skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right in that everyone should feel free to express themselves here and I apologize for how I came off. It is the commentator's duty, though, to consider that people are reading these comments and it's kind of a disservice to say "I don't have a point" in the middle of a very large comment.

You mention email, Twitter, and bitcoin but we're talking about a network naming protocol that only machines use. People don't send raw SMTP messages to each other, it's just the underlying protocol. DNS is used to make addressing easier for people and a lot of time went into the ipv6 spec. Is it harder for people to interpret? Yea definitely. But aside from copying and pasting these hex numbers into config files I really don't see how people will even interact with them. The hosts file is your friend :)
No one should expect perfection, but I think most would expect any company with the means to follow the laws of every country they operate in, because that's their obligation. If they can't follow the law, they shouldn't be given a <$1M wrist-slap, they should be corrected.

What about the Taiwanese businesses that are disadvantaged by this type of practice? Surely that's worth far more than $1M.
Basic reasoning would allow one to conclude I wasn't attempting to persuade anybody. The person I replied to didn't provide anything other than his own emotional screed in which he accused the article's author, and people who support the author's points, of being emotional, pretty much without basis. Like you have done to me, for example. I don't see anybody "getting worked up" over anything. I see accusations of such from people, such as yourself, attempting to cast disagreement with his comment as coming from a basis of emotion rather than reason in an attempt to poison the well.

Don't admonish people to not abandon basic reasoning when you yourself have done so. It's petty.
In the living memory of many of us, Taiwan was essentially a dictatorship. Now its protection of free markets for its people exceeds that of the U.S., at least in some areas, where U.S. law tends to favor corporate interests.
Seems to have a lot in common with the error handling in D.

They both make the distinction between recoverable and unrecoverable errors. I feel D to be more flexible however since it doesn't prevent the handling of unrecoverable errors. It simply discourage it, which is what you want in a systems programming language.

One exceptional feature of D related to error handling are scope statements. They easily and elegantly make the nested try/catch/finally blocks go away. I wonder if Microsoft is going to use this.
Who is selling a SaaS (or other business)
After being disappointed with browsing flippa.com I thought I'd see if anyone on Hacker News is selling a web or software business. (Or if you have tips on better places to search than flippa)
Also, I wonder if it would be worth making this a month thing like the who's hiring post? Any interest in that?
Highly unequal property rights enforcement by the state. There is a great deal of property in the world. Rich people use the state to control a vast amount of it for themselves. They use that control to deny the poor access to most of that property, coerce the poor into doing their bidding, and accumulate even more control of that property.
Glad I am not the only one who has this problem. I have to explain this to my dad about once a week. He tries to use his work email/password for everything and can't understand why it doesn't work. He seems to think that you can just log in to anything with that combination regardless of whether you signed up for the service or not. Guess it falls to the old saying of you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
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30C3: Artist: Trevor Paglen makes secrecy visible
It wasn't generic though, IIRC. It was done on a per-game basis. (XBox was an x86 arch, but XBox360 was a PPC arch).
I don't really accept the idea that 3 years of time was wasted because of a 30 second recording. I just activated a new card, I wasn't working, I was waiting for the costco lady to make a new batch of samples. Those 30 seconds were sunk no matter what.

I think its kind of a fallacy to suggest that human time can be summed in much the same way computer resources can be.
Anyone care to summarize what this is about?

From what I gather these are 30C3 recordings from a CCC-TV website. The recordings have titles like FPGA 101 and Programming FPGAs with PSHDL.. There is no about page and the home page has further topics like, SIGINT13 video release, SIGINT12 video release and 28C3 webm release.

I'm confused..
When I where running my own company, I rented a desk at an other company. Since every one else there had regular working hours, it was more natural for me to work regular hours too.

It also gave me "colleagues" to talk to, so I wouldn't be as lonely as I would be if I worked from home every day.

That worked for me
Significant discussion from 140 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6195627

Discussion there is closed, so if you had anything to add, you'll need to do it here.

There's also a massive discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6980058

On Hacking MicroSD Cards
(bunniestudios.com)

There are other submissions, but they have no comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6900366

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6419921

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6383511

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6197648
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The finished MacPaint consisted of 5,804 lines of Pascal code, augmented by another 2,738 lines of assembly language, which compiled into less than .05 megabytes of executable code

To put that into perspective, the date command alone on this Linux box is 49k.
Seems like a complete waste of time, so you should probably drop it. Unless, for some reason, you formally need the diploma.
So, it has come to this? Linking to Wikipedia?
From 'theSaddestMoment'

