skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. I use it everywhere I can, but it's still a very small percentage of the places I shop. And I live in a major U.S. Metro area, shopping at very normal places. I also run into stuff like Subway keeping the terminal behind the counter, so if I want to pay with Apple Pay I have to ask the employee to slide it over to me. It's a gamble whether they know what I'm talking about or not. It's easier to just give them a credit card.

When I first started using it, I worried about being the guy holding up the line fumbling to get it to work. But after the first few, that went away. As long as the merchant supports it, it usually works pretty seamlessly. There are a few that have stupid quirks, and the cashier can screw it up by pushing the wrong button at the wrong time, but on balance it's surprisingly good for me (when I find a place that accepts it).

I don't think it was ever reasonable to expect this to sweep the nation and replace credit cards in the first year. It's going to take time.
Windows doesn't require rebuilding the kernel (although I guess there are few Linux drivers that are mutually exclusive, and just building all of them is standard practice for many distributions), but every now and then it requires rebuilding the drivers (which may or may not happen).

Linux's integrated design makes that the kernel developers' problem, not the users'.
Paypal’s horrifying new User Agreement lets company robocall, autotext at will
Not only that, like Mac OS X, Windows is moving into another application model WinRT with containers. Just like Carbon, only selected Win32 APIs will survive in the long run.

Which leaves the question how much POSIX can be implemented on top of WinRT.

Similarly not all POSIX calls are allowed inside Mac OS X App Sandbox.

And if we restrain ourselves to POSIX there is little more than command line applications, TCP/IP headless servers and Motif GUIs.
Well, video games are unique in being able to suck an entire weekend away without you noticing.
And if there's anyone even later, I've got a few as well: https://keybase.io/oddevan
The only place I regularly use it is at Whole Foods, where it actually works quite well and is a bit faster than a card. And given the glares one gets in the WF line, I would definitely be informed if it was inconveniencing anyone...

However, this looks to have been the result of concerted corporate effort and training (every clerk knows how it works, etc.). Can't see it catching on in a small business.
I'm talking about have a shell script like:

while whatever ; do
# hit host with a ssh command numerous times in loop
ssh user@host command ...
...
done

Banning more than X failed connection attempts from an IP in Y minutes is done with utilities like fail2ban, which wheedle that information from system logs.
I glanced through a number of issues and many of them were not bugs at all but more like "how do I do this?", "what's wrong with my code?" or just comments in general. Makes me wonder how many of them are actually bug reports.

Plus there's a decent number of pull requests so it looks like the community is contributing, just no one to maintain.
The Combined Cadet Force is pretty popular at private schools in the UK - the school my son is at even has a few ex-squaddies on the staff. It's pretty heavily subsidized by the Army - they get loads of gear to take home (not weapons, obviously) have weekly training sessions and weekend and week long camps a few times a year.
This is great news for Administrators and IT Staff as in the Enterprise, Microsoft is still very relevant and this will only ease Management.

I am of course referring to the still existent non-startup style companies which might have non-technical users/staff such as Project Managers or Business Analysts etc. In my experience, once a company gets past 50 users or so, Windows is still the way to go.

Sincerely hope they will donate to the OpenSSH project to support its ongoing development going forward and not just mooch off it as many other companies do.
Mirror Images: Similarity in Design
What tools do you use?

I'm really interested in remote working and how to improve the day to day to work and communication.
It's even worse than that.Not using Apple's products is a good way to increase privacy. How ?

If you use Google's products(and who doesn't use Google Search ? ) , Google already knows plenty about you. And even if you don't use Google products, Google knows plenty about you, since it's tracking software is installed in large percentage of sites, etc.

And if you add machine learning on top of that , the amount that Google knows about you is great - even if you use Apple's products.

In reality, by using Apple's products, you don't gain privacy , you lose privacy - now two companies know a lot about you, instead of one.
It's a neat and useful product. Yes , it would be great if it was battery powered small handheld device or if it could connect to a smart phone.
How Examine.com makes sure they can hire the best
I'm glad that Ello is growing. I like niche social networks. I just don't understand which niche Ello caters to.
Agreed. My sister owns a coffee shop/chocolate shop. There's no advantage for her at all - its all for the customer. And most of her customers are making small purchases, trivial to do with cash or a card.
You really ought to give an example for this.

Having said that, the main advantage for developers has to be the relative stability of the device driver API. Linux explicitly doesn't have one, as part of the war on closed source drivers, which makes maintaining an out-of-tree driver a hassle.
If you've visited Engadget during the past decade, you've read the words of Darren Murph. For 7.5 years, he was the site's Managing Editor (and my boss for part of that!). He's a phenom. He works remotely while traveling the world, and he gets more done in a day than most people do in three. Hell, he holds the Guinness World Record for being the most prolific professional blogger. (Over 22,000 posts!) Fewer kick more ass than he.

