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If even top-notch teams like Mozilla cannot ship large C/C++ codebases without security holes, it seems legitimate to state that people cannot write correct code in that language.
Sounds to me like the Yo app is the equivalent of dogs barking. And look how many articles are written about its usefulness :))
Maybe the answer to why kids aren't spending money is (a) student loans and (b) there are no freaking jobs anymore.
It works well for me - 30fps is good enough for my needs. Let's hope they clear up their OS credit issue promptly.
It is fine (good even!) to design things in a way to let humans make the intelligence-required decisions, as that becomes a nice modular interface for intelligent optimization systems that can be introduced later. It also provides a nice heuristic: If your human interface doesn't expose the data used to make a computationally optimal intelligent decision, then it isn't a good human interface. And it works quite well with Agile principals. If you iterate on that interface until the humans start to like the interface, then that is a good signal that it is time to start introducing intelligent optimization. Some of the most groundbreaking intelligent systems at Amazon have followed the same principles.
rotor wash from tiger helicopters.
This plus falling oil prices is going to set back PV for a long time.
Honestly, I feel like most of the article is throw-away material. They're claiming to have "derived" syntax and grammar from a simple lexicon, which as far as I can tell consists only of referents. In reality, they are just artificially imposing their own ideas of language on top of animal calls. Yes, the calls do convey meaning, but that does not make a language.

It's like gluing a bunch of toothpicks to steel girders, then saying you can build a bridge out of toothpicks.
This article is also a fascinating glimpse at the future of native advertising.
it is working flawlessly for me. i am on a mbp watching vimcast core class on a sidecar mounted iPad air and it's chugging away without any stuttering.
Thanks. We changed to the NYT article from http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/12/20/us-deals-ma... because, of the two you mention, it's a bit more substantive.
None of this would matter if the US Solar installers would stop price gouging the customer. I just got 4KW installed of Canadian Solar panels. They come with an actual 25 year insurance bond to cover the warranty. I'd like to see China try that. The installation was literally half what SolarCity quoted me. The little guys make a nice profit but don't gouge and you get superb quality panels.

Capitalism. it's really hard to tell what's really an issue and what's abject greed.
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I certainly hope you don't carry that attitude with you throughout life. Tip your bartenders and pizza delivery guys... they make nothing, anyway. (And, if you're in tech, chances are an extra $2 for a tip is NOT going to break your budget.)
OP here. This thing is confusing the hell out of me. I go back and forth on a daily basis as to whether I think it was the NKoreans or not. One major factor in my head that I haven't heard stated elsewhere is this: If the government says today "It was North Korea" and tomorrow a hacker group says "Lulz! It was us. Gotcha!", that makes the FBI/CIA/NSA look really, really bad. Bad enough that it would outweigh any benefits to blaming the NKors. Why would the feds go out on a limb like that if they weren't absolutely sure?
Right, I wasn't arguing that torture was necessarily called for in situations where we don't know if someone has the desired information. I was more making the point that the idea that "torture never works" isn't borne out by the facts.

One could imagine a situation where, like this one, we DO know the person has the information. Add to that the 'ticking time-bomb' context and it's difficult to argue against torture.

Just to be clear, I think torture is horrendous and should be outlawed. But to say it should never be used is to fail to grapple more broadly with the complexities of collateral damage.
Oil is only going to fall long enough for Saudi Arabia and the US to bankrupt Russia, though (and they're pretty far along into it already).
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This is the best news I've seen on here in months! Alright, anybody working on a Clojure with a LuaJIT backend? If not, we should get started :)
Sony is not a US Business...
>"So the effect chinese solar subsidies are having is making solar panels extremely cheap for Americans, transforming the way the US generates energy. They're financing our switch to clean energy."

And then the US government goes ahead and forces everyone in the country to pay more for something they could have gotten cheaper for whatever reason. Is no one disturbed by this?
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A lot of the crazy stories about North Korea are made up.
It would also be nice to see some interface-based type assertions. For instance,

def comma_sep(items):
return ','.join(map(str, items))

requires two things:

- items be iterable

- each item have a __str__ method
Since the MacOS app is free, does the creator need to do anything but give attribution? Seems like the place to focus on for license issues is the iOS app which costs $10.
Can someone educate me a little more on these license issues?

What actual benefit is derived by an open source project when they are credited somewhere deep in an about page? Is tangible value provided there?

