skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree. The Raspberry Pi has nothing to do with the Amiga. The Amiga was cutting edge when it came out, nothing came close to it in terms of performance. Even the super expensive PCs or Apples. The Raspberry Pi is just a cheap and good enough platform to start doing some cool stuff, but it's nowhere similar to how revolutionary was the Amiga.
In Scandinavia you use the card for everything so not sure what you're talking about.
> My mouse has a scroll wheel which also doubles as the middle button when clicked. When scrolling through text, a little too much pressure and you end up pasting code all over the place.

I would submit that this is not a problem with middle click to paste, but rather a problem with a bad hardware design for the particular mouse you are utilizing. The true solution is to replace the badly designed mouse with a better mouse.
> we keep a check on the state to make sure that it is not abusing its powers

To the Statist, there is no such thing. A state's purpose is to exude power, for it is not a benevolent beast but it is a malevolent. The end-goal of a state will always be the curtailment of all other power that can be used to remove its power.
That's a lot of power granted to some committee. Who verifies that it's working well, and its members aren't actually selecting what to publish for their own benefit? What guarantees would a leaker have that the committee will protect her/him?
We may not use GNOME today, but many of us did happily use it before the GNOME 3 disaster. After that happened, though, we had no choice but to move to other environments.

Some of us even hoped that maybe someday the situation would reverse itself, and GNOME could once again become a viable desktop environment. Unfortunately, it has become clear over time that this is not the case, and likely never will be.

It's disappointing to see a project that was once quite useful, yet still with a lot of potential, be destroyed so quickly and unnecessarily. And it's perfectly acceptable and understandable for us to voice our displeasure with further degradation of what GNOME once stood for.
Funny, I really like having two clipboards and use the feature often.
Everyone suggesting to use ctrl-c/v is not often using a terminal i guess ;)

So now in the future i have to select test in a terminal with the mouse, right click, click copy and then hit ctrl-v or right click again, whereas now i just select text and hit the middle mouse?!

Please, leave the middle-mouse-paste an option or atleast make it a gnome-extension :(
School is a Prison
Because I, for one, could give two shits about the GNOME desktop environment as a whole, but find that there are occasionally useful applications written for it.

Most recently, GNOME Terminal, ironically enough (it's about as non-GUI as you can get for an application, but it's a reasonably nice terminal emulator, and does a few things my trusty old rxvt doesn't: dynamic rescaling, dynamic color themes).

Rhythmbox comes to mind. A few others.

I really don't care where the hell my apps come from, in terms of toolkit. But if they break very-well-established Linux / Unix behaviors, it really pisses me off.

I've also seen GNOME disease utterly fuck up perfectly good applications (the Galeon Web browser comes to mind).

Worse, occasionally unaffiliated developers look at what GNOME is doing after a few too many hits on the crack pipe themselves and think it's a good idea.

GNOME's utter user hostility and imperviousness to any level of logic or reason had already gotten old a decade ago.
And the "War on Dissent" rears its ugly head again. Anyone that doesn't gladly salute the state is "terrorist."
We refer to a "bank card" when we mean debit and "credit card" when we mean credit. YMMV :-)
Your voiceover artist sounds like she's on the verge of a hysterical breakdown.

What does she find so funny about "what if there was a better way?"
They may still become whistleblowers. Whistleblowers are only whistleblowers once they blow the whistle, before then they're thieves.

Some would like them to remain thieves after they've done their thing and I'm sure that some thieves eventually consider becoming whistleblower but in the interval between taking the data and exposing it there is no real difference that you could outwardly discern between the two cases.
Silent ... but deadly.

Yeah, that's GNOME in a nutshell.
> I'm not aware that Japanese units on the island were more "forced to fight" than any other body of troops, but still fought almost to the last man, in spite of their poor physical condition.

They fought out of despair since they were told they would be tortured if they ever get caught (and most of them killed themselves instead of surrendering in the end). And it's not like they had anywhere to go at Iwo Jima. They were on an island.
Jesters were important in monarchies because they could speak truth to power. I think there's a similar idea here: you have to be very headstrong to do a startup, but at times you also need to pull yourself out of that and really consider other angles/viewpoints. If you can couch advice sometimes in humor, maybe it can be an effective way of getting through to a founder who would otherwise have a hard time hearing it.
Why Do Haters Have to Hate? Newly Identified Personality Trait Holds Clues
Your identity provider doesn't need to be your email provider. You can use something like https://www.persowna.net/ (disclaimer: I wrote it), which can use any manner of authentication it likes. I may just add client SSL certificates as a way of authentication, that will be interesting.

You can also self-host and choose any authentication you want, however specific to you.

