skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) When the user owns the device it is up to him to decide what to do with it and not the manufacturer. So while they may not have the need for it, they definitely have the right to it if they so desire.

2) No you cant. You must use exploits/vulnerabilities usually. The only vendor that I know of that just sends you unlock code on request is HTC.

3) Yesterday I played Diablo 1 on my windows 8 machine. 3 months before that - Lotus (the game). That is measured in decades. How backwards capability is debatable.

4) Yes linux is everywhere. But invisible - moving the servers, or hidden below deep layers of customized software in the consumer devices. The linux ideology - nowhere to be seen.

Having the ability to run simple firewall to control what processes use your data plan is hardly absolutism. Or editing memory value of a running process.

Edit: Do you support the Chinese Great Firewall - because there is no difference in restricting access to internet and to software in principle?
The Day Before the World Changed
For convenience: https://www.dropbox.com/
Well, that's just called "remote echo" and it doesn't have much to do with SSH. It's just that the remote is in charge of drawing the character on the screen if needed.

If you change to "local echo" it would cause problems with programs such as vi which will interpret certain characters (such as hjkl) as special commands and won't actually draw them on the screen.

If you start a remote program that just "eats" your input without updating the terminal (like a password prompt) you won't see the 2nd tcp roundtrip.

You'd have the same behaviour with a serial link, rsh, telnet or anything else.

I think I saw a custom SSH client on hn some months ago that would try to compensate high network latencies by echoing the characters locally while waiting for the remote reply. It would then undo the local echo and use the "authoritative" reply instead.
Cubesats don't use LCDs. mainly because LCD won't work under low temp conditions, so that's problem number one. Problem number two - we don't know how Arkyd will be propelled. They are selling possibility to point the telescope anywhere but what about changing it's direction? How many maneuvers they can do with limited amount of propellant on board?
There is more questions, but really what's the point?
I'd be more concerned about trashing $1500-worth of hardware if I fall off my bike.
The Pen & The Highlighter
Perhaps this person's opinion is "I expected this article's content to be about a button you can press to have some effect on traffic patterns, and instead the article was about a neat tactile feedback device used for accessibility. This article doesn't match my expectations."
Dropbox is experiencing issues
Where should one go for a future proof DESKTOP OS these days?

Many are ruining the desktop experience because "mobile". KDE seems to be the only UI remaining that is sane for the desktop.
Adventures in Club Soda Land (Giving Up Drinking)
What's New in Windows 8.1
A few cities do have Skyways or Skywalks besides the NYC example you cited. Two good examples are Minneapolis and Des Moines. And you're right -- it does negatively impact the street level businesses. It's really more about climate control in those cities, however.
Last 3 or 4 paypal related mails on the full disclosure mailing list also report that paypal is either not responding, not cooperating or weaseling their way out of paying bounties all the time. I'm not sure how seriously I can take this.
But the difference between NaCl and native is almost nothing, and that's almost as portable. Even PNaCl has almost native performance, and that's precisely as portable as JavaScript.

The web as a platform is terrible, despite the amazing work of browser vendors.
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It has nothing to do with hating change -- which is a pretty condescending thing to say -- but rather with disagreeing with the UI decisions made. By and large the reaction to Metro has been negative for numerous reasons, the important part being that these objections are reasonable.

Such grandiose shifts also smack of hubris: "Users be damned, we know what's best for them! Apple did it! So can we!" The problem with this is that Microsoft has always suffered a lack of holding design up to primary importance, and this is again the case here.

