skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the wordpress plugin directory is similar to the Android/Apple appstores - getting discovered is hard.

There is very definitely a lot of fake reviews, and gaming, involved in most of the popular plugins. The fact that you mostly have to have a SVN repository hosted on the wordpress servers also means your source cannot be kept private - admirable, but quickly leads to cloning of novel and unique plugins.
I appreciate the change to --tags.
I'd rather have a solid codebase that's easy to maintain and has no quick hacks. Better take the time to do it correctly than having features that sometimes doesn't work.

PostgreSQL didn't become PostgreSQL by doing it the MySQL way.
That's a great use case that we'd love to support. I like the versioning suggestion as well. Thanks for the great feedback!
I remember hearing at the time that the reason they were able to build such a big set for the moon base was because the stages were mostly empty, also due to the writers' strike.
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I am impressed with the result of this. I spent some time on the source code (after deobfuscating it). The analysis done on the text is quite simple and fairly limited. Kudos on the convincing result nonetheless.

Just a small note: looking at the source code almost made me look over my shoulder, there is about 30 different situations being reported to Google Analytics as events. The makers of this _really_ knows how you are using their product.
wow. not often I find a new peace of software that just makes me go "FINALLY!"

Thanks for making me realise i've been missing this all along.
None of these were to my liking. I copy and pasted and viewed in Marked then saved and shared with you guys:

http://kaivong.com/my_cloud/Git-v1.9.0-Release-Notes.html

Feel free to mirror or tell me of a nicer version!
I missed that about fetching from shallow cloning. Thanks for pointing that out.

I'll have to check out ori as well.
Your first paragraph is true of functional languages too, which are decidedly not OO by any modern definition. OOP is about inheritance and encapsulating mutable state.
I'm definitely not advocating for rushing features in just for the sake of it, much of the reason for these missing was not due to poor implementations of them which is what makes it unfortunate.
I can only draw from anecdotes, but those align with your suspicion: where overtime was mandatory (where management was largely about maximizing suffering ^1, as if suffering has any value by itself), everyone simply compensated by doing less real work per work hour. It does seem like many people have a fixed quantity of productive output, and the decision is simply about how much to spread it out.

This isn't true for all people. I've had weeks where I've worked 100+ hours productively because I was working on my own projects and initiatives, for my own company and enrichment, and had hit a stride. But I would never brag about that effort, because the effort itself is meaningless. Only the results of the effort mattered, and of those I am very proud. Too many brag about the effort regardless of what is often a lack of results.

^1 - http://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2013/03/05/mediocre-manager...
Funny. But don't use the word technically, because that's factually incorrect. A bug spray need not kill every mosquito in existence to prove that it has 100% fatality rate on mosquitoes.
There are three Macs, five iPhones, and five iPads in active use in my family. Additional Macs, iOS, and iPod devices sit idle or have been given away. I am intimately familiar with the ecosystem.

Anyone able to use this detail in an actual "attack" assuredly has many other avenues to carry out such an attack, and will continue to have such avenues unless and until Windows and Mac OS are at least as locked down as iOS.
I second Julie1 here, "When the citizen start to participate with their money, rather than their own self, the republic has been lost, taken away by the same politicians you are paying to write your laws and the militia you are paying for protection."
The american contribution to their own wealth was to not pay the debt they contracted to Louis XVI when France became a Republic (and they were right to do it for legal reason).

Le baron de Beaumarchais (famous writer and weapon smuggler) that lobbied the french monarchy for helping the US revolution was clearly doing it for the sake of freeing the people from monarchy (he was one of the philosoph supporting the strange idea that merit matters more than birth rights).

You should really read more. Especially 'le mariage de Figaro'
Nice... can we have a trailing newline on the JSON?
The browser is unique for using the JS virtual machine to sandbox its executed code. It's very different from running a downloaded executable.
@daGrevis thanks for the kind words and feature suggestions. Based on the feedback, it looks like we'll be focusing on better inline navigation support very soon. We haven't talked about the open source route, as we wanted to get a base editor up and running first. We'd love for you to beta test though, as blogging is definitely a use case we'd love to make better.
The 10,000-apartment tech campus: what if companies provided on-site housing?
You really should "scold" the folks at LibreOffice. They have a neat tool that relies on checking large binary files into git. It is actually a neat development tool:

"bibisect stands for "binary bisect" and is intended to help LibreOffice QA dealing with regressions. Regressions are a most annoying artifact that unfortunately comes with software development and QA. However, regressions are a misfeature we want to deal with quick and early as they might get harder and harder to triage and fix as time passes.

