skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feds have gone to ALL device makers and demanded access, using National Security Letters each time to force the manufacturers to enter into their clandestine plan, without any public awareness. And if anyone spills the beans they may just get disappeared into a special holding facility. The US Govt. is capable of pretty much ANYTHING when it operates under the guise of "Protecting America." We can thank the Patriot Act (ever version 2 of it) for all the loss of freedoms and jack-booted state.
Windows Path issues and compiling native code. Between those two things, nearly everything I've ever tried on windows has failed.
Probably a recent incident where Microsoft started showing full screen ads on the login screen is meant.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167964
> surely it's not too hard to figure out a common solution to both

If only we had expert engineers on civil projects, civil engineers if you will to look at this stuff eh.

1) We don't have that many rivers that would suit having a dam put in.

2) We are very densely populated, daming a river would require moving large numbers of people (time consuming, costly and likely to end up in court).

3) The areas most effected by drought are the south-east, they also get way less rainfall in summer and winter than the north-west which floods a lot more.

http://www.coolgeography.co.uk/GCSE/Year11/Weather,Climate/R...

4) Population pressure on water is vastly higher in the south east than in the North and south west.

5) Assuming you could dam the rivers and have a water reserve the most sensible place to do it would be the north-west, you then have to get the water hundreds and hundreds of miles down into the south east (which has been proposed but moving water is expensive relative to it's commodity cost, a 1m cube of water ways exactly 1 tonne).

6) The UK idea of a drought is very different to what most regions would call a drought, only in the absolutely worst years do we go beyond a host pipe ban and even then only for a few weeks.

7) Given the population density and the difficulty of moving vast quantities of water you'd need to put the dams in near to the densest population since the human impact of a damn is proportional to the population density that's not great

8) Dams cause widespread ecological change (sometimes a net benefit sometimes not).
> It's funny, everytime Weboob is presented somewhere, and everytime there is a post about the latest version of Weboob, the first comment is a variation of "it's sexist/boobs are unprofessional/grow up", and very very little time is spent talking about the actual thing, what it does and why its only goal is to become irrelevant. Sad thing.

That in itself is a very good reason why the naming scheme needs a long, hard rethink. It's distracting.

Put another way, I wouldn't blame everyone else if every time my hypothetical company "Natzie" was mentioned the conversation devolved into something unrelated to the reason it was mentioned. If you want to succeed, you need to make decisions based on the real world, not how the world should be (not that you can't push limits, but baby steps are often needed).
American continents produce more CO2 than China. Much more.

Animal agriculture has around 51% CO2 footprint. Bunch of it done on the rich soils of Amazon, and vast plains of USA.

Meat, dairy and eggs is what is killing us. Not traffic, not heating.
Ubuntu ate Linux (or GNU/Linux), as it seems, for the mainstream world.

I hate it. I bet Stallman, Ken Thomson, the GNU Project, Bell Labs and many others are crying and laughing at the same time.

We live in a world built upon the previous one, as the previous was already was. Some things we forget, others become lore, folklore, myths, and others are lost...
It is similar to Facebook providing Internet. Or Dropbox providing 'rsync'. Maybe one day the common man will rediscover plaintext and the command line interface. And the then hipsters will use it.

Some links:

- find http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/find-history

- grep https://medium.com/@rualthanzauva/grep-was-a-private-command...

- cp https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305283

- wget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget#cite_note-13

- AWK was created at Bell Labs in the 1970s, and its name is derived from the family names of its authors – Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK

- http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

BONUS:

- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
no kidding, I have a 4K monitor that looks awesome when hooked up my macbook and terrible when hooked up to my Windows desktop
This does hit at one of the most basic debates of the next decade - how much of my actions and behaviours do I own? Creating a link from one page to another, thus providing PageRank with value - do I get a cut of that value? Purchasing a book or a film, thus making profit for the reseller's recommendation engine? Driving around populating maps with my GPS co-ordinates. Just generally leaving digital footprints makes someone a training set somewhere - and yet instead of this being a public good it's private profit - the term bandied Around after 2008 was "socialising risk, privatising profits". The same debate should be happening here - but I only occasionally hear about something like it.

Or am I listening in wrong places?
I think my cofounder already did, I'll check.

The basic issue we were encountering is that when selecting text via force touching and then dragging the selection, the text selection object was empty. (Though you can still hit Copy in the Safari UI.)

There wasn't any issue when selecting text via regular press or long press.
>So 400 jobs lost at blackrocks - means 400 new opening for green jobs in Australia.

This is not necessarily true. People can and will hold onto their cash negating any growth of the market in the face of job losses, its not a zero sum game. In fact job layoffs can increase panic and increase hoarding of capital.

