skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, aren't most universities using Python for beginners now?
How does promoting Yandex and Baidu in regions where they are already dominant (Russia and China, respectively) align with Mozilla's new mission? I'm not sure how entrenching their hold on their home markets promotes user choice, innovation, or privacy.
Initial Impressions for WatchKit – David Smith
Curiously, that's exactly the same number of pixels as a "4K" 3840x2160 screen. Should be drivable by graphics cards that can drive 4K.
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> For any nullable, I can use a nullableVar.DefaultTo(defaultValue) to convert it to a non-nullable primitive type.

What would be the difference with "nullableVar ?? defaultValue" ?
It's also possible they'd be looking at a stronger and for them untouchable IE->Bing marketshare instead.
How about 'flails their variously-gendered techno-boner' ?

(Honestly, I don't get why foul language would be off-limits here, as long as you're not being rude)
Google Engineers Explain Why They Stopped R&D in Renewable Energy
At least it provides diversity of income for Mozilla.
See also PHPDesktop: https://code.google.com/p/phpdesktop/
For me at least then moving away from google is a huge selling point. I think if they marketed themselves as a googless web experience it could be really good for them.
Making the product worse, from the perspective users care about, for ideals.

FF, for instance, made their multi-browser "sync" horribly complicated for users, to preserve zero knowledge, which is the opposite of what 99% of users wanted.

Chrome made it simple (and THEN added a fairly decent ZK option buried in advanced).

What makes Mozilla/Firefox relevant is having enough users that it can't be ignored. Mozilla is already increasingly irrelevant due to mobile (Firefox OS is nice promise, but Safari and Chrome are dominating the space); marginalizing their desktop product doesn't help.
API Umbrella: Open Source API Management
Because it prevents the worldwide biggest search provider from eventually also taking over those remaining holdouts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_isomer
Heh, the B&W RED camera costs more than the color version, and people still buy it.

I've seen zilch available in the consumer space, though.
> Except that most distros DID distributed it UNALTERED, like Slackware, Gentoo, OpenSuSE, Ark Linux.

Only the ones small enough that they don't worry about getting sued. It's not just Debian developers that think there's a licensing issue that means they can't legally distribute it; the FSF and Red Hat's legal department also agree[1], and I believe even the authors of the CDDL (the GPL-incompatible license he's releasing most of cdrtools under) think that he's wrong.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legal-list/2009-July/...
But, the process of breaking down a citizen and building a solider could easily be described as developing a new operating system for the soldier, one which is designed to utilize the radio/hearing/brain pathway to achieve an identical end to your electrical end.

With "electronic helmet brain control", boot camp is irrelevant, but bootcamp and culture is itself an archaic "brain control", which serves an identical purpose already.
Very nice. I hope this project keeps living. I use it for all my clojure dev and sometimes just as a editor. I rarly use the repl anymore, I just build up function inside the editor. The only thing that hinders this is that the function output should be pritty printed but there is some technical problem with that. If this would happen, I would not use the console much anymore.

The paredit is nice enougth to make working with clojure nicer then working with other language syntaxes.

Overall I really like it because I feel like its the way a IDE should be even if its lacking features, the architecture is nice.
No.

It means they're scared and are circling the wagons.

And that rather than dropping the fight, we need to keep pushing even harder.
Yep, I think both parties are sort of in the wrong. It's silly how Express currently handles routes, and it's silly of the Netflix engineer to suggest that they should use maps instead.
I haven't seen the study, but I don't believe the claim. I'm no Lance Armstrong by any stretch, but I've done a bit of biking here and there. And twice already, I've had crashes that could have been serious without a helmet. It's too easy to fly over the handle bars. Once was a slight layer of mud over a sidewalk, which was completely unpredictable to me (but won't ever be again).

Extrapolating from my own experience (which is by no means a gold plated double blind study, but which still presents valid evidence about reality), the physics of a bicycle make the rider prone to crashes that involve head impact. You can cry "anecdotal," but I'll answer "common sense."

Besides, the people who argue that evangelizing helmet-free riding will lead to more riders actually acknowledge that helmets are important ... they just want to spread a different story publicly.
Carthage - a simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa
Smartphone encryption could lead to death of a child, government claims
And how will they target only Firefox users? Should we expect IE to start masquerading as <insert Mozilla browser> again?
First comes a typo in your article in the second sentence:

"though I fear they where actually real conversations"
"Google will also continue to power the Safe Browsing and Geolocation features of Firefox."

It's disappointing to hear that Firefox isn't yet using Mozilla's location services project [1].

Background: These are the services that will, say, take the SSID of your current WiFI access point and map that to a latitude/longitude. My understanding is that almost all commercial users subscribe to Skyhook Wireless's database[2], other than Google, which has built its own WiFi AP maps using its StreetView trucks.

