skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been playing SimCity in some variation for 25 years, according to this. That... humbles me for some reason. And makes me want to play it.

Edit: Since we're all vying for the games we wish we had: I want a game that is half Simcity, half OpenTTD. Some players manage cities, some players manage companies, and you all have the goal to grow cities. And not all companies would have to be transport companies, it'd be neat to play as the OpenTTD industries too.
This does not seem to have anything to do with Angular at all.

This looks like the typical case of the website that was shipped out the door as soon as possible without any accessibility concerns, that have to be shoehorned afterwards.

This would have happened independently of the technology used to build the site.

Angular added native support to the ARIA attributes in version 1.3 https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngAria
Can't this just be turned off with the Spotlight setting in system preferences though? For browsers it seems to be the same for all that uses the unified search field, it was last time a checked Chrome with tcpdump. I personally preferred to have the URL field separate from the search field for that reason.
Swarovski elements
Scientists can now simulate curved space-time in a lab
Right - I just meant that things could start accelerating exponentially and our systems may not be ready for that.
Why don't you just tell your employer you are looking for another job? Is your fear that they would fire you on the spot? In my experience that is an unfounded fear and most employers want to know the reasons that led you to looking for a another job to begin with so that they can work with you to fix any issues that led to your decision to look for work elsewhere.
No, because you can have other ML derived languages that are also lazy and strict, without being necessarily based on Haskell.
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"Yes Minister" was a 1980s UK series on exactly this topic: the Public Service vs. the Government. It was a satire, but its brilliance was that most of the satire was quite plausible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
Success recipe I use:

1. Install a release.

2. Subscribe to the security list.

3. Patch any issues that turn up and may affect you using the instructions in the patch. Rarely this requires a reboot. Don't patch anything you don't need to.

4. Upgrade release a couple of weeks after it is released (everyone else has found the bugs then ;-)

5. To manage ports, subscribe to the ports mailing list, create packages yourself from ports on another machine and install them and upgrade them yourself if there is an upgrade or security hole posted.

Before you do anything though, test it on another host properly. YMMV with all updates on all platforms.
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And surely stating the opposite would equally be anti-war propaganda to confirm that war is only innate in humans'

Either statement has similarities with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

except that in this case the implication is one of inevitability rather than 'goodness'.

The correct response in either case would be to clarify ones claims, make clear falsifiable claims and avoid overly broad conclusions.
I have a cookiecutter template for js_of_ocaml projects if you want:

https://github.com/emillon/cookiecutter-jsoo

(cookiecutter is a general scaffolding tool)
"short of a rebellion": Once that's off the table, then yeah, we're stuck with ridiculously ineffective outcomes. Either we pull the lever like gamblers in a rigged game ("voting"), or give up.

Intelligent rebellion simply amounts to fixing your society. There was never any time in history where people should just coast by, letting their masters decide the system's rules for them.
http://michna.com/chimpanzees.htm

Extract about the war from Godall's book.
I can't wait for the management-stronghold destroying our universities to be 'disrupted' by this, but considering the age and power of such institutions, it's going to be a difficult battle...
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I've toyed with it, not sure if that qualifies as "used". As a DC sysadmin I live off backports and patches (CentOS). 99% of our deployed OSes are all supported a long (to very long) time.
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I agree, and I think the future is is on 'MOOCS' taking all this into account.

However, the homework and group work I've done in my studies (two different ones) was almost universally terrible. I had a strong suspicion that the teacher didn't even bother to properly grade our papers or assignments.

More importantly, there is no reason why the quality of homework and group work cannot benefit equally from scaling up.
> you can't have that and not share your searches with Apple

Why on earth not? Why can't the search box just talk to DDG?
Why selling a startup for $20m can be better than selling for $200m
From the link

> Get a Brazilian friend to buy the ticket online on your behalf using his Brazilian credit card and CPF number. Note that a CPF number is demanded from the purchaser when booking online, but passengers can leave the CPF field empty.

Making this into an on-line market (matching Brazilians and foreigners for mutual profit) sounds like a business opportunity.
IBM to pay $1.5bn to shed chipmaking business
I grew up on the East coast too. When I was ten or so, it was really common for people around here to have that installed.
After getting investment, Saudi emotion sharing app leaves for Silicon Valley
Why are you overwriting my browser's scroll behaviour? It's really annoying and I don't care how pretty that scrollbar looks.
This one always rubbed me the wrong way after the "1 million run rate after 2 months" article. Since run rate was likely last week * 52, they simply sold $19k worth of good and took their 15% or $2.9k. An accomplishment for founders trying to get anything "to stick" but nothing to brag about!
I used to do that but having had certain duff kernels and SMB packages out of RH, they can go to hell.

