skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will be happy to view any static ad hosted on and by the owner of the content. That way I know I'm not giving my data to anyone else.

For me the annoyance factor is less of a problem than the privacy concern.
yeah with 4GB you'll swap a lot, but as an SSD is really fast (no as fast as RAM of course, but still..) you won't notice it a lot.
Would you mind contacting me by mail? I'd rather do this privately.
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Certainly seem to exist in the UK, e.g.

http://www.hrlaw.co.uk/site/infobank/infobankarticle/silence...
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/c...

Although they're more likely to be colloquially called "gagging orders".
Given that, the MBP is also turbo-boost to 3.1 GHz.
If these are cheap enough (someone said $200 a pop with bulk discounts) then cloud providers will get a big boost.
It doesn't work :).
Does this still work if one person has an upper limit on how much they can spend that is less than an equal split?
I use XCode on the previous generation, it's fine. Interface Builder bogs down on large Storyboard situations but aside from that it more than happily runs XCode, Photoshop, Simulator and all the usual expected tools (iTerm 2, Chrome, Sublime, Spotify/iTunes/whatever music player) without much complaining.
Learned to program in Dartmouth Basic on a teletype in 1974 in school. Teletype = clanky uppercase only terminal that printed on paper at 110 baud and saved to paper tape. The world sure has changed since then.
An instant counterexample I thought of is a non-profit.

Individuals working there are always excited about personal empire building of course, but if the stated community need is being met, well, that's good enough, in fact if that need is dropping that can sometimes be awesome.

Stereotypical orphanage or red cross or homeless shelter.

Churches are another business that often is fairly steady state plus or minus population changes and inflation.

Of course non profits can experience explosive growth, my credit union is a non-profit coop and since the nationwide banks have gone into decline with exploding fees and imploding services, the CU has recently had exploding growth rates. Which admittedly has a lot more to do with external societal factors than internal goals.
Search further down, they're there.

This is actually frustrating, I had thought until now that easylist blocked only third party ads; this means they block self-hosted as well.
tldr; the author wants systemd
> yes a machine readable data format, but NOT XML and yes, JSON is likely/probably good enough

I thought so too, until I realized json is terrible for binary. on it's own it can't reproduce the full capabilities of REST ie: http multi-part uploads.

You need a performant streamable binary format too, and my vote for that is protobuf.
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Yeah. They go in to the Apple Store and the salesmen says that SSD is faster. But the buyer has heard that computers will be faster a lot in their lives, and usually it's only a 10-25% performance increase, which isn't that noticeable. So they don't put much stock in that. We're all so used to SSDs that the huge performance gains don't surprise us anymore.
To be clear, I'm not at all suggesting that doctors do this out of malice - only that effective statistical analysis is really, really, hard, and it's not immediately clear that surgeons (regardless of their international reputation) would have the background required to properly analyze these studies in a coherent framework, especially when it's not immediately relevant to a patients outcome in an operating theatre.

I'm not suggesting that they're ignorant of basic statistical facts, but I am definitely suggesting that they're not immediately aware of the subtle assumptions implicit in many of the statistical models they use.

For example, given the large numbers we're talking about, not only is it possible that the "number 1" hospital in any particular field is there because of statistical fluke, it's actually likely that this is the case.

The (mis)use of statistics certainly isn't limited to medicine, but it is one of the places where its misinterpretation has the biggest impact.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/odds-are-its-wrong
Just remove the search bar. The address bar is unified search/address.
Facebook now makes more than half its ad money from mobile
That's why you use a VPN.
The Catholic Church has female priests now? When did that happen?
So, is this me? or is this icon sexist? you decide.
please keep in mind that this was a support ticket, not a thesis. i think my assumptions are obvious, fair, and valid.

how "groups" are depicted in public is internalized, privately. "hmmm, everyone in that commercial looks like me / doesn't look like me. i think i'll buy that product / won't buy that product."

