skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow... there's actual documentary evidence of this... they have officially [on paper] crossed the line where they instead of just being perceived to being the bully are actually officially bullying nations into doing their bidding. This is... I'm officially speechless. Are they trying to pen themselves into a corner where the entire world ends up standing against them? After I heard yesterday about Russia's plans for their nuclear program and now this...

...did I fall asleep and wake up in an alternate universe. This behaviour is ridiculous. The U.S. got caught with their hands in the cookie jar and they're threatening other countries with huge diplomatic consequences because they're willing to stand up and protect the guy who embarrassed them?

How about they just say, "Hey, yeah, we fucked up, we'll fix it. Sorry guys" and be done with it. They're walking down a very bad diplomatic path. If you want to win the war on terror, try making friends instead of enemies; your current path is not leading in that direction.

I'm actually astonished given Germany's strength in Europe that they didn't just say GFY! We're not going to be seen to be bullied by you in front of all of Europe. You don't make the rules here and if you want to play that game, it goes both ways. You already have a significant portion of the middle east unhappy with you - we stood by you on that; you have Russia against you - we stood by you on that too; do you really want to turn Europe, your only remaining ally against you too? Because that's where this path is leading. As mighty as your military is, it would not stand against the rest of the world if you keep up this idiotic behaviour.
and also worked with Orson Scott Card. Man, what a career.
Another reason: "You're primarily interested with salary."

Sounds like this company prides itself on overworking their employees and paying them less than what they're worth.

(Which is what a lot of companies do, but they aren't proud of it.)
Kind of glossed over the whole "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY" thing in the "Table Changes" section, no?
Oh, sounds good. So even though you can't get at the data on the server, you are able verify that it is unchanged with correct timestamps, etc. Sounds smart, useful. I presume then that you can support searching on the client side by downloading an encrypted index or something like that?

Thanks for the good work guys, best of luck with your project and (ad)venture.
MSBuild has a lot of Ant-yness to it, yes. However, I quibble with your definition of Maven as a dependency manager--it has one (and the independent implementation that can work with Maven repos is Apache Ivy) but I've never seen a Java project use both. Usually somebody jams some sort of runner into a Maven project as a different build step or something.
Actually, to get something in german's pirate party program, there must be a 66% majority.

Hm. I never heard of blocks in the pirate party. Luckily, it seems that the core pirates are too liberal for that. Things could go wrong, but then we simply start a new party.

And yes, we must listen to everyone. Whatever troll it might be. You must listen them to tell them otherwise and to learn from them. It might be the only way a democracy can function well.
I feel "The But Guy" shouldn't belong in this list. I would prefer that potential deal-breaker issues be identified as quickly so we we don't waste time on something that is infeasible.
The Times' Attack on Wearables Is an Attack on Science
The exact same argument applies to someone who steals an actual, licensed taxi, and I don't think people worry about fake taxi drivers when they get a cab.
If I well understood, it is recommended now to support the team to buy a clone rather that an original Arduino?
If nothing else, this lets you make loading spinners with proper alpha-blended antialiased edges (so you don't need "dark background" and "light background" versions).
Nobody cared about Spying theft of SIM crypto heist. Challenging your providers
There is this service to search in the digits: http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery
I'd really like to hear more stories like this one. Please share if you have a working remote team.

I'm absolutely over the rhetoric about how you need to be in the same office to have any sort of culture. There are online communities every where, they all have their own culture, their inside jokes, their group think, etc etc.

Maybe I'm just a bit bitter about the topic but I grew up online, I find online social connections to be equally as strong as offline ones. I guess I just feel the whole counter argument is baseless and unproven and not held up by anything more than survivor bias, industry norms and what people say investors hate to hear.

The pros easily outweigh the con's. Some teams it will absolutely not work. Some teams its the best way forward.
The warning dialogue is displayed on all versions of Windows, depending on the driver. Some can't be installed at all.
Die Linke is an amalgamation of a lot of parties, among them the former left wing of the SPD (shortly independent as WASG), and purged 95% of its former SED members during reunification.

Sure, they're communists. But they're not the same as the Stalinist, Soviet-controlled SED.
If they're outsourcing to save money, I don't want them as a client. As I've said, if they're pinching pennies, they're not focusing on the right area or they're so cash-strapped that they can't focus on the right area. Either way, I don't want that work and unless one of my associates is in a bind, I don't want to make their life miserable either.

