skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe if there is a public uprising against the government and the authorities, they will be forced to answer these issues. Wikileaks faclites this by publishing the documents through all types of medium which cannot be censored by the government.
As a citizen you can also contribute by spreading it more and more.. My best bet would be to spread it in schools and colleges as they seem to be fearless lot. An uprising is what we need.
I wonder how much it would take to mass produce these and sell as programming toys/tools? I'd buy one.

PS: if someone else would be serious about pursuing this, i'd love to be a part of it
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bet we would need a separate site for publishing the list. The elections are near. Hope they get a good reply
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And not because Goldman has some special agreement with the secret organization that runs the government from behind the curtain, but rather because they read the laws, consulted with lawyers, and developed a business plan that is within the context of the law.
But do you read all 300 of them?
I think this is only a terminology problem. In tech press, "A killed B" means that B is used less now, is not that cool anymore, etc. It doesn't mean that B is dead or is going to completely disappear. So in this light, I think the TC article is spot on.
"Then they start getting left out of meetings and email conversations as it is easier to get things done without them no matter how smart they are."

At this point it's the management fault for not doing (having done) something about it. Firing the person, fixing the status quo or maybe empowering them to fix it.

And yeah, I'm aware I might now sound like the Heretic themselves :)
I imagine it's a poor attempt to be gender-neutral. Alternating genders between successive examples might have worked better. (The Silence of the Lambs alternative formulation, probably not.)
My experience matches yours: the bug occurs in i686 but not x86_64. I have a variety of boxes with different Linux distributions, and tried it on each.

Ubuntu 10.04, i686, "PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch" has the bug.

Ubuntu 10.10, i686, "PHP 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.1 with Suhosin-Patch" has the bug.

Debian Lenny with 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel, i686, "PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny9 with Suhosin-Patch" has the bug.

Debian Lenny with custom kernel build, x86_64, "PHP 5.3.3-5 with Suhosin-Patch" does not have the bug.

So the common thread seems to be 32- vs 64-bit: the bug occurs on all the 32-bit boxes I tested, but not on any of the 64-bit boxes.
So this is the largest positive denormalized number? Does PHP hang for all denormalized numbers?
Ugh, I managed to hang one of my websites by sticking that number in place of a normal integer parameter.

Apache2 (mod_php) spun at 100% cpu usage.

This suggested workaround works for me. Obviously, it's a limited bandaid, but thanks for suggesting it.
At first I thought you were trying to say that 'they' couldn't be singular. To save others some time, it can. I double checked and made a post to correct you.

Than I realized what you really meant.
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Shouldn't we put one in Africa first?
How much equity would you give up for free room & board for a year?
For three founders. Primo location in center of startup centric area in Boston/SF/NYC.

And why? What's your situation?
Eh, the close relationships and revolving door between the financial industry and government are well known phenomena. No tin foil hat conspiracies are required for expecting them to be above the law and get away with a hell of a lot. They've thoroughly demonstrated that they are quite capable in this regard.
What is interesting to read here are the comments below the story. The article is from 2007 and yet the comments (predominantly negative) keep going in. I don't personally have any knowledge of Vizio, but I'd certainly be wary after reading the comments!
So basically you can hang (almost) any website written in PHP which expose primary keys as GET parameters?

Does this just crash the local process for that request or will it also cause problems for other requests? Anyone able to test this?
For some reason, it makes me think of jobs where, given the same inputs, you perform the task the same way each time, but somehow manage to not recall any of what you've done...
Awesome, this catches HostGator's PHP 5.3.3 (which isn't used by default, have to turn it on yourself) too. I knew there was yet another good reason for always casting expected-int input before doing anything with them... Something as simple as

mysite.com/page/1 ===> $page = 1 ===> href="/page/' . $page + 1 . '">next page

could mess you up...
Why is this not the default malloc shipped with libc's around the world yet?
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This comment really adds nothing to the discussion. I imagine if people were downvoting the parent comment, it is because they made an extraordinary claim (GS is immune to US law), without providing any evidence. We're downvoting you because you's trollin'.
I want a light switch/button for my home theater, and I intend to 3d print that. I am also working on a front door bell panel (with camera, LCD, etc) that will probably be printed.

The guy I know with a printer has used it primarily for making toys and gifts, but he also needs the occasional custom camera mount, e.g. for sticking 2 tiny cameras on a model plane.
maybe you can. if you outsource the development and both parties agreed in the contract--to maintain certain level of software reliability/security.
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I agree. My apologies to adamcharnock. I should have said "inexactitude" instead of "lie". I did not choose the right word when typing my reply.
it's possible. iff the target sites are stupid enough by not doing proper input validation and/or origin check.
Wuala? is it good?
Considering wuala.com over dropbox.com regarding this post => http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2064825

Thoughts?
Follow-up: PROBLEM SOLVED.

