skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well then let's make them store the entire internet. It's about time that we encrypted everything. Flood the communication channels with encrypted chatter and let's see how long they can keep storing it all. If you really want to fuck with them intersperse your encrypted data with random bits from /dev/random. Even better, just steam random bits non-stop and every so often intersperse it with just a tiny bit of your real data.

The NSA knows how fucked they'd really be if everyone used end to end encryption. You can smell their fear.
I'm not borrowing billions. Are you? The only organization in America borrowing billions daily, that I'm aware of, is the federal government, and I certainly wouldn't want them involved in any Mars colony I'd join. Would you?
Yes, including the USN.
I totally agree with you about Ubuntu!

But Im using Windows 8 and Im in the desktop mode 99÷ of the time (I have 0 metro apps installed).
Oh come on, chances of either of those ideas working within the next 1,000 years are effectively zero.

We get 80 years if we are lucky, and we waste so many of them, that wondering if we could get a magic save point is foolish.

Take those valuable brain cycles and work on fixing code used by cancer research charities
> We have always been transparent about our lack of accreditation and the unconventional nature of our program. As you know, we don’t issue grades, track attendance, or provide diplomas, certificates or degrees.

If they're not marketing themselves as a college, and are up-front about their lack of accreditation, how can they be regulated as one?
Well I mentioned business aspects since that was the topic/article focus, lack of trust in US business/cloud data due to unsure protections and secrets of business.

Also I mention that frequently because the people that say 'I have nothing to hide' and don't mind, might think differently if they are business focused and do worry about people stealing ideas, plans, or reacting based on those business secrets.

It is bad all around when individual privacy is at risk unknowingly, but it also affects business privacy and that impacts everyone and harms perception of US cloud services for one which the article mentions.

If you make something public on a website like Facebook you should expect that will be used. But noone expected private emails, phone calls, logs of files in the cloud to be so easily accessible. It creates huge problems in business trustworthiness and protections. That aside from the more important lack of individual privacy that is expected in the same and the root of the problem.
Animate Github Contributions with Conway's Game of Life
Great post! For posterity: On #3, change "wats" to wants. On “reason these programs were secret”, looks like unnecessary quotes.
While I applaud this decision for technical reasons alone, I do wonder how much of it was influenced by not having to deal with GPL woes.
Limited accessibility make them less desirable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case Just an example
"under indefinite house arrest"

alternatively known as, evading UK police by seeking asylum in a foreign embassy
How do traffic lights hinder your walk?
http://xkcd.com/1227/
You're right; I fixed that part.
I didn't mean so philosophically. I meant more practically. Unless you are suggesting a malicious spy leaking secrets to the enemy should only be treated like a whistleblower, which I seriously doubt is the case.

> If you let someone else make that decision for you...

Keeping this in context (being prosecuted or fleeing), that's what everyone is doing right now: allowing someone else to make that decision. Information being shared is only what interested parties want being shared (Snowden and the Governments).

If Snowden was tried by a jury of his peers, would he be found guilty or innocent? Would he be a whistleblower or a spy?

And yes, I'm ignoring things like would he get a fair trial and all that jazz. I just see what Snowden is doing as a very effective way to play the part of a spy. Sell X information secretly and share Y information publicly. Not suggesting that is what he is doing mind you. I'm just thinking out loud.

> if you're unable to make it yourself, how would you confirm they made the right decision on your behalf?

This happens all the time though. I trust my doctor with my health and my children's health. They explain things, but I still have to trust them. Sure, it's not exactly the same thing, but I feel it's close enough. Basically, I can't know everything about everything. At some point, I have to trust others. Maybe that's too much down the rabbit hole, though. =)
How I Landed An Engineering Job At Google Without A College Degree
Right, this proves my point.
You can run Java apps on JBoss. That's it.
You are still limited to using their infrastructure.
Don't get me wrong, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
For many, it's wonderful. I'm just saying that one needs to weigh needs, capabilities and goals carefully before deciding to use Google Apps (or any other "platform") because your application has to work in their platform and moving to another platform could be very costly.

It seems obvious to say, but many technical decisions involve trade offs of one kind or the other. The ones that bind early and have high switching costs are worth thinking through at some depth.
While I do sympathize with the homeowners when it comes to resenting poor behavior by visitors, that thing you are calling "his backyard" is not his. He never paid for it.

English Common Law encodes many centuries of traditions about easement for travel. This topic is not a new thing. That an area might bear ever more visitors over the march of years is just a fact of life.
The difference betwen deploying an instance of a stored environment and generating that environment from some prior state is the generative process, which can fail or change in unexpected ways due to network conditions and other factors.

CSIEs are still a generative process. The difference with what you call PCFT is that the generative process isn't swept under the rug and codified into a versioned image unless it's really necessary for performance reasons.

