skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "public sector provider or limited company" is a tad limiting. This looks like the kind of thing you want to throw a talented CS grad student who's familiar with graph algorithms at for a couple of weeks, but in general they're not going to have their own limited companies. I suppose you could find an umbrella at short notice if you had to, but the hassle factor would be high for a single contract.
Finally, Some Objective Figures On Games Piracy
It's kind of been that way since VisualStudio 6 I think, the MS debugger in VS6 was quite neat. The visual debugging tools were always pretty good.

Hmm, this has got me wondering if there's anything like this available for vim, this looks like it might be neat:

http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=663

But no C/C++ support. Could be useful for Ruby though.
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That is better but not good enough. If your servers were compromised, that attacker could add JS code to your page that quietly farms that facets that are securly stored in the browser, when the user logs in.

Makes it harder against a targeted attack, but does nothing for the average user.

You can mitigate the problem by having a really good intrusion detection system, but not eliminate it.
> "Some of the things MS pulled the plug on needed it."

Sure, the complaint isn't about pulling the plug on things in general, but rather how fragmented and difficult the documentation has become.

If class Foo has been deprecated in favor of class Bar in a different namespace, say so on Foo's page. If class Foo is a basic utility class, it would greatly help if the documentation could point to Bar, if Bar was the supported equivalent in WinRT.

Things like that. Considering how sparse the community support can be (I find .NET discussion on StackOverflow to be substantially less voluminous than, say, iOS/Cocoa dev), the reliance on first-party docs is not really optional.

> "Have you used NuGet yet with over 1100 packages?"

Yes.

> "Microsoft is a public company that makes software and sells it for a profit, what is wrong with this business model?"

You seem to be under the impression I'm railing against Microsoft. I honestly couldn't care less about Microsoft's business model. I'm strictly speaking from the perspective of an app developer - a demographic Microsoft seems to be keen to court. My experiences so far seems to indicate 3 choices:

- Develop on Android/iOS, gain access to enormous volume of free (as in beer) libraries that will speed my work along and make my life easier.

- Develop on WinRT (and WinPhone? my exposure on that side is limited) and home-brew a lot of core utility functionality because it doesn't exist in free (as in beer) form.

- Develop on WinRT and pay astronomical licensing costs for core utility functionality, which is an easier pill to swallow if the profitability of the Windows Store is more reliable.

This isn't a philosophical argument about profiting off of code, about the freedom of knowledge, or anything like that. This is a plainly pragmatic argument about developing for Microsoft's latest-and-greatest platform, and how there are very large consequences that make their platform much less attractive to developers as a consequence of both their business model as well as their approach to support and documentation.
"Weak" Hah! I'd like to see some references to that claim.

Oh wait, here it is: [1] - melc's ass.

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IIS has given me a TON of performance right out of the box with a fantastic GUI editor for settings. StackOverflow a website with MILLIONS of monthly hits runs fine with IIS.
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I would not hesitate to purchase a clunker for a child so that they could find a job, both in high school and in college.
I don't think that implication is the author's intention. I read that as an opening to say "researchers are still investigating the causes", not "researchers have not yet found the cause."
This is amazing because it's endorsed by a major mainstream news organization. A good point when arguing with those that defend that Tor is only meant for terrorism, child pornography and illegal activities.
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Soooo can .onion addresses be spoofed for MIM attacks?
"Massive transfers of income to flesh and blood human beings."

There are so many conflating forces in action at once here. The One True Sentient AI appearance will probably be followed by The End of Practical Scarcity (food, clothing, material goods) which will require a cultural upheaval.

People extend current society metaphors to post-TOTSAI and immediately assume you'll have Google CEOs getting trillions of dollars from TOTSAI while everybody else lives in hovels. That's not a tenable world outcome.

(There are clever book-length writings to be done on these topics.)

Current technology is already growing towards establishing a fast-twich ambient psychic network amongst ourselves anyway. It'll be used both for greatness and the utterly most trivial drivel imaginable (a real time conference of a million one direction fans? imagine twitter, but worse.)
so, watching a lot of KGB-TV, ops sorry RussiaTV lately? I know plenty of Americans watch only this for news.

Don't tell me it's not genius, please. Russia banned recently all outside world financed NWOs from their country, but they air their propaganda in the US day and night. You don't see that? First divide the country. Find original dividing factor. Whatever it is as long as ti exists. I.e. Tea Party in the US which in fact has been a genuine effort to make the Republic better. Then invest millions, hundreds of millions in them. In their NWOs, show them on your TV, support their papers, bloggers, activists. See how much trouble you're creating in the country without even firing a single bullet? They can and do pull it off all the time.

