skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Coding is hard. HBS students who took the university’s introductory computer science course said that they spent 16.3 hours a week on the course, which is “2-3 [times] more time than they would spend on an MBA elective that yielded equivalent academic credit,” wrote Eisenmann in a Harvard Business Review blog post last fall."

This speaks volumes to the quality of the education an MBA provides. I wonder what the ratio of MBA candidates who want to put in that level of effort are to those who would choose "easier" paths?
I just maintain mine in HTML so it's all pretty and designey.

Then I use @media print css to make it grayscale and exactly one page if printed.

Lastly I use chrome's Print to PDF option to make a PDF version of it.

I think I could prob jam the HTML into word if I really needed a .doc but who really wants to work a place mandating that.
Where should bugs be reported?
It doesn't build on Debian:

md5/md5_dgst.c: In function 'md5_block_data_order':
md5/md5_dgst.c:107:49: error: right-hand operand of comma expression has no effect [-Werror=unused-value]
HOST_c2l(data,l); X( 0)=l; HOST_c2l(data,l); X( 1)=l;
^
Also, the Webkit Community Blog: http://planet.webkit.org

e.g. Adobe is contributing a lot of technology like CSS Regions

And Brent Fulgham maintain a Windows build of Webkit: http://whtconstruct.blogspot.com
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My understanding is that it's BSD licensed, and works well enough.
It's staggeringly difficult compared to modern games mostly because of the lack of affordances, a dodgy UI by modern standards, and despite the classic nature of the game, some bad design decisions (like the way the combat scales to the number of characters in the party, as mentioned in the article, which turns casual overworld encounters into a real pain). The opacity of the actions that led to what virtues is also quite difficult. For instance, in my playthrough I didn't work out that killing a fleeing animal is uncompassionate until I cheated by borrowing somebody else's save that had all eight virtues and losing my compassion then. (In real life, "putting a badly injured animal out of its misery" is at least debateably compassionate itself.... and we're talking about "snakes" that just took a good run at killing an armed warrior, I admit I can't easily work this into the 8 virtues per se but surely I shouldn't just let such things roam the countryside?)

Speaking as someone in a very similar situation... I bet it took you a long time, though. Starting the game not even knowing to say "name" and "job" to absolutely everybody is a heck of a disadvantage to start. There must have been some way to be reminded in game, somewhere, because I worked it out too eventually, but we're talking hours of loss there.

If you can get past all that, and write everything down, and understand the flow of the game, it becomes a simple game in concept, as befits its era. (Eight times, you must: Attain the virtue, acquire the mantra, locate the shrine, acquire the stone. There's some other quests you must do, a couple of optional ones, but not that many.) Were it not for the interminable combat and the general resource scarcity, it would not be a hard game today, especially if we spot you a couple of swings at a FAQ to pick up a trail you lost or the answer to one or two of the hardest puzzles (the answer to the very last question, again as answered in the article, being a very difficult one).

In a way, the game must be hailed as being perhaps the most successful games of the time at hiding just how small it really is.
I dunno. While I haven't smoked weed while working at all since leaving uni, my uni final year project - an augmented reality headset which got a reasonable bunch of publicity and was professionally rebuilt after I left uni - was conceptualized, designed, built and programmed while myself and my project partner were high (over the space of about 3 months). My project partner is now one of the leading researchers in a specific area (which I won't mention to help protect his anonymity) and still does a lot of his work high.

Of course, this in no way means that others should do the same and what worked for me then and what works for this guy now probably won't work for everyone. I certainly wouldn't do it while working on something important now.
With first "offenders" being "diverted" to "treatment" there is all kinds of quackery going on in the "treatment" business, ranging from true believers in reefer madness to profiteers, to nudge-and-wink "treatment" that is just barely serious enough to keep people from going to jail instead.

With all the perverse incentives in play, I'd sooner trust the TSA's numbers for how many terrorists there are with long fingernails.
I think that's absolutely reasonable to penalize. From a technical perspective, returning a different resource depending on the scheme of the URI is absolutely acceptable, but from a UX standpoint it's ridiculous to have a difference between http and https.
If you create a video player that can play DVDs are you also infringing on their copyright?
Here is the direct link to the takedown notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-11-MPAA.m...
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I didn't look into an even distribution. I only allotted the golden ratio part of the content width to the maximum sum of points and comments on a given page.
Source is served from a HTTP website with no PGP signature in sight. :-( Critical software like this should really be distributed more securely.
The screenshots of the applications clearly showed copyrighted works being pirated. Just because free works are available doesn't mean that's its primary purpose.
Instagram – Technology and Infrastructure blog post (2012)
Perhaps try #openbsd on Freenode.
Mostly no. Ultima has a couple of bizzare cash-in games in the console world (in addition dodgy ports of the mainline series). Apparently that one isn't atrocious (... for a Gameboy game...), but it's not a good introduction either.
http://twitter.com/jbrooksuk - mainly programming, life and mini rants.
I'm kinda in the same situation, only i'm starting a business, got 80-90 k. in the bank and i'm 27 yrs old, i did parties, but i don't want to commit myselve to a relationship - had a long term relationship... I want to travel (but that's hard when starting a business)... Never travelled a lot in my life.

