skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally, in business critical systems for all sorts of stuff.

Rewriting it would be enormous effort and provide no business benefit and be full or risk of introducing new (or re-introducing old) bugs in the process of converting to some whiz-bang c# or whatever is trendy.

We even built custom integration modules (DLLs in Visual C++ 6 for anyone curious). They integrate to legacy AS/400 systems and the interfaces used are totally legacy and unlikely to be easy to integrate with c++ 2015.

So, we're absolutely still using Tcl (and Tk) in 2015 and it is still relevant. It will be in use until the company (or the sun) implodes.

I do hate the syntax though. Yuk. [edit: I see others commenting that that's the thing they like ! I'm obviously an outlier or our code sucks more than most.]
Or better still, just create a RESTful stateless API and implement JWT?
Nice. The thing I don't like about Reddit itself is that it's hard to find what each article is actually about, and most of the time it's some in-jokey/meme-y stuff I wouldn't have bothered with if I'd been able to see even one image or quote. Finding quality content there is hard; if I wanted to spend that much time separating wheat from chaff I might as well try Google+. Upvoted looks like a much more accessible way to get some light reading/entertainment done. Good idea, and AFAICT so far a good implementation.
http://www.redditblog.com/2015/10/introducing-upvoted-reddit... actually explains what it is and might be a more informative link.
For anyone confused about why this exists: http://upvoted.com/advertise/
There was a recent allegation that the Reddit administration had encouraged vote brigading with Tom Hanks' comments: http://i.imgur.com/Obafhpc.png

From the looks of the Upvoted front page, looks like they're doing it as a content marketing strategy, which doesn't bode well. Also, it seems like a BuzzFeed clone, which Redditors despise.

(Disclosure: although I have done a LOT of work analyzing Reddit [http://minimaxir.com/2015/10/reddit-bigquery/], I have not been approached to write anything for Upvoted)
How's that ridiculous authoritarian conformity experiment working out for you?

If you think with the stupid downvote Nazi policy in place, you would achieve healthy and respectful communication, think again idiot. You just make people more furious to rise up against the system and push back with more defiant commentary.

Enjoy your power trip while it lasts.
A better image of it: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Scree...
Yeah but colonizing Mars is just straight up cool.
Content curated for upvoted.com is based on the most upvoted stories on reddit[1].
As for what is featured and where on the homepage is probably based on editorial choices as well as most viewed post.

[1]http://www.wired.com/2015/10/no-comments-allowed-reddits-new...
so the hash of the password becomes the password. i don't see the gains tbh
If you read the mechanism, you'll see that this involves more than a site faking the UI - it requires browser integration. This mechanism does not protect a single site, but rather the ability to pivot from one site to another with the same password or key. You also breeze over "can fake any public information" - I have no idea what you are trying to say by the ability to fake public keys - that is not really a thing. HTTPS rides on having a trusted intermediary and so even a malicious MITM couldn't simply fake a public key.
Good God, $3,000 USD is a little outside my price range. Hopefully the consumer edition will be able to knock the price down a little bit.

I really wanted to get my hands on one of these, but it looks like I'll have to wait a little longer.
Thanks.. I think I'll give the 1st gen band a try. My 1st gen LG Android watch has gotten me used to wearing a watch again, so I'm hoping for a minimal transition. If it doesn't work out, I've got ~30 days to return it, and get the Band 2.

BTW, I read how easy the thing scratches, and purchased some screen protectors along with it.
You can already choose AWS services and ensure that they stay located only in a single region (that you decide), so you can pick EU-West-1 (Ireland) or EU-Central-1 (Germany) and be assured that Amazon won't move your data into another region.

If you are contemplating "pan-cloud root compromise", I'd worry more about the probability of that happening and less about in which countries that cloud provider operates. That would push me towards the larger, established provider (perceived lower probability of all-access-root compromise) over a smaller upstart whose value prop was "we ONLY operate in Europe".
> There's an argument that modern software used in production environments shouldn't be imbued with a sense of playfulness just because it's fun.

