skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created a .NET port[1] of the Ruby port of the original Perl Faker library. It's also available on NuGet[2]

[1] https://github.com/slashdotdash/faker-cs

[2] http://www.nuget.org/packages/Faker.Net/
Because it isn’t really a democracy; the amount of corruption hasn’t really changed at all since The Orange Revolution[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution
I am seriously dumbfounded by this for so many reasons. Why pick on GOOG in particular? Isn't Palantir "more evil" by their screwed up logic?
A while ago I was talking to an extremely cynical person in line to inherit a british aristocratic title.

He told me something his grandfather taught him: People who are protesting against you will almost certainly disagree with you about what an "acceptable backlash" is. Specifically you will prefer ineffective protests and those that that don't inconvenience you, while they will prefer effective protests and those that are spiteful.
The very first game I got (multitasking) started out interesting, and then at one point asked me to use the WASD keys.

I'm sure I'm part of an irrelevant minority, but it always bothers me when it's just assumed I can use these keys, when I'm actually not on a QWERTY keyboard (and not anything fancy like Dvorak either, just an AZERTY). Especially since I had already engaged some time in the game, only to be forced to fail later.
That specific example might be, but Microsoft seem to have been in denial about some adverse side effects of the networking changes in Windows 7 since about five minutes after the launch.

I've seen an office with a hybrid network where numerous machines running XP, OS X and Linux all talked to each other quite happily, at the expected network speeds over wireless and wired connections, all working as you'd expect. However, most of the the Windows 7 machines (both desktops and laptops, from a variety of vendors) transferred data at a fraction of the speed the network could support for no apparent reason.

At some point, you have to accept that the obvious common factor is your new operating system and you've broken something, but MS never have.
aww, I miss OKTrends :(
Lol yea passwords that are not frequently used can take a while to input. I do sing the song in my head almost every time.

What I would really like to do is program a simple command line application that would generate and store all of my passwords. I started on one a while ago but never finished it; its on my to do list.
I was just trying to explain how the comment could have been misunderstood. You seemed to put the burden of understanding upon the audience and I felt compelled to elucidate the source of many commentators 'needless emotions'.
If you are designer looking to get off the 'PSD to HTML' train, this is the perfect resource for you:

http://www.sketchingwithcss.com/
Sorry dude I was replying to the parent comment, not yours.
The deep pockets and good lawyers couldn't make the judge even look into Samsung's evidence the last time.

I doubt there is anything more to it, but that's just a preconceived notion after reading a couple (literaly, 2) of other Apple patents.
I'm in the USA, it's not about snow or football, so it's (embarrassingly) not front page news on the various tv news sites. It is showing up on the nytimes & washington post. so that's something.
Gah, that's unfortunate, and perverse. My scheme has indeed been defeated by the DMV's website capping the length of the password at 20, and there are a couple I know it wouldn't work for because they require at least one non-alphanumeric character.

On the plus side, all this brain-damage does seem fairly easy to incorporate into an automatic scheme. Have another file that has a list of cutoff lengths for each site that has them, and another file with special characters to insert. Then the scheme becomes: hash [domain] + [secret] + [resets (if any)], add special characters to the start (if any), and cut off the end of the string (if necessary).
jeez., basically this list is all about reverting to the old stuff without really suggesting anything new both UI-wise/UX-wise or the fundamental aspect of what to expect of an OS in 2014/2015....
the text-editing part of Unity3D is pretty terrible, and I do most of it in vim. But it is good for viewing models and moving components around without building your own model viewer or mouse-driven Entity-System editor
There is something wrong with you dude ... Like seriously!
It's so upsetting that they're protesting the single most life-saving technology that's likely to be developed in our lifetime (self-driving cars). Life-saving for everyone, too - poor and rich.
Maybe if this was a protest of a Boston Dynamics employee in Massachusetts, but this guy apparently works for Google X. So... self driving cars and diabetes contact lenses?
This is pretty cool.

I didn't look at the IOCCC contest entry, but I can see the influence of the IOCCC rules on this code for sure. Having lookup tables in the BIOS binary to handle instruction decode seems bizarre to me (other than to get the code size under the IOCCC maximum). It has the effect of splitting the source code for the emulator between the C source and the BIOS assembler source. It evokes a feeling of the CPU microcode being stored in the BIOS.
That reminds me of one of my favorite Onion articles:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
Will we still be human at that point?
So using a website for showing off and glorifying your every day life doesn't make you a tool? Don't even try to fly that 'socializing' bullshit, I can see your sushi eating pictures even with my eyes closed. Combine the nature of facebook with the real privacy concerns and I really can't understand why anyone, let alone technie, would use facebook.

