skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And where did all the Solidaritätszuschlag go? I think there has been heavy investment in the East, too. I'm too lazy to look it up, but it must be billions and billions and there is still more coming?

When I came to Leipzig for the first time I was surprised how new and clean everything looked. Much nicer than in rich Munich. Because in Leipzig everything WAS new. However, they also had some building scandal (one guy defrauding banks to do lots of expensive building), I am not sure if that also factored into it.

I heard back then (a couple of years after reunion) that for example universities also had better equipment in the East because everything was new.
It's not that unusual is it?

I hate the politics of my country (the UK) but it's not like I think stopping paying taxes would be a good idea. They cover roads, a social safety net, the nhs and so much else.

And I'm not exactly left wing.
Especially since he narrowed it down so much.
Gaining a root shell by piping something into sudo that causes it to skip asking for a password? That's what I took away from the article, and it certainly sounds like a plausible attack vector. Scary stuff!
I beg to disagree. The credit card is "something you know" just as much as "something you have", because when used on the web it is just a (copyable) 23 digit number. Whether you remember the number or look it up in your wallet is no different than whether you remember your password or store it on a post-it.

Other things "you have" in popular 2FA solutions are quite different, for instance your mobile phone number identity (for SMS) or your Google Authenticator.
As someone who had a heart attack exactly a month ago (100% block on LCx) I can say that I had pain that started in the arm, went up across my shoulder blades and pain in my jaw. Cold sweats as well. It happened over a period of about 15-20 minutes.

Luckily I recognized the signs and was very near a hospital ED. I wasn't in incredible pain, but I knew what was happening. I was actually driving and made the decision to get to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance, as the time would have been longer.

Got to ED, straight to a bed, then ECG and bloods taken, two hours later angiogram/plasty and now have a stent in the Circumflex artery and working on the other problems.

Fortunately it looks like the damage has been fairly minimal. Echo cardiogram shows mostly "normal", but getting a thallium test next week.

I'm T2 diabetic and had let my sugars get out of control.

Don't do that.

Now I'm doing the exercise and diet changes that I should have done a long time ago.
Hardly a justification for his rant.

Here's some other things without which it wouldn't have been possible:

- the internet

- computers

- life on planet Earth
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It's going to lower the barrier to entry for young people who want to get into more than just the kiddie stuff. I know when I was a kid, I was smart enough for BASIC and Pascal but C++ just looked weird and complex and hard. HTML, CSS and Javascript were awesome and I jumped into that instead. Neat integrated tools are great for beginners.

What drives a divide is when you go build an entire ecosystem and hand it off to a cloistered priesthood. Then you make the toolchain so long and complex that you need 5 years before you even gain the first feeling of accomplishment.
£42k starting salary w/ up to 40k bonus,first job out of graduating with a middle of the road CS degree (albeit a 1st).

If you are looking for a high starting salary, the financial industry is the way to go in London. Should be 6 figures by the time I am 30.

Good luck!
I haven't used execCommand in a while but I think it adds a bunch of font tags. Also different browsers will use different tags for "bold" for example (<b> vs <em>) leading to inconsistent markup. Easier to just decide the tags and insert them yourself.
Perhaps he doesn't want to be educated about Bitcoin because he already gets it and the last thing he wants is to have to endure more proselytising from well-meaning but ultimately quite predictable evangelists.
There are a lot of going on but the point is to single out symptoms from root causes. Otherwise we will wallow trying to deal with symptoms forever.

Dunno if anyone has yet mentioned one of the basic contradictions inherent in capitalism which could very well be at the root of what we experience. Means of production are private (factories, etc) and the owners as almost all players in capitalism take care to maximize _their_ profit and not society's well being. That maximization involves dumping down workers wages (another commodity in capitalism). Interestingly enough, workers are also consumers so dumping their wages erodes their purchasing power. And that's just one of the contradictions that stem from having a social mode of production driven by private interest.

