skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry there are plenty of people willing to break the law and the government doesn't have the resources to prosecute crimes like these!
> Apple needs a solution for the general problem of people not wanting to pay much for iOS apps.

Yes! And thanks to missing app store features Apple has provided developers no way to set expectations for things like upgrade pricing. Not to mention in-app purchases which were another way to maintain the illusion of "free" apps among users.

The fact that subscription pricing is now seen as the solution is really sad because subscribing to an App is fundamentally different than buying one. In particular, transactions that used to be atomic - like buying an app or gifting an App to a friend - are now transient and come with all kinds of strings and commitments attached.

Today I could go home, fire up my 5 year old iPod touch, and still access all of its apps - and the data therein. In a subscription-based app economy I wouldn't be able to do the same after the first month!
Voice complaints? Sure. Throw a tantrum? Not so much.
This isn't necessarily true. For example when you want to direct example.com to example.github.io Akami (serving for Github) will serve the certificate for *.github.io. Because this certificate is obviously invalid for the request you have to disable certificate validation in Cloudflare.

So client to Cloudflare is well protected but Cloudflare to Akami is vulnerable to MITM.

(And according to this new news Akami to Github is properly protected now)
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While a package manager could require something like a domain name to authenticate, its much more common for them to require something with a much lower barrier to entry, like a GitHub account. I don't agree that this design decision means they are 'not smart' (nor do I think having a single namespace is a 'beginner mistake,' but whatever).

Package managers like these approach social networks, which has many advantages but carries the disadvantage of opening users to attacks that resemble social network phishing attacks. We could mitigate this by rolling back to package managers with higher barriers to entry, but I think that is not likely to happen.

You clearly would prefer to use a more adjudicated, managed package manager, with a higher barrier to publish and stronger rules about naming. That's a reasonable thing to want, but it would be better of you if you didn't act like people who want something which conflicts with that goal are stupid.
Everybody in the chain of responsibility capable of doing so stands to financially benefit from this practice continuing.

For a business to claim it's "based in" East Texas it'll have to pay its taxes there. Local litigation law firms are bringing tons of money into the area, further increasing local revenue. Shutting it down would probably even knock a significant slice off of the state's income.
Check out https://www.netlify.com (disclaimer, I'm a co-founder).

It's like GitHub pages on steroids and includes free Let's Encrypt based SSL for custom domains, can run builds from your GitHub repo with any static site generator, supports rewrite/redirect rules/proxying/form processing/password protection and much more...
Actually there was a leak for 2000, most critics said it was surprisingly good.
My friend, I feel for you. I'm in my late 30s, have impressed my peers and made a contribution in every role I've had but I regularly fear that one bad move will get me kicked out from the industry.

I have two suggestions:

1) After such a long period of unemployment, you need to get "the meter going". I suggest taking an offer below your standard for the following reason ... recruiters/employers will treat you differently when you are employed. Take a job that has some additional fringe benefit ... lets you work remote, has a better social situation, whatever. Just get the meter going somehow and then improve from a position of strength.

2) Consider getting a contact job that is for 6 months to a year. There is no stigma on your resume for leaving such a position since it was a fixed term contract after all.

Consider working for a second-tier tech employer. A lot of bad things are said about large old corporations (heck you may even have worked there) but they have one thing going for them ... they hire a lot (probably because people leave).

I wish you best of luck.
Dwarf Fortress is a truly unique game and really worth putting in the effort to learn simply due to the stories it generates as you play - and it is amazing how the stories emerge from the ASCII symbols.

Here's an example of a story that happened to me. https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/1mb0cw/the_s... Note: this story is in NO way embellished by me. Everything described there was actually fully simulated within the game.
I hear you on the fear of Google shutting it down but I wouldn't with Project Fi. This is a communications product. They need people to get fast access to their products. This product will never go away, just like their Fiber efforts.

They purchased Grand Central like 10 years ago and never killed it.

Grand Central -> Google Voice -> Project Fi.
That game sucked up a ton of my time. Still waiting for the next patch.

It is really interesting and I almost feel like I am writing code at some points, having the machines automate themselves.

I haven't even started playing with the circuits yet which allows you to do even more programming.
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It is so good to have visual clues. I do something similar, using..

red = root
yellow = others (or ssh)
green = me

Plus when I'm SSH'ing to a remote box, it usually defaults to white prompt
Don't worry, life is a terminal illness.
What to learn? Front end, Back end, or FullStack?
I thought the same thing, but I think their is a ton of smaller operators around.
I am fine buying software but only if I can keep ownership of whatever version I bought. I shelved money for complete CS6 but stay light years away from CC. I bought Ableton Live Suite, but stay away from ProTools. Imagine I had to pay Nikon or Access a yearly fee for camera/synth in my studio?

