skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is by design and is the default, it is specifically mentioned as an issue in the first paragraph on the manpage http://www.x.org/archive/X11R6.8.1/doc/Xsecurity.7.html
Not to mention the font. I manage to ignore the wonky color themes (I picture a kid with a box of crayons having designed it), but the font is something that I desperately need consistency and beauty in, as I'm constantly reading and writing.

The default Ubuntu font is just not consistent and readable enough for a UI. They need to find something like Segoe UI, that gets out of the way and is easy to read.

I really do agree with the gp and your opinions regarding the design. It is important, and I do think Ubuntu should get some outside opinions for the next LTS and revamp their design based on some of the fundamental practices.
Create awesome GIFs of your iOS app in just about 10 minutes
Cold boot is not really that important in itself, but it's a good measure of how much needless cruft is being loaded on your system. If it boots almost instantly, you can be certain you don't have a million unneeded processes draining your battery life.

If it spends 30 seconds before you get to the login screen on good hardware, there's no telling how much things are going on and how it will affect your battery life.

A fast boot process is also telling about good engineering in general, as it implies more things are decoupled and can be loaded independently, instead of being queued in a one-by-one sequence.

So in itself, a fast boot is not that important, but when they manage to cut it in two compared to what I'm used to, that gives me confidence they are doing the right things in general.
io.crate:crateClient:0.1.0 doesnt seem to exist on maven as indicated on the docs https://crate.io/docs/clients/java/java.html
Why are people running OS upgrades on live production servers the day after release? Who does that? It's defiantly not people who care about stability. If you run into issues HN is probably not the right place to share them...
* why won't they hire me for it

Because "you" got a humanities degree and "it" is a tradesperson job which does not "make the world better". "You" chose to pursue "fun and interesting", and didn't run the numbers on "ROI", which only geeks, low-class people, and in-it-for-the-money people did.

* why doesn't it pay more?

Because experience counts a tremendous amount, far more than willingness to show up.

/me shrug

A lot of tradespeople jobs are done by immigrants willing to work many hours with low pay where natives are out looking for "rewarding" and "fulfilling" work. The Great Hand of Bettering Yourself By Hard Work will sort it out, more or less, more or less unevenly, in the end.
Did you start with the latest service pack? It sounds like you started from a virgin disk which can take a while after years of update releases.
Hopefully, by making this kind of exploitation common knowledge for the more tech-oriented crowd, we will be able to bring about change in the companies that manufacture the devices. You're right that the vast majority of people do not realize why they need to secure their infrastructure and would not know how to do it if they did. For that kind of person, the default needs to change to something more secure.

This kind of "change through widespread knowledge of exploitation" strategy saw some success in changing the default encryption schemes of WiFi routers. So, we're already kind of in the same area.
I've been using 3.12 with 14.04 beta2(using the gnome staging ppa). I can't say it's very different from 3.10, but it feels a bit faster, and they fixed a few UX problems in the settings menus etc. Most extensions I wanted work with it. There are a few bugs that are probably due to working with an unstable distro with an unstable gnome ppa, but overall it's nice.
There is an explanation for why their market cap does not reflect the numbers you cite:

In the current environment, value = mobile devices + ecosystem

Yahoo is missing two things:

1) An alliance to provide a mobile ecosystem

2) All the parts needed for a mobile ecosystem

Apple, Google, and Amazon are winning at this kind of value creation. Facebook is doing well enough, especially in developing markets. Microsoft owns both factors but can't make them add up.

If I was running Yahoo, I'd be looking to more-quickly mature Aliyun in Asian markets and then expand out of that region, maybe to a developing market first, but eventually to the US and Europe. I would use the ecosystem requirements to drive emphasis on online properties.
You use an attribute, "#[must_use]".

