skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the article is disappointingly one-sided. Both sides of this case highlight a lot of things that are going wrong with the country. Corporations are more important than people and if you have money you get to live by a different set of rules.

Bill is smart. He saw that Wendy's had a division that was taking off (Tim Horton). A successful division can bring a lot of money into a company to offset other struggling divisions, and provide fuel for further growth. Bill invested in Wendy's, go them to spin off the division, getting bill a huge win in the IPO, and then he dumped the Wendy's stock.

He is a new breed of corporate raider who wants to take as much money from a company and then bail.

Bribing politicians to try and force a stock to collapse is market manipulation and is illegal. If any of the hedge funds he told about the non-public letter affecting a public company acted on that knowledge then that is insider trading and illegal. Trying to convince other hedge funds to bet against a stock could also be seen as a market manipulation (Since if the other hedge fudges take positions against the price would drop).

If I were to open a betting pool in vegas on what hedge funds were going to be shut down and the partners put in prison, and then bribed the SEC to investigate to make sure I win am I in the wrong? Or am I just a savvy investor?
I'm trying Textadept atm. What pros/cons can you say about this one?
This is a known method for fixing this type of problem where the solder has been damaged due to excess heat and/or improper cooling from the start. It's also known that this is most likely a temporary fix where it will fail again in a couple of months (depending on the usage etc.).

This is also why I would take great caution purchasing a used laptop (especially with a discrete graphics card). It's a real risk that the previous user did this trick to quickly sell it while it's "working".

As an owner of a 2011 Macbook Pro with AMD graphics (known to fail) I sure hope that Apple acknowledges this issue soon.
-Os doesn't always produce smaller code than -O2
Rise again from the ashes.
Add ?share=1 to the end of that URL so you can see the answer without signing up
The tools that he used to convert x86 to C can be found here:

https://github.com/notaz/ia32rtools

Video of the game running on an OpenPandora here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vWnyDrNQO4.
Herbalife, a company that sells vitamins and other health supplements through independent distributors, many of whom are lower-income Latinos or African-Americans.

That's one way to put it, yes.
so it's android's fault that microsoft doesn't want to make their own software run better on android?
Please, run that calculation in your RDBMS
As someone who is in his mid-30's and wears spectacles I absolutely adore the type on this site.

In fact with the exception of the font used by Readability I can't think of one clearer I've seen recently.
Exactly

I really don't see the point of keeping it always on. (And I hate using it Skype as IM, but ok, it's needed sometimes)

For always on, go to the desktop, I don't trust Skype using my resources correctly (just see how long it takes for it to start up and log in)
> alternatives to the most popular terminal-based editors such as VIM and Emacs?

Emacs for X11 (Lucid or Motif bindings), and gvim of course.
Your 10% is going to be different to my 10%. Almost all the C++ code I write includes new templates. Almost none of it includes inheritance.

I rarely use smart pointers that aren't implementation details (private class members)
Try uploading 1TB with a bandwidth cap.
IMDB Redesign
Show HN: WorkCafe, community curated list of coffee shops OK to hack/work from
I like these game posts. I wish there were more on [Y].
Maybe for programmers that are only used to reading C, pre-C++11 and the likes. On the other hand when you are used to read more dynamic languages where typenames are much less written down literally (say C#/Python/Matlab just to name what comes up in my head), it doesn't make much difference. I'm also not sure if it makes that much of a difference for templates? Those are already quite type-agmostic. E.g. if your template typename is T, there's not much difference in writing `auto x = T()` vs `T x = T()`. Except the (imo) improvement that you are not repeating yourself in the auto case.
The main reason for LODing is to increase the draw distance. The demo seems to have implementing a LODing system, and then fogged the draw distance anyhow ... which is odd.
7 More Top Tips for Visual Studio 2013 -- Visual Studio Magazine
Very cool. The thing I really like about the early ones was that as an experimental class, you could get boats that were incredibly different to one another but still technically "moths". Much like early formula racing, there really was the latitude to tune the boat as well as your technique.

