skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be two kinds of articles floating around in regards to "cyberwar" this one, which I feel underplays the potential dangers and those that stick to Panetta's Pearl Harbor-style prediction. I think both fail to capture the reality of the situation.

As with most things I believe the threat falls somewhere in the middle. While cyberwar (which is a dumb term) hasn't yet resulted in 'real' causalities I think using that as a metric is outdated. Cyberwar will never have the same strategy as traditional war. Economic havoc and infrastructure disruption will be the name of the game and with the right set of environmental circumstances a small group of people can have a huge impact on the world stage.

I believe non-state actors will be a powerful force in this arena. The infrastructure required for these actions isn't nearly as huge as this article tries to make it out. That said, I also don't believe all of the end-of-days fear mongering that's grown up around the idea either. Just as with all new threats, we will adapt.
mrb, I am envious of your configuration. If I could turn on system-wide dithering, I would do so in a heartbeat. You tempt me to ditch Windows even though I am (embarrassingly enough to admit here) actually fairly happy with Windows overall.
27 people who chose None of the above said they use Name.com which puts them at about 1.7% of the total.

I probably should add them to the registrar list -- thanks for bringing it up.
Agreed, RMS essentially has as his sole professional obligation to the community to explore, stake out, and shine a light on a very deontologic position. It is a lonely camp and it wouldn't hurt us to put some rice in his bowl.
Just curious, why wouldn't traditional gamers like the game pad? I can understand the disdain for motion controls, but personally I quite like the idea of the game pad.
After decades of running my own email servers I gave up because of the never ending blacklisting. Some random ISP will decide that your IP address is in a bad neighborhood and blacklist you. Eventually one of your users will realize that their mail to Aunt Vickie isn't getting through and you'll spend an hour trying to get unblacklisted. You may or may not succeed.

If you own your own block C or larger this may not apply, but if you are renting servers or using a colo there is woe to be had.
Smoking in (and in front of) businesses and in offices is already prohibited in WA.
"London will always have a need for more prostitutes and more copywriters." (cit)
I've been looking for a service like this for quite some time. Very cool!
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports,
unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
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If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is just salacious gossip with nothing that's intellectually stimulating, of "deep interest", or specific to hackers, hacking, startups, or business.
Not sure what your point is - considering it's a democratic bill, and the President is going to use imperial power to enact most of the legislation through executive order anyway. And we all know the Chamber of Commerce (the "bad guy" in the op-ed) is anti-republican.

Power grabs are a bipartisan affliction.
I switched to namecheap after the sopa deal and because of godaddy's aggressive email campaigns and ugly ui. I have 12 domains with them and i'm very happy - they don't spam my email, managing my domains is easy and most importantly, they don't go behind my back and deal with government tools to take away the one piece of freedom i have left.
Well I'm on the corporate network, so I'm not sure how that works. www.google.com. If I use google.ca it seems that it is fine.
The 360 has the highest games-to-console attach rate of any system ever. If repeat buyers are a significant portion of 360 sales then the 360's attach rate would be absolutely insane. Therefore it's easy to reason that broken consoles make up a very small percentage of total units sold.
Yup, first, I've checked when I created it, also, the biggest, we're 1500 members strong at the moment
The "lesson" is that the WiiU was sold out and on sale for less than two weeks. It's noncomparable data for any conclusion other than "the WiiU found its price point for the consumers who find it interesting."
I disagree. Bureaucracy is inherently a job of managing people, in all their imperfect emotional people-like glory. Bureaucrats don't just put numbers into a spreadsheet and get out an answer, they balance the needs and wants of competing stakeholders to allow society to function effectively a collective.
This reminds me of the #MuslimRage backfire that Newsweek got after publishing a controversial story about, well, "Muslim Rage", and asking Twitter users to use that hashtag to, I guess, talk about their own opinions of Muslim Rage:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/09/17/161315765/mus...

Here's a social-media-tip: If you are the progenitor of an idea/product, people are automatically wary of self-promotional antics. If your self-promotional antics involve asking others to do your dirty work: i.e. bash the competition, your self-promotional antics will likely backfire on you. People generally don't like negative emotions when they're using social media...except in the Schadenfreude of watching things backfire, especially when the victim is a big corporation.
I think a ton of people switched during the whole SOPA thing, besides the bad services. You know what, this reminds of that South Park episode where that big box retailer moves in, grows so big, everyone burns it down to the ground and sings kumbaya together, and starts supporting a local retailer instead. The local retailer becomes so successful that it grows and grows until it's as big and evil as the old big box retailer. Then they all burn it down again and sing kumbaya again. I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised if one day namecheap also eventually turned rotten in eyes of the HN crowd. I'm not predicting that it will happen, I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised.
He finds his phone distracts him with too many notifications and his solution is wearing glasses that can clutter up his vision with data? It seems to me that having notifications flashing in my periphera would be way more distracting than a blinking light on my phone which I can place out of sight whenever I want.
It's brilliant if you want to quickly show someone a screenshot.
I also heard they don't shoot elephants.
What are some recommended registrars if one wants to minimize exposure to USA regulators? I had previously heard Gandi, but more recently have heard the company now operates through a US subsidiary. I'm looking to register a .is domain.
It will! Thanx for joining, we're already 1500 members strong, and we want to be the most visited community on Google+
Sites that allow users [to have significant control over] personalised subdomains are also problematic for things like NoScript and other whitelisting tools. Since I have github.com permitted, all the subdomains inherit that permission.

