skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been occasional polls, on topics such as salary, exit amounts, etc. People generally consider the results of these polls unreliable.
> Forcing people to pay for content they don't watch, whether it is high quality or not, isn't a good model (unless you are the BBC of course).

Or Comcast. Just listen to the endless complaints about the zillion channels paid for versus the few that get watched.

But the "not a good model" thing is ideological, not practical. It undeniably works in the sense of sustainably producing high-quality content, which is the point at issue here.
Exactly, as has been pointed out above Different use patterns and protocols for Enigma encoding used by different branches of the German military were cracked at different times by different people and teams.

The reason Bletchley Park is so famous is for three reasons. One is it cracked the most rigorous and hardest to crack variants of Enigma. Another is that is used forerunners of modern computers to do so and Alan in particular laid some of the theoretical foundations for modern computer systems. Finally it's because cracking the German Navy code basically saved Britain from strangulation by the U-Boat blockade.

Yes Poles cracke Enigma first and this provided valuable intelligence, but their explot would not have worked against the Navy variants and would not have made any difference to the Battle of the Atlantic.
> OVH do not have the right and the access to the system of thoses servers.

You should check your TOS. They reserve the right to access your server and if you use any of the default install images it comes pre-configured with their SSH key.
"This is still fully capable of effectively driving low-margin ad-supported websites out of business, but it's not a doomsday scenario."

Right. That's a scenario I wish the privacy advocate folks at places like Mozilla were more up front about.
I had to show this setting to my fiancée who just got her first iPhone, a 5c, as a free upgrade when her feature phone kicked it, and since she isn't paying for a data plan...

First we figured out how to disable cellular data, since the phone with the minimum data plan gets only 100MB of usage per month, it's definitely too much to ask that one should police their applications and "just not use data" -- I don't have to tell you how easy it would be to accidentally go over this cap if you are actually using apps or any features of the iPhone at all, and the incidental metered usage rates are just absolutely ridiculous.

Then we had to go and find the Send as SMS setting, which was disabled by default, because text messaging to other iPhones only ever worked when she was in a WiFi zone. She would receive a flurry of messages she was missing while out, immediately when she got home, obviously a symptom of this issue with iMessage.

Even now, with the setting enabled, other iPhones won't reach her if they try to send a message when she's not in WiFi zones, because they still have this setting disabled. You have to show all your friends with iPhones how to enable this setting, or to force one message through individually, or just bite the bullet and pay for a real data plan. It does seem to be all by design, some type of collusion with the phone carrier(s) to make more money on data plans.
That… makes no sense whatsoever?

The first public release of SteamOS was less than a year ago. It was announced only shortly before that.

It seems highly unlikely that there have been many games which have had Linux support added due to SteamOS in that timeframe.
It depends. If you have a lot of experience in the field, then that's going to be more important then the degree you obtained 10-15 years ago. If you don't have that wealth of experience, then it makes sense to include your education.
I hope they will have a "spotify web api user" tab like the "App Finder" of today, because without that nobody will ever discover the apps.
And I also hope they ease the transition and give the url of the apps you used to have.
It is better for the website because it will send the user to them, and they will be able to show ads, but a little annoying for the user because it was so easy to add an app and it won't be as integrated, I expect more features but less users.

I use the beta spotify desktop app, and I really like it for the sonos-like experience, but I tough the apps were only missing for the beta period. I suppose they wanted to slim down their app, and unify the mobile and desktop experience.
The page says:

"We are using the Rift as our initial test and development device, but are committed to device-agnostic Web VR, with support for additional devices coming soon."
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I don't know how effective it is to go via a recruiter. But it is indeed effective to talk to a technical person directly and establish a rapport.

For example, if you wanted a job with Amazon and are qualified, I would say send me a mail. Or go to an Amazon show like RE:Invent and show off your programming skills in a boot camp. You will meet Amazon engineers there. Get their cards and send them a resume. There are github repositories where teams from companies like Amazon (AND twitter/fb/google/ms) actively contribute. Go see how you can improve them and submit a pull request. We not only have systems work happening in AWS - there is work in every aspect from web programming to documentation to distribute systems. IMO, it all comes down to initiative.

I have switched about 4 teams now between MS and Amazon and not one of them were via a recruiter. There were extremely talented recruiters who handled the interview logistics, but the jobs themselves happened because people on the ground knew me.