Not that I ever did with this one, it was about thirty years old and took all of my effort just to learn how to keep it upright. You also couldn't moor it anywhere because it would fall over if not moving which meant leaving it on its side at the jetti...
yes. for mobile pages, use minimal css and no javascript.
Here's a regex tutorial
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Regular.html
There are also tutorials on sed and awk as well
PyCon Singapore 2014: Call for Talks and Tutorials
On behalf of the organizing committee of PyCon SG 2014, we are pleased to invite members of the community to submit talks and/or tutorials for the 2014 PyCon Singapore Conference, to be held at the Singapore Polytechnic from June 18 to 20, 2014.

Our highlight this year is the announcement of 2 keynote speakers:

Kenneth Reitz - product owner of Python at Heroku and author of the Requests library.
David Cramer - Engineer at Dropbox and founder of Sentry.
Talk and Tutorial submission details can be found at https://pycon.sg/proposals/.

The submission deadline for both is April 30, 2014

For enquiries, please direct them to conference(at)pycon.sg

We look forward to receiving your submissions and to a great conference this year!
I tend to go with:

gcc -c -Wall -Werror -std=c99 -pedantic -O3

I use -std=c99 because I use these two features of C:

1. Mixed declarations and code, e.g.

double x = 4.8 * 5.3;
printf("x = %.15g\n", x);
double y = 8.7 * x;
printf("y = %.15g\n", y);

2. Flexible array members, e.g. for my safe string operations:

struct str
{
long len;
char data[];
};

If I were to use -ansi (same as -std=c89), instead of -std=c99, then -pedantic would give me these errors:

error: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code [-Werror=edantic]

error: ISO C90 does not support flexible array members [-Werror=edantic]

(By the way, I have no idea why the error message omits the "p" from pedantic there. That doesn't smell right. I hope the gcc people fix that.)

I use -O3 for optimization, and I chose level 3 because that enables -finline-functions. I typically avoid macros, even for simple one-liners like this:

/* Increment the reference count. */
void hold(value f)
{
f->N++;
}

With -finline-functions enabled (via -O3), I can see that function being expanded inline, by examining the assembly output of gcc -S -O3.
Hmm.. Might just be me, but isn't that half of the job of the reviewer, to decline a PR if it isn't fixed? The one making the PR should get a notification that it is declined. Their ball.
Show HN: Many to Many, a different kind of tech meetup (London, UK)
We love tech events. But often the one-to-many talk format is a bit hit and miss. Sometimes you learn lots of wonderful new things, but frequently the talks are too long and of questionable quality.

Watching someone go over the basics of a library/technology/etc in a real life presentation generally didn't provide a lot of value to us. Instead, we always found the best parts were in the questions and discussions at the end of each talk - except this time was often cut off in order to make room for the next talk.

What we wanted was a smaller, more intimate event aimed at talking through the technology side of building startups. One didn't exist, so we decided to do something about that and created Many to Many.

Many to Many is aimed at fostering group discussion instead of the traditional 'one person talks to audience' format. There are 3 discussions topics per event, each discussion leader will open with a short (5m max) introduction, before opening up to a half-hour group discussion. The idea is that everyone shares their experiences, asks questions and learns from each other. We've been running this event since last July, and have had some amazingly positive feedback from people.

The event is mainly aimed at engineers interested in web/mobile startups in London, but we happily get designers and product people attending and leading discussions too! The event is free, and being a startup event, naturally pizza, beer and soft drinks are all provided :).

