skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the use you are going to make.

A self-hosted VPN (5 USD VPS running a VPN server and socks5/http proxy) is cheaper. The exit IP address most likely is NOT blacklisted by IP-sensible services (e.g. PayPal). But you get one country, one IP and belongs to you.

A professional VPN service will give you access through many countries (40-70 or more), the exit point is 'shared' and many VPN providers (e.g. TorGuard) do not keep logs. Or at least that's what their TOS says.
FastMail acquires Pobox and Listbox
If you have the new "MacBook", it can only drive 4K anyway. You'll likely get 10 bit color with a cheap Dell P2415Q display or similar.
Vivaldi releases first beta of their web browser
George Boole was born 200 years ago
1. My side project is a browser based snail simulation: http://liza.io/category/snails/

2. I think my fondness for snails was originally sparked by a game I made up at my grandparents' summerhouse in Ukraine when I was little - I collected a bunch of snails and taught them to race against each other. I got the idea for the project itself over 10 years ago during a move from the US to Australia with my family. It was summer and I was bored, so I had this idea for a snail racing game. At the time it was meant to be a game, but as the idea stayed in my head over the years it evolved into focusing on realism as much as possible and dropping "fun" from its main focus. I did not have the technical ability to build this at first in its full scope and it has gone through quite a few iterations over the years.

3. Learn something new, have my snails surprise me.
A strange game: The only winning move is not to play. :)
Guess what. All the CoD players will pay and praise the company as someone who finally got free-to-play right. Just because they like the franchise. The same happened with Fallout Shelter and you can see people arguing that micro-transactions in FS are fair - when it's the same thing that Candy Crush and similar games pull.

My estimate is that Blizzard will make this money back in less then 5 years. They just need to put the proper money-milking free-to-play model into their next big game and all the "core" gamers will shell out the money.

After that, we will see the entire industry shifting to free-to-play and the way games are currently monetized on mobile will dominate PC as well.

If I were Google, I'd start developing AdSense plugins to Unity, Unreal and other game engines.
Nobody is listening to the UK’s anti-surveillance campaigners
Extremely poor cost/benefit ratio for what purpose? If your main goal is to adopt existing classes and libraries as your own (i.e. without any loss of functionality compared to language-native libraries), then extension methods obviously have an extremely high cost/benefit ratio. You can't analyze a feature in isolation of the language's goals. Features exist to serve a purpose, and are measured by how well they serve it.
Well, this is a good point. For some mystical reason - downwoted to hell.
or if you prefer: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Nobody+is+listening+to+the...
How does this compare to http://shout-irc.com
Why Online Anonymity Frightens Progressives
Where are the big Kuiper belt objects?
Is there any proof aside from the claims of Zerodium?

Reputable hacking team taking credit perhaps?

Smart PR though. "Watch me do a magic trick behind this sheet."
Thanks for the post. Very good read.

When coming to work from university (1989-90), I made a somewhat similar though more primitive design for the embedded software of a redundancy controller of a satellite modem. The various tasks (control of RF and baseband electronics, display and buttons UI, network management interface, etc) would run according to a scheduler, each in turn. No dynamic memory allocation, internal communication via global variables that are written only in one place. There was no mechanism to actually enforce this, it was just the principle in code, and the enforcement was possible because it was a one-man software project so I had no one else to blame.

This was written in PL/M (which looks like Pascal but is more similar to a primitive variant of C) on a 8031 microcontroller, from scratch (no 3rd party SW components at all - that was a long ago).

Later on, I used the same platform for a design we did on a telephone/data cable modem we designed for domestic use (We saw a need for internet enabled cable modem in 1992 and started work on a thing that provided POTS and 128 kbit/s over SLIP). That was also running a 8031, but as we wanted to make it dirt cheap, the board did not have dual-port RAM. The hardware wizards made it run with a hack on the regular RAM access so that the SW could only access RAM if it read any memory location twice: first read would just place the address bits on the bus, and doing another read would actually fetch the content. This enabled us to save several dollars per device.

(This was possible because the 8031 has an architecture which is not strictly von Neumann design: the code and address spaces are different memory spaces and you use different CPU instructions to access the different memories, so your program memory on EPROM works normally but your data memory in external RAM does not. There's also a small internal RAM in yet another overlapping address space which was not impacted by address bus weirdness.)