Your point is a good one (applicable to any language or technology), but in defense of the OP, bringing fun doesn't preclude usefulness or power. A painful development process doesn't mean "serious software". Additionally, if you don't want to put Tcl in production per se, it can still be part of the development process in a prototyping capacity. It's got great UI facilities (CLI, sockets, GUI), great introspection, and a healthy amount of whip-it-up-atude to get meaningful results quickly (and yes, enjoyably).
While this article rises some important points regarding company culture that each of us co-create, I have to say that overall aggressive tone and provocative, unfair in many cases, insinuation at the end, made it quite unpleasant read.

But maybe that's a way to start a discussion?
There are ~320 million people in the US the first filter that drops 99.99% of them is by far the most important. EX: Pro life democrat or pro choice republican running for president = good luck.

Further, I don't think a great president looks much like a great senator.
Introducing AWS WAF
Funny, I thought he just did one of the best product launch presentations of the last few years. He gave it more personality, passion, and authenticity than you normally see in these type of things. To each their own I guess.
Microsoft was ordered to hand over an Irish citizen's emails stored outside of the US to US government officials in a drug case. The case is still in appeals.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/judge-rules-that-mi...
Perhaps there's a more benign explanation for the AIG bailout. It was quicker and more efficient to give the money to AIG and let them pay their failing counterparties (all those crooked investment banks holding the credit default swaps) than it was to negotiate a bailout for each counterparty separately.

The paperwork for a first round startup financing is so complex and expensive a lot of investors can't afford a deal below a few megabucks. Can you imagine the paperwork to bail out an investment bank, multiplied by dozens and dozens, that had to get done in a few days.

Once the govt and the fed had decided to intervene, they needed to get it done. This got it done.

I'm afraid this is a case where justice for a few hundred bad actors took a back seat to righteousness for the whole economy.
Up to 16GB of RAM, 1TB SSD.
PA all the way. There's nothing in Dayton. Also easier to find other gigs, like-minds and leisure activities in PA.
In kleptocracies like Philly, there's similar game called "pay to play," where anyone wanting to bid on a city contract has to make some administrator happy in some personalized way. City admins routinely go to jail for this.
Why not use the existing secure remote password protocol instead of inventing a new protocol? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protoco...
Makes you wonder how good the battery life of the tablet will be.

There has to be some trade offs? If they pull this off thou.. I'll line up for one.
Great to see 16GB RAM in Surface Book. Disappointing they've not embraced USB C/3.1
> There should be an authentication module any website could use to store and retrieve credentials from.

How do you plan to do that securely?
Information in this case as in many is asymmetrical hence leading to the phrase "information is power".

Lack of information does not grant the same benefits/advantages as possession of information. Why do you think so much effort is expended to possess information?
I own one and that is definitely my experience.

Most tablets are content consumption devices only. The SP3 allowed you to be a "little" productive on the go with a type keyboard, and a "lot" productive in the office with a dock and a real keyboard.

If you want to be fully productive on the go, then I'd agree that buying a full laptop (e.g. Thinkpad, MBP) makes a lot of sense, and even then I'd still plug in a real mouse.

The Surface's niche is that it can be a content consumption device, semi-productive device, and a fully productive device when you need it to be (with no cover, type cover, and full keyboard/mouse respectively).

I will say the SP3's four biggest issues in my view:

- Touchpad on the cover is just terrible. Totally unusable.

- The Surface itself is too slippery without the cover.

- Some overheating issues when the GPU is utilised.

- The magnetic power cord fails too often/easily. Replaced it twice already. Look on Amazon for reviews/pictures to see what I mean.
One of my Dutch banks, a small investment bank, kicked me out because I am on a temp visa in the USA. This means I have to pay taxes here and therefore need to report my Dutch bank accounts with the IRS. They told me the US penalties for not reporting 100 % correctly on my money with them were so outrageous that they preferred to boot me.
What an amazing event. Every announcement was mindblowing. It's saying a lot when I'm hyped about the Surfacebook and Lumia, and then realise that I forgot about the Hololens devkit being released in 3 months. Amazing.
Welcome to the party Microsoft!
We were missing you...
Thank you for your thoughtful response.

