skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for Barracuda, I left, because I felt the company was slimy. On the other hand, from a customer service point of view, this supposed back door is great, it makes the product much easier to support, for a customer base who is honestly, most of the time not that technically astute. If they were more astute, they would have bought a different product.
To be fair, recent congresses have actually pushed through so little significant legislation that there's much less to veto.

Seeing these stats broken out as a percentage of legislation that crosses his desk would be much more interesting.
what's that crazy data-block-json? SEO stuff?
On a lease, you also can't give the car back and receive the money you've paid for it. Nor can you swap the car for a different one. Even if you left the car at the dealer, you'd still pay your monthly lease fee. It's a contract.
Aboytsov wants to rebuild the target and everything that depends on the target, not rebuild the target and everything that the target depends on. He wants to walk the dependency tree in the opposite direction.
I am a developer working at a printing company. I have made myself valuable by not only what I was hired to do, but also by being able to pick up the slack of the short-handed IT department and cross-training with various other departments. Basically I found my place as a Jack of all trades and a master of a few. Hope this helps in some way.
On a related note, this plugin has been invaluable to me in the past: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lazarus-form-recov...
>It's much more likely to have something to do with the console we know they're working on.

Which, by all accounts, will be more-or-less a Linux PC.

And Linux-on-the-desktop seems healthier now than a couple years ago. The reason it's harder to recommend one single Linux distro, is that even casual users have more than one good choice. I don't see "Unity/Gnome 3/Mint/etc." as a "mess". If you want a single, monolithic platform, we already have that. It's called "Microsoft Windows".
Last year they were record breaking.

`Apple reported record-breaking net profits for the three months to 31 December 2011 of $13.06bn (£8.36bn), up 118% from the same period in 2010.`
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16712089
VMWare Injects 30M into Puppet Labs in a Strategic Partnership
Not actually in a Dragon capsule to my knowledge, though I admit I don't know how different that would be.
Yes, I mixed the words up because I was trying to post quickly. But my point is more that LoC is in a position to provide or to no longer extend previously provided exemptions to 17 USC 1201 for 3 year durations. That is, they do not really issue prohibitions. Something that they don't provide an exemption for could possibly turn out to actually be legal through court doctrine and caselaw.
I was evaluating both languages recently, and the biggest distinction is that Erlang does context switching per "reduction" or function call while Go does context switches only when a go-routine explicitly yields or a message is sent/received.

This means that Erlang can get finer time shared concurrency at the expense of speed.

Anything other differences such as syntax is relatively trivial.
They should have called this project "ergo".
I don't understand what has happened to people.

There is only 2 people who can call out said code.

They are:
1) Their Employer. Then you can ask them to refactor the code.
2) Them.

Additionally, your mother was right. If you don't have anything nice to say you shouldn't say anything at all.

Just because you were born on this planet and survived past birth; does not give you the right or the excuse to harm another person or cause harm to said person's "Value of Life".
I wasn't clear. I didn't mean the carrier literally owns your phone. I prefixed with "I believe" intending to convey how it seems to work, not the technical fact. I should have written, "It's as though the carrier owns your phone".
I see it.

I live in Bolivia and have a semi-decent internet connection. If such a website existed where I could pay 5 to 10$ per month and I could stream unlimited videos in decent quality (think 360 to 480p from YouTube) I would pay it hands down.

It's a matter of conveneance and good service, both of which piracy doesn't offer.

Why do I pirate media? It's just too expensive for me and the general people in 3rd world countries.
You're still breeding resistance, just slightly slower.

In the best case, the full treatment kills all of them, or enough that your immune system can eliminate them completely. Resistance doesn't develop because it doesn't get a chance. They're all dead.

Worst case, you kill enough to weed out those with no or weak resistance, and then spread the infection to others where it can continue to evolve.

So it comes down to (a) how much are you concentrating/selecting for these resistances, and (b) how likely are you to pass it on such that it propagates.

I think it's reasonable to assume that a lower bodily population makes it less likely to pass on, which would be one good reason. Another might be that, by heavily reducing the population, you may reduce the genetic diversity enough that they're susceptible to other factors (ie: when not facing antibiotics, they get starved out by the non-resistant strains because the resisting mutations come with costs attached). By leaving a larger population alive, there's more scope for hybridisation leading to overall stronger species.

I must admit I have little formal knowledge in this area, so it's possible these effects don't exist, or have only limited impact. If I had time it would be interesting to look into it further, it seems like this topic is too obvious not to have been considered before.
All the pre-Xen levels are very well finished. If you just want the single player gameplay up to the point of the Lambda Complex, install Black Mesa now :-).

