skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that she doesn't need to be able to code herself (though if you claim that you can learn it in a day then there is a valid question "why didn't you") but one of the things that is part of her job is promoting the programme in a positive way and based on this interview it's hard to say she's doing that.

In terms of the government placing people sympathetic to it's agenda in wider society, the role you talk about (the Oftsted role) isn't meant to be a political role. The head of Ofsted is answerable to whatever party is in power but isn't part of the government in a party political way.

If you don't do that you end up changing large swathes of the government every five years or more (it's not like governments don't change tack mid parliament) which isn't in anyone's interest. These roles should be on competence rather than political vision.
Why the GPL doesn't work (well)
> Those are, to me, off-topic for 2008 HN but right in the wheelhouse for 2014 HN.

The guidelines haven't actually changed any since then.
Omnipay- Payment processing library for PHP 5.3+
High end Sony Vaio are the best laptops the money can buy.

When I custom ordered one from them - they notified me about every step from the beginning of manufacturing to the movements between facilities to detailed cross ocean shipping.

It is Made in Japan.

Every time I use this Laptop (one of Z-models, gold colored) it's a joy.

I think instead of trying to compete for made-in-china junk buyer's attention - they should of elevate their Z-line to fashion statement for very high end, demanding users.
Yeah, but how many scriptkiddies use a VPN or apply for cloaks? Next to zero for most of them.

Also, I bet my behind that the NSA has epxloits for the most popular IRCd's, so that only tor/vpn are a real problem for them (and besides, even these connections can be shot with TCP FIN injections).
It is unlikely that "overly eager teenagers" are doing anything other than playing around or engaging in raw, unbacked braggadocio, as is especially the way of the male teenager. It is unlikely that targeting these users, shutting them down, or prosecuting and convicting them will do anything to enhance security, but it will cost the government money, incur an opportunity cost as these resources are wasted while more reasonable (if less sexy) things that might actually have a positive effect are left undone, and, oh, last and most assuredly least from the government's point of view, it may destroy young lives which were quite likely on a track to be otherwise quite productive, computer-savvy citizens. (How many people here can tell tales of early, somewhat-less-than-legal activities before they became productive members of the computer world?)

I've phrased it with "probably"s on purpose; every once in a while a teenager will manage to escalate to the "true threat" level. However I think it is likely such a teen will either A: tend to show up by other, more practical measures or B: slip through a crack regardless; it doesn't justify harassing relatively innocent and frankly naive users, for what is probably little more than the purpose of padding numbers to make your enforcement look good by going for cheap, easy targets, regardless of whether that's good for anybody else.
The interesting thing with Kindle books (self-publishing) is if you price the book between $2.99 and $9.99, your commission is 70%. But if you price it over or under that range, it's only 35%.

So a $7400 book would be $4810 for Amazon and only $2590 for the author.
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I'm going to assume this question is being asked in good faith.

Mt. Gox is not covered by the formal or informal guarantees to make creditors whole which the Japanese government customarily extends to regulated depository institutions. Mt. Gox has been, let me be delicate, cagey about their extent of involvement with Japanese regulators.

Should Mt. Gox abscond with your money, you will certainly have civil torts available. You can pursue them in any court of competent jurisdiction in Tokyo. This will take 3 to 5 years and cost you several hundred thousand dollars. I'll save your competent legal representative some time and cut to the chase: vindication in court will not enable you to recoup a single yen.
I don't think so. I think most people can do "slightly uninteresting" things, especially when they can see the benefit, and I think that many people have trouble focusing on things that they are interested in after a few hours.
Even assuming there would have been a valid reason for law enforcement to disrupt the communications of those individuals, how could an intelligence agency be justified in doing so?
Am I the only one not seeing anything wrong with what this lady is doing, what her goals are, what her current knowledge is and with what she said in the interview?

I must say that I am quite impressed by her and her attitude.
Sniper Attack on San Jose power substation
For the values of successful you are accustomed to, that is.

How many people die every year for not understanding the basics of electricity?
"Don't Break The Chain" can be dangerous on its own.

Whenever I do break the chain, I feel unmotivated to start the chain again (especially if I've done a good job, because it seems overwhelming to pick it up again from the start of the chain).

I've had to move on from Don't Break The Chain to being positive about making consistent progress.

