skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
notepad list of ideas. labels in gmail for each idea. I like to send myself emails with informations (research etc.) and label it.
How Letting Go of Money Made me More of it
"If you have drama as one of the main reason for going to school, then you're not really worried about having to earn a living some day. Must be nice."

Bingo
I dunno, given what Javascript foisted on a generation of programmers, we should be thankful Java is only as bad as it is.

Go Kahan!
The linked article complains about a content-free talk, which is of course useless, but some of the explanation could simply be that any useful information he has goes towards their competitive advantage, and sharing it actively hurts the company.

Most companies we talk about on HN are made up of mostly intellectual property - everything else is commodity (SaaS, PaaS, etc.) - so going up on stage and telling what are effectively your competitors how you succeeded could be seen as a Bad Idea.
I am not a lawyer. However, as a US company or a non-US company with US customers, I wonder if cryptography export laws come into effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography_export_laws#Curren...
The biggest background drain on my MacBook Air is DropBox. It keeps trying to make a network connection when there is no wi fi available. Pause syncing on DropBox and the battery life improves.
But if you have a preexisting condition, you could be denied you're new job because of it. This creates an environment where the best worker for the job isn't doing it, leading to market inefficiencies.
Just the usual explore-exploit tradeoff; except in extreme circumstances, it's unlikely to be optimal to do nothing but explore nor nothing but exploit.
In the short clip of Americans reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, they said, "...one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." When this program was made, the line "under God" had not yet been inserted into the Pledge. Wikipedia tells me it wasn't added until 1954.
It's a cute idea. Unfortunately (and I mean that sincerely in this case because it's a nice idea), deceiving children is unethical.

In medical school I worked with a pediatrician who had a patient brought by her mother, a foreign physician. She had told her daughter she was taking her to visit "a friend" to help reduce the time that she would worry about shots and other unpleasantries.

The physician, upon hearing her ruse, explained the ethical landscape in the United States and referred the family to a different doctor, feeling that he would never be able to restore the bond of trust that the mother had frayed.
I don't. I used to have a Google Doc with dozens of ideas, but I recently deleted it. It's just idea-porn.

The good ideas -- the ones worth doing -- keep coming back to you, gnawing at you until you can't put them off any longer. It's a real problem you continually run into, and it's something you care about. So much more valuable than a list of half-baked ideas you had randomly on the bus.
The author seems busy trying to put out small fires, instead of focusing on what's really burning: Windows. There is, for most people, very little reason to stay on Windows.

In todays world of wonderfully powerful machine, a WindowsXP or Windows7 installation in a seamless Virtualbox machine will solve most Windows-related problems: proprietary apps at work, a photobook creation Windows app or maybe an old game or so. For everything else there's at least one Linux distribution that works.

I install Mint 15 Mate for my retirees and with it they can surf, bank, write e-mail and word process. After installing it I never hear about viruses, trojans or weird popups telling them that something is out of date.

Now if only younger people would have the courage to try something other than Windows for once. Unfortunately you're going to be playin the latest Call of Duty or Madden 2047, but them's the breaks.
Maybe run a Diaspora "pod"? The pods are federated, so each user can either run their own server, or pick a pod provider they trust, and they still connect to each other on the same network.
Wait, it could identify which fingers were in use? Surely there was some sort of limit on this in some way. I find it doubtful that I could put my two index fingers on the surface somewhere and the system would know that was my two index fingers as opposed to any two of the rest of my fingers.

What you describe is more like counting touch contacts within a certain space on the surface and reacting to that regardless of which fingers were which.
As a Berkeley grad, never was I happier to see a headline.

Up with the Blue and Gold, down with the red!
Visualizing University Business Intelligence & Analytics Programs
Apologies, I wasn't clear enough. What I'm trying to refer to is the legal jurisdiction of the Global HQ and what effect that has (if any) on receiving court orders like the one described in this discussion. Having wholly-owned subsidiaries in the territories in which you operate is a requirement and puts part of the company within that jurisdiction but I'm curious to know if having the parent company elsewhere offers some form of insulation (or not).

Perhaps this is a question I should direct at the other company but I wondered if it was something that the CryptoSeal folks had considered.
I think we should be looking at first principles. If we do, then how are software patents different from hardware or drug patents? One difference could be the time and cost necessary to develop them and thus to recoup costs.

If technology is accelerating, why not just shorten patent periods? We could also impose FRAND terms that dwindle over time.
If so ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction.