Also, this isn't directly relevant to what the GP said, but using a standardized, decentralized way to authenticate is a huge win. It effectively turns all sites into requiring arbitrarily strong authentication (at the very least, everything suddenly supports two-factor auth when it supports Persona), but you still don't have to trust a third party with your authentication (you can run it on your home computer).
AFAIK there is no legal mandate that says a baseband cannot be flashable. The FCC will not grant certification to a device where the frequencies could be changed, but that just means it couldn't be sold directly in the US. You could easily get such a phone from overseas though.

I'm not sure how that regulatory structures works on other countries. I'm sure it's mostly similar.
> Just go to another country, if you need quality no-hassle healthcare.

This is the part which scares me in these discussions: I can do that if I have time to plan in advance. If some accident occurs, I have no choice but to deal with the US system – and even if with good insurance coverage I'd have to deal with the kind of routine over-billing and obstructionism you mentioned. It's like we're trying to encourage all but the most risk-averse to emigrate to a country with a more humane system.
In 4.2 they'll have the button press itself after a time-out unless you cancel it, because the user might forget to press it.
Ask HN: Anyone out there using Developer Anarchy / Micro-services?
Some notes on it below - but I am interested in gauging its spread / success. I am quite tickled by it.

- http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/181351/what-is-developer-anarchy

- http://www.ckwop.me.uk/Meditation-driven-development.html

- http://martinjeeblog.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/what-is-programmer-anarchy-and-does-it-have-a-future/

- http://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/programmer-anarchy
Well, the headline reflects the message of the study accurately enough it seems. The caveats about the simulation not taking into account the physics of the system are in the news piece. The study itself was published in a peer reviewed journal-so whatever its weaknesses, it's not to be completely shrugged off.
Uploading multiple files to a CMIS repository
> Llamas are not, shall we say, renowned for their martial prowess.

The idea of someone riding a llama and going out to battle gives me laughs.

Obligatory llama pictures:

* Llama face: https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/269279233/llama270977_s...

* Llama standing on steppe: http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/0...
Good .de or .com domains are not exactly easy to get these days without paying ridiculous amounts of money to some domain squatter...
MakerBot's New Digitizer Scanner Is a Copier For 3D Items
Which is why I prefer Lenovo touchpads: three buttons.

Actually, mine has five:

Three at the top (corresponding to the mouse buttons), generally used with the trackpoint.

Another two at the bottom (two-button mouse), used with the trackpad (which I've, of course, disabled in BIOS like any sane user would).
I thought same until I used other systems (mainly OS X and some Windows 7) for around 2 years. I've been using Linux full time again about the past 2 months and now realize it's more of a pain in the ass than it's usually worth.
I recommend using something like Sublimes Multicursor instead.

1) Ctrl-alt-L: Give me a cursor at the end of all selected lines.

2) Select the line paces you want to paste using normal editor keyboard commands.

3) Ctrl-C

4) Go to the place in your lines where you want to paste (or click somewhere to get a new cursor and paste everything newline separated)

5) Ctrl-V

Scales to however many lines you want to do this to, with 'constant programmer time' ;-).
I've just sent my "notify me", but the response left me a little uncertain: "We’ll get back to you as soon as we launch in Germany.".

So... is this what I need to do to get into the beta? Or is there something else I need to do?
removing a feature for the sake of removing a feature, if you don't use it doesn't mean noone else uses it.
Ah, cool thanks.
Charging for encryption now days is horrible. We should be encouraging devs to put encryption everywhere. It should be the default.

Personally I don't like it when projects mix money with opensource.
DBA's and system administrators can usually use their privileges to install tools or change settings in such a way that they gain access to the raw data. Whether it goes undetected or not is another matter.

In the end someone or some process has access and a sysadmin / DBA could pretend to be that someone or that process.

Once you have physical access to a box it is game-over, the only thing that might still trip you up is an auditing system that is not part of that box.

You shouldn't make it easy either, but if someone configures a system they are in a position to bypass the security on that system. It all ends with trust.
Why do you say that scientific writing was better in the '90s? I'm just curious, not challenging your claim.
Animal Domestication: Taming the Wild
Yes, sort of. Epiphany developers for a long time resisted adding tabs to the browser and instead insisted that handling multiple viewports was the job of the window manager. In theory, they were right, in practice it just doesn't work.

Then somewhere around GNOME 2.12 or so, Nautilus fell in love with the "spatial" concept. So each directory opened would open its own window and also remember the window position so it would be opened in the exact same location the next time. Leads to the user having 30+ windows open if you want to drill down to some files a few directories deep.

No way to undo the suckyness except to edit some gconf registry key.

The User Interface Designers thought it was great. Everyone else thought it was a disaster. Fortunately it was changed to something more sensible a few releases after and the spatial desktop horse is (for now) dead and buried.

