skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was Intel at the time and when the first pieces of the 80386 came back from the fab functional Intel was scrambling for ways to test it (I was in Systems Validation). We tried running Xenix on it and discovered various places where Microsoft's kernel team had 'cheated' by using reserved bits in various places which just happened to work on the 286. Needless to say it caused quite a commotion :-)
Better to stick to their bi-annual schedule, even if it means shipping a usable but not-quite-polished release, then polishing it in subsequent months. The previous versions, from 12.04 to 13.10, are more than adequate for anyone who can't risk upgrading to what is effectively a beta or release candidate.
XenServer and Heartbleed Vulnerability
As much shit as CloudFlare took for the way they humble-bragged about finding out about Heartbleed early, I have to give kudos to the team for doing the right thing and reissuing and revoking all the certs, as well as detailing the exploit and offering up the test site.

I'll admit, when the CloudFlare Challenge launched, the cynical part of me saw it as merely a way for the company to convince itself that it didn't need to reissue and revoke all of its certs (and I maintain that is exactly what it was), but the way the company handled things after the challenge was won is what really impressed me.

They didn't have to be that transparent. Moreover, the test server has provided a way for Filippo Valsorda to improve his excellent Heartbleed checker, so well played.
I was thinking, initially, that the 'player characters' where just previously entangled systems. Anytime anything that has previously decohered interacts with a system still in quantum superposition a new 'player character' would be created.

But that seems like an exponential process so it immediately makes me ask: Why isn't everything entangled at this point? Is there that much in the universe still in superposition that it just hasn't happened or can something that has previously been entangled become un-entagled and re-enter a state of superposition?
Great use of all that capital Facebook has been getting! This feature is old hat, and honestly, aren't we all a bit beyond this novelty?

I personally only want to hang out with people that have been invited to the event. This feature will definitely remain off, and Facebook will continually be relegated to a very small area of my life. (Rolodex)
There is already an "Export to Carousel" option for logged users, which leads here: https://loom.com/migrate.
I was assured that FB Check-Ins would kill Foursquare, so I assume it is also dead.
From a business standpoint, it makes a lot of sense. Before the deadline, the high maintenance cost helped scoot companies over to Windows 7. After the deadline, giving a deep discount (carrot) with supposedly hard migration deadlines (stick) may help to get another bunch of them moving. The key part is the last paragraph in the article:

> It's also worth noting that there is a time limit -- which Microsoft is not disclosing -- on how long the company will continue to provide XP patches to those users who are paying for CSA coverage. And in order to qualify for CSA coverage, customers must have migration plans with quarterly deployment milestones and a project completion date.
As long as you have a Linode provisioned, you'll be charged for it even if you're not using it. The hourly billing is just a simplification of their old system, where they would charge a prorated amount when a server is created based on how far into the month you are and issue a credit when a server is deleted based on how far from the end of the month you are. The net financial impact for a given server setup is about the same (+/- a few hours' worth of usage).

(Just to be clear, Digital Ocean works the same way. They're charging you for the resource allocation and associated maintenance. If you choose to not actually use the allocation you're paying for, that's your business.)
The point was the pain to type @ in keyboards other than US.
That's pretty neat, how you can select a mnemonic and the corresponding bytes are highlighted.

I have to say, though, I had a bit of a confused chuckle at the "marketing copy." This is (presumably) a hobby project, not a product landing page; the serious tone seems very out of place. "Sleek. Fast. Clean. Responsive. Line by line opcode explanation." sounds like something out of an Apple ad. Are you trying to sell me something here?

I liked it when programmer websites were butt-ugly text dumps and proud of it.
Learn more about 4G Network
The system 4G is the fourth generation network mobile phone. This technology enables connections to the internet via mobile devices, with speeds up to ten times longer than the current 3G networks...
Oh man, I love how now that I've decided to kill it I'm urged to bring it back. I proves how much I suck at marketing that the most press I get about it is about it retiring. Shoot me a PM on how to contact you and I'll let you know if I open source it.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604792
>I just have one server that I use to put stuff up on the internet and host a few services. And Linode treats that one solitary server better than any other VPS host in the world.

