skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More details would have been nice ... looks like this is real though:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-show-bash-on-linux...

Screenshots: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/be-very-afraid-hell-has-fro...
Not a lot of details given. Just that its not cross compilation or vm
Nice. I love the choice of basemaps, including the lovely Thunderforest ones which you don't see many places!

I liked the download as KML - it loaded up okay in Google Earth. Would be good to have map state in the URL bar, e.g. map position and probably basemap selected for sharing which I would imagine is in your list.
Yes. I'm not worried if the police seize a locked safe from someone and hire a safecracker to open it. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't use that safe. It may still be, in fact, the best safe for me to use.
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Pretty sure that's just that guys personality.

Why would you extrapolate his persona to all of Microsoft?
Very interesting and good looking! Only a small comment: using images under Creative Commons licensing is not as simple as grabbing the image and using it as you please. Both your top [1] and bottom [2] images are licensed with the BY clause, meaning you must give appropriate credit.

[1] https://www.planet.com/gallery/orange-river/

[2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/21604970430
Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows 10
Headline aside, I thought it was an excellent story. The company, Unaoil, is the least important point I took away from the article. I can't believe the fundamental connection between corruption and radicalization isn't reported on or discussed more frequently. It seems like the rise in extremists groups is blamed on the 'vacuum' left by an invasion or an overthrown government. When describing the gradual sympathy for the Taliban by "moderate, normal people" in Afghanistan:
>"At the top of the list of reasons cited by prisoners for joining the Taliban was not ethnic bias, or disrespect of Islam, or concern that U.S. forces might stay in their country...At the top of the list was the perception that the Afghan government was irrevocably corrupt."
>The FBI is STILL the bad guy, acting like criminals who won't disclose a potential vulnerability (which might as well not exists) to the manufacturer.

There is no obligation to disclose vulnerabilities. You are free to sell them to the highest bidder, including the government. The government has some damn good uses for them, see Stuxnet.

Of course, big tech companies would love it to be required to disclose vulnerabilities. That way they get the whole security community's labor for free and don't have to pay bug bounties.
https://youtu.be/GgutlKV42SY
Bad link. This one works better:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner...
I saw C:\windows\system32\bash
AFAIK it is a clean-room implementation of Linux APIs. It is native.
It actually works on SmartOS (an open Solaris derivative):
http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx
Signed up specifically to reply to this comment, and to add my thanks for your blog post :)

I'm going through a lot of exactly the same thing at the moment, though sans startup environment. I'm intrigued to read that you consider the root cause to be extroversion. I wouldn't call myself an extrovert at all, and would ascribe most of what you write about to anxiety (for which I've recently started seeing a CBT counsellor).

Do you think that having your coworkers available in-person would have changed things because 1) having them around would have "recharged your batteries", i.e. the extrovert theory, or 2) having them around would have added the pressure to counterbalance the procrastination (my situation a lot of the time), or 3) something else?
Only under certain circumstances.

"The SSA may assign a new Social Security numberto you if you are being harassed, abused, or are in grave danger when using the original number, or if you can prove that someone has stolen your number and is using it."
(1) Spanner does exist, though not really available outside of Google
A Unix shell without the standard Unix utilities [1] is kind of pointless, in my opinion, but... whatever.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilitie...
Lol, KSH was announced to be running on windows a long time ago. And it was a scam (according to Mr Korn)

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?KornShellStory

Let's wait to see if it has all the horrible features making it a security hole.
The (inevitable?) consequence of deletion policies that typically delete based on mtime, tend to be users putting touch scripts in cron, making the metadata servers even more of a bottleneck than they already are. Been there, done that.

Perhaps the solution is some netflix-like chaos monkey that randomly deletes files..;) Or for each user over its soft quota, delete the oldest files until under the quota. Or something like that..
Particularly when their recruiting is so geo-limited. In the 80's, I applied to a lot of schools, had very good SAT and ACT scores (ND is an ACT state so I took the SAT myself), and never received even an acknowledgment letter (pre-web, pain in butt to get the applications and it was money I could have used elsewhere). Texas A&M sent me a scholarship even though I didn't apply, but I really didn't want to be a petroleum engineer. Ended up going to the state institution.
Hi, I made MapHub. There is nothing I have against open sourcing parts or the full MapHub product, but it's a very delicate decision, so I'd like to wait and think more about it.
Would a GitLab like business model make it more attractive for you?
Mine got updated through a specific application and never heard of Windows 10 update through Windows Update, let alone a forced one. The only forced thing was that the update application came to tray automatically and stayed there until I opt-in.
But can't you see that's bad?