> If you have 10 million dollars in the bank - you will be burning money just due to inflation.

1-2% deflation can be better in certain market climates than investments which create jobs, or you put it in a safe investment such as bonds which is in some sense hoarding, you don't take on significant risk to create anything you just park your cash somewhere that it will not suffer losses from inflation. Both of these circumstances do not grow jobs or the market.
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What if the interviewer refuses to do it. You walk away? And remember, you're the one looking for a job and applied there (unless you're jeff dean, of course :)
Yes, the EU will need to cut its emissions but it has a cap and trade system and political leaders are generally on board with the need to remake their economies without carbon. In addition, it is miles ahead of the US in terms of emissions. According to this article, in 2013, the EU had per capita emissions of 6.8 tons/person versus 16.5 for the US. Even more startling, it was lower than China, which weighed in at 7.2.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29239194
Well, before you finalize your guess, I'll give you a hint: it's either 2, or 437. It's not any other number.

Keep in mind I made my choice before we started, and it hasn't changed.

Do you want to change your guess to 437, or stick with 2?
Trump's a mirror, and he stays in the news because we're fascinated / horrified by what we see in it. It's not about Trump himself -- anyone daring to stoke the critical mass of mindless resentful hatred that he did would have done as well.

I try to comfort myself with the knowledge that these are only 40% of a party with which about 30% of the US identifies, so a win in November is unlikely, right? But it would take just one "Reichstag fire" event, like a terror attack in October, to make victory plausible.
Yeah, this happens to me as well. ReSharper caches a lot of stuff, and with the size of our solution, the memory consumption on VS is crazy. This usually leads to a forced restart so that VS acts normally again.
Exactly, and with a containerized infrastructure the per host pricing model breaks down further. Our goal is to have the most frictionless pricing model for people with a microservice architecture.
They'd laugh, because NT already had posix system calls http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1...
You're saying that those hurricanes would not have been any less severe without the impact of humans messing with the atmosphere for the last century?

I'm not saying "global warming causes all the hurricanes", I'm saying "humans messing with the atmosphere has increased the variance and severity of our weather". If you don't agree with that, you're in willful denial.

Anyways, thanks for recognizing that my comment was great. I'll take what I can get.
I would say rather, provide an option to change colors for those with various types of color blindness. That way it's accessible but still intuitive to those who can discern and are familiar with typical meanings of red and green.
> You think this case makes the FBI look good?

Right now, I'd say they are looking pretty good: they hacked into the phone of a terrorist without breaking any laws.
Im curious, how does this actually happen?

i.e. is there one catastrophic event where everything is immediately flooded? (Similar to Katrina).

Or is the area just slowly flooded over decades? In which case, no one does anything? (i.e. the Sacramento scenario is hard to fathom in this scenario)
Thank you so much for your reply. I'll have a look at the plugin_weather and see how that one works.

Regarding the neural net, I think that's an important feature because the most difficult part about guessing triggers is, well, guessing. Our language is awfully diverse and I think you'll get better results in the long run.

I've applied for membership to the mailing list. I'll keep my questions there.
Considerations for more diverse conferences
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I've been following the project since last summer. Since it wasn't released yet and it was obviously a HUGE upfront time investment to learn the ecosystem, I decided to wait until it was actually released to invest the time to learn it.

I think a lot of the cryptocurrency speculation at this point is...speculation. Eth differs from bitcoin in the sense that it gets its value from it's utility as a regulator of computation, whereas with bitcoin the value is derived from its unique ability to convey value in a (almost) instant, provable, and irreversible way. True price discovery of Eth is long way away.

The utility of the platform remains to be seen. The complexity of the virtual machine, language (solidity), and tool chain remains a huge barrier to entry for all but the most ardent true believers. I'll give the devs a lot of credit as they seem to be working very hard to make a tool chain that is much more user friendly.

My personal opinion is that the EVM (ethereum virtual machine) will excel at providing microservice-like backends to apps for features that benefit from the trustless and/or irreversible aspects of blockchain tech.

IMO the limitation of Ethereum is how many general purpose apps _need_ decentralized and trustless functionality to the point where it is worth the upfront investment of learning a [at the moment] very complex system? Is there a natural ceiling to use cases for such tech? I don't know.
I was commenting on jurisdiction, not likelihood
Seems possible. Pretty much every Android device has disk encryption disabled by default for performance reasons.
It would be surprising. Snowden's confirmations pissed off a lot of people in tech and either effected or hastened plans to build more secure systems in tech companies. (See for instance https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131106/00235225143/pisse...)
What bothers me about people bringing Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is how they never mention how all the big software companies do this. For example, how many nice JavaScript features are in Google Chrome that aren't anywhere close to real standards? But when anyone but Microsoft does it they're just pushing the industry forward, not out to stab you in the back.

