skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions that the required permissions are "very common permissions", and then in the next paragraph says that 179 apps on the Google Play store require those permissions. As of July 2014, there were 1.3 million apps in the app store [1]. That's ~0.014% of the apps on the store. Not exactly "very common" in my mind. Although the remark that they are "unlikely to raise suspicion" is valid, especially for the typical consumer, who probably isn't reading the permissions anyway.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play#Android_application...
How to Make a Profitable User Experience – Whamdeal
It's fairly common knowledge, not really a bold claim at all, but for your convenience I've linked a benchmark above.

The IO (10+ PCIex slots) and CPU to memory bandwidth for a Power8 machine are pretty impressive.

It's essentially a mainframe in a really small box.
It would be nice if this could be configured to take you to the Google Scholar result, or the journal webpage (DOI), since I often want that instead than the bibtex entry.

Incidentally, I've always been blown away that Google Scholar isn't smarter with unstructured citations. I've literally had cases where it choked on a citation with "Phys. Rev. Lett." but then correctly identified it when un-abbreviated to "Physical Review Letters". Crazy.
Why your company needs an April Fools prank
> and what the 3 billion 30% cut they took from developers could have done for those developers. Better apps?

More money for the 1% of top apps actually making money (Rovio, King, EA, etc), more like. A 30% cut is not bad at all, especially if you compare it to traditional software - retailers often charge an easy 40% markup over wholesale prices, and that's the last step before it reaches the consumer.

Re: colder countries, what is the environmental impact of internet signals having to travel a longer distance? higher latency for each request, times a billion phones? These are probably trivially small figures, but there's a lot of factors to take into consideration.

> However, since the power generation is inland it is wasting land which could be used for people and food.

Really? You know how much surface area a datacenter takes up in comparison to everything else, right? (hint: not much). And people generally prefer to live in the city anyway (else there wouldn't be any cities, just a big sprawl of suburbia)
Maybe. Although I think there is a distinct mindset difference between someone who is a really good coder versus a really good designer.

Personally I refer to myself as a software architect, partially because it's one of my job titles and partially because laying out large multi-component systems comes very naturally to me and is something I seem to be more proficient at than many developers I meet. Meanwhile when it comes to actually sitting down for implementation work I'm just on the average to high-average side of things. Finally when it comes to algorithm design and analysis I'm pretty mediocre. Although, I hope, that is mostly from never having to work in that area very much.

I sort of think it boils down to if you are a forest or trees sort of person. Normally I approach writing code as modules, then classes and then methods working my way down to implementation instead of going the other route and starting with methods and building up to classes and modules.

So when I sit down to start a new project I normally plug in most of the classes and interfaces first for the sections i'm working on and then implement down from class design to coordinating logic to specific methods (tweaking my interfaces as I go).

Meanwhile I know some other developers that take the opposite route and start with low level implementation and work from there up to coordination level stuff. They can't really feel out the big picture until they have a solid grasp on the low level implementation details and I can't really feel out the low level implementation details until I have a good idea of the big picture in my head.
14 Years After Decriminalizing All Drugs, Here's What Portugal Looks Like
I am not a tinkerer
Arbitraging Free, a Hedge Fund/VC Combo
I check every minute.
What are you talking about? Debian had systemd on the discussion list for years and it was the default init system for other distros for just as long. What exactly about years of discussion doesn't align with the conservative choices of their other software defaults?

Here's an article where debian is talking about systemd in 2011 [0]. Forgive me for beign a bit shocked when people say things like 'it happened so fast!', but it's almost like people just sincerely want to hate systemd.

[0]http://lwn.net/Articles/452865/

edit: I really wanted to ignore this, but it's eating away at me.

>and, more importantly, _works_ like Unix.

Maybe I'm just cynical, but I get the feeling people who pretend their interpretation of the unix philosophy regarding systemd is the superior interpretation, probably didn't even know what the tenets of unix philosophy were before the drama.
1. Low cost whole market index funds from (e.g. Fidelity), not individual stocks. See the Bogleheads site and books.

2. Work out 3-4 days per week

3. Portion control works. Eating from a restricted list works (YES fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts, seeds, non-grain-based oils. LIMIT dairy. NO sugar/grain(flour,rice,corn)) So, weight watchers or something like Paleo or Zone. (Fat all my life until 35 or so)
It's almost as if people don't see it as misuse! How disturbing!
Appellate courts have been cracking down on cy pres awards recently: http://www.forbes.com/sites/wlf/2014/11/26/seventh-circuit-c.... As the Seventh Circuit recently clarified in overturning an approved settlement, a cy pres award is only proper if it's impractical to find and compensate the class members directly. Here, there will be sales records to allow easy identification of affected purchasers.

