skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention the mental health impact of spending all of your time fixing bugs for a 13 year old browser.
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Nxtty Releases Encrypted Messaging App for Mobile Phones
At the end of the day, almost everyone queries those HDFS files with query language using Pig, Hive, Presto, etc.
Generally speaking the heavy part of both exceptions and rtti are in codegen (ie. the amount of code generated by the compiler), not in the 'runtime'. Exception jump tables and typeinfo objects are calculated as part of the compile and just referred to at run time.

For example, this is the part of libsupc++ (effectively gnu's c++ "runtime") that deals with throwing: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/stackoverflow.com :

"It's just you. http://stackoverflow.com is up."
You should assume you're compromised regardless. More than researchers could have known about the vulnerability.
Flipped through to find whether genomics/bioinformatics would be well represented; there were at least 2 papers on BLAST in the top 15, and 4th paper is the Sanger method. But where is Watson & Crick?

My guess is that all of the subsequent papers that uses BLAST as a tool have to cite it; similarly all sequencing papers cite Sanger as a tool which is why its citation rate dropped when next-gen sequencing method replaced it - which goes to show citation is not an accurate measure of scientific impact because it is equivalent of citing "Git/compiler/IDE" for a software project.
I didn't attend a liberal arts college, but that was my experience in the liberal arts classes I took. Independent research is irrelevant; the patterns of argument used are rarely novel.

I don't disagree that liberal arts colleges say the things you claim, I just dispute that they do them. One is much harder than the other.
I recommend also subscribing to the Debian security mailing list[1], even if you're not a Debian user--they are on top of security issues that involve software in their repo (and that's a lot of software) within minutes of the advisories.

In fact, that's how I learned about most of the Drupal's core security issues (got a message in my inbox) and was able to patch them up really quickly.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/
> Unfortunately my home nation (though very small) is also on something like 20% WinXP (thus limited to IE8).

Chrome and Firefox are still supported on XP. Surely they could switch browsers if forced?

http://chrome.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/extending-chrome-suppor...
http://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-to-support-firefox-on-win...
I appreciate you posting!

I am not doubting that you are building the product.

You/The company should probably put more effort in correcting the datasheet and the information you put out there. We can only judge by what is being presented. Your datasheet says Ethernet. It doesn't say Ethernet would be on a separate dock. It probably should.

If you are placing the antennas behind plastic surfaces, that is great. You should correct the diagrams.

Further to your point about tip entry, tip should be entered before the transaction is authorized right? So one would assume you'd enter tip then put in the card, and optionally enter a PIN or sign the screen.

I can appreciate that it may be just a video demo, but when you post it to a place like YN people are going to point out errors. Funny enough, that error was pointed out by a friend who was watching over my shoulder. She is not a technical person in any way and it jumped out at her.
Is there a secret I don't know about or do browsers convert LESS to CSS natively?
Nice articles in general! The MS vs BS was spot on. So are the observations on GitHub projects in "Lessons from a year's worth of hiring data"
This might be tough to answer due to survivorship bias, but can anyone name a startup, payment focused or otherwise, that failed because of a security vulnerability/vulnerabilities?
Bootstrap has an officially supported SASS version.
I have never heard that the Perl 6 developers are teenagers.

The important point of JWZ's article isn't "teenagers". It's "rewriting everything from scratch... happens, over and over again". For example, Rakudo's current "Great List Refactor": http://pmthium.com/2014/10/apw2014/
This is nice, but I find it somewhat frustrating that there doesn't appear to be an RSS icon for the RSS feed. This despite highly visible icons for proprietary mechaniisms like Twitter, Facebook and G+. This is what we get from supposed defenders of the "Open Web" vision? Sheessshhh...

Oh well, in this day and age, I suppose we should just consider ourselves fortunate that they even publish feeds at all.

https://openstandard.mozilla.org/feed/

https://openstandard.mozilla.org/comments/feed/
> Does Rust, like Go, have tools for freezing dependencies?

What tools are you referring to Go here? There are a handful of extra-standard mechanisms you can use to make it somewhat better (through clever hacks on urls and such), but the expectation in go-land seems to be that 'freezing your dependencies' is 'vendor them wholesale into your git repo', which is not exactly robust. Go's story on "application will always build" is kind of notoriously bad.
This is built on SQLite virtual tables, so it didn't require writing a new SQL engine (which is a monumental task): http://www.sqlite.org/vtab.html
While typing this "ask", I tried something in excel to illustrate what I wanted, and realized, "oh wait, excel can actually do this...", but I figured to ask anyway, coz I don't want to argue with all the pop singers who've said to live and learn :-)
If you are using magnetic strip you're correct. For PIN & chip the PIN is sent to the card and verified by the card and the resulting "signature" is sent to the bank. The card has to be in for PIN entry.