Let's not call it Embrace, Extend, Extinguish until we see the Extend & Extinguish. Microsoft is a very different company than it used to be.
Methane is very potent but there is also much less emitted than CO2.

https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources/agri...

According to that link agriculture is 9% of CO2-equivalent emissions while electricity and transportation are 58%. Which isn't to say nothing should be done about agriculture, but it isn't the bulk of the problem, and it isn't what motivates climate change deniers.
He mentions some smart glasses in that video, but says it kinda quickly and I can't ID them. Anyone know what they are? As a blind developer myself, I've pretty much been wanting to build this kind of app for a while. Even if facial recognition may not be good enough to identify someone accurately by name, for instance, just hearing "face, blue eyes, blond hair, male, 80% confidence" or something similar would give me a bunch of additional data points to identify someone when they say hello. I don't even know what color my own girlfriend's hair/eyes are. :P I'd love a set of these to develop my own apps with.

But this appears to blow all my ideas out of the water. I wonder how much work they had to do to obtain clean input (I.e. how many mis-identifications we didn't see.)

Edit: Ah, I guess it's these: http://www.pivothead.com/. SDK and dev kit pricing not available unless I fork over my details. If I have to ask how much it costs, I can't afford it.
This of course assumes the candidate knows the answer to the question they asked, which is something the interviewer can't verify because they also don't know.
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You should get a reply; it is possible the recruiter is no longer working there, or something else. Or maybe they're just being slow.

Some more info: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Google-recruiting-take-as-lon...

Also down with kt, long live cj. :(
It looks like alternize was almost right, at 4:39 you can see that within the Ubuntu (not /mnt) part, default permissions are used. e.g.: `ls -l proc` reveals that much of it is read only.

If the Ubuntu on Windows personality/subsystem gave Linux processes full permissions to /mnt/c, I'd expect that would be a security vulnerability, and I'd assume they are doing some mapping. Unfortunately, in the video they posted I never see them do `ls -l` on `/mnt/c`, only a subdirectory they created.
> I don't get how this is different than a super cookie.

The supercookie would survive or be detectable across multiple browser sessions (keep in mind that the Tor Browser automatically deletes regular cookies when you quit). The behavior that CloudFlare is describing here works within a single Tor Browser session but not across multiple sessions.

I believe the Tor Browser is willing to send some first-party session data to a site after changing circuits, so that you wouldn't be logged out of an account if you logged in over Tor and kept that session active for long enough that Tor switched over to a different circuit. This behavior is basically what should allow CloudFlare to recognize that a particular Tor user has recently passed a CloudFlare CAPTCHA (on a particular site). However, if the user quits and restarts Tor Browser, CloudFlare will no longer be able to detect that it's the same visitor (if it could, that would be the supercookie case).
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Wavefront does not do a lot of marketing right now, but they have a great product
The problem, of course, is that the salaries of most supporters of the Republican party would not be impacted at all by most measures that would be taken to curtail emissions. The salaries of the leaders (and, more importantly, their backers) on the other hand...
Looks like the main site is down too.
A few others to test out:

- https://www.houndify.com/

- http://api.ai/

- https://wit.ai/
We are still thinking in terms of tiny structures. Picture a space station with 100,000+ people.

From a safty standpoint you want modular structures. But, you also want to minimize the areas directly linked to space. Thus you end up with something like a nuclear submarine vs an ever expanding ant hill.

Remember apartment builds give every room a view, but that's high risk in space. You can also reuse walls, between areas to cut down on mass without compromising if there is a leak.
the behavior of the game host as he will never reveal the door with the car this is the key bit. If the door you picked is the correct one (1% chance) the host can open any door. If you picked incorrectly (99% chance) he can open any door except the winning door so the remaining door will be the correct one 99% of the time.
Microsoft will support Bash on Windows 10
Now they will be on us to call it Gnu/Windows :-) More seriously though I think this is a terrific insight, if something of a challenge for Linux kernel enthusiasts. If I could run Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) as my user land on a kernel where all the manufacturers of every gee whiz device had already signed up to port drivers, I would use that in a heartbeat. My current pain point is trying to run Kubuntu on a nearly current generation Intel NUC, because the Iris graphics drivers aren't really compatible if the system goes to sleep the screens never unblank. If the lock screen comes up, plasma shell crashes and then swaps which screen it thinks is the "primary" screen when it restarts. Basically it is unusable. And things like VMWare player don't believe the host has any sort of 3D support even though Meas and OpenGL are up to date. I would trade the mess for a userland I like and a kernel that just works.
It's mostly a matter of layering. Think of a "subsystem" as a "pluggable system call interface layer". The Win32 layer (mostly) sits on top of the Native layer.

