skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An emulator does exactly as it says: it emulates. It creates an environment that appears to a running program to be identical to the real thing. This is done by emulating the hardware (e.g. BSNES), emulating the runtime environment for a native binary (e.g. VMware), or most commonly, a mixture of both.

A simulator -- at least in the world of Apple iOS development -- does not attempt to emulate iOS hardware, or even the iOS operating system. All the simulator does is provide a virtual display and launches an instance of Launchpad.app. Your app then runs within that virtual display, and talks with natively compiled copies of the iOS APIs, but otherwise it's a normal Mac OS X process that can be viewed and poked with Activity Monitor, or top, or whatever.

The simulator doesn't need to "boot up". There are no virtual drivers. There's no memory management. There's no emulated silicon whatsoever.

The only downside to this approach I can see is that the simulator can't be used to test some things like resource limits, and some things behave very differently, like OpenGL. But you have to test on real hardware anyway, and Apple have made native testing just as easy as simulated.
I sincerely like the fact that someone on here can answer with something like that. I had no clue and it would have taken a lot more time to look that up than read it (and off the cuff it sounded plausible re: the security council). And if I want to pursue it, I can start from what you said and check that.
While that's how it is generally understood, there is nothing stopping the implementation from defining the behaviour as:

conversion is rounded up to the nearest multiple of 20 on odd lines.
conversion is rounded down to the nearest multiple of 17 on even lines.

Older versions of gcc would have such a (fully standard compliant) behavior when you used #pragma, that included running rogue or nethack and other stuff -- but later versions actually succumbed to implementing useful pragmas.
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That would be a funky looking apple...
A little off topic, but: Sonja Lyubomirsky's book on happiness is great. A friend gave it to me as a birthday gift a few years ago.
I would be very surprised if most countries required this. The justification of minimum wage is to keep the risk-takers from shoving all that risk onto the lowest level of employee. The employee is then given a min. wage and the risk taker may or may not take anything home at the end of the month.

I suppose one "benefit" of such a requirement is that a lawyer could no longer take on worthy projects for free ;-)
Microsoft Surface: the iPad rival the tech world desperately needs?
CyberZeist Claims to Have Gained Access to Hundreds of Federal Accounts
Where this will really sink in is when you have your first equity liquidity event, and you're bouncing off the walls, and then your pesky brain does the math on how much money you made annualized relative to what you would have made as an FTE at a BigCo.

Not that I think you should work for BigCos, but, the realization will let some of the air out of the balloon.
Awesome imagery here...when I first read the title though it made me think this was going to be about Detroit again. The levels of destruction and abandonment there even today have to be seen to be believed.
Credit card websites hit by grey hat hacker, who claims to have 50GB of data
Please, the people who matter are:

1. buyers from retail who might "play" a game only at E3

2. Marketing people who are getting a sense for how your game is being received and might never play a game

3. Corporate tools who are checking how things are going and definitely never play games

4. journalists who may or may not play games or understand them.

The goal is not to let someone get lost in the entertainment but to get them to order a million copies in to retail, write a piece that gets everyone to buy the game, get marketing excited, keep your job or get a free trip to LA so you can drink your face off every night on the corporate dime. Plus it's E3, everything is cranked to a million decibels with a continuous strobe of nonsense.

My only bit of advice for the woman writing the article and others: Use Your Words. Tell the dude to go back to picking his wedgie and do your business.
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250K beta testers later, MightyText launches best texting app for Android, ever
Does the Mandrill inbound email system parse out quoted text?
I think deep integration with MailChimp is a huge reason to use Mandrill. I'm not and have never been a paid MailChimp customer, but this might get me there.

I currently use MailGun for transactional e-mail, and CampaignMonitor for marketing e-mail. MailGun's UI is really rough, so Mandrill is pulling me in for that reason alone, and CampaignMonitor pretty great but I haven't use it lately any way.

Have you considered discounts for developers deploying individual accounts for clients?
Nor is transporting. Both of which explaining why hydrogen fuel cell technology is now feasible for mid-range electrical generation (Bloom Box), but still generally DOA for vehicles.

That is: generation cost hasn't been the problem for a while. It's all about storage and transport. And marginally cheaper h2 generation isn't going to make hydrogen make more sense than electrical batteries.

Though I am curious to see how well a setup of this technology driving H2 separation and feeding a fuel cell stacks up against a more traditional steam turbine.
Facebook Mobile Ads Are Clicked 13X More, Earn 11X More Money Than Desktop Ads
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I know it's in bold, but I think it bears repeating:
> Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that investors are human too, just like the rest of us.

Talking sports, wine, and private schools are all better topics to kick off a conversation with a prospective angel. These investments are often made on trust over math. Building trust by showing an appreciation for what the other person values is the best place to start :-)
Creator of Dresssed here.

