skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems he put his mental health on the line... As someone else here so nicely pointed out, being a drone op isn't an "it's him or me" situation, you're clearly aware that it's just the other guy that's at risk. So if you do have a conscience, this could be a lot harder to deal with than popping a guy who's shooting at you with an AK, at least in a sense in that case you were defending yourself. This guy seems painfully aware of the fact that he bore no risk and he feels guilty for that. It's not shell-shock, but it's the moral equivalent.
Did anyone else think about how we kind of have the equivalent for athletes here in the US?
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It makes no sense to use quotation marks around the term American Imperialism, as if it wasn't real. That the US is an empire is beyond question, and Snowden has shown that it has turned the internet into an unprecedented tool for global control.

No statesman in their right mind would allow a foreign power to freely operate such a tool undisturbed in their territory/population. Internet sovereignty should be a priority of any government interested in preserving at least some degree of national autonomy, and indeed neglecting to so after what has been made public would be either a sign of great weakness or of being a US-puppet government... or both. The later is the case of my government. The countries that have complained louder are indeed the countries with some degree of power.

Speaking of the Chinese, I think that Snowden has only proved that there is actually a lot to learn from them. They have been the smartest ones since the begining, when early on they realised the nature of Google, Facebook and the like, and refused to let their population become addicted to giving all their information for US corporations to mine, store, analyze, profit, and provide intelligence to the US government.

Of course the above doesn't mean that the Internet should become surveilled by all local governments. The point is that the changes that should be made are toward a globally decentralised web should also not lead to locally operated surveillance, but the first does not imply the second. Surveillance is a political decision.

Chinese Internet is both more autonomous and more controlled. The first attribute is desireable while the second is not. I think it is key to keep in mind the distinction between those two things to make the best out of what is coming next.
I honestly cannot relate to this at all. I have not had Windows drivers issues in years, up to and including Windows 8.1.
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Second time I've had to preface a post like this, not to sound like a dick, but is HN just turning in to r/circlejerk? Glad we have a bunch of parents using Linux, but I'm slightly perplexed by this article's front-page status.
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I'm not saying you should be unhappy about it. Hell I do the same thing. Just don't go in with rose colored glasses like they employ you out of charity. Businesses are there to make a profit, and being employed entails giving up some of that profit.
I don't think you can find a service that makes a promise that they will never got hacked or be down. Common, look at what they've done to the situation.
My mom use kubuntu for over 4 years now. She actually had never seen computers since she was 60. She had her learning curve but she loves it.
> I want to convince you that you can program, that you can do math, that you can design car suspensions and fire suppression systems and spacecraft control software and distributed databases,

I know you are trying to help but you need to realize that the whole section, and this part in particular, is incredibly condescending and guaranteed to piss off any female who might be reading you.

You want to help achieve gender equality in the technical field?

Pretend that the gender of your reader is of no consequence and just write your stuff, period.
According to that one guy with that one list. I acknowledge that the top N passwords are X% of all user passwords. I sincerely question the 99.8% figure. The problem with doing studies like this is while we have some fairly big password dumps we still do not have the universe. Furthermore, there are some number of un-cracked passwords in the dumps we have. Further complicating the situation are password policies which may reject common passwords. It has been many years since we learned that "password" is the most common password and is commonly disallowed.

Therefore 1) it is not useless to not increase your storage security even if Y% of your users use bad passwords as you are protecting 100%-Y% of you users. 2) Y% is probably not 99.8% for you, and if you are worried about it you can take steps to mitigate the problem.

ps. He is ignoring punctuation which is an important detail for actually doing the cracking.

pps. I appreciate the sentiment (users choose shitty passwords) but not the conclusion (so don't bother storing them well). The proper conclusion is use scrypt/bcrypt and increase the work factor. You can take reasonable steps to protect your users and you should.
We haven't seen a major nation-state conflict between nuclear powers since nuclear weapons were invented. Of course there's no counterfactual, but it does seem given the state of relations with Russia it's likely that sans nuclear weapons we would have had a major conflict with them at some point. Also, try reading this, it's a decent summary of nuclear strategic thinking: http://www.amazon.com/The-Bomb-A-New-History/dp/0061537209
Yeah. Like SS Totenkopf and the Jews. The enemy might be anywhere and there is no friendly territory.
Oh stop it. Get over yourself, already.

I've run my own software business for over a decade now and I still have a boss. It's called The Free Market.

I can decide I'm above doing certain tasks, but my customers can also decide to go to my competition if my company isn't taking care of their needs. And sometimes my customers need things that I really don't feel like doing.

