skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pull request was rejected as part of nodejs's standard policy of rejecting small changes to the documentation or code comments. When isaacs merged it in manually, bnoordhuis reverted the commit because it broke the rules: all changes landing in master had to be signed-off by one of the head maintainers, and his wasn't.
How important is cross-platform support to the Microsoft Band?
Have you read Ghost in the Wires? Mitnick was insatiable.
This is absolutely terrifying and ridiculous.

This basically feels like a cultural whiplash towards women for even thinking of not succumbing to the will of the patriarchy, the only option being the stay-at-home wife, as in: women need to remember their place.

Sure, you're not required to be married to have kids, but we are going to punish you for not putting yourself into that very specific lifestyle.
Building an iOS Project with Djinni (Dropbox)
Bummed they didn't fix the bug I submitted in vfs_syscall. In fsetxattr when key values are too long it returns EPERM instead of ENAMETOOLONG as described in the man page :(

Bug is not present in setxattr:
http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2782.1.97/bsd/vfs...
The kernel is in the xnu folder, this is a bunch of the underlying system, not just the kernel, but it's not the case that you can compile this all and get a working OS X Yosemite desktop (at least, I don't think you can but correct me if I'm wrong!)
I don't think athletes, or anyone else, who express religious feelings are necessarily doing what you say, but I've upvoted you because I agree that some of them are.
It's still used, they haven't released the source.
launchd is still the launch agent for 10.10, they probably just removed the source for this version.
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I'm going to be cynical here and suggest that there was no emotion involved for the legislators themselves - they knew the consequences from the beginning. They wait for constituents to become emotional and irrational to push through shitty legislation.
Diff isn't the world's best way to look at this. e.g. the source for securityd was still released, it's just under a different directory now (Security-57031.1.35/securityd/).
for me, a privacy-respecting free and open-source product built to be accessible via tor browser (i.e. usable without the browser plugin) that accepts bitcoin donations could be a great alternative to similar functionality in e.g. the paid version of pinboard. replicating privacy-enhanced workflows from pinboard/evernote and the ilk can be frustrating at times, and trying to host my own bookmarks as a hidden service seems like overkill.
The algorithm shows me more stuff I've already seen, and less new stuff from my less-frequently-contacted friends.

Engagement doesn't work the same way for everyone. If I can't get away from seeing stuff I've already seen, I'm less likely to open the app as much...

Annoyingly, if I opened the app less, I'd be more likely to appreciate the algorithm...
Why is iOS only disclosed up to version 6.1.3? https://opensource.apple.com/
Seems pretty narrow-minded. There are many ways to enjoy a beach. A surfer might say the same thing about you just sitting on a towel (or whatever you do at the beach).
Wow, what book of lies have you been reading, or writing.. I cannot even begin to tell you how far off you are. And you call her a myth. They say Jobs had a reality distortion field but you take the cake! Good luck with your fantasy world.
That was an inspiring read, thanks.
Emulating an android device in node to access Google play api
Ask HN: Would you buy a cell site simulator detector?
What if it fit on a keychain and was just a simple led?
> His Twitter account is linked in the header, and it just posted about this article.

Some people link their social media presences together so that posts made in one place get replicated on various socia media things, for the benefit of people who follow them on those social media things. That doesn't mean they have to enjoy that particular social media whatsit's experience, or can't criticize it.

The only thing that you can tell from comments being disabled is that he doesn't want to have this specific conversation on the specific venue that is comments to his blog post. Trying to extrapolate that into some stance of I HATE HAVING CONVERSATIONS is stupid.
I agree with that. I think it's right to be skeptical of the article, but also right to be skeptical of alternate links if they're not better sourced themselves. I understand the merit of the heuristic approach, but it shouldn't be conflated with the method of logically examining the reference material.

Unfortunately, the downvotes show that HN doesn't appreciate this distinction, at least not when it's said to a popular member of the community. :)
Top comment (for me):

Hello Zuck, I would like to ask that when our facebook fanpage's reach will be come back? its too frustrating having 100k -likes with only 1k, 2k reach ,& 1m likes with only 10k, 20k reach .. sometimes too low

Don't destroy our hard work and efforts, we want organic reach back !!! im not the only one who is unhappy with pages post reach . , Hope u are not ignoring my comment . thanks

(i also wanted to know that is there any source to reach you ? if there is, i want to know..and if none..do establish one... a good idea can come from anywhere..from anyone.. )

I've also experienced this, you're only able to reach 5-10% of your fans without paying. Only way of getting a message out to all your fans is to "boost" your post, which will cost you around 0.015 EUR per like the page has. [1]

And on top of that if you ever used Facebook ads to get likes to your page, a majority of those are fake. [2]

