skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft offers this tool to create a clean Windows install disc: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-re...
The "new" low end xps 13 looks like it starts around $800. Macbook Air is roughly in the same ballpark. For my purposes, the raw tech/price specs were not enough to matter.

My old xps 13 dev had a higher resolution screen, but it ended up being more of a problem than a bonus, mainly due to the inability of most of the ubuntu ecosystem to scale gui elements well. I could go on in more detail on this, but the fact is that Apple chose an even multiple for pixel scaling in retina displays (so non-retina apps can simply be displayed at effectively at twice normal size). In FullHD, some manner of fractional scaling must be employed on a 13" screen, and it needs to be done across the OS gui elements, as well as the rest of the app ecosystem in order for it to look right. I don't believe Ubuntu has this completely covered yet. In Ubuntu's defense, I haven't seen a fractional pixel scaling done "right" in a desktop environment (e.g. Windows 8).

As far as the opening/closing issue goes (as well as the other small fit and finish nits), this Forbes article mentions these details as well on the latest xps 13:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2015/01/26/dell-x...
This is true if you're running pre-releases, but what kinds of issues have you had elsewhere?

I've been running Fedora for over a decade, and while it suffers from being bleeding edge sometimes, I don't think I've ever had stability issues or things I'd describe as a buggy mess.
Oh, god. Not again. Stopped reading at "More Object-Oriented".
I like that it builds up to monads by introducing functor and applicative first, as those are far easier stones to leap to.
Andy Kessler: Forget Net Neutrality, Focus on Fiber
tome's law: In any discussion about an article whose title is a question, Betteridge's law is mentioned with probability 1.
Maybe you could use them in SIP panel construction even if only in pulp of fiber form.

Log cabins are of debatable sustainability being hard to seal and insulate to modern standards.
In many developing countries the bar is pretty low, and while bitcoin is not that stable yet, it may well become a suitable option in a few years.

Look at the Argentinian Peso, it has lost almost 90% of its value against the USD since 2001. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=USDARS%3DX+Interactive#%7...
Protect your gmail account with phone verification save it from thief and hacker
Actually yes! I'm one of the people who accidentaly sparked a long discussion in the #1 issues thread: https://github.com/share/ShareJS/issues/1 that I've seen other people on HN link to.

GUN doesn't have OT-style text collaboration yet, so go with ShareJS if that is what you need now. I do plan on implementing it on top of GUN though, or trying to get ShareJS integrated with GUN. Joseph is a really great guy.

Yupe, I've talked to Steve Marx at Dropbox Datastore at a hackathon before. He's a great guy as well. They're using algorithms that require some centralized conflict resolution though. Which is great, but I'm interested in the decentralized side.
We've added in a late payment fee that gets added on every month a payment is late. As soon as that first notice goes out saying "You now owe us $X,XXX MORE!" people seem to magically send checks. You have to have that in the MSA/Contract of course.
Evolutionary Business Process Development
I've looked at your "Hypothetical Amnesia Machine algorithm" and have a few questions.

First though, I'd like you to read this: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/t...
I don't think it does if you leave it in a public place like a restaurant.
I don't understand your comment. When you buy or sell currency, the original currency is not destroyed. Or am I wrong?
It is actually from Korea
Today is not a good day to extoll Lenovo's benefits :\
At some point, people have to begin to realize that this has progressed past "looking for terrorists."

Statists are gonna state, I guess.
how would that $1 be destroyed?
Never exclusively ascribe either malice or incompetence to explain the actions of a large bureaucracy. It is nearly always both.
“OFF THE HOOK” PREEMPTED FOR a FOURTH WEEK – FUTURE UNCERTAIN
Great point.

Perhaps it is important to distinguish "logical" and "physical" mutability. I say this because reading a splay tree doesn't change the return value in the future even though it changes the internals.
Superfish Raises $10m Series D Round
The problem with these sorts of on-phone-afterthoughts are that they are just lipstick on a pig.

