skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either you're projecting a lot into my choice of words or it's because English isn't my native language.

From my experience almost all cases where one party wants out and the other wants to continue (not just in tech) involve some amount of cash changing hands.

That amount being zero is just a special case for when very little value was accumulated. In that light giving "just walk away" as the general advice, even though it might be right in this case, is quite overly simplistic in my opinion.

And if your partner is also your friend you should also take that into account of course but from what I could tell the OP didn't mention anything about that.
And judging by the pageviews on my blogpost on how to disable it, users didn't really like it very much...
From the article, quoting Microsoft's director of OSG John Justice:

“We are windowizing all the most important experiences…we recreated controls, interactions, and user experiences to match the Windows user experience (UX) to eliminate any clashes of interface concepts,”
> but I'm not quite sure what to say about our reasons for moving...

Simple, we're living our dream and think the countryside is an ideal setting to raise our family.

Reasons for personal health disclosure can vary. That Key Man detail could be important to a business partner.
A recruiting bozo or corporate manager not so much. Move forward assuming as if you'd been given a clean bill of health.

Incidentally, your current bosses have allowed you to work remote temporarily. If you've demonstrated you can still contribute value to the team, perhaps they'd be amenable continuing the arrangement. Say, why not go another 6 months and jointly evaluate if this is working? It's worth exploring, there are always exceptions. Godspeed!
Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say
It is worth pointing out that only about 10% of Mercury's parahelion shift is due to the effects of general relativity. The other 90% are due to gravitational influence of the other planets. It is really quite remarkable that astronomers of the 1800s made precise enough observations to be able to tell that the parahelion shift was not entirely explained by known objects in the solar system (since the effect is on the order of 10%, you have to know the mass and position of every other major object in the solar system to about that accuracy to be able to tell).
404 error when I go to your /slack page
Q&A might be what the OP meant?
> homeschooled kid lacks good social skills...

Stereotypes like this are broad generalizations and generally not representative of the facts... sort of like saying that all Blacks are criminals, all Muslims are terrorists, or that Gays are child abusers - none of which are generally true.

Most of the homeschoolers I have known have excellent social skills, and further, even the few "creepy" homeschool kids that are really awkward socially tend to grow out of it completely within a couple of years of college.
Still not as good as "Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Words of Four Letters or Less". Excerpt follows:

A few more of us got it, then. But most of us just said, "What are you two on? Put down the bong and get real! This is way too wild to be true." But they just said, "Just try and see if it isn't true."

So we came up with ways to test old Al's idea, and each time Al hit the gold. His idea had the sun's rays a tiny bit more red than what Izzy said. They were. His idea put Mars a tiny bit off from how Izzy had Mars. It was.

The big one, the one that got told over and over, was the one with the dark-at-day time. You know, when the moon gets in the way of the sun. At that time you can get a real good look at a star when it's up next to the sun. (Next to it in the sky, that is. Not next to it for real. You know what I mean.) They went off and got a good look at a star that was very near the sun, and then they used a book to see just what spot that star was in. You see, the rays from the star pass so near the sun that they get bent, on the way to us. Old Al, his idea said just how much the rays get bent. With Izzy, the rays get bent, too, but only by half as much. So they took a look at the star, and they took at look at the big book, and ... well, I'll bet you can tell me as well as I can tell you just how far off that star was.

A-yup.

And then all of us, we all just sat back and said: "Whoa."

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html
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Thank you for your comment _nedR!

I agree, the focus should be more on the potential perniciousness of unchecked religious fundamentalism in general (it doesn't matter if it's the KKK or ISIS) and middle-east history of the last 15-30 years in particular (why do some people fall for such simplistic, de-humanizing organizations)?

ISIS is essentially a fascist movement and has as little to do with main-stream islamic values as the KKK has with christian ones.

You might find this article on the "why" less simplistic:

http://www.thenation.com/article/what-i-discovered-from-inte...

I think putting time and effort into these kinds of political and religious discussions is very important as long as we keep a cool and open mind - love and understanding against potential fear and hate towards "others" so to speak. Peace! :)
Its things like this that make me absolutely love the emacs community.
> This feature also supports my theory that analytics companies are really going to become broader marketing companies, so instead of focusing on just gathering and visualizing data, they will give you more ways of acting on that data.

Soomla is already doing this in gaming with their Whales Report https://youtu.be/qj4x8GInMfE
NoScript is the default for me. Combined with reader view from Firefox my web browsing experience is pretty sweet.
Will the private cloud disrupt your 'infrastructure as code' practice?
I'll second that. Surprised it hasn't been solved by this point.

I use to use iTunes quite a bit, probably gave it a chance until 2010 or so even. But then it just became too little of a music player and too much of everything else that it was.

