skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see no reason clean up and stocking (for the most part) couldn't be automated as well!
This would allow mega to implement a copyright protection scheme since their servers get to handle the data in clear text and could perform matching. If the encryption happens client-side they can't.
Thanks, I forgot asymmetric keys were easily computed. I'm just thinking random number space brute force against something like SHA2 SSL.
Life will get better my friend. There are some good people out there.
Ah, man. I've been planning on doing the same thing as these guys for years, but I haven't yet had the time or the financial freedom (still relatively young) or the luck of environment. But this is just plain awesome to see someone way ahead of me with a working prototype. I knew there were plenty of people with the same idea... I just didn't expect to see it become a reality so soon!
158,962,555,217,826,360,000 - Numberphile
Well that was an hour productively wasted.
Since I'm on HN, I was expecting and hoping this to be about public-key cryptography.
Seattle's Best started out as their own company that was then acquired by Starbucks in the 00's sometime. At around the time they were acquired, they became the cafe brand for Borders bookstore, and we all know how that worked out in the end :) B&N has always franchised Starbucks directly in their stores (or at least, for as long as I can remember).
Choosing a name is hard if you consider coolness, pronounceableness, googleableness, politically-correctness and so on. Also at the time I was choosing a name for a hobby project, not an Enterprise Framework. Feel free to make a veggie fork :)
The first paragraph mentions that it was to dissuade Palm from hiring employees from Apple. This is obviously a transaction against the interests of employees, yet outside their control and possibly even their view (you might get rejected for a job at Palm without ever knowing why).
You won me over. I'm definitely going to use angular.
Essentially both companies agree not to hire anyone from the other company. This is considered illegal in the States.
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Google Q4 revenues are out: up 36% from last year
FizzBuzz with C++ template metaprogramming [2007]
I have a hard time finding anything heroic in this.

He was a great artist, sure.

He was a great businessman, sure.

He also had crappy morals and did not mind stepping on people to achieve his goals. That including claiming "ownership" to ideas and concept created eons ago, and being abusive on the market. Sure, peoples lives are messy, but it doesn't justify bad behavior. And, bad behavior, bad morals, should not be lifted up as attributes of an hero.
Ubuntu considers end of traditional release cycle
It's unfortunate that these execs won't get prison time for this, and that Jobs wont be tried and sentenced posthumously.

Yet downloading unprotected email addresses is worth up to 10 years, and downloading academic journals is worth up to 35.

Really, which of these things is more damaging?
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Trellis comes to mind. There's also Twisted if you're interested in event-driven programming.
> Really helps frame the panic Google must have been in to get something on the market and fast.

The way I see Google from the outside they don't seem to be panicky when entering new markets. Half of the internet already belonged to them before Android, it's not like do or die in their case. Maybe Android's technically poor choice of backend architecture may have been due to inexperience in low power device software? Microsoft has much more experience there too, and they seem to have proven my point by releasing a very responsive WP7 about a year after (it should have been). Actually, seeing Microsoft's (and Palm's) situation, Google's 'worse is better' approach may have been just what they needed, so their management certainly deserves some slack there.
Irony meter explosion aside, I still pretty regularly run into entirely legitimate broken links to Megaupload from people just using it as an host for their own stuff.
Yes and no. Your post makes it seem like this is the first time anyone has heard of Steve Jobs threatening to sue.

Apple sued Microsoft over Windows, then got Microsoft to invest and commit Office to Macintosh for 5 years + $150 million to settle litigation between the two companies.

Jobs threatened to sue former CEO of Sun over a prototype desktop environment[1]

[1] http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...

This is unfortunately a side effect of living in a world where software and software ideas can be patented. It is a shame that Steve Jobs resorted to this kind of bullying to get what he wanted though. Seems very childish but pretty in-step with how he was portrayed in his biography.
mimetypes author & maintainer here. If I would ever have a tiny bit more time, I'd rewrite mimetypes in elixir in an instant. The solution we ended up doing in mimetypes, was the greatest fit for Elixir, not so much for Erlang (although, certainly possible — and it is being used by lots of Erlang developers).
A recommendation that I would add, make it so that your starred folder DOES push to your phone. That way you have access to that email even if you don't have an internet connection.
Thank you dhimes!

On the bright side there is one thing my lack of respect for academia results in (I hope I'm not offending anybody and I'm mostly directing this at my university): I'm not at all stressed for the defense.

Thanks for the kind words.
Good luck to us (and to everybody else defending on Friday or any other given day)!
Who's trying to justify their dickishness with the example of Steve Jobs?
For CDN scenarios it would be nice if I could include a secure checksum (SHA256) for the script in the script tag and then browser would verify it before executing the script.
It's a conspiracy to suppress the labor market. If you are an employee at a tech company and are being underpaid, you can't go to another employer for your market salary, because there is a secret agreement for them to ignore your job application.

