skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most cases it should make it faster. Any type of optimization is kind of a tricky thing because you can't predict what the user is going to do in the field. Take sorting algorithms, for example. Quicksort can degenerate to O(n^2) if you lay your elements to be sorted out in a specific order which will always have bad pivots. I'm not sure if you are familiar with C and x86 assembly, but the test harness code was linked to in the article. It is a contrived example specifically designed to beat gcc's optimization.
Didn't know that, thanks! 5mb is indeed quite reasonable.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525587
Magic Bluetooth Trackpad, New iPod Touch with FaceTime, new Apple TV, new iLife and iWork software, and perhaps one other thing no one's expecting.
The corresponding questions do not really correspond, and their possible usefulness is questionable. The supposed correspondence on the Middle East is notably lame.
My mum and probably > than 90% of the people I know use facebook.
My tech friends and random celebrities I follow use twitter.

Facebook is the thing that everyone has to use to stay in touch with people - that is overwhelmed by crap like farmville spam. Twitter is that weird thing that makes no sense.
I don't know, but I think we need to accept that they do exist, now and in the future, and find a way to deal with it.

This is not the way.
Sweden's Pirate Party launches its own ISP?
Yes, but when you have "questions" about something's authenticity, it means you are the one asking for proof. If you claim that it's a phony, however, the burden is on you to show why you think it is so.
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I'm still waiting for my car to plug into the wall :\

At least they're on their way towards actual production. Again.
You don't really need parallel connections when you have a thousand or /b/tards all running the LOIC. That's sufficient to take down medium-sized web properties for short periods of time.

They certainly are script kiddies, but they're not as ignorant as you portray them either.
I stand corrected on the family name.

One can appeal, with Abraham Lincoln, to the better angels of our nature, but it is as well to be realistic about the worse ones.
dm-crypt.

(If you look at Wikipedia's crypto-disk-software comparision page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_s..., you'll see that dm-crypt/cryptsetup/LUKS has pretty much all the features you would care about. Hidden containers would be nice, though.)
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right. my point is that if you are selling the customer a service, and you say 'I will get you network connectivity' and then, for reasons outside your control, you don't get them network connectivity, it doesn't make much difference to the customer if the network is broken because you did something dumb or if the network is broken you are getting DDos'd from china. the point is that the network is broken.

last month I paid out almost fourteen grand in SLA credits because I didn't stop a DDos within my allowed 0.5% downtime. Was it my fault I got DDos'd? no. However, i was the only one in a position to do something about it. (and really, if I wasn't tired and generally an idiot, we would have been down for an hour rather than 8.)

You do need clear lines, though. if you need connectivity from point A to point B, that's easy, I can guarantee that. But defining connectivity to 'the internet' is harder. there are cases where I've got good connectivity to most places, but you can't get to some ISP in dallas, because they've hoarked up the routing table.

Right now, I play that sort of thing by ear. If only one customer is having the problem, I try to figure out where it is and if I can't figure it out, it's not that big of a deal to give them a credit. If many customers are having the problem, well, then I have a problem, and really, it's my job to figure out where that problem is and to work around it... even if that problem is a misconfigured router at some other ISP. I mean, really, what is the customer going to do about that sort of thing?

this is the point of having a SLA; it aligns the interests of the service provider with the interests of the customer.
If you use full disk encryption, it'll encrypt/decrypt on the fly, no extra hard drive needed. Type in password when you boot and you're done.

If you're talking about an encrypted file container on a USB stick, the same problems exist with other encryption software. But I only remember typing in my password when mounting one, I'm not sure where it's asking you for your password over and over.

If you want a USB stick with decent usability, spend 99 bucks on an ironkey, and you'll get real hardware encryption as well.
Zuck attracts contract lawsuits like Clinton used to draw sexual harassment claims.
OK, OK! This is Dave, I made the app.

I get the picture. I honestly didn't expect it to get the attention it's gotten.

If any of you want to play with some CSS colors, or do a PhotoShop mockup, I will happily provide an alternative color dropdown.

I guess I have my monitor set to a reasonably low contrast, so I'm not blinded by looking at it.

:D
The traditional Harvard freshman register is known as "The Facebook".

"Harvard Yearbook Publications is responsible for the creation and production of the Senior Yearbook as well as the Freshman Register (also known as the Facebook). The Freshman Register is an extremely useful hardbound reference book for freshmen that contains photographs, addresses, and secondary schools of class members."

