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Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview [1] contains early versions of Microsoft's OneGet and PowerShellGet.

OneGet can install applications from repositories, using any number of providers. The preview version comes with a version of Chocolatey [2] built in managed code (C#) instead of PowerShell, but it supports the same Chocolatey gallery (a repository of software packages) and protocol.

PowerShellGet [3] can install PowerShell modules (e.g. make new Cmdlets available on the PowerShell command line). The modules can be delivered as scripts or as compiled .NET assemblies. By default PowerShellGet is configured to use a (closed preview) repository [4], which makes it not very usable, but it's interesting to know what direction it is headed.

As a more practical alternative to PowerShellGet, have a look at PSGet [4], a PowerShell module for installing PowerShell modules, with its own dedicated repository. Hopefully Microsoft's PowerShellGet will support PSGet as a provider in the future as well, the names are certainly confusing.

Desired State Configuration (DSC) [6] is a new (Windows 8.1) capability to configure Windows using a declarative syntax extension of PowerShell v4. It can set registry keys, create files and directories, enable Windows Features, and more. DSC 'resources' are PowerShell modules, so DSC's capabilities can be extended, see this GitHub repository [5] for examples.

Alternatively, have a look at Boxstarter [7]. It can do installation and configuration, and you can host your 'starter script' online and launch it with a single command. Boxstarter will take care of all Windows restarts that might be necessary along the way.

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4407...

[2]: https://chocolatey.org/

[3]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2014/05/20/settin...

[4]: https://msconfiggallery.cloudapp.net/

[5]: http://psget.net/

[6]: https://github.com/powershellorg/dsc

[7]: http://blogs.technet.com/b/privatecloud/archive/2013/08/30/i...

[8]: http://boxstarter.org/

Be aware that, although most modern package solutions for Windows are using NuGet as a packaging format, using NuGet.exe directly (the application) and with nuget.org (the website) is meant for managing software development dependencies, not installing/updating end-user applications or command-line utilities.
State-by-state basis. Pennsylvania paid them $2.1B for fiber that never happened:

In 1994 Verizon (then Bell Atlantic) struck a landmark deal with the state of Pennsylvania. The deal provided Verizon with hefty financial incentives if they met certain broadband rollout criteria. It's estimated that those financial incentives over the years clock in somewhere around $2.1 billion dollars.

As part of that agreement, Bell Atlantic agreed to have 20% of the state broadband wired by 1998, and 50% by 2004. By 2015, broadband would be run throughout the state to the majority of Verizon's customers. It's important to note that this wasn't DSL they were talking about...but 45MB/s symmetrical fiber service right to the door of homes and businesses, ambitious and impractical for certain, but nonetheless included in the language of the agreement. [1]

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/30544
Ex-Googlers Try to Plug a Gap in Google’s Business Suite
Yep, it's meant for backup and restoring. I'm hoping that in future builds of Mackup you will be able to configure what you backup.
Introduction: CSS Testing
I understand that. The author himself does not claim this approach is faster than bruteforce. Indeed, consider the converse: for mining using a SAT solver to be faster than bruteforce implies that the SAT solver is able to exploit some structure in the hash function which plain bruteforce has no access to. The point of a good hash function is to have no such structure.

If you additionally consider how SAT solving algorithms work, they are less amenable to modern CPUs than plain bruteforce, which can take full advantage of SIMD and instruction parallelism. If you look at password hash breakers, you will see them using extra tricks, like early abort, to speed things up even further.
Metaphorical search engine
Indeed beautiful images, but that's not surprising.

Chemistry was my undergraduate major and I long ago learned to appreciate the stunningly intricate mysteries implicit in pure science. It never seemed a "dry" or "cold" subject to me. Chemicals seemed in their own ways lively, colorful, artful beings, fun to learn about and interact with.

The ability to model molecules on the computer provides quite a few revelations. In the world I work in now the relation of substrates to neuronal cell receptor sites is mind bogglingly complex, and I'm pretty sure no one would understand much at all without the aid of computer visualizations.

