skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the target group are less tech savvy users that install it because they don't really know what they are doing, like less law savvy people who agree every terms of use. Kind of shady but accepted practice. JDK users are probably less exploitable.
Larry, that you?
Hmm it didn't catch the url, maybe b/c of https, sorry
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Facebook doesn't do it because they don't need to do it, at least right now. Wait until they're on the ropes, fighting for their corporate life in one way or another, then see what they do.
Here's a link to getting the stream working outside of Safari: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2yfqyj/watch_the_appl...

Copied and pasted:

So it says on the Apple website that only OSX Safari works and any Apple handheld. No Windows devices are compatible straight off the bat (like how it's been for all this time)

An easy workaround is this:

Download VLC Player from here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html[1]

Install it and everything, make sure it works correctly.

Open the program. Click on Media (top left) > Open Network Stream.

You will see this screen: http://puu.sh/bqV9o.png

Paste this link into that field: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1503ohibasdvoihbasfdv/live/8500/8500.m3u8?x-session
The US has built a narrative to justify their surveillance apparatus after getting caught with their pants down spying on the American people and the world.

It's an extension of the national security narrative. Agencies recognize the massive amount of funding and legislature on the horizon and want to see it diverted to them like it was to the DHS in the last decade.
That's not the point. As someone who is actually a fairly big fan of Java, my concern is the damage this continues to do to Java's image in the minds of non-technical users (especially those in executive positions).
My team keeps replicated copies of the data in RAM, replacing nodes that get lost. The data is also echoed to disks, of course.
If the NSA hadn't been systematically weakening encryption and security processes, maybe we wouldn't be quite so vulnerable!
Why Apple's in Store Pick Up Policy Sucks
The big mistake that I made was calling ahead to order a laptop.

I walked into an Apple store 15 minutes after booking an order over the phone. While I had fully paid for a new Macbook Pro Retina, it was being held hostage by 'processing'. Many associates were ready and willing to sell me a laptop out of their available stock, but none could, would or seemingly had the authority to grab mine before its "official release time".

My net promoter score on this shopping experience could have been a 10, but instead it was just a zero. I was literally punished for having ordered ahead. And why? Seemingly just so that I could receive (after a wait) the same standard product that had my name printed on a sticker.

I was able to walk out with my laptop after 40 mins (yes 40 mins even though there was no wait to speak with an associate), but not until asking to speak with a manager directly was my situation given any sort of urgency or real consideration. Seems that everyone's standard response was, "you just have to wait until you get an email saying your order is ready".

Associates should have access to orders that are placed for same day pickup. If a customer waits in line to speak with them, they should be able to take the order number and go retrieve your computer (especially if it is just standard stock) without any modifications. To do anything other than this really sets a crazy standard within their stores. Essentially it creates a culture where folks who have paid in full prior to walking in are treated differently. Unfortunately, this different type of treatment is not fun, nice or even remotely close to a positive buying experience. If you can't figure this out, I would suggest that you don't accept same day pick up orders for standard items in stock. Maybe instead you could just allow people to reserve a product and then swipe to buy in the store through an associate.
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Given how much money there is in malware, the low risk of getting caught, and the zero risk of legal repercussions, how would you think the incentives looks like? Lenovo got caught and the legal actions so far been almost non-existent.

If this action enable someone to get a raise or a promotion, the final $ amount doesn't need to be very high. just enough to be deemed a financial successful project.
DOOM (and Wolf3D) included a window-size option which would put the screen in a small box to avoid slowdowns. Unless you had a 486, you were probably going to use it.
Also, Eich said he chose to resign because of the political pressure from the people, not pressure from Mozilla. You may believe this was a lie, but Mozilla never publicly did anything but support him as CEO.

Also, there was no large reaction against Eich's politics when he served a technical role, but when he moved into the political CEO role, people looked at his politics. You may disagree that they should be analyzed at all, but it's hard to argue that CEO of Mozilla is an apolitical position.
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Can you get killed as a result of privilege escalation? The law hasn't caught up in part because the potential consequences aren't nearly as dire.
Yep. Every keynote.

Usually some people will post source links which should be streamable from non-mac machines.
I actually believe in the potential of these planned cities, but when are they actually going to start populating them?
Crapware in installations must end.I made a desktop PC for my sister with nothing but Windows 8.1. It only took my sister, an otherwise competent computer user, 48 hours for her computer to become infested with some web-ad hijacker and numerous IE toolbars.
Using returns to buy more assets is still not a pyramid scheme. I still don't get how they're extrapolating here.
Ok makes sense. Done :)
> This is pretty interesting because the extends certainly result in DRYer CSS, which I think most of us would have figured to perform better.

