skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point taken on the total system power, but it's still 165 watt TDP. Agreed for "burst" workflows it'll be fine. But how many people have "burst" workflows that need a mobile 980? This thing is for gamers and they'll be maxing it for hours at a time, or (I personally) would be maxing it for GPU compute. I just think it's being done for publicity and that this is not really a serious use case for a chip like this. Indeed this whole "my chip number is bigger than yours" game is not seeing increases in real life performance because of aggressive throttling. I'm seeing lower-power chips beating throttled higher-power chips in small form factor computers.

You know how merciless gamers can be. Nvidia better be sure that the systems sporting this chip can achieve 980-style expectations, because otherwise these guys will light up the forums with criticism.
Regardless of one's opinion on either, C++ and Objective-C are different OO languages. Simula 67 vs. Smalltalk and all that.
I released a book teaching beginner Django web app development: http://hellowebapp.com

Sure, it was quite a bit of work beforehand, but I've made around $25,000 from it so far, around $13,000 if you don't count the Kickstarter campaign.

The first book working so well is one of the reasons why I'm writing a followup book (which is fundraising on Kickstarter now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1868398473/hello-web-ap...)

FYI: The best thing I did when releasing a book was to a have a super-tier with screencasts and videos. That one tier provides ~60% of the revenue from the sales of the book.
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I wish the team at Zidisha nothing but success, but I'm skeptical that micro-lending is a practical solution for relieving poverty in the developing world.

If a viable opportunity for making small loans existed, then I would expect local financial institutions to fill that need. When those institutions do not exist, there is usually a reason, such as the lack of an adequate legal and financial system for recovering debts. Without the ability to enforce payment obligations, the line between lending and charity becomes rather slim.

It's also unrealistic to expect most people receiving micro-loans to operate effective businesses, given their limited educations and lack of direct exposure to Western entrepreneurial values. Perhaps their living conditions could be improved more efficiently by a non-profit that gave away the right to operate franchise businesses using a proven model?

I don't have the expertise to know what kind of business would be optimal for people with limited resources. But when I see the success of immigrant-run franchises within the United States, I can't help but imagine that the underlying principle could be harnessed to generate wealth for needy people overseas.
Honestly, that's the best way I've ever heard to describe it.
There was no "misappropriation" here. Employment does not qualify as "improper means". [1]

Just imagine for a moment the slippery slope this would create if companies were able to criminalize knowledge on the basis of prior employment. Literally any work process you performed could be considered protected IP. You could work one job and never be employable again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Trade_Secrets_Act
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I'm completely onboard with california on that one. Customer lists are not secret. Each and every customer knows they are a customer. Certainly the tax man knows who is an isn't a customer, along with any number of credit cards companies and banks that might process orders. So the alleged secret isn't really kept in-house.
> How can you declare their lack of interest in investigating

Both by Shred's account and Y Combinator's, Shred has repeatedly offered to submit their code for third-party review to see if it is copied from whatever Smule thinks it's copied from, but Smule has declined every time ("claiming, although they most certainly know better, that Shred could have successfully obfuscated their code making such a review useless," per Geoff Ralston's post).
What I'd like to see is a return to single slot video cards for desktop PCs, which should be entirely possible if they're cramming a 980 into a laptop. The monstrosities that AMD and Nvidia keep cranking out every year are just absurd at this point, especially if you care about form factor or power consumption.
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GitHub Pages used to be served under github.com subdomains (they were switched after GitHub realized this was a same-origin security hole), and said username.github.com subdomains still redirect to github.io for backward compatibility.

It's not unheard of for GitHub to rename inactive accounts, though: most likely, they gave this its own domain for something like SEO purposes (as it's content marketing).
How much of the problem is due to the machine as originally conceived, and how much due to subsequent changes in ingredients and other aspects of the process?

I've never tasted a hand-made bagel other than my own attempts to make them at home. But I know, even over the span of my own lifetime, that store-bought bagels have changed a lot. Many brands of bagels, such as a couple of the chains operating in my locale, are basically toroidal wonder bread, huge, soft, and sweet.

There's a reasonably decent bagel factory near my house, with a retail counter. So at least the bagels are fresh, and buying a couple dozen is a convenient respite from baking bread every evening for the family.
Apple Asks Developers to Verify Their Version of Xcode
From your reference:

The first notebooks with the GTX 980 GPU will come by the end of this month. [1]

[1]: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-announces-GeForce-GTX-98...
Really? Lots of the most famous Python modules are partially implemented in C(++) for performance reasons too, it's not exclusive to Ruby.

