skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the GNU Manifesto:
"Unix is not my ideal system, but it is not too bad. The
essential features of Unix seem to be good ones, and I think
I can fill in what Unix lacks without spoiling them. Furth-
ermore a system compatible with Unix would be convenient for
many other people to adopt."

I am genuinely interested what are the features that RMS in 1985 thought were the good ones. And what he thinks about having chosen to implement UNIX instead of say Lisp Machines or Smalltalk? I am interested because RMS did work on and with non-Unix environments. And he made EMACS to contain a Lisp interpreter. So he must have had already in 1985 good reasons to build GNU on Unix and not on something alternative.
Flying eagle point of view
What is matcha green tea?
"Investments" are something you expect to appreciate or create value. As much as I like cars, there is no way a Tesla qualifies as an investment. (I've driven a couple of Tesla's; love 'em.)
Comcast Is Investigating a Customer Service Call From Hell
In companies and layoffs of this size, it's often not "people" being cut, just teams and divisions and products. In many cases it makes no difference at all who on a given team is and isn't good at their role.

When it's not whole teams, it's generally managers being told they're losing N reports but they can choose which N. Then, effectiveness at one's role is at least part of the equation.
You're misreading the slide. That's the criteria they use internally.

"Hey Bob, you need a new team member right? If you don't check these boxes then you don't really need one."

It's not directed towards outside people. It's just their internal process.
Like any search engine, it takes time to index and sort results based on user interest. It's likely that Apple doesn't simply "rank" officials apps higher simply because they're official.

I just checked and it was in position #4 for me.
They were never too serious about it. If they were, they would've put real Android on one of their flagship phones, not WP8's ugly step brother, with even fewer apps, and on a phone that was about as exciting as a rock.
While I absolutely love EU4 (and CK2 by the same dev), it is not a turn-based strategy game and its scale is different from the Civ-likes (not 4X either).

If one is after a modern turn-based game I'd still recommend the new Civ and XCom games by Firaxis.
Title invented here is grossly misleading. The full quote from the thread is:

> I think this quote ["Operating Systems will be removed from the realm of competition."] says it all. I'm glad that I don't think RMS will succeed. If he gets his way, unix will be the last operating system, as nobody will upgrade it for a long, long time.

He's describing a negative scenario in which de-commercializing Unix causes investment in it to stop. In other words, the opposite of what the edited title (as it currently stands) "I don't think RMS will succeed ... unix will be the last operating system" implies.
You can stay longer than 6 years if you have a pending Green Card application.
Interesting to see they're using jobscore.com, but as far as I can tell doesn't have a presence on careers.stackoverflow.com. While I've yet to apply for a new job, I've so far found the good ads on so to be far superior (in terms of how informative they are, in letting me classify them as a probably good/bad fit right off) to pretty much any other job ads I've come across.

Ultimately I suppose the main thing is to get good talent to apply (and to a lesser extent, not waste everyone's time with those that clearly are a bad fit) -- so posting something like this on HN is probably a good strategy vs placing an ad pretty much anywhere else.
I'd say 18,000 is pretty major. Wouldn't you?
http://metaoptimize.com/qa

http://stats.stackexchange.com/
Not sure that was really an exit story, but this seems just like a way to get more links to that "Instabuck" company that they're working on now.

MonitorSEO seems kind of fishy too.
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And where is the advantage over a password wallet ?

I need your script and type many chars until i got my password.

With a password wallet i enter my access password and the wallet did anything automatically.

