skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is awesome! i will definitely give this a shot next time i queue up! though i'm traveling right now so that will be a week.

i'm trying to reconcile the difference between my excitement and the skepticism of the other posters.

i don't use Mumble because i am typically queuing with randoms. and i don't really have any interest in maintaining my own mumble server on the off chance some random i queue up with wants to join it.

i would, however, be happy to click a simple "deploy" button on a case by case basis for the same purpose. first, i don't have the cognitive load of another server i have to maintain. and the effort required to set up a server on your app is near 0- much closer to 0 than the cost of owning and maintaining a mumble server.
As a non-american, this is really weird to me.

I grew up around plenty of guns at my friends - they were moose hunting rifles mostly. And they were under lock and key unless actively used for hunting, with guns locked in one location, ammunition locked in another (at least one of them in safe).

The police where I live now (Ireland) don't carry guns except for a few special units.

The fact that wearing guns is something that is every day business and that you can even discuss about is so alien to me that it is fascinating to see. I am glad I dont live in a society with those values though.

More guns means more people killed by guns. That said, I don't know the solution once you already have a proliferation of guns in your society. Personally I don't believe that maximizing the saturation of guns is a long-term solution but I recognize that it is a difficult situation.
You could use it for DRM, yes, but that's not the sole use. The point is to put cryptographic keys and secret information somewhere out of direct reach of the CPU, to keep it more secure. An an example: Apple's iPhone stores all fingerprint data exclusively in its secure module.
Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account
US Senate Passes Freedom Act
I know how to beat it - Tao of Programming 8.2:

http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

"A Master Programmer passed a novice programmer one day.

The Master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game.

"Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?"

The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the Master. "I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard," said the Master. "Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human."

"Pray, Great Master," implored the novice, "how does one find this mysterious setting?"

The Master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it with his heel. Suddenly the novice was enlightened."

To beat Mozilla at their game, just go native! (supports many languages without transpilation as a plus)
Not possible. The insights come from the combination of everyone's data, not the analysis of any individual in isolation.
Exactly. The previous flow was Nightly → Aurora → Beta → Release; the new flow is Nightly → Developer → Beta → Release. The only difference is that for the Developer release they package a different theme. If you’re using Developer you’re 12 weeks ahead of the release version.
Why would you want to? Makes no sense.
I think there was research done showing chimpanzees are more prone to thinking things out for themselves and humans are more prone to imitation without thinking, the authors suggested this is how culture is passed through so much more easily in humans than chimpanzees, because having to re-inventing the wheel in every newborn can take a lot of time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/children-learn-by-...
I have windows 7. If that qualifies me for a free upgrade, would I be able to receive an ISO of the windows 10 upgrade?

I don't care to actually install it but I would like to archive it on my server so I could install it later, say for bug regression.

Can I request a DVD or is the install only available online?
While is very interesting, from what I can see the research was done in mice not humans.

The diagram of the "new" human lymphatic system is in the press release not the research paper.

I do recognise the value of animal models in research, and this is intriguing, but with tempering with a little caution.
Sue them for one dollar. To have any hope of winning you need to prove damages, perhaps you could sue them for unlawful restraint of trade.

There's something about a process server that will get anyone's attention.

Alternatively sent a registered letter, return receipt requested, to their general counsel, then politely ask them to stop being such jerks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9644324
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At my company, we_almost_ fit that bill. We're not small, but we're not a large team either. The company was started as a PHP development shop 15 years ago but has switched tech and brand and name and grown so much in just 10 months. We have an HR lady who is teaching herself to code, a social networking boff who started several of his own websites and owns a custom PC build shop, our marketing lady writes a lot of technical journals, the CEO/founder, co-founder, creative director and technical director all code (and have very intense backgrounds I might add), and some of our dev team are independent contractors, one of which owns a music production company on the side and is in 2 locally famous bands! :D
A little of topic, but if someone would like a invite to keybase let me know :-)
Show HN: A tiny Go wrapper around Restcountries
VDK - vapourware development kit.
The Rails Value Proposition No Longer Adds Up (2014)
They can't boot it off a flash drive? I can understand asking for a password to do that, but the system should not be designed so that they need access to the current OS install to diagnose hardware problems.
Somebody other than the user to put it there. Because if user puts it there, he can read it too. Or is there something I don't understand?
Comcast has considerable monopoly power: in certain areas there are no good alternatives or your apartment complex might have the cables from Comcast installed but not others. Apple has less monopoly power because of Android competition.
I am sure there is still value in one users data that could be used that way.
> I structure statements of work using clauses for 1. scope and definition of the project, 2. approximate dates, 3. rates, including terms of payment/invoicing, 4. limited liability, 5. various other boilerplate and project-specific minutia, such as how and when reports on findings are delivered, etc.

