skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "if your data never crosses a US border (E.g. a Norwegian person using jottacloud), then the NSA cable taps have no effect"

Perhaps, as pertains to the taps we were warned about by Mark Klein, Snowden, et al. But if you think that's the full extent of US intelligence taps, Angela Merkel's cell phone rather disagrees. (And the notion that they'd tap a half dozen foreign leaders before they tapped a trunk line or five is pretty laughable.)
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Technically, 8x faster is a 700% speedup.

Either way, using percentages there seems really misleading. 15% versus 700% (or 800%) looks like a much bigger difference than 1.15 versus 8 if you're not careful when thinking about it.
Very cool that Backblaze continues to post things like this. Few people have this experience. Of those who do, few (I assume) break it out to this level of detail, actionable for others. Of those who have good experience and records, most would consider it proprietary or just decide not to post. Kudos to Backblaze.
Here is a story that happened last week: I was at my dentist, and we are both immigrants from the same country - so she said she needed a help with her computer (while I needed very big help in the tooth department).

She bought this Windows 8 laptop, and man it felt weird for me to explain in simple words that there are in fact 2 internet explorers - and they should use the desktop one... Since she was not sure what's desktop, and what's the other thing (the metro... I said Metro, but I wanted to come up with some other word).

Their dentist webpage (seems like other dentists are using it too) - only worked with the desktop Internet explorer, and there was no easy way to run it right away from the "big icon menu" (how do you call it?).

I had to explain how I'm getting there (I've had to evaluate Windows 8 at some point), and all I remmember was - well press the Windows Key and hold "D". I might install Classic Shell for them later.

So it was frustrating - the explaining process at least for me.

Not sure why Microsoft expects people to get their duality?
Both major parties are corrupt. Therefor, electing any non-corrupt party would be a step forward, perhaps even paving the way for ending the two-party system.

We will keep having corrupt government as long as we keep voting it in.
As galfarragem mentions, it runs on Tumblr to start with. This is a totally free, simple blogging platform, pretty much perfectly suited to the needs of the site.

I get awesome hosting for free and a fair amount of flexibility. Yes there are limitations and the admin of the site isn't quite as easy, but when you haven't got much admin it's ok.

The most important reason for choosing Tumblr was the Submissions feature. Visitors can submit a post just as I need it to be. It costs them nothing, it costs me nothing - all the hard work is done (mostly - I obviously need to do some editing, but this is minimal.)

But the absolute killer feature of Tumblr is the queue. Without this, there's no way I could manage the site.

Would I like more features from Tumblr? Sure. Will it happen? Probably not. Do I need those features? Not right now.

I handle all submissions myself, the Twitter feed, Facebook Page, Google+ page... all done by me (with the help of the awesome http://bufferapp.com/)

I use IFTTT (http://ifttt.com) to check for new posts on Tumblr and cross-post to Buffer (Twitter) and Facebook - this isn't perfect yet because I'd like it to use Buffer for Facebook, Twitter and Google+, but IFTTT doesn't support that yet.

Technically the $10/month for Buffer is a cost... but I use it personally and on other projects, so this is obviated by the fact that I would be using it anyway.

I use the awesome BuySellAds (http://buysellads.com) to serve ads. Yes they take a cut and this too is technically a "cost"... but it comes straight out of money I wouldn't be making anyway so I don't see it as a cost.

I also run with a few affiliates and these bring in a little extra revenue.
second that. Using it as an angular directive. It's really nice!
Larry Lessig sings tribute to Aaron Swartz
I think this is advice that everyone should follow despite your age. Doing things like staying healthy or decreasing your own levels of stress not only do wonders to your productivity now, but you'll be repaid with a lack of health issues in the future as well.
I love mind maps to organize my thoughts but they fall flat when presenting ideas to others. Too often a mind map is only expressive to people who think exactly like you so don't use them to present... use them to organize only.
Yev from Backblaze here -> All of our drives are consumer-grade. We try to avoid buying enterprise drives at all costs. These are all off-the-shelf internals and in some cases...externals that were made internal! :)
True.

The interesting thing though about most successful rappers is that, while almost all of them come from poverty, they tend to achieve success early in life such that by the time they hit middle age they've been rich longer than they've been poor (Nas notes this in one of his songs)...

A guy like Jay-Z talking about hardship increasingly sounds out of touch :)
Depending on what you do with it, there can also be Fraud.
I made a very simple word jumble app, I get some dollars a month from ads. The one thing that blows my mind is that people still download it, how do they ever find it? :-)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.seventy9.ju...
I said "if your lawyer does not investigate".

