skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose the problem in Ferguson is more about out-of-town shoppers than commuters. Specifically, out-of-town shoppers for controlled substances. So this is yet another symptom/consequence/whatever in the war on drugs.

Just because you made me interested, I googled and found e.g. this: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-darren-wilson-arrest-201...

Should Brooks, a resident, and Johnson, a non-resident, have been arrested? According to law, yes. Is this fight on drugs working? Probably not. But should the residence status impact whether they are arrested? No. Does this make it silly to compare number of arrest warrants to number of residents? To some extent, yes. No doubt that the situation is worse in St. Louis than in Boston, but it's not just one Ferguson.
A brief history of fiddling with Unix directories
2.5 million in a well managed (even conservative) portfolio is practically guaranteed to be enough for retirement in 10 years with passive oversight. You would be adding to it with savings as well.

I guess if you're hell bent on being all in, I'd recommend some kind of insurance in the form of a Put option that you hope expires worthless (assuming this is a public company).
Where is Docker security headed?
I got a brand-new laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed from a local manufacturer in Turkey (Actually it says "Grundig" but it's assembled by Arçelik[1]), as a present. It had an i5 and an SSD so I decided to give it a go as a mobile workstation (I'm the kind of developer who likes his large monitors a bit too much). The installation was single-language and I wanted it to be English, so I re-installed from the dedicated partition and there I could choose English. Installation took quite a few restarts and at least an hour. During this time, most of the messages I received were really vague ("Your computer is being reset" with a looping load animation doesn't help me see the progress). After it finished, I went on to update it to Windows 8.1. Here's a summary of my experience: http://imgur.com/a/Qr49N ("Something happened". Wow!)

Please note all those pre-installed apps in the background of the last picture, which you can't get rid of unless a) you remove them one-by-one and clean registry manually or b) download a fresh copy of Windows from Microsoft but then you lose some drivers for some reason and need to hunt for them.

After tweaking, restarting, deleting stuff, modifying registry and so on, I could finally install the 8.1 update.

That's why I'm so excited about .NET going full cross-platform (I've been developing primarily on Windows since nearly 10 years, mind you).

[1] http://www.grundig.co.uk/Pg/AboutGrundig
Where can their political programme be found? (in English)
Because they can use both?
I definitely share your sentiment, but AWS is geared mostly towards developers, and mysql is the leading database in terms of users.. especially among the legacy development community. (those that did LAMP in the 00's and do not wish to relearn databases)
Young Women in STEM: Big Dream Documentary Screening
There's always microblock:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
I'm not going to argue for keeping address details on here that you don't want up. However, publishing a business address isn't really "doxing" surely - business addresses should be public information I feel.

Interested in others take on this?
At any point in time each part of your code is infringing a number of patents that is growing to infinity.

Patents are a tool of harassing others for big companies. The only thing that is important is will a big company sue you or not.
I thought java users were abandoning maven over gradle.
Posted March 14th, 2013
Ah, I clicked expecting developer-orientated techniques.

Anyone has any resources he (or she) can recommend about writing faster, more efficient javascript? I'm not a developer, I learned javascript to hack some things together and obviously I taught myself awful practices, but I can't identify/change them.
Well, this is more distant. If we're at it, it is also the name of a particle accelerator in Brazil: http://www.lightsources.org/news/2015/02/21/sirius-%E2%80%93...
Will not work on Android phones from scratch.
In F-Droid AdAway is still available ( https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway )
At least you looked at it. :)

Did you read the PDF with a whole lot of the interesting research on the subject? Pretty brilliant stuff there, and not related to selling of anything. Can't comment on Steiner consults, didn't see any way to actually buy or pay - looked to me more like a way to say "go ask somebody else", if I remember.

Also gettingstronger isn't very much out there on the myopia topic at all. Check out scholar.google.com and just type in the keywords that Todd talks about. That's some pretty established premises, that hardly anybody is arguing against.

My point was to suggest some ways to work out the myopia problem. I for one used to depend on -3.00 glasses that I haven't needed in a few years, thanks to the ideas on those and other sites like it. It is fascinating how often it's more about being right, than looking into options (which can't really point at you there, you clearly looked at the sites). Pseudo myopia, near-induced transient myopia, lens-induced myopia, those are all very key pieces to the puzzle. The concept of the "dynamic eye", which changes specifically based on sight and focal plane, is another.

Put it all together, and you aren't necessarily stuck with glasses forever. :)
I wish they'd use a standard build system and not a bunch of home-made unportable scripts, so it would be a bit easier to give this thing a try.

https://github.com/jhauswald/sirius
Also this:

"Gotta get this off my chest. While "youngbloods" is more common, it felt too gendered, too dudebro. "Young bloods" was my compromise. There."

https://twitter.com/jmhodges/status/423315878722031616
> This is incredibly interesting. I wonder what their support was in the last election?