But I do them..because they are my customers; they pay the bills. They are the boss.
For about last five years most linux flavours have been more usable than windows. Ubuntu and Debian have superb out of the box experiences, even more so given the disaster that was Windows 8. For example ElementaryOS is by far one of the best UI out there right now, and Gnome 3.1 finally pulled finger and created everything I'd been wanting in a desktop shell.

But the real "year of the Linux desktop" will only ever happen when manufactures get behind it. Like it or not, ChromeOS was a major step in the right direction. The complicated relationship that Microsoft has with their OEM partners and their Surface fiasco might be the bump that will cause the Wintel tower of cards to start falling. I'm interested in why OEM partners even still use Windows given it's a major cost and their profit margins are so thin. It's been a renaissance in instruction set architectures in the last decade with ARM taking over many market segments, and this is something that costs less and Linux has a huge advantage in. Windows will take years to catch up in terms of ARM compatibility and even then it's likely that it will be extremely limited.
And source code for the scanner driver and CUPS-FAX wrapper.
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The simple fact that you have to defend this section should be reason enough for you to just remove it since it distracts from the rest of your document.

You don't realize it but your words are extremely condescending toward women, you might want to ask someone to help you understand what your position about this really is, because from what I read so far, you certainly seem to believe all these stereotypes about women being less capable than men in the computer area, you just happen to be in strong denial about it.
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I feel the same way about Windows. Endless issues with printers and drivers especially. But somehow it has managed to hold on to market share with fractured hardware support.

If hardware vendors had better Linux support, there would be no problems. Mac OS can only work well as it does because Apple optimizes the OS for the hardware. Fortunately, we are starting to see some good hardware support from vendors like System76, but their ultrabooks still don't result from close collaboration between software and hardware engineers, and they get 5 hours battery life for the Macbook Air's 15.

I hope hardware vendors continue to hire more Linux specialists and we see a reversal of this trend.
That's 5 letters?
Oh yeah. Even better, there are still active GOPHER servers out there. Fire up Links and try hitting gopher://gopherproject.org. You won't be disappointed...
nice information regarding google building hulking floating data center.
friend of a friend kept bringing me old xp laptop with that 'cyber police, transfer money to us' extortion-virus. when it happened third time in half a year, I installed mint in dual boot for him and haven't heard from him ever again.
Huxley is being used by Instagram for their www stack and is already open source. https://github.com/facebook/huxley
Baretorrent: minimalist open-source Bittorrent client
Buffer is not only for Twitter. Or what you want is a bunch of apps for every single media you are in.
" I sell a used book on Amazon, it takes a cut of the transaction, I am the one packing and shipping that item to the buyer. "

In true Amazon "dominate all retail by making it accessible to consumers" their relatively new "Fulfillment By Amazon" service drastically simplifies consumer reselling by eliminating the need for the consumer to do the "packing and shipping".

It's an amazing service, and they are getting darn close to the "just ship us a box of your stuff"

I bet that we see that inside of the next five years, there are lots of problems (like what is / is not valuable) but you can see them already working around these issues by only accepting items with modern barcodes, charge small warehousing fees if something sits too long in inventory, etc.

(1)http://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.ht...
Yeah! We should artificially push the price of rentals down, so that there will be no incentive to increase supply, ever.

I can't see any problems with this plan.
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Epitech Alumni here (42 is basically the same thing but free). The idea is rather that if you start from low level programming it is not difficult to go up, and you can pretty much do anything after that. I do think that starting from C/C++ & having a good understanding of how any interpreted language work makes you a better web developer. Not that it guarantees it / is absolutely necessary, but it gives you a broader understanding, and that's what the founding team from 42 believes too.
I don't know anything about modern-day Germany, except the constant buzz in the news of the German economic success. Is Berlin overshadowed by other cities in Germany? Is it merely the seat of government and not economically successful?

Or is this merely a German joke about a rough town?
If I had the cash, I would buy in an instant.
Ibogaine treatment is the best way to get over heroin addiction (apart from strong will power of course).
You actually can sign your host keys (and actually login keys) with relatively recent versions of openssh:

http://blog.habets.pp.se/2011/07/OpenSSH-certificates
Sometimes I wish the gov't would just come out and say what everyone is thinking:

Yep we are spying on you, (insert name of foreign leader), just like you are trying to spy on our leaders.

