skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it was Visual Basic that turned me on to Linux. I purchased VB 1.0 for an app I had to build. I paid $120 for it which was a lot of money for me at the time. The app was right in the sweet spot for VB, but being a 1.0 it was unusable. VB 1.1 fixed all the bugs I needed, but they charged $60 for the upgrade. Charging $60 for bug fixes turned me into a Microsoft hater. The next semester I downloaded 386BSD and started my transition away from Microsoft.
Wargaming.net CEO reckons World of Tanks can keep going for the next 10-20 years
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All great points. For my last move from NYC to Seattle, I ended up selling just about all of my books (amazon is amazing for reselling books). Made enough to pay for my flight to Seattle. Selling all my furniture (mostly craigslist) paid for shipping what few things I kept.
Making GPG and programs that use it easier to use would be nice. But the primary issue is that many people that should be able to comprehend PKI basics and necessary background material to use it, are too "busy" or "lazy" to spend the limited time to even scratch the surface.

I face this daily, since I'm the go-to guy at my office for scripting/coding solutions for these folks. They just want it to work without having to learn or understand their decisions. And these are the same people that will spend hours figuring out complex lunch accounting issues or read volumes on video game strategies or rebuild engines.
I once used determinism as an AI tool: ran a copy of the physics simulation to 'look into the future' and predict the movement of what visually looks like a chaotic system. This prediction could then be fed to some AI agents and give the appearance of 'intuition'.
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Waited for this :)
The secret surveillance court is making secret surveillance laws
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Looks like iTerm2 is adding 24bit color support soon too:
https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/pull/133

Pull request is from less than 12 hours ago, so I'm not sure how long it'll take to get into a release.
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That's a very poorly executed hype.
Still very much in development... Looks neat though, I admit. There are no tabs, and tmux/emacs support seems to be a tad pokey.

We'll have to see of this Terminal Emulator goes terminal or can break out into a fulfilling life.
Pretty sure the NSA would have a few Tor exit nodes under their control.

Also those people you are referring to is the majority of the public i.e. your parents, grandparents, friends etc.

If your entire life isn't centred around the internet it's easy to see why online privacy isn't a huge concern.
You learned the hard way - don't rely on Google for any sort of commercial service. Their customer support and reliability is abysmal (not to mention notorious and unprecedented levels of privacy abuse).
Non-Americans are going to have to come to terms with the likelihood that their governments cooperate with the US not because of blackmail or coercion or fear, but because they agree with the justification for and procedures surrounding this kind of surveillance, and very much appreciate the US's willingness to throw billions of dollars into the pot to help it happen.
Well, I think he has done more than enough for us - if we ever deserve people like him. Now, it's our turn.
I don't want to contaminate this thread any further but PM me and I'll give you free support.
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Bus dev/sales can survive a day without email every now and again (in my experience, far more than a day without a phone system). Everything will resume the next day, sure it pays the bills but a six hour outage is not "mission critical", it wont stop the "check" from arriving (email is not a payment method after all).

I have known large (email dependent) businesses have 2 day outages on the traditional Microsoft mail stack too. There are coping strategies. It is annoying not mission critical.
I used to be IT manager of a company that wanted to save money and they had me switch them to google business. it was a smooth transition, but the company wanted it's employees (50ish non tech salespeople) to still use Outlook. It was ok. google had an app that allowed this. All was good. I left the company but my friend took my job from me when i left. He now has come across the problem of google not supporting the newest outlook. he gets new computers in and has to downgrade the outlook just to get email to work. headache
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You don't need to take out hundreds of plants.

Typically you might only need to cause a few targeted failures at the right time, and if you do this in a nasty way you can cause a cascading failure, taking out key transmission lines or other nodes in the network.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure

* Structural Vulnerability of the North American Power Grid - http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0401084v1.pdf

* Risk-aware Attacks and Catastrophic Cascading Failures
in U.S. Power Grid - http://www.ele.uri.edu/nest/paper/Globecom_2011.pdf

It's a very "Dr Evil" topic, I know...
If you haven't already recovered the ring, the giant horse will knock it down :P

Haven't found a use for the giant cow or giant chicken though...
"successive British governments over the last 30 years have buried their heads in the sand over energy policy"

You missed discussing the why, which was north sea natgas. Why, we'll have natgas so cheap we won't meter it, and we'll grow rich exporting it. So why not replace every electric plant with a natgas turbine?

Wot you say its 2005 and the fields have declined so much that we're now net importers and the lights are going to go out pretty soon? In fact we need to import more than we can physically be supplied with given current infrastructure?

Whoops! Its a pity really, we may be witnessing the first "first world" country to have its electrical grid shut down in a couple years. Brownouts in summer suck, but brownouts in winter can be lethal. Its not going to be pretty.
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It only feels wrong.

You don't have to use the GUI I'd imagine.
I would've expected somewhat differently inclined comments from the hackernews community.

Instead, everybody is just saying the same thing expressed in different wording - safety.

His point is not to bypass the entire family, house aspect of your life. The point is to not move along life as if you have no choice but to move to the next "stage".

Progress is not moving up the stages - getting a house, getting a family, a dog, a kid. Those are just arbitrary checkpoints defined to make you feel like you're making something of your life. The american dream, eh? :)

Progress is to construct a life not defined by limits and boundaries. Living it to the fullest - travel, do great big, inspirational things.

If you choose to have kids when you're 20, you are almost by definition limiting your life only to be somebody who takes care of your kids and works a stable job with a stable family(a stable car, a stable dog, a stable bed to sleep in, a stable tv and a stable view of the world). In other words, inexperienced and short-sighted.
One often gets the "nothing like this will be built again" feeling around these kinds of engineering projects from the 20th century, since modern constructions tend to have a very different feel, more sleek and less massive. Also true with things like transit infrastructure: even though a modern subway or elevated train line, like the Copenhagen metro (which has both), is better in just about every way from the old style of construction, it subjectively doesn't have the same impressive feel of something like the NYC subway or Chicago El, with their massive steel columns and hundreds of thousands of rivets.
I wonder if "please stop" is a way of triggering (or arming) a hellban. Would be quite clever if it is, I think.
I'm betting the fact that they were older and maybe not that technically savvy is the reason for not being on twitter,Vine,Instagram,Youtube immediately. A technically savvy person's first instinct is to share this footage instantly and receive the credit/thousands of re-tweets etc..
What does this have to do with Apple TV?
Google Apps for Nonprofits page states it's only available in the US:

https://support.google.com/nonprofits/answer/1614602?hl=en&t...

If you could ask someone involved in that charity how they got free Google Apps I'd appreciate it as I work for a number of charities and the costs of Google Apps are a significant admin overhead. I've tried calling the sales people and they say it's coming soon but they've been saying that for over 5 years now.
Citrix goes all in for open-source XenServer cloud
Isn't that consistent with normal force-feeding, except its properly respecting Ramadan?

The fast of Ramadan begins at sunrise and ends at sunset. So force-feeding them at night is the religiously observant thing to do.

(To say nothing about force-feeding in general)
Keep in mind, when looking at these images, that the average life expectancy for Afghans born in 1960 was 31, so the vast majority of those pictured have likely passed on since.

Average life expectancy doesn't really work like that. Your life expectancy even in a "primitive" culture has always been 60 years or so, give or take a dozen, once you survive childhood. It's the massive infant and child mortality - the norm everywhere before the 20th century - that drags down average life expectancies at birth.
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Disclaimer: I work for Google

Google's support is a complete joke. The only way to get things fixed in a timely manner (if at all) is to ask someone who works for Google to escalate internally. Then you stand a chance. Otherwise you're SOL.

On top of that the Gmail team routinely ignores internal feedback before rolling out new features or UI changes claiming the Googlers do not represent average users.

I would recommend the OP to contact a Googler friend if they have one.

Google's arrogance and disrespect for its users will be its undoing.
> ...seriously now, who here would get on a plane knowing that it was being flown without a pilot.

Given that the most common cause of aircraft accidents (by quite some margin) is human error, I'll take my chances with the computer.
Tor exit nodes (and the commandeering thereof) are only relevant when you're accessing a public net website through Tor; not when accessing a Tor hidden service. If you can keep your activity entirely within the Tor "system" (basically, if your counterparties have foreknowledge to contact you over something like Tormail, rather than you having to "come to them" on a public site) then you'll be protected pretty completely.

