skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, with the semantic cavet that "software engineering" is used in the sense of "software development management process nattering" and not (always) the actual engineering of working software.

The basic falseness of that chart is pretty well known among the hacker set. Or maybe it's a failure of interpretation among the natterers: the "high cost" of mistakes in the past is made mostly of work already spent. The immediate cost of correcting a past mistake is often (of course not always!) vastly lower than people think. And the farther you are from the actual code involved (i.e. if your role is "architect"), the higher your overestimate of that value is going to be.

So this is a feedback loop: the "high level" people at the start of the process have a built-in bias against iterative solutions (which they perceive as "expensive") and thus a built-in predilection to overdesign as they try to get everything right the first time.
aircrack-ng assumes pre-shared keys. Cracking long passwords is quite time-consuming (read: takes a VERY long time). They actually explicitly state that in their wiki. I'm not exactly sure but I think I read something about using GPUs to accelerate bruce-force times with a speedup of 100x. That's quite substantial, however even with that brute-forcing is not an option here, which gets us back to the fact that an attacker will hope for a weak password, possibly in a dictionary.

You're right about ISPs being on the safe side with their SSIDs and passwords, but I think you're underestimating the users here. For the sake of it I've spent an hour and a half driving around town a year ago, logging locations of access points. I never did anything with the data except for looking at how access points are distributed across my town. Most of the AP names where common words or a combination of such. Concerning passwords, I've used wifi at friends and coworkers places quite a few times and most of them had weak passwords.

An attacker might just go and do some wardriving and randomly attack access points and I believe he'll find one weak enough without much of a hassle.

Bottom line it's the same as always: In the real world security isn't as depended on technology as it is on how much the user is concerned with it. How that works out in a lawsuit is a different question though.
The old rule of thumb is that most people drive their car 15,000 miles per year. If we assume that's 5% utilization, what does 50% utilization look like?

Each car would travel closer to 150,000 miles per year. Monthly tune-ups and brake replacements. New tires twice a year. A modern combustion engine would need weekly oil changes and major maintenance every 6 months. It would last maybe 3 years under that workload.

Electric car batteries may last 5 to 8 years at 150,000 miles per year. And that brings up another problem with increasing our utilization - we'll effectively be using the same amount of energy to transport ourselves, but using many fewer tools (cars) to transport ourselves. There's a limit to how quickly the batteries can be recharged in each individual car.
Varnish has actually been a great tool for us. The 3rd party url-sort plugin that we tried was not. Had a memory leak that caused the server to crash periodically. Once the url-sort module that we're building as part of this code challenge is tested and fully formed we'll make it available as open source.
To belabor the point: Keeping one of the prices fixed, you should prefer that it be 20 percent more expensive on the weekend. Assume for example that the price on Saturday is $10 and the price on Tuesday is $8. It is then "20 percent cheaper to come during the week" but it is 25 percent more expensive to come on the weekend!
The Garry Marshall scene in Albert Brooks's "Lost In America" comes to mind.
Can you imagine how crazy that concept could become? I wonder how elasticity of demand for toll roads would change if a computer was driving your car.

If when you got in, it gave you 5 options with estimated times and prices and you could always choose it would be awesome.
Any reason this isn't available in the UK app store? I realise you are discontinuing it, but was keen to at least have a play after reading the article.
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Hello, I cannot easily find your pricing page. This is a non-starter when trying to convince our org to use CircleCI. Am I blind? Need this info before I can move forward.
It does. It's the default adapter setting.

I personally like the flexibility of parallels in this regard as I use parallels for dev work and need specific network settings to be remembered. Though, there was a spell in which after a while parallels would kill my wireless connection and there would be no internet on my Mac even though I didn't have a network adapter configured to be used on the virtual machine side. Thankfully they fixed this as it was extremely annoying.
Unknown? Rutkowska has done some of the most interesting security research in virtualization security, including most famously the "Blue Pill" and "Red Pill" demonstrations - escalating privileges to Dom0 (and detection of presence of a hypervisor by the client). For both HVM and PV architectures (e.g., Windows & Xen), she and her colleagues have done ground-breaking work that have impacted the implementation of every major commercial and open source virtualization.