1. It doesn't work on all distros, and even on Debian you need to already know that "dpkg -L" gets a list of commands. I tried googling "debian distro package tool" and it doesn't tell me about dpkg. Discoverability.

2. The reason you're praying that the package developer put everything in 'bin' is because there's no metadata to distinguish between commands and other files.

3. You're actually executing(!!) the commands to get the help, because, again, no metadata. Parsing the arguments is delegated to the command, so what if the command ignores the --help and reboots your server instead? (Note that if you run a PowerShell cmdlet with -?, it doesn't actually hand control over to the command.)

4. At the end of the day it's not going to work because all of the parameters are strings and all you can look for is the parameter name, which might be "password" or "pass" or "pwd" or anything else the author picked. (Another reason this matters is the PSCredential is stongly-typed and backed by a SecureString, so if the process crashes it won't get leaked into the heap dump. In your Linux command it's just a plain-text string on the heap.)

Now, I'm not trying to say you should give up bash/Linux and become a Windows fan boy. I'm saying you need to take an honest look at bash and decide whether it makes sense to stick with that paradigm in the 21st century.
It only sets a precedent that they can give phones to Apple and have them unlock them, as long as it's possible for them to do so. If Apple decides to build a general backdoor and hand it to the government that's entirely their decision.
I don't imagine Sam Altman made enough money from the sale of Loopt to lead a $50m round (only guesswork though). Is he somehow leveraged by having raised a fund for "personal investments". The latter would be a really interesting.

Maybe @sama himself could answer this, if it's not too personal.
I wondered if it will provider better/native support for fork? It will be great if this is the case, since the fork implemented by Cygiwn is somewhat slow.
You might like http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/.

But honestly, even if it's proprietary, OpenStreetMappers don't mind. We're happy that someone is using our data, that's what we are there for.
You can get solaris for free from oracle.
I had someone ask that once in an interview. My response was I got into a better school, but sitting in classes I was less than impressed.

This seemed to upset them, but I may have accidentally dissed their school.

Honestly, I think it's mostly insecurity on their part. If you spend 3+ years going somewhere you like to think it was a good 'deal' even if you overpay for a sub par education.
Corruption is the only way things work in big business and governments. After all its people that interact there and people go after their own interests.

Just because we have invented different names for it like lobbying, doesn't make processes less corrupt.
That's interesting - so if you ignore the EU as not really being a country the #1 is China.
Most of these timeline variants assume that the past state of all particles exists in the past (making up something of a trace/ribbon to today's particle state), along the time dimension up to the current point. Kind of like a movie tape, except that they often assume a single-timeline self-consistent causality must exist, such that any version of events created in any timeline must be possible to arrive at without the time travel event to have happened. In other words, the trace can't be broken for any particle in the time traveler's past, or must be restored before the point of the time travel.

Obviously that excludes time travel within your "light cone" from even being possible, as going back will sever at least one particle's "causality trace" within your own past.

More reasonable assumptions are for example that you don't need to fold timelines together, so those branched time travel graphs made for just about every time travel movie would be what the actual time would look like, so only the time traveler's local causality matters (any change he makes in his past in his light cone does not affect him, it happens in a timeline parallel to the one he came from).

Another is one where you essentially have a data tape where the the current time is like a writer head moving along the tape, writing down what happens. Time travel is to jump to another point and rewriting what happened. Multiple write heads may or may not be possible (likely impossible if you assume locally reversing the flow of time is possible, otherwise you'll get a real big mess).

Then there's the one where time is a dimension like usual, but particles do not leave a trace in their past - going back or forth by jumping with a time machine puts you in empty vacuum with no end, not even with any cosmic background radiation (that too moves forward in time with all other matter). Perhaps gravity waves from the past would still be visible?
"Windows is a fully open ecosystem". Uhhhhh right :S
Apstra (funded by David Cheriton) is hiring
Very nice to use, the tutorial is simple and well done.
One major road block for me was the signup to save page

kept giving me a "Try again" error
Tried different emails and passwords but it kept giving the same non descriptive "Try again" error.
Asana was the first program I ever used that made me feel old. But not in the actually rather good sense of it making me say "wow, they can do this now?"

Rather, it made me feel like an old fart using a computer for the first time, bewildered more often than not, most of my instincts rendered useless.

There are many examples in Asana of this. Each, taken alone, is banal: kind of annoying, but maybe not too bad. Taken together, though, we have something that a nicer person than I wouldn't wish on his worst enemy, but I'm just not that nice of a person.
I've just recently gone back to using Windows 10 after being a heavy XP user. I think Powershell is perfectly fine... for my uses up to now there's always a tutorial online to help. And some commands are the same between shells so I wasn't completely lost :/
Really interested in modern desktop apps and the desktop app converter. Are these actually available yet?
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How are they exploiting users?
Which creates an environment that extremist groups use to successfully radicalize large groups of people frustrated by the rampant & immoral corruption. (At least that was my biggest takeaway)
+1. OSM loves things being built on it, of whatever licence.
Money talks. Canonical attempted to make bank from their partnership with Amazon, yet people over the web went insane and fought tooth and nail to shift the weight to derivatives, like Xubuntu and Mint.

