skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point! To be honest, I didn't consider that it might be more difficult to interpret the underlying filesystems and encodings in the future. My goal was to get a lossless (well, as much as possible) archive of the disks since my time and physical access was limited. It is hard to predict what I will want to access in these images over the scale of decades, so my thinking was to leave them as untouched as possible, since I don't know what information will be important.

That being said, a good guess would be that the most interesting data will be media files (especially old photos) and documents. For that data, your advice of collecting and re-encoding the files is wise. For the purpose of discovering the media files in these backups, I found my favored approach to be a brute force recursive search for file types. Exploring the original structure of the filesystems was interesting, but my intuition for where the valuable data was usually proved wrong.
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> The two highest rated comments in this thread make the little vein in my forehead pop out.

There are some days when I wish that I had enough money to employ a small army of "thought leaders" to "organically" shape discussion on Internet Message Boards.

Alas, my single upvote will have to suffice. ;)
With the largish disclaimer that so far I'm quite a Rust n00b, I'm loving it so far! So per se I don't think there are any technical deficiencies in the language itself compared to C.
java script... disgusting
Oh trust me, I get it. There's definitely a middle ground, though.

If you want to know locked down, my last place locked down icmp between vlans for security reasons. Ironically, it's what got me to learn nmap. It was also hell. :)
I really have to highlight how dangerous an approach this is. You have no idea if the previous user of that IP was spamming. You should seriously consider mailgun or sendgrid. They also bring a lot of features that enable you to track when an email was read etc.
Spending millions on support for an operating system which is well out of life is indicative of poor IT procurement and lifespan management. Business interruption was a valid excuse about 5 years ago, to continue to argue that is a farce.
ISTR something from Google about modifications to their Linux systems to eke out maximum resource utilization [1], so I would not be surprised if changes with this level of impact may exist.

[1] - http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2015.heracles...
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Not sure if it needs to get to that point yet. I'd like to do this civilly first and more aggressively with complaints like that only if necessary.
As a professional C++ developer, this makes me jealous ;) Waiting for Concepts has become a Duke Nukem meme.
It makes sense that if you program a lot that you will learn how to save time in the long run. It took me a day or two comfortable enough to be efficient in it, at least as I was with Atom. After the first few days, you will just learn new tricks while you are programming.

You will see that after you learn how to use Vim you won't want to use anything else to edit text, you emails, browser and word processing will be in Vim.
Yes, for reading these disk images, I've typically resorted to using VMs anyway, so I can experiment with old code in a sandbox. Actually, one project I've had in the back of my mind is attempting to boot some of those old Linux installs in a VM. Can you imagine re-opening a carbon copy of your old workspace from over a decade ago, right where you left it? I think the exercise would be thought-provoking.
What you describe sounds like security by obscurity.
> On the contrary we have mostly consistent ctrl/shift + arrow behavior

Are you saying Windows has consistent Control/Shift + arrow behavior?

OS X is pretty consistent about this too, though Control+Arrow moves between Desktop Spaces, not related to text, but you can modify a lot of system/app shortcuts from Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts.
I didn't say that I believe that Vogt and YC claim of extortion is false. You asked, "How do you get this crap out of the written complaints in any way?", because you seem surprised why any reasonable person could consider Guillory's side, given the facts stated in the complaint and counter-complaint.

Well, his counter-complaint claims that he was integral to the development of the company. To back that claim, he has actual paperwork, the existence of which has not been disputed by Vogt. Of course, there's plenty of time for Vogt to produce documentation showing that Guillory's stake was rescinded, but we haven't seen it yet, not even in Altman's principled "screw the lawyers" blog post yesterday.
I see.

Quote from wikipedia:
"Equipment assembled included remote-controlled bulldozers and robot-carts that could detect radioactivity and carry hot debris. Valery Legasov (first deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow) said, in 1987: "But we learned that robots are not the great remedy for everything. Where there was very high radiation, the robot ceased to be a robot—the electronics quit working.""
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> I'm just a lowly performance obsessed dev

> who uses things like node, php, python, etc.

pick one
Nice, I've been working on this wrapper for the Send API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fb-messenger
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Yes, thanks. Seems I didn't finish my post before I hit submit - someone came into the room to collect me and I had to log out quickly. By the time I noticed the edit window was closed.
ARM doesn't do SMT either.
How is that not greedy and selfish?
Thanks for the feedback kumarski :)

It is first important to know that we carefully screen each startup application before allowing startups to enter a batch.
We check that founders have a working prototype, a company and that their project is viable (they have the skills to build it + a clear path to monetization).
In this regard, the batch that undergoes ranking by the community is already “gauged” for projects that have reached a certain quality threshold.

More directly on point,
I would tend to agree with you that it is very difficult to directly assess founders’ quality via crowdfunding/crowdsourcing.
What crowdfunding/crowdsourcing does however is provide a great way for a community and investors to indirectly assess founders. In a sense, founders are only good to the extent that they make an appealing product and are good at marketing it. This is at the core of Seedrunners.

With regards to studies, we could battle it out :) You can find numerous studies (see links below) showing that the crowd selects projects using the same set of criteria as VCs and is as good in selecting high-quality projects, with a noticeable ability to pick “hit” projects.

I would be happy to continue discussing with you on this topic, it is definitely one of the most critical (and contentious) points of Seedrunners.

Studies from Wharton and Harvard:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2239204
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2239204
Oh, certainly. If we could, most people would want control over what kind of "element" rich, poor, educated, uneducated, employed, unemployed, criminal, non criminal, etc. gets to move into their neighborhoods and cities.... But that has proven problematic, in the past. Not just in the US but in many places.
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Uber, Lyft hit Los Angeles taxi industry hard
I don't know what this has to do with hacking, but I sure hope I can still play when I'm this guy's age.
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Well, I -know- I'm smart... ;) (Stanford-Binet, blah blah). But it is just a number, and the value of a person is not (or rather, shouldn't be) based on such things. Emotional intelligence (EQ) seems to be more of an important factor in determining one's "success" in life, so I'd say it is more significant than IQ - and even those things such as one's accomplishments are not entirely sufficient measures of one's value.

At this point in my life, I'm realizing one's value ought to include the impact on one's social environment, your ethics, your integrity, liberal fuzzy wuzzy things. ESR certainly has had some impact on society in a beneficial sense, but how does he treat the people around him? I don't know... Jobs had an impact, but he was difficult. Gates... well, don't get me started.

Humanity needs to move beyond the hierarchical monkey social structure thought patterns and behaviors. Glorifying the 'great and good' does not serve this.
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Who wants to build an open-source cross-platform clone ?
Page 8: "To fix this bug, we alter the code that is executed when a thread wakes up. We wake up the thread on the local core—i.e., the core where the thread was scheduled last— if it is idle; otherwise, if there are idle cores in the system, we wake up the thread on the core that has been idle for the longest amount of time."

I don't quite understand the choice for picking the core that was idle for the longest time. I think they use that as a predictor of future load of the CPU, and scheduling based on future load see,s a good idea, but I think this could lead to cases where it prevents one of more CPUs to go to low power states when the system doesn't have enough work to keep all its cores fully occupied.

(Edit: how did I overlook the following paragraph, where they discuss this issue?)

Also, in general, I think they too easily call changes that remove the corner cases they find fixes. Chances are that they introduce other corner cases, either on workloads they didn't test or on hardware they didn't test (caveat: I know very little about the variation in hardware that is out there)
A lot of factors converge to make gentrification opposition the next cause celebre. Sometimes even upheld by the gentrifiers themselves.

It plays very nicely into current economic, racial and so on divides in the cultural war.
I have my Android device set to use en-GB as its primary language for metric units, my spell checker is set to en-US, and my Google News is set to India.

What you want is already possible. However, I do wish the platform allowed a more direct customization of all LC_* stuff.

> Windows has been getting locale settings right for ages now.

Do you mean Windows phone? If so, I'm impressed. If you meant Windows, the computer OS series, well, that would not be a fair comparison for Android. Linux already gets that right.
That would seem to be the case. If Jeremy's claims were true there wouldn't be any lawsuit, as Jeremy would already have what he is currently suing for.

It amazes me from the other HN replies comments how much debate and confusion there is, about something so obvious.
Might be geographical? Many of Vienna's most popular cafés were established in the 1800s.
> To quickly test a new general code editor I just want 3 "simple" things: column selection, regexp search and replace, and a python mode.

FWIW since you mention Notepad++, Zeus is another Windows based programmer's editor with those three features.
Rust error-handling https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/error-handling.html - Result is just an ordinary type defined in the language. Whereas go's "if err, res" stuff is special-cased - e.g. you can't use your own custom representation of error vs not.
If the CPU is idle it isn't wasting energy.
Check out https://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/
C/C++ completion for VIM.

Of course an IDE like QT Creator does many things better.
But it's a tradeoff always.
Posted because I found the business model interesting (they resell their hosting solution to other companies that want to become cloud providers), and because I can't say I remember having seriously looked at Jelastic before.
> I don't think so, it's the right way to play it. Wait until you have maximium leverage and then play your legal cards.

That sounds like condoning exploitative behaviour to me. Is that the sentence we are both talking about?
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But to use nginx i've to recreate the container to link the new "web4" container. don't I? and then to make it reload the conf. or is there anything else that i can do?
Very interesting. Still trying to find a way to stream audio back from the Safari browser to a local server. No luck so far, ang thoughts perhaps?
Maybe not most people, but Iceland is a relatively big country to completely exclude your product from (especially for such a silly reason).

