skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Queen of Code: Documentary on Pioneering Female Computer Scientist
Sounds awesome. What sort of computational cost does each query take?
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Maybe it could use The Police's song as the background track. I'm still amazed at how many people fail to see how creepy the lyrics really are. Thankfully for my sanity, the author does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Breath_You_Take#Origins_a...
One could change some of the specifics of the language (less talk about management, change "cofounder" to "spouse"), and this could be information on how to have a successful marriage.

In addition, an important piece of advice on marriage that almost certainly applies to cofounders as well is not to contradict your partner or have disagreements in public.
Oh, certainly. I was just alluding to the futility of the comparison :).

Interestingly[1], the power of the type system seems to conflict somewhat with type inference. Or, at least, that a Turing Complete type-level language like in Shen or Idris does require you to spell out increasing amounts of type information. Obviously, this has to do with undecidability of TC languages, but I kind of think it's interesting that e.g. Haskell seems to occupy a kind of "sweet spot" in terms of inference and being able to tell the programmer when it needs a type ascription. AFAICT that would be impossible in a language whose type system is a-priory undecidable, correct? (Just to spell it out: In Haskell, the compiler knows that if you want feature X, Y and Z, then constructs A, B and C become undecidable... and can tell you so.)

[1] Well, I found it interesting, but I'm a layman at best.
Have a look at 1010Data: https://www.1010data.com/solutions/by-industry/financial-ser... and https://www.1010data.com/partners/detail/data-providers

This stuff is already being done legally, with certain industries and within certain financial institutions. Just seems like these guys were just caught in an unfortunate legal snag - otherwise they just seem like good traders to me.
So, all all seriousness, what is the actual danger of XSS? Where does that typically come in?

Is it an issue on an intranet app with a controlled stack?
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This is great news indeed. Why could this not have come 8 months ago? Back then, it was quite disheartening to see the replies from AWS team about Go support.
Can we assume that CoffeeScript will generally remain a superset of ES6 features?

I'm trying to figure out if I should ditch coffee for 6to5 but won't bother if coffee will give me all the ES6 features plus the easier syntax (no semicolons, fat arrows, etc).
In theory Excel can open files with 16,384 columns so it's surprising it failed.

https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Excel-specification...
> What I mean by the first paragraph, in case it's not clear, is that most technologies can and probably will be abused, which doesn't go a long way to say that they should be forbidden right at the start, if there is good to be had in them. You just have to be careful not to allow abuses (which by your post I figured you don't think are happening at this moment)

Collecting data isn't a technology, it's a use of a technology. And preventing mass data collection is how you disallow abuse.

The vast majority of the productive use of e.g. location tracking data is possible when you have the data on yourself and nobody has mass data on everyone. The things that are only possible with bulk data collection are almost universally bad.
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I think pleasentville kinda disproves that...
I'm in my mid 20s too and I strongly agree with what you said.
In my (parents') experience, the problem with the internet connections available in rural areas is not the speed, but monthly data caps. You can get satellite internet service that is fast enough to use Netflix, etc., but you'll hit the cap so fast that it's not really usable.
Are you suggesting someone has a satellite in geosynchronous orbit over a mall parking lot when they could just throw up a camera?
You could use this technique to examine the man page for a program and infer from that what valid command line arguments would be: some terminal shells (fish, for one, possibly zsh as well?) do something like this already to support autocomplete.
This is actually a very nice example of the importance of grammar. A typical novice English learner, even if they can look up all the words from the dictionary, would go on like this:

"Hmm, Jacuzzis is clearly a noun, so it must be the subject. So Jacuzzis found "effective"... wait, that doesn't make sense. "Effective" is not a company, how does one found "effective"? Oh, it must be the past tense of "find". OK, so these Jacuzzis found... effective? How does one find "effective"? And why was effective hiding in "treating phlebitis"? OK, whatever, maybe I could decipher this if I understand "treating phlebitis"... So it is a kind of disease that is... treating someone (or something)? How could a disease treat anyone? This sentence makes no sense!!"

If you think "Duh, that's ridiculous, nobody thinks like that", then you obviously never met a struggling English learner.
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Crazy video game lets you virtually assemble Ikea furniture
A combination of both, something like Knuth's idea for Literate Programming, would be the best I think. Of course that would be way more work for whoever has to type it all up, so I don't think it has much of a chance to catch on.
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We got hacked, now what?
Microsoft invests in Cyanogen
Imgur Releases a Fast Video-To-GIF Converter
The only real solution is to build a culture where nobody (private our public) expects or gets privacy.
There are lots of things people "would rather not share," that don't matter if we all know that people are people.