So I just use physical CDs, and more recently Spotify.
I've been at it for almost 20 years professionally, and a number before that as a hobby.
Xamarin is separate from mono, no?
You get more for "free" now. Community Edition allows plugins (like Resharper) where as before it didn't.

The "better" versions only add bells and whistles - which entice people onto MSDN or similar.
Red Mad game made by Suite App android games
and is coming up on december 1st.

Marketing at its worst - effectively spam. Flagged.

And I don't care what it is - the answer to your question is "No"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I like them too, but if and only if they come with a review after turn-in. If I botched it in your eyes I want to know why!
Are you seriously comparing Eclipse to Visual Studio? I use both of them. Eclipse for CUDA programming, Visual Studio for everything else. There's no comparison. Eclipse is a buggy heap of crud. Visual Studio just works.
MVC is the default for ASP.NET 5, for both apps and services. It runs on both .NET Core and .NET Framework. Same with SignalR.

WebForms remains supported and new features go into it each release. It is supported on the .NET Framework.

Disclosure: .NET Core team member
If you're very small and have some clever devops guys you can use Visual Studio Community to develop and deploy to Mono. You _really_ have to know what you're doing with Mono though, it can be a headache, hopefully the .NET on Linux stuff will fix that up.

Check out the license, for non-"enterprise" (where enterprise is >250 PCs, or >$1M in revenue) users, up to 5 users in your company can use it.

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/mt171547.aspx
Currently testing the Golang tools, quite happy so far. Previously used sublime text
I'm sure they didn't like it because security is, while necessary, a pita
Did you see the updated version with the fallback licences? seems very fair to me.
Competition is getting rigid – Uber vs. Ola
Depends on the experiment.

If it is a "perfect experiment" (gedankenexperiment), and you measure the spin in the same direction a second time while not perturbing the experiment in anyway, the state should be in the state you measured it before. It is now an eigenstate of the spin operator (say, if you measured in a direction z, it is an eigenstate of S_z) and it will stay that way until it is disturbed.
Japan, S. Korea, and Taiwan were at some point in their current governments, little more than puppet governments of the US. A corrupt puppet of a US+Turkey+Saudi/Russian+Chinese+Iranian coalition that at least offered stability would be far preferable to the murderous chaos that exists now.
> Are you tired of typing in a user name and password every time you fetch from or push to remote Git repositories?

No?
Feel the Force, Open Source!!!
I think it was more inspired by Munroe's brushes with Simple English Wikipedia, but that's a fantastic one too.
Bad thoughts can’t make you sick, that’s just magical thinking
> So what happens exactly that bothers you?

The corpse is roasted, the fat melting (a fire hazard with extremely fat people), the charred and finally most of the organic compounds evaporate, leaving behind the skeleton, medical devices and any other such detritus (e.g. shrapnel). The furnace is then opened and the bones are raked out; an attendant removes anything which could damage the grinder and grinds the bones into meal (it's great for roses!).

> If it is that, why does it bother you?

Grinding a human being into dust doesn't bother you?
Everyone is so caught up in the theological discussion I'm almost wondering if most posters read only half the article before commenting.

In the end I think IS will fail, it's just a question of how and when. There was an article in the New York Times the other day that detailed how little room IS has left to expand without digging into Syria (and facing the Russians), or Turkey (which feels more threatened by the Kurds and uses the instability as a political smokescreen but has more than enough capacity to fight back), or pretty much anywhere else but pockets of Libya. Basically, they only formed and grew so prolifically because their enemies were exceptionally weak and unwilling to fight for sand dunes, let alone the ones that contain oil.

I think the best way to deal with IS is to understand the historical and religious underpinnings to get a sense of why people flock to it, then divorce the religious aspect from the dangerous entity that follows the same rules of economics that everyone is a part of. Starve the state of revenue, undermine its ability to provide for its citizens, and make it clear to supporters of the Islamic State in the Middle East and elsewhere that IS cannot effectively function any better than a Tunisian democracy or an Egyptian dictatorship.

Instead of baiting their desire for an apocalyptic conflagration, slowly drain their strength and appeal. Let supporters across the planet see a strict caliphate in action and how little it accomplishes adter the easy deserts have been claimed. A weak loser that doesn't go anywhere doesn't sound exactly like the fate chosen by God.
I'd say yes it's worth reading. The material is pretty basic, as it's targeted on 10 years old. The book came I think only in 2012, I'm not sure if there is an English version.
I wonder if this would be fast enough for movie streaming even if I would still like to see something based on a totally distributed architecture, be it ipfs or GnuNet.
Posted this answer to a similar question/comment:

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We (I work for Nanobox) listed all the languages we hope to support mainly as an invitation to collaborate. We admittedly do not specialize in all programming languages. Engines are open-source and those who do specialize are invited to create engines for each language. We'll even create the engine for you. We just need to know what the engine should look for and how the environment needs to be configured.

