skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10,000 years ago is the end of the last ice age, before which climates were shifted, sea levels were lower, and most of the land humans tend to like to live on (near sea level) are now deeply submerged.

We think agriculture and city-building started around that time, but it's possible we just haven't found older evidence because it was destroyed when the ice age ended and sea levels rose.

It seems incredibly arrogant to me to think that our ancestors, who were virtually identical to us much of those million+ years, required at-minimum hundreds of thousands of years to figure out what seeds are and how to make them grow. These are people who knew how to live off the land and were far more familiar with plants and animals than most of us could dream of being. These people invented astronomy, art, religion, clothes, tools, fire. They'd notice that plants produced seeds, that seeds wound up on the ground, and that new plants grew where the seeds fell.
Pretty clearly, too. Nepomuk+KRunner sounds like it would meet a large number of the criteria specified.
It seems to be hit or miss for me; I could move the page around just fine but at some point I couldn't. Not sure what triggered that broke it.
Hate to make a meta post. But I submitted the link to the ValleyWag article and it got killed.. Not sure why.
which, of course will screw the rich by draining the stock markets and making institutional lenders poorer.
Who owns the trademark?
on the one hand i am very interested, and want to know the same thing. even more so the "Arby's" quasi-sponsorship on the daily show, which is universally negative about the brand.

on the other hand, i like the mythical idea of them not being part of viacom, that stewart and colbert just do what they want. :-)
The piece is a kind of tongue in cheek parody. Read it if you're interested. It's very good and I can't do it justice.
There's been plenty of proposed proofs on both sides, however there has been little agreement on whether these proofs are indeed correct. See http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm for more links.
The Remote Worker's Onsite
The TV show Elementary did an episode in which someone solved N = NP and then used the solution to break any encryption they wanted. It all seemed a little far fetched to me.
I never use a catch-all. Deleting email would quickly exceed available time.

I go through the trouble of creating a new email each time. I've considered writing a script to make it easier, but my current mail provider makes that difficult.
Congratulations! I like to watch your blog[1] for interesting tidbits. I always pick up something I didn't know how to do.

[1] http://www.catonmat.net/
Oh I hear you! I can't say how much I regret all the time spent in the 700-800 pages of these Wrox or Addison-Wesley books trying to find that one line fix. These were the good old days!
I think the lawyers' client is also their employer.
Look at the comment to the article:

> It's a shame when tech journalists don't understand tech. Of course, they outed their source. With the time stamp Uber can check which employees looked at that page at a particular time. They can then ask these employees [likely just one] whose computer they were using at that time to figure out who grabbed the screenshot and sold it to ValleyWag.

So it's either VW didn't realize this, or fully realized it and still outed their source because they don't give a shit. Given their history of outing their sources, even after specifically being asked not to, I think the latter is much more likely.
Valleywag tends to be insta-flagged by the HN community.
- I totally forgot that I had ask this question but I will like to thank everyone for their response. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.
The site has enabled software vendors to slack off on their documentation ... I'm thinking of msdn as an example

The number of questions on SO that can be answered by RTFM is quite remarkable. I think that points to a lot of the documentation being just fine. The last bug of my own I spent any significant of time on was answerable by RTFM [1].

There are plenty of PHP+MySQL questions that appear where the OP is clearly learning about PHP+MySQL and the code looks something like...

$result = mysql_query("select username, password from user where username = " . $username)

...shows that they haven't bothered to RTFM [2].

[1] I had made a new thread and was calling ShellExecute on it. It didn't work on some computers because I hadn't initialised COM (presumably they had some shell extensions installed). See the first sentence of "Remarks" http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb76...

[2] Big red box: http://www.php.net/mysql_query
For the last 12 years or so I've been using unique email addresses. I have a catchall domain and established patterns for giving out email addresses. Over the years I've witnessed many companies either getting hacked or selling out their mailing list. I know this because I start to receive spam to these unique email addresses.

Just this morning I discovered that Sirius XM has been hacked. Shame.

It would make an interesting project to analyze all this history that I've built up.
I see that they still haven't solved the lag issue where it takes content some time to actually load. Silly bug considering how basic and small the content is.
I don't think this is true at all. How many unskilled laborers does a single corn combine harvester + skilled operator replace? How many unskilled laborers does a single skidder/tree harvester with a skilled operator replace?
- Okay thank you rrzar.
This shit is hilarious!

"computational practices are intrinsically hierarchical and shaped by identification with power"
Why Does GeoDNS still suck?
I agree with what you are saying. I went to Wharton but I also have started and run two businesses not including things during high school and college. I am referring to specifically statements that Sam made which would have been something that someone who was either practicing for a longer time or had knowledge of business history would know about more than Sam. That was my point. I am well aware of "book" knowledge. And theory. My dad used to joke about that all the time when I was at Wharton. (I was in the entrepreneurship program.)
With the time stamp Uber can check which employees looked at that page at a particular time.