Good luck.
I'm the owner of the new Sony Z3 and even before this new Model , I had the same Baidu folder in my older Sony Xperia S.
I don't understand so many talk-talk now and not before ?
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The problem is that many people will use those copycats as the basis for their own app designs. Not everyone is willing to really understand the reasoning behind the design spec down to such minute details as an arrow placement if he can be hip and trendy with something that superficially looks like the same design.

If a design is so easily misunderstood with such (comparably) large consequences for the user, that's a flaw in the original spec IMO.
DuckDuckGo is not a pre-installed search engine in at-least Nightly.
Things like this: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-c...

The standard way to measure happiness seems to be to simply ask.
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In Rich's source article, he questions the future of SteamOS and the partners involved in some of the ports are also questioning. Some people have started using past tense. I have no idea what Valve is planning, but my guess is that it's a long term play with limited resources. I'm guessing some of the interest inside Valve has waned.

Remember SteamOS was born before Win8 was announced and Valve was scared where MS was going. Steam on Windows seems pretty safe, the pressure is off.
Agreeing with aninhumer, I don't think that the majority criteria is a desirable property of a voting system if it comes at the expense of more desirable properties like monotonicity. Even if nonmonotonicity is not strategically exploitable, accidentally falling into a losing region by gaining votes would be incredibly aggravating.

I would expect approval voting to reduce the polarization of politics and allow moderate candidates who are reasonably liked by everyone to enter political office. Rather than see our laws and policies flip-flop every 4-12 years due to one or the other party taking control, maybe we would actually have politicians focus on the mutual good of society rather than the parties' individual power.
How is Tom Wheeler not mentioned once in this article?

Is there not a direct connection between his appointment by Obama and this issue?
Firefox already does a lot - how about a website similar to 'RailsCasts' that takes different use cases and shows how to do them with FireFox plugins?

I think its important to differentiate different users / use cases, because 'Web Developer' is pretty broad.
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You're probably fine but update anyway and be sure.
I'm betting "illegal content" will eventually come to include things like "bullying." Expect a much broader array of takedown notices once the FCC is granted content-level authority over the internet.
I think that's another way you could look at it, but I don't think that's necessary for my point, which is that barriers for distribution are not always necessary to get good content.

All I was assuming is that a) the content is professionally produced, and b) the people watching the content find it valuable. That you also find it valuable for them to watch it sounds like an excellent bonus.
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You can double click 'path' on Window but not on Linux.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926249
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I really wouldn't wanna work for company that:

1. Is "too lazy" to deal with visa stuff.

2. Where the recruiter doesn't hire you because you have jQuery and Angular, but no Javascript experience.

3. Doesn't hire people because they didn't wear a suit.

4. Interviewing developers did not prepare for the interview.
Are you open to doing resume critiques for students?
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It's futile only if you do not regulate and control it properly.

In socialist times the citizens of my country said the same for secret police which was doing the same - and history has proven that resistance there was neither futile nor ineffective.
Drang nach Osten! starting from the times of Teutonic order, and some time before if we remember the Polabian Slavs.

The story didn't start with Hitler and didn't end with him. 200 years from now comparing Eastern Europe political maps of 1984 vs. 2014 it would be pretty obvious that the Eastward expansion has greatly succeeded this time, surprisingly [relatively] peaceful this time and only the most eastward end of the push caused a mild local military conflict - Ukraine-Russian war in Donbass.
Mozilla have to make money somehow.
We seem to have a cultural attitude that most dangerous and illegal behaviors are socially acceptable just as long as one is operating a motor vehicle. That thinking really does baffle my mind.

We have a very real privacy issue with potentially tracking vehicle movements by authorities and/or private companies. I think somehow there can somewhere be a middle ground that makes the roads safer while preserving some privacy. Perhaps?? I personality think there isn't nearly enough to deter dangerous driving at the moment.

Hopefully we just will all have self driving cars in a few years instead.
Regarding the definition of Aryan, Tolkien trolled a Berlin publisher wonderfully on that score.

Dear Sirs,

Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject — which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully,

J. R. R. Tolkien
Author here.

The find-the-closest-finger algorithm was taken from another project we did, where we needed much more speed. We use a voronoi diagram with a distinct color for each point.. then we can get the pixel color at the position of the cursor and find the related pointer..

