skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't trust anything on Anadolu Agency which is owned by the current religious fascist Turkish government which is against Syria ONLY because they are from different Islamic fraction. The government wants to see religious fascists in power in Syria. Those things in the pictures were probably done by the barbaric islamic fundamentalist rebels.

Most Turkish people are against the government's senseless war against Syria. In last few weeks the government was caught sending military equipment to the barbaric islamic syrian rebels many times.
IMHO this is a bacon-salad problem:

Add some bacon (js) to your salad and you have a healthy and balanced meal.

make a "salad" out of bacon and and mayo dressing and you have a problem.
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I don't really feel sorry for the employees. There's this fascination between geeks to work at one of these "prestigious" companies, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. yet at the end of they day you are burning all your time, effort, essentially your life, to make a few guys rich.

They pay you enough to keep you happy, give you a few "interesting" problems to work on if you're lucky, maybe a couple of perks at the office. Why are you selling your soul to these guys in the first place? I just don't get why you'd be interested in making someone else rich for some geek-cred.
Blocked by by the Web Security Appliance at work .... potential malware/spyware
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If this "War on Hackers" truly becomes an issue this could potentially be the most damaging war in the American economy.

Hackers are nothing like drug dealer the same people that vandalize a few websites when their teenagers and part of anonymous could later become the founders of the next great company like google.

By giving hacker overly hash punishments the US government is hurting their potential to do good by unnecessarily exposing them to a world (prisons) where the likelihood of them doing more black-hat hacking is higher.
I'm going to go ahead and say the obvious asshole comment:

I thought when he retired from Slashdot it was because he wanted to do something different.
No-one said you should rely on only these techniques. These should form part of your security approach. Yes use HSTS, but also set you webserver to always redirect http to https, etc.

Remember an attacker only has to find one way in, but you need to defend against everything. You should make it as hard as possible for an attack. Every brick in the wall helps.
Interesting. I'd wondered about an inflection point in my graph as well, but in the opposite direction.

Our average rating has been climbing much faster since Dec 10.

Looks like this feature is influential, but not necessarily negative.
Interesting. How do you feel about the US and UK drone strikes in residential areas?
Please don't post titles that are clearly a form of advertising/expressing an [commercial] opinion. Keep it descriptive/representative.
Really sorry to hear about the OP getting burgled. It sucks, I know, and I was lucky enough that my laptop was missed when I was burgled - if it had been taken I'd have been in that awful position as my only backup was right next to the laptop. Scared me in to doing proper backups though!

Arq definitely gets my recommendation too. I've been using it for a little over a year, paying about $3 per month, and the peace of mind is fantastic. It's a last resort, and I have a number of other offsite backups on normal external drives, but with this backup running every hour, I'm extremely unlikely to ever lose more than an hour's work.

It's really nice because the encryption is client side, so you're not really trusting Amazon with too much, and there's an open source restore utility on github, so you don't need to worry too much about haystack going out of business.

It's also, in my experience, much, much faster to upload to than any of the other online services I've tried (Backblaze, Crashplan).
I know I'm showing my age here, but back in the old days the legislative branch was the one that made laws and the executive branch was supposed to enforce them. Obama and Holder can't legally take marijuana off schedule 1 because it's specifically listed as a schedule 1 drug in federal law.

Not that that would actually stop Obama or Holder, mind you.
> That doesn't make sense. If they can be easily replaced, then why aren't they? Wouldn't it directly benefit the company hiring them to not hire them?

In our cloud service, these guys are the first-line of defense in troubleshooting customer issues. They're the guys customers talk to and they follow a standard troubleshooting guide before pinging one of the on-call engineers. So it can't exactly be automated. And trust me, if that were possible, it would've been done. In a way, that's also one of the reasons this stuff is outsourced, companies don't want to go through the trouble of doing the hiring themselves for these roles.

> Also, I don't like your characterization of people based on where they work. A person may choose to work in BK/McDonalds but that doesn't imply anything (positive or negative) about their capability.

Sorry, I probably wasn't clear. That absolutely wasn't the message I was trying to get across. I understand working there doesn't mean anything about their capability and often it is a stepping stone to something greater (ex: college/high-school students). What I meant to say was the skill level here is the same. In effect, they just need to know their way around a machine and speak good English. Heck, they'd do a better job at it considering how poor the outsourced folks are at it. They'd even have more fun because there's still room for the occasional intellectual stimulation and creativity within these roles. And they'd be better pay too. Overall, it will be a better use of their time and they'd have more job satisfaction.
It would also help if the graphs in the post started at 0 stars on the y-axis, because the drops look much more severe than they really are.