He's self-published this guide to help folks break out of their cubes and work on the go.
Stuck in Japanese lift during quake? No problem–water and toilets to be inside
I remember thinking "I guess they want to get more of the tech community's mindshare to promote their job board" when Dice bought Slashdot. With the way they've alienated the tech community by trashing Slashdot and SourceForge, I wonder how many tech people will use their job board now.
Few things:

- Usually drug prices are dropped / negotiated with foreign governments for developing countries
- Drug price often starts high but drops as government / FDA criticizes and once they milk health insurance companies to pay for it

It's not an ideal system at all, but just wanted to correct the notion that the prices start high and stay that way / poor people don't get access to it!
That's why they added the - to the domain.
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Two great quotes from The Browser summary:

“There are many kinds of eccentric and Satie was most of them"

“He may not have been a great composer, but he was a great Satie”

Funny, I considered submitting this link yesterday, but assumed it may not be hacker-y enough. But I believe the connection lies in the fact that as ambient background music, Satie's compositions are remarkable in their ability to calm, focus and stimulate the mind.

The next time you begin to feel a bit burnt, try closing the eyes, donning headphones and slipping into Le Monde Gnossienne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLHiou7anE
I am not a biologist or anything of that ilk, however I am a bit skeptical that the chimps understood the concept of "cooking" the food. It seems more likely that they understood "hey if I do X, then the food gets more tasty" with X being put the food they have (which is raw) in the "cooking device". Making the leap to saying "yes they totally understand the concept of cooking" seems a bit anthropomorphizing.
The question is why were you in the class if you already knew the material? People like you should be able to get credit for what you already know if you can demonstrate it.

Unless of course you're just looking for a GPA and need the easy grade.

If the school just made you sit there because reasons, well, yes, that's a huge problem. A problem which is being rectified all over the US.
"this is a harbinger of Microsoft trying to take over SSH... well, get those tinfoil hats ready"

Because MS never tried that? See Kerberos, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish...
Very cool! Where I live most youth programs try to distance themselves from the military, which is a pity and borderline shameful. Anyway, our Scout camp has a 24-station shooting range and trap station. Also archery for the younger folk.

I'll look into the CCF, sounds exciting!
>Of course, the game-theoretic response from the entire internet community is to make sure they never, ever, for any reasons whatsoever, ever click on a link that starts with "sourceforge.net"

That's a nice idealistic response, but what about when you can't find a file anywhere else?
Can we do refunds yet with Bitcoin ? That's why.
Windows Server takes most of the profit in the web server market. SQL Server does very well even with PostgreSQL and MySQL being given away for free. They compete with free as in beer offerings and keep making a ton of money.

Here's a list of 16 billion dollar businesses for Microsoft[1]:

Windows

Windows Server

Windows Azure

Office (client)

Xbox

SQL Server

System Center (client and server both, so includes Windows Intune)

SharePoint

Visual Studio

Dynamics (CRM and ERP)

Online Advertising (search and display both)

Office 365

Client-access license (CAL) suites (formerly known as desktop access)

Enterprise Services (including consulting)

Enterprise communication business (Exchange plus Lync)

That list is from 2013 so I now think their phone business and the Surface business either reached or are close to a billion in revenue each. And all of them are increasing in revenue by a lot, except for maybe Windows client.

Why do they care too much if Linux is on a billion routers or super computers? This is like iPhone vs. Android. Android may be on a billion phones, but Apple is printing money with iPhones.

But yeah Microsoft has been "dying" from the 2000s, if you believe Slashdot posts, and the Year of the Linux Desktop(TM) is really right around the corner this time.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-16-billion-dollar-bu...
FWIW, I gave a talk about the Alternating Least Squares algorithm mentioned here (and linked in several comments) and how we implemented it at Spotify:

Slides: http://www.a1k0n.net/spotify/ml-madison/
Video (for the extremely patient): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX_ARH-KoDg
Oh yeah, I can see how the different filtering spots would make a difference.

Was just a bit surprised at the overhead of adding a command to the pipeline. A similar setup on linux would be like the following I guess (on a folder with 4600 files, 170 matching files).

20ms time ls *.pdf
35ms time find -maxdepth 1 -iname '*.pdf'
60ms time ls | egrep '.pdf$'

I was more wondering if adding each additional command added so much overhead. Your numbers looks much more reasonable. Maybe the article I read had a big step due to filesystem / caching or something.
Really like this. Even the cheapest robo-advisors like Betterment charge 0.1-0.3% on top of the fund fees, which sounds small but eats into gains over time.

However, I think the target audience is probably more likely individuals rather than financial advisors, unless you're going to be running it as a SaaS. I can't see the overlap of small advisory firms and those familiar with Vagrant.