(http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~yearbook/purchase/). Login: http://facebook.college.harvard.edu
Chill, son

He was perfectly calm. No need for that. Let's keep things polite here.
I was just curious if his Desktop analytics idea worked out, although I suspect he abandoned it.
Exactly, that's why I always prefer libraries over frameworks.
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Perhaps it would have been even better for the guy, if he had traded in person?
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The term "Face Book" as a resource for seeing peoples names and a info along with a photo in a less formal yearbook-style setting is not new at all. My high school had a "Face book" in paperback form that was distributed at the beginning of the year to help folks get to know one another. That was in 2001. The Harvard site was merely an online version of this kind of flat, searchable list, with no user edittable content. You put in a name, major, or dorm, and it would show you a list of pictures of students that matched that search criteria. That's it. Much as I love tales of Zuckerberg sneakily stealing the idea for thefacebook.com, the Harvard site you mention was so basic that I'd say it's no more the precursor to facebook than any online yearbook or student directory.
My 'anecdotes' are unfortunately all I've got, there are most likely instances where kids were taken away from parents that were 'actually bad', but I don't actually know of any of these.

I do know of one overlooked case but needless to say the child protection services are not interested in that one because daddy happens to be a fairly influential person in that particular community. But even in that case I'd wager the children are better of with their real parents than they would be in the hands of this 'service', which more often than not tosses children from the frying pan in to the fire.

Depending on where you're from it may be that the CPA or whatever it is called locally is doing a fantastic job, but so far I haven't seen any evidence of that and plenty of evidence of wrongdoing, powerplay, pettiness, revenge, allowing themselves to be used as a weapon between adults, messing up children's lives, messing up parents lives and in general doing a shitty job of it.

Politics doesn't even enter in to it, that's just the enabling element, the people that make up these institutions are a very large part of the problem, if they did their job right within the law as it is laid down at the moment the bigger part of the problem would go away.
>rueCrypt developers are sneaky and don't accept contributions,

They accept contributions, you can even take the source and fork it. The only thing you can't do is call your version with added rootkit "Truecrypt"

System disk encryption in place is possibe and undoable. Data disks - I don't want to be able to do/undo this in place, I want them properly wiped.

You have to type in the passwd once to mount the disk? If you want to mount multiple disks with the same passwd (!!!) it will cache it
The problem is that the fine tuning only works for one particular situation. In a game, it has to work for every situation the user can create.
link to Mono's organization page on GH: http://github.com/mono
I never thought to look in OS X’s command line only toolbox for that... but it’s just as well. The Xcode version of Rez can’t cope with way this format is written. Even re-saving the file as MacRoman/CR-delimited didn’t help much; the file is using commenting and identifiers unknown to a “modern” Rez file parser. It’s probably written in a dialect that only the Lisa Workshop or MPW can read.
You're ignoring how this directly hurts the children, and indirectly by messing up their parents and the latter's relationship with their children.

It really comes down to a simple question: who owns your children, you or the state? As of late, it's the latter.
Y'know, back in prehistory when we started speculating about cyberwar, I never really anticipated the, I don't know, the sordidness of a group of anonymized schoolyard bullies being totally schooled by an 11-year-old girl, then using what in prehistoric terms would basically be magic to find her somewhere in the world, then targeting a gossip site in utter flaming outrage that this was noticed and commented on.

Weren't we supposed to be flying PanAm to the space station by now and making vidphone calls to important business clients? I seem to have gotten the wrong future.
The cyber currencies which try to look like traditional currencies will be shut down by the government while they have the power to as stated in other comments. However, I see couch-surfing in a way, as a very lose cyber-currency. It has its limitations: there is only one kind of product in the market which uses the currency, and the amount of the currency you have isn't exactly quantifiable. Still, you can use it to trade services at no cost (or very little) and flies under the radar since there is no exchange of quantifiable value taking place. Reputation becomes a new lose currency. Also see LETS systems which are actively, legally in place around the world.
> Arbitrage is exploiting mispricings of the same item in different markets.

There seem to be narrower and wider definitions of arbitrage. Some narrow definitions require arbitrage to be risk-free. Some wider definition accommodate things like statistical arbitrage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_arbitrage), which is far from certain and doesn't even use the same items, but just items with correlated prices.
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You don't really have room for any type of chemical engine in something this size. Typically satellites this size actually use tiny motors and electromagnets which interact with the Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves.
I suspect there will be a new iPod Nano device before Christmas. A new Touch seems very likely.
I actually don't hate on airlines, even though I used to be a frequent flyer in what is still one of the most one-company airline markets in the United States. The only dealing I have with cable companies is letting my Internet signal come into my house on a TV cable that has never been used for TV. I'm not sure the comparison in the article fits me.
"Even worse, they can bring your children to psychologists and ask them leading questions that could lead to concerns about anything they like."

I'm curious about this. In the original article, the writer mentions insisting that the interviews be recorded (and even then, they weren't).

