skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the implications of 'prepared_statements: false'? It sounds really bad.
Interesting problem, I've been noticing issues lately with delayed font rendering of both web fonts and font icon sets that are CDN hosted (outside of Google Fonts). I wonder if this problem is propagated beyond Google Fonts and is endemic of hosted font libraries in general.
Microsoft Just Declared War on GameStop
You mean so you can distribute a standalone binary that is actually just a bunch of lua? Do you do this so that the users have a harder time modifying the code (just curious)? I'm supposing that this is the case otherwise it would work pretty well with by using the lua or luajit interpreter and some wrapper bash/cmd.exe script to run your lua file(s).
HP is trying to eliminate third-party companies that provide support contracts cheaper than HP's own.
So they published stolen state secrets, and put people in danger. Yay them!

Makes 'phone hacking' seem lame in comparison.
Dear Sir, your $100 dollar bill was used in an illegal money transaction in 1972. It is your personal duty as a good citizen to destroy this element of crime immediately !
If you even consider SuperMicro to be an option, I don't think HP wanted your business.
I was curious why they did that. Just looked at the source and came across this :

This file is an amalgamation of many separate C source files from PH7 version 2.1.
By combining all the individual C code files into this single large file, the entire code
can be compiled as a single translation unit.This allows many compilers to do optimization's
that would not be possible if the files were compiled separately.Performance improvements
are commonly seen when PH7 is compiled as a single translation unit.

The target does say for embedded so I guess that's from experience running this on very small resources.
Yes - Efron's paper (also available at [1]) is excellent.

[1]: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~ckirby/brad/papers/2005BayesFre...
You can have relations in MongoDB of course, however they are not as in an Relational DB.

The problem is that they get the "MongoDB == no relations" literally and are trying to put a round peg in a square hole.

I personally find it hilarious when someone is hitting their head in the desk with the "no relations" thing, as if it's a huge sin to have a id (or other information) of an item in another table.
How long did it take for you to build up 14,000 subscribers and how did you grow the subscriber list?
New Windows desktop virtualization features in SpyStudio 2.8.1
I'm guessing a non-redundant syntax would be very inconvenient to work with for human programmers, in a similar way to how machine code was (not that people can't work in machine code, just that most prefer not to). Also, redundancy is not the only cause of errors, and trying to enforce it might actually make other classes more likely; consider forcing single-statement blocks to not be enclosed with braces.
I, for one, miss spending 10 hours fully compiling GNOME 0.99.8 and Englightenment 0.15 from CVS every week on my Pentium 133 running Linux Mandrake.

Over the past 17 or so years I've been using linux full-time, I've experienced 3 or 4 of the "sweet spots", or times where using linux was superior to everything else on the market. GNOME 1.x with Enlightenment 0.15 (vs Win98) was the second one (the first, I'm told, was E DR0.13 with CmdrTaco's task managing app and Hand of God theme vs Win95). I believe we are currently at the end of another sweet spot with KDE 4.x being put out to pasture, as it completely destroys the UX of Windows 7/8 and Mountain Lion.

But don't knock the state of linux circa 1999. Sure, you had to ensure your sound cards had OSS drivers, and Winmodems sucked, but it was a superior experience to Win9x even back then.
But you can't rule out the possibility of a storm crossing the cable.
My problem with LinkedIn is that I rarely get contacts about jobs I am interested in or truly qualified for.[1] I'm honored to have been contacted by all of the Big 4 via LinkedIn. I'm bummed that they always contact me about DevOps type jobs. Could be that I need to write up my experience better, but what I have down there should not be giving the impression that I am a DevOps guy.

[1] Note: I am not actively looking and do not have this indication set on my profile. All contacts I am referencing are purely passive pings.
I'm impressed, that's a surprisingly good pop-sci-style article. The writing is clear, correct, accessible, and a nice summary of the scientific context for the paper in question. The original PNAS article is also clearly linked.

At least with geoscience, science journalists usually manage to get things horribly wrong. Judging from previous articles, Helen Thompson (the writer) looks like she might be a biologist instead of a geologist, but she nailed the subject matter, regardless.
Adobe Flash is only suited as fuel to burn in hell
No key on the front page visible
I'm still surprised, when I bother to think about it, that no eager beaver has come up with the idea that perhaps the US did land on the moon, but only thanks to alien technology reverse-engineered from the remains of 1947 Roswell crash.
I think the reason The Guardian is interesting is because they don't really need to sell their stories.

They happily make millions of pounds of losses each year, and are bankrolled by people who seem to not mind.

