skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For many non tech folks where I had replaced IE with Firefox, I now see them using Chrome, and when I asked if they installed it, they usually have no idea how it got on their computer.

Chrome probably got there the same way Firefox got there - a well meaning individual (you, in the case of Firefox) installed it and told them to use it because it is "better".
That seems essentially similar to the view of the French body here: if somebody somewhere harms somebody in our country, we can go after them, without regard to the law elsewhere.
Publicly Traded Patent Collectors Plaguing Google, Apple
But would Firefox users tolerate that?
Its kinda hard to figure out how a chat works when you don't have anyone on the other end to chat with. I created a chat on your site, but I'm not gonna be sharing this with my friends unless I know this is good and I won't know if this is good unless I share it with my friends. See the twenty-two.

Some suggestions for your fellas.

1. Have a demo video or screenshots of how the chat app works.

2. Create a chat, and link the URL of the chat with a button on the home page that says - Chat with us. Try to get someone on your team to be always online monitoring this chat. Its the best way to sell this to your customers.
Plus Cambridge is a pretty awesome place to live.
Just like everywhere else: you are free to do whatever you want, provided you are willing to accept the consequences.

In this case, the consequences of publicly disagreeing with the Société Générale's accounting practices are €8000.

Or, perhaps,

"The AFM has no jurisdiction over me, so they won't collect. As a US citizen living in the US, I am not subject to the absurdities of French laws, or French witch hunts. All they get from me is a vow to never go to France."

Which is kind of a pity. France is beautiful, and the food is delicious. [I'm tempted to add, "It is truly unfortunate that the country is infested with the French", but ain't nobody got no sense of humor, either.]
Moving everything into bitcoin doesn't make a lot of sense. Diversifying into bitcoin is more likely to - I don't see tremendous reason Chinese housing prices and Chinese bank solvency would be positively correlated to bitcoin price, though I could very well be missing something (simple or complex).
Mozilla signs time-specified contracts with Google. Not at-will.
In TCEC all engines run on the same 2x 8-core Xeon. It's WCCC that allows engines to use arbitrary hardware -- e.g. on WCCC 2013 Jonny run on 2400-core cluster, but lost anyway to Junior that used 24-core Xeon.
Here's another list. :P

< /usr/share/dict/words
perl -ne 'print if m/^[abcdefilzsbtgo]*$/ && m/^........$/;' |
perl -ne 'print if !(m/i/ && m/l/);' |
tr 'ilzstgo' '1125790' |
tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' |
perl -ne 'print "0x$_"' |
column
How many MPAA backers do you think you'll find here?
SimpleLegal is a fantastic idea for a service. It's horribly sad that it's even needed, but I love the work you've done. If the 200+ legal bill is a like a log file, SimpleLegal is like an analytics dashboard. Question: is there enough standardization in the way legal fees are presented or are there a fair amount of edge cases you have to handle?

Edit: Do any firms subscribe to your service on behalf of their clients? That would be a firm I'd love to do business with.
I don't get your argument at all. Clearly no-one would expect a senior employee of Microsoft not to further Microsoft's interests, so your analogy contradicts your thesis.
Interaction testing, fakes, mocks and stubs
...such as ambulance-chasing.
Further evidence the methane found in well waters is not caused by fracking. The methane found is biomethane produced from decomposition of animals.

http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-109/issue-49/explor...
Hacker News is certainly a hotbed of pro-MPAA activism.
That chart has a small error, Miracast certainly does support extended desktop - I use it frequently on Windows 8.1.
As I said in the other article on this...

Also the author shouldn't rule out Halon's razor[1]. Advertising the wrong AS is often caused by incompetence or mistakes of network engineers. Note that I'm not a network engineer (I'm a linux monkey by trade), but know you can do BGP AS path filtering[2] ala ACLs to prevent a rogue/incompetent entity from advertising routes that dont' belong to them. If more ISPs would simply lock down their routing infrastructure a bit more, a lot of these types of attacks would be rendered mostly void.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

[2] https://ftp.apnic.net/meetings/22/docs/tut-routing-pres-bgp-...
i think it's similar to Multi-Level Marketing schemes. People have put hopes and dreams into it now that they think it's a vehicle to get rich, plus significant investment costs to build the infrastructure.

