skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. Clever strategy releasing only for Office 365 customers first.

Microsoft is clearly aware that most people with a tablet already have something by Apple or an Android device and that trying to use Office to sell them a Windows RT device isn't going to work.

However enticing organizations to "upgrade" to Office 365 (which comes with a regular subscription fee and better long term profits) to get a version for the tablet they already have might actually move some 365-licenses.

I say they are making the best of the situation.
Pretty sure the meaning of the sentence is, "It's was news to me, I haven't seen it posted here during the couple years I've been a member"
They invented the machine gun for such circumstances.
Have you seen the US incarceration rate? Seems consistent with that.
given that retroviruses are sloppy, basically any any all genes have at some time been reverse transcribed.
"During his time in Syria throughout much of 2012, videographer Robert King followed Aleppo's Al-Tawhid Brigade as he dodged bullets and rocket fire to learn more about the largest brigade of the Free Syrian Army. Somehow Robert managed to track down Haji-Mara, the Al-Tawhid Brigade's commander, for a rare interview, during which the former-businessman-turned-freedom-fighte­r espouses the many difficulties the rebels face against the alleged brutality of President Bashar al-Assad's regime."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CeP81s1KdM
I googled for something like "rc4 weak crack" or something like that. I was just trying to substantiate the claim that RC4 is weak.
Ask HN: Upcoming university interview, what should I learn?
I'm a 20 year old web developer with no A levels (I left high school at 16, for you Americans), next week I will be attending a university interview to study Software Engineering at BSc level, what interview questions should I brush up for, and which Maths would be good to cram the night before?

For reference, I can implement Bubble sort, Quicksort, etc, though don't really understand the maths behind big O. I can do statistics to a decent level, hypothesis testing, etc.

I have already searched Google and the results were mediocre at best, better to ask my peers.
No, I meant what are the best things to do in what order.
Well same turd, rolled in different glitter to be honest.
"almost certainly vanishingly rare event" * "incredibly high rate of reproduction of viruses" = almost certainty.

See the first 4 chapters of "Biology of Cancer" by Weinberg.
It's not a short term solution if you scale the strength of the encryption against the 'cost' of decrypting it and the speed of the technology available.
Don't those things need a (remote) pilote? How would drones without pilotes work against a revolution?
I'd be incredibly surprised if every government on Earth doesn't have something like this.

That being said, that doesn't mean it's good. How "dirty" is that data set, for starters?
http://www.writetothem.com/ I guess, for all the good it will do
Personally, I'm slightly surprised that it's proving to be so popular. Making and eating awesome food is a great joy in life; why would you try to work around that? Interesting concept, nevertheless.
Have any of you actually used these? To start off they are a pain to download/setup, come on Microsoft, you make the freaking OS and you can't package it any better? Second, these VM's are constantly complaining about not being activated. I understand that MS can't just rip that part of the OS out however it's a massive slap in the face to have them act like they give a shit about web developers and then have them provide sub-par VM's. I can pirate the OS and make my own (better) VM's which is really sad if you ask me. Also I have had the VM's shut down on me multiple times to go "update".

TL;DR: These VM's suck and you are better off pirating the OS and making your own VM's.
When something happens that demonstrates a behaviour that is abhorrent, I expect police and the government to collaborate and prevent re-occurrence if such a thing is possible. Yes, post Twin Towers security was increased at airports. That was a political response to a clear flaw in procedure. To some degree it probably worked. [there were other, less sane, responses too]

So yes, the events cause political will to chase a goal, the prevention of future incidents. I suspect many of the supporters of this Bill genuinely believe it to be in the best interests of the population, and that they, too, have read 1984 and don't think that it is a pleasant destination.
boilerplate...I'm wondering how people deal with this issue

http://www.scala-lang.org/
It might be that "the neighbor's grass is always greener" but as an Italian living in the UK I think that 98% of the things here are way better. That 2% missing is the climate and the food. I really think the UK is a great place to live but as I said, maybe you hate it because you lived here too much and I love it because I am "relatively" new.
I added a new book page at http://jobtipsforgeeksbook.com
What, their being a terrorist or not is conditional on how many times a day they pray?
Best new hashtag of the week: #leastuntruthful
Hacker News Feed Broken
In the RSS/XML <https://news.ycombinator.com/rss> the forward slashes in URLs is being escaped, breaking the links in my reader.
Thanks for clarifying checked vs unchecked. Your comment makes perfect sense, and is what I expected. The thing is that I really don't like handling an exception higher than where it makes semantic sense (which is the actual call, in this case), so propagating higher is even less clean, for this specific example. I guess the problem here is the checked exception, but I can see the rationale, if it's impossible to optionally handle an unchecked exception.
"I spend a lot of time working and don't have much time to invest"

vs

"willing to take high risks"

This is only achievable through outsourcing, meaning you'd have to hand you're portfolio to somebody you trust. My advice is to take the little free time you have and shop around for an investment guru you trust.