In any case, to call a thing "beautiful" is a statement that we understand it, and the greater the depth of our understanding, the more beautiful it will appear to be. At the core, science and art are indistinguishable.

Truly great beauty is composed in layers, having superficial appeal to the casual viewer, yet so much greater meaning and reward as it's seen time and again, and with ardent study finally revealing its hidden meanings that lie beneath the surface.
So basically this is just a guide on how to use Homebrew?
I see nothing time-saving or "hacker" about this.
No, they catch that kind of stuff in app review. Lua code updates would be a small part of that. They're asset and IAP content, that is why it's multi-megabyte. It comes from experience.
Ultimate linkbait title for HN
Well yes, that's obviously true, which is why it's (idealistically speaking) important to verify the routing mechanism.

Of course most of this is mitigated by end-to-end crypto but given that we see all too frequently how fallible that can be, this topic remains of interest. I mean if crypto fails and leaks your private key (a la heartbleed) and it falls into the hands of an attacker who can hijack some BGP routes then that attacker is potentially in a very powerful position. We've seen BGP hijacking by spammers needing clean IPs in the past, so this isn't a totally implausible situation.
Insomniac's approach to code
Nice idea but not quite there yet.

I've been using that site for at least 7-8 years, so if it's not there, I'm not sure it'll ever be unless they redevelop it ;-) I think a big part of the problem is the letters aren't separated enough, I've had to edit images to break letters apart more before for it to work. When it does work it's pretty cool though.
Assuming you have uBar installed, is there anything about it that makes it feel like an add-on? Or does it feel like it's really a part of the desktop environment? (I'm not talking about design aesthetic or anything like that, just wondering if it gets wonky sometimes)
Yeah definitely if you were starting from scratch, I would consider other build systems.

But if you already have a huge mess of recursive make, it might be easier to port it to a non-recursive Android-like system then completely rewrite it with gyp/gn/cmake + ninja.

It would speed up your full build times; not sure what it would do to incremental build times. It is true that the Android.mk thing has a large startup cost. Then again, you're building a whole OS with one make invocation, which is kinda cool.
sprout-wrap works pretty well for me: https://github.com/pivotal-sprout/sprout-wrap
The Woman in Hitler's Bathtub
I am absolutely no kind of programmer but I prefer to compile from source on my own, when I can. For example, the first thing I did yesterday after clean installing Yosemite Beta 4 was to compile Scrypt.
I'm eager to see biologists who write online regularly about evolutionary theory comment about this. I've asked Jerry Coyne of Why Evolution Is True to do so by sending him the link. Thanks for sharing the link here; I like Simons Foundation stories about mathematics, and I wonder whether or not this finding in biology will hold up.
Nobody is talking about the key issue: In the US they have been intentionally consolidating ATCs[0] for the last thirty years as a cost saving measure, and there is more consolidation yet to come.

I linked an article at [0] titled "House Subcommittee Challenges ATC Consolidation Efforts" and you're likely assuming that the House is trying to block consolidation, but the truth is exactly the opposite: in 2012 the FAA were trying to stop/slow the consolidation and the House were pushing it through, the "challenge" is that the FAA wasn't going fast enough!

Yet the mainstream media aren't discussing this at all...

It is very easy to blame a single disgruntled employee for all the disruption but consider how many other things could cause a single ATC location to go black (e.g. bombing, aircrash, natural distaster, accidental fire, extreme power surge, etc).

Yet the consolidations will no doubt continue, and instead of them looking at the root cause of this issue (that too much sky is controlled from a single location) they will blame the employee and move on like nothing happened.

This incident was far more serious than the recent White House break-in, but yet heads are rolling for the White House thing while absolutely nothing is being asked about this one!