[1] Based on my rough calculations on a couple of pages I run.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
I believe Apple stopped releasing any source for iOS at that point. The open source projects they pull from are BSD/MIT which permits and encourages closed source usage.
Thats brilliant!! I really wish for this.
I've been screwing around with it in my spare time. J is quite logical and understandable. Anyone can understand it, but they have to make an effort to do so, just like they would if they were learning some other "weird" language like Lisp or Forth.
I don't have a Facebook account so I can't post a question. Can someone post this question for me? Ask Zuck why he's invested so much money into making their own frankenstein PHP when they could have just used Java? I mean I like PHP and all. It's great for blogs or personal websites, but why would you invest all of that blood, sweat and beers into build something at that scale on PHP?
Unfortunately there are many people who only view sexism and unprofessional/inappropriateness in one singular direction. I wouldn't anticipate them taking your complaints very seriously at all, and you'll just get labelled for even having the gall to express them here.

All I can suggest is you let it go and skip Empire Node events in the future.
Improve design and usability. Perhaps a dark theme can be great.
That depends on the optimization levels you select. At it's highest optimization level, there is no type checking and you'd better have your code right.

http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Declarations-as-Assertions

4.2.1 Declarations as Assertions

The SBCL compiler treats type declarations differently from most other Lisp compilers. Under default compilation policy the compiler doesn’t blindly believe type declarations, but considers them assertions about the program that should be checked: all type declarations that have not been proven to always hold are asserted at runtime.

Remaining bugs in the compiler’s handling of types unfortunately provide some exceptions to this rule, see Implementation Limitations.

CLOS slot types form a notable exception. Types declared using the :type slot option in defclass are asserted if and only if the class was defined in safe code and the slot access location is in safe code as well. This laxness does not pose any internal consistency issues, as the CLOS slot types are not available for the type inferencer, nor do CLOS slot types provide any efficiency benefits.

There are three type checking policies available in SBCL, selectable via optimize declarations.

Full Type Checks

All declarations are considered assertions to be checked at runtime, and all type checks are precise. The default compilation policy provides full type checks.

Used when (or (>= safety 2) (>= safety speed 1)).

Weak Type Checks

Declared types may be simplified into faster to check supertypes: for example, (or (integer -17 -7) (integer 7 17)) is simplified into (integer -17 17).

Note: it is relatively easy to corrupt the heap when weak type checks are used if the program contains type-errors.

Used when (and (< safety 2) (< safety speed))

No Type Checks

All declarations are believed without assertions. Also disables argument count and array bounds checking.

Note: any type errors in code where type checks are not performed are liable to corrupt the heap.

Used when (= safety 0).
This is the kind of product that would really benefit from having a clear business model up front. Free + some promise of charging in the future doesn't encourage me that it will be sustainable in it's current form.

Without a clear alternative, the likely conclusion is that user data will be used for advertising some time in the future.
1) malloc absolutely returns NULL on Linux, even with overcommit. Using setrlimit (which properly sandboxed daemons should be doing), it's trivial to get malloc to return NULL.

2) The issue isn't whether malloc returns NULL. Technically speaking, unsigned arithmetic doesn't even "overflow", which in C is a term meaning the result is undefined. It returns the value modulo 2^N. In other words, in the vast majority of situations malloc will succeed, but return a buffer smaller than you requested.

3) According to your logic, people shouldn't check object boundaries, either. Many buffer overflow exploits utilize arithmetic overflow, because usually the memory you're interested is nowhere near the object you're overflowing. And we know these overflows happen and can be triggered even when the application isn't using very much memory.

People with your opinions shouldn't be allowed anywhere near C code.
True. I could probably pay the $5m back, or pass it forward
Him and Forstall will team up and change computing
Can anyone with knowledge of Citrix speak to this:

> Because Boegly uses a Citrix application for payroll data, and “Citrix doesn’t like packet loss,” according to Boegly, the process was failing.
...
> “Any time you have packet loss over a Citrix connection, it’s going to dump you,” says Boegly. “And that’s exactly what’s happening in the middle of the process. It has to then be started all over again and then begin the transfer process to get it to connect.”

If accurate, it sounds less than optimal.
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I opened one package at random

http://opensource.apple.com/source/IOFWDVComponents/IOFWDVCo...