it's like the problem with public bathroom signs. and false choices. why not instead use the letters "M" "F" "U". Male, Female, Unisex. There. We can embrace kilts and convenience. (and if that doesn't work, there are other options. i'm sure we can come to some agreement that doesn't require equating gender with "my favorite color is..." or "most people of gender x/y (pun totally intended) wear...")

so, is it just me? or is this icon sexist? (even a littel?) you decide.
They have long been able to in theory - but do we have confirmation that they actually do so, for the purpose to hand? (distinguishing tethering from on-device)
Sending rats into deep space makes them stupid
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No. The company decreases its current liquid assets, but a company's worth is not just assets, it's (liquid assets + value of ongoing profit). Assuming a fixed profit, a stock purchase would cause the profit-per-share to increase, so (assuming a fixed P/E ratio) the price of an individual share rises. Assuming the company buys the stock at a completely fair price, it's true that the company doesn't experience any change in value, but it has distributed money to shareholders - which just like distributing dividends except with less immediate tax implications.

(That said, I do understand companies usually overpay for their own stock, so the move is not necessarily the best one for any given company or companies in general unless the stock is, in fact, undervalued. But it is still one way to deliver returns into the pockets of shareholders, anyway.)
> Say you receive a pointer from somewhere.

Here's your problem. In general I don't want to be receiving a single pointer from anyone. Lately, I've found it helpful to think of pointers in C++ as special iterators rather than a referential relic from C. In such a mindset passing pointers around without an accompanying end iterator, or iteration count, just makes no sense. Anywhere that implied iteration count is always a constant, I'm probably not structuring my code correctly.

So my recommendation is to use references (foo&) for passing down (well, up) the stack, never to heap allocated objects. Because you can't use delete on a reference there's no longer an ambiguity. Use smart pointers to manage the heap. Write RAII wrappers (it's not a lot of code) to manage external resources. RAII wrappers are especially useful for encapsulating smart pointers so big things can be passed around with value semantics, which gives you even stronger ability to reason. Implementing optimisations like copy-on-write becomes fairly trivial.

> I just reissued my SSL certificate, thanks to C++.

If you're referring to Heartbleed then OpenSSL is written in C, not C++. Generally only a language that inserts array bounds checks for every access would have shielded you from this bug... C++s <vector> does this if you use the at() function of <vector>, but op[] doesn't by default for performance reasons.
They mention on the homepage of the site that you _can_ handle payment entirely outside of their system in your own terms.
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It can easily be added backward-compatibly, so could appear in, e.g., a 1.1 release. Or... someone who really wants it scratches their itch and gets it implemented. :)

(The speed of a language isn't determined by the speed of it's "first release".)
Thunderbolt is just PCIe under the hood, so it would hopefully work as well as a PCIe Gigabit Ethernet one.

Although the fact it's Apple-made is probably more important, since they'll have made sure it works.
yes... unless the conclusion from the process is that the apartment is too expensive for the roommates to split; or your preferences are not compatible with each other.
Yeah this was recently in the news in Massachusetts. It appears he persuaded a Mass. Senator to ask for investigations, in order to hurt the stock price and support Ackerman's short gamble:

> In Washington, Mr. Ackman’s efforts bore fruit on Jan. 23, when Mr. Markey’s office, which Mr. Ackman had lobbied himself and which had been provided with detailed information about Herbalife by Mr. Ackman’s team, sent letters to the S.E.C. and F.T.C., calling for investigations of the company. A little more than a half-hour after the stock began trading that day its value fell by 14 percent.

You could say that Ackerman sincerely believes the company is bad and is pursuing this for the greater good. The $1 billion is just putting his money where his mouth is. And his mouth just happens to be near a Senator's ear....
Interesting opinion.

The "overhead" I'm concerned with is based in hardware, not my own creativity.
The real world meets the world of algorithms. I solve the issue by buying only 1 color and type of sock.
Goals in life are obviously personal, but I've observed they're very much influenced by the culture of the country.

