skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PowerShell also plays nicely with COM and WMI. It's not all .NET objects you interact with. (Well, technically it is, due to PSObjects wrapping everything, but that's another matter.)

How would you do it, though? Pipe around JSON or XML? Then you just have data structures, but not objects. They can't have methods and if they could, what language would they be written in?
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JP Morgan's $6.2 billion "London Whale" trading loss:

An unnamed overworked staffer in London copied and pasted the
wrong figures into an Excel spreadsheet, throwing the firm's
risk models out of whack.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/18/jpmorgan-london-wh...

Spreadsheet errors are reaching epidemic proportions globally. What we need is a transnational organization to contain the threat with research, best practices and conferences!

http://www.eusprig.org/

Love their compendium of horror stories. Did you know the US Securities and Exchange Commission has weak accounting because they rely on spreadsheets?

http://www.eusprig.org/horror-stories.htm

As we have reported in prior audits, SEC's general ledger system
and certain software applications and configurations are not
designed to provide the accurate, complete, and timely
transaction-level data needed to accumulate and readily report
reliable financial information...

Many of the agency’s financial reporting processes are still
manual in nature and reliant on spreadsheets and databases to both
initiate transactions and perform key control functions.
Totally this - I always day dream about buying an industrial robotic arm and setting it to work as a cocktail machine - some of the seriously high end ones move at insane speeds, so this could work out faster than human barstaff - especially if you can mutli-thread the tasks.

One for my lottery win daydreams.
The people who call Go a systems programming language are fundamentally misguided. It is an applications programming language under any reasonable definition.
The article was written as though Emacs didn't exist.
Ask Ars: Can I see what information the feds have on my travel?
That happens mostly at the high levels, in novice to intermediate levels if your adversary plays an unorthodox move in the opening and you play by principles you have the advantage.
How do you expect things to work? This expectation that complex tools should be so obvious that they can be used without a book seems pretty odd to me. There aren't many other serious engineering disciplines where people enter it with that kind of mindset.

The source code for a system is one of the more valuable assets produced by a software development team, and managing source code is heavily about managing risk. Losing source code means losing work (money and time). Deploying source code too early means exposing the users of your system to code that might not be adequately tested. In distributed development, accepting unsigned patches means that your system might include untrustworthy code... the list goes on and on.

Part of the reason that git is complex (and this can be said about any serious source code management system) is that it solves complex problems. Fifteen years ago, Jamie Zawinski said this about Mozilla... I think it's also true for git:

"Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. "

-- http://www.jwz.org/doc/easter-eggs.html
A popular addon is the ACE toolkit. I'm sure that there are many more that may simply not be available for public consumption.

I do financial modelling and our firm as developed its own formula auditing (and Excel Swiss Army knife) tool. For example, we can analyze a block of cells and have a visual overlay of which cells contain the same formulas, which cells contain formulas of different types (external file, external sheet, embedded constant, constant, etc..).

This lets us really optimize our time while giving is more confidence that we have properly reviewed an entire spreadsheet.
It does suck, but on the other hand spam is rampant and fighting it from overrunning your site necessarily means there will be some gray areas and false positives.
You don't even need the specification to implement cmdlets. Heck, you could extend PowerShell exclusively in PowerShell code (though performance makes that somewhat undesirable most of the time).
They have info on the aircraft for some 8 hours.

MH370 was a 777-200ER. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

That gives it a range of 7725 nautical miles. http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/777family/pf/pf_200p...

Cruise speed is 0.84 mach at 35000 feet which is around 500mph.

That's only 4000 miles of the 7000 mile range.

If this is the full log including some time on the ground it would seem like they didn't necessarily run out of fuel.

Kuala Lumpar to Beijing is about 2700 miles so I suppose they would probably carry enough fuel for the flight plus some reserve. So the fly-til-empty theory is still plausible.
More like a patch panel.
Pass: Very minimal CLI password manager that follows Unix philosophy
The Twitter terms of service prohibit sharing the data in the Tweets. Researchers are allowed to share tweet IDs and User IDs which can be used to identify a Tweet. Currently, Twitter collections are shared using this method -- I recently released a dataset of 120 million Tweet IDs which cover a sample of a months worth of data, and numerous other researchers have used these IDs to crawl Twitter and obtain the same dataset as I used in my experiments.
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Yeah £1200/mo sounds like a reasonable middle level developer salary in Eastern Europe (I am from Lithuania).

It's a good point about English speakers. I think it has to do with network and comfort zone. When you are 25 and have spent all your life in your home country, you usually have some kind of network, some reputation. Makes it easier, and comfortable.