Essentially from lavabit it appears if you don't have technical capabilities inside the service already in place to provide pen trap level realtime reporting, they can compel you to install a pen trap device, and provide all keying/etc. required to make it work.
But not what it used to get to the official launch. The figures are reliably available, and I remember $92 million initially for the web site, and real close to $300 million at last count.

In one way, this doesn't sound excessive: the California site cost almost certainly includes integration, which the Federal CMMS disastrously took upon themselves to do, it probably includes backend work not in the Fed's CGI Federal website contract, and while the site is not one of the four reported to be working really well, we're not hearing Federal level horror stories about it.

On the other hand, having various states do their own sure sounds like an unreasonable amount of duplication. How does it make sense, except to fatten the coffers of contractors (cui bono), since the whole system fails hard if the Fed's site fails? Which among other things does subsidy calculations for all, and we'd hope would compartmentalize access to sensitive entities like the IRS.

I can't see us reasonably blaming CGI, especially if it's CGI Federal, for any of this mess (disclaimer, I briefly worked for AMS just before CGI bought the part I wasn't working for) . No team of programmers can win if they're getting constant change orders,right through the week before launch. And that's the most obvious of signs that the people managing them didn't have the right stuff.
emacs org-mode + dropbox.
Because then there'd be hundreds of settings in the same folder. This isn't a user-visible menu or a wizard for configuring security settings, this is something for expert users to really modify how their OS is designed.

Your suggestion is akin to putting every RHEL/SLED/Ubuntu security setting into one flat configuration file. IPSec, Sudo (and gksudo and friends), anti-virus, cryptfs, apparmor / selinux, ufw / iptables, package signing requirements (including repositories to use), etc.

Something like that would never happen even if Red Hat did control all of the pieces of the puzzle. Now contrast Linux versus Windows here: if you want to configure those things you have to discover the tools or file formats for each security layer configuration manually, versus going into "gpedit.msc" and having categorized settings for the whole OS.
Has anyone written a review of Sealand in the light of the current situation of "no privacy anywhere"?

I'm very pleased that there are people working in this area, and I look forward to seeing what happens.
I use mind42.com, it's an online mind mapping tool (and it's free, I find it pretty useful). Then i regularly download my mindmap and keep it in a git repo just in case.
They don't need to. The transition is complete, any many apps had Universal binaries that ran seamlessly on both platforms.
Great tool. Just curious, where do you get the data from? Do you crawl tweets or use some outside data source?
Healthcare.gov crashing because backend doomed in the requirements stage
I'm curious about your desired response during the skid and what the traction control system did differently. Would you mind expanding on that if you remember it clearly?
No one except a fair amount of people:
http://www.macminicolo.net/

You can turn old laptops into "servers", or raspberry pi's, or hell even a commodore 64 for that matter. As long as it serves something of value over a network it qualifies.

Whether its a good idea is another matter.
Looks like it's down now. Here's the msg:

Our Servers are currently offline due to the failure of the harddisk RAID controller, an IBM technician is on the way to Salzburg.

At this time we have no estimate when the server will come back online
I did a double take when I saw this because I've been in contact with Equifax recently because I started receiving SPAM form a non-existent email address that I shared with them.

I have a Catch-all address setup on my Domain so that I can give every site I interact with their own custom email address. In this case it was equifax.com@mydomain.com. Since the email address doesn't exist, and they're the only company I've shared it with, they're the only ones with a record of it's existence.

When I emailed them asking if they'd had a security breach or if they were selling email addresses they responded saying they would opt me out of marking emails. When I responded with the context and header info of the emails I received and asked if this was in fact from them things turned. About an hour later I got a response, the tone had changed significantly and they indicated that the incident had been escalated to their security department and that they would be in contact with me as their investigation progressed.

I can say this has been the best response to the dozens of emails I've sent to companies about the same issue. The worst was Best Buy whose response was something along the lines of "Eat Dk, we do what we want."
>I've met several people in the UK who weren't able to study what they want because they had the wrong A-levels. //

Presumably you mean weren't able to access the particular course+institution they wanted. Could you give some more details?

It's a balance I suppose, either allow for early specialisation and get a head start or retain a broad spread and retain greater choice. That said I was able to do some Art History at Uni off the back of science and maths A-levels and could, with effort, have pivoted to an Arts degree.
You can post to HN on 1st November.

Is it a remote position or only locally available?
Microsoft picks all the hardware, and corresponding drivers, that goes into the surface.
Fine, let's use your example of the small business. Suppose that this company invents a revolutionary technology, such as a cure for cancer or a teleporter. That company is perfectly within its rights to just sit on the technology for 20 years. Even if it does decide to produce the technology, there is no way that it could keep up with demand, so it ends up shipping very small numbers of a very expensive and exclusive product. There really is no situation in which patents make sense.

