skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Most Valuable YouTube Video: A Brilliant Gimmick
I completely disagree. Sending my search terms to Apple is an invasion of privacy. I feel like "don't share your info with other people" is such a basic aspect of privacy that I don't even know how to argue the point. I'm at a loss, as if you had said that trees are made out of meat, or that cars are delivered by storks.
Perhaps ThoughtBot has a better model with $500/week paid apprenticeships.
The Ruins of the USSR's Nuclear Cities
It plugs into the HDMI slot, how are you having compatibility issues? If your tv takes an HDMI cable, that's all you need.
I don't need Apple Maps to suggest anything to me. Where do I go to disable that? I don't see anything Maps related in any of the Safari or Spotlight options. Forcing it on by default so Apple gets all my queries is bad in itself - but not having an easy to find option to disable it is worse.

Edit: Found it in Include Spotlight Suggestions in Safari options - that seems to stop the Maps results. It's a mess - Safari has an option that relates to Spotlight results which invisibly relates to Apple Maps results but there is no mention of Apple Maps in any of the Spotlight options. _And_ it is on by default - not enabled at first run after user consent.
Sounds more like test driven market development
Just the small list of flaws that we hit trying to use mysql (there's dozens more, and we're not including all the "mysql silently inserts invalid data" gotchas):

no check constraints

views with aggregates are too slow to be used

no expression indexes

triggers don't fire on cascaded actions

no window functions

can't set default values to be the result of a function

no transactional DDL

doesn't have multiple databases, just schemas misnamed as databases

rollbacks are orders of magnitude slower than other RDBMS, and if it is interrupted it can corrupt the database

functions can't use prepare/execute, so no dynamic SQL in functions

subqueries are broken: can't modify and select from the same table

functions can't be called recursively (seriously? is this 1962?)

triggers can't alter the table they are firing against

stored procedures can't be invoked from prepare/execute

"slow query" log has a completely useless resolution of seconds
Fast fwd to 2:37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDA0t49AaZ4&feature=youtu.be...
True. But I'm able to send all traffic through an encrypted tunnel so that nobody listening locally can get their hands on it. And if I wanted to, I could then tunnel all traffic over some other service to anonymize it.
A retina display MacBook Pro is holding me back. Last I checked, elementary doesn't support retina displays.
in any way related to piccolo (which had its v1 'release' today):

http://www.piccolo.cc/

?
Don't forget Zeus, which is the best in the series in my humble opinion!
>Mysql is a good choice for many cases

Name one. Mysql is horribly broken.
Feedback:
>you canlog back in to the site

you can log back into the site
Network Connection Required
HDMI isn't like composite video -- it is more than just a physical connection, it is a highly complex set of protocols with DRM and version numbers and everything.

I haven't run into Chromecast issues with my TV, but I have seen dozens of cases where two devices that ostensibly both supported "HDMI" refused to work together while the individual devices would work fine with (most) other devices. So I find it perfectly plausible that the OP's situation is very real even if I haven't experienced that particular one myself.
"Let us not do X"

can also be uttered before someone does X.

Are you saying that online community of Apple haters (I am not calling you a hater) is not prone to assumptions?
This is a very well done TED talk with convincing arguments. So clear and concise I find it a bit embarrassing that they had never occurred to me before hearing them said.
brisket also powers BloombergView http://www.bloombergview.com
Why doesn't Apple read my thoughts and disable everything?
Just today I was reading in a short article in this month's Wired about how the latest Air Jordan was using advanced textiles woven with a Jacquard Loom. I couldn't find that article, but here's a longer one: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029192/innovation-by-design/how...
Opium laws were targeted at the Chinese.
Man Helps Save Wife’s Life with 3D Printing
I'd wager that with a science PhD under your belt, you're not the typical green programmer.

