skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good analysis about cookie in such extremely popular websites but it turns out that they are not having proper security measures in place to protect users confidentiality. Very pathetic. This is why, some sites like OSIpage (http://www.osipage.com) requires both password+security code combination for additional security and does not rely on session cookies.
Have to agree. It might be better to assume it can be used everywhere and then come up with a list of limitations (which are sometimes overcome by other software e.g. nodejs for file-system access).
For those that prefer a command line tool, jq has been around for a while and works very well.
I can't count how many times jq let me hack together a bunch of commands I normally would have had to write a small program for. e.g small script that pushes the latest semver tag from a github repo to a geckoboard text widget: https://gist.github.com/jdc0589/67df901f71d96b7649b4

http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
No, it's the destructive actions of a few twerps who were/are offended by a satirical piece that's repulsive.
I think it is the situation:

"He was shot because he called him the N word" vs "He was shot because he published these images".

I understand the former pretty easily but the latter I'd want to know what the images contained (especially from a news organization).
Limited language codebases
Nothing hugely complicated. Production Magento, Drupal and WordPress - we managed to outsource the WordPress, so now it's mainly now Magento, and that's much more horrible in itself than MySQL - one in-house tool that used to use it, some MediaWiki, and one really badly-behaved in-house tool that picked MySQL without asking us first.

Mostly we were bitten by long-running MySQL sillinesses:

* its strange idea of UTF-8 (we call the MySQL version WTF-8 - see http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/08/12/character-encoding-bugs-are... )

* InnoDB's galloping disk consumption

* the Debian/Ubuntu package's default stupid behaviour of putting all the InnoDB databases into a single file ibdata1 (I hope this is a Debianism and not something that's default in upstream)

* ibdata1 never shrinking ever (bug #1341, open since 2003)

* binary replication issues (e.g. bug #68892, which is fixed but that doesn't help older or distro versions)

* several others I've mercifully obliterated the braincells that were holding them. But all of these were long-known issues that will never be fixed for one reason or another (backward compatibility with past mistakes, or they just can't be bothered).

Here's a good crib: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else

tl;dr MySQL: the Comic Sans of databases. Except Comic Sans has use cases.﻿
From my experience it was those things that caused me offense regularly that made me question my own beliefs and eventually abandon those beliefs which weren't rational. I suggest that perhaps a problem with our societies is that we try to hard not to offend others.
Love is fractal!
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but you guys need to redo yr site - a lot of the design cues make it look like a one-man fringe project which (assuming that's not the case here) is unfortunate

edit: more specifically, it's not about making it look more expensive/complex/modern but moving away from the specific aesthetic it has right now
Ah, I wasn't paying attention. Nonetheless, 'mystified' seems a bit strong. The US isn't bilingual anything, but I am not mystified when I see signage in Spanish as well as English.
That's cool... but, from what I can tell (correct me if I'm wrong), Bond accomplishes this by using common classes for in-memory objects which have no relation to the wire format, and then simply invoking a pluggable wire format and parse/serialize time. This lets you plug in previous-generation serialization protocols like Protobuf, Thrift, or Avro but probably won't allow you to plug in a next-generation zero-copy protocol like Cap'n Proto, SBE, or FlatBuffers, where the in-memory data structure and the wire format are one and the same. If you want to try one of them, you'll still have to rewrite all your code, unfortunately.
>Yeah, they don't catch terrorists because their presence stops terrorists from trying certain kinds of attacks.

Perhaps you'd be interested in purchasing one of my patented elephant whistles. I haven't heard of a single customer who's been the victim of an elephant attack while carrying one. Keep yourself and your loved ones safe for a very low price!
I had lots of ear problems as a child so many ear aches and trips to the doctor but it all magically ended when my father quit smoking.

But all my life maybe once per year maybe twice I will suddenly get dizzy and I mean within a second. I have to sit still and not even move my head or even my eyes which are flicking back and forth as if I had just spun around for a few minutes. You wouldn't wish this on your worst enemy, it's probably why I'm not really into drinking alcohol I hate this feeling so much even the few times I get it.

My mother occasionally gets it and once my father did too but just the one time two years ago which was rare; we thought he was having a stroke so we rushed him to the hospital.

When the doctor looked at my dad he explained it was called BPPV (Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) he explained it as a "rock" maybe calcium or something like that lodging between cilia of the inner ear.

It made me wonder if this is genetic although as far as I know my sister has never mentioned getting these dizziness attacks.

