skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing far more success stories for Linux adoption than failures. If, as you say, anecdotes like yours abound, then there would hardly be any Linux use at all. However, fortunately, your situation is not as common as you think - and in fact the successes are far, far more common. Or else we wouldn't have the subject to discuss: it would have festered, already.

But, it didn't fester, because the fact is: Linux works great on the Desktop. Really, really great. And it offers far more powerful features than the competition. So that is why its thriving.

The days of 'drivers being better on Windows' are over, by the way.
I believe there was a copyright safe harbor for content on the internet before DMCA. However, it may have been just through case law. BBS and USENet operators took advantage of it back in the day.
In-app purchases will be absolutely raping user's minds and wallets.

Virtual reality will make a strong come back. Steambox + Oculus combo will be quite popular among hardcore gamers.

There will be a growing disappointment in HTML5 not being able to provide proper mobile experience.

HTML5 spec will not be stabilized.
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نتيجة الشهادة الاعدادية الترم الاول محافظة الاسكندرية 2014 برقم الجلوس
You have a team member in Karachi? That made me super happy !

Congratulations !
I'm honestly baffled by the reaction to this. You're absolutely right that it is extremely clear.

It says he is a director at the Center of Law and the Biomedical Sciences at the School of Law and that he is a Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics at the School of Medicine.

It literally says that in his bio.

Yet at least three people in this thread have felt the need to inform HN that "he's not a genetics prof" and then link to the bio of him that lists him as a Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics at the Stanford School of Medicine.

What does the education portion of your comment have to do with my comment? The comment I was responding to said he was not a Genetics professor, I responded by saying that he is a Genetics professor (according to his Stanford bio).

I wasn't saying that he was not a legal expert as well.
I agree, all papers should specify the date. Unfortunately, when submitting to journals or conferences, the author often doesn't have a choice in the matter, as papers have to follow a given template.
I took rl3's comment as basically saying that since it is so easy to send data across the border using the internet, only someone so extremely stupid that such people are unlikely to even exist would actually try to cross the border with a laptop or phone that contains evidence of a crime. The implication is then that it is fruitless to look at phones and laptops at the border to try to find criminals.

My response was trying to say that he's way off in his understanding of what people of average intelligence do when they do criminal things. There are plenty of arguments one can use to make a plausible case against widespread border searches. The argument that basically no one is dumb enough to carry a phone or laptop with incriminating data across the border is not one of them.
Anyone know if Time Warner Cable does this?
Minor gripe: The other reason isn't library support, it's unicode strings, which are a massive pain for unix systems programming.
Computer Science in US Secondary Schools
And I think you didn't understand my point. Sometimes these security fixes will not be compatible with the application you are running. It will usually not be an issue if every single line of code you run is from the distro manager, but I've had CentOS security fixes breaking my apps because the security fix forced some other way of doing things, and because they didn't bother backport the subsequent bug fixes to the security fixes.

Yes, it may be less work with a stable system. I'm not arguing that part, but it is an idealized pipe dream to install once and then let the system be. You still have to have the machinery to do maintenance work, and you still need proper testing. Security fixes are NOT exempt from that in any way.
> Total earnings for the year 2011 for the entire credit card industry were $18.5 billion, which was up slightly from the 13.6 billion earned in 2010.

http://www.bcsalliance.com/creditcard_profits.html

18.6 billion is still quite a bit of money to extract for the service of letting people spend their own money.

All those extra benefits should be unbundled and it'll be interesting to see how many consumers purchase them when their costs aren't being subsidized by cash buyers.
I'm never on Facebook anymore, but I'm not too keen on switching to Google+ either. I want an ADN for Facebook.
Wasps & co will love this kind of stuff. :-)
> "not a genetics prof - a law prof.

http://www.law.stanford.edu/profile/hank-greely "

From the page you linked:

"Greely is also a professor (by courtesy) of genetics at Stanford School of Medicine."

It seems that he is a Professor (by courtesy) of Genetics, he is on the Steering Committee for Biomedical Ethics, and is a director at the Center of Law and the Biosciences.

Here is my other comment on the matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994518
That is precisely what the Founding Fathers intended to happen in this situation. Calling the militia!
Also recommended is "Racing the Beam" from MIT Press [1]. It is a terrific tour of Atari 2600 software development by examining several different games, including another Howard Scott Warshaw cart, Yar's Revenge.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam
Ask HN: How did your sales do in 2013?
How were your 2013 sales and did you start your company in 2013?
Reflects well on the people who made the video and no doubt that will help them launch something new. Win/win sort of situation given the market failure of the competitor application.
Hear the sound of the Earth moving from the deepest hole on the planet
When I'm in an interactive session I just leave out the print statement, since it'll print the repr() of the result anyway. And repr is (generally) what I want.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
I think you'll find alot of developers have very different pain points for the switch. For you, it's integer division. For me, it's unicode strings. Some people in this discussion even cite the print function.

