skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse than that, the BBC is running puff pieces like this one today telling us how GCHQ kept the lights on at the Olympic ceremony:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23195283

Telling us how useful GCHQ is in the fight against terror without mentioning Tempora.
They just released a pgp for js. I was thinking of making a IM using it:
http://openpgpjs.org/
‘Giovanicidio’: “Fate presto, prima che sia troppo tardi”
Just doing his job, right? Are you seriously trying to imply that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, literally THE authority on interpreting the Constitution, as an American, has no connections and is powerless to influence the world in any way outside of the court cases placed before him? Think of it this way - if he felt what he was being asked to do was a violation of the Constitution, wouldn't his participation make him a co-conspirator to that crime?
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Latest release, 1.8. That was my impression of their attitude towards it as well.

1.8 Changelog: http://sourceforge.net/p/tmux/tmux-code/ci/master/tree/CHANG...
> You should be worried then, because this data is routinely shared with the NSA, seems to be collected under the remit of a joint program

Exactly. Snowden says "If you send a data packet and if [sic] makes its way through the UK, we will get it."

Given that Snowden is an NSA whisteblower, who's talking here about the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance (U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand), this suggests pretty strongly that the "we" is the NSA.
There isn't much useful "work" one can do with a microwatt at "human" scale in a day. Except, as this paper shows, build a networkable wireless system camping on those microwatts.

Not meaning to be critical, rather just want to clarify that our modern-day gigawatt-scale energy grid yields an enormous 15 orders of magnitude more electrical power than the microwatt-scale "harvesting" of TV signals can. That's an enormous power spectrum, shown to have a newly useful application (batteryless mesh networking) at microwatt scale.
So basically, Rap Genius is just a website explaining what lyrics of a song mean with no revenue model? Not only sounds this like a not very significant idea, the approach to music is very questionable.
It doesn't matter what the lyrics mean to the artist or some expert. The only thing that matters when listening to music is what those lyrics mean to YOU!

Seems to me that Rap Genius is corrupting that concept.
I have to disagree here unfortunately. Like rachel, I've developed my own methods and approaches and toolchains for projects. The upside is that it all works exactly the way I like it to; the downside is that nobody else wants to touch any of it, and anytime somebody else gets a whiff of it, I expect a lot of "why aren't you just using X, Y, or Z?", "this is really shit", "you're a terrible programmer", "lol can you even code?", "look at this dude suffering NIH", and so on.

And ... I've got a pretty thick skin after years and years of net time, but I already struggle with staying motivated on projects, and that kind of feedback really doesn't help.

So, for the most part, the whole "social programming" thing is just not for me.
Bloom: Big Systems from Small Programs [video]
Every person I know, in their 20's, could have written the same post as OP... Myself included. Now they are all married with children... Myself included.
No, adding more points of failure doesn't make the first potential point of failure more fail-proof, or anything like that.
I'm aware of the hierarchy - not sure how it adds to or detracts from my post though? Do you think we inevitably progress up the pyramid as we get older - because I don't think age or progression up a career ladder is particularly correlated with fulfilment of those needs.
Google guides you through the Tour de France with a new interactive site
Michael Hastings Crash Investigation - Police and Fire Told Not to Comment
It's regret limitation. You can always buy things whenever, but if you want to see your kids grow up and not be too old to play then you NEED to have the kid in your 30's at the latest. Once you pass that point you can never go back.

You're not gonna live forever and you will change your opinions regularly throughout life. Using your time wisely, and investing in a solid future is the 'safe' regret minimising strategy.
Well the world of business tends to rely pretty heavily on mail, not sure what other methods of reliable messaging there is?

Sure there is phone calls etc, but emails are used when you need an actual record of something. Also relying on mailservers to not bounce the emails and actually deliver in the end is laughable, when mailservers do go down this hardly ever happens properly.
If only there wasn't a minimum of five mailboxes.
If adding a new layer (gmail) creates a new point of failure without creating any new resilience against failure, you're putting yourself into a bad position.

Think about failure like resistance. Points of failure in parallel gives less overall risk of failure. Points of failure in serial (like adding a front-end) gives greater overall risk of failure.
`..` signifies the immediate parent directory. Does it signify something else in Final Term?
Similarly, if you use DNSimple you can enable email-forwarding on your domains [1]. That's the solution I use for my SaaS product so far.

[1] http://support.dnsimple.com/articles/email-forwarding
In what you might loosely term the golden age of the Windows Desktop - lets say 1995 to 2005, - "custom business application", especially within a large company, was generally done on one of these platforms:

- Excel
- Visual Basic
- Lotus Notes
- Microsoft Access
- Foxpro

(Your list may vary depending on where you are in the world, etc)

For the company who is modernising their IT, perhaps "moving to the cloud", they have to replace a lot of the functionality that was built on these platforms (especially if the vendor doesn't support them any more, or wants to charge an unviable amount to do so).

