skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, they are getting features out. They need to pass some tests, but the amount of features that are made on a daily level is quite large:

This features added aggregated on a weekly level
http://firefoxnightly.tumblr.com/
fyi, gambling machines made by Austrian/German conglomerate Novomatic/Löwen Entertainment use Abloy disc tumbler locks for securing the case and access switches.
This seems like a bad idea. localtunnel.me is redirecting non-tunnel'd subdomains to its main page, while inactive tunnel'd subdomains return "localtunnel error: no active client for 'adbc'". So, with a little poking, you find that tunnel'd subdomains seem to be [a-z0-9]{4}.localtunnel.me ... which isn't too terribly large of a search space to crawl. If it gets popular, it should be easy to find works-in-progress that might give up access to the user's computer, or keys to prod, or any of the other stuff that people are a little sloppy about on their work machines.

edit: I was wrong, I should've been a little more thorough. Looks like it's [a-z0-9]{4,10}.localtunnel.me, which is significantly larger.
Feature Request in Chrome: Check SSL sites for HeartBleed (WontFix)
Didn't Daft Punk write a song called Technologic about graphene? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozitqabi6UM
Road paint varies across the world. Where I live it appears to be a fairly thick layer of coloured goo applied hot that hardens almost immediately. It tends to last at least as long as the road surface itself.
I like how he pounds on one company who made a mistake on one network, while having no word for the developer who made a mistake for almost the entire internet.
i don't quite get the 'advanced software' part..how can it be criticism? and what an odd example..like, what other ssh client should one use if one were on winodws...
The following is a great article:

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9910.html

Including his self study:
https://www.schneier.com/paper-self-study.pdf
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Actually, shouting in the office means you coupled the FraudCheckActor to a PaymentCompleteEvent, and you coupled CancelOrderActor to FraudDetectedEvent.

Your lower level actors are still coupled with each other, through quite specific events, and on top of that, dependent on a subscriber setup.

Instead of declaring your own protocol and accepting messages in that protocol, now you need to understand everyone else's protocol (in the form of their event types) and react to it if you're subscribed to it.

It's the worst of both worlds.

Now, sure, you're right. Actors aren't like people in an office. Actors can't complain when you entangle them in a hot mess, they just carry on with whatever they're told to do.

But the more experience I gain, the more I see the systems of the "real world" are in fact exactly like the systems of the "computer world". If something makes no sense in an organization made of people, then almost inevitably it'll make developers cry when having to figure out the sequence of events when implementing the same organization as a set of actors.

Take it as a useful heuristic and humor my analogies. You might find a nugget of gold there.

Also, there's nothing blasphemous if my supervisor can be implemented as synchronous imperative code. When people hear about a new paradigm, they believe they have to abandon everything and do things differently for no reason. No. Find some balance, what you knew still works, don't throw it out, just add the new benefits Actor offers to you.

I.e. while Actors mean we can have objects that do things that you can't do in imperative/synchronous fashion, this doesn't mean we should never use actors for something that might be done in imperative/synchronous fashion. 90% of the interactions between actors still look like a request/response pattern. But those 10% when things don't look like a request/response really matter when you need that ability.

Also keep in mind Actors don't care how far its subordinates are. In synchronous programming things have to happen fast, or the thread blocks. With actors a request may be sent this week, and you may get an answer next month. Things can happen very fast, or very slow, the model is not biased. How fast is fast enough is now entirely up to your app's domain logic.

Also, some Actors implement persistence (which is far more trivial than trying to persist the callback graph or call stack in "normal" code), so they don't even care if the system shuts down and it has to start over from its last state.

Imagine OrderActor sends a call to FraudCheckActor and then the system crashes, or (if it's a business workflow process) it's just powered down for the night. When the system is restarted, OrderActor is already waiting for that answer from FraudCheckActor.

Do that with imperative/synchronous code.
in my team we had the scripts ready for a second provider (but not the hot backups, I couldn't get that far).
That's not true, look at Sweden, France, Germany, UK ... all practising socialism. It's helped their people with free health care, education. There are many good things about socialism.

The Bolsheviks were dictatorial bastards, no doubt. And many people think Bolshevik communism is the only way to go, it certainly is not.
Ah, looks great but as a compulsive click-and-select-bits kind of reader, that popup menu drove me crazy
> Will Python 2.x ever die?

My guess would be that Python 2.x will die at the same time that Python dies, i.e. the "transition" to Python 3 will never really happen, and part of the reason that Python will die is the split between 2 and 3.

I don't think it was obvious that Python 3 would "fail" in this sense, but it seems pretty likely now. Sympathy with Guido; this is essentially a cultural problem rather than a technical one, but as a rule backwards-compatibility tends to be a key component of success as a programming language (or library, or even O/S) evolves.

