skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am an MSDN subscriber as are the other 100 people we employ. Definitely not free.

It is a matter of scale.

The type of companies I work for, the MSDN subscription is done at enterprise level. Sure it is expensive, but still cheaper than buying individual products, and gives the liberty to access new software versions.

It feels as if it was free, hence my quotes around free.

> Compare to the Java EE ecosystem.

True, in many things the Java ecosystem is more open source friendly, because the money comes from consulting or selling books, not from direct sale of tooling.

Ever tried to develop Eclipse Ecore plugins without buying the books from Eclipse Foundation?

I am fully aware of it, my employer was a Java/C++ shop until 2009, date when we started delivery .NET solutions additionally.

On the world consulting world my employer targets, there are lots of commercial tools to chose from,

Websphere, Weblogic, Oracle DB, Informix, DB2, Rational Rose, Clearcase, Intel C++, Intel VTune, Portland Group Fortran/C/C++, InteliJ, Delphi, Together, Sybase, HP-UX, Solaris, ...
> Are we the guard dogs of US interest,

That's what happens when you externalize almost all of your defense-related needs. France did try to go its own way around the 1960s, but it turns out building lots of carriers and nuclear-powered submarines is not that easy when you're not in the global top three, economically speaking (and even so, the Soviets went bust because of it). And of course recent attempts at a "common European defense policy" are a farce, as most of the people who know a thing or two about the matter will attest.
</rant from another European citizen>
Or, you know, maybe they actually didn't deny his flight the airspace?
Not that it invalidates your point, but your example is a bad one - BBC can, and do, advertise DVDs of their own TV series, in between programmes.
60 years ago boys had no problem paying attention in class. The problem is too many teachers today have degrees in education instead of the subject they are supposed to be teaching. They've turned schools into daycare centers. They rely on "projects", worksheets, videos, and busywork that have little to do with what the kids should be learning. When children are bored and resentful that their time is being wasted, they act out.

We can fix this by making it easier to fire bad teachers, require math, science, and English teachers to have degrees in math, science, and English, and prevent school funds from being used on new textbooks, televisions, videos, workbooks, or other wasteful materials.
Thanks - I've been looking for something that would be similar to the BBS functionality I found very useful a couple decades ago. This looks like it does an even better job.
Summary for those who are either in the UK and unwilling to use a proxy, or very short on attention span:

Your sensory mechanisms, like any other means of detecting anything, are less than perfect. Therefore you're going to get some false positives (thinking your phone is vibrating when it isn't) and/or some false negatives (not noticing when your phone really is vibrating).

It's possible to trade off between these by adjusting the threshold for detection. There's no reason why the optimal point (or the approximation to optimality that your brain actually chooses) should give no false positives; more likely it will give some false positives and some false negatives.

The end.

(This tradeoff occurs all over the place. One interesting example, due to Justin Barrett, is the suggestion that (1) one thing our brains are set up to detect is signs of agency -- something purposeful acting in our vicinity, and (2) it is generally better for us to be too sensitive (thinking there is a tiger hiding in the trees when there isn't really) than not sensitive enough (not noticing the tiger, and getting eaten). And that this is the mechanism underlying a lot of belief in the supernatural: we see something, have the feeling that someone or something must have made it that way on purpose, and on looking closer fail to find any good candidates ... and are then liable to conclude that something we can't directly detect made it so.)
Incompetent because Snowden isn't on the plane.
If it's not funded by the license then that suggests that part of the BBC has been quietly privatised.
Anyone else doing the same gets the same level of ridicule. It's not even the same as the likes of Netflix where there are all sorts of third party stake holders, licenses, etc. - BBC owns this content. Why would anyone other than BBC not get criticised if they did this?
Immutable programming, FP style (Elixir)
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"It isn't our policy to not serve customers who are using a mobile."

Bloody should be. And people who open things before they've paid for them.
Self-censorship is the worst kind of censorship.

(Meant as words of understanding, not criticism.)
> Note: What you may notice from the video above also is that almost zero of the traffic appears to be coming directly from the official Hacker News URL. I am not entirely sure why but almost all of that traffic was reported as “Direct” in Google Analytics which made things a little frustrating for tracking purposes.

The views likely reported as 'direct' because of HN's usage of https. The HTTP spec requires that the referer header is not sent to a http:// page if the current page is https:// (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-15.1.3 )
(michaelochurch will never take advice to pull his head in, so this is for the benefit of others who may be misled by his warped view of Google.)

- There's no such thing as a "Perf Room" as a special thing. calibration happens in regular meeting rooms.

