skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a lot of the antipiracy efforts now being directed towards end-user devices; in particular, mobile. I think the trend of walled-garden environments with app stores, the app-centric model of interaction, and all the increasingly locked-down (always in the name of security) features of modern OSs are where the real battle is being fought, and it's one that they seem to be winning: with data being managed by and hidden behind apps, touted as a feature of convenience, the users of these new consumption-oriented devices are being distanced from direct control of their data, and this greatly increases the effort required for them to pirate. If the majority of the population eventually only has access to one of these heavily locked-down devices (and traditional desktops/laptops become a niche product), then it's easy to see how file sharing could become virtually nonexistent - almost everyone will not even know what a file is, much less see any ways to copy and share the contents of one. The only sharing they would know of is that explicitly featured in the apps they use. It wouldn't be too dissimilar to the world of Stallman's Right To Read ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html ).

Fortunately most computer users today still know about files and torrents, and hopefully that knowledge continues to thrive, but I do see large-scale attempts at fundamentally changing how we interact with computing devices that could eliminate that knowledge and those freedoms associated with it in the future. Taking down TPB and chasing the other torrent sites isn't quite as effective as systematically eliminating the knowledge that makes those sites possible; in other words, remove the concept of filesharing and "the Internet it created" will essentially kill itself.
>Their current top model is 64 core.

Sadly it isn't. They only made prototypes for the kickstarters, it isn't mass produced or available.
Wait, why couldn't you simply link to the bill or the petition linked to in the imgur post?
If you live in Iowa, your next driver's license is a phone app
If we consider the difficulty in obtaining disability benefits and the difficulty in keeping them, we should also consider why someone would go through the hassle. I don't think that the benefits are all that much (I could be wrong).

What if we, as a society, could make it easier to obtain and sustain a good-paying job? Would people be still willing to go the route of disability? Maybe there are few jobs that many people can get. Or, maybe the 'costs' associated with working are too high. There's considerable social stigma for being 'disabled'' - why would someone take on that stigma?

I'm guessing that people are making a rational cost / benefit analysis.
This sounds as ridiculous as when Kevin Mitnick wasn't allowed to use a phone whilst incarcerated because it was rumoured he'd set of nuclear missiles by whistling at certain frequencies.

Edit: Slightly tongue in cheek.
Google's 'top apps' of 2014 are totally predictable
The biggest thing about the difference between Russia and the United States is the end goal of their actions. Putin is ensuring his power base, while the US is trying to stop terrorism. I don't like what they are doing but this is what the NSA thinks what works to stop terrorism. If you look at both President Obama and President Bush they did close to the same things regarding national security. It may be a faulty assumption, but this leads me to believe that there are things that these programs protect the western world from. The people who work for the CIA and NSA aren't idiots and they definitely have committed some horrible actions, but they wouldn't being continuing these missions if they were futile.

I would like to live in a world without religious extremism, but it has and will always exist. They utilize the poverty and illiteracy of certain places in the middle east to make teenagers believe suicide bombing is the way to get to heaven. Humanity is facing many existential crises and this is the way we are currently handling one. It is definitely not an optimal solution, but it doesn't matter if we can't solve our ever increasing CO2 emissions and the many other problems resulting from greenhouse gases.
Also, clumsy as it may have been, the practice of splitting large files into volumes of small RAR files helped.
A prominent author Steven Johnson tries to answer this question in his 2010 book: 'Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation'... Interesting read!
I would guess ETH Zurich and, to a lesser degree, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has something to do with it. That's basically Europe's leading engineering and software universities right there.
A more subtle point is that the incentive structure for men to work had has evaporated. In divorce (which is largely initiated by women), men stand to lose more in alimony and child support. The economics say that if you marry (and far more people decide not to do these days), you probably shouldn't be the sole breadwinner and you certainly shouldn't earn more than your wife.

I know a number of couples where the man just doesn't work and is supported by his wife. I don't think it's a conscious choice, it's unconscious and based on incentive.
I like the "↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A" implementation
It's clearly not as ridiculous, as there was no basis whatsoever to believe that Mitnick could do anything like that.
Inmarsat's constellation is not global (pole to pole) coverage. Iridium's value proposition here (with a subsidiary named Aireon) is global ADS-B coverage.
I admit to being confused by their security statements. Is the OS and code running on the device open sourced? Given that it looks like the device is handling the encryption, and I got the device from them, I don't see any publicized way for me to verify that any encryption is actually happening.
Does that mean that North Korean dissidents who speak about against the regime when they escape are CIA agents?
At this point in time they seem joined at the hip. I think a Pottering retort about Debian users complaining about the size of systemd was that it was introduced over time on Fedora. So if any distro should make systemd shine, it would be Fedora.
And the “modern” reimplementation of make is ninja: http://martine.github.io/ninja/
I do wonder why a more decentralised approach hasn't taken off.
I'd be fine with that. The OCaml way just seems needlessly preachy.
Not sure if /sbin/init failing is a nitpick. its kind of a catastrophic failure as far operating systems are concerned.
Interesting, I didn't realize there is a new edition:

