skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DOA (Dead On Arrival) implies that Swift will not be adopted by developers. If you're saying that, I disagree. It will almost definitely become the default way to write iOS apps very quickly.

If you're saying it's "dead to me", that's valid. It would be good to see them open up the Swift toolchain, and there will definitely be a significant percentage of devs who won't touch it unless they do.
...except that this release doesn't actually support links, which makes it a bit pointless. Maybe in another 40 years...

- links, connections and relations (XANALINKS-- NOT YET)
- shared content between xanadocs (MUTUAL TRANSCLUSION,
NOT YET)
Any chance of popping this kind of battery into laptop and running it for few days before replace is needed?

Also, could it power sensor that wirelessly communicates gathered data from time to time for extended periods of time?
Sprint has more towers, but they effectively run three different networks on top of them, making it a terrible fragmented mess.
I suppose you're right, I shouldn't have downplayed them. I just think you need to segregate the two groups as they are almost completely different industries. To say that "C# is really popular in the video game industry" is misleading.
I was referring to the timing of things. But yes, I don't disagree. He did some very brilliant work.
Terrible advice to pull a media stunt.

First, you have no idea what the manufacturer needs to do to fix the problem, alert customers, do recalls and recertifications, and the like.

Second, you put yourself directly in the line of fire unnecessarily and for all the wrong reasons. You could find yourself on the end of all kinds of legal trouble, and on top of that you would be morally culpable for any harm.

Do it the right way: get a lawyer. The lawyer will know how to contact the vendors, the regulatory agencies, media if necessary, and customers if necessary.
I would snap insta do it for the fame and future business opportunities alone.
There is also a large, mostly-unused prison in rural Illinois: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Correctional_Center
This is WAY TOO early. Swift at the very least will very likely replace Objective-C which is nowhere near DOA. The fact is that there ARE a ton of developers that don't care if it's open or not.
> ... I'm too tired and impatient to figure out how to articulate it.

I wish you'd have given it a go. It sounds like an argument about evaluating the risks of an action proportional to the frequency of that action being taken.

If that's the case, it seems the best conclusion you could hope to come to is "we don't have enough data". Because there's no way to know how often parents leave their kids in cars without incident, and no way to know how many parents would leave their kids in their cars were it socially acceptable.
was really sketchy when it happened on homeland

http://vimeo.com/63176830
He has definitely moderated his tone in the past few years, and has implicitly acknowledged that the specific program he outlined in his book may have been an oversimplification.

But still, you have to be a bit more subtle with grant reviewers than that. "Age-associated disease" is a common catchphrase. For best results, the emphasis has to be on the disease rather than on the aging (even you happen to believe, as I do, that aging is a common root of many diseases).
Yes to both questions (under the assumption that those vhosts use different SSL certificates).
Ya, that what scares me too.

I run stock android BYOD style with Tmobile. I don't want them to switch to the Sprint model of terrible apps and higher prices. :/
I think the speculation in the blog post about it using boxed primitive types exclusively must be wrong, or at least a temporary state of affairs if it's currently correct.

I don't have a Mac capable of running any of the dev tools at the moment, but the implications of the section in the manual on the Int* types don't indicate they're boxed at all, nor give any reason why they should have to be.

Of course, if he's declared everything as an NSNumber it could explain some of the results. But obviously, so could them currently being boxed. Either would probably account for the ++ performance problem, especially if it's post-increment, since that probably involves making a copy.

I think the OP is just confusing the fact that they have expandable type as indicating that they have a virtual type.
That is a nice view in theory, but doesn't mean much in reality, even if they release a spec who is going to be able to build an implementation to compare. It will end up like GNUStep. Even languages that are open like Python have trouble maintaining language compatibility across multiple versions. Written specs are also riddled with ambiguities and implicit assumptions which make the creation of a "perfect" clone very hard.
so, the guy had bad luck with girlfriends. Now he will be witch hunted for mentioning his experience to other people.
I believe in Russian it's called "Sobachka", or "Doggy." (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
You don't even need it to be an OS X host, only Apple hardware. VMware allows you to install OS X on ESXi hosts that run on Mac mini or Mac Pro (but disables that functionality on all non-Apple hardware).
Great site! I've been a regular for a while now.

