skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I disabled ads in Safari by selecting, under cookies and website data, "allow from current website only". But new cookies from domains I've never visited keep spawning. What am I doing wrong?
Is this still going to be using the absolutely dreadfull conhost? Because that's the biggest shortcoming windows currently has with its interactive command line tools, cmd.exe and powershell are both usable, not great (okay, pretty bad honestly, but usable) when you don't consider the shitty terminal they force you into using.
If you want a Linux container on Windows (which they do not seem to propose right away, but it seems a logical step), you need a Linux ABI.
Amazon Cracks Down on Sales of Shoddy USB-C Cables
I can't think of real world use cases that make sense to me, but I would guess they are worried about having mount points in the directory tree to check for modified files.

If so, they have to check every directory in the tree (or, alternatively, figure out all mount points in a different way, but I don't know whether that can be done efficiently in a portable way)
So, why isn't some billionaire working on something to remove the CO2 from the air / ocean and collect the carbon and release the O2. I'm not being sarcastic. I'm actually interested in why, given the other scenarios, the technology isn't being developed for a energy efficient way to do this.
> We want Windows to be your home

I'd rather have a home I have control over, or even trust in.
Thanks aleem, I wrote up my initial experiences at https://medium.com/@dean_mcpherson/townske-app-in-react-nati... a while ago, some of the points are probably no longer an issue. As per my response above, the update prompt is for http://microsoft.github.io/code-push/.
Was running just Ghostery; 126 trackers. Finally came around to installing Adblock Plus; 10 trackers. The advertising industry really needs to pull itself together.
Show HN: Color Contrast
I ran bb4win as my window manager for a while. You can get a full suite of userspace applications e.g. KDE for windows. If you're too much of a purist to use cygwin you can (or could until recently) build everything against SUA and then you just need to run a windows X server, but at that point you're still running explorer as the graphical shell/window manager.
Correct but they would not have had access to the the iCloud data without Apple doing work (Resetting password or handing over a copy of the data)

The original comment is correct.
Since 2008R2, Windows has had a Server Core version that is trying to move closer and closer to that goal.
I tried disabling it around 2003 and had tons of problems with payment processors (using iFrames) and shared authentication schemes.

But after just researching it, it appears things may have improved. Apple made the default for Safari to block third party cookies, so if you want to be Mac/iPhone compatible you de-facto have to not break.
I hear you
they think its a good thing everyone i know says now no need to stay on linux i'm switching to windows 10 at least my colleages are doing so now
The Future of Silicon Valley via Y Combinator's Demo Day
> Just out of curiosity, what does a Linux desktop offer that's not also natively offered in Mac and also highly polished?

A GNU userland. A plethora of tiling window managers. A selection of clean terminals. Every single thing Debian's or Arch's repos offer which one must turn to brew for.

And of course there's freedom too, which is nice.

> Every year I try a switch to Linux desktop. This year I made it as far as trying to get multiple monitors working well.

I've got multiple monitors running on Linux, over HDMI, at home & at work, at differing resolutions & orientations. I use arandr-configured xrandr scripts which set my desired orientation with a quick keystroke in my window manager. What more does one need?
You are right, but do other sites feature these messages?

In contrast Hackernews has almost daily 'X is hiring for Y', where X is a YC company.
A lot of people are actively researching ways to get CO₂ out of the atmosphere or prevent it from entering the atmosphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_removal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
I think my point still stands in response to his argument, if you ignore post-tax subsidies. The pre-tax sum is $333bn in 2015 and $541bn in 2013. So would easily accumulate to trillions over a short number of years.

