skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A visual history of Linux desktops
Egress filtering is not a solution.

I've had attacks come from Asia and Russia and none of the hosts respond. I've also tried contacting their upstream providers.

The DNS system needs to be changed.
it is about google+, that extra info pane on the right is about google+ pages, I'm sure if emberjs made one they'd show up too. if you don't like it go use duckduckgo.
Batman.js does look quite good.

I'm currently using Angular for a personal project, and I really really like it. Pity you didn't.
What if students learn faster without teachers?
Yes, that's my point. If we move to TCP we fix the issue. At the moment I can't see how closing open servers is a real fix.
Any adequate test of people's understanding of politics and the democratic process would fail anyone who thought testing understanding of politics and the democratic process was compatible with democracy....

The essence of democracy is that you don't need a detailed understanding of the history, voter mechanics or text of a particular law to express a valid preference for or against a candidate that has something to say that concerns you, however imperfect your understanding of that candidate's intentions and their likely consequences may be. If you can't grasp that, bar yourself from the ballot box.

(and that's without discussing the obvious electoral advantages to an incumbent that might accrue from influence over setting "voter tests". Sure, you have to pass a bar to be allowed to work for somebody, or study somewhere, or borrow money - that's all for the testers' benefit)
BRCA mutation they mention :
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/BRCA

If anyone's feeling disillusioned at this point on the lack of obvious progress: I'm not entirely sure if the problem at this point is funding as much as it is the correct allocation. Research branches off to many things, naturally, and that's how we find cures or even potential cures, but how much of it is effectively being allocated to promising areas vs just shotgunning everything? That's why I hope this project does take off.
Russia to ban cash transactions over $10,000
Well as I said, the majority of DNS servers are meant for a specific group of users, of a particular ISP or company, which can be filtered by IP. Google & OpenDNS are exceptions; I wouldn't know about their defense mechanisms and I'd imagine they prefer not to disclose them, but I suppose it might be similar to how credit card companies try to detect fraud by looking for unusual transactions.
There's also non-recursive servers answering queries about a particular domain, they also answer to anyone but they answer only about their domains (authoritative).

I think your point about trying to find a way for the open DNS resolvers to be protected but still open is moot, because there's really no reason for servers to be open to everyone (except for Google or OpenDNS who know what they're doing), these are just misconfigured servers of people who have no idea they can be abused. In my opinion the solution is for ISPs to actively block such open resolvers among their clients.
No wonder I had difficulty accessing Google a few times during that time period.
Because Gabe is an engineer and engineers have an insatiable need to fix things and microsoft needs fixing.

But I don't buy it either. I think it would scare the pants off of the corporate customers of MS.
Or perhaps they are?

We really need places like cyberbunker to keep internet free and open.

The day the the last piece of w4r3z, pr0n and other 1337 stuff is taken away from the internet the infrastructure would have to be in place to pretty much remove anything you want at will.

I wonder what will be next thing to get removed after that?

"First they came..."
I'm placing my bets on Marissa Mayer being Microsoft's next CEO
I'd love to use something like Help Scout, but I absolutely never under no circumstances would use a hosted solution for that.

Do you know an equivalent that I can self-host?
Any way to import?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
Another Comedy Show About Silicon Valley
Anyone who holds up Nick D’Aloisio and Andrew Hsu as examples of people who are not the real deal is going to look very very silly in a few years.
screencast
http://youtu.be/ete5Us0-IpY
Maybe contact Mozilla directly and see if you can have a looky at how they've implemented everything, you might be able to make a few suggestions?
Fixing Microsoft isn't an engineering problem; if it were, I'd wager their thousands of engineers would've done it already.
Yes, but standard C has no way to tell the compiler a variable is immutable (immutability != constness), so unless you go non-standard (and very verbose at it) Erlang is still a better tool for the job.
"Interfaces can now define static methods. "

Twenty years for that one ; )

zomg. Another one debated at length through flamewars on Usenet and ##java. And now it's here. Feeling good : )
My money is on the poor performance of Windows Store, which could undermine OS sales. Since those are near-sacred at MSFT in my opinion will spur the Valve acquisition. The 'Gabe as CEO' is just a long shot but not the Valve M&A.
Fair enough, you're right. It could be time to get ember.js on to G+ & drive more votes.

I'm going to change the title of this to be a call to action.
Of two implausible outcomes I find this one (Marissa) the slightly less implausible. (certainly Yahoo has already been courted once before and they work closely on search)
+1 for Help Scout. We started with Zendesk but my productivity in managing incoming emails is like 10x with Help Scout.
We're in a funny profession where we're both the people making and using the tools.

In other professions, blaming your tools is essentially a "There's nothing I can do about it -- the tools just suck."