I use DO for this and have used many others in the past and I have never had any problems with DO...
I'd love that - are you volunteering? ;-)
Noice! Btw, the docs page is acting funky on an iPad (iOS 7.1). The layout seems to be alternating between mobile and desktop with each pan/scroll event. [ps: only happens in landscape orientation. portrait is unaffected]
You do realize this is the Russia that publicly and obviously assassinated a critic by a means which left no doubt it could only have been state sanctioned (polonium).

The Russia where its not clear where the FSB ends, the executive begins, and which parts are in fact just the Russian mafia?

It's safe to say Snowden, in so far as he doesn't want to - at minimum - get his asylum revoked - has no choice. At worst Russia, and Putin specifically, are exactly the types to kill him and not tell anybody.
Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia on the Future of TV
Tennessee Passes Ban on Rapid Transit Bus
> Why not make it a crystal-clear law

Because its an application of existing laws, and creating a separate law for it would be much the same problem in law as excessively tight coupling is in software development.

> so that an ordinary citizen can understand without having to dig through case law and see what applies to their situation.

Because making the ordinary citizen have to dig through statute law isn't much different, and because unless all change to all other laws that might interact with it and have apparent conflicts that might need to be resolved by the courts stopped (which it wouldn't), the ordinary citizen would still need to dig through case law to know what it meant in practice.
One outrage at a time, buddy.
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You do not understand. Let me rephrase.

You go on a space ship, on your way to the edges of the universe. Your buddy goes on a space ship, on his way to the other side of the universe. You will soon be outside each other's observable universe.

Now, if you drop something in your ship (it spins, so you have gravity), you can "reverse time", and pull it back up. Can you do the same to you buddy's ship, should something ever fall there?

The simple answer is no. You can't. He's on his own.

Now there _is_ a way I haven't spoken of: non-causal interaction. You and your buddy could agree on some things before you depart. For instance, you could agree to pull back up whatever falls.

With Everett branches, it's even easier: you pre-commit to reversing your own Everett branch, whatever it is, so all your selves do it. If successful, the worlds should merge back together, at least locally. Just one catch: all your other selves must successfully reverse time locally. It only takes one failure for the plan to fail.

But if you want to reverse time after the fact, say because you happen to be in an Everett branch you don't like (you lost a bet about which way the photon will go), you won't be able to reverse time here, because your other self certainly will not (he won the bet, so…). Maybe, just maybe, you could use the vanishingly small entanglement left with the other Everett Branch to directly communicate with your other self. I'm not even sure it can be done in principle. For practical purposes, it should be forever beyond reach, even if you have a super-intelligent AI to help you.
Why keep throwing $10/year down the drain? I know it's not much, but it's still a waste.
"If you switch to Carousel, you will have the exact same amount of free space you had in Loom. Any referral bonus you received on Loom will be preserved into your new Dropbox account as well."
See: https://loom.com/migrate
Just for the record, J. Philippe Rushton, whom the op-ed draws on as a classic source of this kind of work in psychology, was a white-supremacist race "scientist" who argued, among other things, that black people have narrower hips because they have smaller brains.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has a file on him: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/pro...

While that doesn't invalidate all the findings outlined in the op-ed, it's not exactly confidence inspiring either, as this essay persuasively argues: http://africasacountry.com/the-racesciencefiles-the-new-york...
Starbucks Tweet a Coffee
Mozilla Location Service: The Next Wave
Well, you're still going to have many varieties (genetic profiles). The big seed companies will sell 5-10 varieties per region. Regions depend on growing season length, soil conditions, climate. Iowa has 7 regions, IIRC. If I had to guess in the whole country there are ~100+ regions. That means thousands of hybrids across the different seed companies across the country. So even if a pest knocked out one variety (which doesn't really happen), it isn't like the whole system is going to come crumbling down. They spend billions researching it and there are lots of rules regarding "refuge" to ensure that insects and diseases don't build up a tolerance to treatments.

