skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, apparently in 2001 a class action lawsuit accused the Department of the Interior of mismanaging Indian trust accounts. As part of that lawsuit court appointed hackers broke into DOI computers. The judge ordered all DOI computers to be disconnected from the internet. Some parts of the DOI came back online quickly, but others remained disconnected for over 6 years. Employee desktops couldn't even access the internet, so they could only send emails within their intranet.

http://www.nextgov.com/technology-news/2008/05/interior-allo...

http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/2002/02/pressure-builds-...
Thanks ;) It's "ham radio" from now on!

Just found the etymology here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio#Etymolog...
I'm so sick of success being portrayed as an institutional choice rather than a process of individual choices.
I'm not saying that self-promotion is entirely and absolutely bad. Just that the post I replied to seemed to think that Mann was the be-all and end-all of the field, and I'm not sure how much that was based off his own propaganda.
Almost everything in modern society, especially most things related to technology, requires trusting a 3rd party at one point or another.
A Classification of Science Fiction
I wish I could have a mentor like Juergen in the article. Ever since I started writing code, nobody has had enough time or dedication to go over my work line-by-line like that. I learn those lessons by trial and error when my code breaks. And they aren't lessons I could have learned in college. I've got a long way to go, but one day if I'm actually a good programmer I'll try hard to be a mentor like that to the new guys.
Ain't necessarily so (other than the protection thing). While you've described iron gall ink nicely, india ink (lampblack suspended in dilute shellac) would be a paint under your definition, as would many printers' inks (pigments ground into an oil or polymer binder), especially those used for serigraphy. Soaking in isn't necessarily a characteristic of inks either; they are often brittle films (which is why palimpsests exist—old ink was merely scraped off of the parchment/vellum and the ground reused). By the same token, watercolours (which are pretty much universally regarded as paints) do soak into unsized papers.

This is another one of those "where do you draw the line" questions where the line is rather broad and ill-defined. It's a continuum. When it comes right down to it, the intended purpose and traditional usage in the field determine what is an ink, what is a paint and what is a stain.
I got a reset message from Evernote, and I didn't even remember that I had an account. I must have tried it for my typical 30 seconds to conclude "meh" and moved on, then forgot it. I'm still not 100% sure what they do beyond ... note taking?

But I initially assumed it to be ballsy phishing, a brazen attempt to capitalize on Evernote's current trouble. Why? BECAUSE IT HAS A FUCKING LINK TO THE SERVICE IN THE EMAIL! That's the very minimum definition of phishing. Sheesh!

I hovered over it, saw that it was to evernote, but hovers can be faked, and my intuition and experience told me that this smells like phishing no matter what. Sheesh.
Sheer arrogance makes these people think they are immune.

Plenty of people are starving today even probably less than a mile away from anyone eating well.

The system does not serve everyone equally and ultimately we may all suffer one day.
Amazed at how much is done in the open air, unprotected.

Incredible that something so simple in appearance has so much behind it.
Massive thumbs down for product placements and branding. However, fair point.

I remember, before connectivity arrived, that sense of wonder: anything was possible with these machines. Anything.

Hungering for knowledge, exhausting all of the libraries, finally a modem came. The BBS. Knowledge! Software! Vast capabilities for exploration. Exchanging ideas with other people. My people.

And then, finally, the internet. A simple search prompt, Altavista. That pure rush of untapped potential! The realisation of the immense scope and breadth of what was possible! Search for anything, anywhere, anytime! Communicate freely! Never again be trapped by geography!

Experientially, I believe the main thrust of the experience was the fulfilment of the insatiable curiosity that I believe all children are born with but few manage to carry much of through to adulthood. However, secondly there was definitely an anti-authoritarian, egalitarian, individual empowerment (dare I say left wing?) side to it. In the angst of teenage years, perhaps at times not substantially differing from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto (which many of us probably read).

Pragmatically, it was never a problem to resist other actors (parents, school teachers, etc.) who sought to dissuade research by disconnecting phone lines, setting arbitrary limits, imposing temporal wonts. Once it became clear that a starting salary was higher than that of many teachers, drudgery became optional and the first steps upon the path were set. What a strange and amazing journey it has been. I sincerely hope that it continues, and that through my own actions I can help others to discover and explore freely. For at no time have we as a group been more highly politicised, romanticised, or perhaps misunderstood. Many turn their backs on ethics and take the money. But we must not forget that we are the shepherds of network effects, and that our actions sometimes powerfully affect others, the environment, and the future. Instead of allowing ourselves to be motivated by greed and malice, let us work toward taking those feelings of awe, freedom and exploration that we held dear from youth and make them a reality for the many.
You're over thirty? I'm over fifty. And I have seen huge change in my every day life due to advances in communication. I still remember the first time I used email (summer of 82) and the first time I had a "chat" with a friend of mine who had moved to Germany (in 1986). Perhaps things have not changed significantly for you since you became aware of technology, but they certainly have for me and for countless of other people.
Ask HN: How do you create hype today around your startup? 
David Rowan from Wired posed the question to Dave Tisch at London Web Summit. What's your answer?
I actually met with some programmers from Shopify at a conference this week. They spoke of Tobi's leadership very well and I could see he's worked hard to cultivate a certain culture at Shopify. Reading this essay really validates a lot of what his programmers said about him.
i don't know why Google doesn't team up with some lead designers in the eyeglasses and sunglasses business, and come up with some actual stylish shades for Google Glass. Maybe they just aren't at that stage yet.
Hi tszming - happy to share more over email. alex@snowplowanalytics.com
So does Hacker's Keyboard, along with ctrl, alt and a load of other useful stuff: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketwork...
> Self education may appeal to many of us here, but it applies to less than it appeals to.

