skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I could have worded that better. I meant to say that it will encourage you to embrace the fulfilling yet utilitarian spectacle of TimeCapsule, emancipating you from the shackles of corded drudgery whilst you transfer files and data with a new reimagined, refreshing perception of the underlying science; TimeMachine: astonishing, complicated yet captivatingly simple in operation, alluring efficacy in motion.
I'm fine with that.

What I'm not fine with:

"This is crap" (without pointing why or how to fix it - of course with ruder words)

"We're not applying this fix" (without any explanation why and the system is pretty much broken/only works for limited cases/bug waiting to happen/etc)

"What are you talking about?"/patronizing behaviour (when it's crystal clear what you mean)

And usually the ones with thinner skin are the ones who try to push fundamentally bad things.
Online check for FREAK vulnerability of SSL services
Check your email. Google Drive 2GB bonus rolling out
At work, I encountered a HD which fried SATA ports. If you plugged that HD in a SATA port of another computer, that SATA port didn't work anymore. I don't know if the HD had been damaged by the computer it was originally from, but we didn't use both that HD and that computer anymore.

There have been other stories of "contagious" hardware damage in the past, like the infamous ZIP drive "click of death", but that HD is the first one I've seen personally.
Also, after having taught this class to 20 students for 5 years, I guess every possible angle of the subject has been studied, so the next one to write an essay on the subject is sure to be committing plagiarism :)
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Google drops Android Wear ad minutes before Apple Watch event
Side note: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/ is great for Linus smackdowns of the past
How Google's wireless service could push down everyone's cellphone bill
Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi with LUKS Disk Encryption
It's no error.
iOS Tutorial – Dumping the Application Memory Part 2
I guess we have Sarah Sharp to thank for this. It took over 2 years for this to come so far and it's a quite complicated subject.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/22/sarah-sharp
Unofficially, politicians has surrendered the "because terrorism" excuse for a while now, as they simply want access to everyones private information in order to see where the problem are going to be. Having the data helps plan and run successful elections, makes it easier to plan ahead, and gives them power over any department which doesn't has similar access.

Imagine being in a political party while private intelligence contractor give you access to all the emails from the other side. You can know where all the activists are at any moment, and what the internal conflicts are, and what areas is focused. What would be your reaction if phones suddenly started to get encrypted?
Google Play Music: le cloud revoit son plafond de stockage
Stockez désormais plus de chansons dans votre bibliothèque personnelle sur le cloud Google Play Music. Dorénavant, la limite est de 50 000 titres.
Author of the post here: I am certainly keen to hear feedback of any experiences you have with ISP's, extensions and other tools injecting content into your site. I originally created this post because we got a lot of feedback from news sites that they don't see the reason why they should invest in HTTPS - loss or diversion in Ad revenue is something they are interested in though.
I imagine there is a lot of software in the new trackpad to detect palms when typing and ignore the input.

Hopefully you won't even notice you are resting on it.
I wouldn't say socialism has been 'dealt with', modern representative democracy in the European mould is heavily informed by socialist principles. I think you mean communism, evidenced by the article's mentions of Engels and Marx, which has pretty clearly failed in spectacular fashion everywhere it's been tried. I found the point that building out the infrastructure for industrialisation was incredibly capital intensive and so labour wage rises weren't really an option interesting, because of course that's exactly how it played out in industrialising communist countries as well. It's just that the state held on to the capital instead of industrialists (or rather the industrialists holding the capital were part of the state).

Interestingly, China now seems to be going through the equivalent of the late 19th century phase where labour wages begin to rise roughly in line with productivity. They've largely built out their core infrastructure and mopped up most of the spare labour pool. China's development has been a huge factor in the economic conditions in the west. I'm wondering how the balancing out of the Chinese economy with ours will affect us.
> Can you find any way to order that on their site?

Yeah, the "Choose Options" menu under the "Hard Drive" section. Currently, the $999.99 and $1299.99 models can upgrade from a 128GB to a 256GB SSD for +$100, and the high end $1599.99 model can upgrade from a 256GB SSD to a 512GB SSD for +$300. Available options may vary at times.

Though I'd rather just replace the SSD myself, especially for the 512GB upgrade. Looks very easy to do do, based on YouTube videos.
"travel from San Francisco to Sicily is kinda NP complete: there are no solutions involving less than three flights"

Pretty sure you can do it in 2 hops by flying EasyJet from Sicily to London for example. Travel meta-searches don't include all the cheap airlines (either because they're blocked from access or won't earn affiliate revenue).

Thanks for the Redis conf update, looking forward to seeing some of the talks.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately.
Does the end justifies the means? Should we allow us to have dick developers because the come up with great code?
My moral says no, but my craving for progress says yes.
It's a battle that's been driving me nuts for a long time.

