skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of ways they could do it without using chips. For example they could use a type of of patented ink that reflects under a certain under a certain wavelength, some type of barcode, symbol, patented cup etc.

However, I think they are going about this all wrong, their not going to stop people making similar cups and will just create negative impressions with consumers - first time a valid Keurig cup that a customer purchased fails the test and you'll have a very angry customer.
Or 50 years.

R.I.P.

A.S.
I am wondering as well. Using https://github.com/RequestPolicy/requestpolicy on Firefox as a more aggressive way to control which website request can get through.
The article appears to be lifted from a student newspaper article from May 2013 http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/campus/article_3d41096...

A book by the same name by Charles Stangor, University of Maryland and used for PSCY 100 classes there, so more than likely the book discussed in the article, is also available free at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=48 but paid and you can also get v2.0! at https://students.flatworldknowledge.com/course/1315333
I recently tried to switch from Ghostery to Disconnect. It was basically a wash in terms of frequency of broken pages. However two things did bother me a little:

- The default settings had Disconnect fighting with HTTPS Everywhere and caused resource contention in Chrome. Please follow the Unix philosophy and just recommend users install HTTPS Everywhere instead of having a naive implementation embedded in your unrelated product.

- It was unintuitive that the number incremented on the button is the total number of requests and not the number of requests blocked.

I look forward to the days that these types of extensions work well enough that I can install them on my parents computers and not have to worry about pages being broken, but them still having their privacy. Keep up the good work.
987 – 2048 clone using Fibonacci sequence
Do the effects of solitary confinement differ for self-described introverts? Obviously unwanted, involuntary confinement will be unpleasant no matter what, but I wonder if those at the extreme who would voluntarily isolate themselves from the world for days at a time would experience the same effects as those who thrive on human contact.
Secure confinement to eliminate the danger a prisoner might present to another need not require social and sensory isolation. That is purely punitive and futile at best, contributory at worst.
One sentence answer:
Because it's a pain in the ass.
> One of the issues that is unpopular to discuss in inertia in constraints.

Prove it with some research. The current research shows that people really don't make their best contributions to their field before 35-45.

And, to be fair, I see more young people who attempt to hit the screw with a hammer because a hammer is the only tool they have.
Firstly, Awesome!
Need to traverse more in it - definitely.

But as the documentation says primarily "HHVM can run both your PHP and Hack code, either separately or when both are part of one project." -- does that means we can imagine a framework or something like that - where parts of it is in Hacklang and parts are in old PHP?

or such project is somewhere there already?
Relevant links to old discussions on JustFab from the TC article:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wenxun
The law was called the Higher Education Opportunity Act, and the bookstores responded to it mainly by offering seperate, inconvenient search forms. If you found your way there, you you'd then have to copy and paste the ISBN.

The law was good in spirit but in letter it didn't require making the data available. A good law would just be that every school has to offer all the data they send to the bookstore to everyone for bulk download.
I like the clean approach, but hesitate to use my hosts file for blocking unwanted stuff on my development machine.

It is 3:00 am the app breaks in production while the development version magically works. You question your ability as a developer and a human being in general while blaming your browser, your os, your DNS secretly knowing in the back of your head, that that you must have done something really, really stupid. Why could you not have waited until tomorrow to push?

Finally the mixed feeling of relief and thinking you are the dumbest person in the world, when you remember your hosts file while hacking over SSH on production files, which you totally should have considered instantaneously.

I remember reading a story, where the legal department of a company in Germany sent hundreds of cease-and-desist orders to websites, which where all displaying their images. Strangely the image just appeared on company computers …
i use rhythmbox; neat, easy to use and familiar [since it's inspired by Apple iTunes]

quality: if you want to take your music to the next level, i recommend getting a good set of headphones AND using flac format instead of mp3
I wish the dots were scaled by some metric indicating popularity. Such a metric is hard to come up with. Maybe total number of commits.

Way awesome though.
"in" precludes that reading.
I'd be interested in reading more about this - I'd love to show it to some designers I work with.

At the moment, I'm struggling to get the designers to acknowledge that Android and iOS need to be designed seperately. iOS designs can look pixel-perfect due to having only 2 resolutions to care about (ok, iPhone 5+ have taller screens, but same width)

Android is a whole different story.
Is it so unreasonable to believe that non-conscripted veterans deserve exactly the same financial status as their equivalent non-veteran counterparts? (Disabled or otherwise). This argument comes from anti-nationalist, pro-equality-of-opportunity values.
Perhaps number of downloads? Number of mirrors?
To be honest, it is possible to configure windows (starting from XP) with a minimal set of enabled capabilities. The system policies mechanism is quite featurefull, and you lock a system down to minimal rights. It is also possible to deploy system patches and updates locally to a domain from the server (what they call a domain controller) comfigured to do so. In fact you can pretty much control any client associated to a domain relotely with the right access token.