There are good arguments to be made against mass surveillance of the internet at large, but expecting that countries will stop spying on each other anytime soon is plain stupid.
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Of course not. It's not like they are Himmler's or Goebbels that clearly deserved fair trial for starting a war that costed 70 million deaths. We don't give that to people who blow up buildings killing thousands.

At some point we started to be very cynical about our own values, like liberalism for that example. I wish we had taken our own values more to the heart. That's the only way to win these things morally as well.
It gets criticized by some (rightly or wrongly) for being "biased" -- whatever that may mean, these days -- but techdirt.com is a fairly thorough and vary active catch-all summation site for these types of stories.
This is scarily close to what China does.

In China, the government doesn't really care about people complaining about politicians and the government online. However, if there's even a hint of a protest, out come the censors and posts get deleted rapidly.

They've gone so far as to ban Weibo accounts with influential amounts of followers.

When I read that US law enforcement is working with Facebook to mitigate protests, it seems like they're playing catchup using tactics not dissimilar to China. This is incredibly concerning given the importance of protests in a Democracy.
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Much more likely it belongs to the NSA.
"This violates the very premise of a free press..."

I am thinking it would be far wiser for the Press to assume that there is no such thing...

Just like we caution our clients to treat email the same as postcards...
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Epitech Alumni here (42 is basically the same thing but free).

1. Studied in CSULB / UCB, you really don't do enough of them. More theory than practise when you should probably seek theory when you're confronted to a problem that needs it.

2. You really don't need to know about automata theory, linear algebra or whatever to be a good developer. Brings me back to what I said in 1.

3. Actually the paper doesn't depicts the reality clearly: you have a lot of teacher assistant always available to help you, it's just that they are not allowed to gives you the answer, only to help you search in the right direction. When you encounter something tricky where finding documentation on the internet becomes an issue then you can talk about it with them. The system works quite well in Epitech. I have been a C & C++ assistant there and the level amongst the assistants is really good, and you could never hire the same number of qualified teachers (if you could find them). Having people that worked on the same project themselves quite recently (like 1 or 2 years ago) makes it that you will always find someone who knows what he is talking about.

To teach CS this is really the best system I have seen so far, and it teach you to never get stuck, never trust blindly what someone says, and always go find the answers by yourself.
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I'm aware of this, thanks. But it's a distinction that isn't in windows.
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because apparently people feel more human than human.
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LOVE. Thank you. Might sign up soon.
I think Amazon is a great example of the kind of company that makes genuine long term fundamental change to the way the world functions. I really wish that more companies had a less quarterly mindset and would pursue things similarly.
An app that will track my sleep on stuff.
I'm gonna set my 70+ neighbor up with Linux because the Vista that the computer shop sold her a few years ago as "the future" is dying miserably (all by itself, she doesn't install tons o' stuff) and she also feels it's a slow pain to use.

I'm a freelance consultant so she asked me how to get rid of all the "problems" (meaning BSODs, malware, viruses etc.) because she needs to get real work done. When I mentioned I use Linux and never have a BSOD or virus, she asked me if I could "upgrade her computer to Linux" - her words :)

So, Linux Mint is going on my ol' neighbor's PC.
Here's a rough breakdown: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflvid/blob/master/notes

Any gaps should be easily filled by looking at the source of nflvid. It's pretty small and should be fairly straight-forward (even if you don't know Python).

TL;DR - NFL's content delivery network (Neulion) hosts the game footage and it is publicly accessible.
I think this, and the rest of the comments have missed the point, It's not linux or windows really that's going on, but that "computing" for the masses has shrunk down to the browser and Office (or it's clones) - the operating system these days has become marginalized for most people. the File Open dialog is about as far as they interact with it, along with CTRL P and the dock. Linux is perfectly capable of this.

I run linux on my laptop, I run hadoop, a virtualbox for some VM's, a dozen terminal windows spread over two monitors and python. When I go home I have a similar setup on a MBP and most of the time I can't tell one from the other. The operating system, even for development has become quite irrelevant. I havnen't tried windows in decades... have they fixed the C: nonsense yet, or (stupidly) using the wrong slash in file paths!
Jeff, if you look at my linkedin profile, you might notice that I have some background with object storage systems. I'm not familiar with any incarnation of NASD or a similar system that was sold as individual disks accessible over IP.

If they do end up selling it as individual disks directly pluggable into standard racks (with some easy means of supplying power), this certainly would count as a potentially disruptive innovation. As I said before, whether market reacts positively or not is not certain, but it never is. But kudos to Seagate for trying it.
Well I guess that when you have a good story it is a shame to let facts get in the way.

