skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably aware I'm not considering it to be likely that this is Old Microsoft in action but to humour the thought experiment: I don't think they could succeed either. IE is still only barely recovering from Microsoft's history and Windows has largely been defeated by OSX both in the consumer and developer space. We're unlikely to see Microsoft Space Nazis descend upon us from a hidden moon base any time soon.

That said, there are plenty of examples of the extinguish phase not working out or resulting in less of a bang and more of a whimper. It's always been more of an infected blanket than nuclear warheads.
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How am engineer chooses to work shouldn't be up to the author. Some people genuinely do their best work late at night. Just as you shouldn't expect everyone to work into the wee hours, you should also not expect everyone to work not to. Work-life balance is a personal choice, and should be up to the individual engineer. Managers who force their idea of balance on others end up with a different kind of groupthink instead.
Don't forget to build a culture of expectations that one can last 50 years in. Constant crisis mode is a sure way to lose good people.
I don't agree about the unfairness or that it will have a negative effect. But I do think that Meteor's nature as a framework, might be its downfall as a company. I have a hard time imagining how Meteor is going to be able to contain or maintain control over the project given how broad it is. They'll need to provide really strong integration benefits to fight unbundling.
They work with a ton of technical consultants.
The number of legal things they've went well into the weeds to get right was impressive.
Did you look into the HIV device to the same extent the judges did? It was "just" a modification of an existing one to create more turbulence and mix the reagents better, a more optimal geometry being found through computational fluid dynamics software...

(Just kidding, but seriously, it wasn't necessarily just that his problem was under-researched, and it was a competition by Intel, maybe everything had a computational modeling component as a requirement for entry. You're not impressed because you know how to use the software to do what he did, but the innovative step was thinking to use the software to do what he did. Certain strains of flu can be a huge killer, HIV moreso, but neither person cured either disease--you would need a lot more epidemiological details to know which one deserved the prize by your utilitarian standard. This is one of the most petty things I've ever read here.)
I prefer Arduino, but may be just cause i do very basic things :)
Yes, and given the prevalence of javascript in 2015, I don't see this as a practical option at all for actually using the Internet.

Chrome canary + uBlock *uMatrix (which lets you allow images / scripts / css / XHR selectively per-domain) is about as much as I can stand to maintain.
Isn't that usually one of the focuses of Magnet Schools [1] in the US? My sister went to one which focused on Math/Science and I went to one which was billed as "Technology" based but ended up being... not so technology based.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_school
And what's ironic is that EWD's preferred approach actually increases the cost of (at least the first version of) many pieces of software. And his article was "Why Software Is So Expensive".

I mean, his approach would have prevented Microsoft from ever existing. Or Linux. Or Apple. Which means we never would have had the PC revolution. We would just have a software industry that produced software right, and code that didn't crash, but we'd have maybe 1/100th of the software industry that we have. We'd miss 99% of what computers have brought us. I'm not willing to make that trade-off to get software that never breaks, even though I hate it when software breaks.
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A few of us have been happily hacking away on SocketStream (https://socketstream.com/) for quite sometime. It's a smaller, piecemeal framework that borrows more from the community of Node pluggable/playable modules.

With this 20M, Meteor just became a heavy-weight—

That said, I still like the idea of a more community-drive approach.
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I've been using Raspbmc and OSMC (which spawned from Raspbmc) on both RP1 and RP2 and they've both been great. While OSMC is only on RC2, it's fairly solid and RC3 should be coming any day. As well as standard addons for Kodi, it has an App Store that will ultimately let you install things like torrent clients and the like with ease. Their default skin needs a little work but it's nice and fast.

Great job Sam and the team.
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I'm planning on going through some of my old projects and writing blog posts about them over the next couple of months, and I will add that one to the list. It was indeed, a massive pain in the ass.
> Being that diversity is correlated with financial performance.

Can you back that up?
True. Very true. But if you don't let it start in the first realm, then most of the time, there's nothing created, so there's nothing to move to the second realm.
Functional programming isn't about being side-effects free, it's about controlling side effects.

You can't write (useful) pure programs, but pure functions.
8 million people fly daily. I'd say his invention has a big impact.
This is from their wiki site for more clarification

Kodi is a media center application and OSMC is the operating system that runs Kodi and brings it to your device. OSMC is not a fork of Kodi but rather a Linux distribution that ships Kodi as the main application. This is a similar concept to Kodi running on top of Windows or Android.