This problem occurs due to IA-32's 80-bit floating point arithmetic. The simple fix: add a "-ffloat-store" flag to your CFLAGS.

The problematic function, zend_strtod, seems to parse the mantissa (2.225...011 part) and the exponent (-308 part) separately, calculate the approximation of m*10^e and successively improve that approximation until the error becomes less than 0.5ulp. The problem is that this particular number causes the infinite loop (i.e. the iteration does not improve the error at all) in 80-bit FP, but does not in 64-bit FP. Since x86-64 in general uses the SSE2 instruction set (with 64-bit FP) instead of the deprecated x87 it does not have this problem.
Here's the source for that file if you want to look at it: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/Zend/...
Good point. I modeled it to check it out. Its not a perfect model, but should give a pretty accurate illustration of your point:

http://bit.ly/hyior9 [Google Spreadsheets]
would you please mind, explaining for the down vote?
It really depends on the person, his flaws, and the role.

Roger the Coke Fiend actually seems like he'd be manageable as a part-timer: keep him on the bench, and if you have a cool 72h burst for him to do, especially if the consequences of his failure are not bad in any case. A dull but productive and reliable guy makes a great accountant. It's all about the specifics.

For someone unethical, I'd be reluctant to do most business, but might be willing to do arms length product purchases. For instance, there are musicians who produce music I sometimes enjoy but wouldn't trust at all.
That's probably the coolest coding project I've heard about in years. Please do share.
Didn't they just recently get busted by the SEC and were not able to find a path around the rules and fines?
Maybe I hang out with too many cynical people, but the Heretics I've run into have usually been pretty popular with coworkers, at least if the Heretic is also a reasonably intelligent and sociable person (rather than the muttering-darkly-in-the-corner variety). Even a decent number of people who don't themselves have much interest attacking their boss / stupid corporate policies / etc., sometimes like to watch on the sidelines while someone else does, at least if they can avoid entanglement in the drama. But I guess most people I know are sort of default-cynical about organizations, policies, and management, so there's a default-positivity about someone who's spending their time railing against it, even if you think their energies are misguided/futile.

Though I guess it does get more problematic if they start attacking their coworkers as sheep/sellouts/etc. The popularity is easier to maintain if they stick to attacking management/bosses/policies and treat their coworkers as being on the same side.
Das Labor (a hacker space) has been doing these cubes for a while. They even have a multi-colour cube now: http://www.das-labor.org/wiki/Blinken_Borgs
Only if that parameter is treated as number and not as string. And only if the php version/configuration have that bug. It seems to be a problem when converting from decimal string to number.

In Windows it leaves a zombie resource putting the cpu to 100%, so it doesn't seems to be a nice thing...
Yes, I understand that bugs in the "platform software" used by many internet services have the potential to rapidly affect a lot of users. However, I believe that it is unreasonable to expect users who experience a crash in php, or mysql, or any important application you can name, to not talk about the crash that happened. Software bugs are just too common to impose that restrictive a standard. In general, I believe statements of the form "this information is too dangerous to be shared publicly" are suspect, and we should maintain a strong presumption that as a general rule, it is OK to talk about problems publicly. When it comes to security issues, there is a difference between releasing deliberately crafted 0-day arbitrary remote code execution techniques and just making a public report of a crash you experienced.

Perhaps the real issue is that the growing reliance upon internet services makes fault-tolerant engineering and fallback plans for handling failures very important. We need to make sure that hospitals/police/everything aren't dependent on systems that might break down completely because of bugs like this.
Rasmus Lerdorf just tweeted that it's a gcc optimizer issue:

Works fine with -O0 but not -O2

http://twitter.com/rasmus/statuses/22212610308964353
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The latter is pointlessly verbose. This is discussion, not ad copy that has to be PC.
Ben Horowitz's "ben's blog" always leads off with a thematic rap lyric; it works pretty well in some cases, but fails in others. I don't think this was the strongest one.

Overall, I think it's a decent attempt at having a hook for otherwise somewhat dry (maybe, but not really) blog posts. He is obviously going for contrast.

For instance, the KRS-One quote worked well on
http://bhorowitz.com/2010/05/14/why-startups-should-train-th...

The Who for this was obvious (and the theme too):
http://bhorowitz.com/2010/11/15/meet-the-new-enterprise-cust...

