skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick warning to people wanting to take a look: This code is part of a famous code leak that happened 12 years ago, in which large portions (a 200mb rar file) of the Windows NT/2000 source code found its way to the internet thanks to a company named Mainsoft being hacked. You'll notice that there's a bunch of .eml files.

There's actual kernel code in here, reading this code could most likely prevent from working on WINE or ReactOS and who knows what else could apply under your jurisdiction.

It's funny that his code is right there for us to see, but we shouldn't see it!
Does anyone know why the tax liability/taxable income doesn't seem to reflect the state tax percentage? For instance the 9k to 10k bracket has tax liability = 2,970 and taxable income = 1,156,047 for liability/income = .0025 or .25%, which is significantly less than the tax rate of 1% for income under even 8k (http://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/state-taxes-california...)
Neat. I had lots of issues with S3 about a year ago. If I had any sort of network saturation from, well, uploading files, the connection would die while keeping the files up in s3. I couldn't find any direct way to do any sort of checksums directly on S3, either, so some hackery had to be done to upload incomplete files without duplicating bandwidth. It was pretty frustrating at the time!
Most of the time it happens on Twitter. Someone will tweet a bitly link with some enticing headline but I refuse to click it because I don't know where the link is taking me. Perhaps I'm just overly cautious...
Malleability of the blockchain’s entropy [pdf]
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. The US laws in practice get a lot of exposure and a lot of scrutiny worldwide.
Microsoft did in fact file a lawsuit. That's precisely why it made the news pretty much everywhere.

"The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in federal court in Seattle, argues that the government is violating the U.S. Constitution by preventing Microsoft from notifying thousands of customers about government requests for their emails and other documents."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-privacy-idUSKCN0...
Nice! I didn't know you could do that.
Does Facebook have a moral responsibility to shut down Trump?
I don't think it's fair to classify your parent poster as "someone that can't see past their bigotry". There are serious issues, like Microsoft opening up a large surface for state fishing expeditions, like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10#Privacy_and_data_co...

or:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Security_and_privacy

(I agree that it is good that Microsoft makes this move now.)
I don't care for their python implementation of ggplot, but that looks really shinny. I will definitely check that out.
I agree; you're right. It isn't easy. I wouldn't want to go back and figure out my TikZ/PGF diagrams if that package lost backwards compatibility. But at least there is hope that a straightforward LaTeX document can be read in the future. You can always run the LaTeX source through Pandoc or just read it as it stands as text with markup. It's better than having a WordPerfect or XYWrite document (I liked both of those better than Word way back when).

Your idea of a VM container is interesting--I hadn't thought of that, but what about the software to run the VM. Does VirtualBox stay backward compatible over the next 10 or 20 years? Maybe the way to go is Markdown, that is so easy to read even without processing it.
Zomato (Indian Unicorn) is looking for more than 100 experienced engineers
Confucius said, "Is there anyone who can even for a day give their full strength to being humane? I haven’t met anyone who lacked the strength. But if anyone has done this, I haven’t seen it."

(http://dailyanalect.tumblr.com/post/113164355376/46)
Amzi Goes Open Source
well yes.

The years of Keyensian dominance in the post depression/post WW2 years were when the middle class was ascendent.

One of the core components of Neoliberal ideology is the primacy of the rights of capital above all others. If you have lots of capital, you can use your capital as a force to impose your will, and gain power over others.

For example, you want to breathe some air? Too bad. I own the air here. You must pay rent to me for the utility the air you are breathing delivers, as I own the rights to it.

This is where Neoliberals would like to take the world. Feudalism without heredity or Noblesse Oblige. Neofeudalism.
This maps illustrates free voluntary association, which is an alternative method of human organisation from central planning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panarchism
> but that each person should take responsibility for their own career development

> not expect this is something provided by their employer

The best way to take responsibility for your career development is to insist it is provided by your employer and to find a better employer if/when that's not the case.

I only have X hours of high productivity a week. I need the high productivity hours to effectively learn but they are also the hours that really justify my high income.
Here ya go! http://imgur.com/SoouwvS
Inside the Fall of SunEdison, Once a Darling of the Clean-Energy World
Icelanders manage to grow decent crops in greenhouses.

There is no reason to suggest that Martians should operate any differently.
Any argument relying on RT is suspicious; if you can't find an anti-government piece anywhere but there, it probably didn't happen.
All Prior Art is a project to algorithmically publish possible new prior art,
Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth
Engaging Casual Games That Frustrate You (or why people play Flappy Bird) [pdf]
> what exactly is the difference

The old system pushed 4-digit OTP's from Apple to a trusted device of your choice using the Find-My-(iPhone|iPad|Mac) system or an SMS. Only iOS devices could be registered as "trusted" for this system.