I guess people just have different values and that's what I feel that this is about, showing off your values. Kind of like a bumper sticker, patch or a pin.
LOL, but I'm working on a web application whose only graphical reference is PPT... and I've done it before. Bizarre, but I suppose it's better than having a scan of a sketch on a napkin from a bar.
Good. I swear youtube is throttled by Time Warner Cable for me. I stream Netflix, Hulu, etc and never have problems with them. I can confirm that I'm getting my speeds of 20MBit/s down, and yet almost every video on YouTube buffers. If I use youtube-dl to download the video, I can confirm that my actual connection speed is somewhere around 60KB/s. If I then use youtube-dl on my VPS with the same video, I get somewhere between 2MB/s and 8MB/s.
The obvious truth (axiom in mathematics) in the article is Google search is hiding the applications by showing only the search box and not showing lot of icons like windows desktop or smartphone. I argue it is not true, I assume the following is obvious

1. Windows desktop or smartphone usually show 50-100 application
2. Google search has to show billions of web pages

therefore I argue that it is simple impossible for Google to show billion of pages like Windows desktop and smartphone. Hence Google show the search box instead of icons.
Yep, from Sun Tzu's Art of War:

"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard."

-- http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html

I think this is also the first time I've heard it quoted in an appropriate context, as opposed to business blabla.
Does the USPS have a CEO? Or is that Congress?
Just turn it off?
Good step but in the absence of true competition between ISPs this does little for the end user. I can discover that my connection is bad, and then what?
I LOVE Sketch. It's so good. What's lacking are proper video tutorials for complex things and different subjects. I'd love to see an hour long video of someone vectoring something or designing a mobile app from start to finish.

Started using Sketch a few weeks back, never went back to Photoshop.

When I design, I usually just have livereload running with my website on my right monitor and code in my left. Ctrl+S = refreshes the site = very easy to develop with just html/css.
Absolutely its the "perception" by the group of the threat/oppression that is the key thing.

You might want to talk to a few people outside of your group from different ethnicity / group.
UberVU is Joining Forces with HootSuite
How is youtube a monopoly?

There are many free-to-upload/host videosistes.
Sarcasm aside, the flyer is creepy and probably threatening.
Metrekare
Metrekare is a real estate search portal in Turkey.
S.F. to impose fees on tech shuttles
I wasn't disagreeing with the statement about the ketogenic diet, I was disagreeing with this statement:

"Sometimes statements are statements. People needlessly attach emotion to the written word when there is no need."

In my disagreement I explained how the author has an imperative to make sure they are understood and, since we only have the words that they posted to go on, it is important that they are clear in their wording.

Secondly, I am not responding to their tone but the clarity of their statement. It is a completely different argument.
Yeah, pretty sad that it is on the front page of reddit but not the front page of cnn.com.
well played, Google.
If you have the largest online advertising and marketing company in the world telling everyone that an ISP sucks... well, then guess what the ISP will do?

Either nothing, or lose customers.
Most important stuff is already mentioned, but I'll add one important detail:

Consider which are most important accounts (email would be prime candidate) and have the login details for them written up on a physical paper stored in a secure place. This is to prevent catastrophic data loss in the situation where your primary way of managing passwords fails for one reason or the another.
5 Red Flags of Startups
So it is easily replaceable? You could easily tell xcode to use gcc if gcc supported the same kind of static analysis? How would you do this?
I'm hesitant to give out my key. Is it possible they could just copy over my entire mailing list?
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At least you will know whos fault it is and direct your hate when the posibility arises, (new videosite or new isp).
It seems unicameralism and despotism go hand in hand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unibicameral_Map.svg

There are a few notable exceptions.
They are definitely a potential opportunity. To my understanding, many analysts are disturbed by falling gross margin, because in the Intel space high gross margin is important. But, according to some articles I've read, lower gross margin is a natural part of the semi-custom sort of work the company is doing now, like the Xbox & Playstation chips.

An article that explains the shift:

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/12/30/can-amds-se... ("Semi-custom could be the answer")

So, depending on what you believe, the future of the stock could be rather undervalued.
Well, on those meetings means that someone on the customer side had the wonderfull job of using an on screen pixel ruler and counted the exact number of pixels.

Pixel count not the same as on the PSD image, across all targeted browsers? No money, even if it is only 1 pixel.

As ridiculous as it sounds, I do know a few of such cases.
> Why is it that you think because someone has a gun they are incapable of acting rationally?

Because they're a real live human fucking being with anger and emotion and desperation and base needs and selfish wants, not a theoretical hyper-rational philosophical strawperson.

Real live human beings are pretty classically incapable of acting rationally, and if you think otherwise, I would suggest that you have only very recently come out from under a rock.
The permit is for the use of the public space.

