skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you see Apple doing something about it? Because I don't.
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GitHub are running 2.1.2 GitHub edition Ruby so that is a non-issue for them.

2 -> 3 migration is VERY VERY hard. 3 -> 4 should be relatively easy in comparison.
time == more code that can break
This is the mistake: There are high expectations to be met

Why are you setting high expectations?

Don't set high expectations, or any expectations for that matter. Expect nothing. Expectations are detrimental to creativity (I wish I had a citation handy that proves this once and for all [1]). You should be actively making a point of not having expectations.

Work on what you like instead, and focus on getting better not on being good.

[1] Alright, the closest I've come is http://intersubjectivite.com/drupal/files/Violations%20Of%20... and the last paragraph in the conclusion is below. What striked me as odd is that there's a propensity towards violence when you violate expectations. Which makes sense for me, considering I get upset when I work on something that doesn't feel right.

When being the violator of expectations has found a place in one’s hierarchy of motivations, it may well organize a variety of personal experiences, and thereby contributing either to a person’s creativity or propensity
toward violence or both
Interesting point about scaling, thanks.
+1 also they didn't really cover how they're going to avoid griefing (although maybe that's what beacons are for?) and just general dirt huts and nerd poles.
http://hackeurope.eu/ - looks like it's on holiday.
Ethics obviously don't apply when a friend asks nicely...
The Qt Company
I have an iPhone 5 and I'm not going to upgrade until I absolutely have to or a new phone with at least two of:

- same size screen as iphone 5 & 5s

- really good battery life (STOP MAKING IT THINNER AND MAKE IT LAST LONGER!)

- some killer feature that justifies the ludicrous amount of money I will spend on a phone.
'Hot' here should be interpreted as a new, fresh, popular meme and buzzword - 'a cool stuff for a cloud - orchestration, you know'.

Well, in this way it is hot indeed.
Server side encryption: the placebo of privacy
Your presumption is that iMessage encryption is useless if the NSA can still read the messages. Speaking for myself, I don't care if the NSA can read my messages. My biggest concern is keeping my private data protected from for-profit corporations like Apple and Google.
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No demo, game footage is limited to viewing the world and building blocks, exactly what vanilla Minecraft is.

There is a high risk, huge hype, but nothing to back up their ambitions. Also, I do not believe 100k is even realistically enough for funding this project.
Ng-grid and a REAL REST API
But it will still have vulnerabilities that have been fixed in current Chromium.

(In the Chromium WebView FAQ they say they're working on fixing it, but there are major difficulties. https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview)
Yep, printer drivers are already available in Windows, which is nice. According to the manual, the 4m uses 195W when printing, and 55W in standby. The 5m is 300/80, and 22W in "power save" mode. I'm guessing that's a mode where the fuser is fully cooled off, so it's probably slow to spool up if you enable that.
> All in all, there's a spectrum of the metrics you mention, I don't think it's discrete.

I agree. I simplified it to two different categories for the sake of the comment, but it's better to think of it as a spectrum.
Lots of Let's Play videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhVZhoHbRNw

And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkPa1WTUOlE

Are a couple...
So yeah they are better than one of the worst. This doesn't mean they should not try to do even better. Why can my 2008 Vista laptop be upgraded all the way to 8.1 and use software that come out today and my 2008 pocket computer / smartphone cannot do that? Especially that this year, smartphone specs are a little stuck. We should have an OS as independent as possible from the hardware, on any device.
You can actually get an iPhone 4S replacement battery + tools to change the battery for less then $10 dollars. Certainly a-lot cheaper than replacing the whole phone.

Here is one for $9
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1430mAh-Internal-Replacement-3-7V-Li...
I wonder why they use MD5 hashes and not something more collision attack resistant.
To offer a dissenting opinion...

There are developers that LOVE what they do and do it nearly every waking moment. Guess what? they're way better than the average developer.

