skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many first-time founders would have made the same decision. My guess is very few.
When I read "offline GPS" I assumed accelerometer/gyro/compass positioning, now that would have been cool. Some point and shoot cameras have this for tracking position when GPS/GLONASS signal is unavailable.
Windows Phone security sandbox survives Pwn2Own unscathed
Totally agree. When I was young and foolish I reported harassment to HR. I was friends with a female colleague and we'd go out to lunch every now and then. Our mutual boss would call her in and say things like.. "What did he ask you about at lunch? You know, he's just trying to act like your friend so you tell him secrets." It happened several times, and finally one day I went to HR about it. I was asked to resign literally the same day.

It turned out, as it often does, to be a blessing. And it absolutely taught me the role of HR.
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It's actually a good idea. People often don't bother version-controlling simple stuff because it's a hassle.

Here's the thing that's funny to me: git is easy. Everyone (especially mercurial users) goes on about how horrible the UI is, but when I think of git, I think of how similar it is to RCS: easy, quick, and simple. With both, I can diff things and check in changes very quickly. I have a bunch of single files in RCS which I'm moving over to git because it's a no brainer: all the speed and ease of use with a ton of advantages (such as dead simple replication) if I ever need them.
The article doesn't seem to mention the methods the BND uses to target Turkey. It could be that they target specific individuals of the Turkish government instead of storing and analyzing everything that goes in and out of Turkey.

As for the question of Turkey being a valid target, let me remind you that several people in the Turkish government were planning a false flag operation in order to invade Syria.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/europe/high-level-le...
Why not respond to bigotry with love, instead of hating back? This is not some zero-sum game. If anyone needs a little bit of success in life, it's a bigot.
Why is the US banking system so far behind?
The Problem with Twitter. It's a behemoth but it's not indestructible
I had trouble with the "no two identical rows" rule as well. I didn't see it in the tutorial and on the 10 x 10 it was a key piece of logic to solve the puzzle.

Enjoyed the game play and the graphics are very smooth and clean.
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you should also check out aCalendar.

imo aCalendar is better for phones <5" and sunday calendar for tablets >7".
Health insurance, for example, is a layer of indirection and wage garnishing imposed by society due to its unwillingness to allow government provisioning of healthcare.

Car insurance is required because cars are required, because society has forced sprawling urban and suburban design on the masses and neglected mass transit.

So, yeah, I'm going to pick those examples.
Your reasoning would apply only for single-author software

But doesn't that fit SRC itself?

But again for me those are all technical reasons, I wouldn't factor an author's/company's political views into that decision, unless it was something really horrible.

Ah! But then you're not arguing whether it makes sense to factor the political views in the decision - what you're actually arguing is that ESR's views are not really horrible.

But since pothibo supposedly considers them really horrible, it makes sense that (s)he would factor in those views, no?
Google Voice? I've had nothing but great luck with them.
If they don't want to endorse Google, why do they endorse Amazon instead of using Azure? Anyway, how will updates be handled if we download the APK from their website manually?
We see disruption everyday in the tech community. I do not think that will change anytime soon. They have a compelling product that I personally would like to try.
Here's a very obvious use-case: You have a single file with many historical changes. That file moves to a new directory that is not a subdirectory of its current directory.

In git, the file vanishes from the repo and can't be tracked easily anymore. You lose all of its past history if you put it into a new repo. In SRC the history moves with the file.
What if you'd like to track files at your filesystem root? /.git would be a tad complicated, since you'd need fairly complicated .gitignore rules, right? You wouldn't want "git status" or "git diff" to read your entire filesystem, including all mounted devices.
Now? They've been recommended for years. Do we have to actually forcibly sunset things with dire warnings to drive upgrades? (Semi-rhetorical. Not very much of this is your fault. <g>)

Wake me when you have ECDSA-secp256r1-SHA256, ECDSA-secp384r1-SHA384, or (when specified) whatever replaces/updates them.
Almost offtopic because not directly related to symbols performances in Ruby but, coincidence, I was reading a 2011 post from Rubinius site http://rubini.us/2011/02/17/rubinius-what-s-next/ a couple of minutes before seeing this on HN.

At almost 50% of the post there is a code snippet that explains why Ruby method calls must be slower than the ones of statically typed languages. It also explains how Rubinius was addressing that 3 years ago.

Hopefully they'll optimize that in all language implementations.
Does this mean WPF will be made available on Linux and Mac desktops?
That's right he didn't. The OP didn't quite do the TL;DR right, really the letter goes something like this:

Part 1 (How I made my manager hate me):
I insisted that we have better performance and everyone told me to f* off, so I went above my manager and now she hates me. (This is reasonable of her)

Par 2
She asks me to commit a crime and I raise it with HR, etc.
You can install a cert (wildcard or non-wildcard) on any number of servers, haproxy instances, etc.

