skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real reason people are pissed about systemd is it's intentionally designed to take over the entire system. Conveniently is also maintained by RedHat. So yes, it is a hostile takeover of Linux.
Glad you are interested! If you are brave, you can try out the distro and report the issues you run into. It would be very helpful to us. BTW, I'm typing this from my standalone Guix machine. Eating my own dog food.
Yeah, that would make some sense back in 2005, maybe. During Sandy in 2012, Aero was infinitely more useful: when power ran out your TV with bunny ears became completely useless. On the other hand, you could still watch Aero on your battery powered HSPA connected smart phone. While I am sure bunny-ears antennas work great in more rural areas, they are completely useless on Manhattan.
I think you should ask your potential customers how much they would pay for your service before setting a price. If you havn't interviewed your customers yet, do it.
That looks really interesting; I'll have to check it out. Thanks!

However, I suspect that Baer may be out of touch with US post-cold-war national security issues.

"The final section of the memoir deals with Baer's experience with oil politics in Washington, and the extended reach granted to oil's agenda by the politically fixated and strategically oblivious American government. At one point, Baer is stunned at being asked to approve the sale of a sophisticated American defense weapon to a former Soviet-bloc country as an incentive for participating in an oil deal, while that same country had recently obstructed the investigation of the murder of an American diplomat on their soil."
If I was working at Apple at the time of this letter:

1. Open telephone directory

2. Find another Sagan, Carl

3. Claim it was them all along
So Elance just banned me without any reason. Where should I find work?
I am a front end development guy who loves freelancing as a hobby and also likes the part where I make some extra money for doing that ;-)

I had a solid Elance profile for last 7 years and now all of a sudden they suspended by account with a generic (quality purposes) reply as the reason.

Elance was a boon for me, at any point I feel like working, bid on a few projects and I get awarded almost within 3 hours.

I would stay off oDesk and Freelance because those are more like sweatshops and people are looking to hire people at $5 per job.

Now since I cannot use Elance anymore I was wondering where I could find people who would be interested in my service. A couple of forums helped fins some people who needed work but nothing like Elance.

Cheers!
Making SpiderMonkey's Debugger Just-In-Time
Slightly off topic: are there any good solutions for keeping localdata and a rails back-end in sync? If the device is offline save locally, otherwise sync with the rails app.
The quality of open source from startups vary significantly, but so does open source in general.
A good history of the CIA is Legacy of Ashes. TL;DR: Dulles was a tragic incompetent with a talent for self-promotion who played a crucial role in organizing the CIA so that it could not learn from its mistakes.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010SIPZ8?btkr=1
It's not just GNOME; an embedded device that acts as a USB host needs something like udev, and as I recall reading systemd has swallowed the hardware plugging notification systems, or was working on it. The success of systemd in getting single-user kernel patches that only make sense for desktops and systemd is most concerning, though. Linux is great because of its modularity; previously, if init didn't make sense you could switch to openrc, upstart, or others, without having to change the way you do logging, DHCP, hardware plug events, etc.
How fine should I slice my services
The summary:
"Hickey did not invent FP, how dares he?"
I am a freelancer myself. I use elance. I got paid but only after a month after the last deliverable. Not quite the employer's fault because he admittedly was new to the on-line site. If I have to point out a fault, the elance process needs to be improved.

If payment is not prompt, freelancers will pick other sites.
I noticed this has the smell of press-release-as-a-news-report, with Lookout being an Android security company, and them being pretty much the only source in the article. Makes me a little skeptical on how big of an issue this really is. I wonder if there's any solid estimates on what percent of devices are in these phone botnets, and in what regions.

I would be interested in knowing more about how they actually compromise individual devices, but the article, and the linked Lookout blog post, seem light on those details.
Representing Trees in PostgreSQL
It is suspiciously posted by an account that was just created and is even named "throwaway". Downvotes are fully justified.
I'm having trouble understanding the ruling, so maybe those here with more knowledge can help.

As a thought experiment, assume I live in a building that gets spotty OTA reception on my antenna. However, there is an apartment for rent on the top floor, and I decide to rent it for the sole purpose for storing property. If I set up an antenna in that apartment, but do not live in the space, and run a long cable from the top floor to my apartment, am I in violation of the law? I do not own the apartment that the antenna resides in, and I do not physically live there.

If this is not illegal, does it become illegal when I cut the cord between the apartments and instead encode the signal and stream it to my laptop?

So, said a different way, does the legality depend on whether I live in the same physical space as the antenna, or the fact that I have digitized the content between my two rented spaces?

It would seem that the courts view a company such as SlingMedia as a hardware provider and Aereo like the landlord of my second rented apartment. However, I can't resolve at what point what I do with my rented space and equipment becomes illegal.