The Native API is mostly implemented by the kernel itself, ntoskrnl.exe, which has a system call table (KiServiceTable). Most of the native API is exposed to userspace via ntdll.dll, which calls through that system call table. This API is available from very early boot.

The Win32 subsystem is mostly exposed by win32k.sys, which is a kernel mode driver. It has a second system call table (W32pServiceTable) which is then consumed by user32.dll and friends. Some parts of the Win32 user-mode API are implemented by calling the Native API via ntdll.dll, though.

Processes which exist in the Win32 subsystem have additional kernel data associated with them (the private state of win32k.sys for that process), had additional win32k.sys code ran during initialization, and can therefore make use of the services of that driver.

If you create a Native process with RtlCreateUserProcess, it won't be able to make Win32 API calls. But it can run in environments where a Win32 process can't -- for example, autochk.exe, which is the version of chkdsk which runs as part of boot before the graphics driver has loaded, is a Native executable.

There's also support in the PE executable format to indicate which subsystem to use, so the loader knows which type of process to create. Obviously, this won't be relevant for running Linux ELF executables.

The layering isn't perfect, especially since while NT was designed to support multiple subsystems (OS/2, Win32, Posix), Win32 is the only one which Microsoft have historically focused on.
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Suppose I have two technologies that are relevant, foo and bar and that I'm weak on bar, so seek to hire someone with bar expertise. If I'm constrained to hire the very first person with more bar expertise than my least bar-skilled interviewer, I probably won't make much progress towards my goal.

The goal is not to hire the first "not worst", but rather the reasonably best, where reasonable is a function of time and money, among others.
I have been on Unix(Mac/Linux) atleast for 8 years. A lot of developers are buying mac books these days. At this point, even non-technical people are buying "expensive" mac books. This directly affects microsoft bottomline. Obviously, microsoft cannot port mac utilities into windows to reduce the exodus of developers from windows. The stop-gap solution would be to run all "gnu core-utils" in windows natively, the most important one being apt-get.

I believe at this point microsoft does not have the critical mass to create an app-store. There is not enough momentum. Only Linux, Android and Apple have successful appstores. If microsoft allows debian package manager, it can bring back a lot of developers back to windows. Still there are many companies that still use windows desktops and laptops.

There is potential to evolve this into a microsoft app-store that is compatible with ubuntu. That would be a win-win for microsoft and may potentially boost sales and slow down the decline of their OS.
When enough candidates walk away, it prevents the company from doing productive stuff. Not only did they not hire someone who could do something, they also wasted so much time interviewing instead of doing productive stuff.

They'll feel the heat and hire a reasonable candidate.
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> I think "A" players are the best bargain in the world...

They are, but try explaining to your average PHB who doesn't even begin to understand the complexities of the 'simple' piece of software they intend to write that Charles here can do the job in 3 months and will cost 50K and that the five guys over there in the corner will take the job for 30K and will take a month longer (or so they think). Then, after 30K becomes 90K and the company is slowly sliding downhill that original 3 months and 50K estimate starts to look pretty good, but then the sunk cost fallacy kicks in and for an additional 10K (over the 90K) this time they'll get it right. And then finally the time will be up, the money will be gone and they'll have to shop for someone who will take on the task to fix it on a contingency basis in the next month or so.

This plays out over and over again for some strange reason.

So yes, A players are a bargain, but only after the money to pay for them has been pissed out the window.
Well, that's actually a selling point of Debian's stable releases - packages in the official repo are essentially frozen in time, and security updates/critical bug fixes get backported. It's great for stability, though not great if you like using the latest versions of your software. (As I do.)
China doesn't need anyone in the US to give it excuses, it can stand on its own logic.
I think the founder would disagree. He's working on this specifically because he finds self-cathing difficult and cumbersome.
"FED will counter that effect"

Of course not. Since the original statement was about holding gobs of money on a balance sheet, it is clear that regardless of what the FED does, you would increase inflation by spending that money rather than keeping it on the balance sheet. Therefore, holding that money reduces inflation(since the other option was to spend that money and increase inflation).
Hm, but GNU/Windows still implies usage of many non-free binary blobs bundles as drivers with the OS. I advocate stripping them out and terming it GNU/NT, affectionately referred to as "Gnewt".
You mean iOS X.