skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is this in there:

"Some weeks later the tone of these and other discussions changed. There was, by mid-July, an explicit threat that the government would, after all, seek to stop the Guardian's work and prevent publication of further material by legal means. To have resisted such action would have involved handing over ultimate control of the material to a judge and could have meant that no stories could have been published for many months, if at all. The first amendment of the American constitution guarantees its press protections of which British editors can only dream. For more than 40 years − since the publication of the so-called Pentagon papers in 1971 − it has been accepted that the state will not succeed in trying to obtain prior restraint of the press. So we will in future report this story from New York. We have shared some material with, and will collaborate with, the New York Times."

So that was the reason why the Guardian moved the reporting on the story out of the UK.
Yeah, but you can move and escape them. Consider an educated person who is eligible for immigration to another country. This person can simply say "Bye!" and forget it. You'd almost have to tie a passport to student loan payments to keep the knowledgeable from doing this.
Might not have been able to get one if he's dealing with a horse and cart company. :/
http://hackershelf.com/
Why food tastes so delicious
If you want to see "good" targeted ads, go to Amazon. They have a vested interest in having you return again, so they put effort into finding a product that you will actually enjoy.

I highly doubt the average advertiser online cares if you return or not after the initial purchase. Their motivation is not to match you with something you want or will even like, but with something you will buy. It is therefore in their interests to use the targeting information to craft as manipulative an ad as possible for something your demographic can be tricked into purchasing.

That's why, when ABP fails, I always see half-naked swordswomen advertising yet another click-and-wait castle building "game". It's definitely not something that I would enjoy; it's a slot machine with virtual payouts that costs real money. If I payed $10 into it, would I be happy with myself the week after? Compared to e.g., a novel I might like, spend as much time on, but have a decent memory or experience that adds to my life.

If I thought advertisers would use my information to find me things that are useful or actually a good experience, I'd be more receptive to it. I'd still refuse because I hate all this data collecting stuff, and there's no way to get your information back out, but I would feel like it was an okay deal for people that opted into it.
Depends on the position you're hiring for. I imagine a lot of smart people might not know the answer to this because they've never really thought about ICMP or the OSI model.
I have developed a monolithic x86-32bit OS[1] for my undergraduate dissertation[2] with the aid of Brokenthorn's and JamesM's tutorials.

The project aims to introduce OS concepts to CS students, thus the code readability was the number one priority.

The main features include:

- Preemptive multitasking

- Doug Lea's Malloc as the heap manager for both Kernel and User side.

- Read-only ram disk (which is simply a tar file passed as a GRUB module)

- A (very) simple user Shell

[1] - https://github.com/ersenal/Incitatus-OS

[2] - https://github.com/ersenal/Incitatus-OS/blob/master/disserta...
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Obviously nobody is interessted. Not because the system is bad, because Apple user want to use Apple and not an Open Source alternative.

It make more sense to create a good emulator, so you can use OpenSource System (like Debian, BSD,...) and native Mac OS Software.
Wow. An amazingly thorough timeline that, while unfortunately reads in a weird format, is definitely chilling the more you read. You can easily see how post-9/11 had changed pretty much everything. It all happened so fast after that.
Let's replace our reliance on one terrible company with another!
You don't let your designer host so you can stiff them?

No, this is why you pay your web designer for their work.
If I bought software and they were going to send me a postcard with a license key, I would be pretty annoyed.
Very nice :-) Thanks.
I recently bought an X100s and it has rejuvenated my photography interest more than just about anything else in the digital age. You can argue specs and image quality and value for money all day, but shooting the X100s is fun and makes me happy in a way no other digital camera has.
On regular laptops, you open the lid and press the "On" button.

On my Chromebook, it boots as soon as you open the lid, and so I press Ctrl-D instead of the "On" button. I thought it'd be a pain, but it doesn't bother me at all, and you say that makes it "practically useless"?
Truth is a valid defense in any libel or slander case.

If someone who owes you doesn't pay you, you are well within your rights to tell people about it.

What probably happened is a small business wanted a website, so the web designer designs the website and buys them a domain name. The deliverables are a finished website along with a domain name and hosting.

If the client doesn't pay, then they own neither the domain name, the hosting, nor the design, and the web designer can do whatever the hell he wants with all three.
From 'No Such Agency' to having a searchlight aimed at your every move is a bit of a wake up call I guess.