I have a hard time trusting people with my money so I prefer real estate, it's tangible, it's there, I can see it, only a natural disaster (an act of God) could take it away.

I'm looking at rental property through a real estate management company so that way I don't have to do anything. I think it's a win-win, get some rental income + hold on to real estate over time should go up.
I struggle with the move towards everything being subscription based. Very quickly it becomes difficult to quantify just how much it is costing to own, and maintain ownership of a license for a piece of software.

If I see an application that is $50, I can quickly quantify that into hours I need to work for this to be paid off. I can compare the value I am getting to the amount of currency that I expend on it. I know that if I need to in the future, it will always be there for me to rely on.

If I see a service that is $12 a month it becomes a much harder game. Sure it might be worth it for the first month, but the second one becomes a much harder decision. Do I unsubscribe, and lose all the data that I have stores, or do I pay another $12 and hope that it continues to be useful to me in the future? In the future I might need to sign up again, which is a lot more hassle than it is worth.

All of these "small" subscriptions are beginning to cost me more than I'd like.
I've wondered if copyrights could somehow be treated like trademarks in that if they enter the cultural vernacular you lose the copyright just like if a trademark becomes a common word.
The NSA is not almighty. It has lots of resources, and the US can put lots of pressure in lots of places, but there will always be places out of reach. Thanks to whistle blowers we can get to know which places have fallen under US power, and route around that.

We can safely assume the whole US is not safe, because legislation forces companies to comply (or go to jail). Outside the US, not so easy.
That's great contents. I wearied teaching AngularJS for my friends. Did you have a plan for set domain and publish this site?
Cycles and modularity in the wild
This free Honda Civic sucks, you'd be way better off stealing a Ferrari.

That's some pretty odd logic. What about buying the OS? Since you're, you know, using it for work? Is that not an option? The ROI would be pretty high, I'm guessing. If I only had the on-screen keyboard, my solution would be to buy a keyboard, not shoplift one.
I got nothin' then! I think my socks are only 60% wool, and they never bother me. Though my hands are frequently cold to the touch and they don't make me feel chilly at all, so maybe it's a sensitivity thing?
> And DDG's TTY mode is pretty awesome: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/

How does one find this kind of hidden features? I haven't seen it advertised anywhere except on HN.
I think the problem was charging $ 40 to get to iTunes. Either you give the full catalog or you don't but it shouldn't be something you can purchase.
It's not even remotely a horrible place to live. On the strength of that idiocy I feel confident that you have never been anywhere else and that you have no opinons worth taking seriously. How old are you? 13?
No, that will force whoever is calling your method to handle that exception, now without knowing the actual context ("why does getWeatherForecast() throw MalformedURLException?" etc.). It also leaks an implementation detail, i.e. the use of URL-whatever.

A RuntimeException, and any subclass of it, is unchecked and so the compiler does not force you to handle it.
I would think that means a subset of the billions served by globally reaching services.
Arabs often drink bebsi because in their native language, there is no letter p. For everyone else, there's no excuse! /rant
Nothing wrong with disliking the guy, and of course he has a colorful past, complete with prior non-violent criminal charges. However, there should be certain things not to wish on your worst enemy, international state sponsored persecution should be one of them. Prosecution is fine where appropriate, but not persecution.

>Megaupload is only a small part of what gave me that impression, I’ve been reading about his ‘endeavors’ for over a decade.

Specifically as it relates to megauploads is there anything that differentiates megauploads from say dropbox or google drive (even youtube for that matter), and I don't care if its your opinion or you point me to a third party article. We all know copyright violations take place, but in no other instance, I am aware, has a website been criminally liable for the acts of its members, in fact the US created the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which creates a legal firewall between the websites and its members activities. Even Napster only got sued in a civil context, no criminal charges, much less a counter terrorist unit sent to detain Sean Parker.

>he hasn’t done much to combat piracy on his network, some go as far as suggesting he encouraged it.

According to this Wired article (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/ff-kim-dotcom/) Megauploads gave Copyright holders far greater access/control to protect their registered copyrights than any other cloud sharing service.

>He also claims patents over web tech like two factor authentication.

Kim is the registered patent holder for this in the US, perhaps it is inappropriate, maybe even unenforceable, but compare this patent with Apple having a patent on rectangular electronic devices, or the ridiculous patents Motorola owns which is the sole reason for Google acquiring them. Do you equally hate Apple and Google?

>He also posed on photos with all the firearms he has, which surely must’ve made the NZ authorities queasy about peacefully apprehending him.