Would you get in trouble via wiretap laws if you bugged your child during these interviews to hold a recording as evidence in the event leading questions are asked?
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Taking a step back, I think programmers should probably avoid working with "less-programmer-ey people" that are inexperienced at making products, especially when they over-emphasize the importance of "my fantastic idea". This is because inexperienced non-programmers tend to assume that programmers are just serfs that make their great idea happen, instead of treating a programmer as an integral partner in executing an idea.

This isn't their fault, per se. It's just that these sorts of people tend to have no idea how hard it is to develop a site/product. I would much rather work with somebody that respects how hard it is to create a site/product with high product-market fit.

If an inexperienced non-programmer demonstrates that s/he is legalistic by insisting upon a signed NDA, I would run for the hills rather than sign that NDA.
To those who suffer from depression, I recommend the book _The Mindful Way Through Depression_ ( http://amzn.to/dmoI3f )

It's a practical guide to meditation and dealing with emotions.
I've wrapped on several occasions by pulling an all-nighter. It just keeps slipping forward to equilibrium. For concreteness, this has resulted in instances where I will awaken at 3 PM one day and 3 AM the next (36 hours later). Staying up extra-late so as to go to bed at a normal time and re-adjust just doesn't do it for me.
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"Certainly, business ideas on their own usually have little value without execution. But it really depends. If your differentiator is the idea, you are at greater risk of direct competition, and so spreading the idea around without first gaining a foothold is risky, especially if you discuss it with people who are entrepreneurial minded. Sometimes a startup needs breathing room to find a true differentiator beyond the idea. I bet there is a long, long list of people being "wronged" after discussing their plans with others. Feedback is certainly hugely valuable, but people need to be judicious with what, and to whom, they reveal."

The reason a lot of people say "ideas are cheap" isn't just because there is no problem in spreading them around. I don't know about other people, but I've never had an idea that, once I started to execute on it, didn't change a lot. Since (as far as I can tell) this is almost always the case, spreading the initial idea truly doesn't cost me anything.

Of course, there are fields this isn't true, but this generalization gets thrown around a lot in these circles because, for most people reading these blogs, it's true.
No offense, but that doesn't really seem like the job of your CS program. No doubt a communications course would have helped, though engineers tend to look down on that major.
Leaky closures are not JS "feature", but a bug in one implementation (IE<8's GC doesn't clean up cycles). Other browsers handle that fine.

Similarly object enumeration is tricky business because implementations don't agree, especially IE<9 doesn't support DontEnum attribute properly.

Type systems can be debated endlessly. In this case I think Google's choice might be motivated by GWT (avoids impedance mismatch with Java).
Agreed, with a minor refinement:

Robin Hood taxed the tax men ("Robin Hood," Disney, 1973). It was less a matter of rich vs. poor than of beneficiaries vs. victims of oppressive taxation (similar mechanics, opposite direction). The GPL attempts to use the weight of copyrights in general as leverage against abusive copyrights.
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Thanks for clearing that up on the name.
Yes, our cars are still seldom moved by electricity. But there are still lots and lots of electric gadget in a modern car.
>ironkey, and you'll get real hardware encryption as well.

Perhaps, or perhaps they just XOR your data with your passwd like a certain tape maker did for their super hardware AES mil-spec encryption.
It would be interesting to read about all the counter parties to the swaps. Are they still happy with their trades?
Hmm, it just occurred to me that my iPod touch battery is not in the greatest shape, so Wakemate might cause me to have to leave a computer on during the night to power the iPod, which seems counterproductive to sleeping well. Might have to buy a wall charger. (got it refurb, so it didn't come with one)
At 4k, it's not exactly huge. It is full of ruby that isn't exactly obvious at once, which I actually think is kind of enlightening.
it seems cassandra, mongodb and couch have gotten the lions share of the attention. of the three I would say couch is the closest to riak. Both are native erlang apps, speak http natively and use map/reduce as a primary mechanism of retrieving data.

riak is just about 1 years old from an open source perspective but is in use in a few production environments and had been in development a few yrs before going open source, afaik. What I like most about riak is the 'no special node' feature and the very close adherence to amazon's dynamo lineage. easy scale up - and easy scale down. adherence to dynamo also means you can fine tune your r/w/n values at a granular level. beyond that, the fact that you can do virtually everything there is to do in riak over http is fantastic. other access pathways are erlang client and protobuffs. another major feature of riak is that you can link keys together with link headers. admin wise, riak is very simple to get up and running either in a dev environment or production.

the drawbacks against riak are that there is no ordering of keys, no select * keys, no select range. listing all keys is expensive. you almost have to keep your own internal index of keys if you want to maintain performance over m/r jobs in any sort of realtime fashion.

im glossing over lots of finer points but if you have specific questions the irc is well manned and so is the mailing list.
Seems like a legitimate tactic to me.
I'm beginning to think text-shadow is the new <blink>. Why on earth would you put a text-shadow on body text?
iPad Nano!

