skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, "weapons grade stupid" is very appropriate in describing Schmidt's email.

I have friends who testified for Microsoft in the DOJ trial in the nineties. Schmidt testified for the DOJ and was well-aware of what happens with corporate email.

He might be smart, but he did a very stupid thing. Whether it amounts to a slip-up or hubris, time will tell.
I would never buy anything from an online stored that used this.
No, I dislike it because it is not necessary to communicate effectively. It is a lazy way to punctuate your language, taking advantage of the fact that people dislike it to cheaply draw an emotional response.
How do you modify the boot loader if you don't have the boot loader password?
I bargained a $1,800 sofa down to $87.

My first offer was -$5,000.

Maybe your algorithm needs to work on negative numbers.
Reasons why the author didn't switch to Jekyll:

a) Didn't understand Jekyll.
The first public version was released in 2011 [1], they've come a long way. Kudos to them for keeping at it all this time, always a little encouraging to hear progress on such projects.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/rpcs3/source/detail?r=1
Someone explain like I'm 5?
As it stands right now the chance of seeing a playable PS3 emulator is much less than the chance of seeing a playable PS4 emulator. This is of course due to the x86 processor on PS4

EDIT: DCKing corrected me on this I erroneously assumed that the CPU architecture was the main hurdle. Turns out the GPU is a much bigger problem. The more you know, thanks DCKing.
I don't take native apps in general seriously. The future will be cross platform web apps, and even if its not, I couldn't be arsed to write software for proprietary platforms.
Okay I just tried again and it doesn't work :-/
Don't miss the comment in the video description that the video itself is sped up by a factor of 8.

It's definitely a start, though!
Ubuntu does not require a root password, because there isn't one. The default setup is to always require sudo to access root.
Never mind ACPI, the CPU chipset is already a delightful target for hackers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7452912
Another commenter posted some JavaScript that runs to find the price floor. Wouldn't a system like this be subject to virtually everyone finding the lowest price almost immediately?

Because I intuitively understand that there is a fixed price floor, it just feels wrong. What's weird is that I don't get this feeling when I'm bargaining with someone in person. Even if we're trying to find an agreeable price, I don't feel like I've lost when we agree, just because he might go a little lower.

My guess is that this has a lot to do with instantly receiving the item in question.
The word is only used because people dislike it.
I think mother nature laughs at puny human's attempts to change reality with words.
Is there a reason for 3 shorts? Why not use a 64-bit integer, etc.

There is always some level of arbitrariness when you represent data structures this way for performance reasons. It's all about what maximum values you think are good enough.
Side effect this is that they don't freak out when stuff goes wrong. They've seen a lot of stuff go wrong in their lives, and they know how to work through it to a solution.
http://www.fullstack360.com/

Clickable

I don't understand what "Top posts" are in relation to your goals - they just seem to be rather random links to other web URLs.
The thing is, there is no universal notion of public domain. For instance, you could say that a work in the public domain belongs to no-one and/or everyone... but in France (and, as I juste learned, in the rest of Europe as well [0]) there is this thing that says that the creator of a work will always have paternity on it, forever.

I think most people have the same notion though, but as you know law is not just about notions, it's about hardcoding what's ok and what's not. This is actually what the CC0 tries to "solve": if there is no notion of public domain in the country you live in, then you apply the terms of the license, which happen to be what "public domain" would be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights#In_Europe
Though in theory, "the toolkit should handle this" doesn't sound too bad. But it is probably not that surprising that it isn't true, as the toolkits worked so long mainly with X only, and not for stuff so close to X like window managers.

That's why I liked this article, he shows good examples.
Even the bottom level full time software engineers at Google in the US make more than 100k in total compensation.
Link down, though if asked, I would suspect this to be a trick question. :-P
Presumably this also leads to an upper limit on the number of stylesheets.
I won all mine for $.01 by skipping the bid and just hitting buy it for a penny. Algorithm definitely needs work, heh.
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It's a sad world we live in if the rights you give for a software work are opt-in (you may do this and that) and not opt-out (you may not do this and that)
Those have all sorts of limits, basically anything above a few hundred euro a year and you are running afoul of EU AML laws, look at paypal for example to see what the limits are before you have to verify paypal accounts, its roughly the same for reloadable cards.
I think your edit hits the nail on the head in regards to higher salaries attracting more people to the profession. I've posted about this a few times here on HN if you care to look at my comment history but basically the efforts our politicians and our bosses go through to bring in foreign workers and suppress wages results in signalling to potential entrants into the tech employment market. If you take a smart person (which we've acknowledged tech workers are, because gosh, we need to drink from the global talent pool to find such smart people), and they have many options including protected professions that are definitely more lucrative and don't have any of this downward pressure, what choice do you think this smart person would make?
i tried to install (version 4.9) it on my machine (Ubuntu 13.10) and i got 'The package is of bad quality', is it still maintained?
How do you deal with phone calls disrupting product work? E.g. I've run in to few situations that kill production / craft-person style work faster than having someone on the phone, nearby.
I use grooveshark for 'casual' listening. For anything I want to keep and put on the phone or play in the car:

Music is stored on a samba file server on the network as:
Music/Artist/Album/file.mp3, or
Music/Artist/file.mp3

Played over the network using foobar2000. Most music is mp3 format, I get flac when possible for future purposes. I can't tell the difference between a high bitrate mp3 and flac.