Even if you are not underpaid, but you simply want a change (maybe you always wanted to work at Google, and an opportunity arises) your resume gets black-holed because Apple "owns" you.

The end result is your engineers have restricted mobility, and you don't have to pay them what they're worth. It's very similar to price fixing, but with humans and their ability to earn a living.

Many tech companies were part of this conspiracy willingly, and Jobs threatened to sue the less willing companies using Apple's patent portfolio war-chest if they didn't agree to his demands.

Edit: Let it be known that Ed Colligan is a class act. See his response to Jobs here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/121737673/Colligan-Affidavit
Keep up the great work longzheng! You guys rock.
That kind of defeats the purpose of having software controls. You can as well unplug the whole thing or remove the battery violently on a laptop and claim "it's still as straightforward as before!".
See here for more. All of Silicon Valley was in on this. http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/23/3906310/the-no-hire-paper-...
Several of the hallucinations described can be reached by meditating.

And there are hallucination types due to drugs that aren't in there. I've seen crazy stuff, like people's neck stretching for tens of meters and their head coming right in front me although they were on the other side of the street. I did stop taking drugs, nearly 20 years ago, after that one did happen to me.

I still do meditate that said.
Do you really value your time at $0/hr? Sure you get experience, but you're getting experience at the other job too.
tstamp <- this ! "data-timestamp" >>> arr parseTime -< el

This, on the other hand, is one of the thing I don't like about Haskell: there are 4 operators on this line, and no easy way to see, at a glance, their precedence. Also, some operators are "mentally interpreted" as flowing data left to right or right to left; changing the direction mid-statement, I find confusing. I have the same problem when unix shell commands are expressed like this:

program < input > output
Perhaps this is the excuse to generate more critical updates, increasing the number of accidental Ask toolbar installs.

Oracle doesn't believe in "free".
Pure tyranny.
The article is not accessible from what their system deems a mobile device (a Nexus 7 in my case), all I get is a redirect to a "dedicated mobile app coming soon" page..
I own a DS 212j with 2 x 2TB in RAID 1. One of my best home-tech purchases ever.
"[Eric] Schmidt responded that he preferred it be shared 'verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?'"

"Mr. Jobs also suggested that if Palm did not agree to such an arrangement, Palm could face lawsuits alleging infringement of Apple's many patents,"

So much for being a country of laws. Was any of these execs ever prosecuted or suffered a penny in fines for this? Sure conspiracy to do something illegal is illegal
How is it back when he still uses a vpn to access it?
Fortunately, even the output of /dev/random is usually valid javascript, so that part isn't much of a concern ;)
I think these practices show a total lack of respect from these companies (in this case Apple) to their own employees, it's shameful.
I was considering using them. Somehow i trust them more because they havn't got a 3MB front page covered in JS animations
> I've never seen a McDonald's close down. I'm sure they do sometimes, but

FWIW, I've seen two close down. This is in Brisbane, Australia (for those who are interested, one on Roma St, and another a bit further out, near the Albion Five-ways IIRC). They'd both been around for a while.

Not saying this changes anything about your point, just making an observation.
Ideally, you should be able to serve more people for $50/hr with the new system (robots and engineer) VS. $50/hr with the current staffing.
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> However if it gets to the point where Linux just becomes another output format for a cross platform game engine (like unity3d) then perhaps you can expect future game titles to become available on Linux simply because the friction to launch on the platform is so low.

That's probably why Valve wants to push Linux through a specific Steam Box hardware: that will drive a larger user base running Linux to play games. Not sure if that strategy will work, however, since it will rely heavily on third party publishers to support the platform.
Going a wee bit off-topic here; but since Synology NAS got mentioned here...

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToSetUpCrashPlanCloudBackup...
If we take the position that CDNs are not to be trusted, how many other high profile sites would be rendered vulnerable? I assume quite many are nowadays using CDNs to distribute part of their scripts.

Wouldn't it be quite easy to for example to steal users Dropbox passwords if one could modify some of the scripts they use on the frontpage and which are delivered via Cloudfront?
It's happening to stock traders I've heard. I don't have much sympathy for them. I can't think of any other major educated group that's losing jobs because of technology.
11.10 was horrible in terms of Unity performance. 12.04 fixed things for the better. I recommend you update as well.
Sardinas en escabeche, (Marinated Sardines).
I believe they were first introduced inside of Microsoft (in '05 or '06, I think). And it was a huge relief, too, let me tell you. They replaced these awful Farmer Brothers industrial-style coffee urns.

