skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the rich and powerful have effectively diluted our most precious right, free speech (ask the relatives of the Yangtzee River tragedy about that) by having the Supreme Court make money equivalent to speech through Citizens United, I find it pretty funny to see the Obama administration's obsession with secrecy challenged via the same mechanism we use to fund video games and fanciful geek hardware.

Of course, the real joke is that there's plenty of money chasing the secrets of the TPP already--only not to show those secrets to the public, but just to corporations and governments that want to benefit from them. The only thing stopping that would be the civil (and criminal?) penalties that would face anyone who could spill the beans.
Organizing and coordinating a fundraising goal isn't all that different than giving it yourself. Wikileaks already subsists substantially off of donations.
I'm exactly the person this article is talking about. Dropped out after a year, helped build a startup for two years afterwards (the dropout was unrelated to the startup). You're right, I'm completely unqualified to help make a space shuttle, but because of the on-the-job experience I got writing code for the startup (plus the architectural decisions I had to plan, implement, and handle fallout from), I'm more employable than a lot of my college graduate friends. And the ones who are more employable are so generally because of extracurricular experiences, not coursework.

They have more experience with lots of deeper CS topics, but I have yet to work with/for a real company where that's the limiting factor.

I'd also say that the dropout method is much less viable for professions other than programming, but that's because there are relatively few hardware startups looking for cheap high-skill workers and because other fields have had vastly longer time to formalize a body of knowledge. We've been building airplanes for 100 years, bridges for thousands, but single page applications are MAYBE double digit years old. College doesn't help if there's nobody with experience.
A Blueprint: How to Effectively Roll Out a New Technology in the Organization
This reminds me of the mindset that views the fact of existence of pyramids in America and Africa as evidence for some sort of unified effort across the oceans.

The fact is that Geometry -- itself a manifestation of Number -- is the Universal guiding principle that is naturally manifested by systems and/or minds that adhere to it. Not a mystery, really.
So how exactly does iAds work without any data?
Alright, thanks for the advice. I had similar thoughts but wasn't totally sure.
Paleo voeding: Welke noten zijn paleo en welke niet
I work remotely. This past winter I traveled to visit some family in a warm place. I spent the nicer days off, and enjoying my locale, and the not so nice days working as usual.

It's a nice way to only take 2 days off from work but actually get some relaxing time in a different setting.
True! I've had that feeling myself when I started saving everything to pocket.
So I created a few "self constraints":

I don't save articles that are "current news", this decreases the list significantly and takes the timing pressure off from achieving "pocket-zero".

I only save articles that interest me regardless of the timing.

I also use another "trick": for resources that reference other things I would like to read in the future (articles that mention authors or books) I send them to pocket > mark as favourite > archive. Then when I finish reading my current book of choice I go to the favourites archive and pick through what I want to read next.
Yeah, its actually about technology forcing prices to 0.
They don't have to open up the entire product - only the libraries for the encryption part.
Small clarification - I don't think you can sell it to an FFL or through an FFL. I think you'd be able to sell it directly to another person, but there's no mechanism to have it go through the NICS system (which requires a manufacturer and serial number).
Doesn't logging into an email account with stolen credentials, even a "QA team account" cross a line?

I understand that spyware makers are not good people, but that doesn't obviate the laws against this sort of thing.
I refer more to the game logic on the original game engine. For example, there can't be bridges or rooms over other rooms. Or a flying monster can't be over other monster or a player.

On other side, the original game engine, use 2d math with fixed point to rendering on a 386 CPU. Don't uses mvp matrix to render, like a real 3d game.

Take a look to : http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_rendering_engine
Is this an article summarizer bot?
Giving developers nice tools as a way to advance the brand is hard to call evil.
Read this : http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_rendering_engine
Yes, that's the point. Elections should be contests of ideology.
> Also it mashes a terminal emulator together with an SSH client so if you want one you're stuck with the other.

Well, honestly, this probably covers 99% of use cases - i.e. "I'm on Windows and I need to connect to a remote shell". Having the two separate sounds like overcomplicating things.
> Given that they both center around news functionality, it should not be surprising that Facebook's Instant Articles branding (2015) bears resemblance to Apple's Newsstand icon (2013).

There is absolutely no resemblance whatsoever. Other than both being icons of course. Same goes for the next two examples.
Again, read this : http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_rendering_engine

The original DooM engine isn't based on billboarding.
>Only those with tremendous conscious, like Snowden or Manning, step up in the face of odds like that.

It's unfair to group Snowden and Manning together. Snowden made a very serious, calculated ethical decision to release specific documentation that he felt needed to be in the public forum as reliable, confirmed information of governmental surveillance activity (not speculation or navel-gazing). Manning dumped as much confidential data as he could download because he didn't like the Army anymore.