At the risk of sounding churlish, however, I think you dodged my question : )

I know that I should not murder, and that I should not buy / keep slaves. Yet I don't need to refer to a text that agrees with my position on the former, but is (at best) ambiguous on the latter. (The precise mechanism by which I've come to know both things are bad is not something I can conveniently answer, before you ask. Quoting K-Pax may be necessary.)

My question was if you have the necessary innate / internal / nascent / instinctive understanding to know slavery is bad (as one example) then what's the point of using a text that advocates slavery as the basis of a moral framework?
My Definition of a Growth Hacker
How could anyone fail to see it? I still wanted to include it in my point. Not a lot of disarming to do.
> client interaction good chemistry with hiring manager

Social currency wins. The friends and contacts you make will create higher visibility and more opportunities as your career progresses.
The whole discoveryd fiasco was the final straw for me with regards to having a Mac. Having such serious networking issues in your primary OS and not fixing them for almost a year after release tells me something is rotten in the Kingdom of Apple.

Yes, the issue was eventually fixed, but I'm done with Apple. They have lost my trust.
> Without private ownership, resources cannot be traded to their highest utility.

The language of economics is designed so that this is tautologically true and all empirical evidence that this is false is euphemized away with the term 'externality' or 'market failure'.
> The problem is bigger than that - we should stop making users type password at all. There should be an authentication module any website could use to store and retrieve credentials from.

We have the solution already in HTTPS client certificates. Browsers all have mechanisms for generating and storing them. The only problem is that no one uses them.
Ah! You're right. Totally missed it in the paragraph under that photo. My mistake :-)
Simon Thorpe's Ideas on the Economy: Science and the Unconditional Basic Income
Never sure what the point of having it as a PDF is apart from being able to print it nicely which has got to be a minority, especially considering it's thick and colourful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_proto...

Does this provide any advantages over SRP?
If I wanted editorial content and spin I'd read mainstream news.
Ask HN: Alternatives to RequireJS for client side
I am looking for an alternative to RequireJS that makes it easy to fall back to a local version if CDN version fails. I am also looking for something that plays nicely with jquery so I can use global $ without getting errors. Can someone suggest a loader framework or other option?
Serving analytics the right way: Modern analytics at Opendoor
> I have been skeptical after a lot of Microsoft misses

The Surface 3 and Surface Pro 3 weren't misses. They were extremely well received and fairly successful products.
Alamo Broadband – Net Neutrality Violates the First Amendment
Surface Book Price & Specs
Looks nice, functions nicely, I can see what they are doing but it's just not for me. Content appears pretty shallow at a brief browse through it all, buzzfeed esque.
You missed the point. In the original loan example, the lender may want to screw you, but they also know that the one that screws you least is the one you will do business with. And your good character, as determined by omnipresent surveillance, allows them to safely offer you a better deal. It's like the "good student" etc discounts that car insurance gives now.
Why not just use a password manager?
What happens if your password is leaked? It seems to generate the same hash every time, so you would have to change the site password. And if you have to start remembering "Well my password for every site is 'pumpkin' EXCEPT for Wordpress, where my site password is 'bagel'," that list is only going to grow with time as websites inevitably get hacked. So once you've got five or so site-specific passwords, how is it any better than the password memory problem this was originally trying to solve?
Copyrights and wrongs
Goldfish (from fables and koans on automated testing)
They have said it was a full Windows 10 computer, so I'm not entirely shocked by the $3000 price, but I do think that the consumer version will likely have to be cheaper to sell it to the average consumer.
Its like Microsoft's Google Nexus series....
How about RFID chips (or something like that) in all firearms? And long range scanners that can detect said RFID-like chips. Make it embedded in a crucial part of the firing system (firing pin or something) so that if that part is removed then the gun becomes a doorstop. As you can tell, I don't know if this is technically feasible but hey its an idea.