That aside, a permanent injunction and a coupon would be a reasonable result here. Civil lawsuits aren't intended to punish people, they're intended to compensate people for their injuries. Who was actually harmed here?
I know you're in a bad place at the moment so you may find it a little hard to get some perspective on some of the advice you're being given.

Let's say, for argument's sake, that one of the underlying factors with you is neurochemical or at any rate neurological. This isn't an unwarranted assumption because we know that the hopelessness that you feel is in your mind (I don't mean imagined, I mean that these are mental states) and we know the mind is the brain. Your circumstances (money-related, time-related) notwithstanding it seems like really really good advice to go see someone who does brain-stuff, either a doctor or a counsellor.

DanBC is _not_ saying that the undisclosed circumstances of your life are bogus - he is saying that using the (undisclosed) circumstances of your life as excuses or _reasons_ for not seeking professional help is bogus. And without sounding harsh, I'd have to agree. I'm sure there are at least some kind of charitable organisations out your way that'll see you free of charge (and if these conflict with your hours of work and you can't possibly take a day off) then there are 24-hour (toll-free) helplines, websites, what have you.

If you really feel that you are in a hopeless situation and you're contemplating an irreversible act then don't you owe it to yourself to thoroughly investigate every option?

There are many times that I didn't and many years later I now wish I had; could have spared me a lot of suffering and pain.
URLs are opaque in REST. This is an awful lot of article about URL design that doesn't matter (or is changeable at a later date). Remember, HATEOS means you can punt on decisions like this until later, and that's a cool thing!
Many people consider it an overreaction to fork Debian for its choice of some defaults. Instead of creating this website and community, they could help Debian support its non-defaults. It's the same work anyways.
In general, a donkey does not stub itself on the same stone twice so you got that going for you...
Thank you! I wish I had this years go.
I used to work in security for one of the big OEM hardware vendors, Microsoft has been working with all vendors for years trying to secure the Window's ecosystem by extending out their SDLC and providing free security services and training to OEM partners.

We use to ship them our consumer laptops for testing, and the result was always the same "get rid of the crapware". MS is probably more upset about this than anyone, because ultimately this isn't about Windows at all, but people don't differentiate between Windows and the garbage that OEM's throw on their boxes, so they get blamed as well.
A lot of people don't like systemd for various reasons, ranging from personal to political to technical. The Debian Technical Committee voted that systemd sysVinit needs to be replaced, and that systemd is the best option. Since then, there have been a number of attempts from within Debian to overturn this decision, or at least force Debian to officially support multiple init systems, with the most recent ending with a result of basically "no further discussion is needed."
As someone who both comes from an environment with epic levels of sarcasm and works remote, I appreciated this comment.
This pops up every few weeks / months and not once have I seen anything tangible from them. They refuse to offer a 'try-before-you-buy' demo and there's no way to actually see the tech work. You have to pay for a year's subscription, with no release date for the actual product other than 'late spring', with e-commerce coming 'late 2015'.

I would have a lot more confidence in handing over my money if they'd release something that people could actually look at and determine whether it's worth the price. The pre-order price is not really that expensive, but they have over 20k pre-paid subscribers waiting for anything with no visibility of actual progress other than slick marketing.

Maybe I'm just a cynic, but this just feels like it's going to be a disappointment.
Do not think that we wouldnt see this as an action for user acquisition already! Well played.
I thought this was already the case? My systems that run jessie seem to have made the switch some time ago.

I'm not a fan, it has caused a variety of problems (which may be teething trouble or not), I'm not a fan of its logging and I don't like that when I make changes to 'legacy' stuff in /etc/init.d systemd tells me I need to issue more commands to get it to re-read the startup scripts rather than just use them... feh.
Interesting development, let's hope that IBM will pick this up and run with it as an officially supported OS at some point. It would give lots more room upwards for when you're about to max out a single server x86 set-up.

It won't be long before someone runs a top-of-the-line X86 to Power8 benchmark using FreeBSD.

Here is such a comparison using linux:

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh092914-story02.html
Could you make something like this that fell down when the Moon was over it, or something similar using the Moon's gravity?
Haha, that's pretty great. As someone who works from home, I think this would make me 1,000x more efficient. Actually, having worked as a reporter in an open plan office ... never mind :)
Who is that thin skinned? If you work hard on something, people inevitably shit on it. It's human nature. And someone as talented as this creator is probably used to it by now.

Besides, limiting conversation to just constructive criticism limits the scope of HN. This isn't a support group. It's a discussion forum. We should be free to criticize not only the implementation of a program, but the need to build it in the first place.
So they are building a search engine?

You can see the marketing already; it'll be Apple wading in on personal profiling and data capture with shiny marketing that points the finger squarely at Google.