OSMC is based on Debian Jessie (a flavour of GNU/Linux) and has been heavily optimised to provide the best TV experience possible.
If this sort of thing is interesting to you and you are a Christian and and a fan of Dave Ramsey like myself then you should check out his Legacy Journey class:
https://www.daveramsey.com/legacy

We had already gotten our will done before we took it but I still found it to be packed with good information and it motivated us to get more organized.
> Consumer data should be one of those things which most companies consider something toxic but necessary so they handle it with care and use the least amount possible ….

This is a beautiful slogan. I think that it is far from something by which that businesses will ever abide, or laws will ever try to force them to abide, but I would love to live in a world in which it was true.
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I suspect it also works like it does with primary school teachers. They have immune systems made of iron, in part because of selection but also because they're exposed to so much every day.

Their significant others on the other hand, they're sick as hell all the time...
"It's ok to build an unjust work environment just as long as it fits with my religion of 'shipping above all else'."
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I'm not sure one could describe Microsoft as "fast and dirty". Gates' BASIC interpreter is a famous example of technical ability...
jbob2000, you are hellbanned.
One neat thing about modern falconry is that while the materials used (e.g., stainless steel for perches) are modern, the designs and techniques haven't changed much if at all.
In general, Windows has a vastly higher market share than OS X, so yeah I think a lot of people do choose to use it.

And it has everything to do with touchscreens because touchscreens are just another example in the long history of Microsoft offering features that OS X simply doesn't have. I bet you'll be singing the praises of touch screens on OS X when Apple finally catches up.
> Plus, I'm not sure my family would enjoy looking through my will upon my death with: Get Your Shit Together! printed at the bottom of each page :)

Who cares? I'd make "get your shit together" a condition of inheriting anything from me if it had any legal standing.
Do you guys have any pricing plans available for agencies yet?
Yes, but when this happens, the company can usually afford to hire thousands of engineers and brute force the issue, or the product is unpopular and in the process of disappearing.

Exceptions (like Whatsapp) are legendary for the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few engineers that follows success.
Some leap seconds are negative, so the total change since 1972 is less than 26 seconds.
The laws of many jurisdictions require you to have a privacy policy if you are going to collect personally identifiable information from residents of that jurisdiction. See, for example, the California Online Privacy Protection Act.
Your post is substantially correct, with a clarification on rotation speed(Vr) vs takeoff decision speed (V1).

There are three relevant speeds for large aircraft. (I'm going to generalize very slightly to keep this short and readable.)

V1, Vr, V2.

V1 is the takeoff decision speed. An engine failure recognized before reaching V1 is handled by aborting the takeoff. An engine failure recognized after reaching V1 is handled by continuing the takeoff. At the V1 callout, the pilot flying removes their hands from the top of the throttles (as a physical reminder that aborting/rejecting the takeoff(RTO) is not happening for a simple engine failure).

Vr is the rotation speed, where the nose wheel is lifted from the ground.

V2 is the speed at which the airplane will climb safely with one engine INOP.

In most cases, V1 is the lowest speed, meaning there are cases (between V1 and Vr) where an engine out with the nosewheel on the ground results in continued acceleration, then rotation, and flight.

It's a checkride bust to RTO above V1 for a simple engine failure.
Do you have an operator in mind? It's no good having a perfect, Stallman-esque, phone if all your communication is through a mobile phone operator in cahoots with the government, is it?
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To continue with the analogy above the difference arises if Newegg says "We don't share your data with third parties" and does #1. That would breach customer expectations because they are outright lying. The #2 case seems much less clear cut because Newegg wouldn't exist as a standalone entity anymore, and most people's reasonable expectation is Amazon would then have access to Newegg's data. It depends on each person's answer to the question: Is Amazon a third party in the second example?
Thanks! Most of these concepts apply broadly to any good security/adversarial system.
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Neat! Don't miss the (heuristic) argument in the comment by Tim Gowers about why 82000 was lucky, and that there may not be any other larger number with the same properties.
Some things create hassles, especially illiquid assets like a house or yacht if that person has no desire for them and no knowledge about selling them.

Also, family conflicts. If your brother's uncle's nephew gets the house instead of the son who expects it, but there's good reason (he was renting it already), family conflicts arise for not great reasons.
Seems awesome. I couldn't see from the blog post, but how does it handle loading development data sets?
I feel this black/white scenario of "pay us for content or its illegal" ignores the reality of the market. There are plenty of social dynamics in play that are conveniently ignored.

