skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So UDP is great. I love the simplicity of it, and the fact that it adds very little overhead while being sufficiently low level means you can do all the fun networking things yourself.

What would be great is a "third half" of this equation: a popular protocol a la SCTP. Imagine not having to re-invent message size headers for every damn protocol: the size of your packet is embedded in the datagram just like UDP, but the transmission is reliable just like TCP. HTTP would suddenly get so much better!
Our company name is a .co. It is generally fine but does lead to some email going astray as people, either out of habit, assumption, or auto-correct, occasionally address it to the .com variant.
I thought about that - whether to use icons or text - in the end I decided that with shorter text, at least for the initial release.
Siracusa's review is up here:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10/
NSA Documents Suggest a Close Working Relationship Between NSA, U.S. Companies
A walks UDP packet bar into bar.

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This was a great program. Highly recommend it. The network really opens up a lot of doors. Definitely check out Coursera - they're a great company.
Sorry, that should be fixed now.
What's your take on this?

> A team headed by Whisper’s editor-in-chief, Neetzan Zimmerman, is closely monitoring users it believes are potentially newsworthy, delving into the history of their activity on the app and tracking their movements through the mapping tool. Among the many users currently being targeted are military personnel and individuals claiming to work at Yahoo, Disney and on Capitol Hill.

This paragraph may imply something more ominous, i.e. that users are being tracked despite geolocation being turned off...I'm assuming that's not the case...but would you say that the users in this scenario are aware that their data is being analyzed at this granular level for news and research purposes by third parties?
Sure but most services that shutdown have some sort of personal data or the other. You cannot dump them on the internet archive.
Office manicure startup Manicube under scrutiny from Mass. regulators
They actually also hired the guy who wrote this app.
The Bot of Mormon
> It has a lot of compatibility problems

Solving "compatibility problems" is what Apple do best by requiring you have an Apple Mac Pro and an Apple Cinema Display and not supporting any other configuration
https://twitter.com/panzer/status/522840005677293568

"The new Retina iMac does not work as an external display."
Same in India as well.
You could buy quite a few shitty 4k displays for the price of one of these, though. Enough to get one that escapes the bathtub curve, certainly.
Which show is this, please?

The ethics of crime are a complex subject, and while convicts' own views on the subject are generally self-serving there are shades of grey all over. For example, I knew a bar owner who murdered a heroin dealer, because one of the bar owner's friends OD'ed and died. So he waited until the heroin dealer went into the restroom at the bar one night, then followed him in and shot him dead.

That's pretty cold-blooded (from a legal standpoint, advance planning like that is considered far worse than shooting someone in the heat of a dispute), but then it seems morally mild compared to murdering someone for personal gain. I can't find it now, but there was a really fascinating article posted here a year or so ago about an undercover cop whose specialty is pretending to be a hitman, and the people who attempt to hire his services. Maybe someone else will remember enough detail to turn it up in a search.
How do you know that most drivers have been in at least one traffic accident?
Apple just introduced a SIM Card
Yeah but the smart investor should have an outsized say in how things are done because he's the one who wants society to be economically efficient.

It's the fat cat guys are the ones that are draggin us all down.
The TwitPic export page is giving 503 errors, so you can't export your stuff.
Yep, I'm going to email them about that. That's not what this job board is about.
If someone took my sourcecode and posted it up on github without my permission, I'm not entirely sure I'd agree that that stance is 'customer friendly'. Only the infringing customer wins in that scenario.
People generally don't consider themselves to be bad people. Even if they've done something bad, in their own mind there is bound to be a justification for it.
While you can use a DisplayPort display with a Thunderbolt iMacs, you cannot use target display mode on a Thunderbolt iMac with a DisplayPort 1.2 PC (or pre-thunderbolt mac).
>The 5K is a result of the Mac having an aspect ratio other than . . . 16:9

Huh? The aspect ratio of the 27-inch iMac is 16:9.
New Messenger from Skype
Eve Development Blog, from Light Table developers
Wasn't Murphy's law formulated after a technician plugged sensors into one of these sled pointing the wrong way?

