skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As many have noted, this does need to stop but it won't. And the problem lies squarely with you and me.

Try this experiment: Ask a group of 5-10 people around you to raise their hands if they've been pissed off at any branch or level of their government. Then ask them to keep their hands up if they've contacted their representatives about that issue. Finally, ask them if the method of contact they used was the phone or written (not email) letter.

I'll bet dollars to donuts that not a single hand will be in the air.

You and I are the problem because we don't hold our representatives accountable. We really only pay attention (and marginal attention at that) during election time by buying into the campaign bullshit. At best we sign an online petition but the politicians barely care about that. They know that its easy even for the most apathetic to click a button. Sure, in cases like net neutrality it can get their attention but I'll submit that what really got their attention was the number of phone calls they were getting.

Yes, I specifically am to blame because I haven't called or written my representatives. That's going to stop. We need to be on the horn with these people frequently. Weekly. When they're in town we need to be in their faces. They said, "If you see something, say something." Well, I see corruption and I'm going to point right at them and tell them. Will you join me?

EDIT: I should add that we need to be contacting them when we approve of the work they're doing. They need data. Most of the feedback they receive is negative (and for good reason) but without positive feedback they're left searching and unfortunately the guys who claim to have the answers are the lobbyists. But remember, there are around 15,000 lobbyists in Washington D.C. but 131,144,000 voters voted in the 2012 Presidential election. I like our chances, if only we get involved.
My first response to this is to eschew the technology, but in retrospect, maybe getting pre-paid cc's for the kids and linking their cards to those may be a good option. "Here's $200 for the week, don't blow it all on the first day".
I'm convinced people are learning and inventing new components just so they can invent new stackronyms. I'm starting a new project using Angular, Node, and for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, a combination of Apache and Lighttpd.

edit: Actually, I realized this needs a storage component, and obviously that would be LevelDB, so I could lose Lighttpd, which was redundant anyway.
Actually, we're at a point where graphics stuff is becoming more relevant to server chips. Especially with more parallelizable workloads being pushed to GPUs for processing, it's interesting to see where the distribution of CPU/GPU focused tasks goes.

Of particular note in the world of data analytics, there are some exciting things on the horizon for using GPU cores to accelerate database workloads[0][1]. Of particular interest here is removing the communication overhead between CPU and GPU and avoiding the memory translations necessary to move between GPU VRAM to system RAM.

AMD's success in the iGPU market and their HSA design (along with supporting APIs) could be enough to win AMD some market share.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5595738

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8787414
This kind of adoption will be much faster with evergreen browsers.
I lock my computer, but on top of that, I run a bluetooth proximity locker, just to cover my ass when I'm not standing by my computer. :)
This can be customized, thankfully. I love this theme now! https://github.com/YabataDesign/afterglow-theme#tab-height-s...
Hah, yeah.

The first bit of the article is very big about compromising XCode, and I couldn't help but think that Lockheed basically just got the .gov to pay them to "rediscover" Reflections on Trusting Trust.
Did you mean the tab bar? It's specifically mentioned that you can change this with a setting.
This is better than their instructions just marginally.

1. CMD ^ P

2. Type "install" and select "Package Control: Install Package"

3. Type "Afterflow" and select "Theme - Afterglow"

4. Press: Command + , (to go into settings).

5. Paste the two lines from Github page, add any additional settings and restart sublime.

edit: Ah I just saw your update, previewing is a nice little feature for sure, especially when you're not sure how they handle colors for the languages you use most often. Sounds nice
MCuhadar
Nvidia Shield – A Different Take on Android Gaming
Hello All! I realize this is yet another framework, however the main reason I posted this is to hopefully get more people involved with the project, not self promotion. At the very least I would like to see a couple issues on Github complaining or booing my work so far.

Thanks!
Roof Ventilation Critical to Healthy Roof – LGC Roofing Blog
I was just about to say, "see my latest edit"... when I saw your latest edit :)

The preview feature also lets you move between your open files while previewing a theme (without selecting it), so you can check HTML, CSS, Python, etc. all without changing your theme.
Flexible particle system – OpenGL Renderer optimization
Hyperscale, Cloud Drive Infrastructure Capacity Up, Prices Down
It's wrong to assume that the only result of taking an entrepreneurial risk is transcendent wealth 1/1,000,000 of the time or financial catastrophe the other 999,999.
low tech is sometimes the best tech ;)
I'll never judge an artist's 1) desire to make money 2) desire to give their work away for free. That's such a personal decision, and entirely up to each individual. We all value different things, there isn't a "right" thing to do here.
Notably this is compatible with ST3 only. No backport for Sublime Text 2 users.
Android Wear will get Wi-Fi support, gesture control in next software release
4 steps to make experimentation a repeatable process in your business
Angular + Moltin + Yeoman = an Angular E-Commerce App in No Time
I never thought I'd say this, but...