Music pirates in particular tend to buy more music than non-pirates. I would wager this holds true in any media-field of pirating (but perhaps not software pirating). [0] There is a reason for this!

Pirates are enthusiasts. They love the content they consume and are likely to pay/buy things they really enjoy/enjoyed. Due to not having an unlimited income they pirate some things. For music pirates - there is a good chance that the music they are purchasing is from the same music label as the music they are pirating.

Pirates are also likely to tell their friends about a show they enjoyed. Pirates are also likely to buy merchandise from shows they enjoy.

For example - an extremely large portion of the American market for Japanese Anime-related goods is because of pirated fan-subbed anime. Shows that would have never been released or heard of in America and thus led to 0% revenue from America are pirated and their merchandise purchased. The number of figurines from おれいも for example. Or the number of だきまくら purchased from American-fans.

This simply can't be denied for the anime market in particular - and many fansubbers eventually get hired by the studios. Some studios try to shut down the fansubbers but most allow it to happen because fansub groups largely do not sub anime slated for an English release. It's an unspoken code of sorts of "Support the official release" - and since many anime fans don't necessarily speak Japanese, if someone isn't translating it for them they can't/won't watch it.

Pirating is beneficial for the anime scene. It's likely more beneficial than harmful for music for similar reasons. I'll concede that for Movies/TV Shows it gets a little iffy (do enough people buy merchandise who wouldn't if they hadn't pirated the show to see it?)

Then we can also look at video games. Amnesia: The Dark Descent or Minecraft. Games that were heavily pirated and the creators even went so far as to say "If you can't afford to play our game. Pirate it." Why? Free marketing and free publicity means more sales. It made economic sense to let your game go viral that way. What might be $20 in a lost sale to a pirate might win you $80 in 4 new sales from his friends (even if another 6 of his friends just pirated the game)

If you don't let him pirate the game you just lost $80 in sales and free marketing/publiclity from 7 people which likely lost you even more in sales.

Which brings me to the important part: Pirating doesn't mean a lost sale. It means free marketing and free publicity from someone who wouldn't have been a customer. If you can convert a "non-sale" to a "promotional consumer", why wouldn't you?

The economic spin usually given to pirates is it is "costing sales" which is, frankly, bullshit. They make more money off suing mass pirates than any "lost sales", so it's beneficial for them to keep pirating illegal.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/music-pirates-study...
I appreciate the feedback. Upvoted for sure.

I thought we would start with Eclipse as it's easier, but you bring up a good point. No IDE's. Note taken.

I'm thinking I will use Spring as well. If anyone thinks that is a mistake (or confirm it's right) -- it would be appreciated.

Thanks
Thawte have at least began hiding the SGC option. Also note that Netscape Step-Up (not to be confused with MS SGC) depends on insecure renegotiation, which is disabled in many servers now (I have a few pcaps I did with Netscape 4 showing this, and I really should factor the 512-bit RSA keys in some of them at some point). Another trivia is when VeriSign began selling EV certs in 2007 they only sold it with SGC, even though it was becoming obsolete even back then.
Leaving this message in place as an example of how
thinking about time and calendar-related programming is
easy to mess up.

Indeed, time and calendar related programming is quite tricky, even specifying what the behavior should be can be tricky and very non-intuitive.
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Most sites use javascript anyway. How is this different? If people want to use Meteor to solve their business problem (even internally) how does the negligibly low chance of a great canon infecting a site make this different.

There's also a couple of libraries that implement server-side rendering if the blank page is something that disturbs you.

Ps the loads are faster due to caching & are highly CDNable as they don't change at all. Mostly static.

For the great canon issue: it's not difficult to check against a hash on the script either right? Besides not exlusively being a Meteor problem.
I think there's room in secondary education, at least for highly motivated students, to drill deeply into one particular domain.

They can and do. It's called independent study, though I don't have any idea how many highschools offer the option.

Unless you mean suspending gen-ed requirements to do this. In which case, it sounds like a recipe for graduating students with holes in their education for what benefit? So they can have a chance at being a 1-in-X success story at 18 instead of 22?
Are these hard rules for you? Do certain harder (more challenging) challenges make up for lower pay? Are there culture benefits or actual benefits that can make up for lower pay?

I ask because I hear things like this all the time, and there seem to be two schools of thought: 1) intangibles matter, 2) tangibles (money) is all that matters.