While getting a client from the States or UK is something unfamiliar, out of comfort zone, maybe some tried and got disappointed by oDesk/elance etc (I find their application process totally soul crushing, when you might spend ~30mins to write a nice customized proposal and hear nothing back).
What backup? You mean we have to manually back up this system? Why should we have to spend money (aka devops man-hours) developing a backup system, when other Source Version Control systems don't let individual coders blow away the Source?

EDIT: For those unclear, we almost had to pull our backup of Source out of Glacier because someone deleted our local repository. We weren't expecting to need to set up permissions for things that should be assumed out of the box.
I have this as a "temporary" solution (now three years old) for getting data into my database. OK, I am using Python, not Perl. There is nothing fun about debugging this.

The non technical users can't tell the difference between 2 2.0 ' 2.0'. Usually excel will display the same thing to them.

I recently replaced one of their excels with a web form. "Ughh,una mierda" (its shit).
So I asked whast excel did that the web form didn't. Basically a bit of JS to give some copy paste functionality, and she is now a lot happier than that solution than she was with the excel.
Crashes aren't new. OS X has had them for a long time, they're just less common than some other operating systems.

The question is whether you can go from "2 or 3 friends of mine said they have more crashes than before" to "10.9.3 is more prone to crashing than 10.9.2." For all we know, the entire sample is using some 3rd party utility that crashes under the new update, which is bad, but is also not something you can completely blame Apple for.
> Its probably more "civilized" to call it $PROGRAM_NAME in your code, but whatever. I don't think this is controversial to alias $PROGRAM_NAME to $0 for anyone civilized aka some minimal C experience.

There is `use English;` for that. :)
More detail here: http://global.ofweek.com/news/Japan-s-chip-fabs-turn-to-grow...

Fujitsu Semiconductor and Toshiba Corp have both started to grow greens and believe the tightly-controlled conditions produce superior plants that can be tuned in terms of trace elements and therefore for taste or for specialized diets to meet health-care needs.
Aren't a lot of those people living in richer countries than Poland, though? It would be hard to live in, say, the UK on a Polish salary.
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I am based in Poland (working remotely for US-based company though). I'd say the 6k zl is a bit low, in big cities an experienced dev can get 2x times that, or more (and outliers like Google pay much much more).
Heres the money quote:
"GPS satellites carry a set of nuclear detonation detectors consisting of an optical sensor (Y-sensor), an X-ray sensor, a dosimeter, and an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) sensor (W-sensor), that form a major portion of the United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System.[76][77] General William Shelton has stated that this feature may be dropped from future satellites in order to save money.[78]
> Great idea, piping around objects instead of text, but wait, they must be .NET objects. So the entirety of the language community cannot participate other than Microsoft languages.

Also just a ton of missing UI / tooling / integration work meant that most people heard about it, tried it, didn't see what the hype was about and probably have never looked at it again. This happens a lot where people who work on big projects just assume everyone else will look past the initial experience and grasp the cool vision.
Your confidence in the layman is inspiring. Why is == more difficult to understand than parentheses for function calls, for example?
Unless the Singularity has occurred and no one told me, everyone has emotions. I prefer, however, to discuss facts backed up by primary sources, such as the commit stats linked earlier or mailing lists or IRC logs. Do you have an opinion about the situation based on those?
You are making the mistake of thinking the financial system was designed in any meaningful way!
Perl also has nice libraries for creating Excel files. Used that at my last job to generate reports from MySQL.
The problem here is that Twitter has hijacked every URL posted on its service with the t.co redirector. Even if you post an already short link, it will be wrapped in a useless t.co, which causes problems like what you've described.
they also have MPS on the grammer less IDE/Language tooling...
git is a distributed system. Everyone else has a full copy of the repository. therefore everyone actually has a backup.
Wrong end of the correlation/causation pattern.

Human beings make mistakes.

A lot of humans use Excel.

Hence a lot of errors in Excel.

Would all those humans program their logic in Python - we'd have a lot of wrong calculations in Python code and an article stating to not use Python.
Ironically, it's Spreadsheet Server 2014.
Well, it's just that perl for:

sub foo($x, $y, $z) ...

has up to now been written:

sub foo {
my ($x, $y, $z) = @_;
...

which is annoying boilerplate I agree, but actually pretty regular. [You mean language xxx has two different ways to declare subroutine lexical vars?]

The people who want to hate perl will continue to hate it.

After the list of reasons they dislike it are resolved, they'll come up with new ones and/or point to "it's not popular enough" (while simultaneously embracing a brand new language which is significantly less popular).
Presumably the layman has a high-school understanding of mathematics notation.
Another cool thing about GPS is that it helps up predict weather.