[0]http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/ainsafety/2012-06-04/...
So wait, in 4th grade your destiny is basically decided for you? Fuck that
This reminds me of a very old project (can't remember the name) which visualized traffic logs as a town. There were buildings for different pages of the site and buses would arrive labelled with referrer headers. People wandered around the town in a manner similar to how the site was browsed. I only ever saw video, never tried it for myself. But it seemed pretty impressive.
In other news, Ancient wells may have aided the rise of water drinking.

I guess if "I hacked my life by taking cold showers" is worthy of hn attention, then "I hacked my culture by telling fireside stories" should be too...
What It's Like to Fly the $18,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class
24 job search sites you're not using – what are people's favorites to find jobs?
Hacking MEAN Stack. Create Your Own
Nope, I'm a Macports guy as well, never had any serious problems with it. I wish it was possible to run both though because there are packages exclusive to either that I would like to run.
I just did this yesterday. Easy peasy.
Closely related is a prior HN discussion[1] on Simon Peyton Jones' talk on "How to write a great research paper"[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6989806

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3dkRsTqdDA

“Most days you think ‘I am a worm’. This is the natural state of the researcher.”
I'm skeptical that this won't be extremely fragile, physically. With details that small, the slightest scratch could erase large swaths of data.
Snake Robot Walks by Turning Its Head and Tail into Legs
AngularJS Developers Group Reaches 10,000 Members
Bladecoder: Classic point and click adventure game engine and editor
> The attacker also knew the system’s multiple backups and was able to damage or destroy those key links in a short period of time

Then they aren't very good "backups", i.e., they are too close to eachother.
Very true, but how does that benefit the Chinese People? The only people it benefits are the other politically indistinguishable princeling oligarchs that want their turn at the top.
Laravel 4 Pagination with Infinite Scroll Using JQuery
You can ask your current employer to make counteroffer. Also, indicate that you are willing train the next guy before you leave. You want to leave in good-terms.

You should also know that when an employer want to terminate you, they don't think about your current situation before they lay you off. You still get laid-off when you are in middle of having a baby and need insurance. So employer's current situation shouldn't affect your decision.
Platforms Triumphed While Content Wasn’t Even Looking
The clients determined their own position, yes. It was not a peer to peer game and the server ran sanity checks on what the client was telling it (is their velocity acceptable for the car they have? did they accelerate too fast? are they in an area of the world that should not be accessible? etc) which worked pretty well. We deemed it was too resource intensive and too slow to run a physics engine on the server (it was a "massively multiplayer" game).
At what karma level does one gain the ability to downvote stories? Anyone know?

No one has enough karma to downvote stories. Hacker News isn't set up to allow downvoting stories. Some users can flag stories, which has the partial effect of making stories slide down the front page a little faster (and autokilling the stories if enough users flag them).
Expect Amazon Glacier price to drop dramatically in a couple of years :)
I'm curious - is it effective because having another person there discourages these types of attacks, or that having another person there means that they can actively intervene in the event of something like this happening?
IIRC a talk by Travis Goodspeed mentioned that it was only internally disabled for USB and writeable media. If a USB device presents itself as a CDROM, it can still autorun things unless globally disabled by the user.

Or it could emulate a disk + HID keyboard, and enter the win+r filename.exe <RET> keystrokes necessary to launch it, or one of several other tricks.

It could also intercept mass storage requests, wait til you're copying an exe onto there (even if you've reformatted the drive since), and inject a payload into it.
New Mac OS X botnet discovered (Mac.BackDoor.iWorm)
Wow, unexpected but exciting. Online banking ux is still in the stone age.
That's a little hyperbolic. Sure, that script stops your Mac from automatically going to sleep, but it's not like it changes the CPU usage or power usage (and it will still sleep when you close the lid).