You are still being tracked (GSM, wifi) and vulnerable to local hacks. Due to the nature of the devices (millions of identical devices are produced for major models), their distribution patterns (model selection led by fashion and price point), their homogeneity (two dominant embedded OS platforms only), their complexity (leading to a very large potential attack surface), and their ubiquitousness (your phone number, IMEI, local physical cell, or email address is probably terribly easy to find) it would be extremely foolhardy to rely upon the security of a modern, commercially available handset.
> The problem with Bitcoin though is it isn't a currency.

You mean it isn't a fiat currency. All that means is that Bitcoin's value isn't backed by a government, but is instead derived purely from the ability for someone to spend it.

> If it was a currency, if $1 USD was paid for a Bitcoin, that USD would be destroyed, not pocketed.

What? Since when? If you spend USD to buy EUR, the person on the other side of the transaction is giving you EUR and pocketing the USD. No value is destroyed.
Thanks. I'm already using it for tutorials ascii-casts. Works great so far.
This is fantastic. However, I couldn't see any mention of a Bitcoin-specific minimum charge. Is it still 50c as per Stripe's existing documentation[1]?

[1]: https://support.stripe.com/questions/smallest-amount-to-char...
Things that made perfect sense in the 1970s, are not set in stone for all time.
The hold Line has over Japan, and KakaoTalk over Korea, is pretty concerning to me. Entire countries are now off-limits to open platforms again -- a system that doesn't woo the host companies into writing a client for it is legitimately not useful for anyone there who has a social life (or increasingly even social responsibilities, like getting notifications from their school).
Distributed GPU password cracker for pentesters and network auditors
> Someone explain to me when "an informed choice" would ever come to the conclusion of, "Encryption? Not Necessary!"

I've been informed that encrypted web traffic costs money for the certificate and for additional server hardware. Thus I made the informed choice to use HTTP/2.0 without encryption.
How are those reboots upon Azure host OS updates working out for you?
Why is it off-putting for you? What do you have against an inanimate object?

Kill? Murder? Genocide? Guns don't kill, murder, or commit genocide. At least I've never seen a gun go on trial for any of those. People on the other hand...

Anyways, you're probably getting down-voted because people here dislike politics. You're trying to inject a political issue into a technical one.
AFAIK, Mention just does the real time monitoring part, not the sentiment analysis on top of that.
The recursive best-first search algorithm, jack of all trades?
As a 12 year .NET developer and linux user I can't express how much I disagree with you. First because saying that nowadays windows apps is more important than asp.net is crazy talk. Most development is web nowadays and will just increase.

Second because what is being open sourced is not "the rest of the framework", but what is needed to build a new framework today, without the dependencies and problems from yesterday. The team announced that in time, even wpf and other windows stuff would be built on top of the new corefx as additional libraries.

The new corefx is not an asp.net only thing. It's just that asp.net is the most demanded and also the least dependent part of the framework to start this change.

There is still a lot of things to be done in order to achieve that, but I'm pretty sure it will happen because once things like collections and linq start evolving on corefx, they won't want to maintain two distinct frameworks.

Take a look at the most discussed topics on github, there is a lot of stuff being discussed there by the core team.
Something a bit bulkier, but a lot lighter and more durable would be great.
Seconded, I plowed through the “wiki” (not really one) and the code for a bit, but gave up after while.

Doesn't have to be LaTeX for me, as long as it’s a comprehensive documentation.

(When OriFS was introduced here, the papers really helped to grok).
I worked for a while with a Turing Award winner. And indeed, he wasn't the type of person that had time to lose on a forum. He's been working a lot his whole life. But that being said, he wasn't the most interesting person in the world either. I had other colleagues who were far less accomplished professionally but with a much broader culture than him, including in computer science.
Beautiful: The Mobius Nautilus
The problem with AP is that you completely lack consistency guarantees, and most people will agree that's a bad thing. That you advocate that notion so heavily, and without scholarly research makes me really, really nervous.

From what I'm seeing in the function you reference (with very few details in the wiki) there's no accounting for, well, `P` -- what happens when a message does not make it, which happens all the time.