Will give it a poke with a few hundred dollars in Vanguard ETFs.
PuTTY is life, PuTTY is love.
At least it was till I got a mac.
Crisis Text Line: Using Text Analytics to Better Serve At-Risk Teens
Would he interesting to see what I was doing when leeroy jenkins happened.
everyone seeing the same results for the same search terms is inherently not a "bubble"
Every form of media can do that. By pure numbers video games lead, but whether a type of media is immersive depends on an individual.
Doesn't seem like such a crazy thought when you consider that MS used to sell Unix (Xenix, before it was sold to SCO).
Bruce Jenner (man to Grandma) Caitlyn Jenner
I can't believe they entrust all their family jewels in Google services. My experience is that even when we used the paid Google services their customer support is at best atrocious ... try not having access to your company's most important collaborative documents for a few days ... never again for us.
Oh, sorry. I was just saying that some of the people on HN won't listen sometimes.

I didn't realize that all of that had to be done on your own with other platforms. Wow.
When you want to know where a company is heading look at the past history of their current leadership.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish was the modus operandi of Gates and Ballmer. Satya Nadella is now at the helm and he does not have the same history nor is he moving in the same directions. Satya is a different person and I'm holding judgement till I see the fruits of his labor and how far his leadership trickles down.
Lessons Learned from a Technically Disastrous Keynote
Show HN: SERP Keyword analysis tool
In a perfect world Amazon's Echo wouldn't record any voice other than that of the owner unless directly addressed == "Hey Echo, change the channel."

Social conventions would not/do not work as much as we would like.
Oncologist. But 'cancer doctor' is a term more people would know instead of 'oncologist'
I know Mozilla are a non profit but doesn't most of their funding come from google (I.e advertising) for promoting their search product?
Show HN: A quick look at my first VR app, Neoverse, a Twitter client for VR
TPP details definitely need to be in the public, but I'm surprised WikiLeaks is offering a bounty. Have they done this before? Not that I can recall. And I would think offering money would change the tone of prosecuting the "whistle-blower". It'd be hard to claim that you are a whistle-blower when you are receiving money- that seems a lot more like standard espionage to me.
looks good tool for debugging.
Effect of Hidden Dependencies on the UX of Version Control [pdf]
> Will they ever be as open as an open source project run by volunteers? No.

The ASP.NET and other .NET teams beg to differ. Their code (not some mirror) is hosted on Github and Apache licensed. You can fork it just like any other open source project.

So yes, parts of Microsoft's tech is actually free and open, for all practical definitions of free and open (the GNU people's pedantic arguments about Apache not withstanding)
My dad, Linux, and me
How living without purpose can get you killed
Slack CEO: Rest Easy, Email. We're Not Out to Kill You
Yes there is, you render the real environmental map as a "cloak." Pretty simple conceptually.
There's a difference between studying something based on people's reactions to the subject as opposed to studying the subject itself.

That would be like researching an old movie from just critic reviews without watching the movie itself. Depending on the purpose of the study you would want one, the other, or both.
How does this differentiate itself from Buffer?
Words are cheap. Trust is gained by actions.
Are there any risks to taking 1000mg per day? I've always wondered that.
Ello could be smoking hot with the right management team. It's got the pieces/UI but missing the marketing/polish/UX chops.
Could have cloned the drive yourself and given them a nice clean factory new OSX install to snoop on.
Can somebody explain to me why Americans need to have green card to work in the US? According the the data, there are 1659 applicants with a success rate of 68%.
Well its rather surprising and terrifying to see a game developer even having the idea "graphics makes games" for even a minute...
Ask anyone about their favorite games who are passionate about them and i can bet they will list games that didn't had 3D graphics...
Well I assume the information would be made publicly available to anyone.
If the entertainment system is mounted in the head of the seat in front then reclining that chair brings it well below my eyeline - I cannot slump low enough in my seat so that I can see it.
Looks like your submission has made it to the /. front page. I confess I'm at a loss for a meaningful comment on what that says...
Typing 'http://:' into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair
Information wants to be $100,000.
from what I can read at https://bitbucket.org/psiphon/psiphon-circumvention-system this is a thin layer (ssh|vpn) between you and psiphon's proxys to the internet.

It does not provides Confidentiality, Anonymity, nor Integrity by design, it sends plain text (!!) over an encrypted connection so your provider cannot censor, but it does allows them to some interesting features, like ..

> Custom branding. Psiphon 3 offers a flexible sponsorship system which includes sponsor-branded clients. Dynamic branding includes graphics and text on the client UI; and a region-specific dynamic homepage mechanism that allows a different home page to open depending on where in the world the client is run.
How generics in Swift can lead to safer, cleaner code
I'm already far more interested in reading about the _stories_ that came out of e.g. Eve Online, WoW, and the social connections people made, than ever playing those games myself.

