skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't work for me. All results are either parasitic sites' scrapes of the headline pointing to the original page, or that page itself. Nothing has the full text.

The first Google hit from where I'm sitting leads to exactly the same URL as our submission:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/college-dropouts-thrive-in-tech-...

[EDIT: Problem solved. Searched using https://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect). Looks like country-redirected Google uses a country-redirected Referer also, and WSJ is chummy only with the American google.com.]
The Google Stack [pdf]
Missing link found between brain, immune system
"An armed society is a polite society."

I don't buy this.
It's from a comedy sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus. The bit was giving fictional elections returns wherein candidates representing the Silly Party all had ridiculous names. If I recall correctly, the aforementioned Tarquin was representing the Very Silly Party, whereas Kevin Phillips-BONNGGGG! represented the Slightly Silly Party.

And now for something not completely different.

A more recent and more American equivalent can be found in Key and Peele's East-West Bowl sketches, wherein the collegiate all-star football players reveal names such as "Jammie Jammie-Jammie", "Quiznatodd Bidness", and "Fudge".
This adds a lot of weird uncertainty to the idea of Wikileaks, IMO. Where will the money be coming from (it's crowdsourced)? Where will it be going to?
I would like to know if you can ask the following group of questions :
- "What is Bill Clinton's age ?"
- "Who did he marry ?"
>Everything internet sucked around 2000. Search engines where either semi-curated listing or covered a fraction of what was a much smaller internet.

I disagree, and in fact preferred the internet of 2000 to the internet of 2015.

Google search worked fine in 2000: although SEO existed in 2000, it was much less refined and extensive than in 2015. The main problem in search results today is that profit-motivated content crowds out and makes it difficult to find not-profit-motivated superior content.

Not all the changes are bad, of course. Video in particular (not just bandwidth, but the convenience for consumers and amateur producers provided by Youtube) is much better (but text is more important to me than video). A computer with adequate performance is a lot cheaper in real dollars.

>A lot of websites had terrible UX.

I preferred the UX of the web of 2000 to the UX of the web of today. Searching a web page for a string, copying from a web page, then pasting, scrolling, use of keyboard shortcuts, bookmarking (some sites today have all content sharing the same URL, making bookmarking virtually impossible) all were simpler and more consistent across web pages, therefore requiring less deliberative thought to use, and IMHO thereby better.

In other words, on the web of today, I have to direct my attention to the mechanics of the web page, e.g., how to dismiss the interstitial asking me to follow them on Facebook or whatever so that I can start to see the actual content, which keyboard shortcuts have been overridden by the site, how to scroll and whether scrolling even works. In the web of 2000, I spent more of my time and attention on the actual content (particularly, textual content).

For those who remember the web of 2000: what about the UX of the web of today do you prefer? I have a theory that some people are more easily bored than others and that those people appreciate the web of today because the increase in variety, color and motion (of elements on the page) helps keep them from getting bored. Is that it?

(I remember the Sourceforge of 2000, but have nothing to say about it.)

ADDED. I neglected to consider that Wikipedia did not exist in 2000, which significantly changes the balance. I still disagree with "Everything internet sucked around 2000". In particular, I miss web sites created by individuals not expecting to make money from their writings. Although many (most?) of those web sites still exist, they've become vastly harder to find with a search engine because of content farms and other professionally-produced professionally-SEOed content.
Sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean here.

I understood the OP as saying that Edward Snowden (and people like him) justify their actions as being altruistic, for the greater good of society. If you give a financial incentive to someone to be a whistleblower, it no longer looks like altruism.
TPP details definitely need to be in the public...

Details? Why? Obviously agreements will be public before they become law (nobody disputes this), but why force negotiators making difficult tradeoffs to hash them out in the open?
This is a gem of a post. Loved it.

Don't miss:

Notice how the fish interlock without leaving out any space in between them.
Escher FTW.

And:

Abstraction barriers are useful tools that can reduce the cognitive overhead
on the programmer.

Although of course familiar with the concepts of abstract data types from CS and architecture/implementation layers from CompE/EE, I've not heard the term abstraction barriers before this. I like the combination.
Finally, progress! I've moved to Mosh for all my personal needs, but SSH is a very important protocol and i'm optimistic to see how its implemented in PowerShell.
>I think some of those games survive in this era thanks to those crackers.