You think Finland is any different? The whole of Russia belongs to KGB and is governed by it. And don't take my word for this, these are almost exact words of the US Ambassador in Moscow that leaked via wikileaks.

Western Europeans are somehow always so naive in the face of threat. Whether it was Hitler or Stalin, they voted, they believed in it. Stop being so blatantly naive, ok?
Yeah, it always bugs me, people bitch and moan about "getting into mainline" and having to "satisfy every use case of Linux", then they claim Linux is shitty code. They don't seem to connect that discriminating in what patches are accepted is no guarantee of quality, but it is a pre-requisite.
DAE feel that there are too many haters on HN?
it keeps me up at night .. sometimes I get the feeling you can't post anything because everyone's such a hater. the Aaron case really convinced me of this. is it just me?
Furthering my point. Using Bitcoin to transfer large sums of wealth across borders without being tracked is by all measures almost impossible, unless you're in bed with an exchange and they'd be willing to take that risk.
The link to Swartz' 2006 essay for Wired is broken. Here's the correct link:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2006/11/ringside_at_cop
New Yorker generally don't have any experience with creating infographics, so this is probably part of the reason why it is so bad. I transcribed it for you:

1. Access the Tor network

2. Upload and submit your files or messages. You'll receive a randomly generated code name.

3. The files are encrypted using P.G.P. (sic) and transmitted to a server separate from the rest of the Condé Nast network.

4. New Yorker editors check the dedicated Strongbox server for enw material, using a laptop with a V.P.N. connection.

5. New Yorker editors download the encrypted files to a thumb drive.

6. A second laptop, not connected to the Internet, is booted up from a live CD and erased each time it is powered on.

7. A second thumb drive, containing P.G.P. decryption keys, is connected to the laptop.

8. New Yorker editors plug the first thumb drive into the unconnected laptop, download and decrypt the documents.

9. New Yorker editors will be able to send you a response. This message will only be visible if you return to Strongbox and use your code name.
As a .NET/C# developer, I couldn't disagree more with what the author is saying... So much so, that I really don't think he/she even knows what .NET is.
> Gender inequality is almost wholly a social problem, not a biological one.

Yes. A problem where people find it appropriate for women to hug men but not for men to hug women. A problem where people find it appropriate for women to hug women but not for men to hug men. A problem where people find it appropriate to expect men to hug women. A problem where people find it appropriate for boys punching boys but not for boys punching girls.

You can hardly get any more gender-unequal than that.
I love that we dont read comments on HN, we parse them!
Relevant: 'Here’s how central London would look if the Tube map was geographically correct' http://www.mapfodder.com/london.html
I think that the more accurate term is horizontal expansion, rather than franchising.
"I walk or ride somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 miles each year."

"The money that would otherwise go into a second vehicle"

I don't think you're going to like the math very much.

700 miles divided by 4 mph which is real slow for a bike (maybe up a hill?) or real fast for a walker, times maybe $100/hr as a consultant, equals about $17500/yr or about $1450 per month. You can rent a decent new Porsche 911 for about one grand per month as per leasetrader, so ... More realistically selections of vehicle and billable rate scale hand in hand. Or if you like a cost basis, my cost per mile has averaged under fifty cents per mile for my car so you're talking about around a buck per day, which buys like one organic apple around here. Which is better for you than no organic apples. I'm just saying the extra food probably isn't enough to fatten you up.

Note I walk about most nights after dinner and also after lunch. For health, and fun. Have to be realistic that neither of us are saving any money doing so. Long term medical bills, maybe.
I don't get the point. If you trust them, isn't it okay to reveal your identity to The New Yorker anyway since they're legally protected from being compelled to reveal your identity? And if you don't trust them, why should you trust that they're not logging your identity even on Strongbox?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_sources
In ECC we trust.
Point taken, maybe the wrong term/ my lack of specific knowledge.

My personal thoughts though are in this industry (and this side of it), a huge advantage to TS & YC is relational. I'm not sure how well or how long relational scales.
The cost of Windows Web Server licenses is peanuts when measured against the total cost of building and running the system.

SQL Server is expensive, but completely optional. Just because you use .Net, it doesn't mean you have to use any other piece from the MS stack.
The compiled version might be different. A solution would be to allow everyone to run a local copy of the president which gets the same data-feed so it would respond the same in all instances. The problem is of course that a president deals with confidential information which you don't want to just broadcast over a network for anyone to see.
Or how about sqlite? It's the epitome of ruthless testing.
Keep in mind that .NET is relatively new to the enterprise and lots of those companies didn't even get out of cobol yet.

Opinion:

Timing is a important factor here. My bet is those enterprise companies skipped the .NET/JavaEE era and will jump right into what is coming next.