In programming, we can go "These tools suck, but I can fix them". Of course, then you never accomplish what you initially set out to...
Is the poor power management on Linux a Macbook specific thing? Linux turns my 3-hour Thinkpad into a 6-hour Thinkpad, which kills Windows for me.
That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie
> Looking at the micro level, it seems that Microsoft is just full of nasty backstabbing middle managers who violently defend the P&L of their unit, as opposed as working as a group (non-backstabbers get fired thanks to Microsoft’s bone-headed employee review method called ‘stack ranking’. it’s terrible and everyone points at it as the reason why Microsoft lost ground against its competitors.)

Microsoft's adoption of this policy is termed by folks over at leswrong.org as an example of, "Conjuring An Evolution To Serve You." Like conjuring a genii, it's fraught with the strong likelihood of dire unintended consequences.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/l8/conjuring_an_evolution_to_serve_y...
Is this using WebGL. If so then I guess games will be limited to OpenGL ES 2.0 API, until WebGL gets updated to a more advanced graphics API level.
I have never owned one, but I assume they pick hardware that actually has working drivers?
>Haskell world on a couple of those issues ... I want a better Erlang than Erlang

What is your opinion of Cloud Haskell? It is a library which attempts to do exactly that.
You may be happy to know that Optimus video is supported on Linux by Bumblebee, http://bumblebee-project.org/
"[Gabe] running Microsoft? It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity."

But the necessary genetic engineering to save Microsoft from extinction is far more than building a brand new successful company from scratch. What would be the point?
I think the real problem is when people have an inappropriate model of what 'quality' is. Quality criteria, when used properly, act as surrogates for the realisation of the benefits that motivated the project in the first place, or for the management of risks or costs.

What constitutes quality is context dependent - a quality criteria that is meaningful on a large project that will be used for a long time (for example, one that improves maintainability) is not necessarily meaningful on a throw away script that will not conceivably be reused.

Too many people are influenced by fashion when it comes to evaluating quality. Some things called 'best practices' will provide no organisational benefit, and might increase the cost without any corresponding gain.

Slogans like 'take pride or fuck it' probably do more harm than good - what you should do is think rationally about what the appropriate quality criteria are for a given project, keeping focused on the continuing 'business' justification for the project and all the criteria, and aim to produce something that lives up to those quality criteria. By focusing on what is optimal for your goals, you avoid premature quality optimisation / over-engineering.
Super mario spacetime organ
What Lies Beyond the Macintosh Desktop Metaphor?
Very interesting article, thank you.

On a slighly related note, you should fix the &gt; / &lt; in the code snippets :)
I'd definitely say it's the latter. The non-PR version of the blog post is that they buy transit and peer at public exchanges out of many locations. Just like every other CDN.

I cannot find a single action mentioned in the entire post of something that CloudFlare actually did to help mitigate the attack. Basically, it seems that the Internet network community at large scrambled to deal with the problems, and CloudFlare is taking credit for it.
It may be an engineer on top kind of solution that is needed. Apple had a designer at the top of their structure, so design got its way. This even made up for mistakes made while Jobs wasn't there.

Having Gabe in sufficient control of non technical managers may well work, but then you could switch Gabe out for any trustable non-manager.
You may be interested in this wonderful article [1] about how these and many other unusual symbols ended up in Unicode. I personally had never considered how much of an issue including flags could be. Quite an interesting discussion around it on HN as well. [2]

[1] - http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/
[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792247
The Ultimate UX Design of Form Validation
Don't forget to read a description to the video, very interesting.
Double bar is a great way to indicate currency? Dollar is often used with a single bar, just as pound, franc etc. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Currency-Symbol_Regions_o...
For me the problem isn't so much the new stuff, but what is continually lost. For example, I was a heavy user of emblems and a frequent user of spatial mode, but they are now gone without replacement. I now stumble through hundreds of folders that all look the same.

Want to change the colors they've chosen? No can do... but you know what could do that? Windows 3.1 (and basically every other OS since ~1990) could. :/

That gigantic new clocks app is less useful than the elegant Calendar/Locations dropdown from Gnome2. It's still around in classic-mode but it no longer stays open by default (dunno why).

Five+ years ago I remember there were also helpful apps, like a "service control manager" gui, similar to the Windows MMC that actually worked. Oh, and Ubuntu removed sessions too.

My experience is that the Linux desktop loses as much as it gains every year. Almost twenty years of work and it still feels like a 0.5 alpha. The SGI I worked on 20 years ago could save my session automatically for x-sake, and the GUI was about as good.
I do believe I was downvoted solely on the basis of combining a question mark and exclamation point.
> Is "considerably less than 10 seconds" that bad of a sign? I took that to mean in the neighborhood of 7 seconds

People put a lot of money in performance tuning to get rid of 0.5s in the lower scale, but even in the slower numbers improving by 1s often takes engine swapping, super-charging and/or other sorts of mods. Saying 'considerably less than 10s' is like saying 'your salary will be considerably more than 1k' which could be 1.2k as well as 4k, but when you hear that you know it's about the former.
> Is it just that there is some cachet (whether SEO or just general prestige) to having a Wikipedia article, while there isn't the same cachet to having an article on a music-scene wiki?