Academic pubs != Relevance

Edit: But since you asserted it, here are researchers that cite her work (over 130, including IEEE and ACM folk):

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=13610021170603453007...
A casino unfamiliar with the concept of staking someone?
I imagine they thought for sure the overbets wouldn't pan out, which they would be just fine with.
we actually officially removed retickr from the App Store. Sorry friend.
It can't really be by years:

1: iPhone (2G)

2: iPhone 3G

3: iPhone 3GS

4: iPhone 4

5: iPhone 4S

6: iPhone 5?
Login and go to the settings > plan page:

https://circleci.com/account/plans
Thanks. Love that line.

It also captures one of the (IMO) underappreciated elements of Stephenson: he takes up technology, but is hugely interested in how it interacts with both individuals and society at large.
Can someone please translate the text on the arabic language site? http://i.imgur.com/Qe7VR.jpg
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Btw, start expanding your business to everything home made, so you can compete with sites like etsy, in billion dollar markets.

Aim for the moon!
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I'm sorry I posted this, but it nearly made me vomit, and I had to share. We are truly at the end of times.
Ah, i saw the part about sunsetting at the bottom of the article but didn't realise it was effective immediately!

Shame, best of luck in the future!
I agree. My current spare-time project involves programming in Go for ARMv5-based boards (old chumby devices).

I write the code in Windows (Sublime Text 2), compile in Windows, but target GOOS=linux, GOARCH=ARM, GOARM=5 and end up with an executable that I can easily rsync and run over on the ARM device. The cross-compiling available in Go is much easier to setup initially than the usual situation of having to build an entire toolchain for your target.
Sorry to have posted this but it nearly made me vomit. We are truly at the end of days.
A kind of rolling, micro-Ponzi scheme.
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Nope, this page needs to be outside the login wall. I'm not creating an account just to see pricing levels.
Some people might not be aware that CrashPlan supports backing up between your own PCs (eg. to your parents) for free:

http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/crashplan.html
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Makes sense. The thing is mature markets also rely on the currency value fluctuating within narrow ranges. Say, in the plain old currency central banks act (fiddling with interest rates, etc) to keep currency value "stable". Given Bitcoin's decentralized nature, markets will have a hard time trusting it (if ever).
It's a bad example, but the principle still applies. All the things you're talking about doing are also painful, in the sense of what the article is getting at. Designing a system where you don't have to merge as often? Sucks. Figuring out your schedule weeks or months in advance instead of just doing it? Sucks.

These are painful things that you have to do, and have to get better at, and by doing them early and pushing through the pain, you avoid the real pain, the dangerous pain later on.
Its really good but no way quick reference.
Thanks, we try to keep track of as many data points as possible.
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This is exactly what I've been wondering - obviously cperciva is 10x (100x?) smarter in this area than I ever will be, but I kept thinking, "Just keep the digest in online storage, and the actual data in (offline?) Glacier. You don't need to access Glacier during backups to calculate digests, because you already have the digests online."

I read through his posting carefully, to see if he would capture that possibility - but didn't really see it there.
Philadelphia is quite good as well. Big city, in a super expensive area (northeast) but quite affordable compared to NYC/Boston/DC.
It's a smart move, but it opens them up to black swan events like this, that shuffling the cards themselves wouldn't.

Right now the cost of a deck is negligible, but if the card manufacturers start being on the hook to the tune of millions of dollars for a handful of decks not being shuffled, pre-shuffled decks are going to get more expensive, as additional QC and insurance that the card manufacturers have to buy get passed on. Eventually it'll turn back into a real cost/benefit analysis: do we make enough on casino customers losses in this game to justify $10/pack or $50/pack decks?
I prefer strcpy to strncpy, and make sure that the string will fit before the call. I use strncpy if I want to copy n characters from s2 to s1, strncpy can give a false sense of security imo since it may not add a terminating zero, for example using strncpy with strlen. The BSD strlcpy does always null terminate the string, but it's non standard.
You're right, sorry. This is a technical limitation for now (the inner and outer are separate apps). We're merging them real soon now. We start at $20/month for one project and scale up from there. We offer bigger plans for more projects, more concurrent builds, and auto-parallelization.
> it makes no sense to judge his long-term results based on a short stretch of under-performance.

It makes enormous sense: He missed the biggest economic event of three generations. If you can't call the big ones, then there's very little proof his returns were something other than luck.

Look, both Keynes and Buffett (since you mentioned him) have long term positive results when there was a long term positive market. Choose a high-beta portfolio in such an environment, and voila! you beat the market. In order to show you have any actual insight and aren't just playing for luck, you need to show that you beat the market significantly in both up and down environments.