The next event is on Thursday 20th of March, and is held near Old Street, London, UK, the leaders and discussion topics this time are:

- Ollie Glass:
"Turning hacks into products"

- Rob Elkin
"Communication between developers"

- (final discussion leader TBC)

If this sounds like something that interests you, please do sign up on:
http://www.manytomany.co.uk/

Thanks!
Three years ago, someone had the same idea:

http://sea-of-memes.com/LetsCode28/LetsCode28.html

Edit: just for some additional information, the idea is of course a lot older
Clickable: http://www.manytomany.co.uk/
If your electronics are RoHS compliant (they are), there is no lead.
The user will enter their password on the provider's site via the phone browser. It relies on the user's trust of the system browser.
I challenge you to answer it anyway.
Growing X20 without spending an extra penny on hosting
Maybe their target customer IS Amazon Glacier. Their competition is tape systems.
If we started killing people for making mistakes, none of us would be alive.
Agreed, The design and particulary the feeling of precision on the entire site is just lovely, it sells the content really well.
jQuery is fine, but for the sake of your user experience you should customise it to only include things that you actually use. An extra 28k download, as well as the additional overhead of the browser parsing and running it, does affect the experience to some degree. A minimal build of jQuery is better than the whole thing. "Don't use jQuery" is overkill, but "Use jQuery wisely" is common-sense.

The key thing to remember is that your time as a developer should be spent making software that the user will enjoy using - your job is not to make your own life as easy as possible by throwing in libraries with no thought about how it'll affect the user experience. Learn a build tool and use it to optimise your web apps.
I get that part. But how would clients mine? Can't they just tell the central server that they did something, when in fact they didn't?
Are people still making mobile pages though?
It's overly dismissive to say it has no meaning. We know increases in radiation lead to increases in cancer 20-40 years out. We also know we can't design controlled experiments to properly measure risk (because of medical ethics), so we have to rely on epidemiological studies and animal testing, which have holes that well-funded carcinogen-producing industries can drive trucks through.

It's a difficult problem to balance risks of CT scan radiation against diagnostic value. Nobody wants to have to make that call. And CT scans are the tip of the iceberg. The easy answer for doctors is to simply ignore the risks of CT scans, since the legal system will back them up, but it won't back them up if they don't do a CT scan but the standard of care calls for a CT scan to diagnose a relatively minor or relatively unlikely problem.

related book: The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis
GCC has no equivalent of -Weverything. -Wall and -Wextra leave lots of warnings disabled.
Part of this is Scott Meyers style. I have nothing against him personally, he just presents a different perspective, which is important, but for me he doesn't really write or talk about C++ in a way that is very useful to me as a C++ programmer.

Several of the techniques he promoted in 'Effective C++' (an old book now, I will concede) are and were, imho, somewhat unhealthy for the sake of being cautious. Another example are his recent talks on "universal references", introduced a whole fuzzy concepts to paper over one simple rule when rvalue references are combined with templates and type deduction.

His 'grunt on the ground' comment is typical of his humour, but he's really a bit of a navel-gazer... I don't think the difference between direct and copy initialization for type deduction of initializer lists is really going to make a difference to most C++ programmers work. The C++ committee generally does a very good job, and the fixes introduced by this change will most likely make a much greater positive impact.
I love my open pandora, even though i haven't played much on it recently.

I'll probably also buy the follow up device.
Stupid Wii power supplies, these are known to be pieces of junk. I keep a spare for this reason. Simply letting it "rest" unconnected for some unknown duration also does the trick.
My god! Is this as good as it looks? Because it looks like my chances of living to be 100 have just gone up significantly.
As far as I know people go to kickstarter in order to kick start projects. Not every games are 100% complete when submitted to kickstarter.com . That is a simple prototype, right. And still it is an exciting one, as far as I am concerned.

So no, not disappointed at all.
I spoke at Many to Many a couple of months ago. A very interesting, different sort of meetup. Recommended.
An explanation in form of README.md would be nice. It might be a cool project, but without a proper documentation it will get lost.
It's about pseudo-science eh?
So is everyone's opinion? :D
What can Data Science Teach You About President Obama?
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In This post i will give you an unbiased look and insight at the political views of current President, Barack Obama using Data Science.

