skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a widget like this for AWS+Virtualbox, it sorts all instances across all regions into tag name groups, by ip, by region, and by instance type. Unfortunately I know it only works for Windows and linux at the moment and my company hasn't given me a green flag to release it.

Still this project is a lot prettier and appears to have been more refined while mine was hobbled together in a hour or two and fit in one Python file ( reasonably, its not 10 files in one ).
The problem is that when consumer make bad decisions (i.e. don't go to the doctor and develop serious health problems), the government in the end still has to foot the bill. You can't turn people away from emergency rooms and have them die on the street.
So none of you guys cares about openness, uh? Too bad, if more people, we wouldn't have the problem of closed platforms to begin with.
uses pgp.js

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/safegmail/lmjkmpdn...
There isn't any evidence that modest increases in the minimum wage increase unemployment. It's purely an article of theoretical faith that doesn't stand up empirically.
Thanks for sharing your perspective and knowledge here.

Really important to know how to be safe and what to look out for. I wasn't getting the feeling that many infosec professionals on HN were able/willing to outline reasonable guidelines for experienced devs/admins to follow.
Pebble + PagerDuty = PebbleDuty
Comes with 32 GB I think and the photos are 5MB I think.
That's bizarre. 2 and 3 are different languages, that conveniently are very similar.

Do you avoid Ruby and Perl because each other exist?

Avoid JS because jQuery and mootools both exist?
Yes, given executive compensation trends, I wouldn't be surprised if executives would get a disproportionate share. That's largely irrelevant to understanding the aggregate impact. At large corporations, CEO compensation is usually less than 0.1% of profits.
I wonder if they could've left off the word 'exploit'. I feel like 'use' in this case essentially means 'potential to exploit'...
I refuse to make any disclaimer.

My question is, what is the crime if someone is "chatting" with a bot? Any crime I could imagine would require a bad actor to actually engage with a person - how is it a crime if there is no victim?

Maybe I'm just naive or missing some apparent point but this really mystifies me.
Spy agency taps into undersea cable (2001)
Ventures with Colorado ATV Tours
I recently attended a mountain wedding and opted to take part in some Colorado ATV tours. My only response is WOW. Colorado ATV tours allowed us to explore some of the 150 miles of trails nestled deep within the Arapaho National Forest; trails that we would have otherwise missed had we not had access to Colorado ATV tours. The tours were facilitated through Aspen Canyon Dude Ranch and the tour guides were knowledgeable and were tuned into my desire to experience an adventure filled day. We frolicked among snow-capped mountains, burrowed deep into mountain forests, and witnessed a bevy of wildlife in its natural habitat. I will definitely be back!
I disagree, but for different reasons than the other commenter. LINQ is great for transformations that are intuitively described by the verbs LINQ provides. If your transformation is most easily understood as a process of mapping filtering grouping selecting etc, then by all means. But trying to pigeonhole every iterative process into LINQ is a recipe for code that's hard to decipher. As always its a question of how does one communicate a process most effectively. Succinctness for its own sake is a fools errand. Clarity is key, and sometimes that means foregoing LINQ for standard iteration.
I think that's an entirely separate argument. Do you?

The fact that right now the economy stinks (P-U) and that some people who want to work, cannot, does not really have any bearing on future plans for guaranteed basic income.
Assuming Wal-Mart actually sticks to its ultimatum.

If one of the most successful businesses in history can't find a way to turn a profit in one of the most populous, affluent areas in the country while paying employees enough to live in the same area, then maybe they shouldn't be in business after all. Like the article says, Wal-Mart needs DC. DC doesn't need Wal-Mart.

CostCo has no problems here and they pay around $15/hour.
Uber's surge pricing isn't cruel — it's kind
I don't get Microsoft. Are they really that hypocritical to the core and so shameless? Why in the world would they launch a "privacy" campaign against Google when they're in a glass house themselves, and so vulnerable? Why the hell would they even put themselves on the spotlight like that?

Or are they really that comfortable with lying, that they have no problem attacking others over something, even though they are just as bad, or worse(as this revelation seems to imply) Giving pre-encryption access to NSA? Really Microsoft?

To make things worse, they've just put the guy who came up with that Scroogle crap in charge of their whole marketing department, so expect a lot more hypocritical/nasty stuff like that from Microsoft in the future:

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-penn-microsofts-master-o...
In addition to the praises from @ryankschaw & @letney's, Pete is involved in a lot of local causes and provides free internet to many organizations.