The exact same problem occurred in 2004 when the Genesis space probe sample return capsule returned to earth without its parachute. It hit the ground rather hard as you can see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Genesis_crash_site_scenery...

The Board determined the proximate (or direct) cause
of the mishap to be that the G-switch sensors were in
an inverted orientation, per an erroneous design, and
were unable to sense sample return capsule deceleration
during atmospheric entry and initiate parachute
deployments [1].

The capsule was filled with extremely fragile silicon aerogel plates, which of course shattered on impact, and I believe dirt got inside too. Surprisingly, much data was recovered; that's what grad students are for.

[1] National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Genesis Mishap Investigation Board (MIB) Report, Volume I. 2005.

Edit: references
None of these reiews answer the one question I always want answered; will this cause my MBP to crash more often than 10.8.5? I have all the features I need, I want fewer GPU panics.

I know these reviewers cannot answer this question, I just want to point out that it's the only relevant question for me. Given Apple's track record, this release will most likely cause my MBP to crash more often, but I want data on that. I want a review to actually explore this angle as opposed to simply talking about features that honestly mean nothing to me.
The $699 model + the SSD upgrade sums up to a whooping $899.

I like the form-faktor and all, but really, with 900 bucks i am sticking to my custom ITX builds
Sorry, that should also be fixed now. Thanks for all the feedback (bugs and otherwise).
Many businesses today have a relatively strong network effects of some sort.With that kind of business , growth is what's needed to achieve competitive advantage.
That's Monument Valley.
This is a generally unimpressive upgrade, though I have become addicted to Touch ID and will upgrade my iPad for that specific reason. Touch ID, the iOS UX, and the massive app ecosystem are Apple's competitive advantages these days. For this and probably next year, they will be enough to keep billions of dollars rolling in and the launch day lines long. I think without some real innovation in the next two years though, the tide may start turning.
Yet it is either astonishingly arrogant or astonishingly naïve to think that "if only we got a crack at it we'd do it right."

Any mechanism of government can and will be abused. Some such mechanisms like those of centrally planned economies are not only more likely to be abused, but more easy to abuse. Worse, they are so very often employed by the same people who think on the matter and decide we're just going to have to kill the people who don't agree with us.

The only thing that makes us better is if we take those lessons from history as a warning and prioritize liberty first. These mechanisms prioritize equal outcome, which is a fools errand. Doubly so in a leaky economy.
I thought it was pretty clear in the post you're responding to that there are situations in which UDP is a much better choice, I even called out games specifically. The question is, do you need reliability (as defined by guaranteed delivery and sequencing) or not. If you do, UDP is not enough even if it is seems "mostly reliable" in some tests. "Mostly reliable" is not useful if you need "actually reliable".

If you need the full reliability TCP offers, UDP isn't the answer unless you layer your own protocol on top of it, and while it is possible to layer your own protocol on top of it that will beat TCP for specific use cases, most people (who aren't expert network programmers and don't even know about [let alone understand] the minefields of issues you can run into such as dealing with NATing, etc) are much better off just using TCP, warts and all.
There's no mute switch, so thats something
But why?? The point is that I would never choose to do development on a smallish device. In fact, I would always choose the largest, most powerful device available! Multiple screens, speakers, lots of ports, power, etc.

Maybe there is a market for commuters/travelers? Even then, I would prefer a large-screen laptop.
Swift [review by John Siracusa]
I for one was hoping for an upgrade to this range in particular, and the fleeting mention in the stream was a bit shocking.

I have the 1st Gen mini, and didn't see enough to upgrade to the retina, and was hoping for a chip upgrade and camera upgrade, but alas nothing.

I almost feel as if there are 2 outcomes here; 1) the mini gets an update in March-ish and has some kind of A8Y chip especially for the mini, or 2) that is the last update we ever see for the mini
"But you claimed the scores are based on what you're exposed to rather than your potential. If they don't change over time then that's a strong counter to your argument."