I was toying with the idea of a bounty site for leakers but that would definitely be right across the line. The idea here was that if foreign secret services recruit moles for cash rather than for some kind of political leanings the general public should be able to do the same. Sort of wikileaks meets kickstarter. Items like: "$largefigure for the person that leaks all of congress' emails to and from industry professionals for the last decade". I'm pretty sure that that sort of transparency would clean up a lot of filth in short order. What's good for the goose...
Running X on Y!
Man, I am telling you no one is happy with what they have ;-)
I appreciate the designer's frustration, but I've found that in most cases, simply taking the site offline (assuming you host it) is enough to get a call back from the customer. If the customer decides that they'd rather not have a website at all than have the website you built for them, then I think perhaps both parties should cut their losses and move on.
The UN is in the United States because of a complex arrangement and builds on substantial mutual trust and respect.

From the wikipedia article on the same:

"Although it is situated in New York City, the land occupied by the United Nations Headquarters and the spaces of buildings that it rents are under the sole administration of the United Nations. They are technically extraterritorial through a treaty agreement with the U.S. government. However, in exchange for local police and fire protection and other services, the U.N. agrees to acknowledge most local, state, and federal laws."

This finding is a violation of trust and could result in the UN moving its seat from New York to some other place, for instance Bruxelles or Geneva.
It doesn't matter what you use, your traffic is recorded anyway.

I pity fools that think that just because they installed Ubuntu are now safe and sound.
What? Correct me if I'm remembering incorrectly, but before Microsoft (and Compaq's IBM PC "compatibles") caused PCs to be commoditized, every computer-maker was trying to foist their own closed, proprietary walled garden onto the market. Instead of the PC revolution that created a common platform everywhere, we'd have a hundred small, fragmented, incompatible ecosystems fighting each other for market share. That just does not sound like it would allow for mass adoption through steep hardware price drops and the insane innovation that it enabled (which includes things like Linux). You might think the resultant situation as "vibrant", but I think the more appropriate word is "fragmented".
What courses/certifications are you thinking of?

When I was trying to improve my C skills, I worked on some projects with other people so we can learn from each other while staying motivated. I would also recommend the Effective C++ books by Scott Meyers if you haven't read them already.
There are many alternative app stores. I don't think Google is forcing this as much as Apple either.
This might be an issue of thinking on the margin - that given their starting points, it's theoretically easier to get Israel or Russia to meet (leftist) American standards than to get Sudan to meet them.
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We've gone from procedural to OO, functional programming is having a huge resurgence, static typed to dynamic typed, waterfall to extreme/agile/whatever, and so on.

One of those you didn't get right? Guess which one?
it's not really anonymity if everyone can see all your previous posts and threads. real example of anonymity is 4chan.
On consideration, sorry for being pissy (English slang, iirc). Your comment was relevant to part about what I wrote and very well written.

I posted a theory about something I find strange -- and waited with bated breath for either support or to be short down with a good reference that taught me a lot about the world. Sigh, no luck on that part. Maybe no one knows.
I think you have to be a little bit crazy to sell anything on eBay. But anyway, it struck me that there is a way to make money here (buy BTC then charge it back), the author just found himself on the wrong side of that process. As they say, if you don't know who the sucker is, then it's you.
The Myth of the Poker Face
who's to say select businesses aren't getting it via government?
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6217908 (particularly since another answer here mentions applied crypto).
Umm, so this is a concrete breach of international law. When do we see US officials being arrested and tried?

Oh that's right, they don't believe in the rule of law (which is why they've exempted themselves and their entire military from the ICC.)

This makes me furious for the same reason as when criminals are given lenient sentences. I don't understand why it doesn't for other people.
The reason a small camera is obnoxious is not the hardware. I think people would raise much the same objections to being recorded without permission if it was a human eye plus brain scanner.

(I'm not making a statement about whether these objections are right or wrong, I'm just saying this technology will not change the debate)
You don't need to send him a different key in the post. Give him the key digitally and send the same key via post.
Interesting article, but it basically boils down to calling the best recruiters matchmakers and reserve the word recruiters for the bottom of the barrel.
The response is unprofessional juvenile in that it publicly calls out and shames the customer. He should just take the site down until payment is received.
The slow startup time and general sluggishness was due to inefficiency with the database backend, rather than the GUI code itself.

The biggest new feature in 1.0 is a re-write of the 0.x data access layer. The application now starts almost instantly, and is much more responsive in general.
Yep, I have had a few clients for minor hosting things not pay, and the most simple way is to revoke access to the content.
While putting some snarky comments on the page is funny, just taking it down would generally elicit the same response from a small minded shop keeper. Having dealt with the same stuff, shaming them or poking at their pride instead of having a very basic and honest discussion about consequences when they decide to not pay can lead them to become twice as bullheaded.

