skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your employer could MITM all your SSL connections just by installing their own cert installed on the machine, so yeah.
>Wal-Mart’s competitor, Costco, a company that experienced a 19 percent increase in profits in Q2 2013 while paying its employees 40 percent more on average (the average Costco wage is $21.96 per hour) than what a Wal-Mart worker can earn. In that same quarter, Wal-Mart numbers revealed the company is going nowhere fast given its current state of operations.

>the availability of a store clerk to get to the rather critical job of moving the merchandise from the box to the shelf where a customer can actually purchase it. But when there are insufficient numbers of store clerks available—due to Wal-Mart’s commitment to using temporary workers or busting its full-time employees down to part-time so as to avoid worker benefit—the products Wal-Mart sells stay off the shelves and unavailable for customers to purchase.
Try Popular Woodworking. They have some of the most accessible projects. For a really interesting/exciting small publishing company take a look at Lost Art Press. LAP is sort of the Pragmatic Programmers of the joinery world.
If like this you might also be interested in my port of the PCE Emulator to the browser: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/

At the moment I've only uploaded a demo of the Mac Plus emulator (classic 68k mac) but I'll upload IBM PC and Atari ST demos soon also.
iOS is fantastic if you aren't smart enough to use a computer. Most HN users know better than to run arbitrary apps from email, so for them it is a restriction that only prevents them from using their own device as they wish to use it.
I still remember the chill that ran through relations between Canada and the U.S. after Paul Martin refused to join the war in Iraq (despite still be embroiled in the war in Afghanistan). U.S. pop culture mostly ignored Canada, as per usual, but what few mentions there were soon lumped Canada into the same boat as "French surrender-monkeys", again in spite of the fact that Canadian troops were fighting and dying in Afghanistan. Bush pursued a policy of economic protectionism that could easily be confused for retaliation against Martin's government if it wasn't that in fact. This is how the U.S. treated its closest ally and biggest trading partner. A decade of madness indeed! The continued expansion of the TSA and homeland security as well as the NSA scandals indicate the insanity has dug itself in deep.
I'd like to see them produce an official Chrome RDP app.

Would make me feel better about getting my wife a Chromebook if she could occasionally access Internet Explorer (dodgy training website requiring IE ONLY) over RDP to a VM running on a home server.
Seems genuinely bad there, eating cats and dogs
Yes, the red asterisk is helpful for scanning a page when looking for your own posts or comments (although it is also possible to use any browser's find-on-page search, usually implemented as CTRL-F on Windows browsers, to search for your own username).
Has anyone had success running this on an iOS device? There are hints of it working on my iPad mini under Chrome, but with Safari it gives a "Unimplemented: #GP handler".
I'd rather say: get a 2TB hard drive for 50 USD ^^
I especially liked the way you frankly talked about the fears that we all have, and then gave concrete resources, more than most might easily find. Thank you!
The gimp, and some other projects have recently done non-X releases on OSX. They are much better apps because of it.

There are still a few issues in gimp OSX... like some dialogs needing ctrl+c ctrl+v instead of cmd+c cmd+v for copy paste. However, it is a very nice app on OSX now.
I've commented on HN recently on how ABSOLUTELY EYE-GOUGE INDUCING AWFUL it is to do any kind of software work for the Federal Government. Due to a broken hiring process and union-like job security, it is filled with incompetent morons constantly scheming to find any desperate way they can to demonstrate value. (I of course am talking about the GS-12 and up levels)

The men and women who work hard and care are like the proverbial Atlas: they do the work of 15, with the other 14 people in their group using their exurban DC commute to excuse their 7AM - 3PM schedule, of which the first 3 hours of their day is spent surfing the net doing jack shit. And then these fucking assclowns get promoted.