I've been with Xmission for the better part of a decade now, and the service they provide has almost always rocked. On the rare occasion when it didn't, their service department did rock, keeping customers informed as progress was made - even if the problem wasn't under Xmission's control (for example, at one point I was connected via a phone line which got cut - they actually followed up with the phone company and would call my cell phone to give me updates).
This is the change : "This means we will organize the company by function: Engineering (including supply chain and datacenters), Marketing, Business Development and Evangelism, Advanced Strategy and Research, Finance, HR, Legal, and COO (including field, support, commercial operations and IT). Each discipline will help drive our overall strategy. Each discipline will also be charged with improving our core capabilities in its area. We must improve in all aspects of the business."

So in the past each part of Microsoft seemed to operate both as a independent business (and sometimes competitor with other parts of Microsoft) and part of the whole. This re-aligns the company as a systems company focused on delivering a specific solution.

A number of interesting thoughts ran through my head here. Perhaps the most profound was that Microsoft has basically said "Oh by the way, the PC is dead." and by that tacit admission they fulfill the prophecy of this being the 'post PC' era. Microsoft's reorganization is more about serving customers through a fusion of device + OS + product and less about serving customers as the supplier of "OS" or "Backend business management" or "gaming platform". That makes them a lot more like Apple and really puts Dell and HP in a sticky place. One wonders what the world would look like if Apple embraced people making cloned hardware.

So if I read the tea leaves correctly, Ballmer is attempting to capture Google's Android strategy for Windows with the inclusion of the desktop/laptop component where the monetization comes not from the OS but from the environment.

I don't know if Microsoft can pull it off but it reads like they want to be what Google and Apple would be if they merged.

I give it top marks for aggressiveness, and it seems they are ready to step out of the shackles the monopolist next door, painting Google with that particular scarlet letter in the US and elsewhere.

If I were Michael Dell, my first step after taking the company private would be buying Canonical and installing Shuttleworth as EVP of OS.
Marketing: "Your privacy is our priority."

Meaning:

"Microsoft and the FBI had come up with a solution that allowed the NSA to circumvent encryption on Outlook.com chats"

"For Prism collection against Hotmail, Live, and Outlook.com emails will be unaffected because Prism collects this data prior to encryption."

"analysts will no longer have to make a special request to SSO", "this new capability will result in a much more complete and timely collection response". "This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established."

"One document boasts that Prism monitoring of Skype video production has roughly tripled since a new capability was added on 14 July 2012. "The audio portions of these sessions have been processed correctly all along, but without the accompanying video. Now, analysts will have the complete 'picture',"
This is precisely the reason I don't understand it when people say the cost of the tax will be passed onto consumers. What cost? The tax is on profits...
You going to love PR.
I think there's a universal shift from 'software' to 'services.'

Microsoft doesn't want to sell you Word: they want to sell you the best method of composition. Microsoft doesn't want to sell you Powerpoint: they want to sell you the ability to make the best presentations. And so on.
Yes, I believe minimum wage is in general bad for poor people.

No, I don't have a PhD in Economics and am willing to accept I could be wrong in this assessment.
The Nokia's pixels by my calcs are ~1.44 microns which is a little larger than an iPhone 5's pixels (~1.4 microns).

The Nokia sensor has around 5.5x the surface area of the iPhone 5 but only 5.125x the resolution.

So basically the Nokia's advantage is having both a high quantity of pixels and having larger pixels.
Totally. I'm not arguing that it doesn't happen, and happen with considerable frequency. I'm saying that when the parent poster suggests that he sees it basically every time, that's because Balko is an incredibly dominant presence in this area of reporting, and he highlights cases that involve dogs being shot.

I don't regard this as a problem, and I think that Balko is invaluable. I do wish that more reporters would take up this issue.
For Bitcoin what would the consequences have been of getting it wrong at the beginning? Essentially no money would have been lost, no lives lost etc. Also it appears that the person who did create it had a good understanding of crypto and the recent literature (and may even have written it).

It is possible to learn it but learn it first and ship it to the public later or if you must with great big experiment/insecure warnings all over it.
You're talking about the current state. GP was talking about the future.

>..if WP will get traction thanks to Nokia.

Things can change pretty quickly and sometimes unexpectedly in the mobile world.
Perhaps that's part of the filter
And yet you can't buy HN karma with money, so the inverse is also true.

What motivates one person over another might be imaginary points or real dollars.
+1 I haven't been able to get maps to work at all on my Nokia 920, I can't even figure what the map app is....everything is prefixed as Nokia something app with some weird names that don't work. Suffice it to say, I'm forced to use my old iPhone for anything that involves a map.

Windows phone would be much better if they offered a google map app for it.

Lets just to with an example...I wanted to find the nearest post office, typed it in, I got a result about 9 hours flight away from where I lived. Google maps was able to return something down the street.
What people seem to be missing in this thread is the fact that the concept of the basic income is that it's _basic_.

Construction already (surprisingly) pays pretty well, so does plumbing, etc etc. More tedious jobs will either be automated (which is far more efficient) or if they absolutely require a human brain, there will be a rise in the cost of that labor until the work is worth the money for enough people.