This is just to show what kind of strange limitations you sometimes have on the hardware in embedded devices. Unlimited virtual memory, large non-volatile storage instead of a puny i2C bus EEPROM... you just dreamed of those. Modern controllers with 4G flash are really huge compared to that, but they are still far below what people have on desktop computers, or even an Android phone.

The limitations in embedded devices indeed come from cost per device as well as heat, vibration, radiation, humidity and similar environmental factors.
"I’ve been thinking about this a lot. The pricing part, as thinking about marketing makes me break out in fear hives."

Fortunately, that part seems to have taken care of itself!
Letsencryt does not support wildcard domains
Become a MySQL DBA Blog Series – Understanding the MySQL Error Log
You're confusing computer programs with Microsoft employees.
20kLOC projectional editor demo: one document mixing html,css,js,json,lisp,etc
And from the Pobox side: http://blog.pobox.com/2015/11/exciting-news-about-pobox-and-...
The older I get, the more sympathy I have for companies that that stuck with older but working systems that don't come with a mouse and monitor.

Sometimes I feel like we're building a prison for ourselves the way things are headed in the digital world. Where I live, some schools require kids aged 5 to own iPads so they can do homework. It as fun when it was optional, but I really don't want to continue digitizing and feeding the machine my own kids.

I worry about this every day, so my first reaction and general feeling with this article was, cool. Reminds me of walkmans and roll skates. I'm old fashined and have no problem admitting it. I also don't think everyone should feel the same way, it's just how I see things.
Our (FastMail's) blog post is here: http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/11/03/fastmail-acquires-pobox-...
"how can you evaluate competence" => Do you really want to evaluate competence at this time? Or evaluate evolution of this competence? First is a comparison with others but you are unique in your team; second is a comparison with your past self, and this is easily achievable.
The cost of cultivation really isn't the issue, regardless of how legal California makes it, until something changes at the Federal level.

The water rights issues won't go away, no matter where you grow any crop. Here in Colorado, where plenty of people are growing their own tomatoes and marijuana at home, there is a fascinating jurisdictional problem with the commercial operations.

Many of the counties in Colorado are not allowing the commercial operations, so Denver county is one of the few places where it's even remotely feasible to produce at scale. While the processing facilities aren't exactly advertising their location, it's very easy to tell which parts of town they cluster just by driving around. It is very very very very obvious which neighborhoods have big commercial facilities.

Right now, Denver is the only US city whose residential real estate costs are increasing faster than San Francisco's. But warehouse space is even further through the roof than that, in Denver county. It just doesn't get nearly the level of detailed analysis as the residential market, because it's more of a niche market. So most people who aren't in the weed business wouldn't care about this fairly localized problem. But if you wanted to, say, open a new hackerspace anywhere in Denver county? You're screwed.
They hoped you'd buy 100 GB plan and use only 50 GB of it.
Activision to buy maker of Candy Crush for $5.9B
> So is there any good documentation on nosh besides the source it's self?

Yes. Taking a page from upstart (with its Cookbook), FreeBSD, and even Microsoft, nosh not only comes with reference manuals but comes with the nosh Guide. (One thing that Microsoft doco such as the MSDN Library consistently does is have both "about" and "using", i.e. reference and guide, doco.) It's first on both of the binary package download pages, separately downloadable and installable without need for installing any of the programs, and recommended by the timorous admin's how-to right at the start.

The very first thing, in the introduction chapter, is a section on the design fundamentals.

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...

Strictly speaking, this wasn't actually page from either upstart's or FreeBSD's books, as the habit pre-dates upstart's very existence by well over a decade. nosh is not the first project to have both reference doco and user guide (and indeed announcement blurb separate from both) by any means. Here's another:

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...
Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix
And https://www.irccloud.com

One obvious difference is that IRCAnywhere is a discontinued product!
I wonder how well this generalizes to other environments, especially cities with dense blocks.
Magento Commerce Launches as Independent Company Backed by the Permira Funds
Amazing Collection of Mint Tin Amp Designs
Is there an equivalent to livecoding.tv that I can use?
News: Cable and Wireless Digital Marketing Campaign by MAC Design Inc
That needs to have been taken out of context.