- There quite possibly are some bad managers, but they are few and far between. There's plenty to gripe about at Google, but immediate managers are very rarely the topic.

- The transfer process is not broken, though it is not a revolving door either. You don't require high level sponsorship, though high level folk will be required to sign off on transfers for obvious reasons (what if 50 people all suddenly changed to teams in particular office?)

- 20% time is a great way to "audition" with a potential team you might like to transfer to, but I have never heard anyone but michaelochurch describe taking appropriate 20% time as "a gamble". There are naturally times when your manager might ask you to defer 20% work (occasional crunch time, or similar), but that's still a rarity.
Here's where I got the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/03/edward-snowden-a...

I should have linked this in the first place.
Don't you mean a citizen of an EU country? Last I heard the EU wasn't a state.
Wow - beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
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Yeah I had someone actually point this out to me just before actually. I had been using HTTP Everywhere plug in so I didn't realise that HN was now HTTPS by default but cheers for the clarification.
I use dropbox as a client facing equivalent of FTP.

That way the client can have programmers/designers change their UI without needing any access into the server. It also allows me to share each site and doesn't bring the entire headache of managing accounts. I simply share the yoursite.com folder to the client. If a client has multiple sites it's just as easy to share all of them.
I've also found similar - I wonder if there's something about functional programming that means the language syntax /has/ to be obtuse...

(Similar with Haskell too -- learning that at university, I loved the concepts, and I'm sure it's technically great, but the APIs seem almost deliberately horrible; one-character variable names, array append and prepend being called "cdr" and "car" or something like that, stuff like that all throughout the standard library and tutorials. I don't care that there's a historic reason for that based in the PDP's Lisp-to-assembly compiler, if the function's job is to append it should be called "append()" -_-;; </rant>)
http://www.restorethefourth.net/

There will be protests on the 4th of July as well in many US cities. Maybe other countries will protest in solidarity as well, like in the occupy protests, but we won't be sure what happens until the 5th of July.
What sort of programmer? Are you a computer scientist, or a computer engineer? I sincerely don't mean any offence, but I wonder if there are two ends of the spectrum of code and computer programming. Do you muck about in fractal algorithms or learn how best to utilise the latest protocols and languages for functional requirements?
It's in beta, coming this fall: Mavericks.

The new battery indicator on the menu bar identifies apps that consume the most energy, and Activity Monitor now details energy consumption per process.

First in list of features: https://developer.apple.com/osx/whats-new/
Yes, I had the same thought. The Bolivian Air Force is Fuerza Aérea Boliviana, hence FAB.
Downton Abbey is not BBC, but is ITV.

> what I disagree with is that all they produce is more of the SAME content

A motoring show, a children's sf show, and a period drama (not produced by the BBC but bought in for BBC to sell abroad) are "the SAME content"?
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Yeah I find it rather unsettling as well. The Chief engineer, presumably the highest paid technical guy :

Bay Area Rapid Transit,Chief Engineer,Maint & Engineering Admin,"$170,383",$0,"$3,466","$15,753","$20,385","$12,032","$1,869","$4,465","$228,353"

Not badly paid, but note the financial guys of the firm :

Bay Area Rapid Transit,Asst Controller,Assistant Controller,"$107,785",$0,"$214,322","$10,903","$13,017","$7,650","$1,869","$5,734","$361,279"

He has "half" the pay of the chief engineer and DOUBLE his salary in "Other" compensation. Hmmmmmm.

Bay Area Rapid Transit,Asst Treasurer,Assistant Treasurer,"$33,971",$0,"$289,534","$1,797","$4,072","$2,378","$1,869","$4,897","$338,518"

Same

Bay Area Rapid Transit,Asst Treasurer,Assistant Treasurer,"$33,971",$0,"$289,534","$1,797","$4,072","$2,378","$1,869","$4,897","$338,518"

Wow. Base compensation is $30k and look at the total. What the hell ?
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> someone always has root

Chad claims that they throw away the ssh-keys to the machine. So they don't actually have root. Or maybe that was a goal that hasn't been reached yet, don't remember exactly (Chad gave a talk in Berlin on this and related topics).
If we are going to speculate, perhaps Hastings is not dead, maybe he faked his own death to be with Elvis or the martians, and escape the government (I just watched a movie with Orson Wells - the third man - about this) Maybe the government faked his death like they did Osama Bin Laden for whatever reason? (So they can torture and restrain him and no one will know or care)