Enough with the hand-wringing. Enough with the "somebody needs to do sooooomething!". Just stop. Staaaaahp.

How long has our industry been spying on users? How much money have we made aggressively mining their data? And now, now, "These People Have Gone Too Far!"?

Please.

Everyone's got the tools. Everyone's got the knowhow, either themselves or online. Write code or quit bitching.

EDIT:

To the slightly different point given by poster: we have the power to broadcast this message of fearlessness to the populace at large, because we own their media. How hard a social media campaign would it be to overcome the fear and paranoia the .gov and mainstream media use?

Also, note that that same fearless attitude is directly contradicted by very popular social movements right now in certain consumer gaming industries. You're liable to end up with very strange bedfellows and enemies.
> The main effort of the team has been focused on speed, with performance reportedly improved from 2 to 3 times compared to previous releases.

Definitely good news, as MySQL came out during the peak of Moore's-law (or, more appropriately, a misapplication of) fueled idiocy where nobody seemed interested in investing in better performing software, since they all expected they'd have faster hardware next year. Now everybody's deploying to VPSes, so it's once again important that we get the most out of every single CPU cycle. I haven't gone through all the diffs, but if they're promising 2x to 3x improved performance, there must have been some pretty fundamental rewrites of old code.

Coming from the Oracle + DB2 world, what I'd really like to see is some improved performance analysis and query optimization tools. There have been some incremental improvements to EXPLAIN (the new 'EXPLAIN on a named connection' feature seems pretty cool for when I have 10+ application instances all connecting to my DB), but it's still got a long way to go.
Try:

"tabs_small": true

for small tabs. I just turned it on and now it takes up about as much space as space grey did.
They might have inside knowledge and believe that the NSA is in the right, but they would not be able to voice that belief to us, their friends and colleagues.

Given the way classified work is compartmentalized, I think any such belief would be either very narrow and heavily qualified or - more likely - mostly a matter of faith, emotion, and ego.

No grunt knows what all the grunts are doing.
Wow, deceptive submission title.
ATI graphics stuff, which are irrelevant to server chips.

It might have been irrelevant a few years ago, but OpenCL and GPU computing is showing up in more and more server applications.
The history of government spying, at least as far back as J Edgar Hoover, as been about spying on members of the opposition, not about ass-covering. ass-covering is just the current halfway-excuse.
1) I see nothing in the constitution that requires all court business to be done in public. The sixth grants a person the right to a public trial. As far as I know the secret court has never held trials, they have only granted warrants and other bits of due process that are not required to be public.

2) Seems to be a clear violation of the sixth amendment to me.

3) You seem to be a little to black and white to me. It is possible to think that they have done the wrong thing in some cases and need to be brought back in to line but not think that we need to completely destroy the government's ability to function.
Haswell+fan vs Broadwell w/o fan.
> What if the law says that secret courts can decide using secret proceedings?

Then at least it's on the books as a choice our society has made. OP's issue is there's currently no clear legal chain of certain programs back to a democratic decision.
I like it - thanks for the link.
Put on headphones and hear New York City in 3D audio
Fedora 22 Alpha Release
This doesn't install the whole theme though (at least for me), just changes the colour scheme.

To that, you'll need to install the theme by following the instructions on the Afterglow github page.
gitgutter works in the editor window, not so much in the sidebar.
Buy Low Sell High. Trend Following Strategy
Looks really interesting. Pressing download now.
Controversial Hacker David Schrooten (24) Talks at IT Talent Debate
The story of David Schrooten is particularly intense. In 2012 he was arrested because of alleged credit card fraud. Early February, this young student from Spijkenisse, was set free after his parole ended. Before that he was trapped for two years in America’s most heavily guarded prisons. Under terrible conditions and surrounded by top criminals Schrooten had to survive.

Since his release earlier this year, David deliberately outruns the media. However, during the 3rd edition of the annual IT Talent Debate on April 24th in Utrecht (NL), he will share his story with IT students from all over the country.

Go to https://ittalentcollege.com/blog/2015/03/10/remember-this-card-on-it-talent-college-you-can-hand-in-it-at-it-talent-debate/ for the whole post.
How to Speak Data Science – Funny Post
a few updates, now includes a CLI. other stuff will be updated soon!
I forked the Cobalt2 theme and altered the colors and icons to work with the Monokai Extended color palette. You can download the ST3 theme here at https://github.com/wdhilliard-genebygene/monokai-blue
I'm with you there. I had a lot more free time in grad school than I do now (both personally and professionally). Judging from the updates I see on twitter and blogs, most of that core group has gone on to bigger, better, more time-consuming things.

