skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish they finished Wtactics, the card game. http://wtactics.org/
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
Looks nice for $129. US version here. http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/shop-all-other/Moto-E/m...
I agree. My dad loves solo violin, and I personally don't care for the sound. I definitely prefer a cello or someone playing a woodwind.

Alto sax is my personal favorite solo instrument.
How do you propose they fix it?

They could release an iMessage client for Android and PC.
Would love to see a large open source application beside the https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/master/examples/todom.... Todomvc is good, but still very small.
You're forgetting to price in the endless hours in consultation with the military brass, traversing all the red tape involved in dealing with devices that must interact with security clearances, etc etc.
I wonder which company will hire them first ...

Edit: Great name.
I've hosted my FB apps on Github up to this date but am very pleased to see they have added the features that a go beyond a simple static site deployment. I'm especially excited about the SSL support.
So Microsoft Live has a limit of 16 characters, ASCII and some other restrictions. I emailed someone that used to work on that team in a decently high capacity. He said it was a restriction in the original system, designed sometimes in the 90s, and that the password validation code is in several different places in the entire system (different products like Hotmail and so on).

The char limit, well, they had to pick a limit (you wouldn't want passwords of 2^32 size), and back then security wasn't as big a focus so someone picked 16.

The reason for the original restriction is lost to history, as is apparently the handling of special chars. It may have been as simple as someone piping something to a shell script to setup an account, and not escaping things correctly. Who knows.

At any rate, Live has some extremely competent engineers, and this guy is brilliant. He said despite how bad it looks, every time they review security and prioritize things to work on, the password restrictions on Live never rank very high, compared to other attacks. People simply are not having their passwords brute forced enough for it to be a serious issue. Investing in things like e.g., detecting phishing attempts, has a much better ROI.

eli's comment is right: You shouldn't be too quick to judge the quality of developers when they need to maintain compatibility. At best, you might find out that a developer from a long time ago, operating under who knows what constraints (time, technical), failed to properly foresee the usage of his system.
I read this as $3k including title licenses. 300 titles, with at least 50% being in copyright and possibly more, seems valid?
In case it's not clear from the article, this is the thing that will fix awful webfont rendering in Chrome for Windows. It's something I've been waiting for a long time, and it's finally becoming reality. I very much look forward to the day this will be enabled by default.
Many people process credit card payments through Paypal. If you're getting zero transactions, Paypal is unlikely to be your problem unless there is a technical issue preventing you from charging cards at all.

Clicking the Buy button is not 100% proxy for purchasing intent, particularly if you have not disclosed e.g. the price prior to clicking it, in which case the main user intent is "discover the price." Even if you have, it is a regrettable fact of life that many users abandon that transaction at the last moment. (This is why we optimize the heck out of those last moments.)

As to whether having Paypal as the only option costs you some transactions on the margin: test it. I have, extensively, for one of my products. It's a long story, but having a fairly well-optimized onsite purchasing flow was worth about a 60% lift to purchases. (I had done many tests prior to that where not-so-optimized onsite purchasing made no difference in conjunction with or tested against Paypal.)
Is it conceivable that Apple are deliberately ignoring this issue as it does exactly what they would want?

It punishes people who move away from their platform with social isolation.

It's easy for them to overlook this issue and not put any effort into fixing it, because the investment would result in a better experience for everyone who switching away from Apple.
At the time the underlying system was designed, Q and Z weren't mapped.

Subsequently they were mapped, but inconsistently across phonesets.

