skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the annoying thing about it is the classpath-like thing (and even if it were, it's at least not as bad as that, not requiring a directory for each path component), but the fact that everything is predicated on this assumption that I'm only working on one thing (or ecosystem of things). I don't want project A and project B to be forced to share dependency versions, but Go makes you go to some pretty bizarre lengths to avoid that. I'd rather have a directory for a project and have its dependencies inside that in pretty much any language/environment.
She's going down her bucket list
Does Google Play have a public API for downloading APKs? Does it work for paid apps as well? (I'm not able to construct good keywords for search here: Google thinks I'm looking for an APK for the store app instead)
Television networks are responsible for finding and signing their own programming, and that garners more creative respect.

That said, people do (myself included) lump Facebook into roughly the same category as network television and phone book salesmen.
I was making a net profit for a while mining some scrypt based coins on AWS.
>> No it won't, customers don't like sharing their credit card information online, it's why Paypal is still in business.

Paypal is in business because it's easy, nothing to do with giving out CC details.

>> Not when they trust their vendors. I trust Amazon for example, I don't need to pay a few extra percent to the card company for consumer protection.

Then you'll end up paying a few percent to amazon to protect you from vendors in their marketplace. Comes down to the same thing.

>> Bad reviews work far better in getting a vendor to act.

Typical libertarian nonsense. It doesn't matter if I get ripped off, I'll leave a bad review! We don't need health regulations for restaurants, if I get food poisoning and die I'll just never eat there gain!

Reality does not work that way, and we have all of recorded history to prove it.
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Thanks for the reply.

I did note this:

Brain imaging is not ready for use as a diagnostic tool in ADHD, Shaw said."It is still too early to use neuroanatomical scans for diagnosis," he said. "We had to scan hundreds of children to identify subtle differences. They [the differences] are very real, but they are subtle. So the scan of any one child will not tell you a great deal about whether [he or she has] ADHD or not. Currently, the diagnosis of ADHD remains clinical."

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/brain-maturation-de...

A buddy of mine was telling me that you could diagnose ADHD with brain scans--this link seems to say the exact opposite.
Dude, shut up already. Why would they try on fixing that ?
GCC works better
Couldn't they just look at the user agent and know that the hit to their API is coming from an Android device rather than a server?
Now that I've had time to check out the update in depth, I can say that this update actually affects my project in a huge way. It'll require refactoring probably around 500 of lines of code because of the elimination of {{#isolate}, {{#constant}} and preserve-inputs, and the new template.rendered functionality.
Grandparent here. I got fooled by going to the Github repo someone else linked in this thread. There were no licensy-looking files in the root, so the first place I checked was in docs/, and the first file I saw was COPYING.

So I just assumed the project was LGPL.
Yes, CIS is quite popular in Asia where inkjets aren't as prone to nozzle clogging but toner-based printers suffer from the more humid climate.

Buying generic ink in bulk quantities is also much cheaper than individual cartridges (you can buy a whole LITRE of ink for the price of an original cartridge for some printers), and you can even dilute it a significant amount if you don't mind slightly reduced saturation - I've run 10:1 black dilution in my CIS and the output looks only very slightly greyish.

Some printers have EEPROMs on the cartridges to deter refilling/CIS systems but the Chinese have produced "modchips", self-resetting cartridges, etc. to get around this; some can even reflash the firmware, presumably with one that has all the checks patched out.
I'm surprised that it was large instances instead of GPU instances. GPU would be much more profitable if you are mining a scrypt coin (or sha256 coin but that would be stupid because of ASICs).

Maybe it was some other type of coin (I'm not sure if primecoin is more CPU-friendly).
Valve open sources Mesa... Black Mesa... Half-Life... HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!
One of the things I'm most worried about is that a country I'd like to work in has really different culture in regard to university than we do here. To be honest, from my perspective I've always thought US to be a country where degrees mattered quite a bit.

Attending university in New Zealand doesn't seem to have nearly as much weight placed on it as it does in America, although that may just be a perception thing.

Thanks for your input =)
Compare annual earnings and SW developers earn lots more... with more job security
Are you comparing hourly rates to hourly salaries? If so, don't do that. Anyone working on a freelance basis, programmer or cleaner alike, has to charge a hefty premium to pay for self-employment taxes, their own benefits, vacation, non-payment/scheduling/market risk, unbillable time doing rainmaking/business administration, and the like.

If you are doing apples to apples and actually know junior or senior developers with a $50 hourly in the Bay Area, tell them to double their rates today. That still doesn't get them to market but hey baby steps like doubling their rates are a good way to get started.
There are entire families of problems that would be better solved with a far more visual approach to code. For instance, worrydream has some UX concepts on learnable programming that just feel much better than what we use today.