They are not driven by profit, they're driven by a moral crusade (A mistaken one IMHO, but still).
Ask HN: Is HN user interface ever going to be updated/improved?
A Tinder Flaw Exposed Users' Exact Locations
What's weird is that the coffeescript and javascript versions do slightly different things.
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Engineers, like myself, are able to design systems that do not fail spectacularly when faced with predictable threats.
Well as soon as we find a reason to use space, solving something we can only solve there that is dire enough to warrant the cost, or prove manufacturing there is well worth the expense of the cable, then perhaps the question will matter.

Its not like not having the cable prevents from exploiting space based industries, we just haven't come up with the value of the proposition
I think old is gold!
I searched out this:

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...

It would be useful for you to explain how 'making loans of deposits' is not a reasonable simplification of that.

Of course actual banking practice is more complicated, but the core meaning of fractional reserve banking is to make loans (or investments, but that is a reasonable thing to leave out in a simplification) out of (demand) deposits (the difference between a deposit and a demand deposit is just a technical matter, for btc the lending institution and depositor would have to work out how immediately available the deposited coins would have to be).
Depending on where the cable is severed, the majority of it is likely to just fly off into space. Remember, it's being actively pulled by centripetal force.

However, if it's severed at some point in the middle, say just below the geostationary orbit point around halfway up the cable, then the majority of what falls toward Earth would actually just burn up in the atmosphere.

Only about 100 miles of cable would likely reach the ground, and it would probably weigh about as much as your average power line of similar length.
In a galaxy far, far away... yea, it's old, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work. I hate that when for example in medicine, everyone is getting prescribed paroxetine whereas fluoxetine is generally more effective. People assume because something is new that it's better.
Thanks this is great. One gripe: The iOS 7 elements don't seem to fit the iOS 7 phone object correctly.I tried call pad action pad and number pad and none of them were wide enough to fit the phone object. When I tried to expand the width to fit correctly it was hard to get a perfect match. Maybe I'm using it wrong (I've only been playing with it a few minutes).
But the glueing together destroys any modularization they had going on, making the code way harder for anyone else to understand and read.

The "typical" solution to that very valid problem is to use the preprocessor, i.e. create a "ph7-master.c" file that simply includes all the real C files.

The comparative overhead of should be negligble, but then the modularization survives.
See these blog posts:

http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/is-bayesian-in...

http://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/aaronson-colt-...

The first is discussing whether people treat Bayesian stats as a religion. The second includes a quote from someone in the frequentist religion (you can tell because they make a jibe about the "Bayesian religion"). So there are people on both sides, thankfully dwindling in number, who really do get their pants in a twist about the formalism one chooses for doing stats. Note that the author of the OP is not one of them, as he lays out in the first sentence of his post.
What is the future of WebGL? I have seen cool demos but is this the way forward. So one has a game to develop or a complicated visualization, is it worth investing time in learning WebGL or try to use Canvas directly.
"They take ownership..."

Reminder: Unless you have an actual stake in the company, you do not
own anything you produce for the company. Keep that in mind the next
time code you worked on causes a 2am production server crash or is
responsible for increasing revenue x10. It is not your code that
caused the events but the owner's of the company.
Deep Learning Pioneer, Yoshua Bengio will do an AMA Feb. 24
> terrorism (systematic use of violence as a means of coercion for political purposes)

All warfare seems to fit under this definition. Commonly explicitly added qualifiers are "against civilians" or "by non-state actors". Another implicit one is "by people the speaker doesn't like".
The interesting thing is that if the apocalypse or "doomsday" is due to climate change, then we don't know yet where the safe places to setup are. Somewhere that is warm now could be cold or flooded or infested with some new pest in the future. Any plan that involves being root to one place seems doomed to failure in a true catastrophe. Seems to me that a better plan would be weapons and unarmed combat training, basic first aid and knowledge of edible plant species throughout the world. If you want to hoard something, hoard containers that can be used to purify water and matches/lighters/flint. Of course, anything I say can be taken with a grain of salt since I'm purely a city boy!
It depends on the technology model. If the company is using a licensed engine than there's very few coders - 10%-20% would be the number I'd pull out of thin air (probably 5% if you count all the outsourced artists working in sweatshops that never get credited). Some projects don't even need their own coders if they're reskins of other games and just borrow the coders from the original project when needed. Of course there are still companies which invest in their own tools and engine where the ratio is closer to what you propose, but that's rare. Now mostly big companies can afford to have their own core engine division but in those big devs the amount of artists is even more mindboggling because they are likely to in-house their cutscenes, voiceacting etc.

All this works on the assumption that scripters are not coders which is debatable.
This reminds me of the recent episode of Radiolab that suggested the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous might have taken only a few hours[1]. If you thought this article was pop-y, you might be in for a surprise, but I found it quite entertaining.