As I mentioned in another comment, I was rude because I was tired of explaining why it was pointless, but I did address that it's possible to teach better IQ scores by focusing on how to pass the tests.

"It's a series, not a set. 11 is not 'equally' correct"

http://i.word.com/idictionary/series

"a number of things or events of the same class coming one after another in spatial or temporal succession"

Depending on your definition, there's no requirement on a series to contain the complete list of elements, so long as they are in the correct order.
> Do you mean that diet doesn't matter when it comes to blood cholesterol

Diet matters a lot. Apparently, it has been shown that for some people, milk fat in the diet correlates strongly with serum (blood) levels of cholesterol.

However, the effect of cholesterol in your diet seems to have little to no effect on your serum levels.

Serum cholesterol is actually pretty important: It is the precursor to Vitamin D (the other ingredient being sunlight exposure). For sure, it is an indicator of trouble, but it is unclear if it actually causes trouble itself or is part of the body's attempt to make things right.

Statins reduce cholesterol, and reduce the incidence of heart attacks, but they either increase or do not affect all-cause mortality (depending on which study you look at).

The science is far from settled on this, despite what most medical professionals would have you believe.
New Vegeta release with concurrency control and graceful shutdowns
Apple – Swift
Just as one example, Ankidroid is pretty unpleasant on a phone, especially searching for new decks. There are quite a few other apps, too, that are "tablet optimized" for larger screens than phones have, and use internal detection to change the UI/UX you're presented with. Web usage on sites that are menu or image heavy can be problematic, too, as is working with tabular data any time. I don't enjoy watching movies/tv on my phone, either (and the battery life is horrendous).
Twitpic's unfortunate fate is a reminder that your company hasn't been acquired until the money is in the bank. As pg put it, "Deals fall through" [1]:

Startup founders tend to be optimistic. This can work well in technology, at least some of the time, but it's the wrong way to approach raising money. Better to assume investors will always let you down. Acquirers too, while we're at it. At YC one of our secondary mantras is "Deals fall through." No matter what deal you have going on, assume it will fall through. The predictive power of this simple rule is amazing.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
An Internet Fidelity Bond, if you will.
Creating a Futures Market on the Blockchain
WebRTC actually uses SCTP, but the problem is that SCTP gets filtered out a lot by firewalls and NAT that don't know how to handle it. The solution is to stuff SCTP inside UDP, which works OK because UDP is pretty minimal itself.
Greenspun claims that Gates had a $1000000 trust fund. It does not sound like middle class at all:

http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
I'm most impressed that they can manufacture 15 million pixels on a single panel without a single dead pixel. They must be wasting/repurposing a ton of panel square footage when cutting.
Not sure, though I really don't mind OSX, and with homebrew, it's pretty close to a 1:1 for most of my use on OSX...

The only thing that irks me a little is the muscle memory for using the option key for cut-copy-paste in the UI vs the actual ctrl key (ctrl-c etc) in a terminal...
wow, you swallowed a lot of bullshit marketing :(

>did a custom controller for the display timing (Timing Controller (TCON))

Apple doesnt produce displays, they dont design TCONs - Tcon is a pcb sitting directly behind glass driving individual crystals, and is designed and manufactured by the same company making the display. Also every Tcon is custom, and build to drive particular type of screen.

Yes, when Dan Rissio says "we manufactured this screen' he is LYING TO YOU. They bought whole thing from LG or Sharp.

AMD doesnt support DP 1.3 yet, so only way for 5K resolution is bonding two 3K screens together, this is so innovative IBM did it 15 years ago in T220.

> retina type rendering

you mean scaling down? this is what GPUs do best, out of the box.

Yes, this screen is amazing. But dont act like its something revolutionary touched by Noodly Appendage.
'The Hacker Wars' takes an adrenaline-fueled look at the world of hacktivism
Mitigating Poodle SSLv3 Vulnerability on a Go Server
I actually read this all the way through... Quality writing.
Yes, that's long been the obvious stupidity in Apple's Mac line: the lack of a mini-tower. Mini-towers let you stick in a full power desktop CPU and as much disk space as you want.