...though, if it's something you actually care about, making that Tor connection from an internet cafe in a distant city can't hurt.
I live in a town where they decided to crack down on the minor home poker games. One of the players in town as a cop. Everyone at the games knew him to be a cop because he liked bragging about his drug busts. He played poker with the same group of people for months. One day he showed up to the game with SWAT and news cameras and led everyone out on the 11pm news. So yeah, when it's something as minor as $20 home poker games people don't think that's something cops really care about.
Never said people don't need to work, but they should think about the kinds of work they want to do and the kind of life they want they lead, and creatively consider all the opportunities that are available to them. In fact that's pretty much all I'm saying, really.
This is not so much as a design trend as a designer's in-joke that is getting more attention than it deserves. While more dimensionality vs. texture and gradients for depth is definitely where things are going and this is part of it, it's like saying coughs are the new trend while there's a flu epidemic. If you're stuck emulating little techniques like this to stay current you're doing it wrong.
Hi there, I'm one of the two creators of TV.js

It's nice to see it get some love on HN, given that we just hacked it together from "scratch" yesterday.

I just wanted to clarify a few things briefly, this application is not intended to run on an Apple TV, it's meant to run on Desktops, Laptops and Raspberry PIs.

There's obviously a lot of room for improvement but as of now it works well, but the install process is relatively tedious (ok for developers, not so for others).

The application uses node-webkit to run as an App, we will possibly distribute bundled versions of this in the future.

And for those who may be asking, this is not our Startup, it's just a nice hack, we put together during our own personal Hackathon :)
Yeh, good job Siemens don't make anything to do with power grids.

Oh no...
http://www.energy.siemens.com/hq/en/power-transmission/
http://www.energy.siemens.com/hq/en/fossil-power-generation/
http://www.siemens.co.uk/en/news_press/index/news_archive/20...
I immediatly thought of Knytt (http://nifflas.ni2.se/?page=Knytt), a free indie platformer that also features a spaceship crash, scattered parts, and an interesting atmosphere.
Nice, but why that program asks for network access permission? Deal breaker for me.
Is it possible to configure this to stream through my proxy server?
I could not disagree more. For me children (first at 27) were the red pill. Before I was a video gaming pop cultured nerd who was too privileged to be really hungry yet too scared of failure to try anything grand. My daughters made me embrace my mediocrity. I do more interesting things now than before even if it is much harder. For me postponing children too achieve something greater is like not having sex because you think it is going to make you like Newton. You either have it in you or you dont.
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Since Blizzard use LGPL in their flagship product Starcraft 2[1], I would consider your statement to be verifiable false.

[1]: See the end of the credit from SC2 HoTS
> or have to justify reasons for its decisions.

Whoa. What kind of a tribunal is that?

This is dystopian beyond words. Even in the fifties, the most outrageous, crime-filed years of communism, the People's Tribunals still justified their decisions. It was a facade -- everyone knew it was bollocks -- but all decisions were motivated.

I get private hearings (e.g. for security reasons, both the state's and the personal security of those who participate in them); they are used in many countries. But not having to publish a motivation for a decision, that's... beyond words.
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I would agree with many of you. Slim is way to go. I used it for many of our mid-to-large applications and it seems to be working very well.
By my layman's point of view, we already have existing laws that are being flouted, among the the 4th Amendment which requires specific warrants for specific investigations, and the various laws authorizing and limiting surveillance. They do whatever they want despite these existing laws, by a) just doing it, and b) getting the administration through the Attorney General to reinterpret laws so that what was illegal is now justified by the very laws that previously made things illegal, and c) a captive, secret court that only hears one side of any query by the government and rubber stamps all NSA actions.

Given that, what good would a new law do? They already have everything in place to subvert any law they want, and their chief tool is mere will.

What might change things is public outrage and muscular congressional hearings, a la Watergate. I can't see that ever happening again.
It's not too surprising really - the comments are similar to those I got on my blog post from a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5951536 - although it is strange how "conventional" a lot of HN commenters are, you'd think we were more of an ambitious entrepreneurial lot really...
I mostly agree, except there are some perils involved.

Bob has to make sure that the public key he thinks is Ann's really truly is Ann's, and not Eve's.

That would be a hard problem to solve.
A more favorable interpretation might be that the countries who are offering asylum quite likely have nothing to hide.

Russia's conditions are kind of telling.
Sorry but what is factually right with your comment ?

Not everyone in educated in government schools. Your implication that merely being state licensed influences the content is ridiculous (witness Fox News). The state does not have a monopoly on violence. The terms country and society have nothing to do with religion and patriotism is a concept that occurs in countries without a strong religious presence.
It seems to be standard practice to have a "calls may be recorded for training purposes" disclaimer these days. Some even say "please tell the operator straight away if you do not wish to be recorded".