Back in the early 80's, my mom taught the intro programming course at the local community college, after learning it herself a year prior. Her students came from all walks of life, and many of them got good jobs after a couple of semesters. Her observation was that someone with a science or math background could learn programming in a jiffy.
Apparently not :-)

Those instructions disable "Spotlight Results" only in Spotlight-as-in-desktop-Spotlight.
Greetings from another heart person! I also met a guy who drew me a kitty at the end, which I thought was nice.
Yes, but PTRACE can be disallowed by the process and behaves differently on some kernels, e.g. Ubuntu hardened:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening...
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SELinuxDenyPtrace

They usually only allow ptrace from parent to child or as root.

Also, wrt debugging, see the comment in the second link:

> If you are running a machine and do not plan on debugging the applications on this machine, you should turn this boolean on.
Would you be able to confirm what occurs with the default settings on (suggestions on for both spotlight and Safari) and the browser is kicked into private mode. I'd presume nothing is sent to Apple but can't test at the moment.
The devices animation forces a scroll-up on Opera 12.
I like the Chromecast.I brought 3 when they had a sale at staples for $30/each a few months back.
It really is the best value for a TV device that supports Netflix and Youtube that you can control with your phone.
I also have been having fun hacking on it the past few months using node.js.
I just wish more apps supported it.
As an example, here's how primality is defined in the Agda standard library. It is simply the negation of the property 'has a divisor and is greater than 2'.

http://agda.github.io/agda-stdlib/html/Data.Nat.Primality.ht...
Interesting idea, but I doubt it can work. There's no incentive to bid after $20, once the novelty has worn off.
I'm going to take a contrarian view. I think that American public schools are decent. Many are quite good. Only a few are excellent, but that's true of private schools as well. I don't think that it's our schools that are to blame for American ignorance. (And no, putting more money into them probably won't solve the problem.) It's economic inequality (underprivileged kids don't fuck off because they're stupid, but because they know that even if they work their asses off, the deck is still stacked against them) and a culture of ignorance and anti-intellectualism that pervades all social classes, top to bottom. People value ambition but not insight in this country, and deep knowledge makes you a fool who didn't have "the guts" to charge into the working world, beat someone up, and take a place.

For the world that should exist, where humans of average social connectedness and social class are equipped to solve the problems bearing down on us as a species, American students are undertrained. If the shit really hits the fan on energy, ecological concerns, or social unrest... we're all out of our depth. It's not just the schools, with their supposedly "outdated" emphasis on timeliness and conformity. The first 10 years in the corporate world, except for the upper-class kids who get a rope-bridge over the shit pit, kills any creativity that people might have had. The corporate world is much more destructive to creativity and, in the long run, intelligence, than the schools are. (It's also why intelligence tends to decline, in the U.S., after 22. That's not normal, and in other societies, people peak much later.) This society produces one thing: private sector politicians.

For the jobs that most of them will actually get, American students are overtrained. You don't need a college education to be some shitty private sector subordinate, nor an understanding of CS to do business-driven engineering in some VibratorFactoryVisitor-laden Java Shop. Knowing that stuff will just make you angry and make it harder to do your damn job, stay employed, and feed your family.

The claim that American schools are training kids for a 20th-century world that requires conformity is missing the point. The 21st-century world requires just as much conformity from individuals in the short term. Those lessons about not talking back to authority are just as important today. The hard challenges that humanity will face will take more, and our generation may be underprepared to take them on when they arrive, but we won't get a verdict on that one until we're tested.
Let's imagine that the name would be replaced by a slightly let popular company, say one which name begin by an F or a G even one with an M, pichfork would have been already out.
Isn't humanity resistant to this virus now?
the extremes that the US has gone to force Jamaica to keep it illegal is disgusting
Copying is fundamentally less unethical than stealing. When you steal something you deprive its owner of actual property. When you copy something you deprive the copywriter owner of a potential sale. So not only is there no actual loss of anything often there would never have been a sale anyway. More like blocking the line at the cash register than taking the merchandise.
I really wish I be able to set the DNS servers on ChromeCast....
wink
TDD for Testers
The OP has been spamming and vote rigging for a few days now: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=qwickbit
Right. If you like looking at the ugliness that is pre-iPhone Google search for mobile: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/google-search/5b...

