skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because his problems are a subset which most people would consider trivial.

So yes, fuck notch and his inability to maximise his personal utility.
I'll concede my final clause absolutely was a bit mean.

In my defence, the tweet about the "great girl" who was afraid of his lifestyle rather annoyed me, but I do understand that money doesn't make for happiness - often quite the opposite - and that it can be hard to form new and trusting relationships when you have a lot in the bank.
An insane response to an insane group of people, it is like the US is trying to outdo them.

I don't understand why the press insists on calling them ISIS, which they love, vs Daish/Daesh which they hate.
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seconded. please share.
The inverse can happen very much though where people that complain the loudest were the exception to an otherwise fine place. What does seem to matter is the percentage and degree of the complaints, and the only way to get the real numbers is with a compulsory, anonymized employee survey.
You better just read the "The Martian" Andy Weir's book than sitting in a dome for a 6 month. And for what reason, Russians have already completed such kind of experiment in 2010-2011 and the length of experiment was more then 500 days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500
A type problem is any problem that types can solve for you. People who are exposed to very limited type systems consider the range of type problems to be limited. Still it is true that most of these problems are solved quickly and caught with unit tests - no one thinks that simple type problems are the source of your production bugs. A good type system is mostly a productivity play for me; I develop a little faster and I refactor MUCH more quickly and with less effort.
This is probably the best comment I've ever read on HN. I up voted it because it made simple a VERY HARD to explain concept in Christianity without using the typical rhetorical devices wielded in the church by people who cannot comprehend their own religion let alone explain it.
Can you elaborate on that a bit or give an example maybe? It seems to me that mathematics does pay attention to what things are, since mathematicians often start their arguments with getting themselves and their readers to agree on rigorous definitions of mathematical structures, before they do anything with those.
I don't know if this is what you're referring to, but this is exactly what patio11 is working on now http://www.starfighters.io/
I'll add to philtar's comment:

Because senior management forces workers to use it.

I'm a scientist who analyzes large data sets. I also need to communicate to my co-workers. I need a secure operating system without a lot of eye-candy that makes it look like a tablet and lets me give priority to my data analysis tasks. Windows is not it, but I have to use it.
The quadcopter problem is easy to solve, jail time for repeat offenders.

But they are now making laws to ensure the bulk of the population commits a few felonies each day, changing your phone software from stock, changing your router software from stock = prison? How exactly does that harm/help society?
Fuck academic paywalls, here's a pdf.

https://mega.nz/#!510ngJYY!S2_PGUIrprdnc5Byf5y1MNIbonm9-v3Y2...
agree with this. I think monolithic repos are part of legal strategy in enterprise.
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Yep - exactly.

I think a lot of it has to do with the self-perception that as a man with significantly increased wealth, your pool of women who would be interested in you is vastly expanded.

But then you realize that the women aren't interested in 'you' but the wealth itself - which brings a whole different set of problems.
It's not really subjective. Since dark matter has so little interaction, it probably has just few basic properties like mass and some other. Regular matter has complex things going on for it. That's why there is life, stars, etc. composed of regular matter and not dark matter.
Indeed, you are right that presentation and styles can be a problem. That said, the three browsers I used - FF/Mac, Safari/Mac, and ELinks/FreeBSD have no issues rendering it. Nor is the the stylesheet necessary as the page is readable with a disabled stylesheet on Safari/Mac and FF/Mac.

In the larger sense, a comment that a given page doesn't work for a given platform is about as useful as my pointing out that it does work for my platform.
The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Is Alive and Kicking
Just watched a Twighlight Zone episode about this subject. It was actually the first of the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Is_Everybody%3F
What is "better" about MS word than google docs? The only reason I see to use word is if you're using files from 1999 that don't work anywhere else.

Google docs is a much simpler system, especially for places like schools because of the "cloud" nature of it. Google docs has all the features the average person needs.

MSWord is for specialty cases, google docs and the open alternatives are for everyone else.

I'm about to earn a masters degree and I've never needed to use MS word. Double spacing, page numbers, and aligning text work in just about every processor. I've rarely received a word document from a professor that used advanced features of word, they're always poorly formatted.
You're reading Hacker News and you want to know why someone would bother reverse engineering a closed source platform?
This is a very poorly written and poorly argued article from an author that at least admits in the first paragraph to not have very much experience with this technology.

Balnaphone, why did you post this article? What is special about it?