I have a plenty of money I want to spend on software but only if it empowers me and not if it treats me as an ATM. For example, the old JetBrains model of buying a new major release (and keeping it forever) and then getting free updates for a year was simply perfect, both for allowing developers to love the company that treats them properly and financing ongoing development; not sure why they regressed.
Unless there's a legitimate reason for subscription (if it's cloud based and deals with private content) the law of supply and demand will kick in, which means it will work for these particular types of apps but won't work for others because there's always going to be a competitor who will provide the same service for free.
One interesting application of effect types ala Koka/PureScript is that they can model type-safe private exceptions that can only be caught by code that have full access to implementation. In Haskell exceptions are unsafe and can trivially be used to subvert the type system.
It's literally meant to mean the opposite of that.
The layout is a pretty typical Windows application layout. Toolbar on the top, below that there is a scrollable text area with navigational tabs across the top of it, probably for working with multiple documents, and finally, at the bottom, there is a horizontal slider labelled "document position". I imagine the slider progresses forward as the text-to-speech progresses, thus showing how far in the document the text-to-speech is, and how much of the document remains.

It looks like a pretty typical Windows application. A bit simple, but there is nothing wrong with that. It looks like something a Computer Science student might build in Visual Basic for a University project. I think it looks a bit dated, like it's running on a Windows 98 computer. I wouldn't call it pretty, but definitely functional. I feel like I could use this application without needing to be instructed on how to use it. The purpose of every GUI element seems obvious, which is a good thing.

I hope I helped! Best of luck in your presentation!
A-z drive letter is just a win32 thing.

Symbolic links is supported by NTFS, just not exposed to normal users.

That's just your opinion about powershell...

UAT, and runas?
But it isn’t – the amount of open source devs working on FF depends on how many people use FF, and the amount of fulltime devs depends on funding, which depends on the amounts Yahoo or Google pay, which depend on how many users Firefox has.

With no devs, you can’t implement those features or the security easily.

And especially for security you’ll want fulltime employees.

Also, you’ll have to pay more than Google pays their Chrome devs to ensure the people will keep working for you.
Google "underactuated"
#define supposing if

#define whereas else
If you're interested in walking, the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (ihmc: http://robots.ihmc.us/) came in second place at the DARPA Robotics Challenge using force control and capture point dynamics. They do primarily software, but their walking is quite stable.
1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999
"I simply will not compromise my standards, even literally to my own destruction."

While it's great to have standards, being stubborn is not a virtue.
I played both. They're nothing alike at all.
The analysis seems more like a post-hoc rationalization of why the traffic dropped, which, while fairly reasoned, may not provide the full story.

Specifically, did solving the issues identified restore traffic back to normal levels?
Does Microsoft document all system calls?
I'm going to provide an entirely uneducated guess regarding cows. I would bet that the average person without any training or resources is capable of raising chickens, whereas the average person would have their cows die before maturing. I'm not commenting on the "average African". I'm talking about my own first-world Caucasian self. I bet you I could raise chickens with very few resources. I also bet I couldn't do the same with cows, which seem to be resource hogs and in need of more maintenance.

It's like having a dog vs. a cat as a pet. A cat just needs to be fed and given a box where they can place their waste. A dog needs to be walked, socialized with other dogs, etc. Do you need to travel for a 2-day weekend? With a cat, while not ideal, you can get away with leaving behind plenty of food and water along with an extra litter box. You simply cannot abandon a dog on its own for 2 days.
>If we keep painting past as rosy garden with only few carefully selected facts and rest is bent/invented as needed, we will keep repeating same mistakes and not reach our potential, be it on personal or society level.

That is the key point. We study the the past so we can make intelligent decisions going forward. When each new regime re-writes the past to promote support, it short-circuits this process.

An honest understanding of the past is especially important for China because of grave problems in its present political philosophy. It is said to be Confucianism, but it isn't. So for instance, education today does not focus on the traditional Chinese subjects, but modern Western ones. The present Chinese political political philosophy is a strange blend of marxism, traditional ideas, and modern liberal ones.

The problem is that Confucianism was designed for an agrarian society, but China has become a modern industrial one. So for instance filial piety, which is the foundation of Confucianism, made sense when you had large farming families that stayed in the same location for many generations, but not with the individual mobility and much smaller families typical in industrial society. In this and many other ways, Confucianism is simply out of step with modern realities.