These are the people who do things like make major interface and usability changes to a massive healthcare website and just magically expect the contractor (CGI in this case) to be able to do it. They don't give a shit about wasting taxpayer money, because it has no effect on their career at all. Failed projects don't get you demoted or fired, schedule slips are so normal that nobody even bats an eyelash....

This causes any sane person who points out the cost in time and money of bullshit bikeshed type changes to be rolled over by the horde of overpaid lemmings who are trying to yell as loud as they can before they head out at 3pm for their kids volleyball game in Manassas.

If this looks like a rant, it is. I hate the GS system. It gives government a bad name, and these overpaid assclowns do nothing but fail, supplying ammo to every Rush Limbaugh in the world advocating for elimination of government.

Please, please, if somebody with power is reading this: fix the government hiring system. Fire the lazy assholes who work 5 hour days and pull six figures. Fire the people who think not knowing how to use a computer beyond Outlook doesn't interfere with their ability to perform as CIO of an agency. Fire people who are in charge of projects that go over budget and late. Fucking fire people.

Next week I'll be going in and meeting a GS-14 (just promoted for 13) who does NOTHING at work but talk about his motorcycle and martial arts. When tasks are handed to him, everyone else groans, knowing that it will simply not be done. Instead they go behind him and perform the tasks and hope he doesn't find out, cause if he does he will pull rank and humiliate them.....

Venting over.
Robert Pirsig.

I'm re-reading ZatAoMM now, first time in about 20 years.

I'm not entirely convinced that Phaedrus's dilemma poses a true conflict. Science is evolution toward a more complete truth, and it's expected that any given step will be incomplete. Of conflicting or alternate theories, often one will be simpler than the other (Occam's Razor). In other cases, there may be more than one correct answer (wave/particle duality). I don't see either circumstance toppling science.
Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 Released
It also looks like someone made around 30 or so small changes from the standard 1.9.1. I wonder if the contractor may have negotiated a non open source license or maybe datatables was included with another piece of software.
Science isn't a study, it's the way to make a study. That's like saying the coin toss is bullshit because you didn't win it.
Quartersawn oak is one of the most used woods in A&C furniture. Quartersawing any wood is the best way to produce dimensionally stable stuff (I love that stuff is actually joinery jargon albeit somewhat archaic).
My favorite bit in the whole article:

"[Walmart] now hires people to work with its employees to help them sign up for Medicaid ..."

So Walmart cares about the health of it's employees, just not enough to provide them with a reasonable health care option.
> some old friends are in HFT and the one thing they all say, and I hear repeated everywhere, is that they provide liquidity to the market.

More specifically, HFT acts like a market maker in that it will take the other side of trades that other players (HFT or not) want to make. Let's say I own 1000 shares of MSFT, but I need to liquidate them for some reason. A margin call, a new car, or some immediate, unexpected cost has arisen. The more potential counterparties I have -- the more players that will potentially buy my shares -- the more liquidity there is.

With more liquidity, I can hold out for a higher price (with a cost in time), or I can sell more quickly (at a slightly lower price -- with a cost in money) than I could otherwise.

Whether or not my HFT counterparty is executing profitable trades (which it is, presumably), the very fact of its existence as such is a net benefit to me.
If I were a dictator, I'd just migrate to Mars!

and yeah I know it was a sarcasm (hence the hahaha at the end)
+1 on "what the fuck are you talking about?"

Climate science even got a physics prof from Berzerkely (who was convinced that only physicists knew how to do science right) who went in with an anti-climatology bias, and was funded by the Koch brother, and he replicated climatology results in the "BEST" study -- to the point where journals like Nature turned down publishing the BEST study because it was not new information and only confirming already well known scientific facts. So a Koch-backed study has actually determined that climate science really is science. That's like the Catholic church in the 1600s funding someone to investigate Galileo and publishing that it looks like the Earth goes around the Sun after all...
Yeah a mod changed it, thankfully.
Right, but two administrations claimed the NSA was not involved.