This doesn't really tell you what's legal or not, but I would assume that the only reason they put that stuff in is because they have to.
If you'd bothered to click through to that chapter, you'd have seen that it's actually a lengthy dissertation on why singletons are a bad idea, including seductive patterns that are actually singletons in disguise and a couple better alternatives for when global state is really unavoidable.
I found the collapsible output a very clever idea. I'd love to have more collapsible blocks in Emacs buffers.
There was, initially, some semblance of progress:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ClosureOfGuantana...
Speaking of Google: I'm looking for an arrogant asshole that goes by the name of Joseph Janos and gets off insulting Michael Church on Google's eng-misc mailing list.

Has anybody seen him?
He's technically correct in that the "smell of ozone" is just burned/oxidized respiratory system. That's why all the strong oxidizers smell pretty much the same unless they've got "something interesting" attached to them other than boring ole O2 like ozone. On a small scale like parts per billion its a unique stinkyness and mostly harmless, so they claim. Its more of a flash burn of the respiratory system, not a slow cooked fat rendering, which in that case does kinda smell like burned meat. Smell of oxidized proteins, not so much slowly rendered fat.
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It's really sad to see how effective they have been in ruining this society.

More like this:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a...
Given the storage size of the Black Star, all calls worldwide are being recorded. Forever. "Just in case".

But ironically you can go to prison in many states in the USA if you record calls without the other party agreeing.
I think one of the key points is being able to run the "same" lib in different programming languages. This is a model of thinking that need to be followed as much as possible. If not, we are rounding in circles with zillions of libraries created for Javascript that already are present in other programming languages the energies end up unfocused. At the same time we need tools that help us in this approach, like HaXe or SWIG.

One lib that I love is NetworkX, If you look at the source code it can be easily ported to more programming languages. At the same time it is impressive what Cocos2D achieved with their Javascript bindings and HTML5 native support.
I completely agree with that.

You do seem to be pushing hard against something though. It comes off as both arrogant and naive, and leads to misinterpretation.

For someone who's just saying "consider your options", it sure seems like you think you're saying a lot more than that.

What, exactly, is wrong with new kitchens?
> If you choose to have kids when you're 20, you are almost by definition limiting your life only to be somebody who takes care of your kids and works a stable job with a stable family(a stable car, a stable dog, a stable bed to sleep in, a stable tv and a stable view of the world). In other words, inexperienced and short-sighted.

You're missing the point of children - some people experience intense joy from raising their children.
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I know tptacek was talking about systems still under development, but I immediately thought of DJB's NaCl (http://nacl.cr.yp.to/) when I read that statement.
The process of having a feeding tube inserted into one's nose is extremely painful, much more so than you'd expect. Out of all the injuries I've had (e.g. broken collar bone, 4 concussions, etc), none reached the immediate pain intensity level as having a feeding tube inserted.

For me, the tube felt way too small to fit. Blood started trickling down the back of my throat and my whole body seized up in pain. It's scary to have such an internalized pain immediately next to one's brain.
If you had actually read the article about the Singleton, you would have seen that it discourages its use and explains in great detail what's wrong with the pattern and why you should stay away from it.

+1 to this site for tackling this overused anti-pattern.
In order to upload recordings to Dropbox.
Hate the name. I can't help picturing Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweger's crying faces.
Oh, man this is amazing.

Ever since I first saw the aloha text editor I realised content-editable is going to have a massive impact - this was one that is totally obvious in hindsight but has completely floored me.

And it works in my iphone. Cannot actually save but still its nice to know.
For normal operations, I think it's possible to make it _mostly_ autonomous today (TTS and voice recognition for ATC, and some heuristic metar/weather radar analysis might work). I don't think we have the technology today to make such a system safe enough to not have a human ready as a backup. And for an accident scenario, I think it's completely impossible today since we would need to integrate audio, video and smell sensors and AI software to rival humans in situational awareness. This would mean exceptionally complex software.

The way we have solved reliability in autopilots and FBW systems today is to make them as simple as possible and to give them sensible fallback modes (like the Airbus FBW removing stall protection when missing certain inputs), and even then we have had real life accidents because of programming errors or design errors. So if you think pilot automation is mainly a question of politics as you said earlier, I think you are being overly optimistic (which, of couse, is not uncommon in the software industry).

I think a better approach to removing pilots is to see the strengths in both computers and humans and design systems where the advantages of both are maximized.

If you are interested in reading more on software safety, http://sunnyday.mit.edu/ is a good starting point.
Off topic, but does anyone else make all their calls through Google Voice and get the 'This call is now being recorded' message randomly during conversations?

It has spooked everyone who has been on the other end of the line when it occurs.