skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
does this mean I can create LDAP-backed ssh login for my EC2 boxes without the hassle of actually running OpenLDAP?
I confirm it will be a cap, even if you can't find in the text. It will be 700.
PAYPAL: “Just to let you know… We're changing our Legal Agreement.”
With something like IARPA INSTINCT[1].

It was won by JEDI MIND[1] (capitals because it's an abbreviation, which deserves credit in itself).

[1] http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/working-with-iarpa/prize-chal...

[2] http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2014/10/force-strong-on...
Looks like they changed it to 17 Dec 2014: http://pssurvival.com/PS/2-Pole_Shift/-PS_Count-Down_Checkli...
Which is better? SaaS or On-premises software
The opinion when this came up on /r/europe was that it was an attempt at clamping down on access to independent and non-Hungarian media by making internet use unaffordable.

Edit: well, that seems comprehensively debunked
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Clarification: I know how they work. What I -don't- bother keep in my head, is every metacharacter, character class (POSIX especially), assertions, string replacement options, etc, because I can just look those up. The example mentioned above is actually a really good case of why I don't worry about remembering all the specifics; because it's really easy to screw it up. Oh, I forgot {} were special characters, because I have -never- used them (any time I needed repetition it was always so few times, and for a single character class, I just repeated the character in the pattern), so I forgot to escape them.

And let's not forget the implementation different specifics (the need to specify multiline matching as a separate parameter into the parser, \ vs $ for string replacement, etc)

In general, if I'm writing a regex more complicated then "Hey, does this string match this literal?" I'm going to pull up a cheat sheet, because it avoids issues like that. But the number of times it makes sense to do that is really, really low.

It makes as much sense to me to say you should remember all ASCII character codes. Why? If you know how they work, and you're not using them enough to remember all of them automatically, it's not really a problem to just look them up if/when you need them.
One of the decedents was Xerox LOOPS, which was an Interlisp OO extension and ran on their Alto and Star systems (IIRC). I had the opportunity to play around on one of these and hacked some LOOPS code back in the day. LOOPS itself had a very interesting mix of OO and 'data' oriented programming. It introduced the idea of 'composite' objects - a language formalism that allowed for the instantiation of groups of objects based on a template, among other novel language features.

http://www.markstefik.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/1982-Bo...
I can't say for certain, but I'd think a lot of this is actually built on top of OpenLDAP, with Samba just providing the compatibility layer for Windows clients.
It's a pretty bad smoke screen if it makes more people angry than the other issue they trying to "smoke". Even if it will cost less it's a bad PR for the government and can lower their popularity among the young generation who didn't care about the other issues.
I don't think there's too much consistency when it comes to dollar amounts and rounds. From what I've seen a seed round is typically 500k - 3m. With series A being 3m - 25m. There's a ton of variability.
Can I ask what you mean by "replay functionality" specifically? I have to say the project looks interesting, looking forward to diving into the code.
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Architecture and deployment of devo.ps
Regarding the legal digression:

1. "We've always had the right to re-implement interfaces" is a red herring. At one point one could have as well said "we've always had a right to own slaves." Also, re-implementing APIs may be valuable, but there may be even more value in re-inventing APIs instead, many of the reasons for which are mentioned in TFA itself. Case in point, being locked out of Java, Microsoft went ahead and built (by most accounts) a superior programming ecosystem, including a better API.

2. Not a lawyer, but from my limited understanding: Copyright law as currently defined is, IMO, not a good protection mechanism for code, resulting in cases like this. Whatever arguments you could make to exempt APIs from protection applies equally to code. In general copyright cannot protect anything "functional" in nature, but all code is functional! For instance, the exemption from 102(b) highlighted in TFA for "methods of operation" applies equally well to code. What is code if not a method of operation of the hardware it runs on?

Copyright only applies to the creative aspect of anything, including written code, and as such APIs can have as much (or more) creative input as any implementation. In fact, often (and hinted at in TFA), if the API, or indeed any spec, is defined well enough, it's implementation becomes straightforward and requires little inherent creativity! Yet that code automatically qualifies for copyright.

(Note that copyright will only protect the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. So when discussing copyrighting of APIs, remember that we are not discussing protecting, say, the concept of opening a file, but protecting the specific expression "new File(fileName)" or "File.open(fileName)" or "open(fname, 'r')". While this is a simplistic example, think of how this permeates the rest of the APIs.)

3. The case law for exemptions for interoperability in interfaces (Sega etc,) is, as far as I can tell, for systems to interoperate with each other. APIs on the other hand, are mainly for humans to communicate with each other when building systems that interoperate. Bloch even calls it out multiple times when he harps on the importance of documentation. As such, APIs are primarily a means of expression between humans - from those who provide the interface, to those who use it. So from a copyright perspective, I don't see how binary interoperability between systems, which is purely functional, can compare to textual expression between humans.

