skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I am not. I assumed that the offspring will die of old age too.

You neglected the variable of time. That third offspring will be born after the second one, which is born after the first one. You need to use the Euler-Lotka equation. The mathematics was worked out centuries ago. Here is the wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Lotka_equation
>> "This Steve Berman guy behind the suit was a Microsoft lawyer, it's notable becase another Microsoft lawyer tried and failed to sue Google on ad/antitrust grounds a few years back"

Even worst, he uses Microsoft Windows, making this a clear Microsoft smear against the angelic Google. :)

>>This is the second class action attempt launched against Google by this trial-lawyer outfit
As if Google is any better than them.

Google will probably end up paying for the clicks not deemed individually fraudulent, TOS or not.
The real question is why do retina displays render Wikipedia equations poorly.
I wonder if you looked at the site? It's pretty evident that it's a form of protest and not some racist sockpuppet rant, competitor's defamation or the like. For instance:

While we cannot always protect information about you, we can help protect you. Google Trust offers you the world's first model for data insurance.

It's completely free, you pay with your data. The more Google products you use, the higher your insurance payout will be in case of data misuse through secret service or private criminals. Your policy will be automatically offered to you, based on our assessment of your risk.

If that's not "making fun of the high and mighty" I don't know what is.
Chuck, the problem--and IMO it's legit--is that Google allows you sign up, you earn some money and then for no explained reason you lose all of it as they close they your account. Now Google could screen all sites first (not likely) or pay the money earned till banning day. Sure it's written on the TOS, but doesn't seem fair and maybe it's illegal.
Perfect Prevention of Int Overflows
Your comment led me to Matasanto's website. I just want to commend you for your hiring practices and wish you the best.
What's Wrong with the Internet of Things
If such watered down "solutions" are what we get for just about the most arcane form of surveillance (phone calls), then what are the "solutions" for electronic surveillance (where the real surveillance happens) going to look like?
I think it is fascinating because of what it could have been had Walt Disney's vision continued. It's right there in the opening line: a place for people to find happiness and knowledge. Judging from my visit last weekend, today that line would say "a place for people to spend money and trudge through queues to experience self-contained stories with no room for imagination or learning." It's an object lesson — Walt Disney was clearly as proud of his accomplishments in business as well as his creative endeavors. He was an old school Republican, who thought that American business could make the world better. Sadly, that part of the equation was lost over the decades. And so, Disneyland is still a little model of world in microcosm: from a place where you could imagine and learn to a place where you can spend and ride a "convenience vehicle" and spend a little more to get VIP treatment.
I used to smoke every night because I literally cannot sleep without drugs. But then I started taking seroquel instead. You should try it. Arguably more healthy. (and works better than weed too)
U.S. utility's control system was hacked, says Homeland Security
this !
awesome articulation bud !
See the image here: http://i.imgur.com/SAwSGaL.png. What do I get from seeing these properties? It doesnt seem like autogenerated documentation from source code is easy or possible at all. The modules being listed in the modules tab dont seem to be correct, (assert(value: bool, message: string)?
I haven't read esr, but I disagree with your categorical statement that "producing better software" is hard to justify. (In other words, I agree with your first paragraph's statement that open source's superiority is not demonstrably not true.)

In my experience, if you look at the big ticket projects, there are many proprietary packages that are less buggy than free alternatives, and many which are more buggy, and it mostly depends on the project's development process and history. For example, OpenSSL and gdb are very buggy mainly because they're terrible code, while Linux and OpenBSD are in general fairly stable because their development processes are good and in turn have made the code good. gcc and Clang beat MSVC++, Chrome beats Internet Explorer, because Microsoft doesn't care enough; Photoshop handily beats GIMP because it's Photoshop. And so on.

