skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please read my link. It is not open source in the sense of OSI's definition, who were the first ones to ever define open source. Furthermore, they trademark the term "open source", and they have even asked that you do not call truecrypt open source:

it is not all appropriate for [TrueCrypt] to describe itself as
"open source." This use of the term "open source" to describe
something under a license that's not only unapproved by OSI but
known to be subject to issues is unacceptable.

(from http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/truecrypt-or... )
Not in a way that an end user would not be frustrated at some point. I could read those files, but the output could be too different from what an end user would expect.

You are not the first one to ask about doing this in/for Microsoft land.. I'm working on this. If you drop me a mail, I would come back to you once there is something to see.
What language would that be? I have skimmed through your papers, and they seem interesting, but can't find any downloads to play with :-)
If you think of the dangers and flaws in technology today as a big bug list full of critical showstopper issues, this article is a bug report that not very clearly describes issues that have repeatedly been closed as "not a bug" or "will not fix."
That doesn't remove any reason not to trust their implementation.
I don't know anyone who works in cryptography who thinks those twerps were credible. Do you? I'd be interested in a name.
It's common in any commodity industry where the differences aren't obvious to the casual buyer. In older industries we've had regulation requiring things like standard labels, sealed packaging, etc. to prevent abuses like selling food with inferior ingredients or lying about a car's fuel economy. I suspect it's only a matter of time before this happens in the tech industry since the market pressures give a strong incentive to cheat.

Bunnie Huang had a fascinating, disturbing post about what the MicroSD market is like in China, eventually disassembling some dodgy Kingston cards:

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1022
Another animation from the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center, "US Population Growth from 1790 to 1990" tells the story better: http://www.outragegis.com/animations/population-growth.htm
Working Around God: Technology, the Pace of Life, and the Shabbos Elevator
If you need to store a pointer in a integer variable, first stop and look very hard at what you're doing and think about whether you really need this. It's usually a really, really, really bad idea.

If you have decided that you do really need it, then use the standard C type for "integer type large enough to hold a pointer". Yes, there is one. Actually two. They're called intptr_t and uintptr_t depending on whether you want signed or unsigned.

Similarly, if you subtract two pointers and need to store the answer (this is less of a cause for reflection, but still not too common) then don't toss it into an int and hope that it works. Use the language-provided type for "difference of two pointers", ptrdiff_t.

If you have a value that needs 32 bits of storage, don't throw it in an int and say, hey, int is probably at least 32 bits. Use the language-provided types int32_t and uint32_t.

Understand what types are provided (Wikipedia has a decent summary at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types), what they mean, and what the guarantees are. Don't fall into the trap of "it works for me, here, now, so it's fine". If you need a particular guarantee (such as the ability to hold a certain range of numbers), ensure that the type you're using provides it.
That looks more like a C function call. If it was an Objective C message the named parameters would make it far more verbose (and readable).
That is meaningless.
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I would never ever propose banning something like CodeCombat. Personally I love it and think the world is better for its existence. Heck, I am one of those boys who loves RPG and FPS games. I also know they are not what motivates or engages my daughters and their friends. You don't have to go down to grey monotonous pablum as a lowest common denominator method of getting kids interested in technology, but you also don't want to just turn off a big chunk of your audience, especially when they are at age 10 - 13.
The already said ES6 spec will be delayed again, this time for June 2015.

So it will take until like 2020 to be able to use it without transpilers and hacks for all the non supporting browsers (most of them).

So I don't have any ES7 wishes. Until then who knows even if I'll still be doing web front-end work.
Is Lumosity Bullshit?
This sort of thing isn't unique to the storage business. In the auto industry, they call it "decontenting":

http://www.autoweek.com/car-shopping/articles/2012/01/decont...

... but it works pretty much the same way: early models of a particular car, the ones that make that car's reputation, come loaded with all sorts of nice touches. Then as time passes the manufacturer slowly strips those touches out, replacing them with cheaper alternatives or just dropping them altogether. The price of the car stays the same, though, so the manufacturer gets to keep the difference as extra profit. (Or the price actually goes up, when the dropped features that used to be standard become optional add-ons instead.)
We didn't want to break the immersion. ADR simply wants to be that game you pay for one time up front and enjoy (hopefully). No strings attached. We simply request that you gift the game to someone else if you like it :-)
Wirecast 5.0.3 Mac
In my area they don't even advertise download speed any more. It's "the fastest in-home WiFi" because it doesn't matter how fast data get to your home, it's how fast it gets from one room to another....
Eh, the Z80 had a memory move command that was fast and convenient, and successors (Z80K!) that went to 32 bit. Now, the 6809, that was a sweet 8-bit. :)
What kind of weissman score does this get?
Windows 8 Pro comes with Bitlocker and is fairly cheap.
It is not between the grains. It is in the crystal structure of the grains as OH-.
In theory you could, at least according to the hype. You would probably be better off taking a drop of blood, mixing with various reagents to lyse the cells and lightly fragment the DNA, but that's the dream.

