skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Your definition" in the meaning of "the definition you cite".

If you read the page you linked closely (and remove all the US specific stuff) you see that it really only talks about of enforcement not lawmaking. Your own addition

> Jurisdiction is what allows the government to make a law in the first place

can nowhere be found on the page you linked.

There are a lot of laws in the books everywhere in the world that are usually not enforced because you can't. Germany (as well as many other countries) has laws regarding human trafficking that apply to anyone everywhere in the world. Would you argue that this is not a law? If that's the case we can agree to disagree.
Test farm.
"We require Mac OS X because the products we make run on OS X and we believe in testing on the same hardware our customers use, this helps produce a better product".

If the software they're testing is used mainly on Macbook Pro's, then they're wanting to test on Macbook Pro's. Things like GPU and CPU differences may make a difference to how their software performs.
Spies helped build Silicon Valley. Now the tables are turning
I think the real reason is 'cost', and the loss of productivity isn't quantifiable anyway; so whomever makes the decision can put an exact number on how much he 'saved' while being able to ignore the side effects.

It's like people who buy solar panels in north england; they think it gives them 'free' energy and they are being 'green', while ignoring completely the carbon footprint of making that panel in the first place; while that panel will /never/ repay itself with the energy it harvests.

Going back to open offices (and I'm typing this from one!) I think it's a disaster. There are days when all I can really do is read HN, as there's about 3 loud conversations within 5 meters of me, including one Italian guy who's yelling into his skype microphone.
This is a good tool for determining whether your account has been compromised by hackers:

https://haveibeenpwned.com
$1500 is the entry price for 4-way xeons, and that's before you factor in the chassis, motherboard, RAM and PSUs. You can easily find 4U servers more expensive than that, the rack seems to have a 32U capacity and could fit 8 such servers.
Honest question: is one better off using Apple's hardware and OS or is Linux the only alternative?
>That is demonstrably not true.

Please do demonstrate/prove that then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOlrN5-UGU

Just a couple?

Apparently you should not mess with music. http://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#n4 "a rogue state with nuclear weapons"
Maybe the are just trying to be disruptive! ba dum tss
I was curious as well and googled it ("counting stairs conway") and found this:

http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2011/06/a-nerds-way-to-walk-u...

> His invention is simple. Your steps should be in a cycle: short, long, long. Long in this case means a double step. Thus, you will cover five stairs in one short-long-long cycle. In addition, you should always start the first cycle on the same foot. Suppose you start on the left foot, then after two cycles you are back on the left foot, having covered ten stairs. While you are walking the stairs in this way, it is clear where you are in the cycle. By the end of the staircase, you will know the number of stairs modulo ten. Usually there are not a lot of stairs in a staircase, so you can easily estimate the total if you know the last digit of that number.
It's not about Microsoft in particular, it's about every tech company now using this for every new release of an existing thing.
Also, Mac Minis and Pros in a rack: http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros (still seems weird to me, but makes a bit more sense than racking laptops…)
Though in a business environment, if this is going to be used for any significant length of time, the (presumably) shorter warranty might be an issue.
Well, there are a few reasons here.

1. Installing a permanent sensor means ensuring some power source

2. Any kind of planning / permissions needed to sort it out

3. They're fixed

The first two simply aren't problems if you whack them on a car. No approval needed, no lengthy agreements about the look & impact of placing them around.

Three is really important. While the same money spent on fixed sensors gives greater time resolution, it'll give worse spatial resolution. Is it worth sticking a permanent sensor down to find out that actually the pollution levels never get high enough to be a problem? How many side-roads will get covered?

> This doesn't seem very useful

A huge amount of spatially dense readings across cities? That doesn't seem like it might be useful to you?
There is a good chance that your proposed algorithm to enforce a uniqueness constraint in the application won't work. As in, you've left out enough details that would be critical for getting it right, and in my experience, a lot of programmers would only get this right by accident if they get it right at all.

First problem is that the SQL standard provides no way to make this work portably on any standards-compliant database. So right there you are going to have to code to the database to one degree or another.

So, let's say you want to make this work in Postgres. Now, you'll need to be using Postgres 9.0 at least; otherwise your uniqueness constraint won't be a uniqueness constraint.

Try this, in any version of Postgres. Open up two psql sessions. In one, run a `create table unique (x text);`. Then run `begin isolation level repeatable read; select * from unique where x = 'foo';` in one of the sessions. Repeat those two commands in the other sessions.

Neither session sees 'foo'. So now both can go ahead and run `insert into unique values ('foo'); commit;`. Both transactions will succeed, and you can confirm that there are now two instances of 'foo' in the table.

In fact, `begin isolation level serializable` in PostgreSQL 9.0 or later is the minimum isolation level to make this work. And, you will need retry logic around the transaction in case of a serialization failure. (Perhaps your DB access layer or language would hide this latter detail from you, or perhaps not.)