In my mind, points 2 - 3 mean that Judge Alsup got it wrong and the Federal Circuit got it right. If this is something to be fixed, I'd say the real problem is the use of copyright law to protect code.
I'm betting that interpreting your math handwriting would be quite a bit harder than interpreting printed text. That said, I'd love to have that feature, too.
Age is a mindset in the same way suffocating is. You may feel as if you're suffocating when you are not, but if you are suffocating, you are suffocating even if you don't realize it.
Do people actually have multiple 4k montiors and multiple streaming services to serve content to those devices?

I pay about $40 for 50Mb/15Mb and there is barely anything I can do to max this out.
it's capped at 4k HUF at most (~10€), that seems like a very inneffective way to do it.

I mean, you get free press (Metropol, elsewhere known as Metro, which IIRC is swedish) at metro stations, it would make more sense to tax _that_ if you really wanted to clamp independent media.

Also, many people with a smartphone aged 25+ have a company-payed one, so the tax is irrelevant to them. (source: anecdotal evidence as someone living in hungary)
I don't think undemocratically overthrowing an elected government is a great idea, even if it's really unpopular. At least wait until they fail to run elections.
There have been some schemes in Europe to tax Internet-related services, but they were mostly a result of lobbying and at least benefited some group, like unionized film makers or ISPs. But the difference is nobody welcomes this tax.
Nonsense. There are hundreds of direct and indirect taxes in any modern economy. A 175 million euro tax is one of the least important ones for the economy.

Income taxes, capital gains taxes, corporate profit taxes etc. are much more important, even to most Internet companies, than the proposed Internet tax because they are much bigger.
Was the reclaim successful? :)
> "Face-ism" is essentially pattern-matching, which is the way cognition operates on a fundamental level. (...) Cognition is about finding statistical regularities in perception data, then using these regularities to make predictions about the future

I'm sorry, but don't you think that you're maybe oversimplifying cognition and the human mind, at large? I can't believe that "face-ism" is essentially pattern-matching - certainly a big chunk of the process is "hard-wired" and not based on pattern-matching.

I can see the "appeal", mostly in CS people, to "reduce" cognition (to something "doable" with a computer). But overzealous simplifications are detrimental to knowledge.
The interface to that webmail interface is much nicer than the usual suspects. I'm looking at you SquirrelMail and Roundcube.
Thanks for the pointer. I've been thinking about this kind of scheme:
- using a vanilla gentoo
- install portage
- emerge my package
- at the end, do a diff of the filesystem to apply it to the vanilla gentoo.

And using docker filesytem feature for that. I'm still quiete new to Docker and don't know if it is easy to do.

But I'll have a look to gentoo-bb, I think it is exactly what I need!
One thing that struck me was that both Ron and Marc said they mostly invest on referrals. Ron said that almost no-one came in unannounced anymore - every seed investment was a referral from someone he knew. Marc said that almost every A round was a referral from Ron or someone else he knew.

My question is: If you can't get seed funding without already knowing someone in SV, who are you supposed to know and how do you get to know them? Is there no way but to work at another startup first and then branch out once you've made connections with the management/board? Or go to Stanford and hope your professor has connections like Google?

Edit: Obviously YC is an option too ;)
Playing catch-up with Microsoft Azure's existing services. Nice to see the competition.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory/
That doesn't hold water either. 150 HUF/GB is nowhere near unaffordable.
I used MVC 1.0 for my startup in 2009. That time, not much open-source contribution was seen in Microsoft world, but that's not the scene now.

And in my previous job, we switched from ASP.NET MVC to Django, got a Django guy in our team. Still it took a double the time for developers to pick it [in a way money]. So I say unless technology is not a concern for the product, stick with it and build the product, make it successful, you can switch technology later also.

At the end of the day, customers don't care what platform you used.

If your bro is ready to go with Django/Ruby awesome, but keep in mind time & money before making a decision.
He probably means something like this:

http://debug.elm-lang.org/
For scenarios where I felt etcd/gconf/consul is overkill I wrote goconfd (https://github.com/niko/goconfd). Features:

* reads config from a json file
* GET requests with deep links into the json tree
* POST request with template as body and deep links (using the go template engine, too)
* long polling (response has to be triggered explicitly by a PUT request)

I also made a simple docker container running HAProxy - configured by goconfd - to orchestrate docker containers.
No, I can't imagine the problems. I've had Mac, Linux, and Windows machines on my home network at same time. Could you elaborate on the problems?
you might remember that at the recent budapest elections FIDESZ won again.

Yes, they are a bunch of corrupt evil baby eating monsters, but they are also who the people keep voting.

