skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [Selling fake Twitter followers] can only work if the people automatically creating fake Twitter accounts (used to follow others) do a better job than the data scientists supposed to catch them.

The creator only needs to evade detection in the creation and early account phases. Spam accounts seem to be detected and removed within a month, based on my experience purchasing bulk followers for pranks. (It's seriously confusing and a bit worrying for someone to wake up with an extra 5,000 followers, though only until they figure out they're not real.)
But realistically, if someone wants to manage their own system, they're going to spend the time working around whatever IT solutions are in place to begin with.
OBL's not dead. He mostly hangs out in the break room at Langley. HW Bush, prince Bandar, and some other guys from congress stop by and they all reminisce about the good old days.
I always get such a kick out of how silly this is. There is no reason people won't continue to have both mobile and desktop. When 'mobile' reaches the computer power of desktop, and screen size, and input, then it will be a desktop. They aren't mutually exclusive.
well you only get one. So you be open minded means if I don't like it I am still stuck with it.
Going to be difficult to manage everyone appending text to the same place! Every PR will be a merge conflict.
Two killed, 37 sickened after reactions to vaccine in Mexico
> So yeah, I know there are some good arguments to use Linux vs OS X but ideology is not one I'm really fond of.

Yet this is exactly where ideology matters. If Apple as a corporation decides to make OSX worse than it is, later on, you will have no choice but to follow, if you stay on Mac hardware.

Linux is the only option that gives you freedom to choose your tools, your distribution that fits you best, and change if needed.
Stackable, contextual Go middleware that conforms to http.Handler
Possibly, but I have no idea really. You'd have to sue them anyways to find out wouldn't you?
Eve Online has a comprehensive API that befits its reputation as 'spreadsheets in space'. The character & corporations API allows querying user data from an authoritative source without exposing passwords and account names. It integrates into third-party management apps. There is also a recently-released CREST API that allows real-time access to in-game market data (think fintech for an MMO).

https://developers.eveonline.com/
They probably won't mind if you choose to work on Linux (and as others have said, if they do it might be a bad sign), but I'd think about a few things first.

1. Are they relying on any OS X software? For example, at my last job the front-end developers relied on Codekit, an app for compiling CSS, etc. Now, it could totally have been replaced with Gulp or similar - but do you want the first thing you do when you join the firm to be proposing they alter their workflow around you?

2. Whilst you work best on Linux currently, perhaps you could learn to use a Mac too? Then you have experience with both platforms. You could always use Linux in a VM as a backup too.

3. If you have issues as the only person running Linux, you'll have a harder time fixing them and people will have less time for you. I've seen this a number of times. People choosing something different to the rest of the team because they prefer it and it improves their productivity, only for it to cause trouble (rarely their fault) and them get looked down upon because of it.

Overall, it probably won't matter - but it might be worth thinking about it. If there were some other people running Linux too, I'd say go for it. If you're going to be the only one, you might end up making too many waves - it's up to you if you're comfortable with that.
I believe that part of the idea behind sea-steading is to extend the concept of freedom of association to one's residence, real-estate, and business, literally enabling you to pick up stakes and move at any time you feel your environment has grown hostile to your way of life.

Granted this faces the same issues that any other utopian social movement has faced in the past (reaching critical mass, working out the kinks in a new legal, political, and economic system, avoiding tyranny etc.) but at least it has an escape hatch built in.

If someone can figure out how to make these vessels as fool proof as a car (reasonably hard to ruin, owner operable, easily stocked with energy, affordable) they'll have no shortage of disgruntled citizens waiting to try one out.
I said it tongue in cheek because I don't believe any form of killing is okay, except maybe as punishment for murder.

The logic used to prohibit things like chemical warfare during war is just that: to limit suffering.
yes, thus far Windows 10 (I've been running a beta installation) has de-activated the OS three times in the last two months. And each time it's a new wrinkle in how it fucked itself. AND that's just the beginning.

Honestly, as a person who primarily uses Windows over my Mac or Linux boxes, I do wonder if this is a harbinger for Microsoft where people just stop using it. I hated how bad Windows 8 was, but I didn't expect the general consumer public to have the same reaction. I can't see them being happy with the lack of stability and clunkiness that Microsoft seems hell-bent on implementing.
At least you work at a place that does not force Windows down your throat. My employer won't even allow Linux on the network.
They were still making $20 - $30 per license sold from major vendors like HP and Dell. They move millions of units per year. That is a lot of revenue to throw away.
> I know it's not what the cool kids do, but sadly for people that tend to work with big and sometimes anachronistic enterprises it's a reality.

