skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually suspected this for years and my simple and polite response is, "No, thanks." or "I don't give it out."
The speedup is lacking. 12 cores is only 2x faster than 4 cores from 2010. I wonder how the GPU factors into these benchmarks.
Strawman argument. By the same argument "Manning would not hav had anything to release if the DOD had implemented compartimentalization of access to state documents." (which most modern armies were already doing before, and which the DOD now has)
I think the saying here is, "here's money, now write a pro-Microsoft piece."
man, every time I want to give this another try the tremendous effort involved to even begin is off-putting.

Here Marge prepares her public key:

[marge@apl marge]$ gpg --armor --export marge@aplawrence.com > mypk

To add Marges public key, Tom does this (he's saved the file as "margepk"):

[tom@apl tom]$ gpg --import margepk

[tom@apl tom]$ gpg --list-keys

[tom@apl tom]$ gpg --edit-key marge@aplawrence.com

Command> fpr

Command> sign

[tom@apl tom]$ gpg --out secrets_to_marge --encrypt secrets

[tom@apl tom]$ ls -l sec*

[marge@apl marge]$ gpg --output secrets_from_tom --decrypt secrets_to_marge

And voila! "That's it. GPG is actually pretty simple, and nothing to get a headache over."
They have been saying this from the beginning. https://plus.google.com/116899029375914044550/posts/TMh6gUVr...
Why GPA Doesn't Matter
Considering this is an absolutely huge global market, which includes countries that have an aversion towards anything made in U.S. - and considering that more than 90% global market share really means 100% in local markets, Microsoft's Windows monopoly has been one of the biggest and most powerful in human history, being actually a textbook example in economics courses. Many other historical monopolies were only local.

It's also a well known fact that Bill Gates invested in Apple in 1997 and ported MS Office to Mac OS to keep their main competitor (that was also largely irrelevant in 1997) from dying. Bill Gates is one hell of a strategist and this happened before the anti-trust case being brought against them. Bill Gates foresaw that with Apple dead, they'd be in one hell of a rough spot.

Don't weasel your way out of a broken definition by hiding yourself behind phrases such as "legally speaking". In the making of those laws the legislators do have good input from economics researchers. Sometimes laws are inaccurate, but they sure as hell beat an individual's personal feelings.
That actually is a great reason for going all digital. The other reason (I don't think it was mentioned in the article) is that over the years (PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360) disc drive failures have been one of the biggest hardware problems I've faced with consoles.
The certificate is validated before the 301 is sent.
Cherrypicking a bit there. http://www.nsa.gov/ is done in a much different style.
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AWS is excellent. You can use the free tier for the first year, and after that you only pay what you use. It's highly scalable, so if your site/app usage explodes overnight, it won't be a problem. Shameless plug: I wrote a tutorial on how to set up a LAMP stack on AWS a while ago: http://www.dirktheman.com/tutorial/setting-up-your-lamp-stac...
Took Google long enough to get it. I wrote that post over a year ago.
Hmn. Apparently you are correct.
> Microsoft on the other hand has a history of just shutting down their DRM servers without making it right for the customers who bought into their DRM'd products.

Source? Microsoft is incredibly well known for supporting products int he long term. They only shut down Xbox Live for the original Xbox in 2010. And Windows XP is still infamously supported.
I lived there for 20+ years, headed up again in a couple weeks. The homeless issue is nowhere near as bad as e.g. Portland, where I am now. Nationally the state is ranked 10th for the percent of its population who are homeless. [0] It is not easy to get out by plane, especially if you don't have a job or an apartment lined up before you want to move. What I wanted citations for is this concept of "exporting" homeless persons; I'm still a resident of the state and if you were not being facetious about the concept, I have more than an academic interest in such a program. Mostly I don't think it's true.

[0] http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/26/2summer2009/b_homeles...
Title win!
1] If you can visit a local telco wire office, go do so; especially with all these questions in mind. Telcos have dealt with this problem way before most of us were born.

