skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yumcoin offers bitcoin venue to content creators
In previous lives I've been on the vendor's side of way too many transactions with DoD to think that "selling something to NSA" is a high intellectual hurdle to clear.
Open source project/developer 100% funded?
are you an open source developer?, did you succeed to get funds to dedicate 100% to your project ?

Besides common answers like: you have to charge for support, dual mode license or any similar, i would like to hear from people who really have been able to accomplish that, anyone want to share his experience and suggestions ?
> *Very few current workloads will saturate 8 cores (even on heavily taxed database servers)

It depends. Some tasks, such as processing incoming HTTP requests and building responses, such as web servers do - are embarrassingly parallelizable. And if you have an architecture that scales horizontally, with enough network bandwidth, you can saturate how many cores you want.
I wish I had a cite for this.

It was my understanding that P-IV was originally conceived as an architecture that could be clocked up and up for years to come. Developing a new architecture is expensive and risky (see P-IV, Itanium), so the hope was to design something that would scale up so well as manufacturing improved that a few generations of architectures could be skipped, so to speak.

They had hoped the P-IV would eventually reach 10GHz or so. Which made it OK that P-IV retried fewer instructions per clock than the P-III that came before. Scaling up like that isn't such a radical idea; the P6/i686 architecture behind the Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III had spanned a spectrum from 150MHz to 1.4GHz, after all, nearly an order of magnitude.

But it turned out that somewhere between 3 and 4 GHz, things got really difficult.

"Minor tweaks and desperately increasing clock rates" was more or less the P-IV plan from the get go. It just turned out not to work.
I would sale your bed then. :)
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I got it:

[link redacted]
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Maybe they'll find some child pornography on his home/work computers.
Isn't the biggest challenge to this idea the letter from GOOG that made the rounds yesterday asking DoJ for the ability to publish aggregate numbers of these, which it implies will be evidence that this kind of large scale automation isn't happening?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/asking-us-government-...
This particular attack completed by Jeffery Toobin in the New Yorker on Monday 6/10:

"What, one wonders, did Snowden think the N.S.A. did? Any marginally attentive citizen, much less N.S.A. employee or contractor, knows that the entire mission of the agency is to intercept electronic communications. Perhaps he thought that the N.S.A. operated only outside the United States; in that case, he hadn’t been paying very close attention."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/06/edward...
Well, if you're "installing it now" it's a little late to ask, isn't it? :-) I put it on my iPhone 5, which is my primary phone. Having been through many betas before, I'm prepared for some things to not work. Previously, mail, SMS, and phone functionality have always worked and that's what I expected this time. Those important functions work reliably in iOS7.

I've restarted once because something in Safari locked the whole phone. Some apps are broken (Podcasts), or look wonky in spots (Find My Friends). Everything mostly works, though. Even the Pebble app to connect to the Pebble watch. I figured if anything would break, it would be that.

If you want everything to work all of the time, never put the first iOS beta on your phone. Something is always not right. (Last year I was at WWDC, and the new maps app wouldn't render maps for me, just a grid. Not knowing SF that well, that was a major breaking change for me. <G>) Wait until beta 3 or so if you need reliability.
‘Financialization’ as a Cause of Economic Malaise
Caja.
In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things
Exactly. I think its definitely worth a shot. I'm not at all a literary guy, but I tried to pitch this idea to some of my friends who write. While some said its a great idea, others were skeptical. They argued, literature is so different from coding. And writes don't like to share credits.
You just skimmed the article before rushing to have the first comment here, right? It explicitly addresses the "users don't know what they want" excuse, for several paragraphs. Also, developers are only barely better at translating requirements into features than users are, and that's even one of the ways GNOME has screwed up. Where are the UX designers? Where are the product managers? In any project large enough to have some of those - like GNOME is - it's primarily their job to do that translation. They should be the ones watching and engaging with users, while the developers mostly - wait for it - develop. Leaving both kinds of user interaction to developers is exactly how you get to where GNOME is today.
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If anything it makes the original question even more pertinent. It's the "what" but not the "why".
Sounds to me like your window manager doesn't support the necessary drag & drop hints [1]. Yes, X11 does not specify a D&D protocol. All three of those use cases work fine for me, using the Gnome Shell itself.

[1] http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xdnd/
Because lending money is always about trust and managing risk.

In the context of potentially offering to float cash to a stranger - and getting a vague response about the exact situation requiring urgent cash - I'd like to know whether the person is trustworthy. Finding a mug shot that potentially resembles the cartoon version of the person requesting the cash from their website ( [link redacted] ) I see no harm in asking whether the person in the mug shot with the same name and potentially similar physical attributes was the same person.
Why Is Everyone Totally OK With the Govt. Spying on Foreigners?
Chamath Palihapitiya Wants to Rewire the Crap Out of Healthcare
About 4ft.