If you ask me, it's a mistake to obsess over the digital representation of a... collaborative performance? Even if you recreated everything about an online game in 50 years, it wouldn't be the same game without the same people, the same social context.

When you're playing a bit-for-bit identical, perfectly emulated game from 30 years ago - have you ever thought "ummm, this sucks, how did I ever spend so much time on it?" What got lost - your youth, your obsession, your manual dexterity, the lack of other entertainment ... you can't bottle all of that along with the disc image.

Something always gets lost, even if you copy all the bits.
Could be that they were Americans who denounced their citizenship and later wanted to work in the US. Or it could be malformed data :)
If you're able to write code, that's relatively easily provable. You'll be found out quite fast by other coders if you can't do it, maybe a few weeks if you can pretend onboarding is going badly. So at a time when there's loads of demand for techies, there will always be some people who are happy to give you a go.

Contrast this with something a bit more fluffy, like political consulting. Are you going to hire a guy who basically talks a good game to work at your party head office? Because there's loads of guys who talk a good game. If he's crap, how will you know? All he does is make commentary, and he can always amend what he said to say what he thinks you want to hear. There's also not huge demand, so why not just get a guy who did Oxford PPE? You know he's sat there with a tutor for hours and hours, discussing politics. You know the tutor thought enough of him to not send him down.
And that is why I have no interest in keybase.io

Well that and they don't solve the only really interesting problem with GPG: how to send a secure email to somebody who doesn't yet have a private key.
Beginning software delivery acceleration with DevOps
I think this is the time to remind people some projects (ie filezilla) are willingly distributing the malware with their projects. The developers reaction is basically "there is nothing wrong with it"[1].

I feel like there is a niche service to provide installers that have been decrapified. I'm not talking about ninite (which is private/commercial) but an open source repository of installers that you can "apt-get" for Windows. I know people have tried that in the past - but the problem is that the builds that are posted manually go out of date pretty quickly so I think this process would have to be automated.

[1] https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=31127
I remember when the music/movie industry argued that it was perfectly legal to pay informers, who then just happen to gain access to private servers owned by release groups. Several complains was sent in to the police and nothing came out of it, so I would assume, being that the law treats everyone equal, that this is equally legal.
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders of Mobile Jazz.

Initially most of the work came through our personal networks. Myself I grew up in Germany and lived in San Francisco for some time. My co-founder had a strong network in Barcelona through his previous job at Deloitte. Today we still get requests through our personal network, however, most of our new incoming work is simply referral based. We don't even have a single sales person. So we try our best possible to do quality work, but also are actively involved with our clients and partners and help them improve their own businesses. This is not just an extra effort on our side, but also makes the whole "work" thing way more exciting and interesting for ourselves, rather than just being a sweatshop that churns out code.

We mostly work with startups, some of them as clients and some as partners. But we also have been recommended and introduced to some big corporations in various industries. And while we don't like the bureaucratic hassle that comes with it, it does give us quite some stability. For example, a big medical company just switched to use as their main supplier for web development, which immediately gave us 30 new long-term projects.

Overall we always try to give a lot, be involved and pro-active and help where we can. In the end you always get something in return. This has been my personal philosophy since ever and always and we've also established this as one of the cornerstones in our company culture.
I'm not saying GitHub doesn't help. SourceForge did help at time. But if you value your freedom, you need to understand that, if you don't have the keys of your infrastructure, you are locked to the good will of the provider (and its stakeholders).

I don't buy the money argument. If you have the chance to be a successful enough open source project, you will find hosting companies ready to help you with free VMs.

If you are not that successful, you can use github & co without fear, nobody will try to insert crapware in your packages. And if you want to selfhost, even a raspberry pi will have enough power to serve your site.
If you use DDG, use !gn which is the Google News bang before searching for it. No paywall through Google News.
Or the latest U2 album (and the doors lock once you enter the taxi)
I'm happy for people who are able to drop out of college and start successful businesses, but it's hardly the end-all, be-all of entrepreneurship. There are whole classes of problems that you will never even be aware of the existence of without going through college to get the qualifications to get enough experience in a particular industry to encounter them.

It's great if you can skip college build a new way for people to send text and images to each other through the internet (which seems to be what 99% of the hot apps are), but you're unlikely to make, say, a space shuttle.
I always appreciated the minimalist approach ello was going for, I just wish their execution was a little better. Thinking about Svbtle...
I agree. When I really need to waste some time, you know, when I want to just let the day slip away with nothing overly productive to show for it other than my own selfish entertainment, I always go with reading a book.
I've been using Google paid services for almost 4 years now, I've yet to experience any issues. That being said I'm not saying I never will experience such problems, but on balance I would argue the risk/benefit for a small business is much more in it's favour.