If the OP were Icelandic I think that'd be a pretty good reason not to switch to Android.
Damn that would be interesting. I should make a backup of my current one and see how it changes year after year. Good idea!
It's not payola if you're paying yourself for placement. That's just a placement decision.

On a tangential note, I've never understood why payola was supposed to be a bad thing.
When I had a Mac (2009 - 2012) what modifier to use for different text movement operations varied wildly, even between the built in applications.

Mac using colleagues explained that it was because the applications where written using different toolkits.
I'd love to see pictures. Not because I have any doubts, but just because this sounds amazing!!
Picking the core that was idle for the longest period may end up working as a proxy for picking the coolest core, and as such encouraging more even distribution of heat and reducing the probability of thermal throttling?
Yep, works now. Cheers
Will work with RaspberryPI 1B+/2 /3!
> we could rephrase your sentiment as, "Are you seriously asking whether a co-founder of a billion dollar company should list some unknown engineer as his 50/50 co-founder on a YC application?"

Please don't, that is a completely different question. I'm honestly not sure how you managed to conflate the two.
The statement is suspiciously precise. It says that he didn't build hardware, write code or file any patents. But that's obviously not the stuff to be doing at that stage of the company. It would make sense that he's doing research and planning out what the build steps might look like. And Sam's post conveniently omits any reference to this kind of work.
What about transference and counter-transference? Perhaps I've had too much therapy, but they are tangible things. There is a heck of a lot humanity does not understand about human psychology, and it's not all BS. 'Energy' work isn't religious at all either - it could work for some people off the placebo effect.

And if you're an engineer, if something works, then use it. Whatever the 'patient' thinks is ... shamans have to play engineer sometimes, along with priest, psychologist, doctor, PR man, confidence trickster...

but yes, there are a lot of shallow thinking people out there, and not just in the New Age world, who can't grasp metaphors - e.g. the concept of the dead and dying god, who is reborn, as a metaphor for a psychological process.
The rest of the system is still a (roughly) fixed cost, and a 75% loaded CPU package still consumes more than 75% of the power of a 100% loaded CPU package.
Hi Chris,

> This issue should be limited to new applications where the trust signal might be a bit lower. Thus existing apps / customers shouldn’t be experiencing issues.

1. My app is not new. It's been running without issue for 2 or 3 years.

2. My app is not on the free tier.

3. On average, my app sends out under 8 emails a day, and it's done the same for over 2 years.

How your algorithm considers my app a spam risk sure beats me.

I'm missing 11 days worth of quote requests from customers. Are these recoverable? (is there a hidden outgoing-spam bin?)

My app started sending mail again today after I changed the src of an image in it from https://example.appspot.com/images/logo.png to http://www.example.com/images/logo.png

How well do you think email clients are going to like emails with images embedded in them without HTTPS?
I think this is a terrible attitude. I will never implement it in my own support model. People shouldn't have to pay me in order to report a bug in my system. Arguably I should pay them, because one report is the tip of an iceberg of silent affected customers.

More often than not, what most people want is simply an acknowledgement. They're not seeking a bug bounty. And definitely not the brush-off you just gave the GP: when someone's house is on fire, you don't demand prepayment for the water.
Thanks for the link.

You can see robots being used to clear off debris here: https://youtu.be/ezohqY-vg4s?t=57m43s
I find buying stolen goods despicable too.

Stealing itself is worse, of course.
Very similar situation here, turning 27 in September. Spent most of highschool skipping so I could write code instead. No friends nowadays (I prioritize everything else), no serious relationships (no time/energy), never traveled outside USA (money!).

I did, however, just leave a job where I was unhappy. The timing was not great and it cost me. But I couldn't be happier to be free of that job. When I started to seriously dread going in to work, I knew it was time to move on.

Try to realize that not leaving a job because you "can't stand disappointing anyone" is just plain wrong. In a sense, you're doing them a disservice by remaining in a position you are not happy in. You are probably not performing at your best if you're unhappy. Plus, startup or not, they would probably drop you like a bad habit if given the financial incentive. Business is business, money is always the bottom line in that environment. You do not owe them anything.
And sink it up with glassdoor
Cool.