I already have the property to live, but i need to demolish the old house first and then set a new one on top (then i'll have debts :) ).

Working on a full time job and i'm starting my business after my normal working hours (so it's kinda busy ).. I like working for myselve, because my current employer is old-skool.. Their money-making application is still written in VB6, that probably explains my point with old-skool :)

I speak 3 languages (someone asked you): Dutch, French and English. I also understand German (mostly)
Does the U.S. House really only work 112 days/year?
> Barnacles are NOT search results.

The average user wouldn't make this distinction. They ran a search, the results are everything presented to them.

On mobile, it's much more so a result because the right side card on desktop becomes the top card and 1st results on mobile.
I am also using NX (specifically, Nomachine's NX, an older version before they replaced everything with proprietary crap.) Right now for Linux, I think it is still the best thing going. I use it in full desktop mode, as if it were a VNC or RDP session. Offsite, there's very little latency or artifacting. Onsite, as you say, it's nearly indistinguishable.
It would be easier to do this from an array of strings but I found an ugly inefficient way to do it from the characters in an arbitrary string:

func randChar(alphabet:String?)->String {
let alpha = alphabet ? alphabet! : "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
let rand:Int = Int(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(countElements(alpha))))
var gen = alpha.generate()
for i in 0..<rand {
gen.next()
}
return String(gen.next()!)
}

mikeash obviously has the answer if the codepoints are consecutive.

This was quite annoying to do, more so than I expected. If you convert to UTF16 view you can alter the index by advanceBy but then I couldn't find an easy way to convert back from the UInt16 to a Character/String but mikeash also covers that. However I'm not sure that conversion to UTF16 is any less work internally than iterating through the index.
I just want to say that I've been following your game and it looks amazing. Really unique. Can't wait for it to be released!
This has been my experience, too. Right up until a $3500 TV died 18 months after I bought it, with the logic board shorting out (again, another well-known issue with them). At that point, they lost me for (almost) good. I will not "trust" Sony. They have to prove that their products are worth it, and, so far, they aren't.
The land of the free and the home of the brave. Indeed.
Two factors: risk of getting caught is relatively low if one is careful, and penalties are fairly minor if apprehended.

In my case, I never board a domestic flight without at least four bluntsworth of bud. And recently have been taking the same approach for international flights originating in the US with stops and terminus in countries with a strong tradition of rule of law and/or cannabis tolerance (ie, most of Western Europe, North and Latin America).
If all you needed was a "highly scalable" service that "just" accepted data, why would you need a database? :p

Sarcasm aside, I'll assume you mean that we're actually storing those amorphous blobs of data. I think the "rant" is intended to remind people that a "schema" will exist from the moment you consume that data for any non-trivial purpose.

The only reason that would have been a waste of your time is if you agreed.
I'm the creative and front-end lead at Storybyte ... for me Storybyte really turned a fantastic corner last month with the introduction of suggested stories.

Make no mistake, Storybyte is NOT another social network. It is a utility that almost instantly turns the photos from your camera roll into beautiful slideshow stories on a webpage that you can then share via YOUR favorite social media outlet.

Give it a shot ... it's FREE!
Works for them so who cares? No reason to bikeshed tools of a project you're not sending patches to anyway.
Hey, you make jokes but where did the Guardian relocate when the UK was preventing them from publishing leak-related stories?
The fact that you could beat Ultima IV without hints is hugely commendable. Well done! I still have the cluebook around somewhere, I think...
I often wonder how many CS undergrads go onto getting an MBA - would be an interesting statistic that I imagine must be available somewhere.
Take a trip for a month, you've earned it. Go somewhere cheap and interesting.
Windows XP works for some people. There are legitimate costs to operating in the past, moreso when it's a project other people rely on.

-2 for an absolutely true fact? Wow. I'm not normally one to complain about downvotes but.. seriously.
I've had this happen a few times, only it's the caller that ends up getting someone else when they dial my number.

I"m on T-Mobile.

I used to have Verizon, and before that AT&T and have kept the same number. I've suspected it was something to do with me porting my number.
I wonder how often these kinds of errors happen? I've never heard of that happening to anyone. I thought automated switchboards were supposed to solve problems like this.
Thanks for your feedback, we'll try and make it clearer what the app does.
I'm not sure NY is a great example because possession and consumption in private has been legal for decades.

