skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To those of you that support this, did any of you boycott Obama pre-2012 because he was against gay marriage?
Allowing only POST requests can help for one simple reason - it's harder for people to share the link without knowing what they're giving away.

Of course, using POST is not the only solution here (requiring the invitation to be by the signed-in user is way better), and it can represent a UX problem (refreshing causes the dreaded "form resubmit" warning).

But it's not a no-op. It does have effect in security in practice, even if it doesn't in theory.
I don't think he means that it is technically impossible, just that before he had hope and an opportunity, and now the opportunity is gone and there is no other one like it.
OK, let's assume that these guys created an amazing non-invasive glucose monitoring solution (unlikely). That doesn't tell you jackshit about calories. If I ate 3,000 calories of mostly fat and some protein, or I ate 300 calories of pure sugar, the insulin and blood glucose profiles would be drastically different. And the system would most likely think that I assumed more calories when eating the sugar.
Also, although this is more the case overseas rather than in Westeros itself, slaves. Ancient Greece and Rome certainly had the knowledge and ingenuity to have industrial revolutions, but with the availability of mass forced labour, there would have been a much smaller cost saving in mechanising tasks. Serfdom kind of does the same thing to a lesser extent.
That mass storage device can even be permanently damaged if dropped on the floor :)
Because GRRM is too busy introducing new characters.
It looks like a train and a sports car had a baby
Yup. Jeez. Analyzing pictures of women to say whether they're attractive is about as big a red flag as there can be.
Thanks for writing this. I find your writing style to be very easy to follow. I've wanted to play with a toy language for some time, so I'm very excited to dive into your book with both feet. I'm working on Windows and am up to chapter 6. Very enjoyable. The only suggestions I would offer is perhaps to mention that AST stands for Abstract Syntax Tree. It seems this book is targeted to less experienced programmers, so it may be helpful to mention what AST means in this context. Thank you for your hard work and willingness to share your knowledge.
Big rigs are not concerned with turning right vs left for efficiency. They rarely need to turn at all, because they do long distance hauls (either between states or cities).
Very frustrated that I don't have enough karma to downvote. Grow up.
"this can be interpreted in more than one way."

One flavor can be seen in the A20 gate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20_line

30 years after it was inserted into the architecture to work around some software issues/bugs, bootloaders still have to fool around with it every time a x86 machine is booted. Lovely.
Bonen vroeger zaaien kan – Tuin Tips
Ask HN: How would you handle items' IDs beyond 2^64 (18.4 quintillion)?
Every item (submission/comment) on Hacker News is assigned to a unique ID number.

Assuming that 2^64 is now the maximum number a computer can handle at once, what's the best way you can handle the ID numbering system when there are more than 2^64 items?
Actually if anyone should worry it would be Google. Microsofts play here is very much like Google's, offer a free OS for a variety of phone hardware companies and make money off of the services and app sales. Microsoft can offer a better OS and app store than google but still be on just as many pieces of hardware. Windows 8.1 on a phone is actually a better experience in a lot of ways than Android 4.4 already and it's just going to continue to go that way IMO.
Here's another truck that is more conventional in design, yet doubles fuel-efficiency.

http://www.airflowtruck.com

It has full skirts, aero nose, and a trailer tail. The only place left to optimize is the tractor to trailer gap, responsible for about 25% of the aero loss in a regular truck.
Lua's most popular use is for scripting game engines. From simple side scrollers to powerful FPS 3D engines.

So it's basically like "a taste of the world of Lua" or something like this, to make the presentation less dry.
As much as I'm genuinely excited and sincerely optimistic about the great work from their developer group (e.g., the open source announcements this week), I also feel that their "if you can't compete on product, slander" negative ad campaigns (e.g., scroogled) will continue to hold Microsoft back as a company and as a culture.

This engineer, for example, would never consider going back and working there again as long as their executives think that negativity is a good business policy. And ultimately, their employees can (and have) voted with their feet.

Fix that, though, and yes, Microsoft is very much capable of reinventing itself for a new era.

Edit: To clarify, I'm sure that there are some readers who agree with the particular points raised in these negative campaigns. Generally speaking, I don't, but that's not my point here.

What bothers me is when, rather than promoting the values of one's own product, companies try to (sometimes even hypocritically) find or invent flaws in the competition instead. Be humble and respectful of your competitors and customers alike, build the best product you can (better than the competition if possible), and win on merit. I truly believe the talented, hard-working engineers deserve that much.
Also, some of the Targaryen kings tried to revive the dragons using magic.
Sharepoint is also a multi-billion dollar business. Can only imagine how much it could make for Microsoft if it wasn't so easy to implement badly.
Oh, its the "calories" !
The things that people are ready to do to size down, stay healthy and look better; you won't believe it!
Terry Pratchett is another.
Any platform can win if they win the developers and thus a thriving platform. Microsoft has been repelling developers for the past decade but most recently it is now attracting them with more open broad market technologies.