I haven't seen code not use the standard Result type, and I don't think it's likely. First of all, it's generic, so you aren't forced into a set of errors or an interface that you have to conform to—there's no reason not to use it. Second, there's strong pressure to use Result: all of the standard libraries use that type, so you'd have to write a lot of code to convert back and forth between your own error type and Result if you wanted to create your own for some reason. It'd also be less convenient from an import point of view: you'd always have to import your custom Result everywhere, whereas Result is always available right there in the prelude. Plus, you get really convenient "try!" macro sugar if you use Result. All of this means that you'd really have to go out of your way to not use Result, and my experience matches this.
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https://www.youtube.com/user/TwitterUniversity

https://www.youtube.com/user/FacebookDevelopers

https://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy
Using strl(cat|cpy) correctly is not so hard but some people just don't care.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=139783627710511&w=2

I like how in some of these the length of the source string is passed for destination buffer size.
I'm not sure it's even possible to come up with a piece of code where a misplaced or missing semicolon causes a problem which isn't just a compiler error. If a semicolon is missing and there are more statements after it, the parser will complain ('foo' is not equivalent to 'return foo;' syntactically). If a semicolon is present but shouldn't be there will be a type error, unless the type without it would be (), in which case it makes no difference.
No, there's plenty of us who feel that way: I (and most of the people I work with) just use OS X on the desktop, and Linux on servers. This way you get the perfect desktop environment that "just works". The linux boxes never have a window manager installed in the first place.
Internet Explorer Enterprise Mode Resources
Or we don't try to contact them out of fear that they may be militarily superior to us and be inclined to attack us. And they don't try to contact us out of fear that we may be militarily superior to them and want to attack them.
... having channels doesn't have anything to do with Reactive Programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming). The implication that channels were added to Go to support it seems dishonest.

There is a very long thread on the Go list of a guy who is a fan of dataflow grumbling about how design decisions made in Go make it a poor fit for dataflow.
Ask HN: sharing files securely with non-technical people
I sometimes need to share a sensitive file with non-technical people. i.e. W2 and bank info when applying for a mortgage. In the past, I've tried https://hidemyass.com/upload/. It has the controls I'd like, but the domain scares off the non-clueful. What other services are out there?
Hmm... I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a definition of city that excludes (e.g.) Los Angeles and Dallas-Fort Worth.

Reading what I wrote above in the light of day makes it sound like I'm advocating forcible population redistribution. I'm not... just pointing out that a European-style urban environment probably can't happen in the low densities typical of the United States, and that the only way to achieve such densities here would probably require force (which would be a bad thing, IMO).
The Golden Gate Bridge is actually a lot less critical than you might imagine. For a really critical bridge, consider the neighbouring San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge, which carries about twice the daily traffic. And in fact, the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was replaced last year.
Didn't James Cameron build himself a luxurious eco ranch out in wine country?
I don't see how pitching somebody 24 hours after they covered a topic makes sense. They are not very likely to write about the same topic again at least for a while. And by the time they do won't my pitch be long forgotten?
Amazon.com Easter Egg Challenge with Discounts
That might technically be what the word means, but the implication is that this is what the company as a whole is worth, and that's not necessarily true.

A stock's price is essentially the first derivative (in calculus terms) of the company's value. Market cap is essentially assuming that the entire thing is linear, by taking the derivative and multiplying it by the total size. Stocks don't behave linearly, so this assumption isn't particularly good.
The header bars finally see more use in 3.12; for Firefox, I'd recommend something like HTile, which removes the header when it's maximized.
Very cool!
I expect to see this in clubs by year end :)
The point about “text is too big” is really, really strange—using 12pt in print is okay, but you should never use it for a screen—everyone's reading from the screen from a much bigger distance, and resolutions are getting higher and higher.
Awesome, thank you. That's exactly what I'm looking for!
I didn't say much about it, but part of what I was thinking about is that someone who has had the experience of picking from many choices is probably going to give better advice to a child doing the same thing than someone who had one path that was quite clear.