Snowden was motivated by "tremendous conscience" and Manning was motivated by petty revenge.
We could already run OpenSSH on Windows. I typically do via cygwin.

It appears people are building it against MinGW? ( https://www.nomachine.com/AR05H00563 )

If we can already build Windows binaries of OpenSSH, why does it matter if Microsoft begins to offer that also? Is Microsoft going to provide full source for their build process? If they don't, would it be a good idea to even use it?
> To improve the spotlight user experience. They're not selling my data and I can easily disable it.

If Apple eventually falters goes bankrupt, that data will be worth a lot of money to someone.
No, and you are really reading a shitload into what I wrote. I didn't actually state my position at all, just state events that will happen. The logical outcome of which I believe would be my position which is the following.

My position was that if the details are made public it won't matter if the trade deal is going to be a good deal or a bad deal for the American public currently. That is due to the fact that American bussiness interests will buy the view points of easily controlled people, twist them to the interests of their view points as they do in many (all?) elections and votes, and the deal will be changed to be categorically worse for the American People in general while being better for specific business interests. I do not think it will be destroyed, just made shittier.
What does the Yangtzee River tragedy have to do with Citizens United?
> It is actually quite common to do so.

So common I've never seen it done. Ever.
yes, but that was just one example, not the only one.
>How is it not 3D?

It's the difference between looking 3D and being 3D (well, being represented 3D in the game engine before rendering to your monitor).

Doom isn't 3D because the level maps can be squashed flat to a 2D grid. For every x,y position there was only one z for you and the mobs. There weren't any situations where a bridge or ramp took you/mobs over a lower spot you/mobs could also be at, rooms weren't stacked, etc.

That was fine, Doom pulled off its sleight-of-hand extremely well and the gameplay it offered was captivating!
I'm sympathetic to people who want to develop portable GUI apps across Linux/Windows/OS X. If you're developing something like Inkscape or LibreOffice, most of your potential user base is on Windows and they are NOT going to install a Linux VM just to run your app.

But yeah, there are a lot of people on HN who constantly post about how their work issued them a cat and they have all these tools they install on their cat to make it act more like a dog but it makes a really terrible dog anyway and so cats must be crap. Uh, it's a cat. If you need a dog, go get a dog. Or run a dog on Hyper-V if you need a dog and a cat at the same time. My favorite is when people talk about how their favorite scheme they use to get their dog to catch mice doesn't work for their cat, therefore it's evidence that cats are terrible at catching mice.
This is merely a convenient excuse for companies behaving inconsiderately. Since many companies in the U.S. do send rejection emails, it's clearly one of any number of other reasons why some companies neglect this basic courtesy. The silver lining is, you probably don't want to work for these companies anyway :)
with this search it worked, but not with yours .. not sure why

https://news.google.com/news/search?tbm=nws&q=College%20Drop...
My skype crashes on OSX when I try it. I have Skype 7.8(388) on OS X 10.10.3.

My skype is now constantly crashing even though I haven't sent that in at least 10 minutes. Crashes about every three seconds.

Edit: upgraded to skype build 391 and it no longer crashes.
What happened to code reuse? Microsoft seem to manage to parse URLs in emails fine too. Is it really that hard a problem that one of Microsoft's most installed apps should find it impossible to do without crapping its pants??
I think you should take a step back and realize that you're not arguing anything from a position of actual evidence.

This has boiled down to a "Google collects more data than Apple" argument, which quite frankly is simply unknowable and makes for boring reading.

The fact is, both companies collect data, both companies sell ads, and nothing one CEO or the other says in a speech changes that.
Yes, but the person who would disregard TheFacebook based on this data would be completely rational and making the right decision. There were a lot of websites with this DAU, a lot of very ambitious startups; almost none succeeded.

If we are making comparisons with TheFacebook early days, we have to look at different data, that set apart TheFacebook from competitors then: K factor, session length, various engagement metrics of individual user. But they are not discussed in this post, so we can not draw such comparisons. From data that we do have, Ello doesn't seem to be any close to TheFacebook than to any of those thousands of perished start-ups.
The problem is that the main use I thought to have for it is jumping to functions, but I usually do that using / (search) and/or ctags (Ctrl-])
You can definitely reload rifle ammunition at home very easily. You just need to collect the brass cases after you've shot store-bought rounds or just go to an outdoor range and collect buckets of brass cases since most people just leave them.
Try http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/it's much much better, works with pageant, behaves closer to iTerm, but better than both iTerm and Putty in every way (IMO).
Apple techs have access to external drives with multiple versions of OSX installed. If they need to boot your device to test the hardware itself, they will use one of these. If those tests indicate no hardware issue, their only next step is to check out your OS. That would require administrator access to your machine if you're using whole drive encryption.