Naturally, this is one of their alternative methods.
OpenStreetMap folks just care about the data, I doubt anyone would begrudge someone making a proprietary service using open data - it's the data that's important, after all. The OSM Project is not looking to replace Google My Maps, or to have such a service on the main osm.org website.

Now, what you are looking for is probably something along the lines of uMap http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap which has something like a WTFPL license https://github.com/umap-project/umap/ and which is something I point people to. It's lacking the design flair of this product but it's probably a bit more feature rich.
Hanselman wrote up a "demo" blog post here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUs...
Are click-bait titles a disease or a merely a symptom of a larger one?
Investors Pull Cash from Hedge Funds
We're using Open Street Map here (not charging) http://mapme.com/stories
Asana's interface is cluttered especially when the number of projects and tasks get more.

While we like its collaboration features like easy sharing, its task details is really a let down when we worked as a team.

Which is why we decided to build our own project management tool / issue tracker from scratch
that overcomes its shortcomings, also we recently gave our internal tool - a public release now available at taskmail.io
When reading the beginning of the article, I did not get what the big deal was. It seemed to me that W3C just wanted to standardize existing DRM on the web and if you did not want to use DRM, then do not visit the site.

But then I came to the part where developers can be sued under DMCA for trying to reverse-engineer the DRM (which inhibits new browsers, if they do not want to use proprietary binary blobs) and worst of all:

It would be a return to the bad old days of websites that advised that they were "Best viewed with Netscape" or "Best viewed with Internet Explorer," because the new browsers would be locked out of some of their content.
So what's the benefit of converting Win32 to UWP other than publishing to Windows store?
I know I'm stating the obvious here but it needs to be stated: The White House is therefore completely okay with this weapon in, as one example, terrorists' hands. Is this a new war or terror strategy or something, placing weapons into the foes' hands?
So long Cygwin I guess.
He does care. 2/3 of the time, your choice forces his. If you choose a goat, Monty doesn't have a choice. He can only reveal the other goat.

The other 1/3 of the time, you're right, he doesn't care, because he can choose any of the remaining doors at random.
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Thanks, the company actually eventually went with that. Our attempt was a few years back, before that was available/known to us.
Mandatory Backdoors Are a Tax on Encryption
Even worse: I bought a Microsoft Arc mouse, a charming little thing except for one misfeature: After a few moments of using it, I got annoyed by the simulated click noise on the simulated scroll wheel. But, the only way to disable the noise is/was to download some “app” from the Windows store that would provide the interface to the mouse. This means that I had to create and use a Microsoft account just to fully “unlock” a mouse that already cost me $70 dollars. I returned the damned thing the next day.
Seems like a slap in the face to all of the OSM developers to use an entirely Free stack with a proprietary veneer on it.

Particularly since the author does not appear to be meeting their burden under the OpenStreetMap license.

"You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors."[0]

"We require that you use the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors”."

"For a browsable electronic map, the credit should appear in the corner of the map. For example:"

[0] - http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
> My only real problem with Cygwin is, that it misses a command-line package manager. If they could adopt pacman for package management like MSYS2 does

There is babun (https://babun.github.io/). It is essentially a wrapper around cygwin and comes with a package manager.
>“Ninety-five percent of the newsroom probably went to private institutions, they went to four-year institutions, and they went to elite institutions,” said Jeff Selingo...

This right here is why. The narrative goes that if you don't go to an elite school, you won't get an elite job. (Let's not argue about how true that is, but I think we can agree it's a common narrative.) People want elite jobs, so they want to go to the elite schools. The article points out that most students don't go to selective schools, but this sounds to me like, when discussing wealth inequality, pointing out that most people aren't billionaires. When talking about selectivity and competition in trying to get good schools/jobs, the fact that most students don't make the cut is the whole point of the conversation.
"...Age of Empires 2 running as a modern desktop app..."