Can anyone explain?
That's actually true, at least according to Tim Berners-Lee's book. Hypertext was nothing new when the WWW came around and other systems were more powerful.
All property (intellectual or physical) is partly shared between the owner and society; you can't really do anything you want with your land or building. Why should intellectual property be any different, especially after you've distributed copies to others?
I think one of the motivations behind Logo is being a low complexity environment for learning about computation. Bloating it up with all the trappings of professional software development would seem to defeat the purpose.
Lucid: templating DSL for HTML
Quick! Swap the cups before the grog melts through!

A flood of memories just returned from the days when I would play WC1 and MI1 on my sister's piano teacher's computer during her sessions.

"You are a pain in the backside, sir!"

"Your hemorrhoids are flaring up again, eh?"

I have not found any other games that have implemented the insult and comeback system as well as MI.
WildFly 8.2 is released
A Quick Spin Around the Big Dipper
Comparing cloud IaaS scaling experiences
Spring MVC: save memory with lazy streams in RESTful services
This is a very disrespectful comment.
Sharing songs isn't working and I would seriously reconsider limiting it to iPad only. Offering an interface for iPhone would greatly increase downloads.
Inside Oyster’s Tech Stack
Obligatory link on basics of price formation, just in case if you haven't seen it before -

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
Turntupinthe.club
WARNING: Do not click if epileptic.
New cars have almost exactly the same interface as cars from the 50s or even older ones. People having learned to drive at any time since WWII can drive any brand new car, and nobody proposed seriously that we switch to a joystick or a brain interface.

Similarly, though the underlying hardware and code share basically nothing with Unixen of yore, old knowledge is still useful on modern Linux. This commonality of interface is more important than inner workings.

By the way the most expensive cars by far (therefore arguably the most desirable) are old to very old. A Ferrari 250 GTO is way more valuable than any new car. IIRC the most expensive car ever is a 1929 Bugatti Royale, and even you can drive it.
The exploit is social engineering:

"NotCompatible is being spread via spam and websites seeded with booby-trapped downloads"
The editorials should be read as propaganda targeted toward the CIA's staff who will consume these documents. The critical giveaway here is the phrase "checkered employment history". Snowden's employment history isn't checkered, it was a clear upward trajectory, starting at the very bottom.

It's to their benefit to form their propaganda in a very dry "factual" sounding way such that it can more easily dodge the perception of bias. Of course, it's merely a biased presentation of some facts and twisting/fabrication of others in a way that favors the agency.
This is really cool, thanks.

In the first one there seems to be something a bit strange going on with parallel lines (or is it my eyes?). This [0] looks kind of inset into the screen because the edges of the buttons are still parallel.

[0] http://magicmockups.com/media/screen/guest/70/fc6bc9b75a804a...
At the signaling rates they're talking about, the flicker frequency will be orders of magnitude too fast to be perceptible.
Cute and approachable app :) The music in first demo video, and the pattern-based sequencing reminds me of when I used to compose Mod files on an Amiga 500, which reminded me of Information Society (there as an Amiga on the cover of their "Hack" album), which brought back even more awesome memories.

Anyone else remember Mod files and the Amiga?

So, thanks!
Yes? How is that selfish? You commit to a life here, you take on student debt, you study for years under the promise that your government is looking out for you above others.
Read it again:

Author is saying that CoreOS is a good solution because you use it with heavily isolated containers. Thus, any use of systemd is unable to screw up hosted applications. For that use case, it makes sense, whereas in more general use, systemd wants to get all up in everything.
That lonesome cowboy video is great :)
Unfortunately only available with Fisher-Price key labels.
This has been known for a long time, I don't see what the news here is
Looks like some journalist at Wired recently watched Interstellar.
Faith, Hope and Tragedy: Engineers Cope with SpaceShip Two Loss
Chaotic Disintegration of the Inner Solar System [pdf]
A big team doesn't mean faster progress or better results, and history shows that a single coder hacking away at his vision until a certain stage is reached is better then bringing a whole team, roadmaps and processes in right from the beginning. I think VR in the browser is currently in the same state as WebGL was in 2006/2007. A single guy (Vladimir Vukićević), hacking away at bringing OpenGL into the browser. And look where WebGL is now. In a way, moving the OpenGL API to JS was 'less ambitious' then the previous pompous attempts to bring 3D to the web (for instance VRML), but it worked out. Hopefully, a small number of coders hacking away at WebVR will have the same breakthrough result a few years down the road.
ADHD a social and economic plague rather than a medical one
They plan to release an iPhone version [1]

[1]: http://launchdiary.postagon.com/7wc9au7y1
Thanks, how can I send bitcoins out if Coinkite shuts down? Let's say I made copies of all MofN pribkeys.
> This part, I absolutely agree with; I feel like you
> just took it in sort of a weird direction.

