skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A uml design tool could easily be created in the browser , with export to different languages ...
a few weeks ago i began building a class diagram designer ( uber limited ) http://umldesigner.herokuapp.com/ , as a proof of concept . Lucidcharts provides a more complete one.

UML is helpfull for comunicating ideas ,etc ... but i dont believe in RAD tools based on drawing class diagrams,these tools never work properly.
Standing desk.... google for many DIY solutions.
Perhaps, this may be more the case for games with small amounts of content or mediocre reviews. I don't see significantly less people being willing to buy COD or whatever for $60 if they can't resell. Unless they move to PS4 at least.
Inlining a worker with an ObjectURL is brilliant. It nicely solves the issue of worker script urls being resolved relative to the page, rather than relative to the URL of the calling script. I had previously solved that problem just by having the parent script read a global variable with the proper absolute path to the worker's location, but this is much nicer.
I had no idea curl supported that kind of syntax. Neat.
"Despite what the RIAA think, a user agent's IP is nowhere near accurate enough for use as identification."

Maybe not when I'm coming from our company's NAT (700+ employees behind a single IP address) - but the number of people on my Comcast connection is limited.
Right now, used games capture the low end of the market. If there are no used games, then there's nothing servicing the low end, and that's a lot of wasted money. If game prices come down a bit, you capture more of the low end, which makes up for the lost revenue on the high end. The trick is figuring out the price point that gets you the most revenue.
Potentially. So we agree there's nothing hip about Disney.com? I was trying to provide a counter example to the general thesis of the article.

The reason it really doesn't hold at all, in general, is because many websites (and particularly their contents, not necessarily the sites themselves) cater to different interests, and it's really not a surprise that people in different age groups have different interests. It's also certainly not surprising that Reddit caters to the interests of younger people more than Facebook does.
Picking the right problem is really, really hard.
It's not safe to assume the NSA doesn't log DDG searches. Look at the PRISM logo - it's a beam splitter. Read the slide, look at the "Upstream" portion.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upstream_slide_of_the...

They're logging all your URLs and headers. How much are you willing to bet they can't decrypt https? I dont understand all the hubbub _is focused solely_ on direct server access (the bottom half of the slide), when "Upstream" access is just as big a concern.

EDIT: rephrased my concern about direct vs upstream
Pointing out that many terrorists are engineers is about as actionable as pointing out that many terrorists are religious.

Really, there is nothing you can do with this information. It is worthless, even if it is true.
This comparison to steam is a bit of a false equivocation. I can run Steam on a variety of hardware configurations, which I can buy from a variety of vendors. Steam is better not because the DRM system is different, but because it's hardware agnostic.

Once the XB1 lifecycle is over, I have no guarantee I will be able to play the games I bought. As far as I'm aware XB1 is not backwards compatible at all. Once my 360 dies, if I can't find another one in working condition, or XBL stops offering services for the 360, my 360 XBLA games are gone forever.
It was cut and paste from an ama on 4chan. Really you should understand this already.
In principle, yes. In practice, probably not.

There is a certain amount of overhead involved in the creation of the dataset. Hiring people to call and collect answers, filtering the data, formatting it, fielding questions about it, etc. The University of Michigan seems to partially pay for this by the fees they charge Reuters. I am not sure if they make a profit on it or, if so, how much. But you could probably found some company to collect and provide the same amount and quality of data for cheaper.

However, even if you were able to beat them on cost, you wouldn't be able to charge nearly the same amount that UofM does for it. The reason is that the UofM data goes back for over three decades, so traders can do all sorts of backtesting with it. They are also a recognized "brand" in this field and over time sources of trading information like the UofM report become ingrained in traders' minds as "indicators" of one type or another. So, for various practical and psychological reasons, your hypothetical startup would have to charge a much lower price for the same data and spend many years earning the confidence of traders.

Ironically, you might be able to make more money by selling the data as an early predictor of the UofM report. Since traders know that the UofM report can be a market moving event, any early predictor of it (even one with ~90% accuracy) would be valuable. This would probably just force UofM to collect and release the data earlier and with less polish though, negating much of your advantage.
A while back (some time in the last year), they had a few of the files zipped up. There were a lot of support requests for help unzipping it. The files had a >4GiB file inside, requiring zip64 extensions. I remember at the time, my out of the box version of unzip on OS X did not support zip64 extensions - I think 6.0 is when support is added.

I'm not arguing for rar in particular, just commenting on the difficulties I saw and experienced when using the zip files they provided at one point.
Really. If understood correctly, the NSA had direct lines to the fiber. It doesn't matter what search engine you use.
Exactly. One has to wonder why they didn't go with this approach if it's a valid and proven business model.
It is a subset of core.logic's functionality. It allows you to use unification in your code without the full logic engine of core.logic.
Retiring Google Chrome Frame
> The fact Xbox tosses ads in your face on every single home screen except settings is also extremely distasteful, and MS burned a lot of goodwill on that.

