skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't you already do this fairly easily with VBScript and ADO/DAO/whatever it's called? That said, it's probably not a good idea to (further) encourage the relational DB paradigm within a spreadsheet!

(Also: a closed source extension for a proprietary product on HN? Is it 1st April somewhere in the world!?)
If you're interested in learning about exploit writing, you might want to check this page : https://www.corelan.be/index.php/articles/ .
I love the idea, can anyone explain how it 'glows'?
Funny that the advert features London, where the continuous rain would wash away this paint in minutes.
I use SonarQube myself and have generally found its rules to make sense after a quick Google, at most.

Aside from its code formatting rules, which are just silly. They're easy enough to modify or turn off, though, so there's that.
> Yeah, not sure why you'd want a glowing horse.

Sometimes talking about your horse to by-standing victims isn't enough - in these cases, searing the image of the horse onto their retina is your only option.
> Why there isn't enough money in the system I don't know.

If it's anything like most countries, because the generation currently drawing a pension never paid in remotely enough in taxes to cover it.
I prefer the Neo layout (which is completely different, think: Dvorak), which has excellent placement of all programming-relevant keys as well as German and English bi- and trigrams. Very comfortable to type, but too many programs capture events that break functions of the keyboard layout. It uses left and right shift, caps lock and ' (# on QWERTZ), the key between shift and Z (that's not there on a US keyboard) as well as AltGr as modifiers (plus combinations of the above). Sublime is particularly bad (captures compose and tab) :\
well then run it on CI/daily builds.
> Amongst his unwitting victims were the Australia, Japanese, Iranian, India and Russia embassies, the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the Indian Ministry of Defence and the Dalai Lama's liaison office.

> He concluded that people were using Tor in the mistaken belief that it was an end-to-end encryption tool.

No. Dan snooped on attackers hacking the email of the Australia, Japanese, Iranian, India and Russia embassies, the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the Indian Ministry of Defence and the Dalai Lama's liaison office.
JUUK Bracelets – raising the profile of your Apple Watch
Hello, my name is Eugene Ho, the founder of JUUK where we specialize in making premium steel bracelets for the Apple Watch. I'm a Canadian who's been in the watch industry for almost 2 decades, and my goal is to make Apple's "most personal device ever" even more pleasurable to wear by creating very high quality steel bracelets that would compliment the Apple Watch. In fact, the factory making these also manufacture for the Swiss brands, so quality will be a primary focus. I just want to create some great, honest products that people will want to wear without skimping on the details to cut corners.

I've got an Indiegogo campaign (http://igg.me/at/juukdesign/x/10659084) so you can see the two styles I've developed. Keep in mind that the images are of first shot prototypes, and we're only going to be improving upon them during production. As you can see, the prototypes turned out incredibly well and are probably at a production quality level already for some other brands.

As for my background, I've worked for both the Timex and Movado watch groups and developed watches for labels such as Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, Timberland, Reebok and Ecko. This is my first time creating my own product so I don't have the limitations of working to a specific cost to keep margins and stock prices high, like I had to when working for the watch groups. The joy of this exercise is that I can just focus on demanding a high level of quality first, and I hope you can see the efforts of that in the campaign images and video.

This is my first time posting here so I hope it's not too long. I don't want this to be a shameless plug, but if you do like what I'm trying to achieve, please support me by spreading the word.

Sincerely,

Eugene
I'm banging my head against Excel, wishing for SQL right now! But I could never go to my boss and ask for a purchase order for something called ThingieQuery. Give it a more bland gray name and make a massively expensive corporate site license available, and I think you're onto a winner.
Ha.

I work in the financial sector and reverse mortgages are becoming a big thing: essentially an annuity secured against the house. You get a nice lifestyle and the kids get zip.
Amazon Webstore Closing – How and Why Did It Happen?
How would maintaining a SSA representation of the code help detecting dead code paths? Doing so requires reasoning about possible truth values of conditions and is in general equivalent to the halting problem and therefore undecidable. You could only spend the cycles available in real time and that will in a certain number of cases be enough to solve the problem but there will also be instances requiring more cycles and instances being undecidable.
I Scanned All TLD’s for Facebook.* and Google.*
Ugh, this article sounds like the Lexus brand trying to latch on to the google self-driving hype train. Hey guys we are making a cool car too!

On a more important note: do we really want all the different tech companies and car manufacturers competing to build separate driverless software and standards? Looking at how well that worked out for online maps, doesn't make me feel safer.
The rise and fall of Patrick Naughton
A caveat of the approach is that you must run the script from the project's folder.

This is apparently an unacceptable limitation for some people, judging by the responses to the article - however for others it's not.
While I generally agree with the sentiment it's worth mentioning that Rust preceded Swift and any similarities are the result of the Swift designers being influenced by Rust, not the other way around.

