skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much lock-in. Most apps are either cross platform or for casual use, and I could buy an Android phone and be productive tomorrow, transferring all my images, documents, contacts and such in a couple of hours.

People don't feel locked with their app purchases. Case in point, the large volumes of people going from Android to iOS and vice versa.
Is there an option to make it print the file:line:column? Cause I use emacs and rely on the compiler printing out error messages in that standard format so I can jump to them easily; I could certainly hack together a solution for other output formats, but it's a tad more annoying. Not sure what kind of users would be complaining about having that and it seems like stronger editor support for standard compiler output would fix some (definitely not all) of the problems you identify and solve in this post.
Frontend Stuff
No, but you can use SMS, Skype, or Hangouts.
Cisco to Buy OpenDNS for $635 mln to boost security biz
It makes sense to those of us who are using iTunes (especially iTunes Match). There are many of us. There are also many people who aren't using iTunes and they probably will stick with whatever is working for them now.
Major bug and minor patch can go together. Often a problem has big consequences but a small fix, and that's likely the case here.
That is the parent poster’s point. If Safari were patched independently of the operating system, issues like this could be addressed independently of monolithic system updates.
I also hear they want to start doing binary blobs and ditch their open source drivers. Yay!
Sure. Check out the elm version of todomvc https://github.com/evancz/elm-todomvc/blob/master/README.md. Other examples here http://elm-lang.org/examples. Also see https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial/ for the recommended architecture.
Don't forget the very talented yet always disappointing Richard Gasquet. That backhand is just out of a book.
> Microsoft has already paid AMD around $1.26 billion for
> Xbox One chips. The acquisition of AMD could save it
> around a billion per year on Xbox One chips alone

Uh, that doesn't quite add up. AMD really make that much per chip? And wouldn't a fair chunk of that money also go into R&D...
http://caniuse.com/usage-table

Android Chrome has about 13.3% global usage, and all versions of Android Browser have about 6.5%. If we do not count versions before 4.4, then Android Browser has about 2.5%.

Also worth pointing out that Chrome for Android is over the 1 billion mark (1,000,000,000 - 5,000,000,000)
"What I love most about hackathons is that failure is everywhere. When you’re not afraid to fail, you’re not afraid to push your limits, and that’s an attitude everyone can benefit from."

Truth!
'bout time. I was starting to give up on it.
I don't necessarily think it's a myth. The author cites old data and then waves his hands and future predictions.
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/12/04/75-of-greek-pensi...
> Does Microsoft have the necessary chip expertise and more importantly commitment to compete toe-to-toe with Intel, though?

Do they need that deep of chip expertise -- beyond what they'd get by acquiring AMD -- to compete with Intel? If they've got AMD, they can drive their own instruction set evolution and tie Windows-compatibility certification to their instruction set, and force Intel to follow along.

With Windows "runs best on Genuine Microsoft processors", and ARM making inroads everywhere else, what's Intel going to do?
What It Means to Take Control of Your Own Wealth
I learned all about Chernobyl from the video game Call Of Duty: Modern Warefare. It's tragic and sad!

There are some villages in North Iraq where it's similar to this, due to the chemical bombing. It's gives tou shivers just knowing that a town use to be a normal day to day living place and now just a ghost town.

"50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town" -MW2
"Like I understand HOW this happens; the problem is moreso on the WHY"

Eh, what?
That last link has esr's rewrite of the pic manual for groff.
So far as I know, that's the best pic manual available (I'm
a heavy user of pic in the past, still use it today, I'm the reason that gnu pic has the ``i''th notation in it so you can write pic docs where you change one variable and it changes the number of items in the picture as well as all the things that point at those items. I can dig up the doc I did that used that if you like).