Personally I don't like articles like this because they basically make excuses for mediocrity. We as a society shouldn't shy away from excellence and striving for it.

The guys that work their asses off doing what they love and excel do exist and ARE awesome and we shouldn't take anything away from them.

I'm pretty sure I'll get down voted for this btw :)
Simple idea. If everyone on here donated $1 we can change lives.
Simply put, if everyone on here were to read what we do, and were to donate $1 we can save so many lives down here in NZ.

www.journeyofhopenz.org
You should talk to the person sitting next to you. I find developer meetups great fun. I've never met anyone there who compared the size of their GitHub repos! You can get to meet a whole range of people, and if there's an interesting talk and free stuff that's a bonus. Pretty much all of the time we talk about other stuff, where we work, our bosses, the local news, philosophy, bitcoin or whatever - it could be me, but we hardly ever talk about the specific topic of the night.

The hardest bit is when you don't know anyone else and have to break the ice on your own. But the next time there would probably be someone you met the first time...
Went to read this blog when I found out blog.docker.com doesn't support TLS 1.2. And only has one available cypher suite

TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA

Which is cool because RC4 is broken.

docker.com actually does support TLS1.2, but their blog subdomain doesn't :\
This is reckless.
Up until you catch a BIOS exploit. If the disabling is done by software, it's not really disabling.

Physical switches and/or duct tape FTW.
Err. I accidentally took www.slimdns.com. Perhaps people should visit http://slimdns.com/ instead of http://www.slimdns.com/ for now as that's now pointing at 127.0.0.1

[edit] Sent them a tweat to advise.

Note to other people: Always consider how people are going to abuse your service before you make it public. God knows how they never thought this would happen, it was the first though that came into my head when I saw their webpage.
I'm still using my iPhone 3GS without hitch. The only problem I'm facing is that the docking connector is on its way out and needs replacing. I'll decide whether it's worth my time fixing it when I get to that hurdle.
Uncovering Hidden Text on a 500-Year-Old Map That Guided Columbus
Yeah, that's what Beacons are for (and areas outside Beacons decay back to the original terrain)
How do people actually use Docker?

In my world of bootstrapped, smaller apps looking for market traction, even if things go well, a few Linodes should be enough to handle most of the traffic I'll ever need to deal with, so this kind of thing is kind of foreign to me. I'm curious how people utilize it in practice.
yep they are hot as in overhyped
Like taking a walk in the woods, for example. I think the main thing is that these should be done without the anxiety of thinking "I shouldn't be doing this" - rather they can be done as you say, in a relaxed way.
Different people have different rankings of what they consider to be a privacy risk. From recent news, we know that some people are very much into distributing personal images made by other people and kept in what was presumed to be private storage. We also know that some people enjoy manipulating images, including sometimes to torment those who have been photographed. Audio manipulation is less disturbing.

Consider also that some people have computers in line of sight of where they have sex, and an illicitly captured video recording of sex without sound is more often thought of as a privacy intrusion than an audio recording without video of the same ... as the noise from my neighbors might attest.
But the NSA do have the keys :p just kidding
> You mentioned health. Apple has no plans at all to make money with that. It’s just an API that makes devices more useful for users.

So there's no 'Made For Iphone' program?
It's about 50k per goal / headline-feature. We'll make more of them depending on the level of funding. We're doing it to make sure whatever the level of funding we can be sure we'll deliver a our backers a well polished package.
Better check under the bed, then.
You get the Qt libraries, Qt Creator, a commercial license and full development
and deployment rights to the Android stores, App Store and Windows Marketplace.
The new package is available for the price of 20€/$25 per month

Well.

