skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do everything to keep stuff out of the Windows event log because it's slow, impossible to query large swathes of data, noisy and difficult to get things to talk to it due to NT permissions and sources being stateful. Not only that you have to pay piles of cash for anything even slightly reliable for forwarding of logs (built in service for this is terrible) and the tooling is foul.

Now to the original problem, what about a MAC framework for NT (other than the heap of crap known as MIC). Lets just log shit that the MAC framework didn't allow then.

SELinux, trusted solaris, OSX Mach, FreeBSD POSIX MAC for example.

Nope stuck in the dark ages because of win32...

(Yes i know NT can do this on its own but NT is just the runtime environment for win32 these days rather than the technical achievement it was).
Really? Then you don’t know about National City Lines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_City_Lines). They were indicted in 1947 on charges of conspiring to acquire control of a number of transit companies, and of forming a transportation monopoly to control sales. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_City_Lines#cite_note-...) GM, Firestone, Standard Oil and others were involved.
I'm not a big fan of reproducing data which probably belongs in headers and shoving it inside the URL, in case of a request, or the JSON body, in case of a response. For example: range/offset requests, status codes when there are an exception, dates or transaction IDs in the request when If-Modified-Since (or If-Unmodified-Since when doing compare and set) is appropriate.

Also, the underscores for JSON thing isn't really solved. Google's own JSON style guide recommends camelCase:

https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jsoncstyl...
Suprisingly OSM does not have a lot of users in USA for it's size. All data (incl. map data) from the US government is public domain, so the USA has access to a lot of free map data. But in Europe (specifically the UK), the government map data is heavily closed. Hence OSM was started in the UK.
Stephenson's Snow Crash.
...as soon as back home, every day my car-related inbox would be full of nice messages from fellow motorists...
Finding meaning in ditch digging
Our first iteration of the site took 2 months to build. The three co-founders worked on it from June - August of last year and the product was well received by HN (we reached the top post a year ago as well).

Chesscademy had a temporary hiatus when we went back to school last fall, but we've been working on it full time since January of this year. The product and user base has grown substantially since then.
As you've illustrated, we've come to value precision over intuition. The reason people using metric don't feel like they're missing something without organic units is because people who use the relics of those organic units don't use them in the fuzzy organic sense either anymore. When someone tells me "1 foot long" I expect exactly 12 standardized inches- not something roughly as big as my foot (even though, in my case, my foot is almost exactly 12 inches).

In modern times when we want a more organic measure we find ourselves dropping standard units (whether metric or imperial) and using random analogous items instead- like number of empire-state-buildings or 10-paces then turn left, or (more often perhaps but slightly different)- about 3 blocks away.

The moment people started caring about whether it was Henry I's nose-to-thumb length or some multiple of grains of barley dry it stopped mattering. I'm very average sized and my pace is almost exactly one yard per step (or, as you pointed out, more or less a meter as well). I would be fine using the term 'yard' in the intuitive or organic sense- but when you're using it to tell me exactly where my property line is I suddenly need precision, agreed on standards, and at that point the question of inches vs centimeters is strictly a question of familiarity (or I suppose, as the article mentions, politics).
Hey folks, I started Really Good Emails to get more exposure to what people were doing. I'm hoping to have good critical dialogue about email campaigns on a forum more like hackernews or Product Hunt at some point soon. What else is it missing at the moment that you'd like to see?
Snowcrash. I love Buring Chrome, which is Gibson's short stories. True Names. Wetware/Freeware. Basically, start with Gibson, then Neal Stephenson, take some drugs and read Rudy Rucker, then have a mint julep and read some Bruce Sterling. Sprinkle lightly with Vernor Vinge, and end with some Dick.
I'm talking about online advertising. RTTs for common ad exchanges and SSPs are usually 100 to 120ms.
The NYT has really gone off the rails on this topic.
In this context double quotation marks have an even more specific name, scare quotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

I of course used them precisely for the sorts reasons you cite: outside of domains like sales, where there are concrete metrics, this sort of thing is necessarily a political exercise, one that has harmed many companies including Microsoft.

