skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i totally believe that there is more evidence out there, it is just rarely actually revealed.

so it seems at least possible that there is some collusion, conscious or not, between journalists and cybersecurity spooks to name an enemy in order to get traction in the public mind, vs. saying "well, it's from a lot of different people, lots of stuff from china, and who knows what else."

I even think this might be a good strategy - I guess my point is i'd like to see more real public evidence before we accuse foreign governments of attacking us in the press. not because i don't believe it is happening, but because i feel those assertions should be backed up if they're going to be made.
Yeah - I guess when "good enough" gets you around $25 billion in revenue, it's probably good enough for now...
> I'm not sure that 2 makes for sufficient competition, but it certainly beats one.

This is a very interesting point.

Competition only benefits consumers when there is sufficient choice to subvert collusion. Given the examples of US politics, US car manufacturers and the like, I would surmise that this likely requires more than 3 relatively equal competitive actors to be meaningful.
> It isn't trucks who are menace on the road, it is flipping off jerks in cars.

The article states:

- The driver may be "numb".

- He is in emotional distress.

- He has skipped meals

- He has been driving the better half of 14 hours.

THIS is my beef.

There is NO EXCUSE for putting others in danger on the road, and instead of flipping him off, the state police should have been notified maybe, but to say we should just relax is out of line.

I'd argue that NOBODY should be driving under these conditions, let alone a truck driver.
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My page is referencing the JS files for syntaxhighlighter from the site alexgorbatchev.com. Unfortunately that site appears to be down lately so it's disrupting my code.

I've temporarily removed links to it and am referencing the files locally.

My site and the examples should work now. Let me know if it doesn't:

http://code.gautamlad.com/glDatePicker/
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And that truck is delivering the goods that you buy, so it seems to me that it washes out in the end.
> Who flips someone off because they had to slow down?

Uh... I can't tell if this is a serious question. Do you drive much? I see it happen all the time, and I live in Canada!
From your comment, it doesn't seem like you were ever almost killed by a truck driver. Were you? Then why so afraid?

I second the previous poster that in my experience big-rig drivers are the safest.
To get from the Chinese ships to the rail station... you must have trucks.

To get from the rail station to Walmart... you must have trucks.

No way around it.
Maybe you should lay off the Victoria Secret searches ;-)

If you don't mind me asking, what were your categories? I am curious why they inferred female vs male.
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More good commentary here on another HN post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840062

and the blog post on McAfee has more details than any popular account:
http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/revealed-operation-shady...
dmm is right. Citation: http://www.economist.com/node/16636101
There's a reason Berkshire Hathaway spent 34 billion to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation.
Stanford CS majors who take the AI track are required to take both CS 229 and this course, CS 221, so it definitely presents useful materials and concepts.
Seems like this is an unavoidable issue with the land area of the United States, then. The pain-in-the-ass has to be relocated to someone, so it ends up with the truck drivers and/or product costs.
This reminds of me the Pedro the Lion song "Big Trucks."
Coding takes concentration, and so does driving. The problem is that on a highway, split-second reflexes are called upon infrequently. This makes it even more important to give the road your full attention.

Also see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012393/Distracting-...
It depends on what your goals are.

Arguably, the easiest way to make a "quick" iphone app, is to write a web app with a UI optimized for mobile and put it on a server and give out the URL. The app won't feel quite like a native app, it won't be able to run background tasks, each time you run it, it'll probably need to load all of the resources, but it's a great way to quickly test your concept, it'll work on all mobile platforms, and you won't have to get it approved by an app store.
But it should be optional for users to show or not to show their comments.

Or you could make scraper for saved stories, and ask few people you are interested in to scrap their stories.
Living only 2 hours away, I'm a big fan of RTP. At the top of the ladder you probably have the Silicon Valley and probably Austin, Texas. Then there's 3 or 4 great second tier places: Boulder, Boston, RTP, etc (NYC? Seattle? DC?)

I've worked in all of these areas, and as far as cost-of-living and breathing room, RTP has the others beat. I'm still concerned about the atmosphere -- I'd like to see a lot more early-stage VCs and a better startup culture, but it's definitely top-notch. If I had a startup that was breaking even and looking for a spot to settle and grow? I really don't think there's much competition: Austin's too hot, The Valley's too expensive, Boston's too crowded. It'd most likely boil down to Boulder or RTP. You can make great arguments about each of these (BTW, I love working in all the other areas too. Not trying to dismiss any of them out-of-hand.)
waiting list :/
One of the big drawbacks for earlier versions of Direct3D (9 and earlier) on PC was that draw calls were expensive operations, especially compared to OpenGL, because they required a trip to kernel land and back again. By moving the application into kernel mode many of these calls become much less expensive.