Because the way git stores its stuff, one bibisect can contain several complete Linux 64-bit office installs in a very much compressed size.

And one does not need to install them in parallel as one can switch through all of them with a quick "git checkout source-hash-XXXXXX" -- one switch costs <1 second)."

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/HowToBibisect

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/dev-tools/
Entrepeneur: "I want to take over the media-streaming world with a killer app that runs everywhere."

Developer: "I totally agree and I'm on board. Let's make it run only on the Mac."
After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes
Great point regarding link insertion. We'll definitely add that to our todos. Thanks!
I can't be the only one that has to use G+ merely to communicate with Google on different issues. Much of the tech community on there are probably like this, either directly, or by proxy. In every other sense it's terrible, especially the "you have these pictures for sharing" stuff. No, maybe I want to backup my photos and not share them. Incomprehensible behaviour, clearly.

Hangouts still baffles me as well. Why didn't they just leave gmail chat as it was? I have not met a single person that believes this was an improvement.

That said, I've quit G+ twice now, but because of the work related stuff have kept having to go back. One day it will snap again.
I have to book appointments with my GP a week in advance unless it's urgent.

Last time I visited I was told to get a blood test, I had to book that a week in advance as well.
From what I understand, "sl" was engineered to train new users into typing correctly, by putting them back on track to their final destination, instead of railroading them into promptly installing and running new commands. Only a fascist would force them to run on time.
... Nothing about this article or my comment said anything about security in iOS.

I have no idea what your statement is about.
Even though there is no open source repository for it (I think there will be one soon), the code is javascript so you can download the zip and read what it does.
Make all mac apps available from the command line
Why, it's almost as if Google is a business, and they decided that being more Facebook than Facebook would make them a ton more money...
That's wishful thinking when it applies to the choice of programming language.

If you come to a C shop and implement something in VisualBasic, you will de escorted right out. Do the same but with Java and you will be flying out, through a nearest window :)

So - hell, no - it's not how it works at all.
It's not that binary.

Some weeks 60+ hours can be very productive - but it's important to recognise when you're not being productive and take a proper break - I still find that a challenge.
If you're not averaging 60/week then you're not really doing the "60-hour work week" thing.
At the technical level that is the mechanism that makes it possible.

That does little to advance the point though. It is like saying "well exploits happened because in C you can write over the array boundary". Yes that is how some of them happen. But explaining the mechanism doesn't justify or solve the problem and it takes too low of a view.

I guess one can ask whether :

1) Should plugins be allowed?

2) Should plugins run in the same memory space as parent process? There are other ways. Like how come a Google Chrome tab doesn't usually succeed in corrupting or blocking another chrome tab? hmm interesting. Maybe, setup a socketpair or sharedmemory or a message and mailbox system.

3) Should signing, verifying and vetting of these plugins be done differently?
If you think my comment was about the security of iOS, you need to read it again. Carefully.
Actually it works on Win/Mac, the application it's still in beta so if you find any bugs feel free report them!
There isn't a defined goal for art; it's whatever the artists wants it to be and in this case that's photo-realism.
I think you misunderstand my point. I'm not saying that Australia is exactly like the USA in this (yes, health care very sesnibly isn't provided by employers). But the 'dual' system you describe in both schooling and healthcare is definitely a step towards the american (privatised) way of doing things from a 'socialist' model (as exemplified in Australia by the Whitlam era approach). The simple test of the socialist model is if the poor don't get the same healthcare or educational opportunities as the rich. Australia has moved towards this and leans more in this direction than most other first-world countries. Whether this is a good thing or not is not my point (obviously you believe it is - I think there are arguments either way).

Privatisation of infrastructure (and a general lack of building new national infrastructure) is also a key sign that the system is not very 'socialist'
You're right we're going to open source the repository in the next few days.
I had a boss tell me at an end of year meeting that another employee had worked 1000 more hours that year than I had. I looked my boss in the eye and said "then he's doing something wrong". Consistent 60 hour weeks is a failure of management and of the employee to better manage their time. Especially if you are salaried.
I think that's totally fair feedback regarding the product description. Any suggestions? Also, we agree on the inline navigation. There's some complexities based on the limited information textarea exposes regarding caret positions, but we'll be working on an alternative solution.
You might be able to use a Chrome plugin called Stealthy to make it appear like you are browsing from Italy so it matches your card to test your idea.
What is significantly different? I looked on the xubuntu site and I could not find much information. I did not realize that xubuntu was a lot different than normal ubuntu with xfce4 installed.
As a FORMER firefox developer (add-ons), I think my reasons for persona not taking off are as follows:

1. value proposition for developers was never clear

2. many saw it as a firefox only thing

3. chrome usage is overtaking firefox

4. I felt burned by developing for firefox in the past, why was I going to do it again (this is me personally, and is likely my #1 reason)

5. Never saw how it simplified my users lives.

6. I saw it as another waste of time like openID ended up being (and I loved the idea of openID, but so few people ever used it).

