skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to DC in the 90s and almost everybody you ran into was doing something illegal, like the Shadowcrew guys and a team of motorola hackers I mainly hung out with. Almost every talk gave hommage to whatever current hacker was in prison or on the run, and typically was anti fed, anti surviellance and anti copyright. Totally different now because at the time felt like the whole culture was under seige by overzealous feds and there was constant rumours of feds watching the exits with surveillance like we were the mafia or something
So what did you intend to do? If you're trying to make it as easy as possible for other people to use your code? CC0 (or, from a practical point of view of your audience being likely to know what the license means, 2-term BSD-style, Apache or MIT) does that better than your public domain declaration. If you're trying to make a political point, it would be more effective to make an explicit statement to that effect - if people just see a public domain declaration they're unlikely to even consider the idea that you meant to convey something political by this.
I think the secret of using Medium is not to bet the farm on it, but to put a cow or two there just to see if you might get some milk out of the deal.

I feel like that's the point being missed in arguments like these. Medium shouldn't be your sole content hub, and I don't think it's trying to be—it should be a tool in your toolbox to stretch the reach of your main content hub.
I would say that both malice and stupidity of HP are well balanced in this case.
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This is a great idea.
One thing I would like to point out is that microwaves come in different power levels. A large one may be 1200W while a small dorm microwave may be 750W. The cooking instructions in your database will need to account for this.
My code, outside the day job, is GPL. Why should I let others commercialize it without giving anything back? But I want to allow noncommercial use for everyone, and commercial use for those who will contribute their changes.

The restrictions for GPL code is nothing to do with whether it's used commerical or noncommerically, the same restrictions apply.

Someone can use your GPLed code commerically without paying you or asking your permission, and someone can use your GPL code noncommerically as well. In both cases they have to abide by the GPL conditions.
It could be selling digital copies on iBooks, Amazon, with B&N. It could be packaging curated collections as a paid periodical. It could be anything, and all without compensation to the authors.
Motto phones already phone home all your credentials, remember? Even without the nsa asking probably.
We also have an ethical obligation not to abuse the computer systems of those less skilled than us, but that obligation has hardly stopped that kind of stuff.
There is no reason to compare image quality to DSLR unless you can keep DSLR in your pocket. If you want to compare against Nikon, compare against compact cameras.

This Nokia will big 1/1.2” sensor and it really removes any reason to have compact camera.
I have a feeling adding "currently in Russia" would also skew the poll pretty hard. Not endorsing such a wording, but it's easy to get different results with slightly different wording. And "traitor" is pretty strong. I might have answered he was more of a whistleblower than a traitor, and I think he should go to jail for a decade or more.
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Looks like this was already thought of "If cooking instructions are posted for a 1000W microwave, you can request the instructions for a 700W microwave, and the cooking times will be automatically adjusted.".
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The article does mention that the p2p functionality was impossible to wiretap if both parties were in a secure network. So yes, the super node made 100% of Skype vulnerable.
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> The Pauls are ...

The Pauls are basically grandstanders. They'll adopt any pseudo-libertarian position that they think makes a good soundbite. They record will show that they haven't actually done much of legislative consequence. Anyone who takes them at face value based on the soundbites IMO needs to develop more of a sense of cynicism when assessing politics.
I'm pretty sure that this has been independently rethought up many times since the creation of the untethered remote, long before reddit.
"Man, I really shouldn't have designed that RFID toolbooth so oppressively.... I'll have to do better than that in the future. :("
If you have a business. You should have a professionally designed and printed business card. If you don't have time for a custom designed card just go old school. White or offwhite linen with raised black lettering with your basic contact information. It may not look fancy but at least it will FEEL like a quality piece.
At a recent conference an SEO contractor (solo) handed me his business card. It had multiple primary colored areas and looked like it was from an 80's pop band. I did not call or email him for a quote...

Things to include:
Business Name
Your Name
Title if needed, if solo just leave it off or say "Owner", don't use corp titles like CEO, President, ect.. when you have one or two employees (self included).
Business Address (if its your home get a po box)
Email
Cell or Business Phone
If you have a set schedule include that like M-F 9-5 or "anytime via email".
The MOST important thing for a freelancer is an online portfolio of previous work or design/code examples.
Just download the "ssh.alfredworkflow" file and run it, it should automatically be imported to Alfred's Worflows: https://github.com/isometry/alfredworkflows/blob/master/ssh....
Can i see samples of beautiful guides to get excited to build one myself?
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I am specifically addressing people who already intend on using a permissive license. I understand that doesn't include everyone, but I'm intentionally restricting the scope of the subject.
Was that cut and pasted from some kind of template for empty, verbose corporate-speak?
Ask HN: Phishing my mother?
So, my mother was recently a victim of email phishing and got her gmail hacked. This happened after I have giving her as many tips as I know on avoiding those scams. So my question is this...