And it is not an argument "but when you not have your wallet, you can not access" -> "yes and when i not have your script, i can not access too"
80 Char limit screwed me up on that one. I wasn't sure how to parse that, but of the whole thread, that quote struck me as the most interesting.
It's ABS, the same plastic that some 3-D printers use, so they should be able to just chip it up and feed it right back into the hopper for the molds.
You are being downvoted, but really should not.
Implying the WINNT kernel doesn't have the best device driver support in the world by a huge margin...
Congratulations! I hope you guys will be able to share some of the advice you get, could be helpful for Sidebar :)
Trust me, the British obsession with prestigious higher education establishments matches or perhaps even exceeds the American obsession.
That's because when the performance evaluations are top-down and forced to a curve, "performance" itself is a resource to be allocated, and resource allocation decisions are always political.
I spent plenty of time writing code in my teenage years, too. They're hardly mutually exclusive.
Civ is definitely my 'alltime most played game' (though Portal2 comes close).

It's awesome to see such a good writeup.
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1. What do we blog about

My startup is travel focused. And so naturally we blog (at http://blog.planitwide.com) on 2 topics:

a) Travel, which falls into a couple of categories:

i) Deep dives & reviews of quality travel resources and why someone should choose to use them in a specific (or sometimes broad) context

It's not hard to choose topic - we start with what we know & use - and that's a long list.

ii) Thought leadership on the travel space in general (which ties into why we exist in the first place).

These are the kinds of posts that (we believe) will eventually get us noticed and establish our credibility as people who know whtat they're talking about.

b) Startup Life
Like every startup, there is a boatload of learning that happens. These are all perspectives that can benefit other people in the same boat.

Again, not hard to come up with topics, just see what you've learned trying to do xyz. Even (and especially) failure is valuable learning to share.

>

2. Promoting content:

We promote on

a) Social Media: Twitter & Instagram (no bandwidth for more). Instagram is especially useful for showing behind the scenes stuff & sneek peaks at what's coming (which can then also be shared on Twitter - or other platforms) simultaneously.

b) Travel focused communities: /r/travel on Reddit & Outbounding.org. Being on here also involved mostly participating in discussions and building reputation. Our content promotion is an afterthought. People will discover it if they find it useful

c) Startup/tech focused communities: Hacker News, Inbound.org, Growthhackers.com, USVconversation.com. Again, same principle as other communities - don't talk about yourself most/all of the time. Build reputation first.

d) Medium: We cross post to collections we've created on Medium for additional exposure to the audience that comes there to read great content.

>

3. Does blogging work?

Two things:

a) Rule of thumb is that if you're starting out, you're going to be blogging for near-zero audience for nearly 6 months. We've been at for 3-4 months and while we have some traffic, there's no real engagement (as expected) with our content yet in terms of shares/comments etc.

It all takes time and you have to stick with it.

b) Blogging doesn't necessarily mean you have to have a wordpress blog. It can mean you do it on Medium, or Tumblr or even as a video blog solely on youtube. It all depends on what your end goals are.

Hope that helps.
You already know the answer to that problem: «Do not rebase commits that you have pushed to a public repository.» - - [http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing]
KeePass, stored on protected flash drives.

I carry one on my keyring and keep backups.

I have little faith in cloud-based/browser-based managers.
There are existing commercial products.

Taser makes several:

http://www.taser.com/products/on-officer-video/axon-flex-on-...

I guess whether those meet every possible definition of 'everything' is something that can be argued about.
This is, by far, the most appealing approach.

I have to dig through a lot of research papers for my blog, most of the papers are dead-boring, but I feel obligated to read them with a fine-tooth comb to better understand what's being reported.

Filtering irrelevant or poor documentation by following your process seems like a no-brainer. Thanks for sharing!
Newsflash, word of mouth is much more effective than advertising.
Too bad Matt Cutts is on holidays because I am sure he would have a field day with them.
There's a bunch of stuff that gets optimised. You start with big gains, and those get smaller and smaller until you're spending a lot of effort to get 0.5% increase in performance.

See, for example, compressing the ENWIK8 in the Hutter Prize.

http://prize.hutter1.net/

If you can compress this approx 100 MB file to less than approx 16 MB (including the decompressor) you win cash.

That website shows small decreases in filesize over a few years.