Confucianism came about through extended discussion starting with basic realities and principles, and the same sort of process lead to modern Western political philosophy. Today the Chinese need to go through a similar process, but my impression this sort of thinking is suppressed by the government, and what we get is just what the latest president happens to think. I think that is going to lead to a lot of bad decisions.
>the NT kernel is much more sophisticated and powerful than Linux

Source?

It's not sophisticated enough or powerful enough to be the most used kernel on super computers (and in the world). Windows pretty much only dominates the desktop market. Servers, super computers, mainframes, etc, mostly use Linux.

A few years ago there was even a bug in Windows that caused degradation in network performance during multimedia playback that was directly connected with mechanisms employed by the Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS), this is used on a lot of audio setups. If they can't even get audio setups right how can people consider anything Windows releases "sophisticated"?

It's made to do anything you throw at it I guess, it's definitely complicated, but powerful and sophisticated aren't words I would use to describe NT.
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4. Shift+Right click or CPAU
http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/cpau/
for command line
I'm not familiar with what you mean by readline compatibility. I see a GNU Readline library with history functions, but I'm not sure what that means being integrated into a shell, and what features you would expect to see.

My experience with tab completion in PowerShell is great. It completes file paths, command names, command parameter names, and even command parameter values if they're an enumeration. Could you describe what else you would expect to see?
Honestly, I've done quite a bit of DNS handling, mangling, and manhandling, and never once really thought about it or have been bothered by it, nor have had any reason to look into how the underlying protocol works. Which, I guess, means it's a good protocol because of not leaking abstractions.
Yes, that would be the fourth amendment.
>publishing it on the internet prevents protection for you to make money off it.

no. You have 1 year since first public disclosure to file for actual patent.
Say that a popular package lives at `jack/foo`. An attacker needs only register `jakc` and create a package `foo`, and now anyone typing `blah install jakc/foo` is owned. There's a reason why "namespacing" isn't listed under the "Defenses against typo squatting" section.
I love factorio.

Try Bob's mods. Increases depth by about 2-3x. Quite fun.
That's one way to look at it, so if you combine MIT and Apache => 42 (add BSD and ISC => 50).
You are assuming a few things here.

1. they are giving to urban poor

2. urban areas are covered in concrete.

From the article and the video it seems like chicken farming is already quite prevalent (they state a figure of 5% of the population of Burkina Faso have chickens) and they are hoping to increase that to 30%. I imagine a great charity like the Gates Foundation have done their due diligence and determined that the local charity they are working with knows what they are doing.
Right now this seems mostly to consist of javascript wrappers around existing platform libraries? E.g. to let me read a gpio pin or blink a led? Not that it's a bad thing but it seems a little skinny as a thing right now, and the pitch seems to be that more and more platform stuff arrives. Smells more like a replay for firefox os less innovating on the platform? Any insights?
I'd like to see what you come up with.
Yes, the sci-fi of old is still largely fiction.
Jesus. I think a hitman is cheaper than the cost of all that.
There's already a product that I've only ever called the gun, which is a significantly better tool for the same job, imo.[1] Forces high arc, counts makes/misses, can be adjusted for moving/stationary shots, and rebounds/passes for you. In the half hour it took the author to get up 100 shots, you've taken 500 on the gun.

1. http://www.shootaway.com/
i reverse-engineered this raindrop demo so you can run it on your own PC with your own background image. PM me on Twitter @markentingh if you want the code
Tab completion works nicely and you can even rotate through the different values a parameter can take. Also, ctrl+space lists all the options (parameters, values, files, folders) available at your cursor's position.

I would call it something more than acceptable scripting language. It is object oriented and it can easily use C# libraries, which is pretty neat.
That's kind of too bad.

Are there any other recommended hubs these days that allow a fair amount of programmability? I just returned a VeraPlus since it wasn't very interoperable with my devices, had some distance issues (with no battery to move it to pair) among other things.
Generally speaking, when I see hard-to-explain sales behaviours from enterprise vendors my experience is that:

1/ The sales incentives are leading to sales teams optimising their incentives in ways that seem bad for the organisation over all, and/or

2/ The contract has nasty fishhooks that will make all that money back, and more, in year two or three (classic example from my experience with a different vendor: selling servers at $50k, discounted from $250k, but then assessing maintenance on the original price, leading to a $50k/year opex).
Sure, people have property rights, which, in this case, they've stripped without due process. Or indeed, any process at all.