Besides, for capitalism to work, we need rational actors with /perfect information/.
This article title is incorrect. The correction at the bottom of the article reads:

Correction: This post originally said Microsoft would be investing $70 million in Cyanogen, but the company will be taking part in a $70 million investment round. It's unknown how much Microsoft is investing.
Neat app. A cool feature would be the ability to extract colors from a photo (like Adobe Kuler) and use those in the Abstract Colors pattern.
Alubbe's first draft of adding (automatic) generator support to CoffeeScript — less complicated than you might think

I'm really glad we went with the straightforward python-style presence of "yield" rather than the more obscure stuff that was discussed.

Thanks for coffeescript!
Theoretically they lead to identical code, but I believe a block of inline ASM results in constraints on surrounding code and prevents some types of compiler optimisation.
The core engineers behind J2ObjC were those who built Swing at Sun. We're pretty sour on the idea that write-once run-anywhere UIs are possible

That's an odd conclusion. They're clearly possible, perhaps you mean they don't provide some notion of excellent UI. But even then, web apps are rather a big counter-example ... web apps have never looked native, never been consistent with each other, they don't even try, yet many of them are very popular.

The nativeness of UI is something that seems to matter to developers more than end users. Users react strongly to polish and strong design, but if that is totally inconsistent with the platform only a vocal minority seem to care.
Hey, Im happy with it regardless, and super stoked to see Native Windows 64-bit build support.
How do you quantify values, motivations, etc. to begin with, though?
For interest's sake, note that the blur kernel used here is an approximation of the Gaussian [1]. Also, the vImage documentation includes a brief discussion on where the values in these kernels came from [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_blur

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Perfor...
They pivoted to Bizpora, then sold to co-founders lab.
That's pretty sweet! No wonder with the Wii, I understand it was the last holdout of the older group of consoles, what with the double-clocked GameCube CPU and all.
That coffeescript / JSX example from the blog post looks sooo sweet.

render: ->
div(onClick: @tick, 'Clicks: ', @state.count)

I couldn't find any transformers which support it. Is there anyone out there?
Nice - but we get a Streisand Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

If you're meticulously erasing history, alarm bells will start ringing. On the other hand - feel free to scrub info - I'm not stopping you; just take note of the interesting effect that has (immediately felt or not).
why do you want investors ?
The default comparison is that cofounders are always "married" but that's only half accurate. It's like being married _and_ raising a child. Most of the conflicts I've seen and experienced with my co-founders are about how we feel to best parent our startup.
Criminal, yes. Immoral, probably. Evil? Of course not.
Yes, we are also glad to be involved in making "batteries included but removeable" really happen :)
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You assume that dissent needs privacy to grow. In a free society, I don't see why that is necessary (or even desired.)

The financial crisis was driven in part by "private" takes on "publicly available" investments - cheating that was enabled through strong privacy. This is a societal "bad."
I'd say the problem with math notation is that it simply has too many symbols. It has a different symbol for everything because it was designed as a handwritten system.

For you mathematicians, think what you would do if you woke up tomorrow and all the math symbols had been replaced with emoji? I think most normal people would just learn the four operators and that's all... you know: megaphone, pizza slice, backpack, and recycle.

Math is what it is, designed for a pre-computer world, but what really kills me is when programmers use untypeable symbols like α (alpha), which at least is an actual letter in one language, or worse yet random unicode like · ("middle dot") or ∕ (division sign, not /). There's just no excuse for that.
The Adobe Flash plugin is out of date
>Do you want to allow or disallow it? (allow)

>Check for updates on "allowed" player embed

>List of updates for browser plugins

>Click "update" next to Adobe

>Deselect adware bundling

>Click "install"

>Download "Installer"

>Launch "Installer"

>Installer "Retreiving Install"

>Choose updater preferences (for the 30th time)

>Download Adobe Flash Player

>Finished!

>THANK YOU HERE IS ANOTHER PRODUCT THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU IN A NEW TAB

Just had to get that out of my system.
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Another +1 for OC (South OC/Irvine preferably)
10 years ago, I would never have guessed that I would be finding a new application on my laptop, sending a link to my phone, installing the app on my phone, generating an image, and then emailing myself an attachment back to my laptop to be used as my desktop background.
Major Gaps Between the Public, Scientists on Key Issues
It's 2015 Google is the new Microsoft
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This is my favorite Explained Visually. Don't forget to try the live video!
The best feature is that your corporate IT goons are no longer able to remote-wipe your entire device simply because you hooked up to work email. With the Outlook app they can only wipe your email.
That's an interesting perspective. I don't have any inherent problems with large libraries, but my problem with some of these 'monoliths' is that other libraries start to depend on the entire library when they only need a small piece of functionality that the library provides.