There aren't any discounts for open source projects at the moment, but it's something I'll consider. GlobalSign does give away free certs to open source projects (https://www.globalsign.com/ssl/ssl-open-source/), though you wouldn't be able to use any of SSLMate's tools or automation with one of their certs.
That's why everybody needs Sandstorm: https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-ap...
> There is no concept of infinity on a computer.

Sure there is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985#Positive_and_nega...
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I think you're right, but I'll at "Linear Programming" to the list.
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After all the speculation about engine failure, it sounds like the culprit is a combination of poor design and pilot error.

The "Feather System" was unlocked by a pilot too early in the flight, then air currents caused it to activate in atmosphere instead of near vacuum - likely tearing the ship apart.
are scalar functions able to update data in tables in Postgres? "SELECT CONVERT_RESOURCE('MONEY',balance) as Converted FROM my_player" seems to have actually updated the value in the table.
I believe I tried them first, but they did not have the area code I wanted. I will check again!
It's worth mentioning that Here and the maps database from former Navteq weren't included in the Microsoft acquisition deal.
Coursera, udacity for beginner stuff and then books on your chosen subject matter after that. After you have the basics down books are by far the most cost efficient way of learning.
In that case, it's a purpose that I don't support.
Munira is exUSSR (Tajikistan).

She put herself in a position where someone higher up in management knew that her Stanford degrees were fake, but nobody else knew. So that someone totally owned her - they could use her as the "dark hand" for literally anything (putting inconvenient people on PIP, fudging inconvenient metrics to advertisers / business partners / executives / etc).

That is probably why she was not fired. If this is actually true, it suggest extreme disfunction in management as well.
That was ESR's conclusion as well. SRC is just a simple wrapper around RCS.
Come on, the profit margins are basically rent-seeking. Elsevier is not offering anything that can't be replaced overnight, they just have a tight grip on the egos of scientists and a funding system that feeds them, thats all.
I think its referring to this: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/CIVA
Less cynically, moral cohesion is important for social cohesion, which is critical for survival. So from that perspective it makes perfect sense. It's just carried too far most of the time.
Hackers exploit NFC phone payment technology
Now we're playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. We start out with moles inserting vulnerabilities. Then it's insiders who know about flaws. Then insiders who know about weak spots to look for flaws in. Now it's magic words to help with social engineering. At some point, these stop being important considerations for public policy.
I agree with the article - the reason the US banks are behind is because the banks haven't been required to do proper upgrades. Consumers rarely have the power to change things in this situation: The pressure would either need to come from the government or it would have to come from a partner company - something along the lines of Visa or paypal or the like.

I will say that the system in Europe seems much more secure: additionally at least here in Norway people do give out their bank account number to others - which was shocking to me as an american at first, but truly is simply more telling about the low risk level in doing so. The other person wouldn't be able to do anything but deposit money with the bank account number, rendering transactions safer.
You mean it didn't accept your invalid solution.
>"HR is not your friend. HR is not there to protect you and your career."

Right.

Being a friend, advocate and protector is the role of a professional union.

Unfortunately, the labor in tech seems convinced that each is better off on his or her own despite being up against a cartel of behemoths [1].

1: http://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage-...
Not only does he compare them, he contrasts that societal relationship over time. Doing so doesn't make him a degenerate. A windbag, sure, or a liar, but degenerate is a particular term.

Do you disagree with his premises or his facts, or just his conclusions?

For example, I think he's wrong because he doesn't cite sources for his assertions about the demographics of various types of porn or sources for his claims of historical homosexuality/pedophilia. But that's a straight matter of "Where did you get this idea from?".
Well that's the point that he/she is trying to make isn't it? States in the US are more like to countries within the EU. That's in part why I think a lot of people from the US refer to 'Europe' as a cohesive entity, because in many ways it is. Different states and different countries are at different levels of progress.
My first thought was: "Why would they need a mic? There's no sound in space" and then I felt the whoosh over my head. Well done.
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My recent trip to the Computer History Museum (http://www.recursion.org/2014/10/16/a-night-with-the-ibm-140...) had me thinking about this.

I was struck by how _physical_ the exhibits are. For the most part, the exhibits are old hardware. In some cases, they have the hardware running software that you can use.

Software from the PC era can be preserved with emulators (assuming its copy protection can be defeated), but what about internet software? The museum has a _photo_ of Google's first server, but not much about Google's software. Should we be preserving screenshots of Google results so we'll know what they used to look like?
color works just fine

I know that sometimes, images are first sent in black and white to save on data, color is sent later.