Fair enough. We all read the article that is posted at the top right? A long discussion about Super Smash Brothers and how all of its characters were ranked by players, and how the rank of the characters changed over a long period of time as players figured out how to play them and interact with the environment? The author of that piece used that definition of unbalanced. I just happened to like it, or resonate with it as I wrote, because in my experience playing World of Warcraft for years and years. Changes that the developers made in the character abilities, primarily it seemed to address player vs player perceptions of "balance" (which was the term the WoW developers used), made all of the characters nearly uniform in their effective capabilities. So when the WoW developers said "the character classes/races/roles are more balanced in this patch" the experience was that the game was "less interesting" to me. There was an interesting metric for that which was a characters "rotation" which was code for the sequence of commands the character would use in battle, which the more "balanced" the game became, the more uniform/boring that sequence became[1].

That said, it sounds like Guilty Gear is a lot of fun. And yes, that sort of global diversification is something I really like in a game and it keeps it interesting to me. And to your point having diverse capabilities that do not map 1:1 on the characters is part of the charm. And that is part of the charm of Super Smash Brothers which started this conversation. So after all this wonderful discussion I think we just figured out we agree with each other :-)

[1] Jokes about Paladin's having a single 'i win' key they just pounded again and again, or simplifying the user interface to three buttons, 'fight', 'farm', and 'cyberz'
I've been using Julia 0.3 for algorithmic trading in production for about 3 months now, and the language is truly, astoundingly productive. The only thing lacking for me at this point is true multithreading support (so I can fork off a python thread from within julia) - I currently get around this by using a socket interface to pass messages to python.

Edit: For anyone who's interested, an indicative problem is this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21113030/async-thread-dea...
An opinionated treatise (and rant) on lisp and language development in general
That doesn't make systemd right for the other hundreds/thousands of embedded Linux systems. If you recall my response elsewhere in the thread, "Company X uses it" is unconvincing.

Also, it's inevitable that if systemd and software expecting to use it take over more and more aspects of userland and the kernel, vendors will be left with no choice but to use it as well. So "more vendors are switching to systemd" is not a convincing argument either. I like to make my own decisions on the basis of modularity and replaceability (vendor lockin has been a huge burden in other major projects not mentioned in my online persona), not popularity.
Your argument in favor of eased immigration to the US is that foreigners will benefit?
Kopi.JS – API for Ordering Singaporean Coffee
We applied the basic concept and raised in Europe. We managed to get it to work with some edits, so not a direct replica of SAFE.
What is the shortcut for set -o vi ?
You're precisely right: it was a deal.[1] The broadcasters get the airwaves for free, and the public gets TV over those airwaves for free. The deal said nothing about allowing people to capture content over those airwaves and broadcast it over the Internet. You can hardly blame companies for not wanting to give up more on their end of a deal than they agreed to give up!

[1] I think it's a waste of valuable spectrum on creaky inefficient technology, mind you, but it's the deal the government made.
I thought the most surreal part was where he was investigated by the FBI, on a charge that could have potentially have resulted in the death penalty, for conspiracy to assassinate Saddam Hussein.

Of course, the assassination was a complete fiction - but the CIA made it clear that they were hanging him out to dry.
> Are there any standards for multisig?

Indeed, the multisig specification is currently incomplete since there is no a standard way to join wallets. Copay implements their own joining process (using websockets now, previously with WebRTC) while the bitcoin reference client doesn't have this "automated" capability.
"Time Dilation Is Real" should be the title.
I run a Technology lab for close to 300 3-5 year olds for Head Start. I also am the consultant on app purchases for our whole agency of over 1000 students in over 50 classrooms.

I think you may have made the app I have been searching for. Pre-school students needs apps that let them create and not just "glorified work sheets" or some story told to them. I will let you know in the next few weeks how it works in my classrooms :)
The Hacker Model Railroad Club
Assuming you have the xprvkey for M of your N keys, then you just need to find the UTXO for your funds and publish a transaction that moves that to another key.

We list all UTXO for your account (with all the transaction hashes needed) in what we call the "audit report" and that includes multisig accounts now too. The subkey needed (M/x) is indicated in that report as well. Armed with that information, a site like ms-brainwallet can produce and send the transaction you need.

Also for you doomsday planning: we email a copy of the HSM private keys associated with your multisig account, encrypted with Coinkite master key that would be published after we shutdown. (Very similar to what we've always done with regular accounts).
That all sounds fantastic, but what do you do if just one component of systemd doesn't work for you? Or if you only want to use one or two components of systemd?
Yes, the author of systemd/systemctl is very enthusiastic about his projects. Why did you point that out?
This is likely either a supporting advertisement for Interstellar, or a retrospective attempt to siphon some traffic from the burst of interest in general relativity which followed the release of Interstellar.

