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Ports receive security updates on the -stable branch in CVS, but the project does not provide updated binary packages for the -stable branch after the release. M:Tier provides updated binary packages, or you can always just update the -stable ports branch and build/install the updated ports yourself.
Yes, it's sort of a persnickety issue, but the point is that it's not "proxying" at the network layer, so it's not accurate to market it as a virtual private network.
I subvocalize when I read and it feels like I'm breathing the words. I think my vocal cords move too.
Which is all good, but currently your graphics are defining your brand. And the brand at the moment seems to be selling cutesy niceness for kids and younger teens.

The platform sounds great, with solid potential. But if I found it as an outsider I'd be unlikely to explore it, because as an adult the site doesn't look like it's intended for me.

Personally I've found Quora conversations both interesting and useful. The branding is adult and the comments in my feed have genuinely fresh insights based on experience. There's some random opinionation, but not much, and conversations are rarely adversarial - possibly because they're more like monologues, and everyone gets a turn, and there's little incentive for drive-by commenting or flaming.

The point being that it's not just about moderation, but about the structure of the exchange and the culture. Quora seems to work because - ironically - there's very little direct interaction and challenge. I doubt that's the only way to run a community, but I wonder if it may actually be impossible to have public debates on difficult topics like politics without having to choose between heavy filtering and moderation, or one-sided communities with echo-chamber levels of agreement.
It doesn't seem to talk about the plausible explanation that the ratio (of brain mass to body) also matters. So elephants have a bigger one but also loses a lot of its processing power to a greater number of neural signals (which probably increase linearly with weight).

According to this page, humans have the highest ratio except for a few species that have very small brains in absolute size, which probably miss out on benefits to scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-to-body_mass_ratio#Compa...

I would also suggest that they're very disadvantaged in not having developed the tools for more wide scale intergenerstional transmission of cultural knowledge.
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The author works for a custom embedded code shop, and I believe has been using it and its antecedents for years for his customers. He's on my short list of personal coding heroes.
The Chinese were part of the book plot before there was a movie. Probably because they're the only other nation with the resources and willpower to have a viable space program at the moment. We don't hear a lot about ESA these days.
What a misleading headline.

Tldr: he had an initial offer from Yelp for 120k and then another offer from Airbnb for 220k which he negotiated up to 250k

So just a 20k bump.

Don't click to read this. That's all this is.
The problem is thay it's not even as extreme as the kkk, if your opinions don't mesh with the current progressive groupthink, you will be downvoted, ignored, and bullied.

The same happens to a lesser extent on HN, but without the bullying.

The end result is content that leans in only one direction because everyone else has been silenced, they don't bother posting, or they left.

The irony is that this behavior is exactly what progressives have claimed to be fighting (discrimination and online bullying)

Edit: haha, the ironic downvoting happened fast.
I like that categorization. The concept that it's all intellectually stimulating to at least a few types of "hackers" does capture most of what I see.
Comparing a web framework with a JVM language is completely pointless.

A better comparison would have been: Vert.x vs. Node.js
Actual blog: http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-i/
"GRETA is supposed to expand an Amiga 500 by 8 MB SDRAM, an ethernet controller as well as a port for MicroSD cards and a freely usable I/O-port. It seems that the development of the board has been finished but since 2013 obviously the programming of the FPGA was not continued: Currently GRETA only offers additional memory. All other features still have to be programmed. The documentation of the projects are available on Github under the GNU General Public License."

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2016-04-00050-EN.html
Why is someone willing to pay him that much in the first place?
Oh so this is why all of a sudden text UI is such a rage. Everyone is trying to copy WeChat's success.
Ask HN: How do SpaceX/NASA/other maintain high code quality?
What is the state of the art test frameworks and/or patterns that mission critical companies follow nowadays? It seems that SpaceX uses C++ for most everything, but I haven't been able to find anything about how they or other modern mission-critical software companies maintain, what I assume is, well-tested, near bug-free code?
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If you can program, this is the best probability book. I think you messed up the URL, though:

http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/
I dunno if it's rediculous... anyone who struggles to improve theirself should be applauded.

Some of us are innately more immoral/moral.
I actually didn't like the post, I hate the notion that one person using something means others should, but that's besides the point.