"As it turns out, Ted the Poorly Paid Datacenter Operator will not send 15 cryptographically signed messages before he accidentally spills coffee on the air conditioning unit and then overwrites your tape backups with bootleg recordings of Nickelback. Ted will just do these things and then go home, because that’s what Ted does. His extensive home collection of “Thundercats” cartoons will not watch itself. Ted is needed, and Ted will heed the call of duty."
Transition tech should still provide decent IPv4. Would love to hear more details and see if there is something that has to be fixed. Sent you an email.
30C3 is the name of this years Chaos Communication Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress

Those are the video recordings of day 1-3. (Day 4 is happening today)
Who pushes you?
Ugh with respect to the cultural attitude you're looking at it like a 2013 guy with plenty of hindsight and not looking at the 1913 perspective. Forget everything that happened post 1913 and my description and explanation of 1913 thinking makes a heck of a lot of sense.

The 1913 perspective is the last total "world" war was Napoleon's escapades a century ago and it was a disaster but everyone involved is dead and mass media wasn't around and it's all crude and obsolete anyway compared to modern war. So the academics know total european world war will be awful, but random dude on the street isn't nearly as informed and concerned as a 2013 dude. The colonial battles on the other side of the planet or whatever didn't have much direct impact on Europeans.

The last "major" local war was franco prussian and the Germans absolutely crushed them in months. The main difference is Germany is now unified and proportionally massively larger and more powerful than France. So WWI "should" only last weeks, this time around. Its a re-run of the franco prussian except Germany outmatches France by a factor of ten more than the first one, oh other than that whole "world" war aspect instead of just two belligerents. Oh and that little problem of having to fight on two fronts but they had an elaborate plan (plans, as usual, don't survive contact with the enemy).

Financially a long war is not a very good idea on either side therefore I'm sure it will HAVE to be over soon. Of course never overlook the ability of governments to make bad financial decisions...

So put this together, and in 1913, "total war? Eh, we'll be done and home by christmas" sounds totally reasonable.

The dying Ottoman empire was a huge trading area. Istanbul or whatever controls all of Russia's southern ports. The trade was very important. However the Ottoman's were collapsing so "someone" is going to step into the vacuum and take over, and whoever does will gain massive power. Its something to fight about. Who allies with who in this era was controlled mostly (well, at least in major part) by who will take over and run Istanbul and all the trade that runs thru it.

Theres a blindness toward the importance of the Balkan states region. Its not just they like to fight for fun, its economically a critical area, enough power to tip the balance in favor of whoever gets them, and the balance was unstable enough before this area lit up.

One specific and major blindness is people not being able to tell the difference between colonial police actions and total war on home turf. Yes dudes with uniforms and rifles fight both, but its really two different concepts.
Thanks for that link (and for submitting it!). I've done something similar in deploy scripts, to warm up a fresh instance before bringing it into rotation - even better having it able to be baked into rack like that.
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Good for you for accomplishing and creating so much. Congrats on that. But good god, the background of your site is an eyesore. It literally hurt my eyes as I read through your list. You're going to deter a lot of people with such a bright background. Beyond that you're detracting so much attention away from your content. Feel free to completely ignore this, but I would change the background to something subtler or at least monotone if I were you. It will bring the focus back to where it belongs, your content, and it will give a far better first impression to new visitors.
Imagine that you are stranded on a desert island and the only source of food is coconuts, for which you must climb trees. You are bad at climbing trees and often go hungry. Is this unfair? Who is being unfair to you?
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Why shouldn't you submit to such a conference? Because you don't know if it's legit or not?

I don't think the students care if it's legit or not. They care about getting papers published so they can graduate. And apparently their schools don't care if the conferences are legit or not either. So everyone is happy, we all win!
Netflix has a pretty good collection of mainstream movies and series. Big plus is that my wife and (young) children can use it, too. I do use newsgroups sometimes to download series (X-Files) or older movies (Bullitt) that I can't find on Netflix, but I'm downloading substantially less than before.
Which recordings do you recommend? (One per comment.)
Fergusson College recently hosted a "NATIONAL conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applications".

Needless to say, every participant was from Pune...
Those are recordings from the 30C3 which will conclude today, the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

The schedule with abstracts of the talks can be found here: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/Fahrplan/schedule.html
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Furthermore, what kind of arsehole engineer works for these guys? Surely the old "for your country, son" shtick doesnt work anymore?

I'm not a fan of a blacklist, but jeez, if anyone deserves to be blacklisted, its any arsehole that has willingly worked there. Fuck them.
"«I'm not seeing much warmongering as a cultural phenomena.» In the U.S., perhaps not."