The name of the most prominent economist that pointed out this and other contradictions some decades ago is Marx (which interestingly enough is never mentioned when capitalism crisis are on the table).
Of course, if this dedicated browser happened to be based on Servo then this teasing would largely be worth the wait ;)
Junior developer wages are terrible in the UK if you're not a part of a large business. In fact, I believe a lot of great junior developers move every year or two simply because someone else will offer them more money. Eventually, you get to a point where you're comfortable enough with your skill set to be able to demand more money and get it. Within four years of graduating I doubled my salary through moving jobs and being able to demand better pay.

I suppose the problem is that there's no reason for companies to pay more, because they will always manage to hire someone with such a low salary. I can't speak for all developers, but a lot of experienced developers that I know will go to a few interviews a year, and if they are offered better money elsewhere they'll ask for a pay rise or leave. When you're a junior developer that luxury isn't really available to you.
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> If enough donors use tip4commit, that is potentially a lot of bitcoin pennies that is just sloshing around their server.

I recall reading that they have 55 BTC "sloshing around their server" at the moment (no easy way of checking this on their website but seems reasonable looking at the top projects' funds).

By todays exchange rate, that's 18k USD, which is being handled with very little actual transparency. It is a genuine risk that the people behind this project will run away with 18k$ worth of BTC (or claim they were hacked).

I don't like this idea very much and I certainly would not like my projects to be up there.
That's pretty funny, presumably Apple hasn't endorsed that lumbering piece of garbage, and the homophobes are inadvertently helping Apple protect their brand identity.
I didn't quite get the 90 minutes, got symptoms starting around 15:30, was in ED at 16:30 and getting the angio at 19:00.

The interesting thing (aside from watching the angio, the technology is very cool), was that I'd previously had a minor infarct and didn't know it on a much smaller artery.

They found collaterals (I think the terminology is right) where the body "bypasses" the blocked artery.
Yes, like trying to destroy the open web with NaCl.
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For Chris “Douggs” McDougall, his definition of insanity is a lifetime of boredom, comfort and caution, wasting away on the sofa and hiding from the inevitability of danger.

I'm too exhausted to go look up the exact fallacy, but this is something like a straw man. And, whatever it is, it's the same one the article's title makes.

Not everyone takes pleasure from doing fundamentally stupid things in terms of lifespan. If they did, as a species, it's extremely unlikely, statistically speaking, that we would have survived this long.

Espouse your insane idea of fun all you want, but please, don't pretend it's somehow objective or intrinsic to humanity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550271
Ticketing system sure. If you have the full history you'd get the original requirements hopefully, and revisions or issues along the way.

VCS. Maybe it's just a Web vs Other development thing. The history of an Action in Rails is going to be someone using mass-assignment unsafely. Or a dozen stylistic tweaks. Or implementing a pattern. Or removing it.

It's about the worst possible way I can imagine to attempt to understand requirements.

What I do find helpful is "git blame", and just talking to the person who implemented it. And if they aren't available, then hopefully someone who was there at the time, and involved with the feature, is. At least I have a time-frame.

As a last resort, if no one has any clue what's going on? Scrolling through VCS diffs would be an act of desperation perhaps. But I'd much rather look for tests. Automated or a Manual Test Plan. A Specification. Or just use common sense.

At the end of the day it's most likely that I'm tasked with this issue because the original implementation was a scheduling compromise, or the original developer just couldn't think of how to make it simple, so they made it complex.

Actual complexity is rarely justified by requirements I find. Unless I'm the one writing it of course. ;-) Then it's absolutely the only sane way to implement it and you just need to try harder to understand. Duh.
http://www.heartattackfacts.org.au/warning-signs/

Strangely enough I'd just seen the poster that had all this on it the week before my attack when I was at the GP for a general checkup after a cold.
Yeah. Of course nobody bothers with providing an installation guide that could be used to build RPM/DEB packages. Because everybody runs `curl | sh` on production machines to install random software.
I took a look at their documentation, and it looks like they do support receiving mail as well. You don't get an actual mailbox, but you can have incoming mail forwarded wherever you want, which would be enough if you just want everything to go to your gmail.

Am I missing something? Is there a reason that this would be a bad idea?
Can you speak to women having atypical presentations? I did some reading after my mother had a MI and it seems fairly common for women to have longer, sustained nausea and discomfort vs. the classic male symptoms.
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Firefox's developer tools are good an improving at a fast pace. I would argue that they in most aspects have surpassed Firebug and the Chrome developer tools.
If you have a full-blown home security system installed currently, you might not feel that this is enough for you.