The new system shows login attempts on all trusted devices (iOS9 or OS X 10.11 devices) automatically including basic GeoIP location, and will show a six-digit OTP if you want to allow the session. It also allows trusted devices to generate verification codes (a six digit OTP) when offline, e.g. if you need to login to iCloud.com from a public computer but your phone has no data/cell service. Or if for example you have your Macbook with you, but no Wifi access, and your phone battery is flat, and you need to access your account via another computer.

> Surprised Apple would launch something like this

Why is this surprising? They've had 2-step verification available for several years, this is an improvement over that.
You certainly don't - I just tested it with my phone in Airplane mode and it worked fine.

Edit: to clarify, I originally tested it on my phone, but I've since tested on Mac and the result is the same.

If you happen to have the iCloud "Account" screen open before losing all connectivity (i.e. it's open, then you turn off wifi/etc), the regular "Get Verification Code" button will work.

In the more likely scenario that you just open up Settings/System Preferences > iCloud > Account, if you're offline it will tell you that you can't see your account details because you aren't online, but that you can generate a verification code while offline.
This should not have come as a surprise to anyone relying on encryption to maintain privacy, e.g. Snowden. Email simply does not support this without PGP.
Are you sharing your apple id? Because a similar scenario happened where my sister called me and said she was (after calling me for some payment verification details) prompted to enter new answers to security questions ... After having shared my password for years for AppStore access.

Had she simply not informed me I might have been in your exact same situation.
I can't help but liken this sort of attitude to a statement like "why bother crafting beautiful game environments, the player could just stare at their own feet"

Sure, you no longer have control of where the viewer is looking, but you do have control over the entire environment in which they now exist in. Changing scenes and guiding the viewers attention are obviously new challenges, but they are hardly insurmountable, and implying that they are enough to destroy the value of the medium is just lazy.
I don't think kids should skip high school, but I think parents could let up on expectations placed on children to compensate for the uselessness and tedium of much of the subject matter.

On the other hand, engaging in passion driven projects that also involve self directed study is the way to go. Parents should encourage the latter while being less fussy about grades. Grades don't matter anyway 10 years later when the child will be hired or try to make a business, but a few passion driven projects could go a long way towards later success.
Email should not be considered secure from governments, period, unless you run your own encryption (PGP).
Formal vs. Casual: the ultimate menswear style swap – sareez.wordpress.com
Be careful about drawing inferences about the real world from fiction. In this particular case though there is some evidence that you may be right : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic_conflict_theory.
Yes, that's most certainly true, but that's b/c not so much because of native water (the Rockies trap a lot), but b/c CO sold much of its water to AZ and CA long ago.
ISS alarms and warnings
Generally I agree with the Keynesians, but I'm skeptical that the explanation for the stagnation in median wages (employment has gone up and down, was down to 4% in the late 90's) we have observed for past several decades is due to Neoliberalism. There are a lot of drivers including massive technological change and the complex effects of a reduction in trade barriers that have all played a role.

Perhaps economics is failing, but I think it's not entirely because of a Neoliberal vs. Keynesian dichotomy, it's at least as much because the economy is shifting and we haven't come up with a good economic paradigm for coping with these rather important shifts.

That said, I think a more Keynesian approach to economics is well warranted. Largely they have had a much better approach to monetary policy in the recent crisis.
I'm curious, what are some of the 5% of things you consider Mac can do but Linux can't.
Human-readable json would've been a great idea, if it wasn't for the fact that json was NOT MEANT TO BE HUMAN READABLE.

It is meant to be generated by a machine and not created by hand, neither it should be readable by humans, only parse-able by a computer.

Treating your data interchange/serialization/configuration/markup formats as languages that should be human readable/writable is a cardinal sin of any person or company that engages in such practices.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11466514
The ACTUAL meaning:

3. "if [you score 90] do [x] and if you score [above 90] also do [x]"
Surprised that Evernote is down by 21%. It's clearly a walking dead, should be down 100%.
In my work I often use the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension. Whenever I see titles such as this, I hope for a moment for some interesting technical content, only to find that it is about a different VC :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC_dimension
I don't get the trend of being all cool and dropping out of High School or College or whatever. High School gets out at 2 or 3 pm, leaving plenty of time to learn on your own or build projects. At that age are you really going to start a business? Besides, school provides motivation to learn, especially Colleges, because you are paying for it and don't want to fail classes.
Startup News, It remains the same web but the content is not
I run text through text-to-speech while reading visually to double my attention.
> OP's audience is Silicon Valley startups trying to enter foreign markets for the first time, and for them the idea might be rather unfamiliar.