Imho, the main issue is more in:

- setting up the right set of policies, it's a difficult task. On a unix system, the problem is probably easier to tackle because the first (simpler) layer of security implemented through the file system (linux for instance provides a more elaborated capability mechanism, many others unix also each have their own implementations of a policy/capability mechanism).

- letting end users having too much control on their computer, because often time they wish to install all sort of products on their own (this is especially true of developpers, but usually computer literates are more security minded than the lambda user). With web apps, this problem is nowadays shifted toward the browser, so maybe this problem isn't as much of an issue as it was 10 years ago for system wide policy enforcement (but as I said it is now one at the browser level).
What? Do you really believe that your website should grind to a halt if a 3rd party analytics service isn't available?
I measure what people are actually saying about them. People seem pretty happy. You can pontificate all you want, but I am looking at thousands of people's opinions on them, the consensus is that it's pretty good.

If your complaint is the marketing about 'cloud' is false, then cloud computing in general is a pretty ambiguous term. It's being used for things as simple as a VPS in the industry. It's pretty meaningless at this point, people will use it to market their products and I don't think they are wrong. I still couldn't tell you where the line is drawn and I've been around this business for ages.
There are two perceived problems with hiring older programmers:

1) Older programmers won't put up with bullshit. They expect to have reasonable goals, be listened to, be compensated fairly, and have a reasonable schedule. They've been around the block enough to identify bullshit and will leave when it starts getting too high.

2) Older programmers really don't always understand the "cool" social crap that teenagers are into this year (for good reason--most of it is garbage). Unfortunately, most of what Silicon Valley is interested in is "cool" social crap so that they can get a big buzz and flip the company to Google or Facebook.

Funnily enough, companies that value that silly thing known as "profit" are quite happy to hire older programmers. It's just a function of Silicon Valley not believing in profit that is causing the ageism.
It IS much easier. Given that you only have to worry about 2 devices, with 2 resolutions (2x scaling is handled pretty well), it's perfectly possible to make a pixelperfect layout off a PSD (of course, things get a bit complex with font sizes, etc, but autolayout helps out).
I wish more people used server analytics. Less privacy risk to the user, along with a faster and less congested internet connection...
The problem you now have two identical but not identical versions. I would not like to be part of a team that does binary edits.
Unless there is no other way.
> There are plenty more 'suspected al-qaeda' locked away there, with conditions every bit as bad as Guantanamo

Really?

I've read that they participate in force-feeding, but I have read that the facilities themselves are top-notch, designed to oppress and create mental turmoil perhaps, but top-notch as far as maintenance/security/sterility.

Surely ADX Florence doesn't house minors, or the uncharged, or participate in water-boarding as an additional form of torture atop the solitary confinement?

How about sexual degradation and sleep deprivation?

How about some old-fashioned under-the-sun exposure-interrogation?

If ADX Florence is truly as bad as 'gitmo' and somehow flew under everyones radar for so long, then I now have a new target for my ire towards the treatment of prisoners.
For any lazy C# folks:

internal class Program
{
public static void Main()
{
int numRows = 256;
int numColumns = 128;
for (int row = 0; row < numRows; row++)
{
StringBuilder rowOutput = new StringBuilder();
for (int column = 0; column < numColumns; column++)
{
if ((row & column) != 0) rowOutput.Append("1");
else rowOutput.Append("0");
}
Console.WriteLine("row/col {0}:\t{1}", row, rowOutput);
}
Console.Read();
}
}

Cool stuff, very interesting to see that triangle structure emerge.
I've been there. I even started one small isolated project with the experimental idea to completely forego the XML layouts and just build the entire thing in Java.

Embarrassingly, it actually worked out okay. The thing is, with XML layouts, eventually the functionality requirements force you to pull in nearly all the views in Java and set styles and behavior programmatically. It's not exactly pleasant to do everything in Java (especially things like RelativeLayout.LayoutParams), but you're going to have to do it anyway, so the only thing the XML layouts really save you is setting up the view hierarchy. Perhaps if I worked with a designer who created the XML layouts and styles, this wouldn't be the case, but the Android tools for designers seem laughably bad.
Android 4.4.2 (14.3.A.0.681) KitKat Now Live for Xperia Z1/Z1 Compact/Z Ultra
Most Important Things I Learned from Failing at a Start Up?
That can quickly turn into "now you have two problems."
The author of this piece contacted me and at least two other co-workers of mine who are identifiably over 40 asking us to comment on this subject. I told him I thought there is a simple mathematical reason why the industry skews young -- we are hiring as rapidly as we can in most cases. Of course, as is too common in journalism, his story was already built and he was only searching for confirmation of it.

