skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the most important comment, the title is slightly misleading

> "As a note, we’ll of course continue to measure traffic from IE8 browsers to your website."
Presumably, there is a visitors log. I suggest someone FOIA that, ASAP.

Then, perhaps someone will be so kind as to ask those "legislators", preferably under oath, what the hell they were thinking.
>>Do you have more authority than Rachel Greszler who has a masters in Economics from Georgetown?

No, but Paul Krugman does. He's a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics. Oh, he also won the Nobel Prize in Economics back in 2008. Suffice it to say, he has more than a simple Master's degree from Georgetown. Here's what he has to say on the subject.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/opinion/krugman-nobody-und...

In light of your high-horse comment, I found this part especially funny.

"Perhaps most obviously, the economic “experts” on whom much of Congress relies have been repeatedly, utterly wrong about the short-run effects of budget deficits. People who get their economic analysis from the likes of the Heritage Foundation have been waiting ever since President Obama took office for budget deficits to send interest rates soaring. Any day now!"
Do you have any evidence In-Q-Tel has ever done anything like that?

I know the NSA disclosures have everyone all amped up, but if the only evidence for an accusation is that nobody can prove it didn't happen, then it's still a conspiracy theory in my book.
Python and R are the cool new kids in bioinformatics, seem to be ubiquitous and there are tons of resources to get you up to speed. SAS, Matlab and to a lesser extent SPSS are more old guard, but there are a lot of folks who still use them. If you want to get really old school, Fortran is still in use, though I see it more on the physics side of the house.

If you're really looking to differentiate yourself, I look at combining Python or R with one of the 'big data' infrastructures (e.g. Mapreduce, NoSql, SQL). Then you'll be able to sell yourself as not only being able to analyze the data, but understand the data collection, handling and storage aspect as well.
Yes, there is strong LTE and HSPA+ service there, and Canada has some decent PAYG plans.
Say Goodbye to the Password
Quip redesigned for iOS 7
No more or less safe than it was yesterday. :)
I've been using jqplot recently, which is rather pleasant.
He said in another comment that some portion of the island has cellular service, so I would assume so.
IANAL, yadda yadda and hypothetical implementation details (linkage, etc) could make arguments to the contrary. From GPLv3/Wikipedia:

'A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate.'

In other words, your MIT library is an independent work and does not limit the rights imparted by the other pieces (namely, the GPL pieces). This is somewhat important since you (presumably) don't own the copyright to that MIT work and so your options for relicensing it are limited.

Meanwhile, your code is a direct, derivative work of the GPL code and at a minimum, must be made available under the GPL. You can additionally release under other licenses, provided that those licenses do not conflict with the GPL. A "public domain" non-license might work. And again, you must always offer a GPL option.

I don't know how the AGPL applies here. I would guess that it's pretty much the same except you acquire those above GPL rights just by consuming the output of the code (e.g. visiting the webpage).
This isn't about "most people". This is about pc gamers, who still build their own boxes and are even borderline fanatical about their hardware. They aren't going to Best Buy and coming home with a touch UI by mistake. They are ordering parts from Newegg and building liquid cooling rigs in their basement.
It appears that ianstallings means "Reddit is using its own, personal, free speech to say 'no' to things".
I think he's using the phrase in the sense of 'destined to fail,' which doesn't necessarily imply a belief in an unshakeable destiny, it's just a comment that failure was inevitable/predictable with those policies. Of course, hindsight is always 20/20.
They failed to pre-sell a large amount of expensive smart-phones. This doesn't mean anything concerning Ubuntu's success on phones in general, never mind their place in the computing landscape...
Pittsburgh started with a bad reputation (soot covered steel city) and which cleared up when the steel industry there floundered. On the other hand Detroit arguably had a good reputation because of its industry; there were no upsides to the auto industry floundering.
> in 1969, it would have been harder to FAKE the moon landings than to actually land on the moon.

All true, and it would have been much, much harder to keep it all completely secret for decades. Virtually no secrets survive that long.
You say that like you haven't helped kill humans too, through your purchases and therefore implicit support of companies who help do this.

Your very use of this website is evidence to your hypocrisy.
Those docks might not be permanent structures, which probably removes any permit requirements. You might want to go this route too if you all won't be visiting much or at all during the winter months. Remove your dock to 'winterize' your island.
I sort of got bored of the presentation 15 minutes in (and was only half paying attention, truth be told) but it seems to me that Gabe is operating under the (gigantic) assumption that Microsoft would remove the Desktop and move Windows into a 100% closed environment.

