skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use BeamSyncDropper v2 and have it open on startup. The only downsize is it takes a bit for the terminal window to load and execute the shell script. If you have an SSD this shouldn't be a problem, just be patient for that 2-3 seconds of painstaking peasantry. xD

Download and discussion about BeamSyncDropper can be found here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/customization/92201-beamsyncdroppe...

Also one thing about OS X running in VMWare is make sure you're using the specific CPU to the fullest potential. Graphics are rendered with the use of CPU. If you don't have the processor(s) / cores set properly you could be only at 50% overall performance. For example, I am currently using an i3 330UM. I've noticed a significant jump in performance switching from single processor 2 cores; to 2 processors 4 cores.

Personally, Mavericks outperformed Yosemite on this little machine. I've experienced long window load times, hangs, and even guest crashes since the jump... My main desktop workstation is rocking an i7-930; I WILL NOT upgrade my main VMWare workstation to Yosemite. If I need to I will just clone my current VMWare image and run Mavericks / Yosemite in tandem. I would much prefer Mavericks > Yosemite...
This is a proof that there are lies, damn lies and statistics :).

World is in terrible shape, from climate, to new conflicts emerging, richest people detachment from reality are some that come to mind.
The graphical glitches that he notes however, happen even on a powerful, plugged-in 15" retina model. I just tried it myself. Some parts of each screen, including the blue (or grey) themed UI elements for tabs or dropdowns, take longer to move to a selected state. It's unclear whether the delay is due to the time it takes to load the preferences for the screen -- that it can't do so before you click -- or if the graphics themselves take that long to draw but already know what state they should be in. It's funny, I knew something had changed, but I couldn't pin-point it until this video. Until the side-by-side, I figured the glitches were a side-effect from it being "too fast" since there's no transition animation. But it's obvious the animated version simply felt smoother and more integrated as a UI.
> Most people do not take care of their family because they think it's in their best interests. They often take care of their family for myriad reasons--e.g. a moral call to selflessness, sociocultural norms, a sense of familial duty, love, etc. The language of "best interests" really doesn't fit here.

I disagree, and would almost go so far as to say making other excuses, like following a "moral call to selflessness" or following "sociocultural norms" is more sociopathic.

I value my family, so I'd take care of them if they needed it. No other reason than I value them being around.

Breaking it down and saying, "I need to make it look like I follow sociocultural norms, so I'm going to do this, just to fit in," seems more sociopathic, IMO.
It keeps the size of each update much smaller and less error-prone. Each update contains a few significant changes and lots of minor ones.

It's a good strategy for a variety of reasons:

- it lets the OS theming feel fresh on a regular basis

- it lets apple break/disable bad apps that have entered the ecosystem

- it keeps all the OSS binaries more in sync with the fast-paced OSS world.

- it lets the actual periodic security updates be used only for critical fixes. Try loading Windows 8 and you immediately have over 200 critical hotfixes that take nearly a day to download and install on 2 year old hardware.

- Apple's biggest strength is attention to UX details. Each release contains the byproduct of massive amounts of research/data.

None of this excuses buggy releases, but overall it's significantly less buggy than any similarly ambitious OS out there.
The reverse complement program certainly doesn't need unsafe code, but the safe rust version[1] takes 3x the execution time of the unsafe rust version[2]. By comparison the fastest Go version[3] is fairly idiomatic Go without unsafe memory management and takes just 2x the time of the unsafe rust version.

Also, which benchmark did you have in mind when you said unsafe code is mandatory?

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

[2] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...

[3] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/program.php?tes...
Yes, and I am fully aware of reasonable subsets of C++.

However, there are multiple other languages that I would rather program in -- although there are still places where I would chose to use C or C++.

I was mostly disappointed that when I tried to use many of the features of C++ that were beyond an intermediate level, the real warts of the language made it not worth the hassle.

I suspect some of that has improved in the latest version of the language spec (and some in the version prior), but I haven't seen anything so far that has excited me enough to get back into it much.
Yeah, I'm debating off the top of my head. I've seen it happen enough, I'm sure there's a good exemplar case involving adults, but bandwagoning of false allegations is a very real phenomenon.
That one was one of the best myth buster in tech (not considering the time taken to boot the system!)
Ha, I think the novels from 金庸 (Jin Yong) are better choice than 鲁迅 (Lu Xun). The problem of the novels from 鲁迅 is that the words are kind of ancient. Modern Chinese no longer say that way.
Also I think the novels from 金庸 should have some decent English translation?
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I am not a legal scholar, but to me the intent of the latter half is clearly stated by the first half: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts".
More people were born in the 20th century than any other. Comparing the absolute number instead of ratio is misleading.
A marketing company that happens to sell technology would be selling some sort of standard solution. As Apple develops everything from their protocols to chips to operating systems to complete devices in house... I'd say they're a technology company who also takes marketing very seriously.
I wonder if this was done on the latest apple hardware. Apple always appears to regress older hardware without fail.
"Now let's work together to add the capabilities to HTML 5 that allows ____ to be done w/o a framework"