USA is a country where there is tremendous pressure to be successful, purely for the sake of being successful. This is mad for me, and I am strongly against this attitude, but it's factual.

There were interesting comments in a post, a short time ago, comparing the cultures in USA and New Zealand. The latter would fit very much in what you would define as "be satisfied".

It's mostly the typical division of A and B-type personalities.

My personal opinion is that to live in a very fulfilled way a bit of both is required. One needs a bit of "success" to overcome some inevitable obstacles, and a the sime time, "satisfied" to get a true feeling of himself and what's around him.

The excessively laid-down people I've met were afflicted with subtle and not immediately visible problems. As a matter of fact, one needs to carve his space in life, otherwise he's going to be very limited, if not crushed.

The type of problems which affect the opposite type of attitude are more "visible" - mostly, neurotic behavior.
This is very interesting. Having that many people all holding BTC will have a bootstrapping effect around MIT.

The three obvious effects are:

1. stores near campus will (probably) start supporting it

2. the black market on campus will (surely) start accepting it

3. Some undergraduates will invent things using it

I think #1 and #2 are more interesting by far than #3... I can't wait to see what happens when BTC and USD are even vaguely on the same footing in a geographic area.
I'm a little bit confused. Are you saying that to Horvath her personal perspective was that it was sexist, that the report said it was not actually sexist, but that doesn't discredit her personal perspective of the matter?

Edits - let me clarify: I think this would go far in explaining why Horvath is reacting as she has been doing to the report. But I'm struggling to understand if this means that the personal subjective interpretation is more valuable to the truth than an objective independent investigation? (Now I think that the investigation on the whole may not have been at all independent - only to ensure that Github was in the clear legally - with no obligation to the truth or to expose any other things - but I think that's out of this side discussion!)
But the District Attorneys and the Law Enforcment officers have taken the moral equivalent of Holy Vows to do the right thing, and destroying any evidence is obviously the Wrong Thing.

Doesn't law enforcement derive all of their moral authority from always doing the right thing, from treating everyone exactly alike? If there's a significant percentage of law enforcement that is just out to "get someone", they have about zero moral authority.
> iOS being the carrier that has to give approval for tethering

What do you mean by that?
I'd second the thunderbolt recommendation but I would question the concerns about USB – until upgrading to Thunderbolt, I had no problems with daily heavy usage (along with several coworkers). The main drawback is that the USB devices can't go over 100Mb.
It's in the same boat as "growth hackers", which is what people in technology call themselves when they're afraid to admit that they do marketing.
Two MIT students have raised half a million dollars for a project to distribute $100 in bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT this fall.... The bulk of funding for the project is being provided by MIT alumni with significant additional support from within the Bitcoin community. The total of over $500,000 already pledged will cover the distribution of bitcoin to all 4,528 undergraduates

I guess I don't understand the "Why?". MIT kids are among the most elite already - why would people donate $100 to each student for that student to spend as he/she wishes? It's an honest question. As a company owner, why would you do this? What would be the benefits you would expect to see? I am clearly missing the "Why?" here. How would you feel if, after this first year, you found that 50% of the kids never did anything with the BTC? Or if 50% of the kids gave their BTC away to another student for nothing?

An interesting thing to see at the end was how many students ever logged in to set up an account, or even check their balance. The funding covers less than $50,000 for anything else - $452,000+ will go directly to the students. That leaves less than $50,000 to cover the administration, the distribution, and the education (a big part). If they get the education part wrong, it will have wasted a huge chunk of the $452,000.
It's worked for me for just shy of a decade.
"Oh, you want to hook your Firewire drives up to it? That's another adapter. Oh, you want to play or burn CD's? You need to get an external drive then. You want to use your old Magsafe power bricks? Sorry, we changed the connector. You want to lock up the computer while it's at your desk? Sorry, there's no Kensington slot anymore."

