skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God damn, I would've been so furious at that. I'm young and have been known to make irrational decisions at times and don't have many responsibilities, and I don't know I could've stopped myself quitting (though I'm not having a go at you for staying!). That's such a big red flag to me :(
The story of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, mentioned in the narrative, is an extraordinary and tragic one; at that stage of the war the US Navy's Pacific operation was so vast that the ship's disappearance essentially fell through the cracks of the bureaucracy and was not noticed for several critical days. "In Harm's Way" gives a compelling account of the sinking and the subsequent ordeal of the survivors.
Nice one; I gave up trying to solve the last with the http-only google.com/jsapi and hosted my own with https, but then it occurred to me that it's even more trivial than I thought!

Checking our stuff for this mistake now ...
Introduction to Hy – Lisp in Python. [video tutorial]
Since commercial developers on github presumably use private repositories, how would you tell?
I get that juvenile Redditors find pictures of cats amusing - I find it less easy to grasp why a technical hacker/start up community is less interested in the technical/business aspects of a major tech deal than the somewhat unsurprising revelation that a famous rap artist said mean things about women (many years ago from what I [now unfortunately] understand).
Your link says "There are several locations in which your BitLocker recovery key might have been saved." and then mentions "Your Microsoft account online.". Do you know under which conditions this happens?
Apologies for hacking the dupe filter, but I fully expected the site to be dead and instead it was vibrantly alive and I figured that (re)posting it would be worth it.

I landed there while reading 'the poignant guide to Ruby' (evaluating RoR has lead me down the rabbit hole of learning more about Ruby) and figured I'd take a look at what is there.

It's weird because the domain has a registration date of 19/2/2014.

I can't imagine some random programmer accidentally taking up this moniker though.

the contact page reads:

NOTE: For some reason, I’ve been getting a LOT (like more than 1, which is a lot for me considering how long this site has been going) of messages from people asking me if I’m some kind of famous programmer called #why from Pittsburg or something.

Whilst I wish I was this famous and did get this much attention, unfortunately I’m not. I’m just a dude trying to turn his life around and take a bit of control over what’s going on.

In saying that, please feel free to send me any gifts that you were going to send this dude and I’ll be more than happy to have them :-)
I don't disagree, but in some contexts that trade off is worth it, in my opinion.
This entire situation creates a real headache for people who train human rights defenders, activists and journalists. Quite a lot of the material, lessons etc rely on TrueCrypt (even though many of us had suspicions about it.)
My scenario is simply replacing TrueCrypt volumes.

I use TrueCrypt volumes to store personal files like scans of passport, credit card info, 2FA codes, etc.

These volumes are then on NAS or USB sticks, though a couple are in Dropbox for emergency remote access (those 2FA codes).

I primarily access everything via Linux, but the emergency scenario means I would like to be able to access via Windows and/or Mac.

I'm looking for super-simple, and ideally packaged binaries that do not need elevated privileges to run... as these deal with the emergency scenarios.
Heeeeeere’s Jimmy: Intel’s 3-D Printed Robot Will Hit the Market Later This Year
Right. That's what I meant. The point is some group who makes up a part of the local population but is unrepresented in a company.
8 Google ‘Tricks’ That Could Be Costing You Thousands
Here are the main things that you should immediately check and fix in your Adwords campaigns to improve your ROI and potentially save you thousands.
In this particular case you should be able to use no-op instructions to spin without consuming much power. Since the consumer only spins when the queue is empty we know there will be space on the ring buffer and producers won't be impacted. When the consumer wakes from a no-op loop and finds work on the queue it can switch back to a hot loop for a certain amount of time before returning to a no-op cold loop.

My understanding is that even having very small no-op pauses can significantly reduce the amount of energy used, and crucially heat generated, while only having a very modest impact on latency. A good fit for bursty low latency systems.

To be clear, I am only relating something that another developer described to me. I've not actually implemented this myself. :)
Attempted to comment but it just clears the form without doing anything it seems (perhaps stuck in mod queue? If so, it's invisible).

What I wanted to ask is what info Facebook wants from you before paying out, besides your Paypal email address of course.
For the headphones, Beats did $1.5bn in revenue last year.
[...] Gosh. Check my maths there, because I thought it was
insane too.

The only source I can find for the $1.5 billion figure is an article from July 2013 quoting an anonymous "knowledgeable source" [1].

On the other hand, an article from January 2014 quotes a marketing research company saying "Beats controls 27% of the $1.8 billion headphone market" [2] which is a drastically different claim.