You can get a preview of the gorgeous Xen graphics in one of the rooms of the Questionable Ethics chapter.
I met Aleksey at Yale a few months after the video had gone viral and found him to be a nice enough guy who was intelligent and interesting to talk to, though it was clear that he had serious emotional issues as even then after all the ridicule he felt compelled to boast of unlikely achievements almost as a reflex. He was not the arsehole the internet had prepared me for but a decent and troubled person and I felt desperately sorry for him.

The communities and networks we have built online have proven to be fantastically capable to creating and organising for good, whether it be raising funds for disaster relief or catapulting some deserving person to stardom, but we've all too often decided to ignore our power to tear down and destroy with frightening speed. Aleksey Vayner's video may have been silly and weird but it did not merit the public humiliation he received.

It would be too much to expect that large scale ridicule of an individual like this will never happen again, human nature is what it is and cruelty and anonymity go hand in hand. But as individuals we can at least prevent ourselves from being a part of it by pausing before we forward, retweet or share the next picture, video or meme and considering whether the person being laughed at deserves to be destroyed for our amusement.
I'll have a go but refer to original for definitive version.

Emma Mulqueeny (http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/about/) works on encouraging children to code in particular girls.

Women's Hour was planning a section about activities to encourage girls to code and invited Emma to contribute. She was later uninvited.

She then discovered:

1) That both participants would be men, both involved in programming for kids but only one with particular emphasis in supporting women/girls.

2) The reason she was dropped was that they wanted men.

3) This is Women's Hour and she was dropped for being a woman.

Being turned down for being the wrong gender is not good in any scenario, being turned down by the Equal Opportunities committed BBC especially on Women's Hour for being a women has the potential to be quite gutting.

Edit: My speculation:

From the perspective of the Producers every story needs an 'angle' and they seem to have gone for one about how some men are working to help women into tech. This may have been decided after the initial invite to Emma Mulqueeny and led to the invite being withdrawn. I don't know the process for finding guests but it probably involves junior researchers ringing round lots of potentially relevant people. At the very least the invite should have been more tentative and the dropping better handled.

My feeling is that not having a woman both as an example of a woman in tech and to vouch that there are men helping girls and women into tech would have strengthened the section but I'm not a radio producer or in the main target demographic for Women's Hour so offer the view very tentatively. In my first post I just provided background for those less familiar with Radio 4 but no comment on the story itself but you have drawn me into expressing a view.

Edit2:

Women on TV and Radio was the topic of BBC Radio 4's Media Show this week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dv9hq
Though your comment is clearly sarcastic, you might be able to get an old CD copy of HL1 from eBay, which only has CD key protection and works in Wine.
I think you are right. But this is not necessarily a bad thing.

Majority of Linux kernel is pretty good because of servers, super-computers and Android.

The only reason Linux needs Desktop users is for better graphics drivers and games. Now that Valve is making their game-console, the graphics drivers should improve tremendously, and there should be a lot of new games.

So there is no real need for wide acceptance of Linux desktop.

Of course, this is a rather selfish point of view. I believe that the world would be a better place if everyone used Free Software (and Linux). It would encourage collaboration of many groups of people, and would be really beneficial for all software.
I'm excited! I've been looking forward to this for a while from your comments. This first post is written at a great level and answers a very practical question that few people realize even has answers to.

I'll be waiting eagerly to read the rest.

Cheers!
Federal Prosecutors Indict Anonymous Spokesman Again, Possible 100-Year Sentence
So, I've worked in the cell phone industry on and off for about twelve years.

In the begining, it started like this.

You had to buy a phone then you had to pay for your service.

Well, most consumers (in contrast to business users) who bought phones bought them as status symbols. That is to say, they'd buy a car phone and have it installed, then they'd just never pay the bill. The phone was still in their car, it still made them look rich, they just never bothered to use it.

The same thing happened when mobile handsets came out. Those big brick phones. People would actually buy them, let the service lapse, then walk around pretending to talk on them because it made them look affluent.

Since the carriers didn't have any way to make the service more appealing, they decided to make it look more affordable.

They came up with this plan where they would just GIVE you the phone but make you pay for it in profits over time. They would advertise it as a free phone. Who wouldn't want a free phone? It was a device that could cost up to a thousand dollars and you were getting it for free!

So they advertised it as a free phone with no mention of the actual cost of the service and no notification about the contract requirement. Often carriers would offer the free phones and never even tell the consumer they were being signed up for a contract, and US citizens usually don't bother to read the contracts they are signing.