What is the modern web equivalent to the "drag and drop programming" paradigm for simple form applications? There are the scaffolding frameworks for proper programming languages (Rails, etc), but they just simplify the process, rather than allowing non-programmers people to design their forms, and then having a little bit of workflow which either they, or their technical colleagues, add on?

Or these things an antique from a time before multiple front-ends were necessary, and when they were safely run on a trusted network alone, and there will never be a place for their return?
This is done trickingly in recent games via DLC. The DLC will give some "boosts" like an item that is a bit more powerful than anything you can get early on. It won't tip the end-game but it will tip the early game. Just better enough to make you spend an extra 5 bucks on your 60 dollar purchase.
They think this on the grounds that he would have been tried as a civilian whereas Manning was court marshaled. I am surprised Ellsberg didn't mention that distinction. I do not know how the trial would work, though, given its sensitive subject matter. Ellsberg's position at RAND had a similar relationship to the defense establishment as Snowden's, and he was still considered a civilian.
Diesels: Difference Engine: Born again
Yes, if you go into detail, all people are different. But overall, most people aren't, at least not in a way that matters.

But I have to admit, those who make the difference aren't those who "proclaim their differentness".
Misology - a Hatred of Reason
If it's not added yet, please consider adding a quick menu to change character encoding (like in Gnome Terminal). It's my only main requirement for a terminal editor, and most editors seem to lack it.
This vacation consideration is interesting. Do coworkers that go on vacation also drag you down? What about ill people? Are you saying you would like working only with single healthy people? Don't you feel like you would be losing smart guys that may want to go on holiday time to time or would like a family? Or your work is so simple that anyone can do repetitively for hours and hours and hours without stop - a work that does not require the smartest people, but the more-workhorse people perhaps?
Congrats, you've just reinvented PGP's web-of-trust.
> "And the first reaction to that is, 'Goodness, you know, let's make a strong cup of coffee.'"

It was either that or tea.
GCHQ trying to get ahead of the backlash there.
It's Google. You never see the Google front page go down. There's an implied availability that Google uses to their advantage. People are comfortable with upgrading _because_ it's Google. Google wouldn't fuck you.

Except when they do. Lesson learned.
This hurts me a bit to read. Many of these phenomena have scientific explanations or at least some very credible research. :/
"Single point of failure" means a point at which a failure effectively breaks the entire system or workflow. A system may have many SPOFs, which is worse than a single SPOF, which is, in turn, worse than no SPOFs (that is, the desired case is no single failure kills forward progress).
SFO:  Important flight control systems are out of service for weeks
Rapidfire - A gem to manage surveys in your rails app
Apple TV for Torrent Streaming in JS
Lost in Translation: DRM e-books by making small, randomized text substitutions
If you’re wondering what Japan is like
One of the strange things about being 40 is meeting people my own age who have college-age children. It's amazing how little I have in common with people who chose that life track.

They seem "old" to me, even though they're often several years younger than me. As though they've lived a lot more life than me, but not the "good" parts of life. I can't imagine how tough it must be to raise a family on an entry-level job, and simultaneously try to progress your way out of that entry-level-ness without the ability to ever roll the dice and not have to worry about feeding anybody else but yourself if things don't work out. Or the ability to put it all on hold and piss off to backpack around Southeast Asia for a year. You can see the shadow of that still on a lot of folks like that, even 20 years on.

It never occurred to me back then how good a decision it was not to get married and start a family right away. Now, raising kids with 20 years worth of leveling up behind me and the resources to do it "right", I think I'm going to have it a lot easier.
Luckily for you, political positions in favor of helping the less fortunate, political positions in favor of a more peaceful foreign policy and political positions in favor of a more transparent government all tend to fall under the same party rubrics right now. You sound like a social democrat.

Come to the socialist side. We have cookies.
I use SQLite in small and medium-traffic web apps (the largest one getting about 80000 hits daily) all the time with no concurrency issues whatsoever. My rule of thumb is that if you don't expect your app to require more than one server, sqlite will work just as fine as postgres or mysql.
S/MIME suffers from the same problem as SSL/TLS: everyone puts their trust in CA's, and CA's regularly get hacked, tricked, controlled by governments, etc. etc. It does not matter that you created your own private key if someone else can create their own private key too and have that signed by a bad (but trusted-by-everyone) CA.

How many regular users do you know who actually edit their list of trusted CA's in their browsers? (I sure don't, though I probably should.) Who would manually remove DigiNotar immediately because they heard on the news they got hacked? No, Big Well-Designed Site is signed by Big Company, user trusts it.