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/dinopocalypse/
An Inflection Point for Mobile Devices and Mobile App Monitoring
BugBrother however correctly interpreted my suggestion, which is that given a large address space, one could define an address where shared libraries would always appear. Thus your linking information can be fixed in in the executable and the only dynamic part is a check to see if the library is loaded or not. Thus all the link speed benefits of static linking, the load speed benefits of dynamic linking.
Top 4 Reasons Companies Shouldn't Buy from Startups:

1. Startups have a high(er) chance of failure or pivoting into something you didn't buy. ("Fail fast" is a popular mantra [a])

2. If the startup does have an "all-star team" as you say, they're more likely to get acqui-hired by Google/Facebook and the product subsequently shut-down. (I've said before that this is a byproduct of the acqui-hire craze and I still believe it).

3. Many startups (especially those with all tech founders) seem to suck at customer service. They tend to focus on automation and hacking their way to avoiding any type of high-touch service (the exception seems to be companies that make support tools). Do you prefer phone support from your software vendors? Don't choose a startup.

4. Their pricing doesn't fit your buying model. Many government and educational institutions must buy using a PO process. Large companies don't want the "small team plan" for $29/month.

FYI I'm not posting this comment to be a prick–rather it's a thought exercise. If you want companies to purchase from startups more often, stop trying to convince them why they should and start addressing the reasons why they don't.

[a] http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2009/04/the-best-entrepreneu...
Show HN: Levenshtein dictionary – string matching to sort+animate the dictionary
> You mean so you can distribute a standalone binary that is actually just a bunch of lua?

No, I'm saying that you can't. You create a wrapper main.c file that loads and executes the lua. I use a script that tranlates the lua into a C byte array so that I can avoid loading the external lua scripts.

> Do you do this so that the users have a harder time modifying the code (just curious)? I'm supposing that this is the case otherwise it would work pretty well with by using the lua or luajit interpreter and some wrapper bash/cmd.exe script to run your lua file(s).

No, I do it to avoid having to worry about where the .lua scripts are located. Having a single binary is nicety, not required of course.
Hey HN here is a link to the tech details:
http://blog.includesecurity.com/2014/02/how-i-was-able-to-tr...
Can anybody explain how this works? And since this is old, what is state-of-the-art today?
I had to look up the first time this hit HN and it was #1 for the day on HN 919 days ago! :-) Quite a few comments too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2884141
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"Depends on whether a crime had been committed by Snowden in the UK (unlikely, imo), or whether the UK had accepted a US warrant for his arrest (which they almost certainly would)"

I don't know if he was carrying the documents when he left, if so the same offence as Miranda.

Declassifying the documents just because they had been leaked would be absurd.

Yes, but to me it seems just as absurd to have openly available documents classified.
Or use cat to combine the files prior to compiling.
well the coffeescript and javascript versions behave differently. The coffeescript is the equivalent of

var hello = function() {document.write("Hello World")}; hello();

while the javascript is the equivalent of

document.write "Hello World"
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50% of GDP comes from orange areas, 50% from blue.
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WebGL is essentially a specialized OpenGL-ES based context of canvas. HTML5 canvas in its usual context is only for 2D. You can render 3D on it but you'll essentially be creating your own software rendering engine from scratch.
I'm having difficulty wrapping my mind around the magnitude of the forces involved. Wouldn't sending a climber up to the top ultimate result in that much force being "pulled" on the tether at the bottom? The entire tether would be under extreme stress, although maybe it's insignificant compared to the weight of the tether itself...
Ask The Linux Foundation's Executive Director Jim Zemlin What You Will
This guy can't tell the difference between a username and a displayed name. He's not qualified to give advice. Username is indeed just a string for machines which happens to be displayed occasionally.
I think that was a knee-jerk reaction to the word "ownership". That is not the sense used here. There is no contradiction in being given ownership of some task while having no ownership stake in the company; it's two quite different senses of the term.
Yatch33 are you still interested in adding monetizing your blog?
I agree that there are parallels. I also think, that even when the Stasi was (still) worse than that what is done by the US and the UK ... a start is made and the so often proclaimed "Freedom" of the western nations is undermined more and more. There was also a news that according to a worldwide Liberty organization, the US is now ranking below Romania as much as I remember when it comes to freedom of the press.
I'm from Manchester, so you know.
What are the chances of hackers taking them back?
This is awesome. Has always been a pain in v0.10...never knew what was going on under the hood with clustered processes. Thanks for the work around.
Waiting for 0.12 eagerly. In future, can Node-Inspector be integrated into the StrongOps console and use on multiple browsers ?
"Money is not generally subject to a replevin action unless it is marked or packaged in such as way as to make it distinguishable."

Source: http://rjcesq.com/?p=15
In other words, you don't want to actually be useful to former colleagues...
The thing ppl are missing here is that it the muscles matter much less than the confidence/energy the body builder is projecting. Imagine the same bodybuilder after punching a baby. He won't command respect. He may gain internal confidence through his bodybuilding efforts, and he may further boost that through social approval of those around him, but it's all based on his internal confidence, not a fait accompli of having muscles.
I can't speak for your specific example, but there are some theories that equate the massive technology leap we had in the 50s->present day has been due to reverse engineered alien technology.