Usually when you hear about people worry about "the mono-culture" they are advocating that we plant more of a different types of plants (canola, sunflower, sorghum, wheat), not different varieties of corn/beans.

Also, that they are all identical is bit of a misnomer. They are, but they are exceptionally strong, vigorous plants (google "hybrid vigor" or "heterosis").
http://www.pbs.org/mormons/interviews/coe.html

Just take a read through what an outsider, non-believer scholar thinks about it. One who's actually gotten into it. His take may surprise you. Additionally, not all of his points are accurate, and I obviously don't agree with his conclusion. But I think his take may give you pause in your 'Cookery' refrain.
This 'advice' is a really great re-skin of Nancy Duarte's book Resonate.[1]

Nancy is one of the genius' behind Duarte Designs[2] whose client list includes Steve Jobs and his infamous Apple presentations as well as Al Gore and his 'Inconvenient Truth' presentation.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Resonate-Present-Stories-Transform-Aud...
2. http://www.duarte.com/
Happy for the guys who got acquired....BUT thinking as a consumer, this type of thing makes me very nervous about relying on teeny tiny SAAS businesses for anything long term.
I suspect that your suggested use of the code would fall under the fair use statute in 17 U.S.C. § 107 and the guidelines from Folsom v. Marsh since it seems explicitly for pedagogical or research purposes.

IANAL, but if this were me it seems safe enough that I'd be willing to do it and fight Colin in court if need be. :)
From LTS I'd expect something more than not-quite-polished. Maybe polished-a-bit or slightly-polished.
This is an incredibly old feature. I found this in their binaries over a year ago, and it doesn't look like much has changed in the mean time. Still creepy as all hell.
While I'd love to see more of that thing, I don't really think of HN as a technical venue. More like a virtual pub frequented by a variety of folks who participate in the VC ecosystem in one way or another.
I enjoy your arbitrarily numbered references.
Did you ever put in a support ticket? I've had I/O performance issues with Linode boxes before and it's always been quickly fixed when they are notified.
Dollar figures are useless for this; got to factor in cost of living too.
A nice reward for those of us who have been using Linode from before they even had x86_64 images.
At least Hackpad is staying open (for now). Loom is no longer allowing new signups, and is shutting down completely next month.
I wish the title of this article was more inline with its thesis, which is found further down:

> modern web design has much more in common with product and industrial design than it has with print or graphic design.

His examples of industrial design flaws that look snazzy are bang on, and replicate problems often found in web designs. You gotta USE a thing to know if it's designed well. The Design of Every Day Things[1] should really be required reading for designers charged with designing for the web.

One of the best ways of knowing whether your design is effective is to watch people use it. The assumptions you made about how your audience will use your design will likely be blown away, and watching them try to accomplish the site's goal will lead you towards designs that help them do that more effectively.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
It's too bad that this comes across as a marketing ploy. They're still charging for licenses to actually use any of this footage in any way. They haven't actually released this material under a Creative Commons or Public Domain license, so most of it is All Rights Reserved.

At least they don't have to pay for their own hosting now, to show off their video archive!
If you going to handle that many obejcts in the browser wouldn't you use something like pouchdb? http://pouchdb.com/

Also "Pagination strategies with PouchDB" http://pouchdb.com/2014/04/14/pagination-strategies-with-pou...
Mozilla Location Service: First Anniversary
Those guys are machines.

Usually when people release open source software, the documentation is lacking, there's no website etc... those guys absolutely nail it every single time.

Kudos for them, really!
His question was already called a "softball" on this thread. So probably not much.
Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio also get 5 years of support.
If you mean the Ukraine thing, then the principle reason we're not getting involved is because World War III would be bad for everybody.

Make no mistake: any conflict between NATO and Russia would end in Russian defeat, but not before you saw China get involved (against Russia, to keep the Japanese off the mainland) and the Middle East explode as a bunch of nations took the tying up of the usual powers as an opportunity to grab some land and settle old scores.

Wave goodbye to the American economy, Chinese economy (but ironically possibly not the European one) - assuming of course, that everyone stays sane and no one thinks to try and use their nuclear arsenal offensively to retake lost ground.
Some say it's not dead¹. But it doesn't seem to have any traction, which is a shame.

Perspectives is a similar project and seems more alive with a release in February: http://perspectives-project.org/2014/02/15/perspectives-4-4-...

¹https://twitter.com/ivanristic/status/400624593515192320
Shape-Shifting Touch Screen Buttons Head to Market
Shall we call this the DigialOcean effect?
How to crash any Conference, Demo-day, and VIP Party
Also, the population was older in 2010, and older people are much more likely to die of cancer and heart disease.
Failure is a feature, not a bug.
In fact I did that in the past weeks after being a bit weary of the Unity 8 situation. So I grabbed Debian testing and installed it. First I tried Gnome 3, then KDE and XFCE and boy, are they all ugly.

I started with Gnome 3.10 (after ignoring it for most of it's existence except once in the early time) and it failed to register simple mouse clicks in a Steam game (the firs thing I tried). It's also sluggish and ugly and hard to get anything productive done.

So I went to KDE 4.11 next. And it's as ugly as ever. The huge sound indicator at the bottom is just so ugly. And then they have what looks like a Start menu thingy to launch applications. Oh boy, that felt odd. Still miles better than Gnome 3, but nothing I'd like to see on a daily basis.

XFCE is just too bare-bone for me. It's OK in looks, but the task bars are just clumsy.

So I'm probably sticking to Ubuntu for the next LTS cycle too and see what comes of the Unity 8 desktop. Sad to see there are no real contenders.
"He convinced a small number of people at the beginning, the witnesses -- not all of them, but he did. This man had an incredible memory. He made it up and dictated it nonstop. It's very long, the Book of Mormon. I mean, it's an incredible feat of the mind. Even if it is all made up, to do something like that is really extraordinary. And how literate was he? He knew the Bible very well, because it comes out in the language of the King James Bible, which I was raised on. But to be able to carry this through to its logical end, that's amazing. Really, it is. I mean, if it's a work of fiction, nobody has ever done anything like this before. And I think it is fiction, but he really carried it through, and my respect for him is unbounded."
Customer: "It doesn't work!"

Project manager: "But hey, we shipped on time!"
Changing Passwords in a Post Heartbleed Bug World
Five-Year-Old Boy Hacks His Xbox One
I'm still on 12.04 LTS and haven't been paying much attention to the updates since then. Are there any huge changes in between as far as the general day-to-day experience?
Crap. I bought a year of Loom for precisely the reason that I do not want my photos taking up space on my drive. Now I have to explain to my extended family why all the confusion they put up with setting things up was for naught.
Indico: Machine Learning without the PhD
Excellent news, thanks, especially for UbuntuStudio. I haven't been following the detail.
Curveball: Life After Readify
Can anyone care to provide some real world examples? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around what this exactly does.
Why would you use QEMU over virtualbox? (Serious question)
What features are missing in Etherpad for you?
This and Twitch Plays Pokemon have taught me a lot more about group efficiency than The Mythical Man Month
Passenger can manage multiple node processes for the same "app" automatically.

So while it isn't multi-threaded it can achieve some of the same goals (better use of multiple cores to serve more requests)
> At first I wondered how much of a difference it could or would make since while in software anyone can code in their free time, how many people can splice a gene?