Should I phish my own mother in order to try and teach her and show her what to look for?

I think that practice makes perfect and seeing what to look for in a safe and controlled environment might be the best way to show her what to look for.
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Not much of a case study or explanation. If your transaction process isn't smooth and simple, it won't work well on mobile. We do okay with affiliate links to apps on iTunes and I suspect we could do great with Amazon affiliate links if they allowed it.
Is there a reason CEOs cannot use normal English but have to dilute the language so much?

For me the TL:DR after struggling to read it was - full steam ahead to the biggest walled garden on earth. We are still the Borg. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
There are a few guides featured on our home page, scroll down a bit.
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Not hard at all, in fact FBI or some other letter-agency found their switches and routers had hardware backdoors in them back in 2009 I believe, it was kind of a big deal back then.

Since then US stepped up their cyber-warfare capabilities by forming a cyber-warfare department within Pentagon and such, probably also increasing the sampling rate and testing methods of their procured devices from foreigners.
You paid a significant premium for that older memory (a funny paradox of the industry). As P1esk mentioned, you could have gotten 32GB for around the same price. Straight from Dell, paying their inflated prices, on a new R210 it's $173 to go to 16GB of ECC memory.

I've bought a number of large servers recently (using owned servers at colocation in combination with virtual hosts for DR and geo-sharding), and always equip them with 192GB or more. The pricing of memory is so incredibly low it makes no sense otherwise, yet all of these dedicated server vendors act as if 2GB is the norm and 4GB is the advanced upgrade.
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I think this is a positive move for Microsoft. In particular, having all OS development work (including desktop, phone and XBox) looks like a good idea, as I've heard there have been a lot of problems with Windows Phone being managed on the periphery.
Assuming this isn't a troll, I'm curious -- how dreadful can microwave UIs actually get?
Wow, re-organising the company by function. They're going all in on copying Apple. Who knows if it will work, but it's a fascinating experiment.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but: http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/29/4375560/dota-2-ban-system-r...
This is fantastic. I love how the Raspberry Pi is getting used in hardware hacking so much. It's ideal for it.

So far my efforts have been limited to hacking electricity and gas meters but this microwave is much more complex. I gave a talk on this last night at the HN London meetup. Slides will be online at http://unop.co.uk/dev/raspberry-pi-electricity-monitor/ soon. The videos will be online soon too I hope.
DT's post is analogous to you can't fire me, I quit. The sequester is affecting travel & training budgets and gov't employees can't afford to attend.
Maybe if everyone signs a consent form at registration.
I gave "No" with reasons, and got asked two or three times.
Windshear can occur at any altitude. It's just less immediatly fatal at cruise flight levels.
If the worst thing a Federal agency does to the taxpayers in a day is waste a computer keyboard, they're still far in the black compared to the rest. True story.

Besides, you're talking about an issue which afflicts essentially all large organizations. Have you never received a small part from a retailer wrapped in waaaaaay too much packing material?
911: SFO ambulances were too slow
"We've been on the ground, I don't know, 20 minutes, a half hour," one woman said in a 911 call released late Wednesday by the California Highway Patrol. "There are people laying on the tarmac with critical injuries, head injuries. We're almost losing a woman here. We're trying to keep her alive."
If we were talking about VPS servers, then sure, however we're talking about dedicated servers. What you are renting is a physical box (such as Dell R210s) sitting in a rack somewhere.
Now we just need to wait for Apple to allow the JIT on iOS. Could only take a few more years guys!

(Of course having the JIT on Android, Raspberry-Pi and other ARM devices is a huge plus. I'm just frustrated by Apple's paranoia.)
I'd have thought a few civilized chats over dinner and some vodka would be the best way to handle something like this.
Well I am personally quite glad there is only one :)
Correct, I was just using "commercial" as a shorthand for "closed source". It is only commercial users that would use it with concealed changes if it were PD or BSD-type licence. This would enable privatizing public value.

The point is that my motive is giving value to the public, in a way that prevents it "leaking" into private profits without compensation. The effect of the article-author's licensing is giving some of the value to the public and some to private profit-oriented exploiters, while the motive for preferring the latter over the former is not stated.
Indeed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cPxSk3uIvk
> In a traditional warrant situation, the data would be collected by the companies and sent to the requesting agency that provided a warrant.