You then said "I'd investigate ...", when you earlier asserted that you would have your lawyer do it.

A lawyer's time costs money. Especially if, as was the case here, it doesn't seem like there was anything illegal. According to the account the Google Glass wearer was informed that he was not being detained. According the the account, the Google Glass wearer not only consented to a search but insisted upon a search. (There's also good odds that they training in ways to apply psychological pressure without breaking the law.)

Nothing here is illegal, and you would have no case, so it's not like your lawyer would even have the possibility of taking it on contingency.

But you are right. Assuming they were all "rent-a-cops" then there's no law against lying to them, and you could make whatever threats you want about lawyers, true or false. According to the report, it wasn't clear if they were or were not police officers.

Which is why knowing one's rights is important.

There's tyranny of oppression. There's also tyranny of ignorance.
What happen when they "have" to do it because policies like this one?

http://www.zdnet.com/irish-td-attacks-open-source-browsers-a...
Sounds like it's treating you well but have you had problems or do you price it so you generally price-out those that might less than savory characters?
I'm making negative 15 USD/month hosting two side projects:

http://srctree.net - A pastebin with version control
http://blocksim.net - A poor man's online simulink-like thingy

I am aware that there is a _lot_ of room for improvement in both services, but the fact that nobody uses it at all is not very motivational.
Remove the word "my" and you remove the how foolish you'll look when they ask you who your legal counsel is.
Cryptography on life support
I think Ignition was always $29.99 or less. I don't remember seeing $99 any time. Is that what you payed?
I'll flip the question around: why mandate it?

The class clearly has a performance component, and so students were expected to learn about optimization. Are they going to learn optimization better or worse if you mandate a single compiler? If merely switching compilers is the best path to performance, is that not a valuable lesson? If switching compilers and doing a bunch of extra work to make the code fast with the new compiler is the best path to performance, have they not learned a great deal?
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Yup. Imagine a world, where you are still getting all these cool linux kernel improvementds but you are stuck to say "Ubuntu Unity's" ui and nothing else.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Hitachi drives. If we (Backblaze) could get them at a rate within a few dollars of the other manufacturers at the 4TB level, we would solely buy them.
Thanks Zaheer. Please see my other comment to cko
MS really need someone that understands not only what they're good at but why people have stuck with MS software at their helm

Microsoft realizes the end of the PC-era is here. (Almost) nobody is buying PCs and OS-licenses anymore, so Microsoft can't gamble it's future on those petty things.

They realize that the future belongs to services spanning several devices and multiple platforms, among which Windows can be one player. That's why you can have Microsoft-software for iOS and Android these days.

But for Windows to be a player in the future, people must want to have it on their shiny, portable touch-devices with long battery-life due to apps running in a controlled environment.

Nothing from the desktop-era Windows fits into that picture. Nothing. For Microsoft to be on those devices that just needs to go.

You and I may hate it, but Microsoft is literally forced to make this "new" Windows-model if they want to remain relevant in the future. Microsoft is upping its service-game, and it will do so at the cost of everything the PC used to be.
Jesus! How many times are we going to be played with this non-story on the HN front page?

Previously:

> HP brings Windows 7 back 'due to popular demand' as buyers shun Windows 8 (theinquirer.net)
> 54 points by chakalakasp 16 hours ago | flag | 82 comments
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7092164

> HP promotes Windows 7 PCs (smh.com.au)
> 27 points by hiharryhere 12 hours ago | flag | 43 comments
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7093073
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Ltrace internals
Despite looking around for some documentation on the topic, I was unable
to find anything meaningful on ltrace's internals. So I spent some time
digging into its sources and wrote down a blog post describing how it
works.
join.me works great if you have someone at the machine and they can start the session. But LogMeIn was something you could leave running on a machine and come back and access it later. You could have your whole family in there on your account and remote into any of them with one click when you get a tech support call from grandma.
Did I read this post correctly?

The solution to a failing brand associated with under-powered and flimsy tools is to - design a new logo?

Keep fiddling while the ship sinks I suppose.
>> "- Spotify gives me limitless account (with ads) for free, this one not."

I'm happy about this. Maybe they can convince people music is worth paying money for and instead of wasting time selling ads they can spend time and money building a good product.

>> "- Spotify is even available as a web app,and desktop client which i use most. This one???"

It's available on Android, iOs, Windows Phone AND the web at http://listen.beatsmusic.com

>> - "The item you've requested is not currently available in the Swedish Store, but it is available in the U.S. Store."