I think it's a bit of a leap to assume that the Uber admin system logs every user pageview. It may well do, but many home-grown systems (and it certainly looks homegrown) don't bother with that level of detail. Certainly, if they were that security conscious you'd think they'd also avoid allowing any employee to see overall revenue figures.
- Okay thank you Liongadev.
There are many proofs, you can find some of them here:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm

Like all famous problems, P vs NP attracts a great number of people, mostly amateurs, that want to try to solve it. Most of those proofs are not peer reviewed, all of them are probably wrong.
- Okay thank you hardwaresofton.
> people easily forget all their personal ethics when someone in authority (whether their boss or the police) tells them to do something.

I don't know whether you're aware of this or not, but you just described a famous experiment which essentially arrived at the same conclusion. It's worth a read for those not familiar with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Climate change is the working hypothesis at the moment. Specifically, general drought/desertification that drove the people at the origins of agricultural technology to a few great river valleys (notably the Nile and the Indus).
It is language and written language that enables people to be connected and share ideas. There's no reason to credit specific networks like www or the internet with connecting people, because someone else would have done it (possibly better) if they had not.
- Okay thank you meerita.
The difference here is that every Windows user is a potential Linux user. They just need to download and install some free software. The platform fragmentation is precisely the same as it is on Windows and is largely a solved problem.
ValleyWag is probably auto-banned because it is generally low quality polemic stuff.
I'm sorry I can't offer you a solution.
However, I'd like to suggest you do not do something like this => http://nycfreshmarket.com/
But the one thing that I think was the hardest for him to accept was to be classified as a felon.
Well, now I can list at least one reason chris_mahan would make a terrible president.
I've known about the Eternal September for quite some time, but I'm not sure why it's funny.

Eternal September is/was a usenet meme, not really having much relation to the world wide web.
Yeah, it's only covering two days according the "last updated" timestamp.
Yeah, it's possible they were HR-level accounts that actually run payroll and not just employee accounts.

The more power you wield in an organization the less competent with technology you are.
> The original 9/11 attack showed how simple traditional weapons could be used to leverage using four whole airplanes as nontraditional weapons, three of them with devastating effect, all of them with lethal effect.

The 9/11 tactic was no longer effect on 9/11, when the passengers of one of the flights heard that such things happened and took down the plane rather than allow it to be used as a weapon.

The only reason the attack worked was because previous hijackings were for ransom, and would be entirely ineffective in the modern climate, where citizens would take it as intent to use the plane as a weapon.
- Okay thank you very much for this info penguin_gab.
>The core Wayland support for window creation and management cannot support minimising windows

One of the problems with Big Rewrite projects is that, inevitably, early releases will never get feature-parity with the latest version of whatever it is that's being rebuilt. Managing expectations then becomes critical to avoid this sort of legacy-support nightmare.
Apparently it is, yes: http://www.quora.com/Do-you-get-a-refund-if-informed-at-the-...
Every Wrox book I've come across has been terrible. If I wanted to read raw documentation I'd do that, when I spend hard money on a technical book I want to benefit from some practical expertise and I don't want an infodump of reference info that's already out of date by publication date.
Where did you see? I looked at revisions and noticed that the recent revisions were in 2013.
Extensive discussion a few hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6846228
If you're willing to dick around with the kernel config options, you can still get x86 Linux to run binaries from the early 90s. I vaguely recall reading a mailing list thread where Alan Cox, I think it was, commented that he had a bunch a.out binaries from that era still kicking around for testing.
One of my pet peeves is in there:

DisallowTCP = false

Negating negatives is always more difficult to understand and more likely to be error prone. Why not just this, with the default being false.

AllowTCP = true
Valleywag is a banned domain like youtube and a hundred others.
Even if we suppose he is only a figurehead, we already know that he sees a lot of highly classified information. That alone is reason enough to be concerned about taps on his lines of communication.
> If there was no StackOverflow the vendors would have to do better.

Documentation quality had been declining for many years before SO -- I think its more accurate to say that if vendors were doing better, there would be no (or less interest in) StackOverflow than the other way around.
Looks like they updated the article to read "File Transfer Protocol (FTP, the standard network used when transferring big files)". Better, although it's still wrong to call FTP a "network".
Why not make a clean break? None of this sandbox stuff.

X11 2: Electric Bugaloo - The list of major graphical linux programs in active use is very finite and most of it doesn't talk to X directly but relies on stuff like Gnome or QT which are libraries that have frequent churn anyway. No?

