skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article lacks any real substance, and perhaps that embodies my dislike of systemd in general. The demonstrate what I mean, I've modified the parent article, replacing "systemd" with "Windows", "sysv" with "Unix", and "init system" with "operating system", plus a bunch of other title changes to make it coherent, without really modifying the impression of the post: http://pastebin.com/sLsDVBG8 (Don't take it too serious.)

Obviously this is just a bit of humor, but it sounds like something that could've been written in 1990, and the popular choice at the time has made at least a generation of developers and sysadmins suffer, and which some are still suffering from. I think the lesson we can learn is that "ideas" are not unimportant, and should be properly looked at before jumping to binding decisions, because what "solves your problem" now, may cause significantly more in the future.
> Our message is much more powerful when we focus on the crimes against the American people.

And that's why I think I feel left out, even by the group I would be supporting. I think the better way would be to describe the crime against the worlds population including the American one.

There is also mass surveilance going on in my country and they are basically forwarding all data to the NSA which of course is illegal. But I can't really join a fight which I am not a part of and probably never will be. I can't call American politicians, but I can call the representives in my country.

But it feels rather silly to call and complain and it will not matter if I am the only one who does it. I want the EU to take action against the US gov for their crimes, I also want the EU to take action against my government for their crimes. I want all mass surveiliance shut down. No matter where it is located. It's a bit like to try and take action on international crime in just one country.
Managing OS X Gatekeeper via the command line
...and in that new, great Internet you will get the natural monopolies, same as we have them today (Google, Facebook), only this time they won't be under supervision of any democratic government.
Which speech recognition engine do you use? Kaldi? Sphinx? Good ol' HTK? Homemade? With deep learning acoustic models?
So can a server just close or move NTP ports to survive this and block default ports via firewall?
Microsoft plays footsie again with Chinese censors – even in the U.S.
New Relic: Browser Wars Infographic
Have you ever climbed an abandoned roller-coaster?
This method of ddosing has been in quite widespread use for several months by now, though.
This is awesome. Definitely using this soon.
We use several speech recognition engines in parallel, including customized Sphinx. We don't use deep learning acoustic models yet, but that's in the works.
Other people could give you the same advice in regards to your weight problems. It sucks, its hard, but its possible. Its not complex, but its not always easy. Still you struggle and its complex for you.
So why are you so judgemental about other peoples seemingly simple problems ?
"Oboe.js is marginally slower for messages that load very quickly but for most real-world cases reacting to i/o sooner beats fussing about CPU usage."

How true is this? Most ajax messages are probably fairly small (few KB?). The transfer time is likely to be pretty quick between the first and last byte. But if you're receiving a bunch of messages, the cpu slowdown especially on mobile might be a lot worse?
I believe it has been translated as the root of all evil for a long time. It is only recently that it has been changed to 'all kinds of evil'. I have been under the impression that this change occurred in English translations due to the fusion of religion and economic beliefs and due to any new historical or textual evidence.
I have a methodology we can leverage to build a framework that will maximize the killing of 'utilize'. Ping me later to discuss.
How to Submit Cartoons to the New Yorker
The worlds most remote base exit is still untouched
If you're coming from a vegan perspective or something, I could see how cow milk could be "weird".

If you eat meat or eggs, milk's just another animal product, though. Is it really any weirder than eating animal muscle?

Also, there's this: it's freaking delicious. That's usually a pretty good reason to eat something.
You realize you kind of described Namecoin? The future is now?
This is great.

I struggle with correcting my use of passive voice and I wish there were suggestions.

For example, how would you rephrase this? "put some headphones on to reduce the odds of being interrupted by someone."
Ask HN: What can I do to get intial commerical experience?
I'm a 1st year Computer Science student looking for work this summer. However, most of the companies recruiting at my University are only interested in penultimate year students, or students with a wealth of experience.

I started programming in high school and have built some small projects for school and personal use. Recruiters want industrial experience. Someone who has dealt with a client, pitched and showcased their work to business people.

