skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me fix one line in your post: If someone with sufficient technical knowledge wants your passwords or other data and you hand them an unlocked machine they are going to get them.

Now, reducing the technical knowledge required from "opening a shell and running apps" to "click here to see all passwords in seconds" greatly reduces the technical knowledge required and so greatly increases the risk you're exposed to.
Metro is going to work out well eventually, maybe in Windows 9. Microsoft are playing for the long term here. When you use it on a touchscreen it really makes sense, and one day all screens will be touchscreens.
I can see my window in that pic, yet had no idea ICANN is over there on 17th.

You're right about proximity. Within that radius chances are you're a government employee, lobbyist or lawyer.
Should get some CloudFlare caching on that site. :) Looks nice though, interested to give it a try.
This is a good point. Beyond the privacy concerns, there's the problem of not having any control over when the software disappears. One of the better general purpose web-based productivity apps was DabbleDB. I got a friend hooked on it and he invested a bunch of time basing many of his companies internal processes on it. They were subsequently acquired by Twitter and shut down the service.
Bill Gates Says Microsoft was Willing to Acquire WhatsApp
Ending Sponsorships
The source code its on the installation of hhte peoples machines. dont?
That statement sure can come off as creepy but I read it in a more charitable light: "make sure you take some time to do more than just work, and be brave about it."
Popcorn Time – Goodbye (Popcorn Time closes doors, shutters app)
> It seems a bit disingenuous to advertise "RAID 1" on the main page, when it's only software RAID.

Is hardware RAID for RAID 1 really worth it? Because in my experience the performance advantage is not really there.
It is described as non-blocking by almost everyone. If untrue, please tell me why.

http://nodejs.org/

> Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Well, I don't think I'll be moving my domains BACK to godaddy, but I hope the improvements deliver anyway.
See OP's previous submission: https://medium.com/p/b04829344e02
The bubble is going to pop some day.
Havard astronomers rumored to find "Smoking Gun" for inflation hypothesis
Fall back - spring ahead
Is your idea doable ?
Is the gain of doing it way greater than marginal ?

Why would anyone do it ? What would they gain ? What's in it for them ?

Can they help, or are you talking with the wrong people ?

Is it a good idea, frankly ?

We see a lot of that whole "disturb" crap and help us change the world and all... Is your idea different ? Is the problem real, or is it just a selfish thing ? Don't get me wrong, a lot of people want to do something by pure selfishness (I want to be famous, I want to have a billion dollars, I want to be this or that, forgetting that if there is no problem to solve, there will be nothing of that: fame, money, etc, are preceeded by solving a problem).
You'll spend more time watching the locked content before the show for most DVDs than it takes to download.
I agree with you, artists should not starve and deserve our appreciation. Even with piracy, Beyoncé, Jay Z, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence, Steven Spielberg, Justin Bieber, R. R. Martin and many, many other artists and creators are pretty safe from starvation though. Actually, if "to not starve" means being as wealthy as them, I'd say more than 95% of the world is starving right now.

Copyright is making a very privileged portion of the world very, very rich. That's completely unecessary. Artists should earn their living, sure. But they don't need to be filthy rich. To be filthy rich isn't really a "need" for anyone, in any time.
¿Cómo solicitar el préstamo quirografario?
En inglés los podemos llamar “commercial loans” y en español solamente préstamo quirografario, estos préstamos se destinan a aquellas personas jurídicas o físicas, en donde se les debe de otorgar más de un pagaré, y estos se les deben de poner una fecha para la garantía del dinero que se les está otorgando. De esta manera nos estamos obligando a devolver el dinero que nos han prestado más los intereses que se nos han adjudicado.
It strikes me that-- if you accept that touch screens are not going away, and nor is windows-- then the work on providing smooth scrolling is unavoidable, metro or otherwise. Would there be a large amount of work on smooth scrolling for metro that would not carry over to 'desktop' windows 8 firefox?
Or bitcoin! I've always referred to it as a DDoS on engineers.
The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator?
No, this is why Lady Gaga is popular: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/lady-gag...
Try using Mosh. It makes ssh much less painful for high latency connections.
Orphans' Lonely Beginnings Reveal How Parents Shape A Child's Brain
I once had a sweet, innocent, virgin girlfriend who was raised in
New Jersey. She arrived in Califirnia, and We started to
go out. As I got to know her--I saw the New Jersey upbringing peak out. I started slowly. Her major in college changed to business. She believed it was O.k. to cheat in order to pass a test. She believed it was just
fine to step on people to get ahead. She would make a sandwich, after sex, and always give me the smaller half.
Oh yea, she really didn't care about the homeless, animals,
or anyone other than herself and mom. At first--I just thought she was young and naive, but after awhile I think
New Jersey rubbed off? I always thought what I would say
to her if I ran into her. I think it would be, "Let's go
to France and live out The last Tango in Paris, without the
fingernail scene, and the gunshot." Yea--She had a body
that was well spectacular.
I see the appeal of FSS; I've felt frustrated with the extra effort it takes to describe some operations using Ansible compared to shell scripts. However, your project suggests to me that what we may really need is a tool to translate shell scripts into (reasonably idiomatic) Ansible playbooks, perhaps interactively and with further review from the user. That, or to otherwise automate the creation of playbooks where possible.