Many years later the court battles started. Class action lawsuits meant that carriers eventually had to tell people they were signing a contractual agreement to pay for service over a predetermined term. So the carriers started advertising the phones as FREE with a tiny asterisk next to the word FREE in gigantic title font, then at the bottom of the ad or on a different page in the same publication in tiny, tiny print with letters that were taller than they were wide so that people would naturally gloss over them they put the contract terms.

The same practice continues today. It's an ongoing battle between consumers saying "listen if this isn't free don't fucking call it free" and "listen if it's not umlimited bandwidth don't fucking call it unlimited bandwidth."

But the fact of the matter is that it's perfectly legal to LIE in an ad as long as there's some print somewhere that is marginally accessible to the reader that completely disclaims what the ad says, even if the fine print says the exact opposite of what the ad print says.

The ad print could say BUY TODAY AND YOU CAN FUCK MY WIFE as long as it said in tiny print on a dusty card in a filing cabinet in the basement behind a door with a sign reading Beware of the Leopard, I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE A WIFE.
>the Unity/Gnome 3/Mint/etc mess

What mess? Unity is getting to be quite tolerable. Gnome is forging ahead with their vision and Mint provides a nice alternative to Ubuntu with several different UIs. I don't understand the argument that this is "bad". People have been saying that since the dawn of Linux and it's boring and an non-point.

If you accept that "PC" has peaked, Valve/Steam is screwed anyway. If consumers keep flocking to iOS/Windows8, let alone to Android... then Steam will die a painful death and modern computing will be reduced to mindless one-at-a-time "apps".

Ironically, the "mess" of Linux desktop is the only platform that isn't going for a signed, verified, OEM only software model eroding consumers' rights and freedoms along the way.
I'm just waiting for a ruling or law that says digital purchases confer the same rights (of resale, of perpetual use without asking permission) as sales of physical media. Period. This is crucial for ebooks in particular.

Until then, we won't be able to declare this madness over and look back.
Twitter video - shooting video less than 6 seconds long
Git repository of New Zealand legislation
Not sure that's a great example either- a new SIM gives you a new (local) phone number.

If I'm only overseas for a week (or other short period), and especially if it's for business, it's a whole lot more convenient for me to pay exorbitant roaming fees and still get phone service to my normal number.

Yes, it's cheaper to buy a new sim, and locals can call you a little easier, but in some cases it's not worth it.

The problem that the OP states is that nowadays there doesn't seem to be a lot of real-world practical examples where one would want or need to unlock their phone....
Thanks for your great work for linux and open source software,Alan Cox.
Clearly the only objective way is market value, best judged by whatever they can sell access for. I think $5 for unlimited access was mentioned.
What point are you trying to make exactly?
First of all, I don't think it matters whether a man or a woman wrote the code. I for one didn't know when I read the link, until I saw this discussion.

There are several aspects to this. The obvious one is that anything you put out there is going to get criticisms. Look at Barack Obama being called a socialist muslim atheist, who attended Rev. Wright's church for 20 years. The point is, if you step up, not everyone will like you.

Now, being denounced by people who are well-respected and with a big following can hurt. Then again, I doubt it's very permanent. If this is the ONLY thing you've ever done, then you should just do more things.

If you are that sensitive about something, don't release it under your own name. Invent a handle just for this project. Kind of like a limited liability company. The art of the pseudonym goes back hundreds of years.

Also keep in mind the culture. Unfortunately in my opinion, the coder culture is full of elitist snark against noobs who are too visible. Maybe because it's so male. I have seen far worse reactions to people's code on IRC, especially some assholes in EFNet chatrooms. Freenode seems a bit nicer and well-behaved. But saying ridiculously quirky offensive things in response to code is something coders do to each other all the time. It's just the way many of them speak. I personally don't, and I find it extremely annoying, and I wish it would go away, but it's the reality.

Now as far as open source ... I remember releasing what I considered to be a very impressive (at the time) framework, http://phponpie.com , and although I got pretty positive responses http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1682933, and constructive criticism, it didn't really take off. I tried a bit of self-promotion and it didn't pay off either. So to me, releasing open source is kind of a lot like releasing any product ... if people don't really want it, then you're putting in a lot of effort for almost no return. Think about product-market fit in open source, just like anywhere else.
Fair points :-)
It would tickle me if they released HL3 on Linux first. That might drive quite a bit of Linux adoption.
The WRT54Gs needs to be in a museum somewhere. It sparked a side-movement of openness and hacking. Such a great device.
Last year had an extra week. So per-week profit is higher (which is what should matter).
Manifesto for an Active Archive
It certainly would influence my hiring decision. Not a show stopper, but certainly a minor negative. Probably the damage done by lost opportunities for experience would be worse than having a record, though. That even functions as an excuse of sorts--I suspect I'd actually like someone who was in prison for five years and got a degree over someone who lived off a trust fund for five years and did nothing.

