skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically what cyphunk is saying is: how do we know that this was used by the NSA? More precisely: how does Spiegel know to say "clear proof that Regin is in fact the cyber-attack platform belonging to the Five Eyes alliance"?

We have something out in the wild (Regin) which contains a component (QWERTY) which was leaked in the Snowden documents, however it is quite possible that both descend from a common non-NSA source (Putative) such that:

P (non-NSA)
/ \
Q R (non-NSA)
(NSA)

Furthermore it is possible that in fact P = R, and that Q was derived from Regin rather than the other way around. Lots of possibilities are out there. We don't really have proof that P = Q and that therefore R also belongs to the NSA.

The issue is that we can attribute malicious attacks to R, and the article seems to be suggesting that therefore we should attribute these to the NSA. The reply by cyphunk is saying that this is a dangerous logical leap.
You'll have to back up your "shit app store" claim in regards to Windows Phone... I decided try out all-MS with the purchase of a Nokia Icon last year and the integration has been phenomenal. I've also noticed only one bug (in IE of course), and the phone rarely restarts itself like my Droid Maxx often does. Rudy Huyn also creates solid clones of every single popular Andy/iOS app.

The UI is cleaner, Nokia Maps > Google Maps especially for Navigation (full GPS offline nav has saved me more than once), complete MS Office app integration, Outlook email client is slick, camera is better than Android/iOS, OneDrive integration works perfectly. I've been very surprised at how well executed it is, and 8.1 promises to be even better with Cortana, etc.

To date I've had one app that didn't have an equivalent from WinPhone devs, that was the Amazon Seller App. Then again, I don't spend time playing phone games so I'm not the target market. I keep a Droid Maxx around in case there's a niche app I absolutely must use.
An R package for Bayesian causal inference on time-series
Sadly, though, the Atlanta rollout only goes as far north as Sandy Springs and Smyrna. No love for those of us up here in Cherokee county.

Hopefully it'll at least scare Comcast and AT&T into stepping up their game. I'd be really thrilled if it straight-up killed Windstream.
How does a spray bottle work?
That limit is set somewhere in the kernel but it's not clear if lsof is just setting that as a maximum internally or probing somewhere - I used strace -etrace='!close' lsof +c 64 but I couldn't see anything related to the limit.
I don't know anything about Slack's design so maybe you are correct and there is some really special sauce powering their success.

HOWEVER - it does not strike me as remarkable that they are able to quickly iterate on a product that was only 7-9 months old (at the time of the anecdote) with (apparently) a relatively small group of internal and external stakeholders to be creating friction. It would be more remarkable if they had already lost the ability to iterate in such a short period of time.
Google could not force major ISPs out of business even if they wanted to. They just don't have enough money. Verizon and Comcast combined have more than 3x Google's revenue.

And if Google Fiber is indeed a loss leader, then each successive deployment will be more difficult to finance. And they've only deployed a few small communities.

But that's not Google's goal. Their goal is just to make sure that consumers have a broadband alternative in the markets where they currently do not. That's much more modest, and to me it seems competitive rather than anti-competitive. I certainly hope they come to my town, where Comcast is the only option if I want more than 5 Mbps.
The $184K is net profit, so each employee's salary is already counted. Another way of thinking about it: every Apple employee can get a $180K salary increase and they'd still make money.
I appreciate what you're saying, but your seem to not be addressing the point of the post: you could reduce risk by moving to rolling upgrades. A year of changes is a big change, smaller updates are not. There's also a huge risk in stasis.

Not that it's relevant, but to respond to your first point: you know people who roll their browser, and a few Linux distros roll their release too. I've heard of some startups who use a Fedora rather than CentOS for that reason.
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"It seems like hiking through the woods together, but virtual woods."

I've played minecraft with my kids a lot, and it can be fun, but virtual play time is not all adult nostalgic fuzzy bunnies, I was highly annoyed to discover that minecraft playtime with the kids is just like meatspace play time with the kids which means it includes all the annoyances, so there's tons of typical "what are you doing put that down right now", "be nice to animals or we stop playing", "if you walk along the edge you're going to fall and get hurt", "lava will burn you I told you to leave that alone", "I don't care how much of a temper tantrum you have you can't take that diamond I just mined and do nothing with it because its too valuable", "stop teasing your sister in game or we all quit", "no we aren't there yet", "dads redstone thing is complicated stop dumping water buckets on it", etc.

I've spent my whole life from kid up to adult being lectured incessantly from liberal arts grads that normal humans never treat online humans like they would meatspace because ... some fuzzy psych major BS whatever, which is just apologist rhetoric for its OK to flame people online because its "natural", and/or stereotypical "nerds suck we spend our time watching football so we're cool" BS. However, despite decades of pontificating, I assure you my kids act online just like they act offline, both the mostly good and occasionally not so good parts.