You'd punch in your order (tall drip, decaf, etc.), and it would grind beans and brew your coffee all in about 20 seconds. They're quite spectacular.
Iranians perfectly know what is homosexuality and some practice it in secret , they are not dumb , they just dont talk about it for obvious reasons.
yes, that was exposed a couple of weeks ago. I cannot remember any searchable terms from the post or I would link.
I believe it. Not sure what was wrong with ftp, sshfs, or even a smb lite?
How is this "hacker news?" Is this livejournal now?
Good for Skytech, and others, for doing the right thing and rewarding his inquisitiveness and helping get his career in motion. Dawson College needs to admit they took the wrong stance on this one... Knowing how locks work doesn't suddenly make you a thief or a terrorist, but it sure demonstrates critical thinking skills. (Dawson College could even be using him as an example of a successful education, for their part.)
I don't see that as much in computer science, though I could be oblivious. Conferences often have a mix of people with and without PhDs, and a lot of good work comes from people in the 2nd category (especially if your sub-area has many participants from industry), so I don't think many people are under the impression that those people are less intelligent.

I do find it jarring that in some fields they put the degree right at the top of papers, which segregates the two groups much more publicly: the author line will be "John Smith, PhD". I've never seen that on a CS paper (people put affiliations at the top, but not credentials), and I think it would be considered a bit gauche and uncollegial.
Any idea what would be the ratio of games available if you considered the Mac platform instead of Linux Steam ? This may give us an indication of how much "conversions" we can expect in a couple of years.
I love how this no-poaching debacle really shines a light on the hypocrisy of some much beloved tech mega-corps.

Google and Apple execs may shower employees with perks, but at the end of the day, top execs still treat most of their labor like a statistic to be optimized and exploited for maximum value rather than human beings. The only difference is some of the tech companies have realized that happy employees are good employees.

Which I guess is progress. But what i'd really like to see more common decency and respect of the rank and file employee by senior management.

Colluding to not hire employees of your friends company is extremely disrespectful because it means lower employee wages over-all, and it's using the dominant position of an employer to limit the options/free-will of your employee to protect their own profits.
I'm sure you'll eventually find out. That's the crazy thing: this kind of non-sense shows how we're basically nowhere when it comes to matching talent with companies.

The headhunter business, especially in IT, is already a huge one. But it's really just in its infancy. In a better world there would be sites doing the matching, not unlike online dating.

I don't worry for you because I know there are several good fits for you and eventually you'll find one.

But still, it really sucks. At the same time it shows there's just so much yet to be done...
I remember a lot of mental illness and suicidal folks. Many were people I had good conversations with. A lot of the time it felt like family.
Glad you guys are back!
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You can't trust any code for which you can't review the source. Even so, you can't trust its interpreter/compiler without verifying its source and the compiler that compiled it. This includes your OS of course. One would probably also want to verify hardware level exploits too.
Ask HN: What Paid Services/Softwares Do You Use For Your Startup at the moment?
For your startup, what services do you use? I'm using Google Cloud storage for static assets hosting, Olark , FreshBook, Twilio , OpenVPN with private tunnel, Skype subscription, Google Voice, Sendgrid, Godaddy, Dreamhost, Prey (Preyproject), WISO Steuer (German Taxes), Hellofax ( planned)...and a couple of others.

What paid services or softwares do you find the most useful and critical in running your startup ?
I like how Job's letter had no sentiments attached to it. He knew where both companies stood and he didn't hesitate to go for the gain.
Ubuntu is focused on trying to be easy to use, and so it does things like make the bootloader difficult to access, package a huge amount of stuff by default, and include relaxed security. In fact, the default configuration for Ubuntu is not even to have a password for root, but just to give unlimited access to the main user via sudo.

At the same time, Canonical (makers of Ubuntu) are not very interested in the server, at least compared to Red Hat and SuSE. So you get big regressions in server-related functionality like the one described in this article.

Things not to use on a server: Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo
Things to use on a server: CentOS, RHEL, SuSE, possibly Debian, any of the BSDs.
I disagree. Poaching is frowned upon in every industry. That said, it is likely the Palm CEO wasn't aware that the 3 employees they hired were poached. He probably thought they came on their own. Which just goes on to show how out of touch with reality he must have been (ironically, since it was Jobs who was known for his Reality Distortion Field). I mean, who in their right mind would leave Apple and join Palm, of all places?
The probability of revival varies based on who you ask. SEM micrographs of cryopreserved mammal brain tissue show intact nanostructure. One can even see synaptic vesicles with neurotransmitters in them. Also, Alcor's cryopreservation protocol has been used to preserve and revive rabbit kidneys successfully (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781097/).