At which point the SSD and Retina display sound nice, but that other stuff seems like it's going to a pain in the neck on a daily basis.
I believe that it would be more profitable for a company to offer their best instead of artificially segmenting the market.
Or, you know, do laundry more often so the socks dont actually pile up. May I interest you in a to-do app?
I agree this is a great idea for prototypes but I disagree that this is a way to build anything but the most basic of apps. There are way to many subtle choices that we make as developers, that require knowledge and reasoning, and an understanding of what we are trying to build. Visual programming has been tried multiple times, but it has never had any mainstream success.
Will Cyanogenmod fix this in their build?
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poster here :)

please keep in mind that this was a support ticket, not a thesis. i think my assumptions are obvious, fair, and valid.

how "groups" are depicted in public is internalized, privately. "hmmm, everyone in that commercial looks like me / doesn't look like me. i think i'll buy that product / won't buy that product."

it's like the problem with public bathroom signs. and false choices. why not instead use the letters "M" "F" "U". Male, Female, Unisex. There. We can embrace kilts and convenience. (and if that doesn't work, there are other options. i'm sure we can come to some agreement that doesn't require equating gender with "my favorite color is..." or "most people of gender x/y (pun totally intended) wear...")

so, is it just me? or is this icon sexist? (even a littel?) you decide.
its you. People get so caught up in things that mean literally nothing. Its simply just a way to show a clear and concise difference between men and women. Its like going into a mcdonalds and being upset that the womans bathroom has a woman with a skirt on it and the mens room just looks like a guy standing there. They could be purple and Brown for all I care. I think you just need to relax and realise, not everything is trying to get you...
>Imagine ordering parts for 100,000 boards and having 50% of your customers take their money and run, in case of a delay. That's a fairly unmanageable risk.

Well assuming they're planning to produce another batch, they're already incurring some risk anyway. Allocating units out of that batch as pre-orders doesn't cost them anything, and probably improves overall sales.
So maybe the data collected by the cars could be used to sue people deliberately running through traffic to the Moon and back.
48K eh? Ahh rich kids... :)

What blew my mind shortly after getting my hands on a ZX Spectrum was to find out that most computers of the time (Dragon, Oric, Apple, Commodore, etc) had significantly different versions of BASIC.

The next thing that blew my mind was to learn that editing computer programs could be done full screen instead of line by line and that, in fact, most programming environments did not use line numbers except as visual aids.
When I first read the title I thought that MIT was going to set up a large mining project, partially as a research piece, and partially to counter balance the very large mining pools that are risking the 51% attack. Which I was very excited about.

This is cool too though.
Or you can get an Airport Express or similar adaptor, and use it in bridge mode.
iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry OS -- they all flag and honor carrier tethering usage allowances. Therefore, by this simplistic logic, to all of them you are the product?

I doubt Google's intentions are quite as simple. It's entirely possible that they're honoring the "carrier code" to ensure competition is robust. If your carrier has a problem with tethered data, get a different carrier.

As an aside, it's pretty bizarre to see a comment by some random person (the "IT'S A FEATURE NOT A BUG!") being used as if it's a statement by Google. Bizarre.
Exactly. O(1) FTW!
You shouldn't really call it cross platform when it only supports iOS and Android.
Because their goal is to provide students with a useful infrastructure they can creatively extend, not a copycoin-pump-and-dump.
How do you propose that our industry pay for the servers then? Magical pixie dust?

I don't mind seeing ads on free services that have some marginal value for me.

Don't force your intolerance for ads upon me.
Apple tend to deprecate and remove stuff often and quickly. The PC world and Microsoft don't. For those of us who like living on the cutting edge, we're fine with it, but it's not really for everyone.

Remember when the iMac was the first USB-only computer, and had no floppy drive? Both were really unpopular at the time.