Money is fungible enough that it can be converted into "doing things [you] enjoy". With a well-designed, subsistence level basic income, you won't have enough money to do things you enjoy (unless your hobbies start and end at eating, having shelter, and sleeping). If you work construction, or plumbing, or any "boring job", you'll make substantially more money than the "basic income", and can spend that money on things you enjoy.
Yeah, if one is going to use code as your contact info, and ake people stare at it, one ought to make it good code.

After reading those weirdly-written snippets, I'm not comfortable with buying more code from the author.
According to this living wage calculator http://livingwage.mit.edu/, the living wage for a family of 4 where I live (suburbs of DC) is about $50K. That sounds like a lot, but actually living here there is no way we could survive on that. They only calculate $464 a month for medical for a family of 4. I'm lucky in that my wife has ridiculous health insurance through her job. When we didn't have that our share of the premium was more than that, let alone copays, OTC drugs, etc. Also, the living wage calculation does not account for clothes, school, or about 50 other things that would come up in a family with kids.

Minimum of course, is $7.25.
Nokia has such a big market share because nobody wants a WP, but still enough people want a Nokia. If many people will start wanting a WP, many others will want in - especially the low cost manufacturers, which can simply differentiate on price.
Scroogled!
The race for third place is heating up! It's very interesting to consider Ubuntu Touch vs. Firefox OS - what happens when two platforms backed by two champions of FOSS come into conflict?

Not that conflict is inevitable, and it's explicitly against the public mission statement of Mozilla, at least, but these platforms will still be competing with each other for the few devs and consumers who reject both iOS and Android (and WinPho, and BBOS, and Tizen...)
You know that the "top" comment you see in a post is not the highest-rated one, right?
Interesting concept. Is this iOS or Android?
It all depends on what works for you. I hate article that attempt to solve a problem where it's apples and oranges.
That is very nice of you.
I try to buy things that I actually need and use, so to me the $600 pocket fitting computer is still pretty ridiculous.
Doubly true if you are talking about a globally applicable basic income.
I am enjoying the subtlety of your Darwinian argument.

One friend of mine suggests that we need to make adult play centers that have pitfalls, like dead drops, to keep people fit and alert. The kicker is that they would be placed in such a way that it would be necessary to traverse them to get to essentials like the DMV, liquor store, etc.

But I guess the big question is whether you think these people on drugs will create a massive amount of collateral damage or not on their way to thin themselves out? I imagine cars crashing through walls, people passing out with their stoves on and burning down their apartments, strung-out people electrocuting themselves, that kind of thing.
Economists are split on this question. You're being dishonest by acting like there is certainty on this question.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.pt/2010/04/alot-is-better-...
There's plenty of evidence, but people like you enjoy waving it away.

It's a strange idea that labor costs are the only costs that don't affect the decision making process of business owners in any way.
CostCo and Wal-Mart have pretty different business models despite being competitors. It should be noted that CostCo's retail business, without the membership fees, is actually not profitable. It's the membership fees that put them in the black.

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/26/why-can-t-w...
I've written extensively on the cutting of undersea cables and how it has affected our world and who may or may not be behind things. I wanted to post this article to ask a couple questions of ourselves and technology:

In 2001, we were all okay with this being headline news, now we're not. What has changed?

In 2001, the NSA claimed they didn't even have the technology to make sense or usefulness out of such massive streams of information. What has changed?
Incremental Redesign With Rails
What are the "concepts I'm criticizing"? I suspect that you have absolutely no idea what the context of my comment was, because your diversion on the topic of functional programming is just grossly out of place.

LINQ encourages the belief that set operations are free, such that you no longer have to concern yourself with concepts like memoization or appropriate structures. This has nothing to do with functional programming. Literally at all.
This is the problem with doing functional list stuff in languages that permit side effects: the order of execution for each function has to be strictly defined (in both senses of the word), so the compiler can't optimise the code. In Haskell the solution (see my comment on the original page) would probably (I haven't actually checked the GHC core output) be folded into a single loop.
This isn't true. Our usual concept of ownership and hiring might have to change. There are people out there who dream about running a coffee shop. There are people out there who are the restless type who have to be working on "something". Yes, you'd have a hard time finding baristas to work for 5 dollars an hour. You could probably find plenty of people who would join a "co-op" type ownership situation where everyone shared in the less than pleasant responsibilities for a shared sense of ownership of the entire endeavor and a shared cut of the profits. No doubt society would look different than it does now, and there would be a lot of problems to solve. But these problems aren't unsolvable.
Oh, right. Sounds like the pointy-haired boss decided upon the password himself.
> I'd appreciate any advice on my solution.