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

Basically, a satellite in orbit (which already knows where it is) will measure the time delay to a GPS satellite as the line of sight skims the edge of the atmosphere. The ray path will be affected by the refractive index of the atmosphere, which depends on its humidity and temperature. This allows temperature and humidity to be calculated for a range of altitudes as the line of sight moves, and is remarkably accurate - so much so that other observations are calibrated against GPS measurements.
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Computer "service bureaus" offered outsourced computing services in the 1960's and 70's. Do some research on "Tymshare", for example, and you'll see that "the Cloud" was alive and well back in the 1960's.
Most people with healthy bodies don't intend to die, and yet life insurance is prevalent.
Thank you for noticing that embarrassing typo.
Is there a way to select my entire history and delete it all?

[EDIT] Never mind I found it. It's under "Settings"

[EDIT EDIT] Thanks for migstopheles for the direct link.
0.8 ^ 100 simply means that it's extremely unlikely that there would be 100 out of 100 successful connections given that the probability of the success of each connection is 0.8. The expected success rate would still be around 80 out of 100.
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Looks like somebody REALLY wanted to know what their girlfriend had been listening to.
Encryption Existed Long Before Computers
This is because the terms of the license are sufficient for the kernel/distro use. It's kinda the point about free software.
But you're entering anyway... ;)
Some days, I go around internetting and it's like I'm lengthening URLs with that page every 5 clicks.
I feel like there's a lot missing by saying Leo "for whatever reason" does not want a bank account. What reason? Surely he has one. Could they not ask him what his reason is?

They give a bunch of justification about humans being creatures of habit. Nonsense. I'm sure Leo has some notions about everything a bank account is going to entail, and it's intimidating, but I don't see why it couldn't be overcome and this article does nothing to explain that. If Patrick can teach him to code, he could teach him the logistics of setting up a bank account, finding an apartment, etc. etc.
https://history.google.com/history/settings, there's a link there to delete everything.
EDIT
As you already know.
I found this video helpful as a beginner: http://vimeo.com/46010208
Yep, this is scary as hell.

EDIT. How Badly would deleting all my history effect my google searches?
I have access to the Twitter gardenhose (which is equal to slightly less than 10% of the full volume). These are the RX and TX statistics from the machine that I've been using to gather data for a few months now:

RX bytes:18053724505080 (16.4 TiB) TX bytes:2686623557042 (2.4 TiB)

It works out at around 70GB/day, so I'd actually think that the full firehose would use considerably more data than 400GB/day (likely closer to 800GB).
This:

> This solution doesn't our solve problems in our situation.

is a far cry from:

> Many of my coworkers feel it's a "piece of Git" (if you get my expletive).

Just sayin'. It's the same attitude that once caused an obnoxious movie-goer to get all hot and bothered (yelling at the screen, trying to explain it to his date, etc) over seeing a Mac on-screen because "it would have gone a lot faster if he was using a PC."
What's the connection with the Android app? Did someone backdoor it, or something?
The IP range is only shared with our other services as laut.de and laut.tv which can be shared just fine. Links to other FM domains work, too. I'm pretty sure our content is sanitized properly.
Thanks! I found it a few seconds later.
Ugh, shut up, nobody cares. Hey, maybe start taking care of your God-awful rendering engine and CPU cycles instead of wasting time on stuff like this?
Emoticons are so 2013 - chat using manga now.
It's not true that all tools are exactly the same.

I suppose a good example of this would be all the affordances built into a modern highway. Softer turns, curves prior to intersections (they increase visibility and encourage the stopping traffic to slow down), embankments, etc.
I would have thought I had more than 11K searches. How many searches did you guys have?
I'd love to see an analysis of these issues from an international perspective.

Copyright is enough of a quagmire in a single jurisdiction, but there are a LOT of contracts that span multiple jurisdictions.
What do you mean, "taste"?
I agree 100%. I know they at least have to try to reduce spam. I only wish anybody would react on our error reports.
Yeah, author does mentions that the study doesn't answers those questions. Still, I find the fact of writing a whole post based on one point, from the paper that seems to be pretty bad at specifically this point, to be disturbing (and sadly quite representative of modern journalism/blogging scene).
Clicked on this and says I don't have it enabled. From the collected reactions so far in here. I am expecting that is a good thing.
Link shorteners are bad for usability, but they're also a potential attack vector for targeted attacks. A link might go to the right site 99.9% of the time, and redirect a user to a malicious site the rest of the time.

You can redirect based on the browser fingerprint, IP address, or any number of things.

I have a proof-of-concept of this at http://brokenthings.org/

It redirects to a "friendly" site for preview scanners, etc., and to a "bad" site (Youtube videos, with some stale ones) for users.

