I just had to do this for my mom so she could watch the Olympics on her ipad.
There's also some vmoptions tweaking you can do to increase performance some more.
Do we really need a shell for this? If you're reusing some of these so often, why not just alias them in your bashrc? The interactive shell requires way more key-presses than any of my aliases not to mention sticking me into a shell that I need to exit out of later to get back to my development environment.

$ cat ~/.bashrc | grep git
alias gitc='git commit -a -s'
alias gitls='git log --pretty=oneline'
alias gitb='git branch'
alias gitca='git commit -a --amend'
alias gits='git status'
FTA:
"The time to stop using Mt. Gox has been long overdue. Move your business to a more serious exchange, one that is willing to admit their failures, should they occur. One that has the best interests of the entire Bitcoin ecosystem in mind, rather than their own bottom line."
Cool.

What about Windows?
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Could we please see a demo?
BetterCMS is on the Microsoft Web Gallery
Ski Jump interactive explainer
I've been using a version if it for a while in a private build. It gets a long wrong but it's very nice and simple overall.
Hope they port their IDEs to native code. They are sluggish most of the time and freeze pretty bad (during garbage collection ?). That sucks because the functionality they provide is pretty awesome in most of their IDEs (intelli-j, webstorm).
Flappy Bird’s Smoke and Mirrors – Is Something Fishy Going On?
SAP. It's not particularly exotic but it runs the world.
What would also be neat: a "generate a shell on demand" command. So `use git` would give you something that's about 90% of gitsh, but equally `use apt-get` would do the same thing for apt and so on.

But perhaps we're getting a little bit carried away here, for a couple of keystrokes :-)
Maps of Internet – Martin Vargic (2013) and Randall Munroe (2007, 2010)
Medium is much, much better than Svbtle, but keep in mind it'll be near-impossible to hit the HN front page on Medium.
If I found something I enjoyed and wanted to share it with my friends, and then someone made it so I couldn't do that, I'd be upset - I think understandably, and not in a particularly greed-motivated way. And that's effectively what the developer has done here.
So you complain about the most awesome thing which has happened to C++? A tool (libclang) which parses the code 100% the same as the compiler does including all the newest specs and quirks and then outputs more abstract data for IDEs to use. It’s rather strange so many IDE developers waste so much effort to duplicate this C++ parsing algorithms and actually all of them fail at it. Not a single IDE has managed to properly parse C++ templates and C++11/14 features like auto declaration and so on.
Flappy Birders Not Happy
Mt. Gox's explanation does not hold up to close scrutiny. They could fix this issue by confirming transaction inputs, outputs and amount instead of just watching the hash.

When the official explanation doesn't make sense, you must ask if there is another explanation that makes more sense. Who benefits from their actions and statements?

A lower price would presumably benefit Mt. Gox if they've been scammed out of Bitcoin and don't own enough to fill withdrawal requests.

Since Mt. Gox has been unwilling to prove how much Bitcoin they own, it seems like Occam's razor may be more appropriate here.
The page doesn't disclose the price of the license for gambling. It says to contact them down at the bottom of the page. "Other Unity licenses available."
Current gamers didn't, but their kids did, reducing the demand for new consoles.

I went the other way (back to PC gaming, had PS3/360; won't get PS4/Xbone until there's a platform exclusive I must have)
OK, I see. Thanks for the clarification.

systemd's test suite[1] doesn't seem to cover those cases anyway.

[1]: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/test
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Thank you for posting this. Too me the most worrying aspect of it all is the dehumanization of the people depicted in these videos. It's a very short journey from 'people like me' to 'people not like me' to 'not people at all'. Much of the evil that has occurred thru out history happened because the people following the orders somehow justified their acts by considering the victims to be something less than human.
Why would it be near-impossible to hit the front page of HN?
Twitter's Big Battle Is Indifference
I also recommend python + flask.
Well, there's really something else going on - I'm sure the phenomenon is there but I think they're asking the wrong question.

Stackoverflow tends to get a mix of questions that would require an experienced person to give a great deal of thought to, or things that require specialized knowledge ("good questions") and things that look very much like someones first year CS homework or questions coming out of pure laziness. In the worst cases the posted could have solved these questions by just checking public API docs but didn't bother. Often the worst questions are anonymous or accounts with single-digit reputation, display a fair amount of ignorance, and are syntactically mangled. The posters will generally not bother to take the trouble to upvote, respond, or thank for the replies.