I think Mozilla's "open" service, contributed by individual users, is a welcome alternative, since it means you no longer have to send your location to a large corporation on every look-up.

[1] https://location.services.mozilla.com/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
I did read that comment of yours, to make it more concrete --

1. Create some sort of handler execution queue

2. Push first handler onto queue

3. When a handler runs, which may translate into the firing of another handler/ translation of the route, push a "handle callback" (for lack of a better term) onto the queue

4. Return to #3 and continue forever (which is a possibility) or run out of handlers at some point (be done)
> Every intermediate layer that Google does not control is a risk to their business.

Every intermediate layer that Google does control is also an opportunity for lock-in. Which is seriously starting to piss me off, as they are increasingly turning their back on open standards.
Thank you for illustrating the reason for this blog post so perfectly.

The problem is not that the queue(s) aren't being accessed by workers fairly, but that requests are being dumped onto the queue(s) faster than the workers (or whatever your bottleneck is) can handle.

To stretch the metaphor, too often software devs respond with "Let's add more sinks (queues)!", rather than "let's add more drains, and make sure the ones we have are clean (identify the source of the bottlenecks and work to remove them/scale them)!". The first is comparatively easy, and seems to 'fix' the problem for a little bit; the latter requires measurement and careful architectural decisions, and possibly breaking changes.
Personally, I really enjoy the automatic sleep/activity tracking that my Pebble provides (via Misfit app)

Besides that, I mainly use it for "watch" stuff.

That said, it is really nice to be able to get notifications without taking my phone out in certain contexts—bicycling, walking, in a pool, phone charging in other room, etc.
Not inconceivable the two are connected somehow, of course (either in tribute from Korg or even the other way round; AFX has released a bunch of tracks named after gear, e.g. Fenixfunk 5... and it'd hardly be surprising if certain artists had access to pre-launch gear.)
Someone really needs to explain to me what the thought process behind this acquisition was.

Self driving car technologies have has actively developed by almost every car company for years now. Many of the beginnings of this work has already made it to market e.g. Parallel Park Assist, Auto Emergency Breaking, Lane Merge Detection, Adaptive Cruise Control. And companies like Volvo are already testing their self driving cars in real world, difficult conditions in Sweden. And because there are only a few car conglomerates they will simply share technology within each group.

So what is their end game ?
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> 98% of the time your runtime is via mod_php5

Not true anymore, a lot of code is running in php-fpm nowadays.
I think the bigger point is that Google has created a revisionist story about the origin of its self-driving car that the vast majority of people, including myself, would never have known about. For example, there was no mention of it at this summer's self-driving car exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Is it necessary that Google represent the true story in its marketing material? No, of course not, but it is strange that they would go to that extent to keep the acquisition a secret for so long.
I understand where you are coming from and I'd even recommend your article to people considering using queuing. I apologize if made it sound like I didn't like or understand the article. It just felt a bit heavy on dissuading people from considering using queuing, however, reading through it again I can see that the intent is to describe why queues should not be used in a very particular context.

It would be nice to see a similar write-up on appropriate use of queuing, with more plumbing visuals.

Thanks for the response.
Where did you purchase your device? Or did you build it?
I thought that Google was still far and away their main revenue source?
> Though malloc is defined as part of the C language, it can be implemented as an ordinary library function requiring no special support from the compiler.

This is actually not true, but happens by accident in most C implementations since they're being nice to you.

C gives some functions like malloc() and pthread_mutex_lock() magic properties, but you can't write your own function from scratch that has those. As long as you don't try to optimize all that hard, or don't let the compiler try to inline your malloc, it won't go /that/ badly, but…
From all indications Google Glass is being shifted towards being an enterprise product e.g. helping people pack shelves.

So in this case it doesn't really apply.
> (One reason for the recent infantile obsession about tiling window managers)

Wait, are you saying that tiling window managers are unusable, superfluous, arcane? Or do you simply object to cargo-culting?

I can't actually use stacking window managers anymore. It's a little like the difference between auto-arranging icons, and milling about manually organizing them into little piles. It may seem like you've lost some control with automatic, but it's control over frivolous minutiae. You've shed the responsibility of micro-managing the little file-fiefdoms and their petty squabbles.

Who would not prefer a desk where all the papers sorted themselves and squared the corners of their piles?
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PostgreSQL is a bit of a hybrid in terms of scheduling. It has its own disk cache but still goes through the kernel mechanisms. Classic database I/O schedulers are not portable so it is a bit of a challenge to implement one in big open source projects for reasons outside of technical ability.

With proper cache and I/O scheduler, the same workload will fit in memory, so the only way the disk gets in the way is if the I/O scheduling does something suboptimal with respect to writes (which happens a lot with the kernel caching behavior).