Yes, that's what PRISM is. Warrant compliance, automated and streamlined.
I don't understand how anyone in their right minds can consider Windows to be the "biggest walled garden on earth". There is plenty to criticize about Microsoft, but when you descend into completely nonsensical arguments you lose all credibility.
Some ideas:

- optional domain names

- custom branding for companies wanting a blog engine

- sponsored articles linked from home page

- as others have mentioned they could create e-books based on popular topics
Great insight in cultural differences NL vs. Silicon Valley
Also, TIL: http://www.whistleblowers.gov
If you don't use the power of modern relational databases, then all you do is CRUD and it feels really painful and kludgy because, without an ORM, it... well... is painful and kludgy. Most dev's don't think about things like -- what happens if someone pulls the plug during a write? Or what happens if two people update the same record at the same time? They just see ugly INSERT/SELECT/DELETE text strings scattered throughout the code.

I think most Ruby people are front-end and don't really have to deal with data (and there is nothing wrong with that).

So I suggest that you ask a different audience? Ask people who (1) work server side and (2) deal with data.

In other words, it is like asking a jazz musician why they like Mozart but not Beethoven. Not much information there.
The difference in downloads between free and paid apps is huge. My app (http://www.spooftrader.net) will have between 5-10 times the amount of free downloads to paid.

Interestingly though geography does seem to count, most of the paid comes from the USA or UK whilst the free downloads come from all over the place.
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Also, some microwaves are continuous power (magnetron always running) and some cycle on/off instead. Based on my struggle to find a continuous power microwave for a Senior Design Project (disposing of toxic compounds in standard microwave oven, I can't imagine this will effect too many models, but cycle times do differ between microwaves.

The Raspberry Pi microwave is awesome, though I do wonder why the 1 second buttons exist.
He's talking more about Windows Phone, the Windows 8 apps, and Xbox.
If the code is never put into a public project I don't see how this would have any effect. I'm not required to abide by every license on everything I slap together on my laptop, it's when I distribute it or allow others (outside my organization) to use it that matters.
The Host directive in an ssh_config file supports wildcards.
Ballmer pulls the trigger on Microsoft’s massive reorg
The landing page is great. A few really nice little details that are well-executed. Signup process is easy, and the app is easy to use.

I love that you can embed videos and other stuff in it. Would make it easy to create and publish a step by step guide on how to change the oil in a car, for example.

Great work!
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I made alias' in my .bash_profile to handle this shortcut need, although, for servers that I don't access often, it might be nice to have the dropdown list as a reminder.
A pen could be compromised with a micro camera as well, if you want to be really paranoid.
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Medium or Message?
Incredibly important! There are certain forums where I need to write every post first in the offline editor just because the timeout is way too short. This conditioned me to do anything offline that takes me longer than 10 minutes to recreate and just copy and paste it when ready. Same with blog posts, etc. It might be illogical, but when my machine crashes it is my fault and I get over it quite quickly. But if it feels like it is your site's fault that caused the trouble I am most likely not giving it a second chance.
I don't think the OP was arguing that Windows is currently a walled garden, but is arguing that Windows is moving in that direction.
If you want to understand Microsoft, you could do a lot worse than reading http://hal2020.com/, by a former General Manager at Microsoft. I learn something from pretty much every blog post he writes.

For instance, in his most recent post he discusses how the lack of coordination between the divisions after the 2005 reorg can be viewed as a feature rather than a bug, but also something that now needs to be changed.
I have two-byte aliases for ssh to all of the hosts I use commonly, doesn't everyone? (It even reattaches my remote screen session.)

Why would I want to touch the mouse?
Is Windows Phone more of a walled garden than than iOS? Is the Xbox more of a walled garden than the Wii U? The argument is still complete hyperbole.
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They are moving in that direction since the W8 store was revealed and they are doubling down right now.

All parts of the company will share and contribute to the success of core offerings, like Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, Surface, Office 365 and our EA offer, Bing, Skype, Dynamics, Azure and our servers. All parts of the company will contribute to activating high-value experiences for our customers.

High value experience is euphemism for gatekeeper from what I have seen.
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I think the GE ovens with the "express cook" feature (e.g. press 1 for 1 minute, 2 for 2 minutes) expressly show that right on the keypad. Or at least they do now.

Example: http://www.plessers.com/photos/p/00027/279032.jpg
The US Census bureau says 7.097 Billion. They estimate that the world population exceeded 7 billion on 12 March 2012.

https://www.census.gov/popclock/

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
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I know the details and understand pixel oversampling etc. In the real world they produce acceptable photos for the type of device but it is nothing special and definitely over-marketed.

I used an 808 for a week when they came out. Wishy washy colours, constant over exposure and distortion due to the pissy little lens. Not what they were promoting.

