skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we grow up, our eyes become better to recognize wrong proportions than what our hands can draw. Which is why kids are super-happy drawing anything while adults are always reluctant to draw.

I wouldn't really call it taste though but that's another debate.
I heard (second or third hand) of this layoff at Evans & Sutherland back in the day. They first laid off a bunch of managers. But then there was nobody to tell their subordinates whether they were laid off or not. So they mass disconnected everyone from the network. If you could log back on, you still had a job.

Full disclosure: Over the years, someone may well have told me that this story was not accurate.
I'm running 10.7.5 and get no crash. Because I have GNU grep, it seems.

% echo i860 | grep --color -e i860 -e i86
i860
% uname -a
Darwin xebulon.local 11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
% grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
...
% which grep
/usr/bin/grep

It looks like 2.5.1 was released on 29-Oct-2004.
ISTR using a C #pragma pack when I was writing device drivers.
The only thing I subjectively see in the value of music is the lengthy amount of time that the formalism of it's language has survived. Otherwise I typically listen to the same songs on repeat until they have turned into a drone like noise for me to block out the rest of the noise in the world. Sometimes I do appreciate variation in music, and I have spent a lot of time devoted to studying classical music. But still, a particularly well known sonata might as well be a recursively constructed formalism of white noise to me, because that is how I remember the piece. It is beautiful in that regard, but I just do not consider myself educated enough in music to understand anything about it otherwise.

I find code and mathematics to be much more delicate, intricate, fundamental; to my own personal comprehension. I remember playing the piano a couple of times to think about how a computer might experience the progression of it's thoughts. The thing with creativity is it has no walls.
Do you have an article or their announcement? I can't find anything and I'm interested in Reddit's business structure.
Was gonna come in here to ask...will this explain Nemesis as not a recurring event but rather a one-time event caused by that trailing brown dwarf (or the star itself) flinging comets all over the place. It would also explain a lot of other crater-rich surfaces dating back to that time...
How to Handle Vulnerability Disclosures
I don't think it's very likely, but it might be possible a comet caused the theorized human population bottleneck around 70,000 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
Did they not just raise many millions of dollars in a new investment round? Did those new investors not receive a percentage of equity in Reddit Inc. as it is organized today?
The first sentence says it all: it is _not_ available in all of the versions after Windows XP. Combining that with the fact that it is not open source and it is not cross-platform, it's basically useless to me.

For now on, I'm sticking with TrueCrypt 7.1a version which I downloaded from https://truecrypt.ch/ on all of my machines.
"Instead, Akerson says that Apple should focus on helping incumbent automakers with in-car electronics."

Not that I think Apple should get into the game of making cars, but they are in the industry of disrupting consumer products. This idea coming from the former CEO of GM strikes me more as the old guard auto manufacturers wanting to protect themselves than be exposed to new and better organized competition.

Car companies have made multiple abysmal attempts to integrate third party manufacturers "connected" systems into their products, compared to how a company like Tesla can nicely integrate those components into their overall product, I think these old guard companies are nervous about the future.
>maybe "clone" suggests that I re-wrote it entirely making it looks the same

Precisely.

>Not sure if my average friend knows what a fork is

Maybe describe it as a "variation" then??
>What does "private branch" mean? All branches are "private" until I publish them.

Exactly that. An unpublished branch.
Chrome comes pre-installed as of 4.1 -- so with that mind, it is anti-competitive. MS got in big trouble for doing pretty much the same thing.

I don't think the old browser is even available on the newer versions.
Microsoft Office hasn't really evolved in 10 years, and even when it did (in 2007), it hasn't really evolved for the better.

I do think that there is a window opened for a competitor to disrupt this monopoly.
5 Minute Video Reviews of Your Website Project
> Barber explained, it can be compared to a single string of spaghetti holding up 3,000 half-kilogram bags of sugar.

Heh. So... it can hold 3,000 things that weigh a half-kilogram? Also known as 1,500 kilograms.

What is it with the BBC's hilarious units of comparison? It has clearly become some sort of journalistic inside joke.
Your comment here on HN would be marked as spam for using the word "Fade". As would mine.

I totally agree that Fade spamming Yik Yak is bad, and pretending that they were wronged by Yik Yak is ridiculous. But that wrong doesn't make this strange censoring right.

It's especially troubling that the posts aren't removed, but rather, get softly automatically downvoted over time, making the process almost invisible.
It's also _speeding_ away (no info on how many km/s per year faster it is?). It could've been much slower 70.000 years ago.
Welcome jQuery developers
If anyone wants to take a look at the struct offsets inside their own code, the article mentions pahole as being a useful tool but I found that it chokes on recent C++ - the dwarf libraries it relies on can't cope with lambdas and various other things IIRC.