Most of the settings in that script appear to be disabling automatic or "smart" things that average users don't want to think about and power users want done a specific way (e.g. backups, screenshots). Basically if you read that script and don't understand what it's doing then you shouldn't be running it.
Add voice to your apps with MindMeld
NSA too: "NSA Implementing 'Two-Person' Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden" http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/18/nsa-dir...
Yep, It's my job to communicate a vision for the product: what types of features are Pro, which are OSS. Right now my rule of thumb is "team" or collaboration features are Pro, the rest is OSS. Yes, I would close PRs if they provide more enterprise-focused features that I wanted to sell but not before chatting with the submitter and seeing if there was a common ground or some feature subset which could be open sourced.
Everything I find related to that seems to have been shut down, are you getting better luck?
Why would you want that? The magnet links alone are rather useless. The whole site can be crawled within 2-3 days easily. There are ~1.2 million torrents indexed, lets just assume that a single magnet-link plus some metadata is 0,5-1kB... so that would be an total of ~1GB data.
Gwlad Gwlad App to Help Welsh Anthem Learners
Indeed, I found the quote "ANSI C is expected to be approved late in 1988."
I hear it's a good font to use for invoices... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCu28bfxSI
No, you change your user shell to the shell you want. You can do this in the "Accounts" preference pane by control-clicking a user, selecting "Advanced Options" from the context menu, and changing the "Login shell" setting to your preferred shell.
The only reason it wasn't allowed until now was security. With iOS 8 cross process communication improvements, the JITed JavaScript engine can be used by third party apps in a segregated fashion without sacrificing security.
Ask HN: Anyone of you using a virtual physical office address?
Have the Mac folks got focus-follows-mouse yet?

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.it/2008/04/settling-osx-focus-fo...

In general, I don't think I'd ever give up Linux. It's a hacker's OS, by and for hackers. Being able to pick apart and fiddle with any portion of, from the kernel on up, is a wonderful, empowering feeling, and something that has proved useful both personally and professionally over the years.
Is It Worth the Time? Inspired by XKCD
I don't see it? In cases of misleading or linkbait titles we're glad to hear suggestions for a better title. There are too many posts here for us to correct everything correctly, so help is welcome.
> showing that it’s possible to corrupt any USB device with insidious, undetectable malware

That is surely false. It depends on the type of microcontroller used and its configuration. And indeed the github link in the article is only for certain types of USB flash drives (Phison 2251).
Good sounding drum sample libraries are two a penny; I have more high quality drum samples than I know what to do with. What matters more is articulation, the ability to adjust the sound in response to the way it is being played. This is particularly challenging for this product as there's no tactile interface, so you've got to infer a lot from positional variation, player velocity, and note speed. I'm not seeing that with their software, which seems only to offer velocity threshold and curve as modulations to volume.
Those systems are set up so that responsibilities are split; one person alone doesn't have the knowledge to knock everything out.
> the entire content of The Pirate Bay
> Not the P2P content that people download

I think you're confusing different definitions of 'content' here. Also, there are many more sites that have publicly available indexes of other links much greater than the pirate bay, google.com for example.

Furthermore, 8GB is relatively small for a flash drive nowadays, e.g. here is an 128GB micro sd card: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M562LF4
Context: I mainly ask for distributed companies that don't have a 'real' office but still want to receive physical mail occasionally.

I'm thinking of something like Google Voice. An address that you can always use, no matter how may times you relocate.
Beautiful videos! This is a great resource for Science Education.

This site could be made even better with better ways to submit content (other than email).
My laptop has a USB keyboard (well, that's how it's presented, wiring is all internal), and I regularly connect an external USB keyboard to it.

You might think you could identify it by manufacturer/model (VID/PID) or even serial number, but all those are easily modifiable by a serious attacker for a given target.

It might make shotgun/blind attacks harder, but ultimately it wouldnt' be much more secure than MAC filtering on your network router.

There are also plenty of non-keyboard HID types that could potentially generate unwanted input of this sort, although not quite as easily.
Actually, I was going to check if those commands changed the lid-closed behavior and edit the post, but guess they don't.

