skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downloaded and ran your precompiled x86-64 binaries ..
It kept hanging with message
"May 25 11:52:06.000 [notice] While fetching directory info, no running dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 14)"

It is not usable too. Tried sending request to ricochet:qn6uo4cmsrfv4kzq

It refused to move beyond Request:Pending connection

Man i hate these security software soooo much.
That makes me wonder if the stat about 25% was referring to a specific market. Like the US or something.
Have you considered user-mode Linux (UML) as something in between LXC and KVM?
"Teachers at schools or universities will have to be approved to teach encryption if students are outside of Australia."

Sorry Australia but this is just stupid and a little racist.
Using Smalltalk was a great experience.

And Oberon which was inspired by Smalltalk's brother, Cedar, as well.

I got to learn about workstation user experiences which were more interesting than the UNIX way.

Sadly both failed to get adoption, but many of their ideas live on.
So why would they enact a law like this?
I am especially scared of Erdogan. He is dismantling turkey and converting it into islamist state with great speed.
Chrome for Android is now Open Source application
Can I use css-hypens
"We’re not saying that social choices have no effect, and for that matter, we’re not saying that globalization has no effect, either. However, there seems to be a common underlying force that’s affecting all these countries. We think that force is technology."

It would be nice if they expanded on that. What other trends are at work, aside from technology, that might also coincide with this "decoupling". Globalization and immigration are two things that merit more discussion. Why do they think technology predominates?
excellent find and accurate in the way it generates color. Best bit the software. Excellent to see how each programmer tackled the 6502 emulation:

http://death.porkrind.org/a2f/6502.js

https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/js/cpu6502.js
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Going on vacation soon and I'll have some free time on my hands to read - what are books people recommend? Any topic welcome
@Dan what great to read. Tweleve years after this article, I was bashing away on a DEC VT100 terminal which is so similar it's not funny.
Use chip & pin.
We used this emulator as a reference source frequently while we were developing DiscoRunner. It's pretty good for JavaScript =)
I just noticed this on the recent story on https://www.masteringemacs.org/ -- there were proper word-wraps and hyphenation on resize in Firefox (eg: wrapping "terminal emulator" to "terminal emu- lator" -- avoiding a "ragged right").

Sadly it appears chrome is a hold-out here.
Their "Mission" page indicates their SIGINT mission:

"""
The Signals Intelligence mission collects, processes, and disseminates intelligence information from foreign signals for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes and to support military operations.
"""

Collecting All the Things is not in the mandate, but it's a very effective way to meet it. I'm not even sure how they'd go about collecting only mission-specific information without being able to peek at the metadata they collect on us all.

I don't like it, but I don't see an alternative way to do what they are mandated to do.

0: https://www.nsa.gov/about/mission/index.shtml
In the 80s and most of the 90s, that was computing, everyone who did it was scorned as a nerd. But when it became a success - when we made it a success - now everyone wants a slice of the pie.
Thanks for the 1mbit :) The absolute killer feature for me is multisig with a second party, based on a standard BIP backup seed - so 2 of 3, I hold 2 keys on a paper wallet, the mobile app holds 1 key, the trusted other party holds 1 key, 2 keys are needed to send transactions.

Basically my preference for bitcoin software is like this:

1. If there is a bad update to the software, I feel safe that it doesn't matter too much because there is a secondary signature needed to approve a transfer

2. If the software is discontinued or I want to stop using it, I feel safe it doesn't matter because I can restore from a seed elsewhere

I appreciate safeguards to the device like the touchId etc, however there's a tricky balance there of security vs usability. I think using the touch movement pattern is a great idea for a backup method and touchId can be the primary method.
I always thought "stirred not shaken" would have fit Bond rather better, not just because it leads to a better drink, but because it could be taken as a statement about his attitude.
Waiting for midnight, spike in hungry families on food stamps at Walmart (2011)
Don't take it wrong! I love that we're decreasing the number of deaths.

I hope and pray the wars continue to dwindle and become smaller. But I also hope people _feel_ the effects of wars. If wars are painless for us, save for the few who lose loved ones, then it becomes so easy to ignore just how terrible they are.
I have no idea what point he is trying to prove, but I did t get any birthday wishes from all sorts of services this year. I don't know how people use Twitter, but it's reasonable that it is used for non-personal relations, such as keeping up with celebrities and bloggers and such. Why would they wish you happy birthday?
Help from the community Keybase.io+karma=yay
had to redo my profile, lost my old info, trying to grab two karma to verify my keybase identity on here. I have a few invites left if you need one. Thanks all, tali
You simply cannot go wrong with anything like The swrod of Truth or the Wheel of time novels as far as fantasy goes. Contemporary reality I would go Dean Koontz dragon tears or something like that. Non-fiction "Eat that Frog" or something similar. I guess it depends on WHAT your interests are
Yes, you should be able to estimate a confidence interval by looking at the distribution of votes from each tree.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.4555.pdf
Operating System Containers vs. Application Containers
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CHIP is a computer that costs $9
When the incentives change, do something else.
warning on the sound levels. Turn down the mixer controls before clicking.
pretty sure Jeffrey Snover has said that he thought about that but believed PowerShell should be different and could be better. Personally, I find PS syntax to be pretty logical and fairly easy to work things out in.
I believe there is too much homogeneity among cultures using the same fonts (i.e. latin alphabet) that there isn't going to be such a case.