The result is that it's easy to maintain a clear distinction between machine state and human instructions. For a trivial example: a list of packages that humans decided are necessary for the system versus the final output of 'dpkg -l' after all dependencies have been resolved.

With chef/puppet/etc. the code used to generate instances represents a human-created description of what the environment is supposed to look like, with as much version-control and referenced documentation as is necessary. With a versioned-image approach, all you have is the one-dimensional history of the image in question.
Was Michael Hastings Murdered?
> but you could have undercover operatives do that

No, you couldn't.
That's another thing that varies from state to state. In some states, like Nevada and Louisiana, public consumption of alcohol is quite legal, and often commonplace.
As someone who works on BSD-licensed opensource software, this is fantastic news. Regardless of your opinion of Sony as a company, this is exactly why I love licenses like BSD & MIT - you enable engineers everywhere to build better products.
How does anyone suffer either way? Someone is trying to get more open source out which seems like a good thing for any language.
Why do you do this? You know that most of the money for an album doesn't go to the artist?

You don't know that, because you don't know what sort of music he listens to or what deals those artists have with their labels. There are certainly cases where labels fuck artists, but there are a lot of others where they deliver value. This idea of blaming all the big bad labels is little more than an excuse not to pay for music. Along the way, it's crushed lots of small independent labels that had great partnerships with their artists but get blamed for the perceived moral failings of the majors.
Back then people didn't know the extent and depth of NSA's surveillance, so they weren't motivated to learn. The stakes are higher now.
So, Linus Torvalds showed up in the list of people under the link that says "Join the list -->".

I highly doubt that he signed up for this event. I could be wrong, but if not - why the chicanery? Honesty is the best policy.
So let's say XM radio have 3,000,000 listeners (24 mil total subscribers) So 179 x 3 millions = 537 millions and that's $181.94

Now Pandora played the song 1,159,000 and that's 16.89.

Wow... So Pandora actually PAYS A LOT MORE. It would have paid you 3 cents if you use xm radio rates.

edit: well my numbers are off, since there are many channels on xm. XM pays about the same as Pandora. I can't really get numbers how many listeners per a XM channel.

But even if I take I reduce the listeners 100 times (30,000 listeners per channel), still Pandora pays 5x times more.
Amnesty: "Sweden should issue assurance it won’t extradite Assange to USA"

Which is, I believe, is identical to Assange's stance.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/sweden-should-issue-assurance...
Messrs. Gilmour, Waters, and Mason say "Artists would gladly work with Pandora to end AM/FM's radio exemption from paying any musician royalties – a loophole that hurts artists and digital radio alike", but if there's any evidence of their having done so, I've not heard of it.
The title is a bit optimistic :) That's how long it takes me to read as if I were reading a novel, which isn't quite fair.

I wanted to express something like "hey, this guide is for programmers and is surprisingly short and easy to consume considering it covers the large majority of the language." The current title seemed a bit snazzier.
>> "Short on facts. What's this "85% pay cut" line they keep repeating? Unsupported and smacks of sensationalism."

You can find the info on where the 85% comes from in this story[1] but the important paragraph is below.

"Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy appeared at a hearing on Capitol Hill in support of the Internet Radio Fairness Act, or IFRA, which would lower the amount of royalties that Pandora and other Internet radio services pay to artists. The industry has estimated the act would allow Pandora to reduce payments to artists by as much as 85 percent."

[1]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/pandora-artist-roya...
Medieval book in unknown language contains message
yep; fixed
You are right, it is called being normal. If you look at the Ayurvedic lifestyle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda), then you will understand that our body is always looking for equilibrium. So when something is out of balance (hanging out too long, drinking, partying), you need to bring it back in to balance (going home, resting, having personal time). It's quite a fascinating ideology.
i thought Beatles succumbed to YouTube sometime ago
Perhaps you can help me figure out this government copyright: http://www.reddit.com/r/COPYRIGHT/comments/1gsxxu/why_can_na...
You assume that this "value" must be captured by the original artist. Why do you assume this? Do you think without royalties we wouldn't have an abundance of good music? Nothing in the arts is cheaper to produce than music.
>>>> That was how slavery was abolished.
>>No it's not. Slavery was abolished when the state (...)

It seems you misunderstood my point. Slavery was abolished when the state declared it illegal. That kind of thing is what the state is for. If there is a majority of support for "abolishing" tipping, that is where the state can step in and enforce it. That is the point of democracy.

> So to ask for the government coercion to force people to change the whole way their business works - on the way probably putting a lot of people out of business and out of work is not being asshole (...)

This smells very much like the logical fallacies used by the copyright industry. No business would have to go out of business and no costs would need to change. It is simply about making the implicit explicit and to stop pretending it is a gift. You yourself gave a great examples of how McDonalds manages to run their restaurants without tipping.

>>> Can you offer any counter argument to the actual points in the actual article?
> I just did.