Of course, thanks to the accelerated Moore's law that applies to sequencing over the last couple decades [1], it'll probably be the case that the computer power will be more expensive than the actual sequencing.

[1] http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/
No, it does not. You still need a wetlab to do sample preparation. There are a couple reasons why this is exciting though. Oxford Nanopore has seemed like bogus vaporware for several years now, and many people were skeptical that they had a viable product. This data release is the strongest suggestion yet that the thing actually works (but is still in no way conclusive). Two, assuming it does work, being able to sequence 5-10kb fragments will be a game changer for decoding complex structural variation and repetitive regions of the genome. Current sequencing technology (read lengths on the order of 100-200bp) is simply not up to the task, and yet tons of interesting phenomena are believed to be hiding out in those regions. For example, there is mounting evidence that telomere shortening is strongly associated with aging. Existing NGS machines are powerless to interrogate telomeres in humans, because they consist of several kilobases of the repetitive sequence TTAGGG. If Oxford Nanopore's claims hold true you could in theory sequence the whole thing in one go. Being able to do this would advance our understanding of aging by leaps and bounds, I suspect.
As a C-64 owner that went through several, and then a few power supplies, the same could be said about Commodores.
If being honest and truthful is an insult, then there's nothing I can do about that. I'm insulted by his attempts to get into my head without actually understanding what makes it tick. His comment was extremely presumptuous.
And this is why I always buy Crucial. Cruial and Micron are the same company and micron actually make the chips rather than just assemble them. They have control over the entire process end to end and no motivation to pick up chips anywhere else as they already have the best deal.

Over the last 10-12 years I've bought about 2000-3000 sticks of RAM from them. Not one failure or problem ever. I used to buy vendor provided RAM (mainly IBM and Sun back then) and just got ripped off every time. Zero failures on Sun stuff but the ECC stuff hurts. IBM sold us crap lots of times.

Only pain is you can't get an 8Mb EDO SIMM anymore for embedded stuff so its off to a dealer to be shafted repetitively for stuff like that.
OP here: thank you for the additional clinical background. That sound-symbol relationship is exactly what I have trouble with.

I had intensive, systematic training in sound-symbol correspondences, and though it did not seem particularly effective for me who knows where I would be without it. I do know it was incredibly frustrating and a miserable experience as a child to be faced over and over with the one thing you are terrible at.

If I were encountering greater difficulties or my coping mechanisms were less sufficient I would seek it out now, but I don't feel it is necessary.
Free algorithms book with examples in Haskell (work in progress) [pdf]
I worked for Netflix in 2009 and 2010, first documenting the consumer API and helping out with things like oAuth, and later working on the original iPhone and Android apps, which ran inside a Web view using nothing but HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the consumer API. (The morbidly curious should see "Mistakes I Made Building Netflix for the iPhone," at http://www.slideshare.net/kentbrew/mistakes-i-made-building-...)

At the time, Netflix didn't run on an API; the API had been retro-fitted onto Netflix. Even a simple thing like "please tell me the availability of all the discs in this season of this television series" took several calls and a fair amount of head scratching to accomplish. Every new device that came along got a slightly different version of the API, support was terribly difficult, and when we launched for PS3, Wii, iPhone, and Android, it became obvious that our own apps had to take precedence.

I am not surprised to see the Netflix consumer API shut down. This will, of course, result in rampant screen scraping and the creation of an unofficial Netflix API, which, when it breaks, will be all Netflix's fault.
Very frustrated. Should have another repo in Github or a personal server it seems.
Wbat is funny is that put up that bounty. It took a years to get a hit and then it got a crazy. What is also funny is before they killed that program, they actually implemented any of the techniques from people that won those contests.
Elite (well, Frontier) changed my life, and for the better. I've met Vint Cerf a few times now, but I think I'd be more star-struck meeting Braben.
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> I don't want to say "clone" because nobody outside Amazon really knows how S3 works

You can deduce quite a bit about S3's system architecture from the kind of time and consistency guarantees it provides, the optimal and pessimal cases for bucket key naming, etc. Riak CS hits pretty much all those same notes, so I would hazard that you can get a good high-level sense of S3's architecture by looking at Riak's.
To expand on this: O(10) is the same as O(9) or O(1) and O(k). (k is a constant)

Key to understanding this: Note that if you graphed out all the above as functions, they would all be horizontal lines.