5.1% in the last parliamentary elections (in 2013) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_(Iceland)

The survey charts show a rather meteoric very recent rise: http://mmr.is/frettir/birtar-nieurstoeeur/460
... any more than you can patent something which has already been patented. Both require a lawsuit to challenge.
Their support was 5.10% in the last elections which were in the summer of 2013.

In the national elections Iceland is split up into six constituencies which hold certain amounts of seats in parliament. At the moment this (slightly) favours the four constituencies outside of the capital which also favours the 'old block' of parties which are more popular in the countryside/rural areas/small towns.

This survey is showing a big backlash agains those in charge after a string of controversial decisions and corruption allegations. The thing is though that I doubt this backlash will last for two more years. But I'm quite sure that the pirate party will at least double the amount of seats (they have 3 now).
It's more likely that it would make MonoDevelop more strictly VS compatible. It already opens and saves .sln and .csproj files, but my understanding is that going back and forth between VS and MD can lead to problems.
On the party's website seems like a good bet: http://www.piratar.is/?lang=en
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I work for an "ideas factory" and can confirm we have all of those problems.
Well, Nativa was pretty gross though. It was (slightly) sweet, and a lot of people prefer their mate without any sort of sweetening.
How to get started in web development?
May you share your browser/OS setup? I will take a look on this. Thanks!
Open-source algorithms to enable high-quality 3D printing of metal parts
There is probably 10MB worth of driver, and 220MB worth of crapware. If you install a fresh copy of Windows those hardware vendors are going to try their damned hardest to get their crapware back on to your machine.
My position is almost the same as btilly's. When he says "We, as men, will never actually understand female orgasms and women will never know how ours are felt... " anaolykarpov is merely including himself in the more general set of men, and thus communicating an opinion as an element representative of that set, regardless of the audience. The disjunction with the set of women is necessary to underline the fact that there might be a fundamental qualitative/quantitative difference in the way orgasm is felt by the two.

In fact, the statement wouldn't have been any less correct had the audience been only women.

The same applies if a woman were to say "We, as women, will never ..."
At least in my favorite problem domain, mathematical computation, reusable unboxed data structures are a huge win! That said, sometimes theres also a large use case to pointer formulations, namely preserving sharing for a complicate value like a proof!

Both are valuable tools, and having decent reusable support for both is a wonderful thing.
AdAway only works on rooted phones.
Google would be better off just saying: "we remove apps that prevents us to monetize advertising".

No one buys "violate TOS" BS.
It's interesting that I was quite happy with seeing ads, but a Local World newspaper site (http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/) which I visit relatively often forced me to install something to make the site usable. The ads have made the site almost unusable.

It is the behaviour of advertisers that are making people seek out these blockers. Owners of sites have to realise that their users are desperately trying to engage with them, but they are making the experience SO unpleasant that people are trying to circumvent the owner's attempt to make as much money as possible.
Note: it's unclear to me whether this is the vuln everyone is waiting for.

Other links:

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0291
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0291

This link seems to be broken or DoS'd:

http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0291

Does anyone else have further information?
Microsoft break acquired Acompli app overnight with vague message to “upgrade”
I never understood why cookies receive so much attention in various privacy discussions. They are the one thing the user has full control over.

Yes it takes some effort to delete them, but so does looking left and right before crossing the street.
What prompted this law in the first place? Can someone from the US shed some light on this?

I just don't understand how you can ban selling what you manufacture to whomever you like outside of a planned economy.
A two year old article is now news?
Personally I prefer AdFree[0], it's a very simple utility that blocks ads on the host files level, and automatically updates this file daily. On desktop Chrome, Adblock appears to be a better choice, since they don't selectively show some ads.

[0] http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/themes-apps/adfree-a...
That sounds similar to Self-Destructing Cookies[1], which I'm using. Has anyone tried both and can compare them?

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
But they do support read replicas, surely cross region read replicas is coming soon?
It doesn't work the way that I thought it would? (Instead of learning how it actually works.)
You get a message in the top bar to “upgrade”, but you can’t click it, and if you’re not a nerd who follows tech news, you wouldn’t know that Microsoft want you to use the new Outlook app instead.

So the effectively broke all Exchange/Google-related updates for people at work and home, since the app stops to fetch updates—I stopped receiving e-mails from what I can tell.
Lisp can be extended to support infix expressions. For instance:

http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/la...
> pronounced you-block (/ˈjuːˌblɒk/) — you decide what enters your browser.