Its tiring. Just like taking kids to a (real) park involves burning mental energy keeping them alive (I'm talking real parks with real wilderness, not swing set neighborhood parks), taking kids to your base in minecraft involves me not focusing on the game and spending maybe 25% of mental energy, maybe more, trying to keep them out of trouble. And just like in the real world, one or two adults can easily keep one kid out of trouble but you get two or more kids and only one adult and next thing you know one is shooting arrows at her brother or the other is dumping lava buckets on his sister because she won't give him back his sword and she's threatening to tattle to mom and oh its all Fed up sometimes. Well, kids will be kids.

It was/is fun, just go in with the awareness that if they spend X% of real world time being naughty, in virtual world its going to be the same X% of time being naughty. Its not gonna be all idyllic.

As far as rules and stuff its not rocket science you make a to do list and work it top to bottom and unless you're an idiot, minecraft is the last thing on the list not the first, the first is usually homework.
What's crappy about iTunes?
Maybe its about power/control.

If they gave out the shares then most shareholders would likely just resell them onto the open market.

However with the spin-off now they have a great little power house to direct and influence Alibaba.
There are still a few things that rust provides that C++ doesn't. In particular, I think rust's ability to link different object's lifetimes together (think iterators and containers) without forcing you to treat them as the same object will be one of its most significant contributions to language semantic design.
I don't know about investors, but Apple clearly doesn't care about market share or they'd be selling under $100 iPhones.
"$184 000 per employee in Q4"

I think you took quarterly numbers and conflated them with annual numbers. Unless a 90k effective quarterly salary seems reasonable?
You really believe that more days are lost to motorcycle and scuba accidents than to paid parental leave? I suspect the latter outnumbers the former by at least 1 and probably 2 orders of magnitude.
They are finding it easier to sell skinny phones and long battery life than CPU speed. Phones could be quite a bit more powerful if they were as thick and heavy as they used to be.

The Google Project Tango prototype phone is chunky but has lots of CPU.
> You're not reading it correctly. Microsoft's critical vulns are nearly all of the class of errors that, say, Rust, solves. Memory safety issues. If Windows was written in, e.g. Rust, all those security issues simply would not have happened. I'm not sure how I can make this more clear.

And what I'm saying is that you're solving the problem in the wrong place. I'll take a static analysis tool that will find a buffer overrun at compile time over a runtime that blows up the program in production, every time.

> While you can write dumb code in any language, programmers somehow end up not writing remote code execution from simple copies in other languages. Yet in C, this keeps happening.

Shellshock, eval, SQL injection, people will write dumb code that results in remote code execution using whatever you like.
> if there was a better job available, they'd already be doing that instead of driving for Uber.

So none of these people can currently do better than driving for Uber?
Leo from Buffer posted a blog yesterday about how everything he owns fits in one bag. I don't think I could go as far as him, but I think the idea of food independence is a good one, apart from all the tools and equipment you need (instead of just a credit card to buy groceries).
Where would I be able to see app revenue alone? On the Summary Data PDF it says services did 4.8B and that includes "revenue from the iTunes Store, the App Store, the Mac App Store, the iBooks Store, AppleCare, Apple Pay, licensing and other service". Is it possible to see only App Store revenue?
Most of the substances are convincing, though the drapes around the last windowed room are weak and the reflective pot in the far corner of the room immediately prior is unnatural as you transition between them. At this point, I feel the unnatural motion is a greater stumbling block to believability than the vision, even despite the virtual eyeball type light/dark adjustments we see at the end when swinging between the final bright room at right and the darker doorway.
Almost all YouTube videos work in HTML5 mode on Firefox and have for a while, it just wasn't HTML5 by default.
The best part of the report is that iPad sales are plunging. It's a victory for general purpose computing that that segment of the walled garden is in decline. Let's hope that open systems can gain a toehold in phones sometime too.
Using Kotlin for Android – Jake Wharton
In a sense, things do not change, they stop to be changed from a assumed state.
It was the best way to run Flash programs without installing Flash system-wide.
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Louis CK Drops 2 Feet of Shade on Meteorologists
Ask HN: Anyone attended CollisionConf? Can you please share the experience?
We got invited to CollisionConf (May, 2015) in downtown Las Vegas. According to their website, we will get a free booth for one day. Is this a good event to attend for a pre-revenue startup?
I'm not sure if that is possible. However you may want to look into applying for a ITIN from the IRS before you visit, as you'll likely need one for tax purposes if you're able to open the account (assuming you don't have a US SSN for some reason, or are eligible for one).