Edit: removed speculation about an idempotent *nix shell.
commonjs modules are a great abstraction. I have a codebase in the 10^5 magnitude of LoC. It's a pleasure to work with. I don't see any code maintenance issues with scaling 1 or 2 orders of magnitude. Maybe memory issues? But then, it probably makes sense to break up your services.
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> Maybe the end of copyright as we know it is technologically inevitable. But in the meantime it shows more than a little bit of ignorance, naiveté, and douchebaggery to congratulate each other on destroying peoples' livelihoods en masse.

Let's say we roll the clock back to before DRM was enshrined in what used to be general purpose computing hardware. Let's say we had the option to refuse it. Would you rather have DRM and movies on your now not-quite-personally controlled computer, or would you rather have one less threat vector for pervasive surveillance?

That's the choice. You can hand over control of part of your computer to some very sketchy people and have movies, or you can make the relatively small number of artists who make a living off recorded performances find a different way to monetize.
For those who speak Python there is an excellent survival analysis package called Lifelines -https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/lifelines

Written by the same guy who brought you Bayesian Methods for Hackers - https://github.com/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabilistic-Programmin...

And if you are curious where to test your newly acquired knowledge try a Kaggle competition called "Predict malfunctional components of ASUS notebooks" which is a great example of survival analysis usage.
http://www.kaggle.com/c/pakdd-cup-2014
I thought this was going to be vaporware, but man, I'm impressed. If it can really do half of what the introduction video shows, I'm can't wait to play with it!

One thing I think is particularly interesting is that the onboarding process lets you use natural language to figure out what WolframCode to write. Slick!
While element of luck is involved, I hardly think getting caught is random. I think a lot depends on preparations and profile you keep.
I wanted to emphasize the fact that you should meet a girl completely outside of your existing network. Why do you find this creepy?
If you dump the content of this repo into "%APPDATA%\Popcorn Time\app", the app starts working again without having to do any compiling.
20 Years Covering Conflicts
BMW provides free service for 3 years, but few cars have major repairs during their first 3 years. The money in service is in the later years, when major repairs and maintenance occur.
Please. Eyeballs was so dotcom, attention is so web 2.0, that's not who we are anymore. Now it's all about mindshare, sharing secrets to one another.
The SSAE 16 SOC 2 attestation would address physical access controls. At my last job with a hosting company, as an Engineer with substantial infrastructure in my local DC, I was not allowed entry without signing in and being issued a temporary DC badge. The whole industry probably isn't there yet, but auditors are cracking down on who is allowed unrestricted physical access and without that certification you cannot get big business customers.
I stopped installing office on my PCs about 10 years ago, for the first few years replaced with OpenOffice/LibreOffice and more recently things like wikis and confluence and google docs. Its amazing how little it really matters. Most of the stuff I get sent by MS Office users I can interop with. But every parent in the country still thinks their kids need Office installed to do their homework.