For example, Numpy is 56% C. https://github.com/numpy/numpy
you can cache specific urls with dynamic content on a short ttl and it will make a huge improvement in performance.
I've lived here for a decade, and am yet to tire of the food. There are more places to try than time and energy, new ones opening all the time, and plenty of great food from nearly every culinary tradition. Ukranian? Burmese? French? You name it, you can get something pretty decent or better in the Bay. Yes, just like NYC.

Whether or not it's valuable to live here depends on a lot of factors. The general advice tends to be of little value- like telling people where to go to college.

There's a lot of smugness here, sure. And SF has no monopoly. In Manhattan, I've met plenty of people that think they're at the center of the universe and the peak of civilization. Some that grew up there and never left and don't understand why anybody should see what else there is.

If you know where to look, you can find decent food after 10PM. Yes stuff closes early, it's true, and it'd be great if you could buy alcohol until 4am like Manhattan.

"Also, you're wrong about salaries."

Any data? Any explanation?
Sounds so familiar. Feeling for you and anyone else going through this!
It's amazing to see how far Khan Academy has evolved over the past few years from it's days as a simple gallery of YouTube links. I also think Khan Academy is a great example of the importance of structure and organization in learning. You could probably find all of the same material scattered all over the web, including the KA videos themselves, but the structure, tracking and assessments add immense value to the material.
All of which is likely dwarfed by all the code that runs between SYSENTER and SYSEXIT. And how many freaking times do you need to call tcsetattr()?

Even worst case, if calling overhead is a problem, the Go team can likely improve it at some point, but they are less likely to magically map special cases of syscall.SYS_IOCTL to tcsetattr for the sake of portability.
Can't actually read their site without 3rd party javascript. Just sits there with their little & symbol animation.
I've seen this kind of stunt before, in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit. Your defense is to get the court to require the other side to state specifically what they think you stole, or to drop the claim.

The law is on your side here. Vague claims aren't a part of a valid lawsuit. "Failure to state a claim actionable at law" may be the phrase you need.

But what you really need is lawyers, and IANAL.
Any idea if the source will be posted online on their github https://github.com/Khan ?

Khanacademy is a non-profit but when it comes to licensing they are closer to for-profit business licenses in that don't allow commercial derivative like wikipedia does. I love what they do though.
I'm sorry, but can someone explain exactly Quirky does (did)?
Fair enough.

The reason you hear about so many AWS outages is because it's a massive service with so many users. If you build appropriately, you can have extremely good uptime built on AWS. They've earned tons of trust from their users.
Mine is 5.5 seconds ahead!
It's worth mentioning TuxPaint[1], which has been around for over a decade. That said, well done! There's no reason we shouldn't have plenty of choices for free and open source childrens software.

1: http://www.tuxpaint.org/
Public private encryption doesn't need authentication.

> Not everything needs encryption

Fair enough, but the attitude of opt-in/insecure by default is an enormous problem. Countries are running undersea fiber lines to avoid the NSA. This could be avoided by encryption by default.

> there is a real cost to maintaining encryption infrastructure

I would like to see the numbers. Dealing with network traffic is generally lightweight and encryption is generally lightweight. It could be done, it just isn't for some reason.
Hand written with a pen? From the perspective of a millennial I am curious about if it is more polite to email or hand over a written letter.
Ads? Forbes gave me a redirect to an Ayn Rand quote.
Sounds like my results with the Quirky Wink Hub and Blink hub....
There are two ways to 'win' a civil suit. Counter their allegations, or assert your own counterclaims. It may be possible to assert that they have taken your trade secrets.

Talk to lawyers. In offices. Not online. Sign a client agreement. Pay them money. Beyond that, you cannot get any reliable advice from anyone here.
This New York Magazine article might help: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/they-were-quirk...
Depends what you mean by kids, but actually we did a lot of work with schools and the kids love it.
Eh are we sure the 10M was the only thing being paid? Perhaps the NSA sweetened the deal for key decision makers.

Even without that - it's free money for a benign reason, while doing the security services a favour. "Hey we've got this new crypto thing that's amazing but people don't believe us. Add it to your product, and we'll give you token compensation. Also we'll also make a note of what great guys you are."
The Walt Mosberg verdict: iPhone 6s is still the best smartphone
Yeah, as a former farmer I'm a little bit skeptical. Last I checked the vast majority of farms out there aren't large operations, but incredibly small family-owned "hobby farms" or market gardens (what most of us would identify as a small vegetable farm).

Having known many farmers over the years, I can only think of one who would really have a use for this. The rest would probably just dismiss it without much thought.
But calling Palantir evil for that reason is not.
I kind of meant screencast but saw from other comments you were kinda busy. Great project ;)
"source code that has been copied verbatim."

