skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slackware was the first Linux distro I used, back in 1999. Eventually left it for Debian. Glad to see it's still around and that Patrick is seemingly doing better health-wise.
The ACLU and the EFF have signed the letter. Is this a PR move for them as well?
See my reply just above :-) the book will be much more detailed about our process. Not so much re: marketing because we really haven't done much at all.
I am not familiar with the history of this project, but why was Apache trying to re-create the C++ standard library at all? Given that in GNU/Linux systems, the canonical implementation is the one provided by GCC (G++), and Microsoft provides their own implementations.
In the specific case of C++, standard compliance was probably a pretty major factor, as the standard library for C++ is very complex, and vendors are not necessarily always fast to keep up with new features (or willing to port these to older platforms). For quite some time, STLport <http://www.stlport.org> was a life saver for providing modern, efficiently implemented library features on not-so-modern platforms.

Conversely, the fact that the Apache library hadn’t been updated since 2008 probably means is that it’s not C++11 compliant at all, significantly behind most vendor libraries, and the effort for upgrading would be fairly significant.
Sorry, after read it again I realize I chose poorly my words to describe what this user said. I posted an extract of the comment in another entry, the context was that there are lazy people in SO (Something I am agreed with) and they should be more restrictive with what gets there. I don't have a problem with, my only concern is that some good answers are being lost in that restriction process.
As an experiment, this room is publicly writable- let us know what you think.

edit: I'm taking down this link as we are completely crushed- I suppose getting DOSed by our own users is the best way to go down.
I hear Detroit has some pretty cheap rent these days. Maybe it's time for an exodus?
I'm not sure how you define hacking. Web-scraping is not gaining unauthorized access to an otherwise inaccessible system. Anything you can see with your eyes in a browser is out in the open. And you can adjust a scraper's schedule to be mostly indistinguishable from human browsing habits.

That is, if a web-scraper can be reasonably indistinguishable from a human, then certainly we can't say web-scraping is illegal across the board.
Detroit Houses for Sale
Sadly, nobody outside of IT will ever read this article.
Interesting. I live in Kendall Square (Cambridge, MA) and have seen the prices rise (over the past 3 years) to the median prices outlined in the article.

I keep hearing about how insane SFO is, but can't help but think that Cambridge is experiencing a similar 'explosion' in it's own right.

I've gathered that the exit's out west are accelerating the price increases, but with the abundance of schools here as well as the interest in establishing a presence in 'tech square', rent has skyrocketed and I don't really see it slowing down.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why doesn't the acceleration in Cambridge get such attention?
Those things are orthogonal. This is a false dichotomy. Some people focusing on one platform does not block other to focus on another one...
2 reasons nobody has (surprisingly) mentioned yet:

- Trains: the Acela is established and successful, already taking about half of the passengers on the Eastern corridor.

- Right of way: (to borrow one of your sentences) the population density of thses places [East Coast] drives up the cost of the infrastructure.

Another factor might be that the design is better optimized for 400 miles than for 200. The capsule acceleration phase is necessarily long and energy-intensive, so you want to optimize that over longer distances. It's the same reason that high-speed trains don't have stops every 20 miles.
Just keep your bike off my lawn, ok?
Thanks! It's very much appreciated.
Austin would be an even better place to live if it wasn't in the middle of a dysfunctional state run by right-wing wingnuts.
This may be what you're mentioning:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/yes-you-can-recove...
The fact that there isn't a guarantee that the U.S won't kill Snowden or put him in a hole forever and ignore his rights as a citizen is a testament to the degradation of the rule of law in the U.S.

When Ellsberg was arrested for leaking the Pentagon papers (to no less than 17 different newspapers), he was released on recognizance and allowed to speak to the media. His charges were eventually dropped because the FBI had used an illegal wiretap on him. Today, the FBI would get a rubber-stamped wiretap, and he would be thrown in a hole forever like Bradley Manning. Ellsberg wrote an editorial in the Washington Post saying that fleeing the country was the right choice.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-07/opinions/40427...
Of course, the actual findings of the investigation into that targeting showed that other watchwords like "progressive" meant that "liberal" groups were as or more likely to get targeted for extra scrutiny.
90% of the time poor performance is caused by the managers not really taking time to understand what's wrong or to consider their own attitude.

I've been fired for poor performance(or bad attitude as they said because i disagreed with their decisions. No one would disagree with my level of technical ability), only be promoted within 2 months at my next job because I took intuitive and had my own ideas. I've introduced a lot new processes, and ways of doing things. They've liked that here.