Long story short, if you're turning something easy into something hard, don't expect people to switch.
Regarding #3, I'm pretty sure Snowden only had clearance for NSA-related materials. Those examples would be intelligence outside of the NSA's area.
Interesting frontend webdevelopment links from 2012/2013
Not to mention common idioms like x.y vs x._y where one is a property and the other the actual member.
No: edX tried matching 868 high-performing MOOC students with employers, and none were hired.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/edx-drops-plans-to-co...
How it works: NSA uses its immense resources to find jailbreaks. Finds jailbreaks. Sets up a 'hacker front' to publish jailbreaks/establish hegemony over the subject in the mindset of the iPhone-jailbreaking public. Regularly publish jailbreaks.

Oila: a few million remote installations. (EDIT: .. on known-subversive phones. Only subversive types jailbreak.)
You missed my point.
the license for Unity3d is incompatible with distributing source code on github, or licensing it with any open source license. You can't do it.

As for librocket, I was confused about that, so I had a look and I'm not sure that's what they are using for anything more than the UI. The framework they are using is SFML.
Was it 3bn cash or 3bn with some conditions? Maybe they have already made enough money (or are confident they will) and now want to get their name into history by building great company.
Plot-twist: the NSA is the jailbreaking community.
I see this a lot, yet Mavericks works great on my Hackintosh. Never crashed since I updated, and that was very early on.
It sounded like you wished you had a bunch of naked pictures of her. So yeah, creepy.

I'm still friends with various ex girlfriends too but I don't go around saying "I wish I had more photos of my ex from back when we were together" because it sounds like a mixture of creepy and unable to let go.
I'm looking forward for this. My prediction is that I don't move forward on my RetroBSD running DIY calculator.
Make Yourself An Indispensable Developer
I have been running Linux on laptops for about 12 years now. The only way to do it and retain your sanity/get any useful work done is to run it inside a VM on OSX or Windows. Full screen, you won't even notice the underlying OS if you don't want to.
I am sorry, if you feel I am being snarky. But "by courtesy" plainly is used as some form of honorary title - if he had it "by merit" they would not use the term.

Given that the title of the article at least, implies that a person with deep knowledge of the science (not the ethics) of genetics is expressing an opinion, it seems fair to point out that there is no indication of deep math skills, or of chemistry, physics, biochemistry, etc. knowledge.
Nice way to say "happy new year" :)
Hummm not really

Just write data up to its size. Multiple times, just to be sure

Read it from /dev/urandom
I live in the countryside. Ask me about neighbouring Sheep, Goats, barking Dogs, braying Donkeys, logging trucks, tractors, screeching Baboons, honking wild Geese,...
Am I the only one in here who used to find AllThingsD extremely boring? I specifically didn't like Kara's attempts to make gossip an essential part of our industry. Yes we happen to have quite a few billionaires in this market but nobody cares about the way they spend their money. We're here for the innovation part.
There is never a perfect time to start your new software business
> Are services shuting down at greater rates that in the past decade?

Probably not, but the model has shifted and there's a greater offering of services nowadays. Given the choice available and all the niches covered, it's very easy to start using one of them and coming to rely on it for some facet of your life/work, only to have it shut down with little prior notice and leaving you out to dry.

The parent's point is that if you use locally running software without any dependencies on external services you're much more secure in the event you need to migrate away from them, since you can do it at your own pace and with much more control over the entire process. Also, if you're using FOSS, it makes it less likely the support will just cease since, if there's enough interest, someone else (even you) can carry it forward.
Nice, that's good, right? Since it's as good as a dual pane window and also lets air through.
Inside America’s deadliest fraternity
Apple denies 'backdoor' NSA access
"If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public."

- http://boingboing.net/2013/12/24/edward-snowden-declares-vic...
I wouldn't be surprised if you're right, but how do you know that's what this means? I would think the ACLU would be all over that and would have at least mentioned it in the press release.
It sounds like its not sane to get a 4k monitor now as a long term investment, as the monitor side is not standardised yet.
As long as they don't tamper with the data I think an HTTP cache is perfectly OK. HTTP has loads of built-in mechanism for that kind of caching. It saves bandwidth upstream, not least for website owners, and may make your web browsing speed faster if the proxy is good.

Tampering with the data, however, is not OK at all. In the U.S. I believe it may make the ISP exempt from for example the safe harbor clauses in the DMCA.
A lot of predictions here with a US or tech perspective:

Like the Economist I see the EU succeed in putting more pieces of its banking union in place. This means large EU banks fall under ECB regulation rather than national regulation. This severs one link that exacerbated the € crisis but stops short of full fiscal transfers between regions which means more pain for the less resilient economies.