2] Use DNS's hierarchical nature to your advantage, e.g.

tld -> domain -> telco location code -> box N = box38.lsanca.example.com

3] Your network design perspective will impact how you approach naming, so be careful you don't cement with names something where the design will change, and then your names no longer make sense.
There was a show called "90210" (a Beverly Hills 90210 spinoff) that Wikipedia says just ended last month, so choosing that shouldn't show your age. (Although your question obviously did.)
Perhaps, its a good thing that the worlds most powerful agency has a close interior relationship with the most powerful corporation.

How else would you get the human race to move forward?
You don't. I'm not especially happy here either, it's just a serviceable alternative to living in SF until I can escape.
Good point. Still, it's (and I loath to use this phrase) the future. Movies then. Makes more sense on a HTPC than having to swap out discs.
This is so weird, +83 pts, but zero comments?
To be fair, NVIDIA tried to sell a couple of products directly to end consumers before. For example they sold a dual tv tuner card a few years ago (http://www.nvidia.com/page/dualtvmce.html), but it didn't go too well and was discontinued. These were always half-hearted attempts at testing the waters. NVIDIA never really put too much effort into it.
It's interesting, because in this whole thing I've noticed that there's a reason that I am ok with Steam on my PC when I'm not ok with digital downloads for a console.

Primarily, it's because of the kinds of games that are released and played on them. On PC, I have games that are inherently ALL about the online experience, games like TF2, DOTA 2, League of Legends, Starcraft 2, Counter Strike, ARMA, and many more. These games (from what I've seen) make up the biggest contingency of PC games, and they all "fit" within Steam and it's business model very well.

However, on console you have an entirely different type of game: the game as a story. These kinds of games make up the bulk of the console market, games like Uncharted (1, 2, and 3), the Bioshock series, the Mass Effect trilogy, the Far Cry series, the God of War games, etc. Even just the way you label them (series, trilogy, etc) shows the difference: these are static creations.

Ultimately, on a platform that most people use to consume STATIC pieces of content, why do we need to be chained to some other service? Why must I have an internet connection to enjoy a great single-player experience?
He cannot enumerate everything someone might dream up and deny them all. He is denying directly the things people have accused. What more could he say?
Not really - Microsoft did this to themselves, the Internet is not responsible. Microsoft could have done something else here: Think. Yes, all these people could have used their brains to add all these "new" (or rather: old) mechanisms without killing of the scenarios defined as forward looking by Microsoft. They could have been forward looking AND caring for the status quo. But in typical sore looser fashion it is far easier to go back to only the old way and whine around "And our new ideas are out now! You did not want them! And now you do not get them! You evil people!"

But at least it is better than the first iteration.
> (We wanted to take a picture of the furnace, but they warned us that it was so hot that getting close to it could destroy our camera lens. Which makes sense, given that it was hot enough to melt glass.)

In that case, wouldn't the furnace also be hot enough to melt the photographer?
https://status.github.com/messages says unscheduled maintenance for ~ 6 minutes, then back up.
> WE WERE NOT GIVEN A CHOICE

As consumers, we are rarely given a choice.
Not. This isn't worth posting to HN about unless it lasts more than a couple of minutes or is happening frequently.
Drumond: "Note that I say “originally” because you’ll see that many of those original sources corrected their articles after it became clear that the PRISM slides were not accurate."