Yes. And that's exactly what's going on in the ICD case (assuming that TFA is honest). You've got a company trying to (ab)use Wikipedia for free PR, straightforwardly violating the very straightforward policies about autobiography, getting treated more-charitably than they deserve, and then resorting to legal threats when they don't get their way. What else can you say, except that Wikipedia has influence and people want to manipulate that influence for themselves?
Red Hat: Happy Linux Partners, Disappointed RHT Investors
So, the answer to your headline of why batman.js over AngularJS is because of "invalid html" attributes despite that being incorrect?

If you just vetoed AngularJS based on an incorrect assumption, why would it be your summary headline? How even did those attributes impact your system and force you to explore alternatives?

I'd suggest a less sensationalist headline: "SUSE Studio uses Batman.js because due to familiarity and ease of rails integration".
New Jersey Solar Capacity Hits 1 Gigawatt
Since WebGL uses the same graphics API as the mobile devices right now, you're only going to see mobile apps being ported to. It just gives developers one more platform to port to.
Your calculation is assuming that all of the traffic from those 4 million London-based users is travelling through LINX. While LINX is the IX for London, not all traffic originating from London would have to travel through it; Tier 2 and Tier 3 networks would route some portion of the traffic as well.

This diagram from wikipedia shows some of the sorts of alternate routes that might be used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Connectivity_Dist...

As an aside: does anyone know of a good resource that gives an example of the rough percentage of traffic that would be handled in each of the various ways?
> Gabe Newell (Valve’s CEO, founder and, if I’m not wrong, its only shareholder) keeps giving interviews where he states that “he doesn’t want to sell“. Many take him at face value. Well. Firstly, in M&A, when you don’t want to sell you just don’t. There’s no need to blab to the press about it.

Except, I dunno, when they ask you?

> Secondly, if your statements appear in the press, it usually means that what you are saying is: “I am not for sale. Unless you offer more than X. Then we’d totally sell out.” I believe this is the message Mr. Newell is trying to convey.

Yes, we clearly live in that kind of world. The kind of world where the unwavering position that a highly achieved person demonstrates in almost everything they do has to be suspicious. You know what you should also do? Pepper your article with lots of pointless statistics and expletives. Because that totally helps make it seem more credible. Numbers! Charts! Fuck! Am I cool yet!?

> Did anyone ever question why, suddenly, all these articles about company culture are appearing?

Because you've only been paying attention the past couple months.

> Valve is reportedly working on a Steam Linux box. This can only be intended to remove the Windows license and its concomitant restrictions from the market.

Yes, clearly that's the only intent possible.

Phew. Ok guys, I enjoy picking apart nonsense blog crap just as much as the next HN user, but this one makes it so easy that it's already getting boring a couple minutes in.
>So, what, now you can virtualize while your virtualize?

Yo dawg... yes (in a way). You can have issues with the environment as is the case with most new things, but this way there's nothing you need to keep should you decide to start fresh or decide to do something differently. It simplifies things a whole lot.
Solar-Powered Plane Uses Its Lightness To Fly In The Dark
I'm tickled pink Angular is working for you.

I have to say, it looks really cool. But, its just not something we'd use in SUSE Studio.

I'm sure a thousand other people will have a thousand other ways of describing how I've slighted or misrepresented their project... and I totally expected that. It's a blog post, not a term paper - there's just no way to comprehensively describe everything about everthing.

That being said, the effort I put into making a responsible decision for my project wasn't one I took lightly. I'm sorry folks seem to think so, just because I tried (and slightly failed) to write a 3K word summary of 80 hours of JS framework madness.
No, I'm not in NY. Currently reside in the Caribbean. May you email me? We could, at the least, speak through Skype or telephone.
I don't mean this as snarkily as it's probably going to sound.

How old are you?
the diversity in font implementation is interesting to see:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/fontsuppor...
Actually, I propose we just submit a new symbol for the next Unicode release later this year:

http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2012-m12/0037.h...
> So... how would you have handled it, out of curiosity.

Imo separate heaps is the first big mistake. Even implementations like Erjang (Erlang on the JVM using the Kilim microthreading library -- which I've also contributed to) improve on the copy-from-heap mechanism prevalent in vanilla Erlang. Not only that, but Erlang's memory allocator isn't that well-suited for multi-threaded allocations, which also means that Erlang doesn't (can't?) take advantage of tcmalloc, umem, hoard, etc.
This is so far-fetched I barely know how to respond.
"Gabe Newell (Valve’s CEO, founder and, if I’m not wrong, its only shareholder) keeps giving interviews where he states that “he doesn’t want to sell“. Many take him at face value. Well. Firstly, in M&A, when you don’t want to sell you just don’t. There’s no need to blab to the press about it."