All the aging Baby Boomers are the target of new medicines I hope to benefit from them when I am a bit older.
You can describe what the images contained without showing them...
My background is primarily web development, however I've been writing a text editor in rust for a few months now. Prior to that, I had never written any software outside of the web.

Honestly, its not such a big change once you get into it. I'd encourage you to just give it a go, build something just for fun with it. Be it a command line tool, game, whatever. My experience has shown me that just because you've only been involved in web development, by no means limits you from systems/low level development!
I know. I knew that based on the title. I still wish it was a response and not an emulation or whatever.
Well, there are lots of firms to work at whose primary goal is something that permanently eliminates work. Here's a list I just happened to have on hand: https://hackpad.com/Science-Tech-Startups-zSZ0KdT6Zk1
It takes 3.5 hours to pronounce the IUPAC name for this protein
What is C4 rice?
Ugh, I understand that there's limit for how long title could be, but there really is a difference between "Entanglement Makes Quantum Particles Measurably Heavier" and "Entanglement Makes Quantum Particles Measurably Heavier, Says Quantum Theorist". When I saw the title my eyes got wider and I was wondering why it's even on medium, but then I followed the link and saw magic dust fading out. Turns out, nothing really happened. Not yet, anyway.
The editor makes an eloquent and lengthy rationale for the Times' decision, but ultimately, it's just dissembling to avoid the label of "cowardice."

Questioning themselves over their own standards, the executive editor says “We have a standard that is long held and that serves us well: that there is a line between gratuitous insult and satire. Most of these are gratuitous insult.”

“At what point does news value override our standards?”

Yet, as others have already pointed out, the NY Times has been willing to publish inflammatory images in the past. Cartoons accusing Jews of fabricating the Holocaust, racist caricatures of African-Americans and Asians, anti-semitic illustrations and obscene homophobic protests, all "gratuitous insult," and all finding their way onto the pages of the Times:

http://gawker.com/7-offensive-images-the-new-york-times-wasn...

I understand the Times' desire to keep its staff safe from harm, and safe from the kind of violent reprisals that might occur if the cartoons were printed. But it's disingenuous to pretend that the decision was made based on the paper's standards, as opposed to fear of the consequences.
This system already works in the UK. You have to pay larger tax for larger emissions,and some manufacturers(Nissan, Citroen, Land Rover) have completely removed larger engines from their offers, because clients were not interested in buying them and taking a hit on their annual tax. At least that's what UK Land Rover branch told me - their % of petrol Range Rovers is close to zero, while in other EU countries which don't have tax tied to emissions sells mostly petrol Range Rovers(which have larger engines with larger emissions) because there is effectively no penalty for choosing them over the slower diesels.
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Sure, and they could, and nothing (legal) would happen to them. Thus freedom of speech is preserved. They also however, have the freedom to choose NOT to share these images, which is what they have done here.

Much like I have the right to tell someone they are ugly. I find people like me better though when I exercise some restraint.
As I said before

Do you think they should show Jennifer Lawrence leaked photos just because it's part of the news story about iCloud breach? I don't think so.
I've built a number of these and it would be a challenge to make a robust, portable one. Mass flow controllers are expensive and sensitive, and carrying around a supply of ethane or other gas would be inconvenient; even if cool. The detectors themselves also tend to be quite sensitive (to motion, RFI, and everything else), though much of that could probably be overcome.
You can say them. You could chose not to say them for the same reason you chose not print anti-semitic cartoons or similar.

Freedom of speech is about governments restricting what citizens can say, and that hasn't happened here.
As you point out, the color rendering index of the LED is a function of the phosphors. There are now a number of 'white' LEDs which have better CRI than projector bulbs. It really is only a matter of time before projector bulbs are gone.
Video of the formula being read aloud: http://io9.com/5961395/a-3-and-a-half-hour-video-of-the-worl...
Pastebin of the formula: http://pastebin.com/wkKH8xD8
Specifically, it's a serious project to adapt the C4 carbon fixation pathway to rice, which is a C3 plant. C4 fixation is much more efficient in drier climates like the ones more prevalent in developing nations. C4 plants while small as a percentage of plant biomass (5%) produce about 30% of carbon fixation among plants.
The author is overly self-congratulatory I think

Considering the breadcrumbs that the author admitted to finding online, I'm realizing that the state of investigative reporting is much worse off than I previously assumed.
Relativity was about decentralizing physics. Capitalism was about decentralizing economic influence. Decentralize all the things and then they endure!
I really enjoyed Spotify and had many play-lists with my favorite music. But when the discovery of new music declined and I got bored with my play-lists I closed the account and have never opened it again.

