skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical anti-drugs scaremongering.

a) The majority of recreational drug users are not addicts. There are many more aspects to addiction than the mere substance.

b) The majority of recreational drug users are productive members of society. That includes many addicts.

c) Despite the criminalization, drugs are readily available in every Western country, and have been for generations. The negative side-effects you're trying to scare people with would already be in full swing.

Instead, we only see escalating negative effects in countries that wage a "war on drugs". In countries with liberal drug policies, the impact of drug use on crime and healthcare is so negligible it's not even an issue anymore. Even in the current climate where every instance of a small minority leaning disproportionally on social security or healthcare is a major issue.

The number of dysfunctional drug addicts in an otherwise well functioning society is extremely marginal, a load that society can easily handle, especially if the entire socially destructive and expensive apparatus of drug enforcement is disbanded.

I'm not even going to bother to score the obvious points regarding alcohol.
They could just have two different frontends, everything else the same.
What's your suggested alternative to html5?
From their homepage I didn't get that ctl-c was an open source project; that's a good news to me.

I started to list a few Docker-related services in a Gist and I see some of them are not listed in the blog post: https://gist.github.com/noteed/6882636. And vice-versa, I will update my list too.

I'm not a startup but my project Reesd (https://reesd.com) uses a lot Docker and is not listed either (which is normal, it is right at its beginning).

Is the Fig description about hooking code and database together accurate ? Isn't it simply that one of your containers can be a database and Fig expose the `-link` flag, probably used with the container name "db" ?
What will we do one day if there's no more computer vendors left?
You can't do chargebacks in Bitcoin, though, so the entire process would have to be much more escrow-orientated (only release funds once customer is satisfied and has no more recourse).
>> "Yeah, so MS might dominate the content-creation/student/artist tablet niche"

I doubt it. A keyboard alone isn't enough to win that market, great software is. Look at the content creation apps available on iOS - iMovie, Garageband, iWork, Paper, Brushes, DM1, Amplitube, Notion. It's going to be hard to catch up with that. They are built for touch. The people using them don't need a keyboard. A keyboard isn't really the ideal input device for someone creating content unless it is written content. For everything else touch seems to work better.
While I support the idea of Bitcoin (and have some Dogecoin), I do realize that the central banks (note I did not say government) will act swiftly and mercilessly to crush any true competition.

Look at what happened in the Worgl experiment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rgl - once the idea gained traction the central bank outright banned it, so that other towns considering it, could not start up a competing currency.

Can Bitcoin be banned? Not without crushing the Internet; but if made illegal (or just subject to very onerous reporting requirements) such that businesses in the USA could not easily use it, it would stop Bitcoin's growth dead.
I think you might be straining the terminology just a bit by referring to cloud services installed inside a corporate firewall. What would make that different from traditional internally deployed applications like SharePoint?

"Plenty of companies are large enough to own their own racks of virtualized servers and would pay good money to run well integrated Microsoft software on them."

They already do - that's where a significant proportion of Microsoft's revenue comes from.
I have to admit it would be poetic and typical of scientific progress in general that while the religious texts have marked the creation of mankind as the beginning of the great cosmic opera, with our story as the center, if in fact it turned out we're not only nothing special, but worse: an epilogue, a post-credits reel, an afterthought appearing in a flicker as the lights go out well after the real saga has ended.
While I think that you're heart is in the right place, an expectation that personal advice be written in a gender-neutral environment is excessive. Oliver is a man (I presume) writing a guide based on his experience.
I suspect there were just enough heavy elements to kick-start life at the microscopic level but I doubt there was enough for a sentient species to develop at that time.

Then again all life could have originated at that time and just now got the chance to evolve into a sentient species.

That would explain why a lot of comets and meteorites have the necessary building blocks of life in them.
> What problem do Surface tablets solve?