I use openbsd daily as my work machine, and sure, it has some quirks (chrome used to lag something fierce and it's still slow even now, wifi will randomly start lagging out and dropping packets etc;)

While I personally can get around all day every day on openbsd with only marginal problems, I wouldn't push it on everyone like I did with linux, because while I can do everything I want to do with openbsd I'm fully aware it can't do the more 'advanced' things which have just made it over to linux (games, for example).

and that's ok. I'm definitely not crippled or even hindered by using it, so it's not comparable to freedos in my opinion.
They are discovering interoperability through simple data interchange format.
A changed password is revoked. You revoke the old password when you create a new one. So passwords support revocation whereas fingerprints do not. The question posed above is whether the inability to revoke (or change) a fingerprint matters.
I was thinking, in particular, of grid battery power. Even if the battery is 'dated' it's still useful, and it can just sit and do it's job. As long as it is cost-efficient when it is installed, it makes sense to install it.
Basically what Dan said. Community.
Has anyone actually been able to contact MapD? I've emailed, called, and left voicemails without any response. I'm not sure what is going on, but it's strange for a potential customer to have such difficulty getting in touch with sales.
Agreed with all you said. I'm curious how one manages their career at this level. I got my current gig due to some peculiar circumstances. I don't think companies interview for these positions. You need to have a track record or some kind of "in" (the original poster seems to have come in with an acquisition). I'm two years into my job so am not sure how this goes forward. Wish I had a mentor :)
> “To be or not to be,” said Hamlet, prince of Denmark, “that is the question.” Yesterday, Hamlet’s creator was; today, he is not. Of that there is no question.

OK, so I'm moved to quote Samuel Butler:

> To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I got that (as I recall) from Peter Watts' Echopraxia.

It's rather comforting, because I can always imagine that I will awaken ;)
I don't know if I would go that far, but WMF also don't have nearly the resources of Facebook or Google or Amazon, and at their scale nothing is easy anymore.
> More importantly, on contentious issues HN will still reward quality participation.

Describe 3 good arguments in favor of the NSA you've seen on HN.
Always an interesting question. And of course if you make 250K on your first job, it really isn't going to go up all that much from there.
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Reddit is just a platform. If mods of a subreddit are seen as being heavy-handed in their moderation then people a free to create a competing subreddit.
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/varnish-http-erro... (and grafana.wikimedia.org in general) have more stats. It stated '13.38 Million req/min), which I think is ~230,000 req/s
$211k at Google is worth way more than $250k at Airbnb. Who knows what $95k of Airbnb RSUs is actually worth. Also, $25k was a signing bonus.
There should be no such thing as a default sub for new accounts. Users should pick what they want when they sign up.
Yeah, you can always find a use case where something won't work then spend your time discussing why a solution won't work for you.

However, I imagine that a lot of people would love the solution in many scenarios. Personally, I have no problem asking my phone a question when I'm walking down the street or driving. Basically, it would be nice to have the imperfect solution now then take it from there.
At some point mathematical objects are defined with meta-mathematical definitions (axioms etc), so we can accept definitions based on those terms.

But in any case. You obviously do not believe that mathematical objects exist in the first place and it the question is ill posed based on your concept of reality and existence.

That's understandable, but the debate is about which is the right definition of existence reality etc. If you are not interested in this discussion and know the answers then you have nothing to gain from this paper or this discussion.
For those who might have missed it, one of the authors (Ericsson) is the same person who originally came up with the "expertise requires 10,000 hours of practice" idea that Malcolm Gladwell later popularized. Unfortunately, Gladwell mangled it as badly as he mangles everything else. As I had to point out on another story here recently, Ericsson was talking about 10,000 hours of highly focused and disciplined practice, carefully analyzing and correcting errors etc. Thanks largely to Gladwell, many people have dumbed that down to 10,000 hours of any old thing, and it's no wonder that they find the idea highly questionable. The original makes much more sense.
So does not having Windows at all (at least for this ransomware).
The correct answer here is ... web apps. They're just better than chat bots. The only real issue is an easy way to link identity and payment information into the interactions. These chat bot guys always claim their main advantage is not having to install apps. The web browser is already there and installed.
Interesting, I had never heard of External Merge Sort before. You are correct in that it does not work on unsigned ints and is unnecessarily slow.

An interesting alternative came to my attention in the form of "gnome sort". Gnome sort is also affectionately know as "stupid sort". It behaves similarly to bubble sort. Bubble sort "sinks" large elements which allows small elements to "bubble" up. Gnome sort, however, sinks large elements towards the end of the array AND sinks small elements towards the front of the array.

More on gnome sort:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome_sort

Once again, thanks for reading!
I'd put those in there. Also promoting old tech like Ada, criticizing popular things like Rust/Web/Cloud, shifting blame to women on sexism posts where it makes sense, discouraging use of VC tech for anything critical, countering pg on economic inequality, countering white privileged concept from angle of white minority in black-controlled areas, and countering mainstream security in general.