Same as the iPad, but in a small convenient package that fits in your pocket.
"This is not necessarily an open-and-shut case for Facebook. The fact that the judge froze Facebook's assets suggests there may be extenuating circumstances favoring Ceglia, Gendelman pointed out.

Also, Ceglia may be planning to argue that the statute of limitations didn't start until the contract was breached, which would have set the clock ticking in 2004, said Scott & Scott partner Julie Machal-Fulks.

There is room for that argument in New York law, she told the E-Commerce Times.

As for the last-minute challenge, that too makes sense -- at least, it can be argued in court, said Jonathan Askin, associate professor of clinical law at Brooklyn Law School.

"Logically, these ownership challenges only occur after a company has value or is on the verge of success. Why would anyone sue a company before it has value?" he asked."

from http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/70403.html
What if the new owner decides to "generate revenue" by selling your personal information to the highest bidder, and then turns the site off? Reselling the information is cheaper than keeping a bunch of programmers and sysadmins employed, after all.
If you really want to understand all this read this essay: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-cla...

Once you understand the goals of the various parties involved, it all makes sense ... and there is no hysteria involved whatsoever.
He's demonstrated being a pretty poor businessman. He's traded down, knowingly, on multiple occasions, and furthermore declined trades of businesses, which generate income, for cars, which depreciate.
I consider Scott Forstall a strong contender. He doesn’t have the design chops of Ive, nor the operations experience of Cook, but he has charisma and is leading the most successful division (iPhone Software Engineering and Platform Experience)[1].

[1] http://bullcross.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post.html
Then just don't bother with manual fine tuning. Level designers are using object libraries even now, where they just take a pre-made chair, instead of constructing them out of basic polygons every time.
You forgot about their lack of public source code repository. Talk about significant problems for an "open source" project! Go try and download the old 6.2 or 6.1 versions. If you feel bold, go ask for a copy in their forum, or better yet, offer old TrueCrypt source code for download. They scare the hell out of me. They do now advertise a US address next to some Air Force base in Nevada. No I'm not paranoid, I speak only truth.

Edit: This is all common knowledge and has been for a few years. Wikipedia has all the details. The Czech Republic connection with the Trademark, the anonymous/unnamed developers, etc. The new (as of this year) mailing address in the US, the fake domain name registration, etc.

One last edit: TrueCrypt is probably fine protection against common thieves, but enough bits may have been knocked off of it to make it "acceptable" for export. If I was a Russian Spy, I would not touch it with a ten foot pole.
The article estimates his current car (the Porsche) to be worth $9,000. (By the way, I always thought a Porsche would cost more, even used. Hey, I may get myself one for this price.)

We also don't know what other trades he has made during this time. Judging by the description in the article, he seems to be quite prolific, and has probably also made some money with refurbishing electric gadgets and so on.

And we also learned that he still worked at a sushi bar (but lost the job at some point in time). So he has quite a lucrative hobby, but still did a day job.
I disagree with this. Yes, search might be necessary, but there are plenty of other options and it isn't as if there is anything stopping you from using another. (Bing has many of the same features as Google now)

Facebook is different because they are locking you in (perhaps inadvertently) by having all of your real life friends already in the network. People feel forced because it's the only network that is nearly ubiquitous.
Trolling is an art, and this guy is working on his masterpiece.

Why is it that many Athiests are just as atagonizing as the holy rollers? Obviously the "school chaplain" means well, so why torment him?
@phpnode: Email me if you want fairly recent user data for about 15k HN users. I don't know how it might be useful to you, but you might be able to mine the "about" section for information on founders and co-founders or create a bigger leader board. It's in TSV format and the "about" section has been encoded with python's str.encode("string-escape") so you might want to use Python to prepare the data for other uses.

My email is in my profile.
That's fine, but that might not be true for everyone. I think reddit is the best thing to happen since, well sliced bread. I've gotten 100x more utility from reddit than I will ever get from Netflix.
LOIC is complete junk. It's just a crappy TCP/UDP/HTTP attack tool. They are only strong because of the sheer number of them.

A handful of people using a quality tool like Rsnake's "slowloris" (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/) could do much more damage.

Anyone remember smurf attacks? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack) now that was epic. LOIC is lame.
Don't forget the new data center. It's supposed to be operational by the end of the year.

Some cloud thingy is coming.

Personally, I can't wait for the Magic Trackpad.
That blog post shows their workaround for faulty GC caused problems, not that correct GC wouldn't work.

My guess is that forced DOM tear-down broke cross-frame/window references. This is not necessary in implementations that let GC clean up DOM nodes.