I mean, I get what you're saying... they should have verified those things up front before asking for access, but I'm pretty sure they work on the concept of getting you the fastest service they can, balanced with the amount of customers they need to help simultaneously. My guess is that the admin password is a default question because they know they _generally_ will need it, so it's best get it up front rather than waiting hours or days for the customer to get back to them.

Personally, when I had to take my Macbook in, I just zero'd out the sensitive data, changed my admin pw to something temporary, and let them have it. I know this will be a TOTAL surprise, but the multibillion dollar corporation didn't use this as a chance to hack my life. What a novel thought.
This is akin to giving your car to a mechanic to repair but refusing to give him the keys in case he might make a copy.
I have never heard of anyone else who uses the term the way you do. "10x" usually refers to those contributing ten times as much to the bottom-line compared to some standard "x".
Windows is still Windows. SSH support is a step in the right direction, but they've got a mountain to climb:

* The Registry.
* Drive letters and associated anachronisms.
* A sane service manager.
* The Windows API in general.
All the encryption in the world doesn't make any difference if it's easy to steal your account.

Unlike Facebook or Google, Apple practically had to be shamed into fixing an easily-gamed account reset process and adding two-factor authentication support (and then took their own sweet time rolling it out across their services) and had to be shamed again into adding rate-limiting on logins. Not to mention their spotty track record on other security issues (e.g."goto fail").

That doesn't mean that Apple hasn't done some things that are good for personal privacy. But their broader track record makes it clear that Apple only takes the appearance of personal privacy seriously. The reality, on the other hand, easily takes a back seat to things like UI simplicity unless that missing reality starts creating appearance problems.
Ello's DAU is down from 6 months ago. They may be trending up locally, but most of us who gave them a shot when they launched found the site ugly, unusable (buggy, impossible to find friends), and unneeded. I know roughly 4 dozen folks that gave Ello a shot and all of us have not been back.
Google has a one-click opt-out as well:

http://www.google.com/settings/ads

I remain opted in, fwiw.
What does the Yangtzee River tragedy have to do with free speech? Are you talking in China, or is something going on in the US connected with this?
The author actually makes that same point in the article.

What I think elevates this article above the level of clickbait is that beyond any firearms related issues, it is a really interesting point of comparison for different "maker" related technologies: traditional machining, 3d Printing and desktop CNC.
Yeah, probably should be going to http://fallout4.com/
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Sure, but it doesn't change the fact that one day it will be gone, specially if Windows 10 becomes another 7.
I was expecting something that would be a bit more controversial. I highly recommend reading through to the linked "neutral" analysis. Seeing evented and threaded styles as duals of each other is fairly useful. Especially if you take that to realize that ultimately you want to see the flow of the data. Oftentimes the specifics of implementation are more noisy than they need to be.
The project's pre-pre-alpha will be out very soon (in a week or less) and will already give a nice taste of its design and speed. The primary focus thus far has been major challenges (toolchain, process creation and initialization, signals, glue layer between posix system call layer and libc, etc.). This means that while you will be able to test functions such as fork(), execve(), mmap(), or fopen() with a utf-8 path, some of the easy/easier-to-implement system calls will "surprisingly" still be missing.

For one or the other reason, fork() has become in many discussion of posix on windows something of a fetish. The interface surely has its place, and figuring out how to efficiently implement it took a huge amount of effort, yet the vast majority of applications do not truly need it. Matter of the fact is that even on linux, where fork(2) is natively supported, the sequence fork+execve is more costly than clone+execve (where clone's flags are CLONE_VM && !CLONE_THREAD). For additional reference, see for instance the implementation of posix_spawn in musl libc (http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/process/posix_sp...).

If high performance of the posix layer were not possible the project would have not existed. Among the factors that make high performance possible are 1) direct use of kernel interfaces (aka the Native API, where most of the runtime layer is written as a user-space driver), 2) utf-8 as the primary supported multibyte encoding as a foundational concept rather than an afterthought, and 3) tls implementation that matches in speed the native tls facility.
A staggering 500 applications from North Korea, wonder how they got out..
They are planning to use the:

>"fast track" Trade Promotion Authority. This would require the United States Congress to introduce and vote on an administration-authored bill for implementing the TPP with minimal debate and no amendments, with the entire process taking no more than 90 days. Fast-track legislation was introduced in Congress in mid-April 2015. (Wikipedia)

So 90 days for minimal debate and no amendments - sounds like true democracy in action to me.
Network latency is going to a significant factor for musicians jamming together. I could see it for musicians living in the same city or maybe a few hundred miles from each other. If they're on different continents, the speed of light will become a limiting factor:

http://royal.pingdom.com/2007/06/01/theoretical-vs-real-worl...

It comes to about 1/10th of a second for people on the opposite side of the globe under ideal network latency. Okay for conversation, but could be a problem for musicians playing together.

Don't get me wrong, I think there are a lot of interesting uses for this technology if they can get it to work as promised.
The Misunderstanding of 3-D
do you have any proof? I thought so as well...but apparently not.
Do you have a video of a game? The code by itself doesn't show much.
I work here and it is pretty awesome. :-D
Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements
other that joins what can be the place where mongodb does not work properly?
As someone who has had the stomach churning task of firing people, jokes like this don't seem worth it. How much good will can you earn by making employment at your company sound like a joke?
Just as an FYI, citizenship is not the same as country of chargeability (usually country of birth), which is what the USCIS looks at for placing you in EB-ROW/India/China/Mexico/Philippines. So you could have an Indian passport but if you are born in, let's say, Saudi Arabia, you are placed in EB-ROW.
SoftBank Ups Its Stake in Supercell to 73%
Depends where you are.

In Thailand you can get anything from 7/1 to 1000/100 mbit down/up, using a variety of adsl, docsis and fibre.

Add to that good 3G coverage and reasonable 4G coverage in popular areas.

I moved from Australia and have more options here (in a province capital but not Bangkok) than I did in suburban Melbourne.
Codehaus shutting down
Well, from a tech standpoint, id pretty much rolled their own whenever given the chance--Epic was more than happy just to buy middleware and slap it onto their tech.

There's also a different focus: Epic put a lot of work into making their engine accessible and well-tooled to other parties (though at times it didn't seem like it). Id? Not so much.
What is ironic is I had no reply on a job posting on landing.jobs after talking directly with landing.jobs too. I was able to leave feedback directly through the site that the company was unresponsive, but landing.jobs hasn't communicated since that feedback.

Update: Proof http://imgur.com/m34rFUX
Genius, they planned a scapegoat for future bug fix releases...
I haven't checked it out in awhile, but the last time I did, I also remember not being able to find the Logout functionality.

"I'm not a tech newbie." <-- I suspect that is why the UI is difficult for you (and me too). Ello's UI seems to purposely break convention and therefore predictability for anyone used to convention, in the spirit of an artistic and minimal design. I'd liken it to how millennials enjoy the "playful discovery" of Snapchat's UI and anyone over the age of 25 finds it confusing and frustrating.

I agree it's a confusing UI (probably only at first, as with anything) but I also appreciate that they are trying some new ui patterns and doing something different as far as design. That's kind of their point, they're not Facebook or Google+, they're something different, and they have the freedom to experiment and be different.
I got a toast notification saying that one of their developers is in the top 3% in the world (according to stackoverflow).

Interesting.
Tangentially related, but this recent article is one of my favorites about WoW and nostalgia: http://kotaku.com/the-people-who-still-play-world-of-warcraf...
I don't live in the U.S., but you're right that it's defined that way in the American Constitution, and as giaour answers, non-lethal weapons are more strictly controlled.

The main thing preventing me from carrying a taser now is price :) (they're really expensive in my country, the cheapest one, C2, costs 950 dollars - http://www.silvercat.com.uy/pistolaselecc2.html)
I have often found myself working _for_ people who had the same negative experiences at other companies, so not only do all bad hiring practices create negative reputation, they create an entire class of people who would be perfectly happy if you didn't exist at all. :)
One of my customers (maybe two of them) use WebEx. They're paying for it but WebEx has a free plan to make a call with up to 3 people. The web client requires Java but a native client was preinstalled into the Samsung tablet I bought 6 months ago. Quality is good. Screen sharing seems to be better than with Skype and Hangout.

By the way, I had too many problems with Hangout so I can't recommend it, even if today I had a four people conversation (audio only) and it was perfectly fine.
Most of our customers know how to use Google Hangouts or in case they don't, we teach them how to use it. We usually take care of setting everything up and the just share a link with them so they can join the call.

But you are right, sometimes Hangouts doesn't work as good as it should, so we use Skype as backup or even Hipchat for internal calls.
Someone needs to make these: https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/605888390182010880
Check out http://talky.io. We've been playing with it at work, it's the best I've encountered so far.
Google's and Facebook's business models revolve around analysing user data and using it for advertising. Apple makes money from hardware.

I think most users are aware of this, and in return for free or low cost products they sign away part of their privacy.

The reason Google Photos offers unlimited storage, Gmail is free etc is they can deep learn the f... out of their users to target their ads better.

Apple's privacy benefit is more of a side effect of their business model than a principle they design their products based on.
A simple "you are no longer being considered for the [x] position, thank you for your application" is all most people are looking for.
Would love to actually see someone's response to this.
Sergey Brin wrote an essay: How the world has changed since the company started
“Cultural fit” is bullshit
Here is a direct link to the trailer[0] and the preorder page[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE2BkLqMef4

[1] http://fallout4.com/
same goes for me. Even when I've disable the adblock, it just redirect me to the /null page.
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