Ryan- I'd be curious to know what the click through rate on the 'Show More Products' link at the end of each day is?
You don't need any add-ons to selectively block flash nowadays on Firefox... Menu - Add-ons - Plugins - Flash "Ask to activate" instead of "Always activate"
Pacemaker firmware can almost always be updated using inductive or rf telemetry. In most cases it still requires an appointment with a cardiologist or similar physician though.
I think OP is suggesting reveal the effect, but don't reveal the cause. That's what makes the suggestion different from releasing an 0day
"I think those prices are only unsustainable when you have a major carrier's assumptions. Assumptions about acceptable levels of overhead and expected levels of profit."

And assumptions about acceptable levels of service and coverage. I'm saying that as a loyal T-Mobile customer, but it's readily apparent that when I visit my parents in my small home town, or drive a few hours east to the beach towns near me, or really go anywhere much outside a major city, my service is poor or non-existent, and my Verizon-customer friends' service is fine. I'm okay with that because I live in a big city, don't go to small towns often, and think the mediocre coverage is worth it for the lower price, but there's definitely a "you get what you pay for" aspect to all of this, at least in my experience.
I like the syntax of Swift
How WWDC Reminded Me Why I Hate Apple
Good lesson. To be creative and avoid lawyers you need to be anonymous. That nicely reinforces uselessness of copyright.
I can't wait until GitHub or someone adds in Swift syntax highlighting
>Whether he's referring to his girlfriend or women in general, he's perpetuating a stereotype.

it is you who perpetuates the stereotype by forcefully projecting/extending his reference to his girlfriend onto women in general.

Your brain is the exact place where the generalization from his girlfriend to all women happened, and you hold him responsible for that action of your brain.
Then this is where the pressure needs to be applied - at the certification process. It needs to be made a legal requirement to attain certification (if not already), and the certifiers need to follow best practices for vulnerability detection. And it needs to be an ongoing, open process.
You are essentially correct - rugby is a game of field position and there are enough players on the field that you can simply lateral the ball to the next man before taking a huge hit and play continues. Having played both American football and rugby, I will say the individual collision is more spectacular in football but getting rucked in the head by 3/4" metal spikes is no walk in the park. I was always more sore after a football game but had far more cuts and bruises after a game of rugby.
I don't get it. He made a marginally sexist joke, people took it too seriously, and he apologized for it.

Was he to direct that apology at people who weren't offended?
Cringely doom in 2007:

"But this week's "job action," as they refer to it inside IBM management, was as much as anything a rehearsal for what I understand are another 100,000+ layoffs to follow, each dribbled out until some reporter (that would be me) notices the growing trend, then dumped en masse when the jig is up, but no later than the end of this year."

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_0020...

The path of HP, Cisco, Dell, IBM and all has been pretty clear for awhile now, and Cringely doesn't add any insight that isn't obvious. Scale up is drying up and there is no pot of gold in scale out.

Your turn at being a commodity is coming, and that prediction is more accurate than anything Cringely has made.
Lax New Rules Will Make Kickstarter Huge–For Better or Worse
Ask HN: Should I buy email list or not?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842282 -
On this above thread, there is lot of motivation for founders to focus on sales. Cold calling is also favored so why not buying email lists? Generating your own email list is a great thing but it is slow and takes times.

So, if sellers can assure you source of email list, type of people and how recent the data is - will you buy it or recommend to buy it?
Lots of them. But the CPU wasn't even pipelined, never mind superscalar, so adding traps was easy -- just more microcode.