Even in their own app!

We did not get proper, modern-looking iPhone-style touch-optimized mobile search results from Google for well over 20 months while Windows Phone 8 was fully capable (thanks to not using IE6) of displaying such touch-optimized CSS. I know, Googling or using Google services was IMPOSSIBLE on my incredibly modern Lumia 920 in January 2013. They just never bothered to optimize for any touch whatsoever and treated the platform as many companies did, like Windows Phone 7, and not something modern and new.

It wasn't until Windows Phone 8.1 that IE11 began pretending to be an iPhone -- and oh look, search finally works (design-wise) if you use other providers than Bing! I re-tested before performing the 8.1 upgrade -- to this day, they still think Windows Phone 8 has not evolved from Windows Mobile days.
How long does the system send out: "Are you alive?" messages before it sends out the logged message? What if a family needs more immediate access to the data?
I started poking around with the javascript to see if I could hack it, but it seems to have server-side verification to stop you from moving to places you shouldn't be able to access.
>> 160WPM+

Wow! I am guessing you're not using a QWERTY layout to do that. What layout are you using? Dvorak?
It's obvious from the title that we're supposed to see this as a privacy violation, otherwise it wouldn't be news (or the headline would be about the functionality).
Sometimes good ideas need a little help.
Sure: No requests are made while typing in address bar in private mode with default settings.
Assuming the goal is to reduce revenue and spending, the tax cuts in Kansas have been a huge success.
Funny, because even if they would prepare for the future, it would still be for a world that doesn't exist.
BBEdit continues to be my favorite editor. Using VIM lots of places, tried all the 'popular tools of the day,' but BBEdit remains my frontline tool.
So your father and also I would be interested. But I really doubt a service like that would last given the current startups scene we have now. It must be rock solid. Fully dependable. It's life-and-death business here. I'd pay a good amount for this kind of solution.
Numbers in arrays can be treated as pointers, into that same array, giving a graph. It's just a question of context. If you were storing RDF triples in K you'd simply have an array for subjects, one for objects, one for predicates, and one of the URIs/text. Simply store the index of the URI/text item in each of the subject, object and predicate columns. An individual triple would be formed by the same index applied to the subject, object and predicate arrays.

DFS is then a variation of the more familiar functional style of tackling the problem where you have your end condition (i.e. something that matches what you're looking for) and failing that do something else (typically recursion).

I can't recall enough of the K syntax these days to actually implement that right now though, or if K has TCO.
IBM Paying Globalfoundries $1.5B to Take Unit in Retreat from Chips
I really hope that, when he makes the actual Code Bootcamp Destruction post, he makes sure that he has more than a couple emails about each situation he exposes

not that I think a pile of lies were sent to him, but more along the lines of, what happened isn't always what was perceived to happen, or what was perceived from hearing about something happening.
Howdy,

There are two "Spotlight Suggestions":

- "Spotlight Suggestions" in Safari

- "Spotlight Suggestions" in Spotlight

Both query the same servers, both use the same name, and both return the same information.

A reasonable person might believe that, having followed Apple's instructions for disabling "Spotlight Suggestions" (the Spotlight kind), they'd disabled "Spotlight Suggestions" (the Safari kind) -- especially if you didn't actually see any suggestions appear in Safari (I didn't!).

Mark Rowe, Safari developer at Apple: "That’s probably a fair complaint." https://twitter.com/bdash/status/524005838743035904

There needs to be a single checkbox: "Do not share my Spotlight data with Apple".