You certainly have my attention now.
What's new in PhpStorm 8?
Managing App Performance with Log Analysis
I'm close-minded, emotionally, I'm wired to enjoy knowing in advance (anxious personality). Until I realize that I was very wrong and could enjoy discovering things that were oblivious to me. I'm still close-minded but headed in the opposite direction now.
I wonder how much of this was just a way to rearrange who owns how much, ahead of the inevitable acquisition.
Apple don't help by requiring App Store submissions to be compiled with a current version of Xcode, while removing compiler support for older ARM CPUs. Not suggesting that this is a deliberate ploy (it likely makes very little difference to their bottom line), but it certainly doesn't help...
Facebook launches an open source organization and releases new routing tech
Property-Based Testing – Testing Assumptions You Don’t Know You’re Making
This was such a poor move by U2. The amount of negative press they have gotten from this fiasco is hilarious. Ironically, they also have made themselves totally inaccessible to anyone who is tech conscious by trying to be extremely accessible. Nobody wants there phone storage, or even just their account being hijacked or forced to do something without their consent.
For a good set of use cases, see https://docker.com/resources/usecases/
It changes your deployment "atom" so instead of deploying compressed artefacts, you deploy containers. This has some advantages in itself (eg. it makes it easier to do gradual upgrades of your full stack, and you can run containers side by side on the same host), but is especially nice in combination with Mesos and Marathon which enables you to scale out horizontally across your cluster.
There is something supremely funny about VCs complaining that their start-ups behave like funded start-ups and not like bootstrappers, who focus on revenues and profits right from day 1.

"At some point you have to build a real business, generate real profits, sustain the company without the largess of investor’s capital, and start producing value the old fashioned way. "

Exactly. So how annoying it is when you're bootstrapping a company, you have your price-points carefully set, you're doing a cracker job at concentrating on 'how to sustain the company without investors capital' and then boom. Out of the blue some never-heard-of before company that does the same thing you do starts to hit your customers with a price point that you simply can not beat because they are able to 'burn baby burn' or maybe even give away that identical product for free because they're racing for an acquisition before the money runs out.

That's real trouble. Sometimes it's not just one.

But there is good news: they usually don't survive in the longer term because they don't have a business model. Once it's free you can't really go back to 'old-fashioned'.

So once they've folded up, you've bought their Aeron chairs at 5 cents on the dollar and you're re-connecting with your old customers and picking up the pieces you have a fairly clear field. Contaminated by an over-promising under-performing competitor that thought that 'growth' is equal to 'health'. (If that were true then cancer or a locust plague would be good news.) How you're going to survive the interregnum of unfair VC funded competition is a really hard question for which I have no other advice than to cut every bit of spending and go into 'cockroach' or 'spore' mode, hang on to your core team at any price.

VCs should be far far more critical about the companies that they invest in, that the path to break even is clear and that they are not going to invest in a company whose business model is broken but where the cracks are paved over with marketing and growth by burning investors money.

That just spoils the soup for everybody and sometimes it kills entire segments.

Especially companies where investment is made in B, C or even later rounds should be looked at very carefully. A healthy company would survive and grow even without VC investment, it's supposed to be an accelerator, not life support.

So burn, but burn with care and a very good plan. Concentrate on your bottom line taking into account that VC capital will not last forever and make sure that the transition from 'supported' to 'unsupported' is a smooth one and that your business model does not somehow depend on the 'supported' bit in a hidden way.

If you're partying like it's 1999 you're definitely doing it wrong and your bubble will almost certainly pop, the more VC money there is the more of it will be dumb.
They should open it up and not restrict it to apple pay only. Android doesn't have the same restrictions.
Heh. I can relate to this sort of exeprience.

I used to be moderately to severely depressed at least somewhat in part because I wanted to get something done by a certain date, but I didn't have the focus or motivation to touch it. As the deadline creeps closer and closer and the dust collects on your git repo, you tend to feel a growing sense of despair that maybe you should just give up because you're not good enough.