We could do similar things to visualize actor systems, handle database manipulation and the like. The problem is that all we are really doing is asking for visualization aids that are only good at small things, and we have to build them, one at a time. Without general purpose visualizations, we need toolsets to build visualizations, which needs more tools. It's tools all the way down.

You can build tools for a narrow niche, just like the lispers just build their DSLs for each individual problem. But even in a world without a sea of silly parenthesis and a syntax that is built for compilers, not humans, under every single line of easy, readable, domain-centric code lies library code that is 100% incidental complexity, and we can't get rid of it.

Languages are hard. Writing code that attempts to be its own language is harder still. But those facts are not really the problem: They are a symptom. The real problem is that we are not equipped to deal with the detail we need to do our jobs.

Let's take, for instance, our carefree friends that want to build contracts on top of Bitcoin, by making them executable. I am sure a whole lot of people here realize their folly: The problem is that no problem that is really worth putting into a contract is well defined enough to turn it into code. We work with a level of ambiguity that our computers can't deal with. So what we are doing, build libraries on top of libraries, each a bit better, is about as good a job as we can do.

I do see how, for very specific domains, we can find highly reusable, visual high level abstractions. But the effort required to build that, with the best tools out there, just doesn't make any practical sense for a very narrow domain: We can build it, but there is no ROI.

I think the best we can do today is to, instead of concentrate so much on how shiny each new tool really is, to go back to the real basics of what makes a program work. The same things that made old C programs readable works just as well in Scala, but without half the boilerplate. We just have to forget about how exciting the new toys can be, or how smart they can make us feel, and evaluate them just on the basis of how can they really help us solve problems faster. Applying proper technique, like having code that has a narrative and consistent abstraction levels, will help us build tools faster, and therefore make it cheaper to, eventually, allow for more useful general purpose visualization plugins.
You can build a trie of all the AWS keys and then for each Android binary, traverse each series of bytes until it either terminates at a leaf node or fails to continue. If it fails, you start over again on the next byte. Or in order words, the trie allows you to easily test if a given byte is the start of an AWS key, and so then you just check every possible offset. Believe the run time will only be O(n*k) where n is the size of the binary and k is the size of the AWS key, plus enough memory to store the trie which is probably relatively small; less than 1m AWS accounts?
This sounds great! Is this exclusively for people looking to work in the Bay Area? Any plans for a NYC data engineering program?
A simple, kernel-space, on-disk filesystem from scratch
They did a good thing, title feels slightly misguiding. Could they have figured it out based on API access locations being random?
I'm always amazed how we don't look at our diets before resorting to drugs to treat conditions.

What you eat has the largest effect on your brain chemistry.
My understanding of the sponsorship system is that the company has to prove that they're unable to hire someone with your skill-set locally. To do this they have to prove you have a specialized skill-set, which means either a university degree, or 12 years industry experience.

I was approached by Facebook a while ago but nothing came of it as I didn't have a degree, it would be too hard for them to get me a visa.

I'm not too concerned with increased earning potential, or ability to actually get jobs. I earn towards the upper end of the pay spectrum for my field in New Zealand, and I've never had trouble getting interviews. I'm more concerned that I'm going to have issues moving into leadership positions and the like. Perhaps I'd have more trouble overseas though.
Quick sidequestion: Does HHVM support the Weakref extension?

I ask because while it is not listed on the github wiki[1] but does appear in the manual[2]. I'm assuming the manual is an oversight, branched from PHP's manual and not pruned.

That said, weak-references are indispensable for certain problems, and I'd love to see them standard.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Extensions
[2] http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/book.weakref.php
Conjecture, and I guess you're welcome? My guess is if you embedded your Google cloud credentials in your app and it was compromised Google would be happy to bill you, terminate your account, or otherwise provide zero latitude as a customer. At least they dropped their prices, right?
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/HttpURLConne... might not have a default User-Agent header that identifies android
These benchmarks are uselessly bad:

- The client connections are run without concurrency, serially, on the same machine: https://github.com/brianhempel/isrubyfastyet/blob/master/run...

- The JIT is only given 3 seconds to warm up: https://github.com/brianhempel/isrubyfastyet/blob/master/run... -- HotSpot kicks ass, but not after only 3 seconds of serially issued requests.

- By running the tests single-threaded, they're throwing away one of the major wins of the JVM -- low overhead concurrency.
I'm not saying it's anti-human-rights, just answering the question about how people view the issue and (I'm assuming) Eich's response to it. Personally, these days I don't think government should have anything to do with marriage at all.