/rant
I like the honest career advice :) I agree that a tech company should get top talent, but "older top engineers" are often very resistant to change. Say, as JavaScript has gotten more and more important, it might be hard for those who have built careers around specific languages to move on to something else. On the other hand, younger talent are often more open to this kind of change.
Thanks for pointing this out, we'll take a look.
I would not say it is weird: there is only one Facebook and most people only sign up to it once.

There are many email address providers and many people have many email addresses.

Many people have their email address provided by their employer. And many people use this address as their contact address in even non-professional capacities. I presume such people also use their work address to sign up to web sites/services. When they change jobs the old address dies.

The same applies for students in schools or universities and it once applied to the ISP's customers too.
So what do you want? Lower taxes on corporations? Even while they make record high profits?

And what happens when they hit hard times? Let me guess, lower taxes? So just lower and lower taxes, all the time, no matter what?
Kevin Kelly: Retooling Cool
I would agree entirely, except perhaps about MERGE. I really wanted that.

Unifying JSON and hstore can happen later, since its wouldn't necessarily enable new features, just make some things nicer.
Open source it. I'v open sourced my bulk email sender for Mac https://github.com/alex3t/Bulky about year ago and after that I got more purchases, but unfortunatelly only one fork from customer who want to customize the app
> Unless you're going to try to make the point that post-WWII American investment in Europe was done purely out of the goodness of the post-WWII American heart, I'm not sure where you are going with this.

Not purely --- I would imagine that certainly American leaders had future markets in mind --- but there was definitely a large component of altruism, quite possibly more so than with the French support of the American revolutionaries in the late 1770s and early 1780s.

In the post-WWII era, the U.S. had nukes, as well as two broad oceans as moats. After the Japanese surrender we demobilized as fast as we could, in response to overwhelming domestic political pressure to "bring the boys home."

It might well have been feasible for us to have largely retreated to our own borders and leave the western Europeans to their fates at the hands of the Soviets. Instead, we spent billions, perhaps even trillions, to maintain forces in Europe to deter Soviet aggression and to try to help western Europe recover from the devastation of the war. (We offered Marshall-Plan aid to the Soviets and their vassal states as well, but the Soviets prevented those countries from accepting [1].)

Of course self-interest was part of the U.S. motivation. But there also was altruism, and generosity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Rejection_by_the_...
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Fun game. I noticed occasionally the flapping sound would not play (Chrome 32 - desktop) and sometimes the gameplay wasn't quite smooth which surprised me as there aren't many entities on the screen. I'm just getting started with ImpactJS and I'm hoping I made the right choice! It was still a very amusing game. Too bad your office isn't on the east coast!
The browser is not unique. There are other virtual machines out there. There are slew of IPC mechanisms. OS facilities. Containers, virtualization, chroot environments. Maybe they are not practical for this particular problem but somehow saying browser is magic because it is using a scripting a language VM isn't true in general.

Thinking about, heck, a browser can even execute downloadable executable as well -- that is the PNaCl framework.
Does anyone have any experience buying BTC at Bitstamp? was it good or bad?

I am planning on buying some BTC and did not know about this exchange, so I am curious about it, if anyone can share any info on it it would be great. Thanks!
> The american contribution to their own wealth was to not pay the debt they contracted to Louis XVI when France became a Republic (and they were right to do it for legal reason).

According to a U.S. State Department history [1]: "In 1795, the United States was finally able to settle its debts with the French Government with the help of James Swan, an American banker who privately assumed French debts at a slightly higher interest rate. Swan then resold these debts at a profit on domestic U.S. markets. The United States no longer owed money to foreign governments, although it continued to owe money to private investors both in the United States and in Europe."