Lots of people have the skill, and there are lots of universities and private labs (though probably few private individuals, compared to the parallel case with software) with the required hardware and facilities.
What is QEMU and why do I care? It would be helpful if that had been in the first paragraph. I am going to dig deeper, but I'm sure a huge number of people didn't.
This smells like attempted code injection.
The problem with this type of integration in such a widespread app is that it can become problematic to explain to someone, like a significant other, why you would have a need to not share your location with them. It can be difficult to counter the "what do you have to hide" line of reasoning.
http://source.roslyn.codeplex.com/ for high performance, immutable C# code.

You'll see some differences from more relaxed C# projects (e.g., we avoid allocations like the plague), but I'd say we have pretty good style. ;)
Microsoft will do anything to keep its users on Windows.
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My guess, it's a necessary favor to extend that one year asylum limit Snowden has.
Maybe I remember them switching it from opt-out to opt-in then? Did that ever happen?

I kind of wish it was opt-out by default, but I know that would probably cause a huge controversy. People are already collecting your location data anyway - might as well use it with your friends/people you'd actually want to have it.
Running headless virtualization on a server with KVM?

Sure, for a desktop system it might make sense, but headless systems might be better served with QEMU-KVM.
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1500 oflag=dsync
768000 bytes (768 kB) copied, 0.3325 s, 2.3 MB/s
Great series of books! There are three now, and a fourth is being worked on which is very relevant to this posts query. There isn't much too it yet, but its working title is 500 Lines or Less, and it aims to implement some manner of a working application in 500 lines or less. There is a GitHub repo [0] where the project is being coordinate.

[0] https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
Well, it is pretty telling Putin says, "Mr. Snowden, you are a former agent, a spy, I used to be working for an intelligence service, we are going to talk one professional language."

Putin is such a master chess player, you always have to dig a LOT deeper every time he says something. A lot of people could say he said it because he thinks / knows Snowden is a spy (the whole Russian spy conspiracy angle: http://rockthetruth2.blogspot.com/2014/01/snowden-was-russia... ), or could just be playing a game with semantics where he's just trying to stoke the ire of the US government. Either way, it's going to reinforce whatever opinion you had of him prior to this.
This is common on every aggregator: most content is not selected for depth or insightfulness, but rather ease of consumption. The extreme of this is Reddit's proliferation of images and memes.

To be fair, HN doesn't feel like it has a hacker spirit to it. It's too preoccupied with business crap and self-promotion.
sigh... just put 12 droplets in digitalocean last week. now thinking of switching back...
Anecdotally, I get notifications of maintenance outages every month with DO in NYC1 and NYC2. These are exceedingly, exceedingly rare with Linode's Atlanta DC.

Also, stolen CPU on my DO boxes is super high, whereas this is very rare on Linode. You have less neighbors.
This is slightly off topic but I'm curious why none of the service discovery tools run off of something like Cassanandra as the datastore?
iCloud photos work much better than Loom. Loom is buggy. And it will suck more at Dropbox, just like what happened to Mailbox (seriously, what has Mailbox been doing for 6 months after iOS 7 has been released?!).
Just a little side note. I really wish people would give an overview of what their service is or does in press releases like this. Quite often, I see 'Facebook bought x' or 'Dropbox bought y' and I click to see what it is, and if I would want to use it. More often than not, there's no little blurb that lets me know what their product even does.
My understanding is that portions of QEMU are used in KVM and Xen, so advancements here enhance those projects as well.
Well, to be fair it's a QEMU newsgroup and its full listing is gmane.comp.emulators.qemu.

It's an emulator for a wide variety of hardware platforms. You'd care if you wanted an emulator for a platform it supported.
Acquihires are pretty much the default hiring method these days, so "victory" now requires keeping the product active after acquisition.

A toast, then, to Hackpad. Well done.
Is there a better technical venue?

Hint: it probably isn't /r/programming :)
One of those 'no brainer' moves, glad to see it got done. Love the irony of a YC exit as an acquisition by a YC company :-) Congratulations, hackpad is an awesome product and the combination with Dropbox has excellent potential.