Art problems, apparently. Gabe of Penny Arcade seemed pretty positive about the Surface Pro:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/02/22/the-ms-surface-pro
Who will buy Campfire? Atlassian or GitHub?
But there isn't brand loyalty with free web products. Users are fickle. I happily used AltaVista, Yahoo! and Lycos before moving to this weirdly named Google thing. I happen to use it because it is the default but change the default (without asking) and eventually people won't mind.
Having said that, I do find Bing awkward, so perhaps I do use Google out of necessity, but not loyalty.
Huh, sir, are you a prophet?

This is clearly amazing :D
Hi - out of interest, where did you get this statistic from?
Actually it is a pretty typical arrangement, provided you can deliver on your commitment to a certain ratio of inbound/outbound.
OpenXava 4.9 released: Web Applications just writing Domain Java Classes
All you need to know about Vaios: Sony issues Thinkpads to its own staff.
In 13 mins - http://jsfiddle.net/jtR9E/
Found this task pretty interesting, of course i used random, cause that's a normal think i guess.
This test tells the company, the following things about you:
1) How do you do in a stressed situation;
2) What is the code quality you write;
3) What you're trying to do first, functionality or beauty.

In the beginning a had no idea what should I do, so I found it quite complicated, but then after a bit of thinking this was quite easy .

Well yes in order to make it more animated I think this should have a different approach.
Apple were not the first company to create a phone with navigation features.

Surface is a tablet which can also run Photoshop, AutoCAD, MATLAB, Visual Studio, Flash, and whatever other weird legacy apps are kicking around. It can multitask. It has a proper digitizer. It has a kickstand and a very innovative cover. Yes it's not a laptop. No it doesn't have the Android store. That doesn't mean it's useless.

(P.S. just noticed my hacker news account is 1337 days old today. wheee.)
> That is certainly a clear headed and reasonable explanation of why it might be tabled as an option... but I can't fathom who thought deploying a nation state level intelligence agency (in a western democracy) against the communications infrastructure of political dissidents was proportionate. Or even a good idea.

Using special branch to infiltrate political groups is commonplace. So much so that there are recent scandals from officers living false lives having children with the people they are surveiling, and trials collapsing.

GCHQ have to obey the laws of England. They are usually mentioned in law to give specific exemptions.

I have no idea how they handle the laws of other nations. I'm guessing that they obey those laws where they align with English law.

It's not the first time they've done "script kiddie" antics. Hacking terrorist information websites to replace bomb making instructions with the recipe for cupcakes is another example.
Is this at work?
I hadn't thought about it but you're very correct about documentation for development. Doxygen generated pages are one thing, but the MSDN is another and it's excellent.

Well done Microsoft.
For those interested in the details, here's a good description of the cases in which vehicle searches can legally be conducted without a warrant:

http://www.fletc.gov/training/programs/legal-division/downlo...
So does this mean all their other products will be killed / sold?
Apple performed a complete, ground-up redesign of their entire iOS UI layer from drawing board to shipping product in less than a year. Evolving a platform isn't a quick or easy task. It took Google maybe 3-4 years to pivot Android into a truly effective iOS competitor, and MS took even longer to respond because they had to start again from scratch. However adding a digitiser and better keyboard support, if they ever bother, would take a few months work. Even for much more ambitious projects Apple has demonstrated they are at the top of their game and as agile as ever, or as anyone else.

They may well add the digitizer, but I don't think Apple will bother with better keyboard support than they already have. I think they view laptops and tablets as being complementary devices. A digitizer might make a tablet a better tablet, but a keyboard just turns it into an inferior laptop.

As tablets do evolve Apple's advantages in market share, app ecosystem dominance, software development and their 64-bit processor technology head start all place them on the strategic high ground in all the ways that matter.
CRIME attack isn't specific to request or response. If you pass secrets in response headers, then the attack can be performed against them.
Nobody is laughing. I've started re-listening some of the podcasts by people from the CCC and from that have gathered a reasonable situation-assessment mechanism:

Assume "their" (NSA, GCHQ) managers are as competent as yourself. So what would you do if you had all this info, all this infrastructure access and your prime objective is your mission, which you believe to be to observe and stop anything that brings danger or instability to the state.