Personally I take the words of anonymous sources and 'market analysts' with a big pinch of salt.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3015051/major-beats-beats-electro...
[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/13/tech/beats-headphones-audi...
WikiLeaks claims Google director helped the NSA spy on Afghanistan
How do you solve lv4?
Java EE application server popularity
Not all users share a recipe for a dish. If there is one you can see it. See here: http://snapaliciousapp.com/posts/A98UiSGCzw
That's assuming you routinely push all your changes and branches -- without exception -- to a server. Of course you can always pull from elsewhere to grab a copy of the repo, but that's no excuse for not backing up your local environment.
Wanted On Warrant | West Yorkshire Police
In the Greenwald book (No Place to Hide) he describes how Microsoft made a real effort with Skype and their Dropbox clone to open them up to the NSA.

Now I have read these revelations, I feel that not trusting Microsoft is a sensible default.
In Subversion you can explicitly check out a file so others cannot. That's rather important if you are modifying binary blobs of data with no way of merging conflicting changes. Art assets like video and images are good examples.

Subversion (and Perforce and other centralised tools) will let you restrict who can check out what from a repository. That's useful if you want someone to only work on a small part of the code but cannot risk giving them access to all of it, for security or secrecy reasons.

And finally, as much as I love git and DVCS, for some teams Subversion works just fine. They may well have Continuous Deployment set up with strong CI tests on commit or they use Subversion's "reintegrate branch" functionality which is somewhat similar to rebase. Honestly, merging in Subversion isn't really that bad.
Kenyan students develop first-ever African-made computer anti-virus software
Typography in 16 bits: System fonts (2011)
In Our Time is a fantastic source of interesting topics, especially since all it's past episodes are available for free on the BBC's website. With over 640 episodes it shouldn't be too hard to find something of interest!

For those not familiar with the show, the format is simple. A topic is picked for each week and it consists of the host, Melvyn Bragg, and three experts on that topic. The experts are then left to discuss the topic for 45 minutes with the host only interjecting to ask questions and steer the conversation. It's very much the pinnacle of listening to smart people talk about things that they're interested in.

Recent episodes have covered topics as diverse as The Talmud, Photosynthesis, States of Matter, Spartacus and Early Chinese History.

A list of episiodes can be found here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player - and there's links on the site to download all the episodes since 2011.
Don't rely on wikipedia for medical information
Reading the other comments reminds us that in general the men who fought in the war were reluctant to talk about it, which is why first-hand testimony like this is so valuable for future generations.

Of course, many of them were horribly traumatised by their experiences, which goes a long way to explaining their reticence. My stepdad, for example, was in a position that was overrun by a German attack - he shot a fellow who fell dead on top of him with his hand over my stepdad's face. My stepdad then had to "play possum" until a counterattack in turn evicted the Germans. For the rest of his life he would wake up terrified and in a cold sweat from the recurring nightmare of that dead hand on his face.
You need to fill fw8ben form. (Your name, permanent address, etc. is in the form)
At least when it is enabled in Windows 8 with a computer linked to a hotmail account, but I would never rule out other conditions too.
My loop continually checked the buffers and the locks, it never did a noop. Those fenced instructions are probably not the most power efficient. Power consumption was not a concern, latency was our primary goal.
The concept was announced a while back:

http://www.crytek.com/news/crytek-announces-its-cryengine-as...

This was just after Epic announced the Unreal Engine subscription.
If so, I would at least like to think they would have likely pointed people towards something which gives at least comparable security, rather than a backdoored product.
America has rule of law and the NSA had to go rogue to do what it did; once their program was outed it's on all news, everyone is discussing; Americans enjoy real rights.

If China or Russia had the same capabilities there would not be any theoretical backlash against this being discovered, since par for the course there is far less freedom. It's not the abstraction that's promised even theoretically.

This is the same reason why it's better when Google (with its nominal "do no evil" strategy) turned out to collect wifi data with its street cars, which is not as bad as if Microsoft (with no such policy or mission) had done the same thing.
People with a dose of common sense and technological literacy.
"Who's up for it ?"
Neither Google (no hit) nor Wikipedia [0]
You might want to provide a link to the softwares homepage as well as additional information?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_...
y dont you start paid recipes. Atleast users will share recipe if they are paid
I've working for for quite a few years, I can tell you their are many clueless people who have racked up many years of experience.

I really would not get your hopes up on how well things are run. In your career YOU WILL meet people who refuse to try new stuff because "this is the way we've always done it" and unreasonable reasons.

I've met people who refuse to move on from visual source safe for example.

The majority of your first years of your career will be learning how to navigate office politics, how to introduce change, how to get things done without getting fired, how to manipulate your boss to make the right decisions without imposing yourself on him. Those are more important than raw technical skill. Most of the value of 'experience' comes from those skills.
One more who I particularly admire, responsible for the planning of Yerevan, Armenia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tamanian
Truth be told, if RAM is a security liability for the few seconds it takes to enter the password and derive the key, then you can't give any security guarantees whatsoever no matter what algorithm you use, scrypt, PBKDF2 or any other.