I bet if you could get the Top 30 projects to target your clean shiny X replacement in one fell swoop you'll end up most of the way there in terms of adoption within a few years. Linux is command line centric and frequently updated after all with users who expect things to break anyway. "Old" X odds and ends that won't be updated can be thought of much like Java Applets are thought of now a days.

Oh you need that abandoned Chemistry application from 2006 that depends on X11? Spin up a VM. We can afford to be more pragmatic nowadays. Nobody expects to run 5 year old apps on their smartphones, but desktop linux can't afford a clean break once every 2 decades?
Interesting, but I think I'll stick to lorem ipsum for the time being.
Yes, it was. But i have a degree in linguistics, so i am probably more interested in this than the general population. :-)
Vimium works! It's most likely an intentional challenge to make you stop using the arrow keys and start embracing HJKL.
The distinction between ordinary spycraft and mass surveillance of a foreign civilian populace at an unprecedented scale needs to be drawn
- Keiferski, thank you for giving me 3 options. I really appreciate it.
St. Louis: Bitcoin Accepted Here (Radio Interview)
- Thank you for the link darkmethod. I really appreciate it.
Presumably it was done this way to avoid the duplicate filter spotting that the same article was submitted under the other URL 11 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6846228
Why I Donated to Help Jailbreak iOS7 & You Should Too
What are you going to run on it? 99% of userland programs expect compatibility with some historical version of X11. Are you going to rewrite GNOME and KDE and everything else?
You would benefit from both, or you might have doubts the NP problem that was solved was ever actually NP.
Edward Tufte - "iOS 7 is not good." [Twitter]
Because something you depend on every day needs one of those backward compatible features.
- Okay, I will put that into consideration next time marco-fiset.
I'm aware, that's why I wanted to see if people were using it for their accounts.
Google Compute Engine crushes EC2 in RAM & CPU cost
Crap, looks like my wife's email was caught up in the Adobe breach. I think she created an account for reading ebooks with Adobe DRM downloaded from our library.

Consider this a heads up for married HN'ers, you should check their emails too.
That's probably only even roughly true in tech organizations where the low-level folk have tech-related duties. (Though HN users are probably somewhat biased to think in terms of such organizations.)
I find the opposite with iOS/Apple programming. Often I'll be looking for something on Stack Overflow only to find the true answer lurking somewhere in one of Apple's guides or example apps lol. But if there's a Stack Overflow answer, it's often exactly what I was looking for, and that can't be undervalued!
There was also an entire (unrelated) film based on the same concept, called Traveling Salesman.
It's good legal advice not to discuss the trial with someone, as they can be called as witness against you. Even if you don't say anything incriminating to them, it could disrupt their life in a way that you don't want to happen.
What makes you think we've advanced in a straight line? We're surrounded by the ruins of lost civilizations, who often built things we would find very challenging to reproduce even with our modern machinery, if we could reproduce it at all. It seems much more likely that human civilization has advanced and been knocked back multiple times in multiple places, and we're currently at a high point.

We're probably the first ones to figure out how to use coal and oil to generate power and do far more work than can be achieved with animal and slave labor. I suspect that's the key to how high our high point is. But I also suspect that there are other sciences where we're not as advanced as our predecessors, and maybe even some we haven't discovered yet.
Lies, Damn Lies and Data Visualization
Identify Background apps running on your iPhone
I've got KeePass, but I haven't used it remotely as long as I've used many websites. Also, I don't have my KeePass DB in Dropbox, so I can't access it from other computers.

More than that, I'd rather not put my KeePass DB on someone else's machine in the first place. But I'll easily trust strange computers with a password for some crappy forum.

There's always something you risk compromising. I prefer some forum account to be compromised.
They don't suddenly have access, if your password manager is secure and your master password is strong.

That's one of the nice things about password managers. You reduce the number of potential points of failure from many to one. Why is this good? Think of Thermopylae. You increase the stakes, but you also dramatically improve your ability to fight back.
Personally I think StackOverflow is pretty good. It's always nice to see it popup in search results when googling for a technical problem, for example. My main complaint is that they've been resting on their laurels for quite a while, there's a lot of potential that's been wasted with SO/SE.
- LeoSolaris, thanks for the info. The thing/problem is where will I get the first $1 mill of that $100 mil in order to begin.
My first question would be "how often does that really happen?". It's a legitimate concern at first sight, but for me, I pretty much never need to do that since I always have my phone with me.

But if I do need to, I have 1Password on my phone as well and can get the passwords from it.
- Very funny VikingCoder, but my parents are not that rich.
Is that an actual limitation of the GPS network, or a limitation of the client-side software.

My understanding is that GPS satellites broadcast a timestamp, and the receivers use that information to compute their position. Assuming that this is accurate, devices should still be able to get the signal at higher altitudes. The only way I can think of this not working is if the geometry works out so that at 10K feet you are no longer in ranges of 4 satellites. I suppose this could be done my calibrating how wide to make the signal (which would make the signals stronger on the ground, but require more satellites for full coverage). This would likely also require having been thought of back when the GPS network was planned.

