skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soft scandal is just another form of marketing, and a very common one. Most Disney new films have been acused to sex jokes hidden on it:

http://www.geeknative.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/sex-tan...

http://usercontent1.hubimg.com/8320082_f260.jpg

I didn't surprise if it was a deliberate move to making people talk about your product. Animated films for children are plenty of sexual innuendos destined to parents and nobody raise a brow. Children love the idea to break rules and boast with friends about how they discover and understand the sex innuendos, even if they don't really understand the joke at all. It takes a lot of effort by the marketing department to show everybody those 'hidden codes' that nobody will noticed otherwise.
It is free only if you have a valid Win7/8 licence.
WhatsApp already implemented Axolotl - https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/
As benwaffle says in adjacent comment, make is the 80% solution that works most of the time. Autoconf is the 100% solution that's supposed to work everywhere, no matter how weird or long-dead your UNIX is. In order to do that it does a vast number of compatibility tests. The result is complex enough that simple substitution of makefiles doesn't quite cut it.

Of course, that imposes the cost of 100% compatibility on every developer, when most would be happy to just build on today's Linux and call it a day.
> They've announced that Windows 10 will be free to all Technical Preview participants

Got a source on this?
Principles of good screen design
From what I can tell, I do believe that Zed Shaw has experienced abuse from a larger community over a few years, I think starting with members of the Ruby community. Some might say that Zed fans the flames of controversy by reciprocating with insults.

Perhaps he sounds paranoid because he has nobody concrete to point a finger at, which is part of the nature of being famous on the internet.
It isn't hard to PayPal someone $1. Paypal is free for up to a certain balance.
ScrollerJS – A number scroller module to be embedded in your web apps
How necessary are var, let, and const?
Actually, having spoken with one of the CoreOS guys recently about this, it seems that their concerns are a bit lower-level. Where these resource managers actually do concern themselves with the problem space of resource management as well as orchestration, Fleet is taking the position of a "distributed systemd" in a way without much else in terms of provided porcelain.

For those of us who are old school HPC people, it's probably more reasonable to think of Fleet as a dynamic always-running manifestation of xCAT or, perhaps, Fabric (of fabfile.py fame) or similar. For example, I've heard of people installing and running Mesos with it, which might seem like a bit of cluster scheduler self-satisfaction at first until one understands the reasoning.
No, the internet as we perceive it today, as a global network, didn't exist back in 1969. The technologies we use in internet today were developed back then, though. Just like they were for bitcoin (cryptography, merkle trees, etc)
New privacy app takes a page from NSA technology
Slack Everything: How to boost your web development with Slack
Apple I discarded as junk sells for $200,000; mystery woman stands to get half
Right. Linguistic unification in the peninsula happened long before the war. Though there are still regional dialects and accents, the North-South split was far less divisive in language terms than this article assumes and has only had a couple generations to occur.

Some interesting things that have happened since the war:

- Korean national identity movements have been strong in both countries. In the North, an effort towards language "purity" has changed some of the vocabulary and eliminated Chinese characters from written communication. In terms of vocabulary, loan-words from other languages were replaced with "pure" Korean words. For example, South Koreans use "computer" (컴퓨터), while North Koreans have used (걔산기) (Gyaesongi) which means something else (though they've started to use 콤퓨터, an almost homophone for the the South Korean word and loaned from English). The article gives another great example with "donut". In the South, a preference to eliminate Chinese writing as a practical matter of preference has happened as well (these days it's pretty uncommon to see outside of maybe newspapers, people just can't be bothered to remember all of the characters), but knowledge of Chinese characters is still highly prized as a matter of scholarship and education. But the South also has more quickly incorporated loan words from various countries and you'll find loads of English and English-like loan words (sometimes filtered through neighboring Japan or China) ending up in the language and written in Hangul all over the place. French is also common, but usually written in Latin characters for commerce reasons.