All depends on the person, though, and what exactly I'm hiring for. And someone coming out of prison after 20 years? The fact that they committed a crime is long past, but it's hard to overstate how damaging decades in prison is. People have a really hard time adjusting, and any hire of someone like that I did would be out of charity, not out of expecting to get any value out of the person. If they manage to do well, I'd take that as an unexpected plus.
About the automatic resources vaccuming, I preferred the homeworld 1 way, where you could rebuild your fleet at the end of the mission (cataclysm added a much needed time warp).
Still my favorite RTS.
I read this as a hint/signal that Half-Life 3 may be available on Linux as well.
GTK+3 Bindings for Ruby Released
The FSF's stance on this has been very clear, to me at least, since I first read the gnu.org essays when I was maybe 15 years old.

This is the most relevant section I can quote:

> Using the ordinary GPL is not advantageous for every library. There are reasons that can make it better to use the Lesser GPL in certain cases. The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is better to use the Lesser GPL for that library.

From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

Stallman's recommendation of a liberal license for the vorbis libraries seems similar: there are already proprietary standards and proprietary libraries for lossy audio compression, so using a copyleft license won't convince anyone to switch their license.

This particular instance with LibreDWG is the polar opposite of that: no other library exists that does what LibreDWG does, so it makes sense to keep LibreDWG on the GPLv3, to entice projects like LibreCAD to use the GPLv3.

The sort of entitlement that this request displays is somewhat astonishing -- do the LibreCAD developers really expect the FSF to back down not only on its principles, but also its strategies?
To be honest, I'd probably continue to shop at Amazon even if their prices went up 5-10% across the board. Even though I want to support small retailers, shopping at Amazon means I get to easily see product reviews, I don't have to create a new account, I don't have to worry about my shopping cart disappearing due to shoddy programming, I can save items on my wishlist easily, and with Amazon Prime, I get free 2 day shipping on everything. Except for specialty items like certain foods, I buy almost everything via Amazon. I buy all of my hardware from Newegg for the same reasons.

I get that a lot of consumers will still shop around for prices, but I certainly wouldn't ignore the millions(?) of us who will gladly ignore small price differences if it means I get a predictable, easy shopping experience.

Once Amazon reaches their peak, it's hard to say where it will go. But considering that they're aleady nailing the hosting industry, producing a very popular ebook reader and tablet, taking a slice of NetFlix's pie, and eating up all of retail, I'm sure they'll throw inordinate amounts of cash at whatever their next best ideas are.
Beware of Scammers on Flippa
AAPL's P/E ratio is ~10x. For comparision, GOOG's is ~23x. AMZN's P/E is ~3,257x.

At $13.1B AAPL made 4.5x what GOOG ($2.89B) did last quarter, And, in that one quarter, earned profits that are ~7x what AMZN has made during its entire existence.

So, yes. It's not entirely clear how "Wall Street" is assessing these tech companies against respective share prices.
Just imagine the effect an exclusive linux release of HL (ep?) 3 would have. If Valve really wanted to piss on Microsoft's foot, that's what they should do.
Chicago's Connamara Systems does this with their HFT framework.

http://www.connamara.com/solutions-hftframework.html
Have you ever read about the economics of monopoly prices? E.g. in Human Action by Ludwig von Mises? It's not actually that simple and doesn't always work well.
Our work is still primarily client based at Lincoln Loop and we share many of the same principles that GitHub does. Keeping track of billable hours is how we get paid, but our people get to choose when, where, and how many hours they will bill. We've written a little about it here: http://lincolnloop.com/blog/categories/business/
Yes, with the cooperation from CA the MITM is still possible. We however will provide server code to especially paranoid clients so they can build and run the software on their own machines... This way they can have garanties against certificate tampering.
And we're working on an alternative solution when even cooperating CA will not allow MITM...
There appears to be a culture of bullying among a certain segment of the Ivy League. See, for example, this piece on Evan O'Dorney: http://verynoice.com/2011/09/the-fresh-five-part-two/
First clip of Ashton Kutcher playing jobs "JOBS" the movie.
What is so bad in my comment that everyone have down rated it?
Verbling (YC S11) is hiring Javascript engineers