Incidentally, this kind of incidents might slow down progress in the long term.

update: by this kind of incidents i mean him being an asshole, not people telling on him.
update 2: i don't endorse his behaviour.
The next step could be to crowdsource the design of challenges or puzzles. Like a 'masters tier', where you
get special points for designing particularly clever puzzles. This could help remedy the constant demand for new puzzles due to writeup contamination.

BTW, I completed microcorruption, foobar and two stripe CTFs. It was lots of fun and I am really looking forward to Starfighter!
Norwegian plugs must be the UK plug's arch enemy, not grounded until the very last, 2 pins (the ground is on either side of the casing) and the sockets are at 0, 45 or 90 degrees (leading directly to exclamations of "Fuuck!" from this Brit.
I have an ipad 1 same problem, but appstore let's me download the latest supported version.
I don't know why you singled out the MacBook charger.

The relevant Australian Standard (AS/NZ 3820, I think?) tells you an electrical appliance doesn't need to have an earth pin if it's double insulated, which the MacBook charger, and the stick blender in my kitchen, amongst others, are.

Source: I'm certified for Electrical Test & Tag in Australia.
Plagiarism is not copying what someone else said, it's copying what someone else said without attribution. As long as you attribute correctly there is no need to rephrase anything.

To use your Open Source analogy, plagiarism is taking some GPL'd software, renaming it and selling it as software you claimed you wrote entirely yourself.
being rude is the essence of the hacker subculture
I don't understand the problem, really. Apple WILL replace your battery. It's not like you have to throw away the laptop once the battery is dead. It costs £99 in the Apple Store, which is actually less money than a new battery for some Dell laptops costs.
I don't understand smartphones. I just carry a tablet in backpack, and still use my 10 years old dumbphone for calls and smses. I had company iphone 4 and it was worse phone and worse tablet, and was probably more expansive.
I personally hate when services let people down.
I prefer a much more "future oriented" approach much like the one from Basecamp https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3830-ta-da-list-until-the-end...

or the idea behind https://posthaven.com/

I guess it's all about vision and how to delight your customers.
All the people who believed in a product are people who trusted your words, and gave you access to a lot of their information.
Yet it's so easy to let them down and shut down a service.
It was for springpad, it now is for friend feed.
Sometimes it's about the money sometimes it's about the users (I guess it's always about the money though).

But I can't help it, I prefer when you can trust a service,and I'd be willing to pay as long as I know that service will stay up even if I'm the only user.
Ask HN: Has anyone had success with “Canada Start-up visa”?
I wanted to know if anyone here has success with "Canada Start-up visa" program.[1] and if so can you share your story and experience here?

[1] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/index.asp
Schuko plugs are a pain in the ass, because more often then not they require brute force to unplug them (or even just plug them in). Also doesn't help the lifespan of powerstrips.

Being able to plug them in ungrounded Euro sockets is handy, but also makes them less safe.
If you look at average wages in China, I think they have a long way to go to mop up labour slack. The problem is it's reaching a point where it's becoming more complex to mop up the rest by growing their more productive and experienced workforce, which is the new, growing, more powerful middle class. This can work out well, or not, and will impact us greatly either way.
In UK Three has a truly unlimited plan with truly unlimited tethering. I have friends who just tether through their phones to desktop PCs instead of getting broadband at home.
There may be a problem with the "prefix length" parameter.

What the user will want to specify is not the proportion off all messages they want to download, but the number or bandwidth.

i.e. If subspace has 1,024 users, I might specify a prefix which lets me download ~128 users messages to find my own.

When subspace becomes more popular and has 2^20 users, I don't want to download a thousand times more messages.

The prefix needs to be adjustable, or auto-adjusted with regard to the total number of users.
Goodwin Procter is among the best, however, the cost aspect might be prohibitive. My attorney over there, Jeffrey Klein http://www.goodwinprocter.com/People/K/Klein-Jeffrey.aspx could potentially refer you to someone either within the firm who specializes in IP or perhaps a less expensive alternative. GP is seriously among the very best in the business. If what you're doing is as cool as it seems and you have the large corporation as an employer, you're going to potentially face some big-league legal issues; potentially you signed an agreement with your employer when you started work that might potentially give them right of first refusal to any tech you invent. I certainly have no idea, but those sorts of agreements aren't uncommon. As a result, you're going to have your company's lawyers looking into it as well, which means that you need the best representation you can afford.

However, before you get to that point, if it were me, I'd think long and hard about the business you hope to build on top of the software. If that business seems viable, given that you're giving away the source code, then your legal expense might be worth it.