I'd say that's a nice collection of all the reasons my account would disappear somewhere else. As dang and tptacek described, there is an effect where they get hit with significant, sometimes massive, downvotes followed by more thoughtful people who valued a counterpoint that at least presented arguments or evidence. Plus a handful that agree with it probably. The sloooow upvote, but rapid downvotes, of some of those comments which would be popular elsewhere shows the site bias in action.

Critical to a parent's claim, though, is that those comments all survived with positive votes and sometimes continuing discussion. It's rare that I delete one for being totally ineffective. For me, high in dissent in contentious topics, I scrounged up 5000+ karma in a year without actually trying to get karma. That's clearly due to culture and moderation here that pushes for higher-quality discussions that are more tolerant of dissent than critics elsewhere say about HN.
One of my trainers always said 'Practise does not make perfect - practise makes permanence. Only perfect practise makes perfect'.
This isn't just a problem with Reddit. It's possible for a person today to get their news online, on TV, on the radio, in magazines, etc. without ever hearing an opposing viewpoint.
All mathematical statements in constructive logic have an experimental test (actually since nonconstructive logic can be embedded in constructive logic via a double negation translation, they do too). Of course this isn't always the most interesting test, since usually you are modeling some higher level concept inside the logic, and you would have a more high level test. For example for the calculation of pi you would measure the ratio between the diameter and perimeter of a circle.
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They tried that recently. Sadly it ended with many students in prison :(

Unfortunately Iran is going to have to go through a slow revolution. Where the elders die off and the young take power. In some ways this is better than a Big Bang revolution like we want - it lets them gradually establish the system they want. Even if it's not the system we wish they had.
We're very sorry to hear that - did you email info at mapd dot com or sales at mapd dot com?
Why does Airbnb need so many engineers? Is what they're doing really that complicated? How many engineers does Craigslist have?
I've read this report before, mainly it was used as a reference doc when debating others about the 10% brain myth. See here, as it directly references the 126 IQ example under "John Lorber and hydrocephalus": http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/brain/development/ten_pe...

It appears the amount of white matter in the brain can vary wildly without having a large effect on cognition (as with the 126 IQ example). Usually it's the cerebral cortex, the outer, wrinkled brain layer that matters most. Humans have more neurons in this region than any other mammal by far.

This squares with the original article, which argues the absolute number of neurons in the cerebral cortex is more accurate for measuring cognition than sheer brain size. So we might derive that brain mass lost due to hydrocephaly is not nearly as important as the cortex neurons retained.
> Assumption 2: the cost of the subscriptions is passed on to the primary customers of the universities -- students.

This is not likely to be true. Most universities in the US take overheads on grants. So if you get a $20,000 grant, the university will often take up to $12,000 of that (usually it's in the $6000–8000 range), and the researcher uses the rest. That money in overheads is used for a variety of things, including supporting the research (i.e., paying for journal subscriptions).

> Question: Is there any correlation to be made between the profitability of such academic publishers with the astounding rise in university tuition in the US over the past three decades?

Journals are expensive, but they're not _that_ expensive. It's much more plausible that the rise in tuition can be linked to non-academic expenditures at universities, including athletic facilities (e.g., gyms for students), fancy dining halls and dorms, and non-academic staff. Maybe one could argue those aren't the drivers of high tuition, but I'd be surprised if a rise in journal costs were remotely comparable.
Exactly my thought. Even the initial 162k at google seems like a better deal.
So there are two things I would like to address. First, fingerprints do not need to be cryptographically secure to be sufficient for a great many purposes. As you noted, a house lock can be picked in seconds by someone with moderate skill and yet they are sufficient for physical security on most cases.

Second, and more important, we need to stop pretending that passwords actually work well when we have these sorts of conversations. The reality is that most people reuse the same passwords everywhere and when they are forced to use secure/unique passwords they cope by doing things like writing them down on sticky notes attached to their monitors. The reality is that most people are probably using a compromised password for their bank access because they used the same password on a dozen sites that have been compromised. When we compare fingerprint security to passwords, we need to stop comparing it to the mythical unique passphrase because essentially no one is using that.

I'll also point out that copying someone's fingerprint when they cooperate by taking a clay mold is quite different from lifting a fingerprint off, e.g., a glass. But nonetheless, I do not dispute that it is quite feasible to clone fingerprints.
How did you stumble upon that trick?! That's amazing!
That doesn't seem to me to be a huge efficiency win.
It'll be interesting if the rumors of Apple Pay for web are correct[1]. One could see a near future where using mobile Safari, iPhone users could login and pay at any website just with the credentials stored in Apple Pay + Keychain and the use of their thumbs. I'm sure something similar could be built for Chrome on Android with Android Pay.