However, helpful people have written an extension to gdb which does something roughly equivalent & lets gdb do all the heavy lifting of parsing the struct data from the binary debugging information.

pahole.py ships with Fedora, but since Debian doesn’t include it for some reason I’ve kept my own versions around based on something I grabbed from the gdb mailing lists some time ago:

https://github.com/PhilArmstrong/pahole-gdb
So do you know more about the sudden "TrueCrypt is not secure" thing (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/28/truecrypt_hack/) and can say definitively why the creators did that?
Texas Hold'em Odds Visualization
> Exit mechanism: Don't forget to implement and test an exit mechanism in your app.

We locked our kiosks in a frame that disallowed hitting menu buttons. To escape from the app without unlocking the frame, I implemented a "magic menu," consisting of three invisible buttons in the corners of the app. They would launch an admin menu if they were hit in the correct sequence within the correct amount of time.
This also requires not having any moral qualms about misleading your employer. That's probably a bigger block than confidentiality for most people.
UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications
Very cool, thanks for this!
End-to-end encryption means it's encrypted between the endpoints - any intermediate servers just see ciphertext and never have access to the key to decrypt it. SSL just encrypts the link to Google's servers - it should be basically irrelevant since the data should already be encrypted and digitally signed.
On which OS? Unless your adversaries are state actors BitLocker on Windows works just fine for both the internal and any removable drives.

Yes it's not perfect and if you use it and let your devices to go to sleep rather than power off you are vulnerable to various memory access and coldboot attacks.

However with TPM/USB Storage for the keys, with secure boot enabled Bitlocker offers one of the better data encryption capabilities out there.

Yes MSFT might have backdoored it, TPM is an oxymoron and all that might be true. However if the only thing you are worried about is what happens to your data if your device gets lost or stolen you are probably more than fine with using this setup.

If you are worried about the NSA having your files well then probably there isn't much you can do about it if they want them they'll get them. Whether its by backdooring your OS, internet connection, or by sending intelligence support activity assets to your home to tap into it while you sleep :)
Elon Musk => Elon the Archmage. Lol, awesome.
For a typical high-achieving man (in other words, a narcissist) to make it through a program where he's even slightly outside the social mode without a persecution complex, he'd have to possess extraordinary emotional poise. And we've seen that fine analytical minds are at least as prone to biases (system 2 reasoning is the rationalizing one, not the automatic system 1).

So, this woman's reaction is not to her discredit. Almost any person would have it. What's maybe a little sad is how much play such "dear diary" reactions get. I guess people really love a good shouting match (see the many flagkilled comments).

Those capable folks who enter a field out of genuine desire and with no obstacle other than a (real) feeling of social friction will stick with it and prevail. Good luck, outsiders. Anyway, ridiculous feelings of persecution (e.g., they think they're better than me with their college degrees - I'll show them all!) can be harnessed for productivity, so if you can't zen away your angst, use it.
It's not about expunging information from the internet, it's simply to prevent something inappropriately or incorrectly defining a person.

When the Spaniard googled himself in 2009, two
prominent results appeared: home-foreclosure notices
from 1998, when he was in temporary financial trouble.

That stuff will always be part of his/collective history and important for some purposes, but in the context of this man and the search results for his name it's almost never going to be important or relevant information.
It matches my experience too, much to my frustration. I've studied music theory and composition for years and have composed a fair number of pieces. I can play piano and sing but have no interest in being a performer. My instrument is pen and paper (or midi controller, Finale, and Ableton).

I'm 3 credits short of a bachelor's degree because I've never been able to pass any foreign language course. 10 attempts. Languages go through my head like sand through a sieve. I even took a language proficiency test and the proctor said I did so badly that I could have achieved a better score through blind chance, randomly selecting answers.

I'm now married to a fluent Japanese speaker. Even with her help it doesn't make any difference, it just won't "stick" no matter how hard I try. She tells me my pronounciation is excellent, however.

The college I went to will not accept any substitutions, thus the frustration.

And yet I learn programming languages quickly.
Scatter.to seems be a much better option since it also has a history and archive function.
Wow those are serious concerns, thank you for linking that.

Maybe they have an email list of the original donors and can propose some multiple choice options:

1 - bug bounty

2 - attempt to hire someone at a steeply reduced rate for the audit

3 - use the money to seed a complete replacement or a clean room rewrite if possible (this is a can of worms but given the license issues seems like the only realistic way forward... might need the help of FSF or ASF or the like)
I am very excited about the prospects of the JWST and the LSST.
Jetbrains C/C++ IDE – CLion
You can see elsewhere on this thread where I'm coming from and what I think about the project.
Legally yes - just like his first class ticket legally entitled him to better service. But is it right for him to have such a huge influence over the so many people both in Greece and outside. Seems like a single point of failure to me.

I'm just concerned that his unorthodox but popular views offer no new insight in how to solve the problem. If so Greece may doom its people to long term relative poverty and drag other countries along with it.