The ITU E 1.161 / ANSI T1.703-1995/1999 / ISO/IEC 9995-8:1994 standard didn't become established until relatively recently. Guessing from the nomnclature, I'd assume subsequent to 1995 / 1999.
No braces?
Dependency graphs are now on MetaCPAN
After Ticket and Arrest, Alec Baldwin Gives New York a Piece of His Mind
Introducing Moto E and Moto G with 4G LTE: Smart phones priced for all
That $3k will get you an entry level, "assembled in the USA", Mac Pro.
We reinvent C-style prefixes-as-fake-namespaces in HTML tag names when we have a perfectly good Turing-complete language with actual scoping rules sitting right here?
This is actually a good thing. Do you expect the page about racecars come with a racecar attached?
Javascript is already overused on the web.
I'm also looking for the same. I try browsing on subreddits related to real estate and mortgages for ideas ...

Haven't found any that I am pursuing ... Most inputs I get are to replace a large product which I think is quite a risky path to go on. I am more keen on finding a niche area to work on and go after
>Declaring Data as interface{} allows a struct to initialize Data, and therefore a node in this graphing library can store anything (including another graph). This is probably one of the most important characteristics of Go.

"Declaring Data as Object allows a class to initialize Data, and therefore a node in this graphing library can store anything (including another graph). This is probably one of the most important characteristics of Java."
- Probably someone before 2004, when Java programmers hadn't yet realized that using the most general type to do anything is a terrible idea
This. We continued to come up against a gap in understanding. The initial impression for a lot of folks is that a bitcoin vending machine takes in bitcoins and vends candy bars.
Hard to say, they seem to imply it, but maybe they only have those titles listed as "samples" in the article that they had to pay for, everything else could be public domain and navy doctrine for example.
Made in USA vs. Assembled in USA.

You cannot deploy portable electronic devices on the submarine fleet without being absolutely certain there is nothing in it logging any data (sound, g-forces, pressure etc.).

Interestingly, the opposite is also true. The Navy SEALs (and everyone else) use consumer GPS devices because they cannot risk losing a classified M-code capable GPS device.
Declaring Data as interface{} allows a struct to initialize Data, and therefore a node in this graphing library can store anything (including another graph). This is probably one of the most important characteristics of Go

What? The void pointer has been around since at least the seventies. Ok, Go adds introspection by storing the type in a fat pointer. But...

and is why it is part of the reason Go cannot be considered object-oriented [5].

A don't see what this has to do with anything. Pre-generics Java, you'd do the same thing by making a field store Object (the superclass of every class). This also provides introspection like Go's interfaces. Then the Java folks concluded that generics are much nicer :).

tl;dr This form of genericity is provided by nearly any OO or imperative language. And in fact it points out a shortcoming in Go: it doesn't support parametric polymorphism.
Angular is huge bloat. Unfortunately Google's name is behind that mess so it will live for little bit longer before getting forgotten.

I myself prefer frameworks that are minimal, least invasive and plays nicely with pure JS/HTML instead of treating them as bug. So anything that requires me to call .createClass to create an instance is out. Personally I've used Knockout.js pretty successfully. I think any average js dev can understand that framework in 15 minute and be productive. Although it's not perfect if you you are looking for idealistic MVC implementation.
This is an amazing game. If you are interested in it's structure, there is a good chapter on it here: http://aosabook.org/en/wesnoth.html
HOLY COW. Please continue. Would love to hear about the timeline mitigation.

No sarcasm here at all.
doing something like

<my-svg-shape my-directive-that-mutate-svg-props />

doesnt work that well. Displaying SVG has never been a problem,they are like images. Unlike images they can be nested ,animated,modified at run time,scaled... if you think you can just create meta svg shapes with directives think again.
Anthony from DNSimple here. The ALIAS does synthesize the A record set, but it's the same A record set that is used when a username.github.io domain is resolved, which means it should work fine with Github's DDOS prevention.

The TXT record is only there for informational purposes and could be removed without affecting the system.