Enjoying OS X Snow Leopard on my rMBP where I have zero issues with the OS getting in the way of my daily activities. Had to deal with Win7 and then -- briefly -- Win8 for the first few months of this year, and I was positively floored by how much the OS got in the way of doing things. I am skeptical that simply making refinements will fix what appears to be a fundamental problem.
Early brain responses to words predict developmental in children with autism
It's built into Rails, except they use utf8=✓ now.
I know that. Everyone knows that. But BSD is also free and if you're in favor of people using Linux you should be in favor of people using BSD, IMHO.
Introducing OpenFL
Counterpoint: salespeople.
“We would just walk into one Apple store after another and buy them out”

Apple has good terms for business purchases. Spend more than $2k and get 18 months interest-free financing. No need to drive around to all the stores (unless you just want the airline points on your credit card)
A CV Proofreading Website (that I am developing; feedback appreciated)
It appears to be a widespread outage; no comments yet from @Dropbox or @DropboxOPs on Twitter.
They have made it very clear that they are doubling down on a touch-first vision they started with Windows 8.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried Windows 8 on a touch-based device(Laptop or Tablet)?
Do We Really Need an Alternative Form of Capitalism?
I don't know about Shutlleworth, but for me the big deal is not whether or not they include proprietary software, but whether or not free alternatives are readily available for those who care.

And there we've seen a massive shift. I ordered my laptop without OS from a major vendor. I can buy dozens of cheap Android or "real" Linux boxes at Amazon, and every bit of software on most of them either are or can be replaced by free alternatives.
There are two camps (I think I'm in the latter):

- telling everyone motivates you: you made a public commitment, you get early feedback, "if your idea is any good people will reject it at first"

- don't tell anyone motivates you: the idea is yours, you want to build something beautiful and show to the world, you don't like to be criticized when starting up
Google "addicted definition", second meaning - "Enthusiastically devoted to a particular thing or activity". Don't instantly associate term "addiction" with negative things like drug addiction, which, unfortunately, the author tries to exploit by even referring to cocaine effects on the brain and comparing it to programming. The article is designed to provoke a reaction from programmer community for attention.
The absence of a start menu was confusing to me for about three minutes, and then I figured out that the Metro screen is the start menu, just full size. Ever since you've been able to pin programs to the taskbar at the bottom (or side if you prefer) of the screen, my usage of the start menu fell to pressing start, and typing the name of the program I hadn't pinned to the taskbar.

The start screen's the same for me, mostly, except I also click on "Weather" and occasionally use the Trackage app.

While I don't think the Metro interface is the solution for everything or even a primary direction to go in (I'm in desktop mode 98% of the time) I also think putting a start menu back in is a step in the wrong direction.
You're just intolerant of other people's principles. Everyone is an absolutist about the rights they care about, but since you don't find software freedom to be particularly important, nobody else can complain about the status quo.

Well, to some of us, and after the Really Important Things™ that most of us agree with, we also find software freedom to be extremely important.
If they've always been like this, shouldn't people expect it by now?
DVD player also can't be "seen" over airplay.
I have a (programming) job and live in San Francisco. I'm not receiving job offers on a daily, monthly, or yearly basis (or, indeed, at all).

What's making the difference here?
The GeForce GTX 770 Review: Calling In A Hit On Radeon HD 7970?
When he came up with the Model T, people already had trains, trams, electric cars, and bicycles at their disposal. One has to wonder whether the world wouldn’t have been better off without Henry Ford’s gasoline automobiles.
The latency B<->C doesn't inform you about the latency difference between A<->B and A<->C. The traffic may take different routes on its way from A, depending on peering arrangements and traffic conditions.

Real-life example: I live in China, and passing traffic through a VPN in Singapore to which I have low latency can speed up (lower latency and better bandwidth) connections to some hosts.

Ping times from my domestic ADSL connection to that host are about 90ms because they have direct peering with PCCW. Other hosts in Singapore can be 200ms or more away, even though all of them are <10ms away from each other.
I'm from the US. The article was from the BBC. So that's two English-speaking countries.