I know a couple of banks that are heavy Adabas/Natural users for decades. When .NET/JavaEE boomed they opted to just wait. Now, no single framework can really solve most of your problems. In fact, the problems are so heterogeneous that using frameworks at all is becoming completely irrelevant.

That said, .NET, JavaEE, Rails, Django, they are all dead to a certain point. What we will see is the rise of the non-frameworks. People will start doing their own stuff on Go (or anything else) and maybe will start open sourcing parts of it. You will have a lot of mini libraries that you will put together to fit your needs.
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Well it's an interesting prospect, but in London myself I find that I prefer the opposite of what TFL's cycle routing thing thinks I would. I like main roads. Pedestrians tend to look before stepping out in main roads. They also have bus lanes. Bus drivers tend to be nicer to cyclists, they aren't in a hurry.

Some things are fairly simple, avoiding right turns for instance, as often its much faster and safer to go on a bit further until some lights or roundabouts.

Avoiding any road that is single car width, the amount of problems I find with drivers (despite me often doing in excess of the speed limits) rushing to overtake me, because i try to be courteous and let them at all times, only to then get stuck behind them due to oncoming traffic on single lane.

So whilst I applaud their efforts, I'll be a bit cynical and suggest they are going about it the wrong way, it would be better to crowd source some scores for route sections aimed at specific kind of cyclists (many don't like doing 10mph+ because they will get sweaty) and somehow weave them together.
There are companies who have special licenses, etc to do that type of work.

I was supposed to meet with a Scandinavian vendor a few years ago that provides a service where you can match SHA hashes of files against known illegal content. I recall the pitch deck said that they had millions of records to match against, which I found incredibly depressing.

I ended up bailing on the meeting... it's a subject I don't want to learn more about.
WIth Tor your identity can't be logged. Even if they are forced to reveal their logs, they'd be completely worthless.
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I think MS have lost a lot of support on the desktop after deprecating Windows Forms (which is all a lot of enterprise apps need), followed by WPF/Silverlight's poor penetration leaving no hardware accelerated graphics for non-WPF (bit blitting excluded), and then the confusing messages around WinRT which at one point looked like they were deprecating WPF as well.

While the front end flashy stuff isn't there compared in .net compared to the better Javascript libraries (I love d3!) MS have really progressed the non-sexy .net improvements e.g. C# evolution, F#, WebAPI.
I can't read the black text where it overlaps the blurred purple square.

I'm not sure if I have a plugin that's causing it, but when I'm scrolling and hover over "Laser Focus" it stops my scrolling.

I'm having a really hard time figuring out exactly what the app is. I think some bold blue subtext next to gratify that says "A process management tool to gratify everyone" or something like that. A short blurb that gives a clue what you're dealing with.
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For what it's worth, the text in the footer looks fuzzy to me (in a way that hurts my eyes on a TN panel, on IPS it's slightly less bad)

(Chrome, Windows 7 64-bit)
I'm never calm until I see ^C
In the past decade, the New Yorker has been the only news organization (aside from Wikileaks) doing significant investigative journalism.
I hope so. Clearer roads for those of us who like driving. Vrrrrooom!
> "Inherent hatred for Microsoft and anything it does, even if it is good. I think is pretty sad since I see this attitude from people that should be objective from a technical standpoint"

I have the inverse feeling: recently, just because at MS some people got a catch on a new fashionistas UI, and gave it a sexy name (flat UI), I have read a lot of praise for this company, as if it was something someone could wish that their tablet or mobile OS would get back on the front of the scene.

This just shows how shallow are the memories of us, developpers. So let's restate it vigorously:

MicroSoft is deservedly hated for extremely grave sins against the industry commited not so long ago.

They regularly force OS upgrades nobody wants even when the failure is patent, and their software is so unmanageable that most PC users have become like beaten dogs begging for the minimal working setup, admiring those who know how to ctrl-tab to another window, fearful of any changes in their software installation, inculated from viruses by rootkits that even more harmful than what they are supposed to protect you against, and the only action they dare take beside reading email is to reboot, and take a coffee break.

They, MicroSoft, also imposed a central crappy software (IE 6) on their monopolistic OS, and used this position to try to smother the big waves we are all surfing on: the Internet itself. They purposedly tried to strangulate the distributed network, because it was not going to bow and contribute to the church tax.

No, Internet's fate was not granted, it could have become a TV-like network of a few content providers like AOL feeding users through the nose. Actually, it is still under attack, also from other threats, many of them having grown on its roots.

MicroSoft is a mammoth, she will endure a very long death, but let's have the minimal pity, and let's not make this agony longer by unduly praising their latest relative PR success.