Since we have an Anycast network you will also get a result that would be similar to a CNAME resolution, meaning you'll typically get a "close" set of IPs that would be similar to what you would get from the resolution of a CNAME, which ultimately resolves down to A records as well.
1m circles Physics Simulation in 11 lines of JavaScript
Definitely. The question of luck is always something which pops up in the forums now and again. The answer is always the same, it was a deliberate choice to have an element of luck, it keeps things interesting and forces your strategies to be more error-prone. Yes, among top-level players, luck may sometimes decide the fate of a game, but that is a price they decided to pay for the results =)
As of now, I don't know if there are any phones with more compute power than the iPhone 5s. There certainly weren't when it came out.

You would need at least a mid-range android phone/tablet to get decent responsiveness.
My bank only allows email addresses less than 31 characters in length. I filed a bug report and received a, "thanks, we know..." Fortunately, their password policy isn't as ridiculous.
A braided steel security cable and steel mounting plate are provided. Still, if you want a Bitcoin ATM that is meant for unattended use, there are several choices starting at about $14,000.00 each. Just a reminder for posterity, a Skyhook ATM is $999.00.
If it's not deliberate, then it's just incompetency.
Gene Weingarten is an amazing writer. He won a Pulitzer for this article in 2008. He won one other Pulitzer in 2010, for his (very harrowing) article about parents who forget their children in the back seat of their car.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02...
I'm glad to see the turnaround from the original post that IWMN published earlier this year, Timo, thanks for that.
IMO, there was nothing horribly wrong with WebForms itself when it was introduced -- So long as you were writing your HTML by hand and using HtmlControls rather than the drag-n-drop stuff.

ViewState was far better than other frameworks that shoved the client state into a server session object and broke the Back button. Plus the clients were saving state instead of wasting server memory. If it got too ugly, you didn't even have to use it, the http variables were still there.

Remember this was all designed back when Netscape 4 was a popular browser and any Javascript was considered exotic. Of course we have much better way to do things now, the WebForm approach broke down hard as soon as it encountered AJAX. But originally it was fine.
The NSA Implanting Interception Tools in US Servers Heading Overseas
> The Navy SEALs (and everyone else) use consumer GPS devices because they cannot risk losing a classified M-code capable GPS device

And presumably because they can eschew many rules that others are bound by. If they wanted iPhones, they could probably get iPhones. They also often have black budgets and it is a real nice if you can sell to them. They release the money quickly, less red tape. Those deals are hard to come by though.
Is this satire? As 8 million is a weird figure that seems likely plucked from a hat. I'm more interested in what that figure is going to build than anything else.

"The laboratory sits among 15 acres of asbestos laden...."

I'm unsure what the regs are for asbestos removal in the US but here in Australia this is a far from trivial exercise and expensive. As in insanely expensive.

Refurbishment of old buildings is often more expensive than building a new one especially when the fabric and history of the building is so important. Architects will often carefully contemplate how to integrate new works within these building as period restoration can destroy the heritage of a building look tawdry and downright kitsch.

It also seems like a huge site at least from the survey depicted in the article. My view is that the 8 million would be lucky to pay for the landscaping and asbestos removal, and the fees or the planning consultants required.

This still leaves the building of a new museum, refurbishment and alterations to existing buildings not to mention the actual exhibits that are going to draw the customers in to customers in - who is going to pay to keep the museum open?

My modest approximation is somewhere closer to 30 million minimum.
That won't happen.

Worst case is that you will get e-mails instead of SMS's.

Also the SMS + Hangouts combination is on YOUR end, if other people start using the app and sending you messages on Hangouts it's because they wanted to.

Worst case scenario here is that you add a friend via Hangouts and you assume it's going to their phone but they only ever reply to you when they're checking their email.
looks correct on latest firefox. what browser are you using?
> How do you propose they fix it?

It's their technology. Why should I provide the fix of a system that's not built by me, and have no control over it?