They even changed the icon and AFAIK the mu character never meant "micro". However I prefer your interpretation of the mu character.
Um. It's right here.... this is 2013 news.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/ogkam...
"Is browsing the Internet with such a big chunk of functionality missing really so much better"

Using NoScript does not mean "functionality missing". It's just disabled by default - and personally, most of the time I find the "missing functionality" unnecessary, and in most of places where it's not I already have a whitelist entry in place.

HN works perfectly. Lots of pages even work better with NoScript, as it basically cuts a lot of bloat. If some don't, enabling JS is one click away.

Anyway, there are lots of pages which are kind of expected to not work correctly without JavaScript - and that's fine. But if for instance Hacker News wouldn't work in its current form without JS, that would be a valid thing to complain about, because there's absolutely no reason for that. There are even some pages that implement loading animation in JS in a way that when JS is disabled, the whole page is obstructed by loader that never disappears - and that's just reckless coding that should be fixed.
Ouch. That's much worse than in the USA.

The Oregon <--> Washington bridge that they wanted to replace is heavily used. It is for I-5, which is the primary North <--> South highway for the west coast.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnePhoneCall

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2274/you-have-th...
In case you're thinking this is THE BUG that should have been released today, I don't think it is. While serious, I saw this on github several days ago. I've also seen two others this week.

This also isn't internet shattering, or whatever. Maybe it's just me but I expect a little more from all the talk about this bug.
Not all cases of myopia are caused by misshapen eyeballs. There are a few other conditions which can cause nearsightedness. Some will correct on its own, others can be corrected by some eye exercises. This would explain why some people have success with these methods.

However, if myopia is caused by misshapen eyeballs (the usual cause), then none of those exercises have been observed to be effective in any way.

And don't use argument of no economic benefit. There is always something to sell. See the middle link you have posted which is selling a $150/mo subscription to "reverse myopia"
They only launched support for within-region read replicas back in November > https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-read-replicas/

Postgres is still comparatively new to AWS, whereas MySQL was one of the first (the first?) supported RDS engines way back in 2008/9 or thereabouts. I guess this is due in part to the relative latecoming of built-in streaming replication support in Postgres, it's only been since 9.0 that it's been a thing, and 9.1 that it's been production-ready, which coincides with it's rise in popularity over recent years (well, that and Oracle buying Sun..).

My money is on support for x-region replication being announced late this year; it's a feature I'm interested in for sure.
Strong disagreement.

If we are going to get real reform, we need the police to also buy in. Alienating them doesn't help.

The drive to consider oneself a "good person" is fundamental to human nature (yes, psychopathy is a pathology). The issue is that "good" is socially defined. LEOs operate in a very odd social space.

How do we get LEOs to want to align more with a more civil social space? This is the nut we need to crack.
I am not a full time javascript dev. A general advice:

Code review a great tool to learn great practices. Get your code reviewed by some good developer and work on the comments. Sometime code review comments are very personal views of commenter, but in general they can be very helpful.

You said that you taught yourself an awful practice. If you can identify a practice as awful, then probably you can fix it without help of anybody else by simply googling. In my opinion the real challenge is to identify a piece of code is awful or not. If you can identify, then probably it is much easier to correct that.
Strangely enough I did automatically get an invite for Inbox on a legacy free domain.
Oh, it's easy. It's through things like regulatory capture, funding campaigns and thus having direct access to congressional workers, having people appointed to regulatory bodies that are partial to your stance and/or other means of influencing non-elected officials. Basically, if you can't beat them through normal market means, pass laws so they can't beat you.

Sounds cynical but take note, back when cars were first coming out the laws that were passed in response to them were designed to impede the adoption, not promote.
But this guy (you, whoever) didn't actually know what they were doing...otherwise he wouldn't have blown away the restore partition without saving the stuff that they needed to do a vanilla install.
The future of interactive cinematic VR is coming, and fast
TestGen – Generate and test pseudorandom numbers
The advantage of selfdestructingcookies is that, without any intervention, it allows cookies while the site that set them is open in a tab, but once the tab is closed the cookies are promptly deleted (configurable delay).

Same with Vanilla cookie manager on Chrome, except I don't think it deletes localstorage, flash cookies, etc because of limitations of Chrome's api for extensions. I think the attitude with Chrome is that you're supposed to use Incognito windows for this purpose.
That is a weird statement they make there, especially since the actual CLA as far as I understand it doesn't talk about that, it just includes provisions that you grant a license to all of your patents that the contribution would infringe.