Hubble apparently only does black and white. color images can be obtained using a technique involving two of its black and white images. But that is a telescope, probably not similar.

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of...

the comet could just be grey, not sure about that one.
Halo's matchmaking system has been down for days so I made an app
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Really neat article, though it makes me wonder why they didn't just remove `sym_equal` entirely and replace all usages of it with `rb_obj_equal`. At the very least, that `#define` needs a comment saying it must have the same identity as `rb_obj_equal` or a perf loss will happen.
I felt I reused more logic from Griddlers/Nonograms, actually.
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Oracle of Time: browser crossover between Oracle of Ages/Saisons gameboy games
The zip file on the website is less than 40 MB.
Obama Plans to Protect Up to 5M from Deportation
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Scalability, Part 3: On Metacoin History and Multichain
During which it became abundantly clear that he is surely no git expert (which does not diminish the work he did).
Does Iran even own the .ir TLD in the legal sense? I thought ICANN owned all TLDs and just assigned custodial administrators for registration, etc.
I'd say this is a far-cry from that dramatization, but hey, they weren't as far off as we thought!

Comet 67P seems a lot more rugged than previous comets we've been to.
There should be a law that prohibits publishers from claiming the copyrights of articles that describe work which is publicly funded. Its a no brainer and would allow authors to maintain their preprints in an open archive.
They do? Everything I've read about this kind of thing says that it's woefully inaccurate. Anyone know of anything to suggest otherwise?
It certainly makes it easier to install it on jolla, as far as conspiracy theories are concerned.
this technique is old - but good to remind someone that this is possible
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I love git. I'm a git power user. I've used git as the datastore for a CRM I built.

But I respectfully disagree. Git is not "easy." You've been conditioned. You and I know that it's very very hard to lose work or lose commits with Git. I'd say it's nearly impossible to do on accident. But in my first month with Git I rewrote several things because I messed up somehow and couldn't figure it out. I would hose my checkout and resort to doing a new clone. I've since helped run a big transition from SVN to Git and saw the same struggles there.

Git is power tools for my code. I could never go back to SVN. But it's not easy.
What you're quoting is a trope whose malignancy might be more obvious in a racial context: "The good black people deserve praise for their attempt to get shut of them".
Difficult to say if I would look at this comment the same way if it wasn't being downvoted so quickly.
This was by design, not magic.
This is especially egregious.

http://www.stopvaw.org/quid_pro_quo_sexual_harassment
"The stock was trading at 268.9p at the time when the statement was sent. A half hour later, it had dropped to 266.3p"

Erm, what? That's normal fluctuation: seems like daily is ~.9% but has gone higher and lower on no news at all over the last year. I see no evidence to support a causitive relationship.

Sure makes for a good story though.
Probably some kind of operating system that relies on probabilistic principles.

I hope it's not an operating system that decides to run your thread based on the output of a random variable. And also I hope this is not a realtime operating system. That would probabilistically speaking be the lower depths of hell.
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Git is one of those things where it pays off immensely to understand the underlying object model.

Learn about commit objects, tree objects, and file blobs. Then learn about the staging area.

There are some things layered on top of or next to this (such as stashing, pull and push), but understanding this small core is sufficient for everything else. I've worked on large problems and juggled many branches, and I've never had any problems.

Git gets the core concepts of distributed version control right, and this is the reason why it has won. Over time, everybody will be exposed to those core concepts, and the age of cutting and pasting command line recipes from the web will be over.
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> GABA doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, so the fact that bacteria in the gut release GABA won't have any effect on the brain.

Yet tons of people take it as a supplement regardless. Maybe it's just placebo?

I feel like we should hold out judgement on this. I wouldn't be surprised if GABA somehow affected us in other ways even if it doesn't get into the brain. But yes, as far as we currently know, it shouldn't affect our mental performance.
Core question (and a fair one) is raised here:

"So, why do we not treat self-reported transsexuals as insane and in need of treatment for a delusional disorder? I can anticipate a lot of possible replies; the trouble is that all of them apply just as well (or just as poorly) to the case of BIID or delusional paranoia."

ESR is a blowhard conservative, but he does tend to at least have nuance in his position, which you seem to be ignoring.
Yes, Android is native.

Netflix on all other platforms - roku, chrome cast is all native as well.