They built their platforms/empire on developers first originally, every platform since has also done this. The signals out of the new Microsoft seems to be old school developer love.

They are pushing people to their new 'OS' Azure, higher up the stack, and their tools push you in that way. But they are no longer religious about the language, platform, code, etc. This supports their tools, cloud and ultimately platform. But they have to reconvince developers that they won't grow distance again.
Because millions of people use Opera Mini 4.x which does not support most JavaScript functions.
I have always looked ahead - used to read a lot of near-future sci-fi - Arthur Clarke, Asimov, Gibson, Stephenson, Bradbury. Much of what they envisaged is reality - earphones, networks, knowledge-based AI.

It use to be hard to do computing - you had to understand compilers and assembler and you were often on your own. Now I'd say that anyone who can do Sudoku can understand many common algorithms. Here's a simple example (https://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/03/15/segmentation-of-im... Ramer-Douglas-Peucker segmentation of contours). I've illustrated it with kangaroos - but I think children of (I guess) six years old could easily manage it. And so could a 75-year old.

The thing that's different is the frameworks. 10 years ago you'd have to build this from the bottom up. Things like reading images (Java.IOImage is not cuddly). But now we have boofcv.org and Apache (and similar in Python).

Learn to use libraries and you can be an effective programmer. The skill is finding out what's out there. And here the social skills are important. Go to hack days - we had a wonderful NHS hack day in Cambridge. Find your makerspaces. Contact Mozilla, Wikipedia or OKFN. They'll all love to hear from you.

Do you like crosswords? You've got half the skills required for natural Language Programming already. And remember there are people to help you. I will.

And thats' a great idea - an over-70s hack day. If you are interested, tweet me @petermurrayrust Not on twitter? That's the first thing you should think about!
Do you work in an enterprise ? Because I can't remember the last time I've seen a Word or Excel doc and work emails are often ignored. Increasingly business wikis and social networks are the norm. It's why I see Microsoft's acquisition of Yammer and Skype as brilliant acquisitions and OneNote and lighter Office 365 apps as their future.

Microsoft if they were really smart would acquire Atlassian and Evernote and look at taking over Wave.
I think you meant "killing".
Google’s Dead-Simple Tool For Making UX Decisions: 2 Jars Of Marbles
People do complain about there not being enough men in nursing.
58 Percent of Americans Want the US to Stay Out of Ukraine
An ALU is only a part of a CPU while a M3 is a full blown CPU so you can't compare the two.
PhantomJS as an HTML Validator in JUnit
Is it too late is just a headline to attract readers.

Microsoft (in contrary to the general believe here) is doing very well. Their profits are good, XBox is attracting and etc..

They do have some marketing issues concerning Windows Phone and Windows 8. But don't over eggagerate... Windows is the most used platform on desktops and servers (definatly in SMB's, because not the whole world is a fortune 500 company and has their own IT departement). People who are running MAC are using dualboot or Parallels to use Windows and Microsoft gets a lot of money from mobile (even though it is Android mostly).

Their profits are up in the business sector and with Azure, they have a great platform (i use it myselve) and with Bizspark, they help startups in their most critical period.

The only thing that is changing, is that microsoft is more open and are improving their public image. But that's affecting the IT knowledgable persons more then anyone else.

People who have non-it jobs don't really care about the difference and i see even a trend where IT knowledgable persons don't want anything to do with businesses like Apple.

In that extent, i see more and more people countering Apple then Microsoft. (I'm speaking from a personal view in Belgium, the observations i have from talking with my parents and my non-IT friends, i don't know for sure how it is outside of Belgium.)
For example, the hardware stores who have almost no access to Apple devices (and if they do, a very limited profit margin and a lot more hassle) and people who give lessons in using a tablet to other people, who have expressed their concerns about Apple are just 2 examples i can think of)
I can't speak for myself I believe I have worked with some contributors to LedgerSMB who are retired.

In general, I think one has to be careful about making generalizations here regarding aptitude. LedgerSMB is hard to get into because with ERP/Accounting software the domain knowledge requirements are significantly higher than the fluid intelligence requirements and domain knowledge increases as we get older. In LedgerSMB I have generally found that older programmers contribute better code than younger programmers precisely for this reason. Some of the biggest bugs we have ever had (the ones that caused us to pull 1.2.0 and 1.2.1) were caused by overlooking a critical part of domain knowledge.