On the other hand, if I give you a key that's signed by someone you trust, you can make an informed decision on whether to trust my key. It is a decision on a level where the regular user might feel they have something to say (whereas a regular user is not likely to feel they know more about security than Big Company).

Perhaps most users would have very few keys that they trust/verify. But I'd say that's a good thing, because if you haven't gotten real verification, it's just a false sense of security.
... and dont forget the few thousand FOSS projects already freely available on Gitorious, Github, Bitbucket, Google-Code, Launchpad, Sourceforge and ... so many more !
Does that account for stopping the various government subsidies to the rich?
But not those that support a large number of jobs and how many of these engineering projects are done by non uk firms.
wow, there's some really subtly evil techniques in there...and yet, these techniques are netting the business owner millions in revenue.

I really wish its possible to earn similar revuenu, but with "clean" tactics (i.e., making a really fun game that also has artistic value). Unfortunately, it seems reality isn't so.
The Network Effect is Dead, Long Live the Network Effect
> This is my favorite coercive monetization technique, because it is just so powerful. The technique involves giving the player some really huge reward, that makes them really happy, and then threatening to take it away if they do not spend. Research has shown that humans like getting rewards, but they hate losing what they already have much more than they value the same item as a reward.

Eechh...I would hate to play a game like this. It's not just the money factor, but the feeling that I'm being extorted, and that paying is the only way to succeed in the "life" inside this gameworld. This kind of decision would immediately make me ask existential questions like, "Why do I care so much about my status in this virtual world?" and then quit playing.

Then again, I'm someone who is a complete sucker for "Show your appreciation by tipping the creator" type of pitches, maybe even giving more than I would pay for the game's upfront price (in terms of dollars, for mobile games). There's the "reward" of "I'm being such a good gamer, recognizing the hard work of this developer"
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Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (Debian Wheezy)
How easy is it to s&%^ in Kernel
I am a unix user and application developer with reasonable experience in developing server applications on unix (solaris, hp and linux) systems. However, I have never felt in control in terms of knowing "the internals" as most of my experience has been limited to making system calls at best and writing wrappers around that to handle difficult situations. Now, I want to know Linux better because I see it (or a variation of it) as the future like most of you do.

My question is: How do I know it well enough to dream in it? I know it is a stupid question but you get the point.
They're just like casinos in that respect. The worst part is that some people are very vulnerable to these kinds of tactics, often the people who can least afford it.

On the other hand, reinforcement learning requires systems of rewards - meaning that the games do provide something that is intrinsically valuable to the players (i.e. they must enjoy the game or they wouldn't get "addicted" to it).

How could you clearly tell the difference between a game that has been designed to maximise player enjoyment and a game that has been designed to exploit human addiction? What kind of legislation could be used to protect players? Personally I don't know, I think it's a fascinating subject though.
This is being portrayed as an exciting story but lets take a step back shall we?

A giant intelligence-industrial facility was set up for what is effectively a large sports-day type event. The opening ceremony was potentially at risk of having lights turned off due to an unspecified and as yet unqualified threat.

The intelligence-industrial complex went into action to qualify the threat and it's clear from the butterflies in stomach moment that they didn't realise it was a false alarm until afterwards.

This tells us a lot about the effectiveness of GCHQ's fibre-splicing 3 day archiving of all Internet traffic, and of the security services' abilities to monitor threats through other means in order to determine whether or not they exist.

In conclusion, it appears that the olympics were chasing their own tails, supported by a giant security state apparatus and couldn't determine whether or not the threat was real, let alone any details about the threat until after the event.
Um a lot of these European companies favor their own nationality it's going to be french engineers and possibly a lot of the navvies/ground workers will be imported.
CLIPPER applications running inside a MS-DOS virtual window, because workers still needed to access Office from their Windows 3.11 for Workgroups environment.

Delphi and C++ Builder, the simplicity of VB for laying out forms, with the performance of native code. These still exist by the way.
If you look at the video you'll see the mouse being used. I haven't tried the software so I don't know if that's the only way it can be used (the site seems to imply otherwise), so I'd reserve judgement.
xbox live points uses the mis-match premium currency tactic - often you will have a few hundred left after a purchase, and it makes the "next" purchase seem cheaper because you already have some "left over" from the previous one which would go to waste unless you spent it!

devious tactics. this is why i don't buy premium currencies, unless i can exactly spend it all on the item i want.
Heroku Latancy Issues
Well commented C code should be huge! To say that "size does matter" and only mention source code size is ... Well, I shall be charitable and assume you are having a bad day.
a 'ps aux' seems to hang it...
Do you also blame Nietzsche for Nazism?

Marx analysed quite correctly the era he lived in and the problem with capitalism. He was just wrong to think that this would never change.

For instance today may of us are the owners of our own means of production. You don't need your employer to buy you a machine and they can't just replace you without having lost the knowledge that you represent.

