skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could try an old trick that I used during my tech support days.

You can kill Windows explorer with task manager and then use the File/New Task option to restart explorer with a higher level user. You can then do whatever you need to as that user (e.g. control panel, delete files, add hardware, etc). When you're done, you can just repeat the process and start explorer again as the original users.

I haven't tested 100% in Windows 8 (killing and starting explorer as another user does work), but it should work in Windows 7 and below.

I used this any time right clicking an exe and selecting "run as" wasn't enough
I guess any investor would want returns on their investments.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D._Mitchell*

I never said "all important discoveries come from the government". The Polio vaccine and penicillin and the theory of evolution and the last Nobel Prize for Graphene and a bunch of other things came out of non-government funded research.

That has no bearing on the fact that most of the biggest advances cannot be had without significant long term investment without guaranteed outcomes that most private investors are extremely unlikely to fund. I mean, have you seen the sort of research proposals professors write that actually get grants from the NSF?

Beyond things like DARPA and NSF and the like, think of things like the various National Labs. Nobody's winning Nobel Prizes every year at these labs, but year after year they do work that pushes the boundaries of human knowledge to enable future discoveries.
Millions of passwords and email details stolen in Germany
Nope, it won't work outside the US. But US addresses actually have a list of suffixes that all ordinary addresses comply to. See https://www.usps.com/send/official-abbreviations.htm
I was so hoping for a reply to this... I guess it was too much of a slam-dunk.
I think its fair to say that scenarios where a service cancels a user account because his/her name was not "realistic sounding" are few and far between. (Assuming you're not entering names like "Doorknob Toothbrush")
that can also be read as ebook seduction.
Unless you know these people personally, you don't really know what they're like. I know Mark isn't though.
This is really impressive, nice work! The ability to export in so many native and useful formats is really awesome as well.

One suggestion: it was not clear to me (until I RTFM'd) that I needed to press the "insert" key to insert a new node. Perhaps a few words of explanation on the homepage would be helpful?
For a more austere mind mapping alternative, I highly recommend http://workflowy.com
Not sure whether you meant to agree with me or not, but that's precisely my point. Only now we're even appropriating assholes from other industries.

Also, I doubt all these tech figures are actually assholes. Arguably they're forced to adopt those personas publicly by an industry which demands it.
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Most people will not be using advanced functions though and if people generally understand how version control works, I don't think git is super hard to pick up and learning whilst doing is most effective for me.

I'm sure most people are probably aware of : http://try.github.io/

which is a cool little resource for learning git.
I just bought a copy myself!
I agree that it's a dark pattern, but I wish that more people would reserve downvotes for comments not constructive to the unpacking of ideas and opinions, such as inflammatory, derailing, or factually misleading/incorrect information. I feel that I've seen too many unexplained downvotes placed seemingly because of disagreement with a commenter's articulated contrarian opinion, and that's bad for meaningful discourse.
Firstly that is a very nice map. Do you have any plans to do any other cities or is it a one and done kind of project?

Secondly, (and this is a shameless plug, sorry) if you're finding keeping up with VAT a pain and you're a small business take a look at FreeAgent (https://freeagent.com/harry - the referral code will get you 10% off). I work for them and it sounds like it might be of use.
Method a) is a very weak check and also is either slow, or will likely make Google ban you for trying to DDoS them.

Method b) is what, AFAIK, such software usually does, and from what I heard it generates tons of false positives and is generally annoying.

A student friend of mine told me about how much trouble she and her year has with the anti-plagiarism system her university uses; basically citing things or using the same reference material (and thus having similar references section) is enough to mark your thesis as plagiarism. They have a ruthlessly enforced threshold of "plagiarism %" you need to stay below, and from what she says, it's incredibly difficult to do so even when writing completely original work.
Did you read the article, or just the headline?

Seibel studied English, has written some popular programming books, and has had the experience of trying to set up code-reading seminars at multiple companies.[1] The key points of the article were 1) many programming gurus recommend reading code yet nobody does this; and 2) applying a lit-seminar approach to investigating code doesn't really work. That's all he was saying. There's no need to imply that his understanding of literature is limited to pulp fiction (I highly doubt that it is).

If you go through life looking for opportunities to argue semantics, you won't be disappointed. But you'll also miss most of the meaning.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=peter%20seibel
Well, we don't have a direct democracy (thank goodness; impossible communications wise for the original 13 states, historically most unwise given the stark object lesson of Athens, which our Founders were familiar with). So it's not like they directly voted on this, and remember Pelosei's "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it". Which due to Scott Brown's election overstates the case, there turned out to be plenty of time to analyze the unfinished Senate bill before it was passed by the House.