Modern database servers typically have more disk bandwidth than network bandwidth and therefore most write workloads should be able to go through storage at the network's wire speed, at least in theory. In practice, I/O scheduling behavior from memory to storage tends to be bursty or poorly timed. Consequently, the instantaneous I/O bandwidth requirements can exceed the effective disk bandwidth for brief periods and performance degrades.

A really good database I/O scheduler, cache, and execution engine work together to basically makes sure that peak bandwidth demands to the disk subsystem are never much worse than the network wire speed. Achieving this is not trivial and requires a lot of clever dynamic resource optimization but many sophisticated database engines implement this to some degree or another.
well, some people would argue javascript is [still] a mess. Douglas Crockford has spent a career pointing out a lot of the weak spots (while still loving the language mind you). PHP started out as a non-serious project, and today it's had some serious problems (multi-threading to name one).

However, on the other hand, there are also projects that start out as non-serious and get serious quick - the Linux kernel comes to mind.

I guess it can go two ways, but I'd contend a project that is started out with short-cuts because the author doesn't anticipate or plan for it to scale, will have a much tougher time doing so.
Since no one else has weighed in, I'll share the aggregate results. after our first HN post (#1 for 12 hrs), we had 15,000 people come through and take the test. Over 60% of readers increased their speed, with an average speed gain of 20%.
> (1) Grease the wheels significantly (allowing these decisions kinds of humiliations to occur much more quickly, and in greater bulk);

None of the stories show that. For example, the health one could have happened just as easily in a paper bureaucracy - that's the magic of 'opt in' vs 'opt out'. Just declare invalid all health insurances which are not explicitly renewed. No computer necessary.

> (2) Enable "action at a distance",

What, like paperwork doesn't enable that?

> (3) And they add a patina of (false) respectability

The flagged problems have more to do with no staff and the bureaucracies being self-serving in refusing to review complaints and whatnot, they don't have to do with regular people going 'well, the machine said it, so it must be true!'
I remember I started moving out of Google's claws when they started pushing Google+ everywhere. Today my primary browser is Firefox, Search engine is DDG (with occassional Google search), Email is FastMail. The dependency on Google had started to annoy me.
google has been apple's greatest competitor for a while. apple has > $160B in cash. mobile bing is comparable to mobile google. the strategic value of weakening google seems to far outweigh the financial value of defaulting to google search (assuming google is willing to outbid microsoft). so why hasn't apple defaulted to bing yet, and when will it?
Google disables SSL search at BT’s request
It's not quite what you're looking for, but the Kindle Paperwhite will apparently pair with a Bluetooth keyboard.

EDIT: Better choice: The OLPC lets you turn off the screen backlight and that gets you a grayscale display that works even under direct sunlight.
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Seems like this is the type of thing that might be possible once the "fully native watch app" sdk is released.
I don't like the idea because it's lending value to the argument that Kickstarter is a retail pre-order service. It isn't. People pledging money for projects need to understand that there are many factors of risk involved.
Forgive my terrible maths, but doesn't that provide for 512 maximum functions? If your interface needs more than that, I'd argue it's time to reevaluate its scope.
> Maybe someday the Scala team will see the light and we will get them as well. Sadly I am not holding my breath, adopting innovations like union types were what drew me to Scala. Something like this isn't even on the docket for the next several years at a minimum.

??? Union types are already announced and will ship in a future version of Scala.

If you can't wait you can use dotc instead of scalac, and play with union types today. (A commit to share the newest scalac-backend between scalac and dotc just entered the pull request queue and should close one of the largest missing pieces.)
PyCharm 4 is out
Sounds like they have refunded 100% of what they got of your pledge. The rest of your money is with Kickstarter & Amazon. I don't think they even had to give you a refund at all for your pledge. In my mind it's akin to asking a charity for a donation back. Remember Kickstarter is not a store.
Who is "codequalified.com" and why should I listen to him?

There's no author name on the post, in fact there's no name on the entire site. Even the Domain is registered anonymously (DomainsByProxy).

I don't care for names anyway, but there's no links to any external identity or previous work either.

All I see is an anonymous PR blog, seemingly trying to stir some random internet controversy for backlinks.
I have an LG 34UM95-P which is a 34" 21:9 UltraWide with a resolution of 3440x1440. Once you get used to how wide the monitor is it works quite well. This replaced 2 x 1920x1440 29". It is on a mount on a standing desk.
Nikola Tesla predicted the development internet-connected smartphones
What if, and this is crazy I know, you needed an explicit action to track me instead of relying on users not knowing such a thing exists to avoid.
I think he meant that he would prefer not having to deal with an array where types are all over the place.
Anecdotally my experience has been quite the opposite. I know a few developers who primarily use Chrome, but besides that the rest are people that heard it was faster, or installed it by mistake as part of a bundle.
Relationship Management Startup Accompani Gets Another $15M While Still in Alpha
What should they do in Russia? Help the second biggest player, which is Google? :)

Although TBH, in Russia there are mail.ru(with their search engine) and sputnik.ru (a search engine funded by company called Rostelekom. The majority of it is owned by state/government).
Oh yes, I forgot about the legendary Ruby On Rails code quality: http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2013-0277
This is not getting then attention it deserves. Google is now providing less funding to Mozilla.

