skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Details: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/set-up-cloudflare-free-ssl-on-...

There are some downsides to this approach that are described there.
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I remember seeing a few threads here on HN and elsewhere encouraging users to show their abandoned ideas and projects. Perhaps a website for listing such projects would be useful (people could find interesting projects they could contribute to or "take over", etc.).
Scanbot adds Slack and Wunderlist integration to its Android and iOS apps
Investors chase unicorns because of the outsized returns they represent. Entrepreneurs chase unicorns because that is what many/most investors are looking for.

I'm not sure how to change this, or even that is _should_ be changed. There are alternate methods of fundraising besides venture capital (bank loans, bootstrapping, etc) available for non-unicorns.
Black and Black: A cultral case for uber
It is not very used in US. This is the danger of relying too much on US tech press and bloggers, when there are more and more trends and use cases common all over the world, except US.

A very interesting thread is Whatsapp acquisition news. Lot of US HNers were shocked with its value; but a lot of people from a lot of other places just knew whatsapp as THE ONLY messaging tool that matters in their respectives countries (and that in a lot of very different countries).

Edit, said thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7266618
In the Australia comparison, the CDN version spends almost 1.5 second on DNS lookup for the main domain. In the non-CDN version this figure is much lower. It seems disingenuous to attribute this overhead to the CDN, no?

And as an aside - Maybe there are some low hanging fruits in tuning their DNS setup instead? 1.5s seems extremely high to me.
Bandwidth usage patterns often occur over much longer periods of time. As a result, while a markov model could be used, you'd need a large order, and you'd need to give it a lot of data (like, ten to fifteen years because bandwidth patterns occur on a week or year scale in many cases). Obviously, this is a tall order -- many organizations haven't even been online for fifteen years.

Instead, I'd recommend just graphing average usage over a year, a month, and a week periodicity and eyeballing it. You'll get better results with less work, despite using less tech.
Well, I'm a beginner in web, and I can't say it's easy, in fact, it's quite the opposite. In native frameworks there's normally one idiomatic way to do things, while the web framework land looks terrifying.

Actually, my pet UI engine was powerful enough so that I've implemented a complete mobile application in it. I'd also tried HTML, but it just wasn't competitive. The native iOS UI was even faster and was miles ahead of HTML in terms of speed.

Also, there is such thing as Qt Quick, where you can basically write in reactive JavaScript, it is at least as powerful as HTML-CSS-JS, and it is still way faster.

The web has started from something that obviously wasn't designed for performance and has come a long way of incremental evolution. Given this, and given that I know how hard it is to make a fast UI engine as powerful as web, the current web performance is actually spectacular. But still, there are better models, and there can be even better models.
I also don't get a lot of notifications to my phone. But my younger coworkers do. They are frequently fiddling with their their phones to keep track of any number of ongoing text conversations, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, notifications from social games, etc.

Let's set aside whether you or I want to live that way, or if we think it's rude. It's their reality. A smart watch might be really useful for those folks if it works well.

That's the key--if it works well. The first iPhone didn't do much that any other smart phone did. It just did those things way better. Same with iPod and MP3 players. It seems at least possible to me that a similar jump is possible with smart watches.
I remember seeing a few threads here on HN and elsewhere encouraging users to show their abandoned ideas and projects. Perhaps a website for listing such projects would be useful (people could find interesting projects they could contribute to or "take over", etc.), so here it is. And yes, I didn't have a lot of time or front-end development knowledge to do a pretty website.
That looks very cool.
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The Community edition is basically the Professional edition with licensing restrictions. Meaning extensions are fully supported. From the [official page](https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-co...)

> Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community?

> A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.
Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations:
An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects.
For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

From another [article](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dorischen/archive/2014/11/12/q-amp-a...)

> Q: What are the specific features of the Visual Studio Community 2013?

> A: Visual Studio Community 2013 shares the same features as Visual Studio Professional 2013 today and licensing terms determine who can use this product. Based on the target audience for this product, SharePoint, Office, LightSwitch and Cloud Business Applications are not included in the installation.

Edit: formatting, can't figure out how to quote the text.
Alas, TrueCrypt was/is the only free solution that allows you to encrypt a USB flash drive (or create an encrytped container file on it) and thus exchange data between, a Mac, a Windows machine, and a Linux machine[1]. Maybe the number of people who need/want that is small compared to the number of people who want some form of whole disk encryption, but if you are one of those people, you are pretty much screwed without TrueCrypt.