Someone, possibly a Google /Fb /Microsoft /Yahoo PR hack, started this rumor. The Guardian posted the slides and Snowden interviews and are sticking to the original story as far as I can tell. No one has said that the slides were fake and if they aren't, why would NSA mislead its employees on the ways of collecting data?
And the message I replied to said: "WiiU + PC will probably get you more coverage than PS4 + PC. As far as I can tell anyway...", which is not even close to truth.
123 Main st, Vancouver, v1v1v1 gets a lot of junk mail because of me.
I happen to have first hand knowledge that two extremely good engineers fucked off when things started going closed and ugly and immoral.
Understandable, but the parent is trying to shift the blame of anyone dying to The Guardian and I would argue that blame lies on Manning by releasing hundreds of thousands of documents wholesale vs. a whistleblower like Ellsberg in where he only published data directly related to a specific crime.
(14% sushi, 31% humus) Why Israel is a Startup Nation
Which never worked correctly, and was silently scrapped.
If I remember the nerd facts from my junior high family vacation to Banff correctly, I think the Canadian Rockies were formed that way.
Here's an interview question for you: "You're currently using 1024-bit SSL certificates. You want to start using 2048-bit certificates instead. What do you need to worry about if you're the size of Google?"
This is what auditors exist for - to bolster trust - they get to ask the difficult questions, look at the systems and processes in place, and assess the behaviour of a company in order to reassure external parties (often investors). They do often genuinely have access to data and code, even if it is perhaps slightly rarer for them to bring the skills to truly interrogate them.

The reliability of an auditor is based on their perceived level of trust in the community. As an investor, you want to be assured that your investment is worthwhile, so you want to work with an auditor that is thorough and highly confidential.

If an auditor can be proven to have intentionally misled in the past, or to have worked with shady agencies / outside parties, that would be a very black mark against them and future business, so it should, ideally, not be in their best interests. Note that this does not except the behaviour of humans in practice, where short term gains of a person might not be aligned with their parent organization (c.f. banking).
Well, we're always given a choice in the end: buy it or don't buy it.

It's what I've done in the past, and it's what I'll do now. I'll just not buy it. Because if you complain, but buy it anyway, you're really saying that it's still worth while to you.
I reckon the admins of mail servers that are likely to be NSA targets (government mail servers or newspaper mailservers for example) could set up some sort of script that sends emails from American services (gmail, yahoo, etc) to many addresses on their own mailservers and then use another script on their mailservers to "clean up" those messages before it gets to the recipients. This would ensure that the messages get intercepted by the NSA, but never get to their intended recipient. If any link is followed, then they can be certain that the message was intercepted.

Generating messages could be done using Markov chains that learn from the content across many of their own mailboxes. Before that Markov generator is used, it could be scrubbed of any words that are particularly sensitive because they refer to classified or secret material.

That's just one idea. Now that the cat's out of the bag, I hope security researchers are already working on such honeypots. Personally, I think every major newspaper should be among the first to implement honeypots. Alternatively, people who thinks they are at risk for surveillance or suspect that they are already being surveilled should be able to submit their email to some watchdog group that can set up the honeypot on their behalf.
Glass is not an element. Neither is alumina; alumina is a compound of two elements, aluminum and oxygen. Glass is a kind of solid which can be made of virtually any substance, including water, steel, and alumina. Very little of the earth's surface is actually made of glass (although some is: pumice and obsidian are glasses) but all of it could be made into glass.

It's true that every recycling process uses energy and other resources. That's why the first choice is "reduce" — read your neighbor's newspaper instead of just sending it off to be pulped. The question is how much energy you're using, and how much the alternative non-recycling process would use.

If you're comparing heating a bottle from 20° to 73° to sterilize it and heating it to 1400° to melt it, you will find that melting it uses, unsurprisingly, about 30 times as much energy as sterilizing it. It's going to take a heck of a lot of water desalination to make up for that much energy.
> I don't see how food stamps are in any way demeaning

Then you probably haven't seen the condescending manner in which people using them are treated by cashiers in many of the places that accept them. (Now, admittedly, the places where this is an issue tend to have generally crappy service for everyone, but the people using food stamps tend to have less choice of where to go.)
The way I see it, this will directly cannibalize Tegra sales. Up to and including Tegra 4, NVIDIA's mobile GPUs weren't based on their desktop GPU technology. Starting with the next-gen Tegras, they will have a Kepler-based (and later a Maxwell-based) GPU in their mobile SoCs, architected from scratch to be power-efficient. That will be a big deal. Imagine running CUDA apps in the palm of your hand.