It's like saying, user x can't use a website, so he/sh should find out that there is a javascript error due to browser compatibility, and then the USER has to propose a solution with the fix in the javascript to the website owner.
We will support both inclusive and exclusive patterns.
CoreMark Scores and FIO results of the instance types: i, m and c3.
comparing CoreMark and FIO benchmark results for different instance families
Granted, I'm not in the same boat as exec's, but I'm a student and have had dealings with people from other universities in the UK (I'm irish), and I have flown, met them in airport hotels, and flown home same day or first flight following morning.
So you can't "send as SMS" in between the iMessage having been sent but before it's been delivered?
You might be able to try that with http://opalrb.org/

Rubinius already does Ruby -> LLVM.
A general rule of thumb: don't use `interface{}` unless you have to. With respect to performance, it isn't free. And with respect to type safety, it isn't safe. (It is however memory safe when casting, unlike C's `void *`.)

The key is that an `interface{}` is an interface with exactly 0 methods. Since all types in Go have at least 0 methods, any type satisfies `interface{}`. Resorting to using an `interface{}` type is akin to dynamic typing. All of your type errors get pushed to runtime and you lose any performance benefits you might get from the compiler knowing the type of your data.

Russ Cox goes into great detail on the representation of interface values.[1]

I wrote a blog post a while back on conveniently writing parametric functions in Go using reflection.[2] (Here, "convenience" is a relative term.)

[1] - http://research.swtch.com/interfaces

[2] - http://blog.burntsushi.net/type-parametric-functions-golang
The best iOS and Android apps for Gmail power users
I don't mean to evangelize Polymer here - I don't actually have a horse in this race, having recently left Google and being still undecided about which technology my startup will be based upon. I think that the prefixes-as-fake-namespaces approach sucks, but of all the things you can get wrong with your web framework, it sucks a lot less than many other things framework authors do. And it enables the abstraction of "Treat web components like any other HTML tag, except you get to define their object model", which is a really powerful concept, particularly when you consider the possibilities of building the most popular of them into the browser. The problem with all existing JS libraries so far is that they become obsolete as browser technology advances; Web Components is the first one where the components may become the browser technology advances.

To complete your C analogy - yes, C sucks a lot, and it's woefully incomplete in areas like namespacing and packaging. But people still use C, because if you want to do something native it's basically the only choice, and you know that it will interoperate with basically every other language out there. And those people have managed to build some pretty impressive things with C, warts and all, even though a lot of its design choices "will never work" when programming at scale.
You make a good point. Our units are smash and grab proof, with a 1/4" steel plate lid, but we fully understand that security is an illusion and even the most robust systems can be overcome by a nice enough drill bit and/or jig saw blade. Encryption, however, is not an illusion. If someone goes to the trouble of breaking into a Skyhook ATM while it's mounted to a business owner's countertop, as unlikely as that sounds, the sensitive data inside is safe.
Yes please write part 3 thank you
The whole thing is utter BS. When at Lockheed; we sold POS Panasonic ToughBooks in a Pelican case with foam lining, an overall retail value of $2,500 to the DOD at a nice price of $25,000.

No, don't be fooled in thinking "oh, that must have included software licensing costs for X Y or Z."

NOPE

That was millions in separate fees... literally a $25 charge for $2,500 in equipment costs at their RETAIL value (i.e. not what the actual cost TO Lockheed was, as they were bought in qty)
Bill Gates: Why I Gave My Blood to Defeat Dengue
From a usability standpoint I would say it is easier to advise the user that using a commonly used password is a bad idea. Suggest alternatives but ultimately it is their choice.
But, this is against the spirit of go, I mean in the sense that go is typed, to avoid exactly this kind of type ambiguity. and that is why you don't have generic functions ...
It's planet of the apes. What can you do? Mock the niggers. Sucks.
Or the rotary phone your parents still have right now in my case.
Burisma Holdings + Conflict of interest = $
Grey Wolf appears in Iowa for first time in 89 Years – and is shot dead
I don't want this thing in the wild!! (Or in a human volunteer for that matter. Assuming that site wasn't a joke would someone actually be crazy enough to do it?)