Then you say screw it, turn off the computer, go watch a stupid movie with your friends while talking about inane things like the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion. The sun sets, the pizza is delivered, maybe vast quantities of soda and/or alcohol are consumed if that's your thing. The night wears on, everyone goes their own separate ways. As you lay down in bed, staring at the ceiling reflecting on how happy this evening made you feel, you realize you're too stimulated to sleep. Then your mind goes back to your project. Not the deadline, but the reason why you started it in the first place. And for once, you focus not on the gulf between where you are and where you ought to be, but rather the next feature you can't wait to implement. So you turn on your laptop and code until the early dawn hours. Then you remember you had to work the next day.

And that is why I have a severe coffee addiction. But it beats burn-out.
Docker's blog post on this https://blog.docker.com/2014/09/docker-closes-40m-series-c-l...
There is a weird "Us and Them" vibe from your comment.

Is the US/Australia/Uk's treatment of Julian Assange (as an example) not count as "oppressive regimes" and "...dissidents, protesters, and political opponents."?

How is that different to <insert country you were thinking of when you wrote "oppressive regimes"> ?
(I ask honestly, not rhetorically)
Because it would be very hard to find a collision of a file that behaves exactly like a ZipFile.

To make a collision work, you would need to inject the payload into the program, and find a specific blob to put into the zip file, that once compressed and hashed would cause a collision. This isn't computationally efficient.
You just repeated what I have said without disagreeing with me, but somehow you made it sound like you are telling something of the opposite of what I meant.
Is independence good for Scottish startups?
Hundreds of thousands?
The Key Takeaways of Peter Thiel's New Book
The article describes how they compared them for performance but didn't say which was better, and showed a graph which indicated that Rails 3 was worse for longer times in garbage collection for requests. I'd imagine that Rails 2 in GitHub would have been heavily optimized, but....

Is Rails 3 worse performing than Rails 2? Would some performance loss be okay if they had a better codebase?
Sign up. Open your eyes, and change lives
Because smartphones are in the exponential phase of development, much like computers were in the late 90's early 00's. Smartphone silicon has changed dramatically in the last 4 years, laptop silicon has not.
I think it's a little funny that at one side nearly all comments say it won't work, and at the same time loads of people upvote and start to use it, which to me looks like the opposite.
Worse. I bet this wording was on purpose, but the important word is not "abusing", it's "privilege". The SJW flamebait word.

@LaGrange, I don't know why you assume the man here was the evil actor. There wasn't enough information in this story that would justify this inference, and re-iterating this stupid meme that it's always men that are at fault is not helping anyone.
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I still feel bad that I lack a real blog or website. I bought a domain over a year ago and still haven't thrown anything up. The reason was that beside my 9-7 job and the 15 hours of freelancing I did on the weekend, I was spending too much time and drowning in too much business to actually put up the damn website.

Then, I got an offer to work for one of my clients full time, for 2x my salary, and now I STILL have no time to put up the website after taking the job.

On the one hand I feel bad because it seems I have failed in becoming a public voice - on the other, I'm doing so well in my career right now it seems I don't have time to look like I'm doing well!

Perceptions != reality. Sometimes, someone who has a great web presence may not have much else to be doing! ;)
Congrats to all the team!
I (or rather, jenkins) builds all my software in it, I don't actually use it for containerizing final applications.

In a nutshell, for me the value is in trivial repeatability. I can reproduce the entire build toolchain, test environment and produce artifacts all from a few KiB git repo which centres around the Dockerfile and submodules to dependencies.

Some of my ARM stuff takes hours to cross-compile and involves enormous amounts of fiddly babysitting normally. Dockerfiles have RUN statements (think lines a shell script) which are cached. My adjustments toward the end of a Dockerfile take only seconds to test and produces the exact same result as if it had really run each statement from the start, which doesn't sound like much but turns out (for me) to be pretty liberating compared to constantly trying to fight other automation where you have to dance around short-circuiting stuff to re-use bits of a past build to save time and get only a handful of "pristine" iterations in a day (that might differ to the iterations you rolled by hand).
Mumbai police
I am not familiar with zip file format, but if zip files allow comments or other meta-data (in uncompressed form) then it is an easier path. I suspect even file-names could be an opportunity.
I think you'll get downvoted for missing the point, not for daring to challenge the status quo.