And no, I'm not valued on price because even if the clients are in another country, they already know who I am. I been deliberate marketing myself to make that happen. Two books, conferences (including keynote speeches), lots of open-source code, and so on. That's part of what sets me apart from many others in my field: nobody knows who they are. It doesn't mean I'm better than them; it means I'm better known than them. (I apologize if that sounds arrogant, but this has been a deliberate, multi-year strategy to get me where I am).
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Congrats !! Seems like this will go the producthunt way. Just have a feeling. Good luck
Ever thought of starting a co-working space with some friends?
Agreed, the DataGenetics blog is one of my favorite sites on the internet.
I've been working remotely about 5 or so of my 10+ professional years. Working remotely can be a very different experience depending upon job roles. Most of the articles linked on HN are for already-isolating back office jobs like development, but for roles like customer support, sales, an outsourced front desk receptionist, or other highly communication-heavy roles you will not really feel as lonely probably. For coders and asset-producers with pretty clear expected (and more importantly, asynchronous) output, solutions typically focus upon forcing your job duties to include more actual human interaction even if it might not be in-person. However, higher value consultants typically will be communicating a lot more with their clients and spending half your day at Starbucks is going to be few and far between.

Secondly, the "freedom" people tend to talk about is pretty minimal in some roles and being remote tends to reinforce the need for your role to be available as much as possible. If you're the on-call contact in operations where it's arguably more important that you're available immediately rather than that you just make some deadlines (transactional work), you really can't just take off very often like you can oftentimes with very asynchronous, start-stop workflows like development. You're not about to work at Starbucks much unless you can be guaranteed that you won't have a really important call come in. I would have lost precious availability time if I was working at Starbucks a few days ago when I had to manage a production outage and get on the phone and start talking authoritatively quickly. It's one thing to have a kid or pet in the background, it's another when you're obviously sitting at a coffee shop.

For work-life separation, I recommend separate devices from your personal belongings for starters. It's oftentimes substantially cheaper than getting a separate room or larger residence. I have a company-provided laptop that I do my work on as well as a company-provided phone, and that helps keep things separate from the rest of my life. If I have to reach for that phone or RDP / ssh into that machine, that's time I've spent for the company, not for me.
“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

― Mark Twain
Why is the first pin 1415 and not 3141?

[edit to add] and I don't mean that in a snarky way. Was just curious.
Having done quite a bit with MySQL's replication in a master-master scenario, dragons be here. It works if you know exactly what your application will be doing, but honestly, it's best to avoid it. Master-master replication is tricky with any system, but the particular implementation of MySQL's replication semantics make it even more prone to inconsistent data.
I'm not a lawyer, but that sounds a little dicey to me. I think for getting search warrants, you need probable cause to believe that somebody has a specific amount of a specific drug or other contraband, ideally in a specific place. Claiming on an anonymous website that you lost some amount of money on a site known for trafficking mostly contraband sounds more like a fishing expedition - you have no way to tell if they were lying entirely, or what they supposedly lost money on, or if it's actually illegal in their jurisdiction. You generally can't, or at least aren't supposed to be able to, get a warrant based on a hunch that somebody is doing something illegal.

This is perhaps cause to open an investigation on somebody, but I'd think they'd have to actually contact these people and complete a sale for something illegal to move forward with legal action. Which would probably not be worth the trouble for most agencies capable of doing that sort of thing, unless they had reason to believe that you were a pretty big fish.
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A co-worker of mine actually wrote on replication in postgres recently:

http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2015/03/03/the-history-of-r...
Damn it!

I was just starting to work on this, and you already finished it. My (barely started) work is at http://github.com/captn3m0/slack-irc-proxy, but I got distracted trying to work on slack-utils.

However, I was planning to allow user authentication as well, which is something I think we need, but this will do the work equally well for now.

Thanks!
Fair enough, sorry for being quite so editorial about it. My impression was that only an extremely small percentage goes to actual artists, and probably weighted towards popular ones in much the same way Spotify does.
Why would anyone care what I buy with my own money and how I spend my free time if I don't harm others?
Makes sense. Couldn't Germany/E.U also claim to deny sharing information with the U.S?

Yes, the U.S has the best intelligence agency in the world, but Europe is closer to most hostile nations in the world. If EU said 'no sharing info with the US', wouldn't that be a much larger problem than the other way around?
Yep, I can see your points. My MacBook Pro is slightly older so I still have a ethernet port, but I can't remember the last time I plugged it in so its basically a waste of space. So it makes sense they are really looking at what's used etc.

