skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I applied that rule, I really needed to apply that rule. Threw out six broken laptops I finally had to admit to myself I'd never get around to fixing, a zillion obsolete-to-obsolete converter cables, two bags of clothes that had fitted me ten years and 10kg ago ... Blog rant about it: http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/554439.html

I am tempted to apply the "Does this bring me joy?" rule to my stuff again.
Here's hoping there will be a similar scene in the upcoming JP movie showcasing then hopes and dreams of 2015ish VR :)
My apologies, I learned something about relative clauses today. I still like my general theory that I posted but I accept that I was simply wrong about this particular case.
Why would you 8.3-ify filenames when you're trying to emulate a Unix system? I don't think any Unix system has ever used 8.3 filenames.
To be more specific, Apple and Google are assuming VAT liability for paid apps.

If an app is a paid app in the stores, there’s relatively little decision making to be done; a developer can adjust prices based on the VAT in each country in order to maintain current revenues. The transaction between a developer and an app platform is considered a business-to-business transaction and is subject to the existing VAT rules.

If an app offers in-app purchases, a developer must consider whether allowing a platform to handle the micro-transactions (thus sacrificing the 30% revenue share) outweighs the time and costs necessary to collect and store sales information (including location) and VAT payments. This can be quite a large undertaking for an indie developer or small development studio.

See: http://www.appdevelopersalliance.org/news/eu-value-added-tax...

Webinar: https://pollen.vc/#/vat-seminar/
yes, please!
Should everyone in the market, including malicious vendors, have the ability "to change default options", or this is only for Yandex?

I am sorry, but Yandex is by no means AMD. It is ridiculous to suggest that Yandex "is second only to Google".
This is the general assumption I've been under. When someone goes from "This is a secure product being actively developed" to "USE THIS PRODUCT FROM MICROSOFT INSTEAD OF THIS. THIS PRODUCT IS BAD. BAAAD", then well, yeah. That's sort of the canary.
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You misspelled misandry.
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The MARA agreement Google mandates is very anti-competitive. It protects some services by mandating their inclusion in order to get others. Google now mandates almost 20 apps be packaged on devices, when the manufacturer really only wants the Play Store.
Do you profit from the app somehow?

What's the meaning of src=typd ?
I spent so much time during high school playing Exile 3. I had forgotten about it and this article made me really excited to learn that the game designer/developer is still going strong. I have got to look into all his released games and see what I've missed
It's in a weird logistical state. I'll take a healthy chunk of the blame.

The TC audit project commissioned iSEC to do a formal code audit. That audit was completed professionally and efficiently. No smoking gun problems were found (several nits were, but nothing that would make it any easier to decide whether to trust the package).

That iSEC audit was the headline achievement for the project, so the fact that it was finished should reassure people worrying about whether the project did anything.

After the code audit, the project was supposed to move on to review the cryptography in TC. Which is where I come in.

Because the project was considering commissioning services from professional appsec firms, I recused myself from the project (at the time, I worked for a very large appsec firm). My feeling is that a better use of the TC project resources would be to set up some kind of crowdsourced audit slash bug bounty. When the code audit was completed, and after I had left Matasano, I volunteered to coordinate a crowdsourced crypto audit.

Unfortunately, I was also in the midst of starting a new company and recruiting cofounders and then the holidays hit and long story short things went off the rails.

There are two big paths forward for the TC project that I am aware of:

1. They can rekindle the crowdsourced crypto audit (I'd be happy to remain involved, or to talk to any other subject matter expert that wanted to do that job --- n.b., I was going to do the work gratis). If any kind of formal review of TC's cryptography is to be done, this is the way to do it; the project can't afford what it costs to retain professional cryptography engineers to review the code (real crypto security consulting costs a multiple of what appsec consulting does).

2. They can devote all the remaining funds to a public bug bounty for Truecrypt.

There may be options 3 or 4 that I'm not aware of. I have a decent relationship with Kenn and Matthew, but I have not been trying to keep myself in the loop on the project.

There you go: more than you wanted to know about the TC audit project!

None of it has much of anything to do with that weird announcement from last year.
That's why we don't live in other parts of the country.
You have a point but I was actually just referring to the visual aspect where I would say the same thing about text games.
My other thought is that even if I liked the bot's content, I'd never be able to follow it. I'd get blasted by the firehose.
Very interesting workarounds!
Both of these things being intentional choices to develop crippled hardware that's reliant on proprietary services. A huge disservice to consumers.
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Argh, so it is not just them, but also Google who can read your texts? What do they or Google need the plaintext for?
Thank you. I definitely have an impostor complex about development, but you're right that I should drop the "technical marketer" title
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Ask HN: Windows encryption software with plausible deniability?
After TrueCrypt's moratorium, are there any other commercial or freeware encryption solutions for windows which supports plausible deniability?