Why do you assume that to be the case? Just because US companies don't need to rely on foreign markets doesn't mean they're somehow unaware of basic geopolitics.
The problem with these figures is it presents wealth like a cake. Some people get a larger portion of it than others. But the fact is some people create more cake. They bake a cake that was not present before.

If Bill Gates didn't start Microsoft the billions of dollars he has wouldn't exist. The third world would be just as poor. He added value to the world.

Money is not a fixed commodity, it can increase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_growth
I skimmed this article in about 20 seconds and then went back and read it more closely. I don't feel like I missed much on the first pass.

Sure you won't get the full literary experience skimming through War and Peace. But fluffy articles with a single tweet's worth of information content I can "speed read" just fine.
I will readily agree to the /expensive/ part. I distinctly remember, as a kid, looking at that system on the highest shelf in the game store in the mall, and thinking that it cost a LOT of money.

Checking with the internet, USD 399/449 (a game included), but that's in 1995 dollars. The CPI places that as being nearer to 625 USD today!

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=399&year1=1995&...
There really doesn't seem to be anything new about the divide. The only thing that seems new to me is the resistance to the solutions.

In any case it may all just be a matter of time. The current Greek tragedy that's playing out looks to be the bellweather of how it will be dealt with.
Ten people believe if they go to college they will receive six-figure salaries upon graduation. Ten people take out six-figure student loans because hey it's a worthwhile investment. Upon graduating, four people receive six figure salaries.

There's a certain insanity to counting off risk because of something you think will happen. People seem to do it too much.
FWIW, I recall a time when Word used have a CLI. My memory fades, but I think it was either v4 or v5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Origins_and_gro...

The Internet Archive seems to have a version listed on the 'Abandonware' listings.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_microsoft_word5
high school does not provide motivation. That comes from the students that know what their next step is and want to get into college.
Apple Pages is a toy. It's missing some pretty basic features like even/odd page margins, and becomes annoyingly slow once you do stuff like tables inside multiple columns. I recently prepared a pretty complex but not very long document using it and the experience was pretty unpleasant.
Because the people (Gates, Ballmer) who were running Microsoft for most of its history are out, and a dramatically different person is in.

Mostly, I'm referring to Ballmer.
Yeah, when they mentioned speeding up spoken texts, that was when I had to disagree with the article -- I can easily listen to some material at 1.25-2x, though it's true that if my mind wanders at all, I miss quite a bit. Of course, that's also true when reading at normal speeds, but since it's then playing back slower, you'd miss less in the same amount of time, right?

In this case, I swiped down with two fingers to start iOS' speech function and it read the article quite quickly for me. I was able to better follow along with the reading as it highlighted words on the page. So while I won't say the article is wrong in absolute terms -- it's definitely a different experience to "speed read" in any practical manner than to read each word carefully on your own -- I do think some speed up with assistive tools or training is possible. :)
My son went to Grossmont Middle College which is a charter school for the last two years of high school located on a jr college campus. He was able to get enough college units to save him a year and a half at 4 year college. High school, depending upon your goals and classes can be not the best use of time if you can just jump in and do the college courses anyway... why do double work.
My personal experience has been simply that hiring is hard, so young founders naturally lean towards hiring people they can relate with which of course happens to be fellow young people. It's laziness and ego disguised as pragmatism.

I don't attribute to malice what could equally be explained by ignorance. It's not deliberate ageism, it's the path of least resistance. I would agree that that path is a bad thing overall.
Delays like this (the old 2-step verification had a 2-3 day delay when first enabled) are to prevent someone else logging into your account (without any form of 2fa), and then enabling the 2fa system, thereby locking you out of your own account.
The current title is blatant editorializing on the part of the submitter.
This is either insane, or pure genius. Has anyone else tried this?
The problem is college admissions. Sonya says, "Skipping college is almost middle-class mainstream at this point," but she's dead wrong. It might be mainstream among the lower classes, but they aren't doing too well these days, are they? And it's mainstream among a certain fraction of the upper-classes who have enough of a safety net in family wealth and connections that it doesn't matter. But for the vast majority of the middle classes, the true middle classes, college is still very much a mainstream choice, and increasingly important as a backstop against falling into the lower class. If you don't have a high school transcript, your chances of getting into a college go down by quite a bit.