Btw, while I sound really critical of GNOME, I'm not. I think it's great that they try new and wacky ideas that no one likes. Sometimes they strike gold and then progress is made benefitting all of us.
A bit of quick advice: Put some project links in your profile so that people here can see what you've been up to and what you're capable of. If you're good at what you do, people here might just approach you and ask you to come work for them on some of this cutting edge front end stuff.
I was re-watching Brazil the other day and this was exactly what came to mind. We are not in 1984. Terry Gilliam's vision is terrific, and captures with precision how someone working for the NSA (even though it's not called like that in the movie) thinking he is working for Good actually discovers the impact of his actions on real people's lives.

It's frightening how close we are to that place.
> The hospital is required to take Medicare, and Medicare tends to be unwilling to pay the true cost

This is actually the reverse: the reason why Medicare is so much more cost-effective is that they're more consistent about paying only the true cost and have the marketshare to negotiate that up front rather than haggling over every claim. The hospitals favor private insurance because the margins are higher and they don't face the penalties for over-charging the US government if they get caught inflating prices.
Worrying About Startup Rivals is a Waste of Time
There is only one clipboard. plus an additional text buffer.

As a multi system user with only one k/m input (windows/red hat), I love the differentiated buffer capability. It allows discrete usage of cntl x/c/v across systems and STILL allows me to manipulate c/p actions while multitasking.
I have xclip installed (it copies/pastes from the X11 clipboard as a commandline utility), and having long had 'xc' and 'xp' shell scripts, finally added 'xpc' to paste from the 'CLIPBOARD' buffer after getting frustrated once too often that I wasn't able to do so.

I'll use these to "read in" files:

xc < filename

And then in vim (faster than toggling paste mode):

r ! xp

or

r ! xpc # for CLIPBOARD buffer
Study: Piracy actually helps small films make money
Given that SQLite is intended as a replacement for fopen(), I'm not sure how many normal files an application uses (or should use) are (or should be) encrypted. I cannot think of a lot of use cases.

At work we need to because we are distributing map data that was licensed to use under the condition that we don't ship the data unencrypted to the clients, however nonsensical that is, given that you have to distribute the encryption key the same way.

But for use cases like Lightroom which stores its catalog in an SQLite database or Far Manager which stores the config there I very much doubt they should be encrypted by default.
you can use Ctrl+C outside the terminal and then Ctrl+Shift+V to paste into it (similarly Ctrl+Shift+C for copying from terminal)

btw, I also use clicking the scroll-wheel to paste all the time
I imagine the switch over to TCP is more because the response is likely to be larger than a UDP packet (which IIRC is why DNS-over-TCP exists) (looks to be the case [1]), as opposed to stopping an amplified reflection attack, but it's a nice side effect.

[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/404840/when-do-dns-queries-...
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The Benedict Arnold comparison is absurd and the football analogy is very weak.

There is no 'other team' and the coach is paranoid. He keeps the playbook secret from his own team, suspecting any one of them may be playing for the other side, which does not exist. No games are scheduled anyway, but still he insists on spying on them and recording all the details of their private lives in his secret playbook.

One day one of the team finds the playbook and is horrified at what their coach has been doing behind their backs...

etc etc
x86 is great. You'll absolutely see kludges on RISC architectures (e.g. anything having to do with loading a 32-bit or 64-bit constant into a register). Then you have branch delay slots on MIPS, instruction alignment issues on certain PPC processors (G5), etc.

One of the nice things about x86 is that while the encoding is a little wonky, the semantics are great. No imprecise exceptions, no branch delay slots, strong memory ordering, etc. The last one in particular is absolutely wonderful in this day and age of multicore processors (scumbag RISC: makes you use memory fences everywhere; makes memory fences take 300 cycles).
For Common Core, a new challenge — from the left
Ah yes, because that's been so ethically done and the current levels of oversight are entirely sufficient.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/18/undercover-policin...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1013912...
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/mclibel-leaflet-po...
Do you derive "mostly of dubious quality" from this angry blogger's "I've read some of these studies?"

These anti-quackery people aren't really operating in full scientific rigor mode.
> outside terrorist

We all know this is a big word to make headlines and influence people to be in favor of extreme laws. No country has ever been destroyed by Terrorism. Terrorism is, before all, a political tool. That's why States finance terrorist actions (the archives are full of that) to reach political means.
There is no technical reason why it couldn't be added. However there is political and ethnical reasons to not add that funcionality. There is debatable legality of running a tor exit node. You don't want "Use Firefox, get a visit to the police" to be a headline people can use why not to use FF.
UK Parliament recalled over Syria
Self-identification is mostly the way it's done in Europe as well.
Sure, You Can Steal Bitcoins. But Good Luck Laundering Them
Using the middle button for pasting what's highlighted is one of the few things on X11 that's consistent across configurations and over the past 25-ish years.
Is 3D Secure supported?
If they "hate the mouse" why do they actually add more functionality to the middle mouse button? The article headline makes no sense.
Wouldn't your own personal pre-peer-review review have caught that?
Who is this average user you are talking about?