Like most music/video services it's launching in one location (US) and planning to expand to others soon. e.g. iTunes Radio is still US only. Spotify took years to branch out of Europe.

>> What are the advantages I will gain if I switch from Spotify?

After a few hours of use the main benefit seems to be playlists. I've described how they work in another post on this thread so won't repeat but they seem infinitely more useful to me on this than playlists on Spotify (which I've been using for around 5 years).
+1. He could have churned out album after album in his trademark 'soul' style but he places it all on the line with each album just to mix it up and push boundaries. He's a great artist.
Economists call it "increasing utility". When, in a free market with perfect information, you part with your money in exchange of a good it is assumed to be because the good has higher utility for you than the money it costs. A transaction increases utility for the two parts concerned, otherwise it will not happen.
Thanks, that was the case I had in mind, and I hadn't read the opinion pieces :)
Other legitimate software often removed or marked as malware:

Port scanners, IRC clients, VNC servers...
Copilot.com - It's free on the weekends!

source: I am a founder of Fog Creek Software, makers of Copilot.com
"Also, if Intel must provide good support for all AMD chips, then they will have to do the same for any other competitor (and there are some iirc)."

Again, nobody in this discussion is saying that Intel must provide good support for all AMD chips. All anyone is saying is that Intel should stop explicitly checking for non-Intel chips and running deliberately slow code on them.

Again, it would be just fine if Intel optimized their compiler exclusively for Intel CPUs and let non-Intel CPUs deal with whatever code they generated. That's what everyone would expect Intel to do. Nobody sane expects Intel to optimize for AMD CPUs in their compiler. We just expect Intel not to put extra effort into crippling them.
Running Hammer for Mac (hammerformac.com), our web-development OSX app. On a good day we might hit $100+ profit (after Apple's cut). Some days we don't get anything. It's rewarding to know that people are using it.
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Going to the same situation. I decided on NodeJS vs Ruby on Rails or Python because I am mostly a front-end engineer; so advancing in JS skills is good.

There is a lot of PHP resources on the web; so I don't have you have to give it up.
This is exactly why we created Copilot.com almost a decade ago. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/AardvarkSpec.html It's still available and is free on the weekends.
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That's kind of the point though. You can go through a lot of work to undo the changes so that it's just the same as 7. Or you can avoid the upgrade at all.

There's other things that 8 does that's annoying, there's some changes to it so that some drivers no longer work, so there's devices that are left unsupported. There's stupid decisions like how if you want to shut down you have to hover in the top right corner with your mouse, then slide down the right side of the window to go to settings to shut off.

The problem is that they wanted to make a consistent tablet interface, but it's not easy to use a tablet interface with a mouse. Many many people still use mice, and still have many reasons to still use mice, but they didn't design a system that is comfortable with a mouse. Using windows 8 on a tablet is actually not too bad, but I only use a tablet casually.
I totally agree that Tumblr is underrated. It's by no means perfect for SEO, but I haven't found it a problem. Would certainly be nice to have a little more control over certain bits, but it hasn't been detrimental to mine, now PageRank 7 (if that still means anything?)
Surely not? If a specific model happens to have a large defect rate, having all your eggs in one basket could prove absolutely disastrous.

Spreading your drives out, even among inferior options, seems like the only solid strategy.
> If his mom was a professor at a college that sounds like an indication of at least an upper middle class upbringing.

Knowing what college professor's salaries are like, "at least upper middle class" is way optimistic, though "probably solidly middle class" is likely.
Definitely sounds interesting!
Single mother in Chicago working at a state college? Straight up middle class.

I don't buy the premise that you need to be poor to have an appreciation of risk. Risk isn't just financial, there is also career and personal risk. Think of all the well-off kids who didn't follow in their fathers footsteps or what their parents wanted and pursued their own dreams, at the risk of being alienated, disowned etc.
You're compiling for x86, not AMD. The crippled AMD version is based on a runtime check.
Is it possible to delete an account? I created one before discovering it was US only.
By recognizing what materials/radiation are dangerous, we get to know how to use them in a better and safer manner. It would take a ignorant person, to state that as certain technology improves, it becomes more dangerous.
It only solves part of the experience, when someone is on both sides of the remote session. Quite often folks want to remote access another computer when no one is there.
I was just about to comment on the same.

Sensationalist headlines doesn't really work that well on HN.
'Local variable declarations are unobservable' - I thought that local variables get added to the function object similar to the way global variables get added to the window object. In that case wouldn't you be able to observe the function in which the local var is being declared?
Thanks.