That's missing the major point of the piece, IMHO. The OP isn't describing "self education", and (coming from a US perspective) is not even a typical drop out.

What's being described here is a vocational pattern of learning, where on-the-job experience is backed up with classroom instruction. That's not exactly what "drop out" or "self educated" imply in the US.
Seconded! Especially for web apps. I'm trying to learn how to implement something with a GUI, and struggling to move beyond the basics.
Oh, the 911 is comfortable enough to be your commuting car but it is 13 years old so it doesn't have all the niceties. I guess I would compare the Tesla to the current Panamera.
Experimental cars have surpassed the 100km/l (235mpg) barrier a long time ago. That doesn't mean they are anywhere near feasible as a product - no interior finish, exotic body materials, no air-conditioning, electric/hydraulic assistance, electric windows, abs, and all kinds of power-hungry electronics.

Audi is said to be working on a production vehicle, an hybrid, with 260mpg efficiency, but we'll have to wait a little bit to see if it becomes real: http://www.roadandtrack.com/future-cars/spy-shots/caught-tes...
I could easily "never work again" with $3M.
The word is penis and that is the (very correct) word used in the article headline. Roughly half of us have one so there is no need to be mamby pamby about it.

Here in the UK we have members of parliament and they are all - OK maybe that is it...
I don't see why an IDE is necessary for learning. It's good to learn to understand and write code without the computer filling in everything for you.
Learn You A Haskell is a really great book for newcomers to functional programming, I can't recommend it enough.
FWIW I think one is helping the Tor network even if they decide to only run an internal Tor node (not an exit). I believe Tor hidden services might become more popular in the months to come, and a lot of resources that the users were initially trying to access anonymously are / will be reachable as hidden services (e.g. wikileaks).
"...Darwin isn't OS X".

Ok, but Darwin is the operating system.

I remember back in the early days – from Mach on black hardware through Openstep on 4 different architectures – the folks from NeXT were always very careful to use the phrase "system software" when referring to the whole thing and only using the phrase "operating system" when referring to the layer that supports basic functions like scheduling tasks, invoking user-space code, and controlling peripherals.

This is one of the things I appreciated of them back then, as they were respectful of the nomenclature actually used in computer science.

Now I realize that the phrase "operating system" commonly receives slight colloquial abuse to refer to everything inside the shrinkwrap, but I think the formal meaning hasn't completely died yet, so nirvana should be allowed to use it properly if he so desires.
The OP was incredibly lucky to find a mentor like Jurgen. Being handed a thoroughly "proofread" review of your work is perhaps the best way to improve at almost anything. Unfortunately, creating such high quality feedback demands more time than most people are willing to spend, especially if it's above and beyond their normal duties.
You might be lucky enough to break even if you charge for your app. Don't expect miracles from the win 8 app store.
I've been to Tahoe. It doesn't make my thoughts on California in general irrelevant, but incredibly suspect if I make a statement about any part of the state that is not a high elevation desert currently covered in snow.
I'd spend some time learning how to hack the press and try to get some free publicity.

This is a good place to start:

http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/80121/How-To-Get-Media-...

You want to give them a pre-packaged story and from a quick look around your site, you appear to have one (ex-MSFT guy who moved to Amsterdam, built an awesome game and it's now featured in the app store - that's a story).

You might consider reaching out to the Microsoft PR department. They want as much good publicity for the app store as they can get - so they might be willing to put some PR muscle behind you and your game.

My background is in marketing (and I lived in Amsterdam for a year haha) feel free to shoot me an email if you run out of ideas. Good luck!
> I would not write a wiki app in it, but certainly the next Apache or Nginx replacement.

I wouldn't. Nondeterministic garbage collection in a web server like nginx (as opposed to an application web server like Jetty) makes me very nervous. The HTTP (or pick-your-other-TCP-protocol) lifecycle is well-understood enough that you should be able to handle your own memory management.