A recent cooking show on South Korean TV involves teams of two cooks preparing traditional foods, and one of the teams is from the North. There's no trouble communicating with the Northerners, though my wife lets out chuckles on occasion as they let slip stereotypical sounding communist slogans from time to time as they face difficult cooking challenges - "the North has nothing but strength!" as they work a noodle press by hand.
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No mention of the Kaypro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaypro

Random stories: I think I have an old T3100 (later version of the Toshiba in the picture, but which looks about the same). Someone gifted it to me circa 1999 - it came with some obsolete DOS TCP/IP stack which operated over a serial cable PPP link and I submitted to the nmap database just for kicks... virtually any invocation of nmap (even TCP half-open scans) would crash the thing. I'm sure I had an older, huge, really heavy box-type portable as well. It wasn't an Osborne, and as far as I can tell from online pictures and foggy memory it wasn't a Kaypro. I didn't see it featured in this article, either. Not sure if it's still around, but the thing worked on 5 1/4 or 8 inch disks and had a horrible monochrome display. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100
SICP Public implementation for demonstration and self-study
Might we be making the mistake of confusing neglect for malice?
Are China's capital controls really tight enough to prevent Chinese nationals from finding a way to invest in the same stocks on the HK index for a 30% discount?

The answer has to be yes - otherwise, as you say, it would be arbitraged away. It's still a bit leaky, but when it leaks it seems that investors much prefer to diversify into ownership of overseas property.

Why capital controls? Because China is more nationalist than globalist. It's also critical to keeping the industrial policy working by forcing local re-investment and preventing capital flight. Chinese growth depends on cheap money, which in turn relies on forcing people not to charge a risk premium for the percieved confiscation and rule-of-law risks in China.
Sorry, I think this is not an argument for denying the existence of a by-men-for-men movement. Maybe it's current incarnation is fucked up but your argument is just fatalistic thinking. Besides, feminism is not immune to crazy people either and they do real damage too.
Node v0.12.4 (Stable)
And why would that be abuse?
I just stumbled upon it looking for MIT OCW problem sets, and it turns out anyone is free to register!

If you have been thinking about going through SICP, here's a chance to do a high-quality limited subset of it.
That makes sense (180 vs 270) and then GB was just a typo. Thanks for clarifying.
"how would you rather spend your money, spying on foreigners living in destitution, or fixing our roads? "

This is in logical terms a wrong dichotomy, but anyway a couple of points:

1) having information about foreigners living in destitution is also called "awareness of the world", and it would be a great help e.g. in development aid. A lot of aid money is wasted simply because those who want and try to send help do not understand at all the people (often in destitution) they try to help. This is not the point of foreign intelligence, of course, I just say that if intelligence agencies could contribute to an understanding about the life in destitution, they would serve all humanity.

2) I don't think the US spy agencies spend any real effort on foreigners living in destitution. You maybe have an incorrect perception of life in poor countries. A vast majority of people may be poor, but there are still also middle class and wealthy people. Targeted intelligence operations usually concentrate on individuals of political or economical significance. Osama bin Laden, for instance, lived in relative abundance. Mass surveillance on the other hand mostly targets middle class people: those who access the Internet, use Facebook, use a credit card to purchase things. Not the poor people in destitution (even though mobile phones also have become important for them).
Attacking cybercrime through infrastructure, not individuals
Popr 1.0 released. Popr is a small and simple popup menu jQuery plugin
The answer to what question? The policy has to be to defer the bubble collapse as much as possible in hope of the mythical "soft landing". Far more than western countries they depend on continuous economic growth as the tradeoff for lack of political freedom.
Please don't do this. There are a number of reasons why legitimate users would need to use new / separate accounts just for job listings.

For example, some companies don't encourage participation in public discussion boards such as HN, but posting jobs on HN is fine.
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Since you feel the need to address me by name:

I think you're mistaken about my intent, besides, calling Zed the 'victim of bullying' is in a way humorous given that Zed has personally driven a couple of good contributors away from HN.

I don't think leaving this post up does Zed any favours, it shows him as caustic, uncivil and downright hostile. For a professional that translates into 'hiring risk', and that's something Zed probably does not need more of.

Feel free to be disappointed but my memory regarding Zed's interaction with others on HN is definitely not lacking in resolution.

Zed is a fantastically productive programmer that is super sensitive to criticism of any kind and will come out swinging with all manner of insults whenever he perceives one of the conspiracies against him (for which I have yet to see proof), and this blog post is a nice example of that. It's a pity that Zed feels the need to periodically tear down the reputation he's building for himself but that seems to be his nature, this is just a re-run.
They also advocate for things like gun control and health care reform in the US. I believe they've also advocated things like a carbon tax, as they give credence to the scientific consensus on global warming.

They also tend to be fairly 'practical' in their support for candidates. I recall some years ago when they absolutely laid into Silvio Berlusconi and recommended the left-wing candidate despite Berlusconi being, in theory at least, the more 'business friendly' candidate. They rightly argued that he was mostly just friendly to his own businesses.

So, yes, they are 'liberal' in the European sense, but not necessarily 'libertarian' in the US sense.

Edit: their about page is informative: http://www.economist.com/help/about-us#About_Economistcom
I gave up on considering the web to be a "web" of hyperlinks. These days the www just feels like a collection of siloed (namespaced) applications. I expect a link to be valid at least long enough to use in an email (i.e. days/weeks), but I wouldn't use a link in say a blog post without also copying the relevant information out of the page. The url is then just a source reference identifier, not a hyperlink that is expected to go anywhere.
Detecting Unminifiable Angular Code
The engineers and operators who sexually harass customers
TP is the more polished version. Weekly builds are worse, but I think that's to be expected and I wouldn't be worried.

Only weird thing is the browser - I haven't seen a version that could be considered even beta-ready. No way they are going to release something better than IE in just two months.
In summary,

They have got close a few times (reaching the finals five times in 19 years, losing in game 7 four times, ouch).

The teams are not distributed to have a more consistent fans-per-team ratio everywhere (Canada has lower population, but much much higher hockey interest, so fans-per-team is higher in Canada). Adding 2-4 teams would probably bring the fans-per-team ratio closer to USA numbers.
Another option is to store the seed in a MAP_SHARED segment.
>The primary justification for what the NSA is doing is crime: namely terrorism. The entire purpose of the NSA is to find criminals

Is it? My understanding is that NSA was founded for intelligence and counter-intelligence purposes. Cold war. SIGINT. And that is what it still does, although the capabilities of international terrorist/criminal organisations have become comparable to the capabilities of many nation states.

CIA is also an intelligence agency, but human intelligence (HUMINT), not signals intelligence. FBI, on the other hand, has a primary justification of fighting crime. DEA is quite similar but focuses on drug crime, and ATF on alcohol, tobacco and firearms. CSI conducts mass campaigns against people with some intelligence in all countries, with sub-offices in CSI (NY) and CSI (Miami).

(I'm not American, but have learned this much about the American three-letter things, mostly from popular fiction.)
Efficient energy storage for renewables is an area that may provide sudden and significant change. One recent project based on flexible flywheels with digital dampening seems interesting: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1340066560/velkess-ener...

I spent the rest of the spring designing and developing this new damping approach. Basically it amounts to a very sensitive array of sensors that are all hooked into a computer which is able to watch the data streams in real time to diagnose these phenomena. The computer is then able to apply precisely timed forces to the apparatus at key locations to get rid of these vibrations. I got the idea by reading an article on identifying and eliminating the vibrations that happen in the beams of big particle accelerators like CERN and the Large Hadron Collider.

Now entering commercial production as
http://www.velkess.com/VelkessLDatasheet.pdf and http://www.velkess.com/VelkessADatasheet.pdf
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The problem is that most terror organisations have been sponsored or are still secretly supported by the US government or its allies with approval from the US.
Yeah, new SSN is possible but they don't tell you what qualifies you specifically (although they give guidelines) and what doesn't. I have heard it is very random and you really have to present a compelling case to get one, but just depends on how you present it to them.

As for the services, I keep fraud monitoring on from the three credit bureaus now and I have never tried them but I think their product is essentially the same, maybe a few added features here and there but nothing you can't do yourself if just take the time and setup alerts. The only thing that is frustrating to me (but a price you pay for security and piece of mind) is that every time, and I mean every time, someone tries to run my credit I get an alert and if it is me trying to do something (i.e. last year I made changes to my car insurance) I have to authorize the transaction with the credit bureau before it will go through. The more frustrating part is that some companies will just outright deny you and not to you the reason right away so you can't tell them to hold on a second let me fix that and call the bureau to approve the transaction so it goes through.

As for snail mail vs. email. Never tried email. I spoke with a lady at the FTC (they handle FCRA enforcement) and she told me that anytime I needed to get something done or changed to use certified snail mail so I always had a record of exactly when it was sent and when it was received. The credit bureaus have 30 days from the time they receive a letter to correct the issue and/or respond with why they can't. My understanding was that certified snail mail shows them you are serious about enforcing the timelines and makes their antiquated processes actually turn a little faster. :) I honestly never tried email and just went off what that lady told me. After my initial communication with the state attorney's office I had a contact and any mail I would send to the credit bureau I would also send a copy to them as well. I always put at the bottom of my letters that I was copying the state attorney. Mainly I was trying to use it as a scare tactic to get the credit bureaus to act positively and quickly.