In Europe and the US inequality will continue to grow as nothing has been put into place that reverses the socialism-for-the-rich policies and the part-capture of politics by finance. There will not be another Occupy movement but with unemployment holding stubbornly steady and people unsure whether this is down to the 1% or tech automation expect to see undirected anger at the wealthy and the tech industry.

The centre of economic activity continues to shift to the far east. China stays on course to become the world's largest economy within five years. Chinese companies become more visible globally following the lead of Japan and Korea.

It becomes obvious that higher learning is being radically re-shaped by online courses and content. The current education players (publishers/universities) that do not embrace this new landscape will face hard times. Institutions will only be limited by linguistic boundaries, not (geographical) national ones. Primary and secondary learning unchanged because kids must go to school while parents work and must go to school locally. Pretty good chance that computer programming is adopted as a core skill by more and more regions.

Areas of activity in 2014 will be Space, Solar, Gas, Biotech, Cybercurrencies (rivals to BTC will emerge this year), and the FOSS gets serious about federated (anonymous/pseudonymous/real name) social networks and secure private chat platforms.

In terms of conflict I think we'll get more of the same. War of attrition continues in Israel, settlement activity continues, no progress on peace. No significant development in Syria unless China/Russia do a volte face. Possible internal turmoil in North Korea due to purge and defections - N. Korean regime will eventually collapse as no malevolent dictatorship or tyranny has ever survived as such but calling when is impossible. As the Arab Spring has everything to do with the spread of enlightenment ideals and very little to do with internet technologies expect to see more demonstrations around the region and concessions like allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia and things like this but no government being overthrown. Iran pushes forward with its nuclear program (as do other petroleum states) and finds US/Israel to be implacable, as US withdraws from Afghanistan the likelihood of boots on the ground in Iran increases.
Thanks for calling me out on that. With that comment, I basically lowered the quality of a discussion that I started (being the poster), and for that I apologize.
- No major changes in governments monitoring their citizens. Lots of intermittent hoopla. The story slowly fades.

- In the U.S., the Republicans, which have been mostly given up for dead, somehow make a comeback. Mainly because voters have no other choices

- Portable hardware continues to amaze. Tablets, music players, and cell phones are just the beginning

- More startup incubators kick off. At some point, folks realize that while there's not going to be a new SV any time soon, there are going to be a hundred 5% versions in the next few years

- Everybody agrees that Facebook loses it's mojo but has enough momentum that it remains a viable concern -- and will for some time into the future

- The EU continues to skate just ahead of monetary crisis. As the end of the cash infusion appears, investors get nervous. Very nervous.

- Economists continue to argue using calculus, making the rest of us sad that we ever taught calculus to those guys

- Saudi Arabia seriously begins a nuclear program (probably covertly)

- Israel does not strike Iran

- Japan makes it's first steps towards becoming a true regional military power again

- China makes another hamfisted attempt at regional hegemony, continuing to alarm the neighbors

- The politicization of science continues unabated

- Open Science gains a little ground, but not much

- Christmas Tree machines still remain a distant possibility. 3D printing doesn't make huge gains

- Every week we're told of a new amazing discovery in energy -- batteries, solar cells, air storage, thorium reactors, fusion by means of tea kettles. It's always tantalizing, we always say the same things about it on HN -- and it always never amounts to much

- Some major discoveries about cancer are made, probably along the lines of immune system modification as a treatment

Okay, that's all I got. Wonder how many I'll hit on?
No in this case it's because they don't present the reader to you - they punch in the sale, then ask you to hand them the card and swipe it.

Also in Australia I've not seen swipe without PIN used very much - a swipe usually requires a pin, whereas tap does not (and is also a lot faster).
I wasn't implying dumb or incompetent criminals don't exist. As you said, they do exist, and they do sometimes cross borders with ridiculously incriminating data in their possession.

My point was, I fail to see why such people can't be brought to justice via methods that don't involve shredding travelers' personal freedoms, the vast majority of whom are completely innocent.

Policies often have to strike a balance between positive and negative effects. When the negative greatly exceeds the positive, then the legitimacy of the policy should be called into question, even if the policy is effective at achieving its stated goal.

Data can be an extremely personal thing, and rummaging through it or storing it indefinitely, without any cause whatsoever, should be an embarrassment to any Western democracy that engages in the practice.
Yes, for purchases that are consumed within the business (such as office supplies, etc). However anything purchased for resale does not get sales tax -- as that tax will be collected later when the item is sold to at retail.
This sounds really interesting but how will this be different than a "mix-and-match" ?? I am guessing Angelina does something like a Genetic Algorithm and tries to piece different things together to form a game... But as it stands, is this just a random game generator? Or is there a feedback loop in there somewhere that helps Angelina makes better games in the future?