I feel that if I had produced an open source library, I'd be less interested in having my name anywhere near a project that I didn't actually produce. But I have little practical experience with such things.
Josh Pigford and Baremetrics are going to go bonkers on this.
It is indeed not an IT portal, but an ecommerce website. Very similar to Alibaba in its business model. Had a catalogue of every imaginable product and the best ever search over it.
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Euroweenies can be as outraged as they like and it won't matter because they never do anything. Europe will be a vassal state for the forseeable future.
While I agree that 8 billion people performing tasks is technically "scale", in that there will be a significant output coming from the entire population, the crux of the idea return to scale is that fixed costs (time and training it takes to learn how to farm, equipment, and land- I'm probably missing a few components) will be amortized across an entire population of individuals, rather than accrued for each individual.

If one person specializes as a farmer, rather than the entire population, that individual will be able to produce a greater number of crops than if every individual spent a small portion of their time working on farming. I believe you are trying to state that large scale operations are not necessary in order to feed the human population in your statement against "only large scale operations have the potential," which I disagree with on the basis of lost economic efficiency.

While I am unaware of the parameters of how much food is necessary to feed the world, and how what proportion of this quantity can be produced by large scale farming as opposed to small scale farming, I can definitively say that large scale farming will produce more food overall than distributed small scale farming. Because we want to advance as a population and free up time and energy to do other things, as well as overproduce rather than underproduce food, it does not make sense to substitute a distributed small-scale model for a large scale model, due to the inherent efficiencies associated with scale and specialization. The price one must pay for those efficiencies is distribution, and I would argue that the gains created by return to scale outweigh the losses associated with distribution of food.

However, I must give you kudos for living on a small farm and raising your own crops; I think hands-on production and creation of value for oneself and one's community gives an enormous sense of pride and it feeds a psychological "sense of hunger" in a sustainable way.
Mongoose is such a brilliant library right? If I was writing something in nodejs - the existence of mongoose itself would justify simply going for a mongodb backend.
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This tariff would have been more useful to US manufacturers if it had been in place before Applied Materials exited the solar cell business and Solyndra went broke.
We changed the URL from http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.3773v1.pdf because, with some exceptions (such as computing), HN tends to prefer the highest-quality general-interest article on a topic with the paper linked in comments.

This comes up often enough that it is a good case for linking related URLs together, which is something we intend to work on in the new year.
>Why would the feds go out on a limb like that if they weren't absolutely sure?

Because the military is likely angling for extra funding for its 'cyberwar' divisions and they would like for that pesky torture stuff to be yesterday's news.
I agree, does this mean that they were able to successfully gain access to the Booking.com database to get those details, or was she just putting those claims out there for no apparent reason?
I've never watched a minute of 24 but I know what you're talking about.
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Thanks, that's a good overview and we switched to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777258
No, he's not. He's talking about a single research laboratory MIT runs on a military base. Which somehow makes the entire university under direct control of the military?
It's working fine for me on iPad Air, the iPad 1 version is buggy (dev told me to wait a few days for a fix on Facebook)
Interresting that energy wise it is feasible to transport a whole lot of items that are not being used to the picker and back. But I am pretty sure that this has been taken into account when designing the size of the storage pods.
Pretty impressive!
Is this surprising? There is lots more money to be made if you push snake oil for the snake oil manufacturers. And hey the placebo effect will give you some 'success' either way right?
Findall is just a cartesian product...something easily available in pretty much any language out there. Not that I think Prolog is a bad fit for test data generation, just that this example is entirely too simple to show its power.

Where Prolog becomes really powerful for this use case is modeling the underlying business rules and selectively creating test cases that acknowledge those rules. A tiny bit of familiarity with Prolog goes a long way here. I've modeled about 95% of the underlying logic of 50k SLOC Java business rule systems using less than a hundred lines of Prolog. And the ability to infer both forward and backwards is extremely powerful (ex. if you have created F(X,Y) = Z, then you implicitly have a rule for determining X given Y and Z).
This is not just ecommerce site, but news outlet (alot related to latest technology news), classified ads, very large forum with a lot of members actively using it, and catalogue of various products (mostly about electronics). So e-commerce is just some part of it.
I wonder how much of most doctors' advice is equally wrong, outdated, etc. And how many studies are flawed; the studies that are the basis for what is right.
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Actually alibaba-style catalog + gsmarena-arena-style product details catalog + IT News site + forum + other stuff.
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Well sure, but my point is that being publicly wrong about the hack being NKor's work would outweigh everything, including changing the subject re: torture. Maybe I'm wrong about that, though.
That's the bigger plan. Illuminati, they want us to see the movie.