His dismissal of being able to use the Bitcoin blockchain in a 100% secure manner for digital assets is completely unfounded and the network remains incredibly resilient and secure. No one would continue to be using the currency unless it retained these properties. Without any hard evidence to the contrary, this authors opinions are unworthy of discussion.
Yes. It's a scary rejection of the scientific method.
I would happily pay a monthly fee to never see another advert.
Am I wrong in thinking that paywalling videos is going to cut viewership for those videos by several orders of magnitude? Not good for, say, a band trying to build a fanbase.
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From his feed:

"like three people thanked me for the two million kronor after tax bonus i gave from my own private money. Others said I was cheap."

Per Google, the exchange rate for Swedish Kronor to US Dollars is 0.12, so 2,000,000 Kronor works out to $240,000, which while certainly a nice and possibly even life-changing bonus is hardly enough to retire on in Sweden given the cost of living.

Considering the company sold for more than $2.5 billion and Mojang had so few employees, Notch could have easily made all of them millionaires while still walking away himself a billionaire. In fact, probably the only reason they didn't all end up rich is because Notch never gave any of his employees any equity in the company whatsoever.

Honestly, "cheap" isn't a completely inaccurate description of his conduct here. But it was his company, and now it's his money, and he can do as he pleases with it, but publicly complainig that his former employees aren't especially grateful to him, despite his relative stinginess (no stock options at all?), is silly.
Here's a quick (terse) summary of what happened up-thread:

"I'm physically in China and I find that the NYT reports on China often don't match the reality that I see."
"Shut up xinhua shill"

Comparing the quality of xinhua and NYT is completely tangential to the point I was trying to make. I'm not saying we can't or shouldn't have a serious discussion about China. I am saying that such a conversation is not happening here. I expect better than this HN.
But you can use things like Excel easily in a VM. Not pull your hair out hard, but easily. Then you can parse Excel or Word with Python in Linux easily.

I just don't get how we still allow closed source operating systems for critical business tasks.
He's referring to the (1984) movie "The Last Starfighter", in which an arcade game is used to recruit a fighter pilot.

It's also where patio11 + ptacek got the name for that project.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
> Speech recognition (Everyone asks about this. I couldn't think of a compelling reason to include it)

So you can find out the time without looking at the clock. Seriously.

Years ago, I picked up a "Moshi" voice controlled clock-radio from Brookstone. I needed a new clock-radio and I had a discount coupon. I figured I might use the voice commands to set the time, if it ran fast or slow, but that was about it. It was just a gimmick.

At first, that's all it was, too. However, based on some comments here on HN, I decided to get rid of all extra light in my bedroom. The display has three settings, one of which is "off." (While the "dim" setting is dimmer than the normal setting, it's still brighter than my old clock radio's blue display.) Now, I use the voice command to check the time. I don't need to turn my head, turn over, or even open my eyes.

It's not perfect. I'd prefer to just say, "Time," instead of

"Hello Moshi"
"Command please"
"Time"
"The time is ...."

I don't use speech recognition anywhere else; but, I don't think I'd go back to a convectional clock or clock-radio.
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A better analogy is anti-lock brakes. When they were first introduced, many drivers were absolutely adamant that no computer could possibly have the nuance and feel to outbrake a human driver on difficult surfaces. Now, it seems utterly obvious an algorithm sensing wheel slip at 1000Hz has a better ability to maintain traction than a human driver with reaction times measured in the hundreds of milliseconds.

Self-driving cars won't suddenly arrive on the market fully-formed. The technology will be introduced incrementally as a series of driver aids, to supplement the range of driver aids that are already standard (ABS, TC, ESC). We're simply seeing the acceleration of a trend that has been happening for years - computers taking over control from the human driver.

Several manufacturers now offer collision avoidance systems that can automatically apply the brakes based on RADAR sensing. Mercedes offer an adaptive cruise control system that can match speed with the car in front and steer through corners to stay in lane.

The self-driving car will be preceded by the uncrashable car.
I think you missed the word "online". https://office.live.com/start/Word.aspx
Sadly, I guess Fastmail will now have to change their privacy policy: https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html. They were pretty openly appealing to people worried about surveillance but that will be more difficult for them now.
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Mirror: https://archive.is/tGCkU
Recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10133771
When you're young you might feel the tedium of taking care of a kiddo...drudgery of the daily regime. But as you get older you realize that the effort or lack thereof you put into those tasks can give life great meaning or be your biggest regret.
I think the main reason behind this is a lack of purpose.

The transition period between completion of a long time project and the beginning of your next will leave everyone vulnerable.

Once he finds the purpose and focus, all these would not matter.
You can also use certutil to grab all the trusted root certificates from the Windows Update server:

certutil -generateSSTFromWU roots.sst

Then open roots.sst (which defaults to viewing in certmgr) and it will show the whole lot. Or use certutil -syncWithWU to get all the certs individually.