No you didn't? The article had very specific arguments. They are even nicely numbered. Your "counter argument" is basically "I like it the way it is and no one should tell me to change", backed up by a vague claim that people would somehow lose jobs and business.
Government is the one granting the licensing rights in the first place, so neither position (fixed or non-fixed price licensing) is in favor of free market capitalism.
I really like this idea (as well as the notion of neocities in general), glad to see that it's adding basic styling and keeping it's sort of lean mentality (forgive the use of the word "lean" there). Good luck!

I'm a little worried about the use case, but no one ever really knows if anything will catch on or not, all we can do is speculate.
If you had to put in ridiculous hours to hit the under deliver timeline, you in fact over promised.
Thanks ivanca -- www.prismbutton.com is now updated to reflect your changes.
No, I don't think such a thing is unreasonable. What I think is unreasonable is Amnesty International using the words "hunt down" to refer to the United States filing criminal charges and making formal extradition requests.
Because it's an island with no infrastructure. There's still tons of cheap real estate in the Bronx that's pretty close to Manhattan. That'll get gentrified well before a poorly located abandoned island with no transit connections would.
I think Nathan's got the meaning of the phrase mixed up. The idea isn't to promise your standard output and then run yourself into the ground trying to exceed that. The "under-promise" part means that you promise less than what you know you can deliver. Having done that, you deliver your standard output and thus have "over-delivered". In this manner, it's sustainable.
There is an alternate clause that can be placed in a FAR that when used may give copyright to the contractor.
I am 19 and I think this is terrible advice.I would love to work at Microsoft not just because of the pay but because of the people I would work with. Some of the greatest minds in the world call Microsoft their place of work. Mind you I am doing my own thing and not looking to get hired but still if presented the chance I would take it.
The blog post appears to be asking people to fork projects with the sole purpose to bump the stats on github. If it's not on the charts, there's a reason. If someone wants to fork a project, they need a goal other than promoting obj-c. Let's not turn github into a fork graveyard (like sourceforge has become.)
Maybe that's for international protection as someone else reported in this thread. It seems that it's only in the US that NASA's works can't be copyrighted.
It was incredibly alarming that the author blamed OSX on slow SMB performance and neglected to say which version of SMB they used. OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) only defaults SMB v1, where as Windows 8 defaults SMB v3. SMB v1 is incredibly chatty and has typically has bad performance over high latency networks (in other words the very 802ac network they were testing). And SMBv3 solves that problem altogether. So it's no wonder Windows 8 was faster. If the author bothered to do additional testing with iperf (like in http://anandtech.com/show/7085/the-2013-macbook-air-review-1...) then they would get completely different results.
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Well, you had a lot of peer pressure in that pledge thing. If you sat and didn't pledge (hell, some teachers would force you to stand) your peers would become quite hostile.

I find that odd though, since most children love being rebellious over frivolous things like that.
Why is half the available screen space of this website asking me to download their app? There's an app banner, another banner at the top, and a banner that floats with the text at the bottom.
>> "From there on it was a perfect storm of the music industry not understanding what was about to happen"

I think the problem is that these huge shifts are happening so often that it's difficult for the industry to keep up. First we had piracy, then after a while legal downloads were introduced with iTunes. Now only a few years later the entire industry has been changed again due to YouTube, Spotify etc. For an industry as huge as the music industry, adjusting to these shifts quickly is difficult. Once everyone finally figures out how to make money through streaming something else will have come along.
Nice project. I've messed around with cubes in the past. Curious what algorithm you used for the cube? I was mostly working with powersets and trees, and then experimented with dwarf petacubes. Do you have a limit on dimensions due to code, beyond what fits in memory?
Javascript being used by non programmers is 95% of the problems with javascript.. care to explain your problems with js and maybe expand on how lua is done right?
Even then, it's not like actual "bad guys only" are needed, only the public perception in enough people that they exist. There are many avenues to explore here, think big? You kinda have to; it's a trillion dollar industry, it doesn't take no for an answer.
No, don't go at night. Don't go unless you are part of an organized tour. Drawbridge is along the train tracks used by Amtrak and ACE trains. At night, freight trains also use the tracks, and not on a set schedule. If you are at the wrong spot and a train is coming, there is literally nowhere to go except for a swim in the mud. I went there on a tour, I think through Palo Alto Baylands. I'm not sure if tours are offered anymore, a quick google search didn't come up with anything. It's an interesting spot, especially if there is someone along who knows the history, but there really isn't that much to see anymore, most of the houses have sunk into the mud.
I've wondered the same. Here's some educated guesswork & rumour mongering:

They're known to use "Teradata" (i.e. Dell), "Oracle" (i.e. FKA Sun) & HP DL-series servers alongside NetApp storage. iTunes is reportedly one of the world's largest SAP installations and that'll almost certainly be on AIX or Solaris with Oracle databases on the aforementioned NetApp spindles. OS for other applications? Nothing stops Apple running OSX if they do the driver work, but honestly I'd walk in expecting a mix of Solaris, RHEL and Windows, like every other Enterprise(TM).