This is a slippery slop, more or less it appears you justify the use of counter terrorist operations, complete with helicopters and silencers to take down alleged non-violent criminals so long as there is a picture showing the alleged suspect with a gun. Having guns does not make someone a violent person, and I do not think pictures of Kim with guns made NZ authorities "queasy", because their intelligence was not limited to pictures depicting a man with guns, they knew everything about their target, Kim, including the fact that he is non-violent.
> It's a horrible place to live

Well fuck you too.

Although I do agree with the rest of your post.
I also looked at percorna before even knowing about MariaDB. I ended up picking MariaDB because it solved more of the issues that I currently had in a codebase that I simply did not get the resources for to get refactored in a way. Also in comparison to Pecorna, you also get Aria, which aims to be a transactional/non-transactional replacement for MyISAM. Can't wait for that moment :)
I completely forgot about the original blog post about this and was thinking "they couldn't possibly mean".. I must need to catch up on sleep.
I've definitely noticed the same shift. I've been on couchsurfing since Sept 2006, hosting folks a number of times, and then surfing and meeting up with folks a few times on travels to Europe. FWIW, I've never done a big "meetup".

It used to be a lot more about traveling and culture. Now it seems to be more about partying and one-up-manship. It's really sad to me, I have some great memories from CS pre-2010...
Chitika Insights: The Value of being #1 in Google
How about BigTable ? Since it's uhm essentially a big table.

When is DB3 coming out?
It's an allusion to Steve Jobs' somewhat notorious "hell froze over" introduction to iTunes for Windows, from 10 years ago (... wow). This was also a widely anticipated introduction but it still seemed a little subversive.

http://news.cnet.com/Apple-launches-iTunes-for-Windows/2100-...
If you can "decode" more efficiently than you can "brute force", then you have an "attack on AES".
Oh, right, you convert it to RuntimeException (ostensibly in multiple places where you don't want to handle the exception) and catch that one as a general exception. It makes sense now and sounds like a good solution, thank you.
What you could do is initialize the Url in a static block or in a `{{ }}` block and handle the exception there. You would still have the exception handling, but not in your logic, and the static block would ensure that if the Url is indeed malformed, the exception will throw as soon as the class is loaded in memory, instead of only when the Url is instantiated during in logic.

So somewhere up in your class, you'd write:

private final static URL someUrl;
static {
try {
someUrl = new URL("http://something.com/");
} catch(SomeException e) {
crashAndLogSomehow(e);
}
}

You would thus know right when you load your app, before distributing it, whether an exception can happen. In your code, you wouldn't have the try/catch block hiding the real meaning.
Florida has inland freshwater springs with depths to 240 feet / 73 meters. I did my first deep water scuba cert in Ocala:

http://www.adventuresunderthesea.com/scuba-class-information...

The deeper you go, the less time you can stay there before you have to control your ascent.

Even a mild case of the bends can be excruciating, not something you can tough out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness
Doesn't it feel like we're all just playing along when it comes to whether they're getting email and call contents? We all suspect they're getting everything, but the acceptable range of debate for now is just metadata.

With so many people in the know saying "tip of the iceberg" it should be pretty obvious they're AT LEAST getting calls & emails. The horrific details may be some other shit we didn't even think of like alt uses of OnStar-type systems, data over powerlines (PDSL), hidden capabilities in mobiles, hijacked root CAs, etc.
I've been active in CS since 2008. I can pay for a hotel, but the experience of the experience of getting to know a place like a local is priceless and that - as well as meeting really cool people - has been what I've loved about CS.
Yes, there are risks, that exists everywhere, but a bit of common sense goes a long way, and references plus the verification mechanism takes it a step further.
Another beautiful thing is that: there is no quid-pro-quo. Just cos I've been hosted, it doesn't mean that I have to host anyone, and vice versa.
However, I've been hosting less and less, just because the community has been watered down by its huge growth. Now 90% of the requests I guess sound like hotel reservations and I got used to having a template no response handy.
The article got it right, the focus on numbers instead of community is the main culprit.
Just as an example, they changed the sorting algorithm on the list exactly for that, so that different people kept coming up top on the list, not necessarily those more experienced or with better references. When asked about it, they told me it is because this increases the number of requests accepted. I'm sure it does, but I doubt it increases the overall quality of the experiences people have.
The populace responds to fear. Shift the fear of terrorists to fear of the government by making use of propaganda.
That's one of the reasons why companies love them. People subscribe for a few months, stop using it as much but forget or don't bother to unsubscribe. The entire gym industry is based on this principle.
I was thinking that copyright should perhaps be limited to some time + a function of you continuing to create work.

So Disney gets to keep Mickey so long as they keep using Mickey, JK Rowling keeps Harry Potter so long as she's still writing books and keeping the world up, and the same with Star Wars. However, if nothing new comes out between extensions it falls into public domain. That would catch all the books, 1 hit wonders, orphaned video games (heh, maybe Half Life would be public domain with the wait for HL3), etc.