What i'm trying to say is another mans bad employee could be a good employee somewhere else. It's very subjective, and depends on what they are expecting. A short order cook to implement the managers vision? Or someone with a vision of his own?
Will the tech community ever get politically active and do something about the lack of new construction and rent controls creating greater scarcity?
hard to use with a single cursor and so many anon users

edit: Ah I see you can hold alt and click with mouse to get your own cursor
Theoretically, what would happen to someone like Microsoft if they revealed exactly what the NSA asked them to do? Would there be any real punishment?
Well, it's still relevant but high rent could easily send it on a downward trend. High cost of living is a dangerous thing for startups; I doubt silicon valley would have formed and prospered if rent prices (relatively speaking) were then what they are now.
You cannot opt out of crazy valets at airports. One company captures the parking concession, hires the cheapest (i.e., crappiest) valets they can find, and said valets do appalling things with/to your car.

So now after they finish joyriding, if they are not too hungover to remember, they leave a TSA card to keep their boss from bitching at them. Theoretically that card is an incremental infringement of your liberty, but in practice you have already been reamed out so hard by the valets that you won't notice.
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This new version support file transfer over wifi/3G.
You can both download from an external HTTP server and use the build in it HTTP Server to upload file to your iOS device.
There is a nice drag and drop browser support to send files.
I don't get the complains. Apache is abandoning it, but you can still download it, host it on Github and contribute as much as you want. That's the whole point of "free as in freedom" and, if Oracle has been unable to kill MySQL, I doubt the Apache Foundation would do it.
Apple, Intel, HP, ... also have their own C library implementations, to say nothing of dinkumware and musl-libc and ..., or the various glibc derivatives like eglibc and bionic. I could go on for quite a while, now that I think about it.
Russian parliament accuses Google of tax evasion
Why I don't live in Austin: http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;a=USA/TX/Austin
Agreed, nothing says "I Love You" like a clear, reproducible support ticket! Scott was always willing and able to help the IT folks understand the value of what was being done, which energized everyone.
Detroit Files for Chapter 9 Bankruptcy
Yeahhh I'm living in SoMa and paying much, much below the median cost for a 1BR, but I'm thinking of moving out to the peninsula after my lease is up even if I continue working in the city. $200/mo for a Caltrain monthly pass and 1 hour commute one way (on which I can do whatever I want because I'm on a train!) is worth it for me to live closer to my friends (many of whom go to Stanford), not be clumped up with thousands of other people, and have a cheaper apartment.

SF is really going to need to figure out its artificial supply scarcity problems soon.
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> This is totally the point of this run of Google Glass.

Is there any indication that this generation of Google Glass is intended as a prototype rather than a consumer-ready product, other than the reviews which overwhelmingly seem to describe it as such?
Lol, do you have a sign that says "Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency for me."? I think if people feel someone is gaming the system, it will work against them. It has to be sincere, and holistic in approach.
Oddly enough, this has been suggested, and discussed, several times in the past. Here is a selection:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516933

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1621892

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866268

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2111082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2353291

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2469065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3560941

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3695029

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5085659

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5284186

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5919030

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5966176
I already have too many people coming by and trying to talk and be my friend. That just prevents me from getting work done. Of course being nice to people is always a good thing to do, but it's not going to solve IT problems.

Here is what you can do: understand your needs, communicate them clearly and have realistic goals. That's it.
Detroit emergency manager files bankruptcy
I've heard Austin's cost of housing is rapidly increasing! Over $500K for a house? Obviously still quite cheap compared to SF.
The other scary thing is how the Roman Empire ended... IIUC (and that's a capital I, btw), a group of Visigoths penetrated the capital, killed a bunch of powerful rulers and left... the rest of the country couldn't handle itself and it led to the Dark Ages for centuries... The scary thing is how close the events of 9/11/2001 are to those very circumstances...

...Although a part of me fantasizes about the freedom which existed in Dark Ages....
The problem I have with every company's response so far is that they deny very specific accusations using vague language, then tell us they "only provide data when required to by the law".

I don't care about "Section 215" and "Section 702" specifically. We've seen the government has had no problem with coming up with their own secret "interpretations" of these laws, what's stopping them from using other laws to secretly justify programs?

It's like a "blacklist" rather than a "whitelist" approach. I want companies to categorically state with no wiggle room the only circumstances under which they provide data to government/law enforcement before I even begin to think about trusting them again.
dsr, that's true. It is a workaround. But I wasn't writing to IS Management who can change the system, I'm writing to those trapped (on both sides) of a broken system.
At the risk of starting a politics flame war, I know/have known dozens of hill staffers, and to a person they're under paid and over worked. Their salaries are public, most of the low level people make < 35k (which doesn't go far in DC) for far longer than 40 hour work weeks.

A cynic could say they're just resume padding to sell out later, but if you're trying to mooch off of the taxpayer, being a low level capitol staffer is NOT the way to go about it.
the perfect gaz column is filled with Lambda calculus, LISP, LeLisp, MacLisp, ZetaLisp, Scheme (with all its isotopes from rs, to r7rs) and of course the most stable of them: Common Lisp.
I'm laughing now but I probably won't be later.