I am not sure if there was ever a time when warmongering was looked upon more casually than today, and that is valid especially in U.S. considering the tolerant attitude toward violence in movies, video games, etc. So I would say it is exactly that, a cultural phenomena. (You'd need to look at it from outside your cultural frame if it is not obvious as it is). I'm not saying that it entirely specific to a culture though. There is a shift in how things are handled in an armed conflict that contributes to the perception of war. Before, war meant one's personal physical exposure (as a fighting soldier) whereas now that is becoming increasingly less so. Human soldiers today are needed not so much for tactical combat, but as an interacting human agent in the war zone (e.g. acting police for occupied civilian population).
Or perhaps you're misinterpreting him. I don't think there's a need to call the author a special kind of asshole, there's nothing there implying that he's referring to himself when saying egoless. At least the way I see it, being egoless is a goal to the reader, not the author's self description.
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Prelude also adds hooks to save a buffer every time it loses focus. It also triggers when the point is placed by a mouse click.

Very useful!
Watching The Tor Network right now... pretty interesting
Hey Dave, are you in Edinburgh? You should enter make-a-game-month (#makgammon) [1] next year. Its hosted at Edinburgh Hacklab. I think you would really fit in

http://edinburghhacklab.com/2013/12/make-a-game-month-result...
well those videos has been viewed millions of times before and if for sure many people has flagged them specially those working for the government so it does not makes sense to claim that Google finds them against their TOS, Google did not say that to begin with. you can wait for google's answer before you jump into defending them.
As for the link you mentioned why would not you take it as a n acting game between the US government and YouTube to halt Muslim anger around the world "we ask you to delete them but you say no" have not crossed into your minde that Google might be involved in anti Muslim activities, i am just saying that is a possibility i am not saying for sure google is doing so as a conspiracy but it raises a high question.
It's bad because it's anti consumer. People in the US seem to have forgotten the fact that the whole capitalist system ostensibly exists to make things better for the consumer.

I cannot understand people who champion anticompetitive actions like Apple's ebook conspiracy with stupid logic like "They can afford an extra dollar for an ebook if it makes the market fair".
Thanks!! Yeah wasn't sure myself, changed it to something more blue sky. Thanks again for the feedback!
As founder of StackOverflow, I'd like to think he's been pretty helpful to the programming community.
Pop culture has a part to play, HAL and The Terminator series of movies come to mind immediately.
Transcript of Glenn Greenwald's 30c3 Keynote
Electronic Bank Robbery is awesome... it's about hacking into an ATM to make it spit out bills at random times.
Link: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5476_-_en_-_...
Show HN: (pre-beta SaaS) "Get organized, get Headspace"
I am a software engineer working alone on a passion project, a website that helps you stay organized easily and efficiently.

Headspace.io is a webmail, notepad, task list and calendar, all rolled into on. The basic premise is that any data in Headspace can be "tagged" and then all relevant information for a particular tag can be displayed in one screen.

This is a pre-beta build and I'm hoping to get some early feedback from the wise and generous HN folks. Would you pay a small monthly fee ($5 maybe) for a service like this?

http://app.headspace.io/

(This is pre-production so please do not use real data.)
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> Interesting to see how good multi-monitor support is.

I used Emacs for 13 years on VMS workstations, all of which used separate X displays for each monitor. Multiple-X-display support was added to Emacs in version 19.3x, but Emacs on VMS [1] was stuck on an older version (19.28?) for a very long time. So I longed for, but lacked, any multi-monitor use with Emacs for a long time. I take it for granted today.

[1] That Emacs was available on VMS at all was due to the efforts of Richard Levitte--one of the unsung heros of FLOSS in my mind. The system interface stuff worked quite well on VMS.
I think I once decided I could live happily from £3 million.

To pay off the current house would cost me £50k, then spend half a million to buy a huge house to live in, along with all the gadgets, furniture, and solid wood you could need. After that spend 4x100k to buy four more houses.

That leaves £2 million to live off, plus the rental income of five properties, and a spare 100k to cover emergency repairs, and furnishings for the rental places.

If I won/earned/received £2 million I would probably need to keep working, unless investments did exceptionally well, but £3 would be sufficient for myself and partner.
No idea what this site is or what the keynote's about. A little background please?
that exercise is the "aha" moment.
Hey, yes I am. Sadly I'll be moving on in January though. When is the next #makgammon? I may drop in and see you lot before I leave!
That's a good output but a little disingenuous to say 22 when several are just various themes on the same engine. (E.g. 4 paint apps)

Depending on your aim with these, next year would be a great year to focus less on dev and more on marketing. Many of these have zero reviews on the play store but are on par with other more established apps.
Articles name does not reflect content. Content of article has little value. Also the poster seems to work for techcrunch.
IIRC, IPv6 addresses were 128-bit numbers?
The poor also participate in the US political system and help maintain the regrettable status quo.
Of course it's in Apple's interests to control prices, the question is whether it's in the public's interests. I'm undecided.