What I see is sort of, if you squint, a vector sequence, but one that takes nothing about actual distributed systems (and their unreliability) into account. It also completely trusts no errors have happened in states it's receiving.

This all through some really messy code...

You also claim to not use clocks, but the first thing you do depends on a clock:

```

var serverState = Gun.time.is();

var incomingValue = Gun.is.soul(deltaValue) || deltaValue;

var currentValue = Gun.is.soul(current[field]) || current[field];

var state = HAM(serverState, ...

```

Where Gun.time.is() does in fact call current time

```

Util.time.is = function(t){ return t? t instanceof Date : (+new Date().getTime()) }

```

So one thing that will break you right away will be clock skew. That's a critique I get simply and for free. I also see nothing about guaranteeing that states applying to each other are actually what they expect to be. Which, you know, would depend on consistency....

I'm very, very skeptical.
Darwin to me is pretty much the poster child for "unix-like" operating systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29
Dell has been producing amazing spec'ed laptops since 2013. When they use the IGZO display. Dell and Fujitsu both produced a 3200 x 1800 display laptop. Samsung has their 9 and 5 series that are pretty nice spec'ed work horses.
Apple Does not have any laptop with 32 GB of memory, and you cannot upgrade them. They have the i7 but only 1 of the 13 different possible specs.

Given size it is a bit more difficult but there are laptops with higher display density than apple and faster processors.
You might enjoy this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Bitterroot-Mr-Brandborg-Clearcutti...

It turns out the forest service/forest industry did workout how to grow deciduous trees faster at one point to maximize wood production but it involved terracing the hillside to enable mechanized planting and increase water retention.

The resulting forests were far from natural and we moved towards more sustainable levels of harvesting. It will be interesting to see if techniques could be developed to reestablish diverse forests on a larger level will be developed.
Except Stripe doesn't service pornography businesses. (Source: https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses)
Here's a writeup of my quest for the perfect backup tool:

http://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

Summary: Use attic.
I don't think those features are what make it "pro". I prefer it being thinner and lighter with soldered components rather than heavier without. RJ-45's are terrible on laptops, they're ugly, bulky, and hardly used. I'd much rather just use USB -> RJ45.
Great questions.

1. As of right now, focusing on beginner/front-end devs who just want an easy open source Firebase like database. People building small experimental apps, since we have finished our battle-testing suite yet.

However, I'd also highly encourage full stack developers to get involved and try it out and give us feedback. For small projects it'll probably save you time, but the plugin/modules ecosystem (aka features) aren't mature enough that you'll be writing a lot of your own logic. Which please do! We need them!

If you don't want to run GUN on localhost, I'll host a GUN server for you. :) You are right, I need to get better docs/tutorials and information out on this, so laymen don't get disheartened.

Is there anything I can do to help? Thanks for your comment!
Ranking NFL QBs based on smiles using Python
>>STEM has low standards and anybody can decide to be a biologists on a whim

I'm not following... what do you mean by biologist? As far as I've been informed (perhaps biased by the difficult job market of recent years) it is VERY difficult to find actual jobs doing meaningful biology work.
Sony releases $160 64GB SD cards marketed for Premium Sound
Sony releases $160 64 GB SD cards marketed for 'Premium Sound', claiming it will produce 'less electrical noise'. Storage media can not change sound quality, but people are spending over $100 more to buy it.
I'd like to mention that my alma mater (The University of Texas at Austin) has an honors program (called Plan II) that allows (and encourages) students to major in both liberal arts and other, often technical fields: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/plan2/admission/application...

My particular program combined liberal arts and engineering and had institutional support and a student group to help.