The curve never go up, but with some songs it have flattened and those are my favorites. But it has more to to with the feelings associated to those pieces then the music itself.
There are two advantages to generating code at runtime:

1) In some scenarios you have information at runtime that allows you do generate much faster code. The canonical example is untagged protocols, where serialized payload doesn't contain any schema information and you get schema at runtime. Bond supports untagged protocols (like Avro) in addition to tagged ones (like protobuf and Thrift) and the C# version generates insanely fast deserializer for untagged.

2) It allows programmatic customizations. If the work is done via codegen'ed source code then the only way for user to do something custom is to change the code generator to emit modified code. Even if codegen provides ability to do that, it is very hard to maintain such customizations. In Bond the serialization and deserialization are composed from more generic abstractions: parsers and transforms. These lower level APIs are exposed to the user. As an example imagine that you need to scrub PII information from incoming messages. This is a bit like deserialization, because you need to parse the payload, and a bit like serialization, because you need to write the scrubbed data. In Bond you can implement such an operation from those underlying abstractions and because you can emit the code at runtime you don't sacrifice performance.

BTW, Bond allows to do something similar in C++. The underlying meta-programming mechanism is different (compile-time template meta-programming instead of runtime JIT) but the principle that serialization and deserialization are not special but are composed from more generic abstractions is the same.
I would have to ask my dad but I know when I am there I swear it's every time I say something except in an incredibly quiet room so tracking isn't necessary since it always occurs from my perspective.

It's probably partly due to hearing loss and also just habit because I know I will say something like "Are you going to go for your walk now or later?" she says "What?" and I repeat "Are you go.." and she interrupts as if she knew all along what I had said ugh! Although context helps many situations.

I also find she mistakenly interrupts current conversations between people if they are discussing something she interrupts the conversation with a new conversation since she can't hear. She also has a hard time with conversation flow as if on a phone conference call when everyone interrupts each other due to not being able to follow the flow of the conversation.
Oops! My bad. Guess its too late to change.
The proof is implicitly modulo 2^96, which I believed to be the intention of the original code, but it does miss a possible overflow when c is too large, which shouldn't happen in its intended use: c2 is already meant to be the overflow limb. I've added an addendum to the post describing, and fixing, this.
They were busy with love rather than work?
> I think they just wanted their own version of Thrift such that they could ignore the languages they don't care about.

I'll put it bluntly: you have no idea what you're talking about.

Bond v1 was started when Thrift was not production ready. This is Bond v3. There is no conspiracy to make Bond hard to use for technology we "don't care about." In general I'm fine with tempered speculation, but your conclusion here is just lazy, and we both know it. It contributes nothing to the conversation, and spreads FUD for no good reason. We can do better, agree?

Now, to address your comments about customization directly: pluggable protocols are an example. The metaprogramming facilities of Bond are dramatically more rich than those of Thrift. A good example of these facilities: using the standard metaprogramming API and a bit of magic we have been able to trick Bond into serializing a different serialization system's schema types. So, picture Bond inspecting some C# Thrift type (or something), and then populating the core Bond data structures with data it finds there, and then serializing it to the wire.

This is the kind of power you get when you construct the serializer in memory using metaprogramming, and then expose that to the user. The flexibility is frankly unmatched.
Every news site explains they were images ridiculing Muhammad. If that's not enough, you can Google "Charlie Hebdo Muhammad".

They don't publish sample pictures alongside stories of child porn arrests, either. They self censor things like this all the time.
Sure, and you also have the freedom to not opt for the pat-down at the airport and go for the scanner...
Connecting an external video card to a notebook
Yes but the images are really relevant to this news story and I think showing them is probably the best way to convey the content.

I don't agree with the images (and I think they are in bad taste) but I'd expect a news organization to report it impartially.
Film bosses accused of mutilating scripts and pushing out writing talent
I think this is a great answer that covers the common pitfalls with launching any side-project. I would add another often repeated, but important, point to the list - try to build something that solves a problem you're having. Earlier this year I launched a side-project[1] that has become profitable and is continuing to grow.

The impetus for building it was that I was trying to find a good solution to my own problem and wasn't happy with existing solutions. I knew that it was a niche product, but I figured at the very least if I built this I would use it. Before building it I also talked to a couple of friends who said "Oh, yeah, I'd pay you for that." That was enough validation for me to spend a weekend building a basic version with a friend of mine. After that I started using it immediately and had those two friends sign up (and pay). Their feedback, and my own usage, gave me the motivation to keep improving the product.