"There are developers that LOVE what they do and do it nearly every waking moment."

Agreed. I'm one of them.

"Guess what? they're way better than the average developer."

Good for them! But this wasn't about skill, it was about self-perception, social pressures, and coping with imperfection.

"Personally I don't like articles like this because they basically make excuses for mediocrity."

Mediocrity is irrelevant. Even excellent programmers can suffer from depression, burn-out, or discouragement.

"We as a society shouldn't shy away from excellence and striving for it."

No, but neither should we obsess over it like a bunch of severely autistic extremists who value only programming skill and nothing else. Humans are wonderful, complicated things. Obsessing about excellence in one area at the cost of everything else that makes us who we are is dehumanizing.

"The guys that work their asses off doing what they love and excel do exist and ARE awesome and we shouldn't take anything away from them."

Yeeeeeah, I'm pretty sure everyone would agree with you on this comment, but NOT IN THIS CONTEXT.
Because:

1) You pay for Windows, and part of that cost is specifically to ensure backwards compatibility. iOS is free.

2) The performance of smartphones in 2008 vs. smartphones in 2014 is very different than the performance of PCs in 2008 vs. PCs in 2014.

In 2008 smartphones and mobile ARM platforms were in their infancy. The latest smartphones (Android, iOS, or otherwise) are easily 100x faster than those old phones. This is why I'm personally skeptical that these guys can get the iOS7-blur effect on an original iPhone1.

You'd see incompatibilities galore, too, if PCs advanced by a factor of 100 in 6 years. In fact, we did see that in the mid-late 90s when PC performance was exploding - the upgrade cycle back then was way, way shorter than it is today.
Four Big Data Use Cases for the Media and Publishing Industry
Note that this isn't an "incredibly serious system level issue." This is an issue with a browser that Google hasn't supported for several years, since they replaced it with Chrome. It also doesn't affect alternative browsers like Firefox or Opera.

Note that if Apple had a similar vulnerability, you likely couldn't work around it by using an alternative browser, because all browsers are required to use Safari's rendering engine.
Too Few University Jobs for America's Scientists
> Not everyone can be an entrepreneur

can't you have a company by hiring someone to lead instead of you, only giving him directions ? I mean couldn't mojang become some sort of game development laboratory instead ?

for example google throws money they get from advertising at other experiments, I'm really dreaming of doing that for game development.
This is the type of assumption that can get you in trouble. Zip files can contain uncompressed files.
How are Docker monetizing their product? Is it just in hosting and support? By open sourcing Docker they have opened up the door to hundreds of competitors offering the same thing, often for a much lower cost? Is their only competitive advantage the fact that they own the project and thus understand it better and can dictate its course?

I'm sure they would make for a very interesting case study on how to do open source right.
Vint Cerf: Bufferbloat and Other Internet Challenges
According to that code, the way to know you need to fallback to MathJax is simply catching `katex.ParseError.prototype`:
https://github.com/Khan/react-components/blob/406d2210cfb1af...

Q: does this fallback method also cover browsers not supported by KaTeX but supported by MathJax?
That's not true. What people do is take a zip file and then append files to the end till you get desired md5. It would behave like a zip file.

See http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/
> In the age of computers, there will be fewer fun surprises like that.

Really? I can't think of any way in which computers make it easier to distinguish rational from irrational numbers. What is it that I am missing?
If a company was going to reduce its spend to a sustainable rate, why would it want to mortgage itself to an investment firm?

I thought the main point of selling your soul to investors was to increase your burn rate. If you were bootstrapping your company it seems like you'd want to maintain control and ownership.
Even worse than that: They've been variously been saying "18 months from device release" and "up to 2 years" lately. So if you buy a device that's been out for a year you may be out of luck in 6 months.