Sounds like he's jumping the gun. I don't see that future happening.
This, considering that he succeeded so wildly - not just in building a successful business, but in making the culture of the software industry so much better.
No Reddit thread is going to "catch the bad guy". Professionals who have access to all possible information will. There is no "justice" Reddit can do. It's just a forum full of bored idiots, not an FBI forensics team. Please remove your head from your ass.
> Is it correct to sacrifice catching the bad guy to protect the small chance that someone is wrongly accused?

Large swaths of the US legal system seem to think so, it's why "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" is a requirement for a criminal conviction. Whether that translates to moral correctness is up to you but in my opinion, yes, that's a reasonable sacrifice.

And that totally ignores that the probability of a court of law getting something wrong being different from a bunch of internet vigilantes getting it wrong, which of course changes the equation quite a lot.
I bet I'm not the only one who hoped when you said '40 minutes away' that you meant Ann Arbor.
Eye roll. I've heard this ~20 years now. I welcome fingerprint readers myself but I doubt they'll get the traction this article implies. Particularly with the privacy-consciousness of the modern user.
I practically live the last 2 years on a macbok air 13" which I wouldn't switch for any other laptop, even if I'd had to install linux on it. However every time I go home and sit on my 27" iMac I feel blessed although the MBA is 2011 and has much clearer screen. However, as you said, my working and programming environment is setup on the MBA and I can't sync everything I need on the fly to achieve the same workflow on the imac. Hmm, but I if I could choose I'd take the imac any day.
Well, Valve owns social gaming graph for every user. Until Microsoft creates seamless integration between Windows and Xbox and imports xbox graph, Valve has pretty powerful network effect on its side.
Its more of a position that Reddit will more than likely be wrong. Truth be told, the last thing someone needs is an army of highly emotional armchair sleuths who are ready to take the law into the their own hands.

This isn't about "sacrificing catching the bad guy", it's about giving proper due process. Look how wrong Reddit was about the boston bombers. Imagine if the guy they found was ultimately alive and someone found him and paraded him through the streets. Its no better than mob mentality.

Truth be told, I can't really understand how people can not support Reddit's position. The "pseudo-anonymity" leads people to believe that somehow these Reddit sleuths can be trusted. Look at this way, if your local town to decided to carry pitchforks and hunt this man in the streets, clearly something is wrong and democracy has failed. I for one would not like to go back to burning and hangings.
Yes, but only one person per week. Should have it all to myself in 9 weeks if everything goes according to plan...
The Founding Story of Robot Turtles, Board Game that Teaches Programming
None whatsoever. That's why it is interesting. If someone throws around large amounts of money without asking for anything in return that's normally called charity.

DOD does a lot of that (pretty much the whole internet came from there) and I'd happily assume this is just like that. So unless someone steps forward with something concrete that's where it stands. But given the latest batch of revelations investments like these will be scrutinized a lot more than in the past. We can ridicule these ties all we want but after it has become a documented fact that industry has received (substantial) investment in order to facilitate wholesale eavesdropping nothing else you could think of seems too far-fetched to possibly be reality.

That's maybe one of the biggest bits of fall-out from all this media hype, conspiracy nuts suddenly seem to be fairly respectable and maybe a little bit gullible and naive. It's gone a lot further than I ever thought it would have.

I'm not in a position to receive funds from a CIA backed VC but if I were they wouldn't be on my shortlist for ethical reasons, but for practical reasons I'd be happy to take the money.

There is some irony in the CIA indirectly investing in HyTrust, if the NSA had used that product then Snowden wouldn't have been able to do what the did :)
Intel is acting in the best interests of the community, which almost unilaterally backs Wayland.

Linux is not about choice[0]. It's 2013, and the hard lesson that choice is death to a reliable platform should have been well-learned by now, if by nothing else than by the sheer fact that Apple steamrolled the Unix workstation market into oblivion. Mac OS -- which provides comparatively little choice -- grows YoY, whereas non-Mac desktop Unix, including Linux, has faded into statistical noise.

If non-Android Linux is going to claw its way back into relevance, then the community needs to decide on one framework for graphics, one for sound, etc. and back them wholeheartedly. It is a technical issue because focusing all developer effort on one good thing produces better technical results than splintering it among a dozen mediocre things. Apostasy needs to be punished, and that's what Intel has done.

[0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/m...
That's disappointing. I'm relocating there next month. I guess I'll have to travel to NYC to participate.
How does this compare to libdispatch (https://libdispatch.macosforge.org/) in functionality and performance? I'm very interested in this.
I've been hearing rumors that RAD Game Tools is working on a Linux debugger. I wouldn't be surprised if Valve and RAD are working on it together considering that the two companies have worked on past projects together.
To generate a secure 2048 bit RSA key (or ElGamal or whatever) you do not need 2048 bit truly random data.

RSA keys are generated like this: 1) Choose 1024 random bits. 2) Set the first and last bit to "1". 3) Check if the generated number is prime (this is probabilistic and also needs random numbers!). 4) Repeat until you have two primes, generate public key by multiplying the two primes and generate private key using the factorization.