Granted, 1795 was a bit too late to help Louis XVI, who had lost his head two years before. Still, it was only 12 years after the peace treaty with Britain -- not too terrible for a brand-new nation, I'd say. And in any case, it'd be unconventional (to say the least) to try to blame the Americans for the French royal government's mismanagement of its financial affairs.

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> Le baron de Beaumarchais (famous writer and weapon smuggler) that lobbied the french monarchy for helping the US revolution was clearly doing it for the sake of freeing the people from monarchy (he was one of the philosoph supporting the strange idea that merit matters more than birth rights).

Nations aren't monoliths; their governments act in response to pressures from all sorts of different people who have all sorts of different opinions and motives.

(Example: When the U.S. entered WWII, the triggering event was the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor. But for months before that, and especially after the Nazi German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, a significant number of Americans had wanted the U.S. to enter the European war --- some to help the British, and some because they were Communists or sympathizers who wanted an immediate second front in Europe to take the pressure off the Soviet Union.)

[1] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1784-1800/loans
You're right. I re-read what you wrote.

And all you did was echo the lower portions of my own comment where I admitted that "fake alert" style applications could also take these details. And I'm sure other styles of attack as well.

The author of the article was trying to make a simple point though: If Apple allows an iTunes plugin such low level access that it can proxy a store transaction - ideally the thing they should be the most paranoid about - then they should probably revisit their plugin architecture (possibly taking a page from web browsing plugin sandboxing).

Claiming there will always be problems until the OS is as locked down as iOS is overkill.
I am doing do a degree and paying the bills by freelancing. So 50-60hr/wk, combined education and work, is something regular.

It is possible to sustain it, if you are an introvert like me. It's just important not to do the same thing all the time. My degree is focused on low level programming and hardware, and I mainly do AngularJS development for living. So this kind of switch definitely helps.

Other thing which is important, at least personally, is that when you take a break, you must do something that counts. Browsing internet just drains more energy, personally. But I find playing an action packed video game (if you can't bother to go outside - or if you live in North England like I do) quite recharging. [0]

[0] I wrote more about that in my blog http://blog.gedrap.me/blog/2014/02/09/its-all-about-the-shor...
Beat the winter blues!

Best part of it is that I get to listen to hot 80s jams while I dissect the web construction of the site.
The paleo lifestyle actually goes further than just diet. For example, the 'Primal' approach is very popular: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-blueprint-101/
The release candidates have been in Debian/sid for a week or two now. I have not noticed any problems. It looks like the only differences between rc3 and the stable release are some documentation changes. If you are feeling adventurous 2.0 is in experimental:

root@ronin:~# apt-show-versions -a git
git:amd64 1:1.9.0~rc3-1 install ok installed
git:amd64 1:1.9.0~rc3-1 unstable ftp.us.debian.org
git:amd64 1:2.0~next.20140207-1 experimental ftp.us.debian.org
git:amd64/unstable 1:1.9.0~rc3-1 uptodate
To build on this - there are a lot of things that can be low impact exercise and worked into normal life.

For me, a big one is dancing. Nothing formal, just going to a club or hanging out at freinds' places and having a dance party. It's fun for me (which is the point) - I don't think of it as exercise normally, just some socializing. Doing that once or twice a week regularly had a noticeable impact on my overall level of happiness and my diet plan. If I don't get to do it, I miss it and feel overly energetic, like too much coffee. (You know the "i didn't get enough exercise feeling).

Another is playing with dogs and kids. I am responsible for neither, but have friends with one or both, so I get lots of access. It's a fun time, just being silly and bonding with people I think of as family. And as a benefit I get some exercise.

Finally, as spodek mentions above - working in some manual versions of daily tasks can help a heck of a lot. Example: I live in the midwest, so lately I've been shoveling a lot of snow the old fashioned way. Sure I could use a snowblower, but doing it with a shovel is better exercise. Besides, the days I need to do it I know the roads will be crappy and slow, the gym may not even be open, and generally getting exercise via normal channels may be hard, so spending 50% more time on snow removal pays off overall, since I'll have more time to do things anyway. Other times where the slow manual way of doing something to sneak in some exercise are abundant and should be considered with similar "TCO" style reasoning.
Most managers think that 100 plus 10% minus 10% equals 100, so I'm not too sure about those percentages.
The Mozilla foundation is a nonprofit, not a company -- which is probably why it's doing all of these great things that profit seeking companies are not.
It sure reads like that. What the heck‽ It is a good system and just needs continued work and support. This is a very poor way to announce a discontinuation or a very poor writing style for a reflection on an ongoing project.