I imagine in an ultra-competitive niche that the drop in the third graph from 4.72 to 4.54 could be a painful drop, but the first graph has a drop of .03 stars, and the second is a drop of .05 stars. Perfectly in line with a very slight adjustment (though I'm sure it's alarming when you first notice it happening).

To be fair, the graph formatting doesn't look like the author's fault, just the analytics page automatically zooms and crops like that.
Inflation is not a problem. It encourages spending and investment.

Deflation encourages hoarding and rewards people who sit on piles of cash. It also values work yesterday more highly then work today.

Bitcoin, as a currency model, creates lots of problems.
That only serves to reinforce my point :)

Let's say s/Compaq/SuperMicro/ then
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Because working in tech, you can add value to society rather than leeching off of it in spectacular fashion?
Sure, what you're describing is feasible. I was referring only to the idea of end users paying for the Snapchat service.
> Simply because everyone thinks it's OK for governments to deal in secrets makes it OK. Noöne seems willing to conceive of a system where secrets are the exceptional, special case and not the norm.

This is frankly confirmation bias. Secrets are the exception in our government, and in most governments, because they are by nature public entities. It's just that you place very little value on the other information out there (and so does the government, and so do other governments, which is why they're not secret in the first place).

The topic of these conversations starts out with the presumption that the secrets are the important bits to discuss. That makes it incredibly difficult to recognize the presence of other pieces of information right in front of your eyes, because it looks like background noise.

Unlike mr_luc, I do have a solution, but it's not a politically feasible one: a world government. There's a quibble there about the need for things like wiretaps for law enforcement, but I'd be willing to bet that it's a lot less necessary to have operational security even for things like that.
Just donated. Programming should be thought as early as possible and should be in the curriculums. This project servers the same vision. I don't know if the book will be structured properly or will have a great impact on kids, and I don't care, I support this vision.
Yeah, until China hypothetically dumps its bonds, which is what is being discussed.

Good analogy though, because separating conjoined twins in a manner analogous to dumping all its bonds would kill both. The US economy would be in ruins, and the US would reply the only way it knows how, war. I suppose war is as much an economic tool as anything else. But there is another reason why China could never dump its bonds, it would destroy its biggest market, the US.

Capitalism, the biggest force for peace we have....... (If reading that last bit made you feel nauseous, imagine how I felt typing it. Im trying to kid myself it's ironic, but its not working.)
That's what I was alluding to in the second paragraph.
That's pretty pessimistic. Sometimes there actually are interesting problems at those companies. Larger companies can also offer benefits that aren't available at some other companies-- sometimes security, sometimes work-life balance, greater access to resources or talented people. Not everyone's tradeoffs will be the same when evaluating where to work or what to do.

And in the end, pretty much everyone is working for someone to "make a few guys rich". Unless you're a completely self-funded founder or investor.
If you don't want to pay the TarSnap premium, just set up Duplicity directly with Amazon S3, or some other external box if you have one available: https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Bac...
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Which commands are you having trouble with? I'm using the Colemak keyboard layout and have no problems.
I added a dialog that asks the user rate the app, remind later or just ignore it.

The trick is to add the dialog to show up on like 5-10 startup off the app.

If the user is starting the application after 5 tries, he is going to like it. And provided the way to rate it in couple of clicks, the user usually gives positive ratings.
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Are you familiar with dithering? While it may seem like cheating, it really works quite well. It's similar to some LED torches, that use PWM to control brightness. They turn on and off really fast, and the more time they spend off, the dimmer the light. Yet you think it's a constant source of light, with a large enough frequency. For dithering, you just need a large resolution.
Thank you for your comment. What about photos? do you email them too and save from mobile browser?
Good learning project.
It doesn't take a lot of graphics and sounds to make an addictive game.
Kids, this is why you should strive to become your own bosses and bootstrap your own businesses!
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Conversely, it raises the wages of non-USA-ians.
They're at least referring to the same phenomenon. The followup article to this one that tgasson posted[1] quotes and links to that very HN thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7113614
2006 MacBook

It still sort of works but the plastic is all broken off. I should probably throw it away, it was beautiful though.
Sure thing hoss. Here is the story[0] associated with the photos.