I could not care less. If I'm a developer who has a game in Steam, why would I want to do this? To divide my user base?
Glad to see this announcement. I hope this doesn't dampen the emphasis for PowerShell which is a better Bash for Windows
Agreed. But such a reasonable assumption would inviabilize philosophers writing so many papers and books... What model did you adopt?
I am inordinately happy about this. The article was a little sparse on details, though... is there a link where we can learn more?
I'll be very curious to the the source of this native-Windows port.
I'd be fairly sure it would actually come with most of those
It's not pass/fail - there are grades (high pass, pass, low pass, etc.), and top law firms certainly take grades into account during the interview process.
How would you call Google Project Zero's 90 day policy?
Rapid Prototyping Using Bubble – Coding Is for Losers
Hell has indeed frozen over, and that's good news! From the screenshots, that actually looks like a proper terminal too.

I wonder what will happen to Powershell now.
Good thing DoJ staffed up that kleptocracy unit
I think that emacs's core idea is a small core (pun intended) of functionality written in a high-speed language (C in emacs's case), entirely orchestrated and glued together in a high-productivity dynamic language (elisp).

Emacs really isn't a scriptable editor: it's an editor written in a 'scripting' language atop a relatively small set of primitives which happen to be useful for editing. But it's also an email client written in that same language, and a version-control interface, and a web browser, and a news client, and a Tetris game, and and and …
Why would it divide your user base? Isn't it being used as a glorified package manager? Everything is still Win32 under the hood.
I love tiling window managers...and real package management... and free software.

Windows still has a ways to go. I think this might make some Windows stuff easier to deal with, but I still prefer jobs where I can run Linux natively on my workstation.
I don't blame either of them. But I do blame users who put confidential information on their phone with the expectation that it will remain so.
I know I've run bash on Windows before -- but I don't remember if it was with or without Cygwin. I assume this announcement is running bash natively, without Cygwin or anything VM-like.

Did they have to contribute patches to bash, or just install it by default? I don't see anything on the bash mailing list, but the development is not particularly open.
It's better to not use javascript with TOR, the browser even suggests you to disable it.
I wonder if this will mean that Windows will ship a more up to date Bash than OSX!

Apple stopped updating Bash in OSX when the upstream license changed from GPL2 to GPL3, I believe. (Fortunately, they keep the bundled zsh more up to date)
That unique device-specific key provides no protection against replay attacks. So in practice, the newer Apple devices don't appear to provide any more protection against an attacker with physical access than the one that the FBI just cracked - they should be able to get everything they were demanding in their warrant without Apple's help on any iPhone.
Microsoft Introduces Parse Server on Azure
There are definitely parts of the Facebook app built in React Native. I built some of them. :)
How do you expect a FaiF thing to exist? Clearly you mean "free to me".
If you pay with BTC, prepaid gift card (paid for in cash) etc.. then there are no payment records from you to the VPN. The benefit of this is that the VPN provider doesn't know who you are because you are accessing the VPN through tor. Yet the VPN provides you a stable IP that won't be CAPTCHA'd like most normal tor exit nodes are.

Edit: This is good if you are trying to maintain an Internet profile (i.e. Facebook, twitter etc.) that isn't tied to your true identity.
You should check https://github.com/buger/jsonparser and https://github.com/mailru/easyjson as well. They are even more faster.
VM-level support.
MemSQL 5 Ships with LLVM-Based Code Generation for SQL Queries
Does an IPFS system allow you traverse the revision tree? I think the ideal system would be one with a canonical identifier plus a content / version based identifier, so that if, for example, there is a retraction, you will know that by visiting the current version, but if you want to see the cited version, that is also available.
Parse Server on Azure
He also uses the popularity of Android as part of his reason for closing it. Sure, Android itself is open source, but you still have to go out of your way to find Android devices that are purely FOSS.
Bash completion is inferior. It doesn't understand types.
But but but, they made a subsidiary marketing firm to externalize the shady deals so that the separate firm could be closed at will and plausible deniability granted under the sociopath license of limited liability corporations.

IF they do this, they do Deathsquad work the same way under Xe or other subcontractors. "We didn't know they'd use such tactics to brutally suppress the uprising, we thought they'd use McDonalds fries"
Introducing VR view: embed immersive content into your apps and websites
https://twitter.com/jacobrossi/status/715209978286514176
Missing source for non-software works in libre GNU/Linux distributions (2013)
So they've reintroduced Services for UNIX Applications?

This isn't news. This is Microsoft up to the same dirty tricks they pulled in the 90's to try to kill UNIX.
Common patterns and anti-patterns for civic tech
There's a typo in the URL for the "process" link in "They even have a process for deciding what to do when a vulnerability is discovered."

Should be https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/04/28/heartbleed-unders...

It's interesting that the government (at least this part: "
Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator") recognizes the pros/cons:

> Disclosing a vulnerability can mean that we forego an opportunity to collect crucial intelligence ... Building up a huge stockpile of undisclosed vulnerabilities while leaving the Internet vulnerable and the American people unprotected would not be in our national security interest.
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