I suspect their search engine will be crap however, unless they are logging everything you do with your phone :-D
Fedora was using it as default for a year before Arch. Redhat definitely paved the way. Many were slow to adopt it because it was such a radical change and most of the changes were seen as boons only for the virtualization stack that Redhat was working with.

I love Arch too, but damn! I remember the "upgrade" process to systemd that wrecked my system (not unrecoverably, but before they released the fix path, I already reinstalled.)
Thanks for the links. I confined my statement to consumer products, so that's still true. I am a little disappointed that "Hazel" didn't mention this one, because I specifically asked about XPS series laptops, and then asked if there were any other.

These days I have a purchasing department that impedes my purchases, so as long as the crap they give me isn't too bad I just let it be.
I can see a popup message of 'we tune our app based on your current power levels' or similar being quite persuasive in this regard too.
No, publishers shouldn't shut down their websites: Riding Above the Platforms
Introduction to Functional Programming in MATLAB with Anonymous Functions
Tips for an Effective Portfolio
Somebody removing a moth from between the contacts of a relay.

Two confused looking dudes trying to label the pickets on a picket fence, one starting from 0 and the other older dude starting from 1, and getting into a fistfight over who is correct, of course.

ACID compliance, the "other" WIMP (weakly interacting massive program). A fine arts painting representation of Codd Normal Forms, is that genius or insanity?

systemd, well, that'll be interesting one way or the other. Hopefully not as boring as providing a standard internet shock pix/video and slapping systemd as the title.

Another fun one would be humanoid figures as parodies of languages or OS or software development patterns and the equally important software development ANTI patterns. Human forms representing paradigms like static / dynamic types or software paradigms in greco roman diety form "Aphrodite the magnificent goddess of functional programming" vs "Zeus the imperative".

The intersection of fine-ish art and tech is remarkably empty and fertile ground.

I would pay some money for a painting / poster / print in the Hieronymus Bosch style on programming. Probably inspired by "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things" or "The Garden of Earthly Delights". I suppose the right side of "Garden" is a pretty good representation of Java programming.
Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law, report finds
So what makes this specific to Android phones? Developers can't (get permission to) access this information on other platforms?
Hugo Static Website Engine v0.13
>Also bogging down the review process is a consistent glut of questions that are basically the same but posed in slightly different ways.

I will say that this should have been predicted. Most questions are going to be affected by current popular culture or knowledge gained in school. Almost everybody has easy access to that data and therefore is the most likely to be used data to generate questions.

Take stackexchange for example. Most questions that are asked these days are a rehash of a previously asked question.
Getting Started with Node.js on the Hummingboard, a Raspberry Pi Clone
Agreed. It goes against the current shift from OO programming to functional programming. I hope Javascript remains a somewhat simple language which syntax can be easily memorized.
I think that force is just the developers and maintainers of distros and upstream projects.

Code contributions, even if controversial, pack a much stronger punch than emails, forum posts, blog posts, etc.
Spotify playlist generator – customize your own Spotify playlists
Once upon a time I tried to use Google ads to promote the parent site for my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/devfactor

I spent $100 on ads, which resulted in around 25 new subscribers. The next week, I wrote a really in depth Arduino Morse code tutorial which ended up on some social networks and netted me ~100 subs.

I'd say that Google adds for me where NOT worth the price. Generating more organic content worked better.
I have a hard time understanding what you are looking for, can you give an example of such a programming problem?
Original research paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03182

PDF link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03182v1.pdf
Actually it turns out corporations pay more tax in Ireland than they do in countries like France or Canada: http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/ireland-tax-haven-1796050-N...
Maybe you need to get your first cup of coffee this Monday morning. Sometimes, humans make things for fun, that serve no practical purpose. They're just neat and have novelty, and the person had fun building it. I can't imagine a better kind of project for showcasing on this website.
Neil Patrick Harris is a dad.
10 Notorious Cyber Criminals Brought to Justice – No. 2
"The tools are not the team, the same way that the team is not the product."
All the jokes on award shows like the Oscars telecast are written by a room full of comedy writers.

That opening joke was actually "Tonight we celebrate Hollywood's best and whitest OOPS I MEAN brightest". Actually kind of a funny and relevant joke given the current state of race in Hollywood. Chris Rock's recent interview is a good read along those lines:

http://www.vulture.com/2014/11/chris-rock-frank-rich-in-conv...
True, though Round Four introduces an exception to that; URLs may be opaque, but the decision to use a single URL to represent everyone's carts is still relevant, since people will rely on it staying stable, regardless of how it looks.
> The red pill. I don't agree with everything what comes out of that cesspool of a community, but there is a lot of ugly truth in it as well

Examples of "ugly truths" on TRP? All I've seen there is trash and misogyny.
I think so. It's what all my clients always want.

Me, I still yearn for the happy days when I could use Mutt and just occasionally spawn a browser if I had to. Apple Mail, which I now use, is appalling, and the only alternatives seem to be either worse, weird, or only work with Gmail.
My personal favorite : "That's the earth of the beast". In dutch it's "Aard van het beestje" which loosely translates to "it's in its/their nature". During a large conference in Cannes, France I heard a Dutch researcher say it during his presentation with a room full of puzzled faces as a result.
Use Instathink
I don't know about others but the app Instathink is on the app store. It is about getting businesses and individuals to easily and simply think clearer and critically. Do download
Nice description. On a side note but related, I really think one of the major difference between a developer versus an architect is having strong grasp of how components can fit together and impact overall costs, quality and timelines for a project even if you aren't familiar with the specific details of those components.

For example if you need to design out something highly distributed you don't necessarily need to be proficient in erlang, or scala + akka, or clojure before you start but you do need to understand the pros and cons of each system, the underpinning philosophy on how they work and basic behaviors of the solutions in terms of speed to develop, benchmarks, known scaling problems, trouble spots etc.

Sometimes you need to use the right tool for the job even if you don't know the tool yet. Sometimes that means taking a deep dive to get to know the technology, talking to experts on the technology and fitting their feedback into the overall picture of what the system needs to do.

Which is a very different skill set then being able to pack as much functionality as possible into an MCU, or improve average performance on an algorithem, or being able to rapidly construct a component.

Which is why I advertise myself as architect and not as systems developer, or ux guy or full stack engineer. It's the type of work I enjoy doing, and it's the work that clients get the most bang for their buck out of me for their retainers. It doesn't mean I think I'm a better developer than non architects. In a lot of ways I'm not, but I does mean that I think (rightly or wrongly) that I am often better at sleuthing out the rough behavioral characteristics of components or technologies needed for a project and knowing how to leverage that high level understanding together for designing or improving a project.
Hardly.

Countries inculcate values, educate people on the public dime, support R&D, etc. People should be proud when those policies bear fruit. E.g. Sergei Brin's family emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, because of Soviet discrimination against Jews. E.g. they were graded harder on university entrance exams, or given tougher exams altogether. He went to public high school and college, and went to graduate school at Stanford on a National Science Foundation fellowship. And Stanford, as an institution, heavily benefits from public spending on research.

So why shouldn't Americans take a little credit for Brin's success?
There's always a rift between what one means for other people to understand and what they actually do. Case in point, I thought I had made a clear statement that I thought your post was disingenuous and immature and did you a disservice by casting you as more of a coder than a valuable engineer.

I'm not saying I'm right and you are wrong, I just made a reflection of how you came across. Was that clearer now?

As for my points being non-sequiturs, I'll admit that I fail to see _any_ point in your post other than you don't know what a product manager _is_ and you feel attacked somehow, so there's a fair chance you are right.
So quickly ? This non-issue has been pending for months now, mainly because of non-technical, ridiculous (ie. religious war with sysv) reasons, and we will at last go forward with it. Yes, it is far from being perfect (I personally never really liked systemd), but this is a huge step forward anyway. It's 2015 and we are still using crappy init shell scripts to start demons, and crappy text files to configure every piece of network. We need to move forward.
Show HN: Secure chat on Twitter using steganography
The fact that it did many things easily and correctly that init/cron/monit only did after navigating a minefield of gotchas, reinventing the wheel, and employing obnoxious hacks to do things that ought to be simple (parallel init). Init scripts are easier to tweak, no doubt about it, but I'm equally sure that if I was actually throwing together a distro I would want a modern init system.

Also, remember that launchd on OSX has been around for a decade. People from the linux world who encountered it tended to think "hey, this is kinda nice, I wish we had something like it." Perhaps launchd itself had a predecessor somewhere, I dunno. But the point is that people had seen these systems in the wild, so when someone showed up who was serious about seeing the project through there were a bunch of maintainers whose reaction was "about damn time" rather than "what is this?"
I developed something a little bit like this when developing a profiler for JSON documents but didn't think about general purpose queries, in particular I squashed [3] to [].
They're building one in Denmark too...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/02/23Apple-to-Invest-1-...

I don't think Denmark is known for its low tax rates?
I have been looking at OpenBSD as well for an upcoming Debian related transition. I have nothing against systemd as such, this is pure selfishness. I an happy to let others do the debugging...
Not 100% sure if it's POWER8, but there is a project to produce a modern 64-bit PowerPC notebook:

http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/566616227582582785

Defense provided 2 DVDs of Citizenfour as exhibit in Edwards suit. So film in public domain as unsealed record. On HBO 2/23/15. Leaking $.
Can you say more about using your PG Commander license? I have one too but don't understand the connection with Postico.

edit: I figured it out. Sorry for the noise.