For what it's worth, part of how the free market avoids devolving into pure selfishness is that people take personal stands on moral issues, regardless of economic concerns. That, also, is an important way that change happens. It just happens that you and I don't agree with that particular stand (not that it necessarily had anything to do with the resignations in question).
That's exactly how I felt. And they wrote such a detailed email with helpful links and everything.
Tesla worked for Edison, still made great things. Who you work for rarely changes who you are as a person if you already know who you are. Just now they have funding and lots of momentum. I think people fear Facebook owning it as scary because they know it will go somewhere with that much behind it rather than it not happening.
It could have raised alarms and then personally investigated. You Could monitor distribution of AWS connections per client. You could easily determine that accessing the same account from many android devices is probably result of poor security practices.
Limitless. Go watch it if you haven't
You're off in the weeds. A refcount can be incremented/decremented with a simple atomic compare-and-swap, and that's exactly what most refcounting systems do.

It's not free, but it's damn close to it.
Donepezil is a cholinesterase inhibitor, meaning it increases the amount of acetylcholine circulating around nerve endings.

They just casually put that there, but I don't think most readers will be exactly familiar with what that means? It's basically raising the baselevel of what is one of the most common neurotransmitters. It's a carpet-bomb, not the targeted strike the article makes it out to be.
I've seen a few posts before where they had a kickstarter like indicator for email collection. for some projects it seems like it might be helpful. video seems like a good idea but it seems expensive to build
Firefox has a separate search box from the URL box for a reason. Every keystroke of the search box is sent to Google so the auto-complete results come up. Chrome has a single box for both URLs and search, so every character of every URL you type is sent to Google. That's the difference.
For amblyopia (lazy eye) mentioned in the article, diet doesn't do anything. Diet doesn't do much for neurodegenerative disorders, either. Today, when you get alzheimer's, it only gets worse. You can't eat a lot of blueberries and suddenly regain brain function.

I thought the article was good. It didn't overhype any expectations of the drugs being tested. The research appears to be proceeding cautiously, but optimistically.
I see nothing wrong here. They are probably doing this now because it in fact a major problem, even with large, professionally developed apps. About 8 months ago I did a brief analysis of the then-current Vine apk and relatively quickly extracted their S3 credentials (they were not stored in plain text, but close enough). Very bad idea.
Facebook cares too much about their performance to use responsive design.
I understand perfectly how people end up mistakenly pushing credentials into public source repos when releasing server-side stuff. But I don't get how a seemingly sane person develops an application intended for distribution to the public which contains AWS credentials.

At what point in your development process do you say "I want this application, which will be distributed to unknown persons, to contain the means to control my AWS account."?
Firebase (YC S11) is hiring a DevOps Engineer in SF
My recollection is that, for a given point size, Garamond uses fewer pages, not just less ink.

I often switched from Times New Roman to Garamond when I needed to squeeze extra text in under the page limit, back when I was in school.
I think we are still tinning about markets in Newtonian terms, where in reality they are relativistic - everything warps the market.
Ms. Minshew, would you mind answering the question that how specifically targeting women for jobs is not sexist in itself? What if you could find perfect male candidate for a particular position than women applicants ? Do you think its fair to pass on such opportunity for male candidate because he is male ?
Please. Let's not give Gaben any more distractions from Left for Dead 3.

EDIT: Yes... Yes... Let the butthurt FLOW through you! Hacker News is MUCH more professional and serious than those filthy casual peasants over at reddit!
This looks like almost exactly what I was thinking I'd do if I were to try to solve my issues with Go's way of doing things. Awesome.
you do not need a degree to be successful. what you need, above all, is hard work + determination.

you will be asked to explain your lack of degree, however. so your best strategy is so lead a life so successful, that your story overcomes any bias you may encounter. :>
Scientists Reconstruct Faces From DNA Samples
It's not about eating a lot of fruits to suddenly regain brain function.

Take a look at the research on how the average diet of carbs and process foods affects our body. A ketogenic diet has shown to increase brain function in a recent study. I'll try to find it and post here.
AWS knows the clients that are connecting to it. All they have to detect is that a large amount of traffic is coming from a wide distribution of mobile devices. This is indicative they embedded the creds into the APK. If they got the creds from a server during runtime, it would be safer to proxy to AWS through the server itself, and never distribute the sensitive data. This would result in only a few proxies connecting to AWS.

Amazon surely has automated this with monitoring. I doubt they ever scan Google Play and download the APKs and scan them. Not only is that extremely wasteful it's most definitely violating the Google Play terms of service.
I really want to warn each and one of you against giving Gavan Woolery any money for this.