For example, there was tag type DTP-GC-FORWARD. When the CPU loaded a word from memory with this value in the tag field, it would automatically indirect through the pointer contained in the word.
>ZOTAC unveils the world's first fanless Core i5 mini-PC

It's not the world's first. for example, QuietPC will sell you an Intel i5 mini-PC (i.e., a NUC) transplanted into a larger all-aluminum finned case, which allows them to remove the one fan the Intel box has (a CPU fan):

http://www.quietpc.com/sys-ultranuc-pro-fanless.

This QuietPC box has the same i5 CPU as the base model 2013 Macbook Air, BTW.
Ted spoke at a Super Happy Dev House at the Tech Museum a few years back and gave a short(ish) explanation of Xanadu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePOWsePB8zY (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5D83SpbTXM (part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcgV-lsQUwo (part 3)
Can a single LTE node/tower/whatever handle handover for both CDMA and GSM? In other words, could a hypothetically-merged company provide the LTE part of the service to both TMobile and Sprint customers using the same equipment?
Sure, in the same way you would water a sapling more than you would water a tree. You need to take special care when it is needed -- right now women face a toxic environment in the tech industry; men do not.

It isn't sad that we are training ourselves to be more sensitive to things that worsen that divide.
IANAL, but websites are allowed to control (via their terms of service) whether you can scrape them and use their data. There is a difference between accessing a website via chrome and via a native app that uses the website as a service.
I don't know where you live, but here in the US, you violated no copyright laws (or any laws or ethical clauses for the matter) by simply providing access to pre-existing works, ie. the schools website data.

If the school's website is publicly accessibly, as-in anyone can find it online, then it's public information and you can use it at your will so long as you state where the information came from (ie. not your original writing, etc).

if you are in the US, check your schools student handbook/policies... closely... if you found there is nothing restricting you, I would argue to pursue your app (and be prepared for pushback from the school).
It's not a logical contradiction nor knee-jerk. They came up with a code of conduct, violated its terms themselves, and now people are reacting to that news. An unforced error on Techweek's part, and reasonable to call them out on it. The only pattern is that when you do something stupid, people call you stupid.
The $369.99 one is "bare-bones" whereas the $479.99 one includes 4GB DDR3L and a 64GB SSD.
A link to the site for anyone who just wants to check it out directly:

http://www.producthunt.com/
I think this has to do more with a stereotype that women tend to be more clingy in relationships. Now, Although I do not believe such a stereotype exists. Your reasons strongly imply the existence of this stereotype. It is unfortunate if such a stereotype were to exist but I would love to hear otherwise and perhaps a better reason as to why this message is sexist.

(EDIT: for clarity, you can see how an older tech savvy person having to constantly deal with a stereotype of older people being bad at tech might get offended. However, I agree with your conclusion that it would not be that big a deal because that particular stereotype is not that sensitive - and maybe a little less prevalent)

To be clear, I do believe repeating, joking about and/or references to gender stereotypes are sexist.
You got me thinking, so I looked up the protocols used. It's apparently not nearly that complex or limited:

http://www.secure-medicine.org/public/publications/icd-study...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Implant_Communication_S...
Even if you could quantify it, I don’t agree with the 10x ratio that the original author proposes. Early in the development process, you will be implementing “low hanging fruit”—features that are easy, and provides great value.

Lower priority features are lower priority because they provide less benefit, but that doesn’t mean that you should not get to them eventually if you want to improve your product. If you have a variety of proposed features, you’ll start with ones that provide 100x benefit (compared to some benchmark), move on to 50x and 20x and 10x and so on, and eventually you’ll get to features that are barely worth the cost.
Apperently it's собака (sobaka, meaning "dog").
"Update: A LinkedIn spokesperson responded to our request for comment, saying that the company sent a mistaken notification advising a small number of users in Hong Kong that their Tiananmen Square-related content was blocked, but that LinkedIn did not actually block content outside of mainland China (meaning Hong Kong LinkedIn is uncensored)."

http://qz.com/216691/linkedin-is-censoring-posts-about-tiana...