You can get much cheaper themes specifically for Bootstrap here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/.

But what I've noticed is that every theme based on Bootstrap is incomplete. Focus of my themes is to provide everything you need to build an app. Re-branding every component was a lot of work and trying to make them not look like Bootstrap was even more work.
To a point. It was on the front page for some time though. If it had kept the F-You title, though, more people would remember it being on the front page, especially with the language used.

Long term, it would be nice if HN showed you potentially similar items like MetaFilter does..
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How foursquare lost track and went for that "platform" thing | Māris Antons
What? Profitable is profitable, there is no ambiguity there. The post linked above is talking mostly about opportunity cost (your own) and growth. Is your business sustainable? Is it growing? Is it worth doing full time? Those are all critical questions but the concept of profit does not include them.
> several more smaller ones which would almost been fatal.

As opposed to the air pollution from coal burning, and accidents installing solar and air; which are fatal every year.
Lets stay on topic here and not mudsling over your understanding of their development standards.
"For something specific you need it" meaning ... a negative number, like an array or memory address offset? I mean, sure, I agree that you should be doing anything sensitive to 2's complement behavior on unsigned quantities. And if you know the values are positive-definite, unsigned has much cleaner behavior. And I'd even entertain the argument that unsigned should have been the default in the language spec and that signed quantities are the ones that should have specially declared types.

But... your advice as written is just insane. They are real, and required routinely. You can't just apply this as a "for dummies" rule without essentially ruling out half of the code they'll need to write.
The only reason to announce hardware more than 6 months prior to availability is to deter people from buying iPads and Macbook Airs in the meanwhile.

I've played with Win8 running on an Atom tablet and while the hardware sucked, the idea of being able to do real work on legacy apps (Photoshop, 3DS Max, video editing etc) on it is nice. The x86 Surface is definitely a laptop replacement.

Not convinced about Metro yet though - depends on the apps we'll see on it I guess.

I also have an iPad with the Logitech Ultra Thin BT keyboard cover and I really like it. If only iOS had CMD/TAB keyboard shortcut for swapping between apps and more open file system I could do a fair bit of web dev work on it. My 13" Macbook Pro feels like a brick compared to the iPad+keyboard cover.

Still can't do Photoshop/3D/etc work on the iPad though.
wow, this is amazing. git log has options? and you can use them? who knew.
One possible explanation: People here, generally speaking, like a community that is about the people. Aside from meta.stackoverflow, Stack Overflow's model makes that difficult. That's ok, because Stack Overflow is not a social network - http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/128552/143601
New Asian Immigrants To US Now Surpass Hispanics
The reason we closed up shop is because, with a 50:50 split in ownership, my partner was making more money than he could at a BigCo but I wasn't. I didn't have the heart to tell him that (or ask for a different equity distribution) so I just went and got myself a salary.
I think they should have copied Apple there too: Remember the OS9 emulation that OSX used to have? Just emulate Windows 7 so you can use apps like microsoft office.

Or make a proper Metro / tablet / touch oriented version of Office a priority. Yes it would be a lot of work, but they can throw nearly limitless resources at it.
The point is that a business (at least from this point of view) is an entity in its own right. The founders are a bit like a life-support machine – if you switch them off, does the business die? (Of course, even a profitable business might die if the business can't hire some people to replace the founders.)

Because the business is supposed to be an entity in its own right, you have to value the founder's contribution somehow in deciding whether it is profitable. One way might be to consider what the salary would be to hire someone to take it over such that it continues to produce the same revenue. Another way might be to pay the founders their living expenses (ramen-profitable.) But discounting the cost of the founders working on it to zero? As the article says, that is meaningless.

It's like the old joke: Q: How can you quickly make a million dollars? A: Invest two million dollars in $TOPICAL_RISKY_ACTIVITY

If you hack it together on weekends and with no oversight it is reliably making a $100 more than hosting a month and will do for the foreseeable future, it's profitable (albeit at a small level and not necessarily sustainable).

But if you're living off savings and working full time on it, and it's making $1000 dollars a month, its not profitable.
In the iOS sense of the question:

An emulator would be binary compatible with the actual device by emulating the ARM instruction set on top of x86. The iOS simulator doesn't do this but instead runs a flavor[1] of iOS natively directly on x86 that is API compatible but not binary compatible (i.e. compiled binaries for the simulator cannot be ran on the devices).

[1] The simulator OS also has distinct limitations that diverge from the real device or what you would expect from a truly emulated environment. There's no motion detection, no GPU performance, no accelerometer or compass, location data is simulated, multitouch input is limited, some frameworks are not available, etc).
agree 100%. the '5 minute' newscycle of tech blogs leads to needless repetition of dumb stuff.
I doubt water usage per capita has changed drastically in the last 20 years. Sure, there were drops from low flow toilets, low flow shower heads, and HE washing machines, and I'm sure there's some variability to usage based on seasonal variance from year to year, but the average US household uses about 350 gallons a day. I don't have access to historical data, but I'd wager that it hasn't changed more than 25% in the last decade or two.