Alexander Rhatushnyak	23.May 2009	6.27 |	1614€	Marcus Hutter
Alexander Rhatushnyak	14.May 2007	6.07 |	1732€	Marcus Hutter
Alexander Rhatushnyak	25.Sep.2006	5.86 |	3416€	Marcus Hutter
Matt Mahoney	24.Mar.2006	5.46 |	pre-prize	-

The compression ratio goes from 5.46 to 5.86 to 6.07 to 6.27.
I'm really pleased for Ryan and the PH team - well done!
Anyone care to bet that within 18 months some Microsoft C-level will be complaining about "lack of company loyalty" over something an employee has done?
Some departments do already. I think there's a technical glitch though: they seem to malfunction or delete their data whenever the cop does something illegal.
X.Org Server 1.16 Officially Released With Terrific Features
My old Lumia 620 was a very solid phone, and the new 635 is coming in with LTE at $129 unlocked at the Microsoft Store. WP8 flies on very modest hardware. That's a phenomenal bargain on the low end. I don't see any point of having Android in their lineup.
The original title (as written in the article), is actually "Don't Link That Line Number!" Even without the exclamation though, I think that clueful readers would know that this choice of title is a stylistic one.

Title choice is largely a matter of style. So, I guess I'm wondering why any of them need to be changed?

Furthermore, it seems to be completely arbitrary. The techcrunch article titled "#Love: Virtually No Sex" if made accurate would have been "People may be losing interest in sex". The "Simpler and faster GC for Go" would have been "Proposal for Simpler and faster GC for Go". Etc.
Probably in the same way a Chromebook is "better" than a Windows PC - it focuses on one thing, perhaps the most important thing for some.
Soylent Survivor: one month living on lab-made liquid nourishment
That's not really "being political" since both statements are true. Congress didn't act on the immigration problem, so he acted on his own with the limited power of the Executive. This isn't a good example.
Just never head or him referred to as only his last name. Perhaps you should review how English names are used??
Why doesn't your site know I'm sleepy? Aware of time-context
again, i said there was somethign in the middle and showed you the extreme that was wrong. i guess what you're not seeing is that YOU are in the extreme. I consider people preaching/soliciting harassment if it goes overboard, and thats what a FSZ would help circumvent.

and yes, exactly yes. Free speech is exactly analogous with the right to bear arms, its why its in the bill of rights. No right in the bill of rights is less important than any of the others.
Dear John Letter (EMC, Hadoop, RDBMS)
> Sid Meier's career was built on producing computer-versions of classic boardgames

What? No it wasn't. It was built on flight simulators and wargames. Look at the list of games he worked on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier#Games

Before 1991 (the year the first Civ came out), it's nearly all flight sims, with some original IP (Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, Covert Action, Sword of the Samurai) near the end of that run, as he began to grow away from his partner Bill Stealey's focus on flight sims into a designer in his own right.
Funny looking at MonitorSEOs testemonials. I followed this link (https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/89-and-you-will-have...) and some of those who apparently love the product, has only written 1 or two posts...
I actually just read RMS's post on his history with Lisp [1], and I find this is the closest you're going to get as an answer:

> At first, I thought of making a Lisp-based system, but I realized that wouldn't be a good idea technically. To have something like the Lisp machine system, you needed special purpose microcode. That's what made it possible to run programs as fast as other computers would run their programs and still get the benefit of typechecking. Without that, you would be reduced to something like the Lisp compilers for other machines. The programs would be faster, but unstable. Now that's okay if you're running one program on a timesharing system — if one program crashes, that's not a disaster, that's something your program occasionally does. But that didn't make it good for writing the operating system in, so I rejected the idea of making a system like the Lisp machine.

Which I guess can be interpreted as:

1. Lisp is ideal when the underlying technology/hardware helps it, and at the time, a Lisp-on-common-hardware implementation wasn't going to match that ideal/performance profile.