As for, "I could have spent three years writing and reading and working on interesting projects, instead of enduring the sociocultural hell of high school," I nearly giggled when I read that. Maybe Sonya was among the special 1% of kids who would actually have done that, but realistically, if I had skipped high school, I would have spent my days playing video games and getting into trouble, not "reading and working on interesting projects".
Why I Quit Being So Accommodating(1922)
I don't think this is an appropriate forum for religious proselytizing.
...was that a Men in Black reference?
You would only need to use a text message if you have no access to any of your trusted devices.
4 Likely Reasons Why You Keep Buying a New iPhone When You Don't Need To
Airplane mode on a Mac? As in, you turned off Wifi and Bluetooth (and obviously ensured that you didn't have a wired Internet connection)?
Hmm interesting. But speed reading isn't just less eye movement while reading line by line. It's using your peripheralife vision to read longer chunks of words line by line. Like when driving you see a sign and just know what you saw without slowly reading it. Idk if I agree with this 100%.
The linked article abstract from Psychological Science says:

> The way to maintain high comprehension and get through text faster is to practice reading and to become a more skilled language user (e.g., through increased vocabulary). This is because language skill is at the heart of reading speed.

So, in short, moving your eyes over the page faster only helps if your speed of language interpretation can keep up (the nytimes article has a slightly paraphrased version).

I wasn't really impressed by the article. It seemed to add very little to the abstract, just a couple of concrete examples of speed reading techniques (and one accompanying study).

Defining speed reading as 'eye movement speedups' and explicitly excluding 'language comprehension speedups' is fine, but it makes me want an article about what happens when you combine both, which I know for a fact can result in reading speedups by a whole number multiple.
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I think desktop internet use will expand even further because many more people who have never owned will get desktops/laptops in the future.

The illusion that the desktop has peaked is created by comparison to the amazing rate of growth of mobile. Between now and 2020, 3 billion more people are going to get a smartphone. That's a doubling of the current user base.

In the meantime, desktops and laptops are more expensive, complex and less portable so they grow at a lesser rate. Even if there was a local peak in desktop use in 2015, if we remember how many billions of people have never afforded one, then there is a lot of potential growth left in there, too.
skip reading is perhaps a better name for it. I got the gist - speed reading doesn't work, saved myself a few minutes only skipping to the start of each paragraph.
I am not a fan of this trend where other lowly paid software developers want to bring down the salaries of highly paid software developers.

To be honest, I can't imagine highly skilled software developers on the wages that the OP considers in his article.

Why are some people obsessed with highly skilled people making a lowly income?
I say both.

Governments can be limited by legal constructs. Non-governmental actors, or government actors from other jurisdictions, cannot.

Crypto and legislative reform are mutually reinforcing bulwarks.
> Note that I agree we need to treat swatting as a serious and potentially dangerous crime ...
Though perhaps less serious than the one done by the people actually doing said harm? (I.e., the militarized police)
Younger people work longer hours for less pay. You can burn them out and cut them out of their fair share without mercy.

If you think it's about anything more than this, you don't know capitalism.

I get paid ~4 times as much but only work ~1/4th as much as I did 15 years ago primarily because I'm not foolish and 19 ... I'm unlikely to actually be 16 times more productive for being 16 times more expensive.
The level of likeliness/probability for a given explanation depends crucially upon the level of likeliness/probability for all other explanations. This is the fatal flaw of research using p-values to assess evidence for a given theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen's_inequality
> "I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as others, for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, reducing trade and, in some cases around the world, even cutting access to the internet,” he said.

tbh that could be plenty of candidates.

“I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in [from Mexico],” Clinton said “and I do think that you have to control your borders.”

http://www.latintimes.com/hillary-clinton-bragging-about-bui...
How would you feel if you were a Dropbox employee right now
Goddam these people trying to earn money for their hard work!
They are telling you what to build, you should be deciding how to build it. A business analyst who writes requirements as imperative pseudo code is doing most of your thinking for you.
because taking your time through college can be an incredible experience.
I dropped out because the school system wasn't designed for kids with dyslexia. All I ever felt was left behind.
This fits my experience too.

The saying "pay peanuts, get monkeys" applies everywhere. I am not sure where I heard it but I recall even great developers in India, born and bred, are on six figure US income. Just because you can pay someone $1,000 a month doesn't mean they are actually doing the same work as somone on $10,000 a month.

And if they are really a great developer I would go so far as to say that they are being played and taken advantage of.
A steal, compared to the 3do :)
Deciding by consensus is ponderous. Very few decisions are important enough to waste that much energy.

"Who's CEO" is good shorthand for "do you know who's responsible for what kind of decisions?"