This is the single biggest thing that puts a bad taste in my mouth from my Xbox. Am I a customer or a product? Companies should pick only one. If I pay money, I don't want to be sold.
Microsoft thought they had a dominant market position and tried to stretch a little. They miscalculated.

Sony were concerned they were heading towards irrelevance - they upped their game to win share back.

I'd say it was a perfectly efficient market - and then I remember we're talking about kids being able to swap games like I did in the 80s as if it's a revolution ... the boomers heading these companies right now should be ashamed of what they've created.
To be honest, the only thing that annoys me is the 24 hour check-in thing, and here's why...

On average I've moved house once a year for every year since I moved to London in 2007. There was one place I stayed in for 18 months, but everything else was 12 months. In all these moves except one I've had to wait 3-4 weeks (sometimes more) to get my broadband connected, so essentially for 1/13th of a year the only internet I have is through my mobile phone.

These 4 weeks a year are also the times when I get most of my single-player gaming done (I'm not saying I play hours of games every night, but for a couple of nights a week for a few weeks a year I'll settle down with a good RPG or similar).

The 24 hour check-in will make this impossible, thereby probably making me play less games overall (or I could just buy a PS4...).
The typical way this is done is to sell at a high price initially and when sales drop start lowering the price. Or put a game on offer just before the sequal is released to drive sales for the new game.
Well, the Hushmail story is pretty famous:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/

There is nothing inaccurate about claiming that people believe that DDG is protecting their privacy because of how the website presents itself and the claims made by the company. That is exactly why people believed (and many continue to believe) that Hushmail is protecting their privacy. The way companies advertise themselves is not necessarily reflective of reality.
Will Microsoft continue providing baseline support for IE6 indefinitely? I doubt it. The top Google hit for "ie6" is http://www.ie6countdown.com, which is Microsoft's own site for tracking and celebrating the death of IE6. I imagine that once those numbers get low enough around the world, they'll stop supporting it.
You're right, but that could just mean that COD is priced too low even under the current system (where games are always $60 max not including DLC etc).
Is there a way to make ddg the default on the iPhone?
Tiny fiefdoms all on 172.16

They could easily have picked ipv6 and done it the smart way. Oh how things could have been.
this is not real time...it just pulls a whole bunch of data at once and makes it look like real time with the animations...it is actually animating the same data on page refresh and displaying them randomly to simulate real time...idk how often it's updated though....
All non-mathematical/non-logical/etc. equivocations are false if you're enough of a dick about it. The dude is trying to make a legitimate point about disc-based vs. cloud-based storage, and there's exactly one player in that area. Give him a freakin' break.
The political fallout of this makes me want to laugh, but the reality of the situation makes me want to cry.
Except that theory doesn't explain the public statements either.

Google has specifically denied having a drop box facility:

"We cannot say this more clearly—the government does not have access to Google servers—not directly, or via a back door, or a so-called drop box."

https://plus.google.com/+google/posts/TMh6gUVrwMq

Among other features WashPo specifically describes live interception which would require more sophisticated integration than a mere drop box facility:

"Google’s offerings include Gmail, voice and video chat, Google Drive files, photo libraries, and live surveillance of search terms."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence...

Not to mention NYT's independent source:

"In one recent instance, the National Security Agency sent an agent to a tech company’s headquarters to monitor a suspect in a cyberattack, a lawyer representing the company said. The agent installed government-developed software on the company’s server and remained at the site for several weeks to download data to an agency laptop.

In other instances, the lawyer said, the agency seeks real-time transmission of data, which companies send digitally."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-...
Is there a SKU for more disk-heavy workloads like a box running Postgres?

I'd love to be able to get more disk space (especially since you guys have SSDs, this will make PG very happy) without the extra CPU and memory. Is that currently possible with Digital Ocean?
You'll notice the contract specifies a +/- 500ms slack time which would be a limiting factor in providing the data to the clients on that specific of a timing bound. Realtime constraints that are that specific can be really hard to do in bulk.

You could easily group things into 500ms classes though. But 500ms is kind of an eternity in these types of things and you'll never really have someone thinking that they have a system fast enough to beat someone who started 500ms earlier.
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razor thin differences here would beat the differences of various semantics of "to have sex with this woman" :)
The original story is a report about the "direct access" claim from the NSA. People seem to have interpreted the article as claiming as fact that the NSA had a root password to all the companies' servers, but that's not what the Guardian reported. They simply reported an NSA claim.