[...] You hereby grant to Google and to recipients of software distributed by Google a [...] patent license [to use and distribute] the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by You that are necessarily infringed by Your Contribution(s) alone or by combination of Your Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted.

https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual?cs...
I'm tempted to delete the thread so not to distract from the later release. Thoughts? Admins?
Yeah, the serious business applications that I have supported for years aren't really serious enough.
This is very interesting. I hope they can implement some of their ideas in the areas of an online democracy, where voting becomes more informed, and decisions more transparent [1,2]

Iceland could be the first country with a "liquid democracy" [2]

[1] http://liquidfeedback.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0_Vhldz-8
Focusing on clouds is not much different than focusing on the other side of the room.
16 TB and 20,000 IOPS EBS Volumes
To be honest I’d choose sex with a computer, and I’d be very angry if someone tried to take that future away from me. Also, not only is this blog post bewilderingly heteronormative, it also assumes that intimacy = sex. Is it really unbelievable that someone would prefer to keep their sexuality entirely private, even to their SO? What is wrong with that?

Also, notice how they referred to sexless marriages as an “epidemic?” what the fuck
Technology startups collect billions of dollars and sit on the sidelines
Matt Stancliff's talk at RedisConf 2015
Mantle graphics API programming guide [pdf]
Might be a good idea to. Don't want to burn all the excitement on the wrong bug.
Online Slayer Fandom Is Weird and Melodramatic
The thing is...you're trying to make it act like linux. That will be a fight. If you take the time to learn how things are done on windows...or any platform for that matter...it wouldn't be that hard.
Was Exxon's Torrance refinery destroyed by a cyber attack?
How Infogr.am uses data to increase retention and reduce churn
How to become luckier. (Get ready to capture the moment.)
Wouldn't licensing under GPL limit their flexibility with respect to external contributions? They wouldn't be able to use that in proprietary product, or move the project's development back to a closed model.
Context: http://antirez.com/news/87
> It runs your tests as you type

I write a lot of tests and I've tried this a lot of times (since it can be done with any test framework plus a file watcher on any language) but it doesn't help on my workflow.

The integration with the code editor looks nice as long as it has a way to "jump to the first broken test", and show all the details of the error. I remember when I used to work on c# the test runner of resharper integrated and it was great. My current workflow is, I run the tests in the console and if some test is broken, I search the name of the test across the project to inspect.

Parallel test execution in javascript hasn't worked for me, most of the time I depend on some "state" call it DOM (browser), or call it a test database (node). The fact that I can assume that the runner run one test at the time makes my tests and the before/after code simpler.
Follow Paul Irish and Addy Osmani for starters. Superherojs.com has a list of stuff to read in their "how browsers work" section... other than that, even the experts admit a lot of it is black magic - there are some fundamental things (dom access, writing is slow) but hard to nail down concrete things.
Thank you for all the valuable comments and emails.
Typo errors I have corrected.

- I think that developing software for “Windows only” is not a mistake. If you make the first version with a small team or in one person, it removes a lot of compatibility issues and problems. If the software will be successful on Windows, it can be extended to other platforms.
- "It's hard to compete with R Studio" - yes it is true. Therefore, it is necessary to go a little different path. This will be visible later, after several iterations. It is now difficult to compare the first public version of FasteR with mature R Studio. But competition is always a good think.
- "Excel is bad" - According to statistics here is a 750M of Excel users. Every statistician knows about problems of Excel (or all spreadsheet tools). On the other hand, it is standard in a number of areas. If you look around (not only in the community of developers and designers) you will find that with Excel spreadsheets works tremendous amount of companies and institutions, particularly because of its simplicity. For some issues is not sufficient and here is it possible to use for example the integration with FasteR.
Applications mine from pure math all the time. See this SO answer for a wide range of other fields' problems that were solved with pure math. I see things from cryptography, graphics, distributed computing, chemistry, ...
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/280530/can-you-provi...

The list is expansive if you care to look for it.
His explanation has mistakes. For example, in step 1 he claims "After this multiplication, the first 4 bytes and the last 4 bytes of 'key' are nonzero"

Take any 8 byte value b, multiply by 16133697096952638549ULL (mod 2^64) to get a value for the key. Now key * 2862933555777941757ULL = b. Thus there is an input value for key that I can make hit any number. The first and last 4 bytes are thus certainly not always nonzero.

He then uses "The fact that the first 4 bytes become nonzero is important for the next step" and proceeds. This is wrong.

For a concrete example, suppose key is 16133697096952638549ULL. Then key * 2862933555777941757ULL = 1. The first 7 bytes (actually, the first 63 bits) are all zero. Adding 1 as in the code still leaves the first 62 bits zero.

(the value 16133697096952638549ULL is the multiplicative inverse of the constant in the algorithm mod 2^64).
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I believe the equivalent for these would be sourced from non-cartel family farms. Fair trade drugs if you will. You can't really grow these in a 'home' because it takes lots of land.
Serious question -- is this not the source code page for the JVM? https://jdk8.java.net/java-se-8-ri/
All I hear is "Harry Potter's Godfather"....