But in my humble opinion, if you average over _all_ the software... including a lot of little projects that seem to end up with higher quality code, if only because the author was too embarrassed to release low quality code, and perhaps with the help of a few bug reports on GitHub... including medium-size projects which someone else took over maintainership over after the original quit, which would be impossible with proprietary software... including lots of low-quality proprietary NIH code where the default open source solution would be to use some already well-tested external code... open source wins by a significant margin. I am not sure this is inevitable or even correct, as proprietary software certainly has significant advantages, but I do not think it is reasonable to say it is demonstrably false.
Why I don't use a Mac desktop (laptop):

• Keyboard: standard PC layout, remappable ctrl/capslock with the capslock indicator indicating capslock, not n%2 physical key operations, pageup/pagedown, home/end, arrow keys, delete and backspace.

• Trackpoint. I hate trackpads.

• Three-button mouse.

• Choice of window manager, for:

• Focus-follows mouse.

• Mappable window manager hotkeys. I've got a set of features I've programmed into my window manager over the past 17 years (ironically: based on Aqua's antecedant, WindowMaker). They fit my workflow. Among them: alt-shift-t pops up a terminal window, alt-shift maximizes a window vertically (what the keybindings are matters far less than that I can map these functions. Resizing windows on OS X is a goddamned fucking mouse-up-your-ass-but-only-the-lower-right-corner pain. Every. Fucking. Time.

• Pinnable window menus. For when I need to track down a specific window (xlsclients | wc -l => 118 -- no, Expose doesn't cut it).

• An integrated package system with an unparalleled set of packages: grep -h '^Package:' _Packages | sort -u | wc -l => 50493. Yes, 50,493 packages. OS X has fink, and darwinports, and a mash of other tools, but fails to deliver a single integrated package management system, and the offerings I've found are sparse and tend to be poorly supported.

• Customizeability, in general. Not tweaking for its own sake, but simply getting things to work how I want them to.

• /proc and /sys. Believe it or not, having filesystem-based access to system internals is seriously fucking amazing.

• No "undocumented" features. Which isn't to say that there are system features which lack documentation, but there are not features for which documentation is being intentionally withheld*, as is the case for Macs.

• My hardware won't age out while it's still remotely usable. I've got 22 year old systems I can still boot and update. They are barely useful (network infrastructure), but they work.

Mark Pilgrim had a great "switching to Ubuntu" piece that got pulled when he deleted his website(s). Cory Doctorow points to it and mentions some highlights here: http://boingboing.net/2006/06/29/mark-pilgrims-list-o.html

Where I've seen Mac used extensively, a few elements seem to dictate its choice:

• For user not highly versed in Linux configuration, Macs do tend to be an easier to get-up-and-running system. Though honestly for desktop rollouts of the past 5-10 years, it's a very close race.

• There's often a use of Mac-specific applications. OS lock-in through application space is OS lock-in. It worked for Microsoft for a quarter century.

• It's often good enough. Not perfect, but Apple does very well at delivering a "sane-by-default" system. Mind, Ubuntu and Debian are getting damned good at this as well, as is Google via Android.

But to say that Mac is a foregone conclusion is hardly the case (as many here note).
Address parameters? Nice! DDG, never leave me.
Android fragmentation and the cloud
I think the age of 17 is impressive, but now not as impressive as a few years ago because more and more young people are able to do the same at such an young age.

But a young man that can achieve such an accomplishment should always be admired because he really did something wonderful!

Every time I read such a news I wish I could be younger again.... sigh..... T_T
I thought it was great, one of the best books I've ever read. Actually, in large part due to the language.

But I know a lot of people who tried it and were turned off; they seemed to get put by this "showboating".
Oh I totally agree, there is an onus on them to be more transparent about what they are doing. The scale is what I find amazing. I don't doubt that clever spammers will sign up a couple of million AdSense accounts over a weekend, and try to pull some click fraud pennies out of them. It is just too tempting a target for "free" money. If you recall there was an event where Google would deposit a small amount of money in an account, and you had to verify the amount to "prove" you owned the account, and some smart chap started creating thousands of bank accounts and accounts and when the pennies got deposited withdrawing them and closing the accounts. I believe it was Brad Templeton who said "Give me a way to steal a penny over the Internet and I'll show you how to make money fast."

