skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Renewals available at regular price."

Their regular prices aren't expensive -- $9.78 for Comodo PositiveSSL and $11.90 for Geotrust RapidSSL. But it would be nice to have a moderate recurring discount instead of a one-time break.
>>understanding Obj-C was never the hard part.

It seems important for traction to make the beginning learning curve non-steep. See PHP, Python, etc.
There were more than 1,000 foreign journalists in Beijing
on the night of the army's final drive to clear Tiananmen [sic.] Square, and many of them followed the advance of the main Peopled Liberation Army (P.L.A.)assault force through
the western suburbs as it plowed murderously through the
crowds of laobaixing that formed at all points to block its
path. Most of the foreign film footage of the massacre was
shot in this sector of the city, in neighborhoods like Muxidi, Fuxingman and Liubukou, where hundreds of unarmed protesters and innocent bystanders were mowed down by random gunfire from semiautomatic weapons. The troops apparently made no distinction between these people and the small number who hurled stones, rocks and Molotov cocktails or set fire to vehicles that had been used as road-blocks. Since this main theater of the massacre was by and large well covered by the foreign news media, we will focus here on some lesser-known aspects of the action along western Changan and Fuxingmen subsequently dubbed "Blood
Boulevard" by the people of Beijing.

I find this passage strangely familiar with Egypt, Syria, Ukraine or the early becoming of the Romanian revolution with whom I was very familiar. So this is pretty much about the Blood Boulevard than Tienanmen Square. Even the 1,400 soldiers 'shed their weapons and ran away' paragraph has recent echos.

After fifty days of occupation by the pro-democracy
movement, the square had finally been "returned to the
people." That would make Occupy Wall Street blush.

And last passage could serve as TL;DR

They exploit the fact that no one died during the clearing of Tiananmen Square to conceal the truth that some deaths and injuries did occur there earlier. And they use the fact that there was no bloodbath in Tiananmen Square to cover up the truth about the bloodbaths in Muxidi, Nanchizi and Liubukou. Why do we give them such an opportunity?"

Interesting read.
Exciting times ahead ;-)

Also, there is a difference in required memory architecture when it comes to optimizing CPU thread performance vs SIMD - CPU is more sensitive to latency, SIMD to bandwidth. You usually have to pick the memory type (e.g. DDR3 vs GDDR5) that optimizes one of those and that would tell you what market you target.

I am not sure how AMD handles their HSA - they seem to have discontinued plans for GDDR5 so their Fusion GPU is going to be bandwidth-starved.
I agree that strictly regimented sick/vacation time is something a lot of us suffer under. My organization goes as far as to call the combined sick/vacation pool "Earned Time". As though you have to work in order to earn the right to rest at home when you are sick or want to take a day off.

Unfortunately, there's another side of the coin. I have worked alongside a couple of groups with a "take whatever you need when you need it" vacation/sick day policy. Either by choice or by necessity, they're disgusting workaholics without exception who routinely grind for 10-12 hours a day, every day, for months, fearing the work that will accumulate if they are home sick for a day or away for vacation for any period of time. They don't get paid more for working late. When I asked, they seem to each take one 5 day vacation once per year.

The saddest part of it all is their personal lives-- the wife of the boss of that group refuses to vacation to anywhere with any kind of internet access because she knows her husband will work instead of be mentally there with her. The other employees are single and friendless outside of work.

I'd very much prefer a more relaxed and less exploitative vacation/sick day system, but I think that a large cultural change has to happen in the US first. We don't have the luxury of the philosophical position that work is an intrinsic good-- the real consequences of this position are pretty brutal, and evident everywhere. Once we accept that work is value-neutral, we can start to be more relaxed about how much we actually have to work, and when we actually work. And we might just be a bit more relaxed about staying home when we're sick, provided that we understand our work is rarely more important than our health.
Why would a $5 certificate allow wildcards?
I agree with you (still reading the article by the way). That's why I consider it a grey area because we all have various goals that drive several action. In some way, we 'profit'. I suppose the problem easily becomes an ethical/moral (loosely defined) issue where one has to decide on where lines are drawn - if any at all. Is the monetary profit from advertising that different from the emotional/mental profit from donating to a charity? If so, where do we make the distinction? Clearly, an action to achieve a specific end (good, bad or neutral) doesn't cut it.
Zimbabwean. Bootstrapping couple tech startups (some profitable) here in Africa for way over a year now.