But preserving eggs somehow in a lab seems worthwhile.
After Further Digging, it turns out WebKit2 has been a private framework in both OSX and iOS. But on OSX it has been extremely unstable. It wasn't until Maverick did the process per tab came and stability improves. I guess Apple still needs to work on for iOS due to its heavy memory usage.

So hopefully, they will come in iOS8.
While I think Go is great and interfaces are great, the author didn't mention that you need to include the type as an additional annotation when reading the variable, so this isn't really great.

An example from his own github repo:

dcurrent = heap.Pop(n).(*D_Node)

So if you are using multiple types, you need to keep track of that, or do more boilerplate in a type switch to pull out what you want, or use reflection, so it's really not quite as elegant as it may seem.
That's the main reason I don't like it. I'm too consistently unlucky to play games that hinge on luck.

I do agree that it would become a lot less interesting at high-level play without luck, though. That's pretty much the price you pay for having turns, as a game designer.
Science is one part process and one part people: you first have to trust the process to provide useful evidence, and you second have to trust the people to tell you what they did honestly. Psychology and Medicine are "problem fields" in both areas: the process itself runs into ethical challenges that result in very few real "experiments" (leading to lots of correlations with difficult hidden variables, nothing at all like "causal relations"), and the people involved in the reporting process are also much more likely to blow things out of proportion as these are areas of extremely broad interest.

The result is that when Geophysics says something important the general populace doesn't believe them (hence why "trust" is the right word to be using here) because their mental model of Science is built out of "scientists" making lots of firm contradictory statements, and especially many situations they remember where what was said just a few years ago was entirely "overthrown" by the new research of the week. If you actually listen to the people who refuse to believe in things like vaccines or climate change, they seem to just think scientists are silly people who think they know more than they actually do :(.
I see the biggest barrier to adoption as being accessibility. Once you have bitcoin, there are many options to spend it or turn it into something else.

Unfortunately, a debit card wouldn't work in this situation. A bitcoin is irreversible, a debit card is not.

I don't see bitcoin catching on with in person merchants, at least in the United States. Cash and credit cards work well enough. But I do see there being a technology leapfrog opportunity in developing countries where the traditional banking system hasn't been able to reach.
Upcoming in SF this fall: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
Jing did an amazing job explaining Flux. She should do a lot of more of those talks.
Ai Weiwei on Art and Technology
If you have a tight budget? If you want to play games or generally have desktop class hardware without buying a Mac Pro? If you want a higher resolution display than the MacBook Retina ones? Touchscreen?

I prefer Apple hardware, but I'm not exactly a fan of being bound to it.
Random tidbit: The "1" digit on a telephone has no letters associated with it; "2" is assigned "ABC".

(This was burned into my brain years and years ago while watching a "Jeopardy!" episode, in which this mistake caused all three contestants to lose the final round.)
So apart from the package manager, Babun is basically for people too lazy to install Cygwin, copy over their dotfiles and set a custom font?
I can't say if they discourage sales, but I recently had to work with their API. After many fruitless hours I decided to convince the client/higher-ups that stripe should be used instead.

I definitely feel as if they discourage the use of their API through poor documentation and a test/sandbox site that will randomly drop you back into production without notice
I don't know much about Pulitzers, but I'm shocked by this. I thought this piece was terrible. Maybe the people who award Pulitzers are into symphonic music.

Specifically I thought the writing had a forced enthusiasm. I think the whole premise is dull and obvious. I really didn't like the philosophical allusions. And I like classical music, DFW essays (long, poetic), and philosophy.

Maybe I'll check out what it was up against...

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2008-Feature-Writing

Fellow finalists (seem equally boring):
Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Thomas Curwen of the Los Angeles Times for his vivid account of a grizzly bear attack and the recovery of the two victims, and Kevin Vaughan of the Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colo., for his sensitive retelling of a school bus and train collision at a rural crossing in 1961 that killed 20 children.
I ate meat today and it tasted good. I was happy. I just wanted to let you know.