That's what we are dealing with. A blunder here or there does not even make a dent in the position of power that these intelligence agencies now hold.
A lot of start ups are making OSs, browsers, web servers, email clients or servers, productivity suites, game consoles,document servers. Nope. Sorry, still avoiding Microsoft's territory. And if Google or Apple gets kicked in the balls from the justice department they would become low key as well.
Small things that should be mentioned about this game, so far i have played;

- Multiplayer is the only option you can select.

- There is no pause button.

- Your character is truly random selected so expect anything.

- There is only one map which is way too big, I haven't had time to go most of the places yet but not complaining.

- You only have one chance to survive the game, no 'save the state' option.

It is a unique game with unique rules. I like it!
I had to upgrade a machine running an old version of Slackware on the 2.0 kernel. Yes, from about 1999 I think.

It was impossible to get that Perl web system running on anything modern without massive pain.

For the wonderful bliss of Linux-land, at least with Windows you know that something written 20 years ago will probably still work.
(Yes, I know - they shouldn't have written it in Perl)
I think that has been fairly clear for a long time - certainly since geologists like James Hutton realised about deep time in the late 18th century:

"the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time."

and

"The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,–no prospect of an end."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_time
I would like to add to that, quality of design that third party apps and native apps on Mac OSX seem to have (in general) is much higher; this brings the more 'artsy' and student vertical onboard. UI/UX has obviously been a large part of OSX for quite sometime, which is obviously aided by Apple's minimalist design philosophy.

Moving from OSX to Windows I have noticed a large lack of ease of use and good UX flows in a lot of third party apps.
The answer is "no".
Disclaimer: I'm French.
This is a small project, and the first production runs would probably only be in the thousands of units.
What are great alternatives to Basecamp? (I don't use Basecamp but am interested in the space.)
Atlassian already owns HipChat.

Bet GitHub steps up, as they use it already.
Reduced to not fearing is dead. Computer Associates eeks out a living on obsolete enterprise apps that some people. And the city of San Francisco contains a direct current power utility. Edge cases are the opposite of dominance.

APPL may soon be the next MSFT if they don't have another full-sized iPad up their sleeves to wow us with very soon. A solar powered flying watch that reads your mind and predictively orders groceries. :)
There seems to be an underlying assumption that in a year or two, the Surface will have fixed all it's main flaws while the iPad and android tablets will stay more or less the same.

One can argue if the iPad is a glorified phone or not, but I think Apple isn't moving any slower than Microsoft, and it is reasonable to expect a more capable iPad in the years to come. Although it's third party hardware, stylus support has come a long way, even if it might not be as good as the Surface digitizer, it might as well be good enough for average users.

The race is on, and I wouldn't bet my shirt on Microsoft taking the lead anytime soon (in 5 or 10 years, I don't know)
I call bullshit on whatever times of india publishes!
Hey Paul,
I'm trapped on Chromium-30.0.1599.101 (same goes for similar Chrome version) because DevTools freeze for ~3 minutes after GWT's SuperDevMode recompilation on newer Chrome/Chromium. There is huge regression in performance after Chromium 32.x.xxxx.xxx. Chromium-30.0.1599.101 is the latest version without this problem on my distro.

I've tried to report this but you guys don't have proper bug tracker only form in the about menu.
I've been a backer/supporter/follower of the Pandora project since the very early days. What I have to say is not official - but to answer your question the impression that I have is that the volume is literally in the 10k - 20k. The reason is of course economy - this is a hardware startup, and the funding is not nearly at the levels to support 100k quantities.