Marx didn't live in such a world and thus his premise wasn't universal enough.
There seems to be so many meshnet projects. Is there any comprehensive list of them? Both actual deployments and related software/hardware projects.
there is no IMAP

What do you mean?
It's pretty funny really, if this is the best PR story they could come up with. The awful threat to national security that GCHQ is saving us from? The lights going off at the Olympics.
Does this not mean that GCHQ are the greatest child pornographers on the planet, by their own standards? They've successfully prosecuted and imprisoned private individuals who've ended up with child porn on their computers due to botnets etc., so if they're wilfully collecting this data, they surely have a criminal case to answer?
The slightest spec of dynamic content makes this approach brittle at best, author or not.
Not entirely true. You can monetize around the open source software you built but this largely depends on what you built. In this case, she is expecting to raise 30k for a feed reader, when there are already open sourced readers with a similar functionality(?).
original link to the series of questions is dead.
> Another interesting new way to monetize skill games would be to monetize through imbalances

i feel planetside 2 did a bit of this (tho i didn't play it long enough to feel the effects).
Indeed, this is probably the reason. The company that developed ejdb (Softmotions) apparently uses ejdb in their own proprietary software, and they wouldn't be able to if it contained any GPL components.
its insidious...i would instantly stop playing as soon as i find out, no matter how good the game is.
Well, websites (or APIs) are generally much more reliable forms of messaging, because you can get immediate feedback on processing. The OP said it was business critical; most corporate email is not business critical, and missing business critical email in a channel with spam, high volume unimportant messages, and also relying on a human to answer stuff is all pretty unreliable. Sure you can feed email into a ticketing system, but at least there there is also a web interface (so you do not rely on email).

If you need a record of something, I do not think that unsigned emails are legally binding anyway, again you should probably submit signed contracts over the web not email.

If it is not time critical, email can work, but the OP said a six hour outage would be a problem, and I still think that is one they have created themselves and is a business risk.
Every rapper needs a hype man. Rap Genius is no different. Obviously Rap Genius will not be bigger than Google.
It's like something out of an awful techno-thriller, 'evil hackers are going to switch off the power!'. It's a ridiculous, self-promoting fantasy to give the security services something to do, a waste of time and money. If hackers could switch the power off and disrupt this massive ceremony they'd be switching the national grid off at will for fun and profit on a significantly more regular basis. Unless GCHQ just keeps those incidents quiet.
I think its pretty clear that discussing taxing only the top 1% is trivially provable as a lousy idea, and no one is discussing doing that here.
On the other hand, how many of them are either 1) government employees with a larger stake in the status quo than the rest of the population or 2) government shills meant to 'set the tone' for the conversation to something favourable to the government?
| that his fleeing is cowardly, and that his
| actions are traitorous

Ah, the classic, "Why won't you stop moving so that I can kill you," reaction.
an unintended side effect (perhaps) might be that the F2P industry sucks away real talent that could've been working on actual contributions to the gaming genre. Imagine if there is a limit on developer talent/creativity, and that instead of being spent on creating psychological manipulations, they spent their efforts on pushing the boundaries of a genre. How much better off would it be, if there were more games like braid, or FTL, etc, instead of yet another junk game with In-App-Purchases. I m hoping the indie scene will revive creative gaming.
So don't put the lights on the internet?

I really hope some general has not ordered nuclear missiles to be on the internet.
> Maybe straight-up, no-tricks games should have a seal or something ;)

A website that curates lists of such games would probably be very popular. Especially if it cross references with other games that make extensive use of the unpleasant monetization techniques.

A benevolent dictator would be more useful than a community run site, unless there were standards and moderation. The Usenet group alt.comp.freeware spawned the website Pricelessware.org. Being Usenet there were frequent bitter angry flamewars about what counted as "freeware". (This was entirely about the monetary cost of the software, and not about open source or other rights.)
The Gmail mail fetcher that allows you to use non Gmail accounts in the Gmail interface is POP only

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?rd=1
Its unfortunate that it doesn't make enough money to just sell levels as their IAP. The app store competition is very darwinian, and the "strongest" survives - where strong means profit generating.
Can you imagine life without the ampersand? I can...
An Analysis of Video Game Age Rating and Their Implications for F/OSS
Thans, that's an interesting list.

In terms of pure engineering I agree it doesn't matter who owns the company; in terms of whether engineering is having its full impact on Britain (other than by providing jobs) I'd say it does - if profits get moved to other countries and taxes paid elsewhere, we're losing out and I'd like to see more UK owned companies for that reason.
Not really if you can also use the other account directly if Gmail were to fail.
I've been POPing my email since the 90s... am I doing it wrong? Yes, accessing email archives on multiple machines is a kinda-headache (I replicate my mailboxes), but never lost email.