Time will tell. I wish Yanis, Syriza and Greece the best of luck. Things could still turn out OK as economic predictions are very uncertain. However the risks are clearly huge.
Twitter is a publicly traded company and one of their metrics is tweets per day. Spam is in their best interest. Same goes for snapchat. It's a bit twisted but when snapchat or Twitter can say "X million photos/messages per day," who cares if it's all spam? Who's gonna prove them wrong?
Put it on a TV screen somewhere with a cheap computer running it, I bet people would love that.
The ghostly sounds that are lost when you compress to mp3
Yes, and I'm saying that "flexibility" isn't worth its cost in security. Use app-layer crypto. Among other things, app-layer crypto gives you fine-grained data integrity, foreclosing on a vector for remote code execution attacks.
There is pretty much zero chance that the TC audit project is going to sponsor a rewrite of Truecrypt. That's a project that would cost much more than the TC project has to spend.
We use them; I haven't had MS Office installed since... I'm not sure, but I think it's been more than a decade now. I used OpenOffice for ages, then LibreOffice.

For work we MS Office or LO for MS docs from elsewhere. LO is much better at correctly reading in MS-generated docs than Google Docs, and of course MS Office for people who spend most of their time dealing with documents from outside (not me, thankfully).

We use Google Docs for all of our internally-generated stuff, though -- the concurrent editing in particular is quite useful. We sometimes collaborate on docs, and each person can add their section at the same time. You can review someone else's work on a spreadsheet while they're doing it.

I recently went through an important (and politically complex) meeting where the CEO and I shared a Google doc for taking notes. It was awfully convenient; I could provide him constant feedback on technical issues but let him decide what to actually say, and how to say it.

I'm less happy with how Google Drive is integrated with Google Docs (not well), and I'd like to see concurrent editing in Sites, but maybe someday...
>the absolute requirement to own two expensive cars

This is no more a requirement in the midwest or Minneapolis than it is anywhere else, and by that I mean not a requirement at all. I know plenty of devs here that drive $4,000 cars (or ride the bus!) and have no problem getting steady work with great wages.

As someone who does occasional work for the auto industry though, thanks!
If this is happening with the distro LO, then there's something seriously wrong with your PC or your installation. This does not happen for almost anyone else - whatever compatibility complaints people may have, LO is ridiculously stable. (The Coverity cleanup was seriously worth it.)

If you can reproduce this with a given document on a different PC, you have a reportable bug.
My Search for a Writing Touchstone
I have the same problem. The Exile series were some of my favorite games growing up (especially Exile III). But I haven't been able to really focus on Avernum. I keep telling myself to play through it, but it just doesn't feel the same. I have to assume it's because I personally have changed, and if I were introduced to Exile today I'd probably have some choice words about the UI. But the nostalgia factor is really high.
The Web Ahead, episode 96: Reinventing the Web in Virtual Reality
This is a crazy one — on WebVR. What will happen when Virtual Reality meets the web?
The term "institutional buyer" covers a broad spectrum. It's not just the deep-pocketed tech firms that buy smartphones. It's also your hospitals, animal shelters, fast food franchises, etc. Lots of these buyers are going to be looking for value other than app availability such as ease of integration with existing tools, security, and the right price. I don't see my local humane society heading out to the Apple store for a bunch of iPhone 6 Pluses.

I completely agree that app availability is not likely to save Windows Phone. I do believe though that MSFT's ability to push a wide range of capable, corporate-compatible handsets at reasonable price points give the platform as much of a chance at success as it's ever going to get.
Not working for me on Chrome Version 40.0.2214.111 (64-bit), running on Ubuntu 14.04 (just get Flight Stream and a black background).
Works beautifuly on Firefox on the same machine though!
> Chrome comes pre-installed as of 4.1 -- so with that mind, it is anti-competitive. MS got in big trouble for doing pretty much the same thing.

No, they didn't. Bundling IE with Windows was one component of a wider pattern of behavior which, as a whole, Microsoft got in trouble for. They didn't get in trouble for pre-installing IE alone.
If he didn't take the job too seriously he could be a hobby lobbyist.
Relevant bugs for Firefox:

implement performance.memory [0]

Need something like performance.memory, need to figure out what [1]

Please comment your use cases in these bugs.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124223

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1132852
How is that the radius of the observable universe? I thought the observable universe was bounded by the age of the universe, which why the furthest distant observations show the universe close to the time of the Big Bang. Shouldn't the radius of the observable universe = the number of years light has been traveling toward us?