I've found "elletra"[1] via google. I wonder if there are any other solutions.

Thanks

[1] http://www.winstonsmith.info/julia/elettra/
Yep, I agree that this is not a perfect solution, but it worked for us.

I'd mentioned in the blog post that out of 34 tweets that were added to the spreadsheet, only 6 of them were solid leads. But going through 34 tweets to find those 6 is a lot easier than going through hundreds of them over 8 hours.
Just that it's the last mainstream operating system for which there is no credible alternative to Truecrypt. What Truecrypt does has become a basic feature of modern operating systems.
Maybe if they had balls they'd show it as belonging to Russia on both maps. Why assume they'd be on your side?
No. Personal project because I love graffiti.

I ran a series of experiments via http://newpublicartfoundation.com
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Is there a way to request that the compiler not do this on a per-structure basis?
Since when is Reddit not a subsidiary of Advance Publications?
May I ask why you didn't say Hearthstone as your card game example? Seems very fitting: also from Blizzard and has one of the biggest e-sport scenes at the moment.
Low level wizards are incredibly weak, and are basically free kills for anything, fighter or otherwise. It's only if they survive into high levels that they become demigods. Most of the spells I mentioned aren't available till the very end of the game.

This makes sense, as mastery of the Weave grants powers that are physically impossible to perform within the world's natural laws.

Magic by definition is bending/breaking the rules of the universe, and as such it should feel like it if you spend the countless hours needed to master it and persevere to the end. It took me dozens of hours of reading the spell descriptions from scrolls to just understand how spells interacted and worked together. It would have been far easier to say "screw it" and go with a fighter or paladin that focuses on disrupting enemy magic users. But I stuck with it, and am glad I did because using the magic system in BG2 is immensely satisfying. It requires an absurd amount of knowledge and expertise. It rewards future time orientation, patience and planning over impulsive "give me whats best right now".

Fighter and wizard wouldn't be very different if they were equally as effective from level 1 to level cap. They'd just be the same class with different variations of the same skills...which is exactly what happened in WoW.

Furthermore, unless you're soloing BG2, you have a party of six consisting of a variety of classes. Therefore, you'd never have to re-roll as a mage, because there would be a mage in your party ready to make up for any magical shortcomings you may have as a fighter. Your role then becomes keeping him safe and taking care of the less magically inclined enemies.

The MMOification I mentioned also has this issue of only allowing you the control of one character. This means all characters must be jack-of-all-trades, because otherwise someone will have to be stuck doing the less sexy roles such as tanking, healing or buffing/debuffing. Or in the case of the BG2 wizard, being completely useless for half the game.

Multiplayer game design has a long way to go before it reaches the wonders achieved in the past decade in single player games.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that enemy wizards also turn all of your strengths against you, because the player does not have any particularly special powers that enemies are denied. In fact, the player is at a far lower level for most of the game than enemies encountered and must rely on wits alone to survive most fights. There's a mod (Sword Coast Stratagems) that enhances enemy AI, and it is universally acclaimed as making BG2 into one of the most difficult games in existence. Every fight becomes a high stakes chess match...one small mistake leads to instant death. Aside from Dark/Demon Souls, I don't know of any games that come close to this level of tactical difficulty. I find these experiences to be immensely rewarding, and have a hard time playing mainstream games because they seriously lack this element.
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I think the walled garden approach that Apple, Google, and Microsoft all ascribe to is definitely anti-competitive at it's core, and I truly hope more governments will start addressing it as such.
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I'm working on a tool called Socedo (http://www.socedo.com/) which is essentially solving this problem for businesses. We're generating leads from Twitter based on what people Tweet & who they follow. The best part is we make these leads easy to consume at scale by setting up an automated engagement workflow.

Definitely worth checking out if you're looking for a more complete Social lead gen solution + no code!
Interesting to discover that this is a "lost art".

I didn't graduate, but I did attend PUC-Rio for a while and I remember professor L. F. Bessa Seibel's lecture about that, as part of the INF1008 class (Introduction to Computers' Architecture), which is considered a basic first or second semester course for undergraduate CS students.

That was just 5 years ago.

Great class, great lecturer, btw
Probably because Google got a lot of negative PR for forcing manufactures away from more accurate Location API implementations so now they need to use a private API as an excuse to kill location service competition in the future.

You can see the internal Google emails here where they note SkyHook was more accurate than their implementation
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-skyhook-emails-2011-5?...

