skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was also true for all x86 ancestor hardware. For example, the IBM XT came with a technical reference manual that provided the schematics and source code (https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmpcxt150ferenceApr83...).

In fact, the fundamental success of the PC/XT line was that it had increased user-expandability and maintainability over the competitors, as documented extensively in all accounts of the period.

And we're all typing on crazy descendants of the Apple II architecture, because pieces of it informed all subsequent architectures:

"It was also decided along the way that the machine would have an "open" architecture, like that of the Apple family. IBM would include slots under the cover of the machine that could accommodate plug-in boards that would add features or even change the entire personality of the PC. And, to make it relatively easy for outside companies to participate in the building of the PC market, IBM would publish a Technical Reference Manual with the entire set of electrical schematics for the machine and a full explanation and printout of the ROM-based BIOS (Basic input Output System) that provides the hooks into the machine for hardware and software. The ROM BIOS and the IBM logo were actually the only elements of the entire machine that bore an IBM copyright." (http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n11/298_IBM_coloss...)

Frankly, your lack of understanding of the history you're so confidently asserting facts about is beyond shocking. I'm sorry if that seems mean-spirited, but there's no other way to put it.
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An annotated version of the Bitcoin paper
Is there clean drinking water in your house? Did you pay insane amounts for it? Do you live in fear of oppression by the water company?

There are some very messed-up public works, but most of the time it works pretty well.
> Proponents argue that an open trade would flood the market and deflate the bubble—the street value of horn currently stands at $100,000 a kilogram, more than that of cocaine—driving down the incentive to poach.

It would not decrease the value enough to make poaching not profitable for the poachers. Proposals like this one are very frequent but none of them address the issue of how exactly are the animals living in the wild protected against poaching. The assumption seems to be that as long as there are ranchers raising these animals for profit, the species should be protected. It does not address the issue of what will happen to the species once the demand for rhino horn plummets.

These legalized sales are very unpredictable. For example, the current ivory poaching crisis is attributed to the 2008 CITES reclassification of ivory that let some African countries sell their ivory stockpiles to China and Japan. This event caused an increase in demand for ivory products in China and Japan and the demand for ivory has been increasing year over year since then. As a result, poaching has skyrocketed to meet the demand.

If you live in Washington state, please support Initiative 1401 (http://saveanimalsfacingextinction.org) on the November state ballot. This initiative will help with reducing the amount of illegal wildlife products coming to the US. Most of these products come to the US from China so ports in Washington state are a prime destination for the ships smuggling these products. California has recently passed a similar law.

I've recently started volunteering with the campaign and we are looking for more volunteers who would help out with the campaign efforts. If you live in Washington state and have 2 hours of free time every now and then and want to help out, email me at adamnemecek at gmail.com.
Importance of CI CD
Why assume it must originate from a single source? It doesn't seem odd to me that similar social structures might emerge of their own accord under similar social conditions rather than necessarily being learned behaviors from other cultures.
Yo dawg, I heard you liked hashes...

Meme reference aside, this is actually a sane way to do things.
The latter sounds like Production, rather than DJing.
Creating music from computer parts
A steady paycheck is wage growth?

Indeed, I am missing something.
Remove Apple or iOS from this entirely and just look technical achievement involved with these numbers.

Apple sold 1 billion iOS devices as of Jan 2015. They don't all support iOS 9, but looking at the cumulative sales graphs, let's just say there 700 million iOS 9 compatible devices.

Getting 350 million people to download and install software on 350 million devices in 5 days is pretty freaking amazing.
This'll be fixed soon!
If I understand the article correctly, the material can be designed to absorb, rather than reflect, certain frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. When this occurs in the visible spectrum, we call such materials, "black". If it were really effective, clothing made from it would appear to be so dark that it couldn't get any more black--aka none more black. Existing clothing might not be quite that dark but it probably gets pretty close in terms of human visibility.

The article would probably be more accurate to call this advancement a potential improvement to stealth technology since it sounds like the intent is to conceal planes from radar.
> though it has been improving rapidly.

This is an important factor, and maybe the fatal flaw in android's carrier relationships. Google is always very fast to push a fix out, but the carriers always drag their feet in getting the fix to the actual devices.
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I don't want to speak for all of dataflow-dom, but the main differences that I see (and exploit) are that data-parallel dataflow languages isolate control flow into small independent regions, making the larger computation data-driven. This does mean things are eager rather than lazy, but it also makes things much easier to parallelize (because of the independence) and much easier to incrementalize.[0]

[0]: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/differential-dataflow
I'm not sure I'd trade a very good, time tested interface for something that's both new and ostensibly worse in some ways, just because that new, worse way can now be accommodated.