In the US, of course, there are other buttons than push-buttons and clothing-buttons. Belly buttons for example. "Pin-back buttons" are usually just called buttons. Cornflowers are sometimes known as "Bachelor's button." You can of course use the term as an adjective -- button mushrooms, a button nose -- and you can refer to that indented mat that stops you from falling in the shower as a "button mat." If I described a "button mouse" to you, as opposed to a mouse button, you would probably come up with a visual image of a trackpoint mouse -- though you might also imagine a normal mouse covered with too many interaction buttons. The word "button" can also be used for things which are just generally small and globular and attached to other things -- you can find many search results for "button of rubber" and somewhat fewer for "button of glass" which fit this description.
In The Netherlands we have a ticking sound in the pole called "rateltikkers" (rattle ticker).
When red the tick is about once per second. When green it is ticking very fast.
Well, yes. What's I'm describing is what it would take to have mail payloads (but not routing) that's opaque to the back-end. In that case, you would have to index your mail at the endpoint. I don't think that's going to be a problem.
The freedom of BSD is irrelevant to people using iOS.
Hangouts to replace Google Talk (no XMPP support)
That is pretty fascinating. It seems like Facebook, who I use because this was their early marketing strategy, is teaching us to ignore data that has peoples faces associated with it. I wonder if there is broader research being done on this?
Nuh-uh. I had this as my address for a while:

5 Division
Australian Defence Force Academy
Department of Defence
Canberra ACT 2600

Or another one:

Officer's Mess
RAAF Williamtown
Newcastle, NSW

Both military of course. Try sending mail to someone stationed on a boat, uh sorry, ship!

I'm sure various universities, government departments, and companies have similar silly situations. For example I would be willing to bet that you get some very weird addresses in some mining operations.
MtGox Trading App for Android
We are running a beta test of a new android app to trade Bitcoins in MtGox from your android device.
Jon Lajoie's Kickstarter
> it's not so much the architect / engineers that are building the house that are wanting to prevent you from doing things, it's the outside influences.

I wonder what "outside influence" runs the iTunes store?

IMO parent is right, the situation looks like real estate developer with interest in selling as many apartments as possible selling you a "smart" apartment which counts people inside and doesn't allow more than one family to live there.
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it's quite funny tbh :)

How is this called ? being "hackernewsed" ?
If Microsoft made a Google Glass
We have a similar vibrating button in Germany that also indicates in which direction this light actually points with a tactile arrow.
Try to bring that battle axe on the plane after you win...
I've literally never fallen off of my road bike in 20 years of cycling, and if i get hit by a car or something I have bigger problems...
HackerPit: challenge your inner hacker
See that seems like a reason to hide them; we hardly need more mechanisms to validate superficial snark and dismissive snark.
i might be missing something but is tony morris someone who is famous for being really good at programming or something? i googled him and couldn't find anything concrete, and yet you and the guy you replied to seems to already know who this guy is and have some kind of assumption about his abilities. i'm sincerely asking.
It's funny how clueless most SEO experts really are.
Laptops, desktops, tablets and servers?
I've seen giant black boxes show up over movies with third party DVD software before, yes.
I'm seeing a similar problem on Ubuntu with the packages installed from the git-core PPA.

Edit: Specifically, I've got ".* .un~" and ".*.sw?" in my global excludes file, but they're showing up as untracked (not ignored) when my repo's .gitignore has some !-type patterns. Perhaps something about the precedence of such rules was changed.
Because businesses don't buy computers?
Ubuntu's new bug #1: Linux Mint
1) Your response has nothing at all to do with my original point.

2) I didn't say you can do it easily, I said you CAN do it.

3) Yes and I can run decades old UNIX software on OS X or Ubuntu. So what?

My point about debatable backwards compatibility is that some old DOS software does NOT work well in modern Windows. Some does, some doesn't. If you haven't experienced problems, lucky you.

4) You made my point for me here.