I'd respect him more if he used the obvious Biggie quotes, though.
I like this comment from Don Dodge at http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2011/01/faceb... :

"Critics point to Twitter raising $200M at a $3.7B valuation, and Facebook being valued at $35 Billion, or Groupon at $6B valuation just 6 months after raising a $135M round at a $1.35B valuation as evidence of a bubble. Bubbles don't typically start with the market leaders. Bubbles happen when investors extrapolate market leader valuations onto 3rd tier players. Sound the bubble alarm when you see this happening."
Of course the one hack that will actually improve the success with your desired gender is being downvoted. Because it would mean... going out and meeting people, how gruesome.
Can everybody who posts php -v (in as far as that is necessary...) also post uname -a, otherwise there's not much to go on...
It is not a performance evaluation, but there is a comment from Niall (the author of nedmalloc) in Jason Evans' blog that might give you a hint.

http://t-t-travails.blogspot.com/2010/04/red-black-trees-rev...
This must be it then:

do {
z = (x & 0xffff) y + (xc >> 16) + carry;
carry = z >> 16;
Storeinc(xc, z, z2);
z2 = (x++ >> 16) * y + (*xc & 0xffff) + carry;
carry = z2 >> 16;
}
while(x < xae);

Hit up gdb and watch xae and x...

I'll try myself but I don't have 32bit.
I highly doubt it. For every Facebook, there are 10 HR reporting systems that need custom software. The bulk of the world's programmers are being employed to do boring stuff. When Facebook disappears, there will just be more good programmers around to make really good HR reporting software (instead of the largely lousy software that the industry accepts now, because all the good programmers want to do something else).
The 6510(6502 plus IO-ports) could do no such thing. Fastest instructions used 2 cycles and 1 byte op-code.
Isn't that what everyone said 40 years ago about the Japanese? My guess is that English is not going to become obsolete because Facebook's investors got burned.
perhaps they did. but perhaps you should provide some more information about the event you refer to.

This perhaps?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-10/goldman-executive-f...
Oh, absolutely. I am nearly certain that Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon's investors are not going to get the big payout they expect, and that investors in "third tier players" are going to be eating a lot of rice and beans in the not-so-distant future. But this isn't going to collapse the global economy and put all programmers out of work.
Go for growth companies in emerging technologies coupled with stocks from already strong institutions like GE, GM, NVDA, etc.

Check out free stock forum type pages during market hours for ideas. I like this one: http://www.stockrants.com

Good luck =)
If you were truly mass producing them, it'd be cheaper to get them made in China/India, and cooler if you could do it with smaller leds in a smaller cube.
But government regulation isn't going to solve that problem either. Remember Enron and Worldcom?
Well, it's more like the "revolving door between industry and the government". The government makes lives easier for every industry; health insurance companies, the airlines, the automakers, the utilities, the postal service, Hollywood... everyone.
Thinkgeek sells a 4x4x4 version for $80:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/techies/d71d/
Here's one: YC is way too expensive for some startups.
Yes amazing, I used to have Instructables in my rss reader but had to remove it due to the articles being totally unreadable.
I can't speak for the veracity of the report - I have paid for digital products, if that's of any relevance - but I can talk about what we might learn.

First, people are willing to pay for stuff that can be found for free. The difficulty in buying something online is about equal to pirating it, which means that a significant number of people are willing to support things they believe in. Why this is, I can't say.

Second, that there is a huge potential market for digital goods. There are a lot of people on the internet and distances don't matter, which means that you could have a huge customer base (65% of "a lot", to be exact).

Combine those together and I think the conclusion is that we're going to see a continued revival of "garage programmers" selling digital goods.
I'd love to have this. I'd make a 3D snake game out of it. Unfortunately I don't have the time and knowledge to build something like this cube.
I've "fixed" my family's computers several times now. When I fixed my aunt's, she complained about it, so I removed IE, set the chrome icon to the ie icon, and told her that Microsoft released a new version of ie and I upgraded it because the old version had many security flaws that could give you viruses. She loves it now.
The http://php.net/oop page is a great start. It lists all "modern features" of PHP. Almost all of which are used to write "great code".
But surely it's two.
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If you look at the majority of consumer software, be it open source or proprietary, you will notice that its license terms always explicitly disclaim all liabilities and warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. Using the software creates a legal agreement to not sue regardless of how buggy the software is. Software development contracts between businesses usually have different terms, so there might be grounds for suit depending on the contract in question. For the typical individual user, they are unlikely to have any legal recourse regardless of how badly software behaves. About the only exception I can think of right now is the infamous "Sony rootkit", but in that case, the major issue was exactly that the software was installed regardless of the user agreeing to the license and that its nature as being independent of the music content purchased was not disclosed.
Seriously? You're turning this into a juvenile 'my music is better than yours' argument? This is no reason to assume the OP has a specific beef with rap, just that it doesn't belong in a business article, which is true. Reading comprehension also means deriving assumptions from the context and looking for interpretations of what is said that fit within that context.
the simple fact that you are writing that should be proof positive, the scary alternative is that you are in someone else's imagination ;)
Ask HN: If you had to pay ~5$ per month for an online service, what would it be?
I'm not really fishing for startup ideas, but I'd like to get a sense of consumer pain points that are severe enough that people will pay moderate sums of money for.