This is a result of a research done in 2013 in which I assembled nearly 1 gigabyte of Barack Obama speeches and remarks scraped from the Whitehouse’s website , i analysed every word and every sentence using a combination of Distributed computing ,artificial intelligence and Natural language processing algorithms.
Molybank
Did not read story, but if it it what I think; HP had the
same problem with a bad nvidia chip, poorly designed
cooling system, etc. They denied the problem, until
sued. Meanwhile, desperate users where putting their
motherboards in the oven, curling the hairs in the nvida
chip, and sticking pennies on the hot chip. I will never
buy another HP laptop! I'm surprised Apple won't admit to
a problem. I think if Steve was still alive he would admit
to the defect and offer a fix--why?? Because Steve was
one of us--he liked his toys, and expected them to work.
A video card problem would have irked the hell out of home,
and his engineers would have to pay for their mistake.
What's his name--Tim Cook--just worries about the books.
Which will eventually be Apples fall from grace.
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They wouldn't run any advanced diagnostics on mine because I had 'too much ram' in it - model was rated for 8gb but I had 16gb. Not necessarily unreasonable, but... it worked fine for 2 years with that ram in it, and the problem was obviously video related. well, nothing's that obvious, but... they didn't offer to just unscrew the back, remove the extra ram, and run more tests - they seemed to want to not handle my issue at the store. "5 business days" without my business computer is a bit too much, and now I realize I need a fallback strategy. :/
In the meanwhile, you could grab an existing LTO-6 drive, and archive everything on 6 uncompressed tapes in about 30 hours (much less if your data is prone to compression).
Hacktivists and excessive punishment
I am surprised the LCD survived. Most don't like temperatures higher than ~150 F.
Soviet-Style?? Really? I guess the meaning of calling something "soviet" has been watered down with the years.

I also didn't get the "Potemkin" reference. I thought it meant something made just for show.
Did they ever manage to make those? They were announced over and over again but I don't think any products ever hit the market. Vaporware.
Any idea if the Vertex 3 is in danger of this as well? I've been running it since April, 2011 without a problem - and have good backups - but I'd hate to waste the time trying to recover.
Airborne Yoga: The Future associated with Aerobics
It should, but it's unfortunately very rare to find a shop that looks for these kinds of covert channels. Most of the time DNS/ICMP/HTTP/etc are simply let through without logging or inspection.
How Stanley Kubrick Faked the Apollo Moon Landings
asyncio supports callback-style programming.
What's another way?
Let Payments Become Bitcoin's First Beachhead
I was a sole trader in the UK for a few years as a freelancer, but what tipped the balance and made me use a limited company instead was mainly liability protection: client projects/related risks were getting big enough to warrant it, plus I wanted a separate legal entity for my own projects.

The additional paperwork isn't actually that bad if you have a decent accountant who is used to working electronically (I can recommend a v good one, FWIW).

<shameless> You might find this handy: https://leanpub.com/freelancedeveloperbook/ </shameless>
Do yourself a favor and use Zepto, it's already stripped down and you already know the API http://zeptojs.com/
Things-to-do (useful chrome TODO app)
I wonder what happened to the idea of multiple optical read heads. When CD-ROM drives were trying to maintain 52x read rates, I think Pioneer or someone made a drive that read at twice the rate using 2 separate optical assemblies.
Why don't you use -O2 -finline-functions then?
Ask HN: If you are a designer, what would you want in a CMS?
I am building an inexpensive hosted CMS (for the 3rd time), I am trying to figure out the things which would make designers happy. Thanks for all the feedback.
Huh? The solder balls are under the chip sandwiched between the IC and the PCB. There is no direct contact with the hot air.
That article says that music and tv is beneficial to beginners. I guess I'm doing it right since it works for me, but hey to each his own.
All "When" questions answered here
::rant:: Crashed firefox( latest version ); tried chrome, loads forever and then doesn't work. For whom is this made, if it doesn't work on my i5 with a decent gpu?
That might be true, but I have yet to find a compelling argument for it. Personally, I dislike reading at that size (> 18px), and every time I ran tests, the users were more inclined towards using a smaller font size, usually at around 14/16px.

In the end, I suppose it's more about using a proper baseline, and making sure the grid hold up, when users feel compelled to enlarge the text size themselves.