Music is only backed up to a secondary drive, not to any cloud. It's so massive and replaceable that it's not justifiable for me to upload it to a cloud backup.

My workflow for importing music files is not the best and needs improvement. Currently I use foobar2000's feature of moving songs to a specific folder (samba file share) named after the artist/album. But I import music so infrequently I forget how to use it.
This is a classic lecture that only spurs me to learn more about Feynman's work.

What struck me last time I watched this, was Feynman citing computer aided medical diagnosis as low-hanging-fruit - a problem just waiting to be tackled. It's sobering to consider this lecture is now almost 30 years old.
You supply the boot loader yourself... load from USB/CD/younameit
Sigh Tech workers. And yes, there's always been some age discrimination. But the explosion of consumer and mobile apps in the last 5 - 10 years (vs B2B apps prior) has really created this issue at scale.
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It won't run well, period. It's very early stages and isn't even handling textures properly, let alone running games smoothly.
This is not true. The great complexity of modern GPUs is a much larger problem generally than emulating a CPU. Furthermore, the previous x86-equipped console, the original Xbox, never saw any decent progress in emulation whereas its far more exotic competitors have really good emulators.

That's not to say the exotic Cell architecture is not a major problem for PS3 emulation. It is. But having an x86 CPU does not seem to increase the emulatability of a console at all.
Now, are you telling me these Superheroes of Business will look at a progressive tax rate and say, "you know what, if I thought I could make $3 million after 3 years of hard work, I would do it... but since it'll only be $2.7, I guess I'm gonna stick to my day job where I make $150k/year." Because that's the logical conclusion of what you're saying.

No, I'm telling you that people who are capable of and considering starting a business, several years earlier in their career than the kind of relatively uncommon success story you're talking about where millions of dollars are flying around, are going to look at a progressive tax rate where a high proportion of their earnings if they are really successful are going to get stolen away by the state in taxes and they're going to think twice. Some of them are then going to decide it's not worth it and just stick with being someone's probably relatively well-compensated employee, which is bad for their national economy because usually small businesses drive a substantial proportion of growth. Others are going to move to a more supportive environment and start their business there instead, which is bad for the original economy, though good for the new one.

You're selling lottery tickets where there is no jackpot, and people who understand maths aren't going to play that game. Most people who are capable of starting a successful business (and anyone who professionally invests in young businesses) understand maths.

I for one would rather pay 50% on my 1.5mil than 25% on 150k, should it come to that.

OK, but what about 75% of your 1.5mil? What about 90%, a rate we actually had in the UK for much of the 1950s and 1960s? Or how about 98% on your investment income, again a rate we really had for a while? Still want to invest in a 20% share of a new business that might make a few million in this country, or would you rather invest in a SV start-up, or in energy and natural resource production in a developing economy, or any of the other vastly more profitable opportunities that would then be available to you?

At some point, the numbers become prohibitive. The interesting question is when that happens, not whether it does.
Some of us have the impression that "Linux doesn't work well on laptops", specifically when it comes to suspend/resume and power consumption.

Under that impression, you have to find on eBay one particular ThinkPad manufactured in 2005, and spend a day tweaking things. Then it will work. Usually.

That impression was accurate, not too many years ago. It looks like it's not anymore?

It seems to me that this update is a great way to change that old impression. If only because "X works faster" is a way to reinforce that "X works at all".

p.s. To clarify, I'm talking about perception/impression not reality. Changing how people think.
A sneak peek of OpenStack Icehouse
I think it's the fact that you know the price floor is pre-meditated. When you negotiate with someone you feel like you are both compromising, whereas in this case you know they've already decided what their fair price is, and are hoping you don't push hard enough to achieve it. Which may sometimes be the case in real negotiations, but they put a human face on it which makes it more friendly.
LIFX on GitHub
Google Chrome violates UAAG and CSS standards by removing user stylesheets
Try to remember that while prison isn't pleasant by any stretch, life isn't like a tv series or movie either. As far as I can tell (from what I've read) some of the worst parts of the US prison system, are the mega-jails that you are sent to before sentencing.

I very, very much doubt that most people (even those that enjoy books etc) would prefer solitary confinement to some form of gen-pop. We are social creatures, and being completely alone, without being able to do anything about our situation (not by choice) is quite terrible when it stretches out over time.
On our project there are some guys who're always using float to position elements (other than images in text columns, which kind of works) and then running into horrific edge cases. I tell them "look, use position: absolute and forget about it". And after struggling with edges cases for months they eventually give up.

Then the next case comes along.
Linux is a kernel. It runs the PID 1 process with root permissions. It doesn't ask for anything. The PID 1 process might, though. So it depends on userland. Then, you can parametrize the kernel with the "init=..." boot option and specify which PID 1 process you'd want. Indeed, the easiest way to get root access is to set that kernel parameter from boot loader - if it allows you to. Which about every default boot loader does. Just set it to a shell and be aware that userland might be a bit picky because you didn't set up a proper session yet.
As one of those people, I really hope not. But then I wasn't planning on touching SV with a ten foot pole anyway. I suspect outside the bubble where the culture demands and obsesses over youth, it doesn't matter as much.
Do you think this is because of difficulty in emulation or because the X-Box was so easy to hack? It was not super expensive to buy a used X-Box and mod it even back when new games were coming out for it, so maybe it just didn't seem like a worthwhile investment to spend time writing an emulator?
The site assumes bargaining is anything but a social act. If you are going to bargain with a computer you will always enter 0 as the price you are willing to pay and see where the algorithm takes you.

In real life you wouldn't insult the seller by asking for 0$ but have to employ more social tactics to get a good price.
From the fucking lovely Stephen Fry

"The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic."

Profanity is an essential and rich part of the English language. It's really only prudes and people who need to feel morally superior have a problem with it, and they can fuck right off, frankly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM
Spotify kills apps submissions
Microsoft's buyout of Nokia's phone biz delayed until April
If you're smart about it, you can learn things from other people who do things different ways. You can also learn what does not work very well.
Sure, but it's also nice to have a layer of abstraction over psql. I personally really enjoy working with Django's ORM, for example, over writing native queries.
My father was programming before you were born...

Working in a bank, not for an editor...
Usually I would agree with you. However, when referring to the HTML+CSS+JavaScript atrocity the description is well fucking earned.
Yeah :D WTF? "You got it for $25.00 Initial bid was $100.00. Shop wouldn't have sold for less than $75"
I disagree. High-speed emulation of the processor would be possible using dynamic recompilation, a la QEmu. Someone would just have to write the code to do it.
WTF? "You got it for $25.00 Initial bid was $100.00. Shop wouldn't have sold for less than $75"
Not sure what this article is trying to say. I can gain "root access" just by dismantling the hard drive and mounting it on a machine I own.

This is exactly why everybody should be using full-disk encryption. It is ridiculously easy to set it up both on OS X (with FileVault) and Linux (with a plethora of options), and even on Windows machines. There is absolutely no reason why not to do this.
Read the policy. It's basically against poaching executives. It specifically says that anyone at the individual contributor level (ie developers, designers, testers) are all fair game. At the executive level for these places, salaraies are probably $300K-$30M range. I feel like depressing their wages isn't a pressing issue for this country.
i'm itching to replace jekyll with a gulp based build script.
Looks like Doug Engelbart was part of the team and he's died.
This is fantastic news. Hats off to the PostgreSQL team! Hoping this lands on AWS RDS shortly after release.
You could just do like pmorici said and add `init=/bin/sh` instead of booting into recovery mode.
French entrepreneur here.

It's called "communication channel overflow": When I used normal channels like talking to my "deputee for French people living abroad", I got rejected based on the tone. I feel like other channels would be the same: We don't get heard, never, unless we strike or do mass demonstrations.

So I overflow my criticism to HN. When they have enough negative feedback, a report will land on Hollande's desk and they'll decide what to fix.

That said, I still think the "autoentrepreneur" status in France is unbeatable to start a business.

Edit: reworded.
Sure, physical access > root access; that is undeniable :)
Because a single integer is much faster and easier to operate on than 3 separate pieces, and doing a single array sort to compute cascade order is a great idea because of how simple it is.

It seems they didn't expand the limits to 64-bit, as that could vastly increase them: e.g. a (5x4):24 split, meaning 16M rules per sheet.... and if you have 16 million rules in a single CSS file, I think it's safe to say the CSS rule limit is the least of your problems. (But then whoever came up with the 4K limit probably thought the same thing...!)

Does anyone happen to know what WebKit/Gecko/Presto does? I've been thinking of writing my own HTML/CSS layout engine and these sorts of things make for interesting decisions on the algorithms to use.
Can you explain like I'm 5 why wall st's actions on the stock impacts overstock's day to day operations and margins?
I think you're getting your terms confused.