This is actually much faster than what you see happening on Pointer Pointer. We introduced a pause to force people to wait, thus making it a more rewarding experience when the image finally shows up. A touch of magic, you could say.
Why there is an age field in the YC application?
Was not it sufficient to have a I am X years or older checkbox?
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Exactly. Criminals know about how to circumvent the law; it serves no purpose mass collecting this data at all if it's pretence is to stop organised crime.

In the case of a chop shop the criminals might know they'll be picked up by cameras straight away, so when they steal the car they whack some fake plates on it, and we're back to not knowing anything.

What it is good at doing is tracking individuals, without any suspicion attributed to them.
That's right. The Mozilla platform technology is great, we are still working out a few kinks. The blocklist we're using is a customized version provided by Disconnect.me. Mozilla's UX for Tracking Protection needs a lot of work, it's just not done yet. We need to do a lot of work to understand what users want. Hence the experiment.

There are also many third-party add-ons out there: NoScript, Privacy Badger, Disconnect, DoNotTrackMe, Ghostery, etc. I don't think we want to compete with them but rather give them all more powerful tools to create more anti-tracking options for users. (EDITED to remove pronouns, fix misspells)
I'm not saying it's hard to do, I'm saying people don't do it.

You'd have to ask them why.
That is not the lede, it is an offhand comment by a unnamed analyst, but don't worry it will show up as the lede on the TechDirt blogspam version.
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They got a pre-installed computer that booted, by default, to Steam. This is apparently a victory of some kind. The saddest kind.
How many perl programers wear suits? I think the Venn diagram of people who wear suits and perl programmers would not show any intersection.
> And yet we have the entire population under surveillance. Compared to that, spying on a handful of civil leaders is nothing.

If the FBI of the 1960's had the technology of today, I guarantee that they would have done the same—and probably more. Not to excuse the intrusion of today, but the government of the 1960's was certainly no better.
Here is a link to the info regarding a franchise agreement renewal in a small Colorado town:

http://www.louisvilleco.gov/SERVICES/CityManagersOffice/Fran...

There are .pdf's with the official agreement and some attempt at simplifying the info contained within on the page itself. I haven't read it yet myself, but I'm curious if it reflects the claims you make.
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I would love to have FF profiles as dotfiles that I can actually check into source control and use reliably. I blew a couple hours a few months ago trying to make FF fit into my existing system of dotfiles in git and it was extremely frustrating.

Every other program I use lets me check config into git, but FF insists on storing config data into profiles with randomly-generated names. It's very resistant to automation. I understand there is an FF-specific sync solution, but I want all my config in one place.
Thanks. That's probably why I still like to include it, I've taken many years off for traveling, snowboard instructing, etc. so my experience section is a lot thinner than it should be for my age (32).
Well, plus the culture of informing on your fellow citizens at large scale (10-20% of German citizens were active informers...)

... or the German citizens killed by the Stasi...

Do you really think the only difference between the Stasi and the NSA is the technology available?
I vaguely remember seeing a TV show on amusement parks and thought that mechanics had to check and tighten every every bolt on a roller coaster rather frequently. I wonder if this type of nut would result in any labor savings for them?
The whole fixation on Aryan race was less about racial purity than it was about psychological transference. The combination of abusive child rearing practices, the Treaty of Versailles and the economic depression left many, if not most, Germans very angry with no logical outlet for that anger. Hitler was able to channel that anger towards minority groups, particularly Jews. The other, somewhat controversial theory for why he targeted Jews was the possibility that he was actually 1/8 Jewish and he was targeting the part of himself that he considered shameful.

Regardless, the fixation on the Aryan master race was never about the belief that there should only be one race. It was about needing to feel powerful when others had made them feel victimized. It was the cycle of child abuse played out on an international scale. It didn't need to be ideologically consistent so long as it soothed that hurt that both Hitler and much of the German people felt.

For anyone interested in the psychological explanations for the war, Alice Miller's "For Your Own Good" is any excellent exploration of that subject.
Not a bad article, but I'm so sick of the term "universal references". Perhaps useful for explaining things to the uninitiate, but a more technical understanding requires the knowledge that rvalue references can be made from any l- or rvalue.

So when I see "Don't let T&& fool you here - T is not an rvalue reference" -- yes it fricking is! And if you're going to work on a low enough type-level that you need perfect forwarding, you NEED TO KNOW THAT.
All I can say is that I'm very glad you're not in charge.