The real question is how have the young been convinced to vote for one anti-freedom side vs. another? After they helped put those politicians in office it's too late.

Especially when the fears raised about the other side, social issues stuff, are entirely impractical and improbable, the national level Republicans have done even less for social conservatives than they've done for gun owners (I follow the latter very closely) and have no stomach whatsoever for doing battle there.

Well, as we're noting, perhaps harsh experience will teach them a lesson. They are slowly losing their enthusiasm for Obama....

You might also look into all the work done on rational ignorance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance And why are they satisfied to get so much of their political information from comedy shows? And how things have gotten so polarized even admitting to being in favor of conservative or Republican stuff can have dire real world consequences; a threshold appears to me to have been passed in the aftermath of California Proposition 8.

Back to rational ignorance: to take myself as an example, what would it matter how I politically educated myself if I today lived in California? Even voting a straight Republican ticket wouldn't accomplish much with how "wet" I gather the state party has become. Or how I follow politics because my mother does and taught me that, plus I came of political age in a very consequential time, not long after Nixon's first term began, and a bit later realized the America I thought I had grown up in was gone, and researched the what and why. I don't do it just so I can vote better.

Bottom line, details omitted for this posting: when "The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!" in due course, and probably pretty soon, these young will learn their lesson, at least those who survive...
348.7 million PCs were wold in 2012. Never make absolutes, except that you shouldn't make absolutes. They make your opinions look dumb.
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If you want to understand the classic economic models you might find useful the python implementation I wrote a while ago of some of them. Inspired in Caltech's Principles of Economics for Scientists, they still lack supporting documentation, but I think they are good enough to play with and explore. https://github.com/juanre/econopy
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I feel like rating systems should be median based. Or bottom 25th percentile based. Those asshats that put 1 star "because it doesn't do x, otherwise 5" ruin 4 other 5 star ratings. When the bottom 25th percentile would still be 5/5.
>>doesn't comport with someone who was a patriot

I hope you understand that this is only your opinion. In my view (and others who support Snowden's efforts) his actions are exactly the kind I would take to save my country from itself.
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Normally diversification is absolutely the way to go, but once we've found a drive with low failure rates across the board, we'd want to move mostly to using that one drive type. We can always move over to another type of drive, but there's a very real cost of having to swap drives out as they fail, so the more reliable the drive, the more incentive to stick with it until it's no longer reliable. At the moment, we're more concerned about price, so we buy a wide-variety, but we have our favorites :)
Do you just by habit throw the word illogical around at the beginning of your responses?

It's not really a healthy way to have a debate.

Optics? Are you making this about marketing?
It's almost certain that Yale will no longer make any course/instructor review information available online as a result of all this. The Dean as much as telegraphed this in his missive.
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$300. May or may not save you water or money. Who cares, I can turn on the sprinklers on my kids with my iPhone. Sold.
Super-fast Wi-Fi coming: 802.11ac-2013
How do you decide when to cancel a credit card? Or do you keep every credit card you sign up for?
The hype is simply that the historically go-to OS for ease of use is now difficult for so many of its most dedicated users. I used most versions of Windows going back to the early 90s, and have generally been on Mac OS X since 2006 (except at some jobs). I'm still very familiar with Windows up to Windows 7, but I remember being horrified when trying to help my parents figure out their new laptop running Windows 8. It was so hard to show them how to use it for even their most basic needs. Last week I was trying to help a friend locate Wordpad on Windows 8. I thought about cheating and seeing if the search worked as well as Spotlight, but I was determined to figure out the usual path to open it, and the steps seem so much slower than most versions of Windows. I understand that people can simply learn the new ways, but Microsoft's claim to fame was that their OS was good for all the people who aren't good at computers. It's not like the new look and feel is going to convert people from Mac and Linux, so what competitive edge does Windows have now if their own users are struggling so much?
He's not predicting the future. He's looking at the past and giving you a blatant example of a similar situation.

The word MLK is nowhere in your comment.
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As a model of economic institutions, it has what Joseph Heath of the University of Toronto has termed catallactic bias: gain from trade is explicitly modeled, but the four other mechanisms of cooperative benefit, economies of scale, risk pools, self binding and information transmission, are not recognized.

"...much of contemporary social contract theory has been marked by what might be referred to as a catallactic bias, which results from a tacit conceptual privileging of gains from trade as the primary mechanism of cooperative benefit. [1]"

[1] Joseph Heath. The Benefits of Cooperation. Philosophy & Public Affairs. Volume 34, Issue 4, pages 313–351, Fall 2006
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How would that be different from provisioned IOPS – simply having a limit greater than 4K IOPs?
> A transaction increases utility for the two parts concerned, otherwise it will not happen.