Opinion pieces:

http://ia.net/blog/100e2r & http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-co...
Agreed, see my post above about -std=c99.
What have breasts got to do with cloud risk?
Aarhus* :P
But the congressman is supposed to uphold the Constitution, which includes free speech. That's what rubs me the wrong way. Because he (apparently, please correct me if I am wrong) signed this statement as a member of Congress, and not as a private citizen, it makes a difference.
It seems this is mainly just a larger capacity (1TB) optical disc, and the 'archival' is just marketing?

For that matter, if they were really marketing at those who are professionally concerned with long-term reliable storage (archivists), even the marketing would include some information on what makes this new media any more reliable over the long-term than existing optical media. The press release includes nothing on this, odd for something branded as 'archival'.

It looks like it's just a larger capacity optical disc (which I'm sure there's a market for), with the 'archival' part just being marketting (odd; apparently they think there's a market for this too, even when it's just spin).
> I have never seen a cd last more than a few years, or one single touch with a finger on the shiny side.

On the other hand, I've yet to have a Blu-ray fail[0], despite treating some of them rather poorly. This is just with factory-pressed discs though, I have yet to burn one. Has anyone else here had more experience with BD-Rs?

[0]which use more advanced coating such as Durabis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durabis
Can you tell me what was wrong with the old title ?
SoureForge starts preventing misleading download button advertisements
Speaking of CT scans, found this an interesting read on the topic:

"We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer"

"While it is difficult to know how many cancers will result from medical imaging, a 2009 study from the National Cancer Institute estimates that CT scans conducted in 2007 will cause a projected 29,000 excess cancer cases and 14,500 excess deaths over the lifetime of those exposed."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/opinion/we-are-giving-ours...
And that says exactly nothing about the dangers of the accient, it could also just be that winds blow the radation away from Toyko and pollute other places.
All I get there is "Android System" (screen is at 20%, that's at 45%), and I have no idea what that is or why...
TL;DR - No, it's not too big.
Someone please change the title to "How not to disclose a vulnerability"
Makes me wonder why it took them this long - but brilliant though! Finally SourceForge is going to fix their UI issues and downright misleading malware links. This should go some way to restoring their reputation.
> No, he's talking about "evidence-collecting computers in the cockpit"

No, he's mentioning them. He's not talking about them. You could know by having read the article and noted he says nothing about them outside of the subtitle.

> At which point you say (paraphrased), "there is one, except there isn't".

The actual paraphrase would be "there is one except physics". There is a link, it can't magick reliability which does not exist when the computer is a flaming ball of debris in a storm. His proposition boils down to "magick up a reliable connection and send a subset of the blackbox data over it" (note the part where changing anything to "evidence-collecting computers" figures nowhere in the proposal?)
Yeah, looks sensational to me, not sure why nobody comments on this.
Also, I think that's the right path - improving our own immune system.
When you confirm your email address on here, the "return to our website" link goes to http://managewith.us/ which is full of adverts.
> My general experience with CDs and DVDs is that two out of every three you burn will be unreadable the moment you burn them

Just a few weeks ago I actually took my old spindles of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs out of storage and moved into Amazon Glacier. The disks had dates from 1999-2007. My results were that out of 80 or so discs, 5 of them had unrecoverable errors (thank god for dd_rescue).

These were burned in my youth, so the method I picked disc brands was "the cheapest disks that aren't those uncoated foil noname ones"
Too bad he didn't live in New Zealand.
GoboLinux 015 beta released
I am planning on creating a sync adapter to push the site to S3 to placate people who don't trust my CMS for uptime.
Backbeam.io: One BaaS to rule them all?
The argument of the journalist would be that they do not report on trains that run on time: having an investor support the business he believes in, and would like regulation to reflect that seems par for the course -- just like having business people grant campaign funds for politicians they support.

On the other hand, the idea of having large and influential actors interested in the failure of an endeavor seems shocking and worth covering. It does lack a mention on the interests at stake, but I understand the angle on (nascent?) negativity in business.