skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but they want the data on the mobile device. For example, I use textsecure when texting my friends. Its encrypted locally and over the wire so the records would only help them show who not what I was talking about.
Why should that stop them.

Similar naming didn't stop Apple from releasing MAC OS 9, when Microware OS-9 already existed.
I would expect they are always listening and evaluating. Capitulation being the change of their assertion that Windows 8 features were 'best' and then going back to the way they were in Windows 7. The reasons for that change of opinion might be that they listened to customer complaints, it might be that they compared adoption rates of this version of Windows to the previous version, or it might be something else.

So when the opinion changes from what it was, to something it was previously, I see that as capitulation. When an opinion changes from what it was, to something new, I see that as advancement.

It isn't a negative evaluation, its a statement of direction of change.
Something lost in translation here? Bro-fest, meaning males hanging out together. Where is the racism?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brofest
My guess is that they skipped 9 to demonstrate just how much better than Windows 8 this release will (they hope) be. And I must say, as a bit of marketing I think it's not bad

Like Slackware Linux, which went straight from 4.0 to 7.0 ;).
"It’s always bothered me that users create so much of the value of sites like reddit but don’t own any of it. So, the Series B Investors are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community, and I hope we increase community ownership over time. We have some creative thoughts about the mechanics of this, but it’ll take us awhile to sort through all the issues. If it works as we hope, it’s going to be really cool and hopefully a new way to think about community ownership."

This is awesome. Curious to see how this plays out. What's the approximate timing for announcing if reddit is able to do this or not?
Probably harder and takes longer than searching through a confiscated phone from a suspect.
There was never really any consistent list of Windows versions you could come up with that would lead to "Windows 7" actually being the 7th version. So it's not like the numbers mean much anyway. Why not 10? [1]

[1] Maybe they should have gone for 11, since it's one more.
https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea/status/516998685386100736
Fair enough. I could see that being an issue. I'm sure targeting SaaS business specifically also makes it easier to create cohesive marketing.
No, it just means that YC's head is now a big-league VC. (This is his personal investment)
Windows 9: The Missing Floppies

or The Missing Eloppies
There have always been tools and procedures for destroying documents to prevent unwanted access.

What's very very bad about this, in addition to the direct effects on people's privacy, is that it creates a class system of people who are allowed access to strong encryption while the cattle being farmed on this plantation are not.
I'm sure there will be enough editions to confuse the average buyer. And different upgrade paths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions#Comparison_c...
The one downside (as I see it) of Reddit that Facebook, G+, and HN all don't have is the ability to downvote. Downvoting makes it so larger subreddits will only have material on their front page that the majority of that group agrees with. This leads to certain subreddits (like /r/politics/) being heavily dominated by one side of the subject area.

But I still use reddit daily myself. Getting off some of the default subreddits and subscribing to ones focused on a specific topic (a video game, programming language, city, etc...) has replaced specialized/focused forums for me. It's definitely a great communication platform.
This is great, I really enjoy this. The one thing I'd be interesting in contributing is using ipython's sqlite history database if a user chooses to.
I just want to point out that first, rioting does not occur more frequently in America than it does in many other parts of the world, and second, those "culturally deficient members of our society" you speak of are also generally wealth, education, and opportunity deficient due to the apathy of our society writ large.
The first two paragraphs are useful contribution to discussion. The rest is... well, useless.

"...when people found out that their “radicalism” is only in words, but not in action."

So, you ditched them because they were not radical? If you're gonna rant, at least do it right. We get it, you're being fucked from all sides. Welcome to reality. Other than that, you forgot to mention over 30 volunteer battalions like Aidar that, according to Amnesty International, "have been involved in widespread abuses, including abductions, unlawful detention, ill-treatment, theft, extortion, and possible executions."

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR50/040/2014/en/bb...
Really, what they need to go is get some inspired sequel names from the guys at Capcom or ArcSys Works. I'm not sure about Windows 10, but I'd upgrade to Windows 9 Super Turbo HD Remix or Windows Chrono Phantasma in a heartbeat.
Any reason why Stripe can't offer analytics themselves ?
Its nice way to fool customers. First create own product , then ask few friends to create another product based on own product , create environment showing yeah we are investing then acquire friends product increasing valuation and creating false hype. Do the IPO and then Profit.
What a nasty way to gain attention.
With end-to-end encryption where the messages are encrypted and decrypted on the client it would not be possible for anyone with access to phone records or central servers to read what was said. They would need to obtain the private keys that are generated on the client devices themselves.
2000 (5), XP (5.1), Vista (6), 7 (6.1), 8 (6.2), 8.1 (6.3)
You don't need everyone to do this; just enough to ensure that if a worker feels exploited, they always have someplace else to go.
Seriously it would not be Microsoft if they figured out how to name their products. The OS looks good but I also like 8.1.
The problem with this formulation of the future is limiting cycles for the free tier sopping up as you say. How does that work exactly? Unless you're implementation is an interpreted language, I can't imagine a solution.
Augmented reality FPS on your smartphone
Getting access to your personal life recorder, which is what smartphones are, is not a "traditional surveillance tool" as you call it. It's a new surveillance tool that has shown up over the last 7 years. Before cops had access to every single thing you do via the smartphone, civilization did not collapse.
The smartest thing for the govt is to complain but do nothing.
Taking a cue from the PHP internals team.
"Maybe if we skip a version number, they'll think it's an even newer and better version..."