Edit: Wikipedia says I'm wrong about this. What's new?
Move Evaluation in Go Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Responsive Web Design for Mobile Consumers
Your company should have some sort of review process where they go over your performance and goals. These are usually the best places to express your passions and career path. If they don't have that, you can always try and seek out one of the leadership team members and request a 1 on 1. If the leadership is reasonable, it would make sense to keep you coding and hire someone else that is a little more jr. to do the writing. The financial compensation might be a little trickier, but I think you should be able to negotiate that accordingly as well.
Just because you don't doesn't mean that nobody does. Ever tried to use a phone two-handed while holding onto a subway pole? Or walking home with groceries? Or holding your kid's hand?
Yeah, the live collaborative editing is a killer feature of GDocs.
Is Regulation Causing the Decline in American Dynamism?
That is literally the exact opposite of what Coase said.

Coase said that in a world without transaction costs it doesn't matter who the liability falls upon. When you turn to the real world, the fact that it matters greatly who the liability falls on shows just how important transaction costs are.

Coase was trying to get economist to stop ignoring transaction costs and pretending that the type of bargaining in your comment will solve all our problems.

Here's Coase himself:

The world of zero transaction costs has often been
described as a Coasian world. Nothing could be further
from the truth. It is the world of modern economic
theory, one which I was hoping to persuade economists
to leave

Here, read this (pdf). It explains your misunderstanding (shared by many others) in great detail: http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_306.pdf
Does this somehow conflict with the DCMA safe harbor provisions? I thought the deal was that they weren't responsible for the things done on their network as long as they don't know about it.
Thank you for checking it out! We are aware and plan on rebranding soon. We are currently still in the MVP phase so the domain name is more of a short-term thing. We do plan on adding much more to the service.
Confusing as there is already a successful software named Haystack.
Such an amazing display of corruption.
Here I was thinking that '96' stood for 1996 and this was going to be about VRML. I was disappointed.
But what of the entities that publish this information online in the first place? Why are the newspapers not accountable?
I don't think they changed any of the assets in the Steam versions, so you're still probably hearing the original sounds.
> You can’t authenticate the data. Authenticating every sector is too expensive. Try to (painfully) authenticate the whole disk and any disk error trashes the disk. Maybe your users enjoy exciting games of chance? Authenticate arbitrary groups of sectors and you can play Russian Roulette with your files. (http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/)

Out of interest: Doesn't the use of error detecting filesystems like ZFS and Btrfs solve the authentication problem? I don't have anything resembling a formal argument, but intuitively having each block checked in a Merkle tree like fashion should inhibit attacks where attackers can only change blocks in a random manner or restore old backups of the blocks. Of course time traveling - i.e. replaying - the file system as whole is still possible, but selectively manipulating the data should not.
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Not without time travel... This was only 70 thousand years ago.
That's already in there :). This plugin was partly inspired by that. There is a whole host of other words now!
Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America
Interesting bit about their technique:

"Could regulation be increasing barriers to entry, raising the costs of reallocation, and slowing the diffusion of productivity innovations? To test the hypothesis that regulation is reducing dynamism Nathan Goldschlag and I combined data on dynamism with an industry level measure of regulation. Our measure of regulation is produced by an innovative technique that combs the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for restrictive terms or phrases such as “shall,” “must,” “may not,” “prohibited,” and “required”. The count of restrictive words in each section is then associated to industries via a machine learning algorithm that recognizes similarities between the language in that CFR section and industry language (e.g. a section of the text with words such as “pipeline” would be associated with the oil and gas industry). In this way, we can associate each industry with an index of regulation derived from the entire CFR."
It seems that most commenters jumped in with a solution but I would ask, what are your goals?

Lets say that your goals are to discover a wide range of topics and gain breadth. Then you seem to be on the right track. But if your goals are to master and deep learn specific topics (e.g. algorithms), then you may need to change your current habits, a much harder problem (and yet more meaningful to solve).

In either case, goal setting will help. If you are naturally curious and want breadth, then be honest and set a goal to measure yourself: "By end of this month, I want to explain 10-12 new ideas in less than 2-3 sentences." Your goals must be measurable. For more on goal setting, checkout Brian Tracy's 12 Steps.

Advice often ends at goal setting but it's only the beginning. Your daily routine is critical to advance your goals. Try out apps for task management or even paper/pencil like Cal Newport suggests [1]. I had to learn to develop a regular ping to keep myself honest: "Is what I'm doing at this moment advancing me towards my goals?" And to be honest, replying to this thread is not so I'm going to sign out here. Good luck buddy.

[1] http://calnewport.com/blog/2013/12/21/deep-habits-the-import...
Red Hat 64-bit ARM Linux grows up
I hate the precedent of having to opt-out of targeted advertising, but I hate even more that I can't pay Google (or Facebook, etc), any amount of money to do so.
On your Mac the stack trace hints that the bug is due to a bad pointer/offset/size being passed to fwrite() but in the debug builds it looks like it's in the fastcmp() function. Is this the descrepancy you're talking about in the final paragraph?