That last link is W. Richard Steven's website, the Unix networking books guy. I miss that guy, he and I used to trade notes on how to do stuff in groff.
I expected more libraries.
Setting Up BitPay with WooCommerce
They validated its story for their country (Indonesia; opening chapter).
This is what we do. Existing stable CentOS/RHEL environment that we can deploy other OS containers to (specifically Ubuntu 14.04) without having to stand up entire new VMs or metal.
I always assumed they had to drive street view vehicles at a specific speed to get good series of images.
Code reviews are where the rubber really hits the road. They are a bit scary, can lead to arguements, but at the end of the day they are really the only way to learn and teach coding at a professionally competent level.

I know there are many edge cases out there who will chafe at that statement, but tell me a better way? Books? Clubs? Schooling & Code Camps? Nuh uh. I've done them all, and nothing beats code reviews for teaching and learning.
Another thing I wouldn't have expected: The link "Complete Schedule" from inside the Music app's Beats 1 page links to http://applemusic.tumblr.com/.
Interesting that they seems to be bundling UEFI firmware updates with it too.
If I called somebody a gorilla out of anger, I might end up apologizing to the gorilla.

Gorillas are much better behaved than primates in general so I wouldn't be insulted if somebody called me a gorilla.
Apple Music isn't a "broadcast". Yes, a live radio station is part of the service, but a very small part, really.

Also, you should perhaps wait to criticize Apple's iOS release timing until, you know, they actually have a problem. To be fair.
This is great I will have to remember it.
I just updated to 10.10.4 but it doesn't update iTunes to 12.2, the version required for Apple Music. Guess it'll be out later today.
Using the playbook she brought from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Regina Dugan drives rapid technology innovation at Google’s ATAP group.

Dugan joined Google to create the ATAP group, where she could apply the DARPA model to speed Google’s strategic research projects. She traded the Department of Defense’s deep pockets for Google’s, and exchanged fighting America’s adversaries for fighting perplexing product development challenges.
Their market cap is less than what Microsoft paid for Minecraft. Although they have another 2b in debt...
I thought the x86 cross-license agreement prevented this though?
Transducers create functions that are meant to be passed to reduce (i.e. take accumulator and element and return a new accumulator).

Its possible to implement most other functions (map, filter, take etc.) using reduce. Transducers take advantage of that.

Unfortunately, if you try to do that, you'll notice that the implementation is sometimes tied with the way you build the entity: e.g. for vectors, map implemented in terms of reduce would start with an empty vector then append to it.

That sucks. We want operation chains that are independent of the data structure they operate on. We want them to work on vectors, lists, channels, whatever - anything that can have a reduce-like operation (anything reducible)

However, it turns out you don't necessarily have to recreate the entity (e.g. list) when chaining. All you need to know how to do is invoke the next operation in the chain, i.e. the next reduction function. For example:

* map can apply the function on the element to get a new result, then call the next reduction function with the accumulator and that new result.

* filter can check the element and either return the old accumulator or apply the next reduction function with the element, etc.

Therefore, transducers simply take an additional argument: the next reduction function that should be applied. This lets you build up a chain of operations (e.g. map filter etc) that doesn't care about the kind of entity they're operating on. Only the last "step" must be a reduction function that needs to know how to build the result.
This app is amazing. This is the first time i've seen business process execution done right. I've looked at all kinds of BPMN modeling + Execution engines and they just flat out are too cumbersome to use and they never get the UI right. Having worked in various manufacturing companies for over 15 years, I would say that you guys have a chance to really make a huge impact to the business community with this product. I have tons of feedback / questions / product enhancements. What is the best way to get those over to you?
Exactly. I haven't used iTunes in at least 5 years.
Review: Swift Doesn't Help the Xamarin Value Proposition
Also a joke: ruby, python, javascript, any other language without a vendor provided IDE.

Seriously though, I was expecting a critique of actual Swift, not just someone annoyed that their favourite feature of Xcode doesn't work with Swift. How many versions of Xcode didn't have this feature? I can't find a citation, but I seem to recall it was added around Xcode 4... all other versions of Objective C were jokes, then?