Programming in Ada 2012 by John Barnes: http://amzn.com/110742481X

I wonder if ADA wouldn't be better if they were subtracting features rather than adding them.
I don't know, judging by all the gnashing of the teeth I get when I answer questions with something like "you should actually learn how to use git instead of banging your head against the wall with this wrapper for it" developers could use it too.
A rare appearance of the No False Scotsman fallacy.
Could you be more explicit and provide some examples.
If you are that interested in honesty, why don't you open up the bike index database for download so that, when you do seek investment, people can fork your product if they desire?
It must be somewhat common practice, because this is what the Witness Protection Program is for, right? And that program was established under the Organized Crime Control Act.
Yeah, if Snowden had of betrayed the ~~KGB~~ FSS/FIS he would have fallen down some stairs onto some bullets a long time ago.
This is reminiscent of Apple's Time Machine, except each save is the same as manually clicking "Back Up Now", and I assume that commits are more granular so directories can be committed individually rather than the whole tree.

I've often wondered if version control systems could be abstracted into a filesystem where each write is a commit, handling merges by choosing the local copy.

My primary dissatisfaction with git is that it lacks layers of abstraction. For example it should have had at least the first two distinct components listed below, something like:

1) git-fs (versioned filesystem, only supporting commit, clone and permissions)

2) git-merge (diff utility to handle merge conflicts)

3) git-local (two repositories wrapped in an abstraction to provide local and remote - the special sauce of git)

4) git-util (everything else like repair, reports, statistics, etc)

5) git (umbrella executable above previous layers)

I’m not super familiar with git console use so if it already is organized this way, great. But since it is not presented this way in its documentation, I feel that a great opportunity has been missed. We could have used git-fs the same way that people use Dropbox. Instead we have something with a lot of warts (things like .gitignore files interspersed with other files that continue the same mistakes that cvs and svn made, and the inability to save empty directories). I think git’s pattern of pull/commit/push is fantastic, but its shortcomings are so numerous that I’m going to stop knocking it right here before I get myself in trouble.

If gitfs ran on the Mac, I’d probably be using it right now to avoid frequent headaches where git interferes with the simplest pattern of pulling, merging by hand and pushing all files back if nobody else has committed in the meantime. I think that’s the motivation behind a library like this, because so many version control systems get the filesystem metaphor wrong and create two much friction by touting their various levers.
Given that Fedora and systemd has been developing in lockstep over the last few years, one would think they worked well together...
systemd does not support static linking due to its use of NSS. See: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-Mar...
This would be nice(r) if it could generate users from anywhere in the world.
Yeah its not quite there yet, but I included them because e.g. in Chrome we have web workers, separate processes for plugins, a separate renderer process, separate processes for tabs etc., and multithreading via NaCL.
Maybe a corner case.
Algorithmic Art from the Past
http://www.europaallee.ch/content/dam/PDF/Ueber_Europaallee/... for an english source.
This post was murdered on reddit already. This is no SOPA 2 in any way shape or form nor is it really any sort of new authority at all. It just places boundaries on retention of collection communications. It's a smallish curb on existing authority.
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Over the years that I have looked at Science Daily it has always provided sources and citations. I don't think there has been any change.
Amdahl's law is almost useless on practice. If a resource come, people will consume it. If they can't make their code run faster, they'll use it to run more code at the same time.

Yet, all that seems to miss Linus point.
The new EU VAT rules are bad for business
Try to avoid using sarcasm here. It doesn't make for good discussion.
We will get to them, these 5 words I swear to you, &c &c.

What's slowing us this time is that I left Matasano in October.

It doesn't help that every time this discussion comes up, I get email asking us not to post the solutions. :)
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They're only sharing magnet/torrent files, which are pretty small, so it should be possible to get quite far I guess?
Does anyone know what the name for the pattern #3 is? I've seen it referenced somewhere, but can't remember where or what it was.
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Ran the same test in node 0.10.33, and despite also using V8, does not have this behaviour.

https://gist.github.com/dazld/2a5dc58f5c9ce61bccae

Was about to start minifying all the server code too.. ;)
Why don't you think he was? I personally was all-for his cause (and everything silk road stood for), but I think he's probably guilty of the murder thing and they claim evidence to back it up.