The worrying comes in two parts: (1) pervasive, multi-administration lying. (2) The same NSA that's hoovering up all US telecom CDRs, is also using similar information for "targeted killings", which have included US citizens, and are done WITHOUT A TRIAL.

It doesn't take too much imagination to extend "all available resources" to some group in the USA (litters, folks who talk on cell phones while driving, sex addicts, marijuana-smoking jazz musicians, Roma, Down's Syndrome) and to "targeted kill" them without due process.
I'm still a bit wary of this kind of advice, because it's mostly pushing against the technological meritocracy. The loudest in the room gets the light, the most outspoken is raised as an example.
All this effort is still not spent building the right product. I live in France, where the tradition is that money, marketing and sales people run the company. The only successful startups here now are selling advertisement, optimizing advertisement (or whatever retargeting is), dealing personal data and other user-bothering technology.
Nobody is optimizing mousetraps or producing media content anymore. But hey, they worked their connections while you where making smoke in the lab.
Dropbox goes deep: The value of going deep vs. wide
There is something about the wood whisperer videos that has a tendency to annoy/irritate me, but they are definitely informative. For another option try askwoodman:

https://www.youtube.com/user/askwoodman
I can't even begin to understand the general situation in Syria. Charity is needed more than ever - but greater than that, some sort of solution (even if temporary) must be found just for humanity.
I think you're confused. The huge problem is that other languages don't have anything for deployment that looks as easy as mod_php.

And yes, all manner of professions grumble amongst themselves that newcomers are using inferior tools. Find some professional photographers and ask what they think of phone cameras.
I wish that was codified in to law. As exempt workers most tech workers don't get that kind of legal protection.
Well, read the article. The claim is that requirements were still changing 4 days before the launch. That's not waterfall, that's just no process at all.
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The strength of green wood furniture also comes from the fact that the wood grain is left intact because it is split along the grain. Peter Follansbee is awesome, he was on the two most recent Woodwright episodes.
Replacing SOA API calls by EDA request/replies using Redis
nope: http://reddino.org/s/20131017063042.png
Did anyone ever figure out how the iMessage for Android developer got his implementation to work?...
I don't see why you find it so hard to believe. Hubris is a pretty common human flaw, perhaps it was felt this was too important to leave to the professionals.

In this article, we have two sets of sources using two different methods telling us this, and one of them is able to go on record, true name and all. It's also entirely consistent with the observed results (of course, so is having an outside integrator).
Seems like exactly the same action the US took with Chinese electronics - http://www.techspot.com/news/46494-china-could-be-leveraging...
+1

I got sick of not having a unified way of managing auto-rebuiding across the variety of tools I use (compass, coffescript, closure compiler, rake, etc) so I built something similar. I just wanted to say if * changes, run X, oh and by the way please debounce change events before running X. And the app needed to be easy for other devs to use it reliably and reproducibly.

https://github.com/apinstein/watchngo
Frankly, I expect better from people as smart as Federal Judges that are outstanding enough to get appointed to a special higher court. I expect them to use logic and reason from first principles as well as coloring between the lines.

I also see "analyze the issues in terms of the framework" as another petty dodge. It appears that lawyers and judges are in some "inner circle", and they are rooking the rest of us of some pretty plainly worded rights by making up "frameworks" and demanding "standing" in order to construct weird Catch-22s that leave people singing that at least they know they're free, but not actually having any such freedoms because of "3 prong tests" for something irrelevant.
AppLocker can't be enforced on Windows 7 Professional (or lower). In my case that was a deal breaker.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424382.aspx

That being said a very restrictive Software Restriction Policy as linked below would mitigate CryptoLocker as it exists today. It has worked well for me so far.

http://www.mechbgon.com/srp/
Physicists prove Heisenberg's intuition correct
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It is plausible, but growth has been slowing across many sectors in China:
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/10/16/economists-s...