No but my guess is that 8 bombed so hard that they didn't want to sell it as 9 since that would make it specifically a successor to 8 (which it is, but we wouldn't want the consumers to know). Same way we got 7 instead of Vista 2 or whatever. They want 10 to seem like a new hip thing instead of a desperate attempt to fix their mess.
unfortunately I work for a large enterprise that wont even give developers admin access to their machines, so I'm stuck with cmd :(
Ethereum still involves transactional costs. One way or another you have to pay for decentralized security. But the costs should be far less than legacy systems.

Also because of network effects, it is probable that only one cryptocurrency will dominate, likely Bitcoin. So it is convenient for ownership to take place on Bitcoin and not in a competing altcoin. We'll see how things progress when Ethereum comes out.
I hope this works out - nice move Sam. This and ceding voting control. Setting the benchmark by which others will be measured.
And Windows 10 will be 6.4.

It just doesn't make any sense.
People cannot survive (self sufficiently) on Mars without an industrial base and we don't have that clear of an idea how many people that will take. It has never been done with anywhere near as few as 1 million, but we are getting better at it so maybe we could reduce that number even further.
This actually could be it. Too much legacy code that checks for "Windows 9*".
I like Reddit. I recently obtained a data dump of every single submission and comment so I could perform interesting data analysis and may just determine what make a post on Reddit viral.

The problem I have with Reddit is that I'm still unsure if it's a positive externality. There's a lot of good aspects of Reddit (discovery, community), but there's so much bad about Reddit that it's impossible to overlook it (abusive subreddits, abusive users, no administrator transparency, etc.)

There's free speech, and then there's the ethics of promoting and profiting off of abusive/illegal content.

My dream startup would be a Reddit-esque link aggregator, which favors the actual quality of submissions, instead of submissions which are lowest-common-denominator which are optimized for the hive mind.
Of course, they'll probably undermine their claims of it being leaps and bounds past 8 by making the internal version 6.4
"...are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community..."

How's that supposed to work? Reddit (the company) will own the shares? Some foundation? A bit more detail would be nice.
Exciting news. One thing I sincerely hope reddit will do with the new injection is to increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board. Often the advice given is "you've got to find the smaller subreddits" and while that's true, I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion is incredibly detrimental to both the site's image and new user experiences.

I know there's great content there, and great people having great discussions, but it's not terribly easy to find. I'm thoroughly convinced that reddit could be an incredibly valuable source of reliable news, discussion, and entertainment, but the way it's structured highlights its more juvenile aspects.

And if it can find a way to establish legitimacy, it'll be worth far more than it is today.
Windows 7 was NT 6.1.

Windows 8 was NT 6.2.

They were called that because marketing.
Generics added complexity to Java because of:

1. if you have sub-typing in the language, then you'll naturally have to think of co/contra-variance, which leads us to ...

2. Java had backwards compatibility concerns, for example they were unwilling to deprecate the standard collections, so they chose to implement use-site variance with wildcards

There are several problems there - first of all you cannot declare variance rules on the classes themselves, even though there are legitimate use-cases for that, like immutable data-structures have no problem in being covariant. Hence generics in Java are much less useful than they would be with declaration-site variance. Then subtyping + variance, especially with wildcards which are basically existential types, is undecidable, so by definition people have a hard time in producing a reliable compiler.

Here's a fun example that could crash a compiler:

class C<P> implements List<List<? super C<C<P>>>> {}

And doesn't that suck?

But seriously, Java's designers could have chosen a better, saner path. Declaration-site variance is so much better. And we aren't talking about really expressive type-systems, with higher-kinded types and type-2 polymorphism, for starters the basics would do just fine.

I mean, Go's standard data-structures are generified. Why not provide the same capability to its users? This situation is exactly like with Java's arrays.
Common cold does not come from exposure to cold weather but from bacteria/viruses. That humans are immune to 99,99% germs out there and that you should not be so much afraid of infections. And that carbohydrates in your diet don't and cannot change into fat. Fat is fat, sugar is sugar, period.
I don't know anything about the internal process, but I can't imaging that they have many people look at each app. Its actually impressive to me that they are paying an employee good money to test free apps.