I wouldn't use less then 2 x 30" monitors.
XMPP is old, and mature. I'm afraid this "over-engineered" feeling comes to just about every successful technology that reaches such an age :)

Technology is full of people reinventing the wheel (sometimes better, obviously), but more often than not, unnecessarily.

Once you start to dig into any domain deeply, you encounter so many details you would never have imagined existed at first glance. Federated IM is no exception, and it's not easy. XMPP still has problems that are currently being solved that any new protocols won't even be thinking of for 10 years yet.
Just because it's true doesn't mean it isn't a smear

/s
Works beautifully with Chromium 25.0.1364.160 on Ubuntu 12.04 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
And "instant messaging" is even one of the examples it uses!
A Year Later, the Missed Opportunity of the JOBS Act
About your first point, the slide would seem to indicate that the NSA didn't start collecting data until the dates posted. So for whatever reason they didn't collect data until that point, it's not clear if they've actually been able to read any of that data yet.
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LOPSA Statement Regarding System Administrator Edward Snowden
Surveillance State: Result Of Two Presidents Rewriting Their Job Descriptions
I'm sure that they will also be digging around in his records for anything sexual.

They'll probably also claim that he was "a loner" who spent a lot of time browsing Wikileaks, or "conspiracy theory" sites.

The emphasis on the salary discrepancy will also be played up as far as possible, to suggest that other aspects of the story might be exaggerated or false.

It also might not be too hard to plant something incriminating in his hotel room after he leaves, or to merely claim that something incriminating was found.
It's amusing how quickly programmers-turned-managers forget their roots. Look here:

I used to get a huge feeling of satisfaction from a weekend
spent working on a clever hack. I would spend serious
effort making something run twice as quickly, even when
there wasn't a problem with how quickly it was running in
the first place. Meeting those types of challenges was my
primary motivator.

This is how you were motivated before they gave you a manager hat. This is how the people you manage think. And I wager that this mindset isn't wrong by any stretch of the imagination - as a programmer, I love working around people who program for the sake of programming, who find fun and satisfaction in writing code.

I don't mean to suggest the perception of code as just one of many means to an end is wrong either; it actually makes perfect business sense. It's something managers need to understand. But in your "enlightenment" you've forgotten what made you tick in the first place - how do you translate your new business-value-driven mindset to something the people under you (who don't have that mindset) can appreciate? Hint: it's not by telling them their cool hacks are useless. And we wonder why programmers distrust management.
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Definitely. I wish Apple would have bought them instead of rolling their own iMessages. Trillian consistently delivers messages to me wherever I am, and keeps everything property synchronized better than any other messaging tool I've used.
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Another pretty big problem with the Gnome Project recently is that they've made Gnome less modular. Gnome used to be a collection of associated software- you had a window manager, a panel, a compositor, panel applications and widgets, a settings-daemon, a keyring manager, a screensaver, etc. If you wanted something other than what Gnome wanted to provide, you swapped out metacity and compiz for xmonad. Or you bolted the settings-daemon onto another window manager. It's been subtle, but with every 3.x version of gnome, a little more of the functionality just gets rolled into gnome-shell and is unable to run without it. Most recently, with 3.8, media keys are no longer handled by gnome-settings-daemon- you can now only have gnome's media keys if you're running gnome-shell.

I know a lot of people are going to say "well, you're not using the software for its intended purpose. it's not their fault for breaking it." And that's true, but modularity a big part of the Unix philosophy and this is Gnome showing the Unix way the door.
He IS in a pretty dramatic situation.
Is 2013 actually '1984'?
Why yes, I would like to enhance text legibility:
http://i.imgur.com/5XhQsM9.png
Nice find, it is odd that his last few reviews had been negative, while most of his previous work seem to be rated very highly.
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Isn't this true, though? It appears that all the information from the internet companies came from court orders for specific information that were reviewed by the companies' lawyers.

The simple truth is, we don't know. And that's basically the point, as I see it. The NSA (and their sister organizations like the CIA, FBI, etc.) operate under cloak of darkness and shadow, and hide behind a veil of secrecy to an extent that makes it all but impossible to have an informed conversation about any of this. And that is, IMO, incompatible with a free, open, democratic society. Regardless of what Snowden knew, or thought he knew, or didn't know, he threw a dash of light on just enough of this secrecy to at least start the conversation and subject it to some real scrutiny.