I am not sure "let's remove democratically elected governments we disagree with" is the direction where we want EU/NATO/US to go.
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Updated Google Maps Reveal Russian Artillery Shelling Ukraine
I still prefer to have a girlfriend younger than me.
Show HN: I built an Android game after work with a friend in 6 months
> (...) so-called metadata describing the phone numbers called, the calls received and their date and duration."

Uhm. This already includes phone numbers called, calls received, dates, durations. Also, it's well-known among even amateurs and armchair intelligence analysts that "metadata" is usually more than sufficient to obtain a complete profile of an individual's private life, and it's been confirmed at least once by US Mil-related interests that they have killed foreign terrorist suspects based only on conclusions drawn from metadata.

So even if it "just contains so-called metadata", that's probably still enough data to know the exact time you use the toilet in the morning, and for how long. Literally. (ref: Dozens of recent papers on metadata profiling)
I was hoping that Google will be able to push Linux into the mainstream. One of the big problems with Linux is getting commercial software. For example, getting Photoshop and Illustrator working natively on Linux would be a big win.
Original version of the article here http://qz.com/281619/what-it-took-for-elon-musks-spacex-to-d...
There is a strong argument that encrypted links between cleartext relay stations is of very limited use, and what should be encrypted is the message body.

We could do with another attempt to redefine email, even if it's unlikely to get deployed. It might be worth considering how to unify email with IM in the process.
Wouldn't the arithmetic mean of the logarithms be the logarithm of the geometric mean?

1/n Σ ln xᵢ = 1/n ln (Π xᵢ) = ln ( n√(Π xᵢ) )
I've once thought of something similar for hg, but a bit bigger, in that:

1. There could be many "hg-dirs" for a one regular "workdir" (e.g. .hg_foo, .hg_bar, .hg_baz, ...)

2. There'd be a wrapper tool, that on any hg command would autodetect to which hg-dir any given affected file belongs, if already committed earlier (with ability to override the autodetection by hand, including for adding brand new files to the repo).

However, didn't care enough to try implementing this yet. Also, not quite sure how/whether it could work with git, given the existence of staging area.

(full story: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5789827/98528)
True, but that is a common (though difficult) requirement of well written crypto libraries and not directly related to misuse-resistance.
I did qualify #1 with "obviously not true for everyone, but could account for something". And I speak from some experience too. I'm 34 and have lived through the platform I was invested in disappearing almost over night and having to quickly get up to speed on some new platforms and languages over the course of about 6 months while I supported myself. It was quite exciting, but also quite stressful and tiring. If I was faced with the same event again I think I might opt for defaulting to a more managerial position rather than try to become expert in a new area again. Everyone's different of course, but I didn't make the point lightly or naively.
Your boss is going to care about a thread on Hacker News. Better start with the Wall Street Journal article with Ben Fried.
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Going fast in controlled, safe conditions is, comparatively, the easiest part of autonomous driving. I'd be more interested when the problem handling gets tested: icy patch in a turn, etc.
Just as an aside, the mobile site is extremely well done.
What is the use case for this? It's hard for me to see anything other than K-12 math homework (or early college, in some cases). Even graphing calculators have broader applicability than that, and that's saying something.

I'm tempted to go one step further and say that it's hard to see it as much more than a "do my homework for me" app, but I know that's too harsh. Some wise users might turn to it only to check their answers, or to get a hint about the next step if they're stuck. But as a professor, I've seen just how easy it can be for even strong students to come to over-rely on "Help, I'm stuck!" opportunities if they're available, and that doesn't assist with learning. (In one memorable case, that opportunity was me in my office, and I eventually had to limit my supply of helpful hints.)
Am I missing something about what Firebase is? Is it just a database system with a web API? I don't mean this disparagingly but don't most people just run their own database inside a VPS somewhere or a server and send data to/from that via their own interface? Am I missing something?
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Even if only one person can't use the internet because of this tax, that's more than enough reason to avoid it.
A warrant isn't required to compel someone to testify against someone else. Historically,[1] the balance has been struck in favor of the government's right to all relevant evidence.

[1] The subpoena ad testificandum dates back about 800 years.
A few winters ago, I took a 20-year-old car into a shop. The guy who ran it diagnosed and fixed a problem the dealership had missed. I asked him about the status of the car. Well, he said, cars are like people. You can be in good shape for your age at 70, but that's not like being in good shape for your age at 30.
Of course age, especially old age, is nothing but a mindset. As we all know from StarTrek, we're only getting old and die because the cells in our bodies get irredeemably bored (hinting to the possibility that some cells have better tastes than the individual they're forming). And the situation isn't improved by the nocebo effect of incessant rumours about human mortality. So, don't believe anything you hear...
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EU Parliament supports Julia Reda proposal for funding opensource code audits
It is and I am not arguing for it, just merely accepting it and looking from the point of view the government thinks.
> like taxing electricity