"Syrian government officials could face war crimes charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the "systematic killing" of about 11,000 detainees, according to three eminent international lawyers.

The three, former prosecutors at the criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, examined thousands of Syrian government photographs and files recording deaths in the custody of regime security forces from March 2011 to last August."

OK so you are adamant that it was not the regime who tortured and executed people, that the photos were due to those nasty Islamists. How about a report pre-dating the previous on the Assad regime's Raid Brigade, amongst others in the Damascus area. Was the industrious kidnapping and murder of detainees by military also a false flag? Branch 215, Raid Brigade - Military Intelligence Division - Damascus[1].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/evidence-indust...

[1] http://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/reports/1380463510#.UuIv...
actively asking users to rate an app they have downloaded may lead to better ratings

But it's not asking them to rate the app, it's asking them to rate the suggestion. And since rating a suggestion is usually a thumbs-up/thumbs-down, it primes users to select the extreme ratings.
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"Everyone is using this one system" - you're still not fooling anyone Apple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
That's all I can add to this short movie: http://m.cdn.blog.hu/ap/appleblog/image/doghouse-comic.png

(I am happy to be downvoted for the joke, so just keep going :) )
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Pretty shitty. Can't think of a theater of operation where the consensus for deployment is done with the support of the host nation's public. That is excluding the secret laws often shrouding the justification for the programs themselves.
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To put things in perspective, China holds approximately 7.5% of the total US debt load ($17.3 trillion). That's an estimated $1.3 trillion in U.S. Treasuries. They are the largest foreign investor in US treasuries's[0] and the major holders of all USD foreign exchange reserves due to their huge trade surplus with the US. These dollars need to be invested somewhere and the U.S. Treasury market is one of the few places that China can recycle its surplus dollars.

Even during the financial crisis in 2009 and the debate around the public debt ceiling in the summer of 2011 with the subsequent downgrade of the U.S. long-term sovereign credit by S&P, China continued to increase their USD reserves while other endowment funds in regions such as the Middle East took steps to diversify their FX reserves away from the USD. China is dependent on the US Treasury market - and it's stability - because as long as China continues to hold down the value of its currency to the USD, it will have few options other than to keep investing in U.S. dollar assets.

[0] http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/ti...
Could you provide an example? I haven't seen a single case of the thing I was meaning by my comment, so either we misunderstood each other, or I haven't checked hard enough.
Arguably, he could use his wall street money to pay a more altruistic developer to add value to society, while he enjoys his money.
Thank you for the credit.
I remember my first contact with a Mac: Power Macintosh 9600. I was so in love with it that I used it until G4 Powermac was released. I hacked it so much that reseting the machine and power on was lighting fast as well running many apps. I loved all, then switched to a Powermac G4 Cube.
I think legislation should be made (maybe anti-trust laws?) which requires companies to provide adequate, free 1st-level user support for paid services, and reasonably priced user support for free services.

The current way of big companies "just doing stuff" which deeply affects other people/businesses who do not have a single way to contact the offender is a nightmare which has to stop. As the market obviously fails here, legislation is required.
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The video captures the essence of what apples users intend to do, well almost.. Apple speaks of stories of creativity and flexibility - also mentions you never know "how users are gonna use this in the future".. So why the hell does apple play this game of closed autocrat and keep the creativity out of the hardware buffs who want to tamper with their macs.. I am happy with Linux :)
unfortunately, today, it's all about the clicks.
Not sure if it's just me but I find this video remarkably uninspiring. It just seems to lack real content?

Now I'm more than willing to accept that I'm not the exact target for this video, and that the subject matter of the following video makes it a slightly unfair comparison, but the contrast to the quality of the Steve Jobs tribute video is vast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2WpieYRks

The latter video literally takes my breath away.
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I am not asking all the names but who are those people behind the various macs?
Governments have a hard time condemning such attacks since every country want their own force out there attacking online targets.

I can only hope that a treaty over the use of online warfare gets made[1]. Until then, I will expect to see this happen more and more regularly.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/we-need-a-geneva...
For a good example of this phenomena see alcohol prohibition in the USA

Passed an amendment to make it illegal

Then passed an amendment to make it legal

Instead of revoking/cancelling/etc to the first one
I don't really see the problem, according to TFA, Princeton is going to disappear anyway. The problem solves itself.
Yeah something should be done, and what else is better than barbaric islamic fundamentalist rebels, beheading war criminals, and bloodshed murderers, supported by international bloodthirsty, greedy media cartels.

