skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking about the general situation - the grandparent post talks about his wife's access for example.

I also said a competent attacker.

Also, I wasn't saying that disk encryption is worthless. If your laptop gets stolen by someone who has not previously had access to your computer (or confiscated at a border) then your data is secure.

I agree with your point about the BIOS password.
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> Most of us have accepted offers at smaller companies

You'll probably be happier, more challenged and learn more this way. Having worked from ultra-small to ultra-big, I learned the most from the small to medium-small places. There's fewer people to fall back on, so you end up cross training.
"his written commentary showing clear disdain for the business model of the plaintiffs and the attorneys"

That sounds awful, if you don't know the specific business model being discussed is extortion of random citizens.
Lawyer friend told me its not uncommon so the ruling is remembered and talked about. Here are some other examples of "creative writing" http://blog.simplejustice.us/2007/08/30/texas-where-decision...
I sell Windows desktop software, so I decided to check my visitor stats for the past month. It's been 7 months since Windows 8 was released and less than 5% of my Windows visitors are running Win8. I checked the same time frame after Windows 7 was released, and roughly 13% of my visitors were running Win7. If i had that big of a sales drop, I'd be looking inward, not outward.

Windows 8 may be a visionary change taking Microsoft into the future. The problem, though, is that it's a tablet vision being applied to a desktop system.

I'm a Windows consumer that doesn't like Windows 8. I don't think I'm short sighted. I'm just trying to get work done.
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Oh, I was looking for something like this today. Gitk is all well and good, but I have a whole heap of commands all tied into a custom Menu for Komodo Edit. I hope `tig' can work in it's output pane: it'll be a lifesaver if it does!
It seems rather silly to enrage a judge via misconduct during the case and then claim the judge's indignation is a form of bias. Judge Wright wasn't mad at them at the start of the case. Rather, he became angry after seeing how they conducted themselves before him.

That reminds me of the story of the child who murders his parents only to beg the court for mercy because he is an orphan.
I've seen longer uptimes on Solaris sparc boxes, many times, when they had a board of battery replaced and they booted up with a reset clock which got corrected by NTP after boot.
Except in very rare cases where a company is staffed almost entirely by former engineers, it is almost always the case that when you go far enough up the management hierarchy you will encounter someone who is perfectly smart, but doesn't happen to know why idempotent calls are useful (or even what "idempotent" means). That is the person this chart is intended for. It may not be your immediate boss, but perhaps HER boss, or another step up the chain.
> you manage to find one, you hire an overqualified programmer who is likely to get bored and unmotivated within a couple of weeks.

Or, to keep themselves interested, end up over-engineering even simple bits, making their work a nightmare to maintain.
I tried to live w/o any caffeine a whole week. Expect a hardcore headache!
So I think we agree that there are only fairly minor issues, but many people feel that they are major.

I really think that a lot of this reaction is just because it's popular to hate Microsoft - so any small perceived missteps are blown massively out of proportion (particularly by the media).

Microsoft could have gone down the path of keeping everything exactly the same, and providing no innovation; that probably would have worked great in the short term - but they are trying to do something new and there are growing pains associated with it.
If you think "Explain design decisions and trade-offs of different techniques." is a 'puzzle'... Perhaps that explains a lot.
Fair enough, that's something I've not run into myself :) Although, hit the Super key, bring up the Charms bar (swipe in from right on a trackpad, mouse in top right hand corner with a desktop) and there should be an Applications menu that lists them? It's just a standard vertical list of all applications. I think that's where it is, anyway, let me know.
On the contrary, I think you are.
To be fair, they acquired SourceTree in late 2011 and IIRC the app prior to the acquisition looked pretty similar to how it looks today.
Man I wish I had capital now... or a year ago... or 13 years ago when I told my parents they should buy AAPL.

Oh well. The best investment you can make is always yourself.
If you're on a Mac with homebrew installed:

$ brew install tig
With those two (Windows and Office natch) cash cows a sufficiently tech-savvy bonobo could CEO Microsoft and turn a profit each and every quarter. Heck, even I could.

Sure you could. Even Apple and Jobs were lucky to beat you to the punch with the iPhone.

Because Microsoft designed Windows and Office once, they have no competitors and are still selling the original product. No upgrade cycles, licensing decisions, dealing with the DOJ, EU etc, no competitors like Oracle, SAP, IBM, Google, Apple and you name it. It's really easy.

Only a moron ignores Microsoft. They pay ~3+% a year in dividend, invest billions in R&D + new companies and still have some $60 Billion in cash. They are really struggling, as you can see http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT+Key+Statistics. The stock for large caps goes back and forth, and the stock price upside is more or less limited by the their huge market cap.
I've been thinking about doing a cheap and easy photobooth for my wedding next year. it sounds like this + a webcam + a raspberry pi like device could provide a cool way for guests to take photobooth pics, set filters and share them without having to spend more than 100 bucks in parts.
Why don't you just press the power button on your PC? That sends a signal to Windows to do a soft-shutdown.
I am utterly lost when it comes to Windows and people opinions.