For example, hand-writing-like fonts are used in comics both in US style, european and south american stuff; newspapers and books have been printed with serif fonts since about forever; international brands look the same; MS Office/windows has provide everyone with the same fonts for decades.
I don't drink these sorts of cocktails, so maybe I'm missing something important. But if everyone wants cold drinks with no dilution, why the heck don't they just refrigerate the ingredients beforehand?
As someone who's about to start as a PM at MSFT soon...

> I never understood why PMs are given the task of designing

This is my biggest concern going forward. My background is developing backend services, not building good UIs. I'm confident in my ability to build something somewhat sensible (I have some Android and other UI experience), but fundamentally my strengths have always been in designing and piecing together abstractions with code.

I feel like the largest roles of a PM should be in resolving ambiguity and enabling people who have good ideas. My current boss, while he could certainly code circles around me, doesn't actually write much code aside from a few unit tests. Instead, any time I wonder why something should be done a certain way, he can give me a reason and convince me it makes sense. When I have a good idea about how something should be done, he gets out of my way, checks up every few days, and removes any non-technical barriers so that it's as painless as possible for me. I believe that the system we work on would be in a horrible state very fast if he were to suddenly up and leave.
Snover actually had to take a demotion and pay cut to get permission to create PowerShell but he believed it was the right thing to do for the company.
Chrome for Android goes almost ‘entirely open source’
Soon I'll be resuming work on a privacy-conscious push server design, originally intended to enhance the poor user experience of the existing ChatSecure iOS client (OTR/XMPP/Tor).

The general idea is that you'd fetch tokens from the server that allow people to send pushes to you, then distribute them to trusted contacts over an secure channel. Contacts would then be able to send you pushes from any endpoint of choice. Somewhat less metadata than existing solutions, and an opportunity for client diversity.
Ask HN: Why aren't recipes written as timelines?
Recipes would be a whole lot easier to follow if their notation was in timeline form.

Why instead are they written as narrative?
The way a secret service orders a company to participate to their surveillance systems is not only using the law. It is often by performing ad hominem blackmailing, so even if the CEO orders everyone to reject participation, the low-level operator will let the NSA person in, and his boss will cover the leak in fear of his child being taken in for drug use at his high school.
Greece hasn't got the money to make June IMF repayment: interior minister
>Why do they think technology predominates?

Short answer: they probably don't. But they want you to think that.

Technology is the one driver that you can't blame anybody for. If technology is responsible for a loss of jobs, livelihoods and poverty, who can you blame? Nobody.

If globalization (by which we mean "trade policy like the TPP/TTIP/NAFTA/CAFTA"), de-unionization and steady corrupting effect of money on government are actually responsible instead, you have a small group of exposed people to point a pitchfork at. You can say Larry Summers helped cause this. Obama helped cause this. Greg Mankiw helped cause this. Not progress. People.

That's not ideal if you are one of those elites.

So, blame the robots for everything and if anybody notices, call them a luddite.
It looks like 3.5 will be a great release: async/await syntax, type hinting, matrix multiplication etc. I hope more people will switch to Python 3, since nothing of this will be backported to Python 2.
I thought it was written quite well. Not everything needs to cater to the impatient.
I was taking one of these life self-assessment quizzes yesterday. It has a number of questions which you ponder and respond to in essay form. You can do it in a text editor so it's private and is just an opportunity to think about your life.

One of the questions was "how much credit card debt do you have, and how are you planning to reduce it?" I found it pretty strange that the quiz assumed that the reader would be certain to have some credit card debt; indeed enough that they would need a plan to reduce it gradually.