Substack wrote an article [1] explaining some of the problems that monolithic libraries cause in an ecosystem.

[1] http://substack.net/many_things
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Don't think that Wii U is much better....it has a lan port, but literally every tool is command line based and their debugger looks like notepad from Windows 95 with few extra buttons tacked on. There is a plugin for Visual Studio integration, but it's super slow, when you hit a breakpoint in code it takes over a minute to trigger in the IDE, so everyone uses their horrible outdated debugger instead. Nintendo hardware is very weird to develop for.
Real quick, this forum does not allow me to post a lot of responses, so I encourage everyone to email me rross@foldingcoin.net or join in the discussion here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=781352.0 but i will still answer as often as this forum allows me to per day :)

The miners are there for a reason. Looking at the Counterparty protocol you will see that since the CP assets live inside the individual BTC transactions, that unless the miners verify the transaction to be accepted, then the assets will work in the same way that BTC does and not go through.
My cofounder is my brother and communication is far and away one of our biggest challenges. In our case the style familiarity and family connections actually compound the delicacy of how we go about growing and changing our routines. To say I've learned more about myself since cofounding a company than in any prior endeavor would be an understatement, and I've done some pretty whacky things in the past in an effort to test my limits. (reality tv, expat, changed my name, etc) Were we both not at points in our lives where we are receptive and careful with criticism there's no way we have made it this far. One of our clutch mentors ends up being another brother who knows us both very, very well. I can't imagine how we'd get through tough times without that well known second opinion, or how impossibly impenetrable a cofounder relationship is to outsiders who haven't done it before. Hat tip to Mr. Harris for calling this out!
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A hacker developed Maldrone, the first malware for drones
If Microsoft can stop themselves from another Sidekick episode, they might actually manage to make a phone for once. (Assuming they're trying for a phone) But having lived through the Ballmer years (WRT Linux/FOSS), I remain skeptical of any Microsoft participation in Android.
Knapsack problem/Unbounded
back then c++ was probably the best bet, but today i'd at the least take a few weeks to investigate whether D was viable.
If caching is setup properly, you won't need any Database-Querys unless your Content changes.

A static site needs also to be served. HTML-files are on the Servers Harddrive. They have to be read and send to the client.

A clever Caching-Strategy might beat this aproach by reading the files once and Serving the content from memory. When I write "reading the files once", this also includes making a db-query, rendering a HTML-Site and caching the result in a Tool like memcache to serve it from there.
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(Self-reply and all, and I'm not sure anyone actually reads these old threads...)

Does "checkout -- some-file" not add an entry to the reflog?

(Which, btw, is one of the most important and useful commands ever in the history of VCS.)
I used to joke you could set up webcams watching the freight rail lines out of ports, count the train cars and types with computer vision software, and sell the data to hedge funds.
Lucee is a light-weight dynamic scripting language for the JVM
We use it at Amazon Web Services (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/am...) and have found it very practically useful.
If you're willing to confine them to their homes or jail, why not just force them to be vaccinated?
They didn't rewrite the whole software, that would take ages...

The migration from C to C++ was slowly progressing since Inkscape was forked from Sodipodi over 10 years ago, but there are still some C files remaining and SP* prefixes are used all over the place.

Besides, Sodipodi was already using simple GObject-based architecture.
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The reason for using different scripts (Greek etc.) is to sort symbols by broad categories. Done right, it actually makes things more readable (to the sophisticated reader, which is the mathematician's target audience anyway). It's almost like an implicit type system: (within a particular context) Greek letters mean ordinals, lowercase Roman letters mean predicate logic variables, uppercase German letters mean universes... It would be much less fun, and much harder, to follow an intense mathematical work if the variables were all in the same font.
I took the courage to try the x86_64 pre4 of msys2. It is fabulous. The previous version as unusable.
We routinely pummel Datadog with massive amounts of data from hundreds of hosts and it does an amazing job of showing us the data we need and alerting us when something is wrong. Highly recommended.
I wish they would take the money they're investing in this and figure out how to bring more apps to Windows Phone.
Well, it can be efficacious, right? I mean, the placebo effect is a real thing.
> I believe in charitable debate and skeptical inquiry.

I believe in the odds. And the odds are that any technology that has a high potential to significantly add to surveillance capabilities has been exploited for that purpose either by hacking it or convincing (strong-arming if needed) the technology provider to cooperate.

I don't deny that Google does a lot of great things in general, and in security research specifically. That would be denying the plain facts. But I also do not think that has any impact at all on the relationships the government builds with (or forces upon) large corporations regarding national security.

When the chips are down, the NSA and other TLAs are going to get what they want. Now that tptacek is part of a larger transnational security company, he may find that out firsthand.
> (btw, I could only see their cheapest plan at $8/mo/user paid monthly, where is $5/mo coming from?)