Your point stands however-- draconian anti-cannabis laws do exist, and enthusiasts will nonetheless take risks to indulge.
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This article from 4 days ago hints Google has finally started doing it: https://blog.httpwatch.com/2014/07/07/google-has-given-https...

Did other sites observe the same https boost recently ?
definitely not. mail to bugs@openbsd.org
Well, yes.

Are you suggesting that the music being played is to frustrate a member of the meeting from secretly recording the proceedings? Or that the local secret service can't sweep the room and deny subsequent access to hostile agents?
That's actually one of the most reasonable takedowns I've ever seen on github. It was clearly written by a human (ignoring the boilerplate) who had bothered to actually look at the project and at how git[hub] operates ("forks", "branches").

Normally it's just a long list of URLs flagged by a bot then sent without ever having a human look at it.
These stories happened a lot in my reading up on Phreaking history. This is just a networking error, I wouldn't worry about it unless it keeps happening.
My impression is that the interest here is not in the product itself, but in the insight that it lends about a known player.
Indeed. Consider it a preview. :)
Phony farm labor shortage is phony: www.cnbc.com/id/48847903

"the dire farm labor shortage forecasts of 2011 had absolutely flunked the test of reality. As it turned out, 2011 was one of the best years on record for American farms."

Etc.
A interesting code as speech issue could be made here for sure. Just because one of the effects (even the main effect) of the software is facilitating copyright violations, doesn't mean that the code itself is violating any copyright. I don't think github will fight this, they probably on't want to pick a battle with some of the most monied legal interests around, but I sure wish they would.
Right, but it's a problem when you're mostly dealing with ASCII identifiers and so forth.

Looks like a great article, thanks!
Dear Kate is another company has been working in this space for years: http://www.dearkates.com/pages/technology

Their CEO Julie is great - studied chemical engineering at Brown, was very active in the local RI startup scene, raised a series A, and the company is now based in NYC.
Their calendar has 112 days highlighted:
http://majorityleader.gov/Calendar/113thCongressSecondSessio...

The other days are "Constituent Days."

Edit: And "Constituent Days" seems to often coincide with or surround Holidays.
The column change phase 2 has a sneaky bug in it.

In the order presented:

1) Run migration

2) Apply trigger

There will be a point in time where the migration has been done and the trigger hasn't been applied.

Even sneakier, if the trigger is applied in code and not in the database, there will be period in time where some of the code is running the trigger and some isn't.

The trigger needs to be in production and executing prior to the backfill running.

I'm also loathe to rely on "triggers" in application model logic. I've seen too many platforms where the operations engineers interact directly with the database, resulting in required logic not executing.
XP 2014 conference report
That seems like a policy decision, not a technical limitation. If Computer 1 uploads a file to Computer 2 and then Computer 2 deletes the file before it gets uploaded to the server, it's going to be difficult to sort that out. Letting the server be the final authority on a file's state is a lot simpler.
Ah I see. Yeah nonlocal can't fix that.
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Paranoia Muddies Media’s View of Bitcoin’s Potential
The miners are the ones who are maintaining the ledger. People just running the client and downloading the full blockchain are basically just duplicating the data (or using it to verify the full history for themselves), and maybe providing some bandwidth to others who want to do the same thing, they don't contribute to the transactions in any way.
If it's up to me, then sure—I like stories!

(For those of us who were born here, it may even enhance our appreciation of the place. ;)
> Statistically significant?

A statistically insignificant result is politically significant: it wrecks the 'omg pot smokers will lead to tons of crime' argument some politicians were making.
Calmness is crucial for anyone in a triage situation. You have to be able to make correct decisions under pressure. In my experience most large outages are caused by a panicked response to a small outage.

Additionally it's important for many other reasons. If you seem outwardly anxious or worried it will magnify the fears of those depending on you. If the expert is worried, then people who depend on the expert will be hysterical.
I really wish settlement details were public or at least semi-public. No-IP had to have received some $$$ from this.

The 200,000 bond MS put up better have been just the tip of the iceberg.
FARMERS SOLVE LABOR SHORTAGE BY RAISING PAY:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/24/famers-solv...
Coincidentally, I was dreading having to add an index on a multigigabyte table this weekend, because I didn't know whether or not it would be done in time for Monday morning business. You just helped put my mind at ease, so I can have a stress-free weekend. Thanks for the tip!
Xcode 6 Beta with Swift Available to All Registered Developers
Except we all know it is. Just like I theoretically could use a set of lockpicks for something other than picking locks. But we both know what they are for.

IT communities seem to think Judges are stupid or that the actions of general crowd are somehow excused by the niche applications of a technology. That is not the way society or common sense works.
>> an implicit promise to fly at a certain time

Is there such implicit promise? The information of the site seems to strongly imply that the pilot decide when and if a trip happens, and only if the trip actually happens will anyone be charged money.