That is the challenge I see Google facing, on the one hand AdSense is a thing, on the other its prone to fraud.
> It may but its rarely work related

What data do you have to support this obviously unfounded statement? Let's see:

> my gf and her colleagues ...
AT&amp;T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin for Each Hour He Spent in Jail
I'm using LAB.js, which lets me declare dependencies between scripts, and then handles sequential or parallel retrieval and execution. Not sure how I could easily replace this as suggested in the article, unless I merge all js into one big file?
A literate program, Physically Based Rendering, recently became the first book to win an Academy Award for it's technical contributions to the film industry. In the acceptance speech, the writers thanked Knuth for the concept. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9juPsv1QU

The book can be compiled into the production-quality renderer http://pbrt.org/
Narendra Modi to take control of nuclear codes
International Analysis: Making Sense of Heartbleed
Qatar is interesting -- my wife is considering taking a job there at some point in the nebulous future. What is the technology community there like?
Weight has a lot to do with it. The first Macbooks, and the the Macbook Air, were far, far lighter than equivalently provisioned x86 systems. The disparity's gotten better, but you still have HP and Dell putting out boat anchors compared with Apple.

Lenovo's between the two. My T520i isn't flyweight, but it does OK (the power supply is a brick though). I've eyed the Carbon but have passed on it to date.
Why do they keep saying that ANY websites can track you through your cookies.

They also seem to imply that google purposefully made the PREF cookie so the NSA can use it to track people. If anything, google is a victim themselves here.

I love Frontline, but come on, this is just not accurate. Unless a lot of the things I understand about the browser is wrong.

Whenever I see inaccuracies in tech reporting, it makes me wonder if there are similar inaccuracies in other fields that I do not recognize because it's not my specialty..
An RSS Feed may be an option.
It really does work. I'm actually in the best shape of my life right now.
My personal opinion on this issue is that we already have a pretty good sense of public/private spaces in the physical world. The problem is that most people assume that if your computer is in a private space (ie your bedroom) then it is also private. This is obviously not the case.

What we need is to start building a culture of online privacy. Everyone should have access to an anonymizing VPN, should know how to use Tor and understand PGP. But just like it would be insane to never leave your bedroom and unlock your door, or always speak in a whisper, the same applies to online privacy.

And the important thing is just because you are in your private space doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong or shameful. People use private spaces to snort lines of coke and plan bank robberies, but also just to have some time when they can think and not be bothered... or watched. People need to start using Tor just to browse the web and know they aren't being watched, that neither the government nor advertisers are building a profile on you.

And just like physical privacy means less social, so does online. Online privacy should be about keeping anonymous. Don't talk about where you live, what your hobbies are etc. Be conscious of not leaving a trail of personally identifiable information (just like you close the blinds in your bedroom).

It's not a question of always watched or always hidden, but being conscious of when we are being watched, and when we are free to say and do as we please.
Well, in a sense. I'd still want automatic updates, but what I don't want is it to automatically force the computer to restart.

This is possible to turn off in Windows, but requires fiddling with the registry.

I just realised that my original post wasn't clear - my computer RESTARTED in the middle of my game. Hence my frustration :).
I do programming on my android tablet. There are several IDEs, as well as the CLI/vim kit I use. The screen is a little bit small, but the Nexus 7 is a pretty capable machine: 4 core, plenty of RAM, lots of (small) pixels and solid state secondary storage.

On my (employer) corporate Win7 laptop, the virus checker sometimes lights up the hard drive continuously, making the IDE almost unusable on it. My tablet feels pretty damn snappy.
For what it's worth, as far as I can tell SpiderMonkey is still more or less optimizing away the makeKeyConcat / makeKeyConcatObj testcases in Firefox 29, and all of them on trunk. I bet it's inlining the functions, discovering the arguments are constant strings and hence the return values are constant, constant-folding the if conditions, etc...