But I do think post-tax subsidies is a fair metric, for example, in places where there's state health care, my tax is being spent to care for people whose health has been affected by fossil fuels. So it seems like state subsidised to me.
what these guys said, also when you consider that automating tasks for both your WinRM-able and SSH-able machines would be very easy. Does bash support WinRM or WMI as well as PowerShell?
The Operational Analysis of Psychological Terms [pdf]
TL;DR if you don't support the Linux API/ABI you are out of business. The reality is software defined everything and it's based on Linux.
I agree conhost is terrible - but they have finally made some improvements in Windows 10 [1]:

- Drag-to-resize

- Automatic text reflowing on resize

- Ctrl + X/C/V support for cut/copy/paste

- Selection that does line-wrapping

- Transparency

- A full-screen mode

[1]: http://futurice.com/blog/a-saner-windows-command-line-part-1
Second quantum revolution a reality with chip-based atomic physics
That doesn't answer my question, though. All of those are reasons to suspect Tor exit nodes, but not reasons to place CAPTCHAs on standard article pages on a site.

The only vaguely reasonable one I can see there is 'ad click fraud', and I think that fundamentally restricting the usefulness of a site for advertising purposes is awful.
Well... back in the day Microsoft also was the company everyone was rooting for that was standing to the evil IBM.

Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.
Visual Studio “15” (not to be confused with VS 2015) Preview Now Available
This quote from "a Google spokesman" seems unambiguous and key:

"We’ve never received an All Writs Act order like the one Apple recently fought that demands we build new tools that actively compromise our products’ security.... We would strongly object to such an order."
All Writs Act
150ms sucks when you're working with multi GB files and packages. Also network security is not ideal.

Nothing beats running and developing on localhost.
It's impressive to see how fast the open source community engaged on this track...
This data should ideally be protected and owned by the individuals themselves - not the government, not the ad companies, not Google, not Facebook.
As an individual who owns my data, I should have a right to decide who/when/how accesses my data.

More than a question of privacy, this is a question of next-generation user experience. If as an individual, my data from uber, google, facebook, visa, amazon is all in one place I can give selective anonymized access to it to different services that can leverage the collective data to provide better user experiences to me.
Do you pay the people you interview their hourly rate?
Swift Pattern Matching: tuples, ranges and types
I pointed this out on r/debian and was downvoted to hell, but it's totally true.
I would argue that gnu coreutils is this base. Available on al *Nix OS, including Mac.
INCOMECLUB:THIS IS WHY BOND FUNDS WILL Not HELP Your INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11392005.
It sounds to me like you are trying to balance deep vs wide in an MVP.

Wide being a large group of features/hypothesis, deep being more focus on fewer features.

I think it depends on the situation, but for the most part I believe MVP should be neither of these things, or somewhere in the middle.

It isn't about testing many hypotheses, it is about testing one hypothesis. "Is there a market for x".

The answer isn't to build a robust release or build a facade for many tests, but to build the minimum amount to answer that question. You don't want to build deep into the technology of a single 'feature', and you don't want to build many features. What is the minimum number of features and the minimum amount of those features that can be built in order to answer the hypothesis.
Except your "house" is undergoing layoffs.

It's not hard to manipulate markets. It IS hard to manipulate markets and make a profit!
Well said my friend! Upvote
That is awesome. I can't believe how simple and straight forward that is. I never know you could write TSRs in Turbo Pascal. Imagine for a second pulling off a similar trick today on, let's say, a Mac. Plain hopeless.
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>>If it is not testable you are literally saying it has no effect on the world.

It's provable that things that are true are not demonstrable(see Gödel's incompleteness theorem). It follows that things that are not testable are true, and for some d
definition of truth, it means they have an effect in the word. So we absolutely can, in a meaningful way, wonder about the posible consequences of something that while not testable may be true. Just because something it solely potentially meaningful does not mean it it's entirely meaningless.
What a stupid joke.
We merged this thread and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11392246, but adopted the more neutral title of the latter. If people feel strongly about one URL being better than the other, we can change that.
But it is a bandwidth hog because it's purely overhead (in terms of bandwidth and latency) added to every page behind cloudflare that a TBB user visits.
I see the whiteboard coding test as an attitude-test. If you have too much attitude to sit down and write some code for an hour, then you aren't someone I want in my company. It shouldn't be hard if you're skilled. Sorry to be that way, but that's the way I (and we) see it.
Approval Voting is Score Voting on a 0-1 scale. I tried to be clear about the distinctions as they apply. If you can cite any specific sentences that you think could be made clearer, please let me know.
Semi-related but does anyone know if zeppelin supports java yet?
Borda is better than Plurality and IRV regardless of the amount of tactical voters.