Probably what they insist on, is that there is this Gordon valuation model, which, long-term, should apply to any company that gives a dividend, and it's based on this idea that for a company to be worth anything for a minority investor without any control of the company, it needs to have a dividend - which is the only return on investment that such investor will receive, apart from profit for selling in the future.
Homepage states: "IRCAnywhere is designed to be an open source alternative to paid services such as IRCCloud"
Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws
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The only thing that seems to be spreading is the use of the word FUD as well as personal attacks by some people who think they should be rude to those they disagree with. A few conditions have to be met in order for a statement to qualify as FUD: 1/ It has to be false or at least grossly inaccurate, 2/ its falsehood/inaccuracy has to be intentional, and 3/ it has to be negative. My statements fulfill none of those conditions, so relax. It's been a long time (well over a year, if not two, IIRC) since I discussed my bad experience with Scala or said anything negative about it, and for the record, I have never said that Scala is not used successfully by large teams, only that I have had a very bad experience adopting Scala in a large team, an experience shared by other such teams, and that I believe it may not be a good choice in such circumstances. My opinions are neither overly negative nor uncommon, the only difference is that I was foolish enough to sound them in spite of the rampant rudeness of some who for whatever reason took personal offense. I have also repeatedly said that I realize that that experience isn't universal.

Also, I would appreciate you stop saying that my opinions are misinformed (as they are most certainly not), unless you care to point out my errors. It's OK to disagree, and I don't think you should expect everyone to share the same opinions with you.

BTW, I think that much of the (valid) disagreement stems from a difference in perspective. Some people concentrate on language features, while I could care less whether a language has higher-flavored emojis or subliminal piping. I view those features as means to an end, so first and foremost I care about that end -- what the language aims to achieve -- long before getting to how it aims to achieve it, which, IMO, is only a concern once the goals match your own, otherwise the discussion is purely academic (which may be interesting in its own right, but not my focus).
Nearly 300B market cap - actually way more than I would expect. This elitist attitude needs to stop. The user doesn't give a shit about your technology. If your preferred technology mattered at all, you be able to compete easily at 1/1000th the scale at a minimum. Yet you cannot even do that.
I'm not sure. You can easily get anonymized statistics about your whole userbase without any employee looking at a particular account directly. Getting max(size) of all the storage accounts does not require employees to look at files directly. Figuring out that someone stores 75 TB of video files does not require at all that an employee looks at a specific account.

Really, I don't want to be too snarky but this has nothing to do with privacy at all. At least try to imagine how could you do this without breaching the privacy of individual users if you were running a service like Google Drive or OneDrive -- I'm sure you will find an easy way. :) Do you really think someone actually looked at the account and added up the sizes of the video files in Excel, then wrote to his manager that 'x@hotmail.com has uploaded the whole Game of Thrones in 4K?'
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This is the problem with Microsoft - you cannot trust them with their offers. First they offer 15GB free space, then they limit it to 5GB. Like many of their online services, they make mistakes and offer something that in the end is not profitable (enough). Then they offend their users and prove they are not to be trusted in the long run. Google is jumping up and down with joy.

Time and again, they make this mistake. They change names for their services continuously. They should keep all old users on 15GB or whatever was offered, and new users take the 5GB account. That is the correct way to handle this.
Seconded. It's pretty good. It has a good Linux client to boot.
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3 Go Gotchas
"I saw terms recently that had a 2x liquidation preference (i.e. the investors got the first 2x their money out of the company when it exited) and a 3x liquidation cap (i.e. after they made 3x their money, they didn’t get any more of the proceeds)." Can someone explain mechanically what this means? i.e. What is the payoff under each scenario?

Edit: this link seems to explain it well http://www.businessinsider.com/how-liquidation-preferences-w...
Wouldn't it be appropiate to update the website to account for this?
Be wary giving out legal advice if you're not a lawyer.. The courts can force you to do many things, especially if they're not trying to prosecute you for information you may have. Much of the case law that I've seen (note: I'm clearly not a lawyer either) with regard to phone searches has been when the police were seeking evidence that the phone's owner committed crimes -- not after they'd been convicted. This distinction can definitely be important.

