skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing - constrain it to a single IP and no sharing individual games. That would go a long way. Then again, you know some dedicated pirates will just VPN the damned thing.

Or at the very least give us a way to avoid keying in the password over and over again - I already logged in here, you can lock the steam account for use-from-elsewhere without forcing me to key in a password to unlock it. I might be annoyed that I can't share my library between my two machines at the same time, but at the very least I don't have to keep keying in PWs.
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Just like Narus' main product was aggregating raw Internet Transmission Records from telco switches and turning them into customer and peer billing data for network usage?
Michael Hastings might beg to differ.
Wow!!! Didn't know about this - took a quick look and found it very interesting. Thanks.
Not stating I'm proud. Only stating the obvious double standard.
My daughter goes to middle school in Moraga, CA. In the last 6 years since my son was in a nearby school, they've introduced a concept for making it easier for the children to tap into school counseling resources. Kids can visit the school's psychologist by pulling out a "Felt" card and giving it to the teacher. It serves as an emotional opt-out for whatever happens to be causing stress at the time and allowing the child to go talk about it to someone who has the skills and time to listen.

I asked her, "I wonder how many of those get used during dodgeball tournaments?".
Looks like an awesome event. I'm excited to see what comes of it.
Can't forget Operation Opera[1], it seems especially relevant (prescient?) considering the speculation of air strikes on Syria.

We may never see that kind of Israeli-Iranian cooperation ever again. It shows how much can change in 30 years.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera
Have to remember that it's their rules as HN isn't a democracy by any means (not saying I agree with it). It's not open, it's not bias-free (see the top level domain name of the company that owns this site?), it has strict moderation and has its own shills and sock puppets like any forum (not saying these are approved by HN).
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I agree with you that it's relevant to technical news, but I don't think it has anything to do with "plugging ears" or "willful ignorance."

I don't flag them (it's pointless I think), but I think the people flagging these stories are doing so because they're tired of hearing about it, and because one interpretation of the HN Guidelines supports it.
Yeah, which I'm thinking is what they want to avoid.

I think an element of this is the part where when you get kicked off it will prompt you to buy the game or quit. As a nice solution to lack of demos most games have. That's the thought my friends and I immediately jumped to.
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most economists are not very serious about testing their models. this is reflected in the way the subject is normally taught.
Note: I'm not flagging down any of these stories, but I think there's some "spook fatigue" settling in with so many NSA stories, with only a fraction of them saying anything new.
BTW, thus far it seems that the Washington Post and USA Today are the only American mainstream sources touching this story:

http://www.google.com/#q=israel+nsa&tbm=nws&tbs=sbd:1
This is great! Bought it but paid less than I should have. Broke at the moment.
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Drone strikes?

Remember the criteria for that? If there is a suspect, not convicted, but merely a suspect, its simply collateral damage if you also wipe out his wife and kids, oh, and family... and friends..... by standers. No due process.

Or did you mean Americans?

Well, even if you did, I have to wonder how long it will take for drones to be , er, surgically taking out drug dealers in shitty areas in the US. For the sake of the children, you understand.
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Usually they're hosted separately (some vps and tumblr in this case). So it's just a matter of the blog using the default mapping for it's logo to the blog site. The blog is generally completely unaware it's psuedo-participating in a larger site configuration. Good from a security perspective, a bit of a hassle for admin'ing (hence this issue).
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Be careful with your "we." The US is one of the few countries where eggs are typically refrigerated. Eggs will last for months if merely kept cool.

Historically, milk was "preserved" by turning it into cheese.
Or if you are running in the cloud, simply reading a json/yaml file off S3?
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Today, our computers are always on, never restarted,
always connected.

This is a bad thing, not a good thing.

My personal machines and devices are not high-availability servers, and don't need to be powered on all the time. I close my browser windows, and power off my machines frequently, and deliberately. I generally don't gain very much from the practice of leaving the room for an hour, with my machine powered on.

I'd like to dissent from this echo chamber of constantly advocating promiscuous systems, that tend to do things for us without asking us first, and promote biased decisions in favor of permissiveness. I pretty much hate that you can't remove the battery from an iPhone.

That said, there was an time when client/server computing delivered a lot of the kind of functionality, via a fragmented industry of proprietary "enterprise" applications, that has, lately, been re-cast as the broad ecosystem of "mobile apps" (which are essentially the same thing, only smaller and portable). Also, since HTTP is a stateless protocol, "rich web applications" (aka: HTML5+ & JS), have been able to fill in a lot of gaps in web browser behavior with asynchronous requests. I tend to think that JavaScript will become the open version of the once proprietary non-interoperable model of native binaries and client/server computing.
If this turns out to be true, then it's no big deal since we shouldn't be surprised that agencies share intelligence.