There are tools that will detect source code with similar but not identical structure.
It's fair to plead for people not to read to much into this. But your suggestion that this is a "bullshit pissing contest with 0 innocent parties" seems ridiculous to me, given that a well funded company is suing a less funded company it doesn't compete with. You think that is the most likely scenario? Really??
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The Martin Shkreli $750 pill story is a setup to short sell biotech stocks
There are C binding equivalents for many of the macros in Xlib (having played this game before and recently). This may be slower than a macro, but you can usually cache the result. But really, shouldn't you be using (XML/)XCB? :)
how are they evil? I feel like I've missed something.
The iOS 9 launch: a view from the edge
Yes. That is reality. Talk to anyone in aerospace. Techniques developed for employer A cannot be taken to employer B. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just that there are laws on the books to prevent it.

Imagine the slippery slope if former employees of Coke were allowed to take the recipe over to Pepsi. We wouldn't have any long-lived product lines. (That actually happened. Pepsi called the FBI)

For below: 18 U.S. Code § 1832 - Theft of trade secrets (the really really short version)

"Whoever ... knowingly ... steals, or without authorization appropriates ... or by fraud, artifice, or deception obtains such information ... shall ... be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both."
Ask HN: Freelance detrimental to finding a new full-time job?
I applied to a new full-time job, they let me know that they weren't going interview me, when I asked why they said that they thought I would be doing a lot of freelance. Is this a common experience? Is this a common problem? I rather have a great paying job than an ok paying job that is supplemented with freelance.

I always thought freelance was suppose to help develop skills and make you more employable, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Leaf Is a “Plug N’ Plant” Box to Automatically Grow Pot in Your Home
Last I looked into it GLX didn't work well with XCB. You can use XCB for some stuff, but you can't drop Xlib.

It doesn't look like this has changed, unless this page is out of date: http://xcb.freedesktop.org/opengl/#index5h1
I wonder if it's possible to optimize the cost differential. (probably not for a 2 person startup, but maybe a little bigger). But once it's terminal, clear you can't win, just dump all the money into making lots of specific, esoteric claims that require Giant Law Firm to spend hundreds of hours researching and responding to.

Loser pays legal fees, but if i can get you to spend an order of magnitude or two more than my dying company is worth, well, that's the kind of flameout i could take some satisfaction in.

edit

Now that i think about it a bit, contacting the oppositions' customers and asking about their record retention policies seems like a great way to go. not a subpoena, just several repeated enquiries, an email, a letter, follow up with a phone call or two about about how do you store records, how many records might you have about opposition company, who are the employees who interact with the opposition company. Hit the VP's of HR, Accounting and whoever does legal.

You could probably get some really nice targeted facebook advertising for that set of people, "been scammed by x? call us"

Social engineering is scary.
There's also the "run out the clock" method, i.e. drain the other company of money, energy, time, etc.

Which appears to be exactly the worst case the plaintiff is imaging per the words he was rather unwise to utter in an all hands meeting (http://www.businessinsider.com/smule-ceo-shred-video-lawsuit...):

[...]

And here's the sad truth. You compare a 100-person company with 10, 30, 40 million dollars in the bank to a two-person startup. If it goes to litigation, if we're wrong, we'll win.

Right? We'll win. We'll put a giant law firm on it and we'll do all of the discovery and we'll do all the depositions and we'll win. And if we're right, we'll still win....

(Note: discovery can be very expensive, and depositions tend to take a lot of time in preparation and the actual deposition.)

Which suggests the defendant isn't entirely insane to try to win this in the court of public opinion, a worst case apparently not imagined heretofore.
Actually in this instance that is not the case.
It is the case of misrepresenting the actual data and making a more sensational misleading headline.

See the editor's note in the original Scientific American article. It simply confirms the statements made by CEJournal.
This is great, but I was expecting notebook gaming to go the streaming way. What's stopping game streaming from becoming mainstream? Latency?
What other parts of the world do is irrelevant. When in Rome...
Thanks for posting, feels to me like the core concept was good but that they failed to fully market test the products. Feels like they could have avoided many of the duds by taking a leaf from Kickstarter's book and booking pre-order revenue prior to actual production. I wonder why they didn't try that?
I fondly remember Print Shop printing cards and banners on the Epson LX-80 dot matrix on the Apple IIe monochrome (green and black screen). Piecing a banner together these days from a series of 8x10 sheets is just not the same. :)
Cool, hope you like GitLab when you try it.
I've found that, in the embedded world at least, the overhead this adds (in terms of flash/rom and ram) can be fatal. That said, there are some more implementations of this here if anyone is curious: https://github.com/ryanbalsdon/libr
So how would you have done it the next time if you had to stick with C?
I'm sad. I used to love this site back when I was an engineering mechanics student (pre-CS). It gave me the ability to converse with people that were similarly interested in inventing and opened my eyes up to a whole host of interesting solutions to large and small problems alike.