> If we see freedom as being the absence of limitations, licenses like the WTFPL can really be considered the most free, and general arguments for free software can be applied appropriately.

"Free", as defined by the FSF (and as used by those in the free software world), is a binary classification. There are four freedoms that free software must respect: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

If a license software respects all of those freedoms, it is a free license. Otherwise, it is non-free.

Note that the ability to apply additional restrictions to existing software is not one of the four freedoms.

> It really confounds me how RMS can reject DRM but be so supportive of his own freedom-limiting psychological DRM of sorts.

I assume you're referring to the GPL. Understand that the GPL is meant to be a hack of the system: it's a software license (copyright) written by a group who fundamentally believes that copyright to software (as it is currently used) should not exist[0].

The GPL is a twist of copyright law to force it to do the exact opposite of what it was intended to do: instead of restricting others' freedoms, it preserves them.

[0] The FSF does not actively oppose software copyright because doing so would harm the GPL (and therefore harm free software), but the origins of the free software movement are deeply tied to the question of whether or not software should be copyrightable at all - not so long ago, this was not an obvious question.

And yes, for those who are wondering, it is certainly possible to have free software in a world in which software is not eligible for copyright protections. The GPL is meant as a hack around the current system, as we have it now.
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Yup. The performance impact is negligible nowadays.
Very much my experience. I quickly found myself inputting $5 and hitting bargain again and again until I got to the base price.
Electric 'thinking cap' controls learning speed
This is a great idea but I don't think it could work. My immediate tactic was to put in 10 dollars each time until I saw the price dropping barely any lower. It wouldn't take a non-technical person long to realise this aswell, so in practice, shops would probably just raise prices accordingly, and look uncompetitive if people compared the unnegoriated price.

The difference with in person bartering is that you're dealing with a real person, who can walk away from a deal, and who has actualy emotions and needs. I don't care if I offend this computer with my ridiculous offers and I don't see the market stall owner with children to feed.
It's amusing and attractively concise, but I don't know if it would really be legally valid. It seems to me that there are two options. Either you want public software to remain public, in which case use a copyleft license, or you don't care whether the digital commons gets gatecrashed by proprietarians, in which case use permissive licenses such as MIT or BSD.
Super Normal – Innovation often starts with the ordinary
Are you referring to out-of-state tuition (which also applies to non-foreign students), or something else?

If something else, can you link to a source describing this? I'd love to know more.
> I am not a lawyer but like the new no evil license clause Doug Crawford put on various packages

That clause is a massive pain, particularly for Linux distributions. It makes the license no longer Open Source. Please do not propagate that license or clause any further.
> The author has just taken Foo and made it proprietary.

No, they have made Foobar, a proprietary derivative of Foo. This does not change the license of Foo or cause it to cease to exist.
To be honest I really didn't spend much time debugging the add-to-cart button for this demo. I hope ppl understand that and focus on the bargain experience.
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Xbox 360 emulator under the same line of thought: https://github.com/benvanik/xenia
If you have access to grub, you can edit the kernel command line and add init=/bin/sh. That will drop you in the initramfs, and you can mount the system's filesystems (assuming they're not encrypted of course).
Wait, wait! Just fork the repo and send your brother an edited version!
> But I still think the "autoentrepreneur" status in France is unbeatable to start a business.

TO start a business a single owner, yes, but once it grows, you need to leave, basically, or face tax-death.
Thanks for that!

Out of curiosity: let’s say I’d like to join (I have free time, lack of motivation to do something significant, and I speak four languages fluently) how would I do that?
IMO, the only CORRECT way to assure that you're not vulnerable to all the "attacker" tools is to test USING those tools yourself.
I used that strategy a few times when it came out. I found it interesting to see how fast humans could responded and nullify the advantage. I think after 3-4 wins with the strategy I started getting countered effectively.

So it took a few days and all the players at my level knew about it and could handle it easily.

It's hard to beat a general purpose strong AI in the long run!
Creating GEO-enabled applications with MySQL 5.6
Pet peeve: It's moot point, not mute point :)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot_point
Detailed logarithmic timeline
> is everything going to be measured by WhatsApp now?

Since when are we responsible for other's misuse of an example or metaphor?

Whatsapp was less than 50 employees when it was bought, restrictive french laws kick in when you reach 50 employees. This means that does those constrains actually don't affect you when your business is taking off. It looks like a valid remark to me.

> Is he saying that a French startup can easily be a $19B company while still being exempt from the employment laws?

It looks like it. Whatsapp wasn't making $19B, it was sold $19B.

Besides, when you reach 50 employees I don't think you can be considered a startup anymore.

The interesting question with regard to this french bashing is: why do You even care? Are they threatening You in some way?