I still don't understand why the credit reporting agencies make it so difficult to communicate with them regardless of method. They have so much control over your personal information and how it is used yet they want nothing to do with helping you get things fixed.

Good luck.
See also Google's blog post summarizing Borg -> Kubernetes improvements.

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubern...
8 Psychological Tricks of Restaurant Menus
And now with line selection!
Is Windows a good citizen on the harddisk nowadays? I stopped trying Windows releases because they used to change my bootsector or something, so my machine suddenly only booted Windows. Instead of showing me a menu (grub?) of partitions to choose from.
> For one, if your C code crashes, it's not the calling Erlang process that crashes, but the entire VM [1].

NIF's are one of several ways of linking C and Erlang, and the one most similar to how Tcl/Python/Ruby/etc... link in C code. In those runtimes, if your C code segfaults, you will also crash the interpreter. You're correct that they're a bit trickier to integrate because you have to consider the scheduler, whereas Tcl/Python/Ruby don't care if you call out into the C code and it takes a minute to complete.

Erlang offers you other means of working with C code, like ports, and C nodes, which can comunicate at a distance, and run in separate Unix processes. This is a compromise in that comunication is more expensive, but the system as a whole is more robust.
All of the active tiles are of course optional.
I'm a Mac user so I don't care too much. However, a lot of how Windows 10 will be perceived is from the online perception created. Most people in the world don't care about the little bugs, features, etc. They simply want to know if it's worth getting. If Windows 10 is reasonably good and tons of people upgrade from XP, for example, this will be a huge win for Microsoft and the entire community. If "reviewers" complain that Cortana can't read your mind and people start comparing her to Clippy, it will generate bad buzz that's not really justified.

9 out of 10 computers run Windows. Let's try to make it a version that's from 2015.
I just wish glossy screens were something in the past and that all new laptops had matte screens or at least an option for it.

You could argue that glossy screen gives better color representation but I can not personally stand the reflection I get on glossy screens.

When I sit on a matte screen, do I think about that my colors are slightly worse? No.

When I sit on a glossy screen, do I think about that my colors are slightly better? No, but I do think about the reflections all the time because sometimes I can not even see what is on my screen because of all the reflections.

I have a Thinkpad with a matte IPS screen, it appears that this will be my last laptop given the trend at the moment.
This was just posted a few weeks ago, refer to discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9486391
How to Get on in New Comunications: Be Nice
Not sure what you mean, but good encryption algorithms (including GPG's RSA and DSA) are not vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks. Even if you know the plaintext and the cryptotext shouldn't help you in cracking the key in any way.
How do you do load-balancing there? Meaning, can 1 box of nginx/haproxy handle that many requests ?
Internet's Natural Selection silently doing its job
Certainly, browser extensions are important to some people.

But do you believe that more than 1% of web browser users install and use one or more browser extensions?
> Elect a good president in 2016

Isn't that the problem? Good by the definition of the individual voting? Good by the definition of a particular belief system? Good by being marginally "better" than the opponents?

"Good" isn't explicit enough to actually provide information to make a decision. (Also, it's a pretty limited palette of "goodness" to select from).

> Lets keep the white knights in charge

Are the White Knights in charge right now? They all seem to be embracing war by action, if not by word.

> intelligence is needed to keep those guys pointing their guns at the right targets.

Once again, who are the "right targets". Is it ISIS, is it Al Qaeda, is it the next disillusioned group of malcontents who are sold on the propaganda of their leaders?

Do you not realize that the flip-side of this argument justifies the behavior of the "enemy" as well as it justifies the behavior of the US?

How about we try to look to a solution where we stop pointing guns at "targets"? (I presume by "targets" you mean "humans").
"Is HN a thing that can be abusive?"

Absolutely. In the past I've watched karma burn as much as 30/40 points drop because I made some point that isn't what was expected. That's not the real problem. The real problem is the stream of stupid non helpful and nasty comments.

"HN would be a very different place if it was trying to behave in a "role model" fashion toward the tech community."

Suggested this but what I've realised there is absolutely no way this will happen. THe site has its origin in one person and translated into code where the only metric is an UP or DOWN vote. What that vote means has drifted as the site has added users over the years.

"What I can't see is HN being shut down"

It will just become irrelevant.