I'm afraid that the government will use this incident as "proof" that what they're doing thus far isn't "enough" and they need even more power and control... and, given the victims of this attack, I'm certain they'll get it.
I'll guess it was because they are part of DHS and easy prey. Other than that it's kind of silly. FEMA is a federal backstop for state and local governments during disaster situations. I think anonymous picked the wrong agency.
Not only that, but one of their submissions is for a "Top Apps" post, that includes Tonido in it.
He doesn't have to make separate encrypted copies - all he needs to do is encrypt it with one master key, and split the master key between his confederates with a secret sharing scheme[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
There probably would. They'd lose all the blind eyes on their tax practices.
Paying months or years of salary to an incompetent employee also penalizes an incompetent employer pretty effectively.
I agree he sounds like a sociopath, but that's the nature of his job. I have a friend (company founder) who once told me about learning to use people as tools. It's something he had to consciously learn, because he previously disdained that way of thinking.

(In that role, you may come to classify some as founder-type people like you, while others are meant to be used.)

To build a successful corporation, it can be helpful to be able to see (and act) as an ideal, rational sociopath. (That is, having that as one perspective.)

And programmers have it easy. Consider people in food service (or even adjunct profs or something). Their bosses often cheat and screw them bluntly. No need to actually be a sociopath. Their bosses merely have to latch onto some half-baked reason to justify their behavior. In this sense, sociopaths are less pathetic.
This is the critical information that these articles never mention. It's always "We emailed a few friends and the next morning we had $100 billion in VC funding and a private island!"

I wish more blogs would include the "luck" details in their success posts. It's practically lying to say that all that happened was that you tweeted to ~100 followers. I'm not trying to criticize, it's just an interesting bit that makes the startup sound much more down-to-earth when they're willing to admit where they got their luck from.

Because let's not forget: all success is due to some luck, and that's sometimes the most interesting part of the story.
I guess the government can switch all their PCs to Linux, that would show them! :)
I had to have a chuckle at these numbers...

"The population is also growing. From 2000 to 2010, 28,500 new San Franciscans arrived in the city. From 2010 to 2012, the city welcomed another 20,600 inhabitants in just three years."

Oh, is that all? I live in Austin, TX, the #1 destination in the U.S. for people aged 25-34. [1] You got 28,500 people in 10 years? We get that many new people every year. In fact, perhaps even as often as every 6 months; 158 people move to Austin every day by another estimate. [2]

You have to increase the supply of rental and housing units in order to accommodate population growth. Austin is struggling with it, too, but condos are springing up downtown.

San Francisco has no choice; Austin is barely managing to handle the growth, and we're a growth-happy boom town teeming with young folks. (Yes, it's pretty awesome to run a startup here too--I'm having a blast!) You must build more housing. If you are an SF resident, vote people in who will support new housing. Vote out the politicians who curb growth with ridiculous laws. Otherwise, all the cool people will end up in Austin (and other cities that can better manage the growth. ;)

[1]: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/for-people-on-the-m...
[2]: http://www.realtyaustin.com/blog/how-to-keep-up-with-158-peo...
The web-page should clearly state that it is a tool for working with PivotalTracker story numbers (this headline, and the App Store page, say so but http://getpirouette.com/ itself doesn't).

Also, contact Pivotal and ask to be listed at http://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/thirdpartytools
These aren't congress people, they're hill staffers. Huge difference.
If you choose to see it as schmoozing, you missed the point. It's about valuing the people you depend upon, and making an effort to be humble, thankful, and to get to know them.

If you're only doing this to get better service, stop doing it. That's an douchebag move.

Hmm... maybe I need to add that to the post! ;-)
There may be ways to do it right now, but it's hard to fight the fact that Lennart doesn't want it to be supported. He's already thinking of deprecating initramfs builders that don't have systemd running inside (which causes trouble for Arch). If systemd continues to clash with initramfs tools it takes human resources away from working on things Lennart doesn't care about.
Absolutely fuck all. Damage control and posturing is all they are doing.

Once someone has failed on this scale, they should never be trusted again.
New Decision Trees for categorical, numeric, and text fields
Thanks! As a nerd, I know I had to learn it the hard way.
Actually, everyone gets their own cursor, but all selections are highlighted for everyone else. Sorry, we've never tested a workspace with 300+ active users :P
Codec support isn't that much of a problem nowadays, true. The plugin system is still useful for the reasons I mentioned: Adjustments and custom plugins that for the most part only dedicated AV-nerds care about.