Edit: .... and what MS are up to.

I start with the notion that, IMHO, XP SP3 was and remains a great OS. Its like the OS that Win 95 was building up to. I then replace my main go to desk top machine and it comes with Vista installed. Im worried because every geek and his dog hates it. I buy my new machine intending to wipe the HD and install XP instead. It wrong to hate with out trying, so I give Vista a go. 3 or so years later, Im still using Vista with zero problems. In my eyes its XP with added stuff and a bit of a fluffing. Fine.

Now, kids get new machines and this time its Windows 7. IMHO, good thing it was the kids machines because IMHO Win 7 looks like a kids OS. I try to do some set up stuff and it takes me ages to get anything done. So, that's that for me. Don't want 7 any where near my computer(s). Although to be fair, the kids get on fine with it. Next up, last Christmas, more computers for the kids, laptops with Win 8. All I see its a tablet OS forced on non tablets. Get by the tablet interface and its mangled Win 7, worse to use and find my way around than 7 was. Two identical laptops, but both have different issues. Wireless being the most frustrating.

Right now Im wondering a) why people hate Vista, and b)what my next OS should be. I want XP, I'm happy enough with Vista, but the idea of Win 7 or 8 fills me with dread. And if any one says Linux or Mac, I'll die laughing. Neither even begin to be suitable. (Mac devices are brilliant for the kids, but never me)

I am NOT a serial MS hater, I have always been happy enough with their products as long as I never have to use the first release, and wait for the first service pack and decent drivers. Not great, but the system works. But now I feel un-catered for. Win 7 and 8 are miles away from what I want and I can only see it getting worse. It feels like MS have annoyed all the usual suspect, but now they are going all out to annoy the people who still like them and their products.

And lastly, why on earth force a tablet UI on to desk tops and lap tops? What one earth is that about? Why not a core OS, and you just buy a tablet or PC version?

Like I say, the whole MS thing has me utterly lost. And that is really sad as, as it turns out, with out realising, I'm a loyal MS customer. But right now, Im sticking with Vista until I literally cant.
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Actually, the vim language utilizes regular expressions, so end of a single line is $ while ^ is the beginning of the line. Just like the regex: "/^[0-9]*$"
I think that the reason they are doing this is that VDI and application virtualization is reducing the enterprise licensing count.

There are many casual Adobe CS users within companies, and it's cheap and effective to virtualize the app and provide it to employees for limited periods.

Creative Cloud basically delivers this functionality to everyone, with a licensing model that makes it more challenging to cheat.
None of your statements contradicts points from my comment, my post, or the coding horror post. If you are releasing code and not putting in a license or doing so improperly, don't expect others to use it. CH focused on one facet (missing a license) while I focused on a different facet (how to add a license properly)
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What's with the nav box completely blocking the document? http://cl.ly/OnPN

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To imply that the only difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8 is a lack of start button is incredibly ignorant.
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Really? I thought the API was pretty silly compared to for example Flash Drawing API. Why doesn't it have circle(x,y,radius) for example?
Can you point out any highlights, or why you think it's worth a read, for those of us without the ability to look it over in detail?
While it looks similar, it became a lot more stable and far faster. I'm using Sourcetree for many things nowadays that I previously did solely on the cli simply because it works a lot better now than it worked just a year ago.

However, for some things I still prefer fugitive, if only because it's right there in vim :)
Major as is 4% of the vote for a compnay valued at almost $280 Billion is decided by ONE person. Add that of Bill Gates, Bill's foundation, maybe Paul Allen and it ads up. The point was mostly that virtually all his fortune is tied with Microsoft so he has skin in the game. He can still be delusional and risk even his own fortune but still...
The Register article is much easier to read as a news piece, especially for people unfamiliar with encryption algorithms.

Besides, the article includes links to more technical materials, including the project page should the reader want to find out more.
It's a good point.

Censorship is also a cloak for protectionism. Facebook, Ebay, Google, etc have all been banned or throttled to make way for censorship. It says something that censorship is more tolerated by the world than overt protectionism, and that trade protectionism must be done in the good name of censorship.
It was incredible short-sighted to force Metro upon Windows 8 in the first place and hope it will just work out somehow. Metro may be fine on a tablet, but is a inherently bad and tedious user-experience on the PC, and for people using PCs for productivity purposes it's downright useless. Current UI-Idioms have worked and have been improved upon for nearly 3 decades. They are throwing them out in favor of something, that has, as of yet, only found some limited use in smartphones.