I would say Don't Break The Chain is great for a fixed-length, short-to-medium-term task, rather than instilling permanent habits.
I don't think this has much at all to do with monads.
It would be very difficult to count the number of people doing these jobs for cash since they aren't reporting the income, but it isn't hard to imagine that these jobs could pay 30k if you combine some of the lower paying ones (e.g. $10/hour of gardening and day labor for 60 hours a week), or if you have skills that pay more (I did test prep tutoring for $60/hour in college).
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In a thousand years we'll have fusion power--in fact we'll probably have better sources of energy than fusion (like the ability to tap solar energy much more efficiently than we do now).
Also, Alexis Madrigal brings up the Pynchonian aspect of the attack at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/sniper...
It is not really a book but I find resources on mdn very helpful

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/learn/javascript

Besides tutorials on mdn they have included links to some of the best javascript resources on the internet and classified them according to the level of the individual. It was very helpful when I was starting out in javascript and I still go back time to time to refresh some concepts
ReactOS 0.3.16 released
My father gave me as a present an Amiga 500 :)
Oh, and when ordering - they also allows you to select (at no charge) the "fresh start" option.

Fresh start means - absolutely no preload with bloatware crap. Just bare OS with couple Sony utils.
You're confused about 1986, the internet, consumers, and the nature of this interview. And it's obvious your bitter about people knowing that he was a great programmer, unlike Steve Jobs who knew nothing technical and just was lucky that he knew Wozniak.
Unseen brings free encrypted VOIP and chat
It's not true that this is up to the clients authors alone to do this work, and it's not fair for the users to tell them that you are awaiting client adoption of various technology, when the current Quakenet ircd implementation is currently incapable of even accepting SSL connections. Or at least it was, last time I checked.

Also, the DANE support in Irssi was announced in September last year and I have only heard of one network where some of its servers have adopted to this technology. Even though there is only one client that currently supports DANE+DNSSEC verification, we still need the (big) networks to start preparing for the support of it, and help us reaching the point where we can secure our user connections even better :-)

Having SSL on IRC, even without DANE+DNSSEC, is still better than having no SSL at all.
I feel it is disingenuous to compare this to League of Legends' model. The big difference is that in LoL, you can buy characters with in-game currency earned from playing the game. The only thing you can't buy with earned currency are cosmetic skins for your characters. So while you might not look as fancy, you're never at a tactical disadvantage in-game just because you haven't sunk a wad of cash into it.

KI:3, if I remember right, only gives you two characters to play for free, and doesn't stop opponents with bought characters from playing you. I presume KI, like most fighting games, have attempted to balance the characters; this may alleviate the point somewhat. But typically they never get the balance quite right for all skill levels. That is, Alice and Bob might be equal at the top-level competitive play (and even that is a stretch in most games) but at the beginner's tier, Bob is way stronger. A great example of this is strong & slow characters versus weak & fast characters. The faster characters are typically better for beginners as they're better for button mashing and missing an attack isn't as detrimental to your health bar.
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I've been teaching high school computing for 10 years, and our regular classroom and computer lab works fine. Our machines ran Windows XP the first two years, then we switched to Linux, and are running a Debian distribution currently.

I don't teach Linux, I teach operating systems generally. Most of my students use different OSes already: Windows on a home desktop or laptop, iOS or Android on a phone. Learning Linux for school is no big deal for them.

I teach word processing, not Word or OOWriter; and spreadsheets, not Excel or OOCalc. In a one-semester course, I introduce and compare OSes, do some shell scripts to contrast the CLI and GUI, introduce HTML and create some web pages, then cover word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software. This course is required for graduation as is a second one-semester course. This uses Kernighan's book "D is for Digital" [ http://kernighan.com ] and covers what any well-informed person should know about computing: hardware, software, networking, and data.

I enjoy using Linux as a platform for teaching computing for three reasons: (1) Linux boxes are cheaper than PCs or Macs. (2) The idea of choosing one's OS fits well with our charter school's ideas of making one's own educational choices. (3) Students learn more about the systems they use at home -- Windows, OS X, or whatever -- by contrast with Linux, just as they learn more about their first language (English, say) by studying a foreign language.

Special camps and tutors are fine, but I don't think they are necessary in many cases.
That sounds much more reasonable to me. But he insisted that it would take much more.
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Brightbox announce 50% price drop for outbound data (and make inbound free)
haha yes, but would they have made the front page in 2008? I think you know the answer to that one!
and that will stem because they're going to have 10 years of being exposed to different devices, UI paradigms and OSs.

I honestly don't expect the compulsory school system to enact anything nearly as elaborate as that.

The "learn to code" hysteria is just a desperation move to try and bring back some legitimacy to an already highly ravaged public school system. At best, the course will be something like a JavaSchool.

