skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this has still not been officially confirmed but that "confirmed" in this context means that Microsoft Indonesia's President stated it in front of an audience last week. I wonder what the price structure will be like for customers still using older versions of Windows...

Also,

> This article was originally published on BGR.com (https://bgr.com/2014/09/28/windows-9-upgrade-free-download/)
As the article notes, the company has already accepted some funding - the question the company needs to answer is how does it intend on making money if it wants its viral stroke of luck to continue.
Unfortunately it's very unlikely this will spread to the mainland. Much different from 1989, 100% of mainstream media in the mainland is heavily censored. They have been brainwashing the last two generations for tens of years. If you go weibo (Chinese version of Twitter) you will see the majority of mainland Chinese think the unarmed students were extremely violent and the police should shoot them.

The CCP has been doing very good at creating class conflicts and isolating enemies.
A lot of the work they do on their packages and in base stuff is pushed upstream to properly support security features OpenBSD supports. Everyone benefits from this because then such features can be enabled everywhere with less pain.
SWI-Prolog for the semantic web
In the USA, the only thing developers can get permission to build is awful sprawl. Single-use zoning with very large parking requirements in front of every building and large setback requirements to keep all uses father apart than walking distance and absurdly wide high speed roads separating everything is the rule and getting an exception is very difficult, time consuming, and expensive.

You could say that those rules are accidental instead of planned. Certainly when they were first mandated by the Roosevelt administration during the depression, the planners didn't envision the kind of soulless wasteland America is becoming. But those are the rules you need to make it easy to drive everywhere in a car. Changing them will require accepting that some places are nicer when you have to walk and that middle class people can bike or take transit sometimes.

By not changing those rules, we are planning for nasty sprawl everywhere. Parking requirements are often called the single biggest anti-market intervention in US development, [0] but there is a byzantine network of sprawl rules.

Before the dictatorial intensity of modern zoning, cities grew in a more organic fashion. Places like Tokyo and central Seoul (not the part in op) still do grow organically and do not have sprawl. They can be delightful places to live. San Francisco is very desirable for having grown before sprawl zoning as is Boston. You can't say Tokyo, Seoul, SF, or Boston are strictly unplanned but they grew under a set of rules much less distortive of market preferences. People love the less distorted cities and the prices of the limited quantity of walkable, organic real estate in America keeps shooting up because they can't make any more of it but more and more people love the healthy lifestyle it enables.

[0] The High Cost of Free Parking by D. Shoup http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf later expanded into a great long book which you should also read
Readme line 2: unitgen was built for a demo being given at [Dance.js](http://dancejs.io/)

DanceJS: Saturday Oct 4th 2014, 6:45PM-11:30PM Perhaps after the show.
Btw, anyone interested in loggers should check out my log rolling package gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2
A fun future alt-coin gimmick could be to arrange for the first N blocks to be pre-mined by pencil & paper – by invited teams, inside a controlled venue, who have to show their work.
I think it is a major mistake to reject comedy as it is a vital element of intelligent discussion. Any group that outright bans jokes is only play-acting at being serious for anyone who might be watching.
iOS 8 Security Flaw Makes It Possible to Bypass Touch ID and Password
The very same tedunangst wrote a piece about this API: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/goreSSL

In which you can see the clear focus on usability rather than capability. To examplify how easy it is, he actually implements the API with a go "backend".

I also really like the concept of a simple API where you can't go wrong by default, hope it can make its way into other pieces of software as well.
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How is that possible? Did Stanford help him start his ventures at all and contribute to the success of those? Is there specific knowledge that he learned there that helped him succeed?
There are others, actually.

https://github.com/slickage/baron

Doesn't rely on Blockchain.info either :)
I think the title is misleading. The Microsoft Indonesia incident is old news... :-/
Actually it's not down, just needs a www (the link on the site points to https://spark.io, which doesn't resolve, but https://www.spark.io works fine)
There was a fairly big scandal 3 years ago in Germany when the big insurance company Munich Re sponsored prostitutes for its 100 best insurance salesmen. This definitely happens, all the time.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/19/sex-party-rewar...
Just an observation: Is there a particular reason why the sheep are flocking around the infrasound detector? First picture.
NYC has absolutely massive cemeteries. I would be that they are counted in the green space though they don't have the kind of attractions that people typically associate with parks as they are densely packed.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/New+York,+NY/@40.6853394,-... (This is Queens)

In Boston, there is at least one cemetery that is filled with wildlife, trees, and walkable monuments, so there are different ways to do it.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Boston,+MA/@42.3709798,-71...
A discussion board where every comment must be factual and newsworthy isn't a discussion board; it's a news feed.
Cities live longer than software. Imagine software "built all at once and never incremented"! :) Stewart Brand has an excellent book called "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built" about this on a small scale.
Is it possible it's just reading his fingerprint, unlocking, but not sending him to the home screen until he swipes?