This one took out our SMB/CIFS implementation in CentOS 6.2 forcing us to grab some windows licenses in the end (which I will add has been damn reliable):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476442

Still broken in CentOS 6.5 and Centos 7.0. Many people have raised this issue (google it) and it's always "fixed next release".

Patched and built my own kernel in the end but by then it was too late.

No thanks. Had enough of crap like that.
http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Fin... [pdf] This appears to be some or all of the content of the book mentioned in the article. It was published as an article in the Harvard National Security Journal. Very interesting, and I think I agree with the premise that the elected parts of our government exercise less power than we imagine.
Isn't what people are getting hot and bothered about is that "local" searches are sending data out on the internet, rather than where they happen to be sending it?
Tell that next time you get on the plane.
One of them built the product, one of them marketed it...

I think that's the same situation as every small startup. What made them succesful was probably a mixture of hard work, capable founders and a huge dose of luck.
So what happens if you are a foreigner visiting the US and want to book a ticket from within the US with your foreign card?
Their focus is different from what I can see. OpenBSD is about rock solid security. DFBSD original aim was to implement single system image (maybe it still is). In past few years, I see most visible work on HAMMER filesystem which you shThey released some benchmarks outperforms FreeBSD and NetBSD considerably on multi-core systems.[1]

If you write kernel code, you may like, vkernel, which is full blown kernel that runs on userspace. Speeds up kernel development process.

[1] http://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/
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Most western countries are run by a civil service, typically within a framework of legislation enacted by governments passed.

Perhaps here, we are just being reminded that we should (unfortunately) consider the civil service as being a fourth component to a modern western democracy alongside the legislature, executive and judiciary. A separate animal so to speak from the executive branch to which it would normally belong.

That so much authority is devolved to these often opaque and unaccountable institutions by the executive is something all should be wary of. Particularly in the USA in regards to national security, there is a climate of fear and intimidation about questioning any official policy.
Hey! We have a company called http://Enjora.com, which tries to give a whole new way of watching porn, and separate itself from the malicious and low-end porn tube sites by giving credit not just the actors and producers, but provide the users full-length adult movies.
Enjora.com is a streaming service, like Netflix, where you can watch high quality porn videos from multiple productions companies for a low monthly fee. Although we are still in the development process, we already contacted a lot of producers, who realised that its win-win-win situation because the users get their movies in HD, without annoying ads, on a well designed easy to use website. You can follow channels, porn-stars, and multiple fetishes.
Apart of the search engine, we are planning integrated payment methods like mobile, crypto-currencies, and Paypal which makes easier - and more trustable - to pay for our service.
Alfred is great - it was my replacement for quicksilver when I got tired of endless config. Made by nice people too (as far as I can tell).
Engineer develops rust-busting super paint
Ah... wave of industrliazation. I was hoping to read something about Fishbone :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska#Third_wave_ska
> There are people buying diapers and filling trucks with them going from one country to another because of the large price difference between the countries.

See here for an amusing example of this: https://translate.google.no/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
Have you compared Alfred with Spotlight in Yosemite?
Agreed: conceptual simplicity and therefore intelligibility at any given level of detail is a result of carefully designed and layered abstraction.

An important single-FP-language-codeball weakness is perhaps that of encouraging people to avoid clearly segregating these layers. Unix, by contrast, encourages a philosophy 'do one thing and do it well' for each smaller program, connecting them with simple interfaces, which arguably results in greater intelligibility.

Some relevant quotes from my fortune clone @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ...

You're not to come up with a simple design through any kind of coding techniques or any kind of programming language concepts. Simplicity has to be achieved above the code level before you get to the point which you worry about how you actually implement this thing in code. - Leslie Lamport

Law of Communications: The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.
This is a great idea. I wonder how finished programs are distributed. I have wanted to make something similar for ios for some time.

I imagine the predecessor to this must have been fairly successful in Japan to merit a sequel
I'll probably get flamed, but...

I'm shocked that everyone here is so against GM on this.

Given the complexity of a car and all the things that could go wrong, this is a very minor issue. The brakes still work (no ABS though), steering still works (it's just harder to turn), and lights still work. It basically turns into a car that's 20 years older, not a coffin on wheels.

The driver also knew there was a problem, wasn't happy with it, but still drove her car regardless and then wasn't able to cope when it happened again. She wasn't forced to drive it.