Well, we can agree on that :)

But I'm not saying he shouldn't be arrested, or that it isn't a net positive to send a message to violent aggressors. I just think what will actually happen is that he'll pay a fine and possibly spend a night in jail, control himself for a month or so, and then carry on as usual.

And even that is still a positive effect, I just don't think it justifies pervasive surveillance of the streets. It's not like it actually prevented to guy from getting beaten.
The sarcasm falls flat when you realize that a lot of what he is talking about really is wrong. That is not what happened, that is a collection of misconceptions people gathered which are only loosely based on actual history. Germany was not simply racist, they had declared jews to be their enemies. Not "people who aren't white". The German military was the most racially and religiously diverse military force involved in WW2. There were plenty of Wehrmacht soldiers with brown skin, wearing turbans, or carrying copies of the Quran given to them by Hitler as gifts. A shocking number of people are under the impression that the US joined the war because Germany attacked France and was killing jews. It is no wonder that people have a comic book view of WW2 given how little actual history they've been taught.
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Publishers haven't come to terms with electronic distribution because they can't conceive of a world where the Publishers aren't needed for everything related to books.

Are we better off with/without Publishers? It depends. Certainly, there is some value in having a publisher - editing, guaranteed distribution, payment, etc. - all the things that would be time-consuming and take away from the writer's first love, writing. Along with that, there are annoyances as well - dodgy DRM, outdated ideas about format, etc.

It was easy when books were physical - a book was a solitary unit not easily shared.

Now, not so much. An eBook can be easily shared - in theory, without DRM, the author would make the $7.99 cover price once, the book would hit P-bay and that would be it.

To say that the problem is with people who don't value the author's work is an oversimplification, as well. Many people might value a work highly, but the electronic edition is easier or cheaper to get thru illicit means.

There are those who say that sharing is not theft - true, to an extent. It's not so much stealing as it is just shitting on the work that an author has done.

Which isn't to say that all authors are worth your time, either. Everyone has an opinion about what's good writing and what's not. Personally, I dig Terry Pratchett, but there are some who don't like his work. So to them, he's not worth the effort and expense of paying for to purchase a book.

Now, you might ask yourself: self, why would you buy a book you don't like? In my case, I want reading material and there's not much way of knowing if the book is any good before I buy it (space military novels). I've gotten halfway thru a book and realized: I blew $2.99 on complete shite and that sucks. It's only halfway thru the book that I realized that the work of the author hold no value for me (and maybe a bit of negative value).

However, the publisher is the one who got me - they set the price, they wrote the summary, they even sourced an attractive piece of art to cover the book. Ostensibly, they even edited it (though that's often rather spotty with self-published authors). So, a publisher still has some value to bring to even a crappy author.

It's a complex problem and one not likely to be solved because no one really likes to think about how they can make their own job redundant, at least not without getting a reward for it.

For publishers, it's a losing game.
No native Linux support (Win7 binary "+ hacked version of WINE"). Makers request it be run on "Ubuntu 14.4 x32"[sic] only, not even x86_64. I suspect they mean x86, or 32-bit when they say x32, since the x32 ABI is nowhere near implemented.

No source, no privacy policy. Supporting new protocols/formats/stack requires one 'to talk about it' with them.
You've clearly never spent any time in a real poor neighborhood.

Or, more likely - you consider the lower middle class "poor" by your inflated Silicon Valley standards.

Reminder: avg. US HOUSEHOLD income is 52K/year.
This looks really cool. Whenever I open up my Networks textbook, I get nostalgic about this stuff. It'd be fun to easily create my own packets to test out different stuff I've learned.

... any idea on a Mac version?
the average poor person today has 3 wide screen TVs, an Xbox, a smart phone and air conditioning.

I'm not from the US but this is hard to believe, as "In 2012, 5.7 percent of U.S. households (7.0 million households) had very low food security[, e.g.] the food intake of some household members was reduced and normal eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year due to limited resources" (source: http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/us_hunger_facts.ht...).

...unless you want to argue that the persons in these 7 million households choose to starve to be able to afford three flat screens and an Xbox, but in that case I insist on a proper source ;)
Interesting, once it is a utility, the government is able to freely apply surveillance...
The DuckDuckGo addition hasn't landed in Nightly yet. It has rolled out to the release channel, and should be in all channels shortly.
Not a war character, but Ranulph Fiennes has led a very interesting life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes