skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is that, because of historical quirks and social norms, cars are much bigger than they should be.

That doesn't explain their popularity throughout the world, even the third world. As wasteful as cars are, they get you where you need to go faster than anything else, with the exception of dense city centers. If it was only about status, the poor wouldn't bother with them, since they are expensive to maintain. Owning a car allows you access to areas you wouldn't normally have access to. Jobs 70 miles away. Visiting your cousin's family three states over. Driving your father to the hospital because you don't have insurance and can't afford an ambulance.

It can be done relatively easily, but there is a very hard cultural battle to fight with the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and his viewers.

You're delusional if you think Top Gear viewers are the reason cities are clogged with cars. Car fans like clear, open roads with little traffic. The more bends the better. They also only take their performance cars out on the weekend once or twice a month and that's when the weather is nice. The rest of the time, they sit in the garage. My grandmother (of all people) is a huge fan of classic Chevrolets. Has a mint condition cherry red 1960 Chevy Impala. It sits in her barn on the farm. I've only seen it on the road once in my lifetime, for one last ride before my grandfather died. The rest of the time she drives a beat up truck. She works on a farm; she actually uses the truck to haul things every day.
Bonus question: Should I keep trying, or is it a waste of time and effort because everyone is too busy or apathetic to judge new content that isn't click-baity?
I saw a shared post on Facebook the other day with the title "302 Found". I'm guessing it was taken from the standard generated HTML Apache etc. will send when redirecting. Not sure if it's more Facebook's or that site's fault.
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You can be into all those things AND be an introvert. It's about how you connect with people or not.

I'm not saying the study is true or anything, just that it could be. I find it interesting that in a mountainous region, there's less paths in/out, so it's like a civilization level example of a controlled social experience. Ports and to a certain extent plains allow approach from everywhere.
Maybe it's time for a standard bookmarking service API? It'd be nice to just be able to plug whatever service I want (if any) into any browser.
When I read "...do much to help finance a 20k tower." I started laughing so hard (at the prospect of this thing) I broke my MacBook and had to buy a new one :/

I agree 100% that the economic viability of a "space elevator" like this is basically non-existent, even though it's a really fun thing to think about.
Wait, why aren't our finger bones curved? If tool use nearly always involves wrapping our fingers around stuff, what produces the selection pressure towards straight fingers?
> The problem was he assumed that any employee only knew a subset of what he knew, so that employee's only value-add was saving him time, not any expertise.

Wow, if I didn't know any better, I'd bet we worked at the same company! However, my guess is that the above attitude is commonly found among type-A founders. They would not have gotten to where they are without a healthy dose of arrogance.
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Neat, I haven't had the pleasure of running postgres 9.4 in production, and I don't run postgres at all at my current gig, but that's pretty dope.

In practice, the last time I ran pg, I was fond of wal-e which, esp if you're on EC2, is handy because you can store basically all of the WAL segments ever, with snapshots, in S3, and you can bring new replicas online without a read load on any of the existing nodes. It will also bring a replica online that's been shut off for days or weeks for service.

This is really just an S3 version implementation of the wal archiver, which was originally designed afaict for storing infinite history on NFS. Come to think of it, the new place has NFS. rubs chin

Anyway, thanks for the pointer! Def something I would look into in the future. Maybe it would be fun to write a jepsen test for recovering pg replicas.
The truth about the block size issue [deleted from /r/Bitcoin]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Serlet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Tevanian

Bertrand wrote malloc, top, and quite a bit of code at NeXT.

Avie wrote Mac Missles! in the 80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8H0NuPZRU

... and, well, Mach:

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~norm/508/2009W1/mach_usenix86.pdf
ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/doc/unpublished/exception.ps
... etc etc.

Steve Jobs relied on extremely technically capable management that didn't just hand off understanding to their staff.
But OP likes SQLAlchemy. SQLAlchemy and Django doesn't go well together.
Falcon seems interesting. But why did specifically mention about Single Page Web App?
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McIlroy's, because he'll finish; that's kind of the point, good engineers ship and reuse as much as possible. Look at all the work of DJB[1], nearly everything he does is just a bunch of well tied together shell scripts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein
This sounds like it leads into an argument for trying to find ways to broadly increase wages in order to deliberately spur inflation.
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I spoke to him privately and in terms of how well message brokers handle fault tolerance, his response was that Kafka appears to be the best at the moment.
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I just bought a Zigbee Winkhub because I was looking into something to play around with to remotely control lights. I also wanted something that I could hack and run my own code on. The Winkhub is relatively easy to hack. I've only been using mine for about a week now but am very happy with it. I've only tested mine with lights so far.
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The c64's default video mode was a 40x24 grid of 8x8 monospaced text characters. The video chip was designed around this: each scanline it would look at the characters occupying the current row, then use that plus how many times it'd displayed that row as an index into the 1k of character ROM to pull out the appropriate byte, and display its individual bits as pixels.