However, consider that an H264 successor will arrive at some point, the anime scene will probably adopt it well in advance of everyone else (like it did with Hi10p), and flexible codec support doesn't seem so pointless after all.
Same site had an article about this in December 2011:
http://www.freep.com/article/20111222/NEWS01/112220519/Detro...
People want to live in San Francisco, Marin and the Peninsula specifically because they're not overbuilt. The cousin of NIMBYism is everyone moving to the Bay Area and demanding they make it just like the overbuilt sprawl that they came from.
could we please get the css adapting to screen size (i.e. make HN readable on mobile without zooming and scrolling)?
They're certainly not signing it just to save face. They weren't the ones who were recently revealed to have secretly cooperated with the program.
Rent in Kendall Square is ridiculous, but you're comparing the city of San Francisco (46.9 sq miles of land) to a small neighborhood in a much smaller city (Cambridge is 6.43 sq miles of land). Also, while Kendall Square has its fair share of technology companies, it doesn't really compare to SF/SV in terms of sheer numbers.
Wow... just wow. A sociopath? Hyperbole much?

So not paying someone a severance he's not contractually obligated to provide is sociopathy? That's like saying not tipping the contractor who installed his cabinets is sociopathy because you think it's a nice convention to tip people, regardless of the contract both parties agreed upon beforehand. Skipping on severance isn't sociopathy. Cutting people's throats because you enjoy the look of panic on their face is. Get a grip.
I just moved to (arch) linux from OSX, whats it like running photoshop via wine? Is it usable? I've yet to try it.
There's a distinction between criticism and conspiracy theories. People who seriously maintain that the US government was behind 9/11 are kooks, same as creationists and people who think reptilian Jewish Freemasons control the world, and they gain zero credibility from the revelation that the NSA has the ability to tap Skype, Gmail, and Facebook.
Sorry, I'm not inferring you need friends. I am inferring that treating IT folks as human beings will being more success over treating them like cogs in a machine you hate to deal with.

Are you really saying that people with disrespectful and derisive attitudes don't bother you, and you do your best work for them?
Imagine if Snowden had deployed a bunch of redundant crawlers of various news sites likely to cover him and quote him directly when he speaks. Their activity would be nearly undetectable in the traffic of the NYTimes, CNN, etc. He could come up with a bunch of seemingly innocent control phrases which he would use in soundbite quotes during press conferences, etc. He would say a phrase, the media would quote him, and the crawlers would identify this "control transmission" from Snowden and take action. Some phrases would be dead man's switches in that one of them would have to be observed every couple of weeks or documents would be released via mechanisms difficult to trace back to the server (Tor?). Other phrases would trigger incremental leaks to allow proof that he is still powerful and in control. "Tomorrow, I'm going to release a _mightily spectacular revelation_!"

Maybe there should be two levels of dead man's switching -- incremental leaks if a phrase isn't reported in, say, two weeks and a major release if no phrase reported in three months. This way, he figuratively would have multiple units of currency with which to bargain. Let's say he was thrown in jail. If he only could threaten to release a single, big bundle of secrets via a dead man's switch, all his bargaining power would disappear should a government call his bluff and keep in jail until after the switch fired. However, if he could threaten incremental releases and show that, when given full freedom, the releases stop, he would have power for quite some time.

How would one acquire the use of, say, 50 servers in various datacenters owned by various providers without leaving traces or implicit fingerprints (multi-year prepayment being the big one I am thinking of)?
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I love VLC. A mobile version sounds awesome, if streaming from a host is easy. That's really all I want to do.

And to that effect I use Airplayit for streaming+copying from pc/mac to ios. It's fairly simple and reliable.
Startups in SF (and LA) do usually web related stuff. They also want to be acquired by larger company such as Facebook or Google. In that case SF makes sense. But that is just tiny part of startup ecosystem.

I started company with my own savings. In SF it would not last 2 months, here I have 1+year runway.
Yes - our CEO wrote the post. I'm an employee at the company and posted the link to the blog.
Regardless of what service we sell, we thought that the points the article discussed were important and time appropriate with everything happening in the news.
You should read the article first (hint: it's not about why Microsoft moved off P2P). You can do secure communications even without P2P, and the point of the article was that Microsoft may have very little reason not to do that, and that they should, because in terms of private/secure communications Skype went from one of the best to one of the worst right now.
>since the main engines wouldn't have to carry around half the equation it'll mean much higher thrust to weight ratios

on the other side you need energy to wastefully slow down with respect to the aircraft frame (i.e. provide delta-v to) 80% of the outside air - nitrogen - you scooped. Engines without slow down of the air mass - scramjets - are different beasts and have their own issues).

Thus you have choice - carry with you and speed up 1 lb of O2 to the speed of 5 Mach or slow down from 5 Mach (slow down is the same energy consuming action as speed up) 4 lb of nitrogen and 1 lb oxygen of the outside air.
It just reached its goal! Good job everyone!