And they force Motorola to stop shipping devices unless Motorola agrees to not use SkyHook.
Agreed. I think generating a more filtered list is possible - but would take significantly more time than it took to build the sentiment analysis tool.

The results of the more-filtered-list-tool would be quite interesting, though, as you'd essentially be modeling a set of "ideal leads" and determining how close/far a set of tweets are to those models. Just figuring out an "ideal lead" model for the segments you're targeting would be an interesting intellectual pursuit.

I think I might end up building this...
What real-life scientists do: write their paper in Word then change the font to Computer Modern. (I'm not joking in the slightest.)
The idea that you'd want cross-platform full disk encryption suggests you may be investing too much faith in the powers of full disk encryption. FDE does basically one thing for you: it reassures you if your laptop is stolen from the back seat of your car or left in a cab.

Cross platform encryption is very important, and you should look for good solutions (most of us who rely on encryption for real operational reasons just hold our noses are use PGP). But full disk encryption has very limited utility. The idea of a USB drive you can plug into any computer that is locked by default is attractive, but you can get better security out of a USB drive that holds nothing but files encrypted at the application layer.

More:

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/04/30/you-dont-want-xts/
Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but I seem to remember Excel doing some intuitive series extensions and both LibreOffice and OpenOffice not doing things that I would have found as intuitive.

They're probably not unreasonable fall-back strategies if something isn't strictly linear, but just because I understand why the programmer might have done that doesn't mean it makes sense in general.
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> it's not really clear whether you need a distributed version control system

The benefits of a DVCS are far broader than that. Development on code that is stored on individual developer's machines is fundamentally distributed. Removing the requirement to be connected for any interaction with the system is major. Deferring conflicts until merge time rather than using file locking is major. There are loads of benefits from DVCS that have no requirement for an important distinction between public and private.
Hey, I'm one of the ReadMe founders. Stripe was certainly an inspiration for us. I'm so psyched to have SEED building their API using our documentation tool—nice job SEED!
Yeah, that's an absurd pay rate for that much responsibility. No one properly qualified would ever consider it, so they will end up with someone who has no clue how to do the job.

I had a similar "opportunity" come up last year. The county I grew up in needed to hire a new IT director, and as I had worked at the sheriff's office there for several years, I had a few friends still working for the county. One of them tipped me off about the job after they dropped my name in the bucket on my behalf, and it turned out they were looking at me specifically because they knew I had worked there before and got along well with the sheriff's office staff. The previous IT director "hated cops" and was never a good fit for government work, apparently.

I was interested until I found out the starting pay was just a little more than I make now, and I would basically be one of two people servicing the entire county, as well as being on call from over an hour away. Yes, it's a fairly rural county but it's a job for a full staff, not one or two people. The county could barely afford to offer the salary they posted as it was, so I declined.
No, the project was not "abandoned" like that. What source told you that?
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> I think a lot of game designers are so tight-assed and want everything to be so balanced and so super under control — I think that’s a bad instinct. We’re making games. We should allow them to go crazy sometimes.

This is something I notice as a GM in tabletop games as well, and I think it's the same phenomenon. There is a tension between creators and consumers in that the former wants to provide a specific experience but the latter cannot help but to experience things their own way.

Every experienced GM knows that players lay to waste the best plans. They miss clues and items that they needed to progress, while finding unexpected workarounds to problems that should have been more challenging. They have too little power sometimes, but then find a few good treasures or spells and suddenly have far too much power.

Dealing with this tension usually drives towards one of two solutions: either control the experience so tightly that deviation is impossible (railroading) or try desperately to roll with the changes and keep things interesting. Video games seem to largely take the former solution, probably because it's the easiest way.

But talk to gamers, and while they'll fondly remember a good story or a good game they played, it is the moments of accident where the whole thing derailed that really gets people excited and talking. Gamers like being a little too powerful, going places they weren't supposed to be. Sadly, game designers have gotten very good at conducting their railroads, but have done very little to master the improvisational artform of letting players do what they want, of feeling free and powerful but still keeping a gentle hand on the steering wheel.
There's a #[repr(C)] annotation that can be placed on a struct, IIRC.
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Note that the title says avoiding database writes.
If this ever actually got out into -RELEASE or -STABLE then it'd be catastrophic, but -CURRENT is literally the branch devs are actively committing to, so it's actually a non-issue.
Until I learned all the colors are fake and space is monochromatic almost everywhere.
I'm a fan of Gummi (https://github.com/alexandervdm/gummi) for hand writing LaTeX.