Still, it does turn off display dimming and automatic termination - those can both affect the leaving laptop on a table unplugged case, one much more than the other.
How quickly does it absorb atmospheric oxygen?
What's the name of the case? I'd like to look it up and read it.
At first glance this question seems easy to answer but on a second thought I could see how someone could argue that Facebook provides more value.
Blu-ray DRM is incredibly simple to bypass. In 20 or 30 years when the collection will still be worth a couple bucks at a garage sale, DRM free players will be the norm.
JPMorgan Discovers Further Cyber Security Issues
First result on uncensored search engines.
I have limited experience with nginx, but I believe points 12+13 are technically incorrect -- sites/virtual hosts can be configured in the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory or directly in the main nginx.conf file, not only in the sites-available/sites-enabled directories, as is implied. This makes the conclusions of point 19 and others incorrect.

I don't think it necessarily disproves the conclusions of the document, but it calls into question if the author knows nginx as well as he claims to. Id be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
What I'd like is to be able to enter the dimensions of my print, let's say 10x10in and no more options: a kind of ikea product,
-4 sides of the frame, the sides are made of wood alone, that I can assemble like legos, the cheapest wood with a natural feeling
-matting (calculated on the size of print)

You could decrease production costs because you won't be making frames by order, just having a bunch of "sides" with different dimensions.

If you can deliver this under $20 it would be perfect for me.
The problem with end-to-end crypto is that we often think of its security properties mathematically and neglect its practical performance. Obviously this is increasingly not true (Heartbleed probably did more to educate the world on crypto than anything else in history) but if you think of crypto as what it so often turns out to be - something waiting to be broken in semi-spectacular fashion - then I don't think it's so out of line to wish for additional assurances from complementary systems.
I'd love to ship you my collection of X. I'll give it to you for 20 bucks plus shipping. Let me know if you're interested ;)

Also, I can make backups of my blu-rays all day. I can transcode them or whatever I like. It's not like just because sony says no I have to listen to them.
Top asking design candidates to redesign your product. It’s unfair and ineffective
As a thank-you present to our readers on HN, Nautilus wanted to give you exclusive full access to this Prelude article from our latest print Quarterly online "preview". Subscriptions to our print edition are how we make all our online content free. We thought the HN audience would like this piece so in appreciation for your traffic and your comments, here it is.
My understanding is that Homebrew does not clobber any system defaults — works with the OS, not against it. I could be wrong, though.
Video-game revival: The arcade built with salvaged machines [video]
Don't expect change when the simple idea of freedom, individual rights and property rights is considered evil. Today most men don't want to be free, they just want a fair master.
Shocking stuff. I don't think it's an exaggeration at this point to say that politicians are afraid of opposing an organization that knows their, and everyone else's, secrets. And so they continue operate as they like.
Excellent article and plenty of points to consider for every app dev. But only for Android...
NASA has an incredible record of success in cutting-edge technical missions far beyond any private industry that I know of.

They are derided as slow and inefficient but when you consider how long those Mars rovers are lasting, well bring on more of whatever NASA is on.
> What is the difference between the cask installation suggested in the link and the cask installation procedure suggested on the cask home page?

Two differences. One is that we moved to an org repo, so the first form is relying on the github redirect from the move. The other is that the second form relies on the semi-recently introduced "auto-tap" syntax in homebrew.

Functionally they will get you to the same place (we've got code to notice that your remote is pointing to the old repo location and update it), but the second form is newer and cooler. ;)
The HK title is identical to the article's title but the article's title is misleading. Even the author goes into great pains in the first paragraph to say that this will look at "[the] process in broad strokes" and not really in-depth.

Plus the article is really low-tech (spending a very long time teaching us about tokens) and very pro Apple (e.g. making claims that make no sense like "it may very well be the safest way to make any type of credit card payment" yeah, except those dozens of other identical systems we already have, and have had for at least a year!).

I have nothing against Apple Pay at all. I am glad they joined the party. This article though is meh.