They need to keep a straight face and create an army of believers in order to succeed with their profiteering.

> losing sight of reason

That's precisely my issue. If you go to /r/bitcoin the conversation is often more focused on "How do we get past these annoying speculators to actually realize the dream of a cryptocurrency?". I respect that. But 90% of the people involved at this point are NOT that.

As a side note yes I thought "mofo" was totally mild too and the whining led me to post much harsher comments lol. I hate cultures that try to silence they're detractors. Good news for me is HN karma is pretty low on my list of priorities.
You should also check out Font Awesome[1]. It's a really useful icon collection licensed under the MIT license.

[1] http://fontawesome.io/
There is a third route between made-up and technical: real stories without any 'novel' or fictive aspects. You are making a serious conflation when you say " Is this any different from the sports fan who talk about old team lineups, why such and such tactic was wrong in a game, why they lost a game because of bad luck/refereeing[?]"

I am saying: yes, it's very different! It's like the difference between discussing Napoleon and discussing Darth Vader. One is not a discussion about a made-up world, but the real world. Instead of speculation about the made-up world, we can examine real facts. Likewise, for real games that actually happened, we can look at real facts.

I also consider lots of made-up stories to be very interesting. On the other hand, I am also interested to an extent in real stories as well, without any creative aspects other than the author's (and scoiety's) interpretation, the order in which events are told, what events are told, etc.

Imaginative realities are certainly interesting - but don't for a minute confuse them for being similar to real events.
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes... I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts...

I don't get it... Wolfram is a money-hungry egomaniac. For example, unlike the other big Ma competitors (Maple, Matlab, Magma) not a single source line of Mathematica code is exposed. He's litigious, he labels everthing "mine", he endlessly praises himself. He wrote this insulting "don't worry your pretty little head with our source code, it's too complicated for you" piece:

http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/WhyYouDoNo...

So... gratis Mathematica on Raspbian... what's the catch? Is it to lure us to the cloud?

http://www.wolframcloud.com/

Edit: To clarify, my guess here is that they want to give people a taste of Mathematica on weak hardware in order to lure them to a subscription model on "the cloud" where much more processing power will be available, just like widespread university site-wide licenses and turning a blind eye to student piracy are great marketing strategies.

Is there any evidence to support my wild theories?
V10 is retina aware, and it's coming out soon.
Ruby-Lang.org Redesign
How many open source libraries and programs there exist that can actually work correctly with full Unicode with all kinks involved? I know none. Emacs seems to do best job, but I have not investigated it much.

I know one proprietary library for Unicode that can be used for search (from multiple different sources of UTF strings), indexing etc. and claims to support full Unicode that deals with all things involved, including directionality, surrogates, control chars etc. Their internal representation of stings for string processing is vector of displayed characters objects (not code points). Using UTF-* encoding as internal representation works only for simple string processing for subset of Unicode.
And all the guys you want to deter to plug in a usb-stick are much more skilled with tools, metalwork, electrical connections than you are...

Better disable the usbstor service so that the USB ports are still working, only they don't make usb storage devices appear as disk drives :-).

(also some software might require a license-dongle to be plugged in)
We can reason subjectively from the perspectives of Mozilla/Google, or we can reason objectively from the perspective of people.

The concern from people is always about too much power (control) in the hands of a select few.

What choices will they make?

Will they be the best choices?

How will we know?

How much transparency will there be?