Most (good) devs I know are self-taught. Employment opportunities pushing code are so scarce it's hopeless for most which is why most move out or go into sys admin/networking. The jobs don't pay that good as well but you can strike out well with consulting.

Thanks to the internet Git, SASS, Heroku, AngularJS, Golang, NodeJS, Docker and all other hacker goodness is adopted just as much (by the few willing) so it's not like we're making sites with bash. We also have a few tech podcasts and the occasional meetup.

Just that our communities are much much smaller and far apart that it's like we're not there at all (thanks economy). Good developers are also hard to find because most see no point in developing skills you never get to use. Things are picking up though
...counting OS overhead, drive I/O, loading, cache misses

Let's hope these unpleasantly difficult bits of the OS and hardware also scale well. If they don't all make perfect use of your 300 cores then your userland code won't, either.
It really is interesting when you think of it that way, you have a lot of rules in school. Then college you have nothing, then onto the real world where you have a job and all of the sudden you have a lot of rules again. It would be interesting for larger companies to see if their productivity increases if they follow a structure like this or something similar, or if productivity takes a dive once you allow people more freedom.
Actually, this holds only up to certain extent. Synchronization, locking, memory access patterns and context-switching from many threads with accompanied cache thrashing can bring the effective parallelization to very small levels.

I remember from benchmarking a high performance transactional messaging system in Java I was working on seeing how it hit a flat line at some point where it didn't scale at all due to CPU/memory contention (this depended on maximal number of threads allowed). We had to look at alternative designs such as 0MQ to see how they overcame it - basically they put one working/client thread per core to achieve their 1M messages/s. We were using 10s of thousands of threads in our middleware when necessary, and that was faster than async NIO in Java 6 at that time.
seems author wanted to write poetic book about understanding different cultures but instead wrote this b.s. article filled with worn out stereo types instead. Guess what, in nearly every business environment with an office people get upset when you do not show up to a meeting. I know this because I've worked in many of the countries this author listed. There are differences in cultures but this article attempts to turn these differences into a science, which in some way is just disgustingly racist.
I'm a big fan of vacation policies that lean this way, and have been working at a shop that has a "no vacation policy, policy" for almost four years. That said, I'd echo what I've heard a number of people [1] say about this strategy... that your new challenge is making sure that people take enough time off and don't feel guilty about it. This is the hidden upside to commoditizing PTO, no one sweats using it. It's sort of perceived as a liquidized resource. In an environment without any rules or even vocabulary around time off, it can be a little bit discomforting to take a two week trip or go through with long-weekend plans in a crunch time, etc.

That said, I vastly prefer it to the alternative.. Just want to encourage teams that go down this road to not use these vacation policies as an accidental excuse not to pay attention to and discuss time off and whether it's working out for everyone as well as you'd hope or expect!

[1] My first exposure to this sentiment: http://www.amazon.com/Up-Organization-Corporation-Stifling-S...

[Edit - Just feel the need to plug harder - Seriously, go read Townsend's book. Published in 1970 and it (unfortunately) still reads incredibly forward thinking. It's basically Rework , written 35 years ago (with only respect to JF and DHH, I really enjoyed Rework as well).]
And those of us who are native English speakers do unspeakable violence to the language with words like "incentivized".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Incentivize
This, so much this.

People say I'm weird when I say I don't follow, nor care to follow the mainstream news. It seems hard for them to understand that I gain nothing from "keeping up to date with current events".