In PostgreSQL 8.4 and before, serializable and repeatable read were equivalent, and both were still SQL standards compliant. In PostgreSQL 9.0, the repeatable read isolation level stayed the same, while the serializable isolation level was strengthened.

Unless you can accept a certain level of degraded accuracy by using a probabilistic construct such as a Bloom filter, by far the biggest cost of maintaining uniqueness is the index. And you'll need that index whether you use the database or the application to enforce uniqueness.

And, judiciously pushing computation onto a database can actually be cheaper for the database as well as its clients. This scenario is likely to be one of those situations.
Yes, it serves the political interest of "I need more money"
Windows 10 shares your Wi-Fi Passwords with your contacts
Agree with this. The best videos I've seen, and the ones listed on the page, are just the founders chatting naturally.
GitHub has a right to decide what it allows on its platform.

We have a right to move our code somewhere else if we don't like what they're doing.

End of controversy.
"...sound quality"

BBC Radio 3 in the UK streams classical music at 320kbs over the internet. (I'm not sure if international users get this high bitrate stream or a lower bitrate though.)
"We're still not finished clearing XP, you've got plenty of time before 10 is on the horizon." -- Corporate IT.
Oh, don't worry. There'll probably be a saucy agreement regulating a change in that in the disguise of a Free Trade Agreement.

Disclaimer: I have absolutely nothing against Free Trade or Free Trade Agreements. I do have a major problem when they're over-reaching and include off-topic subjects and regulations though.
UI bug: https://www.dropbox.com/s/duue3q8brs7d467/Screenshot%202015-... chrome 44 on os x
He also designed the game Minecraft had heavily "borrowed" from.
China is relevant because US trademark and copyright laws are not practically enforceable by a tiny firm against Chinese businesses selling through the internet (also because most electronics are built in China). Bay Area is relevant because paying a team of several full-time engineers several years of salary to build the software is expensive here.

Saleae could implement more intrusive hardware locks to prevent their software from working with generic devices. (And I think they’ll be forced to do that in the future.) Maybe you’re right that they deserve to fail, but that would be a pretty sad outcome for all the hobbyists and junior EEs who benefit greatly from their fantastic software (including you it sounds like).

Apple doesn’t go after hobbyists self-building Hackintoshes because it’s a vanishingly small percentage of their customer base and it’s not worth their trouble. As they exist currently, Hackintoshes cost Apple almost nothing.

However, if someone starts selling ready-to-go Hackintoshes direct to customers under the brand name “Apple Mac”, Apple legal is going to come down on them like a ton of bricks, sic the FTC on them, get some senators involved, or whatever it takes. Look how far they went after Samsung for copying iPhone hardware and software features.

I guess every company without a few hundred billion dollars of cash holdings and thousands of lawyers now counts as “bad at capitalism”? Okay.

> I have one of the plastic, "counterfeit" knockoffs, and it works great. [...] I posit it is simply racism that you offer.

Do you use Saleae’s software with it? If so, I posit that you simply lack any ethical standards. There, isn’t it fun to make judgmental personal attacks without knowing anything about a person?

Racism? Sheesh.

Edit: looking at the length of my response here, I guess you trolled me pretty effectively. Kudos.
Glad you like it; I just added to the post a link to an exported PNG file - it's uglier but I understand it can be useful. There you go: http://danmaz74.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/flux-architect...

PS just wished mural.ly allowed to export a PDF instead of a PNG
Apple are just as bad as Microsoft. And some Linux distro's are headed in this direction too (Ubuntu).
http://danmaz74.me/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/flux-architect...
Great. But I think Google will not show up where I live in a while so where can one buy these Aclima sensors?

Also I hope they expand measurements to other parameters like particle pollution.

Monitoring pollution is a taboo topic in our city because it would show that the port pollutes a lot and of course money is more important than public health.
I am wondering why no body mentioned Espruino - http://www.espruino.com/ - do check it out
Does the key/license that comes with the upgrade allow for a re-install? If not, I'd rather stick to Windows 7.
The underlying motivation of the encryption on DVD's goes beyond preventing piracy. It's about making sure you cannot skip past the ads at the start of the movie. They needed a mechanism to require all DVD players to respect the flags on a DVD that say "this cannot be skipped", and did that by pushing it into the 1996 WIPO treaty that you must have anti-circumvention laws that prohibit people from breaking the encryption on copyrighted materials without the permission of the rights holder. Only licensed players are decrypting with permission. VLC is not a licensed player, so VLC often runs afoul of such laws.