If you do a search for Economic Hitman Perkins, he was former NSA type who went around the global trying to get political leaders to do oil contracts and such that benefitted the west, if they didn't play ball, CIA Jackals were sent in to assassinate the people, Perkins said the only reason he decided to expose this later on was because he didn't want his daughter growing up in that kind of society where people are murdered for thier beliefs and trying to help thier citizens. Maybe like the comments below, Perkins is just a plant trying to "enhance" the fear of the CIA/NSA to get more people to respect them and they never killed anyone or very few of the deaths that are attributed to them. In the end, what does any of it all really matter? We all have a limited time to exist, and my friend Weev says to have fun, get lots of LULZ, face the madness of this world with Absurdity. Frank Sinatra said to leave them laughing when you go, take us out Frankie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVVmig6lR0w
This is my skepticism about these highly technical, complex theories as well. I don't know enough to discount them based on technical merit, and they all certainly sound feasible, however unlikely. It's possible that the NSA can be tapping fibers, running its own fibers back to Utah, storing the data in a massive storage network, running millions of CPUs to decrypt it all, reverse-engineering the ever-changing application protocols, running very deep analysis against the results, and then coming up with the targets' communications patterns. It just seems much easier, cheaper, and faster for them to drop a secret, legal order on the involved companies and let the data come to them. It's the ultimate hack.
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What a great step for Github. I was impressed with Pages, and now they're providing what SourceForge granted the public with for so many years. Options for everyone. All without the sponsored hosting!
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The video was a nice touch, really helps add a level of reality to the situation.
We are setting a great example for China.
AIUI France and Portugal denied entry, so they landed in Spain for fuel. Corrections welcome.
Last time the US gov't claimed some stuff that turned out to be a lie, more than 100.000 civilians

Last time?

If there were a clock that ticked every time high US government officials lied over matters of state, you could use it as a fan.
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I don't understand. You can easily cut a branch commit. Push the branch. Pull the branch finish it. Commit. (optionally rebase). Delete the temporary branch. Git handles this problem very well.
July 13, 2012

A few of us kicked and shouted about this when this was proposed. If you'd like an example of how this is being abused, El Reg has a good article from 2009: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl/
I'm not sure I understand what advantages incorporating offers to the Bitcoin Foundation, when (a) it facilitates legal targeting by the government and (b) does not further their stated purpose beyond what they could achieve as an informal working body.
If Bitcoin becomes successful, that success will threaten governments and they will seek to suppress or control the currency and its associated organizations. If the Bitcoin Foundation is in this for the long term, then, like bitcoin itself, they should be focused on establishing their legitimacy outside of the governmental sphere.

You didnt really think 'the government' was going to leave you alone, did you?
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If it were simple, I wouldn't have had such a hard time replacing it. Google Reader did two things for me (1) correctly display the content of the RSS feeds I care about, (2) sync, so I could read from my home and work computers, and from my tablet without loosing my place. I read math blogs that use some WordPress plugin that generates images for formulas from LaTeX source and very few feed readers render the formulas at all (I also read several programming blogs and a small number of feed readers remove code blocks from the posts). In the end I gave up on sync, found an Android app that displays posts correctly and use that now.
This might be paranoia , there are plenty of controversial anti-US things all over the internet and AFAIK the writers have not been rounded up and arrested.
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Your conspiracy-theory-mocking is misplaced here since we have actually found a lot of scary conspiracies related to the US government lately.

I also laugh at people who believe in flying saucers and so on. But I'd probably stop if an actual flying saucer landed on the highway and started blowing things up.
It really is surprising, but I'm glad they found their way to stay alive and profit as well. Hopefully they'll make some sort of a bigger splash in modern era as well.
I tend to doubt folks who were using GoDaddy's hosting went to AWS.
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v2.2.8, then. Thanks.
In interaction design we say that you can't design an experience, but you can design for an experience. We know quite a bit about humans, the psychology they approach an interface with, their physical abilities to use an interface. With this information and a target experience you want to design for, the design choices follow.

We can objectively measure things like whether a user approaching an interface can easily understand what options are available to them, whether the user can intuitively tell what actions to take to activate those options, whether at every point the user can tell what state the system is in through its interface.

It is absolutely true that if you are developing for, say, ascii-loving adult S.U.D. gamers your design requirements will be different than if you are developing for casual gaming tweens. But we can still say that the DF interface is pretty bad for the vast majority of users who want to play the game.
Well at least we know know which countries are US lapdogs France, Spain and Portugal. You could probably add UK to that.
Let's see who else shows their colors.
I'm embarrassed as an American. They love bullying smaller countries but would never dare force down a plane carrying the Chinese or Russian President. That could be construed as an act of war.
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Yes, I think we pulled out hair out a lot waiting for that moment. "If we just get that blog to cover us or if only had that big partnership". We'd get spikes every now but no silver bullets. Steady compounding growth won it for us in the end.
Does any one else thing the US is cashing in a hell of a lot of diplomatic good will to get one single man?