The obvious down-side is that if something goes wrong the whole system is hosed. This isn't really a problem though because there are no shoddy drivers written by half-caring vendors on a console, content for the platform had to be certified to be released for it and was required to not crash, and even if it does crash it's much less aggravating because, hey, it's a video game and not your unsaved work that is lost.
I like the post for the humanist viewpoint. I have to think that maybe truckers aren't going to be as disappointed as I thought when the entire industry workforce is displaced in 15 years with self-driving trucks.

I've put quite a bit of thought on it and my guess is that the truck driving workforce is going to evaporate almost overnight once self driving trucks are green-lighted. It's going to be hard for a human to compete unless he can drive 24x7, never get tired, have split-second reflexes, and works for 65 cents worth of electricity a day...
From what I understand, raw number of lines of code, taking absolutely nothing else into consideration, is the most reliable indicator of bug count by a wide margin. I bought the book this morning to read it for myself but haven't had a chance yet due to work. It's Chapter 8 of "Making Software" (which can legally be had for free I believe)
Wait, what? Using the left lane to pass is impolite?

> I have no tolerance for that.

Being polite? Clearly.
In the late 90's, people thought they could strike riches by throwing up a webpage.

Today, people think they can strike riches by creating a mobile app.

Not much has changed.
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The sister thing in particular doesn't tend to apply in general, but something does.

The article says "out 10 days and back for a couple" but that vastly depends on what kind of trucking you do. My dad's current schedule, for example, has him out for 5 or 6 and in for 1 or 2 (in a good week; recently there's been a few where he's only been out for 3 or 4 days which is a huge strain on the finances), but in the past he's had some short haul routes where he was home every day just long enough to sleep and before that, when I was young, he did some long hauls where I sometimes didn't see him for a month or more.

For the long haulers, even if their sister didn't die, odds are something has happened that they haven't had a chance to deal with.

The real take away message from this, though, is just respect and not to get upset if a truck is slowing you down for a minute.
You'll probably find out that many business owners would rather invest tjeir money in creating alternative revenue streams than paying into a strike fund.
"The Client DPI-SSL deployment scenario typically is used to inspect HTTPS traffic when clients on the LAN browse content located on the WAN. In the Client DPI-SSL scenario, the SonicWALL UTM appliance typically does not own the certificates and private keys for the content it is inspecting. After the appliance performs DPI-SSL inspection, it re-writes the certificate sent by the remote server and signs this newly generated certificate with the certificate specified in the Client DPI-SSL configuration. By default, this is the SonicWALL certificate authority (CA) certificate, or a different certificate can be specified. Users should be instructed to add the certificate to their browser’s trusted list to avoid certificate trust errors."

Or otherwise the SonicWALL DPI needs to sit in front of the resource being protected and have the SSL private and public keys to do the full encryption/decryption.

Either way, it is not transparent and can't just be deployed, especially if the user is wary and won't just add a new CA to his browser.
Horrible indeed.
I think that your list looks like almost everybody else here in Hacker News. :).
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Its irrelevant. The website stunt will probably get him an interview, then his performance in that will determine whether he gets hired.
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Not "as precisely as possible" but "as precisely as necessary".

For example, "i" is great name for a loop variable. It keeps it from distracting you and it saves space so you can see more of the variables whose names matter.
Were you looking for some gift for your girlfriend / wife?
Or maybe someone else uses your computer.
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... or chocked under an axle.
In any language you can build a interpreter/compiler for any other language but thats not the point. The point is that you can do random AST transformation at compiletime.

You think of macros as a kind of pay of for s-exp syntax. I have to say that even without macros I would think s-exp syntax is nicer. Sure in Ruby you can do alot when you play around with that suger stuff but this stuff often doesn't come free. See this blogpost for an example of what I mean: http://briancarper.net/blog/579/keyword-arguments-ruby-cloju...

Depending on what you do you are writting a lot of macros. In lisp the interface to a library is almost always in a DSL style witch makes them easy to use. See this list here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3968055/are-there-any-clo.... In your own Application your maybe not going to need them that often depending on what you do.

What you discribe is just a macrosystem. Having macros in a language with syntax is duable (look at Dylan or Plot) but you will find that getting everything nice and easy to use is much harder then you think. If CoffeeScript has a macrosystem great. I don't really know CoffeeScript well enought. Could you provide me with some nice examples of how people use this in CoffeeScript?