There's already a single checkbox for "Diagnostics & Usage Data", and that should be respected too. The network query posted here is actually a search metrics POST, not a live search query, and it's used as metrics for local and remote search performance.

p.s. It was also just pointed out to me that, having selected a specific search engine, a user would not be remiss in believing that their searches would be sent to the only the search engine they had selected.
Email Clustering in Eπvelope
Notes: http://jonalmeida.com/posts/2014/10/19/htsas-lec07/
That's not a bootcamp. Thoughtbot runs metis now, which is a bootcamp at $12,500 - http://www.thisismetis.com/
Can you link to an explanation of how Apple intentionally broke 3rd-party syncing with iPod Nanos? I don't know what kerfuffle you're referencing.
Test scores and grades are far better criteria than that socioeconomic nonsense. It would be better if American colleges admitted purely on academic factors. They'd also get better students, even if they'd lose their elitist "mystique".

I think that the extracurricular "holistic" component is deeply harmful. If the top universities admitted on academic criteria, then Americans would accept that not everyone good-- because there clearly are good students who aren't great at standardized tests; "not a good test-taker" is a real thing-- goes to Harvard (which is true anyway) and get over it. I certainly know smart people who were mediocre students in high school.

The extracurricular bullshit (which is, in fact, heavily socioeconomic and racial and always has been) is a bit of branding that works wonders on 17-year-old kids, and their parents, by creating the appearance that college admissions are a "holistic" judge of the applicant as a person. It's brilliant insofar as it drives up tuitions (even at less prestigious schools) but it's really bad for society.
Good ideas stand on their own merits.
> (And no, putting more money into them probably won't solve the problem.)

I don't disagree with this, but I generally advocate for higher funding because more resources provides more manuevering room, which makes it less risky to try new things. Sometimes it feels like Americans only believe that desperation-driven innovation is valuable, so we drive everyone to desperation by taunting them with scarcer and scarcer resources until they collapse and die.

I'd rather see us pour resources into education. It won't fix anything by itself, but you'll stop getting responses of, "We can't afford to try doing that," every time a change is suggested.

> This society produces one thing: private sector politicians.

This is so quotable. I like it. Not sure I agree with it, but I like it aesthetically.
I'm a "bootcamp" graduate who has been happily employed at a great company for around a year now.

I would definitely say that my experience of grinding out 60 hour weeks of programming was very much aligned with learning something the hard way, so I really hope that Zed at least manages to acknowledge the successful programs in the space.

While I share the concern that many of these programs may not live up to their claims, it should not be overlooked that there are a few quality ones that really change people's lives.
I got to wonder about the downvotes that I received. I've noticed that there are some guys (mostly) who will reject anything that a woman says, no matter what the message. Glad to see that most of the posters on this topic are in favor of asking for a raise, unlike Nadella's statement.
Here here!
Recently I went back to remaster my old .IT tracks using Schizmtracker (an impulse-clone, which I'm running in Gentoo Linux) and it made me so nostalgic!

Three cheers for Jeff Lim's fine work, and what a champion for releasing the source!!
I just wish I had an LCD TV at my home..
I'm saying nothing about Apple haters. No commentary made there, neither express nor implied.
What was your wow bit? The fact that cloud is a term no one understands (okay, no two people can agree on), that it can't actually power anything, or that up until Chromecast there was no way to display your photos in your house?
It's good that Google doesn't log your Google searches with Google Chrome.
I think your comment is better than the article it references, but it is not evidence again the author's premise. Both you and the article's author could be correct because American education and culture can have a staggering multitude of problems.
Yes, and I think it is a privacy violation.