The FAQ even says that this is not a airline or charter service, and one is simply sharing a ride on a airplane and splitting the costs. If that feeling of basically hitchhiking is not instilled, then flytenow might want to consider making that part more prominent on the website.
Both phone-companies have extensive logs of all calls. Using them to troubleshoot problems however always means manually reading every step. Because of this labor intensity and the privacy aspect (do you want every helpdesk-agent to look at the real source of anonymous calls?) I doubt you can convince them to research this, unless it's something that occurs frequently.
Right, because a lot of work gets done in the states, outside of Washington. Otherwise, everyone who wants to talk to a congress-critter would have to trek all the way over there. And it makes sense to have them around holidays to coordinate travel schedules. They're more likely to be in the area already.
right - now that software's in charge, nothing should ever go wrong!
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The game stands in contrast to Ultima 3 (which I loved as well).

Ultima 3 you could go into a city fight and loot, then leave and go back again, and everything would be back to the way it was before.

I remember exchanging hints with friends also playing.. I can't believe I finished it. Those games where hard.

Some of the difficulty (and complaints in the article) was the lack of hand holding and guidiance the game gave you. Given the limited hardware of the time (64K memory...cpus of 1 -10 megaHz) these games were astounding.
You are if the video player finds copyright DVDs and then delivers them to your door without the permission of the content creator. So yes. Stop being absurd.
A brilliant book indeed!
Similar things have happened with my cell a few times. Once, my sister called and left a "happy birthday" voice mail. She got a return call from a confused woman whose device showed a missed call from my sister, and who had received the voicemail in my stead. Weird.

I thought perhaps it could be incorrectly entered MSIDs because the calls always seem to be mis-routed to the (theoretically) correct geographical location, but I know nothing beyond my personal experience.
Xcode 6 was previously only available to members of the iOS and OS X developer program who paid $100. It is now opened to all developers.
It sounds like you probably don't need or want floats then. Just a uniform number format for the coordinates should suffice.
Deal.Shock
By censorship, you mean facilitate crime and remove money from people who generate content?

Feel free to send me all of the proprietary data at your workplace since you care nothing about copyright. Or just post it all to Pastebin.
yes, but lock picking tools are legal.

the 'we all know it is' argument holds no legal water. the law must be enumerated and explicit, providing guidelines for responsible behavior and drawing lines which one must cross in order to be in violation of the law.
So should we outlaw the distribution of speech materials that teach how to make lockpicks?
In sane jurisdictions lockpicks are perfectly legal for everyone (not just licensed locksmiths) because, although people people may claim that "we all know what they are for", tools should not be illegal just because they can be used for something illegal.

Lockpicks typically only become illegal when illegal intent can be proved in that particular case. This is as it should be.
Sure! I will send you a mail to the address in your profile.
We've been adding our favorite business books here:
https://books.techendo.com/tags/business

There's a good list and some non-traditional books for any adventurous readers out there.
Seriously, listen to yourself.

Here is a little fact; you are not that clever and the rest of the world is not that stupid. Save your strawman arguments. If movies are released by content creators for free they will release them via channels you can access.

if you can't access them; tough. No one said you had a right to content.
Voting you back up for being correct. Why I am not surprised the juveniles here voted you down [eyeroll].
20 years ago I was a huge fan of Sony, but that was when the Sony brand meant high quality instead of just a high price.

Right now I like Apple devices for many of the same reasons I used to like Sony (great quality, easy to use, and their products work even better combined). Hopefully Apple can learn from Sony's mistakes.
DAMN that's some expensive underwear. $47 for one?
This is great news. Apple seems to be going the proactive route with all this. I think that's a really good idea on their part.

That said, as soon as I saw Swift was announced, I took the plunge and started my own journal about learning Swift.

http://www.swiftpursuit.com

Figured I'd document my progress as I went along and it's been a lot of fun so far. This is something I plan on doing over the long haul and I'd like to get in some small 5-10 min videos that covers not only the language but also new things coming out in XCode as well.

I'm two posts behind, but I'm trying to release a new post every week. My biggest slow down has just been figuring out the blogging software and hosting.
As someone who's never played this series, can you give more detail about what this means?
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You could take down the pirate bay legally because most of its use as a search engine is for illegal content.

Of course you would also have to take down torrent client repository because most people torrent illegal content. We know that most people who DOWNLOAD videos get copyrighted material because free to watch videos are usually available to stream.

Technically you could then take down Media Player Classic repository. Of course it just facilitates watching torrents and bootlegged DVDs.

Popcorn time is literally bittorrent + media player + search engine. It's just a convenient package. And as we've shown all of those things are illegal.

Do you see how slippery the slope is?
Sorta related: Larry Wall on programming languages (incl. js) - surprisingly sane, insightful and funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR8fQiskYII