skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I knew that would probably make me even more sad!

My gut says I would probably at least triple revenue if I could serve Adsense. Which would be enough to pay myself a bad salary while I continue the fight.
Title should be changed.

The actual title is: "An exclusive interview with Bill Gates".

The submitter has editorialised it ("Bill Gates says putting worldwide Internet access before malaria is 'a joke'").
The small part of the interview the current title is referring to is this:

"asked whether giving the planet an internet connection is more important than finding a vaccination for malaria, the co-founder of Microsoft and world’s second-richest man does not hide his irritation: “As a priority? It’s a joke.”"

He doesn't say connectivity isn't important. He just thinks that is isn't as important as finding a cure for malaria.
We could use the moon as an Internet Relay, so you bounce lasers off the moon latency will be around 1.2 seconds.
IRC :)

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/nasa-internet-lase...

Solar planes and low orbit satellites could also be used as bounce points from earth uplinks.

http://www.o3bnetworks.com/o3b-advantage/service-coverage
http://titanaerospace.com/platforms/solara-50/
Thanks, I will try to do that. The only unusual thing about me is that I scooped Google once, and they acted weird about it. I'm twice that age though :)

Right now I am trying to figure out how to get a proper medical study done that this stuff doesn't affect people.
Bill Gates has spent a lot of time among the world's poorest poor. When you do that, your perspective changes completely and he seems to be talking from that perspective.

Also, did you read the linked article? He clearly addresses your point.

>Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation,” he says. But while ­“technology’s amazing, it doesn’t get down to the people most in need in anything near the timeframe we should want it to”.

Well, what Google and Gates' are doing is still better than Jobs' take on charity from his biography that demeans it:

"“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.”"
This is what tends to get done with nautical work as well. Every boat has a gps, so every boat has an accurate utc clock.
"Run everything in Russia on Moscow time" is a localized version of "Run everything in the world on UTC". So the question is, how did it work, and should we port to that?
Soekris now has new models with Intel Atoms, top quality stuff as always (old ones are rock solid too, if a bit dated). I went with ALIX instead as I had a local distributor so it was quite a bit cheaper. Plenty fast for now, too.
Circadian rhythms aren't mindsets.
I was an intern at IBM at the time, at a site that was fortunate to have internet access. I remember people being annoyed because the security people severed all internet gateways.

A good technical article is "With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988" [1] which was published soonafter.

[1] http://www.mit.edu/people/eichin/virus/main.html
What's the worst part about working at Google?
> salted hashes would defeat this attack though.

Seriously.

A huge company like Adobe behaving like a beginner in programming?

WTF.
A basic salted hash would prevent this sort of thing (not saying that bcrypt/etc. aren't worth using).

As to people using obvious password hints, it depends how much you care about the account - I don't use hints anywhere, but there's plenty of accounts I have where I really wouldn't care if anyone logged into it, so if I was someone who needed hints, then sure why not?
So, hum. I made one.

http://russianroulette.sh
I think software patents sucks! Software patents is a way for big corporations to keep smaller agile competitors off their turf creating monopolies & oligopolies.
We took Mozilla to school by 'Mozill2School' Project
This is an interesting attack that uses other people's password hints to match a hashed password. However, it seems unlikely that the Edward Snowden would use such a weak password to protect any resource that he considered sensitive.

Please use a randomly generated password that is as long and complex as the site you're using will allow, stored in a password safe.
Death is a natural, and essential part of evolution, and is crucial for the survival of the species.

If you could magically save everyone from dying tomorrow, then well done! You've just killed everyone from overcrowding.
Well, its going into the kernel as kdbus, which you could argue is bloated. Linux is much bigger than the BSDs, although it is modular and you can remove it, but the big distros use much of it so you can't if you use them...
>It is now they who depend on Canonical to reach and interact
>with the vast majority of FLOSS desktop users.

It doesn't say depend on to be able to write code. Or depend on to be able to have a github account. Or depend on to be able to exist.

It says depend on to reach and interact with the vast majority of FLOSS desktop users.
jailbreaker:jailbreaker

turning down your server is not as much fun as cheating.

shameless plug, I have just worked out a JavaScript class loader[1] of Robocode a few week ago. you don't have to turn security off with this class loader, unlike some approaches suggested on RoboWiki[2]. I'm currently trying to get Jython work with Robocode.

[1]: https://github.com/xiazheteng/robocode-classloaders
[2]: http://robowiki.net/wiki/Other_JVM_Languages
You see services pop up that use SMS to get information over a web experience because of these cost

Google discontinued their one: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/12/google-kills-sms-search/
So this is effectively "crowd-sourcing" a hack - other peoples' collectively bad op-sec used against you...
Vaccinations bring up a very controversial debate. The counter argument to vaccinations is that they increase the rate of autism dramatically because they contain a preservative of mercury. Research has shown that in 1992 when they increased the amount of vaccines given to children the rate of autism sky rocketed. Coincidence? Some say that it's a direct link, others oppose of that conclusion. The debate rages on.
That is actually a pretty big improvement. Kudos to Microsoft. The Surface Pro 2 is a really nice machine if you are looking for a tablet/laptop hybrid however I still can't get myself away from a nice physical keyboard so settled with the Vaio Pro 13 which is almost a dream machine for me. Although after seeing the new PCIe SSD benchmarks in the new Mac Book Pro's I am a little envious. My wallet is happy I went with the Sony though ;)
Point is they're two separate groups of people.

From the majority of people from 1st world countries, it is more valuable. I'm never going to meet anyone who has had malaria, or even anyone who knows someone who has had maleria. It's a non issue. But I'll certainly experience and interact with a larger internet population.
Why did you disable some of my favourite language features?[1]

set dict map reduce sum min max

Surely they don't pose a security risk?

[1] http://robotgame.org/api
Change your forum, bugzilla and wiki passwords ASAP
I take back most of my shit. I guess that's what happens when you are a neckbeard that can't even code.
This has been busted for ages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine#False_claims_about_...
What do you mean? Intel/AMD FPUs suport it in microcode, but it is somewhat slow. But the OS is not involved.
That's an insane choice. Do you really value raw lifespan over quality of life?
since doom 3 bfg engine is os:

https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG
Communication is the key.... and the internet is generally pretty awesome for that. However, for rural medicine, the prerequisite (assuming infrastructure exists) is the ability to retrieve and parse the information. You need to be literate, have access to an internet enabled device, and know how to search for what you think ails you. Language could be a barrier too.

Use of social worker and nurse pairs to do rural visits and vaccinations are much more effective. Verbal communication in the local language can communicate any extra information they need. Question and answer sessions are more fruitful. There is much more information to be gleaned about the community as a whole with a visit. The social worker and nurse can always update data when they get back to a location with internet access and provide a lot more medical context than the residents.

I agree it is not an either or proposition. However I believe the more effective solution, under current conditions, is the human visit. While that happens, continue to build up the infrastructure around these areas; not just internet, but access to clean water, roads to take people to hospitals, access to electricity (local or from a grid), etc.

Steps have to be taken in all directions to grow the radius of community well being.
Show HN: curl-to-shell russian roulette
Our goal is to help everyone achieve a better life, right? Then some people are more valuable to that goal than others. They aren't more valuable in an absolute sense (no one is) but according to our current problems they are relatively more useful. Governments are trying to spend their money in the smartest way possible. I'm saying that we should prioritize a certain type of spending over another. With enough tech, we will be able to achieve real equality that is today impossible. Once that is achieved, we can forget about tech or value of human beings. These will be problems of the past.
You seem to be assuming that people want to have most/all of their "personal" time after working hours. Couldn't you just as well argue for working hours to be 11-7?
Extra space, cleaner air, healthier and happier people, safer streets... Is there really any downside to banning personal cars from the city? Leave the roads for cyclists, public transportation, emergency vehicles and delivery vehicles. Suburbanites can park outside of the city can go the rest of the way via bus/train/bicycle.

http://ecooptimism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/bike-bus-c...
New Retina Macbook pro 13 system hang/unresponsive
Wow, great work. Mind if I steal this? And yeah, I'll open-source it pretty soon.
cool,i wanna buy one.
Funny that you should mention that. My next door neighbor put herself through nursing school on her back, and by renting her place to others in the same profession when she was at school. They were far quieter and less disruptive than the aging couple on the other side of my place.

If it had been put up for a vote, I probably would have voted 'no', but the reality was not what I would have expected.

This of course is not relevant to the discussion, where someone bought a condo which requires accepting the declaration, bylaws and rules and regulations of the HOA. If those rules, which the buyer accepted, forbid short-term rentals, then there's no excuse for doing it anyway.
What physical/travel security apps/software do you use?
The sensor in the original Sidewinder is fascinating - a spinning disk with a reflective strip on it. When the reflector is pointing towards the target, the reflection off the strip into one of a ring of sensors tells you in which direction to steer. This meant that the missile couldn't see straight ahead, only at an angle that would bounce from the disk into the sensors, hence it would sort of edge sideways into the target, and that's why it's called the sidewinder.
I expect if we were all going to convert to UTC anyway, we'd also convert to 24h time while we were at it.
For what it's worth, I wasn't trying to excuse the math or the jargon, which is terrible. But at least simple addition and subtraction problems sound like something a beginning first grader might be able to handle, particularly after a month of studying the jargon. I could probably teach my son to do that in an afternoon or two.

That level of reading, though, seems completely insane to expect one month into first grade!
I'm not the one you ask for, but I too created a programming game. I thought you might be interested: I used Lua to sandbox the players code. My game allows updating of code during the game is running. The game is split into client/server and it provides a SDL client that can connect to a running game server to show the current state of the game. Players interface with the server using a tcp connection.

http://infon.dividuum.de/
It's not a joke, it's applied economics. Better welfare in developing countries means better ways to cope with / eradicate diseases.
No, it's not, because you still had to do the math to figure out what time it would be.
I don't trust third parties to securely store my passwords. The problem with randomly generated passwords it that they are hard (impossible?) to memorize. Password squares help there, because they allow you to visually memorize the password by using a path inside a random character grid.

I recently created a website that generates a random 'password square'. It should display nicely on latest browsers (which support flexbox). You can optionally supply a seed if you want to reuse the same path but have it yield a different password.

https://caurea.org/passwd/
https://caurea.org/passwd/#seed

The website is intentially barebones, to allow you to print it out and store offline.
What's with all these Microsoft shills lately?
Time zones tend to come into effect in two situations: when you need to communicate across them, and when you need to travel between them. In the former situation, I agree that having one universal time would simplify things. Also agreed that as long as you tend to stay in one area, it wouldn't be a big deal to get used to dawn at 17:00 or whatever. What I think would be tricky is if you did a lot of traveling. With time zones, you can simply change your watch/phone to local time, then work based on that. With universal time, you would need to either constantly work out what time morning/lunchtime/business hours/etc. are in this new place, or you would have to change your watch/phone to some fictional time to simulate the times you're used to. Either one seems significantly trickier.

Of course, nothing stops people from using UTC only for the situation where it's really useful: long-distance coordination. (And as mentioned in other comments, that's often done already.)
They may have improved the geographical area but not the people who lived there. Twitter and other tech companies moving into "seedy neighbourhoods" just moved people who need help and compassion to another part of the city.
> it's a complex bundle of interacting problems and there's plenty of space for them all to be tackled at the same time

This is probably the most realistic and sensible response that I've ever seen in any priority opinion flamewar
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/03/why-i-like-dst/ ?
I've never really liked Linkedin's product that much, but they addressed this issue in a very mature way - instead of rebuking it in a press release or arguing with him, they fixed the issue and thanked him. I'm impressed.
A basic salt could be just a fixed string being used. That would not prevent this. The salt would need to vary per hash.
DIY Cyborg - man implants chip into his arm
But Chromium doesn't..
Must watch video if you are interested in the Internet of Things (warning long)
Because UTC already exists and is already widely used, and compatible with all existing hardware and software. Rather than commercial Swatch time, I'd prefer French revolutionary time as a decimal time system anyway - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time#France
Since your basis for morality seems to be "evolution" and "nature" (in quotes), would you be in favor of shutting down all hospitals immediately?
I see <£5000 per annum, surviving on a part time job and benefits. I can't even afford a decent IT course.

My father (who used to teach IT) doesn't see the point in my learning to code, especially C.

Several of my friends work in IT. A few months ago one of them was asking me for advice on C.

Last night I started learning js. I wondered how to reverse a text string.... 60 seconds later:

var str="supercalifragilisticexpealidotious", rts="", l=str.length;
while(l-->0)
rts+=str[l];
print(rts);

Thank you very much for posting the article. I feel much better now.
In the meantime, to sync things between timezones, this is the best site I know:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

And there are several ways to use it, it can even help set up a meeting between cities (click on a city to see more)
I recommend everyone to see where the person who submitted this link works/worked.
Form Validation and Processing in Go
What you actually mean is to lazy to do their job properly.

Just like my last employer where I spent a lot of time finding the simple things the developers didn't do (but would cause havoc with Google if we let it launch in that state)
That's all well and good. But all the wealthy people who already live there will probably use their political clout to prevent new construction.
Would zerocoin count as a mixer? It sounds very similar, and I believe those are/can easily be illegal^.

The wiki page on mixers [0] suggests that doing this with a large amount of money could be seen as structuring [1].

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mixing_service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring

^ In the US
See...not exacly.

Because, If I create an account on Soundcloud, put some awesome music that I created, what will happen ?
Nothing.
Same for Youtube. I would have to be detected by someone with a huge number of followers to take off.

If I make an awesome post on start-up or about an experience, and I post it and HN, I could go from 0 to lots of good (read "targeted") traffics.

