skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ghost is a great platform, very easy to extend and you can host it for free on Openshift[1].

You can use ghost-render[2] to publish the blog as a static site if you want to stick your blog on Github Pages.

[1]: https://github.com/openshift-quickstart/openshift-ghost-quic...

[2]: https://github.com/mixu/ghost-render
Just like you, I don't have to imagine. I make an engineer salary working from home. I live in a low cost of living part of Florida, 5 minutes from the beach on the gulf side.

Because I didn't go to SF, and have worked remotely, I've been able to save a non-insignificant amount of my income; I'll be able to retire around 35-37 (I'm 33 now).

Always be willing to say no when someone can extract rent of any sort from you; otherwise, you're a slave to them.
The article linked in the first paragraph provides some good context: http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/a-look-at-the-powervr-graphic...

Graphics developers need to know this stuff because certain operations can be very, very expensive on tile-based deferred renderers. Things like reading from the framebuffer, for example. On an immediate mode renderer, the GPU just has to queue up a DMA. On a tile-based deferred renderer, the previous commands have to be flushed first. And these differences are part of the motivation for new APIs like Metal and Vulkan.
Obama Administration Declares War on Franchisors and Subcontractors
Ask HN: What (obscure?) areas of tech are engaging, sane, and incredibly stable?
I'd like to know where to look to completely sidestep the breakneck rat race to the bottom of mainstream technology.

Where would I find technical environments defined by the following qualities?

- Stability in the long term: 90% of the mental models being taught today will still be being leveraged 10 to 15 (or more - 20? 30? :D) years down the track, possibly even using the same stack/systems/operational techniques

- Operational sanity: technical and business practices don't distractingly violate whatever would contextually make common sense and impede natural flow; and political issues, if they must occur, are managed well

- Genuine engagement: a careful balance of tooling and policy means that only minimal overhead is necessary to achieve visible improvement and change, meaning enough time and mental energy are available to make a meaningful difference somewhere many times per working day

See my comment "It seems to me that the technology..." for more info (it wouldn't fit here)
It seems to me that the technology industry is increasingly focused solely on rapidly moving targets that constantly change specification at dizzying (even infuriating) rates, and my perspective as a hobbyist outsider is that developers are expected to figure out how to handle the breakneck pace and keep up, or go home because there simply isn't anything available if you can't make 65mi/h work for you.

The Web is easily the worst offender here: it seems to be stuck architecturally in a perpetual super-tight loop-the-loop of the "initial client design refinement" phase. It's as though nobody thinks it's possible to have forward change unless everyone maintains a constant state of being tensed and ready to pounce on and adapt to the next big thing. (Imagine if Web standards had to go through the RFC process and the bureaucratic noise was rate-limited out of the equation because nobody had time for it. That would be nice...)

This is in part due to the frenetic, rabid competitiveness the Web enables, but regardless of the cause(s), developers are ultimately running themselves raw in a breakneck race to "nirvana" driven by the speed of the technology industry. The most upvoted comments on "Ask HN: How happy are you working as a programmer?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11009956) strongly suggest that burnout is widely resonated with. (That thread also provided valuable insight on how to articulate my own thoughts.)

I've been wondering for a while now: surely there are some some slower-paced quiet country roads to be found out there...?

As one example, for a few months I've been considering studying FORTRAN, COBOL, APL, Forth, etc, so I can position myself to work on legacy systems. Looking at "Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001693), that would seem to be a good idea, if the unilaterally positive opinions in that thread are anything to go by. (Oh, add Object Pascal to that list!)

PS: I ask the above soley out of general curiosity for my own part, but FWIW, the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) say that job ads cannot be submitted as stories... there's no such restriction on comments :)

PPS. My OP is exactly 1000 chars, the title exactly 80 chars. For some reason I think this is really neat. lol
Was Richard Feynman a Great Teacher?
Posted by Teresa Elms on 4 March 2008.
You're reading it wrong. Harvard is 4th from the top.
Most protocols do allow the attacker to choose how many times the defender must win at some game of probability.

If the defender is somehow put in a situation to generate 2^80 primes, then he's in trouble.
I'm aware that factoring a prime into composites is one of the most difficult computational problems, but isn't it cheap to determine if a number is prime ? a^(p-1) == a mod p (where == means "congruent to" ). with modular exponentiation isn't it simple to compute the modulus ?
Steam trains in Europe¹ — used for tourism etc — are retrofitted with the necessary safety equipment. Otherwise they aren't allowed on normal railways, and will be restricted to running at low speed on entirely private lines.

The train doesn't strictly need to know where it is — just what the maximum speed at that location is. Electronic pulses through the rails are one option, or transmitters at speed limit changes; presumably there are other ways too.