You should place a link at the top which clearly says
"pricing". And putting that link in the faq and all the other obvious places.

Another thing I would suggest (and I can help with this actually) is a different name for the actual requests. I suspect that some people in government might take this more seriously (not that they aren't) if the requests came from a different (more serious) entity name. I can't back this up with anything other than being in business for a long time and knowing human nature and from my own experience.

When I saw the first think you did I though it was some kind of comedy or non serious organization trying to just stir up trouble. Even if only 10% of the recipients feel the same way as I do that's an issue.
I somehow doubt the NSA is going to be constrained because it doesn't cross a border. With the NSA's money and engineering resources, I don't really think any data is safe anywhere.
I wonder what database they are using for the ZIP codes. I tried googling around a bit and only found a bunch of "pay X$ to get all US ZIP codes". I'm pretty sure I've found these before for an ERP project I worked for...maybe the CIA? database (I distinctly remember they had some pretty good stuff)
There is curiously no way to delete your account (at least that I can find). Some Google searching led to a forum post where they said you can contact support, but as a free user I don't even see a link to support.
What's the difference between this and Adblock which has been available for a long time on Safari?
I made -20$/month hosting

http://uk.zapping.io
CSS 'frameworks' are missing the point (2008)
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awesome thanks
I thought there were plenty of those available freely.

Are these good enough? :

http://geocoder.ca/?freedata=1

US Zip Codes

File of all US 5-digit ZIP codes. Includes zip, city, state, latitude, longitude, and county (Last Updated: March 30th 2010):

US Zip Codes (41,755)

or

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zips/

Edit: MaxMind recommends this one

http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/

There's also Google's geocoding API.

Still, let's hope the project owners answer you :)
unlike Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison ..

i'm actually struggling to think of an idolized figure in tech who isn't an "asshole".

edit: put "asshole" in quotes, which gets my point across better
and here I am trying to figure how to migrate my parents off of XP to newer machines. The hold back to buying them newer machines is that both like the look and feel of Office from that generation.
entrenched bureaucratic culture and a wide gap between the students and the faculty.

a post facto weak-sauce apology is about what I expected here. I get the distinct impression that what the Dean regrets most is that the story was widely publicized, rather than that her initial reaction was "heavy handed".
I wasn't necessarily saying it was a bad thing. We're all grownups here on HN for the most part. I was just observing that it sounded like that to me. I don't knock salespeople. My old boss used to say that last two groups let go when a company is in trouble are those who make it (engineers like me) and those who sell it.

As a long time user of Windows, I'm frustrated, but maybe they're going after new people and they don't have the same expectations as me.
Hey Have you seen the video of the girl who sings without moving her lips? 
Girl sings Beyonce cover without moving her lips
rig obviously supports only a handful of fields, if you need something in between rig and Fake Name Generator, picka may be an option https://github.com/antlong/picka
Ramen To The Rescue: How Instant Noodles Fight Global Hunger
Redistribution kills motivation, ergo diminishes prosperity.

How do you simulate motivation?
Sure! Just send us an email at support@geocod.io and I'll remove your account right away.
I see it as the complete opposite.

He took who knows how many documents. So far only a select few have been released that support his allegations. I have no doubt there is information in his stack that could cause very bad things to happen to various people and/or organizations. Chances are those documents will never be released, if he has any level of conscience. Therefore, if the people who might do him harm understand that such documentation will not be released as long as he is not harmed, then it's a defense mechanism that fits exactly in line with what he claims he is doing all this for in the first place.

If he had done a massive document dump onto the Internet then I would have immediately questioned his motives.
Let's remember the versions history for Windows targeted at consumers ... Windows 3.0 (1990) => 3.1 (1992) => 3.11 (1993) => 95 (1995) => 98 (1998) => 98 SE (1999) => Me (2000) => XP (2001)

Besides Windows Millennium, which was a total clusterfuck (and I happen to have used it), all other versions were better than the ones prior to it.

Also worth considering - 3.11 was released one year after 3.1, however it was the same Windows, but with improved networking. And Win 98 SE was like a service pack for Win 98. The only time Microsoft hurried to release a major version of Windows within only one year of the previous one was after Win Me happened. And I was in high-school then, but I don't remember many Windows Me PCs being on display in computer shops.
There are profile views? :-O
Wow 331. I never thought of myself as of popular kid!
Good story but a while ago. I wonder how he's doing these days.
Rap Genius back to their old 'growth hacking' ways I see. This time exploiting the memory of a dead person for links and page views.
Tackling the Sefnit botnet Tor hazard (Microsoft)