There are lots of things in Go I like, but for me they're coupled with questionable abstractions that make it difficult to rationalize over C++.
I find that Github pull request style discussions are a good approximation of this ideal which strikes a great balance between effort required and social acceptability.
Big Data, Large Scale Machine Learning course at NYU
Sorry to deceive you but when I see the truth, I can only upvote it.

There is a lot of cruft in many businesses - so much inefficiency, that it can hardly be removed by joining in their ride. The software industry is not immune to that.

Therefore it just is more logical to do something by yourself.

After all, there are only 2 possibles outcomes - you do bring value, which will be rewarded by the market, or you don't - and at least, it won't last too long. Unefficiency is a pain.

Create your business. Sink or swim, with the added advantage (schadenfreude ?) of watching the inefficient ones drown while you swim around.

There no personal hate involved- I don't hate them, and in fact I may even feel sorry. It's the inefficiency that I hate.
I don't think that's the only solution. I would be willing to bet that outside of heavy-DDoS conditions that even a tiny fraction of Cloudflare's network could handle the incoming tcp connections and deny all of them. At that point you don't have to worry about traffic collapsing anything. You can wait to bring up more equipment. You can send a tiny error page. You can let X% of requests get through and be fully served.

I bet that most of the time the domino effect happens to internet services in general it's with nodes that are accepting most requests. They allow themselves to be overloaded. An active HTTP session uses orders of magnitude more resources than simply denying the initial packet and forgetting about it forever.
I wonder if a company that stressed a role like this up the career ladder as an alternative to a high-level architect role would see much success.
Indeed, not recommended - I'd call that just waiting for death.
Failing Drug War: When Cops Become Criminals
Show HN:Wikipedia from your terminal
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I like the concept. Combining tetris and word finding is a neat gameplay mechanic.
I might not ever get a chance to work at Google, I probably won't ever get to go to the Institute for Advanced Study, I may never discover anything in science that makes me famous; but if I had those things, deep down I know they wouldn't truly make me happy.

Programming makes me happy because I love to create new things, hacking makes me happy because I love to figure out how things work, and holding on to that same feeling I had about it when I was a kid is what keeps me going everyday.
SIGINT in less wouldn't lose work though. It's safe and would be consistent with other apps and other uses of SIGINT inside less.
Oops. You are correct. Thanks for pointing that out. I have to say that now that I understand what it does I have no idea about the use case.
$ date -d "Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 UTC 2013"

Sun Mar 3 10:05:17 PST 2013

The above converts to the system TZ. Or:

$ echo $( export TZ=CST; date -d "Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 UTC 2013" )

Sun Mar 3 18:05:17 CST 2013

The above converts from any TZ to any other TZ, without resetting your shell's TZ variable.
For those who already know programming in another language, then your way is SoP. Either that or just read the spec.

Pretty sure sites like these are aimed more at complete beginners.
Really found this article useful thanks. It feels like there are often aspects of each of those models - makes me think of many different startup companies.
I think few people would approve of the killing of Native Americans and keeping slaves — now or in 1930s. Some would, but fortunately they are not the political mainstream.

Slavery was abolished in the US in 1865, and in Russia, in 1861, so they had uniquely close positions in this regard. By 1980s, the difference between USA and USSR was far more pronounced, and not in favor of USSR. Maybe the American way was less perilous.

But looking at the American problems of today (the list is long and grave) I can only conclude that there's no silver bullet. We humans are not ideal, you know. OTOH they say that creation of Eden on Earth is a futile task, and we're in a business of keeping Earth from becoming Hell. With this regard, the Soviet way seems clearly inferior.
Because it requires an entire JVM of baggage, is terribly complicated and doesn't really give any benefits over anything else.

Its like a Swiss army knife with a million blunt obscure tools rather than 5 useful sharp ones, or a crazy girlfriend who has three violent ex husbands who keep coming round to your house and lives with a crackhead.

Go is a trip to your Volvo dealer - uneventful but you get what you want at the end of the day and get where you want to go and when you're done, you're done.
"Why MSNBC and Left Wing TV Shows are so Effective"

This is not new (go look at some of the early Presidential elections - 1800 is a good start). The only real difference is that science and technology have advanced and people's understanding hasn't kept up. We now have a lot more people commenting on things with whole services built for it.

Its kissing cousin is the "Link Bait Headline". Its basically an aggressive comment used as a title naming some items or concepts people hold dear.
Learnstreet have hit HN front page a few times already in the last few months!?

I did login using one of the options, they provided to check out the content some time ago, but I definitely would have preferred a more neutral auth system like OpenID, etc., as you've rightly pointed!
That word is auto-deleted by the HN software, even from the interior of strings of letters, so something else has to be used if you want to get the message across.