I wonder if this phenomenon would disappear as a trend if they filtered out the "clown" questions (lets say, questions by people who posted less than 3 or 4 questions and no answers, or questions by anyone who had questions downvoted as homework).
"This is mostly due to subconscious cultural influences and socialization of women rather than outright discrimination."

And again your bias shows. What if there are natural reasons? Your assumption seems to be that women and men should act exactly equal, given "equality". What if that assumption is wrong? I already gave one example - women invest a lot of energy into child birth, so it seems natural that they have a higher preference, or rather privilege, to spend time with their children.

I can not read all of the studies you linked to. A lot of them are flawed anyway (I have read many of the like already). But in general I find it interesting. But when you find such a thing, like women asking for promotions less, why not learn from it and ask for a promotion?

I am not opposed to women trying to learn how to get ahead. Everybody should do that. I am opposed to unfairly blaming other people.

"Women's achievements, capabilities and potential are seen as much less than men by society."

This one for example is ridiculous. Can you point to the study that shows that? I can think of many famous women.

There is this meme going around of the female scientists who are supposedly cheated out of their fame ( https://plus.google.com/115858612877723984178/posts/Hphw8ErS... ). I looked them up on Wikipedia and the feminist story wasn't true at all. One of those women even had a chemical element named after herself (Lise Meitner).

The article you link to about boys in the classroom seems to confirm what I guessed, that boys demand more attention. There is not enough information in that article to form a real conclusion, though.
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By making Flappy Bird down , he is making his game a "Legend" by stopping at the top of fame.(the virality will go down soon or late with no new versions)

About Branding and Video Game History,it is a really smart move.
You owe your parents a beer (or whatever) as I can personally assure you its a heck of a hard job from the other side to implement that difficult enough that they learn something, but easy enough that they do not get discouraged. I started off simpler, like powering down infrastructure, moved on to cabling, then some basic trivial configuration debugging, you get the idea. Its hard work getting the balance just right so they learn something without giving up.
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I tried (via telephone) and they basically told me it was impossible, they had no record of my email in their system. This could have been simply incompetent support, however as I successfully guessed my old password I didn't feel like wasting another hour explaining my situation to a new rep with a small likelihood of solving or even improving my situation.
No calculus.
OTOH, they're talking about monthly actives, meaning that you'd really only be counted 14 times if you played all fourteen games during that period.

Secondly, from a reach perspective it matters whether these are really unique, but when talking about immediate revenue (or potential for revenue) not as much.
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Eclipse has the best C/C++ tooling these days, IntelliJ has a lot to catch up still: http://eclipse.org/cdt

It is nice to see them trying.
"Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. I am a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author."

A Microsoft employee talking up C#, what a surprise.
The particular story will undoubtedly get accusations of interfering with military operations and "making us less safe" or even "aiding terrorism", so it's a razor-sharp balance walk to decide to publish it.

It definitely seems sufficiently ineffective, evil and inhumane to warrant publishing in my opinion.

My guess - NYT and WP will not publish anything about the jsoc story.
Buy/build a faster PC?
Perhaps questions like this one should be asked somewhere else, possibly StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21681084/decoding-youtube...
Whats wrong with using a magnetic needle and steady hand?
>Why would they do this? Cui bono?

This is ass covering.

If it's a 'bug in the bitcoin protocol' it isn't their fault.
React [1] batches writes to the DOM automagically, which was the main problem with the original app that prompted the FB post. Sencha did a version that worked fine with then-current hardware/browsers.

[1] http://facebook.github.io/react/

It's also been a couple years. Mobile processor perf is better and JS engines are faster.
What I like about Unity is I can write in what is basically JavaScript.

I've not yet tried Godot but I jumped into useful results with Unity following a basic tutorial. I'm impressed by what Unity gives you right out of the box.
Arrrgh! I can't recreate the crash on Chrome. I tried on Chrome Canary and latest stable. If (for some crazy reason) you still have the tab open - does it report anything in the error console? Thanks for doing that by the way!
1) The actual link is http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-is... .

2) Great. Another news story full of anonymous "senior U.S. official" quotes, without even listing a reason for why they need to be anonymous.

3) Quoting the article: the NSA was collecting “closer to 100” percent of Americans’ phone records from a number of U.S. companies under a then-classified program, but as of last summer that share had plummeted to less than 30 percent.

This last year or so has taught us all to be very careful on how US officials express themselves. Notice that it's "less than 30 percent" "under a then-classified program". Not less than 30% in total, including other still-classified programs.

Ellen Nakashima, the author of that WaPo article, summarizes it as "less than 30 percent of all Americans’ call records", but the quotes do not say that, and I can easily conclude that the author has been mislead.