However, if you read the referenced bigger discussion, you'll get some hints that maybe SpaceX can get away with this, essentially their employees believe they're on a mission, which is something I can understand.

Although I still wonder about the viability of a super-high tech, literally rocket science, company with an average tenure of 1.5 years. Perhaps they'll end up losing one or more zillion dollar payloads due to this and then try to change their ways, but that can be extremely difficult once a company is driven at the micro level by internal politics instead of external success.
https://unglue.it/ works in the opposite direction, by releasing books as free Creative Commons works after a bounty has been raised. You can buy your own DRM-free copy for a few bucks, while helping the book reach a free release.
If you think Amazon's point has any merit, please read this link. Amazon's PR team are using rhetoric to sway public opinion their way.
Early 2000s, still felt like the 90s. Technically it came out in March 1999 for IE5.
A conspiracy to control sales of busses.

Every transit agency in the country was already investigating busses to replace street-level rail and trolley-bus systems. Lower costs (both up front and operating), greater route flexibility, and new capabilities seemed like a slam dunk.

The "conspiracy" was an attempt to corner the market on the already-inevitable replacement of legacy non-rapid transit systems. The conspirators were willing to spend a good deal of money to make certain that transit groups would buy GM buses with Firestone tires, not Ford and Michelin.
I really wish I could use this without giving everything access to my google account. The ideas in the tech talks that describe it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITvUUyvUAY

are too good to confine to Google's walled garden.
Please look a little but further than your own self interest. Do you really want one entity having a monopoly on book distribution?
I was wondering: I find this topic interesting from a conceptual point of view, but I'm reluctant to learn more about it without having some concrete useful application as motivation. Can anyone give an example like that?
lol, and they dare to mention Orwell? Are you kidding me?
More from Neal Stephenson: Diamond Age is good, Cryptonomicon is fantastic. Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire is interesting as well.
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Should the use of GET (when client is sending data) be discontinued completely? It seems a number of exploits have used data in the URL query string as part of attacks. Some of Homakov's hijacks come to mind..

Also the fact a URL query string may be more likely to logged who knows where, at least more likely than a POST body.
Separate rights of way are the only way to ensure on-time service. Bus "bunching" is an unsolved mathematical problem. Traffic is just not predictable, and since buses follow a defined route, they have an even worse time of it than the average driver (who only goes from point A to B, with flexible routing)

This is equally true whether you use rail or bus. A bus system on dedicated busways can be just as fast and reliable as a traditional subway. A rail system running at-grade in traffic will suffer the same low ridership and stigmatization as a regular bus line.

Advantages to buses on dedicated busways: They're slightly cheaper than rail development.

Advantages to rail on dedicated railways: Much greater capacity than a bus system. More "headroom" to upgrade capacity.

Segregated lanes in an at-grade system are a half-measure at best. It gets you nowhere close to the service improvements made possible by a dedicated RoW. A bus system with segregated lanes is just a slightly faster bus system. A bus system running on dedicated busways is rapid transit.
I can haz cheeseburger .com isn't a big name??
Isn't this akin to the reddit meme of showing everything next to a banana "for scale" comparing body parts?

I.e. non-deterministic and from a scientific perspective, total horse shit.
Interesting story, but I wonder if there really is any value in preserving all this stuff? When I read about the efforts to save disappearing websites, I wonder the same thing. Isn't there some value in letting things just disappear, like dead trees rotting in the woods? I used to joke about a paid service that would come to your house and take all your old photos and movies, and throw them out for you...
Seems to have worked out OK for France
os.walk() is going to be *fast* with scandir
Show HN: Physically Based Rendering on the web
As humans we built the Antikythera some 2500 years ago, and I'm supposed to believe dividing something in 100 parts in 1725 was hard?
There's plenty of scope to fairly critique the BH piece. He's not perfect or beyond taking a few shot across the bow on a controversial subject.