Edit: Funny how I'm getting downvotes. Apparently it's soo controversial to make my decision based on evidence. And something that'll he likely be convicted for.
Yeah, that's really annoying - text is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/4681...
>>No-one is demonizing Putin, they're telling facts.

Really? Much in the same way that the media of 10 years ago convinced the populace that Hussein was involved with 9/11, the media today is propagating the following memes:

- Putin hates gays

- Putin kills journalists

- Putin was responsible for downing of MH17

How many of these memes are supported by facts? When accusing a leader of a nuclear power of these things, shouldn't the accusations be ironclad?
Chrome is using separate sandboxed processes for the security boundaries, and it actually costs some performance.
Tabs get mostly suspended when they're not active.

This is really the gist of the parallelism problem: it only helps when applied to the bottlenecks. Browsers aren't really using it to layout single pages faster, or running JS faster.

Yeah, there's some work on parallelism in rendering and GC in production browsers too but it's so far nibbling at the edges. Long way to go to get even 2x speedup compared to single core.
It's worth saying, as hackers we're familiar with the quotes about, if some old expert says something is impossible, be much more skeptical than when a young person says it is possible. Things like:

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Robert Goddard

Are perfect quotes for hackers. Maybe we should ease up on mocking people for believing the whistling nukes thing. The reasons it couldn't have happened involve details more specific than "sounds on phones can't do things on computers", notably because that wasn't true at the time. And experts probably told him that people only have to be clever enough to find a single flaw in a security system to compromise it, and having one insight the creators of the system didn't could lead to compromising it.

So the judge hears some seasoned professional say it's impossible... and the same person says when you hear some old professional say something is impossible you should be extremely skeptical. When faced with Armageddon? Let's cut the people involved a little slack.
With witness protection, I thought they still had the witness take the stand, then put them into the program.
Yup. Also, this bill actually passed the house in May of this year.
I've used http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ a couple of times (for bulk generation).

Also, there is http://www.generatedata.com/
Ask HN: Why do you code?
The absolute most basic reason possible for me, I can make something out of nothing.

Even after being a front end dev for the last 10ish years it blows my mind. I can open up a blank text editor and make something that can evoke emotion in other people.

I can create beautiful and amazing experiences for people (self high 5!) around the world in just 1 night of coding.

What about you?
Never mind that it results in a zombie state where you still have a shell, but no commands actually work.
> I simply don't watch a lot of TV any more because I can't cope with all the adverts, and everyone I talk to about this says that they don't watch TV in real time any more and just skip all the adverts.

"Everyone I talk to" is probably not a representative sample of the whole population (its probably distinctly skewed to be geographically, socioeconomically, and by interests and preferences similar to the speaker compared to the population.)

Anyhow, you can only skip some of the ads on TV if you are watching the show at all. [0]

[0]
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/24/breaking...
Jean-Claude Biver Restructures LVMH; TAG Heuer CEO Linder Resigns. Coincidence?
The darkness and the silence. I have to turn everything off and just sit with my eyes closed. Well, going for a walk helps, too. Or laying on the couch, staring at the ceiling. Being anywhere near anything that involves a computer is pretty much a no-go.

Sometimes, I break out a quill pen and an ink well and I "think out loud" on paper. Something about how slow the writing process is when you have to refill my pen after every sentence gives me space to think. Typing just doesn't work the same.
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I think the confusion is if "acquisition" in "shall permit the acquisition, retention, and dissemination of covered communications" includes spying. I don't think it does.
Yes. There are state criminal procedure rules that explicitly spell out when you can withhold the identities of witnesses; see for instance Ohio Criminal Procedure Rule 16 (D)(1). (I found Ohio's because there was a news story about increased use of the rule to protect witnesses there).

You can't withhold the identity of a witness at trial, because of the 6th Amendment.
No, one is clearly much worse than the other. Many journalists have been killed in Russia, for example.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in...

I imagine if a Russian version of Snowden ever occurred, he wouldn't remain alive to continue leaking documents.
So the West and Russia are equally bad? Who cares which is worse? The people who live there.
Not quite false. Here's the law in question I believe:
http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/%28Spravka%29?OpenAgent&R...
Are you still repeating that "putin hates gays" meme?! Read the facts: http://gallery.mailchimp.com/d0e55f3197099944345708652/files...
Does anyone know of any good solutions for feature extraction from logs, for the purpose of making graphs out of these features?