Btw, I am not, in any way, saying that this isn't extremely cool. It's EPIC. I can't believe someone actually went through with this and made a game generating program! Kudos!
Yeah 10GbE missing is odd, although its probably a cost thing, and you appear to be able to buy thunderbolt 10GbE.
Smash of Fairlight wrote some articles on rendering millions of particle in realtime on a GPU:

A thoroughly modern particle system
http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/a-thoroughly-m...

Agenda circling forth
http://directtovideo.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/agenda-circlin...
And it's smart of them to change direction.
Yes, they did (and he gave it). They even asked him to write it on the computer so that they could continue to use the password when they took the laptop from him.
And add the value of some learning along the way for masses of non finishers. One could argue this is still better for non-graduates as it still doesn't leave them in debt.
My concerns with Bitcoin as a currency
While technically true, that is clearly a bad way to think about this. It's analogous to someone playing loud music on the bus, and you telling someone, if you don't like it buy your own bus.
Indian Election Commission has gifted the entire country's electoral data to Google. The electoral data includes (at least) voter's name, father or husband's name, address, age and sex. Apparently its a service being done by Google as part of its CSR obligations. It is not clear if Google can use it for any other purposes.
Beyond3D - Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt()
> " But "by courtesy" plainly is used as some form of honorary title - if he had it "by merit" they would not use the term. "

You know why the Stanford School of Medicine gave him that title? It wasn't for merit? And Stanford is using the "by courtesy" term differently than how it is normally defined?

> "Given that the title of the article at least, implies that a person with deep knowledge of the science (not the ethics) of genetics is expressing an opinion, it seems fair to point out that there is no indication of deep math skills, or of chemistry, physics, biochemistry, etc. knowledge."

Just to be clear, are you saying that you see no indication that Greely has a deep knowledge of the science behind his field of study-- based on the title and content of a ~700 word Venturebeat post?

I'm not going to comment on this thread anymore. If you want, you can look through his publications. But I doubt that would change your mind.
This (https://pay.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1u4xss/snapchat_pho...) is the creator's comment on the reddit thread. You can drill him for questions, if you want. :)
Drone strikes on civilians manufactures a raison d'etre for the whole military-industrial complex.
Poorly editorialized title.
See also http://journ101.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/what-is-a-news-peg-...
I do not insist that C strings must die, I insist that C strings are indeed arrays of bytes, and we cannot use them to represent text correctly at present. I fully support strings to be Unicode-by-default in Python, as most people will put text in between double quotes, not a bunch of bytes represented by textual characters.

I do not expect C or Unix interpretations of strings to change, but I believe that they must be considered low-level and require higher-level language user to explicitly request the compiler to interpret a piece of data in such fashion.

My first name is "Göktuğ". Honestly, which one of the following is rather desirable for me, do you think?

Python 2.7.4 (default, Sep 26 2013, 03:20:26)
>>> "Göktuğ"
'G\xc3\xb6ktu\xc4\x9f'

or

Python 3.3.1 (default, Sep 25 2013, 19:29:01)
>>> "Göktuğ"
'Göktuğ'
Because the GPL has a set of restrictions and political baggage that can act as a hindrance to a lot of applications. GPL-encumbered software, for example, cannot be linked to software written under the Eclipse license, so creating a static analysis plugin that links to GCC is not possible. A more open license allows much greater freedom to use a work in the greater Free software community.
The issue with a traditional erase: ie write random bytes to the disk 7 times. Is writes to SSDs wear them out a bit. If you erase disks a lot its going to wear out sooner.

There are tools called "Secure Erase" that use special functions on the disk to wipe it without wearing it out.
at some point people started thinking that mobile phones somehow need to be more personal than land lines.

In the specific case though, it's as if you had already asked to be removed from the phone book (implicitly trusting the company), and then your number was published anyway.
Google-acquired Bump shutting down this month
Disagree. I suspect they would fall under personal data in the European Union under the Data Protection Directive.
maybe but a condom and a micro sd card probably isn't super detectable.
The OP decries the lack of deep learning. I don't think that was ever the intent. Neither was community. The intent was crowdsourcing a body of knowledge. For this they succeeded. I've also switched to being a provider to user but that's because I don't expect community there.
Given the histories of these 2 writers, I'd have hoped for a bit more substance in such an important post for them.

They don't mention anything specific about the new site, and given how many other good tech sites there are, the vagueness doesn't make me curious enough to come back.

And in terms of journalistic integrity with full disclosures; I learnt more about what has really happened from the comments here than I did in that post. Surely they should have disclosed that a need to "refresh, reimagine, remake and reinvent" wasn't the only thing in play here.