This is a real shame in the SoC market right now - so many great products could be being made if only the chip mfr's were paying attention to the little guys. Its why companies like ACME Systems (http://www.acmesystems.it/) are working hard on providing SoC's and SoM's to the little guys - for a fair price - but its also why they have a fixed-price policy (no matter what quantity: the same price.) This has the advantage (for the hardware developers) of having access to the chips in small quantities, but it eats the margins when the quantities get larger (>10k), because the price will be the same.

This is an area where a new startup could really come along and eat everyones' lunch. Ignoring the little guys is going to hurt the Samsung and Nvidia's of this market, but I suppose they know that already and its why they price/set policy that will exclude newcomers to the scene ..
You had me interested right up until Flash. Really?

Adobe and Autodesk all have multiple apps on iOS. How many Metro apps have they released? That's the metric that counts when we're talking about tablets.

All the software you're talking about only really works in desktop/laptop mode with a mouse. As long as that is true, MS will be an also-ran in the tablet space.
This is addressed in the paper. In the second paragraph of the third section, labeled Discussion:

Thermal gradients are needed for life. These can be supplied by geological variations on the surface of rocky planets. Examples for sources of free energy are geothermal energy powered by the planet’s gravitational binding energy at formation and radioactive energy from unstable elements produced by the earliest supernova. These internal heat sources (in addition to possible heating by a nearby star), may have kept planets warm even without the CMB, extending the habitable epoch from z ∼ 100 to later times.
In the book, Feathers defines legacy code as code without tests.

So it's not really about old languages or old code. It's pretty easy to write (or inherit) new, difficult to test code, with no tests, in whatever language you please.
Check out ACME systems - they're doing a good job of addressing this problem: http://www.acmesystems.it/
Sure there was, it just sold a lot of publicity and prestige along with the fish.

"Staged" to me implies that the price was not actually paid, and if you have any information that indicates this was the case, please cite it.
You're right about them not being law enforcement(See https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/about-us/faqs-about-mi5/is-mi5-t... for example) but the level of collaboration between them is very close.
Adding a "I received my order" button in Prestashop
The article is not replete on details on how this supposed tax would work. Personally, I'm in favour of taxing Internet companies, but I believe tackling such a complex issue affecting many countries on a national level is a mistake.

Disclaimer: I'm French too.
Auto post-commit PEP8 correction
AFAIK IBM doesn't use RSA to design either.
Culling ActiveRecord Callbacks
Actually, the iCP2 died because of a total failure of its management to get things sorted out. The drama around Mr. Rothwell and his hijinks is bound to be a made-for-TV movie one of these days .. assuming that EvilDragon makes it with the Pyra, and gets some fame/fortune in the next project.

(Disclaimer: I'm an OP fan, a first-batch'er, and avid supporter of everything that EvilDragon and his motley crew are getting up to..)
Ok, this has been done on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/outside
I also have a need (and am also an avid OpenPandora groupie) for a SoC vendor - any chance I could get your contact info as well? I'd be very happy to consider Qualcomm for my project..
His vision of a future Microsoft sounds an awful lot like "Don't you dare compete with Apple in any area". Server backends platforms and cloud computing are the areas that Apple don't care about owning or controlling.
OK... ok - I get all this. But how do I build for Tanky DPS?

Addendum: Article also forgets to mention the University stage, otherwise known as LFG.
Hi I viewed the fb lookback video that was made for me but I couldn't share it at the time of viewing since I was at work. When I went back to try to view it, it's no longer a video but looked more like a thank you message with a bunch of previous profile pictures... I was wondering how I could retrieve the video as I would like to share it? Thank you in advance!
Here's a good story about the shutdown menu in Vista, and how it came to be:

Original rant by Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html

Answer from the guy working on the shutdown menu: http://moishelettvin.blogspot.no/2006/11/windows-shutdown-cr...