It's not too late -- a compromise could be found, but it would essentially involve abandoning 3 to a large extent. Not very palatable.

I'm sure Python has many years to go though, so I wouldn't worry about writing new code for the moment. Keep an eye on how things develop and think about jumping to another language if no-one sorts out this mess.
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I can see general programming being added to a school curriculum as most people think it's a guarantee at a good career (for some reason).

I don't mind this mindset, and would enjoy teaching such a course.

I look at it this way though, we theoretically teach every single American student how to write, has that caused an increase in high quality literature being produced? Theoretically, every high schooler can read, I'm curious what percentage of adults actually read literature for fun?

Most long form writing (which I'd consider to be analogous in complexity to large scale programming) is not very common. The average adult's writing is quick and "dirty". I'd expect to see an increase in programming similar in size, scope, and usefulness to email, text, lists, and meeting notes. It would be personal, private, and not meant to last. Tents, not marble palaces.

I think a much more valuable tool would be to teach everyone git (or something easier but still with good branching). For quick and dirty, excel is fine, and some improvement on it likely will come in our lifetimes. What I think is far more valuable is a way to version all text a person produces, with branching and history.
Seems totally incongruous that this high-tech ship has its monitors sitting, un-tied, to what look like pretty mundane desks, with the PC's sitting, again un-tied, on the deck. Everything on the monitor looks high-tech; everything under the monitor looks like a disaster that's just one big wave away from happening ..
On Kickstarter, the project description should convince the public that you are able to deliver a fun game; unfortunately you give consistent hints of the contrary.
The public knows that software projects tend to fail, run late and cost too much, and that games are often less than fun; videogames combine the two sources of uncertainty and are one of the highest risk types of Kickstarter project.

"However, about nine months ago, we decided that it would be preferable to abandon AndEngine and rewrite the game from scratch, in a graphics framework called LibGDX. This set us back quite a bit. However, we’re now at the stage where the game is back to its original functionality"

On the "being able to deliver" axis, you represent yourself as slow (over 1 year for a demo might be acceptable, but 9 months for a rewrite are a lot, smelling of part-time amateur development), prone to waste time with failed experiments (and persisting despite technical problems), unrealistically ambitious and/or unfocused (Windows and Mac and Linux and and iOS and Android? When high budget companies choose between Android and iOS?).
Consider what the numerous software developers and software project managers on HN are likely to think of rewriting software from scratch, regardless of your sound technical reasons.

"The game plays like a cross between A Link to the Past and Mass Effect, and takes some inspiration from Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels - along with whatever else can be scraped from an imagination fired by years of reading brilliant science fiction. Gameplay focuses around Ra’s ability to use magic, and the player can find many new spells as they explore the game’s universe. It’s not all action, though - players will come up against a variety of puzzles, ranging from mildly vexing to fiendishly tricky."

On the "fun game" axis, you have very little to show. You sure like your game, but TELLING it's fun is vastly different from SHOWING it's fun. Descriptions like this one are simply too generic to suggest how well you are meeting the stated objectives.
At least for me, the inexplicably low resolution graphics are particularly troublesome: whether they are the bizarre product of strange tastes or just a cheap and ugly placeholder, the concern over their quality projects on all other aspects of the game.
If an artist thinks that much smaller sprites than on the Atari 2600 are appropriate for HD screens, explaining how and why it's the best choice for your game needs to be a very important part of your message, or the public will assume the worst (you aren't giving the due attention to graphics and/or you are unable or unwilling to draw anything better).
Alternative to banning HFT? I can't think of any. (To clarify by HFT i do NOT mean algorithmic trading‎ in general)

The stock market is a service to provide equity for real production companies to grow. HFT distorts the real value of a stock. There is also 0 chance of any regulation authority to ever check the amount of paperwork HFT produces.
I've already seen PHPMyAdmin login and tokens pass by, so I don't think it's only used for showing progress but also to have a reverse tunnel back home..
"... during the socialist lost decade(s) in Israel"

I wouldn't call them "lost decades". Many of us sorely miss those years; though, to be honest, it's hard to separate fact from nostalgia.
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The $12k battery placement cost is not included in the spreadsheet, not to mention that this is the cost if purchased 8 years ahead of time and purchasing it later will probably be more expensive.

He's already bought the car and so he should know how his insurance cost has changed, but doesn't mention how much it changed.

The model also does not include property tax. I'm assuming California has a car property tax of some kind.

...so basically this is justifying his purchase to himself, little more than that.
>Congress decides what they get, and you can be sure it's barely enough to keep running as-is, let alone enough to put into future investments like say, an upgraded IT infrastructure, which then necessitates emergency measures like paying MS for XP support...I'm by no means saying that we should let them run around doing whatever they want, damn the cost, but keep in mind that auditing and transparency have a cost, and we need to look at what's cheaper in the long run and not just in the short term.