Where I get nervous is things like USB, if you blow out one port you are ok if you have 2-3, but if you only have 1 its a bad day. Not that this is some regular or common occurrence, and typically I use a hub when connecting custom hardware, but it would suck if something failed and it blew out my only port on a machine. Hence my reason for hoping they keep the Pro series a little more flexible.
Ask HN: Searching for leads for Web-Dev Company
Can someone tell me how I can find leads for the Web-Development Company I recently started working for. I'm an account manager but this is new to me and I don't have enough experience in this sphere. I will be very thankful if I receive some good advice.
Thanks in advance
Spoken like a true person who spent an hour investigating the platform and then moved on. All of the issues you've pointed out are solved using third-party packaging.
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It takes a while for a torrent to be downloaded and become available to play. As soon as the first piece is available, it should become playable.
> Charge less the first time, charge some more the next time (if their happy)

I doubt if that will work. What if they were happy because they got quality output for less money? How would you now go to them and say that I gave you a discount the first time around and now you have to pay the full price? If you did not make it clear up front, you will have a very unhappy client.

I think it's incorrect to assume that everyone hires consulting companies to cut costs. Some folks hire them because they do not want to build IT team. Some folks hire them because they need some work done for the quarter BUT won't be needing them on permanent basis. In such cases, it's not about the cost but paying right amount of money to get their work done.
That seems like a movie plot.
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Interesting. I have a different interest from most people in this stuff, but I like to create stuff that balances range of expression with ease of expression. The key is enabling expression, not just giving a place to passively consume. Good examples include iMovie, and Vine; Instagram and VSCOcam; etc. etc. Basically, it can't just be a one-note app: it has to give you the possibility of discourse, of dialectic. That's what I really like in Vine, actually: this feels like a different app than 6 months ago, because the people on it are growing and changing as artists, and the app allows that. But it limits them to 6 seconds. So yeah, find the balance.

That's just the product side of things though. I feel like these startups can be evaluated from an investor's perspective just like any others: they're gonna be highly adopted and growing quickly, or they'll be pretty much dead. Sometimes they'll be dead for a long time until people realize what they can do with it (e.g. Snapchat).
Absolutely. Arduino (both of them) have dropped the ball. Atmels are great for small low-everything projects. But once you move up to dealing with more complex data, they just don't have the horsepower... And when they do, you end up with the Arduino Yun, which is a binary blob of closed sourceness. Might as well go with a RasPi/uno combo for best of both worlds.

Since the Chinese have been innovating here a lot, here's some links to get you started. And yes, I like AliExpress and Ali Baba.

Pro mini $1.68
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Pro-Mini-Module-Atmega328-5V-...

Nano $2.52
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1PCS-Nano-3-0-controller-comp...

Uno $3.15
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Best-prices-UNO-R3-MEGA328P-f...

Mega $9.85
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Freeshipping-Mega-2560-R3-Meg...
I think the biggest catalyst for government reform in the internet era would be bringing voting online.

I'm 23 years old. My generation doesn't have the time or patience to wait in line to vote and fill out legal documents. We're used to apps that let us order delivery and message friends in a button tap.

The reason big money keeps winning is because our generation doesn't vote enough. If we make local and federal voting deadlines as simple as phone notifications, we're going to start seeing a a huge array of intelligent decisions injected into the political system.

The Pirate Party offers liquid democracy through online voting. I'm all for it, I hope Iceland sets an example for the rest of the world.
As 0x0 says they are in 1.0.1e-2+deb7u15 which was just released a few minutes ago.

If you would like to know all the security update for debian you can subscribe to the mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org See https://www.debian.org/security/

Be warned however that they send mail every few days and you have to read them to know which update is needed on your system.

On the other hand you can use Debian automatic upgrade system: unattended-upgrade. Which will update your system for security update. It does so every night so you won't have security update asap but if you update within the day it's generally okay
See, the trouble is there are people in this industry who would work at this place, and that contributes to lower wages and poorer working conditions. Sure, I won't work there but the fact that others will has an impact on me at least indirectly. I think that's sufficient reason to call out this kind of job/company for the bullshit it is.
>This is great news.

It is!

> People often forget that dealerships often abuse their power and take advantage of consumers.

I doubt many people forget that. Car salesmen have some of the worst reputations of any profession in the US. Purchasing a car can be nerve-wracking. The research I felt compelled to do beforehand felt like I was preparing myself for battle, because I knew the incentives were diametrically opposed.
If you'd like to build things like this Dashboard, and help fix the services Americans depend on, we are hiring. We have an amazing core already, and are growing fast. Read more about the U.S. Digital Service and apply at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/usds

Our pitch is pretty simple: Fix Stuff That Matters.
You can read the federal court filings (so far) here:

https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/mad/167131/
The best NoSQL is
Arduino, LLC v. Arduino S.R.L. et al
If you want to support the team you should buy from http://store.arduino.cc/ or from any other site. You should not buy from http://www.smartprj.com/ which is the Arduino Srl site.
leads for what? I assume you mean developers?
Quick question I have subscribed to the RSS and receive emails thanks to IFTTT but why don't Amazon send also those emails ? Do they only send an email if you have to take some actions ?