I personally find Swift to be incredibly expressive, even though I'm still very new at it. I also find Xcode to be an amazingly powerful and somewhat error prone suite of tools... even with ObjC, though definitely more so with Swift
Coinkite Announces TOR-Enabled ‘Bitcoin Pay Button’
How easy or hard is it to rip the music without transcoding? It's legal for me to do so.
I'm a bit sad that "editor takes to you location of compile error" is actually touted as a feature! It's one thing to have to do this occasionally, but I'm sorry to hear that people are used to doing it all the time :(

Nevertheless the error message point is good. It's ridiculous how atrocious error messages can be. (And they probably seem even worse if you have to find the file+line yourself.) This is actually pretty straightforward to implement, and supported directly with flex+bison, so it's a shame that it's not more commonplace.

Perhaps in the early days of gcc it was seen as too much overhead? Anyway, should be de rigeur for anything being embarked upon today.
Apple's biggest advantage isn't that Apple is "Apple"; their biggest advantage is that if you own an Apple device, you already have Apple Music. You can't uninstall it or run away from it.

Using every other service requires downloading that service's app and while that isn't a huge barrier for those of us in tech, that is a HUGE barrier for everybody else. Plus think about all the grandparents, soccer moms, and teenage girls that use iPhones and don't really consider any other phone. Those people probably aren't the people that are using Google Play or Spotify, but now they have Apple Music on their phone and ready to go. With all the attention Apple Music has been getting from that whole Taylor Swift Fiasco, there's no doubt that almost everyone has heard of it already and eagerly awaiting its arrival.

If you're a techie and you own an Apple device, then why partition your music selection with Spotify? Apple Music has almost every song Spotify does plus Apple has a better relationship with the record companies, so you know you're money isn't going to a company that's under some serious pressure to change their business model. Plus Apple Music has music videos and a social component for artists to reach out to their fans - which is kinda slick in my opinion. If none of that moves you then okay, try it for free for 3 months. Three months!! No matter what you think about Apple Music's competitors, why not stop paying them for a month and try out Apple Music? I'd wager many people aren't going to move after that.

Apple Music's future success won't depend on the service it's self, but on fitting into Apple's ecosystem and Apple's ability to reach the general public in ways that other streaming services can't. Plus, iPhones are the best selling phones in the United States so a lot of people will have this service already. I wouldn't be surprised if by the end of the week, more people have Apple Music on their phones than Spotify.

Spotify is in serious trouble. That's BEFORE we start discussing how record labels want Spotify to kill its free tier and how many users will flee the service when that happens.
> If Microsoft bought AMD, then Sony would be faced with a bad set of choices: put money in Microsoft’s pocket every time it sells a PlayStation, or try to create an entirely new platform by using technologies from Intel, Nvidia, ARM or Imagination Technologies.

It seems like everyone is putting money in MS's pocket, with all the patent licensing they do. NVidia has stated that they will never do a console-specific chip again. That said, I don't think that they would have a problem with supplying an off-the-shelf Tegra model in a console for 10 years. High-end Intel GPUs don't exist (at least not outside of Intel), but might by the next console generation.
Engine Yard’s Deis Launches Commercial Support for Its Docker-Based PaaS
Though this would be quite an audacious multi-year project, Microsoft actually is the best positioned company currently to compete with Apple. I've never been a Microsoft fan, but I actually think this would be a very good thing for the current state of personal computing, both desktop and mobile.
I'd be cool if they would provide some insight on how to make an existing website to work with their API. I always wanted to know what's the "standard" way to put a logo in the webpage. Some people uses just an IMG tag, other uses an H1 with an image replacement technique.
The main reason the F-16's missions are primarily air-to-ground is because nobody wants to fly against it (especially not now, with F-22 support.)

If you stop (successfully) designing aircraft to win air-to-air engagements, an opponent can focus on winning air-to-air engagements, and pretty soon it'll be their aircraft that are being used in ground attack roles ;)
So, a new attack aircraft instead of a new fighter? I'd go for that. I'd even go for a new fighter that fights (to ensure air superiority), and a new attack aircraft. I think you'd get better results in both areas and spend a lot less money.
Amazon offers one-hour deliveries in central London
I tested a few examples, and it looks to just be parsing the page and returning the apple-touch-icon.
Yeah, Zane Lowe is really good at impro stuff - he really does know music.
Is that really where we're at? That an "average Java developer" doesn't understand the classpath or environment?