I think what I'll miss most about it was scrolling through the list of inventions and marveling at the incredible amount of variance between seemingly good ideas, and the heaping mass of ridiculous ideas. Even though I loved picking apart ideas that I thought were completely implausible, the very fact that people were putting the time into designing and fighting for their inventions was something I loved. I honestly didn't follow the company during the last few years, and I can't say I'm completely surprised that they reached this point, but it will always have a special place in my heart for enabling the creative side of many people.
I'm pretty confident that the penalty for this crime, which has a name: "tax evasion", is not "men with guns will fucking shoot you dead".
Nine months ago, I said the following. It feels good to predict things before they happen:

Backblaze should expand their service to a cheaper cloud storage service similar to Amazon S3. They already have the infrastructure and the know-how.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8756119
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This is an interesting dilemma, but it's only one minute example of the very real toll that "privacy" inflicts on society. Reasonable people can disagree about whether the benefits outweigh the costs, but we should talk more openly about the downsides instead of reflexively treating privacy as sacrosanct.

The value that we know as "privacy" is far more arbitrary and historically contingent than most of us realize. In societies where resource scarcity forces people to share bedrooms, the acceptable spheres of privacy are radically different from the ones that modern American life inculcates.

Are other social boundaries equally flexible? And if so, should we test them?

Perhaps so. There is an intrinsic tension between the pursuit of privacy and the hacker ethos that information wants to be free. By definition, privacy is an act of sacrifice: a denial of information to other nodes in the network that forms civilization. Our laws already recognize narrow circumstances in which the costs of that sacrifice outweigh the benefits, such as when there is probable cause to believe that an individual is abusing his or her right to privacy in order to undertake criminal activity.

Yet there is a social taboo attached to radical opposition to privacy. For example, an integrated network of ubiquitous surveillance could offer incredible benefits to humanity. Violent crime could be virtually eradicated. People could be held accountable for anti-social behaviors, like littering or cutting off other drivers. Our entire society could operate more efficiently in innumerable ways. But open advocacy of a surveillance state is only a few degrees away from fascism according to our modern political mores.

In the example from the story, it's clear that our collective welfare could be increased by analyzing reams of restricted data. Are we willing to intentionally tolerate greater human suffering in order to preserve the amorphous right to privacy?

I contend that it's more useful to look at the discrete harms that flow from disclosure of specific information. How could people be harmed? What kinds of safeguards could be put in place to prevent that concrete harm?

Those are useful questions, which allow us to make informed choices instead of switching off our brains and discussing "privacy" in the abstract.
Is there an updated list somewhere?
What laws?
It kinda depends. You'd have to test it yourself. Here's CloudFlare's home page accessed from Europe a few moments ago, via 3G dongle.

http://s21.postimg.org/8gn6f7i2f/cloudflare_com.png

Nothing to write home about :)

That being said, I've seen CloudFlare cutting down DNS lookup from 800ms to 60ms for a tiny website.

Another thing is that it depends if you're really concerned with visitors far from your server. I had some WordPress websites hosted in LA and with some really basic optimization page speed was almost as good as Google's home page.

Don't drink the paint, I guess :) It may not be worth it, it may be great. Test it. Of course, CF has other benefits too, it's not just about the page speed.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not claiming anything here. It's just a quick rant and a screenshot. Don't take it too seriously.

Other than that, it is becoming somewhat concerning just how much traffic goes through CloudFlare. Nothing against you CF guys. Just good ol' paranoia :)

EDIT:
For most places CloudFlare does a great, well, amazing job and keeps the page speed down to <1s, often <500ms. But again, it really depends where your visitor are. Check the History tab here http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/blmbP5/http://cloudflare.com
This is the most political open source project I've seen in a while. I love the idea that it's designed to sit inside a progressive society where we all agree we have a social contract to the state. That is very different to a lot of similar efforts, and at the very least it's an important part of the discussion.

Right now it's vaporware, but I'm very interested in its release. I'd love to help give it a friendly face and integrate it with existing open source social platforms, to make it easier to send and receive money regardless of your technical ability.
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NOx is not laughing gas, nor a food additive:

"NOx should not be confused with nitrous oxide (N2O), which is a greenhouse gas and has many uses as an oxidizer, an anesthetic, and a food additive." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx
Quest CEO stood up to the NSA a few years ago. Got blackballed with all kinds of shit and ended up going to jail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

Also agrees with the other answer that goverment contracts will be dropped.