If I remember correctly, a decent number of the titles Jason has uploaded have cracktros because that's all that's left (or all that we have for the moment).

Another interesting thing is that he's working with a cracker to provide crack-diaries that explore the thought processes and actions taken to break the security on the original media.

Read more: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4630
A message can crash the skype to force for Re-installation
is that a reasonable assumption?

This is meant as a serious question. Would the details of the agreement be made public, eventually?
Why my doctor prescribed me open hardware
The actual MSDN blog entry's link should be used for this.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/looking_forward_microsoft__support_f...
HN does not allow downvoting replies to one's comment, so someone else must be downvoting you. Your tone is aggressive and you display a poor grasp of the topic which is probably why you're being downvoted.

1) This is an abstract of a PhD thesis which makes no mention of particle swarms, I couldn't find the full text. This is your evidence?

2) No this isn't about looking for the global maximum. Several people have explained to you that this is a sampling algorithm, but you still fail to show understanding of the difference.

3) Your story doesn't demonstrate your point and you do not understand the argument I presented to you. The types of algorithms suited for an army of people with calculators 100 years ago isn't fundamentally different from the type of algorithm suited for computers today, and if anything, it's likely to be more sequential, not less.
But you can put your seat back and now you can see it. That is space that you rightfully are entitled to so use it.
IANAL but I don't think whistleblower protections would ever apply to leaking a confidential document to wikileaks regardless of whether you're paid or not.
Yes, everything about it is awkward. Is the timing right? Is the phone in the right place? Does this terminal even work with mobile payments (regardless of whether it appears to be one that _should work)? Does anyone even understand what you are doing if you have difficulty?

It's not hard to see why this is having a difficult time gaining traction. The payoff for the consumer isn't particularly large, even when it works well.

The notable exception might be vending machines. That has worked pretty well on the few occasions that I have tried it, and is much easier than a swipe.
Hello everyone. I quickly built this little tool based on public records provided by the government.
I did the same a couple weeks ago with H-1Bs and I just added over 1.1million green cards records.

The data provided is not perfect so i'm still working on cleaning it but it should give you an idea of what is going on.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Rust commits to 6-week release cycle
This is a solution for me. It's not a solution for the hundreds of people I've told about GiMP over the years. Some of whom I no longer have contact with. Those people don't know how to edit their hosts file.

I'm not worried for myself I'm worried for them.
I think it is a great selling point. No matter how crappy the final product is, claiming new or better graphics automatically give more sold units.

It is easy to critique a game after you played it. But before you do, the only thing you can do is look. Since you can't interact with the game in any way, what is left is the visuals. And that impression sells the game. Therefore, graphics matter.
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Looks like croudsourced https://wikileaks.org/pledge/#rd-6
Is Apple not collecting any user data?
Each instance is a short-term, tactical thing, so the fallout from any particular error is at least localized. Everything is entered manually. Schema is fixed at the core, with small numbers of custom columns needed every now and then. A relational DB would be a better tool for storing the core data, but the tooling itself is wrong: we'd have to build a UI to front it, whereas using google sheets gives a free UI that everyone knows how to use (and supports all the various analysis cases I mentioned above). Version control is just that provided by google sheets (irritatingly granular, with no ability to create a marked checkpoint version - I hate it), plus whatever naming convention discipline any team comes up with. It's not great.

I can't really be more specific unfortunately - NDAs etc.
Agreed, but I think the OpenBSD people did well by saying 'SSH' in the main part of their title. 'Secure Shell' is like 'modes': you might use ssh or chmod every day but it takes one tick for people to realise what's meant.
I mean it as a driver developer.

Fair enough.

I would dispute the 'total count' argument.

Here's Greg's claim: "Linux today supports more hardware devices than any other operating system in the history of the world."

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/techni...

I don't know what data it's based on, but I strongly suspect he's correct on that.

Again: my contention isn't that Linux does better on desktop-grade hardware, if anything, that's its weak point. But that's entirely due to vendor leverage by Microsoft, not technical shortcomings.

Windows doesn't require rebuilding the kernel...

Two elements to that:

1. Neither does linux in many cases. You'll have to compile the kernel module itself, of course (or someone will). That's the case for Windows as well. Generally, for stock kernels, device support is via modules, and you simply have to provide the module. In practice, it's already present, and device autodetection loads modules at boot time. This means that, e.g., you can take a hard drive out of one system, put it in another (of the same general CPU architecture), and it simply boots and works.