In fact Star Trek: Voyager did a two part episode that used this conspiracy theory as part of the main story line.
Interesting. The writing style was dictated by the constraints of newspaper layout and the technology's limited ability to meet those constraints. Does that mean that this writing style is obsolete now, or are there other reasons to prefer it?
To use their example: You own a lawn care company and do lawn maintenance for a client in Deleware for Dr. Olivia Bolles[1]. Unbeknownst to you Dr. Bolles is a drug dealer on Silk Road. She pays you for your services in bitcoin. The bitcoin wallet that her payment is posted to is publicly linked to you or your company through your website or perhaps your payment page.
It is reasonable to assume that you are the benefactor of funds that go to this address otherwise you would be exchanging a service for naught!
The government raids Dr. Bolles, seizes her wallets and while going over the transactions associated with these wallets discovers your wallet.
They could then order you to surrender the funds based on the "nemo dat quod non habet" that they mentioned.
Someone else will have to chime in with court cases that support/contradict my reasoning because that's beyond me.
[1]http://thedailyrecord.com/2013/12/13/judge-silk-road-doctor-...
I disagree - the distinction is still significant in that it's important not to let the responsibilities of ownership land on your plate when you're not getting any of the benefits.
Hi, yes it is an official policy. It has to do with New Zealander's objection to nuclear weapons which was brought about by nuclear weapons testing in the pacific by the French. This has a knock on effect of straining NZ and US military ties and therefore NZ and US economic ties.

* Anti-Nuke Background

The watershed was the 1985 sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace protest ship, in New Zealand by French secret agents that lead to the death of one of the crew.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior]

This enraged the general public in NZ and lead to wide spread protest. Since the mid-1980s the anti-nuke stance has become part of the Kiwi psyche to the point where no Government would dare change it.

* Being anti-nukes effects NZ and US military relations

This causes problems with NZ and US relations because the US has a nuclear powered navy with nuclear weapons (ships and subs) and therefore no US watercraft are allowed in NZ territorial boarders as the US Navy has a "neither confirm nor deny" policy when it comes to the nuclear capability of a particular ship.

Also because NZ has a very small military budget, NZ relies heavily on the assumption that the US provides regional protection in the Pacific. This has lead to a strained military relationship. If you are interested in a summary read the Wikipedia ANZUS article.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZUS]

* Strained military relations lead to strained economic relations

The trouble that NZ has is that the economic benefits of free trade with the US are worth a lot more to NZ than the US. NZ really has no leverage except to let the US do what it wants, and the US cares deeply about unconstrained military options. Because of the constraint on the US Navy by NZ's anti-nuke stance, this means that until NZ changes, the US will not bargain with NZ on other issues like trade.
> I'm guessing a non-redundant syntax would be very inconvenient to work with for human programmers

Python or Coffeescript are fairly non redundant, ask their developers how inconvenient they find it. The parts people tend to complain about, and screw up on, are the few remaining redundant bits, eg,

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Because:

if somecondition

Rather than

if somecondition:
> - If you live in SF, you generally don't need to drive to work. Your commute will be short (<25 minutes). You can get quite livable single-family homes (3 bedrooms, 1400 square feet) for $750k. You may want to consider private schools.

I live in Dallas, have a driving commute well under 25 minutes, and have a 3 bedroom, 2300 sqft house I paid $175k for with the same stipulation on the schools. Your scenario would be a major cost increase for me. In fact, I could probably max out my 401k here with just the housing cost delta. Austin is more expensive than Dallas[1], but I wouldn't expect to pay more than about $250k - $300k for my house there (for reference, my house is worth about $190k now). I could downsize to your SF-sized house here for under $100k. Since I would realistically only get about a 70% pay raise max over my Dallas salary for moving to SF, it doesn't make any sense.

[1] And my house was a good deal even for Dallas.
I believe your assessment is correct.

Massive civil disobedience is to the local council as hitting a home run on national television is to batting practice.
OpenGL shaders are wonderful.
The compute shaders in OpenGL 4.3 (?) onwards look to be useful; not sure what for, but useful nonetheless!

Let's all bully Apple into supporting something over OpenGL 4.1.
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To be clear, loading data from disk takes milliseconds and re-computing addresses takes nanoseconds. Yes, in less than one tenth the time it takes to read the part of the libraries you have linked into your binary from disk, you can locate and fixup any link references.

This part I don't get "no sensible system loads the entire executable when it's statically linked." If you're a statically linked executable, by definition the entire file is headed into memory, if there was something in the library you didn't use it got edited out in the link step. Now you may mmap the file and fault it in as you go along, but you are going to have the whole thing read.
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