BTW, the entire mutual fund market is based on this approach, and when a fund seriously underperforms, it is conveniently removed from the portfolio of Fidelity/Janus/insert hucksters here.

Edit: Relevant http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americans-dont-understand-i...

Most people out there don't understand the inverse relationship of bond prices and yields, let alone beta.
I've got Terabytes of data that need to be archived and possibly recalled later (trading logs and market data preserved in case of an audit). I'm not at the scale of Glacier. If TarSnap had a readonly vault (files in said vault would never change) then it would be able to distinguish the files and split between the Glacier and S3 offerings.
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I agree with everything you said except this:

> thinking back to the prices paid on secondary markets pre-IPO. Staunch FB defenders argued this was useful price discovery

I'm no FB defender, but doesn't the IPO placement of 421 million shares at $38 indicate that the secondary markets had it correct? The decline, albeit soon and somewhat swift, occurred afterwards.
5. Housing prices would go down in major cities in the short term? Less demand to be in a metro area?

Living in the suburbs would be much more palatable because you could convert your "drive time" to "internet/reading time".

Auto driving cars would be not be just a disruption (i hate that word) to the auto industry, it would be an earthquake that would have many aftershocks to the economy as a whole.
As an aside, neither the Puritans nor mainstream culture in Franklin's era were especially prudish about sexual activity. What people call 'puritanical' today is really an artifact of the Victorian era.
It's a good sentiment but the exercise analogy isn't the best... there is PLENTY of pain in exercise that you should not "lean into" because you will make injuries worse.

Not to mention exercise is mostly about routine and habit -- you'll make plenty of progress of progress over time.
I'd imagine that making easily-printed menus that are weekday/weekend prices (only two ways to discriminate) would be the way to go immediately.

One way to go that would be interesting is to remove the prices all together, and do a prix fixe menu, with the price variable depending on when you get there (have a chalkboard or a waiter tell you upon arrival). This would be low cost to implement, and certainly something worth investigating if you're a high-end restaurant.
"We are taking the valuable lessons from a year of trial by fire."

I am wondering what those valuable lessons might be.
I suddenly feel very old :(

Edit: unless you're not a gamer (yes, I'm clutching at straws!)
As a self-taught programmer from Estonia, I would have loved having programming as a subject in the basic school.

Anyhow, the program will not be quite as successful if skilled programmers with long experience weren't included, or children will not be seeing the full scale of possibilites programming the computer could give to them. That, however, will be a tough task since there's a great shortage of developers on the market, and not all of them would fit neatly into the teaching role.
I don't know if only sending the changes is considered "De-Duping" (though it is related) - That's more equivalent to doing differential (or block level differential) backups.

De-Duping is if you add the same file (or portions of a file) in 10 different directories - the data is only stored once in backups.

Dropbox takes it a step further - if 1,000 people store the xcode DMG on their dropbox store, only one copy is stored in Dropbox.
It's okay; his coding skills are very trustable.
I think your broad point is correct; no system can be perfect. But most of your criticisms have straightforward rebuttals. Robots, being robots, are going to be inherently safer at the stuff you mention (tire failure, sudden obstacles, weather) simply because those things are "dangerous" precisely because they are unforseen and require the driver to take action quickly. Robots are faster.

Road wear is a cost, but it scales at worst linearly with traffic. I can't imagine anyone crying because we can now build ($$$$) half as many lanes of highways but much repave ($) them twice as often.

And the bridges things is just wrong. Bridges are obviuosly designed for maximal loads, which in this case would be a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam of even more weight than a packed stream of robots. And that happens routinely.
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I think BuildHive (https://buildhive.cloudbees.com/) supports Pull Requests too. I'm using for my repositories, and I have an internal Jenkins server for private repositories.
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Drop a note to http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ - I'll wager they will have an option to create "Glaciered Archives" of folders within a few months. The developer there has already expressed some interest, and suggested that Arq would lend itself to pointing at a folder and storing it off to a Glacier Archive (with all the caveats around 4 Hour delay, 24 Hour of Availability, Costs associated with restores, etc...)
I've heard from a Vegas lawyer that basically all of the serious law firms there do some amount of business with each of the casino chains. This is intentional on the casinos part, and gives the law firms a very simple conflict of interest claim when someone wants to sue a casino.