Hopefully someone else can weigh in on opening a US account for non-US citizens or residence. I assume illegal immigrants in the US must have them so presumably it is "possible?" Or does the IRS issue illegals SSNs?
Agreed. Interesting games were never about fancy or realistic graphics.
Also, I'd bet all the fancy lighting and such in this scene is all pre-baked so the scene is totally static. Not the best state for interesting gameplay.

Though this sort of thing would be awesome for virtual tours of proposed buildings or faraway places and so on.
If you're used to it, you can streamline these processes and automate as much as possible. Even if it's a change you can't easily test or automate, by making just the one change at a time you know what to blame if it breaks. :)
Picture it this way: Net income of $18 billion over 12 weeks. That's $1.5 billion in net profit per week. $214 million per day. Absolutely mind blowing.
Since we're talking about silly comparisons, if you combined all the iPads into one giant unit it would be quite a bit bigger than Central Park:

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/november22014/index.html
That's an apples to oranges comparison. To upgrade Chrome a consumer depends only on himself. To upgrade a server OS, the "user" (the sysadmin) depends on a number of other people with different priorities. And that's _if_ the people he depends on are still with the company...

I've been faced inumerous times with impossible upgrades (nobody cares about upgrading besides you, so nobody cares to fix whatever is preventing the upgrade). And when the upgrade is possible, many times it takes years.

That same user that upgrades Chrome on his laptop, is still stuck with IE7 at work because his company relies on it to pay his salary.
If they're able to attract market share at all, there's a lot of money to be made in the default search engine arena. The Mozilla Foundation gets quite a bit of money from Yahoo to have Yahoo be the default.
It's called having a loss leader, and there are hundreds of products/companies that do it. You commonly purchase products sold as a loss leader. Hell, steaks at most restaurants are sold at a loss with the hopes you'll order a drink.

In this hypothetical situation, Google uses its internet access as a loss leader to sell hypothetical services which require high speed broadband. Traditional ISPs will use internet access as a loss leader to other services, such as phone and television.
Someone who does not understand how software is produced cannot manage the process of producing software.

It's easy to learn to manage programmers, I've done it, and I did it by dealign with a lot of bad managers.

In 25 years I've yet to meet a manager who was good at managing software development who did not have an engineering background. At best, the best managers sat by and let the programmers run the show and they themselves just helped with interpersonal problems and hr, and spend their time doing some project management type efforts.

The idea that managers possess something magical that engineers don't have is false.

Or maybe over decades I've just randomly never seen it. And I've worked at places like Amazon and Microsoft-- at amazon the managers were not engineers and it really sucked. At microsoft the mangers were engineers and at least in that regard it was much better.... except at the higher levels where it became political and the mangers stopped being engineers, and thus projects got behind.
I find it's closer to the norm that a company doesn't begin the product design process correctly, and shifts to a period of quality-impacting chaotic whitewater where the product is considered 'sellable' and it becomes more of a marketing and sales game to make the company successful.

Slack, at least during its rise to fame, had not yet hired a sales or marketing team. I think they have remarkable product focus, and it's a testament to how unbalanced business thinking generally is in the spectrum. I think the status quo is a little too far past "the product won't sell itself," and Slack is a good example of a company balanced more toward the quality side of the equation. To me, that's the core reason for their success so far, and it's surprising that more companies haven't dawned on this way of operating (well, not surprising when you consider mainstream American business ideas).

It does remain to be seen if they can keep up the solid quality as they grow. It requires an orchestration that is very deliberate and well intentioned, and if they came upon their initial strategy by luck, it won't last.
Suggest Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange, at http://rootsecure.net/content/downloads/pdf/underground_book...
More than Black Mirror, it reminded me of Wall-e, where humans have become so atrophied from not doing anything. I need a device to rid me of the burden of locking the door, or putting on some PJ's. Ironically the constant use of screens and devices emitting blue-light even in bed has a more direct (and detrimental) impact on sleep quality than all those sensors, and the small cognitive-bandwidth gain, will. And of course, I reserve the right to change my mind later.
A wonderful book, indeed. It "teaches" a useful business management lesson: when two strong egos clash, the company drowns.

I also admire Carmack's way to tackle new (sometimes unknown) problems: read the literature, learn, do. And never failed following this.

I loved the parts when Romero swam across the lake to work all night with the rest of the crew, or when they invited in a stripper with pizza but Carmack wouldn't set the keyboard aside. So determined.
> ... or people interested in having children.
lol, that's what we do as a species, you know?

This brings to a whole new level the meaning of "alienated".
If you are going to run your own comment system why not embed them in the HTML? At least then the search engines could index them. Does it have this option?
This is sad on so many levels. Multi-billion tax avoidance, opportunistic shareholders, an over-hyped CEO, and a good Internet company on its twilight.
I think they've learnt from their mistakes and are improving things dramatically in Windows 10. 8.1 was leaps and bounds ahead of 8 (which was a disaster).