Have long range scanners put into public areas susceptible to these types of attacks - schools, malls, movie theaters, etc.

Automatic notification to police when a scanner picks it up - noting the distance from the scan location, make/model of weapon and direction weapon is travelling in. Maybe scale the notifications - dispatch only for 1 weapon, if 2 or more are detected in same vicinity then direct notification to all patrol and to dispatch?

For example if it is a college campus, it could detect the firearm(s) a few minutes before a malicious minded person gets to where they are going to start something. If that few minutes allows responders to get there in time, then it could be prevented.
Projected cashflow is only worth something if customers keep paying their bills. If they all stop paying -- because they can't get credit and need their cash to, say, pay bonuses to their executives -- then projected cashflow stops being equal to actual cashflow.
Can't a compromised server already get your password by serving malicious JavaScript?
How is it possible that people don't discuss the GCHQ in the same breath as the NSA? From news reports it seems they may as well be the same agency. Keeping data out of the US isn't enough, and it's dangerous for Europeans to think that their own governments are looking out for their privacy. They should be looking instead to make encryption ubiquitous. This may be limiting corporate data storage, but I don't think this impacts intelligence gathering for the US at all.
Whats makes this different from SQRL?

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
Open truefactor:// app. Currently there is only a Web version and it has serious downsides (web crypto is a bad idea), but think of it as a Light version. Desktop apps to come later.
I was always interested in Econ / Applied-Math research as an undergrad and would build toy models in those areas. When I graduated, I went to work at a financial company before coming back to study theory again 3 years later.

The immersion in industry was absolutely critical for me to see 1. what was actually needed in the real world, 2. what types of assumptions can be made about the predictability of large economic systems.

If I had gone to grad school right away, I think I would have followed several ill-advised models down way too deep. So, I'd say at least one year in a real role in the industry you hope to contribute is really essential for someone planning to do applied/translational research.
Something like HTTPS client certificates?
> Mental disorders are massively overdiagnosed these days, it's a business with little backing of solid science, and I ask anyone who claims the opposite to show me solid evidence and research papers.

When stating your opinion as fact, the onus is on you to give evidence. I ask you for solid evidence and research papers.
The Frame Machine Languages – DSLs for software modeling
Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book
> it was way way easier & faster to figure out who wrote a line of code than it is in git today.

Don't you have git blame integration in your editor?
Silverlight or Flash needs to be installed? ... Eh no, thank you.

Googling for Surface Book reveals enough; a beefy (but Ultra-thin) Ultrabook with Skylake CPU + Nvidia GPU and detachable as tablet. Surface Pro is similarly specced with a Skylake CPU based tablet as successor to the previous version.

Dutch Tweakers.net:
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/105651/microsoft-brengt-zijn-eers...
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/105648/microsoft-onthult-surface-...
Activism, Fantasy and Pig Roasts
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Elixir
At the end of the day it's balls in the back of the net that count. I'm pleased for everyone, so let's see if this translates into sales. It's a hybrid mix of things to get to success; and all about execution.

http://datagenetics.com/blog/september52015/index.html
Is there JS API to use HTTPS certs to sign specific strings? Like "send 1 bitcoin to X"
The New Shiny
How would you rather treat your $1500+ piece of technology? I don't throw that sort of money around lightly.
Love Alfred! I would especially recommend it to young professionals...those just starting their careers
Still love the fact that they are not giving up on the qwerty keypad..
>the hinge alone looks fantastic

The hinge is the only thing that bothers me. Close the book and it seems like you'll have a thin area of metal on metal grinding on itself and end up with a rather thick profile for putting it in a laptop bag.

Also, at one point they showed the internal structure of the hinge and it looked like the Yoga's hinge that's covered with some sort of articulating plastic (god I hope not).