There's no way I'd carry a bank card in OK.
Did you consider troff/nroff programs?

They were/are the programs used to write unix/linux manpages. Such documents are usually rendered in our terminal via the man utility, but they can export to html and pdf too (man man).

I used to read a bit about the format and it does not look bad at all.

If you didn't know, Ken Thomposon's "The Go Programming Language" was typesed using troff (and it looks okay to me).
If you publish the invention, then you will not be able to obtain patent protection for it, generally speaking. Perhaps the statute and rules have a more precise definition of "national security" in this case. But I think the objection is that, like national security letters and other such secret state tools, it is difficult to figure out what forum there is for you to argue with the government over their interpretation of the law. Still, I don't see how we can get around having some sort of non-public mechanism for the military to suppress disclosure of defense tech.
Unfold in Swift? Seems like a good step. It's a bit annoying to use raw unfold but it's easy enough to build utilities on top of it to capture common cases. Get the primitives right and everything else becomes easy.
I guess I'm never visiting Oklahoma.
Let's hope that if your country falls into that trap, there will be an even bigger country to come and save you, like you did for us in 1944.

That would be Russia, China, or Canada.
Yep, 100 minutes per month with unlimited text+data (the first 5GB at 4G speeds). You can find the details here: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/other-prepaid-plans . I activated online and have been using it for over a year now, been pretty pleased. I've had to use the Personal Hotspot feature on my iPhone 6+ when my internet has been out and I've went through multiple GB in one sitting without any issues or additional billing, which has been nice.
If you buy Tweetbot today, it will work tomorrow.

If Twitter changes the API on Monday, how many versions back should Tweetbot have to support based on a single $2 (or whatever) a few years ago?

That's the issue. People get pissed there isn't perma-support for apps that need constant updates. This is a way to make that more feasible.
I agree 100%. Still, one group (single moms) is generally despised by them, and the other is favored.
https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine perhaps. Personally I find it nice, but it requires a bunch of tweaking to feel comfortable, but maybe less so to people who are used to readline.
An alternate view: the vast majority of science fiction firmly remains science fiction. Most obviously the definitive trope of science fiction: space travel.

In three years it will be 2019.

That is a half century since the moon landings.

Half a century is a long time without substantial progress in attacking the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation. Elon Musk is doing a great job but you've got to ask yourself what the hell happened before he showed up. It's not enough to drag out the old bromides about politics and competition. Competition between the rich for bragging rights alone should have provided sufficient impetus to kick us off in interesting and productive directions.

NASA has accomplished what it could with the resources it had. Compared to most bureaucracies it is pretty good. Mostly probe exploration which should obviously be encouraged. But it's not the vision we set out with of colonizing our solar system.

We ought to own up to what is a failure. It could be that our society became too insular to be ambitious outside of terrestrial concerns. It could be that as Thiel thinks, we've been slowly sinking into a technological stagnation since the early 70s. It could be that we've become more risk averse although it is not clear why we value human life differently to our ancestors.

The prospect of another 50 years without substantial progress is real. I have on my wall The Integrated Space Plan Version 1.1 from 1989. It is complex and detailed and clearly shows comprehension of what must be achieved for space colonization to be a reality.

Take a look for yourself, it's fascinating.

http://makezine.com/2013/07/06/the-rockwell-integrated-space...
Internationally you get $0.20/min calls and unlimited 2G data. I'm getting a consistent 0.07 Mbps in Buenos Aires the last few days!
3. No real directory hard links. Junction points are close, but still distinguishable from

Windows isn't the only OS that disallows creating directory hard links.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/210741/why-are-hard-links-not...
Something I found interesting on the topic is
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
New Fossils Strengthen Case for ‘Hobbit’ Species
> the Linux fork syscall has no documented equivalent for Windows

Emphasis is mine. I wonder if this is something that cygwin could (ab)use. Also I wonder why they would need this undocumented call.
What are you making? We went through the same process with the now-defunct-and-sued-by-patent-troll Comingle, trying to make open source sex toys. We'd get all those same questions over and over...
Those should be addressed by app store mechanisms for charging for upgrades. Then those who want them can pay and those who don't can ignore them.

I seldom accept any upgrades and keep old versions of apps backed-up in case I rashly do click 'yes'. I know I'm not unique; if an app works, why tempt fate by upgrading it?

Unfortunately with this subscription model everyone will have to pay regardless of whether they want those new features.