skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been lots of Windows and Mac OS replies to this thread, so here's a few Linux ones for a change:

i3wm. I've experimented with many tiling window managers over the years but none of them got me to switch. i3, however, is something else. It's extremely simple, intuitive and easy to configure, and it might give you a small productivity boost depending on your workflow. For me this is tiling WMs done right.

Sublime Text 2 and 3. It's rare to find multi-platform desktop software that works reliably on Linux, and ST does it exceedingly well.

Valgrind. It's a game changer for certain kinds of development.

Ruby. I rarely write scripts, because most of the time I can just run irb and do everything with an one-liner.

The apt package management tools, or just Linux package management in general. Whenever I'm forced to use Windows or Mac I realize how fortunate it is that in Linux we're able to apt-get pretty much anything.

SQuirrel (agnostic SQL client). It's not very well known but it's a solid client for anything that has a JDBC driver.

Transmission. I find it has the perfect balance of features and simplicity for a Bittorrent application. It does what it needs to do reliably and doesn't get in your way.

mplayer/mpv. This has been my media player of choice for what, 15 years? Back when my PC wasn't fast enough to play some video formats reliably, mplayer could do it if I killed everything else and used the vesa driver. No other software could do this.

Comix. This is probably the best software I've ever used for browsing images sequentially in a folder (not just comic books). The interface is so simple but has all the features one would need (automatically uncompressing files, fast thumbnail generation, fit-to-width zooming, etc).

youtube-dl. Give it an URL, it will download media from it, no questions asked. It's hard to find software that does the right thing as often as youtube-dl does.

curl. For the same reason as above.

ffmpeg. It can get quite advanced with the command line options but with just `ffmpeg -i format_in.<ext1> format_out.<ext2>` you can do any video conversion you can imagine.

And of course, the favorites that have been mentioned here and I couldn't live without (git, ssh, bash, vim, python, sqlite, postgres, nginx, redis).
That talks about Chrome, which is known to use a lot of resources in general (see: battery life tests).

Is it also an issue on IE/Edge or Firefox? What about Safari/Mobile Safari?
Since nobody else has mentioned it, let me just point out that it's really great that Github is taking the time to compile and publish this kind of information.
Salary is generally understood to be compensation for the work you've performed; attempting to redefine it that way would require them paying considerably over the normal unencumbered market rates. Those kind of deals do happen but they're rare: people with very specialized skills or connections do get paid for exclusives and the arrangement is formalized up front and comes at a hefty premium, not hidden in what otherwise looks and pays like an ordinary job.

As for “relatively rare”, most claimed trade secrets aren't as sensitive (or hard to independently reinvent) as people like to think. When the cost is subsidized to almost nothing, people will claim everything is critical but as soon as they have to pay for it, they'll focus on things which actually matter.
>If you're an engineer, your employment contract is worth literally hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I am an engineer. I don't have an employment contract, I have a piece of paper that has my salary and says I'm an at will employee. Ive never had anything else, literally every job - salary and "you are at will". Benefits have changed all the time with no notice. What kind of contacts are you guys getting?
Vimoutliner: Work fast, think well
Throwing it out there, but if anyone is interested in building an open source DF, email me. It's been a side project of mine (more specifically, the story/history generation components) but I haven't pursued it as much as I'd like.
The FBI is trying to make it easier to give out NSLs as well:

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-places...

Contact your Senator/Representative if you don't want that to happen. Even though a similar amendment failed in the Senate last week, it was a close call.

Also, next there they are supposed to vote on the renewal of the FISA Amendments Act, and I'm sure they'll try to further expand their spying powers some more then, too.
I'm sure he keeps regular backups. There's also his brother. If Tarn dies, his brother will probably release the code or have fans help recover it.
Hmm, I don't think it is really a selling point. A block cipher also implies needing a technique like CBC to prevent watermarking, and using CBC actually helps with oracle attacks.