Can you give an example of the structure of your contract?
Back in the Myspace era, I was bored and created an easy encoder-decoder for people to play with. It worked with Twitter, Facebook and Myspace (cut-paste your encoded text) because it only used basic characters. As you can't see in this animation, I later added random spaces and punctuation to the encoded text so that theoretically it would be harder for social networks to detect and block. The text was encoded in Javascript as you typed, which I thought was cool :-)

You can see it here as a GIF animation http://pjbrunet.com/friends-secret-messages.gif The decoder was just as easy, another pink box under the encoder. Obviously a pro could crack the code but that wasn't the point.

It was free. I advertised it to hundreds of thousands of people at the top of my blog which was 99% social media users and many of them were interested in privacy related topics as I could see from the Google queries. Looking at the CTR on that banner (asking people to try it) I concluded nobody cared. I was obviously targeting people who weren't tech savvy. I had some friends try it, they said they felt like James Bond ;-) That particular app had no traction, but my "pipe letter generator" did much better.

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How to literally kill your company:

1. this
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> Of course, this is proprietary to the whims of the companys' deploying SIL-4 Linux: THALES, et al.
I've worked with Thales companies many times in the past. Never seen any evidence of Sil4 Linux.
And no, this is absolutely not at the whim of the companies deploying it.

>http://ti.tuwien.ac.at/ecs/teaching/courses/hwswcode_vu_WS_2....
No mention of Linux.

> http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en75/special/tas-control-platform....
1 mention of Linux... no mention of the role it plays.

>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-real-time-linux/
Verifies my point. Only the kernel-in-kernel/hypervisor systems get hard-real-time performance. This is necessary for safety-critical work.

> (BTW, HSE isn't exactly an industrial authority on much ..)
HSE == Health & Safety Executive... they are very much involved in this.... they're the government authority related to this type of stuff. They license software for use in Nuclear Reactors and the like (along with other agencies).

My points absolutely still stand.
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It's an interesting plan from a game theoretic perspective to set an explicit upper price for drugs(in dollars per year of lfe or whatever). It certainly changes the price negotiation for drugs in the pipeline, and ultimately informs the incentives of drug development going forward.
Honestly, the ones doing the most to preserve today's games are probably cracking groups like RELOADED, CODEX and PROPHET.
if only there was like, some alternative to coal and uranium ...
The problem is that Duck Duck go doesn't provide as good results, because it lacks the personalized data. Google knows that when I search for Django I want the web framework. Duck duck go gives me that as well as many links to the film. I think option 1 is more likely for Apple.
Wouldn't a better long-term solution be to deal with the underlying causes of the rampant crime? You can arm everyone, but that won't actually stop crime, just move it somewhere else or force it to evolve. I mean, in the extreme the thieves could just ambush and kill / severely wound you before you had a chance to draw your gun. An arms race is never the answer.

Of course dealing with crime intelligently would involve a lot of tough questions about our economy and society, so I can certainly see how it is easier to just hand everyone a gun and call it a day. But I think we should at least advocate for a real solution.
>His last words were "The cows..."

I doubt this. In French, "vache" means cow, but it also means terrific or terrible. It's essentially an emphatic noun, whose meaning depends on context and tone of voice. Given the plural, the tendency would be to believe he meant something like "the bastards." Of course, given the rest of the article, Satie could easily have meant "the cows," although I strongly doubt it.
On-premise vs. Cloud?
>"In the end I just wiped the hard drive. They should've asked for that immediately."

They should have. That said, I'm confident that the significant majority react extremely negatively towards that request, so they have learned to ask for passwords first. Best practice? Definately not.
Well, from what I know there are some seriously privacy minded people in there. As oxymoronic as that sounds.