You could also tell the video chip to look somewhere in RAM for these character definitions. Maybe just to replace the standard font with something cooler; maybe some of your font would contain little 8x8 building blocks you could use to make bigger images. Most games would build their backgrounds this way - you'd only have so much variation available, but you also only had to move about 900 bytes around to scroll the screen, rather than 8k. Which sounds like nothing to a modern machine but was a serious difference for a 1mhz computer.

The bitmap mode jiggled with this a little, and ignored the 'look at the characters on this row' part in favor of just stepping through an 8k chunk of RAM over the course of the display. (Well, the multicolor bitmap mode looked at the characters in the row as well, but used them for color data rather than an index to the character map.)

If you want to know about this in more detail then try firing up a c64 emulator and going through the 'graphics' chapter of the c64 Programmer's Reference Guide: http://www.commodore.ca/manuals/c64_programmers_reference/c6...

I'm not sure the acronym "API" even existed at this point in time. I sure never heard it when I was fooling around with 6502 assembly.

tl;dr: severely limited hardware, programmed right on the bare metal. API? What's that?
That was an amazing story, thanks for sharing it! It's great to see more and more computing history saved for the future.
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Ten People to Profit from AshleyMadison.com Hack
Who know unless you had a profile there.

One thing I found interesting was the suggestion from one of the comments that AM might be the ones dumping all the fake databases. If so this is a pretty clever strategy to try and hide a needle in a pile of needles.
Apple just surpassed Microsoft in global mobile phone shipments
Overall strategy: fine. Vision: fine. Feature-by-feature product definition? Not so much. If you, as CEO, want to do that, great--just don't go out and hire product management professionals. They'll have nothing to do, with you doing their job for them. They'll eventually leave out of boredom and/or frustration.
Same here but winter batch is too steep for an idea.
How would XV6 compare to V6 for code elegance? XV6 being a reimplementation, of V6 Unix with ANSI C and targeting X86 instead. But was done by different people as far as I know.
Pretty good overview! Thanks for posting.
10 years after MySpace hack, Samy Kamkar is trying to turn hackers into heroes
A community gets to a certain size and you're just not going to get that kind of engagement. Besides, many of the people here are probably active over in the places you mentioned and so maybe it just doesn't resonate.

I won't speculate much more because surely someone informed actually has data on lurkers v not here.
Rather than posting a link to a home page that lists contents, it's better to select the most interesting and substantive article, then post that.
Krebs has since updated his post with confirmation from three independent Ashley Madison users confirming their data was in the leak. It looks like this was the real deal.
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I grabbed the data and found an old peer in there, and he listed both our office and his home address in profiles, which he would never have done for anything else. He also used an email address on a domain he controls that he created just for that, and accessed it (there are IP addresses) from a remote corporate location while on a trip there (I actually was on the same trip with him).

This is just one record, but that data is absolutely real. And I looked up this particular person because they struck me as exactly the userbase of the site.
I guess it's just not that interesting to this crowd. I mean you may have been simply unlucky. But it takes some effort to actually go to some link and comment of why you didn't upvote. It would take a high level of "dislike" to actually do that.

New page is full of articles most people just don't care about. I scan it from time to time, but rarely find any title interesting enough to even click on it. This post for example I clicked on only to flag for using a meme in the title. (I didn't in the end, well played...)

Another explanation: the only reason I'd upvote/comment on something is so that more people see it, so that some discussion about it is started. Why should I care to spend time on something I don't find interesting? I'd have to comment about my dislike on 99% of the internet and that's just trolling :)
Just as likely all the scammers and malware distributors in the world are also getting in on the act.
One of the main mechanisms by which inflation stimulates the economy, is that it lowers wages (because of sticky wages) hence decreasing unemployment. So intentionally raising wages as a form of stimulus seems counterproductive. Could you explain your argument more?
My point was that trying to paint slavery as being particularly objectionable in the face of just as seemingly reprehensible (but not at all in context) metaphors of child murder, is disingenuous and pointlessly selective. Child murder and slavery are horrible and I can't believe I actually have to specify this. They are both ongoing, so your argument from ancestry doesn't work. There's millions of slaves as we speak, many more ancestors of slaves and many who have had their children murdered. That doesn't somehow make those metaphors irredeemable when put in purely technical context, e.g. slavery as a relationship of total control and ownership by one party over another (actually just as applicable to S/M -- a consensual sexual practice, as it is to real-life slavery).