It's all just so much pain and misery, and I can't speak for anyone else, but my life is better without it. I prefer to seek out my own news, pertaining to things I like or am interested in. Hacker News (the irony of the name is not lost on me), for example, is very relevant to most of my interests.
I had the same question. What about one cert makes it better than the other?
As much as I loved wowing my corporate friends with the "unlimited vacation" perk of my previous job, I always struggled because there was always work to be done so I always felt some sort of pressure because using my vacation meant I was inherently saying "yeah, I know there's still work but you guys can handle it, I'm going to play." I get that this isn't a perfect mindset since that's part of being on a team and you have to expect people to share responsibility but that's how I felt and in talking to others and reading about unlimited vacation policies, I don't think I'm alone.

When I left my first job that had a generous but still limited vacation policy, I got a nice sized check paying me back for my unused vacation. I never felt like I was restricted from taking vacation and I definitely liked the money that actually ended up paying for the week off I took between jobs.
I heard the Old Ones say that, before my time, there used to be a downvote button, but it went away because the tribalism led to, e.g., non-Apple stories being voted off the front page.

I rarely hit the upvote button because it feels broken to me without a downvote. Maybe a handful of articles a week. Flag maybe once or twice a week. Although I liberally use the upvote buttons in comments.
This is what is so frustrating about Canada... In this case, the government gets involved [1] in investing in early-stage companies, a ton of money goes instead to building a shiny building in a hyper-expensive real-estate market, and the government steps in with taxpayer money to bail itself out when things don't go well.

[1] Partners in MaRS include the Province of Ontario, the Government of Canada and the City of Toronto: http://www.marsdd.com/about/our-partners/
I don't think it's traffic based, most likely they base it on:

A) Maximum insurance offered

and

B) Making sure they do not miss out on $$$ from a big customer who signs up for $5 certificate
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"of course. the day a company, when faced with larger profits, decides "hey, let's give it all to our workers through an increase in pay" is when i'll believe the libertarians ;)"
This has nothing to do with Libertarianism, nor any of it's main tenets. It's called charity, and you'd do well to disassociate it with petty political ideology.
There's no quota on traffic for an SSL cert.
I dont think it was mentioned in here yet so ill add to the list: the majority of the four hour work week is also on this topic for those looking for more of the same.
Gruber seems to think that they have been developing an in-house font called Apple Sans: http://daringfireball.net/2014/06/wwdc_2014_prelude
PLEASE HACK INTO THE ENEMY FIRST
WHY DON'T I SEE ANYTHING ABOUT HACKING/DEVELOPMENT IN HERE?
Yeah, so this is called Hacker News but all I see are posts about consumer technologies, Bitcoin and dumb headlines. Am I the odd one out here, or should this be a resource for software engineers? It's pretty much a no-frills aggregator of whatever flotsam ends up getting posted. Oh well. Ha.
They're a big deal for a few reasons, such as they set the norm for what the next year's apps will try to mimic, but I agree that it's a bummer to see so few OS X apps (well, app). Hopefully Yosemite will inspire people to get back to writing award-eligible OS X apps.
http://startssl.com/ . $0/year. No bullshit.
The issue is that there is only a limited set of things to do while waiting for someone. I can't get down to work to solve any problem of the day because I may be interrupted at any moment by the person arriving. Then I have to sacrifice my time (and perhaps my other plans) after the meeting to get my work finished, perhaps at a time when I figured the meeting would already be over and my remaining work already done.

I really think it's very disrespectful.
I don't think the `dark mode` is in the beta, or if it is I can't seem to find it.
The site is down?
It's a nice publicity stunt to be sure. Will it be a valuable part of the decision-making process? Sometimes the trend gets bucked. I doubt even "big data" could have predicted Flappy Bird.
Several times a week I find HN takes 10-20 seconds to load.