Just because the patents expire doesn't make the anti-circumvention laws go away. Those laws only stop applying once the copyright on the DVD expires, in a century or so.
Whatever you want, for development purposes only.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/584162/what-is-the-window...

http://www.itassetmanagement.net/2011/05/31/msdn-subscriptio... : there is a lot of fractal madness in this. "This applies to virtual machines as well – so if even one application on one virtual machine hosted on a physical server is used for production purposes, then ALL the virtual machines AND the physical host must be licensed as if they were production machines."

"Training is NOT considered a development activity, so all those being trained and the machines used for the training must be licensed appropriately." may be one of the reasons nobody ever gets any training in this business.
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I think they are growing much slower than the industry and competition from AWS makes their margin razor thin. Latest quarter report shows that revenue growth was only 1.6% over previous quarter and profit margin of 0.6%, and their shares are down more than 60% since 2013 maximum (on the growing market). So, overall it doesn't look very good.
thanks :) you're welcome, I will extend FlexCss in the next month and add more documentation!
Hmmm. Good find; thank you.
The 2012 Server Datacenter Edition is a mere ~6000 USD and allows to run unlimited VMs on up to two physical CPUs. Who ever claimed the licensing costs made a real difference between Microsoft and Linux?
Well, I guess it's inevitable as long as I'm using a proprietary operating system. I don't expect Apple to be any better. Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of.

At least if I get Windows 10 Pro, I'll be able to turn off non-security-related updates.
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And you've got the bonus that FLAC uses vorbis comment metadata which is completely arbitrary (the vorbis spec has a list of non-mandatory examples of fields)
That may be so, but with Vizio there are other problems:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/24/vizio-ipo-inscape-acr/
They could've read it from some of your friends' address books/contacts.
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Punching your brother doesn't make you Stalin, but it's still an action you have to apologize for, otherwise you're an asshole, hence my argument.
You're welcome.

By the way, when I did my research, I found out that some people are using React with Meteor, instead of Flux. That way, server synchronization should become a non-issue (but you need to like the Meteor way).
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Wouldn't the high temperatures void that test though? I'd have thought screen burn will differ depending on screen temperature.
> Unfortunately we are living in opt-out world now.

This is a hyperbolic statement. Here's a fixed version: "Microsoft has created an opt-out privacy-hostile software ecosystem"

The world is not Microsoft. You're free to use alternatives.
> Anything that that's complex and life or death should be autopilot driven.

What's your stance on autopilot driven cars and trucks?

Arguably, roadway accidents far, far outnumber the number per-capita of space accidents.
Some caveats:

* Sense does not actually show your Wi-Fi password at all.

* Wi-Fi Sense only grants Internet access, meaning that your friends will not be able to access shared files and printers

* Wi-Fi Sense will not work on enterprise networks that use the 802.1X standard

* You have to opt in to share a network. [0]

* This really only benefits people with a Windows Phone and cellular data? [1]

* This is a baby step towards the open wireless movement. Open access for people you already have some random connection to. I'd admittedly rather see ubiquitous guest modes that are easy to throttle, where you could subscribe to some blacklist for bad sites to prevent misuse of resources. Open access works better when it safely provides wifi to people you don't know at all. [2]

[0] http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-awareness...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/2f3d8q/how_do...

[2] https://openwireless.org/
CodePen Radio is pretty good. They cover a wide breadth of topics.

It's focused around the 3 people that run codpen.io They talk about what it's like running a startup. They don't try to sell anything or have outside sponsors because it's about their business. I guess it's pretty much implied you know of codepen already so they don't have to shove adverts down your throat.
5 video games you must have in your office
In case there are people wondering I am using Windows 10 Pro x64 and did the following -

Downloaded ISO using the media creation tool at [1] then did an upgrade from 8.1 to 10 which complete just fine. I then booted from the USB drive I just made, did a diskpart clean on the only drive in the machine then did a clean install.

When prompted for a product key I pressed skip then when asked again during the out-of-box experience I selected to do it later. I signed in with a local account. I connected to the internet and it activated without any questions. Yes it activated using NO product key.

It seems when you do the upgrade from a valid 7 or 8.1 install it stores the hardware hash they generate on MS servers so when you then do a clean install it generates the (same) hardware hash, sends it to MS activation servers and sees it is already validated so it just activates you again. Very nice not having to deal with horrible product keys!