I was a big fan of him as a kid when he created a huge following around his game project genesis. It was an open-world, sandbox voxel rpg.

As far as I remember he received thousands for development of the game (admittedly much of it was from close friends and relatives, but I donated money as well).

At the nearest opportunity Gaven abandoned the project, using it to get a job at a game company and not even bothering to develop the project in his spare time.

His brother tried his best to keep the project alive, and many lurked around the forums generating hype and designing the game.

The updates from Gavan became less and less as if his heart was not in it any more and years later people began giving up hope-- little by little people left.

Eventually Gavan shuttered the site.

I understand that the project was overly ambitious, but looking through your life I believe you have a tenancy for creating vaporware and not finishing any you start.

I really believed in you Gavan and you were an inspiration for me to become a programmer and to start projects of my own, but I will never forgive you for abandoning the project the way you did.

Screenshots of game:

https://plus.google.com/photos/118320659623423727582/albums/...

Archive of website:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070311023308/http://www.playge...
I was only giving my personal opinion based on the data I've seen. All I'm really advocating here is that every person should educate themselves before accepting any diagnosis. Do your own research and form your own opinions.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
That cnet piece doesn't in any way contradict the parent's comment.
Most probable.
Excellent point - reminds me of a quote about Prolog that stating problems in a solvable form is as hard as solving the problem. Creating a graphical environment can't sidestep the difficulty in rigorously defining a problem or figuring out how to solve it.
Limitless was based on Modafinil (a real-life nootropic you buy). You can read more about it here: http://www.brightjourney.com/q/physical-hacks-diet-nootropic...
I think this is a more plausible approach (and likely cheaper resource-wise to implement). Though, if the authentication requests somehow identify the Android app in question, it might be easy for Amazon to then perform a follow-up and download the app to verify their suspicions and avoid false-positives.
"It's better than facebook, it's better than Wikipedia"

Is he high?
I share the sentiment of the parent in that the illusion of value could be much larger than the actual value.

Ultimately the work these people do is more valuable for themuse than for themselves, and even if there are a lot of people willing to do it, it does not mean it is ethical to let them do it for free.
Pebble Smartwatch App Challenge Finalists Announced
I can't be the only one who has difficulty understanding what exactly the signal is when a board member steps down.

>resigned because they had sought an outside hire to work alongside Eich

Okay, but why would this mean you needed to resign?

Totally not tracking, here.
What a terrible article. In one sentence says they stepped down in response to Brendan Eich's controversial promotion, then in another sentence says that Eich's donation was not the reason for their departure.

At no point is there an actual quote from any of these three board members that has anything to do with Eich's stance on Prop 8, and a different Mozilla exec is quoted.

What a hack job.
If I recall, isn't caffeine (effectively) an cholinesterase inhibitor?
Probably from people wanting to take advantage of free computing power. From their website: Write, compile, and run code in most programming languages ... is a free service ... currently 288 cores, 1.2TB RAM
> Silicon Valley is so concentrated that it is super valuable to absorb the values of how startups build valuable things, and start your company here.

Assuming you think modern Silicon Valley "values" are worth emulating, and the idea of inhaling the Silicon Valley myopic mono-culture 24/7 appeals to you.

On the other hand, staying grounded in the world outside Silicon Valley means being able to empathize with people who aren't 20 years old and don't know everything, and who actually have to produce real lasting value for there to continue to be a paycheck.

I went through an exit in the first bubble once already; I was happy when it popped, and happy to move away from the navel-gazing Silicon Valley culture when it re-emerged, and can't possibly imagine why I would want to go back.
I wasn't :).
Google Helpouts? https://helpouts.google.com/home

It's not trivial to get started, but my mom did medical transcription, mostly from home, for years. My brother and I even did it for a while.
Well RubyMotion is using ARC.
Facebook bought Oculus VR to build the metaverse
I wrote a 'make' program in the 80's (I still use it http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/make.html) and it has a macro processor in it, but it is not like the old C preprocessors.

Warp does support the obsolete gcc-style varargs, but other obsolete practices it discards.

In any case, I haven't seen any Makefiles big enough to benefit from faster preprocessing.
The first step of scaling an app is not to make sure you have a server with at least 43GB of RAM.

If we say a typical Rails process is 150MB, then consider several hundred of them...

150MB * 300 = 43GB

So, while your point is valid, in that there is value in safety and code simplicity, we're not talking just "a little" memory. Consider your use case, that's all.
great for them. i worked for an unnamed company who was shipping AWS credentials in clients for years. worse, they were not clients that required a packaged binary (no need to decompile). it's long since patched but i can't believe no one ever sniffed that out.
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OR a normal diet and some drugs. Why not figure it out both ways?