Does anyone actually use yahoo for search? I stopped around 1998 or so, when Altavista was king.
Yahoo's main business is not search, so I don't know how bad it needs it. Of course more money is always good, and Yahoo is not a super growing company,

Alaso, this is the same strategy that turned Google from "best buddy" to "arch rival" in the eyes of Apple and pushed Apple to have its own mapping service and offer other search options.

This is also the level of control that motivates people to try Duckduckgo, or switch to firefox.

In the end I think Google has a net win, but the reaction of the partner companies seems to be more negative than neutral.
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Placement isn't that interesting: F3->bicep (pg2).
You can kill yourself with a 9 volt battery. There's no reason not to be skeptical. And if you aren't careful with tdcs, you can burn yourself pretty badly.
Turn a baked potato into a tauntaun from the ice planet Hoth
1) Not yet
2) Not yet
3) No
4) 80% within first few minutes - same as Litmus
5) Actual screenshots, no css hacks.

At the moment, we're trying to focus on making something people love. Once we're happy, then we will release it as a white-label service.
Those are excellent points. In the context of CPython, Guido van Rossum made the design decision to not use tagged objects, based on experience with ABC implementation, which did.

See https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/04614... .

I just realized though that since the patch to support tagged integers is small, a closed system like the CCP Games distribution of Python, which has no extensions they don't control, might be able to use this idea.
It has been for the last three years, but Mozilla decided to go with Yahoo/Yandex/Baidu rather than renew the deal with Google. So Yahoo (and others) will replace Google as the main revenue source.
If Mozilla didn't "pick Yahoo! to enable choice", why didn't Yahoo pay for default search placement in all regions? Russia, China, and other countries will have different default search engines.
tDCS is no more wireheading than electroshock therapy for depression is wireheading.
>Yes, relative skill and productivity between programmers can vary wildly, but I would posit that most of the difference you see between organisations ability to deliver software has nothing to do with how many “10X developers” you have hired and everything to do with culture.

That doesn't jibe with my experience at all.
Very interesting. I wonder if any changes in TC editorial line could have biased this graph.
Do you know if gendl includes geometric constraint solving?

I've been playing around with using geometric constraint solving with FreeCAD's "sketcher" mode, but the GUI interface on that is awful, I'd love to experiment with it using a proper GDL of some sort.

Edit: Nevermind, it sounds like it does. I should have read the whole discussion.
AP: NSA executives dissented on telephone record collection in 2009
That expressed my own attitude very well, thanks!
Have you looked at rethink DB? http://www.rethinkdb.com

I think it addresses most of your issues, except the SQL one, which I admit is a big one.
I'm really curious about the financial angle of this. I'm wondering how much was gained/lost based on the decision they made versus making a deal with Google for a similar system as in the past.
Economically, all the options - including a renewed Google deal - were stronger than the old Google deal. (This contradicts "Google wasn't willing to pay what they were before.")
PopcornTime original repository is still available at GitHub
With enough size and resolution, it really doesn't matter. After all, you can always use the space for something, right?

I recently upgrade to a 5k imac... and it's an absurd amount of space. I don't see the point in griping about aspect ratio when it's merely size and density that we really want.
Same here. I used to have Google Mail, Google Contacts, YouTube, Google Search, Google News, etc.

I was feeling more and more dependent on one company's goodwill. A few months ago, I renewed my Fastmail [1] account for 3 more years, being very happy with the service. I use DuckDuckGo [2] as my main search engine and love it. I use Opera as my main browser. The only Google services I use regularly now are Android and YouTube. YouTube being totally optional and Android only being an interface to data located elsewhere, I feel free. Sure, Google has access to my data, but they can't lock me in.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com
[2] https://duckduckgo.com
Indeed - Yahoo is also powering Weather and Stocks apps on iOS. All the competition is good for everyone.
Fair enough. Though I would say it still counts as search, whether they're crawling the internet or forcing sites to sign up manually.

I agree that the focus on a curated list is what held them behind, though it may be nice if someone were to provide that today at scale.
There are greyscale monitors. These tend to be very expensive and used for medical imaging. I've never used one.

http://www.necdisplay.com/category/medical-diagnostic-displa...

http://www.necdisplay.com/p/medical-diagnostic-displays/md21...
Not any more. That's exactly what this story is about! :)
I've just been reading up on CTEs - thanks. That's the kind of thing I thought would be out there.
> This is why Google built Chrome.

Seriously? Do you remember what browsers were like before Chrome?