I'm not arguing any further, you're clearly a zealot, and have exactly the kind of attitude I was talking about.
Dropbox has the worst customer support. Hear me out. They go down, they come back up. They just pretend like nothing happened. Very rarely do we get a look into what happened and their reaction times are pathetic. There is no point in having a DropboxOPs Twitter handle if you've been down for 30 minutes and haven't tweeted a single thing. Grumble grumble. Someone who uses Dropbox in a work environment such as myself grows to hate dropbox every outage even though when it works it's the best game in town.
It's funny to see two threads on the front page contrasting 'continuing the Windows 8 vision' with 'Microsoft u-turn'. I doubt many outside of Redmond are going to conform to the former viewpoint.
I believe Google will only show a "recognizable headshot,"[1] not any image you give them. So you cannot use a logo.

[1] https://plus.google.com/authorship
I like more Dart.
node.js doesn't run in the browser. It's typically a server side application. And, yes, I think most would agree that node.js might be one of the few valid use cases for this.
Go has always looked interesting to me, but I don't understand why Google hasn't put go on Android yet. It seems like a better long term solution for Google than Java is for just about everything, but maybe it's not.
The main reason I love Go is because it makes me feel like the more I use it, the more I'm able to do and get it done faster. When I solve a given problem, it's solved for all my current and future projects written in Go.

When I was working with C++ earlier, that was not really the case. After spending many years with it, I couldn't write a simple web server in under 5 minutes. Making something into a library had too much overhead. In Go, once I've done something [1], the next time it's one line to import it.

Also, working with the language programmatically is a pleasure. There's a full parser in the standard library.

[1] e.g. https://gist.github.com/shurcooL/5571468, https://gist.github.com/shurcooL/5504644
Here it is worth pointing out that despite losing his "contest", badly, Adam Sherwin decided not to pay Moxie Marlinspike.
Asana - what has been forgotten to implement for $40 million
I understand that Flippa is/was very popular. I've never bought/sold on it myself, and am curious about the negative comments here.

Why is it awful?
These are the top 20 investors to follow on Twitter? Really?
How are they scrambling and backtracking decisions? How is that what you took from this?

Sure, they added a start button, why not? But they also made all the PC settings available from within the Metro environment. If the start button is a step backwards in direction, pushing further away from requiring the desktop is ten huge steps forward toward that vision.
I love how people think this is rare.
Dear Google, please stop content skimmers.

Dear Google, thanks for trying to address content skimmers - but now we may have another problem...
Tesla To Triple Supercharger Network: LA to NY by Year End
The URL has probably been submitted already once. You can try adding a question mark or a bogus query to re-submit a URL which has been submitted before.
Why Are San Franciscans so Goddamn Busy All the Time?
B&H and Developer Raizlabs Build Industry-Leading iPad Shopping Experience
Beware! As of today, mtgox now requires full proof of identity, so you can no longer maintain your privacy.
Yeah. I don't understand why people don't get this. SSL already provides end to end encryption with the server. The only issue is you have to trust the server. That said, any JS that gets downloaded to the browser for execution has the same exact issue.
How I Blogged My Way Into A Tech Job
"the Search charm will provide global search results powered by Bing"

This is similar to what Ubuntu users complained about when they included Amazon results in any searches.

Hopefully there will be an option to disable it and/or switch to another search provider.
Ahhh the old slippery slope fallacy.
Anybody feel like taking a shower after reading that or is it just me?

I mean the bug was basically the inability of customers to purchase a computer with the software/OS of their choice.

As far as i can tell i still can't purchase a system without windows unless i build it myself.

So what is the reason for closing the bug? Some marketing speech about changing goals etc. I'm sure that's inspirational and all and I'm glad they found a better goal but that doesn't fix this problem.
I agree - with real-time monitoring they could have seen it was down and at least tweeted to acknowledge it was down. What a piss take.
That's supposed to demonstrate the bug, but it's not necessarily the end-all and be-all of fixing it.

In a hypothetical world where Apple somehow took over the PC market, would this bug be fixed? The title suggests yes. The first paragraph suggests yes. The rest suggests no. The bug is vague and contradictory.
OP: Here's your link to check ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792539 )

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/dropbox.com.html

down since 6:32 PST
I'm not saying HN is bad specifically (otherwise I wouldn't be here). There are obviously links to excellent articles posted here, and interesting projects. So this is not an issue with the quality, but more the quantity. Call it "information overload" if you want.