I tried to work around that in http://jsperf.com/makekey-concat-vs-join/11 but clearly that's not good enough.

Microbenchmarking a decent optimizing compiler is hard; it will typically be able to figure out that the ubench is pointless and optimize it all away...
A large life-span would starve the younger generations of resources. And the younger generations are probably more crucial to the survival of the gene pool, than the older generations for various reasons. One reason is that younger generations might be better adapted to the environment because of mutations.

Another reason could be that the brains and bodies of older generations will eventually get saturated / tired. Keeping them alive is inefficient for the species.
Nice the last pice needed for a webkit browser in the terminal..
Does anyone have pictures of these girls? I'm curious to see what they actually look like.
9 New Google+ Features for Android and Web Released
If the NSA can track the request from your browser to the adsense/doubleclick servers, then they can track where you go around large parts of the Internet.

I didn't get the sense they were saying the NSA made Google make that cookie. Just that Google was denying that cookie was used for tracking, except 8 years ago when they said it was.

I suspect we don't fully understand the level of ability the NSA has to monitor a specific Internet user. It might be accurate to say that, if they want to track you, they will easily know every site you visit surfing around the web due to ad tracking cookies by all the various ad companies. I bet they can tie a Google PREF=ID to you by name and IP address.
There are quite a lot of infrastructure upgrades to be made. Laying fiber to every home in America, for example, or a functional high speed rail system (or better yet, a vac train network). We're far from running out of work to be done. We're not exactly at the complete make-work stage yet.
Very nice article indeed.

One commonly used variant I missed in the article and I'd be interested what it's positive/negative aspects are (if there are differences at all):

<script>
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = "http://example.com/awesome-widget.js";
script.async = true;
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
</script>

(Note the additional async param)
Oh my god it ends with a way to get the 1913 Webster's into Dictionary on a Mac. Installing that so hard right now. Because most of the time when I pop open Dictionary it's to look for the same kind of inspiration he describes John McPhee as finding.
What would you like in a Web Showcase website?
I am bulding a web showcase site (http://talkbig.co) where people can brag about their new Design/Site/Service/Anything.
I would just like to know what features does the community require
I guess he had a bad day or whatever. Or maybe I read too much into what he wrote.
How to tell if you're being ARP poisoned?
None of the available environments is able to produce APKs that use the whole system without some server help.
Ruby evolution – class_eval-ing class_eval
For a lot of knowledge work I think it's closer to a bell curve, in that if you work too few hours you'll be swamped by overhead, but if you work too many hours, your per-hour productivity drops due to lack of focus caused by insufficient rest or dropping motivation. I thought it was common knowledge that overworked developers create more bugs, so I wonder how a trader is able to work 65 hours a week without performance suffering in the long run. Or could you rotate traders in a one week on / one week off cycle?
It depends. Do you believe that NSA is stifling citizen activism?

If that's the case, than NSA spying affects a large portion of Americans. If that's the case, that would put a dampening effect on democracy, which theoretically affects everyone in the entire system, immediately.
Just for scale, backbone links these days are not 10 gigabits/sec, more in the order of 40-100 gigabits/sec.

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange is the largest and most important exchange in Europe, and it's peak traffic each day reaches 3 terabits/sec.
If you really wanted to reduce speeding, you'd just charge a small administrative fee, and suspend driving licenses after a few infractions.

The bigger the importance of revenues from tickets, the lower the incentive to enforce speeding too well, because then too few people would speed...
Yep. Things like Bluecoat were vulnerable to reverse-heartbleed, even if the servers/clients behind them weren't.
> No, I am not. I assumed that the offspring will die of old age too.