In that regard, no matter what happens next, he has already won. That said, it will be a shame if all this debate doesn't lead to some actual long-term change.
It's pretty funny that Firefox was praised back in the day for removing most of the core functionality and configurability of SeaMonkey and leaving the rest to extensions, and now Gnome 3 is lambasted for doing the same thing.

You get upgrade hell with Firefox extensions too, btw. I see that as a necessary tradeoff; I don't want core development bogged down by BC, and I want my extensions to be maintained and improved.
I guess this means the original photographer is guilty of leaking a secret document to the enemy. Because the secret FISA order classifying this NSA content, by extension classifies the original work, and all documents that include it.
See if devonbarrett owns a laptop? Two birds with one stone.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5868881
I can help out, and I do have a small (i.e. easily finished in a day) node.js project that I would love some help with. email me at the address in my profile if you haven't already found someone.
Redis & Memcached Clouds across Multiple Availability Zones
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The over-engineered feeling tends to be present from the start with technologies based on XML...
If you go on elance.com I'm sure someone on there would be happy to pay you $300 for re-writing amazon.com's ecommerce platform or something equally insane.
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I feel that asking in private may have been understandable, but posting it publicly was over the line.
I believe the worst is still to come up to light: that Obama used his friendship with Schmitt and others that sit on the table during his dinner with CEOs of the biggest IT companies to get pinpointed data on all americans that were not sure how to vote in the second therm. That list was priceless and in the presidency race of 2012 would give Obama huge and unfair competitive edge against Romney. Criminal edge I should say.
Parsing Javascript in Javascript
I've been waiting for blog posts like these, the ones that used to criticize everything that wasn't Apple until Apple starts to do them also, and now they're the best thing ever.
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I've been using Firefox Mobile on Android with great success.
What's the value of this, I use Angular a lot and love it, but Dart only adds a degree of complexity that I don't want to debug with.
Artist, Actuary & Gamer Discuss iOS 7's Implications on StoryApp
There's a big difference between work visas and tourist visas, to you should expect it to take significantly more time. The fact that the company is a startup probably doesn't help either, since they may not have been around very long.

I know that doesn't help, but visa issues are always complicated and there is always risk involved.
This is not as easy you make it sound. First, when entering the US, the immigration officials verify whether student status is valid using the SEVIS database. Second, all changes to student status must be reported to the SEVIS database by the school. If the school finds out that a student is doing unauthorized work, or if they find that the student's academic progress is unsatisfactory (likely if they are working full-time) they are required to terminate student status and report this to SEVIS.

The generic issue of using forged credentials to get an unauthorized job is applicable to any visa. And if I wanted to overstay my visa, it would be dumb of me to choose a visa that was as carefully tracked and monitored as as the F1 visa.
Except that he never asked anyone to lend him money. He asked for someone to hire him on a contract basis.
The author here. I understand that some people have no problems with GNOME 3, that's fine. Based on the evidence I've gathered through the years, my estimate is that half the people that used GNOME 2 liked GNOME 3, and half didn't. In my opinion that's way too many people to piss off in one version bump.

Judging from the responses after two years from the debacle, I think it's fair to say that GNOME will never be as successful as it once was.
You've only seen 4 slides of 36 total. People who have seen the entire spreadsheet have stated that there is a lot of technical information (how data is gathered and reconstructed) that has yet to be published.
Since you updated your post after I replied, I wanted to add:

> I personally don't know anyone who is making $200k in IT.

I personally know many people that make 200k in IT. Your friend at Goldman Sachs is getting fucked. He should apply somewhere else and see what they offer him and how Goldman counters.
I get the same thing every time square is mentioned. I start having fun memories of Secret of Mana and I end up disappointed over some stuff about obsolete payment technology.
Yes, because confusing, inconsistent, space-ineffective UIs that have serious usability issues like no default drag and drop, weird GTK3 two-menu system with tons of redundancy, loss of keyboard shortcuts, inefficient application launching systems, and a loss of customization are what everyone wants, and if people don't want it, they're Luddian curmudgeons who need to be exiled from the Linux community and put down in front of a BSD system.

Right?

The problem extends further than just GNOME's stupidity. When you have forks, you get a lot of fragmentation. Now, nobody can figure out whether to develop for GTK2, GTK3, Qt, or goddamned xaw because there is just so much fragmentation in the desktop environments. If GNOME had just been sane, there would be no MATE, there would be no Cinnamon, there would be no Unity, and we wouldn't be having this discussion right now.
Salaries are tricky things. Maybe BAH was not counting bonus pay. Maybe BAH was giving after-tax numbers. Maybe BAH was not counting things like stock options (or stock?), or subtracting 401k contributions, etc.