http://ScoreVoting.net/BayRegsFig.html
If I was still stuck using an OS X box, I would definitely switch. If I was using Linux, I wouldn't. I've been forced into developing using Windows for the last few years, and for my use case (SSH to remote server to develop there), it's not that bad. There are some annoyances, but from a usage perspective, Windows 10 is actually really nice. Getting native terminal and SSH[1] support actually handles a bug chunk of my annoyances.

> - What about lack of all the Linux/OS X GUI software?

What about the lack of windows software on those platforms? It goes both ways.

> - What about lack of all the UNIX OS features?

Which features? What about the Windows OS features you do't get on a UNIX OS? Again, it goes both ways.

> - What about all those billions and billions of Windows malware, viruses, adware etc.

There are plenty of windows Viruses and malware, but I will say the most problematic security problems I've had have all been on Linux boxes. I would still count Windows as more problematic overall due to the quantity, but I believe the focus on security from Microsoft in the recent years has paid off, and it's nowhere bad as it used to be. Also, to some degree, the prevalence of malware and viruses are because of the popularity, and the popularity comes with it's own advantages (more supported software). It's a trade-off using a platform where some software you like may not be available (e.g. games).

> - What about the fact that OS X and Linux have always been at least decent from developers point of view but Windows has always had problems and then things like Vista and Win8 happen.

Am I supposed to know what this means? People have been using Windows as a development platform for a long time. Those that want to use Visual Studio still do. Windows Vista was crap, but I didn't find Windows 8 bad at all. Around Windows 7 is when it started actually being viable for me to run, and I think it's gotten consistently better over time. The biggest problem I know of that people had with Windows 8 is the start menu change, which to be honest is a really small thing, people just didn't like it and it was front and center.

- What about the advertisements served to you in the login screen?

I haven't seen any.

> - What about all the future shit MS will throw at you?

I'm not sure how this puts Windows in any different light than OS X.

> - Other stuff can't remember now

Seriously?

> - What about all the spying and restrictions that Microsoft has integrated into the Windows? (e.g. cannot block Microsoft spy server in the hosts-file, forced updates etc.)

This is valid, and would be my number one reason for not running Windows at this point if other considerations didn't outweigh it for me.

1: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH
How Trump Hacked the Media
Is that finally ready to go (I haven't been able to check out the links)? That's been basically known to people who follow game dev news that it was an upcoming feature since a little before the console launched, it's just been nothing but a promise up to this point.

If it's finally released, awesome. That's a major reason why I decided to get an Xbox One over PS4. I made games with XNA on the previous system, so I'm excited to finally get to start developing on the Xbox One.
Hi, I'm one of the co-founders and core devs of Ethereum.

Ethereum wasn't build/implemented for or on Azure. Microsoft showed support for Ethereum by offering BaaS (Blockchain as a Service) and have now adopted our in-house programming language Solidity within VS. Solidity is our higher level smart contract language that can compile down to EVM byte code (EVM - Ethereum Virtual Machine).

I can't tell you whether Ethereum will take of or not, to me it already has. Consider me highly biased being the original author of Ethereum's most used implementation :-)

To get a good feel of Ethereum and the community; take stroll through our community reddit [1], github client repo [2], solidity language [3] and some more documentation [4].