I've certainly worked with a lot of folks who didn't, but I guess I've just always hoped that experience was unique to me.
3scale Copyrights Database Store API
I would say the single most important part of public speaking, which should encapsulate everything else is rehearse. It can feel weird and contrived to have three of your colleagues sitting in front of you pretending to be an audience, but it's enough to make it feel real, and let you run into most of your issues ahead of the real thing.

Then you go back, fix what you can, and rehearse again. You want to have some "muscle memory" to fall back on during the real event.
One of the TCs for C99 fixed the list I believe.
True. More so if you come at it from the perspective of "I use C++ at my startup".

If, however, you use Python at your startup it's more interesting, while still somewhat subjective.
Show HN: My very first iPhone app, Tahrir App
Not really modifying it. But they may have branding and licensing guidelines that a service like this might not meet which would likely result in a cease and desist rather than an immediate lawsuit.
On OS X, clicking the "Start listening now >" link opens up iTunes and you get a dialog saying that iTunes 12.2 is required for Apple Music. Clicking the "Upgrade" button brings you to Apple's download iTunes web page which only has 12.1.X available.

Guess 12.2 will come out later today. Updating to OS X 10.10.4 did not come with it.
Your bash looks like something that can be fixed by a well-placed sed one-liner :)
The End of Sanctuary in Space
Organic food does not have massively lower crop yields. and your violent opinion on the matter is discouraging. Here are two studies/resources you can look at (not funded by vested financial interests)
1. "Organic agriculture and the global
food supply" Badgley et al.

2. http://civileats.com/2014/12/10/organic-nearly-as-productive... References several as well

While yields are marginally lower in a given swath of land under certain conditions (example when there is perfect climate and water supply, an increasingly rare trend in the United States), it is my belief that if equitable research dollars were devoted to organic production as opposed to corn, soy, soy and cotton (which also don't feed people in starving countries, but rather meat in rich ones) those small differences in yields would be overcome. Further more, many studies note that industrial agriculture is significantly less resilient and that organic ag, and other forms of agroecology, are actually more productive during times of drought.

Furthermore, 70% of the world's food supply comes from small farmers using agroecological methods in developing countries, not large food industries. Increasing their capacity is the solution to feeding starving people while maintaining our planet's health. Sorry for the late response.
Getting a Patent on Your Own
The current version has a _very_ serious vulnerability, where when the system wakes from suspend on pre-mid-2014 models the entire UEFI BIOS is writable [0]. This could lead to wipe-proof rootkits. It initially appeared that their advice was going to be "buy a new macbook", so I'm very happy to see they bundled firmware updates along with this :)

[0] https://reverse.put.as/2015/05/29/the-empire-strikes-back-ap...
MANPADS are an issue but the A-10 was designed with their deployment in mind. The most important feature of a MANPAD system is it's ability to be carried by 1-2 soldiers. That places an upper bound on the weight of a system which limits the size of the missile's warhead.

Most MANPADS have warheads weighing less than 5kg, a few kg of HE is enough to cause significant damage but the A-10 was built to fly with half a wing, one engine, one rudder/elevator assembly, and a mountain of shrapnel stuck in the pilot's armored tub. MANPADS will get a mission kill on an A-10 but they aren't powerful enough to bring one down the majority of the time.
"Think"?
Looks like they're just returning the apple-touch-icon if it's available.
So does disabling password auth and using real keys.

My only experience with sshguard is via Google Cloud Platform. For some reason they enable it by default. Thus it locked me out somehow, making me spend an extra few hours wondering why SSH stopped working.