Power has remained relatively constant at about 1.3MWh per capita. In the last thirty years, it has grown only 300KWh.

Internet bandwidth, on the other hand, went from 9.6-14.4kbit/s modems in fax machines in the 80s to 28.8-56.6kbit/s modems in the 90s to the megabit/s range in the 00s to the 15-100Mbps you can get in a residence today.

If the bandwidth issue is to get solved, the growth in consumption will need to peak.
We need more tools like this! It's really hard to run a crowdfunding campaign for the first time without this kind of help...
You can find me on Twitter - @woogoose - let's take it from there!
Hey Guys,

I've shared these thoughts with a few people and they thought the HN community would benefit from it to. When you started your startup, did you think about Failure?
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Apart from `-p` and `--name-status`, there’s also `--stat` for the `++++++++----` things for each file.
I took "They guarantee that the inputs are legal" to mean that they limited it to programs with specified behavior. They don't know what the behavior is -- just that it is specified.

If they can do this, it finds a subset of bugs, with no false positives.
Update: Aptonic Software is headed by @JohnWinter.
That you don't know what community means is kind of sad, but it certainly explains the decisions that drove me (and others here) away from Stack Overflow.

Speaking as a Wikipedia admin, you're replicating a mistake that I think has harmed Wikipedia immensely without mirroring one of the key safety valves.

Wikipedia has a problem that's well-known in the community: active participants are burning out, editor activity is stagnant, and the existing social environment is very off-putting to newbies. Petty enforcement of petty rules, an obsession with particular notions of quality, and a lot of behavior that seems to the uninitiated like high-handed dickishness.

But one of Wikipedia's saving graces is this core policy: "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." It reminds people that rules are the tail, not the dog.

With Wikipedia, strict rules aren't what leads to a valuable artifact. it's that a lot of people care about creating the world's best reference work together. They understand very clearly that it's the community that produces the encyclopedia. The rules are just there to record community consensus, and to help newbies think things through.
I still disagree. Profitable, to me means the business owner takes home something at the end of the month from earnings. It may not be much. But it has to be something.

Secondly I don't see a rule that says that a business has to support a full time employee to be profitable.

Now something may be profitable and not sustainably so, and that's a point the author kinda sorta halfway makes later on. The point where the business is supporting the owners and there is money to reinvest, that's sustainable. Profitability however is where the net profits > 0.

This is actually important if you are looking at the health of the business.
I use StackOverflow more than ever. It has been indispensable in building our new product. I've rarely run into a problem in the past 6 months that wasn't solved on StackOverflow.
Very nice read, thanks for sharing
Facebook Mobile Ads Clicked 13X More, Earn 11X More $ Than Desktop Ads
AWESOME. Crowdfunding sure is hard to do alone...
Actually, it is a Turing machine built using Lego. The part built using just Lego bricks however isn't a universal Turing machine. I don't see a claim anywhere that it's a UTM, just that it's a TM, which it clearly is.

BTW: The site links to the code running on the brick, which is a very simple parser for a basic TM language which interprets programs written in that language. So even though the "universal" part isn't done using basic bricks, it actually is a UTM.
Not yet. The inbound system right now is really basic - we'll parse out the messages and deliver them to a webhook, but we won't munge it much beyond breaking apart attachments and things.
Yes, you are:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD098ZM/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY
Color me disappointed. The blog makes some nebulous claim about Cue retaining Greplin's features, but makes no specific assertations about the future of search. If you're retaining those features, why have you made them inaccessible? The Greplin website redirects to Cue, so I can't search now. If search is indeed gone, so be it, but I can't help but wonder why you've cut me off from your service before the new UI is ready for me to use.
Good point on Xcode as a good use case: I use DragonDrop all the time when I'm working on other projects, and miss it like crazy when I'm working on DragonDrop itself. :)
I think you missed the good stuff. It's a great post about what positive traction looks like wrapped up in a pointless, link-baity, semantic argument.
I say do it until a city official tells you not to.
Surely, it would be acceptable to microcache for a few seconds? It's rather easy, with nginx in front.
Right. Plus, the benefit of the impulse purchase is that you may gain a very vocal fan who never would've tried the app for $5.
Well, if UN laws had much practical effect, then we'd have peace in the middle east and Africa right now, and we don't.

A UN resolution means zip-all for US law, French law, Chinese law, etc. So by definition it can't be as bad as SOPA/PIPA in the us or ACTA in europe. However it might give some cover to those who are pursuing those types of policies.