But the situation of apple and google colluding (ie, this linked article) IMHO is a ~different situation here than the subject of the BH piece.

1> Google and AAPL as of the time of the lawsuit were not small players (fighting for their lives). They were 'fat cats' essentially at the top of the food chain.

2> Their motivations seem inherently economic/greedy, and fundamentally anti-competitive. They were not even vaguely 'customer centric' or otherwise constructive (except at the most tenditious levels).

3> The defendents were self aware their actions were unethica/illegal, and in the context of (1) and (2), were actively taking steps to hide/bury/conspire/collude regarding the illegal activity.

So this type of context is not the same. Calling out the BH essay seems to add a layer of useful sophistication to the discussion here. Half the utility, tho, is understanding the difference.
Inches to cm and back are actually an easy conversion so thinking in both isn't hard - 2.5cm/in, 30cm/ft. 1.6km/mi and 2.2 lbs/kg are a bit more annoying, and Fahrenheit are a freaking abomination.
Jaysus, why the down votes?
Wine tasting itself isn't necessarily a futile activity.

The "junk science" part is when self-described "experts" assign arbitrary percentile scores based on the tasting.
The General and the JTAC
It's a big stretch for the NYT to jump on the Orwell reference and make it the basis of an entire article, even if it's for their blog and not their paper. That said, it was crass of Amazon to invoke Orwell in the first place. They referenced him largely of context, cherry picked a quote, and dredged him up primarily for the emotional connotations of his name. Someone was going to call them out on it.

Because "1984" is the first and only thing 99% of people know about George Orwell, bringing his name into a discussion has long been the literary equivalent of reductio ad Hitlerum. "Even George Orwell said...," or "George Orwell himself wrote..." are often the hallmarks of lazy and facile arguments. Amazon's Orwell reference was similarly lame.

I have no love for Hachette in this battle. At the same time, I don't find Amazon to be a wholly likable or compelling protagonist. Its PR strategies have been hamfisted, ceding a lot of moral appeal to Hachette that Hachette has not earned and does not deserve.

That this whole thing plays out, day by day, in a paper of record like the NYT is a consequence of the NYT's close orbit to the publishing world. Many of its writers are represented by the same agencies that rep Hachette's writers, and some are probably Hachette writers themselves.
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There totally is a party in SF! http://www.meetup.com/Maptime-SF/events/199399492/
Along the same lines, once I finished Part 1 of Tactics, I didn't see the 'Continue Course' button, which is the only correct Call To Action above the fold. I thought I was done with Tactics, and went back to the main screen and tried the Diving Deep part. Please highlight that button better.

Other than that, this is a genius startup idea, really fun, and really addictive. I don't even intend to play chess very often and yet I'm addicted to picking up this skill now!
UK calling here.

My Fiat doesn't have mph on the speedo as it was replaced (like most things ln the car it broke). I've been doing conversions for years from miles to km, gallons to litres etc. It's annoying but kmh is easy.

I want to drive 200 miles. How much will it cost at 44.9mpg and 135.9ppl?

200 / 44.9 x 4.456 x 1.359 - yep random unit conversion in the middle.

Beer is metric as well until they sell it to you.

Whilst I understand all the problems I can only assume its an issue with education as doing decimal math is no more difficult than any other. Sometimes its easier especially when comparing or scaling magnitudes.
Mass spec isn't terribly useful on a mixture with a large number of unknown chemicals (like wine). The resulting spectrum would likely have overlapping peaks all over the place and wouldn't really tell you much about the composition.
I read this for the first time last year. Absolutely fantastic book, apart from half the plot rests on mobile phones not existing. Which just comes across as bizarre now, looking back.

Then again I'm reading the foundation series at the moment, and major plot points rest on how rediculously crap CPU power is and how travel is near instaneous, but somehow communication isn't.

Sci-fi doesn't age well, alas. Though neuromancer is better than a lot and still well worth a read.
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Just FYI, "feets" isn't a word. The plural of feet is feet :)

Similarly, "softwares" isn't a word either, but I hear it a lot. There's only software.