Of course, many other students still thought we were crazy to do both. I'm glad I did. Many of my Plan II instructors did a better job of teaching critical thinking and scholarship than most of my engineering professors.
Good stuff and good luck with the project :)
Sony releases $160 64 GB SD cards marketed for 'Premium Sound', claiming it will produce 'less electrical noise'. Storage media can not change sound quality, but people are spending over $100 more to buy it.
I think the examples would be clearer and shorter if they were written in AWK. They might not be showing Nial in its best light: they solve very simple problems, AWK's sweet spot, but a field where Nial is bloated by features that need more complicated problems in order to pay their overhead. The question is how often such problems actually arise.
LOVE THIS. so amazing.
Do Button by IFTTT
Non-official MtGox investigation update and preliminary release
I have two minors in liberal arts fields in addition to a CS degree (a BS) and the main reaction they've ever engendered is curiosity at how the minors are totally unrelated to a CS major. (IE there's a subtext of "why aren't your minor minors in math or science?" Because I guess they should be, or something?)

Even more annoying is the frequent assumption that if a person works with computers it's inconceivable that they might have a clue about design, writing, or art.
Plant decomposition results in the release of CO2.
XNA is single most important technology that effectively enabled the indie movement. Shame they don't want to upgrade it.

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...

https://twitter.com/hashtag/becauseofxna
90% of the time the desirable quality of TLS traffic is authentication of the server, not encryption. Encryption only really comes handy when confidential information and authentication credentials get exchanged.

Now if you provide authentication by other means, and confidentiality of the traffic not important, plain text protocols make sense because it enables caching proxy.

Typical use case: software updates distributed as signed packages. The information isn't very confidential, and using plain HTTP enables the usage of a caching local proxy.
Do you have a link to the tests or the data?

I work on the indexer and am always looking for more data about what we are doing wrong.
It probably varies by jurisdiction, but generally, trash is abandoned and you retain no rights over it.
Inherent to Stripe processing BTC is the fact that you are now a foreign exchange broker. Here's a small sample of why you're going to have to do a lot better than "we only charge 0.5%" to convince me that adding FX risk into my payment processing stack is a good idea:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-12/banks-manip...

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-09/banks-will-...

And that's just from the last three months, in an arena that is already heavily regulated by the SEC.
I don't understand this. If you're using FDE, how does the hacked firmware ever escape the drive?
Once Lenovo was bought by a chinese company... didn't everyone kind of assume the state of China would use this opportunity to do what the NSA does for American hardware? The extent of the NSA's actions weren't known at the time, but you had to assume China would be less bound by restrictions.
Unity has been using an old version of .Net for licensing reasons.

Also, about a year or so ago, they started porting to an LLVM-based solution and Unity 5+ is expected to be discontinue the Mono runtime.
>> VERY difficult to find actual jobs doing meaningful biology work.

Depends what you mean by meaningful. My department the EE/CS labs have ~5 people, the biology labs have double. Cells need to grow, protocols can take days. Most people I know in biology are doing some form of technician work. Indeed an undergrad can come in to a biology lab and become a biologist on a whim, I even know many highschool students who are productive with a week of training - I don't know any in remote sensing. So you are correct.

[Looks my rep is gonna take hit, but I work with these people every day, so w/e]
Are you still in the "Add and Remove Snap-Ins" dialog by any chance? If you click ok on that dialog after having added the snap-in, it should appear in the main mmc UI on the left hand side.

https://i.imgur.com/ZHzEDrC.png

I've updated the original instructions a little to be more clear.
I am curious to hear the opinions of the heavy hitters in the common lisp world.

In this case, theirs isn't the opinion that counts.
Sigh.

I knew exactly the kind of arguments I'd see on this thread. The same 'hurr durr STEM > liberal arts' I see on Reddit and elsewhere.

It's time we moved beyond a confrontational, antagonistic relationship between these two most fundamental pursuits of study.
That footnote seems very unlikely to me. I would guess that there are far more companies valued at $900MM than $1B.
Unity3d is eating it alive starting with legs :).
Building a Kickstarter: What I Learned
It is more likely that Robert Graham will be charged for "Unlawfully guessing a password and talking about it"
MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
Every typewriter has a unique signature as has every other polygraphic machine (fax, printer, copier). This was a case always, after Media burglary (in the '70!) FBI was collecting Xerox copier printouts to identify where the burglars reproduced the stolen files.
Good point. However, it might be possible to deny adversaries without alerting them to the fact that they were denied in the first place.
That's very kind of you to offer that to someone you don't immediately know. 'Felt compelled to tell you that since it made me smile.
Appreciated- e-mail sent.