Yeah, I get the US gov want Snowden, but this seems so over the top, like it almost feels personal. Has Snowden got something on Obama personally or something? I have never seen this scale of action from the US for a mere whistle blower. Bin Laden and his ilk, fine, I understand that that. But even though IMHO, the leaks show the USA to be very badly behaving, most countries dont seem to care that much. Internationally and diplomatically, it seems very quiet.

I dunno. But I do find the response strangely disproportionate.
I don't think that was the last time...
Did I get it right in the part where she's talking about "thousands of years of civilization"?
The very first thread HN had about Hastings crash was full of good comments like that --- someone whose cofounder died in a similar crash in a BMW, someone who posted a video(!) of a car crashing into a tollbooth and bursting into flames, a comment from 'JshWright who's been a firefighter/EMT for 10 years talking about the burn pattern in the video, another comment explaining how much worse the fire probably looked because of the limits of nighttime photography, comments from international assassination expert 'tzs about the Wil-E-Coyote nature of a plot to kill someone with an exploding car.

It was great.

But because of the nature of HN, all it takes is for the same story to get posted again and again, and eventually we get a thread that makes it to the top of the front page without all that high-quality debunking.

Incidentally: another group of people using conspiracy-theoretic putdowns to dismiss the notion that Hastings was murdered: journalists. Google [hastings conspiracy theory]. Or [ambinder hastings]. Or [hastings truthers].
> Google tried to combat Facebook with open standards and it didn't work. OpenSocial, if anyone remembers, was a huge effort by Google which would have the effect of commoditising Facebook's functionality. They put themselves on the line by partnering with many other companies, and it failed to slow Facebook down.

Why does Google have to "slow down" Facebook? What does that even mean? Is Google only successful if no other successful web companies exist?
If I were Bolivia I would make it a point to give Snowden asylum now. Fuck this.
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My use case: The "extras" (files not in the DVCS like libraries, dependencies, etc) are just as important for working, but they take too long to transfer/update from one PC to the other, especially for things like GAE which don't have easy ways to manage.

Dropbox could help there, but it does not.
So this is one of those laws that everyone broke.
No, his assertion wasn't that the only likely improvement to the UI would be a simple gamepad-mashing interface.

And nowhere was is implied that not wanting to battle through an insane UI does not equate one to a "soda guzzling teen".
You arguably have more to fear from your own government, which has far greater capability to (legally) spy on your electronic communications in real-time.

Both the NCC and the Interception Centres set up under RICA have virtually unlimited power and access, in fact every service provider is required by law to install the equivalent of Verizon's Room 641A which feeds data real-time directly to an Interception Centre.
Try to google "world citizen". Language is a tool, not a prison.
I've recently started developing something like this. Now it looks like I might not have to. Thanks!

I found RetroShare worthy of its own submission, given today's climate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983913
Thank you. I think the key was getting the autonomy coupled with the support network. All too often with agency projects too many chefs early on can easily spoil things. This is especially true when you have more rigid hierarchies to deal with.
I don't think it is a lie so much as total incompetence. Good thing we can trust them to do the right thing with our private data.
Wikipedia could argue that people will self-censor themselves and thus avoid looking up information on Wikipedia related to illnesses, sexual topics and so on. Its the same argument libraries has when claiming peoples library card history is protected.
I wouldn't do that unless you have a really old car with no electronics to drive.
As far as France is concerned, this seems to be an incorrect statement by unnamed Foreign Affairs Ministry officials.

Le Monde reports[0] that government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem says that France "eventually allowed the plane to fly through its airspace", implying that they denied it at first. A more detailed official account of the incident is supposedly forthcoming.

[0] http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/07/03/une-rumeu...
Reputation is extremely important for long term security. We're finding this out, and I think it'll only get worse if we don't start treating others with respect.
BBC Worldwide which is their commercial arm is an independent subsidiary of the BBC.
Totally what I was thinking. I feel like there should be huge protests about the NSA situation right now in the US but it's like no one cares, let's just move on with our daily lives and forget that everything we say and do is being listened to and watched.
The user interface could perhaps benefit from re-using the same pseudo-random seed when you are moving the mouse pointer to draw your line.

Edit: I'll try hacking up the code.
So the site would need to be whitelabelled? yea, that would be an unreasonable cost I suppose.

Shame.