An interesting paper on using padding to obscure length: http://cihangir.forgottenlance.com/papers/lengthhiding-corre...
That's a hell of a proof-of-concept.
But I do know something about them. I know they continue to choose to work for BP.
71% of Americans believe economy is 'rigged'
The iPhone is an evolution of the iPod, not really disrupting it. Some people might call it a disruption but I view it more as an evolution.

However, Intel is definitely a good example.

Netflix is another good one.
Oh, I thought "tri dork" was referring to riding tricycles (which are already not legal in triathlons).
Ask HN: Examples of unreliable software you are forced to use
This is the reverse of this Ask HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11995816
It's "regional" because the adoption of all this was slower out here - just like it would be in other parts of the world people didn't grow up glued to their phones / tv's etc..
I'm pretty weak at LaTeX but if you haven't used macros and rerender-on-write I'd strongly recommend it

The latter is something i achieved with sleep_until_modified.sh and a shell loop. Pretty rudimentary but functionally equivalent to modern webdev reload-on-write behavior. HUGELY beneficial to my learning latex syntax and behavior and formatting nuances
Wow, I forgot we set up our society so tech developers got to decide what kind of society we wanted. Laws requiring cabs to serve disadvantaged areas? Accept cash so people without credit could get around? Provide safe living spaces, up to code, for visitors from out of town? How disconnected from reality are you?

Furthermore, what kind of precedent does flaunting legitimate laws set? Thankfully Austin was able to have some balls and not allow that shit to fly.
You'll have to take that up with the public at large. We use "internet" to refer to the world wide web. Try to sell someone a computer that has "the internet", but won't do tcp/IP, you'll get punched.

As for the infrastructure, that's a rather more esoteric concern. It needs a distinguishing term.
I think you missed my point. Sure, every VPN solution can be turned into "proxy all internet traffic through there" with enough configuration. What I meant is that tptacek was talking about commercial/serious VPN as in corporate usage, not commercial as in "it takes money from anyone".

You're talking about two completely different use cases with very different goals and potential issues.
If by "only now" you mean 1979 or so. Flavors and CLOS have been things for quite some time now.
Maximum force doesn't matter too much. Change gears, and you can always trade force for distance to get the same energy.
StumpWM: despite being Emacs-inspired, you can get going with very few keystrokes (just like in ratpoison) and despite I would like to switch to i3 (many friends have super cool setups) I cannot manage to stop using StumpWM.

It just like vim: you learn those 4 things and you can do 90% of the things you usually do. For the remaining 10%.... there is the manual.
I know folks are trying to be helpful by listing all the handbooks on the mechanics of writing, or on the creative process (closer), but it's off topic. The author is talking about 'being a writer', as in the title. As in:

"What do you do?"
"Oh, I'm a writer"

Not like:

"Should one _ever_ begin a sentence with 'but'?"
"No, you should _never_ do that. I'm a prig!"

It seems that sitting down to write every day and telling people you're doing it brings with it a wrath of psychological goop that sane people need to cope with if they're going to keep remain sane. That's more what this essay is about.

All that finger-waggingly-said, some great books recommended. Thank you for that!
Excellent comment. Especially this:

Which is to say that I cannot imagine a serious author calling Disney a genius - but take this with a grain of salt if being serious means being unable to suspend your own reality for a brief moment of childish happiness.

I like writing fiction, but I'll gladly give up being taken seriously as an author if being a serious fiction writer means giving up the ability to enjoy flights of fancy. In fact, I have trouble understanding how even the most serious fiction can work without it.
I have also used taxis in many countries. They arrive mostly on time, and when they are not on time, the variability is not significantly different than the variability also experienced with Uber/Lyft.
The jet still has to carry the weapons, engine, fuel etc. and if it was designed for 16Gs operationally, the airframe structural strength would add to the weight significantly, especially if they expected a reasonable service life.

If the plan was for smaller, miniature, one-way drones, then something like a ADM-160 MALD or AGM-154 JSOW would suffice, but it wouldn't be a fighter sized drone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-160_MALD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-154_Joint_Standoff_Weapon
I wonder if it connected to various servers using websockets and did some in/out message timing.