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The library of engines is in its infancy and we're working to expand it. You're absolutely right in saying that the list of engines is "aspirational". Anybody can build and publish new engines. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Personally, I can't understand why anyone would care what happens to their body after death, but I guess I'm strange that way.
The first part sounds like a play on the Picasso quote "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up"[1] and the second half sounds like something Ken Robinson said in his TED talk about creativity[2].

What's interesting about the underlying implications of all these quotes to me is that what makes a good physicist, a good artist, or a good anything, is the unabashed curiosity, a willingness to experiment without being stopped by fear of failure, and the state of play that one must be in to unleash creative approaches and new connections.

[1]http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas169744....
[2]https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_cre...
Agreed -- Vim-mode is my #1 feature ask.

I would prefer compat with the Atom Plugin API so I could just use that.
I like it, but the themes section of the marketplace should probably have previews.
No, we have something called private and public keys.
Leave Work Unassigned and See Who Steps Forward
Never said you're wrong. You may be right, I don't know. I just know that I don't believe you when you say extremely intelligent experts in the field are all wrong, except for one camp (they can even be a majority). I just have an epistemological problem with your views.
Sorry about this! We'll work to fix that. For now https://sketchboard.io/slack/ this works.

Edit: now https://sketchboard.io/slack.html works as well
Discussion of book and Gates' review:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10546194
The new fastest way to find out which mobile device works best for you
Cities as Harems
Ha ha what? This is awesome!
Already done:

Microsoft calls end to Android Nokia X smartphones
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28348534
How is a clock signal different? It is just another external event userspace wants to be notified about.

Note that on Unix you can use signals to get IO readiness notification and in fact for sometime on Linux (before epoll) realtime signals were the preferred method to do get notification over a large amount of fds.

Anyway, as a general guideline, user/kernel transition is cheaper than a (kernel) thread/thread transition which is in turn cheaper than a process/process transition.
Sure. But that's still a lousy title. "Python 3 is better than Python 2", for instance, while true, is completely failing to explain why the article is interesting.
You have to remember this was the 90's and it was a different time back then. I think there's a tendency to compare Windows in the 90s with how Linux is now. This was the same era as Mac OS 9 where a single application could still crash the entire system.

Exploiting common faults in Linux system software was pretty easy back then too.
The "Home v" hover menu is the old design and was replaced in the new design with Google's typical hamburger sidebar.
That's awesome PTVS is fantastic.
I for one hope that Thing Explainer is converted into Spanish[0]; it'd be a quick win to learn the 1000 most used words in Spanish in context!

[0] May also apply to other languages.
Some frameworks provide automatically generated type-safe entities, query, and update capabilites, such as the Yesod Persistent framework [0].

For a smaller but similarly safe approach, I reccomend Esqueleto.

[0] http://www.yesodweb.com/book/persistent
[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/esqueleto
Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor
Thanks for posting this - that is interesting. Have you used this tablet? I found reviews on its predecessor, but not much on this one (other than apparent sponsored reviews).
Been using this for a while and I'm liking it so far.

When are exporting and offline access coming?
And the pedant in me wishes to assert that Windows, strictly, follows the rule; it was originally sold as a windowing system for DOS, and the generic use of the word "window" to mean a rectangular section of the screen set aside for program output was well established.
Ask HN: Microsoft PR machine unleashed on HN?
Why are 5 of the top 6 links on HN right now all about Microsoft?
Others have mentioned the heavyweights, so thought I'd like to mention a lightweight favorite of mine that is getting better every release: Geany.
This was exactly my reaction. Solution in search of a problem?
Obviously yes, read this article https://nodejs.org/en/docs/es6/

Latest Canary V8 engine covers almost 80% of ES6 spec. So when it will go to production it will be surely available in Node.js too.
I wish I could figure this out, but I'm a bit green on this stuff.
‘It’s All Back in Snowden’s Lap’ on how leaks might have led to Paris attacks
Testimony of Philip R. Zimmermann to the [US Senate] [1996]
The target market for this product will either not care what platform the screenshots of the cross platform tool are taken on, or they'll get a negative impression if it is not OS X. Therefore, OS X.
It would need to be a virtual filesystem presented as a USB mass storage device, though. I've thought about this for years, but don't know whether anyone's actually done it yet. Early iPods, etc. were definitely not powerful enough to handle this, but this should be cake for even modest smartphone hardware. Basically the VFS would present an interface to the music library, protect the library against mid-sync disconnects, etc. Likewise, the "host" computer wouldn't be able to screw up the device filesystem (or even know what the read FS type is), access non-music user data, or have low-level access to device storage.
If I owned Microsoft stock I would question this investment of resources. How much is this costing the organization, and what is the likely return? For return on investment they not only have to pull off a techical feat that nobody else has achieved, but also the availability of 'Windowized' Android apps will have to spur a massive increase in Windows Mobile sales, another unlikely event.