However, that doesn't mean it's nefarious. I don't doubt that Apple, if it can have motivations at all, implemented this stuff with the best of intentions. But as I said, I don't care about that, I just care about what they do.
People cheer for the marijuana-legalization underdogs now, but endgame, if it proceeds to all 50 states, looks like this: Altria and other players in the $112 billion US tobacco market buy up the little cannabis startups and start advertising and promoting marijuana use on large scale. The government steps in to regulate distribution and advertising.
Is that what we want? Because that's where we're going.
Lack of minimization really messes with my workflow. I'd also like to use it with a HiDPI display without it looking so blurry.
But what's the relevance? Why do I care? Why is this important? I'm looking for a broader context.
“Why I visit prostitutes”
if /dev/random decides that it has not not enough entropy sources then reading from it blocks - sometimes it blocks for a minute if the machine has few entropy sources (for example no mouse and no keyboard attached)

That's why most libraries use /dev/random to seed their own RNG, he says that's wrong and that /dev/urandom (which does not block) is scary.

Usually libraries (openssl,JCE) RNG seeds from /dev/random - this is the internal state of the RNGb; internal state is transformed into next iteration by applying SHA-1 and at each turn some initial bits of internal state are returned as random numbers.

of course the library RNG comes from the requirement for a lot of randomness in most protocols, (and for predictable performance, also servers also may need to do a lot of random numbers) of course the article has many points.
Perhaps it would make sense to update your Gist to make it clear that Apple isn't trying to force people to funnel their searches through their servers, and that the real issue here is confusing UI?
Because the bootcamp industry hasn't been around very long, you're right, there is no good data. But from my experience and the experience of my peers in my class, I believe that adapting to new technologies/new ideas is actually one of our main strengths. Those skills are essentially a pre-requisite to getting through the program.

Your question about the potential to have a normal software engineering career trajectory is a good one (one that I am particularly interested to hear the answer to) and that's why I wish that more employers would speak to this issue. I would venture to guess that my employer would speak highly of Hack Reactor and how prepared HR grads are because they have continued to hire from there, but it would be nice to see how employers actually review these schools and not just the students.
I thought this was pretty clever:

00000001 <-- this line is both an instruction and data.
00000011
00000001 <-- this line is both data and an address.
00000011
00000111
00000000
11111101

A program that doesn't work if you move its location in memory is pretty hilarious.
Hey, just as a funny side note, I implemented this on this very domain back in the early 2000s. Gald to see someone else is using the domain this way :-)
Not being a bootcamp is the point. Real experience without going into debt.
Something that has always annoyed me about Dropbox. But honestly I'm not going to bother given that I have to pay in order to sync more than 3 folders. Specially when I can accomplish this with a bit of hackery and symlinks.

Nice product though.
This is something I've been hoping for someone to do - make git aesthetically beautiful and also a bit more intuitive for those untrained in git.
http://boingboing.net/2007/09/14/new-ipods-reengineer.html
I looked at the Chromecast, but as others have mentioned, the frequent reports of fragility, along with the DRM-laden aspects deterred me. I've bought the Netgear Push2TV (PTV3000) but haven't received it yet. And then Samsung have their own variant, which I believe is WiDi standards-compliant. Is the compelling thing with the Chromecast just the price, then?
Okay, I'll bite - what misinformation is there in warning people not to use an uninsulated tool to cut a live wire? Seems like good advice to me.
I don't disagree with this, but I generally advocate for higher funding because more resources provides more manuevering room

I agree. Also, the good teachers deserve to be paid better. Paying them properly is just the right thing to do. Moreover, funding public schools out of property taxes is also rifuckulously classist.

If the Wired article is right and the challenges of the 21st-century really do require creative thought (and, I think, they will) then we may get a front-row seat, in the US, for a society laid low by its own inequality. Disallowing 95+ percent of people, mostly based on born social class, to have access to creative work has rendered us subordinate, apathetic, and weak... and, because of it, we may not be up to the challenges bearing down on us.
Cote D'Azur – Performance of pi calculation in multiple languages (2013)
Perl goes to great lengths to be secure in the face of setuid.

This isn't even remotely controversial. There is a reason that the setuid bit is ignored for unix shell scripts.
Yeah, as noted by the Supreme Court in Dowling v. United States (1985), "...interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft..."

For some reason people think this is a controversial copyleftist idea, rather than something the highest court has already acknowledged.