"15 second spans" was exaggerated, this is not Twitter. However reading these kind of sites causes a lot of context switches between topics and articles that seem interesting, or make me want to argue, but a few hours later I cannot really remember anymore what they were about.

It's a very fragmented experience with no clear narrative (at least, that my brain bothers remembering), but it does wear me out.

In any case, it's not that I don't have it under control, but to me it feels more like a potential addiction than coding ever did.
So http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_hash_passwo... isn't in use anymore? Seems to indicate that the lowest common denominator is multiple runs of md5. I see that's pluggable, but I'm sure most WP sites don't bother installing an extra password hashing plugin, given a major part of WP's install base is one-click installs on shared hosting accounts by people that don't really understand what they're doing... (I say this from long experience, unfortunately.)

In any case, I'd love to find out it's not md5, that's just what the docs seemed to suggest.
Show HN: Warmly - what do you think? 2devs/1week
That's the purpose of cozycloud.cc : for people who don't want to install / update / maintain the cozy platform on their own hosts, we offer already installed and ready to be used virtual machine with a cozy on it

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I can't wait for that to happen. I might just get an Android device and start developing for it when it does.

I think it will happen eventually. The language is new, but it's having a lot of success and spreading both within Google and outside.
Daigoba66 wasn’t talking about the product itself, but the stage of beta testing. How many people it took to program the software has nothing to do with the beta testing effort. If it takes 10,000 programmers to build an app, but afterwards they only let 10 users beta test it, that’s not a big beta testing project. However, if you build an app alone and then have 1 million people beta test it, then that’s a big beta testing project.
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I'm intolerant? I'm not the one ranting about how something I disagree with is evil and bad. I'm the one preaching tolerance here.

Since you know absolutely nothing about me I find it hilarious that you would make assertions about my values.
I'd be following Taleb here and would be very skeptic about the positive or negative outcome from the hiring of a Kurzweil at Google.

To expand: Big companies may have the need for very talented particulars, like Peter Norvig, who can drive innovation over big teams and have a very precise mind, and all the humility required. But in the case of Kurzweil, it looks more like he is invited to play the clown and amuse the assistance, than to lead anything concrete.
I've asked this question of a number of core Go contributors.

First, I should point out that you CAN currently run Go programs on an Android device. You just can't take advantage of the SDK and make GUI-based applications, etc.[0]

Basically, the answer is that nothing's preventing anybody (including you and me) from doing so, except the fact that we would have to wrap the entire NDK and make it available/usable through Go.

That's not any more difficult to do in Go than it is to do in Java, but it's a massive amount of work which has already been solved for Java, so there's little incentive to recreate it in Go.

(I'm paraphrasing, so my answer may be slightly wrong, but hopefully you get the idea - perhaps @enneff can give a more complete answer).

[0] You can, however, bundle them as hybrid applications, because Android applications apparently allow bundling of arbitrary binaries, from what I've been told.
I don't like shitting on people's work, but I'd like to see authentication efforts being made towards supporting Mozilla Persona. It strikes me as much better designed, and an actually very good solution for the web in general.
Yes, having a photo (or perhaps any image) that modifies the layout of a search result instantly makes that search result look like an ad and not a true search result for me. Particularly if it's the first in the list, then it gets categorized as an advertisement by my brain.

We have been trained by more than a decade of abusive internet ads to ignore them. Does Google have results that show that these abnormally layouts result in an improved number of clicks, I wonder? Is it just us?
Dropbox Currently Experiencing Widespread Service Outage
The article isn't as judgmental as the headline makes it sound. It notes that in practice, it only sends three segments across the wire, and that's what I'd expect from telnet, too.
@dropbox_support says they're working on it, but no details and no ETA.