Maybe this project doesn't cost much or maybe Microsoft sees it as eseential for their business' future and worth the risk.
Gender Inequality and the New Elected Canadian Cabinet
Full title:

Testimony of Philip R. Zimmermann to the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Too long so I abbreviated the "Subcommittee ... Transportation" portion.
I think you're right.
MS Visual Racket will replace command line C for games and operating systems.
I was using Groupwise in 2007 at a previous employer, and PGP was definitely easy to use with Groupwise. I worked in a MIS department for a large UK company, and the customer services department was in a small town in Wales, the kind of town where not many people had broadband in 2007, and the staff were not trained in any technical specialty, it was mostly just people with jobs instead of people with careers. The staff used to send banking information using PGP and Groupwise and people rarely had issues.

The problem now is the increasing number of centralised services, Google doesn't want to be storing encrypted emails within Gmail, because the content cannot be analysed for advertising purposes. And the same goes for other free email providers. It's still possible, but it is increasingly difficult.
Nonsense from a non-scientist who doesn't even have a job as a researcher. Her arguments are riddled with logical fallacies (mostly straw men).
It sure is an interesting time for melding computational advancements with medical use cases. The reason that the cost decay can promulgate the previously missing disruption seems to be missing the bigger question of regulation in these fields.
Monitoring CO2 emissions from space
Answers to this would be all over the map, but I'm going with "no."

If I/we make a job offer to someone, it's because we think you're a good fit and you will be productive. Bringing someone in for 2 weeks, then someone else in for a month, then another guy for 2 months wastes even more time than just interviewing them each for half a day. Not to mention the uncertainty and morale effects on the rest of the team.
Settings has a "Restrict stream to single column layout on all screen sizes" option.
As a positive anecdote, the startup I worked for used the Bizspark programme and got acquired before the 3 years were up, so we never had to worry about licensing or server software costs (as the acquirer was a much larger company)

Also, after the acquisition, it was probably one of the reasons why a full integration with the parent company other products wasn't considered (different tech stacks), so we integrated via APIs, which was the right decision (it would have taken too long otherwise, even on the same software stack)

On the other hand, I never want to have anything to do with RDP ever again.
I agree about the key-derivation (just use the PBKDF built into .NET dammit), but I've checked out the code, and it looks sound. It uses standard Windows crypto libs when running on >=Vista.

As to the auth'd encryption: they do that above version 2.2 http://keepass.info/help/kb/sec_issues.html
Yes, because every system has flaws in it. Nothing is perfect and given enough time and resources an exploit will be found. Knowing that, if the team listens and fixes the issue, the product goes forward being more secure and trustworthy.
I am baffled why would they try to port this for Mac / Linux which already has SSH functionality built-in. It can make sense on Windows where there is no equivalent, by default.
Agree completely. And I wouldn't leave my currently solid job, as much as I might dislike it, for a 3 month contract-to-hire position. That's insanity.
The five keys to a successful Google team
Anonymous Declares Total War on ISIS Following Paris Terror Attacks
My Python colleagues would still rather stay with PyCharm..
Show HN: A Really Dumb Pelko Timer App
Maybe it was, maybe not. Microsoft released a bunch of news today, and people are genuinely really excited about it, as far as the comments tell me.

They may be fairly quiet on HN, but ASP.NET and C# developers are more numerous than Python, PHP, and Ruby combined.
Excellent. I also enjoyed Brian Greene's visuals on the Late Show recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jjFjC30-4A
This is my experience as well. I am really impressed at how VS Code as no problem working with large and minified files.
Just to be clear, this is trivial in vim using :!curl. No fancy plugins required.
> Are you tired of typing in a user name and password every time you fetch from or push to remote Git repositories?

No, because SSH.
I don't know if there was an undocumented way, but the extension explicitly stated you had to uninstall it to stop the timer or to change any settings.
Confirming ISIS uses your app probably isn't the best way to secure future investors. ;)
> UAC was one of the biggest security improvements

I assumed it was just an interface stapled onto the old system, and something underneath that allowed changing permissions without logging off.

It might have had a big effect, but it doesn't sound like a significant change in the system. But maybe my assumptions are wrong ...
The problem with using the English message as the key is that, when we changed the English text, we'd have to change the keys in all other languages as well. Also, the same English text might translate to different texts in a foreign language depending on the context / location appeared.

Disclaimer: I've never used gettext before.
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True, but the company is still schizophrenic, so I continue to be wary of them. While there have been many positive steps like this one, the other side of the company continues to double-down on the data collection and relationship with spy agencies.
How Triple Handshake, Freak and Logjam Discoveries Helped Safeguard the Internet