2. Lisp machines didn't have "time-sharing" (i.e. multi-user environments).

Nowadays, 1 isn't that big of a deal, and 2 could have been done as well, just wasn't a thing at the time.

Personally, I would love to see a modern Lisp Machine.

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html
You didn't say what platforms you intend to use it on. Nor what your most important attack vectors are.

I use a Yubikey. The first slot is set to a long secure password and is used to gain access to my machine. The second slot is a long secure password which is combined with other text on a per-website basis. I type the text and push the Yubikey button for the rest. This is suboptimal.
‘BitLicense’ Regulatory Regime Proposed by N.Y.’s Lawsky
The code review has discussion: https://codereview.appspot.com/106260045
Using GitHub for Project Management
I think it is a mistake to insist on the "at all times".

If a police officer is doing something that would be sensible to record and for some reason chooses to leave the camera off, you eventually learn something. I say eventually because the flexibility could be used for abuse, saying "I forgot" and "technical problems", but not over and over and over again.
Your logic and worldview are all inverted.

You buy ailing companies and then cut fat. That's the plan, not evidence of a bad decision.

What was happening to Nokia WITHOUT getting bought and gutted? They were in a tailspin and had major internal friction issues getting good tech to the top of the consumer heap. They would be another Blackberry...

Oh wait, you also suggest Blackberry fight it out with their wet noodle of a product line?

As an employee, when you are acquired, you either are indispensable (and will not be made redundant) or you should probably head for the door so you aren't competing with your coworkers for spots when a flood of you are dumped into the market.

Microsoft got the products, IP, licensing deals and will be keeping a block of very productive employees. This is an obvious move and good for MS, MS shareholders, and, indirectly, consumers.
Awesome! I never really thought Show HN would stop ProductHunt from growing. They're similar, but have key differences.

It's also cool that they let you know when your product is on PH and validate posts. Only thing I wish is that they had a little better/more responsive customer service but I guess they are still in their initial stages. One of their moderators posted my product but used a very unfitting title. I tweeted and wrote to them but didn't receive a response until the next day and, if you're familiar with PH, that is simply too late because my product was already buried in the previous days posts...and then I was told they couldn't do anything more to help me. Hope this serves as feedback for the future!
I was put off a bit by the requirement of Mono for Linux but I see there is a port called KeePassX. This might be a nice compromise.
This was the first video interview of Snowden that I've seen, and I was impressed by his eloquence and confidence in front of the camera, as well as his thoughtful answers.

He also didn't come across to me as the lowly sysadmin that the US government portrays him to be.

Edit: Clarity
Submitted for discussion as I don't agree with the sentiment that Hadoop/HDFS is the solution to all analytics needs, relegating the RDBMS to the dust bin.
Being a cop is legitimately dangerous

Not really, no. It's just not that dangerous. We imagine it must be dangerous, and so do cops themselves. But you're a lot more likely to be killed as a garbage collector or airline pilot, or a construction worker, or plenty of other jobs.

It's like with the "war on terror". The fear of danger is much more powerful than the danger itself. And like with terrorism, the fear is actively promoted for political reasons.

They do what everyone does, what has to be done for policing to be viable.

That seems like an argument against the department as a whole, not a justification for an individual's abuse.

Most of the people they deal with are lowlifes, lyres, cheaters.

Most of the people they deal with are ordinary innocent civilians whom they assume are "lowlifes" because they have been trained and conditioned to.

That said, this following cops around only plays to the problem paradigm. It's harassment, like what paparazzi do. It's belligerent. Maybe it's valuable as a protest, but it isn't as solution.

It is belligerent, and it is harassment, and it is protest. And that's the point. People with power do not voluntarily stop abusing it. They continue until met with resistance - until they are forced to stop.