What's the distribution of software engineers by decade across a 40-year range? Is anyone here willing to argue that it's completely flat? Of course not, there are far more SWEs in their 20's than in their 60's.

I have never once had my age be an issue at work or in an interview. My resume clearly states my work experience, and goes back 20 years. I don't have to hide anything, and I don't expect I ever will. Am I willing to believe there are employers out there who try to discriminate by age? Of course there are, just like there are fraudulent companies you could work for, sexist assholes you could work for, etc.

None of these matter because you don't have to work for these people. As a competent engineer your skills are in demand, and you get to pick where you'd like to work. If you aren't a competent engineer, no amount of plastic surgery will get you hired, and please stop using your age as an excuse.
30 years ago, computers were actually pretty common. The school I went to had two rooms full of computers and were teaching programming to every child as part of the maths lessons. Software was being talked about everywhere.

I've heard a number of these comments recently drastically underestimating how long computers have been around.
It surely does. But why should I switch my build system? I'm a happy maven user. After all, only after AS came into picture I hear about the gradle non-sense. Gradle doesn't even use the proxy settings configured in AS (at least on Linux).
That's not really surprising, since a large portion of mobile developers probably became mobile developers specifically because of what Apple was doing in iOS.
You're right that my source was the wrong thing for that (I wasn't careful enough in my quick search). But profit per employee per year is much closer to a million than 250K. Here's the source I should have used :http://csimarket.com/stocks/singleEfficiencyeit.php?code=GOO...

Note the numbers are quarterly, so that comes out to $900K. I was off a bit, so point taken, but my original point mostly stands, I think.
You already see some kind of popularity – just count the number of forks.
Cool :)

Where does the source data come from?
Whenever someone talks about Ghostery, this is, of course, brought up. However, what isn't brought up that providing this data (GhostRank) is voluntary and I think it's disabled by default (but user is asked during the first time setup).
Because great designed Android apps don't sell any better than mediocre ones.
If you mean 2-year, 100%-course-based masters degrees (i.e. the style that doesn't include research or a masters thesis), I think probably yes. If you mean the classic masters degree (some courses, some research, capped with a thesis), I think probably no. If you mean PhD-level research-oriented education, I think probably also no.
For the search index, I wonder why they did not go with ElasticSearch or Solr, and decided to roll their own replication/distribution layer. RAFT is much simpler than Paxos, but it's still something pretty difficult to get right (as with any distributed system). Given that both ES and Solr have already got this figured out, what were the specific reasons for rolling your own C++/Nginx layer?
Python 1.0
This is worth it just for the link to radare: http://www.radare.org/y/?p=features

I don't actually program a whole lot and when I do it's usually part of a reversing effort on something obsolete or buggy or that I can't figure out how it works (not warez stuff, though). Assembler is enormous fun to dig around in if you have time on your hands and enjoy puzzle-solving. Another good free tool if you're into this sort of thing is Ollydbg. : http://www.ollydbg.de/
Practical techniques for ray tracing in games
Blocking on analytics loading could be intentional.
> That said, the "valley" has always been a really small place with regard to hiring. If you work here for any length of time a tapestry of opinions about you will be formed and those opinions will affect to a larger or smaller degree who offers you work and who doesn't.

Reminds me of another industry-centered town in that part of the country. How do people feel about Silicon Valley becoming the next Hollywood?
Wattpad: Web Fiction, Serialized and Social
Pretty sure that is number of installations. I've installed Adblock more than once but got rid of it quickly and never use it now.
Join a startup either as an intern or as an employee. Trust me.
Come talk to me when you hit 50 :-) The "retire to Latin America" trope seems to be extremely popular amongst thirtysomethings who haven't necessarily considered what it would be like to suddenly put thousands of miles between yourself and aging parents, family, children, whatever friends you still have, etc. It just ain't that simple.
I am using StartPage https://startpage.com/ as my search engine and am very happy with it.

They essentially redirect your search query to google and return you the result. But they don't collect your IP nor anything else. https://startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html
The author suggests the tech industry is full of 'white men' because they are the best at their jobs, because they have had the most privileges. I don't think the response to this problem should be to hire people who are less competent due to them having less privileges.
Fourteen men arrested for operating child-abuse site through Tor
Honestly, an engineer who is unhappy with their salary can pretty much walk down the street to the next company in the Valley. They don't need recruiters calling them to remind them of that.