2. Drivers are sketchy, mkay? Not allowing any arbitrary code to be loaded into kernel space offers security advantages. It's on of those security / convenience trade-offs.

The total count of Windows machines

Counting Android as Linux, you're close to losing, if not already lost, with that metric as well.

Quick search suggests that Android bypassed Windows in early 2014:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Android-installed-base-might-...

Present count is 1.675 billion Android devices:

http://www.statisticbrain.com/android-phone-statistics/

Windows as a share of all computing devices fell behind the combined iOS and Android count in 2012:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-has-fallen-behind-apple...
I run a ~10 person completely remote SaaS company and that matches our tools exactly, even down to the way we set up our HipChat rooms* .

For MobileJazz or others that operate completely remotely, how often do you meet face-to-face? We assemble the team twice a year. It's definitely possible to run a company completely remotely, but I've still seen no remote substitute for the interpersonal bonding that happens in meatspace.

* We don't invoice, so no Harvest.
Looking at it from a Unix-a-like background Powershell provides a script capable shell (ala bash and friends) including built-ins that do useful stuff in some of the posix and gnu externals commonly called from shell scripts. Rather than working primarily on text and streams like most unix-a-like shells it is object based. Through the relevant modules and the objects they provide it allows pretty complete interaction with the Windows management infrastructure so in the right hands it can be very powerful. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell. On any Windows machine that isn't obsolete or close to (the 2003 editions fall out of support very soon and XP already has, anything newer had PS integrated) you'll find at least v2, usually v3 or higher.

I keep meaning to find a good book or online reference and spend some time properly learning how to use the thing... For some things it'll replace my need to have cygwin installed everywhere, and it might allow me to do some stuff "better".
GNU make.

Keep in mind that in addition to the build steps, it's common to break out to sed, grep, and shell to get basic string operations done due to extremely limited capability of make itself. On cygwin, this is slow for large projects.

Cygwin's forking is also temperamental.

https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-proce...

"In summary, current Windows implementations make it impossible to implement a perfectly reliable fork, and occasional fork failures are inevitable."

I wonder how the authors of midipix propose to resolve the listed issues.
Thanks - was not aware of this at all. Will check it out.
The upgrade sizes seem really small; I am not sure how many people will need at least 16, but never more then 25.
Ecuador Mandates Bank Participation in National E-Money Initiative
Leaving aside how important dissemination of this topic is. What is the plan? Raise a 100K from netizens, and then wire it to the whistleblower? Then what, they are hung for treason?
Tech to games is equivalent to the medium an artist uses. Crappy tools and materials can ruin the experience (i.e. if Michelangelo's David was made out of, say mashed potatoes it would have not survived and it would have looked silly after a while), but good materials do not make an artist (i.e. give a non-visual person marble and give Michelangelo mashed potatoes and what Michelangelo produces will probably be better than what the other bloke produces).
Because whistle-blowing for cash is much more defensible than doing it for conscience.
2015 Internet trends
> Obviously agreements will be public before they become law (nobody disputes this)

Obviously? They've already fast tracked it even before it is available to the public. They've made it available to members of congress without it being available to the public. While on paper they might release it just before it became law, they could easily release it a week before giving nobody time to mount a real challenge.

I'd have no issue if I thought it was going to take six months to pass, and members of the public could have a say, but fast tracking makes that highly unlikely.
Because, when the time comes to actually pass/reject the final agreement, the choice is binary. And a _lot_ of work has been put in from all sides, under the assumption that the tradeoffs they make will be accepted.
it can very well be disputed whether or not all details of the trade agreement will be made public, I see no reason or evidence to the contrary.

Why force making it public? I guess there have been arguments of mistrust - or am I getting this wrong?
No.

Windows has almost nothing in common with Unix under the hood and this isn't anything that can be changed with some incremental subsystem additions.

Only a complete rewrite from scratch could accomplish that, and even then, it's quite likely they'll base it on the Singularity plans from Microsoft Research rather than on Unix (there already is such a tentative project codenamed Midori).
Robert F Kennedy would read the same headline and ask 'why not?'

Tomato, tomato!
Why stop here... Let's crowdsource bribes, I mean lobby funds, for politicians and finally get some people's wishes through.
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There are many reasons favouring disclosure of this information, but is offering to buy the information really the best approach here?