I still feel for the dev in this case, because this shit happens way too often in the industry.
That completely crosses the line from whistleblower to espionage. There would be serious jail time involved for anyone involved in that scheme from both the person providing the money and the person selling the information.
Ask HN: Do any netbooks still exist?
I guess I missed the boat here. It seems everyone stopped making netbooks, and now I could really do with one. The only thing I can find is made by Asus - http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-1015E-DS01-10-1-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B00BQH8QTI - but it uses a (power hungry) Celeron. Asus have other (Atom) versions on their site, but they all seem to be unavailable (at least for online purchase). Anyone have any suggestions? I want something that is cheap and small, with keyboard, for travel.
One has nothing to do with the other.

If they haven't paid you and you happen to own and operate it, just turn it off completely, there is no professional middle ground.

If a mechanic fixes your car and you don't pay them, in many places have have the right to seize your car until you pay. But they do not have the right to tamper with your brakes or spray paint "pay me" on your windshield.
Just checked my MSDN subscription - RTM is still not available there. Latest version available is still Windows 8.1 Preview. For anyone curious here's a good list of changes from 8.0 -> 8.1 right from Microsoft:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dn140266.aspx
Will finally try using Comodo Dragon and IceDragon as browsers (windows.)
This is absurd. For demos of this nature people "rip off" we'll known designs all the time. Think of every corporate logo "done entirely in CSS3" or "Facebook style widget using angular.js" type demos, all of which don't bother asking permission because it's a demo. Derailing this thread because of a pedantic point about copyright protection is unproductive and distracting.
My preferred method back in my freelance days was to have a few clauses in my standard contract about copyright -- basically laying out that I wasn't doing work-for-hire, and would retain copyright in anything I produced, with an agreement to transfer copyright to the client upon receipt of payment.

That gives a nuclear-option threat of filing a DMCA takedown; telling a client that you can legally have their site turned off within 24 hours is a lovely piece of artillery to have in your back pocket, and since the actions are all taken by their hosting provider there's no possibility of "unauthorized access" charges coming back at you.
mixmax here on HN lives on a boat.
I canceled my account a week ago, and it wasn't nearly that simple. They paid an agent almost an hour's wage to make it as difficult as possible to delete my account.

The agent kept asking me for personal data such as my birthdate and half the digits of my credit card number. I refused repeatedly (I never recall giving Skype my birthdate in the first place).

Eventually after 55 minutes of discussion, the agent agreed to delete my account if I could provide them 5 of my contacts, the amount of my last bill, and my contact email. Even though you have to be logged in to speak to an agent, and all of these things are fully visible on their website once you are logged in.
True, but the chroot is by far the most common and most stable method, and the one targetted in the article. Though as you say, the title is wrong.
And why--if you're a web designer--you should own and handle all design & hosting until you get paid. If it's purely design, and no backend (databases, PHP/Ruby/Python, etc.), you should probably get paid half what you expect up front, and also be sure to maintain any intellectual property rights you can.
Some people are interested in learning how things work. In that case the main page's description is enough to get them going.

I don't think that every project needs to be treated like a commercial product. This kind of project usually doesn't have a direct value to consumers but prepares the ground for other projects. It can help better understand the OS and help jailbreak IOS. Or provide drivers to install OSX on a PC or a VM and then allow cross-OS browser testing. Or maybe help a wine-like project for OSX apps. Who knows but without that project all these might not happen because the barrier to entry might be too high.
It's just a name.

But when recruiters revamp their techniques, treat both the developer and the employer as their customer, and use the communication technology that respects people's time (e.g., not spam of any sort), then you have something different -- by whatever name you want to call it.
This is actually one of the best articles I've read on the subject. I hope it wakes the traditional conservative educated middle classes in the UK, who to-date have been scarily quiet.
Sublime Text 2 & 3.
Holy crap. I could park my RV in the back of yours :)
"in the fork model a number of processes can grow uncontrollably."

You can use setrlimit to prevent that. Plus, your application is likely to have direct control over forking anyway.
What about a Chromebook? The Samsung version costs $250 (and there is an Acer model for $199).

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/
Also the page contains the cloaked text (in yellow on a yellow background) : "This store owner is dishonest. Please Read."

Defamation lawsuit waiting to happen.
is there any article/research about market shares of alternative app stores?
or, seen from a dev point of view, revenues on alternative app store?

I suspect they are both negligible..
I love it too. Having grown up on assembly and C, I have no doubt which of these programs makes me feel right at home and which my eyes glazed over :)

But OTOH I recently worked on porting some ancient non-modular imperative code to work on newer systems and I have to agree that imperative programs can be evil.
Seems like it'd be reasonably easy to run those same algorithms in reverse and change your writing style to someone else's.
Yeah but following this logic, the analyst himself becomes a person of interest since connected to his former spouse..
Recreating a logo is not the same as reusing a logo, especially when we are talking about music. What you are describing would be akin to recreating a song by using different sounds, instruments, algorithms, etc. In other words, a new performance or "cover." That's very different than reusing the original, unedited work wholesale.
They're not throwing RTM out to MSDN subscribers from what I hear. Not good.