If I make a great anwser on Quora, I could go from nothing to lots of readers.
I wouldn't say Brora is that remote - it's about an hour from Inverness by car, is on the main A9 road and is on the Far North Line.

Somewhere like Arnisdale or, even better, Inverie in Knoydart are far more remote (the latter is probably the only village on Great Britain that has no road access).
The question that the blog writer didn't ask himself is: How many people are called Edward Snowden?
The obvious solution is to salt it with something that is unique to that account: The internal account id, a string randomized at account creation or something like that.

An identical password for two different accounts should never encrypt to the same string.
Could innovation save the world?
They use message services such as QQ and WeChat.
Better sleep while using your iPhone
Having lived with it and without it, I'm a loud and proud opposer of Daylight Saving.

It seems that the changing of the clocks causes the most problems. I've oft suggested that fans just change their timezone permanently forward - boy does that create confusion among those wanting to argue.
This is a common misconception, but a "global salt" isn't actually a salt. Not sure what a "basic salt" is though.

> A new salt is randomly generated for each password. In a typical setting, the salt and the password are concatenated and processed with a cryptographic hash function, and the resulting output (but not the original password) is stored with the salt in a database.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29
There are two different configurations of the Vaio Pro 13 in the wild. All have on a similar form factor SSD but on some of the "pre-configured" models this is connected via a SATA3 bridge rather PCIe. On the models with the PCIe the performance is equivalent (or close enough, within a few percentage) to that of the new machines from Apple.
Just Don't Stop
>Even with mitigations, my staff and I basically spent every DST start/end dealing with a plethora of IRs to the degree of, "why did you change the time?"

For us the mayhem used to last for weeks because DST changes in different countries at different times. However, the biggest challenge was always to convey to many programmers that despite a date being in different timezones, the UTC timestamp is always the same and that timezone merely changes the interpretation of a UTC timestamp. Than there was the nuisance of different machines running in different timezone and some automatically generated cron jobs all going haywire. And then, any scripts you write to fix the issue have to wait for 6 months before they can be battle tested. It took us a good 3 DST changes to finally solve the problem and still it is quite an unpleasant hack.

No, I would not miss DST either. After all it has been more than a century since light bulb liberated us from relying on the Sun as the sole source of light.
Yes, you're right of course. I must have jumped the rails tracing back up through the thread.
Have you tried Microsoft's "type" keyboard? Very similar feel to most laptop keyboards. Unlike their "touch" keyboard which has no tactile response (and I personally dislike it).
You can't give up now, almost all my clocks change automatically.
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This is sadly true. If you want to do reliable floating-point computations beyond +, * and / with round-to-nearest (and even that isn't easy, since for example the use of x87 instructions can result in the wrong precision), the only portable solution is still to use a software implementation such as MPFR. Which is a shame because you're letting all that fast silicon go to waste.
Ah, I did not know that. And I wrote some password hashing with a global salt myself. So I stand by my comment with "one laughing and one crying eye". I thought salts were mostly against precomputed rainbow tables for specific hash functions, but of course if my hashes are valuable enough, a global salt makes cracking them easier than if I used a random/unique one per hash.
The salt should always be random. If it's based on some account information it's possible that the salt can be regenerated if that account information would become available, in a DB dump like this for example.
> Our goal is to help everyone achieve a better life, right?

No, I don't think it is. I don't think there is a collective goal that everyone subscribes to.

As my earlier point pointed out... we have everything we need to achieve "real equality". What are we missing? Which piece of technology are you waiting for, for "real equality"?
What are you smoking, dude? There's no more Nokia to make the turn. Their entire phone section now belongs to Microsoft.
He's a former PM at Microsoft, but it's still not relevany. Even if say, Adam D'Angelo posted something related to facebook or a former Apple employee posted something about the new 10.9 update increasing macbook battery life, it's not considered "shilling".
> If you lived in a high-rise condo and paid go money to do so, and the two places on either side of you started being rented out to random people who were there one week and gone the next, how would you feel?

I probably wouldn't care because there would be no way to detect if it was happening, without me standing outside my door all night like a sentry.

Sure, I'd be annoyed if some of the guests came and went at all hours of the night and that was waking me up regularly, but that could happen just as easily with more permanent neighbors, and I'd be able to do just as little about that.
I work as part of a mostly American dev team, but out of Sydney. We vary between having team meetings at my midnight, which includes the US East, but doesn't include the US West, or 8-9am, which can include the US West but not the east. The former becomes 2am with Aus moving one way and the US East moving the other, at which point I stop having any real contact with the US East.
That is awesome. Definitely will check out what you are doing. And you are absolutely right, let's get people moving pat these POS POSes.