It takes a long time and iterations for standards to be finalized and adopted. It took more than a decade to for the release of HTML5. In addition, adding more and more features to the standard lead to bloats and even longer release cycles. I think this is the role of frameworks/modules to provide higher abstraction and convenience.
What does it mean by "observed instances of eventual consistency"? Shouldn't it be close to 100% given enough time? The claim of zero for 100k operations is jaw dropping (and requires more evidence, or simply, a better explanation of the experiment).
Yosemite uses a variation of a cross-dissolve transition when changing/showing content after a mouse click, whereas older versions do not. Give it a try and pay close attention to the window.
I noticed a lot of UI speed degradation as well, especially when using a dual monitor setup and changing focus from one screen to the other. This was the most visible when OSX tries to refresh the menubar icons. I did a fresh install (instead of upgrade to the beta) and things seem to be a little better but I guess this just has to do with the fresh install clearing my mac of all the bloat that it acquired in the past years.
Tiger had Exposé, which is close enough.
I learned that C is important. And that I should learn it. And I have become proficient in it this year.
Ccv 0.7, with a sub-10% image classifier and a decent face detector
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Seems to be like: http://www.lingq.com/
The decline started with Lion. Snow Leopard was the pinnacle of the OS. They were able to offset or mask some of this with SSD drives. But, it has become pretty sloppy for folks that really wanted to tune their systems for performance. Couple that with the questionable changes on the UI over the last couple major releases and I didn't see anything I wanted anymore.
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Scalatags: a small, fast XML/HTML construction library
I totally agree. You nailed it! And being a driving force for your cofounders and startup with a vision is probably more important than being a programmer. IMHO.
> 1. Climate Change

Unless the group think around nuclear power changes climate change doesnt stand a chance in hell.

EDIT: I would be interested hearing from peoples points of view for those who are downvoting.
If you are Asian, you will feel better in python 3.
Surprised I didn't know of this paper, this is the paper that led to the book:

Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber (1989).

This book was awesome, a reviewer on Amazon explains its unique style of teaching better than me:

"By Vinhthuy Phan on July 2, 2003 : Most books I have read on the subject seem to be simply a collection of algorithmic tricks and techniques. There's no single universal idea, except for this book by Udi Manber. The cover picture says it all. In my opinion, the most fundamental and universal concept in algorithmic design is the idea of induction, recursion, and building bigger desired solutions from smaller already-constructed ones. The experts establish this as their intuition and perhaps take it for granted. But as a beginning algorist, when you have to ask yourself how do I solve/optimize/approximate this problem, I think you'll find this idea so important. This book attempts to make this concept your algorithmic intuition, and that's I think is a good thing.
That said, it should be read along with other books in algorithms design and analysis."
Sorry for the ignorance, Windows user here. Can't you somehow downgrade?
One major drawback for me is a constant flickering in Intellij Idea and Emacs. I'm not sure who is responsible for this, but user experience is just terrible. I'll definitely downgrade to 10.9 when I'll have enough spare time.

I didn't see much problems besides it. I like new design, animations are smooth enough for me and everything works well enough.
Short of supporting a full scale invasion and colonization of the countries in question how do you propose to change the situations that allowed this to happen?
"Observed instances of eventual consistency", which as I understand it means, "the number of times that two (or maybe more) operations were able to succeeded which then had to be reconciled after the fact to get consistency between nodes."
Please do try Gnome 3.14 - Right now, it is only part of Fedora 21. But I think you will love it. Do give it a shot.
I doubt it's another steel manufacturer but who knows? Maybe someone in the business with connections to black hats had some money to spare and said: Look what you can get going about this cyberwar stuff everyone is talking about...

There is also this: http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Verwundbare-Industriean... (In german)
See also: https://www.tofinosecurity.com/blog/why-vlan-security-isnt-s... (and its comments, which echo different points)
I agree in principle- I was in an intensive Chinese program in Beijing, and I read the children's books with tutors. This was not like "See Spot Run" type of stuff. In regular class, you mostly learn everyday language, which only helps to scratch the surface of literature with a lot of background cultural context that is assumed of native speakers.
No, but they should definitely optimise their landing page for first adopters, with the number one rule being tell people what your product does.