As an Indian I find this a strange way of looking at things. To me a credit card is a convenient payment method, not a facility to award myself discretionary loans.
I'm a bit taken aback by the findings in this article. I thought the opposite in fact when I read this. I will say that according to our own growth as a society, we have taken it upon ourselves to create an absorbable rate of finite information to be spread amongst the globe without neccesarily understanding the entire story. However, that is not to say that propaganda rules the internet. On the contrary, it would only enhance our continual perspective into the current dynamics on a global level, in order to denote patterns of auspiciousness that enable us to learn more about current niches. As such, we cannot forget that being in a capitalistic society we must also be self-aware of the market dynamics at play too. I am not an linguistics or media expert to that extent but it would be neccesary to understand that there must be a disclosure over current headlines either through financial reporting or in some ways by analytics experts whom measure the content of these newpaper organizations objectively and in essence try to understand what is the lexical information they are providing to the public. In this way we can understand and begin to denote the granular changes occuring daily. Before I get over my head explaining a difficult problem to solve I wil say I hope there could be some research done in the AI / machine learning realm in order to understand what sort of vectors would be measurable here. Thank you.
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We need generics!
Great analysis of the state of play on the Patriot Act

https://medium.com/@pgeddington/is-the-patriot-act-dead-not-...
Having used powershell and winrm recently. It doesn't matter if it's a better idea. it's a piece of crap with horrible verbosity issues and so many stupid corner cases it just isn't funny.
Inside the crazy world of NYC mums
When I read the title of the post, I wrongly assumed it linked to the "RESTful Web Services Cookbook", which is another O'Reilly classic on this topic. The advice I've heard is to read one or the other, depending on which prose style you prefer.

It's nice to see a CC-licensed effort to create a similar resource. It's unfortunate that the names are so similar.
Manage around it - hire a team of your four favourite engineers, plus one sacrificial goat. Every year the goat gets it and you hire a new one :P
John Scalzi, Science Fiction Writer, Signs $3.4M Deal for 13 Books
I bet plenty of PMs got a promo, though.
I can assure you, that those are false positives. I'm already trying to contact those AV companies to resolve this issue.
Don't know if the link was at a different place earlier, but it's now at: http://datascience.systemsbiology.net/data-notebook/
Seems like a job for a mutex! Though I'll admit I haven't actually employed strategies against race conditions in any kind of web context...
I'm still naive enough to believe there is more than money out of a job. I really do like making new products and having people like them. There is always another opportunity out there. Microsoft has rewarded me pretty dang well so far, but if I ever get stuck with a bad boss or some stagnation career-wise, I'll find a place where I can do what I love and be rewarded for it. Rewards do tend to go towards good PMs and such, but it's easy to find yourself in a bad spot. Can't let the game play you.
haven't been able to get enough Haruki Murakami (fiction). If you haven't read any of his books try either Norwegian Wood or Kafka On The Shore. Kafka is my favourite book of all time but Norwegian Wood is a close second. Seriously, this guy is a genius
> You see, there is a lot of food that restaurants throw out every night because they can’t serve it the next day.

Is it possible to work out a deal with these (most?) restaurants to pick up this leftover food and take it to soup kitchens? Releasing liability, and things like that of course.
Thanks, we've updated the URL to that.
Extensive discussion 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9513850
Python 3.5.0 Beta 1 Released
Is Noam Chomsky controlled opposition?
Exactly. PHP has been "embraced and extended". The essential features of PHP I would say are easy database connectivity, and a built-in templating language.

Both of these features are now present in pretty much every server-side framework and half the client-side ones (both angular and react have it). I would argue that they're both messy, but it's there, and heavily used.

The big feature PHP still has that others are missing is the ease and cheapness of deployment. Any PHP app can be very easily deployed on shared hosting, which isn't true for ruby, asp.net, java, django or any of those. It is "more" true for asp.net and django, but not much more.

This feature is more the result of PHP easily supporting shared hosting, which is something all the others fail at pretty badly (yes, Google and Amazon have implemented it in proprietary form ... that doesn't count. Needs to be open-source, easy to implement for cheap hosters).

And really this boils down to efficiency. As ridiculous as it sounds, PHP is currently by far the most power/money efficient language. Why ? Because of thousands of cheap hosters easily implementing shared PHP hosting which usually works well, certainly well enough for the vast majority of small businesses. Ruby/Python/Go/C++/... none of them have anything like it.

Right now efficient hosting is having a "root" dns entry pointing to Google app engine, and having an ec2/other cloud app that simply checks availability of 2-3 cheap hosters and 403's to one of them. That means you effectively have very cheap bandwidth (WAY cheaper than EC2 or any other cloud hoster), yet retain the reliability/availability you need. Biggest problem is keeping database in sync.

I can't believe companies like Microsoft/Amazon are letting this opportunity slide, but they are (but of course that people use very power/cpu/money inefficient hosting kind of works to their advantage).
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totally offtopic, but isn't german really english...from like 5 thousand years ago?
Out of that post I got the feeling of an unhealthy obsession with being promoted, being promoted quickly, being recognised as excellent, nothing less-than-excellent on his review, complaining burn-out (really?).

I probably would have had a hard time dealing with what seems to be a youth with a big ego, with a needing behaviour, no idea of how to behave himself and how to balance life and work.