I don't think there should be harsh penalties for misusing public space, but I don't really trust people to be reasonable either (meaning I'm comfortable with some rules about the uses of public spaces).
Anyone played with this?

term1$ tcpdump -i en1 -X -n port 32764

term2$ telnet 192.168.0.1 32764

Output doesn't show the expected hex code. Is this naive?
The Incredible Virtual World of One of the Americans Killed in Benghazi
IME there is a strong divide in opinions on the Ribbon interface. Almost all "everyday users" I know came down in favour after getting used to it. Most of the "power users" found it frustrating.

Given that the former group is much, much larger in practice, it's hard to blame Microsoft for making the switch, even if it does invite strong and vocal criticism from some people with legitimate gripes. I suppose this is the inevitable burden of designing some the most widely used business software on the planet.
Another upcoming edx course that might be of interest to people on here:

https://www.edx.org/course/utaustinx/utaustinx-ut-5-01x-line...

Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers

Learn the theory of linear algebra hand-in-hand with the practice of software library development.

(can't post a thread of its own, as was submitted too recently)
HootSuite Buys uberVU
> How is what do confined to an exclusive group of people?

At a very basic level, not everyone is smart enough to do what you do. At a more practical level, not everyone has access to a good education, or grew up in a community that encourages education.

I know I'll get a bunch of responses like "What access!? Just go on codecademy and teach yourself Javascript!"

But good luck teaching web development to a 21 year old who's never been taught how to read properly.
WordPress Core Proposal: Shortcode Tracking
^this. Same with Netflix though for me. Where are you based? I'm in Austin, Tx.

Any of the speed tests online will report 30mbps/5mbps, but I'm unable to stream HD on Youtube or Netflix during peak times.
I think Google's threats of releasing "massive amounts of carbon" refers to the emissions of their employees commuting individually instead of by busses.
HTML5 Input Types Alternative
I only counted 4 red flags
I wonder if, given APIs for both Google Maps and Joe's Free And Permissive But Sometimes Wrong Maps, you could:

* query both services for each address

* if the [lat,lon] are equal (within a threshold), store Joe's result as correct

* store nothing otherwise

Are you storing Google's results in that case?
Twitter + Libel = Twibel?
Harvard and MIT release working papers on open online learning
> Are housing prices in San Francisco really so insane that a two-story house is "pompous" and a "palace"?

For the middle class and below? In many neighborhoods of the Bay Area the prices really are that high now. I agree of course that the description is over the top, but I think it does accurately reflect how economically tough the area is for most residents, particularly those who are not developers, lawyers, or doctors.
Bowing to popular demand, I also have a github mirror: https://github.com/oridb/mc/
Well you asked so I'll answer but I understand that a lot of people on HackerNews may not share my same views on self defense. Also to be clear, I don't think a non-violent blockade necessitates the use of a firearm. However, I think the topic came up because protests can and do lead to a handful of rogue protestors going too far, getting too angry and attacking people.

So to answer your question in a general statement: I'm a firm believer that is my responsibility to protect my life and my family and no one else's. I also think it is naive to believe that I could never be the victim of a crime or brutal attack by someone equipped with a more effective weapon than my hands. I'd much rather have a firearm in my hand then a cell phone waiting for 911 when someone is clearly trying to inflict severe harm or death.
A thing I've been thinking about: you're not supposed to be "eager", at least not apparently eager, but still go on 50+ dates with random people? How do you make it not feel like work? I think I'd get depressed, sadly. In my mind, meeting someone should be all casual. But what do I know. I like the persistency though.
Great points, definitely not negative, just realistic.

There may be no single silver bullet here. In addition to pursuing open source key servers, we're also working on UI/UX for easy addition of public key wrapping using the same crypto as PGP. Our hope is that we can deploy public key in a way that most people start using it to minimize the proportion of unwrapped keys on Virtru's server.
They aren't made-up jobs. They are simply jobs with value lower than minimum wage.

In the US, we are often told about our "crumbling infrastructure". Roads have potholes. It's not hard to find parks which are not as well maintained as they could be. Government buildings are rarely spotlessly clean. If we are going to pay people who can't find a job in the private sector, why not have some of these problems fixed?

Similarly, many people complain that the cost of day care prevents productive women from working. If we are going to tax a productive businesswoman to pay for a basic job, why not at give her cheap day care (provided by low productivity people) in return?

The problem with Communist states is not the existence of the employer of last resort, but the lack of anything else.
Aha that's really great..

I have been using HN and Reddit since long. And I really felt that this feature was lacking.
These protesters are themselves just as much a part of the NSA surveillance as Google is.
That's a very good breakdown of usage of the word and I'd forgotten about the indefinite usage. In this particular usage, it included the word "always" ("men always"). If someone states "men always love sports" then I'd interpret that to be equivalent in meaning to "all men love sports".
Then you go out and vote. The absence of true competition is because the average Joe isn't quite clued into the underlying problem of why things are slow. I suspect this is Google's way of raising awareness.
Changing SIMs might be useless, since the carrier can track phones by their unique IMEI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imei ) and when you use another SIM on the same phone to talk/chat to your friends, 'gov sigint' can use that information to get to you.
> Why do you assume a gun would be randomly taken out in a tense confrontation?