I still find it aggravating that people are for teaching kids to code without learning system administration first. Knows how to write C# scripts, but can't use vi to edit a configuration file.
It still helps in the "coffee shop wifi" scenario. I'll take my defense in depth, thank you. =)
Temboo – One SDK for 100+ APIs
Autobahn + Tesla car = pure dream.
The batteries will be gone in minutes though.
Will Nadella appointment weigh on debate over tech visas?
He seemed to be pretty far along and it was a drug for a very common disease.

It seemed to me from the discussion that he was beyond the exploratory phase and had a very specific drug that needed to go to the next stage.
Making Bounced Email Better
Does QuakeNet runs services such as Freenode's ChanServ, NickServ, etc.?

At the very least, SSL helps protects a user's credentials when using such services.
This is a great resource. Good work!

I recently was helping out a non-technical friend with basic HTML/CSS stuff (like this repo) and I had the best success with showing her http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/web. She had tried other resources but for her, Codecademy seemed to be the most hopeful and easy to use (AND FREE).
There’s something rotten in the state of online video streaming
and Steve Jobs couldn't mill aluminum, even when he championed it for all the macbook bodies. who cares.
You realise that such features can come with a on/off setting right?

Plus there's no such a "browser abstraction". A browser is just supposed to be useful for surfing the web, and if blocking ads is part of that, then so be it.

Nobody talks about a "mailer abstraction" ("a mailer is supposed to show me what is coming into my account"), when mailers have built-in spam email filters.

Not to mention that similar things already exist in browsers. Browsers eg. stop you going into "bad" content ("fishing", "malware" etc sites). They stop your visit, show you a warning page, and ask if you're sure you want to continue. Technically those are just other pages, they are content too (and sometimes they even have been labelled wrongly).
Serviio media server
That is a good way to think of it. Indeed, that is how cryptographic randomness is typically defined.

Simply put: given the first k bits of a random stream, can you predict the k+1th bit (more than 50% of the time)?

A generator that passes this test will pass any statistical randomness test, but the converse is not necessarily true. For example Mersenne Twister is a good generator from a statistical perspective, but it's actually quite easy to recover its internal state by observing a small amount of output. (Around 20k bits, if I recall correctly.)
I cannot avoid generalizations in answering this and I am pretty sure any Turk would be more qualified to answer, but there it goes:

I don't think the political movements are really defined by views on foreign policy. Notable exception being Syria which grabs a lot of attention.

To the west Turks still see the Balkans as their hinterland. They feel a deep connection to the fate of the Bosnian Muslims and have yet to forgive the Serbs. They are not so fond of Greece (long history), but have a neutral attitude towards Greeks. Bulgaria is viewed an odd little brother from another father.

To the north, the wars with Russia have been long forgotten. Russia now represents a big economical opportunity. I wouldn't think that Russians and Turks are very compatible characters, but business is business.

To the east there are some Turkic countries with whom the Turks feel a spiritual connection, starting with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. They represent the ideal of the nomadic society from the historic homelands. Georgia is a bit like Bulgaria. Armenia, they would rather forget about. Too many open wounds. Iran is a dangerous country. Militarily mighty, unreliable and very different.

The south represents economic opportunities. The Arabs are basically walking bags of money. I was surprised by the deep connection the Turks felt towards the Syrians. They have been very welcoming towards the refugees.

About the Ottoman period. There is a feeling that Turkey's rightful role is to lead the region once again. Not that it means that the Ottomans sultans should make a comeback. Although one of the most popular TV series is set in the Ottoman era. People love the costumes and the court intriges.

I don't know how the history books teach about this period. Would be very interesting.
Downloaded, started browsing. I noticed about 50-50 sucess rate of it actually playing the GIF's I had saved to my phone.

I'm wondering if this has to do with the size limit IOS allows for saved images or the app itself. I'm not an app developer so I have no clue.
You can make your chain more coarse than daily. For example, for me it's a lot easier to commit to doing something 5 days a week rather every single day so my chain links are measured in units of weeks rather than days. You don't need to beat yourself up about missing a day or two here and there.
I'm interested to hear in the problems you had and how getting 2nd hand computers turn out to be lower cost than the Pi. Do you have a write-up of your experience somewhere? Couldn't find anything on your HN profile.
2G begins its long, slow global decline
At the risk of ending up on a list somewhere, taking out a few key employees at the 7 places making replacements in conjunction with taking out key transformers and you suddenly have a crisis on your hands. That worries me a whole lot more than some idiot on a plane.
This is not a how-to, but have a look at this (I have this very same problem): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6920376

Now my teammates are completely in the path. Motivation is the key point here, they told me at the beginning "you have just arrived here, you will not be so "willing" when you have some years on your back". But then I showed them I am relentless I have showed the benefits of "doing" and "going further". How? I don't have a clear answer but I believe something like:

1. I study a problem or a path.

2. I try to speak about it to my boss (and I don't usually give credit to what he say since he a "1" type).

3. I do what I think it bets better to the enterprise/team

4. I show it to my boss and colleagues and speak about the issue/problem/technology...

5. They don't give a shit about it.

6. I continue my path (meanwhile they continue their path) until they realize that my path is simpler, funnier, better, or rewarding.