We are primarily targeting people who don't want those systems either because they are too expensive or bothersome, or because they feel that it's a tad orwellian. As I wrote in another response, many of the features have been designed with home sharers (AirBnB hosts) in mind.
We should fix education before even attempting to fix democracy. Both scholarly and within the family.

Any attempts to temper with the social framework by largely un/poorly/mis-informed masses of people leads to catastrophes.

Russia 1917
Italy 1929
Germany 1934
Spain 1939

Some enlightened people will always try to exploit people's resentment to gain control and use it as they see fit. Soon the system is far worse than before.
Very true! Financial pays the highest salaries for devs at the moment.
I think you misunderstood my point. I am claiming that credit driven capitalism is incapable of providing any particular benefit under current conditions. In other words; capitalism is entirely ineffective...

From my perspective "playing financial games" is caused by the simple desperation of people who have large amounts of money and are having trouble coming to terms with the current reality. They face the horror of actually having to spend their capital...
Lower the barrier? The barrier IS lower enough even for kids...
Javascript is the basic of this generation.
There aren´t any barriers for new programmers to just sit and learn programming. The tools are already available in the browser. You can learn web programming with your PC, mobile, chromebook, macbook, "any"book.

But yes, I would really like to have more mature and integrated developer tools.
My wife is Finnish, and I've seen that pad of "words" used.

In the UK we tend to have a static username and password then either a hardware device, or a "Enter characters 1, 3, 8 from your secret information". (Where the secret information is 8-10 characters long and you're requested to enter from random offsets each time.)

I've used both systems, and entering three characters from the secret information is the least hassle, but not as reassuring as the hardware token.
Fantastic execution. Enough has been said about the great UI. I am interested in how you got all that data.
> First, Firefox (and some others) are forcing TLS to use HTTP/2 : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Networking/http2 ; that's a big deal breaker for a lot of people. Yes, encryption is all well and good. I'll all for it! But SSL certs either cost money, or you get them from companies that will want cash to revoke them for you if compromised

Mozilla are currently planning/testing oportunistic encryption without certs over HTTP/2.0. Akamai is being used as the first test case.

See: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2014-10-14#Necko_.28dougt....

This is great as it is first step towards decoupling HTTP encryption from the CA cabal, and removing the barrier to encryption that you explicitly mentioned.

Good job spreading FUD though.
Why do people keep referring to his post as a rant?

I'm from Germany, which has a taxation system very similar to that of Austria and to me this seems a rather level-headed assessment of the situation.

It irks me that many Bitcoin advocates continue to pretend that the rules don't apply to them. Assets are assets. You can't wiggle out of the tax code by doing some crypto on a computer.

And BTW: if you are in Germany and hold large amounts of Bitcoin, talk to your Steuerberater _right_ _now_. The Finanzamt isn't stupid.
I don't know either. I'm aware that asm.js currently doesn't allow expanding the heap (it's always a fixed-size allocation), but that might change.

If you mean allocating from that heap, I imagine it'd work as it currently does: the program implements its own allocator.
I think a good refactring tool is one of the best ways to improve productivity for a developer. When you have a strongly statically typed language it should be possible to create really good refactoring tools. They don't have to exist at the same time 1.0 is released but I think they should be created as soon as possible after that point.
It's a shame more employers don't share your approach! Out of interest, what's in it for you? Why not just hire an experienced dev for £37k and save yourself a year of training someone?

What are your requirements for a junior developer?
That would require breaking the firmware encryption and signing schemes of multiple physically isolated processors, and even then it would be limited by the power budget, meaning transmitting audio data would drain the batteries very quickly. So, it is not completely impossible (what is, these days?) but extremely implausible and at the same time rather easy to detect; I'd say your (smart)phone is a much better attack vector ;)
Mozilla is planning/testing TLS without certs with HTTP/2.0

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2014-10-14#Necko_.28dougt....
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Contracting is definitely the way to go in London. To add another data point, I have slightly over two years industry experience and make what would be equivalent to a six-figure salary if I were a full-time employee.
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Well, I hope that the following two profiler bugs land before then:

Bug 1008435 - [e10s] Port the built-in Gecko profiler to e10s
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008435

Bug 974832 - WebGL EXT_disjoint_timer_query may now be implemented
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=974832
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It's common for women to have pain in the center of their back (basically directly 'behind' their heart). Nausea is another reasonably common symptom for both men and women.