However, and I'm certainly not "advising" you, I would consider talking to an attorney about patent implications. An Open Patent, for instance might be something to look into. This would prevent someone else (for example your employer or some other user) from creating a patent based on the specific domain of your creation and it would protect the open source users from potential patent infringement claims. I'm certainly not a lawyer, but the issues I mention are all worthy of discussion with legal minds much more experienced than you or me.

Key points:

You need a lawyer to review your employment agreement to ensure you're "in the clear."
Evaluate the viability of the business itself.
You should discuss all of your options for your technology, license types, patents, etc.
You also might consider forming a business entity, then "hiring" yourself to create the software. If your employer doesn't have a restriction on dual employment, this could be a strategy to subvert any "right of first refusal" clause that might be in your employment agreement.

However, I present these ideas only as discussion points with your attorney. I barely know what I'm talking about and you really can't safely google your way to success when it comes to these issues. You need an attorney; certainly don't listen to any of us!
True, but unfortunately for many dates, it is impossible to find a flight to London that is compatible with catching the flight to SF, since there are many days where a direct flight is not available, or is available at the wrong time. Moreover if it's not the same company and you miss the London->SF one, you are going to totally lose the money and need to book a new flight, which is very bad given the cost :-)

However what I can do next time is to go in London a couple days before, meet some people there or just have some fun if it's weekend, and then go to SF.
"disclaimer: article may link to classified information" - The government is scaring people with security clearances to the point where the 5 million plus US citizens holding clearances are not even clicking these links because they have been told these documents are still "classified". How can there be a debate in the US if those with clearances are fearful of the ramifications of viewing anything to do with Snowden's revelations?
Wikipedia to file lawsuit challenging mass surveillance by NSA
What fuse/circuit breaker do you put in the fuse panel with radial wiring? It's got to cope with the largest appliance you'll put on that circuit. With British plugs, a low-current device such as a lamp should have a 3 amp fuse, so it blows before the thinner 5A-rated wiring to the lamp melts.

The problem with British plugs though is the rectangular pins. Mechanically, it's simpler to get a good large contact surface area with a circular pin in a circular socket. You do sometimes come across UK sockets which have been slightly damaged and get hot because the contact resistance is no longer negligible.
So, apart from GitHub, we now have another opportunity for coding slaves to prove themselves worthy.

Spartacus, open your mouth, I want to see your teeth.
I disagree. As someone who used an Air and then MacBook Pro Retina 13", the weight difference is small but definitely noticeable for the worse. If you walk a lot it makes a difference.
SSL in the casual case relies on all CAs being uncompromised. I understand this is not the case.

In any case, both technical and legal approaches are appropriate. And you know as well as I do that everyone at WMF desperately wants SSL for everything, and that this is a thing they are specifically working toward (but it turns out to be a bit more complicated than just switching everyone to SSL) - there is no way in which the legal approach precludes the technical approach.

I mean, you're right, this has been a problem for ages and you personally yelled really loudly and quite appropriately at them for it, and I really wish WMF had moved forward sooner. But if yesterday was the best day to act, then today is the next-best day.
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That kind of handshaking goes on all the time. Pretty much the same thing happens when you plug in a USB device, it's just less analog.
What strikes me after this revelation is how unique the United States is, because:

(a) it has dozens of companies that create technology the rest of the world uses, and
(b) it has a govt. that secretly works to undermine the technology developed by those companies.

You're not going to hear about many foreign govt's actively hacking their country's software products, simply because they could easily/secretly armtwist cos. into installing backdoors at the beginning. Take China for instance - do we think it needs to hack into, say, Huawei phones or Wechat? I don't think so.

As a foreigner, that is why this "fight" between US software cos. and its govt. is so fascinating. It's made possible through a unique combination of capital, freedom and history. And I hope it remains that way, for the sake of the rest of the world too.
This is great news. We need more powerful voices like these to really be heard.

Remember Wikipedia's blackout against SOPA!
I would agree with your comment if not for the fact that Apple invented a whole new terraced battery design (watch the keynote) in order to pack the thing full of batteries, and the thing has 9 hours battery life. The laptop is basically a keyboard, a screen, a tiny logic board and a huge battery.
I think they do. A recent article on weeding out Secretly terrible engineers tells the story.
Okay, can't sleep, so:

5) The whole point of this proof-of-concept seems to be to have unsuspecting, innocent devs who build regular boring apps, like Tinder For Dogs or whatever, unknowingly build the app using poisoned XCode. That way, when Mr. Bad Guy eventually installs Tinder For Dogs on his iPhone, the CIA gets a secret backdoor to his entire phone.

But this seems so overly complicated! If the CIA already has a payload that phones home, why didn't they just build their own apps? Why rely on poisoning a dev environment in the vague hope that Mr. Bad Guy will someday download this particular app? What if Mr. Bad Guy doesn't even have a dog?