It's not like you can punch the password into the CPU directly, you need to use some sort of input device which has drivers which keep state in RAM, use DMA and IRQs etc. Any attacker capable of reading RAM during this phase is also capable of sniffing the password characters as they are typed on the keyboard.
It is! See this this clip http://youtu.be/2Z6UJbwxBZI
cool visualization, but apart from that I don't see anything special about it...

yes. There are more men engineers than women. So?
Hoe kies je een veilig zwembad voor in je tuin?
It is very unfortunate. On that project we looked at all sorts of ways to avoid burning cores but they all had significant latency issues. If it involved going to the kernel then there was a major context switch overhead. But the big killer is the non-constant time. Each time you go to the kernel there's a danger of loosing your timeslice or being shunted to some other core. This leads to very high variance in performance. (I must always repeat though, this variance is not likely relevant in most applications.)

So we spun in loops. And we had the CPUs set to maximum performance (no idle-time scaling). The total real load was probably less than 1%, so yes, it's very unfortunate.
I wonder about the implementation of the ringbuffer itself. Would boost::spsc_queue be suitable for a similar task?
"The municipality of Leiden has made objections as to my working with condensed gases and has not been content with asking that additional means of precaution are taken, but is gone so far to claim in August last that my cryogenic laboratory be removed from the city!"

Kamerlingh Onnes' laboratory was built in the space that was created in 1806 when over 15,000 kg of gunpowder stored in a ship exploded, killing 151 people and destroying over 200 houses (http://www.pieterskerk.com/en/explore/19e-eeuw/1807/

That must have made the Leiden city council more cautious when hearing about potential explosions in this laboratory.
Skylon ‘spaceplane economics stack up’
Mrs maggua
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it was terrible news what kind of person would do such thing

RIP mrs maggua
It is to me too.

There are ways to make everyone a winner than the asshat though.

Karma was served here. The individual in question got a referral from me to another position, got a call and a job with a golden handshake and I got a £500 referral fee from the agent, which was spent on a nice new oscilloscope (an essential part of my exit strategy).

He won because he got a job at a better company and cash.

I won because I got a rep with the agent, £500 in cash and two steps closer to the door.

Asshat lost because we still haven't found someone for his position and they're two steps closer to finding a replacement for me as well :)
That definitely looks like it's providing the same functionality my ring buffer did. It's impossible to say whether it is as efficient as mine was without profiling it. It's possible. Even if it's almost as efficient, or even half as efficient, I'd still consider using it. Writing this stuff consumes a lot of time.

I notice the newest versions of this class added a "consume" function. I assume it's for the same reason my class did it. Instead of pushing/popping you can directly modify memory in the ring buffer. This avoids one copy operation.
Product roadmap needs an upgrade!
don't know but it must be bad coz everyone wants money these days
Seems pretty good, and faster than the previous version, but:

- Changed some things (method names, and so on) with no reason
- It's not possible to use a custom logger anymore
- I can't access the list of rooms anymore (or it changed and they didn't documented it yet)

Somebody else ?
Yes, but isn't that the whole point? If a city is designed for cars, you're gonna need a car. Which has all kinds of downsides.

I have to admit I often thumbed my nose at 'those Americans and theird cars', but only until I spent some time in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Once there, I realized that it's pretty much impossible to do anything without a care! It shocked me.
The only subsidiary Apple has is Filemaker, and its very very hands off, so I imagine they're going to strip off anything of value and dump the rest.
It would be stupid, yes :)

If someone has remote control of your computer, they'd install a sniffer that picks up the password and sends it back next time there's an internet connection.
Over time as more sites attempt to make use of these anti-bounce pop-ups the benefit of using one will plunge, and the user annoyance factor will skyrocket. User rage is all these things accomplish: imagine when every site you visit daily throws you a pop-up every time you try to navigate away.

It's a self-destructing concept that only works so long as relatively few sites make use of it. You'd be better served to invest time into adding improvements to your site that people will actually appreciate rather than annoying them with pop-ups.

If Google isn't penalizing sites that make use of these, on the basis of abusive site tactics, they should be. It's one notch removed from the plague of javascript pop-ups that were so common a few years ago that would attempt to literally stop you from leaving.
The reason it isn't a practical solution is partially because of city planning, which is the problem Alexander was addressing.
' after the timer value, then proceed to construct a JS expression that will be evaluated before the call to setTimer ... Hint: '99'+moo() will evaluate nicely. Don't forgot the "open" the ' again.
add your alert to the img onload
...oh geez, didn't even comprehend that until I re-read it... failure on my part.
Ugh; I remember having that problem a couple of years ago. In the end I had to split a room of thin clients in half, and have them each point at 1 of 2 hosts. Defeating the point of load balancing entirely :/
Hey, next Friday is Google's "make the world a better place" day... would you be interested in coming with me and (name) to give mini-talks at a few schools?