Some of my classmates have done work for parents' companies, but I haven't had that opportunity.

How do I get started with some REAL projects so recruiters will notice me?
> Or just buy a lottery ticket. I'd argue the odds are much similar, with much less effort.

No one pays you a salary to buy lottery tickets.

Wage income or RSUs from Google, Apple, etc. are pretty low risk. Wage income and options from a post-B successful company are pretty low risk, too (e.g. if you're an IT guy at Dropbox, you probably make $80-120k in salary, and the bar to be hired as an internal IT support person is a whole lot lower than lead developer at a 1-10 person startup. You'll get some equity upside which is pretty much guaranteed to be worth something -- if Dropbox IPOs at $10b, it's worth $x, and if it goes up to $30-40b (which is speculative), it's worth more -- but it seems unlikely Dropbox would be worth <$5b, and very unlikely less than $1b, and your salary checks from the previous 4 years would not be taken back even if Dropbox somehow goes out of business.
Web Audio Theramin using the Web Audio API and HTML5 canvas
Suggested reading:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/understanding-and-mitigating-ntp-...
Yet look at all the trouble they went through. The vast majority of people who want to steal from you look for easy targets that involve far less work, like hacking Target. Sure it sounds scary but with even a little security effort you can make it not worth their while to attack you as an individual.
For the readme on new issues, I think it is automated by simply adding a 'CONTRIBUTING[.md|.rst|.txt]' to you repository. You can see this happening for celery (https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/new)
I'd love there to be a proliferation of plugins for different writing styles. Hemmingway, Austin, Asimov, Wilde etc. Not so interested in "improving writing", more interested in achieving different aesthetics for different goals.
Seven Signs Your Startup is Doomed
Or they don't want the domain root in the hands of a private company that keeps selling ever-crappier TLDs to make money, making the net worse for everyone? Just a thought.
great post. are you working this?
Yes we apply updates after testing them. MS11-100 was the only breaking change we've had in 10 years and we picked that up in test no problems at all and knew about it as we read about it before applying the patch in the KB article that accompanied it. Did you know Ubuntu LTS releases shipped buggy and broken MySQL versions multiple times? We caught them in testing. Canonical haven't fixed MySQL in 10.04LTS yet.

No problems with Java, ever in 10 years. We don't use Delphi. Did you know that Debian broke the entire SSH key generation infrastructure for a bit leading to insecure key generation. We regenerate our own keys up front anyway.

Never seen a Trojan or virus because we have proper mitigation at the edge of our network and on critical machines and everything is locked down properly. Did you know about SSH worms -- you know the things that hammer the crap out of every node with SSH on it for the last 5-6 years? We mitigate at the edge (authenticating firewall).

If your opinion of windows is based on such things, you're approaching the problems wrong.
OT but I love how his name is translated. Novel The Black Mountains.
Science inches closer to real BioShock-style plasmids
"Let's say that again: as of 2013, there were still hundreds of mission-critical IBM internal applications running on physical hardware until I was given the project to transition them to virtual servers."

Is this so shocking or even wrong? I would expect a company with the history and size of IBM to have tons of "old" hardware/processes. In fact it's that history, perceived wisdom and entrenchment that I would assume many in the enterprise world would would see as an asset for IBM. Am I the only one who doesn't think a business should jump on a new tech bandwagon at the expense of a solid and working business model? I'm not saying virtualization or cloud computing is a fad by any measure, but how does a company rationalize rebuilding old tech with the risk that it may be the wrong path/choice or jeopardize a working model?