It will auto compile your changes, as well as hide the messy intermediate files in the compilation from your directory which I appreciate.
Is this a new lisp dialect?
> I have many Facebook friends, but my feed feels less relevant than ever.

"I have this cause, yet I am experiencing the effects of that cause!"

WTF, how do you not see that having too many "friends" is going to create a Facebook feed that's irrelevant to you?

> There was a time that I used to check my Facebook about a 100 times a day, but lately I only check it a few times a week.

That must be really hard for you.

The problem is not that Twitter et. al. are filtering out all the good content, it's that 99.9% of social media is completely fucking worthless to anyone except advertisers. The solution to this problem is not an app, it's to delete your accounts on these "services" and go outside.
If this gets enough coverage, we'll see a Streisand Effect for the competitors
Dealing with asteroids feels plausible.. but how to deal with a star? scary stuff
`git log --follow $NAME_OF_FILE` will show you each commit that contains a change for the given file. It's very handy when doing the "when did this break?" dance if you've narrowed down the potential files!
On the other hand, there are things warriors can do that mages cannot. For example, in many fantasy texts, wizards are social outcasts and warriors are anywhere between accepted (but maybe not highly regarded) members of society all the way through respected members of the court. A warrior and a wizard might not make sense going head to head in combat, but they occupy different places in the social structure.
> Marx' apologists point out, not without a reason, that one of the problems with the attempts of bringing his theories to life is that those attempts were done in countries not well suited to do it.

Or, more to the point, that an entirely different theory was created (Leninist vanguardism), associated itself with Marxism ("Marxism-Leninism") despite the fact that it rejected the basic foundation of Marxism, and that most of the criticism of "Marx's" solutions that is done focusses on criticism of the actions of Leninist vanguardism and further developments of that theory, which not only isn't applied in the situation to Marx's solutions expressly apply, but also aren't Marx's solutions.

> On the other hand he was claiming that capitalism is unmaintainable and will fall by itself

The 19th Century system Marx was criticizing as "Capitalism" largely has been replaced with a very different one, the modern mixed economy (which often gets called capitalism, but isn't the system Marx criticized) distinguished from capitalism in a number of ways, some of which come straight out of the Communist Manifesto (centralization of control of credit through central banks, universal public education, significant progressive taxation on income.)

If the Communist Revolution is looked at as something more like the Industrial Revolution than, say, the French Revolution, one could argue that something not altogether unlike it has been going on since the time of Marx, and that all the places that treated "Marxism-Leninism" as a state religion just distract from it.
>Lawyers are involved from the very beginning of a layoff. They make the template.

Right, I guess I meant that lawyers don't (or maybe, didn't) become a concern until someone was disgruntled enough to make spurious legal claims. They're involved now as a preventative measure, which I acknowledge in other comments, but what I'm saying is that if people were able to take a list of infractions in stride and improve on them, companies would be much less worried about the potential legal liability incurred by given honest feedback to employees.
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In my personal opinion, the driving services are a legitimate and genuine gray area. A person who is a professional driver, owns their own equipment (the car of course), can pick their own shifts and accept or reject a ride, can drive to different areas if they want, and does in fact have the ability to solicit work from multiple customers, could be considered independent. I can also see the flip side of that, but it's at least arguable.

I think the time, place, and manner argument comes into much sharper focus with the personal service type "gigs" that are out there. Low level janitorial work is really not likely to be an independent gig, and whatever claims to that were had by the company in the original post start to evaporate when they dictate bathroom breaks, what shirt is being worn, etc.

There's really not much to argue here. They don't get to pick the times (booked by the customer via the employer) the places (same) and the manner (as the article states) by which they complete their work. They are part time workers for janitorial service that solicits business online.
I actually appreciate the work that Facebook is doing in this space... it's definitely beneficial to those running PHP codebases that have been around a long time. While I don't like PHP the language, I can understand the utility of it.

That said, I'm appreciating the move to containerization and micro-services more... replacing some pieces with better options becomes far easier when those pieces are smaller. I can prototype in something like node, and move those troublesome bits to something like go or c++ if needed.
Not Conde Nast, Conde Nast's owners, Advance Publications, or when you really get down to it, the Newhouse family.

And the grandparent saying that Advance Publications is "only" a majority shareholder is a little deceptive. The shareholders are Advance Publications, current and former employees (as part of a ESOP) and a small residual ownership of angels in the original company.

While it is true that a majority owner can't just do whatever it wants, the rules protect the financial interests of minority shareholders, mostly in the context of takeovers, not the editorial independence of employees. If Si and Donald decided they really didn't like the NSFW part of reddit I think they could get rid of it.