If this resolution is being pushed mostly by Russia/China, I'd look at it the same way I look at arab league censures of Israel. It's more indicative of the countries that voted for it than some abstract concept of "the UN", and won't have much effect on reality.
Right! Also, why would I want a restaurant to serve coffee, when there's a perfectly good cafe not a mile away?
I know, that's my point. I don't have an iPad, but can't you turn off updates? Can't you turn off networking entirely? If so, how would an update even occur?

Don't just sit there in fear of an update, prevent it.
Ah, yeah, I remember that too now :)
In the context of this article, you have one business.
It's astonishing to me how little discussion there has been of this. One of the primary places people use a laptop is, well, in their lap, and this doesn't look to be usable for that. I can't imagine that not being hugely frustrating.
Funnily (or sadly?) enough, coal plants emit more radiation per year into the atmosphere than nuclear power plants.

That's excluding all the other pollutants they send out, from mercury to lead to carbon, which are far worse.
I assume this is not really a problem because YC are in some cases prepared to deviate from their typical equity ask.
>Historically, there have been several large accidents, Tschernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile, and several more smaller ones which would almost been fatal.

So what? Those accidents are miniscule in comparison to the everyday operation of a coal plant. The damage caused by the worst nuclear accidents in human history is still less than the every day operation of a coal plant. Hell, we've lost more people to coal mine cave ins than we have to nuclear accidents.

>But given the facts, no, the german public is not wrong. They are undisputably right.

No, they're not. You're insane. The German public thinks nuclear power is more dangerous than coal power, and they're just wrong. It's not even an argument.
From the linked paper: "Although this compiler-testing approach has been used before [6, 16, 23], Csmith’s test-generation techniques substantially advance the state of the art by generating random programs that are expressive—containing complex code using many C language features—while also ensuring that every generated program has a single interpretation. To have a unique interpretation, a program must not execute any of the 191 kinds of undefined behavior, nor depend on any of the 52 kinds of unspecified behavior, that are described in the C99 standard."
For DKIM Customization, I assume we can use FREE + a $29.95 dedicated IP plan?
Great for them, but seriously: FUCK SMS. Use IP. The solution to messaging is to use the internet. Continual use of SMS is not an effective solution.
Recently a friend of mine sent me a piece of obfuscated JS that was in a phishing page that was being posted around his large gaming related website. Threw the JS into closure compiler with advanced optimisations and pretty print and out comes relatively unobfuscated code- it cleared up the series of horrible regexes anyway.
The code injected a Java applet that downloaded a botnet virus. Decompiling the Java applet revealed the steamid of the guy orchestrating this. Added him on steam and had a great conversation in which he accidentally indirectly admitted the botnet was under his control.
A fun use of a Sunday.
The evidence was never sent to anyone, thinking nothing would come of it.
S Corp owners are not required to pay themselves market salaries.

What they are required to do is account for their income as if at least a market-salary's worth of it was salary.

You can pay yourself $1/year at an S Corp and be just fine, as long as you don't also issue yourself $200,000 in distributions in that same year and claim to have earned no salary.

This is because (this may set off a little brush fire in the threads, but hey, it beats the silly semantic argument over what the word "profitable" means) S Corps are a giant scam.

For the benefit of the class:

An S Corp, like an LLC, is a pass-through tax entity: the tax liability in an S goes straight to the owners.

LLC owners generally don't make salaries at all. They are paid entirely in distributions (ie, "profit sharing"). LLC owners are subject to self-employment tax on all that income; in fact, an LLC owner must typically pay taxes quarterly, instead of at the end of the year as W2 employees are accustomed. The LLC structure does not (that I know of) afford a huge and obvious opportunity to cheat on your taxes.

Owners of S Corps do take salaries, and do withholding in much the same way as a W2 employee would.

Additionally, as company owners, S Corp owners routinely pay themselves bonuses (profit sharing, distribution, whatever you want to call it). This is normal and reasonable. The business does well, payroll is made, money is reinvested in the company, and what's left over is distributed back to the owners.

The scam is that this money is not for tax purposes treated as payroll. In particular, that money isn't subject to FICA.

As a result, S Corp owners are incentivized to claim the lowest possible salary (today, "lowest" meaning "lowest you could reasonably get away with calling a market salary"). That's because the salary money is going to be subject to FICA. If the remainder of what the owner should fairly have been paid is issued in distributions, that money avoids FICA liability.

And so the IRS case files are littered with lawyers and doctors and dentists who set up their practices as S Corps and then try to claim the fair market rate for their participation in the company is, say, $5,000/year ("oh, I only come in on alternate Tuesdays!"). Their secretaries pay the full bite of FICA while living paycheck to paycheck, while the business owner makes payments on a vacation house with the money they save from this trick.