The public officials who possess the information are likely bound by legal duties not to disclose it to those not entitled to see it. If an official chooses to leak confidential information in the public interest, that may be one thing, but selling confidential information for personal financial gain is corrupt conduct.

To be fair to WikiLeaks, they describe the money as a "reward" for turning over the missing chapters, and do not overtly say they are looking to buy, but it seems to come awfully close to offering a financial inducement to break the law. The only people who have the information are those who are bound not to reveal it or who should never have had it in the first place.
Fallout 4 trailer
>Obviously agreements will be public before they become law (nobody disputes this)

A good number of people don't understand that these have to be debated publicly in order to pass Congress. Wikileaks shamefully plays on this misunderstanding.
from: crowdsourced - article content

to: person who leaks - fairly obviously
So does that mean I will be able to use PGP natively on my iOS Mail app soon?
6-10k DAU? That seems minuscule to me. Also, shows how skewed is HN viewpoint: although by these parameters, Ello is tiny, everyone knows about it, while other application and games that are used by thousands amount of people are completely unknown.
Strange move. It also changes WikiLeaks from observer and passive receiver of information to actor, instigator. That can't be good.

Will WikiLeaks still pay 100K for the information if it was obtained by killing someone?
This is not hijacking at all. They created a new account, the old one remains blank as the author says. Sure it's morally questionable and leads to having a very bad reputation. But it's not hijacking. GPL code can be forked, mirrored, bundled and distributed. As long as the terms of GPL are obeyed there's nothing technically wrong with what SF is doing.

Of course they've completely blown all trust and squandered their reputation.
MobaXterm is also a nice product: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
The individual who leaks this information is doing so for the public good. Why not also allow them to be compensated for assuming that risk?
Because once the agreement is finalized in negotiations, it's expected to get a "yea" or "nay" vote from participant legislatures. To my knowledge, congress cannot amend the agreement at that point.

So having the negotiations done in secret puts lawmakers and the public in a difficult position. Instead of compromising and tweaking, if they don't like parts of the agreement, they have to decide whether to flat out reject it, or approve it and live with the crappy parts. And those that reject it will be framed as anti-trade, anti-economy, etc. (even if they only vote against the bill because of its draconian copyright rules, e.g.)
The kerberos that I authenticate Linux and Solaris boxes against Active Directory with every day.
Also, the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, how come there were 4 USSR nationals between 2001 and 2015 applying for permanent residency?
You mean like Mass Effect, Thief, Tomb Raider, GTA, Witcher, and Dragon Age: Origins? Or perhaps StarCraft II, Diablo III, Everquest, WoW, or Final Fantasy VII?

Don't get me wrong, there are lots of fun games out there which do not have 3D graphics, but there are a lot of great games out there which do. The added realism that high quality 3D offers can add quite a bit to the immersion. It won't make a bad game, or break a great game, but it will certainly enhance even an OK game.
It would be great to make the TPP documents public, but this isn't the way. The leaker can rightly claimed to be in it for the money, and this will taint any further anti-TPP action based on the content of the leaked documents.

We need another Edward Snowden.
If there were a completely transparent market for bribes, I think that would be a far superior system to the one we have today.
Bloat and legacy support are two sides of the same coin.

Microsoft chose one answer to that, Apple another.

I think Windows Phone is a clear example that Microsoft has technical chops when starting clean, it just lacks business willpower to make decisions that favor performance over support.
How Google’s New Photos App Can Tell Cats From Dogs
Break the law or break a contract? (honest question)
Perfect scores can't get Asians into top schools
Author here. I've made something of a habit of doing various site-based activity estimates:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/nAya9WqdemIoVuVWVOYQUQ
I think this is a good move. It'll be in the enterprise in .. 10 years?
Invigilator drones used to snoop out Chinese exam cheats
I've used google wallet for years and basically came to the conclusion, that outside of novelty, it doesn't offer any benefits over a card. And it's often faster to just use my card than to pull my phone out, unlock it, make sure the app opens and the reader/phone do their connection thing.

As a partner in a small business, who uses a service like square, adding mobile payments is something we'd like to do but we aren't buying hardware to support it, it makes no business sense.
Fallout 4
I was impressed by the quality of the Fallout website that is up now as a teaser. I will include a permanent link to it eventually.

You can see how clean the code is. They are clearly using a precompiler to group their js and css.

This is how I think your website should look - in terms of code.
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