That's like throwing away your physical keyboard for an on-screen keyboard because your company has adjusted their expectations downwards on your productivity. Sure you might be able to make it work, but that doesn't mean an on-screen keyboard is superior to a physical one.
A lot of people are mad that Apple bought this tiny company and shut it down
For me, I find myself sitting at a stoplight with my hand rested on the volume and seek buttons/knobs while I look around at stuff. It's nice to be able to do both without having to hover your arm and look at a screen. Even more so when the road isn't totally smooth (pressing the wrong button is sometimes more annoying than not being able to quickly locate it).

Of course everyone has different preferences and that's why they sell cars in more colors than just black.
Genuine capitalism doesn't have a government controlling money supply, which is behind your 'exponential growth'. Instead of growing an economy, the truest capitalist is focused on freeing an economy

If you wanna name the socialistic Keynesian experience 'Capitalism', that's your call. I can't do it.
Can you do that without causing performance degradation e.g. through cache thrashing though? Fortran performance can vary significantly when you move stuff around.
This app  Tech Crunch Disrupt SF lets you see anywhere in the world in realtime
Accusations of astroturfing and shillage without evidence are not allowed on HN, so please don't do this.
I think that he was trying to be pedantic about the use of the word "engineer" in the context of software development.
Afghans eventually withered down close Soviet air support. Soviet strategy seemed to be winning with new air and infantry tactics. Until they started losing hundreds of aircraft. If I remember correctly it was mostly heavy guns and not US Stingers that did the trick.

The enemy is well aware that all they have to do is win an endurance war against an inflexible bureaucracy that bleeds money and outlast the patience of a fickle populace. This was demonstrated recently enough in Vietnam. US strategy was losing, even though they won almost every fight in both wars.

It would take a lot more than this one cheap fighter to outlast the Afghans. At least body count was better this time.
What makes you think she doesn't enjoy her work?
get some standing lunch "dates" with friends. Helps to get you out of the house and keep up relationships. If you're single and not that social by nature its easy to get into hermit mode.

If you are social, prepare for dining out budget to increase. I found when I did it by the time I was closing down the laptop more often than not I was ready to get out of the house and have dinner out with wife. It added up doing that 3-4 weeknights.

Core hours are everyones friends. Have at least a handful of hours that overlap with everyone on your team.

Some people like the set boundaries, I actually found I liked the opposite. Granted I didn't have a kid yet, but I like always working and always not working. Long lunch or afternoon movie was fine, I'd be working late that night. Visit family/friends for a few days no problem I have internet. I enjoyed the flow and flux of it, and I did good work and great life during it. But know yourself.
Necessary yes, but interestingly legacy controls for a legacy practice.
I didn't mean to suggest what he's doing is good. Just that it's a common business strategy and this person applied it in a horrible way.

Most people don't want to get rich slowly, as Charlie Munger says
Your post tickled my curiosity. So I went to Wikipedia... and found this: http://imgur.com/lNpPWkP
That's kind of the point; if you're worrying at all about salts in your login code, you're using a crappy algorithm. If you're using a decent algorithm, it takes care of the salts.
You are totally right but there are people for shom some kind of risks cannot (as in they deem it totally impossible) be outsourced: either total responsibility (and hence no delegation) or no business.
Interactive, social query of a map of the analytics space
Why CI and CD are usefull
I have a Golf TDI and I get 38 mpg average. I'm skeptical that any of these cars are typically getting 50-55 mpg.
It happens to all of us!
Even 1800 people working on the project wouldn't indicate that Apple takes the project seriously.

The number of BMW employees in R&D at the headquarter in Munich is about 20000. There are another 10000 contractors working onsite. This are the numbers for R&D only, not including production. The numbers also don't include the employees of the numerous suppliers.

In addition to that:

BMW is an established car manufacturer. They don't need to develop a car from scratch.

BMW is one of the smaller car manufacturers, I don't have numbers for VW or Toyota.
Hey.

I appreciate the positive response, but this is just something I put together quickly and needs a little refurbishing before it can be considered a viable alternative to something like lsyncd.

Top priorities right now are to get rid of ssh-client dependency and to address security concerns. I'd also like to implement file diffing.

Your feedback is invaluable!
my 2016 VW has Carplay and it has Siri Integration, and it's pretty good.

Though having to use siri for everything like "set temp to 60" "Turn on defrosters" "use turn signal" would start to get irritating quickly.

Not to mention if you're havign a conversation.
People need to read this article very carefully before forming any sort of take-aways.

The title and the start of the article suggest that salts are irrelevant. Then only a few paragraphs later, the author states that salts are indeed crucial.

Later in the article, we learn that this article isn't really about salts at all, but the importance of a high work factor / rounds.

The problem with the way this article is presented is that a casual reader will be left with the idea that salts are no longer important, which is false.