If you're that upset about auth logs, put SSH on another port.
Whitehouse Lures Mudge Zatko from Google to Create a UL for Cyber
Close in CAS means close in proximity to friendly troops. Before smart munitions this required the aircraft to also be in close proximity to hit the enemy force without hitting friendlies. Now an orbiting bomber or drone can deliver a targeted strike while flying high in the sky miles away.

I love the old warthog, but in the days of drones, I can't see much of a use anymore.
مجموعة+من+المواقع+مساعد+في+إستهداف+المواقع
hiccup!
There should be a law against this sort of behavior from devices.
I'm not worried about WL slacking off on Russia, or about corruption in Russia (I'm also not worried about whether water is wet). I am a little concerned about whether the narrative I'm being fed by Wikileaks is being manipulated.

That's not a baseless concern. Wikileaks has an agenda, and it is not simply "transparency".
One of their jobs is to stay ahead. The missions they have today are important, but so too are the missions they may have in the future, and air superiority isn't exactly a program you can just reboot overnight when the need arises.
Adolfo (the author) here. As I mentioned at the end of the post I want to take this a lot further, even if it's just for fun. I'm thinking of imitating JavaScript's dynamic types with a single type "JS" by overloading subscripts, operators, and using literal convertibles. If someone beats me to it I'll just cite them I guess :)
So true. I've made it a habit of asking speakers of really great talks how many times they rehearse, and I was super surprised to here that speakers often go through 15+ iterations of a talk (half a month, once a day) before giving it.
Also Microsoft pays Sony for Blu-ray every time it sells Xbox One.
Microsoft is pretty much one of the only companies that could acquire AMD and turn it around. Much how people complained of nvidia gameworks giving it a unfair advantage against AMD, microsoft has the ability to develop in house features only ATI/AMD hardware could take advantage of initially and give nvidia/intel a real run for their money

It definitely helps that microsoft could likely get a significant discount on the purchase price as well since amd is seen as dieing. The arrangement between intel and MS is very old and involves significant cash flowing both ways. I imagine as microsoft has more internal pressure to show more profits that this line of thinking was bound to come up
Its idiotic: the cost of making physical chips doesn't disappear if MS buys AMD.

Plus, any minor financial benefit is far outweighed by anti-trust issues and making Intel a competitor.
This should be made into an answer to the OP's question, because this is the use case that I think most people will wind up moving to docker for, if they do.
Beyond that, I'd live to see locations output for everything involved in determining the types of the things that wound up incompatible. With type inference, the actual detected collision can drift a bit from the error. It can usually be quick to pin things down with annotations and get enough localization to find the error, but it would be even nicer to be able to skip that step.
Deterrence for a first-strike nuclear attack
Wow! Wow! Wow! I loved this game so much - I even mentioned it two weeks ago here - lol :) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9720584
In my case they're returning an old version of the icon.
That's only $125 per Xbox sold, which doesn't sound like a lot to me. That includes the CPU and GPU in the APU format which is pretty much the bread and butter of the entire system. On a PC, a CPU and GPU combo with comparable specs at the time of release would be what? 3x that?

I buy mid-range video cards exclusively and that's a good $150-200 with tax right there. I can't imagine also getting a competitive CPU tossed in for that amount. Hell, my PC can't play much at 1080p and the consoles pretty much play everything at 1080p. Granted, my rig is a couple years old, but its kinda amazing how powerful this generation of consoles are.

Sounds like MS and Sony are getting a bargain here.
Safari _is_ updated independently in OS-X.

Maybe this update coincided close enough to the roll out of the OS update that it was included in this release.
Rehearsing in front of a webcam is also very useful.

Make sure you are standing up in roughly the position you will be giving your talk in, set it to record and then have at it (I find it helps if you can't see yourself while recording).

Then play over the recording, if you use VLC it has a useful trick in that you can speed up playback without affecting pitch (saves time and makes it really obvious at 1.5x if you are talking too fast, you should be legible at 150 percent).

Make notes where you stumbled and/or were not clear then go over it again.

Oh and if you have slides you can run through them on the machine in front of you (instead of behind your or off to the side) which really helps as well.