skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify, is Xcode 6 enforcing a minimum deployment target of iOS 7 even if the app is written in Objective-C and not Swift? If so, I think I'll need to stay on Xcode 5 a bit longer.
Normal watches are jewelry because they no longer have any other purpose for most people. Those who aren't interested in the fashion part of watches have largely stopped wearing them.

This seems similar to those who said that smart phones were for corporate e-mail when the iPhone came out. The iPhone changed the whole purpose of a smartphone.
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You will want this:

http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Multiseat/

And if you're on arch linux this is a good start:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg_multiseat
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In the case of Slackware, I'm going to guess that it's more to do with Patrick's idea of "if it ain't broke, don't replace it". This is why Slackware still comes with Lilo by default: it works, so they never switched to Grub (though Grub can be used and is actually also an available package on the installation DVD: the choice is always yours).
Is there any word as to whether the functionality we see here will be coming to IDEA as a plugin (as is the case with other language specific IDEs Jetbrains produce)?

If so and the word is positive, is there any indication of the kind of delay we might expect. I already pay for IDEA and love it, much as I want what CLion offers, I couldn't personally justify another paid license on top (with the increased load in yearly renewals that implies).
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Agreed. Always pleasant to see his name attached to projects. Gives me reason to look into them further.
I see ApplePay and Google Wallet as the Virtualization of payment, basically turning your credit card accounts into electronic accounts with per-device and per-payment tokens. Which means that security will be a lot easier, numbers can't get stolen, and the merchant now doesn't AUTOMATICALLY get your info from your credit card, while retaining the ability to track you (probably) as long as the Payment Processors allow it.

HOWEVER! It also means that these companies will need to integrate their new payment system deeper and make it compete with IAP on their own ecosystem. Since this system disrupts credit cards for real world purchases, it can't take a 30% cut. So you end up with two systems of payment, one which takes 30% and one which doesn't. You can bet your buttocks that publishers of online content will try to find ways to use the CREDIT CARD PROCESSING system instead of IAP, even if it means no fancy things like recurring subscriptions - things which ApplePay will have to add later. In short, Apple will have to bend over backwards to justify preserving the 30% cut on IAP. That 30% incidentally is also what keeps all apps from being free in the store - once IAP is cheap, why charge people 30% upfront for the app?

In short, I'm interested to see how Apple is able to keep ApplePay from cannibalizing its revenue from the App Store, by disrupting its own IAP service.
Thanks! Working on it right now.
Arch users made the switch a long time back. When switching to systemd it isn't just install and go.

Systemd is mature and reliable and is running on so many servers it isn't even funny. I personally like it and it is much better for me to admin my services on servers.
I think you are spot on with this comment. The reaction to this watch is not substantially different from every other reaction to a major Apple product (or OS version or whatever else they announce).

It can be entertaining to read (got me interested in the Garmin Forerunner that was mentioned) but it's just people at a bar chatting about the topic of the day.
I guess from Musk quotes, “The reason I haven’t taken SpaceX public is the goals of SpaceX are very long-term, which is to establish a city on Mars,” Musk, 43, told reporters at a Sept. 8 briefing in Tokyo.
I have doubts about the crown thingy -- turning a watch crown while the thing is on your wrist is quite uncomfortable. I understand it's a big crown, but still doesn't seem ergonomic to me.
Hardly open. It'd be like if Google rewrote the Gmail frontend to native dart and then just blamed the other browsers for not having a native Dart VM. Dart is even standardized (by ECMA), unlike HLS which isn't standardized.

Relevant: http://annevankesteren.nl/2010/09/draft-vs-standard
I've been working on this for the last year now. The basic problem is that as a developer you have lots of ways to evaluate a candidate (coding tests). With hiring for Sales it's not that easy - the traditional way is to rely on an interview in which you go on gut instinct.

We're trying to change that by applying some science to the problem. The key idea is to find you sales people who match your current top performers' profiles using an assessment that is geared towards the sales process.

The system is built in Node.js, Angular and PostgreSQL, and uses some of the machine learning concepts I contributed to SpamAssassin.
How is it not the point? You said "we can't even build a distro anymore without downloading systemd," due to the implication that udev was embedded in the kernel, but that's not true. You can build a distro - just don't use udev.
That is fantastic. I featured it on the front page of the Arlington Planetarium website: http://friendsoftheplanetarium.org/
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Are you confusing physical memory with address space?

There's no good reason for the managed heap to be anywhere near any of the native heaps in address space, on 64-bit platforms.