Carbon credits?
Not to hijack the thread but here's a fun story, the place I'm working at now actually considered 'version control', to be making a copy of the file before you started making changes. There was no version control. This is a software company that has been in business for ~20 years. I guess that's just part of what happens when you land these big contracts, and hire the least common denominator.
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The study, which is planned for the spring, is designed to include three groups of 24 women with Stage 4 breast cancer who are in stable condition and undergoing hormonal therapy. Two groups will gather at resorts in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, under the supervision of Langer and her staff. The experimental group will live for a week in surroundings that evoke 2003, a date when all the women were healthy and hopeful, living without a mortal threat hanging over them. They will be told to try to inhabit their former selves. Few clues of the present day will be visible inside the resorts or, for that matter, outside them. In the living areas, turn-of-the-millennium magazines will be lying around, as will DVDs of films like “Titanic” and “The Big Lebowski.” San Miguel de Allende, which has historically been a place known for its nearby healing mineral springs, is a Unesco World Heritage Site, and many of its buildings look as they did a few hundred years ago. “The whole town is a time capsule,” Langer says. (The other group at San Miguel will have the support of fellow cancer patients but will not live in the past; a third group will not experience any research intervention.)

WTF.
And what happens when you had cancer in 2003 but got cured, would it come back? Better avoid The Big Lebowski in that case.
No matter how much you trust it, just having apple juice won't cure you from pancreatic cancer.
In the sense that the participants in the first study had their whole surroundings changed and molded in order for them to live in the past; yeah, most of us can't really use that as a viable strategy for feeling younger.

As far as a mindset in itself though, is changing your mindset something that is impossible? Most of us don't even really make an effort at all, so I tend to think of it as a largely uninvestigated area (as far as most people are concerned).
Asshole IT staff at my employer have banned Linux workstations from the network, even though we need it for running Cadence and other intensive simulation tools. The solution is for them to run a Linux server into which one will VNC to do graphic intensive IC layout.

We all get a sanitized windows 7 shitbox, because a IC deign engineers needs are the same as a secretary (not that we have secretaries anymore).
Well you paid for your water directly.

I did not say this is fair for anyone.
Thats not what I'm asking for.

Theoretically my configuration would look like rsyslog linking in a compatibility library and having something like this small config snippet from /etc/rsyslog/rsyslog.conf of the future:

# Connects rsyslog directly into the innards of systemd

$ModLoad systemd

I wouldn't even have journald installed on my system, at all. No config file named /etc/systemd/journald.conf, none of that. Just rsyslog.

That's like saying HN website is composable with emacs because I wrote this on emacs and then cut and pasted it into the browser. Really being composable would imply meta-x post-buffer-to-hacker-news direct API on emacs.

It doesn't really matter to me because systemd is going to force me to convert my systems to freebsd. But if I was staying on linux, I'd like systemd to at least minimally cooperate with the rest of the ecosystem instead of spreading like a cancer.
This is an interesting section on Military Medicine:
http://fas.org/irp/doddir/milmed/index.html
Seeing this reminds me how frustrating searching in the app store is. I saw this story on my computer, and picked up my iPad and went to the app store to download it. Searching for "photo math" yields a few hundred goofy photo editing apps [1]. Searching by the correct name "photomath" yields 0 results. I ended up going to their website to get the link before figuring out that my default search is for iPad compatible apps only, and that this won't show up unless I search with iPhone Only selected.

[1] fat face and look like a zombie are the most popular, but I was most impressed with Abs Booth

edit: the developer should also note that searching by name does not work unless you add the app name as a keyword. I have submitted bug reports for both issues (18735078 and 18735109)
As a result of an amendment after the major uproar. You said that

"This text is hidden in the proposal. Just media is not reading it with attention."

Both statements are untrue.
Please remember that not everyone lives in a household of one. A household hosting say, six independent people can easily cap a 100Mbps connection.
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Like most junk food its a habit you pick up as a child and continue without realizing just how awful it taste. Its sold & advertised everywhere which makes it hard to escape.
I am so jealous. Being his student would be an amazing learning experience. I suspect this will be a major trend - and that we'll see more and more remote teaching resources. A possible opportunity for YC16.
You should consider adding an option to at least try the game without giving your information away (facebook or email). Maybe an offline mode.
It is, but it stands for "continuous integration" - I'd have gone with "anorak.com" but as you said, it's taken.
That was what I wanted to know, too. Ever since IAM launched, I've been wanting to authenticate ssh against it. Sadly, the docs all seem to specifically say EC2 instances running windows.
> This is a really complicated consistent-eventually system.

So it is very complex and it is supposed to be trusted for monetary transactions, and failure means significant financial loss? This isn't a good combination to have.

It is great to have these types of really complex ideas, but something more elegant is likely to beat out this idea in the long run.