It would be relly nice if there was some common container format you could mount natively on these operating systems without the need for 3rd party software. I think I remember reading about LUKS supporting TrueCrypt's container format - but that, of course, only works on Linux. And frankly, I don't see Apple and Microsoft either supporting the TrueCrypt container format natively or getting together to define a new one.

Plus, BitLocker is not available on Vista Business and Windows 7 Pro. So if you don't want to use Windows 8, again, you are kind of screwed.

[1] At least it was/is the only software that I know of which allows you to do that. If there are alternatives, I would very much like to hear about them!
I really don't understand why teens would need facebook, and why people are always surprised they don't use it more. They see most of their friends on a daily basis. They have different communication needs. Maybe once they get to college I would expect that to change.
Ancestry.com uses spit to find your long lost relatives
For you, perhaps.

For me, I feel like I need fewer notifications in my life. The more I can batch tasks together the more time I can spend in deep, interrupted though. The trend towards being more connected more often has benefits but drawbacks as well.
Facebook Users Hit with ‘Your Account Will Be Disabled’ Message Phishing Scam
A lot of suburban neighborhoods are surprisingly not actually all that green: small yards, no trees (because they were all bulldozed and the residents, having exhausted themselves to buy the McMansion, can't really afford to re-do the landscaping from scratch), small backyards, houses crammed next to each other.

And don't forget the very large paved roads to accommodate lines of parked vehicles on the side of the road (because naturally once you have a garage you just hoard crap in it and then park your three cars on the street) and all the armored tank SUVs passing between them.
I'm pretty sure I can safely speak for the TC audit project on this point.
I'm old so I've missed the Snapchat wave...but I've slowly been getting into Instagram, after having initially dismissed it since I used to spend enough time on Flickr. Most of the students I know use Instagram regularly, as do many of my friends my age, even the ones who were once big FB users and have since dropped out.

I like Instagram's "feel", and I imagine Snapchat's is similar. Its main point of sharing is tied to a low-friction hardware feature (using the mobile camera, then picking a filter) and so just posting something, anything, is easy. Unlike a banal Tweet, a banal Instagram photo just sits there to be looked at, and so you don't have to worry too much about being judged harshly (with Twitter, most novices fear that the format constrains their "deep" thoughts to superficialities...which is partially true)...And even if photos are worth a thousand words, their domain is relatively constrained. It's hard to stumble onto political/divisive content the way you can on Facebook or Twitter, and there's less room for content-sharers to bloviate about their lives (since some of them are confident in their visual skill to think that their photo alone says it all). You can just lazily browse the stream, contribute something if you feel like it, then get back to life. So for an older generation that grew up in the age when blogging was hot...there's a kind of appeal in having online social networks being so loose and "shallow"...then you can get back to real life and not be so obsessed over how all of your high school friends are now married with two beautiful babies and living in a perfect house according to their Facebook feed.

The effect of this ephemeralness is probably different to the younger crowd, though, who may have less incentive/discipline to peel away from their phones.
"The Truecrypt developers supposedly left because it wasn't interesting/fun for them anymore."

I thought the Truecrypt developers quit because the US Government forced them to surrender their private keys.
Crypto.rodeo, a “Product Hunt” for Bitcoin and blockchain products and services
Being a net exporter does not have the same benefits, a nation should strive for an equilibrium, as both extremes are unsustainable in the long term.
tl;dr: Teens follow fads.
Ah! Whatsapp kind of main source of communication in India atleast this days.
I could only imagine the positive impact a noticeable increase in condom usage would bring to the world. I feel like it would be a silent yet very beneficial change if condom usage went up about 10% globally.
Am I the only one who thinks pair programming just makes you sleepy?
Respectfully, I think you are overthinking this.

One could use the same logic to make the argument that this article strongly supports the sanctions:

1: [CC on keyboard] "Hackers are trying to steal your money. We need these sanctions to protect you"
2: [Anonymous] "Look at the scary hacker. Don't you know kids these days can do anything with your computer?"
3: [Switch Rack] "See how complicated the internet is? Don't think about it too much, just let us protect you"

Personally I consider it more likely that those were the first results on the stock image site when the reporter searched for "internet, security, hackers" :-)
Should read this along with it: http://www.conifersystems.com/whitepapers/gnu-make/

In my current very huge (takes hours to build) project at work there is a lot of voodoo around the amount of parallelism you can use. "make -j 4" seems OK, but "make -j 20" fails.

Of course, nobody wants to work on improving the build system.
Yes, most definately.

OpenStack Ironic[1] can do this today, given you had right hardware. Making that hardware "mutli-tenant" is not a trivial project, mostly because the firmware stacks are still very closed, but it can be done. Top of Rack switches are also another area of complexity/pain, but also feasible to overcome with a little engineering.

[1]: OpenStack has its complexities, but the OnMetal project has upstreamed everything feasible we can.
I think it's important to remember that Instagram is a part of Facebook. That bumps their market share up quite a bit.
This does not seem to do anything
You're referring to Bitlocker, right? Don't they do something different, like iOS Data Protection, for non-Pro?
In one image: Why I use Periscope over Meerkat
Well, the language of class patterns can be read naturally in either direction--parser or formatter--much like a grammar can be read as a recognizer or a generator. And in fact there are features in the class patterns that really only apply when parsing and are ignored when formatting. You could, with some justice, describe it as a reversible notation rather than as a formatting language that can be inverted. However, constructing a formatter from class patterns is a fairly trivial one-to-one conversion to C++ while constructing a parser requires some complex analysis and restructuring.
Not a bad introduction. I spent years working on GNU make stuff (including a complete emulation) at Electric Cloud and wrote an "Ask Mr Make" column. Everything I wrote about GNU make can be found here: http://blog.jgc.org/2013/02/updated-list-of-my-gnu-make-arti...

[blatant advertising] And also I have a new book on GNU make coming out this month: http://www.nostarch.com/gnumake if you really want to get into make deeply.
New Malware Trojan.Laziok Targets to Attack Energy Companies
See also: "Atomic rules in GNU make"

http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/atomic-rules-gnu-make
They absolutely can, no question about it. Don't expect it to not have costs, though: https://medium.com/@opirmusic/why-software-developers-should...
Sorry, but that's the nature of the tech field. If you're not willing to keep up, find a company that doesn't require you to (government, larger companies) or find another industry.
People tend to significantly underestimate how beneficial it is to have your mind cleared of all of the little, nagging things on your to-do list. I started using the GTD [1] methodology to help with that, and it has improved my ability to focus significantly.

I can see how the Dash Button would be similarly useful.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
So the person who lives on a several acre lot with a 4000 sq ft house, running their own business is asleep and the person in a 600 sq ft loft crammed in a city block with thousands of others is wide awake?

The world sure is upside down.
On Safari 8.0.4, it doesn't display the generated names. I see they were generated in the console log. It works in Chrome.
> germany finally bent a bit letting the eurozone printing money

This money is needed to sustain Germany's export as much as it is needed to sustain Greece's and Spain's and Italy's import… because guess where Germany's exports go?

The Eurozone can only function if there's (internally) a trade equilibrium.
Many people go into computer science because they want
to know how computers work or because they want to know
how to program that demo they just saw, or more applied
things along these lines.

Then they're in the wrong place. They should download a copy of SICP and a Lisp interpreter, and get busy hacking. Read open source software, contribute to a project that you like. Get a job, be productive.

A music student doesn't go to university to learn how to play an instrument - he first becomes a musician, then he goes to university.
> "Lynch is leaning forward in his chair, telling me about his kids: about how grateful he is to be able to simply glance at his Watch, realize that the latest text message isn’t immediately important, and then go right back to family time; about how that doesn’t feel disruptive to him—or them."

I'm sorry, but how in the world is this any different than the Pebble, Sony, and Android Wear smartwatches that came before it? I mean, I get that the iPhone revolutionized the smartphone; I had a Treo 650 when the iPhone was released, and while I still miss the Treo to this day, I can readily admit the iPhone took the concept in new and better directions.

But the Apple Watch doesn't bring anything new to the table. Yes, it's a hybrid Fitbit/Smartwatch...but so is the Microsoft Band. Which, by the way, works with all three major phone OSes; the Apple Watch works with the iPhone only, because of course it does.