Help me understand M&A, when you're asked by a reporter about selling your company, what can you say that will result in communicating to people that you don't want to sell your company?

I think the author is reading too much into things
Using PARP inhibitors to prevent transmission of a BRCA mutation seems like an exceedingly risky strategy, when pre-implantation diagnosis or selective termination are effective and have pretty well-defined risks. Messing with DNA damage detection and repair machinery is probably not something you want to do in gametes.

Even if this worked in mice, it is difficult for me to imagine how a trial could even be done to allow it to be approved for human use.
Why would Valve do this? Don't see any reason at all. Judging from interviews, Gabe loves games. Why the hell would he want to leave them for software & enterprise? Doesn't makes any sense to me.
Extending the 20 CSCs to Gap Assessments & Security Models
The tests here confirm your experience, Erlang is for many algorithms significantly slower, even when more cores are used:

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/erlang.php
WW3 AND TALMUD Dr. William Pierce
You can start by watching SICP lectures freely available online :)
Doctors: We Don’t Want You Looking At Your Own Medical Records
ups. ofcourse.
I'm not sure why you think the Wikipedia policy is wrong.

If there is no substantial third party coverage of a topic, why should Wikipedia cover it?

A lot of people seem to believe that since bits are cheap, we might as well keep around any page no matter how non-notable it is. But there is a cost to including articles beyond the storage cost. Articles need to be patrolled for vandalism, and fact checked based on material published elsewhere. If you let people just post anything they want, then people will start using it for spam, fluff pieces, random bullshit, and so on. Enough of that, and it will substantially tarnish Wikipedia's reputation as a useful and unbiased source of information.

If a person or organization has never received press coverage, academic research, or other substantial information published on them outside of Wikipedia, why should they have a Wikipedia page?

Should every Joe Blow who happened to be captain of the swim team in high school and who's now the local Rotary Club president have a Wikipedia page? Should every mom and pop pizza joint? Who gets to have the Wikipedia page for "Village Pizza"?

The only reason for these small, not otherwise notable organizations to have a Wikipedia page is to increase their perceived notability; having a Wikipedia page indicates a certain amount of fame or notoriety. So in that case, allowing not otherwise notable organizations to have Wikipedia page would basically be a way for them to get free advertising. Especially in a case like this, when the whole page was edited by people who are, apparently, closely connected to the organization in question, and who would fight any negative information placed on the page.
Why Developers Shouldn’t Use iCloud Syncing, Even If It Worked
This.

The fact that, as opposed to to Goroutines, Erlang processes can be transparently running on some other node is the most important difference.
I like the lowercase b because it translates to bit. And it looks like a coin.
Well this is clearly a matter of taste; the visual implication of movement (http://images.google.com/images?q=diversion+sign+chevrons) is quite elegant IMHO, and the precedence seems natural also. But others' mileage obviously varies ...
Funny, I've used that same Bodygroom product for about 6 years. I've had 3 generations of the product and obviously had the same experience. Although the most recent generation is the best designed, it's the yet worst yet. The pivoting head pulls on my hair.
Wow, wild guessing aside, I certainly hope not! shivers
OT, but am I the only one out there who thinks "Bumfuck Willy: The Fedora of Time 2D" would actually be awesome to play?
But that's kind of the point; she knew what she was doing and that's exactly why she did it, she just hoped that in mislabeling it a women's issue, people would be empathetic to the fact that she was shaming someone that couldn't possibly set the record straight before the internet started hacking away at him. You can't just wrap anything with a feminist bow and expect people to say "Yeah, totally justifiable to shame that nameless guy in his company t-shirt that didn't actually do anything sexist in front of thousands of people." To add insult to injury, her self-made claims of being Joan of Arc and her out-of-touch legion of supporters humiliated the guy further into needlessly apologizing more in one post than she has in a week after he lost his job over it.

Starting wars on Twitter doesn't make you a crusader, it makes you no better than most of the people insulting your willingness to use your celebrity against everyday people just trying to enjoy a conference they were there to help support, all because you couldn't just say "Come on, guys."
How? It couldn't possibly pay off everybody.
Their great product?

Is this their product [which they charge for and you are championing] the one that can mitigate DDoS attacks but failed to do so?

Cloudflare got caught out offering something they cannot guarantee and failed to deliver - they are now currently blaming the 'Internet' - very sad...sorry it is late but the 'Internet' did not slow down today or almost break [as the title of this post would suggest] because Cloudflare and Spamhaus had a bad day...