Edit: You can find the recipe I'm using here: https://ifttt.com/recipes/270862-amazon-security-bulletins-t...
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Well, but that result can be considered a good thing - okay, you have a block of voters with opinions that you despise; but now instead of being outside the estabilishment they now have a seat or two to voice their concerns, but everyone knows exactly how small that minority is and the mainstream parties can finally start ignoring that block of voters since they'll vote for that extreme right party anyways.
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And sometimes they outsource because it's hard to find expertise in a particular area, or they have a staffing shortage. I am regularly contacted because of that.
Sorry, i didn't explained very well...with quotes i meant obstacles that makes it hard founding a party.

In some countries you need like 5000 signatures to found a party, that makes no sense for democracy. :)
No reason really. I just arbitrarily started using the digits after the decimal point (to avoid the confusion of what to do with the ".")

Other Pi sites seem to follow similar protocol. It will create an "off-by-one" for most answers, but since the string that is the furthest away does not start with a "3", other than the off-by-one, it will not change the results :)
The easist way to get rid of adware I tend to use on other's PCs is to just use System Restore. Most adware won't break in there so it just takes a few minutes to be reasonably sure that the system is clean again (at the expense of the last thing they installed, of course).

As for getting a clean slate back, Windows 8 has a Reset function that restores the system to a fresh install state while keeping data intact. Also much easier than hunting for a recovery DVD or an ISO.
I travelled in an UberPOP during a recent trip to Paris last month. The driver asked that I sit in the front seat because police had been pulling over private cars with passengers in the back, trying to catch unlicensed cab drivers.
Isn't that kind of like saying that those guys who always stay past 6pm or come in before 8am are assholes?
Agreed, but I personally would still prefer external hub versus one built into a monitor or other piece of hardware. Just because when you do custom hardware work, it is not totally unreasonable that a USB port might get taken out by someone wiring something wrong. Having it be integrated to a $1000 monitor would make me want to hurt someone, having it in a $5-20 hub I wouldn't really care as much.

But for the average person not doing that type of work, your right a simple hub in the monitor is an easy and fairly elegant solution. Effectively a docking station would also be a simple solution as likely the extra ports are not needed when on the go most of the time.
I think the take-away from all of this is that the civilised world needs to take a stand against the US, and collectively go "you know what, shove your intelligence, and your 'friendship'".

Friendship from the the US is like that friend who comes by, puts his muddy boots on your desk, tells you to fix his computer, stubs a cigarette out on the carpet, and on his way out punches a neighbour for looking at him funny. Once in a while he'll turn up with some guy he beat up, and tell you that this is evidence of his benevolent protection... and you'd better keep on my good side, bro. You wouldn't like me when I'm mad.

This act alone, if done publicly and loudly, would quite likely decrease any variety of terroristic threat to cooperating nations, merely through the act of disassociation with the USA, thus making their threats utterly toothless.

As it is, however, through TTIP and TPP the world is further embroiling themselves in the affairs of this embattled state, and matters can only worsen.
Is Betteridge's law of headlines correct?
The Village that fell asleep: mystery illness that perplexes Kazakh scientists
28.3% on IE, 41% on Windows 7. Wow.

It's odd, being in the tech bubble, you forget how many people there are that really don't think about their technology (or work somewhere for whom the most important things are cost and stability).

It would be interesting to take a poll of what people think the numbers would be like before they saw them. I would have guessed a lot more Chrome/FF.
AFAIK you should look into the "built on:" line. If the date is: Tue Mar 17 21:30:08 UTC 2015, then the the package is already updated.
Is this meant to be a joke, or do you really know this little about Germany??
Actually... you are right, it's broken right now. I'm trying to fix it...
My guess would be Schleswig-Holstein: https://www.landtag.ltsh.de/parlament/english/
Bad mouthing and spreading rumors creates real business problems.
Sorry for asking, but if the private keys are stored client-side, how do handle users with multiple computers? Let the user handle it by hand?

(i'm no encryption expert, just curious)
Distributions generally backport security fixes, so a plain comparison of upstream version numbers won't generally work. You need to understand your distribution's versioning scheme and check package changelogs.

However, distributions generally release updates to their stable releases. Just install them. Installing security updates automatically is even better (better to have the occasional rare regression than a compromise and have to re-deploy the whole server).
Knowing when to shut up is the major difference that determines if your opinion will be treated by others as 'non-mainstream but interesting' or 'weird radical quack'.