If it turns out to be false, then it's anti-semitic to even think that Israel would engage in such a heinous act.
If you're doing a one-off pipeline on the command line, you can even start with less!

"I want to look through this file..."

less file

"Oh, that's long, I want to look at all the foos..."

less file | grep foo

"How many foos are there?"

less file | grep foo | wc -l

Try it, it works!
As long as it comes with increased battery life (as it should). I won't buy a new laptop until I can get one with real all-day battery life - and right now the main two options for that are the new Macbook Airs and the Sony Vaio Pro 13 (with the sheet battery). If the Pixel can pull that off, I'll add it to my list of contenders.
As an owner of an Intel Chromebook, the Acer C7, I really do enjoy it.

It is a bit limited, but for $200, it is a great deal. I have a chroot installed where I can do anything I can't do with the vanilla ChromeOS, and I am strongly considering upgrading the RAM. I don't think I will buy the full 16GB this thing supports.

I could also upgrade the storage, 16GB is getting a little tight.
Ask HN: Why don't more failed startups share why they failed?
If 90% of startups fail, why don't more founders of failed startups share the story and reasons as to why they failed? This would both help others uderstand why (even if it's as simple as "We ran out of money") and encourage them not to make the same mistakes again.
Seen this several times. I wonder if there is some sort of manipulation based on its being a story from the guardian and having NSA in it some where.
Interesting result. That will make WEP cracking more fun to prosecute.
Can you post which mpm you are using, and what your mpm configuration looks like for Apache? Does mysql report anything in its log? Do any requests return too many connections? Do you have some kind of heavy software running on the same server (trac for instance)? What kind of table engine are you using? Are you caching read data?
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Write. Then Research.
Me too. I have a personal "research hobby" aimed at exactly this.

For your monads example: one of the things I'm looking into is how to have the experts establish the monadic abstraction and have the system gain all of the benefit WITHOUT jRandomCoder at HugeCorp having to understand what a monad is... or even realize he's using one. Obviously Haskell falls short in that area.
It's great to see an amazing product like RethinkDB move so quickly and improve so much

The counter-argument is that they can move so quickly and improve so much because so much is so poorly implemented. While it may seem cynical, I have formed a habit of eliminating projects that still see magnitudes performance improvements from such rudimentary activities. Once they get to the point where a yearly release are a couple of syntax improvements and some minor speedups, it is more likely to be production ready.
Windows-based ultrabooks are selling slowly as it is, and Google thinks $1,000+ ChromeOS devices will sell better?

They really should stick to ARM-based $250 Chromebooks. But this time please put at least a 10" tablet-battery, not a 7" tablet battery inside the Chromebook.
You could argue that people who complain about wasting a cat are ignoring the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well." Moreso with wc -l vs grep -c. If I know that wc -l is how to count lines, I don't want to remember the options for counting lines built into every other command.
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Also timely that this post called "Share Everything" was just posted to the 37 Signals blog:
https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3615-share-everything
So what happens in the situations where Israel intelligence uses US supplied information as a basis for killing an American citizen?
I'm not saying you don't exist. I'm saying you're rare.
one of the funniest websites i've ever visited, not to mention an awesome topic!
ChefSteps and the Future of Recipes
Forget the legal stuff, the lesson here is to just get on with stuff and gather up and loose ends later. That's it.
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There seems to be a faster decay for stories related to Snowden/NSA. I guess that got "hard coded" after a little while ago the front page was almost completely based on NSA related stories. Therefore the stories often staying longer on the front page seems the one that do not have Snowden or NSA in its title.
A look at a “LinkedIn Spam mail, Blackhole, ZeroAccess” campaign
Apple wants the "freedom" to take free software and use it for their own purposes without having to pass the freedom onto their users. It's unfortunate that people see this "banishing" and think its a good thing when it's really a bad thing.
Amazing. What's the ->> operator called?
Except that with physical titles it's pretty inconvenient to pass around disks all the time, so there's a natural limit to sharing. With the new kind of sharing, you could share your library with someone on the other side of the country without having to ship disks around. That is a subtle point lost in this debate and the debate around the Xbox One.
I'm so tired of this crap I'm not even engaging in the debate anymore.
I mean creating artificial scarcity is wrong; ideas are not property, digital content is not property. Property exists because of scarcity, absent scarcity, there should be no notion of property or ownership of something.

Content creators should not be using law to create markets that can't exist naturally. If they can't find a way to fund their work in a world where distribution is effectively free, then their work isn't worth paying for. That distribution used to be a profit center is a historical accident that's been fixed by the Internet.