Right, and nothing will change for those people, because IE will continue to exist for many years. Knowing MS, they'll probably provide patches for it for another 5 years. By then, if people haven't moved on, then some IT folks need to be fired - you've had 15 years to think about upgrading out of ActiveX, really no excuses left.
> Also, Macbook Pros are incredibly well built hardware, compared to the typical Thinkpad.

They are built to be monoliths that cannot be opened and tweaked with. I'm not sure how you can say it's well built hardware if one cannot interact with it at all. On a Thinkpad, I can upgrade the memory, add a SSD on top of my base hard drive, remove and replace the LCD screen, completely replace the keyboard... and of course change the battery - and everything just works. That's incredibly well built -modular- hardware, without any stop needed at your local Lenovo shop to change anything.
>> I have never missed autocompletion in Javascript

>A moment ago, you complained about having to press a few more keys for the type annotations."

For Typescript, I dislike the extra typing. I have never missed autocompletion in Javascript. Where is the contradiction?
Teaching and research fac have very different goals though so I don't think it's a bad thing if they don't interact much.

There's a lot of ego on part of some research fac though, I agree that that one should try and address.
Windows 10 brings back a Metro start menu. Initially, it was just bad, but better than Windows 8. The last updated made it much more like Windows 8. They really just don't get it at all.
The 4 most numerous religious groupings by number of followers in the world are each color-coded in the popular mind:

* Green for Islam

* Red for Hinduism

* Yellow for Buddhism

* Blue for Christianity
weighted by OP's karma probably.
The Nigerian princes don't have a problem taking my credit card via email.
> Linux is the only option that gives you the freedom to...

And exactly how is Apple or the use of a Macbook restricting your toolset in every way. OSX is UNIX compliant and will run damn near any tool a generix Linux distro can, with the added bonus that it wont take a thousand years to configure and maintain. Add to that the ability for enterprise to use a policy server and even domain logons with limited hassle and it forms quite a reasonable platform for development. Linux is a perfectly usable development OS, but OSX and Windows are just as capable given the same amount of configuration.
If it doesn't make any unverifiable claims about the supernatural, then by all means remove it from the "religions" category and add it to "philosophy".
Mac's are known for being worse with Excel and Outlook vs. PC. Just say that, doubt you'll run into a problem.
Totally sane. Engineering in my company is about 50% Apple, 50% Linux (mostly Thinkpads.)

Development of some things on a Mac is fine after some adjustment, some things obviously require a Mac (iOS), and other things come with varying degrees of pain. I think it's totally reasonable to ask for the tool that'll make you most productive.
Happy Mother's Day Celebration
> If Obama blatantly lied about the story for political points, I'd be mad. But, basically, it seems the story happened mostly like it was told to us

Story A: The CIA does brilliant investigative work. The commander-in-chief makes a gutsy call. The SEALs storm in and kill the bad guy in a firefight. He is buried at sea with full rituals. The 2012 presidential campaign starts a few days afterwards.

Story B: Pakistan secretly captures Bin Laden by bribing tribesmen. The US finds out by bribing Pakistani officials. Further bribes with foreign aid money get other Pakistani officials to issue a stand down order. The SEALS swoop in unopposed but somehow still lose a helicopter. They kill a captive Bin Laden as part of a deal to avoid exposing Saudi support for Al Qaeda. The media gets fed a cover story about the compound being a command center. Some doctor guy becomes a scapegoat and vaccination programs are derailed in all of Pakistan. The CIA fabricates documents from the compound and flirts with claiming credit for "enhanced interrogation" technique in the matter.

Yup, totally the same story. And it played no part in Obama's re-election campaign, did it?!
There won't be monthly subscriptions. OEMs will keep buying Windows for new machines and enterprises will keep buying software assurance licenses and 99% of Windows revenue will stay exactly the same.
View from the other side a bit. I've been the de-facto hardware purchaser for my startup as it's grown from 3 to 50 people.

We used to be close to 50/50 mac/linux and would let you get whatever you want. Over the years, we've noticed people with linux spend a much larger portion of their time dealing with some issue or another than their mac comrades. If we need to swap their box, they spend more time getting it back to the way they like it. They also have more trouble with projectors and with web conferencing software (1). Finally, when something does break, we're about 5 minutes from the apple store.

We're now pushing much harder for people to buy mac laptops and then offering to put a tiny i7 linux desktop on their desk if they want it. And of course we've got racks of linux servers in the closet for people to use.

That said, if you really want a linux laptop or desktop. I'll buy you one.

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(1) I'm sure you have no problem with projectors and your linux laptop. It seems to work most of the time, only failing when it's really important. ;-)
Driving jobs go byebye.
I just meant that if the Secret Service think you have some illegal material, like login/pws to a VPN for ATM machines -- then not handing over all copies is likely considered obstruction/non-compliance. Even if it turned out that those documents were not actually of the nature -- if the warrant/investigation was otherwise legal, one isn't allowed to simply "keep a backup".

Eg: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/barrett-brown-sentenced-5-years...

"The obstruction charge relates to an attempt by Brown and his mother to hide a laptop from authorities during a search of her home in March 2012. Brown’s mother was separately charged with obstruction and given six months probation."

At any rate, my point was that if you have a list of credit card numbers, and the Secret Service comes and asks for them. It is not ok to keep an off-site backup.

I'm not saying that the US government isn't behaving batshit crazy wrt hackers ever since around the Kevin Mitnick case, or that the current laws makes sense -- nor that the priorities makes sense -- just that "having an off-site backup" isn't a defence against a rouge state. Especially if you are a subject of that state.
There's actually some sense under the chosen name.

First of all, it is a platform name (Android) and a language name (Kotlin), joined together and abbreviated. The word "anko" is short and there's no other library with the same name (at least, I didn't heard of one).

Also, it was created to make Android development sweeter with some synthetic sugar^Wanko.

Finally, I just love daifuku.
Actually it was a great marketing tactic to get people to think their existing Windows was 'old' and they needed to get the newest one. That's why they went to using years (Windows 95) because every consumer knows if they have the current year or not. But Microsoft started missing those 'year' deadlines and then went back to numbers, and THEN more people starting getting hip to the fact that some Windows versions were worse than than the version they already had, and here we are - Microsoft still splashing around trying to figure out how to make their mobile OS work on desktops and how to charge people for it. They've been trying since the 90s and haven't figured it out yet.
By PC, do you mean Windows? I'm not sure you understand the question..
Slight exaggeration on my part.

I've been waiting for 2 months now. It seems their backlog is growing at an increasing rate, and with it, their response time.

Might also have to do with non-.edu emails
The program that ate itself
Merge conflicts only happen when the commits happen on the same line, presumably a novel is larger than a line. So there shouldn't be a problem after a while.

Maybe you were making a joke... actually you were probably making a joke.

You were making a joke. Sorry.
My experience with OneDrive has been downright abyssal. Even simple tasks like sync'ing a folder of torrents between my desktop and server for auto-watch somehow ends up failing in inexplicable ways.

Such a shame too since they have the best pricing AFAIK. I wish they would just buy Dropbox, integrate it into Windows in place of OneDrive, and call it a day.
I've definitely found git confusing to understand. I've had to write myself a tutorial to get my head around the concepts and day-to-day workflow:

http://freetexthost.com/pe020d1b41
Well, the GP was really just obliquely calling back to Occam's Razor. Evolution is a very simple process that explains biological complexity, compared to creationism, which requires a sentient creator to have invented the universe wholesale.

Of course, Occam's razor should be treated as a guide... it's no proof.
OP probably revealed it to encourage others to replicate it, given the last paragraph. It might not be the best decision in the long term but in the long term there are other ways to have more than one email address.
Private Curator
One of the most useful, and undervalued until you need it, considerations is hardware support. If they're an early stage startup, it's likely there are no appointed internal IT staff to help you out when things break. I'd imagine to most HN users troubleshooting and fixing hardware is fairly trivial but do you want to spend time doing that when you have outstanding work and a deadline?

AppleCare is frictionless. I've also had OK (but not great) on site warranty support from Dell.

IMO it's better to save your energy for your work rather than fixing your tools.
The issue is really annoying. I've been using my installation of Wallabag for a little while but stopped because of it.
Their version of "low end" is amusing to me. But this is hardly surprising. Hifi suffers from a taxic interaction of diminishing returns and snake oil, and I say that as someone who has spent more than a few dollars myself.
> Cannot be opened or tweaked with

Unlike a many-year-old thinkpad, Macbooks generally dont have problems requiring you to open them and fiddle. As with alot of Ultrabook style machines, everything's soldered down meaning you get a thinner, lighter product, even the new thinkpads. Granted upgradinng RAM is a bit tricky now, but 8GB base isnt too bad.

EDIT: pre-empting the reply, I use both a T61 and a Macbook and they're both useful in their own ways.
What is the ideal timeframe till completion? Who decides what gets merged? What is the target length? What is the preferred contribution size?
That's not really the choices available. The options aren't NSA reports bugs/uses them for intelligence collection, its NSA uses bugs for intelligence collection or they don't find bugs at all.