O is about the kind of function something is, specifically relating to how fast it expands.
I didn't know this. I'm used to just talking about "order of magnitude."
How portable is a "wetlab"? Could I take this with me into the jungles of south america or the se asia?
I guess "working correctly" for cyclic dependencies means you need to introduce the concept of time and be careful to update everything in the proper moment? What is this useful for?
A beautiful illustration of manifest destiny.
Content owners are paid for unlimited viewings during a specific window of time. Here's a guide to how some of those windows work: http://www.vodprofessional.com/features/a-guide-to-pay-windo...

It's Byzantine, and must be renegotiated studio by studio and sometimes film by film.
Yes, believe I do.
I think at one point they had plans to do this and anybody would have been able to create and sell sets. This would have been amazing. I think they have changed their mind since, years have past and they now use a kickstarterish system for electing user-created models that are made available to the mass market. Not quite as exciting, but still forward thinking.

Of course you can use their designer tool to create models and order them yourself, but it works with a limited range of parts.
Just yesterday motor oil, transmission fluid, and antifreeze came up in a similar lawsuit. Not a lot of details, but interested parties could start here: http://fox2now.com/2014/06/13/mo-attorney-general-suing-five...
You Say Blue, I Say Cerulean
What Kills 99% of Indian startups in First year of Operation?
Encouragement, mostly. My way of saying, "I can tell a lot of effort went into this. Thanks for putting it together."
> They have control over the entire process end to end

How is that supposed to protect you from a completely intentional shady business tactic? Because that's what this is. "We looked the other way and our supplier screwed us over" is a flimsy excuse at the best of times (quality control and penalties should be built into the contract in the first place), but in the Kingston/PNY example it isn't even that.
I actually found programming easy. I started taking CS classes because they were a simple way to boost my GPA. When all words are cryptic, programming can be extremely well-suited.

Coding mistakes come from a lack of attention and tooling, not from innate skill. Being willing to take the time to proofread, use a spellchecker and write unit tests is important for anyone, regardless of learning disabilities.
I avoid Crucial SSDs like the plague. They shipped the M4 and similar models with a firmware bug that causes the drive to stop working after 5000 hours of power on time:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Crucial-m4-Firmware-BSOD,14...

Not cool.
If you interpolate between the 1970 and 1980 points, mid-1972 would be fairly close to Belleville, Illinois - where, in mid-1972, I was born.

...thus confirming my long-held belief that I am the center of the universe.
While I've occasionally seen O(...) used to mean "approximate upper bound" or even "approximate bound" in a more general way than the math for Big-O notation would permit, I've assumed it was either error or analogy, not a specific other function. Can you give a citation for this being an established usage?

(Note that I'm certainly familiar with orders of magnitude, just not this notation for them.)
One of my family members has autism and their father purchased lumosity thinking it would help their child. I wanted to look closer and got angrier as I looked closer so I wrote this to ask questions that are sensible.

Weird how bad logic sets off emotions.
Dart is a Google proprietary product.
Sad but true - Given Microsoft's all-too-eager cooperation with the TLA's, any encryption product they pack with the OS is immediately suspect.

That doesn't just apply to Microsoft. I wouldn't trust FileVault on Apple or Red Hat's implementation of LUKS either.
I actually tend to think that this kind of shows the folly of single-dispatch OO in general (prototypical or not), in particular its focus on privileging the first parameter syntactically. The problem here is essentially that a freestanding function looks and thus (subjectively) "feels" different from a method. The syntax is obviously slightly different: "myArray.last()" vs. "last(myArray)". The latter stands out as slightly "alien" when compared to the other methods on Array.

Why should the first parameter be privileged? Why isn't it possible to add a new method to, say, Array which is scoped to your lexical context?

Even classic procedural programming didn't have this problem (as long as you don't need access to private data): Just add a function that does what you want and it'll look and behave just as the other functions on Array.

EDIT: Maybe the focus shouldn't be on adding a few convenience methods here and there, but rather on making the language itself more "pliable" or "growable" as Steele would probably say.
They should give it a different model number.
Why does sexism persist in the video games industry?
Here's the answer (from AceJohnny2's comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7893243
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What's the closest thing to a fact you can supply about Red Hat, Apple, or Microsoft subverting FDE software on behalf of any world government?
Creation of specific plugins is a good idea.
I guess I could build something generic for such platforms without much trouble.. great idea. Thanks!
>>If being honest and truthful is an insult, then there's nothing I can do about that.

But in your post you say:

>>The path is not masochistic or narcissistic. In fact, I take offense to that.
One gotcha is that Obj-C classes can't subclass Swift classes. Or at least that's what I got from the docs.