One concept with specific relevance to the 5th amendment is immunity given for testimony. You can be compelled to testify (even over your 5th amendment objections) if the court grants you immunity for the information that they're after.

Again, IANAL, but I know enough that it's much more complicated than "phones are protected from all searches".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
Does anybody know why he died at 53?
very bad move that can affect all products and services ...
King has multiple games in the top charts, but they are also spending a lot on advertising. I would like to know what their unit economics are like.
I think that's only in the Eleventh Circuit (seems to be southeast US, not including the jurisdiction of this case): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Stat... The other cases listed involved the government already knowing things, so that the 5th didn't apply. If they got a guilty plea, they've probably got enough evidence that a similar situation could apply here. I don't think the Fifth allows you to withhold incriminating evidence you have on other people (as the government wants here.)

Hmm, maybe I'm just speculating, but this makes it look even more like a beachhead for being able to do this in the future. Little risk of losing the conviction, no apparent attempt to have the suspect do it himself (but maybe my research is just poor). They've used this tactic before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Writs_Act .
It would perhaps be best, up until today the website got only a trickle of traffic so no one bothered with it. It will probably be updated in the coming week or two to reflect the current status.
Sometimes the magic of branding is that they can get that extra cash for it for not a whole lot of actual extra engineering in return. Thus, profit!
It's a really great game, highly recommended - I've had a blast with it.
SQL Needs a Sister
Well not that America does herself any favors - however there is a strain of european anti americanism. But of course they love Le McDonald's and Le Coke Cola ;-)

Back when I worked for the .coop registry we found this as some of the European coop considered the internet a Capatiist/CIA plot.

There is also the older and dieing out British Tory's who blame you for the loss of empire.
Author of the repo here. I didn't expect to see this come up again, it was a weekend project done years ago while I was studying x86 internals and emulation.

There are much cleaner emulators to study in JS: for the x86 family, I recommend v86 https://github.com/copy/v86

For general emulation, RISC architectures are much simpler to understand, jor1k https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k performs very well, and can simulate the OpenRISC 1000 architecture as well as RISC-V (32bit only). There's also the 64bit ANGEL emulator for RISC-V http://riscv.org/angel/

All of these are probably more useful pedagogically than my hand-unrolled jslinux repo, unless you're particularly interested in that emulator.

I would love to see such js emulators one-day used in operating-systems courses, allowing one to step through bootloaders and kernel init code to get a real feel for the code, along with other dynamic illustrations of the machine state and various kernel data structures on the same page. If I weren't devoted full-time to synthetic biology I might be tempted to try such a thing myself!
Sorry, I wasn't aware advertising piece work is against the rules of this post.
But if you wanted to, say, open a new hackerspace anywhere in Denver county? You're screwed.

Oregon recently legalized, and is now grappling with various practical issues. E.g. can recreational pot be sold by medical pot dispensaries? Answer: Yes, for now, until recreational stores are licensed.

The point is that, if and when it's legal in most states, that should drastically reduce the demand for pot from Colorado. Of course, as you note, there's still the whole Federal issue.

And especially from other countries. The growers in the article seemed relatively harmless compared to what's happening in Mexico. But I don't pay much attention to that, maybe the problems in Mexico are because of higher value drugs, rather than marijuana.
Looks neat in a scifi sort of way, but I am not sure people would be too happy about having these things running around on already busy sidewalks.
One key advantage of automating this is that it could avoid the busy ones...
Call of duty? Sky landers? Destiny?
A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
I wonder which cities have realistically good enough sidewalks/pavements for this to work consistently.
That's not so much irony as coincidence.
I'm currently living in Tunisia, which does not allow currency to leave the country in any meaningful way. You can change a maximum of 10,000 TD at a time, equivalent to ~$5,000 USD, and if you did it many times, they'd probably stop letting you do so.

As the Tunisian economy reels from the crash of the tourism industry due to terrorism, all of the new startups are starting to cater to entrenched upper middle class Tunisians who's family money is stuck here. The policy kind of enforces saving money, and buys a bit of time for the economy if things go awry. It also creates a lot of animosity for the Tunisians who'd much rather have Euros to invest properly.

Economic policy is fascinating stuff. Any other fun stories out there?
No. We do not throw them at all. Seriously ;) ;) ;)