(Lack of Kensington is stupid though, I'll agree on that.)
Reminds me of an old puzzle: how to split bread in two parts so no one is upset? Alice splits, Bob chooses the one he wants. If both prefer at least half, Alice will try hard to split as close to 50/50 as possible and, most importantly, no one will feel bad because everyone had his say.
Interesting!

I'm on a Moto G on giffgaff in the UK and data is 100% free and unlimited (within some vague definition of "fair use"). They shoot your network access for 30 minutes if they find you tethering because it's against their terms.

How they detect this is a closely guarded secret and a big mystery. Perhaps this is it.

However, the asshole carrier tactics come out pretty sharpish: if you want a tablet SIM or data only SIM, they charge a fortune for a capped data SIM (£12 for 3Gb/month). No thanks!

Data is data. that's what net neutrality is about isn't it?

The penalty for breaking the terms is temporary disconnection so screw it, I tether all the time. If you use HTTPS only or a VPN connection then it doesn't cut you off at all. DPI anyone?

The irony is that I've snagged a 3.5Gb ISO image off MSDN onto my handset's USB OTG (at a nice 800k/sec) with the free data and can push 6-8Gb a month which doesn't apparently bother their fair use term but if I start up a download on a tethered device, bang instantly.

Obviously they're device-ist!
i don't think SOA invented a problem at all. I think the problem existed, and has existed, for as long as we have been building distributed systems.

SOA over-engineered though, and basically strangled any practical use it had by having layers upon layers of enterprise blah built on top of it.

microservices is the new wave of the 'well, we have this problem' that is springing up.

it says you need a lightweight communication layer (basically REST by default), and then you use whatever transport suits the problem.

Full-stack is basically meaningless by the way. It really depends on how big your "stack" is, and once you take a far enough step back, the web front-end is such a tiny part of the problem space.

http://wayfinder.co/pathways/535e46a318fbce1100cf7f2a/the-va...
There's this: -300x250_

looks like the culprit.

I wasn't up to speed on the lists business. I will look into using a different list. I was just using adblock now and then at the default settings, I installed it and haven't touched settings.

I don't use it all the time because I don't want it interfering with testing and dev, messing with the document.

When it backfires and hides stuff you've just published, suddenly I'm cursing adblock because I know other default adblock users won't see the image.
Didn't krispy kreme have a crazy accounting scandal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krispy_Kreme#IPO_and_accounting...
When should I not kill -9 a process?
I don't know for MACs but for 2 years at work I used a Windows laptop with a USB to Ethernet adapter and it ran absolutely fine.
They will, after MacBook Air with retina display.
I disagree. A real project will teach you a set of problems that are useful at most day jobs but these coding challenges will help you learn a class of skills and techniques that are very hard to learn/figure out on your own. These are much more centered around Computer Science problems than typical software craftsmanship problems. You need both (CS and software craftsmanship based skills) if you want to a complete well rounded Engineer.
You quoted the post out of context. They were saying they experienced that with iOS devices the carrier was the only one who could enabled tethering while with android devices that was not always the case.
OTOH, keeping some out-of-date products around just for the educational market is a long-time Apple trend.
>My problem with Yik Yak isn't that its anonymous

then

>Why does anonymity have to be central to such an app?

Anonymity doesn't have to be central to what I'm describing, but it would certainly help with getting people to use it. One less barrier.

You're playing the "but think about the children!" card, and I don't know a single person on earth who respects that argument at face value. Kids are kids, and you can't ban everything that could hurt someone's feelings. Everyone has to learn reality sooner or later.
I think the reason Windows and Linux seem to behave awkwardly with Thunderbolt is that Thunderbolt is actually PCI-Express, and they're not exactly used to hot-plugging PCIe devices! But that's just speculation on my part.
Downloaded. Really well-designed app. Love how it's for web and mobile. Any chance you'll support Sketch files?

Edit: Another comment here implies you already do. Went to go confirm but your menu button doesn't seem to be working (iPhone 5)