I think it needs to have some knowledge of backbones or something like.

Wonder if you had a bunch of signals, like telco, and timing informations, you could throw it into an ML tool and it could learn the backbone topology implicitly....
Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal?
I do not believe the quotations about profitability in hundreds of cities from the article. When the books are opened and it can be verified, then I'll believe it. Until then, I choose to chalk it up to duplicitous accounting.

I openly acknowledge I could be wrong. But vague quotes like this effectively do not mean anything, one way or the other, to me. Companies say this kind of thing all the time when it's not actually true by accepted accounting standards.
I interviewed for a very senior finance role at a public company a few days ago.

The entire group of analysts and managers is based in a southern US state, while the executive team resides in NYC. Pretty crazy, but makes sense from a business stand point.
I know a professor working on a potentially important project that won't release his code and I suspect it's precisely for this reason. The communuty would tear him apart for sure, but it would be worthwhile to release it anyway.
It's almost like there should be websites that give reviews and ratings for local businesses and services.
BBEdit - it truly doesn't suck. Supremely scriptable and stable.

Pinboard - amazingly good bookmarking.

Pathfinder - the Finder is better than it used to be, but still no match.

Soulver - the notepad calculator.

Fiddler proxy - I use Charles on the Mac, but miss Fiddler.

Omni Outliner - superb outliner.

Arq - awesome backup software.

jq - never work with json without it.

iTerm2 - so good

httpie - does what I mean.

Audio Hijack - record anything.
Anything from djb. Juxtaposed against the usual autoconf/Makefile insanity, his more recent make-free build system is a work of art. Part of the reliability equation to me is highly portable, quick, easy compiling. I've not come across anyone who does it better.
Plausible, although your definition of the word readable may vary. In fact, I believe this is how the minecraft modding community operates (or operated), although they are starting with java bytecode which is much higher level so probably have an easier time of it.

Decompilers of varying quality have existed for a long time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompiler
I don't use Evernote much, but I do like it and for $25/year it is worthwhile. When it is time to pay for another year, it looks like my price increases to $35/year, which I will probably pay for again, but maybe not. I am used to pricing on web services to slowly decrease, not increase.
What has Windows 10 changed on this front?
Ah, but they can repeat! There is a finite chance that any sequence of any length will occur in a random sequence.

So while a compression alg applied to a very large amount of random data is unlikely to reduce the size, it is quite possible to achieve some compression on smaller blocks.
Fighter jet AIs aren't that scary compared to the work being done on algorithms for teams of robot soldiers. The US's TARDEC and the Australian DSTO held a competition for this back in 2010 called Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge(MAGIC)[0]. In this competition, a team of aerial and ground robots had to perform a simulated combat mission to 'secure' a set of moving(other soldiers) and stationary targets(IEDs) in an approximation of an urban environment.

In simulation, the algorithms demonstrated for doing this do quite well with, being able to complete the mission with a success rate of 97.5%, so long as one has 6 search robots and 3 gun robots.

This did not work so well in real life, partially because real robots are difficult to do with. It is still disturbing though because of the high success rate, not to mention the immediate applicability to robot SWAT teams. As a civilian, I'd be much more concerned with a SWAT AI than a fighter jet AI.

However, robot swat teams are still a ways off.

[0]http://singularityhub.com/2010/03/19/teams-of-military-robot...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Autonomous_Ground-roboti...
[2]http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~ssingh/Sanjiv_Singh/PUBS_CONF_fil...
Please fix title, it's a bit misleading in that this institute isn't an actual Stanford institute anymore than HP is.
Englebart's chorded keyboard entered a single character for each chord. Most chorded keyboard systems type multiple characters or entire words in a single chord, which is how you get people doing 3-digit WPMs, and how court reporters and captioners on Stenotypes can keep up with speaking.