You cannot prevent copying, and copying does not take something from you, it is not theft, you have not lost any property, anything that can be digitally copied has no right to be called property to begin with. It's a legal fiction created to manipulate people into associating copying to theft when nothing has actually been stolen.

I oppose all forms of IP, the world would be vastly better without it. Patents were not created for inventors, they were created to make that knowledge public.

When a law attempts to prevent something that cannot be prevented and that a majority of the population will do anyway; that law is wrong.

IP has created an environment where people expect to work once and then rent seek and be paid over and over again rather than just for the time they worked; this is wrong and artificial and leads to disparity of wealth distribution where people live forever off the work of others.
You might want to look at that "precog" thing that was mentioned here on HN yesterday. It's for analytics on columnar data.
The parenting you're asking for here is just (usually) unscientific "behavior modification plans" and "reprogramming." Most things boil down to operant conditioning.

Source: raised by the daughter of a behavioral scientist.
But presumably if the employer cares about defaults it won't matter whether or not you get your degree since the default will show up on your credit record.
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Nope it's still an old Bash, with a really slow grep!
>In 2009, however, the New York Times reported on "the agency's attempt to wiretap a member of Congress, without court approval, on an overseas trip".

This is shocking. If I were a member of Congress I would be pissed! Where is the outrage!!
ughh can't figure out challenge 3 :/ http://www.thisiscreativeservices.co.uk/websites/EXT-glouces... anyone got ideas??
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Banishing? GPLv3 was never in MacOS (and Apple's first use of LLVM, though not their creation of Clang, predates the first draft of the GPLv3 by a year or so).
This is completely off-topic, but I wanted to say I love the font used for the headings on this site. "Quicksand," is it? Nice and playful without being completely unprofessional, very good pick.
I think its more like a white elephant. I totally understand the motiviation to write and blog about these vanity infrastructure software projects but I agree it is hard to stay enthused about reading about another one in the language du jour.
This is one of the problems with teaching emotional intelligence. It's subjective, and most people feel very strongly that they way they were raised was the (only) right way.

From my perspective (and probably that of most psychology and behavioral science researchers) that behavior on the part of your mother is unhealthy and not to be tolerated. You are also unlikely to find support among academic for the notion that a grown woman's inability to control her emotions justifies inflicting severe pain on an largely helpless child. (There is some research supporting spanking, but almost never out condoning spanking while upset.)
You'd probably like SMBC too (if you don't already read it).
I'm unsure why PXE cannot be a reliable network service just as DHCP or DNS. It can be clustered and made reliable as any other system can. You can also load balance and distribute out the PXE traffic in the event of a full refresh of all nodes just fine.
Nice, but it doesn't seem that useful for myself.

I normally don't know when I'll have time to read something, I just save for 'later'. I use Pocket for that.
Can you use this to control things outside the browser? i.e. mpg123 command-line player etc? A standalone listener/API could be great for plugging this into, well... anything.

Nice idea!
Can we please stop measuring page load time only?
http://www.speedawarenessmonth.com/moving-past-page-load-time/
The Xbox One was originally to have applied digital distribution restrictions to physically distributed media. That is the problem that people had with it.

Had Microsoft simply restricted their program to their digitally distributed games -- which they are likely to loop back on -- I doubt anyone would have taken issue with it.
Well, it's not powered all the time, your computer probably go to sleep while you're not in the room for a period of time, but the state of the computer is kept in memory. So it definitely feels like it never stopped. Having that state kept around is hardly a bad thing IMO.
I just wish my SO could play The Sims 3 on the laptop in the living room while I'm playing Civ 5 on my desktop in my home office. I ended up having to buy her a copy on Origin so we could game at the same time.
That's not quite what "rotational symmetry" means in this context. A collection of random variables independently distributed according to identical "doubly-rectified" exponential distributions would also be symmetric under variable interchange.

However, this represents invariance only under sequences of axis-aligned rotations that are multiples of pi/2. The joint distribution of a collection of independently and identically normally-distributed random variables is invariant under arbitrary rotations, which is a much stronger form of invariance.

E.g., if you drew [x1...xn] from a distribution like exp(-|x1|-|x2|-...-|xn|), which is invariant with respect to variable interchange, and normalized to unit length, the resulting distribution would be markedly non-uniform over the surface of the n-dimensional unit hyper-sphere.