I know little of IBM and cant say I'm part of the corporate/enterprise market but that fact that IBM has "old iron" in their portfolio seems to be less concerning for their customers and more of a perception issue among the media.
Careful - the new testament is _extremely_ collectivist and honor-shame based :) Individual judgement happens to be sure but is far from being the only one. Paul threatens the Corinthian church with a sort of collective judgement that would have brought them to their knees, the idea being that everyone's faults would have been paraded in front of everyone else publicly.
I thought MOV alone was turing complete.
loaned - TRS-80 Model I

owned - VIC-20
The thing is, linux IS obsolete.
The winner may not be microkernels. Maybe exokernels or library OS's or whatever.
But it's taking a long time to realise (the essence of the technology will likely win eventually, despite the competing incarnations), and so it looks like linux is winning.
No, what this is exposing is a threat like the DNS DDoS amplification. He sends NTP servers small packets, spoofing the sender address (UDP), and the server sends big response to the target (the spoofed sender address).

This allows to send a much bigger DDoS from a less powerful uplink.

The target can't just firewall a port, as it does not rely on NTP being running on the target, but on some other unprotected machines.
This is not actually true. The unofficial IBM union (http://www.endicottalliance.org/) estimates there to be ~66,000 FTE in the USA.
Fight back? How? Sending email? Making a call. Tell me you had to even put such effort as standing up to do so.

As in, its a meaningless gesture.

The only way to get something done is to upset the apple cart. Meaning finding candidates who will pledge to fix it, this can mean funding people for the "other" party, something I know some will find any excuse not to. This can also mean creating a faction within both, the Republicans are already being whacked by the Tea Party its high time the Democrats had something similar, something not fake funded and orchestrated like OWS - a real movement within that strikes fear at sitting Democrats like the Tea Party did to Repubilicans

Send an email, gee whats next, we fight back by flipping them off or talking around the water cooler?
Now what you need to do is to automate this process. User pastes the text and there is a magic auto-fix button that will shorten the sentences, make everything more readable, etc. And then charge per 24hrs the button is enabled.
If you really study the scientific research (i.e. you don't just read a headline in a newspaper saying "SCIENTISTS SAY COFFEE IS GOOD" or "SCIENTISTS SAY COFFEE IS BAD" and you actually understand the limitations of nutrition study design and the conflicting results across seemingly similar studies), you'll come to about the same conclusion: there are tons of uncertainties in nutrition, and eating lots of plants is about the least uncertain advice out there.
If you don't live in an EU country, they generally can't / don't pursue you, but if you travel to Europe (as I do sometimes) they could arrest you when you cross the border. There was a case of that happening to a developer in the desktop software days, but I can't find a link to the news story now.

In practice, the EU pressured US-based payment gateways into handling it on behalf of developers (which is really best for everyone, and essentially what Apple & Amazon already does today).

If you don't mind ignoring EU laws, I'm sure most people on the Google Play store are also ignoring them and getting away with it. But there are lots of Nintendo IP infringements on the Google Play store as well, so the fact that it's common doesn't necessarily make it legal.

For some history, there's an old Business Of Software thread on the debate, including folks like Andy Brice & Patrick McKenzie chiming in with their views:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.465929.3...
The unofficial IBM union (http://www.endicottalliance.org/) estimates there to be ~66,000 FTE in the USA.
UFC has successfully sued at least one person for watching streams
BitCoin and Pseudoanonymity: What Your Accountant needs to know
It's only a paradox if you believe in the first place that dietary animal fat is bad for you.
Surveillance is arguably part of these companies' business models. However we are talking about their own stuff, their own products, their own servers and I expect them to be upfront about it (e.g. hey, we are using your data for ads targeting) and to fix vulnerabilities that may allow third-parties to access my data ilegaly or to harm me.

With NSA we are talking about something different. If the NSA can engage in subverting encryption standards, there's no end to what they can do. If they ask Google to plant a backdoor in the Chrome binary, or Microsoft to plant a backdoor in Windows, or Apple to plant a backdoor in iOS/OS X, thus removing Google/Microsoft/Apple in the connection between me and them - I'll never find out about it and my software will be defective "by design" and as I've said, my personal fear is not the NSA, but rather organizations that are closer to home. For example, if backdoors in the software that I use exist, then they can be discovered by organized crime syndicates that say, are in the business of stealing credit cards, or whatever.