An employee, above, said that it is for entering tip. Which would make more sense, but then the card would have to be inserted after the total amount I imagine but I can see how they would have a slightly different flow. Personally, I would want any terminal that I use to show me the final amount that I am going to pay before I put in my card. Lest I pay, walk away and the cashier adds her own tip.
Thanks! I would much rather prefer being forced to specify a version than not. Consider building with more than one developer in mind. Or a developer joins the team a year down the road. Why waste anyones time not taking a moment to say "no we need v.1.1".

Good to see none the less!

TIL.
Yup. That is continuity and one-sided limit which I would cover in the next article. I actually mentioned that in the comment above.

Other things that you would find in a lot of calculus textbooks but I didn't cover are complex function, the application of calculus (e.g. in Newtonian physics, in optimization problems) and stuff like L'Hospital's Rule, Squeeze theorem, etc. I didn't want to get into too much of the details in this article because my plan was to be concise and get straight to the points. I want to write it in a way that anyone who is new to calculus can grasp the concepts and have an idea of what calculus is about in the shortest time possible. On a side note, most of the functions they will be dealing with are elementary functions, which are continuous over their domains.

And thanks.
I am referring to third party tools https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/PackageManagementTool...

It would be nice to have it baked in, but thus is the life of bleeding edge development (of which I do not engage, in my safe Python Cocoon).
I'm not normally one to complain about punctuation and stuff, but can you clarify this sentence in your post? I had to read it 3 times to get what you were saying.
"I know an established professional who was not hired at a well-known but not top tier internet firm for his college gpa from years ago."

Now to answer your question. I think it depends on the person. Some people are great at selling themselves. Sometimes better than they are at coding. Some people are amazing coders, but couldn't sell a cup of ice water in the desert, assuming said desert had some sort of population.

I do think devs are often somewhat humble. It somewhat comes with the nature of what we do. We're in a field which is constantly changing (if you're trying to keep up), so their is only more to learn, and we know the skills we have today may be of little value in a few years.
While I'm happy this may finally allow me to watch live sports over the Internet, it sucks that they're limiting it to "linear programming".
I guess because of the learning curve - everybody already knows SQL and the time spent to create SQL parser is balanced by the time of thousands people not needing to learn some new (most of the time badly designed, look to example MongoDB) query language.
Backwards compatiblity is not the issue, it's the forwards compatibility that is the issue. The entire evolution of HTML is based on forward compatibility and progressive enhancement.

Many modern HTML features exist because old parsers were extremely forgiving or even buggy. Even something as simple as the HTML5 doctype isn't a valid SGML doctype expected by HTML 4 browsers. It is a hack which just happens to produce the correct results on older browsers.

Javascript used to have to be placed in HTML comments so that old browsers wouldn't display the source code as content because the earliest browsers had no concept of client side scripting.

Obviously a frozen platform is better to work on -- that's why people continually suggest such things for HTML. Make it compiled! Make it binary! The current situation is far from ideal. But if someone had done that with HTML 1.0 it would have been a lot harder to make it version 5.0.
Don't mind me by the way, I'm not much of an artist so I don't really fit the immediate target group :P

Could you talk a little bit about what kind of things you'd like to use it for and how that either couldn't be done before, or is better than what you could do before. The videos didn't really do it for me.
The War That Didn't End All Wars
You are effectively forced to specify a version thanks to the lock file. It just assumes that in the moment you specify the dependency you mean the version you currently have access to. This is the same mechanism as Ruby with Bundler uses, and it is very friendly to multi-dev teams, the version they need to be on page with everyone else is right there in the lock file.
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You'd be surprised at how many robot attacks don't have a user agent, or similar things you can trigger on.

I agree, a direct targetted attack against your site they won't help (much). But for stopping a lot of robotic, automated hacking attempts they certainly have their place.
Why on Earth is the list of available Drupal updates cached?
Well, here is my big question: WHY ARE YOU STORING CARD DATA AT ALL? (sorry for the caps). You are a pass-through entity, merchant terminals do not store card data. They keep the authorization number from upstream provider to allow void/refunds but there is no need for them to store the number.