(Which isn't contrary to anything you said, it's just another factor)
>> And that even before talking about protecting the nature from wasteful habits like this.

Unfortunately, reading on paper is an order-of-magnitude better than reading on the screen. I have consistently noted that:

1. I absorb the material better when reading in printed form, not sure why.
2. My eyes strain less.
3. I find three times more typos (when proof-reading my own stuff), not sure why.
4. Annotating and highlighting is doable (possible on screen, but does not even compare to the same on paper).
5. Moving back and forth within the material is a lot better.

Not that I like hurting nature, but technology doesn't yet offer a suitable replacement here. E-Ink helps but fails on #4 till better products (like Sony's recently announced E-reader) show up and are less costly (Sony's priced at $1000+). Also, moving content to the new device needs to be at least as convenient as printing (and while staying within the firewall).

>> It is normally meant to be read with an electronic device

This is exactly what OP is questioning, and I fully agree. Why is this normal?!

>> to be interactive and linked, though those devices can be quite different of course.

I am web newbie. But I wonder about mankind spending so much effort on making web pages "responsive" based on the screen sizes of the various devices, and yet, not applying the same techniques to printing.
21 Hours: How a shorter work week can make our future societies happier
Heartbleed Exploited to Bypass Two-factor Authentication, Hijack User Sessions
Any idea what app or library they used to make the retro green-screen terminal video?
This may be an unpopular reply, but splitting fire wood sounds like you're going to be making an open fire. Open fires are a danger to your health:

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion

> "The unhappy truth about burning wood has been scientifically established to a moral certainty: That nice, cozy fire in your fireplace is bad for you. It is bad for your children. It is bad for your neighbors and their children."

http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/healtheffects.html

> "Smoke is made up of a complex mixture of gases and particles produced when wood and other organic matter burn. A major health threat from smoke comes from fine particles (also called particle pollution, particulate matter, or PM). These microscopic particles can get into your eyes and respiratory system, where they can cause health problems such as burning eyes, runny nose, and illnesses such as bronchitis. In addition to particle pollution, wood smoke contains several toxic harmful air pollutants including: benzene, formaldhyde, acrolein and methane."
This is my attitude as well pretty much.

If synapse ever stops doing what I want I'll probably take a stab at writing one.
This isn't even an article, just a guy saying the people complained about OOP back in the day.
I don't know if I'd go that far. As an American who lived in NZ for a few years I got a very pacific northwest vibe from the NZ cities. If you like Portland or Seattle, Wellington is sweet as.
For Python people,
http://pyvideo.org/ aggregates videos from conferences and meetups.
The king of random. Hacks, experiments, explosions:

https://www.youtube.com/user/01032010814
Med students don't know shit. And don't do shit. But I suppose it's still an interesting perspective.
Forms that still require papers copies to be kept on file?

HR dept that require paper resumes?

Perhaps I just want to format my resume as a PDF using the browser print to file (my main use case)?
DropBox looks like the company that walks on four legs, then two, then three. First, it was just a smart choice to replace emailing yourself files. Pretty soon, it will be an IBM, where some sales guy will convince your boss that the DropBox Q1000 is what your business needs for synergy and you'll end up having to use it.
I don't think it's necessary to impugn Borges to make the case that Marquez was a wonderful writer. They were both remarkable.
Technical Debt (2003)
"THIS IS AN OUTRAGEOUS VIOLATION OF U.S. AIRSPACE, AND WE WILL NOT TOLERATE IT."

~Someone who hasn't been paying attention to how the United States has been deploying its own air resources for over half a century
https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks record high quality videos at many programming conferences each year and then share the recordings on YouTube. So much to enjoy here, especially if you're open source leaning, like most of the events they do.

O'Reilly puts up lots of good stuff at https://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia although the webinar recording quality leaves a lot to be desired. A real random set of tech topics though and often something worth watching.