Alternatively: download http://ctldl.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/t... [1], extract the authroot.stl file (which is in PKCS#7 format), use 'certutil -dump' to list all the subject key identifiers therein, and then download them from the same location as authrootstl.cab by appending ".crt" to the identifier.

Windows is not lying about anything, you just need to look in the right place.

Also, if you want to examine the CTL list that Windows is currently using - which should be identical to the one above unless it's brand new or there has been a problem downloading it - this will extract it from the registry:

powershell -Command "[IO.File]::WriteAllBytes('authroot-local.stl',(Get-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate').EncodedCtl)"

Then use 'certinfo -dump' or whatever you like, it's exactly the same format as the downloaded authroot.stl. This is the same registry data that the OP's CTLInfo tool examines.

[1] as specified in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2677070
To be fair, Hacker is weird misnomer in many ways. It's starutp-scene-connected-tech-heavy-news more than anything else.
Yep, they release a periodical PDF with interim updates [1]. Only the most lazy "security researcher" would believe that Windows only trusts two dozen root certificates.

[1]: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1...
I guess you've been to a US school. In france the problem is the opposite. They generaly teach you theory first, and you pretty much have to guess by yourself what all those things are for (beyond the obvious problems you find in exercises).
In my experience, Docs can't even reliably align the cursor with the position between characters (problem described here[1], except my zoom is at 100% already).

Thankfully all my documents have very light formatting, so I can just write in Vim and then upload them.

[1] http://www.podiohelp.com/google-docs-cursor-misaligned/
The 9th Amendment was infamously vestigial for most of US history. There were until the New Deal very few SCOTUS cases that even mentioned it, let alone turned on it. In the few cases in which appellants hoped to rely on a notion of "unenumerated yet extant rights", SCOTUS rejected the interpretation.

History also doesn't do much to support an argument that the 9th hides a right to "privacy". The original drafts of the 9th Amendment weren't about unenumerated rights, but about state and local rights versus the power of the federal government. The language was bickered over, but apparently much of the jurisprudence of the 9th that happened anywhere close to the time of the founders was about devolution of state and local power.

See for instance Hugo Black's dissent in Griswold:

[The Ninth] Amendment was passed, not to
broaden the powers of this Court or any
other department of the [Federal
Government], but as every student of
history knows, to assure the people that
the Constitution . ..was intended to
limit the Federal Government to the
powers granted expressly or by necessary
implication. If any broad, unlimited
power to hold laws unconstitutional
because they offend what this Court
conceives to be the "[collective]
conscience of our people" is vested in
this Court by the Ninth Amendment
. . . , it was not given by the Framers,
but rather has been bestowed on th[is]
Court by th[is] Court.7
Does it actually say "Android Wear"? It's more likely that they're implementing their own OS and app with the functionality limited to what will work on iOS as well as Android.
The BMW scenario is interesting ,but:

1. Will ride sharing still be a thing with self-driving cars ? Because it could have a strong network effects.

2. Will consumers prefer the most tested vehicle, let's say - Google's ?

3. Are BMW fit to sell a commodity product more than others ?
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You are a saint.

I was curious what they meant by "commercial" video games. I was expecting real video games like Quake or Witcher but instead it's what you'd expect to be used to measure IQ - puzzle games, some of which mimic questions on regular IQ tests. Not as exciting as the abstract leads you to believe.
Sorry to be blunt, but this is a rather childish article. Here is how it goes: The author has a point of view, opinion, idea about something.

He then goes to find anything that is, or seems to be an issue about it.

He then makes a list of them. He then claims it's dead.

So, what can kill bitcoin? The only thing that can kill bitcoin is a technological advancement that makes its security weak or vulnerable.

Bitcoin is huge to many industries:

1. Extortion, Ponzi Schemes, Gambling, Lottery.

2. Drugs, Weapons, Terrorism, Out-lawed organisations (donations).

3. Tax Evasion, Money Laundering, Moving Capital Overseas.

Given these huge industries (or illegal fields, doesn't matter). Annexed industries can emerge

1. Bitcoin banks, exchanges, and derivative financial services.

2. Bitcoin mining.

3. Bitcoin consulting and development services.

And that assuming Bitcoin is not good for your day-to-day legal services, is unstable, and has lots of technical challenges to overcome.
See also

http://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/

But to me, it's better to start with a context, a purpose for using matrices & linear algebra first, and learn what and how to use matrices in that context. The contexts that helped me included 3D graphics/games and later circuit simulations.
I disagree, but, then, really... who am I?
If you're working with Python, you can create builds of individual modules via zip archives. This lets you create a versionable, signable build artifact which can be easily deployed almost everywhere. They can even include static versions of you dependencies, making the deploy less reliant on what is installed on the target server.
It's true that the average user uses maybe 20% of Word's features, and Google Docs have 50% of them. The problem is that each person uses a different 20%.