(This leads to paranoia about slow-banning or hell-banning.)
They removed the need for main by making global scope the entry point.
How can Swift be so much faster than Objective-C?
They have ADS-B transponders. You see them sometimes on flightradar24 floating around at FL650.
I think the author misses the point of the `let` keyword. It's not meant as the equivalent of declaring constants in Objective-C; they're main purpose isn't to be global and static like constants.
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TBH I thought this was announcing cloud based graphics rendering until I saw the Ubuntu domain.
For the reference:

* Unofficial community bugtracker for the Witcher 2: https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues

* Witcher wiki - howtos and workarounds (Linux version): http://witcher.gamepedia.com/The_Witcher_2_howtos_and_workar...

* Linux issues and user solutions: http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/29958-Linux-issues-an...
Given that almost all clients support SNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) nowadays, there's not really a need anymore for wildcard certificates (if all you want to do is enable a few subdomains).
At first i thought that year was the UNIX time stamp...
I think the difference is that you're paying (a lot) to be in college, while you're being paid (hopefully a lot) to do your job. So it's not realistic to expect to be treated the same way in both situations.
Usually, requiring that the state vector in a quantum theory be invariant under a unitary transformation require other fields (what we call gauge fields) be added that end up being representing physical interactions.

For example, consider the state vector |y>. The norm <y|y> is invariant under local U(1) transformations

|y> -> e^(-I* T(x,t))|y>

For

<y|y> -> <y|e^(I* T(x,t))e^(-I* T(x,t))|y> = <y|1|y> = <y|y>.

(local, as in a function of space-time, is key). Write the state as |y>=v|0> where v is some operator, then saying <y|y> is invariant is like saying v* v is invariant when v -> v e^(-I* T(x,t)).

In physics, a term ~v* v would represent the potential energy of a spring. To represent the kinetic energy of a spring, we need a term like (d^{\mu}v* )d_{\mu}v where the d_{\mu} represent derivatives w.r.t. space and time (\mu is an index which runs from 0 to 3, 1,2,3 are x,y,z, 0 is time). Here, the U(1) transformation does not leave this term valid, because the derivative acts on the e^(-I T(x,t)) too...

However, if one were to make the replacement

d^{\mu} -> d^{\mu} - I e A^{\mu}(x,t)

where when

v -> v e^(-I* T(x,t))

we have that

A^{\mu} -> A^{\mu} - d^{\mu} T(x,t)

one can show (this doesn't have to be obvious!) that then the Lagrangian

~(D^{\mu}v)* D_{\mu}v - v* v

(where D is the new "covariant derivative" we described above) is now invariant under local U(1) transformations. It turns out that this Lagrangian, completely written out, looks a lot like classical electromagnetism, and it is, and A^{\mu} is the "4-vector potential". In fact, A^0 represents the good old electric potential V that I'm sure you nerds are quite familiar with. I'm not sure how enlightening that was, but at least you've seen the start of QED :)

Now, for this "monster group" ... from here [0] it seems that apparently, gravity in 2+1 dimensions seems dual to this particular group, that is, take the quantum state with that operator |y>=v|0> (v is what we call a creation operator in QFT, it "creates" particles mathematically; in string theory, it creates "vibrations on the string") that under monster group transforms, apparently whatever Lagrangian Witten made out of the v's in conformal field theory (something I should note is not my field, so I may be off here) the gauge group that might be needed would represent gravity.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine#Conjectured...
And it has suffered similar abuse to "cyber-".

(Gus P.: ...which is come from the Greek word "kybernetes", meaning "steersman".)

Whenever words achieve buzzword status, that long and rich history and etymology goes out the window. But in the sense that "virtual" means "form without substance", it has not suffered nearly as much abuse. If a virtual currency is just a medium of exchange without a concrete physical embodiment, such as notes or tokens, that definition is not so narrow.

Even the USD and the EUR are mostly virtual currencies nowadays. The fraction of the money supply represented by banknotes and coins as opposed to accounting ledger entries on secured bank servers is small and decreasing.