I wonder if the kids these days are using snapchat to complain about how we're all dinosaurs. :)
You don't need a band to use these photogs. When I was there in 2012 they gave me a card with a code on the back. I took a picture of it with my phone and stuck the card in my backpack. There's a disney site that hosts the photos for about a month, you create an account and add all the codes to your account. Then you can buy whatever pictures you want (or download the previews if you don't need the full res pictures).

I brought my own camera - the pre-positioned photogs were nice to have (and had better equipment than me), but I still enjoyed being able to take my own pictures.

Until Disney gets drones to take pictures for you on-demand, you are still going to want to bring a camera (smartphone or otherwise) to the park.
Last time I checked, Neovim doesn't build on Windows[1]

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/810
Differents colors?
Benevolent sexism is like a wolf in sheep's clothing
I guess the answer is to just continue ignoring and censoring people whose opinions we don't like. I'm cool with that.
TPM - I would never use this for my own servers. Backdoors wide open!
"What we should focus on is whether a government should be allowed to operate in secrecy, without any public oversight or knowledge, and whether the government can be morally justified in surveilling citizens without probable cause."

Actually, it is the problem for precisely that reason. What it boils down to is the Rule of Law. If the people at the top can do anything they want and never face any sort of prosecution, it not only sets precedent for the rest of the big wigs to act the same way (banking crisis anyone?) but it also reveals the farce in a more public way than has been true in the past.

The rule of law has never been perfect, and certainly so in America, but I feel like before the internet only the most egregious violations came to light, whereas now the farcical nature of the system is being revealed across the board. When there is an undermining of the rule of law, people will begin to completely disrespect it, and society will actually become more lawless (in the sense that people break laws willingly).

This is beyond the three felonies a day rhetoric. I think the inner city is a perfect microcosm of this.

Clapper lied to congress bluntly. He should be facing prosecution. Why isn't he? Because DOJ or whatever DA doesn't have the balls. Why don't they have the balls? Good ol boy system? Corruption? Blackmail? (you know NSA has the dirt on the entire SCOTUS and DOJ) Take your pick, the point is that the branches of government are compromised. (including the fourth estate).

If you want things to change, the very first thing that we need to do is prosecute and jail those who are undermining the Constitution and doing so in blatantly illegal ways.

Without justice there can be no peace.
The Apple watch's insanely great economics
They also have crated a icon for ST2/ST3, which is also nice! link - https://github.com/YabataDesign/sublime-text-icon

I just applied, this is how it looks in Dock - http://i.imgur.com/zFFP9wq.png
The Boundary Between Hardware And Software
I always thought the rants were quite insightful. He did start out as a political cartoonist.
>This is not about you. This is not about your data. This is about our society's collective ability to think and act for itself. Blanket acceptance of surveillance is a dangerous attitude and shockingly common.

It's also about the future of our society, that which our children have to grow up in and deal with.

I don't know how we'll be able to turn to our children in the coming decades and tell them "the government is monitoring everything you say through voice and text on your phone, every keystroke you make on your tablet or computer, every purchase you make on your phone or through your card in this inevitably cashless society, every connection you make on a connected device, everywhere your devices check in, connect to GPS or triangulate... oh and every camera you see out and about is recording you and facial recognition software is tagging it as you" with the justification for their complete lack of privacy being "there were some guys in the middle east riding around in pickup trucks with AK47s so we needed this to protect us".

We're at a pivotal point now and it's very much up to us which way it goes. Our governments are supposed to serve us but instead we live in a society where we are very much ruled, where our rulers are the elite and their ruling mechanism is the complete charade of representative democracy.

We'll all be dead before it gets too bad, thankfully, but our apathy will condemn our children and their descendants to a life under tyranny which we ushered in through theatrical politics, fear mongering and a bizarrely held belief of There Is No Alternative.
I am getting legal advice, and have asked a few others. Just thought I'd ask here too.

Seems like your advice boils down to 'don't assume it's wrong just because it might seem anachronistic.'
I'd want one that uses an USB for charging. Same charger as phone. Charging from a USB plug in an airplane.
...
I guess this is actually it. Except it needs more than one connector.
An anti-intellectual stance you have espoused could use some backing. What exactly is wrong with people who study complex things for a living?
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter Issue 121
How can users choose? I don't remember being given the choice.

As a user, what I know is that not only am I being tracked, but the result is fucking boots everywhere. Frankly, I see absolutely no gain from my perspective from the whole thing.
Much of what passes for testing is a near-criminal waste of corporate resources. I've seen so much rubbish test code.
That would depend on how "local" a "local exploit" is. If they require physical access to your system, well, then that's one thing. But if "local" is to mean on the network, that's far simpler for an attacker to pull off.