Not a fully fleshed out idea (What about after death, if your kids kept up your bestselling X, or if you released a 10th edition of your horrible book with "THE END" added), but it's an idea.
The reason is that Java is designed for enterprise, where "I know which exceptions are likely to become a problem and which aren't" cannot be trusted. With giant code bases and mediocre developers you kind of need to have checked exceptions or you'll have exceptions popping up in the most unexpected places.

(I'm a Python dev and hate Java)
At the risk of increasing my flame-downvote surface...

> The point in this article is that if we are digitally dependent being off the grid, or using an encrypted grid, IS information that can be used to stop an overthrow. You can't be an unstoppable force if you can't coordinate and organize.

Well then why didn't the author just say that? Rather than padding his point with psycho-babble ?
There are several such events every day, where someone is hassled, arrested, or assaulted for photography. They're carried on the blog "Photography is not a crime"
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/
Google Dominates Mobile Ads, But Facebook Rising
The pricing makes sense. But not from the perspective of what's best for Office. It makes sense in that Microsoft doesn't want Apple to take a 30% cut.
Hogwash. If you have the good grace to eat food that makes up half the joy in your life, then you have a good life indeed.

In my experience, good food is everything that joy intends: gardening, growing food from nothing, spending time outdoors, connectedness with the land, creativity, quality process, science, creation, enjoyment, collaboration with others, socialization (especially when combined with good booze of many varieties), nutrition, survival, health, and certainly joy.

In fact you could say that eating and everything that goes into it makes up the a good chunk of life, and a good life at that. Certainly a hundred years ago, if you could do everything required simply to eat and eat well, then you had a life better than most. And in fact, you could certainly say the same today. Eating is a luxury, and the choice of what to eat an even greater luxury. You are lucky for it, and you should be damn joyful.
I'm not proposing abolishing the patent system altogether; I'm proposing to protect software from it, while allowing the enforcement of patents against things that are legitimately subject to patents.
If only Microsoft released Office for Linux and Apple let OSX run (in a VM or otherwise) on non-Apple hardware the world would be a much better place.
It should be noted that this is apparently an iPhone-only only app in terms of resolution. Which kind of makes it not super useful (in addition to requiring an Office 365 subscription).
the notice was not supposed to be seen by the public

I am starting to think the people on the other side of "the public doesn't need to know" enjoy their little fantasy world a little too much.
It will look perfectly at home on iOS 7.
Ah, that clarifies it a bit. Python takes a more "we're all grownups here" approach, which I find suits me better. Go takes a similar approach, but I can see how Java meets a different need.
PizzaCopter
I tend to agree that this probably serves better as an "about me" replacement for someone's own site. I wonder if there's a way to have it generate it as static HTML (cleverly bundling styles too--at worse in an inline <style> tag) that you can then drop into your site? Or, go the embed route so that your service is still in the loop.

I think you might get more friction with the latter approach though. I suggest the former (generate static HTML to drop into any site) that possibly has a subtle footnote with something like "timeline created with aufond.me"
How next-gen gaming broke the fourth wall at E3 2013
To be fair, all the 14 CCTV cameras on my street (!) have been sprayed, burned or shot.

That's the only crime going on around where I live.

People aren't putting up with this shit any more.
Comparing its strategy with Steam doesn't work for me, since I already boycott Steam anyway, for the same reason I'll boycott the Xbox One. I don't want to be under surveillance while I play a single-player game, or even a multiplayer game in LAN mode. I don't want to be under surveillance at all in my own home, by any entity public or private.
I've used Java for a few years on Android differences for Scala past proguard are minimal for building and performance is the same as it's just compiled Java bytecode and then to dalvik
Show HN: Image Color Picker, a tool to get the color of a pixel in an image
I created this tool because sometimes I am lazy to open Photoshop and some friends don't have an easy way to do this.
A couple of interesting things on this-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_t...

These things usually get codified in trade agreements. It seems that Japan hasn't been particularly concerned about protecting Kobe beef internationally, likely because there are so few exports simply due to production limits.
Thanks, that's a better solution. I still dislike having to handle something that'll never happen, but this is probably the best one can do in this case.
There isn't. Stuff gets posted all the time with [year] in the title; if it's interesting it gets upvoted.
Interesting perspective, you're not the first to mention that even though you like it, you don't necesserily see it as a CV. That's why I posted early, to validate the idea and direction. It's a common thing to pivot the market with the same product, after getting feedback from potential users. I'll certaintly think about this some more, thanks!

This is not your typical Meteor project. Almost everything is realtime, but because that's how Meteor works, not because it was a requirement. So yes, mostly I just wanted to try it out. But I can can confirm it can also be used as your everyday web framework, not just for chat servers or what one might imagine it was made for

Not an actual paratrooper, that would've been cool!