Rust also has the equivalent of ARC in the form of the Rc and Arc containers, Rc does reference counting without atomics, Arc with atomics (for when you need to do reference counting with thread safety).
Seems like there are four product types and the one for metal & concrete is permanent [1].

looking at the availability on amazon [2], seems it was developed for using on horses, which makes it easier to understand the application method.

I've had good success with reflective tape / stickers on my bikes.

[1] http://albedo100.co.uk//product/light_metallic/lm_permanent_...

[2] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Albedo100-Reflective-Spray-Horse-Pet...
Who said anything about pushing responsibility?

We are talking about if "modifying the cyclist" is desirable or not.

It might not be the victim's responsibility to act safely - yet it's still stupid if they don't.
There's no simple "this workbook" connection that I'm aware of. So you have to use external connections and Access flavoured SQL to a named file and it all becomes brittle & ugly.
Upgrading PostgreSQL 9.3 to 9.4 on Ubuntu
This brings up an interesting topic - who is liable when two self driving cars crash (without outside influence)?
The car owners? The car manufacturer?
Here is a post of the first tweets from popular app companies - https://tapfame.com/launching-an-app/
Russia Bans the Internet Archive's ‘Wayback Machine’
But you can always sell the house, or rent it to others and move to cheaper neighborhood (and rent there yourself).

To me, renting means losing money, while buying (or mortgage) seems like an investment. After all, even if potential ROI is not that high for you, think about further generations - your kids will be the owners of your house - and again, they can sell whenever they need.
If only there was a way to space those two tiny arrows further apart. Let's hope science comes up with a way some day..
This is only one of many things that Volvo does to improve the safety of passengers and those outside of their vehicles. I have a 2010 Volvo that has a feature called City Safety [1], an automatic braking system that prevents low speed collisions in city environments, and BLIS which indicates the presence of a person or vehicle in your blind spot. They also have a new cyclist detection system that engages the brakes [3]. I think if drivers can be more aware of others, pedestrians and cyclists, in combination with smarter vehicles that assist drivers in accident avoidance, it's a win-win.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_safety

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_monitor

[3] http://www.techradar.com/us/news/car-tech/volvo-debuts-world...
The right to die
Well, in France they burn cars once in a while over any reason really :-)
The Euro NCAP safety rating was heavily updated a few years ago (2007-ish) to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety. That's why most new cars that come out have those ridiculously tall and flat noses.
Right, and the US Ambassy is no more than 500 meters from the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères...
Indeed. I try to be as courteous as possible toward cyclists and bikers but during the day they can be damn near impossible to notice. Making them more visible means that there would be one less accident with someone who does try to take notice of them.
>> I don't ever plan to retire. Because when I retire, I'll be doing the same thing...coding at home. Might as well get paid for it. :)

You can still retire and get a pension,and still make money by coding.
Max Tegmark: A bird’s-eye view on life and the universe
> Imagine the societal chaos if buildings rerranged themselves without warning or just disappeared ("end-of-support"). We are missing an analytic framework to calculate the economic benefits of stability and costs of pointless change.

I fully agree.

And I truly believe that the world would be a significantly better place if software developers worked for stability and fixing issues, instead of entertaining themselves with "cool" (to their understanding) features or migrations/refactors to new frameworks or languages (and yes, I know these are, sometimes, truly needed). We are way to good at justifying wasted effort and plain "play".
Followup: did you had god mode within WhatsApp too for devs?
”No collision took place.”
”In all cases, the self-driving prototype was not at fault, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles and the companies.”

Source Article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/us-autos-selfdrivi...
Drop the cutoff system completely or partially. The top scoring students aren't necessarily all the students you want.Quite often the gems are hidden throughout the spectrum. Selective breeding for people good at grades and tests isn't going to get you the people with the most potential for the future.
moxie gave a talk at blackhat 2009 where he admitted to trying sslstrip on a tor exit node he was running for a short period. He did state that he didn't log the data, he was only doing it for social engineering analysis.
Sure it's possible, however the only way to do it afterwards is to delete the repository and fork it manually again. Deleting the repository is only fine if there are no issue/wiki/data associated with it.

The main problem is not omitting the "fork the repo on github" part voluntarily. Sometimes you're just not aware that you're pushing a repository which already has some ancestor on github, while you originally cloned from the main author's website instead. This has happened to me countless times.

The graph network is totally useless in these cases.
Is it really reasonable to expect any automotive manufacturer who wants to remain relevant to not start working on self-driving cars?

You can't seriously expect this to be "just a google thing".
> But you can always sell the house

Sure, but at what cost? Oh and your mortgage was for 300k and you can only sell it for 250k? 200k?

> rent it to others and move to cheaper neighborhood

But is rental covering the cost of your mortgage? Can you rent for that value?