Late adopters will probably already know about the product before downloading it. It's the first adopters you need to provide the description for.
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It's good to see this get some attention. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to make full screen zoom usable with an external display.

I found if you enable the "Increase Contrast" accessibility feature, performance is improved, but it does negatively affect aesthetics.

I answered my own question about this on Apple StackExchange here:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/157118/70049
If you ask me to switch OSes in order to do something, there has to be a very strong value proposition to get me to risk the time.
Cool! You've not mentioned a license for your code?
It isn't being used to draw that conclusion. The article starts with that premise and uses an anecdote to illustrate one reason why. In marketing and customer service, the plural of anecdote may not be data but it is is a broad trend.
Note that there was a lot of interesting discussion of this article a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6926892
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You can, its actually easier than in Windows since theres no licensing issues to handle.
I am currently working on an OpenGL based UI toolkit and recently purchased a 4K monitor and a EVGA GeForce GTX 750Ti to drive the display for testing purposes. As you might expect, it appears taxing to push 4X the content over the bus or have the card render content at a high resolution.

This may not be the effect seen here, but it is the first thing that came to mind. I am not sure how well system hardware has kept up with display technology.
Yeah, until this gets implemented, I'm still using Chrome for a lot of my browsing needs on Fedora. Really see no need to get a flash player that constantly goes out of date.
Didn't mean to sound so negative. Love firefox, keep on doing what you're doing guys. I should probably look into helping with this project if I can.
"Ah Q"? It's by Lu Xun, you know what? Even native Chinese high school students fear writings by Lu Xun, mostly due to the difficulty level.
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> my suggestion is to go with novels that're translated into Chinese from English, like Sherlock Holmes. The translator uses good Chinese, and the stories are familiar, therefore you will have an easy time understanding the texts

Really? This seems counterintuitive unless China has a really, really good translation industry. In my experience with Japanese translations, you're as likely to get a good translation as you are to get a horrible one (see Harry Potter).
> If you cannot pick up and fire a gun, you have no rights.

Well, I suppose if I break my wrists, I don't have a right to live anymore.

>This implies that the only requirement for having rights is the ability to respect the same rights for others

This is obviously not true at all. If I tell you I have a right to own property, surely an ant doesn't have the same right. So what do you mean by "others?" Other things that I would choose to call equal humans? Who gets to say who that is?

This is fundamentally why I hate the concept: people like to pretend it means something if only everybody ignores all the obvious inconsistencies in the discussion.

You're saying fundamentally incompetent things, and the vagueness of your terminology lets you feel secure in the fact that nobody has the ability to correct you.
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I think a big part of it is the glass blur effect that they put on everything with yosemite.

I also feel that since iOS 7 that stability and quality has gone down a lot, or they got too ambitious with the glass blur effect.
To summarize the article:

Author stumbles upon problems with ubuntu and some other third-party software => concludes that Python 3 is not being used anymore.

Well done, sir.
It is kind of a hacky language. Weakly typed, inconsistent runtimes and all that. Server side code in strongly typed languages is generally more predictable.
Just curious, but why is the symbol for this a Japanese katakana チ (chi)? I assume it goes with "chicory," but it's Japanese...
That's interesting. You should advertise that.

For anyone else wondering, it is actually spelled Incapsula, I would edit my original comment if I could anymore.
> In the way of purpose and design, Rust has next to
> nothing in common with Perl, Ruby, Python, etc

This is the top-rated reply to my initial comment, so I'll try and fill in the gaps.

People choose Python instead of Perl because - and the reason they give may be different, but it comes down to the same thing - there's one RIGHT way to do everything. There's a _pythonic_ way to do everything. PEP 8 not only exists, but people take it _seriously_. Python code is predictable, and while people will bring different engineering approaches to bear on certain problems, good Python looks the same at every company.

Go is the Next Level Up of that. "go fmt" and "go vet" are baked right in. The language is small, and explicitly leaves out certain constructs in order that there is one, clear, obvious way of doing things. In short, Go code is meant to be predictable, and good Go code should look the same everywhere.

If you want to spend your time thinking about the problems, solving the problems, and zero time decorating your art, Python and Go are for you. They are the International Style or architecture, they are Brutalist languages, and that's not only OK, but it's a fundamental part of their success.

Me? I like Baroque.

I like my sigils, I like combining functional and imperative constructs in ways that I think look beautiful as I write them. I like cute tricks, and coworkers can see code I wrote because I come back to my favourite beautiful and intuitive idiomatic patterns over and over again, just as I can identify their code for what they do. I don't think `map` is a dirty word, and I love starting with a list and whittling away at it, sorting it, reshaping it, exercising the differences between lists, arrays, hashes, and the coercions between those.