I'd like to see it tried without the correct fingerprint registered.
I'm working on a smart building project, anyone recommend any good resources? This calendaring system is right up my alley of types of integrations we are looking into.
How Madewell bought and sold my family's history
https://github.com/dotjosh/iRobot.NET I wrote one a while back as well, if you are using .net
There's also the tried and true Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code pdf floating around to understand what's going on in the workings of a timesharing OS.

Nickolai Zeldovich a current MIT professor wrote HiStar OS from scratch and it's source is still available online to view how a minimally trusted system could work http://www.scs.stanford.edu/histar/
Very basic dashboard and reporting made me think it must be all about APIs and reusing data in other AWS products.

You know, Analytics + SNS + SES would make up a nice a little marketing automation solution and I wouldn't mind building my own reports in R or whatever.

However, there's no way to retrieve and reuse any data through the API. Seems like a major opportunity loss with AWS users as target audience.
And of course, you can introduce functions in `where', too.
Some advice is more generalizable than others.
Your complaint adds neither factual nor newsworthy value to the discussion. Arguably, it's even less relevant to the subject than the joke comments you're discussing.

The productive thing would have been to simply ignore them and move on, if you had nothing relevant to add.
>It's certainly doable, but in the end you realize the benefit is just not worth the effort.

The benefit of using a language that, at _worst_, is as productive as Java, and at best miles better?

>faced with the dilemma of favoring some PL research goal vs. real working-man's use, Scala always chose the first

Scala is pretty straightforward in terms of features, classifying it as "PL research" is a bit much.

>Say what you want about Java, it's really great for big projects you must depend on and need to maintain for many years.

My experience has been that larger projects end up accumulating so much boilerplate that it becomes extremely hard to manage (I fear that Scala's standard library is becoming like this too, but third-party libs seem to avoid this).

I have trouble finding any non-deployment-related argument against Scala in the Scala vs. Java comparison.
> Emotional manipulation happens every day in all kinds of fields other than advertising

So it's not bad because everyone else does it?
That's more promising! Thanks for the pointer. At present the list contains

salt.modules.boto_asg
salt.modules.boto_cloudwatch
salt.modules.boto_elasticache
salt.modules.boto_elb
salt.modules.boto_iam
salt.modules.boto_route53
salt.modules.boto_secgroup
salt.modules.boto_sqs
It sounds like a) we don't have a good measure of what we hope to accomplish by having teachers and b) most of their measurable effect vanishes quickly.

Sounds to me like "teachers don't matter, lets try to cut costs". Do you disagree with this?
I read both. Class notes were more in-depth, had entertaining anecdotes but I found Zero To One to be more clear and concise explanation of Peter Thiel's thesis.

The diagrams are MUCH better in Zero To One - the class notes had slightly unwieldy prose to convey the same concepts without using diagrams at times.

All that said, I preferred the class notes. Reading Zero To One I personally felt I didn't get much from it that wasn't in the original notes. I find it a little surprising that it took a whole 18 months to have a rehash of the notes released.
As a second-time founder, I found Mixpanel to be the most expensive piece of SaaS we were using in our stack: at barely 30k users, it was already far more expensive than our whole hosting bill combined!

Then I switched solutions for a while, looking for a good combination that'd give me Facebook attribution data plus user behavior. So far, I haven't found my ideas combination and in a way, Amazon doesn't change that.

I find that solutions like segment.io are great in the way that you can install their SDK just once, and have that proxy the events to all other SDKs. For now that's what I chose to do, to avoid week-long delays for approval publishing our apps in the app store.
All comprehensions get their own scope in Python 3.
You're probably using plenty of OpenBSD software anyways like pf in OSX
That's suspicion of snake oil paradigm is why it's interesting that game developers seem to be much more open to functional programming. Compare egTim Sweeney's "The next mainstream programming language" (https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced...)
Oh, cool, thanks for the link, I'll be sure to take a look.
It seems no one mentioned the purpose of this book in the first place and I believe it's one of the important dimensions. Here is part of my review on Amazon:
When I started to read the book, I only paid attention to the facts and thoughts the author provides. After a while, I found it is a book that gives readers more questions to pull them from the world they are familiar with so that they may be able to begin to discover a different world. That's the real purpose of this book. The author did a great job on this. I guess he put a lot of thoughts to prepare for the book. And this is what the original materials is for in the first place, lectures for students.
Even though, pattern matching (and algebraic datatypes) would work just as well in an imperative language as in a function setting.

(Not sure, whether you'd need garbage collection to make pattern matching really useful, though.
Mobile analytics is relatively new Amazon offering. Seems follow their typical approach, start with low prices with small number of features and build new ones.