How does that change the conclusion? 3 children vs 2 is still immensely more children, not just a marginal amount as you thought.
Yes I understand that. And I agree the NSA is wrong for doing that. But I felt like the show is implying that google is purposefully doing it to allow the NSA to track you. When it seems to me that Google got outsmarted by the NSA.
Interview with Tim Bray co-inventor of XML at GOTO Chicago 2014
Regarding Tek("Tektronix")-Graphics, here's an animated gif showing Tek4014 graphics...

http://phk.freebsd.dk/AducLoran/animation2.gif

...part of a Loran-C receiver made by Poul-Henning Kamp which aparently outputs these plots over its serial port.

http://phk.freebsd.dk/AducLoran/

To play with it, for example gnuplot can output on an xterm running in tektronix-mode. Open an Xterm, then...

* mkfifo /tmp/tek
* cat /tmp/tek
* Ctrl-Middle-Mouse menu:
- show tek window
- switch to tek window
- (in Tek window:) hide vt window

Open a second terminal (Xterm or any other)

* start gnuplot, on the gnuplot-prompt
* set term tek40xx
* set output "/tmp/tek"
* plot tan(x) {or whatever you want to plot}

Using two separate terminal emulators, and the fifo, makes it easier to coordinate the two different modes, because frankly gnuplot doesn't switch sensibly between the two display modes and will clobber one or the other either with Tek control codes on the VT, or write the prompt over the graphics.
Interestingly, he did get caught. Severs times. I asked him just before he shipped off to his first deployment and he said "You know, that's one thing I've learned. The military really doesn't have their shit together. I just lied on all the forms when it asked about criminal background and when they asked about drugs."

Keep in mind, he's not planning in making a career out of it or becoming an officer or anything like that. But he did get his life turned around for the better, even though he didn't take the safe route early on.
Seems to work well. I tried this a few months back but had some issues with undocumented stuff. Really cool to see someone so young get it working.
Don't forget the fact that the book, even in paperback, is big enough to severely wound somebody if you throw it at their head. And something like a third of its bulk is footnotes. Lengthy footnotes that can be fill most of a page. There is a certain joy to making your way through a dense labyrinth of a story like this, but you have to put a lot of energy into the journey...
I don't think anyone can use the Internet in any normal way (email, Facebook, Hacker News, CNN.com, anything) without leaving a trail that can be tracked. Anything that can be encrypted must be decrypted at the other end. How can you use Facebook (even as an alias) and avoid revealing your true identity to any of your friends?

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
So to enlighten you.

With a Surface, I can go full developer mode in the desktop, while making use of, if you prefer, the old style applications.

I can detach the keyboard, switch the Metro (Modern) mode and make use of the tablet as a digital notebook thanks to pen input and handwriting recognition.

Finally, I can go put the pen aside and just use touch input.

And the ability to have a docking station made specifically for the Surface is the cherry on the top of the cake.

With a Mac Book Air, I am stuck on the classical desktop mode.
Lamarck’s revenge: Epigenetics revolution may redeem 1 of Darwin’s oldest rivals
Sunshine Coast resident here, Demographia's most unaffordable in 2009. The Buderim market was insane during that time. Sold out in 2008 and sat it out until last year.
That's all of California, thanks to Prop 13.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978...
It's possible to relay the notification to any receiver via BT4.0 LE
Dorctors prescribe antiobiotics that dont work
I agree that Google was outsmarted by the NSA. I disagree the show was implying otherwise.
Mojang Has Enough Cash to Last 10 More Years
Today many people run their development environments in VMs with something like vagrant. That, plus the fact that *nix utilities are available through cygwin, make the choice of OS to run your editor in pretty unimportant and more a matter of personal preference.

I still use a Mac but i don't use any OSX specific software apart from some small tools which i could easily replace on other OSes.
... and I did think SF is expensive ... average semidetached house with small garden in a suburb of Munich, Germany (1h commuting): 950k USD, quite an average price here. And the salaries are lower than in SF while cost of living is higher. 770k USD in SF looks like a bargain :-)
The Mini is a 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3. A new MBP could have more RAM but only the highest 15' model has a matching CPU.

Edit: I work from home so mobility is not really crucial.
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