But it happens all the time, through manifactured desire and the exploitation of people's addictions. People are not "rational actors" even though economic theory attempts to dictate it. In fact, most of consumerism seems to be built on getting people to buy things that in turn does not help them to create even more value.
Teambox rebrands as Redbooth, launches new version of its tool
I too use windows 8.1 daily. I didn't mind windows 8 at all. It was only different when I turned the computer on, the rest of the time it was just slightly different windows 7. With 8.1 I only see the metro screen when I accidentally press the windows key.
Well, they should have contacted the developer of the interface beforehand. If that was not plausible, they should have given all the students a heads-up a suitable time before blocking.

If they had done all the above, then I don't know what the fuss is all about.
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Thanks :) no actually the largest source of revenue is from ad sales at the moment. I do use affiliates, but they are small in comparison.

I think this is largely to do with the fact that I don't push affiliates too much at the moment. The effort-return ratio is nowhere near as good as the ads.
> I told you that I personally do productive things in Metro

Sorry did you say this? Maybe I misread your comment but I think you said:

> I'm no stranger to tasks OUTSIDE of Metroland.

and:

> I don't have any trouble using my desktop or laptop to get things done.

Nothing I see here means "I'm productive with Metro", it means "I can avoid Metro and still be productive". Not sure if that was what you intended to say but that's how I read it.
Exactly how Dreamhost/Hostgator can offer 'unlimited diskspace/bandwidth/puppies' for $6 a month or whatever.
If you wish to accuse a spy agency of spying on its own citizens, you must have proof. To obtain proof you must make very clear and deliberate attempts to steal them so that you may present them as evidence.

I seem to recall not too long ago anyone claiming that the NSA had massive spying programs aimed at American citizens would be laughed off as tinfoil paranoid conspiracy theorists because our government would never do such a thing. Without his proof that you point out he stole, would anyone have taken him seriously?

There's several examples of people doing the very same thing that were later held up as heroes, except in their cases they stole documents from a corporation that were guilty of illegal abuses. Why should Snowden be any different? Because he stole government documents?
I can hardly believe that people buy them at all, let alone pay so much. I have to give them credit for the marketing, but still- my $50 refurb Sony MDR-V6 sound much better. Maybe if we paint decent headphones blue/red/green/pink we can resell them for $300?
Anyone know if the beats products are better or worse since their deal with Monster Cable ended?
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Just as well, probably. If they had Indian, you'd get a Punjabi first name, an Urdu surname, and a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird in your New Delhi driveway.
Gah! This is awesome. Where were you when I was trying to get an idea launched and the cost of geocoding was the wall I kept hitting??? Seriously this makes my week, maybe it's time to dust off some old projects...
I'd support fines that are proportional to general revenue or profit. A fine must hurt.

Also, an audit and 300% fines would probably not kill companies.
Kanye at the next startup school, so we can rule him out too? :)
Maybe, but this is the first time I notice this story on HN.
This article is just about the logo change, but that's not all they're changing. Construction workers would no longer be the target and the goal was to appeal to all kinds of makers. That's an actual change in strategy.

The logo reminds me of https://xkcd.com/993/
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There are people from ESA here, so I hope they can write about this in more detail. From what I know, Newtonian dynamics is good enough to move around the Solar System at the speeds we commonly employ.

We've been doing gravity assists for some time now, so I guess this topic is mostly figured out, though probably some active corrections are required. Again, maybe the ESA guys will chime in. Or InclinedPlane ;).
Or create a Fink/MacPorts port.
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We're all on this crazy spinning ball together. Early on Backblaze made the decision to stay out of the hardware business (it sounded lucrative after we developed the v1 storage pod, but everyone was a software person, so we went that route), we like to pay our hardware findings forward. It's a good thing to do!
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We are attempting to aggregate and index people's health tracking data using our proprietary algorithm into one healthy living score. Would love feedback on UX as well as general concept.

Thank you,
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IIRC, it was specific to the 38GB model, and was traced to a batch of bad electronic components.
> What's the difference between this and Adblock
> which has been available for a long time on Safari?

The Adblock extension that has been available for Safari is written by a guy named Michael Gundlach at a time when no other ad-blocking extensions were available for Safari. It shares no lineage with any other extensions called Adblock [1]. I like it and I donated money to Gundlach.

The Adblock Plus people apparently had some sort of shady dealings going on awhile back [2].