So I dont think things get particularly worse. The fields of excellence may change however.
I saw this when it aired in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ndY8g0cuEI

Walmart could be saving lots of money now if they wanted to, and without any special technology.
Yep, as an entrepreneur it would be pretty difficult for me to have my factory shutdown for 5-7 years because the roads had 5 years worth of snow on them.
Actually the Yahoo! employee (schofield?) in the above link is right and you cannot blame him for this - it is because Yahoo! really think first name + last name + email are not private information AFAIK, not particularly to Flickr, there are multiple ways to retrieve these information...
The article claims loaned money is wasted in "useless pageants and tournaments" but pageants might be the opposite of useless in this context. Having regular events where people travel from near and far to show off their finery encourages the development of technology - and the sharing of information - far in advance of what's necessary in normal day-to-day life.

Suppose you're making clothing (or armor, or swords...) and there's one big annual pageant in your region. That pageant constitutes a financial incentive to show off your best work. You now have a reason to save money and build up technological prowess the rest of the year so you can try extra hard to make something extra impressive that one week so the people who wear your stuff at that event will outshine everyone else. Having special show-offish events (generally with an associated crafts fair) leads to an arms race. If one lord has an especially finely-woven blue silk shirt in this years tournament, the next year everybody else HAS to have shirts made that well; the guy who came up with the technique for making it makes out like a bandit and other people copy his techniques. The need to impress others in a limited context produces tech that isn't normally necessary and that tech first spreads to the rest of the elite then trickles down to the masses.

Anyway, that's the "crafts fair" theory of how industrial development came about.
I'm not saying media reports claim those numbers, but, at least in the media I read/watch, the student loan debt problem is presented as something affect a large majority of young people. Really, it's affecting a large majority of young college-going students (which is probably self-evident) but it's generally not clarified as such.
A Story Of realloc (And Laziness)
They're traditionally heavily interdependent on each other and almost mutually inclusive.

Traditionally if you use Enterprise, you must use Exchange, you must use Office, you must use Windows, etc. You could fudge it and try to use other tools, but it was generally a complete PITA.

It's getting better than that (Azure for example & node.js), but the change has come in the last 3 years or so and as someone else noted in thread, that they could open source so much stuff so rapidly shows there was a lot of departments chomping at the bit to start decoupling themselves and moving forward.
Not bashing PHP in any way (I'm a PHP developer myself), but what would you consider the PHP paradigm?
> Oh and if you're outraged by some dumb boob app that a couple guys coded for fun at a Hackathon, you have your head way too far up your ass and need to stop taking yourself so seriously.

Calling it outrage is disingenuous, just a way of making it seem unreasonable in order to easily dismiss it. Better to think of it as one of the "thousand cuts" that drive women out of the industry.
Their claimed storage is correct. "Real gigabytes" are what disk manufacturers, and Linux, and others report. Microsoft calculates gibibytes (GiB, 2^9) but has always labeled them as gigabytes (GB, 10^3), which is what perpetuates this confusion.
I live in a small city in Vermont, and I would never, ever leave anything on the table if I was going somewhere that I couldn't see the table.
I suppose if you just want to program because you like to program, then this article makes sense. If you want to program because you want to make stuff non-programmers can use, then you are more interested in productivity and distributability and are likely to choose higher level languages like JavaScript.
Badges? We Don't Need No LinkedIn Badges (why degrees are going to matter less)
Full Disk Encryption With Btrfs and Multiple Drives in Ubuntu
100% spot on. Google is the one people need to be worried about.

Should Siri and Cordova get to the point that people stop going to the browser to search then it could severely impact Google's mobile revenues. And what happens if Microsoft doubles down on Bing and convinces Apple to make it the default ? Android may have a large market share but iOS has a disproportionate share of browser usage.

Google has a lot of enemies and zero friends. Precarious place to be in.
Sure.
From yummyfajitas' post:
<start of quote> "...forcing salaries down way below what is possible to live off."
This is an exaggeration. It may be forcing salaries below the level necessary to support US middle class consumption levels, but there is a huge gap between that and "possible to live off".
</end of quote>
This was in response to your post:
<start of quote> The problem is that the jobs that are left for those without a tech degree of some sort aren't appreciated by the market and is forcing salaries down way below what is possible to live off. </end of quote>
Maybe you meant "possible to live off" as being different from "dying", and if so I apologise for paraphrasing poorly. But yummfajitas is essentially saying that it is possible to live off of that money, because people do it, and you're saying that it's not possible.
Note: I happen to agree with you that there is a problem and that most people don't recognise it. But I still think you and yummyfajitas are arguing past each other.