With respect to anti-tamper mechanism, are you FIPS-140-2 certified or plan to be?
Directly to the results:
https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/~ongaro/userstudy/graphs.pdf
Rappelling Off a Roof
Phone call pulse shows millions hitting the beach
While I agree with the author that we're probably headed towards another bubble, I don't think any of the signs mentioned are illustrative of a tech bubble.

Twitter growth slowing down? That's just a company maturing. WhatsApp is a bad example of a well-funded company willing to overpay to add value to an existing service. I think the comments about restaurants aren't meant to be taken seriously.

In new housing you can look at unsold built homes homes. In tech, one of the better measures would be funded companies that fail. I also don't think this bubble will be as bad.
In the specific example of a traffic stop, I believe you are considered to have been detained. You are correct that merely asking someone questions isn't the same.

See http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1789 and
http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1798

The whole series is a good read for people who like to debate or worry over these issues.
There's nothing wrong with accepting packages not addressed to you, especially from FedEx, what you're thinking of is 'opening someone's USPS mail' which most definitely is illegal.

If it was illegal to sign for a package addressed to someone else how come FedEx will let just about anyone sign for a package, even when you say they aren't home.

So in essence, you're saying it's ok for police to use evidence of doing nothing wrong as evidence of a crime?
How is the possibility of having someone "strip our house down to the studs if we had accepted the package" not absurd?
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> It sounds like there's a strong possibility that they're bringing us back to the time when those behind get to roll their eyes and sigh as we all wait for the person at the front because "oh, gawd, they're using that thing".

Except I doubt you'll ever see anyone actually use CurrentC.
> One day a guy contacted me and said, "Hey, I have a GPS from my work that I don't need, and I want you to sell it for me." I looked up the GPS; it retailed at about $1500, and was selling for around $1,000 on eBay. I would literally copy/paste the official product description and earn $150 - a no-brainer. I told him to ship me the GPS.

This would have tripped me up--I would want to know why he was selling a work GPS that, presumably, did not belong to him.
> Why not to use something which is already there, and not expensive?

If engines were the cause of the recent failure, they've just proven to be quite expensive for Orbital.

The company's in a pretty weird place right now. After destroying one on the bench and one in flight, the cost of insuring a flight with these engines has gone up quite a bit. None of the ways to get flying this class of rocket again - new engine production, recertifying and insuring flights using the old engine, etc. - can be done on the cheap.

The thing they might have going for them is the contract with NASA. I don't know the details of that.
I think this will have a huge impact on the success of the product. I have an HP laptop right now and all the HP made software is terrible, it doesn't run well, crashes constantly and doesn't use the UX rules of any Microsoft OS (in fact parts would feel more at home on OSX than Windows) If they can get their stuff together and have a team that actually puts out usable software, that would go a long way towards making this a viable product.
Two of the top 10 are different editions of a laboratory manual: Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F. & Maniatis, T. Molecular Cloning (1989), and Maniatis, T., Fritsch, E. F. & Sambrook, J. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (1982).

Citing Laemmli et al was de rigueur for many years, while it was certainly an influential technique, it doesn't rank above the discovery of DNA.
Interesting to see Osama Bedier listed as one of the people. He is the guy who ran PayPal's merchant terminal integration efforts, left for Google Wallet, and then left Wallet.

I think there was a lawsuit filed against him and Google by PayPal the day of Wallet's launch, claiming Google stole their secrets. No idea how that turned out; though I imagine it was a PR move on PayPal's part.
That is a great idea, but unfortunately triggers are not supported for SQLite virtual tables. You could achieve the same thing by periodically running a query to check for such conditions. This is a common way to build alerting systems.
Why? Because they want people to stop using XP.

Stop using XP.

Seriously.
The sooner it dies the better.
Except this project takes the SQL approach, not the UNIX approach, and the most popular SQL API is JDBC. Also, I don't know if ORMs are still popular, but their original goal had little to do with simplifying SQL and a lot to do with trying (unsuccessfully) to reconcile the relational model with the OO model, and to save application developers the need to do the translation manually.

This project currently has a proprietary C++ API, so why not standardize with JDBC (at least for those making use of the JVM)?
That's great, they hadn't done this when I last talked to them.
As the iPhone gets smaller, its more and more apparent that it ALREADY IS a modular part of a larger computing ecosystem.

The Ara project is fundamentally flawed because we don't need to replace parts inside a phone, the phone is a CPU. We need to add parts ON to it. So make the iphone smaller, add a second screen (watch) add some sensors (bluetooth heart rate monitor) and add a few other items which are replaceable and far more useful not hard integrated into the phone anyways.