If the latter is true for you (or anyone in a position to be making as much as SV engineers make, excluding those with debts like children's schooling and loans), that makes me really sad. Jumping to the opportunity that will pay more solely because they pay more seems like a shortsighted, materialistic view of life.

I'm not saying you see it that way, but there are certainly a not insignificant amount of people who view money as more important than challenges. Thats not wrong, of course, just saddening to me.
At the moment Meteor only has free development hosting, they haven't launched their production hosting yet so the pricing hasn't been announced either.
> Interestingly, the people i've worked with who have cared the most about getting stuff right are actually the Silicon Valley (TV show) folks.

Shouldn't be surprising since Mike Judge used to be a programmer himself.
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Who is to say that just because it hasn't been implemented, it was never thought of?
Personally I see it as positive - it means people are using it and I often find searching SO answers faster than searching docs.
A couple months ago we launched edgee, a platform for sharing high-quality content in carefully curated collections, called edgees. The app runs on Meteor and we're very happy with it.
http://www.edgee.com
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Good point, thanks! Here's the example picture of the curve:

http://i.imgur.com/oYboqSL.png
Not sure if I'm understanding your question correctly, but Wind River claims their Diab compiler is validated by TÜV NORD and is has been used for stuff up to SIL4.

In fact, they (http://windriver.com/products/product-overviews/PO_Diab_Comp...) say:

Diab Compiler has been a reliable code generation tool for
avionics products certified for DO-178B, products for the
nuclear market certified to IEC 60880, railway applications
certified to EN 50128, and industrial products certified
to IEC 61508, and is now qualified for use in automotive
applications certified to ISO 26262.

Ada does have some built-in advantages, but I think my point still stands: the language is a small part of the entire SDLC, and I don't think it's the most important part.
It's certainly legal. But short of expecting you to sign a binding 2-year contract, what exactly are they going to do about it? "I believe in this company and want to be here for the long haul" has got to be one of the most commonly told lies in job interviews.
In fact, there is a light blue radial line painted (or displayed) on the airspeed indicator for exactly this situation, so the crew doesn't have to remember the value in a high-stress situation.
> for a one-year project coding is not allowed to start before the ninth month!

Early in his career Dijkstra had to write an operating system for a machine that had not yet been built. So he
wrote the whole thing on paper, working only from the spec.
When the machine arrived, his OS pretty much worked.
This experience shaped his view of programming for the rest of his life. He came of age when you had to write programs where there was no machine (or you couldn't often get to the machine). That's not a typical situation now - Dijkstra was the very first programmer in Holland. (He later met a group faced with a similar delayed delivery that had not begun work -- he was amazed to hear that they were "waiting for the machine".)
A follow-up post: https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-gs-la-vg-am-mn-... The Pirate Bay has launched on 6 new domains, and thepiratebay.se is resolving to them in a round-robin fashion.

But how are they doing that if they don't control thepiratebay.se anymore?
It's also a shame for Linux users, since AMD doesn't work as well on Linux.

Mac is generally considered "the safe choice", when picking high end notebook for Linux.
This article has a bit more information about the specific "code" that has supposedly been cracked:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/may/19/shakespeare-w...

I wish this were true but it doesn't even come close to passing Occam's razor to me. Shakespeare, as we know well by now, was not particularly famous in his lifetime (indeed, our contemporary concept of "fame" or "celebrity" didn't exist at the time). Short of some new discovery that Gerard (the author of the herbal) was personally associated with Shakespeare, I don't see why we should be convinced by the evidence available. A lot of it is a huge stretch, like the AW / OR lettering in the image being interpreted as a reference to the golden background ("or") of Shakespeare's father's coat of arms, or the fact that Shakespeare mentions corn at one point in his plays and the figure here is holding an ear of sweetcorn - "corn" could refer to any grain in Elizabethan times so it's hardly surprising that the word shows up in his work. At any rate, here's a high res scan of the actual image for anyone interested:

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109874#page/1/mode/1...

Edit: this guess that it's actually Sir Francis Drake strikes me as being much more likely, though still impossible to prove:

http://www.historyneedsyou.com/blog/the-language-of-flowers-...
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Nice design but I clicked Publish... then what? The documentation is thin. How exactly do you embed this on a page?

No word on security on the sales page either. That would be my primary concern as a customer.
I think the point is that people who are looking exclusively for money or shine will make poor employees. If someone is looking to be a master, the others will naturally follow.