If I where you I would just learn enought lisp that you can trie it out yourself.
My favourite idiocy is people cutting close in front of big rigs (they think they're being very smart but they're occupying the trucks' stopping distance).
Not sure what the comparison is with waiters. A lot of waiters are in their teens or early twenties and it's already one of the highest paying jobs for that group without requiring any real qualifications. Restaurants, on the other hand, are not the most profitable business around as it is, and you want them to triple their payroll expenses to pay minimum wage?
If you could work for a startup, any startup, which one would it be?
It isn't Tepco either, but TEPCO and the name should not be foreign to anyone that knows about the issue.

Fukushima is the prefecture that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in. It is around the size of Connecticut. If there are high radiation levels as Millstone (a nuclear plant in Connecticut) you do not say that there are high levels of radiation in Connecticut.
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Interesting game. I admit, I wouldn't have gotten it without help from the internet, which I suppose is against the rules. But I know no latin, so it was my only hope. The answer is ursine, which I've attempted to bury somewhat in my response so that it doesn't pop out so obviously to those who read this later and want to solve the clues for themselves.

Here's a stab at one that's so vague that there's probably a better answer hidden in there than the intended "right" one:

Carbohydrates

Chickpea

Canned

Confectionary
I did the same math as Notch, independently of him, and came to the same result: This will never run on current consumer hardware because of space and computation constraints. I don't think this is a massive stretch considering the numbers involved.
> managers have a duty of care towards their employees.

I agree with this, but I still maintain the original point you were responding to - I still think it is an individual responsibility.

> I'm sorry but employment is a power-relationship and saying that the critical thing is 'self-esteem' is simply wrong.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "power-relationship" a bit more? I still do think self-esteem is a critical component; when you are hiring people to be a cog in the wheel, the last thing you look for is individuality - so yes, when herding the sheep, as a manager you come from the power position and benefit by taking care of your sheep so they output most effectively.

But I suppose the question over which points are being argued here has more to do with what kind of personality we are talking about? Like I said, I agree with what you say when the person in question is desirable as a replaceable part (as is the case in many larger corporations) but I disagree when we start talking about autonomous individuals (the irreplaceable people in an organization - small or large).

I suppose it was my fault for relating the concept of "remote worker" with one of "autonomous individual" - when in fact there are people of many different personality types and roles that engage in remote working.
I'd argue that NOBODY should be driving under these conditions, let alone a truck driver.

I wish it could be that way, but things look a lot different when you're the driver and missing the load means your family's going to have a hard time eating.

If you're going to be complaining, the drivers aren't the people to complain about.
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> Downtime in NYC from TWC is painful

Really? I run nagios at home, and right now it says year-to-date I've had 28m 40s of downtime, for 99.988% uptime of my cable internet service (for the host monitoring my first-hop router). This is in Chelsea, Manhattan, with their "wideband" level of service.
AisleBuyer mDine Streamlines Mobile Ordering and Payments for Restaurants
I have been following Aislebuyer, TabbedOut, TotalTab for a while now. Today AisleBuyer released a way of ordering food at restaurants through smartphone app and skipping the line.

I think that the way this is different from Chipotle, Grubhub, Seamless and all other online ordering apps is that this allows smartphone ordering for dine-in. But again that's my impression from reading the news.

We have been working on smartphone ordering for dine-in for a few months now. Any comments on a service like this would be helpful for us. What can be advantages / disadvantages of such a system for users and merchants?

I have commented on a couple of articles before but this is the first time I am submitting an article.
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A lot of physical world techniques. Human intelligence, bugs, covert entries, tailing and surveillance. Also financial analysis, who is paying the bills.
I have been following Aislebuyer, TabbedOut, TotalTab for a while now. Today AisleBuyer released a way of ordering food at restaurants through smartphone app and skipping the line.

I think that the way this is different from Chipotle, Grubhub, Seamless and all other online ordering apps is that this allows smartphone ordering for dine-in. But again that's my impression from reading the news.

We have been working on smartphone ordering for dine-in for a few months now. Any comments on a service like this would be helpful for us. What can be advantages / disadvantages of such a system for users and merchants?

I have commented on a couple of articles before but this is the first time I am submitting an article.
If you're looking for an overarching guide to the finance industry - The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals By Kuznetsov is a good book to start. This book explains the major financial markets, players and products, and what a technical/quantitative person could do there.
Interesting, because I have 5 tabs open (running the latest version of FF), and it's using over half a gig of RAM. It's been running since monday.