Entrepreneur - https://www.youtube.com/user/EntrepreneurOnline - usually puts up lots of short videos with a business tip in or something. Sometimes longer interviews. Usually worthwhile if a little superficial at times.

The guy who founded Something Awful has a ridiculously addictive channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/lowtaxico - he generally plays horrifically poorly produced indie games with his sidekick Shmorky and I could listen to their absurdist banter all day.

It's a bit of a mish mash but https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit always blows my mind when he does his coding videos such as coding a NES emulator in C++11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s

https://www.youtube.com/user/Shmee150 is awesome if you're into supercars. He's currently doing a tour of European supercar events and factories putting up a video each day.

Far Lands or Bust - https://www.youtube.com/user/kurtjmac - is a guy who started to walk towards the 'far lands' in a Minecraft maps years ago. He's something like 10% of the way but is still plodding along recording his progress. This is a real pilgrimage with all the highs and lows that entails.

MrThaiBox123 - https://www.youtube.com/user/MrThaibox123 - is a British IT expert who seems to have an endless supply of cash to buy gadgets, phones, and amazing computer setups.. and he does incredibly well recorded reviews of them. He also has a vlog at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrXrOof3iFRZYJGqqApH3Ng which I find interesting to see behind the scenes of someone's life on a daily basis.
No, our sample size of one tells us nothing due to selection bias - we could not even ask this question without having already achieved high tech.

Edit:
I agree we do know that human brings on earth are likely to invent agriculture.
https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleVentures

https://www.youtube.com/user/StartupBootcamp

https://www.youtube.com/user/confreaks

https://www.youtube.com/user/StartupGrind

https://www.youtube.com/user/PandoDaily
Sounds like an anthill. Shame.
HN item id=1
Good and Bad Technical Debt (and how TDD helps) (2013)
I believe openSSL has been humming along issue free for quite a while before a somewhat famous bug popped up for some anecdotal evidence at a refutation.
Just a side node, I occasionally use SSH tunneling to get through the evil local government Internet censoring, so I have a linode a DO (just sever months), and linode's SSH tunneling is much much more fast and stable.
https://www.youtube.com/user/razethew0rld

Internet Culture and Tech Stuff
How my app got 455K users in the first week
See my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609711

I would find this message rather rude. I am interested in saving trees, but do not think technology offers me a solution yet. I print out of necessity.
"Meet" in the sense of being introduced, not in the sense of two entities coming into contact.
Fun with Cellular Automata
Jon Bentley [1] had a whole chapter in More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder [2], called Bumper-Sticker Computer Science, which was of this sort. There seems to be a copy of it online [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley

[2] http://www.amazon.com/More-Programming-Pearls-Confessions-Co...

[3] http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/bumper-sticker-computer-...
This is a cool idea. Its good to see that SQL is a driver in new data management technologies. It supports the idea that as applications change over the years, the data model should try to remain the same.

My view is that it's always a good idea to wait until a data management platform or db is widely adopted before using it for anything. For some reason I don't like the idea of using the word 'realtime' for what's really just very fast queries but that may be nitpicking. I think of real-time as something where you're given a real-time view of some data where you don't have to query for updates.
I've been trying to learn how to play Chess properly lately, so the two channels I'm subscribed to are:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork
https://www.youtube.com/user/STLChessClub

ChessNetwork is run by a national master named Jerry who is absolutely hilarious.
> the inability to sanely specify where page breaks are allowed.

I can usually explain away the issues of printing from a web page, except for this point. My customers always have difficulty accepting that I can't set page breaks. Cruel first-world problems!
The word "may" is doing a lot of work in the sentence "may have been backdoored". What cryptographers are observing about the NIST P- curves is that it isn't impossible for them to have been backdoored; that there is a plausible technique that NSA could have used, given some an advance in ECC cryptanalysis unknown to public science but known to them, that could result in a backdoor.

Everything beyond that is the precautionary principle.