If cryonics works, this is the sort of evidence you'd expect to see today. Demanding a revival doesn't make sense, because cryonics relies on the vast gap between preservation tech and revival tech.
Given that they're grinding meat on the spot, and that ground meat has a significantly higher risk of bacterial contamination than its non-ground equivalent, my guess is that this negates some of the risk. There still has to be a human involved to be sure, but I'd eat a burger from one of these any day of the week over the McDonalds equivalent (assuming I ate beef, of course, which i don't).
Didn't get what he wanted though. Sentiments or not.
It's still in beta and they are probably restricting the number of entries for now. My guess is that when the client if officially stable you will see much more games made available.
> "Schmidt responded that he preferred it be shared 'verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?'" he said, according to the court filing. The HR director agreed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGo5bxWy21g&t=78s
I am trying, I am making progress. Looking back is like looking down and I can't do that. But this pain comes and goes and as it does my mood changes. I am coping, hoping for the better. I am now 400 miles away from family. My whole life changed when I moved down here. I don't know if I can go see family without losing my job as I found all this out during my week of vacation off from work and now cannot take any more without scheduling it. I need to get out of here, I hope my boss understands it. Maybe I can work remotely. I hate KY now, it has been nothing but a curse. Once we moved down here she met men. That is where it went downhill because all of a sudden I was stomped on by this hatred. Hatred that made no sense until I found out that she cheated on me when she left her facebook open. Yes I was curious. Was I wrong? No... Did I know her password? No... Once i found out it hit, all she could care about was my car keys. What kind of person is this? Is Monogamy real? I doubt it. Wish it was. If I talked to a professional, I would be labeled and I don't want to do that. I may need it though the more and more I think about it. Of course I could make half of the money developing software up in Ohio, but that is a choice I am currently considering. I have no friends down here, no close friends since she came into my life. It's just a black hole, no where to go.
Apple sued Microsoft over Windows, then got
Microsoft to invest and commit Office to Macintosh
for 5 years + $150 million to settle litigation
between the two companies.

It was more than that. Apple was seen as the only 'credible' competition to Microsoft in the OS space. If Apple went under, Microsoft was absolutely going to get smacked with an antitrust lawsuit by the government. As it works out, they did anyway, but I think that a $150mm deal on non-voting shares (which were later resold at a profit) was seen as a no-brainer sort of move.
From Wikipedia:
A corollary is a statement that follows readily from a previous statement.

Huh?
"I mean, who in their right mind would leave Apple and join Palm, of all places?"

Keep in mind this exchange took place in 2007, soon after the very first iPhone was launched.
SuSE has made a few questionable decisions, like being the first major distribution to call btrfs stable, and playing games with libc symbols in 10.x.

I was on board the Fedora train until recently, but I had to get off because it was changing from RHEL beta edition to... RHEL pre-alpha edition. I have a soft spot for SuSE, but I've never been a full-time sysadmin, so you have to take my recommendations with a grain of salt.
Mega is claiming their system is secure. It is not secure.

That's not a small bug! That's a totally broken product.

> A community like Hacker News should be praising people trying to get off the beaten path.

They do, when it's done right.
If Europe is a socialist "experiment", what "experiment" is the States?

Where have you ever lived in Europe?
Great scene.

Eric Schmidt also had the recruiter terminated as a "public example".

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/7564645/google4_...
> insulted by this abuse of the content we released

You see the irony, right?
Maybe someone who was offered a better deal?

Apple aren't exactly renowned for giving people a say in development, save a few royal elite. If your an untouchable at Apple, but are offered a good role at Palm, why not take it?

It's the old sentiment of would you rather live in a decrepid shack on a fancy road, or a grand house on a normal one.
I meet people all the time that think that stepping into his shoes is just a matter of being a total douche to everybody.
Is the whole full stack generalist / specialist dichotomy a correct one?

I'm bootstrapping and I can do a lot by myself: setting up Linux from scratch, installing & configuring the DB, the proxies, the webapp server, the firewall, write administration scripts, set up the SSH tunnels, do the coding, do the HTML+CSS... Full stack "generalist" way. (Heck, I can even build the server myself if needed).

But at the same time I'm definitely a "specialist" in some fields. For example I've been holding my SJCP (now Oracle) Java cert since the last century and I've been coding in Java since more than 10 years and I know some Java frameworks inside out.

Sure I'm not a DBA nor a Unix sysadmin specialist but I'm both a generalist in that I can still do it if needed and yet I'm a specialist in certain programming domains.

I mean: aren't all generalists still specialists in some particular domain?

Maybe too that HN is representative in that a lot of the entrepreneurs in IT will tend to be "full stack"?

As a side note, sometimes it sucks to be "full stack" because people ask you to do things you'd rather not do, because you're the one in the company (startup) knowing that area the best. It doesn't make you very good at it, but by knowing it more than the next guys, you get to do it.

As a second side note, when working for bigger structure, I've noticed that the DBA, for example, or the Unix sysadmin, do really like it when they realize they're talking with someone who understands what they're doing. Heck, I've helped Unix sysadmin troubleshoot Java webapp server issues because they weren't that familiar with Java ; )