My sub expires in 3 months and I will not be renewing it. We're freezing dev and moving off .Net and Windows due to shit like this, rising costs, audits and MS support being beyond fucking useless unless you're a multi million pound customer.
What ever happened/happens to Stalin [1], the scheme compiler? That's supposed to be a real Smart Compiler, right?

It's so mysterious... It's developed by this one guy. The only thing you can find on his website is a tarball [2]. It's like programming mythology.

[1] http://community.schemewiki.org/?Stalin
[2] https://engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi/
Toyier: http://toy-piano.meteor.com
LoveINT: NSA spooks illegally stalking their romantic interests
"I've bought a lot more than I otherwise would from O'Reilly because they're DRM free and happily sync my books directly to Dropbox etc."

Pragmatic does the same thing; there's a directory called "Pragmatic Bookshelf" on my dropbox and inside that they automatically make a directory for each title. Multiple editions, when published, magically appear in the same title directory and they send an email to let me know. Source for this information is looking at my phone's dropbox while I type this.

Delivery of electronic goods via Dropbox seems to be turning into a standard.
Introducing Mozilla Firefox optimized for Yahoo
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Difference between using social media on weekends and weekdays.
Agree with G+ being FB inspired. There's more to it (Google ecosystem etc.) but I'll leave that.
Android, however, was totally unrelated to the iPhone. In fact, Android's development started before the iPhone. Android's inspirations were also totally different. It's just that the iPhone appealed to a larger number of initial users and thus gained market share quickly, because, well that's what it was designed to do.
I wonder if this would work if you sold the BTC in a bitcoin wallet, stored on a cheap USB key (or even a bitcoin paper wallet[1])?

It's slower, and there's the slight cost of postage, but as least you have proof of postage as it's technically a physical item.

eBay sellers who sold virtual goods got caught a few years ago when eBay changed their policy on virtual items, but I've noticed sellers often now delivery the item via email but also on a burned CD or whatever to skirt the rules.

[1] https://blockchain.info/wallet/paper-tutorial
A lot of people are saying that this was the wrong move because it will hurt the designer. Maybe. It's still the right move for other reasons: everyone doing business with these guys now knows they don't pay and to demand payment up front or not work with them at all. There are already mentions of this on consumer reviews [1]. Basically nycfreshmarket is likely to go out of business over this issue as that market is already so cutthroat.

This action is the best action for the community at large - if every designer did this, the world would be a better place and everyone would be sure to pay their designers for work done. Win win situation for everyone involved (besides for crooks).

[1] http://www.yelp.com/biz/nyc-fresh-market-new-york
https://www.facebook.com/NYCFreshMarket
6 Acts to Keep the Focus on Urgency vs Emergency
Obviously. Think of it as a thought experiment, and fortunately those are (still) allowed.
I just did this last night on my Samsung Chromebook. One problem I immediately ran into was the difficulty of getting programs to run in Ubuntu because of my ARM processor. Any suggestions?
Well. This made me install Firefox 23, to get asm.js. I got a speed-up of x5 on his Mandelbrot code. Wow.

(I had Firefox 20 before. I checked a few websites and didn't notice any speed-up in general.)

PS: of course you can write modular code in JS too, with a complex lib etc (maybe not quite as nice as scheme). Would it be compiled to be as efficient?
I know and respect Chris and Jenny. Although I'm against working with family for the most part, if you must, I agree with most of the advice. However, the Co-CEO choice is a complete cop out. It never works. You're simply delaying a decision under the guise of marital compromise, but your business will suffer if/when you hire more people. Just my humble $.02.
This is brilliant marketing regardless of the negative press
I think if the citizens stays complacent of its government actions than they should be equally liable. I have always tried to distinguish difference between not liking or disagreeing with the government of USA and having the same attitude towards the citizens of USA. But you can only drag it for so long.

What will it take for you go to the street against your government? Governments of other countries have fallen for much less crime, yet the american government gets away with killing thousands of people and violating national and international laws under false pretence. And the USA citizens gets to wash their hands from any responsibility by simply arguing that the government did it.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs! [1]

Read That Book.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
I believe amazon added twitter integration to ebook ordering four years ago, so from a social signalling perspective, going virtual doesn't mean going in cold.

There are interior decorators who know about our observational biases and will specify books on shelves to match a "look" although the client will probably never crack the book open. Once I learned that, the utility of analyzing bookshelves dropped a bit.

Have to actually read to be interesting, merely owning an unread book isn't very interesting. This impacts the public library user pretty intensely, because they can read a lot without having the interior decorating to prove it.