Has anyone integrated a graphing system like this in to Graylog/Logstash and care to share some lessons or advice on how you did it?

Finally, monitoring suites like Nagios an Zabbix: they have their own data-collection and graphing features. When tools like Graphite are used in conjunction with these, would you bypass them entirely? Or would you leverage their data-collection features to first grabb the data and then somehow funnel that data in to Graphite?

If it's the former, what do you use instaed of all thosebuilt-in data collection tools? If it's the latter, how do you do it?
"Freedom zones," trying to get MLK to commit suicide, the Red Scare, subversion of activist groups during the Nixon years, Kent State, manipulation of social networks and Wikipedia, controlling the media to the point that it might as well be called the state media unless you're watching BBC or Comedy Central.

I could go on and on. The Russians are not worse than the US, they're just not as good at hiding it.
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Reading legal coverage in Wired is like reading technology coverage in People magazine.

The witness list will be disclosed, a few days before the trial. In no litigation does either side have an obligation to produce lists of witnesses well ahead of time unless specifically ordered by a judge.

Disclosure of witness lists is not required by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16, which governs mandatory disclosures: http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_16. Local practice, including in SDNY where this trial is held, might hold it customary to make such disclosures, but no specific number of days of advance notice is usually required. It's useful to search "witness list" on that link and read the committee notes on the rationale behind the rule.

A good, but somewhat old, article on the subject. http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=27...
Yeesh, I missed the monthly charge. What legitimate reasons other than pure profit would they need to charge a non-trivial monthly charge? Unless they are completely failing to sell enough devices to accommodate the distributed storage, they aren't having to store the data themselves. At most it seems they just have to have servers to facilitate the distributed coordination.
Microsoft Patch Recalled for Exchange
Which is worse, greed or fear?
I'd hope that any distribution would be packaged to work well with it's init system, regardless of which init system that is. After all, the whole point of a distribution is to have a core set of software[0] that works together reasonably well.

[0] With the number of different packages in a modern Linux, I don't expect everything in a distributions repository to work perfectly, but core stuff (like the stuff that gets you from a cold boot to a login prompt, etc) should be rock solid.
By the time DO started competing with Linode, it wasn't worth Linode's time to care about a cheap $5 box. The only problem is that people go to a $5 droplet and stay for a $XXX droplet.

Linode should have taken them seriously.
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'AI will not be a separate intelligent entity, it will be the extension/evolution of existing intelligent entity, that is us.'

With respect to intellectual threat I don't think you can say that. Your assumption is that any behaviour resulting from the creation of a separate intelligent entity (no one has the slightest idea how to do this) will be predictable (or be constrained by us) - having evolved 'from us'. Why should that be?
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I thought it had won the AAA game industry by a lot?
Try your best to convey it properly in your writing, and if your sarcasm is not clear apologize and maybe remove your non-content.
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Well put! You've identified the next major battle to take place here in the states. Big Business vs. the people via control of hardware. And the funny thing is we're going to see most Americans running into the open arms of Big Business under the guise of "Security and safety", "Business has the right to lock down their hardware ... don't limit business", and, of course, "open systems open the door to terrorists."

You've perfectly identified the battle, but, sadly, I suspect the war has already been lost.
It's pretty smooth. Epic have really polished the UX to make such a complex piece of software understandable and soften the barrier to entry as much as possible. There are all sorts of tutorials.

I'd say it's easier to learn than Unity at this point, but harder than 2D engines like GameMaker. I think some basic experience making simple 2D games will help a lot before the transition to 3D.

If you're already familiar with Javascript and you want to start making games at a lower level you could try the PhaserJS framework.
As one of the world's most neutral countries, Switzerland has historically been a pretty good place to establish an autonomous, neutral, predictably-regulated business when governments are going crazy (which, frankly, they have been lately). If the rest of the world goes nuts, they'll be able to pull out and move base to Zurich, which is not likely to be subject to a war or other major political upsets.

Switzerland is historically infamous for having these qualities, it's why even the Nazis used them to deposit money. They also don't have things like DMCA laws. War aside, let's say the corporate lobby gets them to push the screws on DMCA to make it worse. Hello new Youtube HQ.

TLDR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8740289
Watching people bungle through life and then go all emo Skywalker. "I can't, it's too hard."

Try or try not, etc. I want to be the person that makes people feel that anyone can do anything in their life. I'm a blundering idiot. If I can do it, you can too.
I've heard that this site has been redirecting people to a .ee site which asks for a donation to use. This is a malicious site.