I see this:

#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>

//#include <Resources.h>

//#include <OSUtils.h>

//#include <Components.h>

#include "DeviceControlPriv.h"

#include "IsochronousDataHandler.h"

#include "DVVers.h"

#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

//#include <syslog.h>

// Debug messages

It's good to know that I'm not the only one who has commented out code in their shipping code:)
True; YMMV.
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Agree that the LG looks better. The Apple Watch, designed by any other company than Apple, would be getting lambasted in the tech media for being ugly, techy-looking, chunky, etc...but guess we'll have to wait to see how all these watches really look in person for the final call.
Judging from the heated reception that Google Glass got in certain places, it appears that wearable cameras are a mixed blessing.
Some other interesting, related news to this:

http://hackaday.com/2014/10/30/improving-the-parallax-propel...
Prior to Snowden's 'revelations' I was accused of being a tin-foil hatter wherever I expressed my opinion on government spying. Not so much now.
Not currently. But it's a development tool, and not a part of OS X, so it wouldn't be listed here anyway. For instance, this page has Clang, GCC, Git, etc.: http://opensource.apple.com/release/developer-tools-51/
$5M isn't that much for philanthropy, so i'd probably focus on areas where i could create long-term and game-changing value....maybe donate it to larry lessig's mayday PAC?
You're absolutely right, it probably does originate from the colonial/medieval days but nowadays it's just an expression, at least in Western Europe.

The biological correctness of it didn't even cross my mind; blue blood, for example, is the term we use when we talk about royal ancestry. It's not like we think that the blood of the royal family is actually blue, however the term does originate from a time where royals were lighter skinned than the working class of peasants, and thus their veins appeared to be more blue than others.
I'm not sure what you think that page describes, but it's NOT a way to buy data about how a person uses a google product.
Can you give a bit more info about that 'happening'?
I looked at doing this a couple of years ago but with the a few differences:

1. Only fetched things available publicly

2. Was going to charge $5/mo

The rationale behind only fetching public things was to avoid indexing people's banking records or other sensitive information.

The $5/mo was because I wasn't looking for venture funding and I wanted to get paid.

Ultimately I gave up on the idea once it started to get difficult to implement. Probably my biggest failing; I'm easily distracted.

I hope these folks do something to address privacy concerns and make their business sustainable.
Yeah I agree. I think it's like hipster Kewl to be a "feminist technologist." Like even if you're not an especially good programmer you can become your own brand and give talks and organize events based on being a "feminist woman in tech." Guys are falling all over themselves to get drunk on this Kool Aide, too. Like "how can we help? Yell at us some more!"
"Privacy" link is broken. Is there client side encryption, or can fetching decrypt the data?
He isn't just criticizing it. He is saying it shouldn't exist.

It is hypocritical to use it and exclaim that it shouldn't be used.
Yeah if the guy were wearing pants I wouldn't have made the comment.

I mean clearly it's an aesthetic for an advertisement, but it does not make said aesthetic appealing to me. Yay, I can take my work to the one place I should find some semblance of relaxation and best yet I can dress like a Lands End model. Sold!
No. The post is about paid sick leave under FMLA. Are you seriously suggesting fathers should get sick leave for this? That's ridiculous, despite the allowance for paid leave being meager. Much more should be mandated by law but for a father to claim being sick after his partner's childbirth is ridiculous.
I still recall my somewhat naive prediction at the time of Rust 0.3 that a stable release would be out by Q1 2013. All things considered, I guess two years isn't that far off. :)

So thrilled to see the progress Rust has made in the past three years! It's gone from a kinda-interesting-theoretically language to an ohmigosh-this-is-actually-rad language. I'm giddy for the 1.0 release, so that other people can at last start using it in earnest!
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It doesn't sound like he's saying it's too short.
There are so many times when I've remembered a random sentence I read and wanted to find the article to quote again later. This is perfect!

Like others here, I'm very curious about your business model, especially since this is closed source.
So this is sort of like the late Google Desktop? For a long time I have been annoyed that with the oodles of space and bandwidth we have nowadays, something as conceptually simple as "a searchable history of everything you look at online" doesn't really exist anymore.
Trust me, you're among friends.
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People, just use Pinboard.
It's been turned off in Nightly for a while, and I've noticed several sites broken because of it - most notably, the T-Mobile payment website.
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If my opinions and actions don't stand the test of time, and I'm still alive when they don't, I'll repudiate them.

Eich had his chance. He declined and ran away instead.
I hate content like this on HN[1].

Please, let all the Stanford kids building startups go after the consumer space... the world needs more solomo-dailydeal-catpicture-ridesharing-airbnbForX apps. What it doesn't need is any more vendors selling software to businesses, who, you know, actually pay, like, money, for software.

No, really, I mean it. There is absolutely NOTHING interesting about selling enterprise software. It's boring, dull, unexciting, unprofitable, gives you bad breath, causes cancer, kills puppies, and is bad for the environment. If you are thinking about an enterprise software startup, forget it. No joke. Really. Just. Don't. Do. It.