Perhaps I need to take another look at my addons, but I only have four (firebug, web developer, ad block, and diigo), so I really doubt they are the cause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl
You are only ever running one process at a time and it runs under a hypervisor anyways.
Ask HN: We think micro-stock is broken, please rate our 3 ideas...
http://quillu.com/stock - easy discovery using social graph and image analysis to rank algorithmically.

http://quillu.com/marketplace - 99designs for microstock

http://quillu.com/news - sell your Instagram pics

http://quillu.com redirects randomly to one of the three links above, is this a good idea for "a/b/c testing"?

Thanks very much, all feedback appreciated, please be as brutal as you like :)
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Think bigger.

We as a species devote a tremendous amount of our resources to killing each other. Why don't we devote more to exploration?

Wars are justified by governments as an investment in the future. We want to "secure the middle east", etc.

Why isn't science looked at in the same light? It's an investment in the future.
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Aren't both groupon and livingsocial trying to "own the space"?
I will add that your first glance at the code should give you the same feeling that you get when you see a hot sports car or an Apple product[1] for the first time. Humans are attracted to visual appeal and code is no exception. Code that looks visually appealing is the code you are going to enjoy maintaining.

[1] I realize Apple's design is not everyone's taste, it's just an example.
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Most of the folks driving truck are true professionals. For example, anyone else ever spot truckers herding traffic? I've seen this a few times locally, it normally happens when there's a lane merge coming up due to construction.

On more than one occasion I've seen truckers entirely block the merging lane, forcing folks behind them to merge cleanly. This gets everyone through the construction zone faster since you don't have a stream of last-minute merges jamming things up.
The math Notch did was to prove that they are using procedural generation of geometry, which makes it feasible. In his mind it also makes it a scam. Beats me why.
Another war the USA will probably lose. Cyber Pearl Harbor.
I definitely felt a lot better when entering California, where they're required to stay on the right lane, and not to pass cars, than when I was going through El Paso, and my mom and I were almost killed by two passing trucks who swerved into my lane, in plain daylight, as if we weren't there.

I didn't flip the bird, but I would have if they'd be able to see me. I wonder why more states don't have similar regulation?
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the fact that you think being a waiter has "no real qualifications" underlines the fact that you probably haven't been one.

also, there is an immense range of compensation for servers, depending on the restaurant in question. any restaurant that you go to where the servers make a decent amount of money definitely requires skill.
Just like irrational fear of airplanes, truck drivers suffer a bad rep because of the availability heuristic[1].

*Edit: The article and comments also relate to the fundamental attribution error[2], where we often think someone is a "jerk" if they are speeding for example, but we often fail to take into account their perspective and situation.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
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I'm still concerned about the atmosphere -- I'd like to see a lot more early-stage VCs and a better startup culture, but it's definitely top-notch.

Definitely "yes" on the "more early stage VCs" part. More active angel investors would be huge for this area as well.

As for "startup culture" in general, though, I think it's improved a LOT and just recently... like in the last two years. There's been a huge surge of new startup activity here, especially in Durham. The whole "American Underground" thing has been a big boon, as has the "Startup Stampede" thing that Durham has done (and "Startup Stampede 2.0 is about to kick off).

It still has room to grow, but we're starting to see hints of the emergence of that strong startup culture.

Another thing that would be helpful, would be to get some of the experienced / successful existing entrepreneurs more engaged with the community of people who are just starting out.
I just signed up for an account just so I could post how awesome that skill profile is. Some site really needs to copy this idea.
If trucks paid their way, more goods would travel by freight rail.
A great story with a human angle.

It is interesting, when the personal connection with the other party is not present or is reduced, how personalities can change. Email / news groups / etc. regularly erupt in flamewars, people making snide comments, etc.

The same thing happens often when people get in their vehicle. In their own little world, drivers aren't always as aware of their actions and behaviors as they should be (or how their actions impact other drivers, for instance).

I know I have been guilty of this from time to time.

This is another call to really just bring an awareness to your actions and who/what they may affect.
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The thing I'd say about "elegant" is that elegance achieves some combination of desirable characteristics so well that it stands out as a noticeably better solution. If you can use three somewhat obscure lines to do what someone else take five readable pages to do, you're elegant even the code isn't that readable.

That said, since true elegance is kind of exceptional, it probably shouldn't be the criteria for acceptable code - "clear, readable and reasonably" is a better standard to have.