There's no guarantee you'll have any pain at all... Honestly, someone who is diaphoretic and nauseated is going to get an ECG, even if they don't have any complaint of chest pain.
It's pretty much text out of the article shoved into a video with some random background images & graphics accompanied by some epic LoTR music.
The creators of Intel's 4004 (arguably the beginning of the microprocessor era) and the 8080 are the same men who left and founded Zilog. I would argue that the heart (brain?) of the work making these microprocessors so great is Masatoshi Shima. Of course there were other important people involved like Federico Faggin who worked closely with Shima and brought him to start Zilog, Yoshio Kojima who recruited Shima to Busicom to start working on the calculators, and Tadashi Sasaki (Sharp) with collaboration with Robert Noyce (Intel) who invested in Kojima's company (Busicom).

http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Oral-History:Tadashi_S...
When I started coding at the age of 10, typing hexadecimal dumps from magazine listings was the alternative to BASIC.

C++ is way more user friendly than that.
> Mozilla: The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming

But we need markup and scripting languages dedicated to developers...
Yes - as I said in my first post: What, precisely, do you believe poor Americans are suffering from? The only concrete answer I usually hear is envy

The best solution I see to the problem of envy is directing social opprobrium towards people who exacerbate the problem (e.g., politicians appealing to envy, celebrity news publicizing lifestyles of the rich and famous).
Is this being powered by freebase? I was surprised that the site wasn't user powered - that is to say, it is basically a UI with filters to browse an existing database. Tell me if I'm right.
No, Ford raised wages to curb employee turnover.
Sorry, but the financial system exists at the behest of the political class. The political class is the one percent who runs it all. They may talk that we have a capitalist society but with the heavy amount of regulation that exists that is pretty much a stretch. You have a one percent group (politicians and their appointees) who determine who succeeds and who goes to jail. You thwart them and its pretty damn sure within a few short years what you do is illegal or your paying off through someone's campaign.

Shovel ready jobs, the ACA, none of this was done to benefit the everyday worker, their employment or fulfillment were not part of the equation.
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I'm sorry for your loss. My dad thought his heart attack was indigestion too. Ended up with a quintuple bypass and is still with us but it was really close.
Since I am from Germany and our banking and tax system is quite similar to the Austrian, I totally agree with Armin in each single point!

Maybe not exactly what Armin described as a solution - but did you already check Flattr (https://flattr.com/)? This also might work for supporting OpenSource projects.
The difficulty is that it is often hard to use your favorite email account (gmail, icloud, exchange), and use your custom domain in the sent field. I have a few accounts that I really try to keep separate, so the hosting really does help.
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Does anyone know of a site which will tell me, based on my address, who will be on the ballot tomorrow?

I can get this information through my state website but it's not straight-forward (I have to look up each elected position individually!).

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Yes. Everyone at Matasano runs from a standard user account. It's not a big deal at all. Nor is it a concession to insecurity on OS X; it's been Matasano's policy for almost a decade, and they inherited it from earlier companies, because not doing all your work from an admin account just makes sense.
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Regarding taking aspirin when you get chest pains, I believe the current advice is to chew an aspirin (300mg) as it is more quickly absorbed via the lining of the mouth.
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When I was 18 years old and worked at a computer consulting company, my 41 year old boss had a heart attack. He was less overweight than the OP, smoked and got no physical exercise.

After his heart attack he went in for an angioplasty with one of those nicotine patches on his arm. Since having a heart attack, he was trying to stop smoking. His doctor looked him in the eye and said, "Well here we are. Do you want to live or do you want to die?" My boss said he wanted to live. So the doctor ripped the patch off his arm and said, "Just stop with the nicotine then."

OP you have a similar choice before you. I'm now 42 and I see your LinkedIn picture and "a touch overweight" is not what comes to mind. If your BMI is not into the obese category, I'd wager you're close to it.
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