As a disambiguator, either "ersatz" or "crypto-" would be less affected by buzzword distortions.
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The nice thing about having a set number of vacation days is that there is an expectation that you'll use them. Having "unlimited" means you're expected to use them when you've gotten your work done and there is a lull. Except in many jobs, startups in particular, there is never a lull. So any time you take off you aren't "getting stuff done" and potentially look bad. The result, in my experience, is more frequent, shorter vacations like long weekends.
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http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2014/06/03/revealed_...
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You're right that issued wildcard certs are typically quite expensive, starting around $100/yr.

But a wildcard is not difficult for anyone to implement- it is literally just adding an asterisk to the host name in the cert.

Nothing beats the profit margins of the SSL industry.
I don't think it is worth much to speculate about what an individual would have done. We can't predict the future or human actions that well. There are several internal forces at work with Apple that we do not know much of. It's not like Jobs never made bad decisions...
Try shouting LOUDER!
Considering that the book is available from Apple for free on the iBooks store....
Well finding pure MDMA can be problematic but it's certainly not an insurmountable problem if you take your time and research it well. While it's true that there is a fair amount of "cut" product and even fake product on the market the DEA's own statistics do show that a large and growing percentage of seized "ecstasy" is testing pure, so statistically speaking you're more likely to find pure MDMA on the black market today than at any time in the past. With that said you do have to be careful. There are ways to rule out the presence of certain contaminants such as methamphetamine, you might try purchasing a kit which provides certain chemicals that test for the presence of methamphetamine and other contaminants:

http://www.raveready.com/MDMA-Ecstasy-Testing-Kit-p/dansacc....

(I'm not vouching for the above kit in particular, do your own research in this area)

If you feel like you need a third party to be there with you then maybe you do, each person is different. I will say that MDMA isn't like a psychedelic where you definitely want to have a "trip sitter" present, it's a much more controllable experience.

In my opinion MDMA may feel mystical, magical or sublime; but it doesn't feel weird. MDMA "provides a centering experience, rather than an ego diffusing experience" (Dr. Philip Wolfson).

If you decide to go ahead without one then let me advise you to try it outdoors in private setting, perhaps near a lake, or a mountain top, somewhere with a view where you can roam about enjoy yourself. If you have a significant other then I highly recommend taking it together. This drug is perfect for couples therapy.
I think this is a really good example of how the ssl CA system is fundamentally broken.
Well, as long as you don't want to revoke your certificate...
Almost addictive? I disagree. I had to remove it to get anything done.
That is extremely unlikely. Enough so that I would bet money on it.

Swift is targeted at the largest user base of the Obj-C language, the iOS developers. Obj-C will be around for a long time both for legacy purposes and because Swift doesn't interop with K&R C (unless that code has an Obj-C wrapper, like CoreFoundation), and C++ code. Since both Swift and Obj-C support using Cocoa libraries, any API added to Cocoa will be usable by both, but Cocoa is only one of many libraries in the Macintosh ecosystem.

Swift will become a replacement for the development the vast majority of people do, but that doesn't mean that Obj-C is going away. Apple has done nothing to indicate so; they've really been stressing the point that Swift is intended as a new tool to work along side your old one (Obj-C).
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http://www.businessinsider.com/pros-and-cons-of-unlimited-va...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/01/unlimited-vacation-...

We have "unlimited" sick time, but the manager gets to decide when too much is too much. When the manager decides you used too much then it is unpaid leave. It works ok most of the time, but the company will force you to short term disability after being out a week.

I am a bigger fan of PTO. Lump all vacation, sick and holiday into one big number and let me deal with it as I see fit. That way I know everyone is getting a fair shake.
And yet you've managed to shed no light on how constants should be used in Swift.
Here is how RyanAir do it - one hell of an anti-pattern:

https://imgur.com/zh95qHq
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