> A security vuln, almost by definition, requires a shared resource. No sharing, no caring

You would only not care if your servers have zero access to the internet and are air-gaped from the rest of your network (even then it's been proven some vulnerabilities can be exploited to gain access).
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/advisory-councils/ta...

Diversity issues aside, is it true that the token Asian was rejected due to accusations of being a rape apologist?

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/18505.html
I personally find it difficult to do anything mentally taxing. I walk at a 3.5mph pace, and I can hardly stay concentrated. I can code and do grunt work, but I can't solve complex problems while on a treadmill desk.

I find a solution in splitting my time and do complex coding while sitting grunt coding while on the treadmill. The switching is distracting. I don't get as much done this way comparing to sitting all day, but overall I think the health benefit is worth it.

There is also the possibility my pace is too fast, though.
I dunno, making an innocent-looking object do something dangerous is "not cool" for non-technical items as well.

Say you replace the contents of one of those bright-coloured sticky sweet liquors with a similarly-coloured cleaning fluid? Then leave it in your liquor cabinet, "to teach people to not touch your stuff". I'm not even sure that's legal.

I once heard a story of someone storing their concentrated GHB (a drug, clear liquid), in a vodka bottle. If someone had accidentally poured themselves a shot of that, the consequences would have been pretty bad.

On a similar note, I'm not sure about the US, but in the Netherlands, it's actually illegal to booby-trap your own home. If an intruder gets hurt, you're liable. I don't think this law exists to protect burglars, but instead it is to protect well-intentioned unlucky people from "accidents" caused by terrible and idiotic "security" measures.

Makes me think about the car-alarm in Snow Crash, which delivered a fatal several thousand volts to whoever tried to open it without a key (or maybe it was a flame-thrower, I forgot).
I can only imagine that, the first time you do this, the entire rest of the week will be Not Fun for the parents.
I second that. I'd like to give it a try in vim and see if I still like it after a day of use.
> How can we make it so security talent has a better career working somewhere else? It could be multi-pronged. A combination of increasing private sector jobs and pay, decreasing public sector funding, and a healthy dose of public shaming might drain spying organizations of some more talent. Other thoughts?

You're never going to get open publishing / access to NSA research / infrastructure. So it's always going to be an interesting place to work.

Of the options, I think public shaming is the most viable. It's ridiculous IETF / IEEE / {insert org here} doesn't throw people out (to my knowledge?).
Yep. You need some mechanism for running several times the same code anyway. Anything that solves that, solves the problem of forking without copy-on-write.

The memory model is one of the features of the Mill that I'm most curious about (the other one being access control).
The first search I tried -- "big data" -- returned Gigaom. Ooops.
This is not an interactive document in the sense Bret Victor proposes.
How to Write a Great Tutorial
If you do not like explain, may I suggest using `EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON` - it is new to MySQL 5.6, and contains additional meta data. There is also optimizer trace, which provides significantly more meta data. Some good examples in these slides: http://www.slideshare.net/oysteing/how-to-analyze-and-tune-s...

I believe your example might be http://mysql-nordic.blogspot.ca/2015/01/with-latest-verions-... - Fixed in 5.7.5.

There has been a lot of work in improving the optimizer recently. One project that I find particularly interesting, is the focus on improving the cost model: http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-optimizer-cost-model-pr...
> yet it is entirely implausible for someone with 3 years experience to be able to be able to explain the technical details of their most recent development projects when in reality they contributed zero code to those projects?

Here is problem. It's not entirely implausible, just very unlikely.

The type of interview I'm talking about isn't going to catch every single bad candidate just the vast majority. But whiteboard interviews don't catch every candidate either and they have an extreme amount of false negatives.

To your point about students, they have much less work experience to talk about. The point of the interview is to look at their experience and talk about it to verity they aren't lying. In most cases the student doesn't have enough experience to tell me anything.

That being said, if a student can talk me through technical implementation details of a final project, then I think that's a pretty good indication that the student can code.

I would say the false positive rate for that test would be very close to the false positive rate for a white board interview with drastically lower false negatives.

If you're Google and you have a limitless number of people who want to work for you, you can get away with taking a vastly higher false negative rate for a slightly lower false positive rate. However, if you're almost every other company out there, you might want to reconsider.
Yeah, we have to rely on cables, when the wi-fi isn't fast enough to transmit the video - or whatever is causing the laggy video.
Obviously not a real spy!
Ask HN: Any POV or examples of best-in-class registration/sign-up process?
One where you need to collect phone, and/or email or mailing address
Software can always be disassembled. I'm much more concerned about proprietary firmware and hardware backdoors. You should be too. Another thing also, is that the NSA have been shown to be weakening crypto standards like RNGs and, possibly, ECC. The problem with this is other standards like TLS and such ultimately use this infrastructure and that affects all software, FOSS included.
End the Ethanol Rip-Off