And the CLR's GC should actively allocate slabs well away from any native heap (trivial to do - reserve (not commit, reserve) a big contiguous chunk of address space), simply because it relies on third party code which will itself be allocating native memory; everything from GUI code to native DB drivers and their caches, quite independent of unsafe code doing manual allocation.

In the absence of a GC-aware virtual memory manager, GC-immovable memory has little relevance to paging.

(Of course, GC.Add/RemoveMemoryPressure should be called if you're doing native allocation from .net.)
You'd think it might work better if they had a bit of wire attached as an arial. Then they could use lower frequencies, get more range and so on, perhaps? Having mucked about connecting bits of wire to oscilloscopes it seems most of the signal that you could use to power something is 50/60Hz picked up from the mains. It would still cost cents given a bit of wire is not terribly expensive.
Unfortunately I don't expect bloomberg headline writers to care about the difference, there is a quote about mars in the article so they put mars in the title. Remember it is normally very hard for the press to tell the difference between the ISS and Mars either before or after several pints of lunch.
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That quote is irrelevant. I agree with the guy you are quoting. This article doesn't make any sense and I assume the author wasn't supposed to mention Mars.
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He is a huge history buff - Stephen Harper actually wrote a book about history relevant to Canada, while acting as Prime Minister! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Game - It got pretty bad reviews though)
http://annevankesteren.nl/2010/09/draft-vs-standard
Well, here's one for starters... and it's from a Dotcloud developer even. As you can see, the claim of "Docker can do everything" is getting stronger and stronger. We have people thinking they can ditch virtualization in a multi-tennant hosting situation and be "safe" with Docker... which is absurdly false.

You can see he makes the claim Docker provides security through cgroups and namespaces -- then a few comments later admits namespaces is not implemented yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8213316
The trick is that the phone is a lousy device for consuming notifications. You're either tying up your hand holding it or it's sitting in your pocket and not actually helping. Comparatively, the watch can pass notifications while leaving your hands free, allowing you to get things done.

In the sordid tradition of technology prognosticators, I'm going to make a prediction: there will never be a strong game market for the smartwatch like there was for the smartphone. Games work on the phone because the phone is what you stare at when you're bored. The smartwatch isn't for when you're bored, but rather for when you're busy, so there's no point in gaming on it.
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I'd like to see this concept (presentation to GIF) for powerpoint (PPT/PPTX).
You think anybody that dumped a bucket of ice on their head understands half of the medical science behind ALS? Do you think they honestly needed to? No, they only needed to recognize its importance, and then they further spread awareness and/or donated money to people more qualified than themselves to further champion the cause.

Awareness is the key. Even if people don't understand exactly what it is or why, you have to put it in their face over and over until they take action, whether by inspiration or frustration.
Looks like the bloomberg title has been fixed, but the HN link title hasn't (URL though still says Mars).
Calling or writing letters (not emails!) to congressional representatives is another thing you can do.

FWIW, I think that donating money is pretty real.
What if I wanted to use Debian but with yum/rpm instead of apt/dpkg?

I don't care for systemd (I've never even used it), but it doesn't shock me that some components are just core to the distro.
Would someone explain what kind of things you could do with this?

Forgive my ignorance.
Your assumption that the audience for Cloudflare's post is "tech-savvy people" is accurate but your follow-up assumption that the websites that these tech-savvy people make are "most likely" for tech-savvy people is obviously incorrect. The website I built for music. Certainly, my users need not be tech savvy to use my site. So if I installed this popup, there is a good chance of showing it to some non-tech people. I would assume that a lot of people that read HN have built products for non-tech people.
Some people don't feel safe on public transport late at night.

And there's no need to swear.
They are probably long-term positive, but in the short-term they both could provoke negative press for the companies.
For me, it is about the merits too, or lack thereof.

The internals of systemd consists of reams of repetitive string processing that should not even have been written in C, and lots of indirection which obscures control flow paths through the program.

The behavior of systemd is only completely specified only by its obtuse implementation, which was developed by some people who have no clue how to design that kind of thing (or to specify and document it).

Why I even know this is because I had to switch to source level debugging to figure out why systemd is or isn't doing something, and how to change it.

Background: I worked on substantial improvements of Linux's ability to support serial consoles on a USB-serial device. This required interaction with systemd. Part of the functionality is that you can plug a console in before booting or after, and get a prompt. Moreover, you can unplug a device with one kind of USB-serial chip, and plug in a different kind that uses a different driver, yet completely recover your existing session, which could be in the middle of a vi edit or whatever).