You should always compare your results to what is expected. For a problem like this, use a small set of test data that can easily be counted and sorted in your head or on paper.

You forgot reverse=True and your results show the 10 least common words. ;)

This kind of error happens to all of us. That's why we have unit tests and QA teams. If you made this mistake during an interview I wouldn't give it much importance and we would have a good laugh about it.
This seems like a very ambitious project, which is great. It does seem at risk of boiling the ocean. They're taking on:

* NAS device with encrypted file storage and UPNP

* setting up a VPN

* client software for said VPN on each platform (or at least installers that can configure each platform's native VPN support)

* multi-device file sync

* whole-device file sync, with client software for each platform, presumably with subtle kernel-level code (those "patent-pending technologies")

* versioned backup

* "instant file transfer" (presumably this is just their streaming tech repackaged, but it's a separate UX to develop and maintain)

* streaming file delivery across varying-bandwidth connections

* presumably media player apps on each mobile client platform to consume said streaming media

Each of those things is plausible, putting them together makes a lot of sense at the product level, and it would be a godsend if they can do it well. I guess I just wonder why they're not raising $5M rather than $100k.

(Maybe the team is actually an established company with 20 engineers, and the Kickstarter is purely to bankroll the initial production run? It's not clear from the team bio.)
Customers had those concerns, so the video is super low bitrate, ~800 kb per minute.
Add to that the increased demand for basic services in those areas, and you'll wind up with something that looks an awful lot like economic growth in those areas.

Add to that the ability to grow food for oneself, and I bet we see lots of people move somewhere they can rent a home with a large garden, and turn their basic income into a small scale farm with extra earned income at local farmers markets. As that money moves around in a community, even if %40 of every pay cycle is extracted by walmart, the local economy has people who have time to build small bussinesses. Now a mom and pop store doesn't have to support the family, it just has to pay the rent on the store and bring in enough extra money and or good will/personal satisfaction that mom and pop keep it running.
Thought it was similar to Mixpanel, but then I watched the demos. You went full NSA! You never go full NSA. You're basically streaming a full screen recording of user's activity on their phones.
In the latest update, 7.0, there's quite a bit of conversation that this is no longer possible. It's recently come out that it can be done with a gimmick, typing 'okay maps' I believe, but it remains unintuitive as a primary task let alone worthwhile feature.
Two things:

1) This is based on a false premise that the time I'm spending writing comments is taking away from time I'd otherwise spend programming. I don't know about anyone else but I'm one of those programmers who likes to internalize a problem, absorb it and digest it subconsciously while doing other things and then write code. Guess where internet comments fit into this? Additionally, reading and writing on places like HN has contributed immeasurably to my skills as a programmer over the years. Not so much by teaching me specific things but by keeping me in touch with the community and aware of things I wouldn't otherwise be aware of.

2) There are already real points which we are awarded for programming, it's called dollar bills. Ok, you were talking about free open source projects that we wouldn't get paid for. True, no dollars directly there. But these are things you can cite on your CV/portfolio when job hunting or when review time comes around. Dollars.

Also, Github.
Windows Phone is more open than iOS in the sense that you have multiple OEMs making multiple types of phones targeting different markets unlike the iPhone. For example, the Lumia 521 is just $130 off contract in the US. Also the walled garden prevents the malware problem that Android has. So it can be considered as a happy medium between iOS and Android.
Why not? If you get BI out of any political process, you already had a majority in support of the simplification. It just requires vigilance, which our current track record for is terrible, but any economic system or any political process requires vigilance, and a BI isn't any different.

It is true that over the entire history of the United States, the American public has proven itself apathetic to the abuses of their politicians, but that is a cultural problem that needs to be solved regardless of having a basic income or not.
CostCo is the "Country Club" of grocery stores, with an up front membership requirement.

Poor people do not need more Country Clubs.
I use RemoteDesktop from Topperware. The mouse and keyboard UI work very well for me.
I don't drive, I mean, most people don't drive in my market....and that's where I'm supposed to look for maps on my 920?
This too is an irritating statement given that me, Sean, and Marcin have been having 1:1 manual email correspondences with something like eight thousand strangers to teach them crypto attacks (the current standings are level 0 (8152), level 1 (608), level 2 (181), level 3 (61), level 4 (58), level 5 (42), level 6 (51) --- http://tinyurl.com/mtsocrypt).

What I perceive is that the problem isn't really that "infosec professionals on HN" are unwilling to teach developers, but rather that we're not teaching developers what they want to hear about crypto.
They've announced a number of companies to join their CAG. What is missing so far is any firm commitment that anyone is going to release one of these devices; without stuff likely to ship I don't see much likelihood of app developers doing anything on this platform.
TL;DR:

We're firing a bunch of people, giving more new jobs and focusing on phones and tablets finally.