Moreover, they dropped the expandable Mac Pro in favor of the new trashcan model which cannot be expanded -- except using thunderbolt which is just not as cheap as a drive bay.

That said, they're probably doing the right thing. The people who want the ITX build are hackers like us, and we just aren't that common.
Better spring for the 4GB video card, 5k is going to eat up 2GB of video memory fast.
Hacked caller
Calls people's number and hang up. The main partisan that he has a 931 number but it said a 201 number
Also, no football:

"In a notable carve-out, National Football League games will not be available on the service."
The problem is, most GPUs can't drive that many pixels, which wasn't the case with the 1440p ones. So there is now a new set of issues with displays like these being used standalone.
Look at it the other way, if you don't want the extra things... they just dropped the price of the iPad Mini that you do want by $100, right?

I was waiting for the new mini before making a mini purchase, and think I'll prob be buying the 2, at a significantly cheaper price than it was yesterday.
I was just at a Best Buy (Westfield Culver City) which had a banner near some TVs that touted WebOS.
‘The Bell Curve’ 20 years later: A Q&A with Charles Murray
The main concern with consumer adoption of separate 4k/5k+ screens will be dual-link dvi and hdmi 2... since standard hdmi can only drive 4k at 30hz refresh.
Acquisitions are complex and take a long time to really close. Most of the time you see articles about a company being sold, the deal isn't actually done yet. WhatsApp agreed to terms in February, but the deal didn't actually close until a week ago. Was it a lie to say that WhatsApp had sold to Facebook before October?

That said, I have no idea what the case is here.
New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents
In Canada the estate pays the tax not the beneficiaries. In Canada the estate is considered a sale.

"The deceased is considered to have sold all of his or her capital property for fair market value immediately prior to death. This includes, with certain exceptions, all the deceased person’s non-registered assets (personal belongings, cars, investments, business assets, etc.).

If any of these assets have gone up in value since their acquisition, the estate will owe taxes on the capital gain in the year of death. Capital gain is the difference between the fair market value of the item when purchased and the fair market value item of the same item at the date of death."

See this website:

http://turbotax.intuit.ca/tax-resources/inheritance-tax.jsp
It considers me to have a high BMI - yet my body fat is relatively low. I was lighter and fatter until I started working out; now I am heavier and slimmer. My clothes are generally looser, except my shirts and jackets, which are snugger around the chest.

Considering that, overall, my doctor believes I had a low risk of cardiovascular disease before I started exercising regularly, and now believes my risk to be lower, I take the risk numbers with a grain of salt - and a dab of butter.

Speaking of fat, as others have noted, total cholesterol may be meaningless. If I told you my total, you'd likely call an ambulance. But my triglycerides are low and my HDL/tri and HDL/total ratios are so good they are silly.

Based on everything my doctor knows - and she's scientifically minded, curious, and thorough, traits unusual in family doctors AFAICT - my risk of cardiovascular disease is in the low single digits.

Yet this test tells me my best case is mid 30s and my current close to 50.

Yeah, uh huh, I'm going to take medical advice from an app prepared by someone who lived an anecdote.

(No disrespect intended. Our personal experiences tend to not be transferable, no matter how much we learn about our case, because we learn about our case - not about all cases, with a dash of probability and a hint of objectivity.)
Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
Make GitHub issues filters 'sticky' again (chrome extension)
I read the article again and I think you're right.

I think there's some linguistic confusion here. The Dutch word pensioen regularly gets translated into 'retirement account', or somesuch. Whereas, and as you state, there are specific varieties of these in both the NL and USA.

As an American who speaks Dutch and worked in the NL for a long time, I regularly played this language game when talking about retirement. Unfortunately TFA wasn't really clear to me WRT to these distinctions. It could have been more explicit.
From Jason Scott's twitter, I take it the ArchiveTeam efforts to back up all the data will resume.