Unfortunately, most people will not see it this way. Most people will assume that everyone is using common definitions of these words.
How about making it so only trolls are allowed to own patents?
What if all patents, trademark usage copyright etc were only allowed to be licensed on a per use basis. The entities that owned the IP could only license it. And there is only one wholesale price(buy at least X units per time period) and one retail price for a period of time and if the price goes down for given period of time all parties are charged the same fee. It seems like inovation is stalled/slowed because its complex to license things. Also, no one can be denied a license. I would get the same licensing cost as Apple or Amazon for selling music etc. Also the troll companies should be 100% public companies with 100% stock available for sale on the open market.
I got an anonymous comment on my blog that "You're connected to Reid Hoffman, so you're just editing your personal address book info for him, not his global contact info... This is part of their new "LinkedIn Contacts" / enhanced address book product..."

Wow. If that's true, it is very confusing, and may classify as a "major bug" in user experience design :) But it's good that I can't change other people's contact info.

I would argue that the entire purpose of an address book like LinkedIn is building is having contact info be maintained by the owner, not by me! That defeats the purpose of it completely. What are the rules of things the owner can edit, and what things I can edit, and what overrides what? Seems like a terrible mis-feature.
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People fear sex crimes far more than theft or hacking. Eventually it will come out that he is some kind of sexual deviant or sexual predator, and then everyone will forget that he leaked documents and only think about what a menace to society he is.
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Americans as a group do not exist. It's a conceptual label. Individuals exist. And if your analysis of what's good for a "group" leads to suffering of individuals, you have some problem. My view of the "group" can be different from yours. To me all people are people, without nations and colors determining "rights" and morality. Who's right?
More than that. Big companies have big backups. Once a piece of information leaves localhost it is logged somewhere permanently. Even if you go and purge all your email now, Google is not going to spool up tape backups and erase all copies.
Welcome to the corporate world, where the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

There is always being an intrapreneur. People are people and can be influenced. It isn't easy.
Yeah. Right. I've been through that stuff a number of times myself. More than a dozen times.

You do realize that the process I'm talking about happens after they (always.. always.. sigh) x-rayed your belongings like everywhere else and (this is special, I get that treatment every time) polished all my electronic equipment with their 'sniffer' pads for traces of whatever explosives I might've built into my laptop?

That totally ignores that both times that I had to do this weird 'proof it works' dance by .. clicking myself, doing what came to my mind (and what I considered nonsense). If your world allows for a cramped micro controller that kind of simulates an OS booting, plus the login screen: Hey, let me raise you a Raspberry Pi in a laptop case, that __actually_ runs a full operating system.

It's bullshit, there's no way to make it better.

Disclaimer: I like the country, love Tel Aviv and certainly don't claim to be an expert on terrorism. But I can recognize IT related crap when I see it.
Hanlon's razor is my favorite of all razors, and is the principle that keeps me calm in moments like this:

>Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I don't think that the (mostly lawyers) who represent us and run this country are malicious. They're just incompetent. They're simply not qualified to understand and make decions in the fields that they affect. So they call in 'experts' to help , who end up working for or being otherwise paid by a particular group or corporation. Of course these people are paid to bias their groups preference, so the 'expert' advise they give them is tainted, and the representative has no basis to detect the bullshit.
Is this really the most interesting comment you could think to leave?

Author of the blog: an interesting and insightful read, thank you.
Overstaying on an F1 visa is quite hard because the school is required to report all changes in academic status through the SEVIS database.

If you want to stay and work go through the proper legal process and get a resident visa.

F1 students are allowed to work 20 hours a week when the school is in session and 40 hours a week during the summer.
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I tried to read the patent summary with an open mind, but that was some convoluted phrasing. I have idea what claims they are making beyond that a web server and terminal devices are involved, and some information is used to do something.

[updated]
BTW, reading the "getting started" doc for "SmarTrhu Workforms" provides a clearer picture of what Wokforms are:

http://www.samsung.com/au/newsletters/dealers/october08/pdfs...
Id agree with your overall point that gnome 3 is a great desktop environment. But I also agree with many of the authors points about the plain wierd default settings and non user-friendly way you have to go about getting gnome 3 to be the desktop env you want. For me I love gnome 3 now, but getting my setup how I wanted was not a task for the light hearted. I think thats the biggest problem gnome 3 has to be honest.
> You get upgrade hell with Firefox extensions too, btw.

Not even close to what happens in GNOME 3. Firefox has an extension API, GNOME shell doesn't; that has consequences.
Except that they claim that the leaked material is still classified. If you have clearance and you download that material to your personal computer, they would say that you were leaking it (seriously). This is one of those cases where "things that make sense" is not the same as "the law."
Now what will you do when the Supreme Court finds the NSA's programs to be unconstitutional and they keep doing it anyway?