[1]: Because I'm greedy and don't want more competition!
Nice, I'm glad they finally released libmalloc source after they separated it from Libsystem (or was it in Libc? Eh, one of those). It was not in the 10.9 releases when the split happened. I think most of libSystem.dylib (and its sub-dylibs) are once again open source. =)
It's meant to help you catch bugs and thus acquire protein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mq7UKQ3Jm4&t=45m

(Yes, it's humor, but BAHfest is great at satirizing wild ass guesses that have become mistaken for legitimate hypotheses when we really don't have the evidence to say we know.)
Very true. To add to this - prefer busier, well-lighted places to quieter, darker places to stop and sleep.
Rust's 1.0 promise is analogous to Go's. Code that works will keep working and new features will come with each new release without breaking old code.

The only real difference is Rust's time-based "release train" schedule, compared to Go's milestone-based release schedule.
Have you intentionally left out Facebook in your list of alternatives? Because I think that is where many discussions have moved to, and it's pretty good for that. Articles posted by news pages have kinda-threaded comments, and Facebook's trademark "Like" button fits in well, too. I think that's a good example of how sites can evolve (so Twitter could, too).
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This is the one I made a while ago that does the same thing, maybe a little differently ...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/all-seeing-eye/kio...
Really? I would definitely expect this to be an equality test instead.

; assignment (name binding)
(= myVar 'myValue')
You mean http://telushealthspace.com/en/telushealthspace?
Enterprisey protocols are so bad that there's a whole industry of WAN optimization to unbreak them.
This inspires me to update my script that converted opensource.apple.com into Github repos [0] (even creating the repo using the Github API). It needed more work because some of the Apple source releases are messed up and include another copy of the source tree in a directory at the root of a tarball!

I asked Github if it was OK to upload the tens of gigabytes of source that the entirety of opensource.apple.com is and I got a "Sure, why not?" response. =)

I think the last time I updated these repos was around 10.7 or 10.8

[0]: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/

Edit: I was always wondering how I could manipulate git such that anyone could checkout my scripts and create identical git repos (same commit hashes and all) with a single command. I am somewhat hesitant to update the repos now because it would involve rewriting old commits since I haven't solved this problem yet.
I agree wholly. Not all of them are doing this, but some of them certainly are.
it might be because he won't reproduce?
Is this supposed to be feedback on his talk? If you watched, Levie is implementing his own suggested wedge strategy.
Fat chance LOL, Timmy likes to spy on users.
I don't think that was Gaynor's point. I think he was saying something more like "this hammer is so popular nobody is using screwdrivers anymore, but we still need screwdrivers."
My understanding (which may be out of date) is that this is the complete OS but without the GUI layer - it is the kernel, init system, shell, and user-space CLI utilities. It does not include the GUI shell (Aqua), the GUI libraries (Frameworks in OS X terminology), or GUI applications (iTunes, Mail, Safari etc.).
Of course you can use a service because it's too mainstream to avoid, and at the same time wish that it didn't exist. I've also signed up for Twitter because they stopped providing RSS feeds. That doesn't mean I wish them best.
reminds me of spiders on caffeine: http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm
It would be quite surprising if it did, since Node's HTTP parser isn't Node/JavaScript, but highly optimized C.
To those who don't like the use of this law, I think this is OK. Here's why: You live in a democracy where the popular opinion decides who's in power. You agree that's a good idea because you aren't moving to an authoritarian or libertarian country or voting to change the system. The popular opinion allowed this law, so you should accept that it's the right one according to the system. Of course there will always be a minority which doesn't like each law, and you happen to be a member of that minority in this case.

If it does become a bigger problem that affects the majority, they'll eventually decide to vote it out. Until then, it's nothing to worry about. This is the self-stabilizing effect of democracy. There can be small problems, but not big Syria-scale problems.

It's just part of the cost of sharing your country with people who think differently from you. If you really strongly believe the law is being used for "bad" purposes, the bad people are the voters who first allowed it, and after seeing it happen, continued to re-elect the same politicians that passed this law. Those are the people you should be complaining about - the two wolves voting on what's for dinner.

You might say those majority voters are ignorant and it's not their fault. No, they are taking action which you believe is wrong, so they are doing something wrong. If they aren't competent to decide who to vote for, they're being negligent by doing it recklessly.

PS I live in an authoritarian country where imagining the police have some restrictions on their power is only a fantasy. Your police at least do still have some restrictions, and they always will as long as you have a democracy.
It also ordered me to rotate my screen 'for optimal service' (in fact I received no 'service').

Suboptimal to say the least.
The elegance of assembly with the performance of XML!
That wont happen if the right people have been paid off.
What does that mean? What history?
Throwaway because I know with pretty strong confidence what went down --

The truth seems to be both (a) unpleasant for Andy and (b) unremarkable to the rest of us. In other words, it wasn't his choice, but there wasn't a scandalous smoking gun either. He just wanted what Larry wouldn't give him. Nothing that would be front page news.
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Please capitalize PATRIOT. It's a tacky initialism, not the word "Patriot".
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