Can Google/Microsoft/Apple/Yahoo promise to do the right thing with such possible exploits? Can they promise to fix them, as they are discovered? Of course not. Hence, I cannot trust them anymore, because it is not in them that I have to trust.

> The problem is that these demands are possible to fulfil in the first place.

Well, shit happens all the time, mail accounts get hacked and so on. To me the real problem is that the software that I use may be defective by design and I cannot trust these providers to fix it or to tell me about it. Voting with my wallet also doesn't work anymore, as long as the alternative is still a US-based company and in this regard I now feel that all US-based companies are equal. Yahoo even tried fighting warrantless spying and failed and we found out about it only because of Snowden's leaks. So even if they want to do the right thing, they can't.
Thanks, that is very helpful. I like to listen to courses while I'm making breakfast in the morning. A bunch of quizzes would be quite annoying.
You mean like peercoin?
Suiker maakt je niet alleen dik en ziek maar ook vlugger ouder
Exactly right, the problem is that you're not the US.

"Hate laws" are censorship. "Hateful" speech is equally protected under the US constitution, and any political movements it might inspire will not be infringed upon by the government.

The fundamental problem with "hate laws" in the context of speech is the definition of "hate", totalitarian governments tend to widen that definitions in order to suppress adversaries, this might be theoretical in your case but it's still an attack victor.

The Internet must be built on the example of the "freest" framework available and that is the US's.
That is neat. I pasted in the first part of Big Two-Hearted River [1] and it scored a little "worse" than the first part of the novel I'm working on, suggesting it's not a perfect metric for how "Hemingway-like" a text is. I've always thought that the cultural meme of Hemingway's terseness is not a very good representation of his actual writing style. In the past when I've been prompted to try parodying Hemmngway [2], the result usually tends to a style that's a little more verbose.

[1] http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/hem_river.html

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/1t9571/wp_so...
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Ohhh. Well done! Already sending this to a bunch of writers in my group. This would be killer as a WordPress plugin.
LOL The map looks like ass, LOL. It's fine.

God said to start planting.

IS that the game MULE? I like MULE, in theory.

God says...
variety sounds littles distraction drenched action Cyprian
garlands transgressors wasted storing veil struck cottage
initiating disperseth Better infirmities believe fair
Dido notice unknowing enumeration deserved gave indentures
Coeternal discourses intensest disclose astrologers glorify
Pontitianus derided expressions endeavoured version pleasantness
Circus
* They aren't like Asmiov laws. The order doesn't matter. In either the Articles or the order of the Constitution. They are numbered more for convenience than anything else.

* There are similar restrictions on the US 1st Amendment. Crying "fire" in a theater is the common example. I note that the 1st Amendment didn't protect Manning for very similar reasons. The EU law is just being more explicit.
Hard to believe this post is not in the front page of HN. As the technical member of my family I'm constantly dealing with these type of issues.
There's also an obligatory xkcd to that obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1108/.
Nicely done. It would be nice if they can licence the idea to the makers of other simple writing apps.
/// The results showed that both protein and fat reduced the glycemic response elicited by oral glucose in normal humans. The effects of protein and fat were independent of each other, but gram-for-gram, protein had a 2 to 3 times larger effect than fat. Fat reduced glycemic responses to a greater extent in subjects with low FPI, whereas protein had more effect in subjects with a high WC and a high intake of dietary fiber.
SOURCE: http://m.jn.nutrition.org/content/136/10/2506.full

/// These data indicate that protein given with glucose will increase insulin secretion and reduce the plasma glucose rise in at least some type II diabetic persons.
SOURCE: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6389060

It didn't take me long to find these two papers which find evidence of the antagonistic effect on glucose & insulin by the consumption of fat and protein. It doesn't look like nonsense to me.

Fat soluble vitamins and even chemicals like Caffeine or even Glutathione are absorbed more eficiently when mixed with fat.