So writing frameworks designed to be subclassed means you're probably stuck in Obj-C for quite some years.
Looks like a big jump between 1940-1950 due to the gold rush, I imagine a similar jump will probably be seen for 2010-2020
The Rapportive app for Gmail is extremely useful for me, shame to see it go.
Here are the English laws - the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations

https://www.gov.uk/online-and-distance-selling-for-businesse...

http://www.out-law.com/page-430
Were they good to start with?
PNT's other choice is to pay more for better quality NAND or controllers and then pass the cost along to the consumer.
Interesting note at the end:

"Don't think decontenting is limited to just cars. Next time you're at the grocery store, stop by the freezer case and check out your favorite carton of ice cream. Most brands have quietly gone from a half-gallon (two-quart) container to 1.75 quarts--without changing the price."

I'm pretty sure I've seen the higher-end brands dropping to 1.5 quarts now. Sodas are pushing 1.25L and 1.5L containers when it used to just be purely 2L. There are a lot of four-packs in the beer aisle. A fair number of meats are being sold in fixed-sized packages, invariably less than one pound per package, rather than being sold by the pound.

At least it's clear enough if you look for it. In the SSD case, it sounds like they're making important alterations to things that aren't discussed in the specs. Of course, you shouldn't buy something depending on anything that isn't listed in the specs, but if all the manufacturers have the same crappy set of incomplete specs, you don't have a lot of choice.
One thing I've never understood is why people write it that way round, I always think of it as:

e^(i*pi) = -1

I don't understand why people switch it around all the time, I don't think it loses any elegance going that way round, I also feel it loses clarity being shuffled around because it's just one more (admittedly tiny) operation you need to do to see why it happens.
While I don't share the pessimism or sense of superiority one might read into OP's post, I think their point remains (somewhat) valid.

There are many people who 'endeavor' exactly the way he describes, many more than I always wanted to believe. And many of them are quite intelligent, so it's not just about IQ.

While changing our approaches to education and the right motivation, in my opinion, can bring people much further than some of us are inclined to believe, this is a limited solution for all the grownups who live in the way OP describes.
btw, the wchar_t typedef is 16 bits for MSVC, but 32 bits for gcc (even for MinG on Windows!). UTF-16 is the worst of all worlds.
You can't use the free certificate for commercial sites.
>using surplus power to pump water up hill, to later recuperate during peak hours

Consider e.g.

http://www.forum-netzintegration.de/uploads/media/DUH_Sintef...

>Or heating water?

This is thermodynamically ridiculous. There's huge energy losses involved, cf Carnot efficiency of such a system.

>From reading further, and to answer my own question, the problem is that all research in this field is geared towards the identification of materials or energy sources that can be commoditized.

Oh please. It's a difficult problem. If there was an easy way to solve it cheaply without consequences it would have been done already. There are problems with dams and hot water and "layman" solutions like those. There are also problems with compressed air, batteries, and molten salts, not to mention loopy stuff like superconductors and nanosprings.
There's a difference between "academic" and "clever".
i'd love to use nightly, but they don't enable gstreamer 1.0 by default yet.
We won't be given any of those until 2035. Isn't it always 20 or so years later unless you get a Snowden?
Its neither proprietary in the sense of closed implementation or in the sense of not having an open, freely implementable spec. Its "proprietary" only in the sense of "not adopted by a standards body".
A developer for tor (@puellavulnerata) retweeted this. That is the only claim to it's credibility that I know of
Which single page do you wish people would find when they search for you?
in a dictatorship, perhaps so.
Starting in a corner seems to be a worst case choice for a random walk on a non-looped grid. I forked it to

a) use a random order for starting (and restarting) http://bl.ocks.org/jix/30e55ae16b99efe94bfc/ab5a84881174512a... and

b) start from the center and always restart with the innermost free cell http://bl.ocks.org/jix/30e55ae16b99efe94bfc/aeaced224b45a413...
If you post something offensive and direct it at someone I'd say it's harassment and you could be taken to court.

Just saying something offensive though, undirected, should not be an offence. Or at least it should be a new category of offences not deserving of jail time.

I seriously doubt it the people who got jailed for certain tweets walked up to a policeman in the street and made the same comment they would get the same punishment.
I think allowing the negative array index, like "items[-1]", would greatly improve the indexing problem. IIRC, JS strings also don't support negative indexes. Is this intended? I think the backward incompatibility that would be led by the change should be tolerable.

And to my personal preferences, I prefer "items[0]" to "items.first()", though the latter is more "english". One of the comments from the post also suggests "items.slice(-1)[0]" as a replacement of "items.last()", but that's another case...
Worse yet, some ice-cream brands (e.g., Breyer's) are also reformulating their recipes to use cheaper ingredients -- meaning they no longer meet the standard to be called "ice cream", but instead must be called "frozen dairy dessert": http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/dining/remembering-when-br...