</sarcasm>
Interesting case where U.S. protectionism promotes manufacturing over developers and installers.

A political choice has been made.

Let's see how it goes in the long run.
Is it so hard to understand wanting to be credited when someone uses your work?
But his concrete argument (while being factually correct) is irrelevant. No one was tortured, but was threatened with torture

In the case of Abu Zubaydah, in his first 2 months of capture he provided more information than at any other time. The "enhanced" torture techniques didn't start until about his 3rd month of detention.

In both cases, the threat of torture, among other future conditions that don't fall under the "enhanced" umbrella (simple solitary confinement, life in prison, unable to see family, etc) were enough to extract valuable information. Subjecting them to humiliating and physically brutal conditions did nothing. tl;dr: threatening torture can motivate people to divulge information, but performing it does nothing further.
Duh. I have parents that've been watching his show for years and I can almost guarantee they're not anywhere close to where they need to be in terms of health goals.

People who watch this show are the same people who drink diet soda and eat sugar-free cookies, brownies, and let's not forget, low sodium bacon. In other words, people who don't understand that those things aren't bad for you in moderation...

Nothing says fucked like eating a crate of gluten-free cookies.
hey! everybody! over here! this guy doesn't watch tv! huzzah, we must use him as a sining beacon of leatherbound mahagony book-readership!
Anyone else frustrated that you can't have a conversation about this without the vast majority of threads taking on a conspiratorial tone? I suppose it's human nature for something with such power players as Sony/FBI/NK to seek out hidden motives and what not - but the comment quality really drops off.
Having a dev a team there in Belarus I spent 4 months of that past 12 there.
This seems to be about pricing.

Because of the strong economic ties between Russia and Belarus, the sanctions in Russia is also causing a huge devaluation on Belarusian currency.

My friends have been telling me of long lines at the banks to convert their money to Dollar. To prevent the rush, starting today, there is a 30% tax on converting your money to Dollar. Essentially a 30% devaluation of their currency.

Since many things are imported in Belarus any currency devaluation effects the price of goods, so people rushed to stores to buy anything they can (and now I've been told the shelves are almost empty).

But here's another issue, prices seem to be control by the government. For instance, when you go to restaurants all menus that have price on them, have a stamp and signature (think of it like a notarized stamp). This is so restaurants wont be able to increase the price as they wish.

From the google translation, it seems to me the online store started increasing their prices to match the devaluated currency and the government didn't like it. Because it contradicts their message on stability of their currency. They might have done the same at a physical store in this case.
Supposedly, the GPL3 is incompatible with the restrictions in Apple's App Store.
... and then I realize that the dolphins in the comic are repeating: "hey, do you speak spanish?" and "what's up?" in spanish to the humans... brilliant.
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Best tl;dr on the thread. I tolerate quite a bit of email pestering from companies with this approach; the majority of what hits my inbox is dealt with by pressing the "delete" key in less than a second, without reading anything beyond the subject line. For the ones who get too aggressive, I just filter their spam directly to the trash rather than dealing with their usually dishonest "unsubscribe" process. I'm not interested in being "onboarded" or shoved through a "sales funnel."
Or that many doctors aren't up to date on the latest research and also have a tendency to give in to the same misconceived notions about health as some of their patients do. Especially in non academic settings.
Maybe, but consider: instead of someone like the person in the article, the perpetrator is a member of a radical fundamentalist organization who believes that death is better than life and is not so put off by the prospect of some discomfort, at least in theory. It's conceivable that once theory is put into practice he might rethink his position.
As it contains GPLed code, the MacOS app's source code must be distributed or offered for distribution under the GPL to anybody who has a copy of the binary.
CocoaSplit is GPL. Hence, the developer has to release the source code or risk getting sued. I'm looking forward to the OpenSource version of Duet :-)
That, plus perhaps they can see that most of the things one can spend money on do nothing to increase happiness.
Doesn't the developer only need to release the source to someone who has purchased (obtained) and used the application, if they ask?
In my job, and even more so in some previous, the ability to search and retrieve historical emails has been my legal requirement.
Yes! I got not one but TWO phone calls from USA Today because I placed a single classified ad in the paper at least 15 years ago!!
Something not measure that is just as important as speed (if not more so) was how long it took to create a working program in each language.
The Mac OS version isn't in the app store, but this does make it seem likely their iOS app is using one of the libraries.
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That is just you. Many who create open-source software and/or hardware do want to see attribution. While it is the right thing to do it is also important to adhere to the license under which it is distributed.
Nice article. I think the fact that testing if "X-caused-Y", by exploiting the fact that this is not symmetrical, has also been used by the "pseudo-causality" Granger causality test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granger_causality