To get the behavior completely polished, I had to wrestle with systemd, which was killing the sessions in an obscurely mysterious way that made the USB-serial/TTY/console code in the kernel look like a walk in the park. I think it took me several days to figure out, after poring over the systemd source code. First I discovered it was systemd doing the killing by putting some printk's in the kernel. Reading systemd documentation was useless, so I had to crack open the source code and start instrumenting that. I think it took the better part of a week to finally get the behaviors ironed out.
It's changed now. At least on the bloomberg site.
Why would any global app show an American national political campaign to all their users?

In reality I'm mostly sad that the campaign is purely USA ("contact your rep" - I don't have a "rep", it doesn't work that way here), but if I see it on any app that knows where I'm located, I'll know that the owners' world ends at their country borders and that I'm a second class user.
They typically get paid for the 2 weeks but don't have to show up. So they do get 2 weeks notice.
So you're saying there's nothing we can do and we should just keep our heads down and pretend nothing's wrong because there's no way we can compete with big companies and lobbying groups.

Good plan, let me know how that works out.
> they want their herd only inside of a barn?

Awesome. Who should I switch to that doesn't want that?
"I don't understand why many of these packages need systemd."

Exactly the issue I think.

I'm wondering (not trolling) how many desktop people actually reboot the kernel (fresh boot or resume from hibernate) as opposed to using suspend to ram? Given the outrage the Gnome devs caused by hiding the power down function on early versions of Gnome 3 quite a few. I generally just suspend, but I've recently started using hibernate on one laptop with whole disk encryption just in case of petty theft/leaving it on a bus.

Do any sysadmins use automatic spinning up of instances of a small Linux to cope with traffic spikes? Is that something that is actually done? Boot time could matter then.
Nowhere, and it probably won't.
The signature is for identification after the fact. So if someone steals your card, the credit card company can look at the signature for that transaction versus 10 other signatures for valid transactions and quickly know if it was your signature or not.

That said, I don't think we will ever live in a cash-less world. There are too many merchants for whom any technology is too much. Also, a lot of merchants don't want to pay credit card processing fees (which I expect don't go away with this system) and still others like to cheat on their taxes and running a cash business makes that easier.
That wouldn't work. That page says 'Only complaints where a driver has contravened Hackney Carriage law can be investigated.'

I don't think keeping your light off whenever driving South contravenes those laws.
Thank you sir! You took a load off me.
Why? Are you saying the actual popup doesn't communicate the proper information? I said in another comment, my website is for finding and discussing new music. My users certainly don't have to be technical people. It would seem, seeing this message might very well give them some information they've never seen before.
Well, it does make you sound like a Ferengi.
Note that on Mac and Windows, at least, you can trivially do this remapping. I do it on all my computers.

On a Mac, the keyboard preference pane in system prefs has a "modifier keys" section, which is bizarrely separately configurable for the built-in keyboard vs. a USB keyboard on their laptops. On Linux, the configuration is different for the VT vs. window managers.
Should companies give notice to people they fire? Like adult diapers, it depends. Each situation has its own idiosyncrasies. Not every new hire is going to work out. Hiring the right person is a challenging endeavor. The new hire needs to be able to do the job, work well with others, and fit in with company culture.

Some people are be toxic. Others are just not able to cut the mustard. Keeping either around is harmful to morale or is damaging to the company culture.

I believe a lot of problems stem from the hiring process itself. Sometimes hiring managers don't ask the right questions or take the company culture into account. This often leads to making bad hiring decisions.

Not all companies are bad though. I know of a company that provides generous severance packages to those they fire. They understand the trauma and upheaval it will have on the individual’s life. This company may unfortunately be an outlier.

That's my $0.02.
I'm going to repost what I commented on CloudFlare's blog, since they don't appear to have published it (yes, I was a little angry. I've had to put up with these CAPTCHAs for the last week):

Ha, so much irony, CloudFlare.

The company that is determinedly CAPTCHA-walling as much of the internet as it can get its hands on supports Network Neutrality...? Reeaally?

You support network neutrality, as long as your users don't use Tor. And don't use a VPN. Or any other kind of shared IP. Or have cookies disabled.

No, your support of network neutrality is utterly, utterly shallow. You might pragmatically support it, as it pertains to you not having to pay any more for your data pipes, but you share none of the principles behind it - that all people should have the same access to content.

Oh look - I try to access BattleForTheNet.com: "Please complete the security check. Please enable cookies".

An IP address is not a person. Somehow Twitter, Facebook, Google, can figure this out... Why can't you?