I'm impressed with everything else though.
This is very cool. Random thoughts, though more on the example app than all of it:

- When editing the floorplan, it's possible to push walls into each other and no way to get them away from each other again other than deleting one; even just a minimum distance between walls of of say, 10cm would solve this, in combination with the zoom function.

- Any idea what makes this slow-ish when moving the camera? It's perfectly useable, but it would be even nicer with 60fps is what I'm trying to say :)

- How about having the "pan" functionality accessible via a modifier key and dragging the mouse, in addition to the buttons? It would also be neat to be able to resize objects in a similar way.

- Saving floor plans and designs to local storage would be great, as would be the ability to collaborate with others. And of course, a feature to save the current view as an image.
This Royal Throne of Feels, This Sheltered Isle, This England
It is a bit jarring, but I think that is the point. The show off this beautiful machine. Surely, only Apple could have designed it. Then at the end - BAM - Microsoft.
Why? Are you really going to drag an Oculus out to a coffee shop etc. and flail around in a VR world to everyone else's amusement? Not to mention you'll have a heck of a time getting positional tracking setup in a public environment.
When I was visiting Hiroshima in 2010, I stopped at a 'Japanese pizza' shop. It was nothing like actual pizza, but the staff and other customers in there were incredibly friendly, and we ended up trying to explain to each other where we from and what our hobbies were, among other things.

One of them was a man who sat down at the table next to me. We talked for a bit, and he explained that he worked at the Bank of Tokyo. I think he was trying to practice his English. He asked me 'What is the most famous bank in Canada?'

After thinking about the most famous Canadian bank for a bit, I told him it was probably Toronto Dominion (TD). Or maybe the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Then I thought for a moment and said 'Though, the bank most famous in Canada is probably Lehman Brothers.'

He had such a look of sadness on his face when I said that.
The very idea that computer science is called a "science" is a reason why software engineering is not taken seriously.
Is it? Why? The truth is that Mars is a pretty miserable place for humans. It's cold. It's dry. It's dusty. I just came back from a trip to northern Canada, and it was a pretty bleak, desolate place, but it's a tropical paradise compared to Mars. So what makes Mars so cool? I really don't get it. The only thing I can imagine is that people think it's cool because they have no clue what it would really be like.
I may understand their need to differentiate from Apple with the blue background. But why the sliding laptop that made it look like a cheap BestBuy commercial?
The issue with articles that try to discuss "autism" as a whole tend to ignore that the wide spectrum of people diagnosed makes it impossible to generalize. The child in class who is considered quirky and exhibits a few rather harmless traits shares the same diagnosis as my child who is entirely non-verbal and exhibits self-injurious behavior.

The difference between someone considered "high-functioning" and "low-functioning" is often dramatic.

Until we separate the spectrum into a more distinct subset of disabilities (as well as abilities), the autism community will continue to be fractured into those who consider their autism a gift that want to "keep" their autism pitting themselves against the families of the most severely impacted who are advocating for those who often can't speak for themselves.
Looks like it has integration with an existing P4 server. There's quite a few teams(GameDev+Movies) who use P4 for scale+locking for binary assets where exposing a git endpoint would be useful from a tooling perspective.
Since the Surface Pro 4 has up to 16GB of RAM, I'd assume this has at least that.
And to pursue this point, one person greatly influenced by Sullivan was his ex-colleague at The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates (who just won a MacArthur fellowship).

Coates had a very well-policed comments section, which for several years attracted some high-quality comments and really excellent exchanges - the equal of anything here on HN within its chosen domain (essentially, race and history). Coates is black, of course, so there was a lot of moderation needed. It proved unsustainable and his posts don't have comments any more.

This retrospective article sums up the trajectory of a lot of high-quality comments sections, like Sullivan's and Coates': http://blog.longreads.com/2015/02/04/its-yours-a-short-histo...

Basically, it needs organic growth and a lot of personal attention. And it seems to have a finite lifetime.