The other thing I would mention is expectations setting. The "build it and they will come" mentality is really hard to overcome when you're excited about your side-project. You figure you will turn it on and people will immediately start signing up. In my case it was several weeks (maybe even closer to two months) before I had a paying customer other than those first two friends. It's easy to be discouraged during that time and completely abandon your project. Have a basic marketing plan, stick with it, and don't set your expectations too high. It will take time.

1 https://cronitor.io
My wife has been diagnosed with Meniere's so I know first hand the problems that go along with it. I hope they can make some advance with these treatments.

One thing I would suggest because it's something we have control over, is to avoid prolonged loud noise as much as you can, e.g., concerts in a small setting. I'm 53 years old and have been listening to loud music my entire life, mostly through headphones, and it's starting to show recently. I certainly didn't help matters by going to an extremely loud concert last year in a small club without earplugs - this surely damaged my hearing even more.
Thanks for all the information. So how do you suppose immortal germ line cells deal with mitochondria damage?
YOU can end homelessness
Very interesting. How about creating a github project for this? Would like to follow.

Blockchain based DNS systems already exist. Web search mostly builds on links and DNS. If one thinks about it TLD names are pretty much fixed, where as in Namecoin they are subject to consensus. What one can do, and that's one example out of many, is create unique hashes for any content to create indestructible information.
Five coolest world famous programmers. Hard work or Good luck?
Oh man, so many good memories from that. My friend RPD III was so good at flashhook dialing we could dial in to PLATO even with a lock on the rotary phone, which was no small feat since it had a large number of high digits and a zero or two.

We figured out the local admin's password (superkey+text man) and gave ourselves extra accounts and privileges. Sure we had hacked access to our RSTS/E PDP 11/34A by snagging the sysadmin's password off the LA30/LA36 (forget which) and replacing the login program, but even with Tek 4014 terminals it was nothing like PLATO.
And while I am at it

Copyright is directly against "absolute freedom of speech"

I can't go and print the latest Game of Thrones book and claim "freedom of speech". We do have actual laws that prevent us to print something.
While the definition of freedom of speech is certainly government related, it is also influenced by external retaliation possibilities.

And in a modern society those retaliations should be strictly legal in nature (which unfortunately is often restrictive, but ok, it's part of the game)

Edit: wording
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If you search for Chrome on Bing.com, the first link is a spyware
I just reformated my dad's computer and the first thing he installs is a bunch of spyware. I asked him to show me exactly what he did during that first minute of fresh clean installation of windows 7:

He binged "chrome" and opened the first link. Bam. Spyware.

You can check for yourself here: http://www.bing.com/search?q=chrome&go=Valider&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=chrome&sc=8-6&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=0d921f38267d4a129916e5c8dfa93418

might be just in french though, looks so legit:

Telecharger Google Chrome | Google.com
www.Google.com/Chrome
Téléchargez Google Chrome Gratuit ! Dernière Version

How come they can enter a fake domain name in the advertisement program of Bing?
No, freedom of speech is about not restricting what people dare to say - it doesn't matter if it's the government or the terrorists that restrict it.
Came in to post this. Thank you.
That's different. The leaked photos aren't central to the story. It's like a piece of art causing a huge amount of controversy. The media outlets certainly don't condone the images but I think it is critical to the story.
Agree. I liked the concept of the article if not the title. From there, I was quickly disappointed. Mainly what happens to me is I look for evidence to support (or refute) an idea I'm mulling. This piece fell short in that I couldn't easily refer others to the article and expect them to come away with any increased understanding.

If anyone knows of a good treatment of centralized/distributed at the service or team levels, please do share.
Please would you email me a couple of pictures of your mother?

Let's test your free speech ideals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1a0ymGCKA
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This seems possibly relevant: https://github.com/friendica/red

From the README: It consists of an open source webapp providing a complete multi-user decentralised publishing, sharing, and communications system - known as a "hub".
This was a great book, I couldn't put it down. Looking forward to seeing the movie adaption and also genuinely excited to see what Weir puts out next. I don't read as often as I used to so it was wonderful to be so enthused about a book and author again.
Ah neural nets though the representation of term rewrite in form of a recursion theory of finite automata with respect to constraint based back-propagation to derive an inductive history rewrite mechanism in retrospect to N v NP depending on the terminal nodes. s/ex/&pression/