Edit: Also, is anybody else affected by these CAPTCHAs? I can't believe it's just me. Literally half of all news articles and such I try to read, I'm getting CAPTCHA-walled by CloudFlare. It's quite scary to suddenly realise how much control this single company has. (Not to mention incredibly annoying. I've taken to simply avoiding several news sites I used to browse.)
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The logging and monitoring tools are /worse/ than in a BSD or SysV init situation. Journald, as opposed to rsyslog and syslog-ng, can't talk to other systems in anywhere near a sane manner, can't connect to databases, has no ability to filter and direct messages, etc. On top of that, it makes core dumps require root privileges to analyze them, making user level development and debugging more difficult. Systemd has a heavy, heavy stink of someone from the desktop realm coming in with no knowledge of what tools sysadmins already use, and screwing everything up in the process.
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> Net Neutraility, Bandwidth saturation & peering link negotiation is far more complicated than what is being presented by this campaign.

Perhaps the complexity is the problem. I'm fairly tech savvy and when I've never heard a clear explanation of the problem and the solution.

There's a very clear problem with A.L.S.: if you get it, you die within a few years. It's not very hard to understand/sympathize with that.
Depends on the [federal & state & local] laws applicable; similarly in other countries. The usual procedure seems to be "here's your two weeks' notice, your electronic access rights are already revoked, kindly give us the access badge, security will escort you out; we will still pay you for the two weeks (as required by law) - but for obvious reasons we don't want you touching our systems during that time."

That said, most terminations happen without such theatrics; perhaps the person was already given the notice, two weeks earlier?

Oh, and IANAL.
...or that when you log on to the site, the site would tell you that your account was in the list.
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How many separate reports of failing to accept a fare would cause a driver to lose their taxi licence?

Without knowing the answer to this question, it's hard to know whether your statement is true in this case.
2 dedicated servers might buy you ~3-4GB/s of DDoS protection. Cloudflair's base model protects from around 100GB/s, which what commonly takes banks offline (Bank of American, or Chase be taken down with ~70GB/s).

They gave talk at defcon21 about migrating a 300-400GB/s DDoS (Roughly 1.25% of all internet traffic in the US at the time was that DDoS).

When you start getting into DDoS's >300GB/s your DDoS will start causing issues for providers, and backbone companies, not just Cloudflair.
Its far-field, so it couples completely differently than NFC tags. Also, NFC communicates by reflecting signals, this device communications by active transmission (according to the article, I haven't read their paper yet).

What's new? Its tiny, and I'm very curious how they got that an oscillator to work at extremely low powers. But, it is really just an extension of RFID/NFC/IoT miniaturization work. But then again, just about everything starts out that way.
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Because then this happens:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7639180

pastebin of the article:
http://pastebin.com/uUGfWnjf
At 41.5%, the US now accounts for less than half of all mentions on Twitter
If you follow the thread, this message is linked:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-June/00...

Which explains some more.
Is this how it works? My assumption was that Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and Discover were the ones that made the % of each transaction and then the issuing banks were the ones that made the money from fees and interest.
Look at dead comments in other submission.
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I have an Audio Technica ATH-M50 that I'm happy with. It's around the $150 range, sometimes $100 if you find a good sale. Using my iMac, I can never put the volume above 3 notches. It's definitely loud! And comfortable, since it's circumaural.
> He isn't that wealthy, yet at least.

It's speculated that he owns about a half a billion in Bitcoin at current market prices, how is that not wealthy "yet"?
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According to the article, they never managed to hack into Google's database. This just looks like a large accumulation of user info from phishing.
Didn't know about the GCC amd64 array alignment issues
>16bytes and >32bytes. Horrible for my method dispatch, not just C++ vtables (fixed with gcc-5.0).

Cannot this be overturned with the aligned or packed attribute? (if not on the stack as this was broken for aligned for while)
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Good job on making your app happen!
Microphony in radio circuits is pretty much a given so even if there is no overt microphone every one of these will exhibit a frequency shift when hit by sound waves and that shift is detectable.

Hm. This makes me wonder if you could recover audio from wifi signals.
sure. In simple terms, is there a way to browse recent pasties and set duration of a pastie?
The clearest explanations for the problem of lack of proper net neutrality are two examples:

1. Slower internet. If companies have to pay twice as much to get a proper connection to their customers, a lot of companies won't be able to.

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Init systems and process managers are meant to be generic, even systemd has that as a goal. The biggest problem is always converting your scripts to a new scheme, unless a compatibility layer exists.

On the other hand, package managers are far more opinionated. Each distro has their own particular package format, guidelines and development practices that are made to form a coherent as possible experience. File system layout is important here, among many other things.

However, you certainly can. apt-get install yum is a thing. I'm not sure how reliable it is, though.