I'm currently seeing $6.67/mo on an annualized basis, with no obvious means to get it monthly. Perhaps they just got caught red handed running an A/B test. ;-)

Whatever their price is, though, it matters little if an employee saves as little as an hour per month using the service.
Treasure hunter who found a fortune in gold is captured
What movies are those from?
"None of my fucking business": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WikPtKdffJ0
Why throw good money after bad? It's not like people are going to start suddenly using windows phone, that ship already sailed.
I do agree that many altcoins are "pump and dump", as i have been a miner for years now. But also a lot of these altcoins never became incorporated and masked their identities, IPs, ext... We are fully open with who we are, with pictures to our names and we are 100% compliant with US laws, we are a registered non profit with my name and information on their.

That being said, we are held accountable for our actions as many other altcoins are not, which is how they get away with scamming people.

Even if we do fail in the future, we have at least brought the idea of Folding to many miners who had never heard of it before. Look at our team, http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t... but since we allow other team members to earn FLDC, we just hit 21 million FAH credits yesterday making us the 6th fastest FAH team in the program. That is an accomplishment in itself :)
This makes sense. I can see Microsoft offering Cyanogen and other OEM's a suite of Office apps as a way to sell more Office 365 subscriptions. It's really, really smart.
After careful re-reading, I think you are correct. I didn't read closely enough. The key paragraph is attributed to Google's lawyer.

However, the whole "twitter didn't get a gag order" aspect does support the thesis that the Google gag order is to minimize criticism of the US lawyers.

Since the very same person (Jacob Appelbaum) appears to be the subject of both Twitter and Google search warrants, the "we don't want to alert TERRORISTS!" excuse for the gag order doesn't hold. Also, if it's a search warrant, and not a CALEA-type on-going surveillance warrant, why would a gag order be imposed? If Google has the data, they have to turn it over or face penalties, and I'm sure they have a policy to fork over any legally-demanded data. They may have a duty to their own consciences to contest the search warrants, but I'm sure that they hand over data.

I can think of one other motive for such a gag order, and that's to minimize the time that Appelbaum has to prepare a defense. That hardly seems fair, given that the USA is supposed to have a level playing field with ALL CITIZENS subject to the rule of law. I'd rather not think that the US Attorney, with all the legal and monetary resources of the federal government at hand, would stoop to cheap shots like that.

I think Gidari's conclusion, although an opinion, fits the facts as we know them. The Google gag order was sought to contain or minimize criticism. Assuming that seems to give the US Attorneys the benefit of the doubt, because otherwise I'd think they were trying to cheat, which they, as officers of the court have a moral duty to avoid.
FCC no longer considers connections below 25 Mbps download as “broadband”
Maybe they will. Cross-platform Android/Windows Phone apps...
I've never seen any data presented at all except for the autism thing, and in that case the data is not real.

You're right that most people won't post data regardless. The difference is that you won't find it even if you go looking for it. For example, the "chemicals" argument is rooted in magical thinking, not data. It goes something like, vaccines contain chemical X, X is used for nasty purpose Y, therefore X is bad in all circumstances and you'd be mad to put it in your children.

The fundamental problem is that people don't know how to think. They don't know how to differentiate between "this vaccine contains small amounts of aluminum which is harmless for the following reasons" and "this vaccine contains aluminum, which is known to cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease."

Maybe I do need to appear more knowledgeable of their views to be convincing. But I can't "realize it is supported by real data" when it clearly is not.
OpenOffice.org died years ago. You are probably thinking of Apache OpenOffice.

Regarding momentum, compare:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/?view=log

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/
The FCC just defined broadband as 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up
How would they do this? Pay developers to create apps for their own brands? They could make their own versions, but that's not going to sit well with .. anyone.

Curious how such a small investment would make a dent in the seeming lack of apps for the Windows Phone platform.
The only command-line screenreader-compatible browser I know of that also supports JavaScript is edbrowse, which is not so bad to use if you’re already familiar with ed.
There are good things about the ribbon, true, and you're spot on about using horizontal space. I wonder though whether the LibreOffice team have enough solid data about user behavior to make good decisions in what would be a huge redesign - not to mention that, judging by the screenshots, they are already starting to make good use of horizontal space.

Also, I'd personally prefer if instead of just permuting UI elements they would adapt some of the really nice ideas that really make things flow better for everyday users. I suppose it's nice to have a bigger Undo button, but wouldn't it be less contentious and more useful in the long term to teach people about Ctrl+Z?

In particular, the live previews don't require a permutation of the UI layout, and (during my admittedly limited use) I found it to be the nicest of the changes that people usually associate with the Ribbon.