Do you know why 3D printing is finally taking off? The parents are starting to expire. The technology has been around since the 80's. Try to let that set in how much patents have held back a very important innovation.
More IPv6 hackery: When using a link-local address (every interface has a link-local IPv6 address), you can append a zone index to the address in the brackets as routing information of where to send the link local request. For windows it's the interface number, for Unixes it's the interface name.

To test this out, first find a link-local address on your network. To find all link-local addresses on eth0, use this command to ping the all-nodes link-local multicast group:

ping6 -I eth0 -c 2 ff02::1

Now append the percent sign and zone index to the address and connect to the host on a port that is probably open.

lynx https://[fe80::21e:67ff:fe08:d500%eth0]:443/
It would be quite ironic (but sadly, not impossible) if the technologies (like 0days, massive traffic analysis tools, DPI tools, etc.) used by the NSA to spy on France were some of the numerous that are sold to them by French companies like Vupen, Amesys, Qosmos…
Eject: Great story about Apple’s (current) campus
I didn't know about the blue card, and yeah in theory it looks to make things easier. However like with many EU regulations, there's a nice idea behind but quite often a very different reality.

Individual countries can and do override EU regulations. Sometimes even illegally. Getting local laws overturned in the EU court system is an exercise in futility though.

You'll also notice a long list of requirements, some of which can be very hard to live up to. As an example Sweden doesn't recognize Russian university degrees. You'd need a year or two extra of a special "top-up" education in Sweden, depending on your field, to have a "valid" bachelor or candidates degree. To get that though, you'd need the living permit which you can't get without the degree... At least through the blue-card method. This kind of catch-22 situations grounded in bureaucracy and red tape are very common in Scandinavia. Sweden is much better than for example Denmark though, but it can still be extremely frustrating.
It's kind of like the piece he should have written in the first place. The first piece was little more than a troll comment in blog post form. This at least shows a little bit of thought.
I'm with you, but you do get used to it. Basically if you just get your feet wet writing a few semi-significant programs in Haskell (e.g. a parser, which is a very common and pleasant task in Haskell), then you'll get familiar with it. The biggest hurdle for me came from being able to understand do-syntax (which is a bunch of applications of monadic bind).
The open source debacle of HealthCare.gov; it's enough to make you sick
This is an interesting archival find. I looked in the film archive[1] that stores videos of this Encyclopedia Britannica film and found that this film[2] was apparently produced in 1946.

One of the comments at the direct link to the film in the archive[2] is shocking in its ignorance and bigotry. On the whole, viewing this film is a good discussion-starter for thinking about current issues.

I have lived in another country (Taiwan) when it was a dictatorship[3] so I appreciate genuine democracy. In the community I live in now in the United States, there is a high degree of general respect. And I have substantial practical power to resolve social wrongs and improve the well being of my family and myself. I'm glad to report that Taiwan, the former dictatorship I lived in, has since become a genuine democracy, and also rates well as to respect and power to all the people.

[1] http://archive.org/details/prelinger

[2] http://archive.org/details/Despotis1946

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985720
That maybe true, but not everybody runs ZFS on Linux and some of these features makes better sense to group in the filesystem driver anyway.

Plus it's slightly hypocritical to comment about how ZFS is growing features that already exist in Linux when Btrfs is the embodiment of reinventing features.
And then as soon as there is, slam an entire core for about 30sec to calculate diffs. [MBP Quad i7, 16GB, 500GB SSD].
Objective C is not the only language you can write iOS apps in these days.
I'd probably say yes myself, but I would really, really rather be asked first. That's just basic respect for one's fellow human beings.
Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet
Still trying to figure that bit out at the moment, I suspect we'll go down the Github model, public projects are free, private projects you pay for. Quite open to recommendations/opinions on what people would be willing to pay and how you want that priced
I already told you why not. Because anything that gives the Surface an advantage has that antitrust lawsuit smell.

> Hyperbole much?

Again, no. Any move to give preferential treatment to MS's own hardware is the push the OEMs need to convert their Windows Tablet initiative into an Android Tablet one. Not to mention having potential ripple effects in unrelated businesses lines like spooking HP into doing more Linux servers.

For better or for worse, Microsoft's most valuable asset is its OEM partnerships. It's not as cool a trick as it used to be, but it's the only card they have to play.
5 seconds is about how long it took to read this sentence and move your eyes to the next one.

The problem is, a video, unlike a picture, or indeed - text, doesn't linger on a frame naturally.