But with this step, it seems to me that Tegra will not have any differentiator any more (unless NVIDIA keeps some features to itself). Could NVIDIA be adopting ARM's strategy?
Indeed, I misspoke and meant to say tokens/refresh tokens. A similar thing happened for Evernote a while back and knocked down all tokens and required re-authentication across the board.
My Kin studio and Zune say otherwise.
Thanks for that. I learned that it's very likely that most of the stuff I put in the bin is actually recycled (except, it seems, for some plastics). I had been skeptical.
Coincidentally, I was just updating the editor on repl.it and added Forth syntax highlighting mode.
Why does HN care about every brief outage of every tech company? It's not like it's not coming back up.
Standup is not scrum
HTTPS everywhere; that's all I have to say. Something like this is very malicious and very hard to detect -- unless you ALWAYS use SSL. I noticed right away that the DNS was incorrect.
https://twitter.com/github/status/347600017965588480
When what's being created is a timeless piece of art, 10 years is not long-lived support. People still play NES games, and I want to be able to play my current gen games 30 years from now.
" For example, if Apple had listened to prevailing wisdom in 2007, the iPhone would have had a physical keyboard."

Wow, then it would be usable!
Sure, but then you were also given a choice with the Xbox One all along.

It sounded like you were saying that people should get a choice between the old system and new. But that's silly, and never happens in the real world anyway.
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Yeah whoa. I was considering using this to process orders for a side project but that's just too high.
Against some kind of pervasive secret program involving many people: The odds of a single Googler on any team being a "whistleblower" are far higher than the odds at NSA, and we've had a lot of espionage leaks over the years, plus actual leakers.

Ya think that random Googlers would spy for NSA or feed them info? They are probably hundreds of Googlers with Top Secret clearance.
The majority of the games that you listed for console are also available for PC (on Steam).
Geekbench does not measure GPU performance at all AFAIK.
It's kind of crazy that people expect to go unidentified after having used a debit or credit card with their name and a globally unique id on it. Anyone who cares at all about it should have used cash.
So... internships?
LinkedIn's value is not centered around your personal profile - it's about the other people that are linked to you and will always have an up-to-date CV/contact details for you.

It is a self-updating rolodex, Outlook Contacts list, phone book, whateveryouwanttocallit.

I really don't want to bookmark 300+ individual pages that all have different creative layouts, get moved, etc. My LinkedIn profile stays up-to-date, you update yours, that's the implicit deal. And we all profit from it. all being defined as a western work related group, english spoken. this is not facebook. Link your gitbub repo from there, absolutely, good idea, but having LinkedIn as your standardized contact info is very valuable.

is LinkedIn managed in a bad way? sure. But for some reason the modern business world has chosen it to focus on it. Xing and other local players never grew enough. the benefits of starting out it in the US. all the surrounding crap they're building is fluff, their core feature is being a global rolodex. would love to slap sense into their product management team.
They aren't allowed to release the details of what the NSA asked. It's Catch 22 for them.
Why should they bother? They're not his parents.
That might be correct for you, but it's not really for most gamers.

Each year the annual COD release on consoles is huge on consoles (bigger than on PC). FIFA is similarly huge in Europe. Halo, one of the biggest console exclusives, is praised at least 50/50 for it's single/multiplayer content. Online gaming is a big part of console games, even if it isn't for you.

At the same time, most of the games you mentioned as single player experiences are available on PC. Plus many (I'd say most, even) PC-exclusive titles are heavily single-player focused.

Obviously, this doesn't affect your personal reasoning, but I don't think it's shared by many people.
Limiting technology usage because of fear of unforeseen consequences seems a little short-sighted to me. If I would agree with such a line of thought, I would be Amish or something. In regards to evilness potential, the genie is out of the bottle ever since the Internet happened.

Btw, Google does personalize searches in a useful way. You may not have noticed it, especially if you're from the US. DuckDuckGo is unusable for me whenever I search for local stuff. Also, when I search for "Ruby", the first result is about Ruby, the programming language. Guess what my wife sees when she's doing the same search.