End of the rant.
BitTorrent study challenges videogame piracy misconceptions
Have you some how avoided the news from the last couple days?
I'd argue your presupposition is false. Your bury sentience in your definitions of "look for accounting laws," "analyze my requirements," "look for similar software", "generate the code," "offer me the software."

Each of those steps require a feeling for what is right, wrong, appropriate, inappropriate, and culturally acceptable. MakeAccountingSoftware() is a little more involved than GraphPlan().
I would say that the Von Neumann construction and PA try to capture the natural numbers. It is a philosophical stance which can be called platonism. What you say is called the formalist stance.
Agree. I think they should be using HTTPs, HSTS etc for this page.
Most people don't have the luxury of leaving their kids at home when they travel, especially if it's not a business trip.
Nice to see a strong endorsement of Tor. I imagine it will help The New Yorker attract new sources for their stories.
> I live in a low cost of living area and the cheapest car sold by the local Carmax is $8K.

You can buy used cars on craigslist, or go around looking for ones on the side of the road or in parking lots for sale.

And a 2007 model year car came out in 2006, now it's 2013, so that car has been around for 7 years. 112,000/7 = 16,000 miles per year which isn't out of the ordinary. Most people put between 12-15,000 miles a year on a vehicle.
If you read the first paragraph of the wikipedia article you link you'll see this in the last line:

"In the United States, the federal government legally contends that no such protection exists for journalists."

There are well documented cases (and even a movie based on true events) of journalists having to go to prison because they wouldn't reveal sources.

e.g. Found this on Google searching "reporter source prison": http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/08/as-fox-news-repor...
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I feel very sorry for my friends who are actively writing projects in the latest .NET Whiz-Bangedness.

They're all so optimistic, with regurgitated Microsoft marketing-speak about how this bell or whistle is going to magically solve this or that problem, and how easy everything is to do now. They've been eagerly awaiting a new customer to try this stuff out on.

Then, sometimes just within days, I start hearing the pain. It's always the same -- the damned development ecosystem is a freaking nightmare and some little gotcha somewhere is killing hours (or days) of time.

I used to teach .NET. Everything is awesome as long as you go down 7 or 8 pre-defined paths. But nothing ever works like that in the real world. There's nothing like watching a new developer drag a control onto a form, take a look a the properties page with it's 40-thousand item madness, and be utterly and completely at sea. Lost. Bewildered and rendered ineffectual. Their stuff is full of experiences like that.
I wasn't implying that. I guess the vibe I've always gotten is that space technology innovation has slowed pretty significantly since the height of the space race and that it would have been neat to see it get reinvigorated so recently.
> and I'm flummoxed when it feels as though the other person has simply dangled their appendage for me to interact with.

This was a wonderful turn of phrase. It should be in some sales manual or something.
Explain how Google Now is any more spyware than what goes on with browser tracking throughout the industry. That's no excuse for spyware, but there's little warrant in singling out Google here. In fact, Google Now seems to really just be the use of the data that's been tracked (by all parties discussed in this subcomment thread) for years into a package that's user facing and easier to digest.

And let's not fool ourselves that Apple isn't tracking in such a "spyware" fashion just the same.
So if I buy a music player and it comes with 40g of music on it I should assume it's fine and trust the company that sold it to me.

Sweet.

No, the poster above had it right. It's not the specific remedies that're needed, it's them throwing open the door the way they would want if they were investigating.

Sure, this may be a mistake, but if it's an important issue as they make it out to be, they shouldn't brush it off.
> It's not a huge sacrifice to voluntarily use the best product in a category

Flamebait spotted.
American journalists aren't legally protected from revealing their sources at all and there's journalists in jail right now for just this reason.
I suspect many people do this for the same reasons that we yell at other drivers from within the sealed environment of our own car. There's very little chance that the other driver will hear us, but it provides an outlet for frustration.
Found the same, didn't feel like creating a newyorker/facebook/twitter account to post it as a comment to the original piece either :P
It's a relatively sophisticated static analyser. Nothing new, but quite useful.

Open source projects can register and get reports for free, commercial companies have to pay. Coverity uses eg. Linux to test and compare their product against, and write various marketing pieces such as this one to raise awareness for their product.

http://scan.coverity.com/
Luckily minimum wage has gone from $4.25/hr to $7.25/hr to keep up as expenses quadrupled. Err, um...
> I walk or ride somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 miles each year.

That's 2 miles per day. Certainly nothing to brag about, but if I could do all my shopping or commuting without a car, and only had to walk/bike 2 miles a day, I would. Why own a car? Even walking that's a only 30 minutes a day.