I will have fun talking to HR, thank you.
Update indicates it's legit.
Please don't editorialize the titles of stories you submit to HN.

Also, it's a good idea to use HN Search to find previous posts. Reposts are ok, but only if the story hasn't had significant attention in the last year.
I would love to try out the Nebia shower, just a shame they didn't name it Nebula ... seems more fitting imo.
Bones as lever arms I assume.
When I first saw this post, it was #3 on /r/Bitcoin. With 81% upvotes, it had 122 points. When I refreshed the page a few minutes later it was gone.

A sad state of affairs on /r/Bitcoin, where the moderators have decided that the unresolved block size issue should not be discussed anymore.

The current temporary rules of /r/Bitcoin state:

> Can I still talk about hard fork proposals on /r/Bitcoin? Right now, not unless you have something really new and substantial to say.

This post is not discussing a hard fork, it's discussing members of the Bitcoin Core team by name. Nonetheless, I'd say the accusations--whether true or not--are new and substantial. The community deserves to see this post and judge it as they will.
US Facebook hacker pleads guilty
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10080541
Would you recommend clickbait? Because I've seen a lot of bad clickbait make the front page, and I never have.

I've been avoiding it because, honestly, I find it to be in bad taste.
Since this is a big story it seems reasonable to have a thread about it—people are going to keep posting these anyhow. Since we have no idea which URL is the most substantive one, we'll leave this one as is. If anybody finds a link that's significantly better, we can change it.

Since the consensus is now that the leak is real, we'll change the title to reflect that.
From what I can see though, the hardware looks decent... Personally I'm curious for when someone does a teardown, to make sure there are no hardcoded callbacks to Google servers that shouldn't be.

If not, this wouldn't be so bad (for $200) running DDWRT/OpenWRT?

[edit] Also, does anyone know if the base firmware will be open source similar to Chromium? If so, one could theoretically still take advantage of their security updates (which would honestly be leaps and bounds above current consumer-grade hardware) with open source tooling.
How long have you been running your startup?
The article looked like a load of waffle, but it would be nice to see some basic statistical tests applied, e.g. can we reject the hypothesis that everyone is equally accurate?
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>Really? I like C but I'm not sure it's beautiful, compared to a LISP or some sort of ML.

It's another sense of beauty, the one of talking almost directy to the machine, with few abstractions, and few wastage.
IRS’ estimate of tax records stolen by fraudsters soars to over 300,000
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This is my first time to learn about Ashley Madison. The business model actually disgusts me. I get the whole open relationship, but people who are actually married or in a committed relationship are using this site is just ridiculous. Either you break off with your current relationship, or stay loyal.

BTW, those "secure" logo are just so useless I see them as sign of weakness rather than confidence. Anyone can place a secure logo or verified logo on their homepage and pretend.
That's what I suspected. I just wish I knew what I was doing wrong so I could do differently.
That's the only way this can go. The company has three options:

- Confirm that this (or any of the dumps) is the data. This almost definitely opens them up to lawsuits coming from a bunch of people who have little to lose. I say "little to lose" because a non-trivial number will be on the verge of divorce about to lose half of everything.

- Keep their mouths shut and confirm/deny nothing. The press will continue on the story until they're bored and move along but that could be a long time because of the names and information involved.

- Deny that this (or any of the dumps) is the data. All they have to do is keep planting the seed of doubt and some portion of the press will hesitate publishing names because they don't want to look like idiots and/or open themselves up to lawsuits. Because of course anyone with an axe to grind will make sure their opponent (or boss or whatever) is listed in one of the dumps to target them. Further, this shields some of their customers and gives those customers' divorce attorney's a "plausible" scenario to fight against.

All of that said, I wonder if there's some way to validate some of the accounts with the site. If you can do that with some of the leaked data, you may be able to prove that some portion of the data set is real..
I thought fog was being used to describe this kind of thing. Where else is fog computing used, differently?
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You're helping make HN a better place by not posting clickbait. Just continue posting stuff that you find interesting.

Also, clickbait tends to get flagged.
Interestingly, the three people say the last digits of their credit card numbers were included in the dump, while the Ashley Madison CTO says they don't keep credit card numbers, full stop.
It's nice that you related some of your experience to others.

The "conclusion" seems outrageously obvious though and I'm not quite sure why you focused on it.

In almost any competitive application process it benefits you to apply earlier if your goal is to receive a more thorough review.

Perhaps you can talk a bit more about other factors or advice on what you felt you should have done better.
That's actually ad-hoc cargo-cult, not a scientific assesment.