You can place "personalize" in quotes all you want, but they are doing it because users want it, period.

Also, I see people here being so enthused about DuckDuckGo, ignoring that the project itself uses Bing's APIs as its primary engine. Of course it does, who would be insane to recreate Google's infrastructure and algorithms when you could get it by piggybacking on Google's main competitor and without which DuckDuckGo wouldn't have been possible.

And here's what a lot of people miss - you don't even need a unique cookie to track users down. All you need are IPs and some smart algorithms for disambiguations. You can't reliably identify all users, but you can identify many of them only by keeping the history of searches per IP. And if you throw in a user agent (which I can assure you, it does get sent to Bing), the reliability increases even further. Throw in IPv6 and we won't be needing cookies at all.

If anything, fear of technology doesn't do any good, because it will happen, regardless if you want it or not. Privacy concerns need to be solved by laws. If governments disapprove, then we need new governments.
PRISM is a reporting and analysis system.
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I think the reality is they will slowly reintroduce the features they've now taken away. Or perhaps none of those features have been taken away, and they're just adding new ones that allow for play w/o an internet connection.

In any case, I think when the dust settles, most everyone will be content with the options given. This was just a PR disaster, not a poorly engineered game console.
IIRC Zune still works, since Xbox Music is a rebranded Zune Marketplace. Even if it doesn't, it's a device, it doesn't need internet.

The Kin is partly Verizon's fault, really.
Backbone-id - client-side id generator for Backbone.Model
"Top Secret" doesn't mean very much (either positively or negatively). It's being read into very specific special access programs which matter. Those can have populations from like 2 to thousands.

I actually think the whole the USG handles classified information and clearances is broken -- it keeps too much secret from the public or businesses which could use it, AND fails to effectively keep essential-to-keep-secret stuff secret. It's borderline OK in operational DoD units other than NSA/intel/etc. (like, keeping maps and such secret), but other than that, it's horrible.

Unlike the 1980s, they now have laughable internal security, where a contractor in the provinces gets superuser access (unlogged!) to the point where he can exfiltrate mad data, tamper with things, etc.

There are commercial organizations who do a vastly better job with their secrets.

I'm torn between wanting to fix this all by making technical controls much stronger, background checks more effective, etc., and wanting to let it collapse (because 90% of what is classified is overclassified, and a lot of the mission is either unnecessary or immoral, both in the general Eisenhower "every dollar spent on bombs is theft from humanity" and in the specific sense of violating civil liberties.
Norway has a bottle tax ranging from 0.5 to 2.5 NOK I think (been a while since I lived in Norway; 2.5NOK is roughly 43 cents), and a recycling rate for glass bottles of something like 99%.

The key, in addition to the bottle tax, is automated bottle collection machines in pretty much all grocery stores that'll issue receipts to be used to offset against purchases at the till. It's so convenient most people return them, and the bottle tax ensures most of those that gets thrown away gets picked up by kids or poorer people for the money.

Most undamaged glass bottles would be returned to bottlers by volume rather than origin, for washing and reuse, apart from Coke bottles for obvious reasons.

Though these days most of the bottles are still plastic, but are still largely recycled - even if the energy savings isn't all that huge, it still saves a lot of landfill space.
How can I create a file with a specific size from a command line?
If you ever need to return something they are entitled to your ID which has your entire address anyway.

If they ever swipe your license on their mag scanner, it contains everything about you.

Your state DMV sells your info to corporations for pennies, in fact sometimes under law it's required to.
This is what I love about consulting - I can experience different team cultures and projects, and learn what works and doesn't work for various teams.
And I'm sure there's some sort of long term solution that would disable the 24 hour check (which obviously doesn't need to happen anymore) when the authentication servers were to be decommissioned.

This isn't Microsoft's first rodeo.
I tried it, and the results aren't up to par with whatever I'm searching. They'll be forced to relinquish data like all the other companies when they get big enough.
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