Also, causality in reality can be quite complicated if there are feedback loops: X-causes-Y-causes-X.
I think the grandparent was saying that, 'as an OSS author I am not sure I would want every project that used my software to announce it; people will think it an endorsement of some kind'.
If licenses were just about getting credit for your work, they'd be a lot less complicated :)
>For example, this produces a warning under GCC, though it will compile and run fine:

All function pointer types are convertible to any other function pointer type, and since 'func' is never called as the wrong type there is nothing wrong with your example. It's not a limitation of GCC, it's the intended behavior according to the standard.
Are you saying Microsoft should have intentionally excluded a means to browse http content and instead directed customers to be on the lookout for consumer magazines with a demo disk containing a browser? Where and how do they draw the line to being a useful distribution and alienating their users? For example, certain ICMP utilities were included by default with Windows.
I have a dual-monitor set-up - both widescreen - mounted on a dual monitor arm.

I trialled turning the left monitor 90 degrees so that I run Pycharm on the left monitor in a portrait orientation.

It works fine when you're coding. The only trouble was the arrangement kind of triggers some latent OCD in me and I couldn't tolerate the asymmetry for long ;)

So it was back to the symmetric widescreen arrangement.

I didn't try putting both monitors at 90 degrees though. Perhaps I should - although the widescreen arrangement is needed for playing Elite: Dangerous ;)
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Ten years ago, this could have accelerated the development of fast CPython replacements. With the incompatible changes in Python 3, all the alternatives to CPython took years to catch up. Or, like Microsoft's Iron Python, were abandoned. Now that PyPy is getting close to the point where it might replace CPython, a major change to the language comes out of nowhere.
A lot less. Dr. Oz is at best a quack. Most MDs - even if they don't have time to keep up with their field should know their stuff.
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Nothing that North Korea says should be treated as though it were legitimate. This is a country that keeps something on the order of a quarter of a million people in actual concentration camps, and tens of millions more utterly brainwashed and in unspeakable poverty. This is now, today, in 2014.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2565240/Voices-damne...

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/nor...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/19/eight-sketches-of...
> 3.5 I've gotta be missing something here

The Senate report on CIA torture is what you're missing.
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We've been developing app that also streams video content from Mac to iPad, and this recent Apple reversal on USB has been very frustrating for us.

About a year ago we submitted an app to the App Store that uses the same USB tech (PeerTalk), we wanted to see if Apple would allow it (we didn't want to build a business around something that could change on a whim). If it was allowed that would have changed the entire direction of our development. An Apple rep called us and informed as that USB access is not allowed.

With this in mind we went ahead with using WiFi, which has been HARD and time consuming. Now Apple all of a sudden allows USB access, what?!

How does Apple expect people to build serious apps when the ground is shifting beneath our feet?

Anyway.. I should write a post with more details.
For what it's worth, this link seems to represent an end-of-year status update & funding appeal. It links to several eBay auctions of historical SETI@Home equipment.
>I can't quite understand the allegation that NK is behind this because I don't see a motive.

The motive is that a company that straddles the two countries that North Korea hates the most created a movie obviously designed to be a gross insult to their leader.

I'm sure there could be ancillary benefits to the hack too - technology they could copy, etc.

The motive is definitely there, but all the evidence still points to a disgruntled ex-employee.
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Kudos for resisting the temptation to login to that macbook's VNC server. Or at least, kudos for not telling us about it.
I remember some research talking about 50% of doctor's recommendations aren't "best care".Not sure where.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7713586
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> sometimes a claim is made software engineering is not real engineering due to lacking in predictability

There are some projects that could be considered real engineering, usually safety critical applications running on at a nuclear power plant or on a spacecraft where everything is formally verified.

But the vast majority of software engineering isn't ran like a real engineering project
I somewhat feel for many of the theater owners in this case. After the Dark Knight, some tried to sue the theater because they "didn't prevent it" from happening, so something like that. The theater's defense was that they had no prior knowledge. With our litigious nature here in the US, having a vague threat that the theater might be attacked, they could lose that defense.

I agree with your premise though: there is no possible way for society to have absolute certainty of the validity of something so vague as the threats issued. To cave to those demands is absurd.

(full disclosure: I work for a company that owns a large number of theater screens, though not within that department. These are my personal views.)
It's also a country that when it scores one over on the US, never shuts up about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_%28AGER-2%29

They really have zero reason to deny culpability if they actually did do it.
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