Its a myth, a fantasy, an excuse for all things gnome and other "lets make a product for idiots" does to butcher itself into oblivion, many startups do the same mistake.

The idea "for the average user" or "for your grandmother" is a mind-trap that leads to poor choices and poor products. Dont make products for someone not interested in using it, make them for someone like a child instead of an old person like a grandmother. Just give a kid a smartphone or KDE and look how they learn and use the devices (Ive seen it with my own eyes, a kid use KDE to start his games, save pictures form the internet, view them in dolphin etc, and he was just 4-5 years at the time.), and give a smartphone or KDE to a grandmother and see basically nothing happen.
You work flow is slightly askew. Let me fix this:

-----
1. Did we break the law?

-> Yes -> GOSUB Modify_Law_To_Make_This_Legal -> End: mark Top Secret.
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You're welcome.
That's because the algorithm is implemented by the application's developers, not Apple.
Minecraft Xbox 360 Swordlock City the 2nd biggest city in the world
Hello! This is a city I made on Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition. It won a top 5 build competition and was even tweeted about by 4J Studios.
Worst. Deal. Ever.
Mindfulness in Plain English is a readable and accessible introduction to meditation, available online at http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
It's "(racial or ethnic) origin", not "(racial origin) or (ethnic origin)".
He's not a mere lobbyist, though. He sits in the House of Lords, where he wields actual legislative power but has no corresponding accountability to the electorate.

If you ever wondered why so many people have been campaigning for an elected second chamber in the UK, now you know.
If we take Schneier's example of the bank president and the ATM, you could easily argue that is a flawed philosophy. Every day I go to the ATM, money comes out. Like clockwork, very efficient.
> The annoying thing about the recent "reforms" is it mandates preventative care be covered, eliminating the ability to get pure "oh crap" coverage.

This is only annoying until you realize how many people have incurred significant costs by avoiding preventative care. Why do you think insurance companies are so quick to run campaigns for healthy-living, vaccination, regular physicals, etc.? They'd much prefer to pay a few hundred dollars a year for you on a known schedule than deal with open-ended late-stage problems.
Sure, but in Haskell, a lot of it will be deforested by the compiler.
Things to consider before you chase up TechCrunch to feature your startup?
You can set things up so there's no way for any single to bypass logs or other audit controls. A trivial way is to have all logins go via an administration host which logs separately , and never give admin rights on that machine to people with admin on the protected systems.
Grand Theft Auto 5 leak sparks Sony apology to Rockstar
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Many traditional meditation techniques recommend closing the eyes. For the reason that visual stimulation takes up >75% of our perception.
Closing the eyes automatically makes it harder for our mind to wander off. Still hard enough, but at least you won't be distracted by those nice lights on the wall (or similar).
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200k isn't a lot of money for all the ambition this project had, and I don't think it really had a good shot against Facebook — outside the HN-type audience.
well, it depends on what terminal emulator you use but both guake and terminator support ctrl+shift+c / ctrl+shift+v.
i agree though that using the middle mouse-button is much easier
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/shrug, I love my konsole and clementine.

It can get old. Just use something else. I tried gnome3 when it happened and jumped ship like a sinking Titanic. I'm now heavily invested in kde, and version 5 isn't going to change direction into this minimalist nightmare, its still all about choice, except under the hood it gets much faster and cleaner with qt5/ gl accelerated qml.
That's preposterous, are you suggesting that government in Brazil isn't trying to do its job?

Jokes aside, I don't think comparisons to football game are apt. Most people are simply not interested in competing with people in other countries, at least not any more than in competing with their own elites in government and elsewhere. So it's not like we are all one happy team inside the state.
Multi-party controls and generally complex technical controls add minimal overhead relative to benefit in large organizations working on static systems; they're horrible in small companies working on rapidly changing products. (Imagine a tiny startup where you have a 4 week change control process for every modification...)
Minecraft Xbox 360 Here's an update to what Swordlock City looks like now
This argument comes up frequently when people discuss startups: once it involves losing health coverage, a significant number of people lose interest in participating. The current system heavily encourages anyone with less than perfect health / dependents to work for a mid-to-large-sized company, to our relative disadvantage when compared with the rest of the first world.
Elon Musk on innovating
A good place to look is the replicant[1] project which aims to offer a fully open-source version of android. Most supported phones sadly have closed sourced modems and other stuff.

There's one phone there[2] that only the wifi is non-free. So my guess i turning of wifi gives you a totally free pho ne.This is an openmoko phone-which is also open hardware phone.

Regarding fun: I think you can't run the play store there - so you lose the google apps. And the phone we're talking about is weak - cortex-a8, 512MB.

[1]replicant.us
[2]http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GTA04
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