A better title would be something like, "Salts are important, but so is a high work factor"
True enough - at that point you'd get rid of nearly all UI. All that's left amounts to a charging station for your iTablet.
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> pay the makers of generic drugs to delay their cheaper versions

Is it even legal? Sounds like monopoly-forming conspiracy to me.
I would guess they're specifically targeting the brand new market of autonomous cars specifically.

Edit: Nevermind, it sounds like it will not be autonomous starting out, so they really are entering the mainstream car market.

Maybe the same thing is happening that happened with phones: Apple software on other phones sucked, just like Apple software in existing cars sucks. It's ambitious, but they have the resources and the market is clearly ripe for disruption... why not.
Yes, its actually in the contrib directory in the openssh source (I didn't realise this until I just checked)

https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/tree/contrib/ssh-cop...
The OSF Playbook: Open Source Decision-Analysis Model for Science-Based Startups
That's certainly an option, but probably not a very useful one. It's like stopping piracy. Piracy can actually have a positive affect on sales. Person A who pirates your software or music doesn't pay you, but they tell other people about it, and some of them, who wouldn't have known about it, do pay for it leading to more sales than you would have otherwise had.

It's the same with content. If I go to read your article and you block it because I'm blocking ads, I'm not going to tell anyone about it and I'm not going to share the link. You then don't get the ad revenue from that sharing, so it's a net loss for you.

(And of course, if I go to read it, and it says I need a special app, I'm also not going to read it or share the link.)
> Using the same tool ZQ used to make her game - it's literally 5-15 minutes online. The effort was next to nil.

Writing something the length of Depression Quest, creating graphics, mapping out the story, quality assurance testing, composing music... this does not take 5 to 15 minutes. It is not nil effort.

If you think it's so easy, please, go ahead and recreate Depression Quest from scratch in 15 minutes.
I was nodding my head in agreement until I got to this line

> where you make more than you spend on each user, and it gets better not worse as you get bigger, you may not look like some of hottest companies of today, but you’ll look a lot like Google and Facebook.

Wouldn't Facebook be an example of a company with bad unit economics?
There's an old thing, from Bob Young, founder of Redhat, about proprietary software being like a car with the hood welded shut. Perhaps the latter will actually become reality.
On the other hand, if you don't have rich parents then good luck trying to use your college loans/grants as seed capital, or to attract VC funding if you don't come from a socially privileged background. It's not impossible (obviously as quite a few HNers have done just that) but it's much more difficult than it sounds.
OnTrajectory Goes Live - Visual Financial Modeling for All
In their benchmarks it performs favorably when compared to Firefox's gecko engine: http://take.ms/LeUjm
It's surprising how well Apple does considering the lack of transparency within their company (or perceived transparency from my pov as an outsider).

I wonder if this can cause an issue when they begin to get into building products (like cars) that need a high safety factor?
There is a market report that goes along with this visualization: http://oreilly.com/go/mapbigdata

Feedback appreciated!
> Thanks for your cute little

Please don't.
I didn't mean to infer that they were bad, only that they are used indiscriminately. Take a look at the fan control, for example. Toyota, it's a dial, Nissan is a slider, BMW is two buttons for increase and decrease speed. To open the trunk on a Toyota, you press a button, but other models, you pull a latch. On some BMWs, you unlock the doors with a button on the dash. Most cars have a button on the driver side door, but some will even have this as an on/off switch.

I'll stop there, but my point is that car manufacturers haven't been able to figure out a "universal interface". Apple was able to do this with the iPhone (touch screen), so I wonder now if they can do it with cars.
Are you expecting places to implement specific exceptions for these cars? Because presumably they've been passing so far. So, jurisdictions would have to put in specific blocks for these cars, and then have some way to test for the fix. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

FWIW, my county doesn't do emissions tests on diesels.
> Have you ever tried to modify ikea furniture? It's a nightmare. And we are professional carpenters. Imagine the pain this must be for mere hobbyists.
Prison vs. Harvard in an Unlikely Debate
Looking for Connections in Your Data – Correlation Coefficients
Thanks Jeff, appreciate the feedback! Please hit the upvote button if you like the idea :)
Tiny $30 WiFi-enabled OpenWRT module runs on 1 Watt
Careful. Salt quality is almost totally unimportant. And there are no well-known, well-reviewed password hashes that aren't randomized. The lesson I'd take away from an article like this is: "don't DIY your password hash".

Historically, every discussion I've seen that tried to acknowledge the "importance" of salts devolved into people defending their DIY "secret-salt" schemes. "Important salts" seem like an invitation to reject bcrypt, scrypt, and PBKDF2.