I say this because it's a common mistake among people who speak well, otherwise.
I have not followed this at all, so pardon my ignorance, but I'm wondering how this affects what the authors get paid. I assume a lower book price means less goes to the author; I understand that lower book prices generally lead to more sales and higher net. Do authors actually end up pocketing more in the latter scenario?
Why the #$% Do We Swear? For Pain Relief (2009)
I've witnessed more than a few vehicles overheating in slow moving traffic. Many of drivers of these use the shoulder as a way of removing their vehicle from the main corridor. Another primary use for the shoulder is emergency vehicles. Any vehicle on the shoulder, moving or not, is likely to slow emergency responders. Make sure to look before you swerve, as many a highway patrol person has been killed this way.
Congrats and thanks to the developers of openstreetmap!

How do we make openseamaps.org better? OpenRov? Robots solar powered?
> Likewise, employer-provided health insurance was a historical accident

As an European, a stance like that is near to instant execution.
The article points out that: "In April 1990, we published a more detailed version of this material in a Journal of Law and Economics article titled 'The Fable of the Keys.' This journal is well known and has published some of the most influential articles in economics. In the six years since we published that article there has been no attempt to refute any of our factual claims, to discredit the GSA study, or to resurrect the Navy study."

Pointing to Reason is not a valid reason for dismissing an argument that is well known from other sources that are, as a matter of fact, not libertarian.

It would be more interesting if you stopped smearing sources and actually provided -- or at least pointed to -- some rational articles that try to refute the factual case.
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Totally. "Science" requires precision because science in many ways is the mechanism by which we learn truths with greater and greater precision. That doesn't mean though that science naturally abhors imprecise "for-scale" measurements though- they just reserve them for illustration and avoid using them for the actual science. (e.g., http://imgur.com/gallery/ESp2j - marianas trench scale)
Don't have one.
For contrast here's another I've always enjoyed, a little more playful: http://youtu.be/BW1te_miu5I
As far as I know, the applications are for theoretical problems and has no application in everyday work.
Microsoft throws old versions of Internet Explorer under the bus
Interesting...I'm in the UK, for me 24°C with a light breeze makes for a perfect Summer's day: warm enough to walk around without sweating buckets. 30°C is uncomfortably hot. I guess it's all relative to what you're used to (and what you're doing e.g. day at the beach or walking in the city).
We should all use the metric system and UTC time.
Orwell was not an economist. I think this is really silly. How about instead of quoting random opinions, let's look into what actually happened in the real world? For one thing I don't think the book industry has suffered much since the introduction of the Penguin books?

This reminds me of the piracy debate. Was Microsoft helped or hurt by the rampant piracy of the Windows OS? I'm pretty sure they were helped a lot (how else achieve 99% lock in), but presumably the point could be argued back and forth indefinitely (people who would argue either point would be plentiful to find).

Also the discussion is completely besides the point. Two businesses can't agree on a price. Neither of the two has a moral obligation to sell books for a certain price. If they don't agree, they simply don't sell books to each other. Why does that even concern anybody else?
I remember having at home Mirrorshades, a cyberpunk antology[1]. It contains short novels by Gibson and others and it was edited by Bruce Sterling. Unfortunately many years have passed so I don't remember if it was good..

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Mirrorshades-Cyberpunk-Anthology-Greg-...
Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator: Supersonic Test Flight (HD)
Marc Andreessen just got owned on Twitter
Hardwired Water John Williams

Proto /early CP

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick
Babel 17 - Delany
Fury - Kutner/More
Tiger! Tiger! (The stars my destination) - Bester
And Arguably Gravity's Rainbow
Congratulations. You have better luck than I did, and than my renter friends did. Maybe it's the time period. We bought a house in 2004 (and again in 2005) and haven't rented since.
Origami Robots Fold Themselves and Walk Away
I have always had this problem with Sprawl Trilogy books: I started, abandoned and then restarted and finished each of them..
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I was born and raised in Europe. I live in Canada that has (mostly) gone metric in the 1970's. Yet, I use inches. They are nicer!