10 finally is a sensible direction that allows them to do what they want with mobile and give the desktop users are familiar experience out of the box.

98% of the time when using Windows 8.1 (or 8 for that matter) on the desktop you're in familiar territory anyway. They screwed up, yes, but they will recover, and the way Apple is going with software I'm interested to see how much of the tables will turn in the next few years.
Amazing idea. It could be used for addressing many respiratory system illness.
RFS: 10 minute computer science lessons delivered daily
Request for Startup: Basic computer science lessons for the non-technical peeps.
Apparently you guys haven't heard enough church sermons in your lives.
no shower?
Step 3: Charge a couple of bucks per month for it and lose money for the first year but that's okay as long as we break even we will make money eventually right? I mean that's what investors want us to do right?
It's entirely possible it's not "in decline" but has merely hit saturation.
Ask HN: Migrating to New Zealand for job, how easy it is?
Hey guys.
I was wondering is anyone here have some experience about migrating to New Zealand and getting work visa as developer without college education.
I live in one retarded country and planing to move somewhere.

I am 32 years old and have full time work as system/network administrator (linux machines) and i do freelance developer work (mostly ruby and php) for more than 8 years.
Like i said no college education and i am wondering what are my chances? Anyone with experience and similar preferences?
agreed - redis is a single binary with minimal dependencies, this seems like so much more work for no gain.
One pro of using Swift which I haven't seen mentioned here is that you will be able to attract more developers to your project if you write it in Swift. Everyone wants to work on the new hotness. This is a long term value and could outweigh any short term shortcomings of the tools.
Yes, 74.6 billion is their revenue for the quarter but it's also about their profit (extrapolated) for a year! :)
Having bought the iPhone 6, I have to say I miss the size of iPhone 5, being able to use it with one hand, being less slippery, and the sturdy design. Many months passed by and I still miss it - this has never happened before.

I won't be buying the Apple Watch because I have a real watch. And I simply don't see the point in having a watch that does a fraction of what my phone already does.

I have just bought some PUT options on AAPL, because I don't see the revenue driver for the future. There's no need for a more powerful or slimmer phone at this stage, any advancement will be increasingly marginal. All the possible sizes are already out. Desperate people have got their hands on the latest gadget. What's next for Apple? How can they continue to grow phone sales at this rate? I simply don't see it, nor do I see another product category being as big as the truly personal computer that is the smartphone.
There was an early streaming video application for Windows 3.1 that predated RealPlayer. It had some radio stations playing music as well as CNBC. Can't remember the name now. Even earlier was MBone for X11 although that was never more than experimental at the time.
foobar2000 and GoneMad Music Player? Dunno, I'm that propeller hat guy who carries his music around in Opus Format on his Android ...
Seriously. I just upgraded from my original iPad to a new one, whereas even being a slow upgrader I tend to get new phones more frequently.
Does the "tax rate of 26.3 percent" mentioned refer to how much tax Apple actually paid, or its notional tax rate?

For example, here in Australia, Apple had $6 billion revenue and paid $80 million tax. Assuming the margins are at least as good as the US, the profit would be $2.4 billion, so Apple's actual tax rate in Australia is 3.4%. Compare that with the theoretical Australian corporate tax rate of 30%, which would put Apple's tax bill closer to $700 million.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/apples-803-million-australian...
Mind naming names about the bootcamp? I ask for two reasons:

(1) Other people who are getting ready to shell out $10k for a bootcamp deserve to hear from dissatisfied alumni

(2) There's a lot of negative press around bootcamps and the good ones shouldn't be lumped in with the bad ones. I had a great experience at Hack Reactor that set me up for interview success with data structures and algorithms, despite lacking a formal CS degree.
What are the complete disasters and how did you come to the conclusion that they weren't worth the price they paid?

Genuinely curious.
Regulatory capture doesn't have to mean literal corruption. It can cover situations where governments acting on their own and in good faith, assume the status quo and grandfather incumbents. It might not even be on purpose, but rather the logical consequence of a distaste for laws and regulations with retroactive effects. But the end result is the same: legal obligations that impact new players more than old.

So the question is whether Comcast has to meet the same standard of building out their network in poor neighborhoods as Verizon does.
I enjoyed "The Making of Prince of Persia" [1]. It is a journal and thus misses out on some of the dramatic storytelling the strong, contrasting personalities of Romero and Carmack provided Masters of Doom. However, I found it very interesting from a design and programming point of view.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Making-Prince-Persia-Journals-1985/dp/...
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