Unfortunately it's effectively suicide to physically force the cops to stop, but we should do everything we can short of that to stand up against them. Standing up against the cops sets an example for others that we don't need to fear them, that they don't deserve respect and deference, and that we can do something directly to stop their abuse.
Easily addressable — make officers personally liable (as private citizens) for any actions that are not recorded, and cameras will suddenly become a whole lot more reliable.
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I think trying to promote your YC startup amongst your fellow batch members is different to asking the tech community as a whole to vote for your product. Perhaps "founders told each other to upvote their products" wasn't the best way of phrasing it, but I imagine it was more like how you'd ask those closest to you to give you a bit of support.

With regards to the conflict of interest, I don't see this being too much of an issue. Whilst PH itself is part of a YC batch, the majority of the PH community won't be, and it's them who collectively vote.
If I write it down, I will lose it. I do have some passwords that follow a specific pattern that I can remember easily for sites I might need to access outside of having KeePass on a machine (haven't put it on my phone).

I love this idea, I hate having to have a actual database to keep after and secure, and I wish it could be done in a way that wouldn't require that, but sites have too many variables for passwords that for me, literally, this wouldn't work on sites I use every day.
Is there any value in keeping the kernel closed source ?

It prevents forking. MS doesn't want to compete against its own kernel. Even Android doesn't want to compete against itself, hence the manufacturer agreement(s) that make it effectively closed.
It's a bad time to try to get a job. You'll be competing against all them ex-Microsoft folks.
>> I'd feel sorry if I was a Nokia guy there, they pulled out the best non-Apple phone hardware in the last years.

They have almost no marketshare in the US. So is it really the best non-Apple hardware, or does being the best not really even matter?
Previous HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2873795 . See also http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/738/prior-art-for... .
Some Universities Crack Code in Drawing Women to Computer Science
This is probably for the best. Any Android phone without Google Play services (targeting a user base primarily in North America and Western Europe) is bound to be DOA. Minimal OS differentiation but a sizable gap in the app store when it comes to "must have" apps.
Right up until they went windows phone only. The result is nokia's sales dropping, not windows phone sales increasing.
This seems glaringly obvious.

If you statically link to a specific line number, and if your source code changes, then your static link may not point to the same code... duh?
My understanding was that AOLserver was the NCSA (pre-Apache httpd) server, with TCL as an extension language, not that AOLserver was written in TCL. Weird.
finally. shame it's not written in the much more scalable coffeescript.
I agree that HMAC is the better option, but I don't see any reasonable scenario where length-extension is actually relevant for this application.

Also, I think that truncating actually improves security: An attacker who knows n (door_id, password) pairs and is bruteforcing the base_phrase can only check each base_phrase candidate for the first m bytes. This increases the odds of a 'false collision' in the brute forcing; that is, they find a different base_phrase which happens to work for their (door_id, password) pairs, but won't work for door_ids which they don't know.
I like how the experimental result of 375k bricks with a 2x2 brick is somewhat close (within an order of magnitude) to the 220k bricks someone calculated from FEA simulation in the linked Reddit thread ( http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/iy0ew/how_many_le... )
"I’ll share further specifics on where we are focusing our innovation investments"

Innovation investments? That's a new one! Made me laugh, but not for the right reason!
Furthermore, if you inflation adjust all of the numbers, AWS's graph will deflate further.
Cisco has a very different M&A strategy than Google. They add product lines through acquisition, in preference to building internally (if you're on a Cisco team and you're ever given an MRD for a product, the joke goes, quit and start a company to do it instead). As often as not, Google acquires companies to absorb the people. Google typically buys much smaller companies, and more selectively.

I would be very surprised to discover that Google has acquired close to as many headcount as Cisco has. But I don't want to do the research work either. :)
Bummer. The only reason i stopped buying Nokia phones is because they didn't have an Android version otherwise the hardware is solid.

Nothing against windows phone but it doesn't have the apps I'm used to and I don't really want to switch to it.

The brief experience i had with it connecting other peoples phones to the WiFi the menus didn't seem very intuitive.