EDIT: I wasn't entirely certain if you meant your HN username or your full name... either way someone got an e-mail not meant for them.
> and sugar denialists will claim that the correlation between sugar consumption and obesity doesn't prove causation; and other such moronic crap.

I fail to understand how that qualifies as "moronic crap" when this article - like the hundreds of "OMG SUGAR IS BAD!!!!!!!!11111one" tirades before it - yet again fails to provide that there is indeed causation. There are a lot of factors when it comes to the cause of obesity and the resulting medical concerns; chalking it all up as "oh, it's just sugar, we should just eat less of it and all our problems will disappear" is irresponsible and misguided, and demonstrates a scarcity of understanding of a topic this article's author is masquerading as an expert of.

Yes, fat people eat a lot of sugar. Yes, fat people are at higher risk of illnesses like cancer and heart disease and diabetes. That does not in and of itself prove that sugar consumption causes these things. Maybe fat people just happen to like sugar (which - speaking as a fat person - would not be a particularly-egregious stretch)?

It also falls into the same pattern as its predecessors when it comes to lumping table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup together as if the notion of cane sugar is some myth and that all sugar comes from corn.

> Have you joined the mailing list? What are you waiting for?

I'm waiting for you to write an article that's actually worthwhile instead of spewing the same pretentious holier-than-thou bullshit that every other anti-sugar fanatic likes to toss at every last passerby. You immediately barfing up a "SIGN UP TO MY MAILING LIST!!!!!!!1111one" popup and blocking the article with it certainly does not help convince me that I should subscribe to it.
JQuery Plugin Registry – In read-only mode
Photoshop takes a few gigabytes when all I need from photoshop fits in 800KB. WTF Adobe!
> The voxel format is simply a 3D array represented as an XML string of ASCII 1s and 0s.

Oh ow. But otherwise, thanks for this wonderful tale of discovery and progress. I'm impressed that you stuck to it despite all such issues. My damn perfectionism would have had me dump everything in a fit of angst at the first sign of trouble.
I've had reboots on amazon with linux, and google cloud was down last night and it's Linux. On amazon my entire region was out for almost an entire day once.

That's the cloud, you will have downtime anywhere.
It looks like a mistake by the author, and the numbers should be reversed.
But this laptop has a "precision touchpad" ie. one that doesn't have a 3rd party driver and interfaces with Windows directly [1] (it's maybe the first one to?). Reportedly it's much more like a Macbook in responsiveness. So maybe there are zero things now

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn...
So little you know... ;)
As a former common lisper, I don't see the point. Clojure is better in pretty much every respect and incorporates many fresh ideas (such as excellent concurrency support). Syntax is the least of CL's limitations. I didn't switch to Clojure because it was "easy" (quite the contrary).

And no, I do not miss reader macros. Perhaps more surprisingly, I don't miss CLOS at all, much as I always admired its design. It's just... Unnecessary.

What I do enjoy is STM, good performance, Java interop, ClojureScript, core.async and lots of excellent code with fresh ideas popping up all over the landscape.
Keller Rohrback L.L.P is taking the opportunity to get in the spotlight by investigating possible claims [0][1]. Would be interesting to see the how it evolves.

Looking at Komodias webpage, Lenovo could have a hard time defending that they did not know about its possible SSL interception. Failing to understand the impact is Negligence, at least. I would argue that decrypting the traffic is as intended by Lenovo.

[0] http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150219006362/en/Kell...
[1] http://www.krcomplexlit.com/index.asp?N=attorneys-Seattle-WA...

edit: added original source
Securing Clojure Microservices using buddy – Part 3: Token revocation
It was obfuscated. The "product" uses an obfuscating executable packer. It was extracted from a memory dump not from reversing the program.