Whilst I compare this to a DSLR, a cheaper compact can do a better job of being a camera.

Personally I drag a DSLR around everywhere with me but that's because I started doing that sort of stuff before we had mobile phones and have developed an appreciation of quality prints.
Meet Lumi, the no-effort content discovery engine from the founders of Last.fm
What does 'dotted line report' mean?
You think the average Glass user will disassemble the device (which teardowns would seem to indicate is a one way operation) just for the purposes of disabling the recording light so they could record on the sly?

Aye, we're hackers, who are a minority of people.
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I use ~/.ssh/config and have the following in my .bashrc:

https://gist.github.com/oogali/5975670

Tab completion for scp/sftp/ssh based on my ~/.ssh/config.
If OP had said criticized Microsoft for moving toward being more closed, I would have completely agreed with him (to the extent that it is relevant to the link, which it isn't really). But he said "full steam ahead to the biggest walled garden on earth. We are still the Borg", and so his comment loses all credibility.
What wrongdoing was that? What laws did the NSA brake?

I could certainly list the laws that Snowden broke if you'd like.
From a "this is a traditional camera" standpoint, megapixel specs aren't completely meaningless, but they're certainly not the be-all, end-all.

However from a "what can I do with this thing as a sensor?" standpoint, more spatial resolution is in fact more power. Take a look at light field mapping [1] and the Lytro camera [2]. The technique uses an array of micro lenses placed over a traditional image sensor to capture many small low resolution images from many slightly different vantage points. Then a deconvolution algorithm is used as sort of a reverse ray tracing algorithm to actually map out the way light is bouncing around the scene. As a result you can generate many many different images of the scene in post processing, with whatever focus characteristics you want.

In this case the optics are relatively cheap compared to traditional camera optics, but the hardware to handle the deconvolution isn't.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-field_photography
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro

Edit: To your original point however, in theory oversampling can be used to make up for crappy optics using techniques similar to light field mapping. Some mobile image sensors have a microlens array similar to that used in light field photography (OmniVision comes to mind). However in practice this requires that your crappy optics be consistent in how they're crappy, which presents other challenges.

I'm with you, though. When someone builds a cell phone camera with 120dB of dynamic range I'll get excited.
Yea, but techies should at least use PKI with HSM guarding the private key, not 7-char almost-dictionary-based password.
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Your don't need to take my word for it both carriers and modern fighter craft have continued to get larger over time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercarrier and the next gen the Navy is constructing is not getting any smaller. But, don't forget the navy uses a lot of non steath aircraft for logistics and other thing to the point where they seriously considered building a floating 2 mile runway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_offshore_base).

As to why it's useful for combat aircraft to be larger. First radar cross sections have little to do with the overall size of the craft it's mostly a question of shape an material assuming everything is staying within the same order of magnitude. Second while strait up thrust/weight is useful, top speed, range, and munitions capacity are generally more important because if your fast enough you can bank at over 10g's which will cause you to pass out long before the aircraft is in trouble. So while maned aircraft are still limited by the pilots all of the rest of those tend to improve as you scale up aircraft size.

PS: In many ways Cost and the desire for redundancy do limit the size of both aircraft carriers and combat aircraft.
I'm always surprised by how many people I speak to at other companies who value their equity at 0 when negotiating a startup offer. Whether or not those shares have value to you, they have a huge amount of value to the company/founders/existing employees, and they're a bargaining chip like everything else.
These are governments that cater exclusively to politicians. 30% of said politicians are hardened criminals. One should expect arbitrary arrests for private opinion.
What look like complex failures in organizations are often rooted in simple causes. In Microsoft, it's stack-ranking and Enron-style (that is, visible in transfer packet) performance reviews.

When you have stack-ranking, you never get harmonious teams and "all-star" sub-organizations are out of the question. When performance reviews are part of the transfer process, people become largely immobile and teams become permanent camps and you get warring departments. Closed allocation, at that scale, is cultural toxic sludge in general.

Simple causes. Simple fixes. Wordy say-nothing emails that inject political complexity, when simple solutions are available, are really not helpful.
Good point. Most projects do it this way, and I think it's kind of good to have a high level summary like this. However, I've also seen projects that also link to specific related issues -- or even better blog pages, or documentation related to it. Mozilla with firefox does it this way for example.

Your concern whether this release may break your code is only a test run away ;) But seriously... this is a valid, and common concern. I'd assume they are not intentionally introducing breaking changes, considering it's still targeting CPython compatibility. Also, there are no explicit breaks mentioned -- but I guess it might be good to communicate this explicitly.