Also, I would imagine that planes use GPS, in which case it would have to be a client-side restriction.
A joke that'll get you arrested (2007)
I am confused. Is $213M Uber's top line, or bottom line?
iOS 7's design was marketed as being 'all about the content', and I can see why he would disagree with that. However I think iOS makes much more sense not being a 'rethink', but just being an update to a more modern style of UI design. There doesn't need to be any deeper meaning to it.

Also, I have found the best examples of 'iOS 7' design to be 3rd party apps, not Apple's own, although it has long been the case that other developers do much more experimentation on Apple's platforms.
I don't get the "Beautiful Stories" section. All of the articles look pretty much the same. Same full-width image peekaboo parallax banner thingy at the top, same font, same look.

This article (https://medium.com/beautiful-stories/66e87553d22c) is a hodge-podge of design decisions. The way images are displayed is a mess: some images float next to text, some float next to text with a caption next to them, some images are centered, some images have quotations in them. To divide sections of text, sometimes there are hr's, sometimes there's a single line with a little loopy thing, sometimes there are parallaxy headers.

Medium may be easy to use but if people think they can click a few buttons and pop out a "beautiful story" they are mistaken.

Call me an old-timer but I would rather just read text without a bunch of stuff in my way.
I can't get it either, but look here:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1748747

The top video card is Intel HD Graphics 3000 and Intel GPUs make up 12% of the list.
I was going on the assumption that most people in population centers use or have used the internet; and that the number of people that were not in population centers was less than 20%; and I mental-gymnastics'd myself to thinking that those population centers tend to be on the shore, so I said it that way.

Not necessarily right, but that's how I go there.
I would love to take a look at the book!
This is also a testament to the old HP. Around the time this logic analyser was built I used a fair amount of HP kit - oscilloscopes, EPROM programming kit, the plotter printer where you could have multiple ink colours and the original Deskjet printer. All of it was fantastic stuff and very expensive - we joked that 'HP' was an acronym for 'Highly Priced'!

What do I mean by fantastic stuff? Specialist items such as this logic analyser were built to an exceptionally high standard. To all intents and purposes HP equipment back then was bullet-proof. It cost a lot but it was an investment rather than an expense. The documentation was also superb. You felt quite privileged to use it.

Moving on to the products HP make now, I have a few of their laptops and a printer. The laptops are collecting dust and the printer does not have any ink in it. I have no intention of ever buying any of their kit ever again. It is all consumer stuff that does a lot compared to what was possible in 1992 but none of it has 'wow' factor.

I cannot think of anything they make nowadays that is sophisticated in a 'rocket science' kind of way. Sure I might not be exposed to their finer and more sophisticated products, but I should be through marketing, reading 'tech' news websites and so on.

'HP' really should have kept onto the pioneering/cutting-edge-technology image and made their PC's the kit of choice for anyone that does difficult maths, scientific stuff, interfacing or UNIX.
> Oh you need that abandoned Chemistry application from 2006 that depends on X11? Spin up a VM. We can afford to be more pragmatic nowadays.

That was exactly what I was suggesting with "sandbox stuff"--except that the OS can provide a stub library that recognizes what that "abandoned Chemistry application from 2006" is asking for, and spin up the VM itself, in the background, making it look as if it was just a compatibility layer. See, for example, Windows 7/8's "Windows XP Mode" -- or, as I mentioned before, Rosetta.
Pipe StatusPage.io Activity Into HipChat
It's not just a "Blackberry". It's custom hardware with custom security.
Isn't Glenn Beck a strong Constitutionalist? I was always under the impression that was his entire platform.
It also works fine for me, Firefox 26 beta on Windows 8.1.
The article is a mess, but the root of the problem is that while the article presents giving “power to the people” and "dethron[ing] authoritarians" as goals of the left in principle, in practice what the left does when it comes to power is always the opposite. Leftists may talk about believing in democracy and freedom, but these principles are incompatible with the left's overarching goal, which is promoting economic equality. Since people are inherently different, the only way to guarantee economic equality is to use state power to control people. Of course, even where leftist principles are put into practice, such as in Cuba, North Korea, the Soviet Union, etc., the result still isn't economic equality, only a lack of freedom and general impoverishment of the most of the population.
The author's point is that URLs are not pages -- they are just pointers to information, and that (a) by design, they should be static and uniform, and (b) there is no reason that URLs cannot be used for both person- and machine-readable information.
- Very shrewd and smart plan/idea sharemywin. Thank you for the info.
Cool, email me peter@catonmat.net with your shipping address and I'll get you a copy!