Amazon unlikely will be the best solution (e.g. I bet Mixpanel will be significantly better for at least next few years), but they may cover a lot of typical use cases. That will commoditize the user event analytics and put pressure on the other companies.
Reminds me of Xiaoyun Wang's discovery of MD5 (and other hash functions') collisions, which was allegedly done mostly manually:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/7-1-11/50336.html

Given that the output conditions for a Bitcoin hash are essentially a limited form of preimage attack, I wonder if this "human uses properties of hash function to reduce the problem space, lets the machine bruteforce the rest" method could have any advantage. Machines are great at doing operations quickly, but human brains tend to be far better at noticing patterns and using ingenuity.
Whenever I hear that, I usually just freeze and do not move in either direction :-)
Hongkonger here also (now going to out to see the latest situation)

For those who want a TLDR: http://www.vox.com/2014/9/28/6856663/hong-kong-democracy-pro...

Lot of protesters are just TEENAGERS/STUDENTS who want a peaceful protest , and the crazy police are fully armed and used countless tear gas on them.

This is going to be one of the largest events in HK history.
Always sanitize your input, people.
"The results are in, amigo. What's left to ponder?"

Seriously though, it this just blatant corporate chronyism or what? It's getting to the point where the corporate douchebags running this country aren't even trying to hide the fact anymore. At least before we could pretend we had democratic process. Now we get trampled on day in day out and we don't even get warm fuzzy feelings about it like we used to.

And is it just me, or is just about everyone "too busy" to even give a fuck where the country is going?
I would guess they are just being a flock of sheep.

The map here:

http://www.ctbto.org/map/

(fiddle with the controls on the right to get it to show monitoring stations)

doesn't show an infrasound detector in Schauinsland. Oh, the flickr link says it isn't one:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ctbto/3817611688/

The photos there show the infrasound detectors as more than a nondescript shed.
I'm in Shenzhen and we're getting a little news trickling in since there is a lot of back and forth daily traffic. They seem to be making some use of mesh-network (FireChat) for communication: http://www.pingwest.com/firechat-hongkong/?from=timeline&isa...

This would also be an ideal scenario for PirateBox. I roll the LibraryBox version on a regular basis for under $20.
Justin Long Reveals Why Steve Jobs Cast Him in Those Apple Ads
The Story of How the Apple Store Cube Ended Up in Manhattan
Reading tea leaves on the future of Windows release cycle
Wonderful AMA ... take 10 minutes to read his responses. He's depressingly open about the past and present, but it's great to see he has plans for the future.
This is awesome. Substack, please take this to completion. I know many people who will pay for a 'sane' email server (outbound and inbound) like this one. I have been playing with haraka but the lack of documentation is really off putting. And the lack of IMAP support as well.
Interestingly, there was quite a lot of discussion today regarding humor on HN[1]. I for one enjoy the occasional bit of tasteful humor, it would be a shame to restrict the discussion to only "factual or newsworthy" content. As others have mentioned, that wouldn't be a discussion board.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8379973
Thanks for pointing that out, I tried following the author's link and assumed it had gotten the HN hug.
"I'm passing you on your left side, please react appropriately"
Pike also said:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075550

"..the Unix/POSIX/Linux systems of today are messier, clumsier, and more complex than the systems the original Unix was designed to replace.

It started to go wrong when the BSD signal stuff went in (I complained at the time), then symlinks, sockets, X11 windowing, and so on, none of which were added with proper appreciation of the Unix model and its simplifications."
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The strongest argument against network neutrality goes like this: If we had real competition then we wouldn't need network neutrality.

And it's a completely valid argument. If we had real competition then we wouldn't need network neutrality.

But we don't have real competition. So the only sensible thing to do is to have network neutrality until and unless that changes.
Manhattan would actually be pretty nice if the entire island were a park.

But then I'm not sure where the tourists would go.
"This is far more of a competitor to Google Analytics instead of us."

Keep telling yourself that. Microsoft and Amazon will douse the flames of your party before long; they are taking their first steps now.
Previous discussion from a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8256103
I think you're forgetting about the big parks, like Central Park, Prospect Park, and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. You may not live close to them, but they take up a lot of space.

(To a lesser extent, there is also the Hudson River greenway, and the new Brooklyn Bridge park. These take up a good chunk of space too.)
Previous commenter is right - the quote you pasted is about the lifetime of the solar cell itself, not the electrodes.

Both are interesting and important. The article addressed only the lifetime of the solar cells.
missed it, thx. It's related to this post where Paul chimes in ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8375960
If you have a name like Stanford (or MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, etc.) behind you that's an enormous advantage and people will pay attention to you regardless of your merits. Thiel got his start in corporate law, then finance. Had he not had this background and pedigree there is no chance VCs would take a risk on paypal.