French unions have no say in the curriculum of a private school (and it would make absolutely no sense, lot of fantams about french unions there I think!).

Private school can teach pretty much what they want. If they want they diploma recognised by the government then they must comply to some policies of the ministry of education, but it is up to them.
Tharunopayam (http://upayam.tharuni.org/), a laravel/android-powered SMS helpline for adolocent girls, women and the aged in Warangal, India.

It uses an android device as an SMS server and a laravel based responsive front-end which allows our experts in various fields like nutrition, psychology, law, etc to answer peoples' queries from wherever and whenever they find it most comfortable.
Gumroad (https://gumroad.com) — enabling any type of creator to earn a living selling what they make directly to their audience.

See: https://gumroad.com/demo

It's cool because I got started really seriously making stuff when I realized that there was not nearly as much of a difference between making stuff and making a living as I thought there was.

It was only getting cheaper and easier to make software. Making software (products!) has been democratized.

This has happened to software/startups, but not really to music nor film nor comedy nor photography nor publishing (yet!).

But it will soon and I'm happy to that Gumroad can contribute.
I'm building Konfect (http://www.konfect.com) because it annoys me that at every social network I sign up I need to refind those I usually connect with. With Konfect I can manage my connections accross networks.
Amazon is the proof that corporations are not all short-term-focused, and the shareholders have amply rewarded Amazon for that with a huge P/E.
Javascript + Cleverbot + Facebook Chat --> ?
Here's a shorter version: Are you so inspired by a software product or service that you are driving yourself mad thinking about how it was created? Great, do whatever you can to write your own version. Keep at it. Seriously, keep at it. Are you so obsessed with figuring this out that you are unaware that hours are passing by while you work? Awesome. You have discovered a true passion. Now you don't need to read things titled "How to Be a Programmer" because you will drive yourself to become one innately.

For everyone else, go ahead and try to read things titled "How to Be a Programmer" but don't expect it to actually help you, you know, BECOME one.
My Dad has been begging me to install Ubuntu on his MacBook Air. I think it's time I did.
Microsoft India sent me an email announcing a 15% hike in cost of their software in 2014. They wanted me to renew some of the subscriptions early. I do hope they wake up to reality.
Why fake problems ?

Rewritting a shell / ircd / httpd seems like a really good place to start to learn about the unix system / network / versioning systems / working in a team / learning how to find answer to things you know very few about. That's part of the program.
Tracking movements in public is more complicated issue, because generally when you go from place to place in public, you can not say you expected this move to be private - it can be plainly seen by anybody who happens to be in the same street as you. It is very different from what happens in your home, where you can expect nobody (outside of your household) can see you. Note I'm not advocating any legal opinion here, just saying "home" case is much more obvious thing than "tracking" case. In general, US people (by means of Congress) can also put limits on the police or the NSA beyond constitutional limits, i.e. say even if the 4th amendment did not ban GPS tracking or email intercepts, we (the US people, by means of Congress) prohibit the police or NSA from doing so without judicial warrant. Unfortunately, US people seem to be unable or unwilling to elect representatives that are interested in doing so, so the only fallback remaining is the Supreme Court, which is not really the best way to solve complex cases, as they can go either way.
Neurio: A new home intelligence project that makes an ordinary home smart.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/energyaware/neurio-home-...

It's cool because we launched it on Kickstarter 11 days ago, and have raised $101,000 so far... people really are excited about it!

Basically, it's a real-time energy sensor that can show you how much electricity each appliance in the home is using from a central sensor. Also, it has an open platform & can integrate with things like IFTTT, Spark Core, and Smart Things.

Here's an example project we put together. =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZTBtnLbBnc
-> the barrier for an older person is "using a computer". The barrier for a younger person is "using linux".

Interesting, I never thought this way.
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It has been my experience that running Linux natively on Apple hardware is a huge pain.
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Wow, hold your horses cow boy. Did you even read the article? It's about being a programmer in the real world; that is how to communicate effectively, know when to tell management that you think a certain decision was a mistake, how to approach project schedule estimation, and so on.

As a young hacker who's not sure yet where he belongs in the world of tech & science & engineering (worked freelance, worked in startups, worked in research as a grad student, worked in larger companies, and I still don't know what I want to spend my life as a hacker doing :-), I found it extremely useful and well written.
+1. Your short version pretty much summarize what other 1000 people would say. And that's what I told people who came to my school's open house today: look around you and see what kind of things you wish you could control. You want to be able to get all the files with certain prefix? Figure out that linux/windows command.

The title "A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary". This is not short. It's pretty verbose.