So if you really want to use true randomness for every random bit in the key generation then you need a lot more than 2048 random bits.

What you actually want to do is generate 256 bit of randomness and use that to seed a good cryptographically secure pseudo random number generator (AES Counter Mode, Salsa, Fortuna) to generate the necessary random bits. For 256 bit of randomness you need about a hundred D6 die rolls, probably a little bit more, as your dice are probably not perfect. The easiest way would be to feed the result string ("6216543155314"...) into a hash fuction like sha256 and use the output as a key for the ciphers mentioned above (Fortuna is not a cipher, I know).

But honestly, that is really a bit too paranoid (and impractical). It's much faster and probably equally secure to take 256 bit of randomness from /dev/random, concatenate that with the output of one minute of keyboard smashing and feed the result to sha256 to generate your PRNG seed. (I propose the use of both randomness sources because taking bits from /dev/random is so easy and it can only increase randomness)
The very first version of the Surface Pro can run most Source engine games fairly well at the moment, and that's a situation which will improve rapidly if they keep iterating.

As to input mechanisms and screen real estate, it's still a Windows PC, that means it comes with all the advantages of one.
> With the Global Warming upon the Human Race, it will be stupid to buy the Islands which might not last forever. All the Islands that are available look like they might submerge within another 5 years.

Not five years. Sea level rise at present is about 3 millimeters per year. Over five years that becomes 15 millimeters, or 1.5 centimeters, or about 1/2 inch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

"From 1950 to 2009, measurements show an average annual rise in sea level of 1.7 ± 0.3 mm per year, with satellite data showing a rise of 3.3 ± 0.4 mm per year from 1993 to 2009 ..."

This is not to diminish the seriousness of global warming, only to put it in perspective.
I know the scope of your project isn't to break ground on formatted output. I've seen the same thing you've done in fastcgi. and in nginx. A pattern that recurs because printf is a clunky interface. And of course each copy has its own little syntax variation. But people accept the printf approach because they were indoctrinated, starting from "Hello World". I know there's something better out there.
I agree with this, and would take it even further. I don't have a problem with certain types of surveillance software, kinds that create jobs for many developers.

Software that blocks access to adult material for school networks, spam filtering software, any sort of contextual advertising software, web analytics, all of these have many traits of, or are, surveillance software, but I allow myself to be monitored by them all, knowingly.

I don't see a problem with schools and offices filtering inappropriate material, reading email for certain purposes, tracking users, etc, as long as users are aware of these practices, and are willing to trade that element of their freedom for the service being provided. The only practical way forward with any anti-surveillance movement is to focus on legislation, and tools to detect (and under appropriate circumstances) evade surveillance - e.g. I might use Tor at home, but would allow my work email to be read if required.
[bill lumbergh] I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you on that. [/office space] (My PhD is in behavioral neuroscience, so YMMV)

I've found that if people want to learn, then they will learn. You don't need a PhD for that, and the process of going through a PhD doesn't really teach you anything more than you couldn’t have gotten yourself. Passion drives someone to learn, not getting accepted into a PhD program.
Wow, geeks objecting to belief in cause and effect.

My apologies.

I was laboring under the impression that it doesn't take great insight to see how defunding and defrauding and disempowering Detroit created the circumstances which led to them declaring bankruptcy.

Forgive me for not singling out individuals to blame, though there is plenty to share. Nor playing along when trolls use imagined conspiracy theories to dismiss objective reality.
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Outrage cues a defense reaction. It's an alarm signal.

If you're a hits-motivated advertising site, they guarantee traffic. That's the abuse angle.
Did you try nVidia graphics + UEFI bios + encrypted disk?

Wasted a whole day at work with that one. The nVidia drivers don't support framebuffer consoles, only VGA, but UEFI doesn't provide VGA console I/O. And an encrypted disk needs human interaction to type the password in at bootup, meaning some kind of graphical support. Meanwhile, the non-proprietary drivers crash the X server if you so much as jiggle a window about.

Your best bet with desktop Linux is still to buy old, cheap, common-denominator hardware. Anything recent is a gamble unless you're very technically adept or have access to professionals.
I meant they are exercising their own rights by not allowing it. You could always not use the site. I don't visit it anymore. Haven't in years. Too many flaming liberals. Ba dum ching.
Thanks! We have a bunch of rules to cover things like this.

Everyone is expecting to pitch in another $1000-2000 next year to build a communal yurt, battery bank, get a boat, etc.

We're told by locals that trespassing isn't a problem. We could put motion detectors / cameras if necessary, but I doubt it will be.