Until I see a sales chart from IBM that drops significantly in June I think this sort of talk is pure speculation.
I have no particular opinion about this. However, in the context of an article that relies heavily on unnamed sources, it's worth pointing out that the Washington Examiner is a conservative tabloid founded in 2005 by Philip Anschutz.[1]

[1] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28355.html
lol linkedin's emails are annoying
$500mm web site. 1/2 of a billion. for a website.
Is your time set correctly on your system?
This gets more depressing as time passes, it's been about a year and a half now:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/alien-world-to-help-out-syr...
Bloomberg Beta posts operating manual on Github
You always have to be careful about what you incentivize. There are similar classic stories about bounties on cobras and rats which resulted in breeding more cobras and snakes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
I was surprised to see this in Forbes but the author says "I write from the left on politics and policy." and "I am a Senior Political Contributor at Forbes and the official 'token lefty,' as the title of the page suggests. However, writing from the 'left of center' should not be confused with writing for the left as I often annoy progressives just as much as I upset conservative thinkers."

I applaud Forbes for having opposing viewpoints and also applaud the author for defending himself vigorously in the comment section from the more conservative readers. A good time was had by all as far as I can tell.
there's no replacement for a joiner and planer

Yes there is. They are affectionately known as the #4 and #7 (or #8) and Stanley made a fortune selling them since the late 1800s.
Suppose Apple made the broad, unequivocal claim before they got an iMessage-related NSL. While the NSL can't compel Apple to lie, would Apple choose tone down their language afterwards?
Good eye; I thought they were referring to Network, but that's Howard Beale.

No accounting for taste, eh?
Yes, for Valve, this is a win whichever.
The number of death is probably more an effect of the general destabilization of the country (which gave ample room, as an example, for various exactions on minorities in Irak besides the war, in particular on Christians) rather than direct casualties.
I always wondered about how split-brain theory would work into this...

I mean there are stories of people with half their brain removed who are fully functional (I think? I can't find a source atm).

I wonder what would happen if half your brain could be on/off and switch?

Also you'd think that any mutation optimizing for time awake would have decimated the other creatures? I don't get how evolution has conquered everything but sleep.
Ask HN: Which of your side projects are in the 'deadpool'
And, more importantly, what did you learn?
Just in case this was a retaliation to the US: IBM employs more people outside US than inside US, isn't it?
I think maybe part of the long difficulty in getting satisfaction was thinking desk when you wanted table. It could be that modern work habits have all but obsoleted the desk, but our consciousness hasn't quite caught up.
I don't doubt for a moment that American and other Western soldiers were trying hard to avoid civilian casualties. It's deeply unfair to blame them for things they didn't do or for decisions they didn't make and never would have made had it been up to them. That being said, there are a couple problems with your argument. First, it's not the case that dozens of intelligence agencies believed the WMD propaganda. They would have been utterly incompetent if they had. They're far from perfect, of course, but no way are they that stupid and certainly not on that scale.

Rather, what happened is that political leaders pressured the leaders of the intelligence agencies (essentially political positions in their own right) into delivering reports that gave the "right" (i.e. the wrong) answers irrespective of what their professional analysts really thought. Few intelligence agencies could withstand the overt political pressure that was applied to the CIA and others (largely out of the Vice President's office, as I understand it) in the run-up to that war—after all, ultimate power resides with the political leaders in a democracy for obvious reasons. Note, however, that when the same leaders tried to do it again a few years later, enough of the professionals' real opinions was leaked to make a repeat manipulation impossible. I have in mind the unanimous assessment of US intelligence agencies in 2007 that Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons (an assessment that still stands, incidentally, and is still unanimous, though you'd not guess it from the news). When political pressure started to be applied to distort that opinion, someone leaked a summary of it to the press, and that put an Iran war off the table for the rest of the GWB administration. Bush writes about that in his memoirs.