This separate article covers the story that the original article broke. This paragraph in the article gives an attempt to reconcile the competing claims from the NSA and the companies. What makes you say this attempt should invalidate the original story?
How does this compare to what you get when you run the ievms script?

https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
It doesn't make it complex in the sense of logical complexity, or back end infrastructure complexity, but it does make it complex in terms of user interface layout. Hundreds of pages with thousands of fields.

When building these kind of enterprise CRUD apps there will usually be a lot of commonalities between pages, but also there will be tons of little edge cases that only apply to a couple pages and usually need to be addressed individually. You could certainly argue that better design might eliminate those edge cases, but the reality is that designers/developers working on enterprise apps aren't usually given the opportunity to do the extra work to really work out all the kinks.
> Once the XB1 lifecycle is over, I have no guarantee I will be able to play the games I bought.

Sooner than that though, right? Weren't they shutting off Halo servers when new Halo games came out during the same console lifecycle?

Of course that is a problem you'll have with multiplayer on all the consoles I guess. Maybe gamers are okay with that. I would be bummed as hell if I couldn't play the occasional quake match anymore though.
This was a temporary problem due to a AWS DNS Resolution issue[1], but it seems to be back now. Do you confirm?

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
[1] 3:42 PM PDT We are investigating DNS resolution issues in the US-EAST-1 Region.
Having the exact same problem, even with small documents. Using the NodeJS driver.
I never meant, Americans are horrible people. I actually meant it to be the answer of why NSA (or someone from NSA) would believe US law holds true in NL.

I am sorry if the stereotypical american meant all of those, but I had in my mind picture of a naive NSA employee who didnt think twice before making the call to an international company.
> ... the anti-slavery republican north to prevent the southern democratic slavers ...

The party system did not form until George Washington's first term. There were certainly factions, but nothing like the "Republican" or "Democratic" parties of today.

When the party system began during George Washington's first term, the two parties were called the "Federalist" and the "Democratic-Republican" parties. New England was primarily Federalist. The Mid-Atlantic and Southern states were primarily Democratic-Republican.

The Democratic-Republican Party is, in some sense, the ancestor of both major political parties today. The Democratic-Republican Party split into the Democratic Party and the National Republican Party after the 1824 election. This division forms the basis of the two major political parties we have today. (With several messy breakups, reunions, splinterings, and Third Parties.)
> The Guardian could at least "apologize" for using "scare quotes" in the process of walking back their claim.

Seems to me that the claim from the article re scare quotes is nonsense.

There are no scare quotes in the guardian piece. There are, however, lots of quotes.

The things that the article claims are scare quotes (the relevant passage "...That has allowed the companies to deny that there is “direct or indirect” NSA access, to deny that there is a “back door” to their systems, and that they only comply with “legal” requests...") are, if you actually read the guardian's article and see the context, clearly terms quoted from the companies' denials (given more fully earlier in the article), the point of the passage being to explain why the companies denials were true given the specific terms used.
Not sure about the desk, but Herman Miller Aeron chair without a doubt.

Best acquisition I've made. Expensive at first, but with good care it can last 10+ years easy.

I've had a problem with mine recently (six years after purchase). The nice folks from Herman Miller promptly replaced half of it, and took care of the shipping both ways. They all come with a standard 10 yrs warranty when purchased from an authorized dealer.
I don't get that conclusion. Steam does it and they're applauded, even by many who "hate" DRM. Microsoft does it (and maybe doesn't detail the entire vision/value well) and gets shit on. Much like a lot of things that MS does.
Looks like maybe it should be hosted on Digital Ocean ;)
It's true that engineers who work for large technical companies don't typically pay very much attention to external tools. And there's a good reason for that.

Companies like this already have extensive internal ecosystems of tools. These tools were built to work together with other company systems, they adhere to various internal development standards, have teams dedicated to supporting and enhancing them, and are already known and trusted by other engineers and management.

For any problem you are likely to encounter as an engineer, there is typically an existing system that already does what you need, or close. This tool can quite probably be improved or reconfigured to do what you need with less effort than it would take to bring in an outside tool and make it fit internal expectations.

Because of this, the smart bet is usually to use or extend existing solutions rather than exploring and importing new ones. And really, just learning all about the internal systems is a job in itself, quite enough to sate the curiosity of nearly anyone.
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Because it's too small for them to care about.
Agreed. I was hoping for a technical reverse engineering article... This is very much the opposite.
I understood the point he was making to be that under a strict interpretation of the law/regulation in question, there is no flexibility around whether you have it because you're intentionally harvesting undersize stock, or whether it was thrown at you from a passing car as you walk home. If the act of possession is illegal, then the rest of the circumstances are irrelevant.