I'm not so sure. Matching selectors to the DOM is a time consuming process. So more selectors, more time spent. I think parsing the rules is fast in comparison.
I knew I clicked "remind me later" for a reason.. what the hell. Did Oracle run out of money in its lawsuit with Google?
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No Fortune 1000 CEO uses a Mac, so that's not an issue.
Who cares? Honestly, who cares what word they use. We all know what they mean.

Comments like this one just seem to me like a form of avoidance: let's mock their vocabulary, because we don't want to think about the substance of what they're doing.
Someone always posts a link that can be opened in VLC on any platform.
This has already been played out on Windows. It isn't damaging anything reputation wise.
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The bigger context is this: jamf makes software to help manage fleets of Macs, by providing abilities such as deploying a package to a group of Macs. It's quite good and IIRC Apple uses it for configuration management. If a vendor gives you a normal package, as Java once was, it was fairly easy to deploy.

Contrast deploying the JRE with a simple package vs deploying it on Windows, which usually required an ever-evolving set of hacks to extract MSIs from the installer and install it in an automated fashion without installing bloatware, having it sit in the taskbar, auto-updating (which is a no-no in an enterprise environment), etc.

Now, thanks to this change, people on the Mac side will get to experience all the joys of deploying the JRE on Windows.
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Certainly, although of course it depends on which range of years we're talking about, and which platforms we're talking about; you're talking about later years than PDP 11 C and more capable platforms than the "NES" mentioned above.

Prior to Turbo Pascal there was UCSD Pascal, which was extremely popular but not high performance.

But the whole idea that any high level language could be even close to competitive with assembly was a very radical idea considered laughable by the mainstream, for many years, which I think is the underlying idea here.

Another language worth mentioning is Bliss, a pioneering high level systems programming language roughly contemporary with early C, with high levels of efficiency and optimization, and was famous in some circles but not with the mainstream.

As I recall, that one eventually dropped by the wayside because it was too closely tied to DEC architectures. It may or may not have been ported to others, but it did not have (relatively) easy portability as a feature anyway, unlike the Johnson C compiler, which is often claimed to be the first such.

I wasn't a Turbo Pascal user, but wasn't it, too, tied to the one platform?

Wirth's languages after Pascal, I dunno; everyone heard of them but they were never that widely adopted. I guess I'm unclear on why.
Ask HN: Is it fair for Apple to stream their event only on their hardware?
As we know, it only works on iOS and Mac hardware, yet there is no visible uproar online. I feel this is unfair on their part by negating the competition. Imagining anyone else doing it would make activists up in arms.
I think that's wrong. It's currently 12:45am in HK, and HKT is the same as Shanghai, UTC+8. The keynote starts in 15 minutes.
As a former Oracle employee (also there via acquisition) I can confirm that they don't care at all about anything but the money. If adware makes money, that's OK for them.
And, yes, they don't care about nerd outrage and I'm also sure that CxOs of Fortune 1000 companies don't care about adware (or us) too. Even if they care (and they probably not), they cannot afford to avoid Oracle DB and/or Java in any case. I'm sure they try in many ways to avoid to spend the insane amount of money Oracle products cost.

Ah, and yes: it is an awful place to work. For the same reason: they don't care about anything but money... Employees are COGs, nothing more, nothing less. If you find the right niche, you can live a quiet salaried life there for some years, btw... like probably in any other giant company.
Resale is incentive to be honest - i.e. you place a good candidate, they hiring company will come back to you.

Hired.com will turn away people they don't think of as good candidates, but usually after people manually review their profile.
"an otherwise competent computer user"

"numerous IE toolbars"

IE?
It won't end. If there's money somewhere (adware in software), it will happen whether you want it or not.
Since they're not inclined to ensure all browsers can support it (the "walled garden" principle at work), makes sense to say what it does intentionally work on, and even take minor steps to ensure unsupported platforms don't work (so they don't get hit with "well, it sorta worked but sucked on Browser X!"
Not to mention, I would work at SpaceX for 1/4 (or less) salary of what I would work at Google for.
The only two excuses for that are technical incompetence or purposefully insular attitude.

Edit: Downvotes are fine, but a counterargument would be more welcomed. There are dozens of live streaming services out there now that support every platform available, but Apple always insists on using their own. It backfires every year as the stream is flaky or has audio/video sync issues.

If they can't bring themselves to partner with someone else, they could at least devote the resources to fixing their own broken system.
As a hiring manager here's my concerns/issues with the current process of hiring/using a recruiter

- recruiters don't screen well enough technically or personality wise

- recruiters tend to lie about everything (candidate availability, salary requirements, etc)

- recruiters are hellaciously expensive

- you still have to do the full process for everyone that needs to be interviewed (regardless of source. Skipping steps has always resulted in a bad hire in my experience)

- resumes/profiles suck for determining coding ability. Sparsely filled github accounts and pet projects are far better indicators

As a person being hired here's my issues:

- recruiters lie (about opportunities, salary, etc). Notice a trend here?

- companies are cagey about salary. I'd rather know up front rather than waste everyone's time.

- lack of exposure to the team during the hiring process. Since I'll be spending more time with them than my family I want them to be people I like rather than neckbeards that aren't personable.
Already posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165725
Are you referring to this exchange, from about an hour ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171357 .

My guess is that the term comes from the Wiener's cybernetics, dating from around 1950. It was used in pop culture in "Cybermen" from Dr. Who, and "Cyberspace" in SF through Vinge's "True Names" and Gibson's "Burning Chrome" and "Neuromancer", which lead to the cyberpunk movement.

As such, it's more been associated with social commentary and business and political philosophy and not with technical language. It become popular in general culture and political discourse in the 1990s as part of the popularization of the Internet.

I can therefore make a couple of conjectures. 1) it's dated, 2) it's viewed as an outsider (eg, non-Internet software developers) intrusion, and 3) politicians, bureaucrats, and other people in authority tend to use it to drive analogies between meat-space and cyberspace, like 'cyberattack' and 'cyber Pearl Harbor' when such analogies often seem stretched, and used to justify increased government influence and oversight of the internet.
Not really[0], they just can't be arsed to officially support the rest. But it uses HLS[1] which no browser other than Safari and Android browsers support, so you have to use an external program (e.g. VLC)

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2yfqyj/watch_the_appl...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
"We also tested some desktop machines, but did not see any bit flips on those. That could be because they were all relatively high-end machines with ECC memory. The ECC could be hiding bit flips."
I haven't read anything about casual murders over drug turf.

I have read about government entrapping him by threatening to release information about vendors (IE, threatening violence to get out of a debt.)

No, I don't see that as murder. I see it as self defense.
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It's consensus but it takes account how popular the name is elsewhere and tries to pick a more hipster name. If 5 AVs say this is the family for this malware and you don't see that family much elsewhere, then that would be picked as a family. That way you get rid of all the "Agent" type families etc unless there is nothing better.

Would have been cooler if the content was also taken into account.

Regarding packers I agree, but it is kind of the same situation with every other packer, including Themida and VMProtect. So some AVs decided to call it by the name of the packer since they probably see a lot of malware packed with that packer and not much else.
IANAL but we're going through the H1B process now and I was told that we're hear about the lottery late May / early June, but the official visa issue is beginning of October. That's when the person can start working.
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I think Tim Cook might.
No, but they were threatening his life...
It's a gteat way to contribute to existing projects ;)
That scenario is true for many. The core idea is somewhat like "what amount of salary will make you think of moving to a new job". Also the employer gets your details only when you approve them (one by one), so this might work in this scenario too.
Looks nice! I believe the Webpack sass-loader depends on node-sass instead of the ruby version. Have you found any issues because of that? I remember taking a look at node-sass a couple years ago, and it wasn't up to par with Ruby Sass in terms of functionality and caveats.

I've been meaning to look into Flux as well, seems like an interesting design pattern for large applications.
Really? Perhaps not at work, but I'm sure plenty of them use Macs at home.
Who said that you are a rapist, or that being in favor of large families means you are a rapist?
Cool! Please let me know what you think.
Thanks, fixed!

I had some hours off because of Daylight Saving Time this past weekend in The U.S.
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In a similar vein, my 10yo daughter used to play a now-defunct MMO called Pixie Hollow. In it, you played a Disney fairy and took care of pets which needed to be fed and played with to remain happy and healthy.

Months after the game was shut down, she woke up in the middle of the night crying. She had a dream where all the pets from the game were sitting in the empty ruins, trying not to starve to death after they were abandoned by the fairies. The pets might not be real, but the attachments definitely are.
As someone that enjoys going to theater and dance events, I only take issue with the idea that this would suck and be terrible. Less produced. Sure. More work for the audience to imagine what is happening? Sure.