It's also really important to understand the difference between Dual_EC (the random number generator) and the NIST curves. There is much more circumstantial evidence against Dual_EC. Importantly, the potential backdoor in Dual_EC isn't really related to elliptic curves; you can describe a functionally similar backdoored RNG using other public key algorithms.
i agree, when i saw that in action, i was like, that is an amazing idea! i live in central AZ and don't really need to split wood very much though..
It’s funny how similar the arguments against OOP and
Reactive Programming are.

It's funny how similar this argument in favor of Reactive programming is to the arguments used in favor of other purported paradigm shifting trends that never went anywhere. Aspect Oriented Programming anyone?
Because we're not all EU citizens? OVH's pricing for Americans starts at $50/mo.
That's probably because negativity is not something that should be encouraged. If you want to be negative, then that's fine - but you really need to explain why you are being negative.

Negative energy is quite unproductive.
Klout to Quietly Shut Down Cinch Q&A App
Looks like Cathode:

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
Which of Yahoo's DNA do you have in mind?

Apple got turned around because Jobs came back and took it over using people from NeXT. Apple's success is built on different people, different products, and a different OS than were present before the Jobs/NeXT merger.

The valley is a very competitive hiring environment, so anybody good who wanted to leave Yahoo has presumably left. And Yahoo has been in sad shape for a very long time. I'm not saying there isn't some valuable DNA left, but I wonder where you think it might be.
The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!!
Not if you're an American. Kimsufi servers, last I checked, are sold to EU residents only.
Simple data query
I had one like that in 2000 when I was implementing web designs.
I was given an elaborate design requiring javascript mouseovers and fancy doodahs.
My "it's too elaborate" was brushed aside and even with my best efforts the first page visit took 2 1/2 minutes to grab the assests.

I did a version in plain text and they ended up offering me a job.
It can also be simplified to "I get 10 times more traffic from Google[1] than from Yahoo[2] or MSN[3]." Note that I removed the square brackets from the URL text.

While this is information-lossy, the context of the link is nearly always clear from the text.
Aspects are used quite a lot in Java and C#. Simply to get around the verbosity.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivA7_KLKWo43tFcCkFvydw

Applied Science is pretty cool. He is a master with electronics and fabrication.
nvidia and linux just don't seem to work together. I've been on 13.10 and looking forward to an upgrade in the hope that it might fix the problem where compiz freezes up the window manager for minutes on end. Linux with nvidia is about as unreliable as using windows which is very frustrating.

Anyone know if 14.10 works better with nvidia cards?
Exactly. A lot is lost when security deals strictly with theory instead of pragmatism. Theoretical breaks in crypto algorithms are important, but much weaker links in the chain are easier to attack. Using the best, unbreakable crypto does not protect you from more realistic attacks.

Obligatory XKCD:

http://xkcd.com/538/
Sure; I'm not arguing that they are. If you say that chimps and dogs fail to display specific attributes that humans do (e.g. concentration at a certain level, mental modeling, sufficiently advanced communication skills), I won't argue with you because my knowledge of BCS isn't high enough for me to participate at a meaningful level.

But the OP didn't do that; he said that dogs and chimps aren't intelligent because they haven't gone to the moon and until he starts defining his terms in the same clearcut way that you have, it's impossible to really discuss the point he's trying to make.

edit: Also, the original point the OP made wasn't "Dogs and chimps are not as intelligent as humans", the point was "Humans are the only intelligent species on the planet". And while you can make an argument to say that dogs and chimps are not as intelligent as humans, I would contest your saying that dogs and chimps do not display intelligence, full stop. And I would further contest (as I've been doing) the statement that the boundary for intelligence vs. however you'd describe a vacuum of intelligence is the arbitrary point of landing on the moon, or even being within 50,000 years of doing so.
The Bill of Rights already explicitly says it isn't the List of Rights.
https://github.com/blog/1252-how-we-keep-github-fast went over a previous iteration, before this was extracted to peek.