You probably won't get an answer to that here from anyone who knows. The only Apple employee I knew at school was really weird about it. When I asked what she did I got "Apple employs sales, technical and engineering staff in the Boston area". Perhaps some of the folks in CA are a little more open/laid back.
HN has downvoting. I was able to downvote you, and your comment went lower on the page and turned grey. HN also has excellent moderation.
I do this too, but I find it annoying not knowing if the file has been received and when it's safe for me to delete it.
> I'm curious to see what sort of dynamic this creates in the site.

As a daily reddit user for 4+ years, I'd wager that it'll just be an exaggerated amount of the same. With any internet community it seems, given enough time, you get saturated by users 'gaming' it for points/karma/post count/etc. So now the same small number of nothing-else-to-do reddit users trawling the archives for repostable karma material have one more incentive to keep up the high-karma-low-content submissions: money. Sorry for the cynicism.
HK's prosperity is a product of British rule, not of the relatively new Chinese regime they are protesting now.
Live Edit Sass with Takana, Sublime Text and Libsass
Why are we still programming like it's the punchcard era?
you don't need admin access to use conemu/cmder: download a zip, extract to any place you do have access to and off you go
> it will make things more difficult for us

Not nearly as difficult as living on Mars.
Or, you know, OSX
Windows X codename Cheetah
Empathy isn't a reliable way of doing good
"We believe that, together with the feedback you provide us, we can build a product that all of our customers will love," Myerson said. "It will be our most open collaborate OS projects ever."

followed by

Q: When it comes to your enterprise customers about Windows 10. How big has the push back been to get Windows away from Live Tiles, back to Windows 7 stuff?

A: We don't hear pushback that we don't like Live Tiles. We hear pushback about too much training.

So basically "together with your feedback" means "we'll ignore your feedback if it conflicts with a design decision we've already made"
Why State of Kansas is selling sex toys, 'Bra cam' gives boob's-eye-view
I suggest giving some shares to the people that have been with Reddit 8+ years and with over 8k combined link+comment karma :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe the existence of distant relatives in Oceania (rather a lot of them if you include the fellow English-speaking capitalists in Australia and New Zealand) was ever seriously advanced as an argument in favour of MUAD wouldn't necessarily be a bad end to the Cold War from a US point of view.
But they'd still be able to do that given a warrant? Or is this unwarrantable protection, for lack of a better word?
"Did you get that file I sent you?"
"Yes"
"Great, thanks"
$ ssh personal.sircmpwn.com rm /var/html/foobar.png
First the government puts itself above the law by engaging in unconstitutional surveillance. And then they complain that some companies retaliate by tightening up the encryption? Even though they have some valid point, it's very hypocritical. I doubt this would have happened if not for the Big Brother's behavior to begin with.
Mod/admin censorship, government manipulation (out of Eglin AFB most likely), and corporate advertising/shilling are pretty blatantly huge in reddit right now, with many users openly looking for alternative websites. The admin team has shown again and again that they're willing to tolerate anything until there's bad PR.

One of the founders (Alexis) has a PR firm, Antique Jetpack, which is on record [1] as cooperating with Stratfor of wikileaks fame. I can't quite see how the two are unconnected.

A couple of years ago, one of the admins there tacitly admitted that he was under a National Security letter complete with gag order to give up user information.

A few months ago, reddit changed its voting system in order to completely obfuscate user detection of large scale vote manipulation. The community was unanimously against this change, and has been overruled.

I don't see a great future for reddit, honestly. I'll continue to use it until whoaverse or another alternative is populated enough.

[1]: https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=277352
They're not taking any chances. From Wikipedia: "The Japanese consider nine to be unlucky because in Japanese the word for nine sounds similar to the word for "pain" or "distress"
Wikipedia has Fat Man over Nagasaki and Little boy over Hiroshima. This archive has it the other way. Which is correct?
He didn't have to design the Caravel, no. He had that at his dispose, but it's not like that all came from nothing. It took time to build and develop as well.
You'll find it easier to persuade people in life if you can resist making the first thing to come out of your mouth an insult comparing them to bleating sheep.
I wasn't commenting about the board of Ebay or Andreesen. they may well be pillaging assholes in their own right. that doesn't mean that Icahn isn't also a pillager. He certainly has the track record of one.
> We've pretty much stopped evolving as a species through natural selection events.

This is quite false. All that has happened is that we've (to some extent) replaced genes with memes, and memes evolve just like genes do.

Evolution is still underway, actively and blindly selecting individuals and ideas with equal efficiency.

> There's not much of that happening in the homogenized urban setting where the majority of people live, and will live for the foreseeable future.