If you want a better camera, just buy one and 'add' it to your phone via bluetooth. Then you can get a camera that is physically and technologically designed to be the best it can be as an appliance.

All the things I want to add to my phone or replace, I dont need to be on the BUS of the phone itself -- I just need it to be able to communicate.
> There's nothing wrong with accepting packages not addressed to you

Only if there's also nothing wrong with having someone "strip our house down to the studs if we had accepted the package".
Graceful degredation is definitely a plan.
You say that the runtime is disappearing. But, if LLVM is being used, then since it provides the JIT, I'd say it is a really big part of the runtime, actually.
Seems like the next step would be to allow the users to store their copies on a smart card instead of a PC.
How did you confirm that they were actual police officers?
then why did you build it that way?
Use a pre-compiler then. Gulp is so fast you won't even notice the compilation time.
Citation count and co-authorship apparently does a better job at pointing out good papers.
Even though PageRank was in part inspired by citations studies.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11192-007-1908-4 (Paywalled)
I'm not sure what you mean?

Lets say I want to book a hotel. On a laptop or desktop I can do a few searches extremely fast, open up a few tabs and switch between them almost instantly to compare. My "work" gets done extremely quickly I am very happy with the results. Well I once had to book a hotel in a bar on my phone. Dreadful experience if you want to do any sort of comparison shopping at all, and I have a pretty new phone.

Of course mobile is extremely excellent for some things but very bad for what I consider "getting something done." That's simply my personal experience though.
> When I had no income, I never would have bought, and while I did pirate, no sales were lost.

Did you go back and pay for everything you pirated once you had income? If piracy weren't an option, maybe your demand for the products would have persisted and you would have bought them when you could. If so, sales were lost.

> But if buying is sufficiently more cumbersome, I do sometimes go back to piracy.
I'd love to see a proper market study on this. As far as I can tell, all of this is based on ego and executives' knee-jerk reactions.

Interesting that you use the word "ego." You decided that your desire for content delivered on your own turns outweighed the interests of the content creators (or their agents) to determine how their work would be distributed. That strikes me as egotistical.

If you believe that all information should be free and that creators/owners of information should have no say in how it's distributed, none of these arguments apply. Tangentially, if this is the case, you might find your philosophy uncomfortably close to that of the NSA.
There is something similar in aws. The main difference is that it is distributed and can query and aggregate across clusters of thousands machines. Also I think it is not built on sqlite but implements new db engine.
In the days of OS/360 and OS/370 (IBM's mainframe OS in the 60's and '70s) no instructions at all executed in the wait state. There was no OS level idle process. Instead, the internal CPU microcode itself ran a little loop without dispatching any machine instructions until the tentacles that reached out from that loop were tickled by an external interrupting event. That loop had to be very short for latency reasons and very prickly to test for all the conditions that could take the processor out of it to resume dispatching instructions or do critical internal things.

I know this because I wrote that 6 (initially 8) micro-instruction loop for the IBM System/370 Model 155-157 in the late '60s. I was told back then that since that model became the most widely sold machine ever I had written the code most executed in the history of computing. :-)

The status latch in the machine that indicated that loop was running was fed to a light on the console and, yep, it was nearly always lit other than when booting the OS.
Just start posting it in self posts here or on reddit. I'd read it.
NVMe has virtual disk devices, so you can create any number of devices to pass to VMs.
It’s hard to start a revolution by selling an app
Here is Bruce Scneier' take on Spritz: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/spritz_a_new_...
Well for one thing, Bootstrap 4 isn't out yet, so you're prematurely accusing them of acting prematurely.
Great work, this is really cool.
Keep on making stuff, cause the stuff you make is awesome :)
If it's free I'll deal with the commercials. Gives you time to get up and stretch/use the restroom/ play with the dog/ etc.
While I agree, poor minorities may be the most frequently punished, but they are by no means the only ones.
Legacy Java Data Risk
I'm glad to see them finally switch from pixel based values to rem. This feels totally overdue to me.
This uses SQLite virtual tables with a substantial amount of native code, so I imagine getting the existing SQLite JDBC drivers that rely on JNI would be a lot of work. Using a client/server model would probably be easier, though I haven't seen an existing server/driver combo for SQLite.

One idea is to make a PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) that would allow using PostgreSQL JDBC (and ODBC) drivers.
Because Microsoft is also trying to get people off XP. Releasing any new software sends the wrong signals.
> since it provides the JIT,

Rust doesn't use a JIT, LLVM provided or not.