Another response from the guy that implemented the OSX shutdown menu: http://arno.org/arnotify/2006/11/the-design-of-the-mac-os-x-...
Buy our computers for utility instead of fashion.
They will be kept alive one way or another, as described if you check out the link.
Path Introduces New Android App With Video
This is not at all surprising. A lot of the machines on the Bitcoin network are ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Chip), which are extremely good at doing one thing: calculating SHA256(SHA256(x)). You can't use them for anything else, so it's a little unfair to compare them to personal computers.

Nitpicks aside, though, the Bitcoin network's hashrate is mindblowing.
Jew the Jews before the Jews Jew Joo.
Some one that got such a massive head start could have evolved by now to survive these times. Even more so, they would have technologies to achieve singularity and probably didn't need their biological bodies to survive any more.

Life originating only after some 15 million years after the big bang, would by any means be extremely super intelligent by now. So much that I guess their very nature of existence would be unimaginable to us. If not, what happened to them? Did they just got unlucky, got hit by asteroid every time and finally had no one to start over? Did they self destruct? Did they achieve singularity and those machines have managed to hide themselves since then? Or the universe is just plain unimaginable large that even for some one somebody like them just couldn't travel that long distances to meet others?

>>Would they consider this era to be cold and dead?

There is this thought that the science of universe we discover is based on observation. Ever expanding universe would leave it in a state that some time in the future people on a planet will just see darkness around them. No stars at all!!! They will likely assume universe is just them, and empty space all around. They would no nothing about Big Bang at all. So just like them, are we missing critical pieces of evidence already?

Plus Stephen Hawking has suggested if we manage to survive technology adolescence and survive to move out to space. We will eventually figure out a way to survive the cold dead era too.

So its like they are still alive.
In Finland:

DNA: http://www.dna.fi/uberkaista 350Mbit/s.

Sonera: http://www.sonera.fi/tutustu+ja+osta/nettiyhteydet/kodin+laa... 1Gbit/s.
In a "big company you've absolutely heard of" it can be very hard to claim that you are outside of your employer's market. Several such big companies define their market as "everything tech-related".

(Whether this would stand up in court is dubious, but do you also want to go up against a billion-dollar company's crack legal team in court?)

Also, I've heard the main issue isn't actually getting sued, it's that VCs or investors won't even touch you if there's the slightest hint that you might not own your code. If your side-project takes off it's nice to be able to enlist other peoples' help instead of miring yourself in legalities.
Did anyone found it usable? I struggled to automate some recursive copy/filter of files. I don't remember that task taking that long to automate on Linux.
Oh god, a million times yes. I really like the old windows way and prefer the osx pref panes. It seemed like MSFT confusing churn to say we changed something (and therefore "fixed" something) without knowing what made sense or what/if there was a customer problem. Instead it created a bigger problem of customer confusion (relearning). All companies including Apple have done this, but the takeaway is that not caring about customer impact is inevitably a recipe for strategic failure as others that do take marketshare (Zappos). It's also a dick move antithetical to providing quality product|service.
In general HN topics should be information dense and aimed at an advanced audience.

Some use of a search engine is a good thing - it means I'm learning something new.

I'd be happy to provide a glossary, but I risk being fantastically patronising. What in particular was difficult with this post? I ask because I meed to improve the clarity of my communication. Perhaps it was the alphabet soup of different manufacturers and users and devices? Or perhaps it was the lack of a very short introductory paragraph? Or the lack of expansion ofter first use of an initialism?
Ok that's probably what happened to me. After I viewed the video, I deleted some pics in my albums and I'm afraid it affected the video... and I would actually like to request for a new video.... please? Thank you!
So a bunch of punks went out and threw eggs and toilet paper at a government agency's building. So the government got butthurt and ordered the army to load 10 tons of eggs and 10 thousand rolls of toilet paper end go egg and TP houses and parks where those punks hang out. That's the level of maturity we're dealing with here. That's the people that everybody assumes are so good at what they're doing that it's OK to forcefully take your money to pay them salaries and put you in jail if you don't do what they tell you to.