I'm not even sure what a good model/UI would be to selectively white/blacklist subdomains.
I've always felt that government running things like space exploration was a bit odd . I think that government funded (all or in part) private enterprise is the way to go, it worked for Columbus and other early adventurers right?
This isn't actually true. Numbers from around the world are hazy but it looks like the 360 is ahead worldwide by a million or so. The lead will be extended over the holiday with Sony potentially surpassing next year since jan-sep are the months Sony outsells the 360 worldwide.
Dank u wel :)

All I learned. Wait, also how to order a pancake which I remember as something like ick vil crack un pannecooke.

I was very impressed with the Dutch english when I've been over there. They approach it as a practicality and they also get fairly insulted if you ask them if they speak english.
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It's honestly the biggest reason I changed. It's so hard to do anything. Half the time I ended up just calling their tech support, which is not toll free, last time I experienced it.
I said 12.04 and not 12.10. There's no way of disabling the lens I removed in 12.04 (may be because they got introduced in that release).

EDIT: at least I couldn't find a way to disable them. Nothing in privacy settings and nothing with dconf-editor.
OMFG. That is hilarious!

Made my day
So simple it's genius. Great idea.
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I agree. I moved to bitbucket after canceling their small service because jumping from $12 to $22 just for a few more private repos. I wish they had more a of a hobbyist plan with maybe a storage limit or a $1 a repo type pricing. I didn't care for their practice of deleting forum posts every time someone would ask about similar questions. I still recommend them for my clients though.
I could never work at a place where pairing is mandatory for almost all development. I find it incredibly draining. I can do it for maybe an hour at a time, but any more than that is too much for me to deal with.

I think being forced to constantly justify and explain your choices is a great way to catch flaws in logic, but it comes at a high cost. Translating my (often vague, half-formed) thoughts into English is an intensive activity - it uses up brainpower that I would rather use to further refine my ideas and code.
Better than Droplr and the rest with the annotation features, but just needs some minor UX work - cropping is confusing for instance. And just needs to be a tad faster :)

Other than that, all of my designer friends will love it!
Good point. I didnt say they were free from misinformation. Just that I know I can trust eyewitness reports from international correspondents more than I can trust a random twitter account.

To tackle the problem you describe its important to encourage critical thinking and to not rely on one newssource. And we need investigative journalists. And whistleblower. And social media. And luck.

Its very hard to counter governmental lies on such a big scale.
The 360 has sold way better in the US, while the PS3 has sold better in Europe and Japan. Their individual advantages and weaknesses evens out pretty much. Overall, the trend seems to be that the European market is becoming as important as the US market, while Japan is increasingly insignificant (every new generation sells less in Japan)
My own experience is the same. Our facebook page has over 2000 likes, our twitter feed has about 360 followers, but we only have 19 people following us on google+ (even though we've been on there for a year, post all the same things on google+ and promote our g+ page as much if not more than the others).

On a personal note none of my friends uses google+ (only my wife). They pretty much all use facebook.
this really sucks, does anyone know of any decent email & collaboration services that are free?
Seems to me that godaddy often has lower prices on domains - sure their tools and customer service are poor - but once you point the nameservers at route53 you never have to login to godaddy again! 1 thing I have always liked about godaddy is their donations option at checkout. You can round up to the nearest dollar and donate the extra few cents to the charity of your choosing. More sites should have this as an option.
even so - the current model is not working for anyone but apple. how many more touchpad/surface/playbook attempts do people need to go through (losing billions in the process) before people try something else?

MS is well-known for developer tools. With enough installed base for MS/win tablets, the ecosystem around developer tools might help make up the difference in some measure.

Something's gotta give, and continuing to charge at the iPad market with "hey, we'll charge $499+ for something with 0 ecosystem around it (surface RT)" is bordering on fiscal negligence.
Thanks for writing this. Your post conveys my own take on this particular tech trend/fascination.