I sincerely doubt that the IRS, a revenue department, is running efficiently and is underfunded. I did a cursory search to see if I'm making up crazy claims and it seems like the lack of funding is largely self-reported.[1]

I sincerely believe that this is due to a lack of planning and just 'kicking the ball down the field.' Why go through all the annoying conversations about upgrades when you're going to retire or leave before it matters?

Microsoft first set the end of support for 2011. As a nod to their massive XP user-base, they pushed EOS to 2014. You're suggesting that the IRS is rational in paying for emergency patches to something that they received a 3 year extension on? Windows 7 was released EOY 2009 -- it's not as if they were stuck for lack of options.

This is crap planning and I really doubt that consequences exist.

[1] http://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/2012-Annual-Report/irs-f... (side note: I like the "automation is bad, boo" bullet-point)
Thats a great Kickstarter-ish Idea.
I think its going to set a trend.
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Really guys I am. I love Paul Graham. He is sexy.
I guess equally or better than isn't good enough.

It was a lot better than IE6/7 when I started using it. It was still a log slog to make 1% gains in market share. People didn't even think of browsers as an application you can replace. It was just the internet.

Firefox won by being good enough that users nagged other users into replacing IE. They definitely were and I think we have FF to thank for a lot of the improvements to the web. I love it when companies compete simply on being better. It's probably more controversial, but I appreciate Apple for the same reason. They don't use "crutches" like corporate support, lock-ins or cheap prices. For the most part they set out to make something people will want to buy with their own money even though its more expensive.

I think Apple are losing mobile phone market share for the same reason. That strategy sets a high quality bar. You need to be substantially better than the competition. When it works, it pushes the whole bar up and everyone benefits, even consumers who choose the easiest/cheapest option.

Maybe Firefox's smartest strategy isn't 'make the best browser' anymore. I'm not going to call on them to abandon it though. I say try to make the best browser and if they fail, c'est la vie.
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If you take a look at the video you will notice it doesn't work. The white lines are much brighter than the glow in the dark lines.

This is only an improvement when you are driving without lights (which is illegal).
Not sure who downvoted your GGP comment, you did have a valid point.

Nonetheless, I think there's hardly ever a justification for asking other people to perform "a day or two" of work to set up something, even in exchange for years of solid deployment. A day or two, multiplied by thousands of Windows developers, adds up to several man-years of entirely avoidable work.

Entirely avoidable, because it's Google's job, not ours, to package up this Omaha thingy into a neat binary with a neat API that any project can easily use. It's not too difficult to ship a single binary (or collection of binaries) that will work out of the box on every Windows Vista/7/8 PC, with the only dependencies being the Win32 API, vcredist, and perhaps a recent version of .NET Framework. Wrap it all up in an .msi and you're good to go. No need to tell a C# developer, for example, to meddle with Visual C++ or Python.

If the Omaha devs can spend a few weeks to make the setup process as simple as that, now that would have a real chance of adoption.
> Then please be constructive and explain Mozilla how else they'll get their 300 millions operating budget each year

They should probably start with dropping their yak shaving shenanigans (Rust, Persona et. al.), nice toys as their are.
I like the look of it.

One thing that would help reduce my anxiety about inputting my email address would be to give an indication about how long development is likely to take (e.g. we anticiapte Tymeline will be ready 4 months after we have 8,608 users signed up). If you do this, it may be worth showing how many people are already signed up, so I get an idea how much longer it will be until development kicks off fully.
> Opera has Google set as a default search engine and doesn't allow to change that

You mean the search bar when opening a new tab? True, that's always Google. But if you go to settings, the third thing from the top is managing search engines, and setting the default to use for things entered in the address bar :)
I suspect the real, top-secret business behind import.io is in either training a system to crawl the web and see structured data, and/or gathering over time a very rich crowd-sourced database of structured data.
>You are, apparently. Why do you think that's what anyone else is talking about?

This thread started with the quote "proprietary codecs vs vp8". That is clearly talking about standards not implementations. The very post you replied to talked about standards, standards bodies and ended with "The licence of various implementations […] are irrelevant to its status as proprietary".

>H.264 is patent-encumbered.