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Edit: And so far it has been great. Stable and fast over the last 5 hours of doing updates (fucking Office 2013 has like 2GB of updates after install!).
That's exactly why they're working on it in secret.
Refurbished Macs have the same warranty as non-refurbished.
This made my day. Unfortunately, it's probably accurate...
You would have to terminate in magsafe connectors. You'd either have to butcher the wiring on all the power bricks or come up with some frankenstein thing with airline adapters, which I believe are now discontinued for some reason.
I think those are 15" MBPs, their stock power supplies are rated for 85W, so we're looking at a maximum draw of just over 8kW for the laptops alone.
I have heard advertising for composed.com, which specializes in streaming classical music. I have not tried if they get it right.
This seems to be the author

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/viewProfile.html?userID=...

and the products http://uk.mathworks.com/products/?s_tid=gn_ps
Agreed - I hesitated to sign up. Twitter is better.
I'm a little bit confused as to why the campaign prominently says "No Motor" when it obviously has a motor.
Since i once read that North Korea has a team of PR-people for online communities ( like Russia does), could HN check for the ip range of North Korea for possible propaganda here and indicate it? ( kinda interesting)

If someone of HN read this, the ip range is : 175.45.176.0 – 175.45.179.255 & 210.52.109.0 – 210.52.109.255
Yes I hoping there was a way to save it as a PDF. This will still be useful however. Thank you.

I was just concerned about going back to the link in a couple months and finding a dead url.
"We have data centers with thousands of machines configured with all 3 OS’s running constant build and test operations 24 hours a day 365 days a year. This is just a small look at the Mac side of things."

Seems safe to say this is not a small company
“I wish I could tell young people today how naïve they are,” Mr. Gates said. “We were like that, too, young and naïve. We truly believed that by building that bomb there’d never be another war.”

All of you out there who think that any hostile action can resolve any other hostile action would be well served by ruminating on that statement for the rest of your lives. (preferably to the extent that you don't get around to participating in any hostile actions).

Hostility, almost by definition, is only successfully defeated by tolerance. This will involve sacrifice, and a huge measure of "being the better human".

Just remember that "being the better human" only puts you into comparison with the leaders of any conflict. The general population of conflict ridden areas should, like all humans, be treated as innocent until proven guilty.

I know these sound like trite, overly simplistic conclusions, but that's only because we're somewhat "programmed" by evolution to be hostile, and non-hostile solutions have only been consciously recognized as a viable option fairly recently in human history.
The real reason I'll never use Microsoft products again: I'm sick of legally purchasing software and being treated like a potential charlatan every time I change a component of my computer or upgrade. I have lost countless hours to Microsoft Tech Support for licensing issues (which, to be honest, are reasonably efficient these days). However, the older I get, the more I just plain resent having to deal with this intrusion into what should be an experience I control.

Microsoft licensing is hellish, I've worked with it for years and I still don't entirely understand it.
The "Facebook of programmers" is a great analogy. Because while the masses act like they cannot live without it, those of us who just don't use it really do not feel like we are missing anything in our lives.

There are other Git services. There are other source control mechanisms. There are other ways to do things. Just like you can actually leave Facebook, feel free to leave Github. Or stay. But make a conscious choice.
How to fake network (or any other raise) errors in your cucumber tests
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North Korea uses loan words, albeit from Russia.
Goodbye GitHub

A repository provider has ZERO say in what I write in my codebase. There are enough alternatives.
"How to perform a clean installation of Windows ... you can skip the product key page by selecting the Skip button. Your PC will activate online automatically so long as the same edition of Windows 10 was successfully activated on this PC by using the free Windows 10 upgrade offer."

Source: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation...

I'm burning an old-fashioned installation disk as I type this, using the tool mentioned in the link above. The tool can also create bootable USB sticks or ISO images.
Ah nice, thank you.

They have tons of customers using this setup (Matlab on Macbook Pro) in my uni at least, so it makes a lot of sense.
And this is the basic assumption that we disagree on.
Nokia jumps into virtual reality market with 360-degree Ozo camera
> The update only froze once for me (had to hard reset). No side effects from that. This was the smoothest windows update process I've ever had.

Having to hard reset during an update due to a freeze doesn't exactly sound like a particularly smooth process. I guess your perspective depends on your experiences with previous updates.
IF this is true, then file it as a bug with Facebook, and claim the bounty!. You'll possibly get up to USD 10K depending how it is classed - I'd certainly say that if you have disabled showing your birthday on the timeline and yet it still appears, even to non-friends, then that's a pretty serios information leakage. So, rather than taking them to court, work out how to reproduce it, and get your free money...
96(!) macbooks, 3D printing and thermal imaging. I think you're spot on.
It is a pity there is not easy experiment that people can do to prove to upper management that they are more productive in individual offices.
Too many of my German friends do that and it's bloody annoying. I often have troubles finding the current name they have as they can change it every two months.

I really wish I could assign them aliases I know them under rather than what name or gender they feel like this month. Steam does that and it's very useful.
Bullshit! This might be true if they only censored for malware, but at present anyone on Android who wants an ad-blocker, or software to interface with various torrent / media servers now has to resort to off-store apps which aren't subject to any review.

This is a much larger problem.
Can we please stop using MPEG-LA technologies on the web?! This nonsense will never end otherwise. At best you buy a few years with some new technology while they pretend to not charge you so everyone adopts the technology. And then they come knocking.

The only way to end this cycle is to stop using their technologies. Full stop.