¹ The parts with safe trains, anyway.
I agree with you, but I think it's a bit bold to call "correct" or "incorrect" about future events.
Need to combine Google/Alphabet share classes.
Gmail Now Has More Than 1B Monthly Active Users
Εμβόλιμες αγωνιστικές με ευκαιρίες
Sure. It would also be a pretty shitty server if it crashed because nobody had the forethought to realize history uses memory. 4GB of memory will always be enough....
It's interesting to that it took this long, just considering the utility of each company. If Apple disappeared tomorrow I'd be moderately inconvenienced, I'd have to pick up an Android handset instead of my iPhone and maybe set up some new podcast feeds. If Google disappeared the world would screech to a halt.
>Like specific query results where everything above the fold on desktop is an ad.

Do you have an non-anecdotal evidence to present? A few advertisement laden queries and a "funny feeling" is rarely a sound investment strategy.
You're all talking about Google being more valuable as if Apple did not lose a ton of value since Jan 1 in the scares. Majority of the loss has been in generalized fear. Google hasn't really done anything to grow past them. They just stayed where they were and Apple fell below them. Lets please keep this in mind when we throw around ideas like one is better than the other as a result of this.
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Developer & Designer --
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>Addiction may not even be the right term, at least psychologically. According to Rosen, the reason we check our phones constantly is not to gain pleasure—the telltale sign of true addictive behavior—but something else potentially even more worrisome for our well-being.

I might be completely wrong here, but I read about a study where mice were deprived of dopamine (chemical responsible for motivating behavior). There they shows that the mice would rather starve to death than seek out food and water. However, if food was placed in their mouths they would swallow it and gain pleasure.

I believe apps are a perfect example of addiction in this case since they create compulsive behaviors without giving pleasure.
If you think that the University that you attended determines your job for the rest of your life, you deserve your fate.
The parenthetical is just there to make it clear that this only works out in your favor if events prove you correct in disagreeing with Wall Street.
That's a very elegant solution; has the disadvantage that its failure mode is not safe - if the train fails to detect a signal at all, then it will just continue at whatever speed it likes. And of course, like a lot of physical engineering solutions, it's not built to be secure against malicious actors. Someone who broadcast fake signals could slow a train down - or confuse it into ignoring the real signals.

This is the kind of thing which autonomous-driving skeptics need to keep in mind when they worry about 'how will you stop people from continually stepping out in front of self driving cars to stop them', or 'how will you stop people from jamming your lidar sensors?'

How do trains stop people from interfering with these safety systems? They don't - the fact that interfering with the safe operation of a train is dangerous and subject to huge legal consequences is what stops people from doing it. Same applies to your worries about car technology. What stops people interfering with lidar? The fact that most people are not psychopaths, and they would probably go to prison if they did.
There are plenty; see, for example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_numbers#External...

But you couldn't hope to list all primes up to 1024 bits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function

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

For example, there are about 2⁸⁰ primes less than 10²⁶, that is, with 26 or fewer digits. (Where could you get 2⁸⁰ bits of storage, even if you could do the huge computation necessary to check each of these?) 1024-bit primes are about 308 digits long.

You can imagine trying to get an intuition for a few different kinds of things:

* Up to what point has the primality of every number been checked?

* What is the largest general-form number whose primality has been checked conclusively? (or, what is the largest-known general-form prime?)

* What's the largest general-form semiprime that has been factored into primes without foreknowledge of the factors?

* How big are the primes we use in cryptography?

* How big are the largest-known (special-form) primes?

These things are very different orders of magnitude. I'm not sure of the exact answers to the first two, but I expect the first is below 20 digits (the π(n) calculations apparently didn't check all the individual numbers). The answers to the last 3 are: 232 digits, 308 to 1233 digits, and 22338618 digits.
i got an email a few days ago saying that copy was closing my account due to inactivity. my lifetime account.

perhaps they tried to close as many accounts as they could to try and keep the service open?
I remember being in a situation similar to that! Google's $100 IPO price looks like a steal now.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160114-00/?p=...
Show HN: Instabug 3.0 (YC W16) – In-app conversations and bug reporting for apps
Take a look at https://www.netlify.com
F-18 follows a Tomahawk missile until it hits its target [video]
It's been a machine learning company. We'll see what the shift to AI looks like, but those are two very different things.
While Chrome does forget about the history of the closed tab, cookies are shared across incognito tabs/windows and aren't wiped until all incognito tabs are closed. You can still be tracked and associated with anything you visited in that closed tab if you have other tabs open.
How to Hide Your Online Activities from the Surveillance Machine
MIT and Stanford are not in the Ivy League.
Note that some of the code[0] is copy-pasta from the LLVM source[1] with the copyright section missing which is likely a license violation.