Not that nature is perfect but it does get a lot of things right...whole fat milk seems to likely be more optimal than reduced fat milk.
Exactly.

Cloud is not the silver bullet. But at the same time, there is not much merit in choosing to be a luddite and not use the capabilities of cloud where there's a genuine need. I feel IBM, to an extent is guilty of not pursuing things on the cloud front and is now paying for it.
Show HN: /r/HackerNews: The HN front page mirrored on Reddit.
Hemingway's writing is incredible, IMO. And the theoretical reasons he had for writing in that style are very convincing.

However it leaves one massive problem. If this is the 'one true way' or writing fiction, so to speak, then nobody else can really embrace it because they'll be dismissed as Hemingway wannabes.
I'm going to love using this. I write for a living, so I write a maddening volume of output per week. While I don't absolve myself of the need to edit everything, I'm working against the law of large numbers. Some stupid errors, or bad stylistic habits, are going to slip through the net every week.

I've been jonesing for a real-time style editor for years. Autocorrect is fine and dandy (and often wrong, but that's another story). But most autocorrect systems limit themselves to spelling and grammar. Hemingway selects for readability. That's very cool and very useful.

That said, I'm probably not going to copy & paste everything I write into the Hemingway editing environment. I'd love plug-ins and APIs for Word, Google Docs, etc. If you make these, I will use them, and I will bug the living shit out of every writer I know to do the same.
Need a big army to enforce all the patents and extort money!
EU Pushes to Globalize Internet Governance
I'm in my 40's and I'm fat because I sit on my ass all day and eat when I'm not hungry. There is no reason to blame a certain subset of the calories.
I tried it out on a few articles from PG and the Economist. It turns out complex sentences are common in their writing. I don't mind, or should I say that it is not minded?
The truth is that most people don't care about NSA anymore.
Love the concept.
I'd pay monthly if it did more complex analysis. But not at this stage.
Use somebody else's SQL...
Rand Paul Will File NSA Class-Action Lawsuit Wednesday in D.C.
Is your assertion that the maximum utility of an topic is realized on the first discussion?
> Again, like you say, it is probably not the India and China people's fault,

> their level of english is terrible

Indians'/Chinese'
Or: it's low on the roadmap and it's not something that markets well, since the non-dev user doesn't care about IndexedDB support.

Occam's Razor applies here.
Google will deprecate the standalone AdMob SDK for Android on August 1
The reason why it wasn't nice was because of the complexity and inefficiency of maintenance. The senior managers who gave me this project wanted to move in that direction in 2010, but couldn't because again, they couldn't get the proper hardware in place in a timely fashion; just delay after delay. Then the Fukushima earthquake happened, which caused an emergency migration of applications from their Tokyo datacenter to their Baulkham Hills datacenter in Australia, which in turn used up all the capacity they were hoping to use for virtualizing everything.

It's not a bad thing if IBM wanted to stay on pure hardware for technical reasons (hey, virtualization can have performance hits, depending on the application). But even IBM didn't want to stay on pure hardware, and that's why it can be considered a sad thing that it took so long.

edit: clarification
I agree with you on the UN in this instance. But if the current system of governance is so great, how did the net come to be so massively infiltrated by NSA/GCHQ?

The problem is that the internet has come to be seen as a political problem by an increasing number of governments, and the current institutions that provide governance (ICANN, ISOC, IANA, IETF, etc) have no political power with which to push back.
My name is Kennedy and I am represented by Kenvek I would love to help answer any questions.

1. They take 10%. Which makes sense to me as my rates and time varies from project to project.

2. Brian, the main man behind it, who represents me is only taking on 10 full time freelancers at this time. He wants to start small and is in no rush take on a bunch of people. This way he can focus on the best people. The vetting process right is strong referrals

3. This is something that I had concerns with as well. Like anything else he is trying new things as he goes. The current process is to hold the money from the clients in the bank account for the sanity of both client and freelancer. For me collecting payments has always been a pain with a lazy client.

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