Who are these officials? How do we know they know everything the government is doing? Why don't they tell us this information directly?
KDevelop With Clang Greatly Improves Its C++ Handling
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If you're in the US, learn whatever the hell you want. Then move to a biggish city and find a job using it. Bam, you are now equipped to take advantage of the biggest tech boom the country has seen since the 1800s. The 90s wishes they were this good.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion about dependency tracking being an unnecessary luxury, and I'm sure you will find a number of Linux distributions and/or BSDs within your spartan requirements. Not to mention that you can at least for the time being stay with sysvinit (though this won't solve your issue on Debian, since it reads dependencies via a horrible hack in the comments of the init scripts).
Ebay listing for iphones with flappy bird pre-installed
I think you have made a very strong argument that the internet content is not particularly damaging. As you assert you can see some pretty horrific stuff and just move right along. Of course seeing a picture on the internet is different than real life. Seeing that stuff in real life would be seriously damaging. Seeing it on the internet is "meh." I'd also like to add that I don't believe I've ever personally seen pictures of mass graves anywhere other than conventional media, television and news magazines. Yes, everything is on the internet, but if you're not looking for it you're not generally going to find it. And if you're looking for it, you're likely not going to be seriously harmed by seeing it.
And here the direct blog post:
http://milianw.de/blog/katekdevelop-sprint-2014-let-there-be...

With this development KDevelop may rise to be the best free C++ IDE there is.
I'm kind of worried that they checked so many types of things (64) on small outlier samples (top 300):

> We ran eight different queries and sorted the questions according to: [8 criteria]. Then we compared the top 300 questions in each section to 300 questions that received an average score on the parameter we focused on.

Would results of that be statistically significant, if you picked the apparently-best 5 resulting from that process, or would they just be noise?

(Isn't ten thousand questions not even two days' worth of questions?)
Yes. I'm shocked this hasn't happened already, since this seems like a textbook instance of where the unrestricted free market should correct ignorant or malicious behavior by a bad actor.

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There's no acceptable middle ground really. Practically every Bitcoin service is full of incompetence of varying degrees. Coinbase for example uses MongoDB for their accounting and apparently was hacked (and the funds returned) as an effect of that. Every other service has issues with the founders (BTC-e is run by who?) or their security record (inputs.io had a cold wallet?) in some way.

You can't trust much in this particular corner of the internet.
> Von Neumann

You couldn't have picked a more outlying outlier. Von Neumann was one of the most brilliant minds of the century.
Also see this development of KDevelop which I think may become a great competitor:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211513
I wonder which side is actually telling the truth...
Most everything you wrote makes intuitive sense, even for myself, with no military experience--which is why it is so hard for me to believe that many of the other comments in this thread are being made earnestly.

Perhaps there is some philosophy at work that is just foreign to me?

Even the basis of this article strains credulity--the authors editorialize that any reliance on signals intel is bad. Assuming that drones are a useful military tool, wouldn't we want maximum information to improve targeting, leading to reductions in collateral damage?
One interesting aspect of this whole ordeal is the fact that, thus far, exchanges' prices have depended on each other. That is, a huge sell order on Bitstamp will more or less immediately affect the price on BTC-E, MtGox, etc. (The exception seems to be Coinbase, which seems to use some kind of exponential weighted averaging, but even Coinbase will get dragged down if the price drop is dramatic enough.)

If people lose all confidence in Gox, but still retain faith in other exchanges, then that means we're going to witness MtGox's price drop while the other exchanges' prices rise. However, this becomes an economic opportunity for anyone who wants to do arbitrage between exchanges. Therefore it seems like the prices won't ever diverge too much.

The conclusion, it seems, is that no matter how bad one exchange is, it will simply drag the overall price of Bitcoin down across all exchanges rather than suffer punishment as an individual company. The fact that arbitrage is doable seems to give MtGox some insulation from consumer outrage.

This poses a question: Is it true that as long as an exchange keeps functioning, then it's "here to stay" no matter how badly they behave? Is there any way that an exchange could go out of business from nothing more than consumers losing faith that one exchange?
In fairness the whole app feels like someone experimenting with building something simple for the iOS platform rather than trying to make a mega-successful game.
These days? How did you come to your conclusion, in my research Eclipse CDT has really fallen behind (Qt Creator, KDevelop and maybe even CodeLite)
Can you do without only Python and its framework for programming side? As someone new to programming, I find it mind boggling how folks suggest learning multiple languages. Or does it become natural after you know one language very well.