But aside from that, this is not HN material. Flag it and move on to something "deeply interesting".
One slightly off-topic note:

> ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfi

If it's Linux, ifconfig isn't maintained anymore and might actually be lying (eg, virtual IPs on vlans on bonded NICs - sounds exotic but almost every trading house uses this config). Use the 'ip' command for most things you would have done with 'ifconfig'.

If it's BSD, ignore that and ifconfig away.
I run an exit node in Egypt on a server from CityNet Host [1], that I got on a promo. Pumping 400 Gb/m through it for $2.50 a month. I would not host one at home but Egypt seems far enough.

[1] http://citynethost.com/vps.asp
See if any of these work for you:

https://www.google.com/search?q=flask+tutorial
Open Access petition — ACM: tear down this paywall
Doesn't matter. I would never use my main linkedin account to login, and I won't bother to create a(nother) linkedin account just to access your service. Nor would I ever want to date a 'working professional'. Sorry, not for me but best of luck with it. Hope it works for you.
Are you seriously defending Apple by saying a serial bus is the obvious solution? Apple, the company that has forced rediculous proprietary ports that add zero value into its products while every one else in the space was using Universal Serial Bus? If this post was meant to be sarcastic then I will accept a well deserved whoosh, but ideology trumped engineering at Apple years ago.
Thanks, that's a pretty neat idea :)
What you say about price is sometimes true, but Amazon has proven trustworthy, so they end up being the vendor backstopping a short list of specialists.

For electronics I try Newegg first. For cables, Monoprice. For espresso machines, WholeLatteLove. If I can't find a specialist site with good prices and a good reputation pretty quickly, Amazon gets the deal.

There are some categories where Amazon is a really bad shopping experience because they do not properly police vendors who "spam" a category so that finding the best price in a search is thwarted by pages of redundant listings. But for "stuff I might buy at Target but Target probably won't have as many choices" Amazon is tough to beat. Or you could say "for stuff that people are not passionate enough about to support an obviously good specialist site that can match or beat Amazon prices..."
How can a person with zero experience begin to learn basic programming?
I used I1,I2,I4,I8,U1,U2,U4,U8 (bytes, not bits) Good for columns.

At first I did not have C pointer arithmetic. It always used size 1. That is nicer in many ways.
First Links in the Markov Chain
I am not a web designer.
There's also a bias if you look at dropouts as a homogeneous group, because they aren't. It's just as ludicrous to predict the same outcome for someone like me, who was always way ahead and bored to death of school, and a poor kid from the city or country who couldn't read at grade level.

I doubt Tobi ever had reading comprehension problems and I bet he was passionate about his hobby leading up to his track switch.

As for me, I'm a high school drop out and everybody told me "You'll end up stacking shelves at 7-11!" because that's what dropouts do. They made the same mistake you are accusing us of making, when we talk about our own pasts. I knew several outstanding HS and college dropouts among my online friends at the time and they inspired me to stop wasting my life. I'm so glad they did.
Featuring doesn't really have a big impact - take it from someone who has had two apps featured on the w8 store.
Even Google can’t remember that the Samsung Chromebook isn’t a MacBook Air
Why would you assume this and judge the company on it, based entirely on an offhanded comment? You couldnt have given them the benefit of the doubt long enough to find another of several comments which clearly indicate there was a team of people working on the issue?
Actually Go GC is quite easy to control. If you know your butt from your elbow you can write code that doesn't GC at all.

I really don't have a problem with GC though. Its easier to optimise a GC than to fix memory and reference counting bugs. Memory management is not a problem I want to be dealing with after 60-odd years of computers being around.
And for those who just love seeing silicon dies up and close, you might want to check out these amazing pictures to really put things into perspective:

http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/open-microchip-asic-what-inside-...

Really cool to see the different designs used in various components, or even compared to other CPUs/MCUs. The pictures above were taken by dissolving off the inline package casing with sulfuric acid. No 8085, but there's a picture of the Z80A available, and you can make out the similar areas to the 8085 (register file, control logic, ALU, etc... the quality is insane, the Z80A picture is 6200x6000 px). There's also some earlier photos at http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/how-to-open-microchip-asic-what-... if you want some more high-res silicon imagery.
> glass has no CPU

Incorrect.
Darwin is the operating system. Trying to point out that the whole system stack is considered not open source because the windowing system isn't open has nothing to do with it. Does my Ubuntu system become not open source when I use the binary nvidia drivers?
You could say the same thing about almost any of your service providers. Your DNS provider goes out, everything goes out. The routers at the data center with your servers go out, all your servers go out. Your CDN goes out, all of the static assets on your site go out.

There will always be potential SPOF.
Peek and poke in the age of Linux
Pixel Art using pure CSS
He is looking for advice, not for trolls.

My advice: make sure you have compelling logos (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh84629...), screenshots and a short description. Also have a trial of the app.
Lean Manufacturing vs. Lean Startups: Business Ethos or Business Buzzword?