Not sure about ios.
She sounds like a good fit for Amazon.
Great! Thanks for the link. Looks like a very nice service, and I'm glad to know it exists. I was pleasantly surprised how affordable it seems to be.
Forgive this stupid question, but how do we know the letter as seen on this scribd link is authentic, let alone verify all the screenshots, emails and transcripts in that letter?
I really doubt anyone here is going to assume that the initials FX in a phrase with the words "market" and "traders" could mean anything other than foreign exchange.
Makes me wonder why the C compiler (gcc?) isn't clever enough here and is not inlining all that non-sense. At least I would expect SufficientlySmartCompiler™ to do so. Doing the inline by hand just proves how dark is the age we're living in.
This is Unruly from Simon Tatham's puzzle collection: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

I install this on literally every device I own. Windows machines, linux machines, android machines. It's a great source of small, procedurally generated puzzles. I often just put on some music and zone out playing Pearl for a while.

e: If you're on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install sgt-puzzles

e2: I misremembered, it's not precisely Unruly--Unruly allows you to repeat rows/columns. But whatever, go install these games!
> Please enlighten me on the ideas! concepts! Microsoft held back again and again that were not available on free software systems?

1. It's not just that the held back. It's not even primarily that they held back. It is that they taught countless CEOs that Excel was the state of the art way to think.

I don't believe that the best tools are widgets. I believe that the best tools are programming environments. When I really need to get some facts straight, I turn to my trusty shell and unix family of processing tools. When my boss has the same need, she turns to Excel. WTF? Sure, you can do some reasoning with that tool... "But for BETTER reasoning, upgrade to Excel 95!"

2. Even if some old ideas were never completely lost, they were unknown to most people. If it hadn't been for some crotchety old neck beards, we wouldn't be having this conversation... And some of them had to completely dedicate their lives to preserving the idea that computers are not a product, they are a gift to humanity.
You really think it's fair to consider whether everyone with gender identity issues might simply be delusional?
Here's the reply from the founder, to the comments on his blog :

Q: Alex - I'm curious why the company was doing such deep due diligence on you in the first place? Was this for a potential partnership opportunity (you said it wasn't a natural fit?) Or were you simply receptive to an acquisition offer at that time, even if you weren't sure you actually had a genuine interest in selling? ...

A: Thanks for the comment, Michael. The conversation steered toward a potential acquisition very quickly. I'm not opposed to exploring opportunities, so the meetings went on. It wasn't until after the offer was made that I decided to turn it down.
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The most important bit in this ruling, I think:

> Since these are ongoing services, the judge then argues that because a ccTLD is being constantly changed and updated it can be viewed as an "ongoing contractual arrangement that necessarily requires continued work or services to have value". Because of this it cannot be "attached" to a lawsuit under Washington DC law.
Mercurial as well for what it's worth.
Yeah, you're right.

Part of the problem is that certificates are valid for too long and it's too damn hard for website operators to upgrade their certs when something better comes along. That's what SSLMate is hoping to fix.
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git also has good support for explicit cutting down the repo to a subset of its files, or merging back changes of a partial repo to the common one, see filter-branch and subtree commands.
The blog says:

It’s not a company that would be a natural product partner for us.
But part of the flight procedure is to actually unlock the feathers slightly later in the flight - at Mach 1.4.

The article states this is to make sure the feathers are operational before heading upward, but that seems like a really narrow margin of time to execute this test.
I had HERE for my Lumia 920. It was phenomenal, excellent UI.
Well inlining this way is an optimisation which the compiler may or may not opt to apply, even after adding inlining hints. By manually inlining it they're introducing a little bit of trivial redundancy but I guess they can be certain there will be no indirect call.

Either that, or they never considered the compiler would most likely inline it.

Oddly enough, they do it for string comparisons: https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.1.4/files/vm_insnhelper.c#lin...
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For me, one interesting aspect of this vulnerability and mitigation is how it illustrated the hierarchy of the Drupal community.

The Acquia blog post about this [1] is up-front with the fact that major companies who participate in the Drupal Security Team had a 7-day lead time on everyone else for this vulnerability. 7 days! Everyone else learned about it at the same time the bad guys did, and it turns out they had about 7 hours before attacks came flooding in. [2]

Particularly for folks in Europe, this was potentially disastrous, because the vulnerability and patch were released at about 10pm their time.

The Acquia blog post concludes by thanking the "all-volunteer Drupal Security Team." But the reward for participation is obvious: advance warning. If I ran a big Drupal shop, I would direct one of my engineers to spend time on, and try to join, the Drupal Security Team. It's just good insurance.

I am a Drupal user, and I have made sure that we are doing business with at least one of those companies, for the same reason. I was warned on Tuesday that a critical patch was coming on Wednesday; we were ready to go and patched everything within an hour of release.

Does that seem fair? I have to think that there is a better way to release these sorts of critical patches. I can't think of any reason the Security Team could not have posted a public announcement on Monday or Tuesday saying "get ready--critical patch coming Wednesday." Instead we got a PSA 2 weeks afterward, telling people that they should have been faster.

[1] https://www.acquia.com/blog/shields

[2] https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003