--

I guess you'd have a tougher time if you actually call it "wasting an entire day" when you pitch the idea.
NPG and Frontiers form alliance to further open science
I'm only trying to solve it for the cake.
> It would be if there was any other indication of discrimination against whites than the numbers.

I agree with you that I don't think the NFL is discriminating against white players. They just want the best, period.

What I have issues with is when a company's racial makeup shakes out to be majority white (funny how that can happen when you draw from a pool that's majority white) and the first instinct is to say "this _must_ be because of bias."
It's more likely that they were angry that the audit got a lot of funds and they didn't.

In OSS often the people who do the original work get nothing and all the money goes to pundits, packagers, and consultants.
Oof. I hate these pop-ups. To the point where I write a user-style to stop them on sites that use them. I'm not representative of the regular user, but honestly, I wouldn't suggest these if your target market is tech-savvy, and be careful: those conversion numbers might not show what goodwill you're losing in the quest to gain that couple of percent. That's my $0.02 anyway.
How We Measure
That's the point: bad city planning forces you to use a car.

Compare that to a city like Groningen:

https://vimeo.com/76207227
Man, I hope when I have grandchildren, they won't want to throw a bundle of my life's work in the trash.

Maybe github instead?
How many of us deserve to be described as consistently:
1.	beautifully spoken?
2.	profound in thought?
3.	joyful in outlook?
and yet despite possessing these outstanding qualities, never allowing those who do not seem to, to feel anything but encouraged to try to follow her example.
You can use the pipe | as a continuation at the end of a line. No need to use the backslash escape then. i.e. you never should need to use | \ at the end of a line.
Country hack - start a new religion called "Agnosticism" and get massive income from forced government personal levies?!?
Beats co-founder badmouths Spotify, EarPods in first post-Apple interview
This, indeed. I came back to paste the same. Also,
"...and Dewar clearly shared (rather than reciprocated) this admiration."
Now I have read these revelations, I feel that not trusting Microsoft is a sensible default.

You make it sound as if trusting Microsoft was ever an option to begin with...
TFS using GIT isn't too bad. You then get GIT, with the project management features of TFS.
Well, I don't want to... but I have no time nor real interest in trying to understand what he did in APL. My only issue is that he is not interested in hearing from me that nobody will take over what he did.. He won't listen ;( He thinks everything else sucks.. I tried to make him read some stuff about python for example. He said this sucked also ! lol
And if you make sure you don't track it, you don't know whether you have a problem or not.
> but there still doesn't seem to be a way to sparse-checkout without fetching the entire .git repo.

I'm not entirely sure if this is what you want, but sparse-checkouting only parts of the repo is possible: http://jasonkarns.com/blog/subdirectory-checkouts-with-git-s...

For cloning a particular branch, there's also (since 1.7.10)

git clone -b your_branch_name --single-branch git://some.remote/repo.git
As a person who comes from a place where there has always been an unhealthy obsession with demographic classification (South Africa), I'm curious about the "Asian" classification, which seems even more worthless than the average racial classification. Does it encompass both South Asians and Chinese? Do they have a common "Asian experience" in the US? Does the average person whose ancestors came from Tehran have much in common with someone from Beijing?
True enough, but there was an accord signed with the unions substantially limiting the use of email after hours, which I imagine the OP wax referring to.
Hm, there is Maslow's pyramid that could be seen as a general model[1] along with the human rights[2].

The problem is not the car. The problem (in the US and now in Europe too) is healthcare, food and shelter (own home). These things, given the tech, should come for almost free IMHO, for any individual who lives in a "civilized country".

Of course, there are many problems: illegal immigration[3], health care costs, etc. But technology should be used to do all these things cheaper for the masses, leading to a higher average standard of life.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
Time for OpenTrueCrypt AKA LibreTrueCrypt? Theo, we're ready and we're waiting! ;)
No idea why the downvotes, I don't think they're warranted. This seems an honest question. IANAC (chemist), but could guess at the answer -- imaging trying to assemble the physical apparatus in that article: it might take weeks or months (Onnes had a battery of assistants helping him...) just to get the hardware in place, let alone orchestrate the cascade of liquids and gases that eventually produces a tiny vial of the objective.

It would be something akin to building AWS from Arduinos, step-by-step, say.
well this is unusual
Verizon FiOS claimed public utility status to get government perks
Yes and recommending Bitlocker is how they are trying to tip everyone off that this message is compromised.
For some excellent examples of concurrent queues in C++, Facebook's `folly` C++ library contains a really clean lock-free SPSC queue [1], and a really fast MPMC queue [2].

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/Producer...

[2]: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/MPMCQueu...
I couldn't find a working Chrome extension so I created a basic one [1]

[1]: https://github.com/codrineugeniu/chrome-unshortener