I think drawing a line from a handful of non-recruitment agreements to price depression in the specific world of the software engineering industry requires more than hand-wavy assertions based on generalized economic theory.
SQLite: Column data type affected by usage of it elsewhere
What other western countries do with them? It is an honest questions, they have neither solitary nor capital punishment.

At minimum, I guess you can keep them separated without turning off every single possible sensory inputs. E.g., let them know what time it is and allow turn on/off freaking light. While you are at it, allow them listen to music, read books, watch movies and give them access to paper and pen. The big problem is not only that they are isolated. It is also almost complete turn off of all sensory inputs.

If they need to be away from others, allow them at least phone with people, either with each others or with outside word.

Another thing to do would be to reserve that treatment only for really dangerous people. Do not send them inmates that only annoyed someone, broke some minor rule or insist on something you do not want to give them. Do not send there non-dangerous inmates for "their own protection" put then somewhere where they can be in touch with non-dangerous inmates instead.

Third, conditions in prison have direct impact on how badly dangerous inmates they generate. Maybe there could be something done about those too?
Sumodrop
Irony doesn't read well in a text medium among people who may or may not have English as a first language.
The same one:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_T...

Not able to find source though. Anyone?

Edit: More info http://futurist.se/gldt/, still no source though.
I couldn't find kylin linux.
To expand a bit on the thought of unions in the Software industry...

Step 0 would be to convince software engineers that other software engineers who don't perform up to the same level as them should be protected for the good of the working-class engineer, instead of kicked to the curb to make room for a more productive engineer.

A bit of a hard sell, as engineers tend to see themselves as co-owners of the solutions they create and hate to see their work fail to launch because they're saddled with bad coworkers.
I used to be a full time software engineer for a major tech company in the US, but quit after one year. The low six figures salary wasn't enough incentive for me to stay at that job, given how much I disliked the nature of the work.

But if the salary was higher, there is a good chance that I would have worked at that job for longer than I did. So I think salary does affect labor supply, and the supply of engineering talent is not as inelastic as you may think.
This is from 2012 and missing the (2012) part in the title...
You are right, I have but a little anecdotal evidence.
In my experience there does exists a group of designers who view Apple to be the gospel of UI design, which can sometimes lead to them ignoring other schools of thought.
I'd have to check my US law, but I'm pretty sure that a major corporation encrypting its internal emails and then trying to claim to a court that it can't produce documents under warrant because they're encrypted doesn't let the e-mail owners "win..." It gets them thrown in jail for contempt of court.

If you want some evidence to back that hypothesis: the e-mails you're talking about right now are encrypted. They're encrypted inside Google's servers. But it doesn't matter in the face of a court order. It's not like the Justice Department accessed these files that are being reported on with wireshark.
So you have to have maddening cognitive dissonance in order to be interested in something YOU are not interested. The arrogance and ignorance is strong in you.
I live in Australia and work in a small company and $100k just isn't enough to entice me to go over to the US to work for Google et al; It isn't that much more than what I make now, plus I get to live close to home. And yes, I can choose to move to US if I want, due to the E-3 visa.

I'm sure there are a lot more people like me.
You don't have to leave the US to live somewhere a lot cheaper than SV or NYC. You don't even have to switch states.
It is very viable alternative! Contrary to sibling I think difference between Moka vs Espresso and Pods vs Espresso is about the same. And I suppose the marginal gain from buying expensive espresso over moka would not be that big for you.

But moka is: cheap, easy to clean, lasts forever, takes virtually no space and about as fast as my kettle.
That's still insane money per employee, and as far as I understand it, then most of their money making is coming from ads.

I would love to know how much they make per employee from that department alone...
Sad truth is: all these "privacy" plugins break ads. Many people install them for that purpose alone and use privacy as excuse. Even if a website provide local ads because it values the privacy of its users: those are blocked too.

From a website owner's perspective privacy plugins are ad-blockers.
2048 Mania (all at one place)
You can modify clients to reject coins from the given address. If more than 50% of the network has modified clients, it will be very hard to spend the coins for thief.
Are you aware of time periods involved, though? When you say "new data" do you understand that this new data will only become pertinent in about 50 years, when the employee that just came in to system, retires. 50 years later. And meanwhile, you are processing paperwork for people that entered the system 50 years ago: on today, 1964.

(Ok, maybe closer 40 years, but the point is the very long storage time.) Even if all new data is digital today, what about 50 years later, how easy will it be to use digital files that were generated 50 years earlier. What if file formats change every 10 years. Then 50 years on, you got 5 different file formats you must be able to work with.
Awesome. This is exactly what I wanted. Hopefully now I can make a standalone statically linked version jslint, lessjs, etc, so I can use them as part of my workflow without needing the whole flipping Node stack installed...