Of course, if you wanted to do programming on a chorded keyboard the chords you need are totally different, but apparently it's still very doable: http://plover.stenoknight.com/2010/04/writing-and-coding-wit...
Presumably now Windows 10 is the best advertisement for Apple
I just use this chrome extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bypass/ekfnpmbmfml...
Thank you for explaining this, very helpful.
Seriously? That's incredible. I'm not sure if I should be impressed that doing so worked, or saddened by the fact that it ACTUALLY WORKED...
In line with what others have mentioned, there are more uses for "sound" cards than just human ears. Maybe a musician wants to record some ultrasonic insect noise and slow it down to get a unique effect, or a scientist is working with non-human animals with ultrasonic hearing, or a digital restorer is using upper harmonics of noise on a recording to detect the original recording speed (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Live_Wire:_Woody_Guthrie...).
Congrats Laramie! I'm excited to watch Dangle grow and grow.
> People have dreamt about on-demand car hailing for a long time

Taxis.
If he was all substance and no style, wouldn't he have a plain background colour that was about legibility, and inline any necessary images?

This strikes me as a particular, intentional style.
Win32k before Win10 used to do TrueType/Type 1 parsing in the kernel, with an entire bytecode virtual machine!
I have a single member LLC in CA, and planning to incorporate in DE and have the LLC 100% ownership in the new corporate.

Can clerky do that for me?
Why Amazon Has Consumer Investors Bemused and Confused
> googleprojectzero.blogspot.my

Why is this linked to on a .my domain? Is this an official mirror, or is there something sketchy going on here?
Script to List All Elasticsearch REST APIs
But what if it was coming at a group of ten of you and you were all armed with melee weapons?

Ghost & The Darkness aside, lions generally don't hunt humans. But humans did spend a bunch of time pursuing game over long distances.
I think it is official but yes it should be changed.
Real Is Mandatory
+1 for Sublime Text. It's one of those things that just works smoothly.
I hear that claim, but do you have sources to back the fact that Minecraft was significantly influenced by DF? I mean, there was a crafting mechanic before DF, right? And not many gameplay elements from DF found their way into Minecraft at all.
I love this particular bit of prose: big corporations can play off one European country against the other in a regulatory race to the bottom, demanding ever lower if not downright homeopathic tax rates

The interesting words there are "homeopathic tax rates". I've never seen them described that way. But the finance people at Apple, Alphabet, etc., are quite familiar with the idea, e.g. the "double Irish" or the "Dutch Sandwich".[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
"X startup cuts 10-15% of staff" seems to be a meme lately.
Interesting. We use GitLab which doesn't seem to have this limitation that I'm aware of. I've used it [GitLab] for PRs up to a few thousand lines.
What are the reasons one would want to use an antivirus? Can someone share some insight on how does antivirus actually work?
How about gimme a button to disable CSS3 fonts and HTML5 canvas, webGL and shit, like we used to with Flash.
Not necessarily. Generally, a conventional war ends when one side surrenders, usually because it knows it can't win and wants to minimize further losses. If we reach a point where unmanned weapons are the ultimate tool for destruction, then it makes sense that by the time the AI combatants reach a point where they could target enemy populations, the war would already be decided, and the nation about to have its people killed would surrender. There will be exceptions, but it would be no worse than current war, and at least potentially be better.

That is of course assuming that the most efficient strategy to achieve a surrender doesn't actually end up being a bypass of enemy AI and direct targeting of human populations. This would only be possible if there's a huge mismatch between offensive and defensive capability. But then you end up with a MAD situation similar to what we have with nukes.

That said, I expect that the flip-side is that this tech would ultimately make a guerilla war by a local population against an occupying force very very ugly for the guerillas.
I have a neighbor on channel 5. I have thought of discussing it with them, but being across the street, the signals are so weak that I am not sure if interference is possible.
Dell sells refurbished/off-lease laptops which are solidly built, at: http://dellrefurbished.com/laptops
(They also sell refurb'd desktops, servers and monitors).