On this note, you can help: you can download the ArchiveTeam Warrior virtual machine, which is both easy to run and helpful to the ArchiveTeam. Your computer will help grab more of the missing data before it disappears forever.

ArchiveTeam projects tend to pop up and disappear quickly, much like the websites they are archiving, so you can even just leave a warrior running and when something happens, it will be at the ready. (My Warrior is currently working on the GameMaker sandbox project, for example.)

You can also run the Warrior scripts directly, without a VM, in some setups.

I glossed over some of the details; there is a lot more info at the link below. I encourage you to try running a Warrior yourself.

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Warrior
Perhaps it is just that modern CPUs are powerful enough that even the low-end ones are now Good Enough for most people. There have always been cheaper CPUs available; Apple just avoided them in favor of a better experience.
The site itself had a very interesting comment - that the study assumed the convicts were worse than average. We don't know the exact nature of the crimes.

Another question lies in whom the convicts were comparing themselves. If I were a burglar whose friends were all hit men or divorce lawyers, I might find some justification in feeling a little morally superior.
> I was tired of having to explain why assigning a number to intelligence made little sense

So stop explaing it. Assigning a number to intelligence makes a lot of sense.

As have been pointed out 1.) it seems those measurements can be reproduced with statistical significance so they measure something and 2.) whatever it measures it seems to be one of the best indicators we have of future job performance.

What they don't tell us is what a person is worth, if he is a good person etc.
I hate the Intel nomenclature break on mobile vs desktop. On desktops, Celeron is dual core, i3 is dual core with hyperthreading, i5 is quad core, and i7 is quad core with hyperthreading. On the other front, they mix random clock values and core counts across skews so you never know if your i7 is a quad core with hyperthreading (4750Q for example) or a low power dual core (4700U) because there the suffixes on the parts number dictate core counts and such.
Show us some of your builds!
That said, I would any day prefer a private MPLS network rather than the public internet.

Thanks to your comment, a short Wikipedia trip later, I now know that "penultimate hop popping" is a thing and has a fantastic name.
How often does your MBP crash?
"Packet headers and control packets" are not the reason you should divide by 10. The reason is that Thunderbolt uses 8b-10b encoding so 1 byte of data is transferred as 10 physical bits. Therefore the maximum theoretical usable bandwidth is 20e9/10/1024/1024 = 1907 MiB/sec. Then on top of that you have to deduct the overhead from packet headers and control packets so the real-world usable bandwidth is even less than 1970 MiB/sec...
New England Patriots vs. New York Jets
I'd like to see the email screenshot, as referenced in #4.
The just-released one is actually the mini 3.

The mini2 (previously called 'mini retina') actually is priced starting at $299 now. (starting at $399 yesterday, I think? Or was it $349 yesterday? Anyone know?).
Not even 2.5 years.
I've long wished for a reliable protocol that was negotiated on a per-link basis. I mean: we have the processing power now. (So, effectively, packets aren't removed from the router's buffer until it knows the next link has the packet in buffer. Lots of implementation details to be gone over, though.)

It seems a mite... silly... to resend a packet from the other side of the world just because your ISP couldn't shove the packet down your internet connection fast enough.
That's ok until there's a provider that they don't have in their database. This may be a big problem for the smaller virtual operators or calling card outfits.
Videos of model who twerks her boobs to Mozart
An Updated Google Chromecast Stops by the FCC
I've been quite happy with UDP lately. I set up a prototype log analysis system and just to get testing quickly I just sent the CSV log data as is over UDP between servers. It works so well that I still haven't bothered to swap it out with something else.
Left a couple already, thanks! (Mark unread; show more. Feel free to ask me about them if my one-liner was unclear!)
Just watched Ambassador Robin Sanders (former US Ambassador to Nigeria) on MSNBC. She says in addition to screening people at the airports, Nigeria was screening folks at the Harbor/Ports. She says the US is not doing any screening at the Harbor/Ports and she wants the US to start doing that.