Edited to add: Just look at who Y Combinator accepts. It's not random people with good ideas and talent. It's people with strong pedigrees. Sure they're probably bright, but are they the only ones who are capable of succeeding? Of course not. It's rather unfortunate that the opportunities for the largest amount of success go to those who are already successful rather than those who never had the opportunity to succeed in the first place.
The sparks are hot, but don't contain much mass, so I don't think they're as dangerous as they look. That said, as an official paranoid person, I always wear goggles.
I'd love to hack on this with you. My goal is to build out a semi-functional mixer that I could use rather than Ableton, similar problem :)
the cool kids are all using https://www.npmjs.org/package/roomba
Honest question: how effective are these sorts of protests in achieving their intended goals?

Maybe I'm suffering from confirmation bias, but it seems all the major demonstrations in the last few decades (Tiananmen Square, Iraq War, Occupy Wall Street, post-Iranian election, etc) have sizzled out and failed. The one exception I can think of is the anti-Proposition 8 protests, but Prop 8 was defeated in the courts through routine legal channels (ultimately culminating in the Supreme Court decision on Hollingsworth v. Perry) and it's unclear whether the protests held any sway over the rulings.
Age and the accompanying experience have started to bring me introspection and retrospection, and from these I've realized opportunities I've missed out on because I didn't do something earlier that I could/should have.
Your example is a link to yourself and two footnotes that link to articles written by yourself. Are you a joker?
Colorized output by default will make for messy logs that can't be used. Sure you can turn it off (with an integer, why not a bool?), but that shouldn't be something compiled in your program. Also there are no means to `printf` strings from the logger.

Finally, there are already a plethora of loggers for Go. I'd recommend logrus for structured logs:

https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus

Or glog otherwise.

And a note: a logger isn't a debugger. GDB is a debugger for Go, see https://golang.org/doc/gdb

Sorry if I come across as heartless, it's nice to see new people coming to Go. But I don't think this is novel or news worthy.
Well, a party usually has a lot of people at it. All you need is one person who has qualms and calls the police. I'd have expected that kind of thing to be done with a little bit more discretion and plausible deniability.
I've mentioned this before on other threads, but it is worth repeating here. Thiel is basically making the same claims (but with less evidence and I think less rationality) that Tyler Cowen (an economist) has been making for several years. Cowen's views are more nuanced (and in my opinion more reasonable) than Thiel's. Cowen's book "Average Is Over" is an excellent distillation of his thesis.
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The qikfunder project was previously in the top five on then HN front page but even though it was well voted, got buried after an hour or so.

Not sure why, but glad the Ars page is now on.
How did he get the money for his first venture?
Excited to see this get more press, a lot of Graal/Truffle stuff has been going into jruby lately! https://github.com/jruby/jruby
Why would an invading alien enemy give a damn about the licences used on earth. Thou I do love the idea of the MPAA and co trying to fight copyright on a galactic scale
Nobody can predict the future. What I can tell is, this is unprecedented in terms of persistence, organization and scale. All of the resistance just self-organized into multiple areas now. We are very very very upset with the government in Hong Kong right now. More and more people are joining the strike today. There's reason to expect the situation will escalate peacefully, and hope will shine thru. Honestly, justice is on our side, this is the most civilized resistance I've personally participated. We even pick up our own trash after sit-ins!
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Thank you for sharing this list of OS dev resources!

I would also recommend Andrew Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems" or "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" (the MINIX book), to anyone interested in OS dev. I read it when I was teenager (around 15), and I really really enjoyed it. Tanenbaums' books were one of the few truly addicting textbooks. As a side, "Structured Computer Organization" by Tanenbaum was also really great. It gives you a foundational understanding of how computers are architected that is indispensable if you're going to be doing OS dev.
At the end of the day, it does boil down to how users feel, but legit A/B seeks better features, improved user-experience, or identifying something better. The tech community, developers and data folks need to understand that all A/B is not equal. If we allow FB (or OKC) to pass off their ill-thought psych experiments as normal A/B or similar day-to-day product testing, we lower the UE bar. It has also been pointed out elsewhere that this particular study was/is illegal, violating certain state laws on Common Rule practice regardless of funding source. I hope that board members and the C-suite take a new leadership role to educate their teams as to what acceptable and legal A/B should look like.
>NYC has absolutely massive cemeteries.

That's true. I forgot to account for them because they're not really open access. They're also too full of gravestones to have activities in.
Had to double take at reading Robert Morriss (surely no relation..surely)

> Beale entrusted a box containing the encrypted messages to a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss

If it's just an unknown one time pad we're looking for, this is pretty damning:

> If the Declaration of Independence is used as a key for the first cipher, it yields alphabetical sequences such as abfdefghiijklmmnohpp and others