It doesn't complete when it gets a hard time deciding what is adjacent and what is not. E.g. http://i.imgur.com/5HWDB70.png
I've lost so much data over the years (at least 10-15 years worth of digital photos, collected documents, everything), and multiple times. And still... I only have plans to have organized and scheduled backups, and never really executed on it. It's a bit like a big part of my life never existed (just in my mind, and when lucky in lower resolution on Facebook).
Wow. you just gave me the rights clues to a theory I have about myself and childhood and stuff.... "learned Aspberger's" if you will. Can you post more, please?
...Because you have an agreement with someone that you were a 50/50 co-founder, and that agreement is on paper? Sorry, are you privy to some kind of proof that invalidates Guillory's central evidentiary claim -- in the same way that Zuckerburg and Facebook were able to show that Paul Ceglia fabricated a contract -- or are you just arguing from circular reasoning that Guillory is a greedy asshole and thus his claims that he was unjustly forced out must, QED, be false?
Can someone please explain (or point out a link to the rules in question) why is this post getting downvoted? I understand the parent comment is not very informative, but this one I found quite helpful as I had forgotten the quote in question and it is relevant to the "wi-fi password discussion" the grandparent has started.

Additionally I would simply love a bot like that going around explaining popular media quotes. I frequent the SpaceX subreddit and they have one explaining space related acronyms whenever any are found in the discussion. Makes reading it a lot more pleasant.
I remember those days. And I couldn't go into the bars, being in my teens in the mid-to-late 80s. The best option was the all night places like IHOP. As long as you tipped well and weren't loud, they'd let you hold down a booth with nothing but coffee for most of the night.

And then moved to a college town which already had 3-4 competing coffee shops in 1989. Felt like heaven. Doing homework on my old Powerbook. Sitting with friends, having a smoke, if by myself then reading something difficult and hoping a cute smart girl would notice.
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As someone who has worked in early stage startups for 9 years now, I'd be hard pressed to believe that anyone who worked at a company for one month at its beginning was 'integral to the development of the company'. That's just not how startups work. The value isn't in the initial idea, or the detailed initial plan. It's in the hard work, the long nights writing code, the prototyping and testing, and prototyping and testing again, the recruiting, the sales, the fundraising, the deal-making. So no, I don't believe that anyone who has worked for 1 month at any company at any stage deserves 50% of that company. That is fundamentally unfair.
That is not an excuse for letting sloppiness of thought introduce risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke

Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ?) is a Japanese term that means "mistake-proofing". A poka-yoke is any mechanism in a lean manufacturing process that helps an equipment operator avoid (yokeru) mistakes (poka). Its purpose is to eliminate product defects by preventing, correcting, or drawing attention to human errors as they occur. The concept was formalised, and the term adopted, by Shigeo Shingo as part of the Toyota Production System. It was originally described as baka-yoke, but as this means "fool-proofing" (or "idiot-proofing") the name was changed to the milder poka-yoke.
This is only issue #164 on the list of most annoying Android bugs as measured by the number of people that got so annoyed that they hunted down the unfriendly Android open source issue tracker, searched through countless other issues for the one they were annoyed by, logged in or created an account, and starred the issue. Some of these bugs have been open for over 7 years.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=2&q=&colsp...
Absolutely! I didn't mean to be disrespectful, I actually think this is beyond awesome.
I greatly admire an individual capable of perfecting his craft enough to be able to carve a famous painting on the cutting edge of a razor, as I admire any craftsman building fine things.

It's kind of sad that he has to take medications to slow the heart rate down and get botox injections around the eyes to reduce blinking, though. I figure all of that must be taxing on his body.
A shared team calendar that offers you flexible task management
Can you explain how land value tax relates to current UK council tax? Is CT just a really poorly implemented LVT and could LVT be implemented by modifying the existing CT system?

I advocate for LVT in the abstract but get stuck on explaining implementation in a relatable way.

p.s. really appreciate your persistent posting on this :)
Your conjecture as to the surface area of a hypersphere embedded in 4 dimensions (a "3-sphere") is not borne out :) The answer is in fact d^3 pi^2 / 4. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-sphere#Volume_and_surface_ar...
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Apparently they designed the robot against specs that were deliberately underestimated to prove that a meltdown couldn't cause the amount of radiation damage it did, and the Germans built the robot to spec and it instantly fried
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I'd pay $50 for a gallon of Dr. Bronner's 18-in-1 Peppermint Castile Liquid Soap.

You can easily resell it on the street in smaller containers, and make a big profit if you DILUTE! DILUTE! OK! [1] ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH! [2]

[1] http://www.lisabronner.com/dilutions-cheat-sheet-for-dr-bron...

[2] http://dev.null.org/psychoceramics/collection/bronner.html
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I use Visual Studio Code writing nodejs application. Love it.
It's a nice thing to have when you generate JSON programmatically :)
I think the claim is that demanding what is rightfully yours is greedy and selfish. I don't know whether I agree in this case (probably not), but there have been cases in my life where I do agree.
Scheduling has become a hard problem. There's cache miss cost in moving a task from one CPU to another. CPUs can be put into power-saving states, but take time to come out of them. Sharing the run queue across CPUs has a locking cost. So it's now a cost optimization problem. That's a lot of work to be doing at the sub-millisecond decision level.