I get it, he was young, still, not the type of person I'd ever want to hire.
I'm loving the work going on in this space. It's very interesting. My only reservation is it's long-term implications for surveillance.
It doesn't matter what Powershell does and doesn't do. People aren't going to learn yet another shell scripting language just because someone at Microsoft wanted to get promoted and rolled a new one.

I'm a bit of a bash scripting nut, but I've recently had to do some Windows administration via Powershell and actually it's pretty awesome!

I want Windows shell to look like UNIX, to be scriptable exactly the same, and to have a proper SSH remote login.

So install Cygwin.

Apple managed to do this with OS X.

OS X uses a Unix shell. Most of it is based on Unix principles. It wasn't that hard!

Microsoft is denying the reality and substituting it with their own.

Really? It still uses pipes and redirection, has command history and tab completion. You can alias commands, but Powershell has functions which allow for parameters.

The thing is - Powershell is, somewhat surprisingly, more powerful in many ways than bash, especially around variable handling. I'd be pretty happy if it was ported to Linux, which I'm actually rather surprised about!
Yeah.

Stack ranking actually works, unlike the naysayers like you to think. The problem is that it works to good. You burn out your engineers killing themselves to avoid the yank and everything starts falling apart. Stack ranking is a lazy and uninspired technique that is the last resort of a CEO who can't excite the ranks with great ideas.
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Showing affection without saying I Love You
1 second per second is harder than it sounds (2014)
Because you have never experienced what it is happening in the picture?

The singularity is not going to be an AI revolution, it's when we decode the human brain's signals.
The NSA publishes a lot of useful literature, such as guides for hardening network equipment or RHEL servers.
> According to the framed Beagle Bros.
"Peeks, Pokes and Pointers" chart that
hangs above my desk and reminds me that
technical writing should be wondrous,
useful, and fun (but not always in that
order)...

I think this is the chart he's referring to:
http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/bbros/chart.jpg
Same here. If I actually needed a small temporary loan I'd reach out to a friend, but never a credit card like that. We actually don't have such credit cards here, although we have other options for micro-crediting.
totally, totally offtopic, but fuck Silicon Valley show on HBO.

nobody fucking talks or acts that way
In your case, downvoting you is a polite but pointed way of asking you to stop spewing ignorant garbage and hit the logout link until you can refrain from doing so.
Does it? While I'd consider myself a relative purist in that I would prefer container images that are as pruned down as possible, I also went through the process years ago of turning 20+ physical servers into OpenVz containers.

While you lose out on some of the benefits in the short term, in the long term you get the benefit that previously hard-to-decompose monolithic legacy setups can be sliced and diced gradually until you have units that are reasonable to start rebuilding cleanly. This one of those areas where layers etc. really are quite useful.

E.g. lets say you have a web server with umpteen different web apps. Turn it into a single container to begin with. Then export and create an image out of the OS and web server, and dissect each of the web apps into layers on top and separate it into one container per app. Now test a clean base image and try to layer each app on top of it, and re-deploy individually as you've confirmed it works.
I haven't used Docker, but looking at the wikipedia page, it seems that most of what Docker provides is actually supplied by the Linux kernel. So I'm wondering: what is Docker really, besides a thin layer on top of the kernel?
I wonder if this design would allow group chat as well, not just p2p?
Just off the top of my head, being narrative gives greater scope for the cook to put their stamp on the recipe.

Like the Bible, much of the 'recipe' is open to interpretation - there is the recipe-maker's original intentions and then there is everyone's personal take on it.

In timeline form I believe there would be the propensity to see the recipe as a formula rather than a guide open for modification and exploration.
The article mentions different teams. What's their roles in the development of Microsoft products?

Redmond (MS headquarter), Finland (Nokia headquarter), Cambridge (research ?) and India (outsourcing ?)
In my case, I was just trying to get a simple copy of the map image. Since the map is made up of a grid of smaller images (and besides, google intercepts the right click), I can't just right click and save as. So, I would just go to the print version to get access to the map as a single image I can right click on.

I just visited another google map page and even after this discussion, I still don't see where I can get to the printer-friendly page. Does it even exist anymore?
Question for the ex-softie you are: How is it legal to talk, potentially critically, about the company after someone leaves? Don't they have lawyer-written employment contracts with a confidentiality clause saying "The first rule about things that happens within the company is, you don't talk about things that happens within the company"?
Wait, so am I a barbarian for enjoying those tiny ice chips?
Silicon Valley sucks
It's Mike Judge yes, but it's not a comedy nor a serious thing. People don't talk this way..I mean humans
Like anybody is really going to believe this :D
I think you're likely missing the point of this.

If you have legacy bare metal setups, then moving them into containers by cleanly rebuilding from scratch might be what you'd like to do, but it's very often not what you have time to do.

Moving the legacy setups into a container as a first step to refactoring the setup works great.
It seems ok to me, but I don't have extensive experience in it. What specifically do you find problematic? Genuinely interested.