I think part of the problem is the term. I think we should stop talking about "salts", and instead just say whether a given password scheme is randomized or not.
Europa or Bust: Searching for Life in Jupiter's Orbit
> it's no wonder you can't stop blabbering on

That breaks the HN guidelines, as you know. Please comment civilly and substantively, or not at all, even when someone else is being a jerk.
Reminds me of Selectavision discs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
Exploring the world outside of your core work is what gives you perspective. And perspective is very very important in building a business. Perspective and empathy, both of which cannot be "hacked" and can only be attained by truly living life and exploring the world.
> Drones don't currently do that.

Drones would be perfect for long dwell time CAS, as long as they carry enough ordnance for a prolonged sortie.
These days, founders are taking massive amounts off the table in the large funding rounds you read about. I know of several cases where it has been upwards of 50% of the round (series D/E 100M+ deals). While she doesn't have a billion dollars of liquidity, I wouldn't be surprised if she had 50 million+ in the bank.
Argument from "When there's a will, and a lot of money, there's a way."
Twitter could be the next YouTube
Hedge funder buys rights to AIDS drug raises price from $13.50 to $750 per pill
Thank you for such a positive feedback!

And thanks for sharing the book, I'll probably get to it. I've read a couple of books on Linux Kernel before writing TNeo, but haven't read anything on FreeBSD yet.
Any chance you can link to the interview? Couldn't find anything through Google
And show me that it's harmless

I'm afraid it doesn't work that way.
I think it would indicate that Apple takes the project seriously. Apple has 115,0000 employees altogether, but I'm pretty sure that includes vast numbers of people in the Apple Stores. Certainly it's not going to put together a 30,000 person R&D group.

Now, maybe it means that Apple is kidding itself about its ability to make a good electric car. But Tesla didn't have 30,000 people in R&D.
Would you say that someone who runs onto a train track to save a child, and is killed in the process, has made a wrong decision? They've sacrificed not only their 20s, but their whole lives, for the sake of someone else.

Someone choosing to forgo personal pleasures to achieve something shouldn't be criticized for it, and should be celebrated if that thing benefits lots of other people. I don't know a lot about Theranos, but it seems like the idea is reduce blood testing costs tremendously -- if the CEO is sacrificing her personal life and dating life to bring better and cheaper healthcare to millions of people, that is an admirable sacrifice.
> why even visit this site? Just to raise your blood pressure?

You can't post uncivil attacks like this here, even when someone else is being a jerk. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
"When our 4 week experiment ended, we immediately reverted to our previous signup process. We subsequently had our largest month’s growth, ever."

Maybe brief periods of unrestricted signups create enough buzz to boost revenue over the long-term?
Lovely idea, if only it worked for WSJ... Not in Firefox or Chrome on my Macs. Nor in private/incognito mode.
I made another comment saying that it was satire (without the douche-iness), and it got downvoted, too. So its just disagreement.

When I initially read the book, I expected it to be pro-war. In fact, I just wanted to read a SF book about aliens and robotic suits. But after I was finished, I was very surprised by it being satire. Sure, if you look at it from a completely superficial perspective, it looks like its espousing the views of a military-oriented society, but if you examine what's being said, it becomes clear that its criticizing it. Let me be clear, though, I don't think Heinlein is criticizing the individual soldier. I think he sympathizes with them the most. But he takes the idea of a military-run central government to an extreme to examine what it would be like. And while reading the novel we get to examine it from the perspective of those most affected by it. And guess what... Everything is miserable.

Heinlein celebrates people who would give themselves up to fight for other people, but he shows that war itself is absurd and terrible.
A significant number. The British Museum alone has 30,943 tablets. The study of Mesopotamia is relatively new and as far as I know not all of the tablets were translated.
Using WhatsApp? A New Draft Proposal by Indian Govt. Raises Concerns
I don't see why someone wouldn't sell it to them, collect the bounty, and then either release/sell it themselves. It seems like Zerodium would have very little recourse.
Cruise missiles are $1m a piece and exist in precious quantities. In the previous conflicts, we'd only used them to soften up the air defense network, then send in the B-2's to take out the rest of the air defenses once its safe for them to fly. Once the B-2's are done, then its only safe to bring in regular fighters, choppers, troop transports, tanks, and bombers.

I'm not sure how the F-35 fits into this. One of the issues with the B-2's is that our fleet is tiny and they're super-expensive to run and carry limited ordinance. I suspect they may take some pressure off the B-2's with their mixed role.
I'm really at a loss as to why you would compare them to BMW and not Tesla. At this stage it looks like they are in line with an early Tesla.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/314768/number-of-tesla-em...
Considering Facebook is a website with zero marginal costs and zero acquisition costs, no. It makes way more $$ than it spends, especially marginally/per-unit.
See also: http://syncmaildir.sourceforge.net/

This is how I do my email, exim running on a DO instance and I send and receive to my laptop via ssh.