I've no idea what you are getting at here. You seem to still be confusing standards and implementations. Are saying that software that is affected by patent claims must be proprietary? x264 is proprietary? LAME is proprietary? ffmpeg is proprietary? Are you aware of the huge number of extremely broad software patents that have been granted? Just about any non-trivial software will infringe some patent or other.
How does this even make sense? Safari is an option for everyone using OS X.
Seconded. I've used KISSmetrics for this exact use case. There's a bit of groundwork required to setup 'events' but once that's done they will track every user and you can see how the user ended up using your app.
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So you say Mozilla is not ad-supported and the most of its money don't come from Google?
Interesting, tell me more.
Just to inform your ingonrance. The Eastern and South Ukraine is a Russia. It was attached to the Ukraine be the bloody communist criminals. Look at the map http://13571113.blogspot.com/2014/03/republic-of-novorossiya...

New government of Ukraine is neonazi, installed by the US during this winter. This is done second time. First time it happened in 2004, why american citizen Uschenko has imposed antisoviet propaganda in the school program, the WWII nazi criminal, Stepan Bandera, was made a national hero. It was indoctrinated a neonazi idea that russians are inborn slaves and biogarbage, russian language was banned. Antisoviet/antirussian brainwashing was absolutely successful but economic programme has failed. Therefore Uschenko has lost the office. But, in 2013, US has re-installed its puppet government in the Ukraine again, by force. How do you react?

The new government was much more neonazi (look for "svoboda" party and "far right groups patrolling Kiev"). The first law was to ban the russian language again. They have declared that they will remove the russian fleet (which is located in crimea forever, since Crimea is another Russian land, attached to Ukraine by mistake by Soviet Authority, when ). Now, how do you prove that Russian people (the total population of the Crimea, Doneck, Odessa) should welcome the US-installed russophobic mankurts in Kiev, who chant "slotter the russians" (https://www.google.ee/search?q=москалей+на+ножи) in their fascist marches? You do not bother to prove that. Your propaganda has already put all shit in your head.

1. Russian people in the Ukraine (almost the half of the pouplation) have all the right to run away from your neonazi puppets.
2. They have full right to live with other russians.
3. Russia has all the right to meet the aspirations of frightented people in Ukraine and defend its national interests, which are the Black Sea fleet, russian population united with the rest of the Russia and no NATO in the Ukraine.

You dehumiliate the russian hostages in Ukraine because you want the whole Ukraine to go under Western domination. You want it to separate from the Russia because (as Bzhesinzki puts that) Russia will loose its ability to stand against US Empire only if it looses the Ukraine. You is an imperialist, brainwahsed by the Western propaganda. Crimea has came back home. The "Independent Ukraine" is American, anti-Russia project. The population is russian and feels bad there. It must be ukrainized, turned into ukranians (anti-russians). All russian regions must return back to Russian home, immediately. Start respecting territorial integrity of Sovient Union, not Ukraine.
Why would USSR invade Romania? The only scenario I can think of is reinstating Communist government.

Seriously, USSR didn't have plans to occupy and assimilate random foreign countries. Not as far as I know.

And don't forget USSR depended heavily on Romanian furniture :)
How? By caring about browser more than about politics.
It's quite disturbing to see Mozilla evangelists like Heilmann spreading some dubious ideas and sometimes plain FUD around.
Looking forward to see cross country skiing poles made from graphene :-)
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Maybe not a new thing, but I finally found what I was looking for
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FWIW I've had a similar side project for a while; I opted for using the main display area to show the headline, full url, and links to comments (and recently, comments from other sites). Up/down arrows navigate and return key opens the article in a new tab.

It's a nice balance between easily navigating articles, and not getting in the way too much. But that might be entirely personal taste.
"If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared today,
what would be the most difficult thing to explain
to them about today?"

"I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable
of accessing the entirety of information known to
man. I use it to look at pictures of cats and get
into arguments with strangers."

http://as.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/15yaap/if_someone_...
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This is only true for the American populist definition of socialism. Here in Europe we usually talk about social democracy, where basic needs of people (healtcare, education, not starving) are addressed by the state, but one is free to form private enterprises (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model). This is quite different from the brand of socialism the USSR was aiming for, where all private property would have been abolished.
That's just a mock-up / prototype room that is located at Raytheon in Portsmouth VA.

Here is a image of a similar one that is really on a ship:

http://www.gdlcs.com/sites/default/files/09-26561-039.jpg

This article is much better: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-na...

I seriously doubt any modern navy ship would even consider drop ceilings.

Money probably isn't an issue for the command center of a new US Navy ship. The mock-up was just to test the computer software and room layout, there's no point in bolting it down if you have the need to move it around to optimize the room.

Cool Zumwalt video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pova2gC-x8
I do everything these days in a VM, Virtualbox at the moment. A different VM for different classes of task. With the shared clipboard and shared folder options it is still pretty convenient. Of course, my laptop has 16gb of ram which helps if I want to run multiple VMs at once with more than a few gb each. It's nice to have a base VM for each OS I use and just branch off that for new VMs.