Yes, Microsoft needs to gain a foothold in the mobile market, and the best way to do that is probably using Windows as leverage. But if they are not careful they are alienating their existing user-base. Things like removing the Start-Button to promote more use of Metro is an incredibile stupid move, and all the feedback prior to release was pointing out these problems. Yet they went ahead, hoping it'll magically work out. It's doesn't, and the only ones who loves it, are sellers of third-party Start-Button Apps ;)

Look at how OS X is set up. It shares a tremendous amount of APIs with iOS. Apps on the OS X AppStore feel similar to the ones on the iOS AppStore, yet they manage to incorporate PC UI-Idioms like Windows and Point & Click input. No you can not write one App for all systems, but it allows you to share a lot of common code, and create Apps, that have a unified UE, and still are adapted perfectly for each platform. This direction makes much more sense.
It is not a superior interface for anything that isn't a small tablet or a phone. I'm in front of the big monitor and just to select another program boom the whole darned screen chnages the color, evrything I look at disappears just to present met "metro." That UI is good for the phone, awful for big screens. Whoever decided that it doesn't matter should be publicly humiliated. Ditto for those that claim that it's better for all cases.

Can you please explain how can you consider it superior to make everything you work with disappear, no matter how big the screen you work with is, just to start another program? I'm not interested for the screen sizes of the phones, but 21 inches and above. Then do the same discussion for all non-touch monitors and touch dependencies.

Metro existed before Windows 8 on the Windows phones. There's no good UI reason to make all big screen desktops behave like small screen phones. It was a pure political decision and they deserve every bad voice there is.
Its not just the black money, its consumer protection that the Government is keen on.

India Government just wants Paypal to behave like a bank if they are going to hold consumer;s money. If Paypal follows the regulation, they will end up paying interest on the money they hold. And they will forced to insure the amount.

And paypal works around this issue by pushing the money to consumers bank when it reaches the legal limit.

You can't blame the Government for this mess. Its Paypal that is working around the system.
http://labs.ideo.com/2012/12/14/happy-25th-birthday-gif/ seems pretty cool. We actually did this for a SxSW party this year. We were pleased with the results -- http://gifxgifw.tumblr.com/ .
The evidence is sales for it stink.

Microsoft just released the numbers and it's only selling at half the rate of Windows 7. (Win7 averaged 20mil/mo, Win8 is averaging 10.)

And sales should be HIGHER following a successful release than a failed one. People were skeptical of Windows 7 when it came out because Vista had gotten so much flack. Everybody liked 7 so a solid follow up to it should have sold well.

Also you missed my point about FT, I wasn't saying that FT is more insightful. Certainly it isn't when it comes to tech stuff. But it's in the FT because investors are concerned about what Microsoft is doing, and Microsoft wants the FT to report that they are releasing a fix patch for Windows 8 to calm investors down.

edit:

Also keep in mind that those Windows 8 sales numbers include sales of Windows 8 RT and Windows 8 on Surface Pros. Granted sales for those devices are not great either, but it's inflating Windows 8 numbers when comparing them to Windows 7 numbers; it's not an apples to apples comparison.
Note sure. I seem to be able to replicate that if the browser window is exactly 727 pixels wide, but otherwise everything displays just fine for me on Chrome 26.0.1410.65. Will look into it later.

Edit: Are you seeing this for all browser widths, or just specific ranges?
awesome thanks :)
I agreed with your first paragraph, but the second one surprised me. Your comparison does not apply to everyone. Many people would much prefer to be hit with baseless accusations and rumors rather than have footage of their most intimate moments be immortalized for public access.
There's some other great examples of this done before:
http://wolframhempel.github.io/photobooth-js/
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On rhymes with don in one part but dawn in another part. Dawn and Don sound the same where I'm from so this doesn't make sense to me.
That is the most cleanly written state machine I've ever seen in C. Beautiful code indeed!
I imagine he'd have to use a domestic merchant account, and post his prices in INR instead of USD. He'd lose customers who don't understand non-USD prices or think it looks scammy.
I'm going to politely disagree on some points:

Consider this scenario, your company will never need an algorithm designer. The jobs they need are to do basically glorified component integration. You have a candidate who is awesome at gluing together various libraries and other odds and ends into a working product. The things he's worked on are well known and well regarded, and he has 15 years out of college doing these things. He's never even had to think about the complexity of a red-black tree in all that time let alone implement one. He's solid, a great team lead, personable without any difficult to handle "quirks". He's been the core to the success of several products. In other words, he's the perfect match.

So why filter him out by testing how much of an algorithm encyclopedia he is? It'd be like interviewing an algorithm guy by asking him how well he knows some web framework. At best it's non sequitur, at worst you won't get the employee you need.