You'll also see "Adblock Edge" [3]. This is a fork of ABP after the above incidents [2].

1. https://getadblock.com/#about

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_plus#Advert_filtering_a...

3. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
It seems that you could argue that his disclosures have been more or less in the interest of the public at large. A traitor tends to steal/sell information for personal gain, providing them to an enemy directly. I can't think of any historical examples of traitors who exposed wrongdoings of the government they are betraying against its own public to said public. (but perhaps there are some?)

A traitor tends to be providing information of a primarily military use. You could try and argue that the mass dragnet of records is a military function... But that would be tantamount to saying that every citizen in America is a military target of their own government (oh wait... /s) and that opens a whole different can of worms.

I agree about not wanting to devolve into mindless high-fiving and preaching to the choir... But it seems difficult at this point to call the public disclosures so far a traitorous act. And public opinion seems to be tilting more and more towards that opinion as the weeks go by.

Regarding terrorists being on the 'wrong side of history' it really all depends who wins right? It also depends somewhat on who's history you are reading. For instance, had the Axis won in WWII, they would probably be referring to the bombing of Dresden as 'terrorism'.
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I know them as much as the comment above me knows Kanye. Being an asshole is a public persona, and each of those people has been called or referred to as an asshole.

edit: and there are plenty of anecdotal "Kanye is a nice guy when you meet him" stories as well. Evel Knievel sued Kanye and described him as 'vulgar an offensive', after they met he said "I thought he was a wonderful guy and a gentleman":

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-11-27-ka...
To me the important thing to note is that the DOS line died with Me about a year later, and 2000 turned into XP which people are still using as a mainstream OS.

Anyway, my original point was that it should be on his list of Windows versions. I don't mean to throw a wrinkle in his narrative, but 2000 was the predecessor of XP and it was neither wonderful nor terrible.
"$50 buys and delivers a CD set and some stickers"
Thanks I never knew they were unrelated.
Check out this incredible animation of Rosetta's trajectory:

http://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos/2013/12/Rosetta_s_Journey_B-...
It does. But screen sharing and remote access aren't the same thing.
Seems to model things like transactions in fixed resources like land pretty well.

In third-world countries we (the US) have repeatedly bought up land in exchange for short-term goods. The people in the country increasingly become dependent on providing services to the foreign land-holders, or factory work for the outside market.

Once they get fed up with this near-slavery they often try land reform, and that's when we send in the troops/CIA-paid thugs in the name of anti-communism (see Guatamala or Haiti as good examples).

It's like the Asimov story where aliens offer to extend humans' life by ten years for a price in natural resources, which they repeatedly double every ten years. Every resource on earth is eventually strip-mined, life can no longer be supported, and the aliens just move on to the next "voluntary" target.

The WTO plays a big role in these kind of attacks on societies as well. Of all the third-world countries that have developed, they have almost uniformly made heavy use of protectionism, foreign-ownership limitations, etc. The Seattle WTO protests in the 90's were actually seeded with some really interesting arguments and analysis.

Still focusing on land, but bringing things back towards Norvig's simulation (lots of individual actors), Thomas Paine's short essay, "Agrarian Justice," has some good descriptions of what goes on and offers some pretty good solutions.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
I'm going to build a PC for someone and use Windows 8, but install Classic Shell. For others, I figure if Classic Shell isn't an option for a user, I'd just pin the desktop to the top left, tell them to click there upon logging in, and then have their most frequently used apps pinned to the taskbar, along with their usual mixture of icons on the desktop. It's not ideal but it makes the best of a bad situation.
> The hype is simply that the historically go-to OS for ease of use is now difficult for so many of its most dedicated users.

The historically go-to OS for ease of use is Mac OS, not Windows.

Windows is historically the go-to OS for appeal to corporate IT because Microsoft fairly directly inherited the "No one gets fired for buying X" mantle from IBM as hardware became commoditized and the remaining concern was over core software.
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I can't believe HP was the first major vendor to see Windows 8 as the goat is really is. Usually HP is well behind everyone else.
Agreed, I spent a few minutes looking around and trying to add nodes before I found the help. And then some time looking for an 'insert' key on my keyboard... haven't found it yet ;)
CrashPlan is a backup / archiving app. Its use case is very different than Dropbox.
You wouldn't know it by the prices.
> And I was in high-school then, but I don't remember many Windows Me PCs being on display in computer shops.

I was as well. I can confidently say that there were enough WinME PCs being sold, but it didn't last as long as Windows 98 had. What I can't remember was whether Windows 2000 was sold in stores in between WinME and XP.
cool fan fiction bro.