In fact, the differences in the symmetries of these distributions are crucial to the relative behaviors of L1 and L2 regularizers in machine learning. These differences have significant practical, and not merely theoretical consequences.
Maybe it's just been a few years, but I was able to get 30 BW sheets for about $8.
The Israeli intelligence agent gets a promotion.
Why single out Israel? Why would anyone think there aren't dozens of countries with the same agreement?
Whenever I'm faced with a decision, I just ask myself what my parents would do, then I do the opposite.
This particular story seems to represent something very new and very troubling.
Where the heck do you find an indoor skydiving wind tunnel that you can use solo for one contiguous hour?
Promise/A+ patterns
Really? The bug first class cabins?
I really expect the "netbook" category to bump again now that Bay Trail has been released. Finally an actual speed bump in the atom family after all these years!

One positive is that with chromeos being more stable and backed by google should be able to seriously take on windows in this category unlike the mess with linux when the first netbooks were released.
LLVM compiles faster as it optimises less (oversimplified of course).
I love Turntable, and it's sad to see this, but it's not a huge surprise; for their whole history they've offered an amazing service and charged well below the true value of the service (they only added ads recently).

I figure we'll soon see a tiered model letting users upload directly for a fee, which is probably a good move.
Wish me luck with my music venture then! I'm going to need it.
I think the request is that one person plays Game A while the other plays Game B, not two people playing Game A.
> Considering that every unit sold of the most popular consumer smartphone/tablet OS is built with a GPLv3 toolchain, I think you need to talk to your lawyers.

However, note that it doesn't _bundle_ it. And Google has gone to some lengths to produce their own non-[L]GPL libc (Bionic). As far as I know, the Android userland is pretty much a no-GPL zone these days.
"lit is a the easiest way to publish your code. "

That typo was intentional, right?
Well, this story is about intelligence agencies exchanging information. Afaik, intelligence agencies often spy on third parties interesting for other countries, just to have data for exchange.

I am far from an expert, but this seems like saying water is wet (inside certain temperature/pressure limits). Of course countries get a lot of access, if they have something to give back (it helps if they are democratic).
Well, I'll head right over to CompUSA and buy... oh wait.

Maybe I can buy a boxed game from Amazon?
There's voting ring detection stuff that could probably be triggered if a largely overlapping bunch of people are upvoting each story. Of course it could be that people are just tired of the articles, outlets are re-reporting more often than not.

I think it's more accurate to say HN enables rather than supports the communication of news, the content is moderated and prohibits explicitly and implicitly many topics.
Valve often talks about trying to provide a service that is more convenient than pirating, and this looks like another step in that direction. If I'm playing a pirated game and want to share it with a friend, it would involve getting them to torrent/crack it, or uploading it to a file sharing host. Using Valve's new program, sharing a purchased game is as simple as sharing it with them on steam.

I'm curious as to what other kinds of convenience measures they'll be able to implement in the future - especially with hardware control via steambox on the horizon.
The most obvious reason is that they happen to have documented proof of this particular agreement.
It is the piece of paper that is thought to bring the value of an education though. Nobody cares about the education itself. You can get that anywhere.
True, but have 2 or 3 kids and it's more expensive up front. I also don't think people really extrapolate out the price when buying phones (although I wish they did, might help with the telco monopoly)
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This is very sad news, they were a darling when they started http://allthingsd.com/20110621/turntable-fm-really-is-awesom... and for the most part of the last year I used to like them mostly their mashup station. But somehow the repetitive nature of the songs being played and the whole idea that as a user, I just want to listen to music and not participate made me switch back to Pandora. I had no idea that they were bleeding internally and reading the news just make me realize that in the start up world you never know when you are in the limelight and when you go in oblivion.
An interesting thought. Recipes seem like a great metaphor to explore.

The main is that a destructive functions can call a non-destructive functions freely but a non-destructive operation, say "find best egg" should not have any destructive effects whereas "beat egg" can call "find best egg freely".

I know SQL separates destructive and non-destructive operations very clearly and it also allows the user to back out of some destructive action sequences if all the conditions aren't satisfied. This makes what to do when you don't have butter more easier solved.
Pretty much all of the existing ARM socs out there suck majorly for gpu support. I really believe Bay Trail will shove arm out of the chromebook/netbook market just because people will be able to tinker with the thing.

As much as I had been rooting for arm a few years ago I'm totally soured on the utter crap support situation. If ARM starts bleeding market it will totally be on their own shoulders for not doing anything about the closed drivers situation.
Nope. Total power down. Not standby or hibernate.

And, that rotten "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox on Macs really grinds my gears. (...maybe I'm just a control freak)
google actually pays people to go through thousands of videos and stop the really horrific ones from showing up in the searches (or atleast showing high up in the searches)... the only problem is that apparantly they don't get any psychological help when they leave and i can imagine some of them videos being pretty damn disturbing