The machines are a few (3?) years old, but they are solidly-built business-class machines. So you should be able to find something that suits you -- you can use checkboxes on the left to filter the results to include only machines with the features you are interested in.

Note that the regular prices there are high, but at least once a month they have a 40% - 50% off sale, often with discounted or free shipping, if you have a code. These deals are posted on fatwallet.com, in the hot deals forum, and no doubt elsewhere as well.

Here's an example of some machines that were available around the beginning of June, just a few weeks ago
( https://www.fatwallet.com/deals/40-off-any-dell-laptop-28905... ):

Dell Latitude E5520 4GB RAM 250GB HDD - Was: $329.00; Sale: $309.00; After Coupon: $185.40

Dell Latitude E6430S 8GB RAM 320GB HDD - Was: $479.00; Sale: $429.00; After Coupon: $257.40

Dell Precision M6600 4GB RAM 250GB HDD - Was: $1,319.00; Sale: $1,169.00; After Coupon: $701.40

I'd expect another sale to come up around July 4th, so you might want to keep an eye on Fat Wallet (or the like).
> Further, in all of the non-mega [...] cities I've been in, apart from one single city (San Francisco), the wait time for Uber is on the order of the wait time for a taxi.

As a data point to the contrary, in Chicago we stopped calling taxi dispatchers to our apartment because they would arrive up to 30 minutes late. Even if we scheduled ahead of time, it didn't seem to matter; as if the dispatchers were holding our request until the last minute and then dispatching into the general queue (so why call ahead?)

With the Uber app, whenever we call a car (even a taxi) we get an ETA based on GPS coordinates of the driver, which is both accurate and updates live. There's a level of accountability that was never available with the existing taxi dispatch.
Blogspot changes the main tld acording to the location of the viewer. From my home, it's redirected to https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/how-to-com...

HN has a special canonization case for Blogspot, so most of the times you don't see the tld in the HN link. I guess they missed blogspot.my
yeah seems like r.i.p. buffer. they can easily now prevent buffer and similar services from existing by updating their tos.
LinkedIn Launches Programmatic Buying
The article's also evidence of the temptation to write about yourself, as I suppose that's what you know best. I have seen a lot of successful authors who inject themselves into the narrative.

For example, this successful author (David Wilcock) who failed to make a documentary, and wrote about it and turned it into a NYTimes bestseller. It's sub-par book with silly claims but he has an audience and it provided a story structure with interesting ideas and alleged facts. Eat Love Pray is another example.

And I suppose if you can write about outrageous things you do, it probably makes people all the more motivated to read you.
And in many places there is no forced build-out. The county I live in is only partially served by either FIOS or the cable company. The more rural part of the county is dependent on expensive WISP service because neither has been forced to build out into unprofitable neighborhoods.

The right-of-way fee covers costs for use of poles and conduits but also municipal right of way usage fees. The municipal right of way fees are much less than it would cost Verizon to otherwise negotiate and purchase right of ways from private property owners.
It was ironic fifteen years ago. Now it is just business as usual,
Any corporate VPN. Hipchat. Outlook. Windows. Any printer software which contains anything apart from basic driver itself. Firmware update tools. System update tools.

That's just from today and I haven't even had lunch yet...
Sharing Indicators Is Easy, Sharing Intelligence Is Not
Version control and "mainstreamness" seem pretty orthogonal to me.
Blogspot, for reasons that defy logic, redirects visitors to "localized" domains (I assume via Geo-IP). OP is probably from Malaysia.

Not only is it incredibly annoying and breaks things like URL deduplication, it also leaks your origin when you share links. What a great feature!
Redshift is definitely "based" on Postgres, but its distributed systems components are probably proprietary enough that the concern is valid.
So this is how magic happens
It's ludicrous that someone would risk their reputation and their company's future for a mere 32 more loans on the company growth report. I can't imagine how these loans made a significant difference to these reports. These revelations could be just a scapegoat for more serious fraud.
http://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/
Even if you grant that many overweight/obese people merely won't exercise, certainly at least some people can't exercise.