But I could certainly see some benefits both for FB and for world at large from this. One of the big problems with PGP is how to bootstrap web of trust. "Does this key really belong to this particular person?" But what if the otherwise loathed real name policy could be turned to service this particular need? Prominently visible personalities can attach their PGP keys to their pages and make the first association harder to forge.

Secondly, I have little doubt that the keyservers are monitored. An increase of searches and/or downloads to known activist lawyers' or journalists' keys could have relation to uncomfortable whistles being blown in near future. But what if FB made the keys they have signed available via their own keyserver, and made that reachable over Tor? Downloading a high-profile PGP key is likely to be a fairly big red flag.

And lastly, there may be some positive effects further down the line. I've been using PGP (and later GPG) since 2.3i became available and I know just how horrid the usability is. If FB can iterate over UI and UX issues, then others can learn from those efforts, and eventually we might have something that even a regular person could at least learn to use.

And of course - adding more encrypted noise to global email flow is not a bad thing at all.

I have no doubt that FB sees many non-altruistic avenues if this service catches wind. Wonder is there is anything to relationship graphs with some extremely strong edges...
If you're lucky enough to scale it, look to the Marine Corps. "Every Marine a Rifleman" is a close analog for a very large organization. Of course many Marines do other things, but they are all expected to be proficient riflemen.

A nice thing about studying the military is that most training material is public domain, and the pedagogy is exceptionally well worked out.
If you do work related stuff on your computer, your work should be taking care of the computer. This is why most people get assigned a computer by their places of employment, and are not expected to use their own. The place of work has their own tech team who deal with these types of issues. It's a really bad idea to do work stuff on a home computer because it makes your device much more vulnerable to being snooped on and controlled (for example, your place of employment may gain the ability to remotely wipe your device), and generally if you are in such a pickle then you should just not give them your password.

Again, it could be a software issue. If I complain that my WiFi isn't working, and you take it in to have a look, and your diagnostics say that WiFi works, then without the password you can't do anything at all. If my problem is that Safari runs really slowly and you can't log in, you're not going to be able to fix that.

If your only fix is then to reinstall the operating system and hope for the best, then you've done a terrible job.

In any case, the tech has physical access to your computer, and in the presence of that you should not assume any security from your disk encryption. FDE is good for one loss of control; after that you should assume compromise.
It's easy to call it "feeble" because it lost, but the worst-case outcome would have ruled the POSIX API was copyright SCO (funded by Microsoft), making it infringement to distribute Linux.

Linux could have survived in peaceful co-existence without the corporate billion. It would have been smaller and more hobbyist. It could not have survived if all the judgements had gone the wrong way.
Women less likely to be hacked than men, research reveals
Does that really answer my question?

There is talk here of Shampoo, which allows Emacs to do many of the things you suggest within a textual environment like Emacs.

I understand you have your preference (and I know your name comes up with Pharo on the net; I have seen it before and I can tell you are active in the community, so I say this out of respect), but I just wanted to try something I am more comfortable with to ease my transition.
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which api proxy you guys use to do the management?
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Investing directly in the market (via EFT) is always a good idea. Look at this chart, percentage change of S&P 600 SPY EFT in the last 3y. 60% increase.

https://www.tradingview.com/x/r6ahpcAy/

If your timeframe is long, buy & hold is alaways a good strategy.
Any software developer could have built what I did, and had the company realized what they were missing I'm sure they would have got one of their "real" developers to spend a couple of weeks and probably put something together better than what my intern-self was capable of

Unless you have personal knowledge that that actually happened, I will bet you dinner that it did not. Yes, it is absolutely the case that it would have been in their best interest to do it. No, software companies cannot routinely self-motivate to actually do this.

Great news for anybody here, though: if you can unbork sales/marketing/etc for a software company that ability is quite lucrative indeed as a consultant.
Godzilla recruited as tourism ambassador for Tokyo
Whoa, Japan I knew about but I didn't know germany was in similar straights. Interesting considering both of them were heavily involved in WW2; though I can't say how related/coincidental it is.
In what times of day we should drink water?
Looks good. Bit frustrating that it's not available in Canada though.
Works just fine for me. Sorry...
Funny Math: Moving Sofa Problem
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Who said it's a hardware problem? When my logic board was replaced recently, I had horrendous issues for a few days, with Chrome unusable, high CPU usage, etc - something was funny with the drivers, and it took some command line mucking about to fix the issue.

Had I given them my password, I'd not have had the issue. I was able to do the fix, but not everyone would be able to.
I'm clueless in this area but could git be linked with this so we get a fast good git on windows?
>"I think the distinction is pedantic"

It is, but no more than that of the OP and you. It's ultimately irrelevant to this discussion.
In my experience (Flash Platforms Group, HSGT), a significant number of flash device failures are caused by mechanical issues, such as: on-die faults, wire bonding problems and solder joint/package stresses which may occasinally be down to a production issue, but are more often attributed to rough handling during installation or thermal stress. This is less of an issue with SFF SSDs, but especially true of PCIe products crammed into 2U servers with poor airflow.

In general, thermals tend to be a significant issue for all form factors when devices are retrofitted. Less so for 'products' (All flash arrays etc.) which are designed as whole products from the outset.

This creates a failure pattern that is totally separate from predictable wear due to use and means that 'they'll all die at the same time' becomes much less certain for some categories of device.
I've been telling doctors for years that there seems to be some connection between my digestive issues and my sinus trouble.
US/Indian Industry bodies asks Indian.Govt to reconsider using opensource
Introsort switches to heapsort if the recursion depth becomes too big to limit runtime to O(n log n), which indirectly also limits space to O(log n).
> There's a difference here but it's a difference of degree, not kind.

True, but what a degree, and the difference matters [1]:

- 91% of Apple's income is from hardware.

- More that 90% of Google's income is from advertising.

There's also a very big difference between trying to understand your customers better so that you can build a better mousetrap, rather than selling their information to third parties, directly or indirectly.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-google-microsoft-where-do...
Startups that make law easy for startups
As a start up, cost is very important to us, and we try to seek ways to minimize cost and maximize our exposure. I find it difficult to navigate and save legal expenses sometimes. Government websites can’t seem to make it simple. They are so complicated, with different criteria for different company type, with various taxation schemes as well. I spend lots of time figuring out what’s best for my company, as engaging a lawyer is so expensive. If only they would tell us what’s the best way to minimize my taxes and maximize my benefits.

For instance, what are the legal requirements to hire a worker in China? What is the minimum pay? Is there a max number of working hours per week?
How do you set up a factory in Indonesia? What permits do you need? Are your imports taxed? Is there a way to minimise your taxes?
How do you file for patents in China? Are they enforceable?

Lawyers are so expensive as well. Wouldn't you agree it will be good if there's a way for you to understand all the regulations you need to know at your fingertips?
I scouted around and found a few websites that try to make legal easy.
1. www.yourcounsel.org that uses proprietary AI to give you relevant laws for various countries based on your company info.
2. www.lawpath.com catered for Australia companies
3. www.laweasy.com for normal consumers
4. www.companylawsolutions.co.uk for UK companies
Let me know if you guys find better solutions. Would be great if we can all save time on this and focus on impacting lives.
I've never had a problem with msysGit [1]

[1] https://msysgit.github.io/
I'm pretty sure they are earning some money off this, and taking into account the website was going to die anyway, I don't think this is negative thing for them to do.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F02p0tdp
Out of interest, what's wrong with MSVC runtimes? Plenty of software has been written using it.

Doesn't Wine basically implement MSVC runtimes?
It would be interesting if SSD firmware were all open-sourced.

Manufacturers could then eventually converge all of their development and QA efforts on a few different codebases designed for different tradeoffs rather than everybody rolling their own thing and learning everybody else's lessons the hard way.

But I guess as long as custom firmware remains a major competitive advantage, this would never happen.
From their CEO[1]:

Heck. In honor of FB's move, Keybase signups are open for the next 24h. Please one account per person. Use invite code: shit-yeah-facebook

[1] https://twitter.com/malgorithms/status/605807605659758592
Yes, but at least some people will have to juggle hats a lot. And at a certain scale they'll probably spend more time not being a software engineer than being one, up to the point where it doesn't really make sense to call them software engineers at all.

The reason most companies have dedicated employees is that it's very hard to be a generalist and stay on top of everything you do. It's more efficient to specialise and become much better at a handful of things instead of being barely competent at everything.
Rails and performance should not be mentioned in the same sentence. XD
The company is already dead. This is simply looting the corps.