We should support them as they are fighting against an anti-democratic regime. We will think about the other aspects, once democracy is settled, democracy first.
not really. Managers bonuses for "brilliant" idea
This is a case where mixing up then and than makes a difference
Increased visibility. That's why people post things here right? ;-)
This is quite handy, thanks for sharing.
Older macs were more robust. I think this is one reason of the failure of apple against microsoft: when you have a computer that enables you to do your stuff without problems or failures, you do not need to replace it by a new one. Microsoft has understood how to earn a lot more money by selling half broken products that people want to replace by better ones. Maybe, this was not intentional.

btw, this post is risky for my karma, but I am always suprised to see very old mac still frequently used.
Loved my CrackBook. The black matte finish was pretty great. Used it for years—everything from doing .net dev in a VM, getting into Django, to shipping an iPhone game in the early days.
I learned en_US and tossed the other keyboard layouts that I had to learn before (German qwertz and later French azerty).

It was really worth it! It was difficult for 3 weeks. On Linux I use the US International AltGr Dead Keys layout, which I find very suitable because it allows me to write all the German, French and Turkish characters by composing
accents on them. On Windows this layout does not exist (but the simple US which is backward compatible for all ASCII characters is there) so
I had to find it on the net and install it manually.

The rational is, that in almost all non-English countries the US keyboard layout is
available and you can really quickly change to it (on windows it is LeftShift+LeftAlt) if you have to touch the keyboards of your colleagues. The pre-requisite is to be able to type blindly.

I took this decision when I had to work in different countries. It was a life changing experience.
If I knew it before I would never have learned azerty when I moved to France.

One problem though is to get computers with the US layout. In this regards Lenovo seems to be the only one that lets you chose the US layout.
iOS only is the new "optimised for Internet Explorer 6".
I think you're being a bit unrealistic about how people behave. The H1B does give a lot of extra market power to employers because it means the employee has a lot to lose if things go wrong. The threat of being fired carries with it a much greater weight than for regular citizens.
Sure, the employee can interview for another job and applying for a transfer is not a difficult process. But, even with another job, the threat of being fired is still a huge pressure.
Plus, there's still a risk that the employer will find out they are looking for another job before they find one. Also, employees are unlikely to complain or make requests, since rocking the boat could get them fired and sent home. Most people are not risk takers and are not confident at being able to hide things.
We use computers to help us solve so many more problems today then we ever have before and we have much higher expectations of IT-system today. So, the metal scraps used for this keeps piling up in data centres all over the world.

Anecdotal observation: Many of my clients avoids using cloud services often cited reasons: cost and worries over ownership of data.

Based on the my observations my prediction is that traditional server vendors will keep on growing their business for many years to come but it's very likely that cloud services such as PaS/IaS will grow at faster pace ...
Immigration reform is fine but it needs to be balanced by restraints on corporate power to do things like wage theft.

What I'd like to see is things like a complete national abolishment of non-compete agreements as a rider on Immigration Reform.

Conspiring to keep out immigrants is interesting (who doesn't want to pull the ladder up after we're safe), but it if we're honest with ourselves it's not appealing to our better nature.
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That Google think this is an appropriate UI for this feature tells you everything you need to know about the state of design there.
How come people talk about 30 years of Mac but no one talks about 25+ years of Windows or Linux for that matter.

I saw numerous blog posts of parroting this advertisement, even in my morning daily commute news paper.
Welcome to Zucker's quest to make CNN relevant.... which apparently means being the online version of the supermarket check out line. The FoxNews site has more important international stories than CNN, I am assuming CNN expecting readers to click the World tab.

Out front, between Drudge and Google News I get all the leads I need.
Happy Birthday, Mac.
> who are those people behind the various macs?

If you scroll past the video to the timeline, then click on any of the sections, it'll expand and say who the person is and what they did.
For people who don't know it yet:

"Folklore.org: Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh, and the people who made it"

http://www.folklore.org/

I don't own a single Apple device, but I still find the stories fascinating. It makes me wish I could've worked with those engineers.
Maybe its PR (as in they got paid to publish news about this)
>But it's not asking them to rate the app, it's asking them to rate the suggestion.

No, if this is really the UI in question then it is not asking users to rate the suggestion: http://blog.testfairy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/quick_s...

It's clearly asking users to rate one app to get suggestions for other apps.
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