7. They usually want to meet again to "re-speak" about the technology/problem/issue... whatever.

8. They end up learning it and enjoying the path on learning/studying...

So nowadays they are motivated by this path (just a little bit more, old your horses!) but I notice that they are much happier.

But, a BIG WARNING: it might happens that some people may feel threatened about you or your way. When you finish something make them feeling part of the team, congratulate them and so on... This is so much true if you are not their boss (if you are, just fire them).
I'm sorry, but said article have already been brought up multiple times in #dev and people are starting to understand how it doesn't hold water anymore.

I break into any discussion I see on IRC where someone posts a link to this article as an argument against SSL on IRC simply because it's not an argument against SSL.

Of course, it takes two to tango. We, the client authors, have started enhancing our SSL support and so should the network operators that hosts the servers on the larger networks.

Also, I think we agree on how Freenode stores the same certificate on every sever is... not ideal...
Not the same as Freenode does, but Quakenet does have services, yes.
I've done this for interviews - we showed them some code that had real bugs in it, as well as some poor design choices (we told them this in advance so they wouldn't think our real code was like that). We were looking for people who weren't afraid to tell us the code sucked and what they'd do to improve it. If they said it was fine as-is, or spotted very few of the bugs, that was a strong no-hire indication.

We tried sending the sample to them the day before, but there wasn't a strong correlation between doing that and good responses from the candidates. Basically, if they got it, they got it. And if they didn't, they didn't.
Coding conventions from github
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I like this alot. BUG: item.time_str isn't evaluating when I select a category.
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Perhaps if they have equity they don't feel too bad about the decision. :-)

Sometimes a commercial tie-in can mean the difference between ten thousand playing your game and ten million.
That book is a famous reference book, it's not supposed to be bought by individuals, but by university libraries. The price is so high because a more reasonable price would be a "drop in the ocean" for a typical library, and they might as well give it away for free then. So they choose a price as high as the libraries can pay.

It reminds me a bit of the pricing of scientific journals. They are basically just magazines, but horrendously expensive because they are marketed towards libraries. The difference to this is that you can buy individual articles. To keep the libraries buying, they also put a ridiculous price on the articles, like $45 a piece. People are not supposed to buy them individually either, its just to keep the price up (and the articles formally available).
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Anyone got a cache? Looks like google didn't grab it.
>> The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people...
> Or how it would 'only take a day' to learn how to operate on people, for that matter.

...Nor does he lack even a layperson's grasp of what surgery is.

I feel rather sorry for her, though - aren't politicians supposed to be briefed for public appearances nowadays so things like this Just Don't Happen?
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Filmmaker Florian Thalhofer argues that interactive stories can make us happier. Or at least, that people's love of storifying their life is causing problems, and that we need a new way of delivering news and entertainment that better captures the nuances of life. He had to build his own software to deliver the kind of interactive documentaries he wanted to tell. In his system, called Korsakow, short clips from a documentary become data that can get organized in different ways based on algorithms and user choice at different moments.
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Hi Frej, your MVP landing page is beautifully designed, but it it does not tell me why I would need your product, or really what it is. There are lists and lists of features, but no demos or examples to explain why they are useful. Sell benefits, not features. Good luck!
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> * don't have smartphone, car, STB and TV. *

It's more likely that you have a smartphone rather than a PC. It's more likely you have an old, unused smartphone than that you have and old unused PC for paying with operating systems. If you are writing software, it's more likely you are targeting a Linux instance running in a VM at a hosting service or a smartphone, than a Windows PC.
I've also heard, "How do we know you won't sell the company and have the product wither on the vine."

This is why startups tend to deal with startups, and Crossing the Chasm [0] is so difficult.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
I believe almost everybody know that electricity can kill you and this is taught at school.

Evidently if you try to repair your TV (without knowing how to repair it), change the electrical installation of your house (without knowing anything), touching a high intensity cable or something like that it is a dead by accident or by stupidity.