Some of these might not apply directly to the open source world, but Google is at the forefront of decisions on the internet.
Yea i wonder how he made those gifs. It would be interested in a js gif gallery library like that
I think most reasonnable people in France, both left and right wing, find it ridiculous. That being said, being french, the level of defiance and incomprehension the people in charge in France show for the internet is beyond ridiculous, and border on dangerous.
It had been so man years that modern browser technology can probably easily emulate the ActiveX/ie6/winforms or whatever crap those enterprises run.
At least Commission des Sanctions didn't send drones to bomb the guys with hellfire missiles. I'd say the US doesn't have much moral authority on extranational law enforcement, fiscal or otherwise.
Well that's entitled. It's his site, he can do what he wants. Even if that does mean that I'll put it through Instapaper to avoid that stuff and not sign up to his mailing list.
> They're not going to switch to dramatically worse search results just to appease the tin hat crowd.

Calling them the "tin hat" crowd would suggest that they are delusion when, in fact, the U.S. government has repeatedly admitted that they are spying everybody and they don't understand why anyone should complain.
I don't live in the US, I'm much closer - in London (apparently, the sixth largest French city). I'm not arguing the fact that it can be a lovely country for a French citizen and that you may want to retire there, given the generous benefits you'd be receiving.

However, I know from a few of my friends, who were settling in France for personal reasons, how painful the immigration process can be, especially if you're not white/caucasian.
Mathematica to me is like Perl. You don't necessarily like it, but it is often the tool that gets the job done in a minimum amount of time, with spectacular results.
Bunch of YC companies in the U.K. maybe reach out to one of them. I know GoCardless from S11 is there. I think there was one more from my batch at a minimum.

How good are you? We might be open to doing the paperwork for you if you want to move to Chicago:)
HackerNewsLondon will occur tonight (in about an hour)
http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/
and if you turn up and blag your way in (you're meant to buy a ticket in advance, offer cash on the door to pay for your pizza!) you'll see companies talking and often talking about jobs. Just network like crazy, most people there will know people hiring. Everyone is friendly, the organisers try to help startups. Go speak to co-organiser Steve (he's an ex recruiter), he'll know who is looking.

http://www.techcityjobs.co.uk/ has a lot of London-focused tech jobs, lots of Ruby etc. Ruby is definitely in demand in London. Avoid being a waiter if you can, your skills will rust.

http://siliconmilkroundabout.com/ occurred last weekend, over 100 startups were there pitching for jobs, go through the list of companies and cherrypick, then drop them a line? The CTOs I spoke with noted the lack of Rails folk. Most of the companies had 2-8 job openings each.

Bon chance, i.
haha, I am mad though :)
Inside Eric's Toolbox: An Electrical Engineering Kit
Mozilla is a nonprofit with its own principles in is charter. It isn't just a business.
Sorry, forgot to mention its not my site.
Fallout of NSA spying may usher in global cloud fragmentation
Game in 0 lines of Javascript`
From drilling to producing there maybe many companies working on the well. Land is usually owned by big oil producers (Shell,Exxon,BP, etc) while the drilling, casing (protects the ground water), and hydraulic fracturing jobs may all be done by separate service companies.

All in all, yes these barriers should hold and safety factors are taken into consideration. But when the service company doing the casing job recommends job A that will surely hold but the land holding company wants job B which is cheaper and might fail, who's at fault when it fails?
Oops i spoke too soon. It changed since I posted.
We could put some use to your tech experience, if you are okay to relocate to India & completely open to fresh new start. if so send me a mail at sid@justunfollow.com http://justunfollow.com
Thanks to everyone for the advice, I feel a lot more confident now and will try to write a CV in a way to display my general skills as opposed to specific experience. I initially thought my application would get binned because I lacked their requirements. Also I guess a lot of coding experience is transferable I just really panicked at first...

I'll be in touch with those of you looking for a developer. Thanks again.
Concentrated acids are hazardous to handle. A diluted acid is not necessarily an environmental hazard (depends on chemistry, concentration, situation, etc). Similar reasoning applies to enzymes (laundry detergent is unpleasant to get on your skin yet we wash it down the drain in pretty high volumes...).