Warning: 2 & 3 are for our technical enthusiasts, 4 is very interesting. Enjoy! :-)

- [1] http://reddit.com/r/ethereum
- [2] https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
- [3] https://solidity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- [4] https://ethereum-homestead.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
My wife was a lobbyist. I wish I had quantitative evidence, but my impression is that lobbying is mostly just reinforcing favorable narratives. I think phrases like "legalized bribery" and "regulatory capture" are thrown around casually without much supporting evidence.

As to your last point: what is a "bad law?" Does anybody really have any idea what works and what doesn't? Did the repeal of Glass-Steagall cause the 2008 crash? We really have no idea. Did NAFTA leave consumers better off? Who knows? Do minimum wages increase unemployment? Experts disagree. It's effectively impossible to determine what impact laws really have, especially on the economy. Laws and policies aren't judged as "good" or "bad" except in history books. They're judged based on whether they fit into ideological frameworks and prevailing narratives. And voters are part of that. They want politicians who will vote for laws that fit their preferred narrative.
13 years ago?
That is definitely not an actual commercial operating speed, IIRC. Trains can go really fast in test and demos, operating speeds right now rarely break 300 km/hr on most systems. Many systems are headed to 320-360 though. The Shanghai maglev is the only commercial line that regularly does over that in commercial service, at 430 km/hr, but that's only for a few runs a day, most of the day it goes 300 km/hr.
I don't think the problem is sovereignty. The problem is vested interests, wealth and greed.

I have no doubt that given the will, the problem of climate change is not an overly hard problem to fix. We humans have always been good at problem solving.

We just need those vested interest to get out of the way and let that happen.
functional programming is about immutability and higher order functions as a base kit for building abstractions, not sure what definition you are using but it's not the one that is useful when talking about React
The latest Visual Studios support clang.
> Uses Raft. Not highly-available enough unfortunately.

Did you test this or is it just a general view? What sort of write rate are you looking for, per topic?
This is highly location-dependent. I get a fraction of your volume even when posting mine on careers sites and constantly tweaking my LinkedIn profile. Of course, I'm in Dallas and wee seem to be invisible to most of the tech world.
My understanding (and correct me if I'm wrong!) is that handing over a copy of the data does not fall under All Writs. If the map included warrants for iCloud data, etc, I'm pretty sure all 50 states would be colored.
This is very much welcomed:

* You can now set http.[<url>.]pinnedpubkey to specify the pinned
public key when building with recent enough versions of libcURL.

https is good, but if you can pin your certs, even better :)
> Getting an interview is not all that hard these days, you can get an interview with google/facebook ect pretty easily.

Maybe... I got contacted by 2 google recruiters in 2 separate instances. I replied to them, but I never heard back.

I would've probably failed at the whiteboard, but I never even got a chance to attempt the interview.
HN had a huge influx of developers who predominately (or only) work on the Microsoft platform, and it has been readily apparent in the stories that rise to the top, and the dominant reactions (e.g. cynical takes are quickly transparent. Exaggerated "this changes everything!" comments rise to the top). This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does heavily slant the coverage and slant of the conversation.

And as you said, there is nothing new in this. The whole "hell freezes over" thing gets a bit old because Microsoft has done this same routine countless times before. When they are the underdog, seeing a fleeing userbase, etc, they pragmatically veer towards open and integrated. When they aren't, they close off and exploit. (see Microsoft's arrogance and hubris as they exalted in their success with the Xbox 360 -- early initiatives like XNA, their unloved community gaming thing...abandoned and left to die -- and now that they're losing with the Xbox One, once again that wonderfully open and accommodating company returns again. People pretend it's new.

Another example I would give is MSN Messenger -- Microsoft did a loud, public campaign, including taking out ads in newspapers, pushing an open messaging platform, interoperations, etc. Microsoft had just started to get into the messenger game, so of course they didn't want to be kept out via the network effect.