Occasionally you get people who have gone really over the top on the Word or Powerpoint template so that the thing is totally unreadable on any non-MS platform. I was thinking we need a campaign really - "Keep your document formatting simple" -- no one is impressed with logos in footers or really complicated tables within word or clever animations on powerpoint anymore ... if everyone stuck to the 80% of features that interop well we'd be much better off.
Here's the company's blog post on how the service works:

https://medium.com/secret-den/12ab82fda29f
Virtual Memory and You
Yes! I'm a huge fan of Cam's work. I bit the bullet and put down R to work through the Bayesian Methods book with Python. Learning the language and working through the book has been a lot of fun.
This is an outstanding essay -- more fields need this kind of thinking. Plus it's doubly ironic having it in computation, a field that has always seemed determined to ignore history, and reinvent it.

A nano nit: Yes, GC came from Lisp, but its first mention was in AI Memo #1 (the first MIT AI Lab working paper) by Minsky. I have a copy someplace -- it was only a few pages long.
Truly inspiring!
Icelandic Parliament Committee Holds Closed Session to Discuss Auroracoin
I almost did a double take because this post could have easily been me right down to the health care / arts / programming bit.
Seems to me like they just did a good job identifying easy targets.
I can confirm the bin thing.
"Didn't lose any money in the MtGox closure? Don't worry! We can fix that!"
Just wondering though, what is preventing them to sell a franchise of Tesla and just provide the seller the appropriate incentive - like keep a fraction of the sales. I suppose they still have the right to put some restriction to the franchisee like they do in the food industry ( like you will not see a McDonald selling KFC )
Sina Weibo files for $500 million U.S. IPO
After 4 years of heavy Cheffing, I completely agree with most opinions expressed here. I'm pretty sure Puppet is just about the same, I have 0 experience with it though, I won't claim otherwise.

I got frustrated enough with the Capistrano, Fabric, Puppi lot that I wrote a pure bash deployment tool with a fitting name htpps://github.com/gerhard/deliver.

Ansible on the other hand is something else though. There is some learning curve, agreed, but it's not as bad as awk or sed. And seriously, if you know your bash, you will know both awk and sed. I consider my shell scripting to be above average, and I've attempted a Docker orchestration pure bash tool https://github.com/cambridge-healthcare/dockerize, but Ansible just makes the same job easier. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but before you dismiss it, give it a real chance. I should know because I have initially dismissed it thinking that it's too complex, yet another Chef circus, yada yada, but trust me - it's worth it ; )
Flood: Geometric visual programming, driven by a Scheme interpreter
So are these actual quotes from people you've interacted with? Otherwise, your comment is a strawman.

I've been in meetings with people who have iPads, most with keyboard cases. In one such case, this woman (a PM for our project) asked meaningful questions, took notes, then sent out the minutes and action items as soon as the meeting closed. I was sitting next to her the entire time, so I saw what she used: Mail.app, Safari for various internal and cloud-based web-apps, Skype, and Fantastical for giving herself some tasks/reminders and setting up a followup meeting.

She made big use of the multitouch gesture for iPad app-switch in a very elegant and no-fuss kind of way. The copy/paste seemed a bit time consuming, but clearly she was used to it and didn't make a fuss about it.

While in some organizations you may need a full-on laptop, that use-case is being chipped away every year.

btw, that example about project plan is really Microsoft's fault - Microsoft really needs to provide a non-Windows (preferably web-compatible) .mpp viewer, yes, I have MOOS, but it's pretty sad that the PM has to export the Gannt chart or hope the team has the right viewer.
Rackspace managed hardware starts at $499 a month and goes up from there.
Wow. Sorry, I can't support any web apps that modifies the wordpress app into something else. It's pretty much like using Flash to power the Login forms on website.

It's an automatic deal breaker for me.

I do hope Jottly reconsiders this and I'll try when this happens.

I wish you guys the best luck on this though.
You realize that WhatsApp has hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue?
last time a saw a full service station I was 5 years old

Get out a pump your own damn gas.... jeeze
The Mac version does not run on my Macbook Air running OS X 10.9.2
Visual programming in the browser, driven by Scheme
What about FOSS licenses, anyone can simply ignore what for example GPL says and do as they please with the code without copyright. There is simply no case there to fight if it were to happen.
> Dart is good if you have a lot of man power to build in house components, but it has a very closed ecosystem that does not play well with other JavaScript libraries.