>Notice that big tech companies have stopped with the "brainteaser" style questions like how many potholes in Manhattan

My understanding is that they did this due to a number of lawsuits. The courts felt that it presented a discriminating playfield, and most large companies have stopped this due to recommendations form their legal departments.
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Anyone care to weigh in about using this vs., say, TastyPie?
So, fun fact.

Ballmer has taken Microsoft from two cash cows...to roughly six in his time frame as CEO. Take a look at how many billion dollar businesses have come to fruition under his tenure. You might be surprised.

The guy gets a bad rap, but its annoying that people want to blame him for the things that are wrong with Microsoft but won't give him credit for the things he's done right.
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I haven't given this more than a cursory look, but I love how the body message for the commit that seemingly introduced this flaw is "No functional changes.": https://github.com/git-mirror/nginx/commit/8a3f6ce

Found with:

git log --full-diff --reverse release-1.3.8.. -p src/http/ngx_http_parse.c
I understand that they're doing string comparisons (of a kind), but what are those values defined in 'uint32_t'? Is it a translation of values into memory addresses?
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I've been working on a side project in the social/education/review space for quite awhile. In short, it allows students to rate whether they needed a textbook for a particular class-instructor combination. It's doing OK, but I think the data I've collected with regards to what instructors teach which classes is probably more valuable than the reviews.

I have info on over 4000 schools, ~800k instructors, ~400k courses, and over ~700k course-instructor relations. The data could use some clean up, but I still think it might be useful to someone.

Is there any market for this kind of information? And if so, where do I even begin to sell it?
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This does hit close to home, I'm a great programmer but I get so nervous in interviews that half the time I can't do fizzbuzz :-(.

(I should do an AMA)
"Given government, this will likely be a desktop Windows app"

Ah you misspelled COBOL on a AS/400.

I've occasionally wondered if an aggregator is legally possible. Simply remit an annually agreed upon 5% across the board along with full shipping records in electronic format and we'll take care of the rest. Some localities will charge 10% some 0% but you just remit 5% and we pay out roughly 4.95% and keep the last 0.05% which probably adds up to quite a bit.

The third point I would like to make is how this will be enforced overseas. I've bought stuff from dx, seeed studios, and overseas ebay stores, and if the shippers can get the price down in bulk the tax savings would be valuable. In the long run, the only real effect could end up being amazon's kindle store moves to Jamaica (or whatever) and shipping takes a little longer from warehouses in Canada.

I am old enough to remember when congress intentionally and methodically and thoroughly destroyed the american shipbuilding industry by social engineering the tax code. I have no idea why they wanted to do this other than the usual .gov goals of destruction of the middle class etc. I could totally see a repeat happening this decade with e-commerce.
Is 'Quant' going to be the next over-used term?

Definition of Quant
An expert in the use of mathematics and related subjects, particularly in investment management and stock trading. - thefreedictionary.com

This is just planning ahead for how to track users your going to get, but how did making this spreadsheet help Mint to get it's users?? That I fail to see.
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she's comparatively left-leaning there?! Maybe immigration came across the Bering Sea and there are a lot of descendants of Genghis Khan there!

Seriously though, thank you: local crowd-sourced knowledge is very welcome.
The ColdFusion hack...wow. How is CF engineered so badly? What person nowadays would still think to take paths of anything at all ever in the request parameters? I can sort of understand pre 2003 or something, but CF10 was released in 2012, for Pete's sakes.

Also makes you wonder, if there are holes like this, how many more holes like this are there? Especially if this is a pattern across the system.
Very interesting discussion and timely in the sense that I spoke with a co-worker yesterday about how Google is obtaining free market research on businesses through the Google Online Marketing Challenge. Essentially, it's a competition where students consult with businesses, produce a report on the company, industry, etc and implement an Adwords campaign for them. No doubt I gained a lot of experience from doing this but submitting all the reports to Google and with them being able to aggregate everything, I'm sure they would find some value in it.
then, why not ask for a verbal solution?
This seems somewhat less than intuitive!

I'll give it a go next time I have to intervene in a parental computing experiment.
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Yes you can. BIS effectively decontrolled open source encryption software a few years ago, essentially admitting that attempts to control the export of something that was already available world-wide was a waste of time.
I think programmer interviews are really getting ridiculous. We don't ask doctors to remember details from organic chemistry during an interview. We don't ask plumbers what toilets they've unclogged in their own side projects.
That has been there, including visually, in all version of windows up to Vista.

In Vista and Windows 7 it became hidden so that you had to know it was there, or (as keyboarders often did anyway) bring it up with alt-space.
> In fact, if I'm totally honest, I'm not 100% I completely understand the sine function now.

I've found this .gif does wonders for explaining sine and cosine to people:

http://www.butlercc.edu/mathematics/math_courses/ma140/SineC...

Sine is horizontal, cosine is vertical.
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