Why the hell wouldn't it be? Because everybody's always super calm and patient in such situations?
In the absense of meaningful competition, they'll likely just laugh. Still, it's good to have someone call them out.
Well, if I were in the ISP business and looking to expand, areas with poorly rated ISPs would be interesting.
Isn't some of the tracking of cellphone tower data part of the reason how Adrian Hernandez was caught?
Firebase at ng-conf 2014
Outing Startup Financings
Regarding the graphics shown, so it's a series of youtubes...
The world that exists outside of TV is a fairly vast topic area.
I am not trying to discount any of those things but I'm sure the protesters had most, if not all of those privileges as well.

As far as being white and male, that's a fallacy as well. Do you work in tech? Take a look around and you'll see some of the most diversity of any industry. I worked for a fortune 100 for a large part of my career and most teams had more "minorities" on them than whites. Most of them born in India in horrible conditions. Color blindness is one of the reasons I'm proud to be in tech.

Is it so hard to admit that most of these protesters are lazy misguided kids with nothing better to do?
If you look at the actual requirements they're talking about, they aren't that crazy. Even for HD video, they're talking > 2.5Mbps. So for really good quality, it's probably 5-6Mbps.

I have 85Mbps FiOS at home, and I still sometimes have issues streaming Youtube videos.

If my ISP can't even guarantee 10% of what I'm paying for over a fiber optic line, then yes, they need to be called out and publicly shamed.
thank you, hope you like it.
> while documenting the participants by any means, so they can be individually & quietly apprehended & prosecuted later.

Has this happened?
Yeah, I tried but with my external IP:

$ telnet [redacted] 32764
Trying [redacted]...
telnet: connect to address [redacted]: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Does this mean my router has no backdoor? Is it clever enough to avoid detection?
The Indian media is too busy featuring the new CM of Delhi, along with some new gang rape that recently occurred.

Along with the Indian Cricket Team which continues to lose games abroad.
Note that from my understanding the infringement aspect has been decided but the validity of the patent still needs determination by the court. Apple needs to prevail on both to get an injuction or damages.

Also note that it isn't for all auto-complete systems but a particular approach for touchscreens. See the patent http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H... or other comments on this thread.

Finally as others point out it is not trolling even if you still think it is abusive use of patents. Patent trolls are companies that have patents that they don't practice themselves that they wait and hide until a juicy target adopts it then they wait under their bridge a little more until it is hard for the target to stop using it then they jump out.

Edit: The BBC op seem to have mangled this article in an attempt to make it accessible (or because the journalist didn't fully read it): http://www.fosspatents.com/2014/01/us-court-finds-samsung-to...
If you can't laugh, what can you do?
It's not patent trolling because Apple is suing to defend its design as implemented in an actual product.[1] Moreover, I'm going to guess there is more to the patent than just "autocomplete for touch devices" considering Apple is just seeking bans on old Samsung Galaxy devices. Samsung did some very shady ripping off the iPhone in those models, so it wouldn't be surprising if they managed to infringe on Apples' patent even taken very narrowly and specifically.

The usual arguments against patent trolling don't apply to Apple v. Samsung, in my opinion. There is nothing "innovative" about Samsung's early Android devices: they were copy-cat designs that ripped-off Apple in order to get quickly to market and take advantage of the mindshare around Apple's product. That's not a business tactic that should be encouraged.

[1] "Trolling" means to lie in wait for an unsuspecting passer-by, like a bridge troll. There was nothing "unsuspecting" about what Samsung did. This document was damning in the original suit: http://bgr.com/2012/08/08/apple-samsung-patent-lawsuit-inter....
I think Comcast is doing the same thing here in Colorado. Lately, I've been seeing quality drop in videos where it shouldn't. Running speed tests or downloading from newsgroups I'm hitting 60mbps.
How AAA Games Swell To $200m Budgets
I'm not sure how I feel about the protest in general, but I was reacting to the idea that they "haven't hurt anyone". As far as my system of morals is concerned, making someone feel unsafe is still hurting them.
I'm in Cleveland, OH. Like I said, never have problems with other services like Netflix or even streaming videos by vimeo or skydrive, just Youtube. It's so frustrating I've considered setting up a network-wide VPN for my home network to get around it
fwiw. I typed phishing on my iPad and it worked fine.
Anthony Burgess writes somewhere or other that Orwell wanted to use 1948 but was talked out of it.
We just open-sourced Paradocs
Same for me on Time Warner in Austin. I can't wait for Google Fiber to roll into town.
I don't know per se. I've heard some vague references to it. Main point is it's so possible & compelling I'm having a hard time believing it's not happening. Some things are, in fact, not well known despite our firehose-style media.