[0] - https://github.com/andoma/vmir/blob/master/src/bitcode.h

[1] - https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/include/llvm/Bi...
Maybe but I find VERY strange that he write about studies with beginners and Perl or Java: I doubt very much that making Perl easy to learn by beginners was a priority, and Java isn't a VHLL..
Now if he was making studies like this against Python, Logo (not BASIC: it's too old) then this could be interesting.
STS-107 In-Flight Options Assessment [pdf]
Copy and CudaDrive services will be discontinued
There's also the strategic issue: if you believe Yahoo has to have a foot in "social"† to remain relevant and continue commanding the ad dollars from search and their site network, Tumblr was probably the most credible social network they could have bought; they got it for $1.2B. Who else could they have bought?

† for want of better term
I transferred from a state school to a top school and the difference was night and day. There was suddenly a much larger variety of advanced courses to choose from. There were faculty who were experts in more esoteric niches. Coursework was harder, expectations higher. And, perhaps most importantly, my new peers were incredibly accomplished, and I could learn as much from them as I could the professors.

At the state school, if you were really, really good at your coursework or were taking advanced classes earlier than normal, you stood out so much that there was actually a sense of isolation. It made me feel fairly uncomfortable in a few cases, which is one of the things that led me to transfer away.
Good assessment. As someone who paid for the personal plan, and watched it implode from the inside, I get the exact impression you do.

The problem was the number of mistakes made:

* Offering the support line as a "literal" replacement for emergency services.

* Including a racial slur in a 503 page.

* Falsely advertising the number of servers you can create as "Unlimited", when the limit is actually 2.

* Use of a generic bootstrap theme with minimal modification.

* 404'd refund and legal pages.

* Not established as a LLC.

* No way to manage billing profiles (in violation of Stripe TOS)

* Broken and untested remix of Ubuntu Server.

* No account management portal - You can't change or reset your password at all.

* Advertised as a finished product for use by businesses, when it appears to have barely been tested in-house.

This is how you lose your business, and then get sued into bankruptcy. This kid should be happy he just lost a couple thousand dollars in server hosting and refund fees, rather than millions and the loss of his credit reputation for life.

Learn a lesson from this, would-be entrepreneurs of HN. Don't do what this kid did.
""" But imagine an alternate timeline for the Columbia mission in which NASA quickly realized just how devastating the foam strike had been. Could the Columbia astronauts have been safely retrieved from orbit?

During the writing of its report, the CAIB had the same question, so it asked NASA to develop a theoretical repair and rescue plan for Columbia "based on the premise that the wing damage events during launch were recognized early during the mission." The result was an absolutely remarkable set of documents, which appear at the end of the report as Appendix D.13. They carry the low-key title "STS-107 In-Flight Options Assessment," but the scenario they outline would have pushed NASA to its absolute limits as it mounted the most dramatic space mission of all time."""

via http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-audacious-rescue-...
Not that I know much about Slack, but by using GitHub you don't give up control over your repository, or its history. Every single project member has a fully working copy that can be used if GitHub for some reason decides to go rogue, and it's accessible through open source software.

How about your communication in Slack? Can it be withheld or otherwise become inaccessible, or is it completely accessible through open source tools and possible to export continuously to a useful format? If not, then there's quite a difference.
So, compared to LibOS, it does not emulate timers etc., but provides host system timers, right? There is no way it will replace LibOS in NS-3 DCE [1] and LibOS will continue to be developed out-of-tree, or is it possible that LKL will be ported to NS-3 as an underlying platform just like it supports POSIX and Windows now?

[1] https://www.nsnam.org/overview/projects/direct-code-executio...
>Calling someone an "X company" means that they make their money from X.

It doesn't necessarily mean that.

It's more common to associate "X" with their business competency.

If we always insist on X to be only defined by revenue, we then get the following type of soundbites that we pat ourselves on the back for:

- McDonalds is actually a real estate company and not a hamburger company because they make more money from rent than from food

- General Electric is really a bank because GE Capital has higher revenue than GE Aviation or GE Energy

- Harvard University is really a hedge fund and not a school because the endowment income is greater than the tuition paid by students

- Lebron James is actually an advertising spokesperson instead of a basketball player because he gets most of his money from corporate endorsements instead of the NBA player contract. Same thing can be said for NASCAR drivers and Olympic athletes.

Are the twisted examples above really how we categorize companies/celebrities? We don't label NY Times, National Geographic, and NBC/CBS/ABC/Fox as "ad companies". Instead we respectively call them "newspaper", "magazine", and "tv networks". Being a conduit for ads does not define each of them as an ad company.

It's much more reasonable to think of Google Inc as a AI/search/maps/cloud company that happens to get most of their revenue from ads. They are not an "ad company".