I'll just give one example that falsifies the thesis -- what is called Asperger Syndrome (AS). A thousand years ago, someone having the behaviors associated with AS might be at a significant evolutionary disadvantage compared to someone who could pick more olives up off the ground. But today, the AS behaviors represent a distinct advantage because the environment has changed in ways that favor that mental wiring, such that a number of AS "sufferers" (to use the psychological terminology) are famous -- Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson and many others identified as having AS.

AS is so obviously an advantage in modern times that another psychological school of thought called "Grit" goes so far as to describe the same behavior pattern as an advantage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)

Of course, the Grit people don't call it AS or even mention AS, they just say how advantageous it is to have the intense focus and obsession with only a few activities (or even one) this behavior produces in many modern success stories.

It's evolution at work. I'm sure many more examples could be found, less dramatic than this one.

Evolution is the central theory of biology, and it didn't just stop for human beings when we built the first TV set or began dwelling in arenas of pure thought -- quite the contrary.
Strange. On Earth, it's exactly the dim, reddish atmosphere that's considered paradisiac!

Compare http://www.sunsetbeachestates.ca/images/sunsetbeach.jpg
with http://i.imgur.com/WxxEt.jpg
Given the insert speeds, I'm guessing they're (still) not reusing compiled statements. I mentioned this last time I saw Realm on the front page[1], but their benchmarks are misleading without at least mentioning that they're doing this.

I'm still very much interested in Realm, and LOVE having a competitor to SQLite. But don't mislead your customers.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043332 where seepel finds SQLite to be more than twice as fast as Realm after that one change to the benchmark.
beware that this will stop your current job in the unix world
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Except go has value types and closures and first class functions and implicit interfaces and multiple return values....
John Stewart is probably the least biased, most accurate 'news' I run across.
I believe he's referring to stories, not comments, as he explicitly refers to material on the front page.

I don't know if there's a karma threshold after which one can downvote stories. If there is, I haven't hit it, at 2129 karma as of this writing.
Hmm sounds to me like they are trying to convince people to use their phones for illegal doings.

Also, all of the comments in this thread (not this one specifically) make me wish HN threads root comments defaulted to collapsed so people might avoid duplicate root comments. Maybe...
I like http://nytimes.com/ despite the paywall.

I also use http://news.google.com/ to lead me to news general interest.
Not sure why you would draw that conclusion. Do you really think people have a problem with the live tiles themselves? That's like saying users are opposed to "icons". Live Tiles are simply icons on steroids.

The Q&A sounded to me like he's saying there's nothing wrong with the Live Tiles, but the UI was simply not lernable especially the dichotomy between tablet/desktop mode. They want to fix the latter problem, but don't see a need to ditch live tiles.
Consider the following a thought experiment and not some ideology worth attacking.

This type of discussion always reminds me of a story Terence Mckenna told (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLikdK8LjmE). To paraphrase, a vine refused to grow onto a branch of a tree in his backyard. One day, while contemplating this unfortunate affair, he witnessed the branch fall off the tree. He realized that the vine 'sensed' the instability. He then thought that the complex ecosystem of Earth might have a similar mechanism and that it might be aware that the Sun will explode at some point in the future, destroying all life. In anticipation for this inevitability, the human race (or another advanced species) was called forth to extend life/consciousness beyond the confides of our eventual death trap.

So why tell this story? What if the destruction of ones home planet is part of the evolutionary process of advanced consciousness? The same way that a fetus must purge itself from the womb or risk death by toxicity. In weird paradoxical way, those that pollute planet Earth might be playing their role as designed.

It's worth noting that I'm 100% for ecologically sound technological advancement and a society that doesn't destroy the environment. But part of me thinks everything is going according to plan, when viewed from a large enough perspective.
With HN, once a user reaches a certain level of "upvotes" they unlock the ability to downvote.
FireChat – the messaging app that’s powering the Hong Kong protests
Its definitely under appreciated imho
> However, humanity lives in an increasingly global environment, and natural selection works slowly - so no two generations will be able to draw a line saying "they're a different species,"

True, but what makes a species a species remains the same. Eventually our descendants wouldn't be able to mate with us (or would want to), and that perspective will mark the end of the human species.

> I think there will be a wide range in what is considered "human."

See above.
Code Complete means that the work is mostly done on Mozilla side on this release (we still fix/backport some blockers that are found late in the testing cycle).
Then OEMs have their own shipping schedule so it takes some time before you end up with devices sold or updated to this release.
HN Gold to you, good sir!
Yes, but everything on your phone came from someplace where a warrant will produce evidence.
My expectation is anyone participating in illegal activities would already be using encryption. Encryption is readily available and and isn't very tedious as long as someone walks you through it. It is not like terrorists use Google docs and write their plans in plain text. What am I missing? The best I can infer from desperation of government is that they want to control people by collecting as much info as possible.