The (safe) handling of the fluid on the surface and integrity of the well are a lot more important than the makeup of the fluid (but still, why not regulate the industry to make sure they are not choosing the wrong balance between their profit and hazards to others).
Why can't you just buy a HC-06 bluetooth adapter for £3 from ebay, then use Amarino or a similar android apk?
I don't see so much difference in France, the US or other countries:

Money has not become king in our society, no! It has become God and the money-people are the priests of our religion! We are not so much better as the middle ages where.
> I wish Mozilla would stick to its principles and switch the default to a privacy conscious search engine like DuckDuckGo

Which of Mozilla's principles (rather than yours) would this be "sticking with"?
Totally agree. The kids who are fortunate enough to be part of the computer based math movement really should be learning scientific computing on FOSS... not building their foundation on restrictive, typically very expensive software.
Implementing Self-Service Business Intelligence
Microsoft selling 'Scroogled' merchandise to attack Google
People make clusters of them. Here are some links:

2 to 64 nodes http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomput...

http://raspberrywebserver.com/raspberrypicluster/raspberry-p...

http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2013/07/19/secret-recipe-for-ra...

Canonical had a 43 node Arm build cluster http://www.geek.com/chips/canonical-builds-a-42-core-arm-clu... and there's a campaign for an RPi version http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/a-raspberry-pi-build-clust...
I used Wikipedia as source and in that article Jawa Report was mentioned as original source. I don't follow that blog, I read the Wikipedia article on what happened. I guess in your Marxist mindset, everything is policy statement even when you cite what happened.

It was you talked about Jihad Jane and I look it up. Now you didn't like the answer so now you start calling me a bigot because the Jawa reports are by your accounts bigots. Splendid logic.

Is that all you have? That empty barrel calling everyone else bigots and racists. Truly intellectual and classy.

I guess now you done that we already have fewer terrorist, all by your help. "That racist was stopped, we can stop bombing now."

As little you know about logic same goes for your try to understanding the intelligence business. If all terrorist starting to act like old ladies playing solitaire, we would know because you are already profiling those groups who would do that. Come on dude! Think. Use that part thats called brain and start thinking outside the copy paste answers from Huffpo or wherever you get them.

But if we put your tiny intellectual mindset aside, we can conclude that Jihad Jane was captured by profiling. However you didn't really like that it was done by a bunch of redneck racist. You would preferred if Lars Vilks was actually murder by her. I mean blogging racism is much worse, right?
You didn't mention a platform, but if you're using Python or Django, Python-Social-Auth[1] is quite good. It supports a bevy of third-party providers while still allowing for easy local (username/password or email/password) login types as well.

[1] - https://github.com/omab/python-social-auth
> it's a crime by french law committed in france

Was this actually a crime or just a civil dispute?
I bet this tired cliche of a phrase doesn't make you very popular at parties either.

Couldn't you stick to replying to what he said?
This holiday season, give the techie in your life the gift of a better world.
Google’s Schmidt Sees Encryption Killing Censorship
Probably off-topic, but something I've never understood reading these things:

How does this funding actually work? From what little I know (the stock market) you'd sell an equity stake in your company for a certain amount and you have money in your personal bank account.

But it sounds to me like all these funds somehow go back into the company?? how?? what am I missing?
Note that the UK has its own oddities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCA_v._Singh.
That's kinda sad that they're reduced to taunting Google like this. I can almost smell the amused/condescending response from Google PR.
your biases are showing through. maybe that is the problem.
Retraction Watch joins suit to fight false copyright claims
Given how easy the quick fix is to apply, basic Retina support should really have been in a free minor-version update to 9, not in a presumably paid upgrade to 10, after a long wait.
Maybe, but 30 other apps did better in search for mispelling of instagram -- and they were all related to instagram.