If a programmer uses a language poorly it can be the programmer but in a lot of cases it can also be the language, that has poorly thought out, conflicting, etc constructs.

There is a field called PL research (part of Computer Science) and researchers can all agree on several problems that C (and what would have been a better design).

Some of the problems are so obvious that the creators of C admitted them too. Some have been corrected in later revisions (C99 etc).
Given that the dump is straight mySQL dumps, nicely including geolocation data, emails, IP addresses, birth dates, and so on, I fully expect that at this very moment there are people loading servers and building search apps that will allow you to map a location or search corporate IP spaces, etc. It is inevitable, however gray the legalities are. These services are going to start appearing tomorrow with certainty, and they're going to get attention.

And we know already that there is a lot of confirmed data in there. At least some of the data is unequivocally true, and the data in this latest release feels very organic.
I just read this article!! Hot news changes quickly. Originally they were debating the data since many dumps were fake but...now it's been updated less than an hour ago. Verified from Krebs three separate sources.

Wow. Bummer. Illegal. Shameful. And could get painful.
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I come from a non-CS background too, and currently my interest in software development is mostly as a hobby and to build a base I might use in a job later on.

Remember that "making stuff work", aka prototyping, is incredibly important, and in fact an extremely desirable skill: in so many situations, it can be impossible to see the forest for the trees when building a new idea or architecture, and the design is still on paper; things frequently need to be built out into working first drafts for edge cases or gotchas to become apparent. Often, the result is that everyone might need to go back to the drawing board and start from scratch, so rapid turnaround is essential.

Going beyond the basics in any domain is a categorical form of specialization, and specialization in any context tends to require a lot of investment, and the return it gives predominantly leans toward inflexibility and a narrow field of application.

When tackling arbitrary, ambiguous problems, the statistical likelihood your specialized knowledge will come in handy is, on average, going to be quite low, unless you're in an academic environment that focuses on your specialty.

So don't shun the skillset you already have in "making things work." :D

By all means dive into algorithms - just remember the info will likely stay in if you do so at a slow, non-anxious pace and keep your experiences positive ^^
In fairness, C: A Reference Manual(Harbison and Steele) is now 560 pages.

I agree C++ is pretty messy, but if we got a 3rd edition K&R it would be much larger than the original.

Also no sure most people could understand C, but "most programmers" should be able to understand C if they tried. I concede I can barely understand C++, but I use a bare minimum of its features and write C when I can.
Storing the final digits complies with the CC requirements, to my knowledge. I mean, every online store happily shows me my final four digits. So it could just be confusion about what they mean.

Having said that, Ashley Madison has approximately zero credibility, so whatever their agents say is open to intense skepticism.
It makes sense, given the context

It seems the context is "if it isn't tested, it is broken". One might surmise that the kind of testing he did on your software is a kind that you did't do.

I would disagree with face-to-face being a useful way to confront a painful bug report.
Yeah, I noticed they said that too. I look forward to hearing more about the hack. AM says it wouldn't be through them. Makes me wonder about where the hackers got in at.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10076945
Adding my vote to the anti-boost camp. The library is huge and is pretty much an all or nothing affair. The gp's point about header-only and depending on boost being complete polar opposite characteristics is on point
In case anyone didn't catch it, the title is a reference to a meme:

You wouldn't DOWNLOAD A CAR!
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I really like the sandwich maker. That seems like one of those quiet billionaire makers.

Also the shower-head looks neat, but not at $300. and why the hell are they even thinking about an electronic version?
The biggest differences (from what I can remember) have to do with the behavior with remote branches, especially when it comes to pushing to a remote.
Where is the download link please?
Oh please! Facebook is considered total crap by almost every engineer i know. Nobody i know wants to work there. Seriously all these zukerberg ass kissers on HN are pathetic.
I have signed up with a throwaway email and user name and yet I feel really uncomfortable that I receive updates from them as though nothing has happened.

No "please change your password" or anything.
Maybe, but pascal didn't actually come with a batteries included piping concept. You'd need to work one up. Well, you could abuse the GNU pipes library and get your piping that way maybe by running it through the OS, but that would definitely not be how Knuth rolls.

As a side note, I think the shell script version would have been multicore friendly, at least up to six cores. I am sure Knuth's was single threaded.

Finally, to your point on horrible hacks, maybe Knuth's version dealt with a whole bunch of edge cases in each, like for instance dealing with dos/unix/mac endlines. But, probably not -- it was a toy program written as evangelism and out of courtesy. sort and uniq et al embed many programmer lifetimes of experience and bug fixing at this point. Getting all of that nearly for free is really, really great.
I don't understand why you're being downvoted here. Sites like you describe will undoubtedly pop up around this dataset.