Good Examples:

File sharing / hosting / management: Github, Dropbox, Flickr

Dating / Networking / Communication: Skype, LinkedIn, Match.com, OKCupid

Tasks / Todo / Personal Search: Evernote, Basecamp

Others: Eyefi, Wakemate

Basically I'd love to hear answers that are like "Oh, I'd LOVE IT if someone fixes X --I'd totally pay 5 bucks for it!"
You use two cycles, but the 6502 could execute the instruction while fetching the next one.
Among other reasons, the "wealthy investors" are institutions, like government pension funds. (and, due to insurance, all pensions are effectively government pensions) There are many trillions of dollars in projected shortfalls, which will either be met by raising taxes or reducing promised benefits.

Plus, selfishly for HN people, a bubble bursting can cause a lot of collateral damage even to decent startups -- think of all the relatively decent companies which got screwed in the dot.com period.
What I mean by "the open web"
This bug doesn’t remove the existing syntax, so a rewrite isn’t imperative. Nice not to have different code paths going forwards though, yep.
> while the Z80 had more registers

To somewhat counter that, the 6502 could read and write to the first 256 bytes of memory with shorter instructions. The 65816 expanded that idea to allow you to do that to any place in memory.
so hire people you don't have to train. you have enough traffic to monetize a better team
The MSX 1 also had a hideous design flaw (for a gaming machine) that hid the framebuffer from the processor. IIRC, you had to do a couple IOs to get a single byte to or from the VRAM.
haha that would be classic GS. "Um sorry we were wrong about the IPO rule." However, there is no IPO rule -- the rule only requires public disclosure of financials, not public ownership.
Adobe Cirrus (formerly Status) is the technology that Chatroulette and most clones are built on. Chatroulette was not much more than a slightly modified example program provided by Adobe for Status.

Cirrus sets up the connection between the two clients and then the clients talk directly to each other. Since there is a direct connection to your 'anonymous' client you can get the IP and then geolocate. Bing. Bang. Boom.
I don't see how what amounts to lying can be considered a clever solution. By these standards, the biggest liars are the best hackers.

This is the problem that I have with both of these pseudo-hacks. Both persons are liars and cheaters, which is socially not accepted, except when dating apparently...
Any type of physics simulation, from protein folding to FEM to real-time game physics, plus image/video processing, graphics rendering, computer vision, speech recognition, neural networks, ...
10k is too small, really. It is mostly a way for me stay in the game. On one hand, startups have rejected that as an amount, wanting 25-50k. On the other hand, I have wanted to do my usual 25k and only bee able to get a 10k allocation.

The better the deal, the less I invest, paradoxically.
I'm Romanian. We're not as bad as Mexic, in the sense we don't have drug lords and piles of bodies, but we definitely don't lose in corruption.

I've spent not a little time thinking about what can be done. I know the problem (pretty much everybody knows the problem) - politicians suck. They're either corrupt and incompetent, or just corrupt. Problem is, we really really don't have any alternatives. There is absolutely no party, not even a small youth one that's not the same. We can barely trust non-political watchdog organizations - hell, after the last elections we don't really trust them either.

The media is... ok. Private for the most part, and so heavily politicized (yes, it makes sense here), but they don't pull punches when it comes to criticizing the government. They're pretty open with both obvious mistakes and obvious cases of corruption - but the problem is, nothing ever comes out of it.

In a working democracy this would be a case for the justice system. Well, we have two problems. First, the whole system is also corrupt as hell. Second, it's also (probably on purpose) extremely inefficient. All the reforms in the past years, including a ridiculously publicized new constitution a few years back only made things worse.

So yes, I know what we need. We need:

* to respect the now largely ignored law saying that public institutions, education and health are non-politic;
* justice system reform
* new and fresh options for the next elections
* untainted public organizations

It's no mystery, really. The only problem is... how do we do it? It it my personal conviction that solving this chicken and egg problem is the next greatest challenge. A generic solution would be extremely useful for most developing countries, i.e. half the world right now.