The other problem with your argument is that by the Nuremberg standards, war of aggression is understood to be the "supreme international crime" that encompasses all the evils that take place as a result of the war [1]. That is, the Nuremberg standard of justice considers all the secondary consequences of war (such as Iraq underwent with bombings, civil war, etc.) to be subsumed under the original crime of a war of aggression. This arguably makes sense, since without the invasion, there wouldn't have been a civil war. By this standard, soldiers are not responsible for atrocities they didn't commit, but the leaders who started the war in the first place actually are. Since that is the standard of justice that we (rightly) apply to others, we ought not to reject it or minimize it when it applies to ourselves. (The standard won't be applied in this case, of course, but that's a separate issue.)

The above is how I understand it from the sources I've read, anyway. Factual corrections are more than welcome.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression
Yeah but you don't want people knowing you don't have the monads to handle their http requests.
I've actually had RDP completely corrupt my session. Like, after I disconnect the host just gives up the ghost. I walk over and give it the three-finger-salute and I can log into another session with another user, but when I try to switch back to my old session it's just blackness. I can't even RDP back in.

Happened with two different machines at my office. Surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if RDP isn't doing something entirely-too-clever with vram.
Or you could just not trust the code to begin with. The user should be able to run any program they want to. The OS just shouldn't trust the users programs. (And shouldn't autorun programs that the user didn't request).
There are both DNA and RNA viruses.
"the Washington Examiner is a conservative tabloid founded in 2005 by Philip Anschutz"

That's a bullshit argument ... especially since we aren't likely to get any good dirt from the cheer-leading part of the MSM (almost all of it minus Fox, which at last count Jay Carney is refusing to call on, rather telling, that, and The Wall Street Journal editorial page).

A good argument is from a right winger like me, who from experience says that aside from the columns from major figures like Michael Barone, Washington Examiner is a very low quality rag. To the point that if I see an item linked to on e.g. Drudge, if I notice it's to them, I don't follow it. Just about any major entity on the right is better, save perhaps the Red State web site.

On the other hand, this actually isn't the typical report that entirely depends on unnamed sources. It has several from the inside, speaking with specificity, plus one who's able to go on record who used different methods comes to the same basic conclusion about who's the integrator.
At the 1975 OPEC meeting in Algiers a new treaty was agreed on for the Iran-Iraq border. This was in Iran's favour, and, in those days Iran was a US client. The deal was that Iraq would cede territory in the Shatt al Arab area and in exchange Iran would stop arming Iraqi Kurds. This on-going border dispute (which had gone on for centuries) was important to what happened next.

In 1979 a lot of stuff happened. There was the Iranian revolution. Also, around this time, not fully understood at the time, there was also the hostage crisis, Iran-Contra scandal and an election in the USA.

On 4 September 1980 Iran shelled Iraq, marking the start of the war. On 22 September Iraq full on invaded Iran along the whole length of the border on the assumption that it would be a good idea to do so given that the 'revolutionary' Iran would have so much internal turmoil etc. that their defences would be down. Hence, Iran 'started it' so that particular war wasn't exactly Saddam's devising.

You will find this Wikipedia article on the Iran Iraq war to be quite an eye opener:

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

Read it carefully and I think you will see that, much like WW1, the Iran-Iraq war started for silly reasons but then developed into a situation where those that sought to profit through arms perpetuated the war. As they say, 'war is a racket'. Sure Saddam was there commanding conscripts to their deaths and it was all his fault, but it is not as simple as that, is it?

In England we know what these sorts of shenanigans are as we are the grand masters of it. We call it 'divide and rule'.

Sometimes you have to look at a situation and ask 'who benefits?'. As ever in war, the arms companies, their financiers and those that run off with the loot.

P.S. Why are people on first name terms with Saddam, even in his death? People aren't chummy in quite the same way with Barack, Vladimir, Dave, Angela or even Adolf for that matter. Why is the former Iraqi President afforded first name status when every other Great Leader gets to have a surname?