One feature I personally needed and missed was to generate a table of contents with page numbers for each heading. I ended up exporting the doc to Word to do it, and in the process discovered that the exported document had a messed up layout in a few places.
Perhaps it would help students to start with an application before digging into the theory. Coordinate transformations might not be too forbidding for high school algebra students, especially if aided by some math software or a Python notebook.
> Is it really a single big repo for the whole organization?

Yes. It's incredible. It enables organization-wide refactoring. It facilitates code sharing. It provides easy access to examples of how code should be used.

> What happens if you want to deploy your code on servers?

You don't deploy source, you deploy packages. At Google we use bazel/blaze (http://bazel.io/). The build rules specify dependencies and visibility allowing for logical separation rather than the incidental separation that comes with chopping up your repository.

Having worked with a monorepo I never want to go back.
Given that in the comment to which that was a reply, you opined that 'It doesn't seem like setting up a build server just to do "git checkout; rm .git" is worth the effort.', it's not completely unwarranted.
One feature of Windows is defaulting to not showing messy complexity to the user. The other feature is defaulting to backward compatibility. Combined, this means that Windows often has more than two data stores for some aggregate feature [e.g. web browser security, software configuration etc.] as new versions of Windows implement these features in more robust ways.

So yeah there are two or more places where certificates are stored. Typical users only care about the abstraction of web security so that's what Windows surfaces. Application developers should choose the new store for new applications. Existing applications can use the old method. System administrators and security consultants should make themselves familiar with all the documentation and double their rates.

Bloggers, however, are still free to write linkbait headlines using the Windows bashing meme.
seanmc accused contigenics of "only getting their news from xinhua". This is on intellectual par with responding to a slightly liberal argument by saying "stop watching fox news". I merely speculated on contigenics nationality to point out the that he/she likely does not only watch xinhua.

I stand by my speculation, but it is not central to the point I was trying to make. The point I was trying to make is "Let's not dismiss every pro China comment as CPC shilling".
Or Remix, "the first true android PC" which just finished its run at Kickstarter 2 days ago. I went in for 1 for testing, they deliver in Oct 2015:
http://www.jide.com/en/mini
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1123481999/remix-mini-t...
I need to take exception with your first three characterizations, which imply that btc is used for these activities because it is anonymous and untraceable--it is neither.

Zerocoin is those things.
Bitcoin has issues. So? What real thing is there around that does not have issues? If everything that has issues is supposed to be "dead", none of us could still be around today ...
Who said anything about retiring?
I haven't a credit card, i am a penniless person studying on a public university that does not teach (almost) anything good, and wants to become a game dev based on free software philosophy, currently researching about edutainment and... zomg... you pwn, thanks! really thanks!

every article i want to read about this, is via payment only, so it is becoming really hard to research about this subject :( but today, you saved the day!!
Well, they're deleted/not acually games/terrible. Here's the least embarassing thing I have there: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.got.game.a...
Geez. What an terrible article.
The characteristics of anonymous and untraceable do not have a monopoly on being the only characteristics that can help a tool perform those first three characterised tasks.
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No they don't: http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/04/09/fastmail-is-not-required...
The part that the build server can handle is the "git checkout" part, maybe create a virtualenv with the dependencies. In that case, doing a "git checkout" is enough for deployment, because you're already assuming that the rest of the deployment happens elsewhere.
I haven't done anything linear algebra related since my high school Algebra II course. This was really simple for me to follow so thanks for posting. Its a shame that the authors don't update it, they have same great content and I would've definitely followed it.
Money amplifies who you really are.
Lets not limit it to if statements. Writing or refactoring existing code by using meaningful variable names can go a long way in increasing the readability of the code. I follow a simple rule to make my code easy to follow:
1.variable names should indicate what they will be containing

2.name the function with atleast one verb denoting what the function does.

3.file names indicate what code in it is trying to do.

Small changes like this can help more than comments some times to understand and read code.

Finally code is meant for humans to read. So be expressive!
Can we leave this shit at reddit? Please?
If the fee is reasonable, say €10, I wouldn't mind paying. My "issue" is that I also don't want to log in.
I'd agree, but remember that the others weren't all in it from the beginning. Notch had already done all the groundwork and the game was massively successful before "Mojang" was even a thing. I think $240,000 bonus on top of their (I assume at least competitive) salaries seems incredibly generous to me - not to mention that they're all still gainfully employed after the sale.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not really a fan and don't have any loyalty either way, it would be good to hear from someone on the inside.
It's a nice theory, but the concept of "men overworking to avoid going home" didn't become a trope by chance. Not everyone feels the meaning given by those tasks.