We don't compare McDonalds with Donald Trump development properties. We compare McDonalds with Burger King. We also don't compare Google Inc with Omnicom Group; instead we compare Google Search with MS Bing, and Android vs iPhone, and other technologies.
I think you've mixed up some names. John Yoo is the Bush administration lawyer who co-wrote the Torture Memo. John Woo is a Hong Kong film director.

The most sickening part is that Yoo is currently a professor in UC Berkeley School of Law. Out of all US institutions, you'd think Berkeley would avoid hiring somebody who justifies torture.
No, the reported market cap on Finance already does that; the after-hours trading explanation seems the better explanation.
Wow, this is great!
Yeah I’m aware of that, but why? You can use GitHub pages with one markdown file; it would be the same contribution workflow but with a nicer end-user interface IMO.
I believe it's pretty solid:
http://caniuse.com/#search=CSS%20Generated%20content%20for%2...

Also checkout the pseudo counter:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Lists_a...
I'm looking for language that can be described like "C with classes". Simplicity of C and some basic OOP features in one. Not Go and not C++. Simple low-level language without garbage collector and with C libs support.

I've tried to imagine it as some kind of preprocessor with C files as output.

Fow example this:

struct Test {
int testFunc(int a) { return a * a; }
...
};

int main() {
Test t;
return t.testFunc(2);
}

Can be transformed to C code:

struct Test {
...
};

int Test_testFunc_int_int(Test * this, int a) {
return a * a;
}

int main() {
Test t;
return Test_testFunc_int_int(&t, 2);
}

Does anyone know language or meta-language (with output as C files) or some libs maybe similar to this?
What's the working level grade for engineers?
> I don't see anything unbelievable or even particularly unusual.

Let's go back in time to a point when Apple's #'s roughly matched Googles.

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/18Apple-Reports-Fou...

$28.27b revenue, $6.62 profit.

In 2011, Apple's P/E ratio hovered around 14, with a stock price that fluctuated around $46-$56 throughout the year:

http://financials.morningstar.com/valuation/price-ratio.html...
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/historical

A P/E ratio of 14, and the company basically tripled their numbers in ~4 years. Does Google's P/E of 35.7 suggests we can look forward to a rough 10x increase in Google's numbers over the next 4 years?
>Apple's brand trades a lot on having extremely well finished products with very polished experiences

I don't fully agree with this. Did you have the first version of the iPhone? No copy and paste? WTF.

Antenna signal dropping because "you're holding it wrong!"? WTF.

The only thing you can hold to the apple brand without any criticism is the industrial design of the packaging and look of their products has been consistent and un-matched.

There are plenty of UX issues that have arisen that take away from the polished experience.

Sure I like their products, but im not deluded to think that they are beyond reproach.
In the earlier days of mainstream desktop linux (~2005), video codecs were a complete shitshow. VLC was a godsend during those times - it just worked. Still the first thing I apt-get after a fresh install.

If you're reading this team VLC, thank you for your work. Ways to contribute to VLC: http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html
There are no organic listings at all. The only way into Shopping results is via AdWords' Product Listing Ads.

http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2012/05/building-better-s...
I enjoy full stack stuff because I like to know how it all works together and enjoy UI stuff because I think user experience is a critical thing. Looking for something full time. I'd like to get into machine learning, natural language processing, and intelligent agents.

Location: Atlanta, GA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: java, javascript, typescript, perl, angular, jquery, ionic, cordova, sql, c, some node and mongo and a lot more

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/herrevilkitten/resume/blob/master/Resume....

Github: https://github.com/herrevilkitten/

Email: eric@kidderberg.us
I spent 20 minutes with this the other day and could not get connected to anything on Freenode. The user interface for this is just about as friendly as IRC. Any pointers?
Isn't that exactly how C++ started?
Contactually is a rapidly growing startup in DC hiring amazing Rails/JS talent to join our engineering team. We have a really interesting and challenging 2016 roadmap that we would love to discuss with you!

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Copy and CudaDrive are shutting down
You may be right. It's hard for me to really put myself in the shoes of a completely new learner.
I think that had to do with a board appointment with serious lapses in moral judgement when he worked at Google. That, as best I can tell, has little to do with the no-confidence in how editing is handled.
How's that? To search the web, I'd go to DuckDuckGo or Bing or whatever. Other companies also provide web mail, maps, office document solutions, etc. Google's definitely better at those things, but using a worse version of those products would not cause the world to "screech to a halt."

Probably the most disruptive thing if Apple vanished would actually be every tech company suddenly needing to figure out how to use Windows or desktop Linux.
I didn't say it was effective, its a tricky problem to curb.
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Sure, I'd aim for a higher security level in a "attacker can keep asking for new primes until we screw up" scenario.