Anyway, it soon jumped to #2 like for everyone else.
Striking Back Against Censorship
I think Tim O'Reilly or Jeff Jarvis or Clay Shirky (unfortunately I don't have the bookmark anymore) already addressed this:

The case is a prime example that what you write is not only the jurisdiction where you write it, but also the jurisdiction where people read it. (And the jurisdiction where it stored and where it is going through as network traffic.)
Yeah the United States never does anything outside its jurisdiction that anyone else finds annoying.

Except we aren't talking about the US right now, we are talking about one particularly boneheaded action by France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
You could make a cluster with them (in fact for none-mathematica uses it has been done).

Efficient not even remotely the performance per unit of a Raspberry Pi just makes it not worth it (note: it's worth it if you want to simulate multi-node programming, SMPP type stuff).

For example a 32 node raspberry pi machine clocked 10.9Gflops on linpack[1], 32 * 35 is $1120 (excluding switches, cabling, power supplies which would add at least another $200 or so).

A single Nvidia Titan clocks ~1.5 Teraflops in double precession mode for ~$1000 (a performance per dollar rate of 137 times better).

According to wikipedia[2] a cheap Sempron 145 with 3 Geforce GTX760's at $1090 has a performance of 6.771 teraflops (so over 500 times the performance of the 32 node raspbery pi)

1 http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-ras...

2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
> If not management, I'd still say try to get a little more "meta" than just "I know Rails, Node..." Market yourself at a business-level, if that makes sense. In my opinion, the tools you use to solve a problem aren't as interesting as how you approach a problem and solve it.

This is fantastic advice for every programmer, and once I actually started believing it was when I started getting interesting jobs that pay well.

Stop thinking in terms of the technology you use. Don't focus on it in interviews. What you should stress is the problems you've solved & how that delivered value to the company (revenue, efficiency, etc.)

Being a Ruby master means nothing. Being able to deliver a tool that lets the company fulfill their million-dollar contract is what makes you a rock star.
That's probably because it's not worth nearly as much to MS or Yahoo. I'm sure a non-trivial percentage of users would change the default search away from Bing.
Awesome thanks. I might use that in my own applications in the future, but our app uses Angular and Node. Unfortunately I couldn't convince the group to use Django
As taxing authority, please send in 17% by the end of the quarter.
The company issues new shares and the funds go into the company bank account. You own the same number of shares as before, but a lesser percentage.
Unfortunately "worth" in any functional sense is defined by the demand for it, so in that sense these are immensely valuable. That is my lament, that something with so little functional utility (outside of a dopamine reward loop) has captured so much voluntary worth.
If it wasn't for the HUD feature (tapping alt gives you a search bar to all the program's menu items) I would've switched to another DE already

are there any other DE's that provide something like that?
afaik, Go has not yet fallen.
That's sorta it, yeah. rather than the money going into your personal bank account, the company sells part of itself, and the money goes in the company's bank account.
I'd highly recommend "My System" by Aron Nimzowitsch. A deep dive into positional play instead of specific tactics

http://www.amazon.com/My-System-21st-Century-Edition/dp/1880...
Should be pretty simple to get it working with PHP right? Also, any plans for GitLab issues support? If not, that might be fun to hack on this weekend...
The really short version is that the company sells (probably newly created) shared in exchange for money. The owners of the company are generally not selling their own shares. That would lead to serious complexity.

If you want to know more, read Venture Deals[1]. It's very thorough and well written.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Deals-Smarter-Lawyer-Capitalis...
You mean connect to a VNC/RDP server, and be an X11 server? (Although where you'd get the mouse and keyboard input from, I'm not sure.)
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seems like iOs is using Bing now.
Now someone needs to replicate this for accountants specially CPAs. My CPA's bill always exceeds my expected number by 20% at least and I am clueless as to how he gets to that calculation. Am I crazy not to ask him for his timesheets ?
Laravel is pretty awesome, I agree. But if you haven't touched PHP in a while then I'd recommend getting familiar with the vanilla language again first. Beacuse who knows what kind of frameworks you may be using in a future gig, but PHP is PHP.