I love to collaborate - at the whiteboard or during design review. When it's time to code, however, I'd much prefer to be left to my own keyboard.
That bit's not new, though - the toggle is already in place, and I have used it.
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wow, sounds like "a day in the life of a designer/developer". Give dozens of really useful, creative ideas - only to see them shot down, or worse watered down
Google+ is ruining Google's products like a virus. All mega-successful google products such as gmail, search and android didn't need much selling to the consumer. With g+, they are literally shoving it in their users' faces no matter if they dislike it. Why are the Google employees actually building solid products putting up with this?

At least a half dozen times I have clicked on a public google+ post only to be coerced into attaching my google account with a google+ account. Screw being able to read said PUBLIC posts. My solution has been to logout and read it. But I'm sure plenty of people fill up that form mostly out of disdain and google gets to count them as a new user.

Really, getting new users by uber trickery is bad not just for the user but as much for Google Inc because it isn't a signal for a quality product(in this case, the exact opposite).
>"People will certainly make a modified version of Ubuntu without this surveillance."

I've been using Cinnamon, Mint Linux's alternative to Unity, and I find it's Dash-like launcher works better anyway. Using Cinnamon also, strangely, fixed an audio issue I'd been too lazy to troubleshoot.

http://www.itworld.com/software/307138/install-cinnamon-desk...
You sound like you have a good head on your shoulders so I have no doubt you'll do fine. The one thing I should mention that I didn't cover already is : be able to handle failure and rejection. It's a little divergent from your original question but the less you get discouraged by the big set backs the more likely you're to succeed. There's a lot of commentary on this subject but the tl;dr is : don't give up even if you don't succeed at first.

In the end it all boils down to an odds game, you can do everything to increase your odds to a very favorable level but you still have to keep putting yourself out there when things don't work out as hoped (I haven't heard of anyone successful who didn't fail drastically at some point.)
Life: While I still play sometimes, I have almost left computer games behind.

Programming: Learn python
We do intend to version the swagger docs, so that a specific description will point to a matching version of the service. A new version of the doc will have to be created whenever the service is updated. Our goal is to get a large developer community involved, at which point the API owners will find it worthwhile to do this themselves.
I'd love to see a "grouped" pull request option. Something that would let me say show me changes from repo1 + repo2 because they depend on each other. Think refactoring code into a smaller repo, etc. I deal with this quite a bit with clients as they grow from small apps into much more complex apps with lots of inner dependencies and tests.
this seems like a bigger version of the HN community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/10438867976349035726...
Why do you assume that a company that uses google apps will ditch Word and Excel. I see this logic all the time and it makes no sense. I haven't seen any company that uses google apps delete Office from thier computers. The point of Google Apps is ditching Exchange.
Sincere question, is it common for young startups to gobble up that many domains?
An intern, got it. :)

In all seriousness, it's only a problem for me with bigger systems. When I've got smaller tasks, even boring ones, I can blast through them easily, but when I have to do both sides of it I require more self-discipline to get through the last pieces.
But probably rather more by population. Also, I'd guess that at least some of the other countries get reasonably cheap shipping from those sites.
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I dont think anyone is suggesting it should be paid through the 'whims of the 1%'
Wow, trial admin is a good idea. If the actual admin panel is as fast as that demo is, I'm impressed.
Snaggy needs to use a Java applet to read your clipboard.

Haha, nope.
The problem is entire generations of people voting against themselves are going to have to die off before that happens in this country.

Meanwhile at least hundreds of thousands of kids in SF bay area have a chance not to get the flu this year and spread it everywhere thanks to one man's generosity and thoughtfulness.
> Kind of bothers me but I cannot tell you why.

It shouldn't bother you more than utf8 and tcp/ip. If everybody in the world spoke the same language, the world would be a better place.

The discomfort probably stems from the fact that some languages will die out. That's sad but there is always room for bilingualism.
One can provide free flu shots, or one can pay for flu shots. Obviously, Larry did one or the other. Otherwise, it would be quite a publicity stunt to claim to be paying for something that was free. :)
Spotify solves discovery by discovering music ain’t so social after all
I thought we were boycotting them? I can't remember why or for how long but someone told me not to use them so I haven't since. Might have been Reddit though too.
"...last August Google spent $12,500,000 on 17,000 patents."

That's $735.29 per patent - which I think speaks to the low average quality of the stuff they're buying.
It's somewhat awkward/clumsy and makes controlling standard games more difficult. Sure, in "Super Swipe Dart Throwing!" you'll have better control because of the touch screen, but no one would ever choose it over a PS3/360 controller for something like Call of Duty.
1600 members! since the last comment I made, come join and make this the fastest growing group in google+
The rogue individuals are actually somewhat humorous. They often approach their presumed customer, only to find that customer nation turning them in as a snitch, or get caught in a sting. The classic is Ariel Weinmann, who was arrested at the border after being rejected by customers in Vienna and Mexico City. Just yesterday, Robert Patrick Hoffman was arrested in an FBI sting trying to sell stuff the Russia. Stewart David Nozette was convicted in March. Recent San Diego history: Hassan Abu-Jihaad.