Then, of course, MSN gained users (being pushed on users, automatically configured, tends to do that). Microsoft made a complete 180 in approach. Soon they incorporated an expensive licensing program that third party apps had to use to interoperate with MSN Messenger, endlessly doing technical fixes to block third party access.

What happened to that gregarious, open and cooperative Microsoft that was taking out ads to implore AOL for blocking access? The situation changed, and suddenly it wasn't in their interest anymore.
Maryland appeals court rules police need warrant to use Stingray phone tracker
The company is paying you money. The company is the customer of your services. This is why.
Build 2016 Conference: Windows 10 Now Supports Native Linux Commandline
Al Gore buys carbon offsets for his jet travel. Letting him do what he wants and still have a net carbon contribution that is 0.

Of course that depends on the people he pays for the carbon offsets actually reducing carbon emissions somewhere else in the world. It is easier to claim that you will than it is to actually do it.

(My bet is that within 10 years there will be a major scandal as someone in that space turns out to be a pure and simple scammer.)
Hilarius response.
The ACLU post/map is pretty good. It's based on gov prosecutor report from October that Apple and Google had complied with All Writs orders scores of times before. More details at court orders linked to each case.

https://www.aclu.org/map/all-writs-act-orders-assistance-tec...
Hey they might get me off of this. I got a mac because it was the best tool for the job - mainly because native bash is just always sitting there.
The point I'm trying to make here is the speeds on Line S1 are similar to commuter trains in a similar class of operation. Maglev doesn't really provide a speed advantage on that line over traditional rail.
If you think "very fast" is 5ms, over a LAN, then truly I despair.

I mean, if they've paid you to write this, I presume you have reasonable hardware to run it on. Bog standard BSD sockets TCP on Linux is down around the 10 microsecond range now. What on earth are you doing with the other 4.99ms?
Thanks. New Relic incentivizes running fewer, larger instances, which unnecessarily exposes to risk of machine failure.
Although I've been a primarily C# dev for years, I gradually moved to Ubuntu, and then to OSX, all because of the better terminal/s. I like Macs, but OSX, its window management system, finder, is really bad. Having bash environment available on Windows is an incredible feat and a reason alone to reconsider Windows again. Hopefully, it won't be limited to W10.
You didn't substantiate those points, so there's nothing to really counter.

Seriously, you just asked someone for a counterpoint to "other stuff I can't remember".
With the risk of going OT, I have an deal old monocrome monitor (Zenith ZVM-121) that died on me shortly after feeding it 220 V @ 60 Hz from a step-up transformer. How does one go about fixing such? Are there any place that will still repair them?
Strange you can't disallow pushing directly to master still.
Used your credit card online in India? It’s probably stolen
Honestly, this makes me reconsider my future OS choices. I've been an OS X user for a decade now, but getting increasingly dissatisfied with Apple's stance on hardware and software, I have been thinking about moving to Ubuntu for a while now. The problem with that though is the scarcity and quality of commercial software builds on Linux. My biggest pain points are the Unreal Engine and Unity3D IDEs right now, which technically have Linux builds available, but in practice they just don't work.

With the availability of Unix command line tools (and maybe even GUI apps) on Windows, this becomes a very viable platform for me as a developer. I'd still be throwing away most of the software I purchased for OS X, but at least Windows equivalents are available.

If Microsoft is indeed courting programmers again, this is a smart move.
Recently came across an example where someone entirely different person went for the interview answered, cleared but the another person reported for the job.

I must say I am extremely disappointed at bay area job scene.
So, there press release announces that the Ethereum co-founders will attend the conference.

Looking through: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016?sort=status&dire... there doesn't appear to be any sessions mentioning "Ethereum", "blockchain", or "consensys"

To me this collaboration seems to be nothing more than Consensys using tools provided by Microsoft.
If it can run GCC and EMACS I'm pretty happy. At the moment I have to use Msys.

Are Ubuntu's libraries available. Could you theoretically produce a statically linked binary under Windows and then run it natively in 'real' linux