1) http://recode.net/2016/03/23/apple-pay-coming-to-mobile-webs...
I agree that it is cute! Unfortunately, it does not seem to have much of a practical use. If you're very curious, a professor at my school suggests testing out "how much memory is saved for compiler optimizations (like -O2 or -O3) for normal sorts vs this sort." You might be able to answer your question this way.

Thank you again, for reading! Cheers!
The right wants a theocracy.

The left wants a fascist state.

I just want to stay as far away from them as possible.
> The C++ equivalent would be to allocate as much as possible on the stack, and then make sure to do a restart every night to eliminate any heap fragmentation that is left.

I think that's a very brute-force approach. You could instead use an actual allocator which behaves the way you want.

For example this is how arena can work without any restart/stack magic: https://github.com/cleeus/obstack/blob/master/arena_test.cpp...

Same happens in google's protobufs https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...

There's no need (almost) for manually wiping heaps at system level if your language allows you to change the allocator at any point of the app.
"childish" != "infantilizing".

Cute whimsical silly graphics are fun. Feeling like I've walked into a padded room/kindergarten when I hit their homepage due to the visual/copy combination is not fun.
That's true. However, when coming up with creative solutions to problems, I think every unused bit is fair game! Thanks for reading!
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> The Javascript monoculture that exemplifies the modern web is perhaps the greatest thing holding back good cross-platform development.

I dunno, there was a time when javascript wasn't the only game in town, and it sucked. ActiveX controls for hooking into native libraries, Java applets that assumed you had a JVM installed, subtle differences between javascript and jscript, VBS in the browser.. It was terrible, and the web is better now that they are largely a thing of the past.

I'm not a superfan of javascript, but building cross platform stuff in the browser seems easier now that you can count on its ubiquity and everyone is generally on board. Getting things done might be easier in walled gardens, but those gardens aren't usually cross platform.
You are in a directory called 'home'. There are directories to the north, south and west. There are twenty files here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Or... you could just use stuff already built into the JVM. I'd much rather escape from JavaScript (or node) than the JVM...

http://www.scalafx.org/
Agreed regarding the issues with audio interfaces.

I'd personally love to experiment with a device with a Google Glass-type display, eye tracking to function as a virtual cursor, and a compact ring-like device to enable interactions with that cursor (such as tapping, dragging gestures, etc).
Please replace the blogspam with the the original post. The BI article is factually incorrect.

Here is the original. http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii...
Good assessment. To be clear, the comparison is kind of narrow. The claim is that one person (or a few) functioning in their use case day to day on it means it's "ready for the desktop." Remember what desktop we ran businesses and home stuff on before Windows? And which version has been updated probably the most? ;)

Many Fortune 500 companies run on terminal apps to a large degree even if many put GUI's on front of them. So do a lot of warehouses and retail stores. Doesn't really hinder them day-to-day. Just not convenient, flexible, and so on as modern IT. FreeDOS is certainly not comparable to OpenBSD or anything but seems to show the folly of "someone uses it day to day so let's call it a real desktop and ready!" Suddenly, the word desktop gets much less meaningful really quickly.
Unfortunately, most of segment's supported integrations still require the JS lib to be loaded on the client. This is less a limitation of Segment and more a limitation of the aforementioned integrations.
No. I've never heard dialog or chatter among multiple voices. Any thoughts I have, random or otherwise, are always "me".
WebPass ( https://webpass.rkeene.org/ ) does a very similar thing.
1 million per hour is nothing...

Here, mioco handling 10M http request per second(1) on my desktop:

https://github.com/dpc/mioco/blob/master/BENCHMARKS.md

1) with a bit of cheating http server.

With actual proper http parsing it goes down to 368K req/s, but that's still a lot.
This was such a nice read. The author points out a number of small problems that add up to something much larger. I can see how we need some version of something like the Internet for mobile devices -- not mobile web. I think the whole mobile app ecosystem has become a big hindrance for users.
which alrady has a HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552780
What if downvotes were a limited resource (maybe time limited)? It could help if downvoters had to think twice about pushing that button, in case something else deserved their downvote more.

EDIT: or a downvote requires a comment of why the parent was downvoted and/or a selection of pre-defined reasons e.g. factually incorrect, misleading, trolling, spam, etc (similar to Dota2's report system).
Generally true. Though, in context of webapps, each thread usually works on one request. If your threads share (mutable) states in that case then something is VERY broken.