NOTE: I accidentally posted this comment to the wrong parent earlier. reposting.
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Wesleyan bucks trend, lets students graduate in 3 years
I think they are difficult to read.
It would be nice see it link directly on kernel.org though.
You should consider that Microsoft was late to console market. For me, this shows that there is no such thing as "too late" in this market.
Obligatory link to a paper on arXiv analyzing the astrophysics of long and volatile winter seasons in Westeros (basically, can you have a system where you wouldn't be able to analytically solve/predict winters, etc.): http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0445 ("Winter is coming")

Excerpt from the abstract:

To right that appalling wrong, here we attempt to explain the apparently erratic seasonal changes in the world of G.R.R.M. A natural explanation for such phenomena is the unique behavior of a circumbinary planet. Thus, by speculating that the planet under scrutiny is orbiting a pair of stars, we utilize the power of numerical three-body dynamics to predict that, unfortunately, it is not possible to predict either the length, or the severity of any coming winter. We conclude that, alas, the Maesters were right -- one can only throw their hands in the air in frustration and, defeated by non-analytic solutions, mumble "Coming winter? May be long and nasty (~850 days, T<268K) or may be short and sweet (~600 days, T~273K). Who knows..."

(I like arXiv.)
People do realize that this technology is now proven to work, right? And because you can now do everything the wireless way (including the charging part), and using off-the-shelf components (you just need to find a subset of components that can be easily "approved for medical use"), and you'll have 99% less risk of infection!

Basically the successors of this technology should already be on the market now! They aren't simply because nobody found a way to make a huge profits and medical doctors are too technophobes and/or drowning in other problems that need their immediate attention to afford take risk* and make the effort of begging the government to fund this.
Millions of people are not using Opera Mini 4.x on any sites I actually work on. They constitute a small fraction of a percent of total visitors. The opportunity cost of developing fallbacks for them is simply too high when we could be developing additional improvements for the vast majority of our userbase.
Previous conversation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7539873
The first time I heard about kickstarter was for some stupid non-science bicycle cranks:

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2013/01/bad-physics-ba...
There still has to be some internal consistency, if too many things happen on just a whim of the author the story falls apart.
It's also odd that the patients had to pay for the experimental surgery. This doesn't sound like a serious clinical trial, it sounds like a hack performed by some back-alley doc in a dystopic science fiction story...
The very next paragraph says that "once programming gained prestige, women were pushed out." Isn't that basically the same point you're making?
I sincerely hope the average HNer reading this more or less agrees, but does not comment. I'd have a hard time stomaching the idea that these comments are actually representative of the community.
It says at the top "Without support for transform-style: preserve-3d you will see the fallback style (fill horizontal)." I think support for it is a little flaky on certain linux/graphics driver combos.
>People who have non-it jobs don't really care about the difference [..]

You're right, however, if I tell my mother that 'Apple is better than a PC running windows' over the course of 10 years; then very time she talks to someone about buying a new computer she'll remember that..

The only reason microsoft is the dominant platform is because of inertia.

if we were able to retrofit a generation of people with knowledge of other operating systems then I very much doubt microsoft would have even half of it's market share, since it's main merits are backwards-compatibility and very few of the applications that run on top of windows adhere to the same principles anyway.
Microsoft needs to open source SQL Server and FoxPro while they're at it. Just do it!
A puff piece. All the significant announcements made since Nadella took office will have been in the pipeline for months if not years. You don't port Office to iPad in 8 weeks.
You do realize "to live of" does not mean you will die from right?

As I have said the problem is that it's not enough and so they need to get help from the government which many of them get.

It's bordering an absurd rethorical nitpicking if you really aren't able to discuss this in a normal manner with a fairly normal understand of the US system.
> "if you can't compete on product, slander" negative ad campaigns (e.g., scroogled)

Why do you think Scroogled is slander? Some of this stuff seems pretty accurate:

http://www.scroogled.com/privacy

By comparison, Microsoft asks for explicit permission for any information sharing in their OS and software.
No, there is a difference between accessing things and publishing things with malicious intent.
Your comment on the Eich case doesn't make any sense, and seems completely irrelevant to the first part where you talk about 'sexism, sexual harassment etcetera' being rationalised. The reason that people were defending him was because nothing actually had happened at Mozilla.

He's been there since the Mozilla foundation was started but the chairman of the board said she was surprised about a political donation six years ago "because I never saw any kind of behavior or attitude from him that was not in line with Mozilla’s values of inclusiveness," but apparently you, who I can presume don't know him at all can say with all certainty that he is a 'raging homophobe.'

If there was any evidence that he had ever discriminated against any of his coworkers in his duties at Mozilla or treated any badly because they were LGBT, then you would have a point, but there wasn't.