> To me, renting means losing money, while buying (or mortgage) seems like an investment

Of course. That's why a lot of airlines lease their airplanes, banks lease their offices, etc

A lot of people thought their homes were an investment as well, until the bubble burst
Sure, as I said, the insurgency (and the related events) is the one negative thing I can think of. And as I said: I wouldn't classify the events purely as religiously motivated violence (unlike, say, 9/11). It's more comparable to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

That said, of course religions always exist in the context of their practitioners. Heck, I would even go so far as to say that no two practitioners share exactly the same religion (which is why it is so absurd to claim that extremists aren't True Scotsmen).

But as religions go, Sikhism at least doesn't embrace ideas that could be used to defend inter-faith violence. Unlike, say, the Abrahamic traditions. While Christianity had to go through the Enlightenment in order to figure out that all humans (regardless of faith) should be equal, Sikhism already had that idea baked into it. All religions are bad IMO, but Sikhism seems to be one of the least bad ones.
150. OK. Now how about 140? Is it still OK? 120? Do we still get an article like this one if it's 120? How about 170? Do we have the opposite problem or is 170 still good diversity?

And it's not just for black people. We need the same numbers for women, Latino, native, Asian, transgender, homosexuals, bisexuals, body disabled people, people with mental disease, people from low income family...

An of course we need to define each category. When are you black enough? Do you need both your parents to be black or is one enough? How about Asian? Are Indians considered Asians here? At what stage of your transition should you be to be considered transgender? Do you have to transition to be included in the transgender bucket?
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You can't make a branch on a projcet you don't have write access to.
The best thing about it is that it is an account that the saver has actual visibility on. It encourages retirement savings. It's a good base for employer and/or government contribution match schemes. It has obvious and fair inheritance implications (if you die at 64, who gets your pension?). It's far safer, with much less risk that the money will be gone when you retire. The systemic risk aspect is much better too.

The alternative is pension schemes, alarmingly similar to pyramid schemes. The company (or however it is centralized) pays out of current income, IE current employees or tax payers pay for old pension obligations. This works until it doesn't. If people start living longer, the company/tax base shrinks or no one bothered to do the sums 30 years ago, it collapses.

The reason pension schemes are so common is because it's easier to start a pension scheme and very hard to move from the pension scheme to a superannuation scheme.

When you start a pension shceme, the costs are very low at first while the number of retirees is low. You can pay out pensioners starting now. Superannuation only hits full speed once people have contributed to it for a lifetime start to retire. Way way longer then the horizon of CEOs, politicians or union bosses.

If you try to move from pensions to superannuations, you are in a problem. Your current crop of workers need to pay for their parents/grandparent generation of pensioners while saving for their own retirement as well.

Australia is lucky to have the system it does.
Does that take into consideration the amount of down payment necessary to get a mortgage? If you pay 20,000 pounds to get a mortgage that saves you 200 pounds a month; you're looking at a bit of time before that starts paying a return. Unless the value is increasing and you're able to cash out equity through a refinance.
That's fine, but making it a default option for all developers on every build wouldn't be suitable for us is what I was saying. I'm fine if it's run on the CI servers, or even if it's a requirement that I submit a "clean" static analysis report with my changes, which can be done by giving me the option (like XCode/Visual studio already do).
do we really want all the different tech companies and car manufacturers competing to build separate driverless software and standards?

Diversity is good. If everyone used the same software, it would all have the same flaws. Competition also provides an incentive to make the software better.
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I don't exactly know which kind of analyses IntelliJ performs but assuming that they are comparable to what ReSharper does they are quite different from what for example Coverity looks for.
I think it probably is in good faith, but it’s still pushing responsibility onto other road users for driver error: implicitly the logic runs something like “I didn’t see them, but they weren’t wearing reflective spray so it’s their fault I hit them.” It’s a pernicious line of thinking that if you’re a regular cyclist you realise is everywhere in the discussion of road safety issues.

You see the same thing with helmets, which are designed to reduce (not eliminate) the impact of a cyclist falling from a standing (or riding) position to the ground, ie a 12mph impact, to the point where brain damage is less likely to occur. Thanks to the v² scaling of energy that has to be dissipated, even a 20mph impact exceeds the design limits of a cycle helmet to absorb impact energy by nearly a factor of 3 which means that helmets make little difference in direct collisions with vehicles travelling at normal traffic speeds. Yet I’ve seen cyclists called out for “not wearing a helmet” when they’ve been run over by a cement truck. Cyclists tend to be a tad hyper-sensitive to victim blaming as a result of this kind of thing!
I've noticed this too. Loads of github projects have dozens of forks with identical Readmes. The only way to work out the difference between them is to look at the commit messages on the Network tab.
It feels like a lot of people in the Washington Post comments ought to read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
Original article at: https://chloe.re/2015/06/20/a-month-with-badonions/

Might want to change that.
In my view, if you're at the point where you need to use the relational model with your data, you shouldn't be using Excel anyway. I realise it's "easy" and the go-to software for such things for corporate-types the world over, but that doesn't make it right.