I recently built a shelf and hanger rack in a weirdly-shaped closet. I used Sketchup to design it, and naturally made everything in inches.

Inches are "semi-metric" too, thanks to mils: thousandths of an inch. Mils are very nice units for fine work, like circuit boards. Millimeters are way too crude, and micrometers are outside of macroscopic human experience.

When doing PCB work, I use mils, which create a virtual metric system within the space of an inch. E.g. the pins of old-school DIPs are 100 mils apart, or 0.1" Through holes are in mils: 25 mils, 40 mils. Same for track widths: 8 mils, 10 mils, ... very nice numbers to work with at that scale: one, two or three digits, no decimals.
That's a terrible analogy. Courts in the US have been widely rejecting IPs as the basis of copyright lawsuits, see:

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2014/03/25/florida-judge-rejects...

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security/297475-ip-address-no...

http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/10/court_nukes_ano...

P.S. Downvotes on HN do not mean "I disagree".
A few weeks ago I was cooking dinner for a couple of couples at our house. I opened a fancy bottle of wine about an hour ahead of time, and I also had an $8 bottle left over from cooking breakfast the day before. (You'd think from all this that I'm some kind of chef, but it doesn't take much to throw a little wine on some mushrooms.)

I had a couple of sleeves for wine bottles, so I decided to put them over the bottles and do a blind taste test. Of the 5 other people, 3 preferred the cheaper wine, 1 was neutral, and 1 preferred the more expensive one.

You don't need wine sleeves-- we've used paper bags, or you can decant in a double-blind safe way.

No one said science was easy, but someone's got to do it. ;-) You might even save yourself some money.
For the British:

100 - Boiling water, cuppa tea

50 - Lawrence of Arabia

25 - The Great British Summer! Won't last, anyway

12.5 - Wear a jumper

6.25 - Wear a parka

0 - water freezes

-6.25 - Heathrow shuts down

-12.5 - Daily Mail reports weather causes cancer

-25 - Coldest reported weather in the UK

-50 - "I am just going outside and may be some time"
I'm going to echo Snow Crash. It's a bit silly at times when you stop to think about the pictures being drawn, but it's also quite prescient as more and more of the world starts to actually look like the cyberpunk worlds.
Automating variable treatment for modeling
I find OpenStreetMap to be the perfect example that it is very feasible to beat Goggle at one of its core competences.
Show HN: Emve.me – Control the Party
The comparisons are interesting, but for some of those companies his information is several years out of date already (especially for the first company he started to work at, way back in 2007, Google). Things can change quite a lot over such time periods.
Authors should be allowed to price their IP as they see fit. End of story.
Mobile phones as we know them today didn't exist when Gibson was writing Neuromancer. Pub date in 1984 means the MS was handed in in mid-1983 and he was writing it 1981-82 (on a manual typewriter: the royalties from Neuromancer bought him his first computer, an Apple IIc).

While the idea of cellular comms dates to the 1950s (if not earlier), and some limited analog cellular service existed in some parts of the world (notably the Nordic countries from 1981), the UK didn't get analog cell service until roughly 1985; digital (over 2G GSM) didn't come along until roughly 1991. In Canada, cellphone service wouldn't have started until around the time the book was published, if not later. And, uninformed rumor to the contrary, SF isn't actually about prophesying the future.
When gravity fails, George Alec Effinger

Part 1 of a trilogy. Absolutely fantastic.

I hesitate to say more than "read it." If you don't like it after 30 pages, bail, it's not your cup of tea.
I don’t buy it. NCL, incorporated in Delaware, was a holding company which took over 46 transit systems in 16 states. Doesn’t sound like flowers and bunnies to me.
When I read t he Tommy Lee dick joke I had to check to see how old this was. Who still makes Tommy Lee jokes?
If they don't notice something funny after 5 tastes, their expertise is not useful.