It's blocked by Facebook, but still works on G+.
Surely they aren't coughing up private tweets?
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Try not to take this as snark, but aren't hackers early adopters that do things on their own?

What's the point of a hackers guide to a thing that has been a thing for years?!
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Same. It looks like I must have stumbled on this awhile back, turned it off, then forgot about it.
> We decided to leave it when we realized any individual coder could wipe out our local repository with a wrong command.

What?

1) You can configure your repo so only select users may use destructive commands on certain branches.

2) It's a _distributed_ content versioning system. Even if someone wiped out the main, "central", repository, all users will have a full local copy, a backup in effect.

Git has a horrible UI in many ways, but your apparent dislike of it smells more of incompetence and a naive buy-in of the full Microsoft ecosystem than anything else.

BTW, I didn't know what TFS was before checking on Wikipedia, but -- somewhat ironcially given your gripe -- TFS seems to have decent support for Git[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server#Git

[EDIT]: formatting
It surprises me how many people have a google account with their real name and always keep logged in.
I remember finding this and disabling it a long time ago. Thought I'd regret it later when I realize I don't have a lengthy log of my history with Google, but actually the feeling of not being creeped out is great.
How is it possible that I only have searches from May (~500). I'm confident I've always been logged in to my google account, though I only re-enabled G+ recently...
The question however is whether it's really deleted or just not being displayed to you anymore. Only Google can answer that.
You wouldn't use injection molding for a pallet - it's too big. However compression molding is an option. It's not as accurate as injection molding, but it's significantly cheaper. Or at least it is at the scale my father-in-law works at when he makes plastic pallets :). His pallets are custom designed for a specific industry to fit in their manufacturing and logistics workflow.
Because highschool math acquainted them with the notion that a function call looks like

afunctioncall(argument)

thanks to sin(x) and cos(x) and log(x). Some people will even have vague notions of functions with multiple variable inputs like f(x,y).

Basically, highschool math introduced a lot of syntax that users will be familiar with - we're universally okay with the typical +-/* operators, for example, and ^ isn't a stretch, neither is f(). AND/OR/NOT are introductory Boolean algebra and while they're not universally taught in high-school, I find many scientists are acquainted with them (although languages using || && ! syntax are a good way to lose them). Excel's lack of boolean operators (booleans operators are functions in excel) is disappointing.

I've always found that SQL gives a good minimal arithmetic/boolean-logic toolkit for laymen. It's a good model to follow.
All I get from following the links in the comments is a blue button to turn ON some google feature. Have I avoided opting IN to something nasty thus far?
Well considering that I've had it off this whole time, I doubt its that bad. Maybe even you're getting a lighter version of duckduckgo.
Are you telling me that you don't backup anything? You just expect the version control system to (e.g.) magically recover itself from a hardware failure on your server?

It's a version control system, not a backup solution, in the same way that RAID-5 is not a backup solution.
I'll buy that - the fact that the pretty essential vlookup function defaults to guessing when it can't find a value, rather than defaulting to "Couldn't find the value you were looking to" - has been the source of endless errors.

Explicit really reduces the number of errors you run into - there's a lot of implicit going on in a spreadsheet.
I don't think it's a good idea for a homeless guy to be caring 10k in cash.
> It can be easy to miss how calorie rich certain foods are.

That's exactly why weighing myself every day worked for me; I wasn't able to kid myself about how much I was eating. I also found that the odd big meal didn't matter, as long as I didn't make it a habit (which I didn't do thanks to having a tight feedback loop).
Drop the transitions, give realistic UI feedback on :active
I don't think it would. I've had it disabled for a long time and never noticed anything strange.
“If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility... The computer utility could become the basis of a new and important industry.”

— John McCarthy, speaking at the MIT Centennial in 1961

(As quoted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_computing)
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With the forced G+ integration, its hard not to.
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This article is just talking about Twitter Data Grants for which 6 universities were decided as winners [0]. You won't see papers through these grants as yet because well, the winners were announced about 40 days back!

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/2014/twitter-datagrants-selections
I disabled history the first time I saw the option to turn it off (more than few years back), I never had problem finding what I am looking for.

I am sure everybody here knows that this only means that Google apps don't use your history, but it's still saved.
Curious how this differentiates itself from Jing which works on Windows (92% of PCs) in addition to Mac.
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it does not include images. A tweet object does include a bunch of metadata though: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/tweets
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I'm not creeped out by it, but I can understand why other people may be.
Total searches: 68452

That is a lot of searches.
Mine is almost empty, and the stuff in there is just about all dev stuff.

Switching to DDG really took care of this particular problem.
maybe it transmits the password or session token in an insecure way?