[ it'd be nice to think they run a lot of FreeBSD given their UNIX group's credentials but - correct me if I'm out of date here - the bge(4) issues of FreeBSD on HP Gen8 servers seem to undermine that ]

Separately, iCloud is reportedly running on Azure & AWS.

I think it's a pity that Apple abandoned the server market so completely, but I understand how a consumer-first strategy with a strong theme of "same experience everywhere" is antithetical to enterprise needs (specifically the demands of experience control & functional lockdown expected by corporate IT departments). I've done some hard yards inside large enterprises and seen first-hand just how wedded many CIOs are to the whole colossal Microsoft ecosystem; competing with that head-on would be a very long game.
You can be perfectly polite, corteous and helpful without being nice. That's just being proffessional.

Being nice is to stand around after the job for a chat.
> I think the article being on HN makes it HN material

Our culture is what we collectively make it, by definition.

But I don't want to see the frontpage filled with articles about suicide, depression, and celebrity gossip -- that's not what I'm looking to read when I get on HN! And I assumed that others felt as I did, so seeing this upvoted to #2 on the frontpage, I was a bit shocked that my assumptions had been violated.

It's fine if we occasionally discuss those things when there's some (potentially nebulous) link to HN's core topics -- a blog by a celebrity making a foray into programming, a discussion of suicide after a well-known startup founder takes his/her own life, or the technological underpinnings of an innovative treatment for depression are definitely linked to topics of broad interest to HN.

But I didn't really see any link between this article and any of those things. And that's what I meant by "not HN material."
The biggest benefits I receive from a GUI are:

1. all details, functions, settings options, etc are explicitly laid out

2. I don't need to remember the command for a setting, nor look it up. I can change a setting with just a couple mouse clicks.

True, there are situations when these are both false, but a well-designed GUI will provide both of these benefits, and maybe even default settings. Enough to get a new user off the ground or enough to give advanced users a hint about why a feature doesn't work right.
charges of which he is obviously guilty and which are punishable by decades in prison or death.

I think it's safe to assume there will be punishment if he is extradicted to the land of the free.
I'd even suggest: Microsoft's SMB v1 in OS X holds back Wi-Fi transfer speeds.

Since the reason for slow performance is mainly due to SMB v1 (as opposed to Window 8's SMB v3) in their tests and not actually a kernel level problem with OSX.
Show HN: A Calendar from Tweets
Hi HN. I built this (http://hashtagEvent.me) web app over the weekend, which starts to solve a problem that I'm sure many of you have too: I want a way to get calendar events from tweets.

For example, if someone you follow is going to a GitHub meetup next week and they tweeted about it, I want this information displayed somewhere in an organized manner. That's what hashtagEvent.me does, it gets tweets (which for now follow a simple syntax) and creates events with the extracted dates and descriptions. In my mind that's a valid concept, but I'm slowly running out of venues where to gain more exposure. I posted it to HN, but it tanked, naturally. I posted it to Reddit, where it kind of tanked. Reddit is huge, so I'm not afraid of trying again, but are there any other sites where such an app could gain a bit of exposure?

I've always been fairly good at building things, but it's definitely high time to start internalizing the other side of the equation and get some marketing chops as well.

I would like to hear your opinion on both, the app itself, and ways you can market X (maybe some tips from the trenches).

Thanks.
My uncle was very close friends with Sri Chinmoy, and I met him a few times in my youth. Fascinating man.
Since Roger Waters revealed himself to be an anti-semite, I can no longer take anything he says seriously.
The press release on Ron Wyden's Senate site, with the full text of the letter and the fact sheet:

http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/blog/post/wyden-and-udall-t...
The guy is a commercial obj-c developer, with one or more books on obj-c. It's in his personal interest to do so.
Too must music. Supply and demand. Musicians need to get together and sort out some quotas so that they stop flooding the market with music.

not actually sure if I'm joking or not, need to think about this more
Apparently it is very hard to prove results in average case complexity theory. We don't even know if computational problems that are hard on average assuming P!=NP exist, let alone actually designing a cryptosystem out of one.
ok, last comment on this.

this was meant to be more about how to have the biggest impact with your life than how to make a little more money. and it certainly doesn't apply to everyone--hence the title. many people will me much happier not following it.

on the money side, there is nothing wrong with taking a job that pays you $30k more. most people ramp up their spending and don't save that ~$20k (post-tax) extra, but if you do, more power to you. that $30k will never in your lifetime compound to $100MM, but if that's not what you're shooting for, that's obviously fine. it's certainly a much less risky path.