You mean "JavaScript libraries", not "other JavaScript libraries". Dart is a language one of whose implementations is a compiler-to-JS, but it most assuredly is not, and does not pretend to be, a JavaScript library.
First, lets establish what money is.

How much money you have is proportional to:

* How much value you create

* Your ability / willingness to monetize it

Now lets talk about why most artists are starving.
These creatives are in the entertainment niche.
Which is very different from the problem solving niche.

1. Entertainment is not a necessity, it is a luxury

2. Entertainment is a low-cost luxury[1]

3. This is a lot of competition in this niche. Remember how I said there are two types of products: Problem solving and Entertainment? Well the problem solving products only compete with other products that solve the same problem. In the entertainment niche, you are competing with every single other entertainment product. Your dopey little fantasy novel is competing with Call of Duty, 50 Cent, Angry Birds, Reddit, Flappy Bird, Facebook, Hacker News, and sex.

* 4. Given points 1 and 2, that means to make money, you HAVE to scale and be popular to many people[1]. Considering point 3, you have to have great content at the very least.

So I hope you can see why most content authors are starving is due to economics and their value creating ability, and not torrenting or spreading of knowledge.

I'm sure you know that the entertainment industry is a feast or famine one. The people on the top make all the money, and the people on the bottom make very little, simply because the barrier to entry for peoples attention is very high and only the best will get it (point 3).

If you're going to sell music, don't quit your day job unless you're sure you're going to be on the "feast" side of the equation.

*[1] Not necessarily. There is a growing model where you give content for free / low cost, then sell high priced ($1000+) goods to your rich, loyal fans (e.g. exclusive signed CDs, etc.).
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More likely: U.S. agencies are confident enough in their other means to control the internet that they're willing to gain back a little good will by appearing to give up some control over ICANN.

Let's not forget that the FBI/etc reserve the right to shut down any website for any reason, whether via a letter to a service provider, or simply showing up and confiscating hardware in the name of "national security". And you can bet they're not going to stop pushing SOPA clones either.
Thanks for doing the write-up! The code looks pretty well doc'ed as well, I'll definitely be looking at this again because I've been meaning to integrate angular with one of my little node app
The federal government sets a national minimum wage. Any state is free to go beyond that. To flip your question around, why do you think that shouldn't be the case? Unless you don't believe in minimum wage at all, this would effectively remove the minimum wage of several states.
The greatest trick the devil has ever pulled...

But if that makes Hollywood sleep better at night, sure - sleep tight, Hollywood! All is well with the world now. No need to bother your pretty heads with Popcorn Time anymore. You can go back to your extortionist business models again.
Could this have been the intent all along? Make a decent first cut of the code, generate a ton of publicity, then generate a ton more publicity — note the vagueness about why exactly they shut down — then leave the code in reasonable working order up on GitHub. Now a thousand hard-to-shutdown forks will bloom.
Thank you for suggesting this. This looks exactly like what I've been looking for. Like a "command-line splunk". It is also packaged as a staticly linked file, which makes deployment easy for us.
Ask HN: What is your preferred method to backup Ubuntu 13.10?
Are there any resources for someone wanting to get started looking into coding/understanding deep learning algorithms?

By which i mean, i'm already a data scientist. I'm not looking for software that runs it for me per se, i'm looking for resources that could let me implement/research it myself.

I've seen a lot of hype. Some of the claims I've seen people make for deep learning I know must be objectively false and sound like a lot of the hype/marketing for other machine learning techniques, but the ideas also look somewhat promising, so i'm really curious to get involved and at least be able to make an educated decision...
Why the fuck did they host the servers themselves? Was this planned all the time?
I created "Sons Of Anarchy". Here's why I hate Google's stance on copyright.
Sina's Weibo Files For $500M IPO in US
Didn't godaddy recently seize a mexican protest website because ICE asked them to?
Why not use something like http://grasshopper.com/ ?
Good point, though it sounds like it'd very challenging to train users to notice the absence of a special image... especially when it's normal for that image to disappear whenever they use a different browser or clear cookies.
I think of Louis CK as being more on the indie "something to gain" side, even though he risked serious money out-of-pocket on his first special. He wasn't constrained by a history of previous business practices and any particular expecatations of the returns; whereas HBO has been churning out comedy specials for decades, and would never have risked their business model on a DRM-free experiment in a million years.