Terrible? Not so much.

I do think it cuts to the core of some of the problems with education reform. No amount of work by the teachers will prevent the students from having to work. No amount of work from the teachers will prevent some students from failing.

My belief is that we need to make sure when a student fails, they use that failure as a lesson. Too often we beat people up with the failure such that they aren't learning from mistakes, but recovering from them.
Thanks for the suggestion. We are trying different ways to generate anonymous list for employers.
Why would you say that? Just as probably >80% of them have iPhones, I suspect a fair number of them have Macs
As few tools as possible (no task runners, etc...)

:thumbsup: to this sentiment. Whenever I see a "skeleton" starter project that includes tooling that could easily be added at a later date, I usually close the tab.

I think people forget that skeleton projects need to serve an educational purpose to newcomers. Each additional framework/tool that you throw into the mix compromises the skeleton's ability to do that.
That's related to guilt in the American system. Evidence obtained illegally can't be used to convict. This is also why parallel construction wrong - it illegally routes around this concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
Except it was already an issue on Windows (has been for years).
Policy changes?

Do you really think anyone has the power to change the US drug policy? In the next 100 years?

I doubt we will even have federally-legal pot in the next hundred years simply because of the trouble it would be to repeal the UN resolutions.
What do they use? I am curious to know
Isn't there a crapware-free version you can get on the developer site?
>pretty and a smart sounding word //

Sounds good/smart to me! The wiktionary page mentions possible Italian-NY etymologies so you fit in there. Funnily enough I was going to try and be clever and guess you were a New Yorker [based on that] but noticed elsewhere you appear to be in TX.

Interesting, thanks for responding.
...so the answer is "nothing" then. Seems like a niche that needs filling; some service that encrypts your shit, regardless of transport medium.
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The notion that Japan refused peace until it was nuked is incorrect. Japan had tried to begin peace talks in January, but they were ignored by the Allies[1]

[1]: http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1945/08/19/page/1/article...
Fair enough, they do "own" it, and can change it at their own discretion, and that is always bad. However, that's how many standards come to life. See SPDY and HTTP/2.0 and probably (no facts to back this one) most of the XMPP XEPs.

Not sure about the SMS side of things (which is being dropped anyway) and how things work there, but using the phone number as an identifier makes federation without a central authority infeasible. I've been wishing since day one that they'd allow xmpp style usernames too in order to make federation possible.
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Pretty much.

There are a lot of people with work status though (e.g. F1 with OPT) so employers will hire them before sponsoring them for H1B.
Show HN: Lisp-based platform for integrating conversational AI into applications
node-sass (which uses libsass) is now on par with the Ruby version as far as I know.
Note: the trailing "[4]" is not part of the actual URL; it refers to the link in the Reddit footnotes.
So the Good Tables web service seems to have a way to test a schema against a CSV file, with the possibility of changing the schema to more accurately describe the CSV File if it isn't a good match.

I'm not really seeing anything on the related YouTube videos that shows this uses any technology stronger than a loop and some regular expression parsing. I thought Open Knowedge was advocating the use of ontologies and artificial intelligence processes such as rules engines.
NPR- Easy Knowledge Can Be a Dangerous Thing (Maybe)
Not necessary, see the original paper.

For example, SECDED (single error-correction, double error- detection) can correct only a single-bit error within a 64-bit word. If a word contains two victims, however, SECDED cannot correct the resulting double-bit error. And for three or more victims, SECDED cannot even detect the multi-bit er- ror, leading to silent data corruption.

Edit: link http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~yoonguk/papers/kim-isca14.pdf
It doesn't seem like a clear-cut line to me; aren't Internet communications "signals"? Isn't that why the NSA has taken the lead on Internet intelligence operations up to this point? So how will what the CIA is planning to do be qualitatively different from what the NSA is already doing?

I agree with the parent; there is substantial overlap in capabilities and responsibilities among the agencies that do intelligence work for the U.S. government.

These overlaps led directly to the mistaken Iraq invasion. DOD and CIA reported very different things about the Iraq WMD program, and the U.S. leadership could choose which one they wanted to believe. Cheney and Rumsfeld convinced Bush to listen to DOD, and we all know how that worked out.
I suppose this system could be crashed by automatically installing hundreds of millions of instances of the Ask toolbar to the point that it is economically infeasible for them to pay Oracle.