This isn't "time travel" in the colloquial sense, it's just different frames of reference which differ by imperceptible amounts relative to a human lifetime.
I never understood this argument. Comcast doesn't need usage-based pricing to raise rates. They can just raise rates. Their rates change all the time (and vary by where you are). Given that, raising prices for high-usage customers is really kinda the same thing as lowering prices for low-usage customers (give or take a base-rate hike).

I think this argument conflates whether Comcast is too expensive with whether usage-based pricing is necessarily unfair.

Put another way, why is it ok to charge less for a capped speed but it isn't ok to charge less for a capped monthly transfer?
This is fascinating! Last semester I made a clone of Maniac Mansion in Java for a game development class and it was probably the most fun I ever had making anything. Does anyone know what the doodle on the left is on the last picture? http://images.grumpygamer.com/gg_scumm_docs11.jpg
Or is it just that (; a doodle)?
If it helps, the debugger points to an invalid ʹ character in 01135560588655f631606d051ab4cd4df545eead.js. I circled the character in blue [1]. Beyond that I haven't the foggiest idea.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/WgiitFj.png
If Internet providers move to metered access the only bright spot in the industry will be the need for software, and hardware to limit, throttle and manage your personal data use (what a future!)

Specifically with smartphones- the built in controls to keep you from blowing through your cellular data plan don't apply when your wifi...is connected to a meted plan. So your device thinks "I'm on wi-fi, update all the things" yet the connection still "cellular".

It would be a sad day in tech when your device OS has to implement an "airplane-esq" mode for metered connections that drops all data-intensive usage and maybe only allows certain notifications through.
...or they could have Netflix OpenConnect caches in their network: https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/deliveryOptions/index.ht...
The application I work on is fairly complex and I've had no trouble at all building and organizing my code into separate modules.
What's wrong, for me, isn't the native alert. It's a personal pet peeve that most of them ask "yes" or "no" questions when "Okay" and "Cancel" are the actual options presented to the user.

Also, I believe localization of the web app's text can be made more difficult when the text's semantics don't align with the native UI's semantics.
Germany/Europe.
What I hate is that some people feel entitled to getting one's hard work for free.
The the woman who grew the DNA crystals that enabled Watson and Crick to do their model. Almost all scientific progress is an extended team effort both laterally and vertically in time. You have the draw the line somewhere. If they gave each prize to 100s of people, we would lose interest. They also don't award it posthumously
I'd wager it comes more from a "small government" view, rather than the "gov't taking away my guns".
Thankfully "upgrading" your data plan with Verizon is easy, but the pricing is still exorbitant.

The "overnight" data usage by services is actually very interesting. Often I would go to sleep well under my daily goal, and wake up to a "mysterious" 2GB transfer around midnight-2 AM. the usage wasn't nefarious in nature, however the timing (middle of the night) made it difficult to manage.
Y Combinator safes as investment vehicle – links to discussion threads
The quality of software varies significantly in general, we just get to see the open source.
came here to say/ask same thing.
;)

On OS X, these shortcuts work in generic text inputs as well! That's enough of a reason to convince me to keep the default shortcuts.
Nah, Clojure seqs are more like .NET/LINQ enumerables.

Functions that work over seqs/enumerables return a new seq/enumerable. From what I understand, and I'm sure I am wrong, a transducer receives and transforms a value, and may call the next transducer with the transformed value.

The nice thing is that a transducer does not create intermediate results (a seq/enumerable), and that it doesn't make any assumptions on the underlying datastructure. So you can, for instance, send a value through a transducer and directly place it in a list, instead of creating a set of enumerables and then call .ToList on that. Since transducers can work with any value, you also aren't tied to enumerables. So transducers should be a little more universal and performant than enumerables.
Working in your use case doesn't invalidate someone else's. I've had some systems that pulseaudio has been great for. I have some in which I still don't have fully working sound.
Pay to remove Google Ads
WatchKit Tutorial with Swift: Getting Started
Meanwhile, live and on-demand HD online streaming is already a thing for YEARS in Peru:

http://play.tuteve.tv
Not sure why you and /u/spacemanmatt were downvoted. Republicans are blocking a bill in the Senate currently to curtail the NSA's surveillance dragnet: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/nsa-phone-records.html?...

If they're for personal liberty, its not for Joe Public.
Karrimor asking me to add a nofollow to a link to their website
To be fair, the Republicans are getting plenty of help from the Democrats when it comes to making America look bad.
Would love to get your feedback on that one.
Aterlo Networks wants to put a Netflix cache in your router
Is this going to hamper it from being the next python for both general and data science programming? Do you think I should invest in learning julia, or continue with python?
Playstation Hacked Again