Apple can always control prices by being the exclusive seller of their products, that would be a valid way to do it. By selling it to a third party they, I think (again, am undecided) they give up the right to say how much it can be sold for. In the same way they can't stop you from selling your iPhone to a friend for cheap.

What they can do is not to sell to retailers who they feel are damaging their brand. In effect, this is exactly what they are doing, however they are doing it through written agreements rather than through observation.
This is probably true for software development, but less true for entrepreneurship. Once you pass 30, other factors start kicking in for the latter, particularly for women.
Rational Documentation for home improvement projects, perhaps? Should come along with the manual for the microwave...
"Startup culture is bad for women" doesn't imply anything about blame, except maybe blame for failure to change now that that harm is observable. The existence of a harm doesn't imply that it was foreseeable in advance such that there is any moral culpability attached to it.
> The Keynote by Glenn Greenwald - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5622_-_en_-_...

> The Tor Network - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5423_-_en_-_...

> Bullshit made in Germany (might only be interesting for Germans) - http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5210_-_de_-_...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v4eXaVkHc4&list=RDI6b7utD5H...

Got my blood boiling.!
right, and the decades of classroom time they put in, and the complexity of their field has NOTHING to do with how much they get paid. There will be some bad actors in any group, but to paint both groups with such a broad brush is doing a disservice to the ones that engage in those professions because they have a passion for the law or want to heal people.
I recommend Jacob Applebaum's presentation (I only watched part 2. You don't necessarily have to watch part 1). He talked about these two articles in particular: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-nsa-uses-power... / http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-ns... in good detail. Pretty impressive (and frightening) stuff.
Moved from eastern Europe to London and the only thing that is actually better is 3G coverage. The rest is expensive/extremely low quality.

Just came back from holidays at parents. 300 Mbps FTTH is £20/month, however it's not all bells and whistles. Speed to London is 200 Mbps. To NY - 1 Mbps. Neighbouring countries get 100-200 Mbps and I couldn't establish a real pattern, but international torrent speed is usually 25% of the national one.

The thing is we have monopoly and no one is bothered to play that game "rent from us, it's competition" because everyone knows it's extremely inefficient. Where as in London I could choose among 5 or so "competitors", which offer precisely the same service (and all of them won't offer upload speed of more than 200-300 Kbps - it's hardly enough for video chats (which gave me the idea that not only upload speeds should be advertised, but also streaming bandwidth)).

Oh, and how about the whole BT's rollout of FTTC? Why would you'd be saving couple ££'s, when you know for sure that couple years later that will have to be upgraded?

Mobile plans are roughly half price, 3G coverage over the country is spotty and 4G is virtually non-existant.
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My point is that its incredibly inefficient and bringing it up in an article about sleep seems like typical New Age evangelism to me. While there are certainly some benefits to it, its nothing like taking a nap.
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When you commit other developers work you are merging in the wrong "direction".Please read:
http://tech.novapost.fr/merging-the-right-way-en.html
> The whole point is that the tool should make it easy for you to do what you intend to do. That's the whole point of criticizing an application (or tool, as you put it). I am pretty sure that you can make beautiful and exact things with Git, but the fact is that sometimes they are difficult to perform or counter-intuitive, and that's the crux of the criticism.

I'm not sure I agree. There are tools that are inherently difficult, because the problem they attempt to help with are inherently complex problems: architecture, MRIs, corporate taxation, managing pilot and crew schedules for airlines, etc.

Managing source code for any system of sufficient complexity falls squarely into this domain. Git tackles this -- nicely, I would argue. Among other needs, VCS's need to separate code changes into manageable chunks, store them in a compact manner, and be able to distribute those changes efficiently over a network.

Git handles these quite nicely. Separately, you would like developers to have the ability to commit changes in small, related chunks, all while simultaneously preventing conflicts -- or at least making them difficult. Git does this as well.

> A tool should not be designed only to "allow" people to do certain things. It should also make these things easy and straight forward.

Again, I'm not sure I agree with this premise for all cases. Tools should be as complicated as they need to be, and no more. The basic workflow behind git -- add, commit, pull/push -- is not overly complicated, and I must be honest in admitting that it puzzles me when it is otherwise claimed. Is it easy? Apparently not for some. My personal path was CVS, SVN, MKS, Perforce, then git, and it did not take me long to understand the benefits of git over the others I had used.

It was pretty straightforward. Different, but hardly intractable, especially for a tool which is so singularly important to me as a developer. In that case I do not mind complexity, given the flexibility that is gained and, frankly, since it's what I do for a living.
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