You go to the back of the Camel book, and it gives you four different code styles, depending on what you're optimizing for. Perl Best Practices is the most controversial book ever written.

I'm still a Rust baby, but I'm telling you, it TASTES like Perl. The language "features" thing is reminiscent of someone suggesting you shouldn't buy an iPhone based on processor speed.
The solution is to run a historian in the DMZ, only the historian can read data from the DCS, and the corporate systems (ERP, BI etc) read data from the historian. And nothing from outside can update the DCS.
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And why can't they have a license that simply says: "10 years after the publication date, this work will enter the public domain"

And in countries where they do not have a concept of public domain, simply change the royalty to 0 after that period of time.

Or, simply say, after 10 years, you'll also be permitted to do x, y, z with this work (where x might be redistribution, derivatives, etc).

At least in the US, authors have the right to do this today.
I hope Shumway will arrive before major shift to Wayland on the desktop.

Daala is a very exciting project. The current mess of codecs support on the Web is just horrible.
I feel like the balance has tipped in the past six months. I started my current project two years ago and stuck with Python 2 because I was concerned about library compatibility.

The Python 2 standard library is now showing its age. Limitations with the multiprocessing module on Python 2 drove me to look into the possibility of switching to Python 3 and I was pleasantly surprised to discover all ~45 packages my project depended on had been ported (through caniusepython3.com.)

Porting to 2/3 compatible code with python-future.org turned out to be fairly painless so I expect to make the change soon.

The transition has been a painful one, but I'm sure that these sort of problems will feel a thing of the past in a year or two.
No, but you don't need to disagree with the article in order to make a useful comment. This is just a natural continuation of the discussion.
Its a lower bound on the number of false allegations (out of allegations made to the police), so the number of people who never went to the police isn't relevant, mathematically speaking.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey informed the Senate Armed Service Committee (in 2013), "I will personally attest to the fact that [the world is] more dangerous than it has ever been." Now that's surprising from the head of the JCS, and from a former commander of an armored division in combat. He's a trade-school guy (West Point), so he knows his military history.

Things have been much, much worse for the US. Early in WWII, it didn't look good. When the USSR got ICBMs and H-bombs, it really didn't look good. Worldwide, nobody is having a really big war right now. The USSR lost 20 million people in WWII. Nothing that bad has happened since.

There are some big worries ahead, mainly regarding proliferation of nuclear weapons and troubles involving existing nuclear powers - Russia, China, Pakistan, and North Korea. Those are the things that can kill us.

Domestically, the biggest threat is the Mississippi River, with major floods both at New Orleans and further upstream.
Benchling (YC S12) is hiring a lead designer
I have a question. People will use the USB or bluetooth tethering if this happens then what is the purpose of doing this?
I might be naive but I still don't see a smoking gun. I realize in these situations it is hard to dig up unassailable evidence one way or the other. The author seems to be making the assumption that the only party that would be interested in intelligence on joint US-South Korea military exercises would be North Korea. I would imagine that China, Russia and Japan might be interested as well. Disrupting South Korean banks could just as easily be the work of Chinese or South Korean hackers, right? I see a correlation, but not necessarily a causation.
Remember iOS 7?

Same thing.

Who was the joker who kept insisting that iOS 7 was really better and very few complained? I warned about this, post-Jobs Apple design and attention to detail.
You don't pay them the 100mil to run the scan. You pay them the big bucks to park themselves at the top of the lawsuit list when things go wrong. Its more like insurance at that level than technology.
Cool, I will be submitting my startup to this too? BTW, is there a cost for submitting or is this completely free? What's the profit model and privacy policy?
Frameworks very much define the way we think about problems. React is a good example, taking from many good ideas before it.
I answer my mobile from my iMac regularly without issues. I don't have the 'continuity' feature due to Apple's choice to block old iMacs (mine is a late-08 model), other than that, it's a bit slower at app-launching but I didn't had any major issues.
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Periodically I check my requirements.txt with https://pypi.python.org/pypi/checkmyreqs, but there's usually at least 7 or 8 minor packages and 2 or 3 major ones that are unsupported.

I don't really mind moving my own code to python 3, but I'm loath to move working library code.
I'm having trouble figuring out which games each tile is. I'm using IE11 on Surface 2 pro. When I tap a tile, it slightly expands, but I don't see a title anywhere.
>Now that's surprising from the head of the JCS, and from a former commander of an armored division in combat. He's a trade-school guy (West Point), so he knows his military history.

Of course he says that, the budget for the department of defense is in part dictated by how dangerous the public and congress perceive the world to be.

Military leaders have been saying this exact same thing for centuries.