Of course, any reasonable court would/should dismiss this, even in the unlikely instance that someone would decide to prosecute, but the problem is that is a dangerous thing to rely on. And if it were recorded by not prosecuted, it's now a liability that can be used against you for other reasons, until the statute of limitations applies.

If the law prohibited selling, or possession in a commercial context (large lobstering boat, etc), it would be reasonable. The damage to lobster stocks is likely[1] due to the large commercial concerns, rather than individuals catching small numbers for personal consumption.

Likewise for the 'it's targeted at the vanishingly small number [...]'. If the law isn't specifically targeted at them, why not? One good reason would be the creation of loopholes that allow it to be broken without penalty, but if the alternative is allowing perfectly normal activities to bear the possibility of prosecution, subject to the whims of the legal system, I think I'd be in favour of being precise.

[1] wild-ass guess here, but I think reasonable
New email service for people with privacy concerns
Classic example of UX nightmare: So I follow the link, I see a button that says get free VMS. I click it. I then can't figure out what I'm meant to do. I stare at some weird quickstart offer. I give up. I come back to HN, and think - how come others have managed to download their images. I go back, I realise that the button just activates a dropdown/rollup (and it's already in the dropdown state, so clicking the button rolls it up!), and then finally I get to the VM images. To be honest, It would be easier to just have an apache directory index, with folders and a load of accompanying checksums. I got there in the end.

The other thing that I failed to notice, was that this was actually a Microsoft site! Why not hang off of their domain name? How am I supposed to know this is official?
> X-bone

That is fantastic. Pronounced like the word "bone" I assume?
So we're going to have to pay more for multiplayer editions? o.O
Gaming used to be fun.. Whatever happened to creating something for the pure joy of it? Oh.. right.. capitalism.
The part about introns and exons is very important. Normal ("naturally occurring") DNA has a bunch of extra stuff that is not coded for proteins (introns) and that may not serve much useful function for therapeutic research but are useful as unique identifiers/markers.

The cDNA mentioned in the judgment is not a simple XOR of the original information. It is an XOR of the information after the section of DNA has been isolated, and with all the introns stripped out. Using cDNA, one cannot recreate the original full DNA strand because it is like lossy compression.
The problem is that they still charge $59.99 for Games On Demand. When Black Ops 2 came out digitally, that's what it cost. Same with lots of the Games On Demand - many are $10-$15 more than I can get the disc for new. Not used, NEW. In the shrink wrap.

So you'll pardon me if I think this is full of crap. I want to see low priced games like on Steam. But until I see it from MS, I'll probably switch to full-time PC gaming again.
Give it two patterns with some unknowns and it tries to get values for the unknowns via pattern-matching. That's all it does! It's one of those things that humans do very well but computers have trouble with, so I'm afraid it doesn't look too impressive.
I am a Microsoft Engineer so take what I am about to say as gospel: There's no way to know when someone claims to be something on the internet that they are that thing unless the company itself corroborates it.

The pastebin was posted on 4chan... 4chan... And all of the information in it could have been gleaned from publicly available sources. We should at best discuss it like it is rumour, and much more realistically just ignore it as trolling.

PS - I am not a Microsoft Engineer, I was making a point.
I've checked with someone in the industry[1], and yes, Soylent would be required to be regulated by the FDA and the like.

[1] Conflict of interest, as they work for a potential competitor in the market. However they come from a medical background, and put patient health first. Surprising exactly how important nutrition is, actually!
> useless

Not to the NSA! With no effort at all, they've gathered the names of 100,000 subversives to put on a secret watch list!

(I hope I'm kidding.)
> Now they are forced to think again how to keep the old IE6-intranet running next to some Google Docs stuff they bought...

The Chrome Frame retirement announcement points them to a solution for that, Google Chrome for Business [1] with Legacy Browser Support [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/

[2] https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/browser/lbs.h...
The problem isn't that it's boomers heading these companies. It's that they're 1%'s who have either lost or never had the pressures that their customers are feeling.

Maybe Microsoft thought Sony would just follow their lead since there wasn't a DRM scheme that Sony didn't like or try (before).
LLVM 3.3 released
Treesheets finally became open source
Anyone else wondering if DDG will come out with their version of email? Maybe something that uses end to end encryption (maybe working together with Mozilla Foundation)?
You're missing the big picture.

The truth that has spread around the world is that there is a surveillance system in the US which spies on Americans.

If you feel journalists have misinterpreted the capabilities of the system, feel free to call the PRISM hotline for clarification and tell us what you find out.
the issue is with HTTPS. To read that traffic NSA collects private keys from limited number of [big] companies as collecting them from all companies would be a very public affair. Thus from NSA's price/performance point of view smaller enterprises may be still be off the hook (for now).