Also, I wrote above that an intelligence agency would not likely be interested in getting data from something like a single-player game. There's probably nothing useful to learn about there, other than Mr. Bad Guy's high score.

But maybe that dumb game was the Trojan, not the target. Mr. Bad Guy may be too smart to use SnapChat, but perhaps he installed FarmVille or Angry Birds to while away the hours...?
It was 5 x Man.
http://armorgames.com/play/6819/5xman
This is a great argument for "Gentoo Android".

While much of the iOS is Open Source or Free Software, the end-user can't really inspect the source that went into their particular device.

Note that, to the extent that the CIA steals Apple secrets from foreign sources, they may not be violating any US laws. However Apple does the vast majority of its system software development in Cupertino, California.

My next phone is going to be an Android that enables me to completely replace its firmware binary. While this does void the warranty, rather than having to be concerned about potentially skanky jailbreak exploits, one more or less just sets a flag with an Android SDK command-line tool, then you can install your own firmware.

That will be of limited use in protecting me against hardware backdoors, but at least it will let me pretend that America is still The Land Of The Free.

Among the reason I am so adamant about stuff like this, and that I use my real name when I post about it so publicly, is that I am related to Roger Sherman, the fourth signer of the US Declaration of Independence, as well as to William Tecumseh Sherman and George B. McClellan, the two Generals-in-Chief of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

My mother was an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution; I myself am entitled to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution.
Many websites/webapps run on Java on the server side.

Also some desktop apps come with Java bundled together. The user just installs the app and runs it.
Yeah, because $3.25-$6.50/channel is totally not a deal, compared to $17.5/channel. At all.
Not that I know of. But I do know that charities find tied donations a goddamn PITA - if you trust someone to do good work, just giving them the money for the general pool is the right thing in almost all cases.

But they do love to know what inspired a particular donation. So I would suggest dropping a few bucks to the ACLU and WMF's general contribution addresses, but including a note that this is why :-)
It is discoverable - see the bottom of the 'Go' menu.
Reminds me of another article:

Do Tech employers want too much from Candidates?

http://news.dice.com/2015/03/09/do-employers-want-too-much-f...
I thought I remembered reading something about quite a high profile hack that was carried by infecting computers by people using USB sticks that were strategically left on the floor of a parking lot near their car.
I've read that Linus is only mean to people who he's familiar\friends with or who senior enough that they should already know better. This was recently on HN and shows the more patient side of Linus (not sure how often this happens) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8761539
PJ stopped doing Groklaw out of disgust that the law was so deeply disrespected by the government. Perhaps when Snowden is elected President.
Argon does make sense -- it's higher up the table than xenon -- by two rows, which tends to mean higher abundance. It's also a Nobel gas (largely inert). But a lot lighter -- atomic weight ~40 vs. 131 -- only 30% the mass per atom.

But found with natural gas as a result of nuclear decay within the Earth's crust / mantel.
Akka was actually inspired by Erlang's design principles, the philosophy "Let it crash", and the actor model.
Ask HN: Do you believe in free help?
Would you rather take help from someone who's doing it for free or someone who's charging you for it? Is it a common (and proved?) notion that free has no quality?
So let's say me being an android developer want to help someone in my spare time but don't want to go through the pain of freelance websites and registrations. Would you believe such a person and ask help or just think that he/she must not be good enough.
You're right, when MrBuddyCasino said "I think this design is better than that design", he clearly meant "we should get rid of that design".
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-so... is a useful source for general numbers
If you'd like to immigrate to Canada for any reason whatsoever, I cannot possibly recommend my own immigration attorney M. Lee Cohen highly enough:

http://www.mleecohen.com/

His main focus is human rights work (political asylum and refugees) however he finances that by charging completely reasonable fees for regular immigration applicants such as myself.

Real nice guy and he knows his stuff.
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Windows is not supported.... Sublime being on all platforms is what made it so huge. There are developers on WIndodws machines, and because they like it!
Going to such extend to add a feature to USB which FireWire has built-in. :p
And as seen here (http://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/j...) the socket is indented into the wall so less of the cable protrudes beyond the flat surface of the wall.
I haven't watched that movie, but I did look at screenshots, and what I see is the bog standard black hole used by everyone everywhere. And I'm not really surprised - after all, Interstellar invented the black hole image this article was talking about, AFAIR it was for this movie that such rendering was attempted the first time ever - so for your reference to be relevant to my comment, we'd have to be dealing with some really serious time travel stuff. ;).
I don't want my Things to be on the Internet.

To the extent that I can possibly select gadgets that won't phone home, I will.

To the extent they insist on doing so anyway, I'll find some way to block their transmissions.

If nothing else, I could remove their brains with a screwdriver, or perhaps a well-aimed zap of static electricity.