Thanks!
Holy crap I hope those are nice. The cheapest hammock they offer costs several times the most expensive tent I've ever purchased. When I kayak camp I generally just bring a tarp and a self-inflating pad.
It (StackOverflow) is still one of the places for me to get valuable information as well. I find Hackernews to be valuable in terms of news articles but StackOverflow in terms of finding out information that I need then and there (When troubleshooting servers, etc).

Why didn't usenet take off on the Internet? I was wondering the same thing.
The NYC hackathon was a good time, I'd recommend it:)
He's being hyperbolic. The real problem is that he's feeling like Netscape circa 1997 - facing the problem that his main asset is competing against something built into the OS. Microsoft isn't going to kick 3rd-party game stores off of Windows, but they are building a 1st-party one... one they intend on growing.

Gabe is worried about his cash cow becoming a second-class citizen on the platform.
While it's super cool that maybe I'll be able to run linux at home and still play games some time in the future, it's kind of sad that the only reason he cares is because he's worried about a MS app store potentially being a competitor to steam, and yet people are fervently praising him for it.

He doesn't really care about linux, he doesn't really think Windows is a bad platform for gaming, he just wants to try to crush a competitor. If he did care he would have done something years ago. Id has managed to release the vast majority of their games on linux, and it didn't take a potential fiscal threat to make them do it.
In-Q-Tel is something of the blue sky research arm of the CIA, a bit like DARPA is for the DoD. Special deals would generally be handled by normal classified contracting/procurement, which for the CIA can include just about anything you can imagine.
Canvas Inspection using Chrome DevTools
As someone who games on a PS3, steam via OSX and ios I'm not convinced there will ever be or needs to be a "winner". Some games are better close to the screen with a mouse. Some are better more relaxed on the couch and some are better on a tablet. I could picture getting a small gaming box running Linux if most of my steam library transferred over and anything new was offered in Linux. Professionally, I'm in print production and design, so Linux is unlikely to ever be my sole OS.

I'm finding with the new batch of consoles and micro consoles there has been surprisingly little talk of cheating prevention. I was once almost completely a PC gamer but cheating in just about every multiplayer game I played pushed me to consoles. Even today most of the games I play on console that have PC versions are hacked quickly. There is cheating on consoles but at a much, much lower rate. If Linux via Steam can do something significant about cheating that would be a huge plus.

As far as digital download services, Steam has value to me working on different OS's. All the games in my steam library work on windows. This has proved a godsend when visiting the in laws on the other side of the country for a week at a time. Ios has proven quite good at having apps last through many generations of hardware. Many apps I bought on the original iphone work on all modern ios devices. I have given up on buying digital versions on PS3 as they seem like a dead end. At least with the disk there is a good chance sometime down the line an emulator will come out for what ever computer I will be running in the future...
Sure but someone coming to fitness as a beginner has no idea what to do much less what to measure. Also, for $1000, you can have a pretty well stocked garage gym (I do) if you are comfortable with most of the exercises.

Of course, many of the CrossFit exercises are technically challenging and most people aren't going to feel comfortable teaching themselves. That $150-200 a month isn't just for the equipment. At a good gym, it's for quality coaching.

The problem with most exercise plans, professional and amateur alike is that there is no concept of measurement. CrossFit has that built in.
I have been moving in the same direction. Trying to get proficient with both the platforms. I have got background in both Java and C++ so that makes it slightly easier.
At this moment, I am trying to explore if there is some kind of "economies of scale" in learning both the platforms.
The world would be less safe, not more, if all three parties disarmed. Economic interdependence isn't sufficient (it didn't prevent WWI) and "just trust Russia" isn't tenable either.
This is seriously cool. We had a tool like this in Xbox back in 2010 as we were redesigning the shell. It's probably the only tool chain I miss from Microsoft. So stoked to see a product like this out in the wild
I like the old logo better!
The GPL is not about being practical, it's about freedom. That's why it's the only licence I would consider releasing software under.
The best advice I can give for exercising is to turn off your brain (or part of it) for a while. Concentrate on visceral things like breathing and posture, not performance metrics or meal strategies. Let your subconscious chew on technical stuff and focus your attention on being a physical machine that pulls in oxygen and burns fuel to produce energy. Also, try not to get hit by cars! (I ride a bike)

This isn't something that needs to be researched, it just needs to get done. Put something together and push it out, gain domain knowledge, refactor, repeat. Experience will be your guide and most of what you read during 'research' won't relate anyway, but you won't realize this until you have the experience. That's assuming the research phase doesn't paralyze you with options and statistics and metrics. You don't need a comprehensive prospectus, just change one thing. Then change another when you feel like it or it makes sense to do so.

I could expand on this if anyone is interested. I actually wrote a lot more here but decided it was probably irritating and chopped a bunch off.
Correct me but you buy an island but you're not able to make you're own country in there. You're still under Canada's rule I guess.