Maybe it's because I tend to drive older cars, but I'm all too aware that they're machines and they break. I've had all kinds of things fail when driving and I've had to try and cope with them safely. Luckily I have, but if I hadn't been so lucky I wouldn't blame the car manufacturer.

100 years ago you could get killed by all kinds of things and it was more or less just accepted - why are we now at the stage where a switch that's a bit too easy to turn is the cause of all this blame?
Now is probably the time to replace Spotlight as well. I wasn't terribly satisfied with it either for one simple reason: I open one specific file called "todo.taskpaper" with Spotlight all the time. So while I type t-o-d-... Spotlight doesn't remember that I want to open this specific file. I don't open anything else from Spotlight that starts with "tod" or even "to".

Quick test in Alfred: Seems to have learned that "to" = "todo.taskpaper" after 1 try.
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It was partly so plausible because the writers had several moles inside the UK civil service at the time, who fed them information that couldn't be reported without getting into serious legal difficulties, but could be spun into a fictionalised narrative.
I refer to the balloon experiment.
I'm one of the developers. We created the app and service this weekend at a hackathon so it's still very new.

We know there are limitations (especially: if you close the MacBook, the alarm will not work) but we're working on it. So thanks for all the feedback, it's very useful to know what areas we should address.

If you would like to write to us directly: @laplockapp. Thanks!
Why work on new ideas and side projects as a young startup
This is a talk about the evolution of Dropbox's architecture from 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc. It is incredibly detailed (down to the exact sql schema they use for file metadata etc).
Don't fly on American Airlines. It's in the name. ;)
This adds nothing.
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How else would they provide Apple Maps and web results in Spotlight though?

It actually has an explanation of exactly what it's sending and where in the Spotlight preference pane (click 'About Spotlight Suggestions and Privacy'), and exactly how to turn it off (you switch off 'Spotlight Suggestions' and 'Bing Search' in the list of things to search). It's not like this secret...
Pragmatically, this means the only way to change the government is to join it?
The problem with this idea, at least compared with current implementations of Haskell and OCaml, is that it requires runtime type information. Right now, Haskell and OCaml both perform erasure, and the only kind of runtime type information used is for the GC, but if you have two ADTs with identical structure (number of branches, payloads) but different names (i.e. they are different types), they will be encoded in the same way. So, in order to tell them apart, you would need some additional type information, which would require changes to compilers and would probably performance characteristics.
Paul Graham: "A startup is a company designed to grow"

No wonder that's not what the word means in common usage considering startups themselves haven't been common enough to make it into hundred-year old dictionaries.
I'd contend that the problem is the "secret" part, rather than the "double government" part.

Maybe that's the problem with western governments? They have erroneously interpreted their job to be "running the country", and the typical elected official is not qualified to do this? Perhaps they should cede the running of the country to the public service and recognise that their true role as an elected official is to keep the public service transparent, accountable and honest?

The problem with the above is that once a government sacrifices transparency, as most seem to have done, they have no useful purpose and have to resort to (incompetently) trying to run things to justify their existence.
Am I missing something here? The web search / autocomplete functionality contacts some servers.. You can disable them. Mail client tries to fetch known IMAP / SMTP info for a given domain to ease setup.

Are there some weird data being sent? Honestly, I might have missed some concerning communication but as far as I can tell, this is just for the sake of added functionality and can be disabled.

Expecting OS level stuff to work without network data at year 2014 seems somewhat bizarre. This is like complaining that apt-get leaks info to home, telling about the packages you install.
Thanks - that puts this in a new light. Based on what you are saying, this isn't purely "IBM Paying Someone $$$ to take off money losing division from their books" as it is, "IBM purchasing Processors, Chips, from Global Foundry, cost of such products being the net-worth of their manufacturing/engineering division + $1.5B"
The spotlight preferences are not explicit. I would never have opened them without reading this news item first.

However, I can understand the philosophy of searching the wen and the desktop in parallel.

Ubuntu does the same (they search Amazon, not sure if also the web in general), and they also got a lot of flak for it.
RPython is not a language for normal usage and mostly because e.g. error messages are obscure and hard to read. There is some basic support for generators these days, however, unless you're writing another language, we strongly encourage you don't use it.
Hi Jonalmeida.

We would love to quote you on that. :)
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>My other gripe with this article is that it concludes it's the people's responsibility to change the way government is functioning, but if it can't be done through voting, what does the author expect them to do, short of a rebellion?

Two other options that are available to average citizenry are protest, strikes and sabotage (the latter two are possible only if you are directly involved - which a lot of people are).