Your example seems to support my point more then undermine it too - you mention 5 minutes. Not 5 seconds. 5 minutes is a lot of content's length on YouTube. Its not remotely possible on Vine.
Specifically:

* Merchants selling digital goods may transition to Google Wallet for digital goods

* Merchants selling through Google-hosted marketplaces (e.g. Google Play) will be unaffected

* Merchants selling physical goods will need to switch to third-party alternatives (see below)

-- https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449
Yeah, it was covering operating costs and some profit, and would feasibly grow into a decent overall business. But even if it became a decent overall business ($100-200k/mo profit in 2014?), one pen trap incident on one customer would have had vastly higher costs -- civil or criminal contempt being the most likely outcome (maybe not -$inf, but at least -$millions).

If we were the legally best VPN option, I would probably have pushed to keep it going anyway and just shut down when/if that happened, but as it is, non-us providers run by non-US people (there are several good ones) are an objectively better option, so in good conscience there's no reason to continue running a US privacy VPN service without technical controls to prevent being compelled to screw over a user.
NCLB only affects public schools. I'll grant that figures in the article are largely from public schools, but you can be a teacher and passionate about education and teach somewhere else. It's kind of disingenuous to focus on NCLB/public schools here like it is the only choice in education.
I rather enjoyed this post, but what a ridiculous premise. "There's a few great startups to come out of here over the last 100 years, the other thousands of students must feel the pressure to drop out!" I mean, what?
Are you implying it's complex? Because a lot of languages have list comprehensions[1] (list comprehensions are awesome!). Haskells is very close to the mathmatical set-builder notation[2].

An example of a more advanced one would be

>> [2*x | x <- [0,1..25], x^2 `rem` 3 == 0]
[0,6,12,18,24,30,36,42,48]

Also, there is HLint for Haskell linting purposes...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension#Examples_in_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-builder_notation#Parallels_...
It also happened on German soil (Ramstein Air Base is said to be involved) and to at least one German citizen (but not with Germany as a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri) - even if the German government wasn't actively involved, at least it wasn't able or willing to prevent that from happening here.

Preventing the issue on formal grounds was probably the easiest way to avoid having to protect someone in Germany from the USA - which is obviously futile.
CEO-to-worker pay gap is obscene; want to know how obscene?
http://www.electrictoolbox.com/vmware-shrink-vmware-disk/
How would you differentiate the traffic coming form headless browsers from normal users ? with a proper user-agent and javascript enabled, isn't it almost impossible ?
I didn't know Windows had a battery.
Heck, in grad school I wrote C to hack data in memory layouts designed to minimize page faults. Lots of bit-twiddling nuttiness.

I don't think I could write a simple echo clone in C anymore.

I miss C, but since entering the "real world" I haven't written a line of C for work purposes.
Thanks for pointing that out, for English pronoun usage at the very least. My eyes blazed right past the blog heading that uses (as I suppose) the author's given name. I didn't see any other author information on the post or on the about page for the blog.
Iceland isn't an online utopia, as the current proposal for online censorship demonstrates: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/25/iceland-seeks-i...

Although, for the most part, it has good intentions.
Stanford can be a very empowering place, no matter what you study.
Is UEFI implementation all that needs to happen to be in "compliance" with this security check? That's easy enough (at least from a "free as in speech" standpoint), why is everyone complaining so much?
CodeCube: Docker-powered Runnable Gists
Facebook becomes partially unavailable
G Docs
5 million out of 500 million = 1% of the code needs a rewrite. Sounds scarier when you use the big numbers.
One killer feature would be to have a direct download link to each package. Installing outside the package manager isn't something you should do, but I've had to a few times (making netcat happy, etc).
Thanks for the additional context. On the surface it doesn't
seem that there are any benefits to having the parent company offshore.

I agree with the sentiment of trying to change the system, which won't happen if people (and companies) simply try and leave.
This is secondhand-thirdhand stuff in a tiny post on a rabidly partisan political blog. Flagged.
It's not just kids who are reassured by cosmetic changes. MRIs used to be called NMRs. People freaked out because of the word 'nuclear'.
As I type on my MacBook Pro, I also wonder at what point we as a community are going to start voting with our wallets against Apple and the extent to which they are abusing the broken US patent system. Of course it's only rational to expect that they will use any means at their disposal to get a competitive advantage, but that doesn't mean that we must reserve moral judgment.

For me, Apple has already moved into "prefer competitors' products" territory, but they keep pushing me closer to all-out boycott.
My point was not 'call all distributions Linux'. I'm saying that disqualifying Android but keeping Debian is incorrect. Debian, Android, Ubuntu. They are just different Linux distributions.
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