Conversely, serious spies have serious jobs: Yu Qin, Shanshan Du, Chi Mak, Katrina Leung. Here's a nice summary of the Chinese theater http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=283&catid=8
I think one of the problems people have with evaluating the efficiency of government is that most of the projects government engages in are necessarily very complex. The point of government research is to work on projects that are too blue-sky to be immediately interesting to industry, but the flip side of this is that such projects are inherentl difficult to manage. DOD projects are notorious for this. Every big DOD RFP asks for something literally nobody has ever built before. When I worked at a company that contracted for DARPA, the government literally didn't know what it wanted us to build because our work would inform their opinion of what was possible to build. You can't hold these sorts of projects to the same standard as implementing an invoicing system for a company that's basically the same as every other invoicing system ever made.
Checked it. Doesn't seem to support Dynamic DNS. I needed one to maintain my home servers. But looks very good and honest site.
thank you, I had not seen this video and I loved it :)
http://pasteboard.co/ seems to have a better UI than this but it lacks the editor. Good Job!
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Thanks for writing this. Other than age, we have a lot in common :). I guess as most people are saying, ass kicking is important and someone has to be on your case. It is all about getting out of comfort zone. The way I am trying to do it is do 1 thing out of my comfort zone every day. Whatever that thing could be. This way, you can build discipline. For example, I have started waking up 45 mins earlier than usual in morning which gives me time for a basic workout.
One thing GoDaddy does have is rock solid documentation. We recently had a client I had to walk through to make a DNS change. I pretty much read him the steps verbatim from GoDaddy's documentation as we are on the phone and it was spot on.
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It's just Chuck Testa!

(sorry, couldn't resist…)
There is a significant difference in that Go Daddy has specifically engaged in bad business practices, whereas namecheap appear to care about not doing that, so it's not so much about size as behaviour.
Except "some other blogger" in this case is Brad Feld, cofounder of TechStars and MD at the Foundry Group. This has implications beyond the obvious 'distractions are distracting' articles for startups and the surrounding community.

A big value-add of HN is aggregation of trends in investing. PG obviously interacts directly, but linking to opinion pieces from Fred Wilson or Brad Feld clearly has a place too.
If this an experiment? Is it the 1% being magnanimous? Is this that he doesn't want his employees to get the flu?

Nevertheless a nice gesture - though there may be more effective ways to spend the $$$ on the public good.
Seems like a realistic view, you are just looking at it in a pessimistic way.
I'm sorry but I have to interact with non-technical managers on a regular basis. I consider it part of my job responsibilities to ensure that we are communicating using the same terminology. When I tell a client his conversions are up 35% because of some change we made before A/B testing, I need to know that he understands what that means.

I didn't mean toxic as a personal slight, sorry if you took it that way.

If the other person 'calls it the wrong thing', then how do you know they understand what you're talking about? I think it's worthwhile in that situation, if not necessary, to take a few minutes and define, specifically, what the terms you're using mean.

I simply disagree that communication is not as important as I claim. The value you bring as a statistician is not running a z-test. Any high-school kid with a computer can go to Wikipedia and be running a z-test on some data 10 minutes later. The value comes from being able to understand the results and communicate them effectively to your clients.
I am somewhat past the middle of a career as an analyst/programmer of various flavors. As I look back on the previous quarter-century, I find that the software I am most proud of is that in which the development effort was punctuated by frequent spells of pushing the chair back from the desk, getting up, and going for a walk about the facility. No destination in particular, just putting one foot in front of the other, probably with a glazed look on my face. Thinking about the project, the current hurdle, and various means of jumping it. Eventually I would surface from these cognitive dives, floors away from my workspace, with a decision on the optimal way to solve the problem. One of these projects is still running a global datacenter, largely unchanged, 20 years post-implementation.

Time to think is the most precious resource an analyst has.
> This is not newsworthy.

Of course it is. Don't be ridiculous.
I'm pretty sure it's no coincidence that "The Satanic Verses Affair" comes top of the list of video suggestions on that page ;)
Do you understand the technical reasons making it hard to get a reliable 'return address' for someone who cracked a system?
The mom or dad can do stuff like restrict who the kid is allowed to chat or share documents with.
Between exploits and spam, there is also the possibility of phishing. I have heard of fake Yahoo Mail apps making the rounds but couldn't find them - maybe that was outside of the Play Market (it was in Asia, where Yahoo is big).