These are, in fact, how most large social changes that benefit the people come about. Not through voting.

We got the right to vote, the civil rights act, social security, medicare, the weekend, the formation of the middle classes and most other goodies this way.
Hehe verrrrrryyy slooowwwwly.

The MacBooks with mechanical hard drives have the motion sensors.
Apologies for asking a question unrelated to the message of the article, but I'm a bit confused by the use of 'discomfited' in the first sentence. From my understanding, 'discomforted' seems more accurate, and is a more commonly used word anyways.

Do I misunderstand the difference between discomfit and discomfort, or did they use the wrong word?

EDIT: I suppose it might just be a matter of wanting to come across sophisticated. At a later point the article uses 'insoluble' where 'unsolvable' would've been perfectly fine and probably easier to understand for most people.
Am I the only one who suspects a high number of commits is a sign of good programming, and by induction good programmers?
I think the various surveillance and privacy revelations of 2011-2013 have different opinions about network data in 2014...
Upon reflection I can see your perspective but I also agree quite completely with the article. It is of course true that the 'President' holds much power but if you break down the semantics, you might as well be saying that people are Patriotic and readily willing to serve their country. (ie. clicking their heels...)

What this article is analyzing (the government...and people) is a very complex system and there are many layers. Don't let this article confuse you into thinking that the ideas therein signal a perception that the oval office is not, in a sense, a center of power. Because all available evidence and common sense, as you imply in your comment, points to the obvious fact that the Whitehouse is a center of power in the government and the world.

What the article is saying is that there are other centers of power within the government which, evidence strongly suggests, actually challenge the President's authority on certain geopolitical and bureaucratic concerns, and in some cases, actually wield far more impressive levels of capabilities in terms of influence and direct control. And you better believe that these capabilities are being utilized.

I would even pin a target on the notion that there are significant operational units (assets) which have limited to non-existent communication and reporting to high-ranking government members. And what sane person even entertains the belief that they know every single activity and segment of the US government?

In an organization as staggeringly large as the federal government, there's bound to be plethora of secrets. Some of them are probably pretty benign. Some of them are probably capable of destabilizing the 'united' aspect of government we take for granted. And...really, it's clear to see the fact that the government is not in fact nearly as united as people speak of. This kind of obvious mismatch in mental conception is well-known: cognitive dissonance.

Comical; your allegiance to over-simplified models of megalithic civil structural posturing for political gain of power for variously held personal values.
And it can happen, there was an accident, as a ferry crashed into the pier when the joystick malfunctioned.

http://www.infomarine.net/marine-accidents/119997-27-injured...
Also worth clearing your cookies and logging out. I've seen Delta offer me better prices after clearing cookies. I've seen Marriott offer me better prices after logging out (amusingly I'm a platinum rewards member, but get better pricing by logging out).
Hy isn't a full Lisp interpreter in Python, it's an s-expression to Python AST parser, which means it does everything Python does (including C extensions) at essentially native speed anyway - you can even write RPython in it.

If you ask me, full Python interop makes Hy the most practical s-expression language today.
Yup. Fire up Charles SSL proxy and you'll observe very similar behaviour (at least with Mail and Spotlight/Safari)
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How would that work? If I understand correctly the CPF number needs to match the passenger details. So someone else could buy the ticket for you, but then the ticket is in their name.
3 ways to place data at the centre of corporate culture: Jeff Bezos
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I haven't looked a lot at Yosemites spotlight, can it do custom workflows? I've make Alfred ping multiple devices for sub-second status, create files based on input>bash script, close apps and so much more than that. I've completely replaced my snippet/text-expander with Alfred (just need a basic one anyway) and the fact that it can be semi-infinitely extended (scripting etc) is a nice ground to stand on.
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" They weren't advertisements. They were product search results."

That line is blurred these days.
Is there a no-bullshit airline with a no-bullshit web shop with no-bullshit pricing?

Like Google did with search.
That was extremely common in 8-bit days. But then again it was commonplace to destroy userspace upon loading of programs and you finished your session by either resetting the computer or turning it off (1~2s boot times helped though).
Microsoft has been doing this, too, since Windows 8.1, and it's going to do it even more aggressively with Windows 10.

I'm not saying it to mean that it's okay - in fact quite the opposite. Both are doing it wrong, and I hope they stop, or at least give me an intuitive (not hidden within 100 other settings) way to disable it.
Same for Microsoft. There was barely any backlash at all when Windows 8.1 introduced search that also sent your local file searches to advertisers.