SQLite -- plus, if you need it, some open source GUI -- and you are done. No pain of bending Excel to do what you want; none of the horrors of Access and its cludgy-flavoured SQL. If you really need it ultimately in Excel, I'm sure there's an ODBC driver you can use to get a view on the data.
I stopped cycling in London because I value my life. The city is not built for the amount of cyclists who are already on the roads trying to swerve between the traffic. I have seen people slamming into buses way too many times.

A can of fluorescent paint is not going to help much. Most of these accidents happen during the day anyway.
Do you mean that Lexus developed this on their own? Because they didn't; Google's initial autonomous car prototype was a Lexus. The dingy small ones are their new fleet, using different hardware but the same software.

Iow this was all Google.
The laws are only considered binding if you decide to submit yourself to them. You can mostly pick and chose as long as you haven't yet committed yourself to it and unlike most other religions you're explicitly told only to commit yourself if you feel that you are ready and able to.

At least that's my understanding of it. And it's not like there aren't ("faithful") Muslims who drink.
I think the idea is not that it's not worth to fix errors as soon as possible (which it is), but that static analysis tools provide too many false positives and too many non-errors to be useful.
> although the Delphi car was not actually in self-driving mode at the time, it was still required to report the accident under Californian law.

Err..
The road this happened on frequently has three lanes on a carriageway. I can easily imagine a situation where the cars in question are in the left-most and right-most lanes, and both want to move into the middle lane. Both "see" that the lane is empty and both make their move at the same time. I wonder if these self-driving cars can "see" a turn signal two lanes away.

Of course, we don't know if the Google car was in self-driving mode or was being operated by a person. The article only tells one side of the story.
> versus just spending their extra disposable income on fancy clothes, booze, and gadgets.

investment in the short term is still investment.
If it doesn't put cash in your pocket, it isn't an asset. That's a fundamental misunderstanding. (I am basically agreeing with you.) the idea of the family home as an asset is completely wrong. It takes money out of your pocket each month without putting money into your pocket. It's a net loss. Now if that property created cash flow, then it would be a different conversation.
Valve has put Ultimate General: Gettysburg on the Steam store main page
Given that it reflects light back in the same direction as it comes in, I’d guess it’s based on the same principle as the 3M retro-reflective material (Scotchlite). Presumably it’s a suspension of either spherical beads or tiny corner reflectors (quartz crystals?).
Rather more that in London the problem isn't usually not being seen, it's that you're seen - as a target-cum-obstacle.

Used to cycle to work along the Victoria embankment. Scary, scary experience, every time. If people aren't throwing shit at you through their windows or hitting you in the kidney with a wing mirror, it's because they're distracted by their phone.
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"Douglas Coupland is currently artist in residence at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris"

Try explaining THAT to someone from past decades. Wow
That's a different incident to the one in the headline isn't it?
Agreed, but I think your suggested course of action is beyond the author's pay grade.

And, where's the fun in it? :)
It's reflective.
So I'm taking it that both cars behaved perfectly?

They realised a collision was imminent and took evasive action? Sounds like they got it right to me.
Sceptical scare quotes? I was quoting your previous post.
Second this. A Volvo engineer invented the modern 3-point seat belt, then made the new seat belt design patent open in the interest of safety. as well as countless other innovations

http://www.volvogroup.com/group/global/en-gb/researchandtech...
Yes, the one in the headline didn't result in an accident.
near miss

noun

noun: near miss; plural noun: near misses

1. a narrowly avoided collision or other accident.
"she had a near miss when her horse was nearly sucked into a dyke"

2. a bomb or shot that just misses its target.
"he had escaped more than twenty near misses"

In no definition is "near miss" a hit, even taking it "literally" near is adjective for the noun miss, so it is a miss that is near. i.e, a miss where two bodies are close but don't hit.
Oh yes, they do some static analysis but it's not even close to the level of Coverity, sorry if my initial comment was misleading.
Author here. I'm inclined to agree, the naming is poor, it didn't start out as a serious product, and I never changed the name. That said, you can at least use the trial licence (free for 30 days) and after that who knows, maybe I'll rename the plugin to Excel SQL Studio 3000 XT and add an Enterprise Ultimate Premier License for 1200$.
Essentially, what they are doing is allocating all unsafe objects (i.e. arrays and objects whose pointer is passed to another function) on a dedicated region of the heap (that they call the unsafe stack) that only keeps these objects, so all (de-)allocation happens in the LIFO order and can be implemented as a stack. As pointed out by evanpw, they keep a pointer to this region in the thread-local store.
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