That response doesn't seem to explain the deletion of British resident Helen Couchman's posts on the subject... but LinkedIn may have mistakenly considered her a resident of the mainland, since she formerly lived there (and may have set up her account on those servers).

(UPDATE: Not to give LinkedIn too much of an out. Even if it was a mere blunder rather than an embrace of global censorship, making errors about this incredibly politically sensitive topic still says something about competence and general preparedness for doing business with China.)
Im not sure that's sexist. The entire thing can be turned into "My boyfriend is Maven" but then you may have some other crazies think it's offensive.
And who pays the lawyer?
Yeah, but the school doesn't care about the features of your app, they care that it's another app.
Also, the original SPARC chips had TADDCCTV, which would add two 32-bit integers, trapping either if there was overflow or if either operand had a nonzero value in its two low-order bits. This was specifically to support tagged fixnum addition in Lisp.

They dropped this instruction for the 64-bit SPARCs.
Never at a company that made the news in the way Atlassian did, I can tell you that much. ;)

It seems that people interpreted my comment as implying that the talk would be reviewed by some pointy haired boss stamping a stack of forms. That is not what I meant at all.

Rather, that a talk presented at such a venue would be given and vetted internally first, if only for the sake of technical correctness. In my career, I have never given a talk (whether while working for a private company, research lab, etc) without it having been given to colleagues first- again, if only for technical correctness/typos/etc.

So again, here either no one from Atlassian saw the talk until the day of, which is terrible. Or people from Atlassian saw the talk beforehand and no one objected at the slide- which is even worse.
In the case of medical devices, this is squarely in the FDA's wheelhouse in the USA. The FDA likely lacks the people with appropriate expertise to evaluate these kinds of safety issues because their traditional focus has been on the more typical kinds of medical device risk. A concerted effort at dialog with them could turn that around. Particularly if it were done through a series of academic workshops with key people.
Indeed, that is exactly the correct term.

But as a metaphor: I think Jon Postel might have been the first person I heard use the term. I also feel like there was such a picture in some of the early IP documents (like the internet protocol transition handbook in the early 80s) but that stuff I had on paper and it's stuck in a box someplace.

Regardless, it's been horribly abused by marketing people and does need to be dragged out back and put down.
That's nice, but when almost every other civilized country in the world is at less than 0.25 gun-related homicides per 100,000, we have a long, long ways to go.
How peculiar. I just mentioned this project 2 days ago regarding URL shorteners..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836851

Its nice to see a release of something here.
How Many Countries Are There in the World?
Important to note that it's a i5 Y processor. Not a regular desktop, or even a mobile processor.
ATMs aren't safe either. The ATM at my local Chase branch got skimmed and $8,500 taken from my account.

The branch manager showed me photos of the skimmer gear and the police report. It was made to look like part of the ATM housing. She said over 200 customers were ripped off in one weekend.

Even though they knew it was their own machine that was compromised, it still took almost a month and many hours of phone calls and letter-writing to get my money back.
If there was randomness, you could offer "Free if you can escape in an hour!"

Otherwise someone could get the full experience by going in with the instructions written down and pull it out of their pocket in the last five minutes if they'd failed to escape.
The higher end 15.4" MacBook Pro Retinas feature both the Intel Iris and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M.
Even if it were subject to copyright, you violate no laws (in any country I know of) by simply re-posting the information and providing attribution to the original author/creators of the content. If true, any news aggregator and most websites would be getting sued every day for regurgitating information.
"World wide hypertext - The Web got that niche"

Thats's a pretty big niche ... But it pales in comparison to the number of Xanadocs I've been reading lately. On another note, Ted Nelson is one of the characters in The Autodesk Files.
Ask HN: What do you do to speed up/ease software development?
Just wondering what tricks/tools the HN community uses to help reduce coding time/effort. For example, Jade as a CSS pre-processor, Stylus as a temple engine for node, twitter bootstrap, text-editor autocomplete config, custom scripts, keyboard shortcuts, other packages/libraries like jshint, debug tools, coding practices, aliases, etc.

My current stack involves node, angular, postgresql, express, bootstrap, and android, but please feel free to add any tip that you've noticed helped make development easier and/or faster!

Thanks!!
>The only instances of "hacking" a pacemaker [...] //

Someone has linked a PDF of an "ICD study" upthread that shows your contention to be at least partially false.
Pirated content isn't limited by size. RAR splits, eBooks, MP3s..
OP, consider this episode a badge of honor. You're doing the right thing. Learning valuable technology and skills for a successful future - not just in tech but in whatever you want to do. Finding a problem and doggedly pursuing a solution is what you need to do in "real life." Chalk this episode up to life experience. You have won a moral victory but as you said, don't expect them to change their minds. Graduate and move on to bigger and better things and leave these luddites in your rearview.
You are drastically overcomplicating this.

The answer to the question you actually meant to ask is:

When you're given an offer by a company, and you're not sure you're ready to commit to it, because you want to explore other opportunities first, you simply tell the company that gave you the offer that you're not ready to accept.

Your prospective new employer will be candid with you about how long they can hold the position open for. Sometimes it's days, sometimes it's months.

Your prospective employer might, if they're on the ball, ask what you're waiting for and who you're interviewing with. You can tell them, or not tell them. I tend to ask candidates when this comes up, but I only get responses ~50% of the time, and I don't pry.

What you should not do is accept an offer and then continue to interview elsewhere. Accept when you're ready to commit. You can accept, then interview, then accept another offer; it's not unlawful to do that. It's just deeply unprofessional.

Finally: a prospective employer can, for all intents in purposes, withdraw an offer at any time. Not only that: they can hire you and fire you the next day.
http://www.needforseatusa.com

This is my specific model: http://www.needforseatusa.com/chair_dxracer_master

After almost a year of using it I have no regrets; the chair is comfortable and sturdy.
Arrobase in french. Don't think it means anything.
> How can we network everything while maintaining at least some scrap of security, especially in the long term?

Another question that we should be asking more is should we network everything that could be?

As for a pacemaker, personally I think the answer is a definite NO. It has only one function, to keep someone alive, and any extra functionality only represents an increased risk of malfunction. If there is any firmware in it then that firmware should be as simple as it can be. Preferably open-source and subject to being reviewed/corrected by many, before it gets permanently embedded in a device.

> how can we prevent them from occuring in the first place?

The obvious way is by doing it right the first time. Sadly, this is something that seems to have fallen out of fashion, as the prevalent mentality is more like "we can always issue an update, so it doesn't matter that much". A dangerous mentality indeed, when it's in truly safety-critical applications. Companies are increasingly pushing for "smartness" in their products, espousing all the ostensible advantages, while not giving much exposure to the possible downsides too.
Laser tag. All of the fun, none of the pain. Also 500% more nerdy.
A new, sane approach to hiring
If it's as easy as using 'strings', then isn't that no different than releasing a 0day?
Cf my response to other commenters who raised a point similar to yours. Of course I'm not expecting the talk to be thoroughly vetted 6 months in advance. However, demanding that all speakers give their talk internally a month or two in advance, if only for the sake of technical correctness/typos/etc., seems like a very reasonable minimum.
Here's a little rejoinder, he is in the "real world" and they would have sued him if they felt it was possible.
When I worked in retail, I noticed Indian people would pronounce it something like 'attarrat', with a hard R in the middle.

It took me a while to catch on to what was ment by that, but i never really pushed it much further to get the 'proper' pronounciation.
For a very long time, I thought the "{" was called "birdwing" because that's how it was explained to me. When I try that now I get very odd looks.

Related: http://carlos.bueno.org/brackets-of-the-world.pdf
Sprint and Tmobile are non compatible networks (GSM and CDMA based). Why does this make sense for them?