I guess I just don't see what all the fuss is about. Yes, the iPod was a revolutionary device, the iPhone even more so, and the iPad can be thanked for all the great (and not so great) Android and Windows tablets out there now. But in this case it's the Apple Watch that is the also-ran, the follower...not the innovator.
I like "Travelive" better than "SMS Travel Map". I'd say it's useful.
Actually, I addressed this point in my original comment:

> As for not over-treating, that is a physician led decision - just because there is an anomaly on the scan does not mean that it will be removed or even necessarily treated at all.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. I am saying that having cheaper, better scans with computer aided analysis is likely to be beneficial. I am not saying that every anomaly detected requires treatment. Treatment decisions are influenced by imaging but are not enforced by them.
There are precedence indicators to describe precedence (BTW, this is needed for formatting as well as parsing). The details are too complicated for a reply, but they are in the language manual.
> Look at the other thread about high school kids taking AP computer science: AP CS is basically a class that is only offered if the parents agitate for it and the district has the money. Somehow in Mississippi this just doesn't happen, and we are fine with that as a nation. Keeps us wringing our hands about who says what words in the workplace instead of having to make a substantive change in what we offer students.

I think you'll find that the people "wringing hands about who says what words in the workplace" (at least, if by that, you are referring to public concern with things like race, gender, and sexual orientation-based harassment) are, in no small part, the same group of people actively concerned about and things like math and science education. They just aren't particularly influential in Mississippi.
Also, I would expect that the names would be checked for domain availability before being presented and it wasn't.
> Prestige is a side-concern for the kinds of, how shall I put this, foolish mortals who believe that zero-sum rankings make them special,

This is funny, coming from an elitist individual such as yourself.
Relavent quote from article:

"While talking to several members of the teenage\young adult age bracket, it became clear that the above results did not mean teenagers did not use Facebook. Facebook, even if not their “primary” social network, continues to play a big role. It is, however, more of a utilitarian role than before."

So Facebook has become akin to your public "phone book" listing for younger users.

I don't think it's a matter of how often they "see" their friends, as Snapchat, Instagram and other app usage is very high so clearly - they want to connect in this manor - just not on Facebook.
I can see the names on Safari 7.1.3, OSX.
Your average ATL data scientist here. Google and comcast duke it out, we win!
With the addition of developer tools to every major browser these days you don't even need to step outside your browser... your browser is a hacking tool. Every time you do F12 and navigate your way through the HTML to remove the annoying paywall mask to read an article rather than pay for the subscription is hacking. You are using a site with a behaviour that was not explicitly intended by the owner and that theoretically could get you charged as a hacker, without you ever leaving your browser.

Blurred lines. [Apologies if that song is now stuck in your head as it is mine]
Oh, shush you, with your dirty facts! This is paranoia we're working with. :P
I pay 40 euro a month for my health insurance.
Not Whatsapp in the report. Hard to come to any conclusion based on the information provided considering we don't know how they came up with that information. For example, they list the top 8 apps... but is that top 8 based on mentions, rankings, or something else?
A list of koans using different languages - including bash! :

https://github.com/ahmdrefat/awesome-koans/blob/master/koans...
Yes, Bitlocker. There is something called "Device Encryption" in every edition, but it has some rather unusual hardware requirements (TPM and connected standby).
> Blackberry email was the killer smartphone app....

Why was Blackberry only popular among businessmen then?
You Won't BELIEVE What These Two Ad-block Software Developers Just Said!
Ukrainian immigrants used a human Tor to send letters during the Cold War
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A few companies have used dual-licensing with at least a certain degree of success - you either use their software under the GPL, which means any software you create using it has to be GPL, too, or you can buy a license that does not force you to use any particular license.

Sleepycat did it with BerkeleyDB (they were bought by Oracle, though, and I don't know if Oracle changed this arrangement), the same goes for MySQL (which, of course, is now owned by Oracle, too). There are a few more, I guess, that I do not know about.

OPSI is backed by a company and uses a model where OPSI itself is free software (in both ways), but new features are made available to paying customers only initially, until development of these features has been paid for.

Also, there are cases of companies making software open source, but making money by doing one-off customization or (obviously) support contracts.
Bug hunting is not security research (2013)