Its possible that the right answer is we should have a US agency finding bugs and getting them patched, but it certainly shouldn't be any of the intelligence agencies. That feels a little too like putting the military in charge of the police force.
Git hides a lot of complexity, instead exposing an unintuitive set of commands to control your data. Multi-user distributed version control is a very complicated problem to which there will never be a simple solution. If you are willing to sacrifice some features, there are probably simpler solutions that would be more fitting with your work process.
>You could always use Linux in a VM as a backup too.

I'd have thought one would need to be doing some serious heavy lifting to really notice the impact by running your VM on fullscreen compared to bare metal. The host OS isn't /that/ bloated, is it?
Another folk/americana fan here, and I get contemporary pop music ads between my tracks on Spotify, and there's nothing more annoying than autotuned screeching between my Bob Dylan and Gillian Welch.

However instead of buying premium, I just use Spotify for discovery. If I like something I just get the album off iTunes, Amazon or Bandcamp. I find myself spending less per year than if I had subscribed to Spotify, _and_ I get to keep my music.
NSF unveils plan to make scientific papers free
Haha, What an approachable idea. Might as well fire off some pull requests and have them get rejected.
Not a joke. People will be appending text to the end of the file constantly. Git usually conflicts when two people modify the end of a file. Merging one PR will invalidate every other PR.

Edit: even the very first two pull requests conflicted. https://github.com/why-el/crowd-written-novel/pull/2 "This pull request contains merge conflicts that must be resolved."

Probably a critical flaw in this project.
> Semi-autonomous road trains

Actually, why aren't there fully autonomous freight trains on railways yet? We have driverless commuter trains (Docklands Light Railway) why not the same for long distance freight? The infrastructure is there - automated signalling devices in cab, it doesn't seem too big a leap. One hurdle might be unions, I recall ASLEF or someone got upset about the DLR when it first appeared?
The Therac-25 might be a better example than the Toyota code: http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf
Have you ever used osx for an extended period of time?

I was in a similar situation to you and I caved and got a macbook when I started my job. I absolutely love it.

I have my linux desktop at home that I use perhaps 15% of the time, while at first most of the time I was wanting my linux features on OSX, anymore, its the other way around.

My point, is I absolutely did not give osx a fair chance before I finally switched, and I was missing out for years. So I suggest at least consider it.

Having said that - it shouldn't be an issue to get the workstation that is going to make you the most productive - I guarantee you'll get pushback on the matter in a similar vein of this comment, but you should be able to get the computer you need.
Google groups is a godsend. Students post a question, and more often than not other students answer it before you can, and either way the question is publicly answered for everyone to see and refer to later.

Far better than an idolized professor is a community of students who can collaborate and feed off each other with your guidance.
After spending a few bucks myself, I second this. The only thing i'd add is, invest in a good pair of speakers, that's where you'd get the best ROI.
No one claims an Audi is not "well made" because the engine is not user-replaceable.

Whether the battery is replaceable by the user or not has zero to do with how well made the thing is.

I had a MBP when they had replaceable batteries. I much prefer to
have one one that's thinner, lighter and lasts a lot longer on battery power, knowing that if I still have it when the battery is no longer adequately holding charge, I can take it into an AppleStore
and they will replace it for me, for the same cost they used to charge for a battery alone.

If you want user replaceable everything that's your choice but don't try to associate that attribute with the build quality of a machine, and don't assume everyone else wants to replace parts themselves. The vast majority, do not.
I was open minded when I started at a startup, and now I have a mac and I hate it. In order to get any of the open source setups, you need to download 5gb of xcode; page up and down are missing, I liked the FreeBSD userland in 2000, but I don't like the 2000 FreeBSD userland in 2015, I would like to select on more than 1024 FDs (not sure if they fixed that), it would be great to be able to upgrade the computer without throwing it away, uefi might be nice, etc, etc, etc
> Is there some kind of certification that the hackathon organizers got to be allowed to do this?

They are certified to produce software at Level 3 Free Speech as laid out in ISO 4328. Compliance was verified at great cost by Certified Enterprise Thought Inspectors from McKinsey, Bain and Boston.

The key to being a good hacker is to make sure everyone is OK with what you're doing before you do it, and the organizers are very responsible in that regard.
Another comment points out that it's crazy to call Bin Laden "elderly." (I am older than that, and I am not elderly.) But by all accounts he was a key figure, once a leader, of an international terrorist network. Even if he did not have operational control of Al Qaeda at the moment he was killed, he was a legitimate target for a military attack.
How much effort and time could be saved if instead of "chat wars" they'd worked on shared standard for instant messaging? The irony is that even today they don't. Some just never learn.