Combine this with the fact that Nevada doesn't allow out of state lawyers (and passing the Nevada Bar requires a considerable investment in time), and as a consequence the only counsel you can get to sue a casino amounts to the sort of low-budget lawyer you might see advertising on a billboard.

If I had enough money and brass, I'd hire a bunch of promising attorneys from out of state, relocate them to vegas, get them certified in Nevada, and then create a firm specializing in suing casinos. I'm sure there's a fortune to be made (if you don't get bought/killed by organized crime)
Not sure what braiding entails, but according to TFA, they would not have used zip ties. And if by braiding you mean twisted, shielded pairs, then I'm sure they used that.
You might want to have a look at the new .NET Web API if you're planning on leveraging existing code: http://www.asp.net/web-api

Good luck!
Nice, i remember my first coding challenge in c. Nice result for first attempt.
I completely disagree.

First of all, the whole kind of "no pain no gain" philosophy is particularly American. In a lot of other countries they find this mindset bizarre. If you go to the gym and it hurts, you should STOP. Maybe it will take you twice as long to build up muscles as the guy who "leans into the pain", but you're also not going to tear your hamstring, or slip a disc, or whatever, and you'll still achieve your goals.

As for "psychological pain", again, don't "lean into it". Figure out where it's coming from, and fix whatever is causing the pain. In the example of merges, use continuous integration, or merge daily. Which is what the author says... but that's not leaning into the pain, that's intelligently avoiding it!

And if selling is a painful process for you, then don't "lean into the pain" and keep doing it painfully -- find someone to teach you how to do it better, so it stops being painful.
I think that if services like Getaround.com and taskrabbit.com can overcome liability issues, this shouldn't be a big problem.
This guy says he's in the dump and didn't use AllClear ID. https://twitter.com/BFormations/status/243044444595687424
Glacier was rolled out on August 21st - I don't think anyone has rolled out code to support it in a consumer friendly fashion - but drop a line to http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ and encourage them to give you the ability to target Glacier for your Archives, and I bet you'll see something fairly soon.
Is this actually a case for tarsnap support? If you aggregate lots of people's data but only some of them access it, it's cheaper.

The common use I see for glacier is store something, but retrieve all of it only once per year. Everybody storing their own data pays in that case. But if you get 1/(5%) == 20 people to pool equal amounts, every one of them gets a free retrieval every month.
Here are some things that didn't make it into the video (camera's weren't running 24/7, so it was hard to catch all of our 'moments'):

-We had just completed a major release of our software that included a new dashboard, so doing a dashboard product was definitely a contender for the 30-day project. We were almost ready to rule it out, though, when we saw a dashboard product (Dashku) on the Hacker News home page getting some love. This influenced us by leading us to believe the demand could be there.

-At the exact same time, there was another story on the HN homepage by a developer who wrote about why he would never develop an app for the Twitter platform. This influenced us a bit, too, as an Android Twitter client was a leading contender on our list — which we subsequently dropped.

-It took a solid week to come up with the name Dashzen, and we probably wasted too much time and involved too many people with the naming early on.

-In the past, Axosoft has done 30-day projects like this, but only involving developers. By including marketing and QA, we were able to build more solid products that also had better UIs and branding compared to what we've done in the past.

-Even though both products' home pages describe our pricing models, there is no charging mechanism built yet. Until we build one, both products are actually free.

-If we decide to film the event again next year, we'll do a few things differently, like: set up a "camera room" where anyone can go in and record their thoughts at any time; set up daily scheduled meetings; and possibly incorporate some kind of pitch event.
For those that didn't notice, the shadow on the "12" forms a "5":

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/09/04/apple-announces-specia...
Not sure what is meant by a "default router".
AFAIK you can plug in any router you like without committing a crime, but if somebody believes that they suffered as a result of you choosing an unsecured router they might have grounds to take a civil case against you.

As far as I can tell in my googling none of these negligence claims so far have been successful but there has been no clear judgement on this matter to be sure one way or another what might happen in future cases. Also bare in mind that these judgements might differ between jurisdictions.

I simply think that saying "open up your wifi, now you're no longer liable for anything that happens on your internet connection!" is very dangerous advice to be spreading.
>The deal FB made was they tell everyone about the business, everyone else prices it

The underwriters priced it - at what CFO told them he wanted. That's not usually how these things work (imagine a bank ignoring a property appraisal in favor of what you tell them the property is worth), but the banks are shells of their former selves and needed this IPO and all the promise it held pretty desperately. They protected themselves with the greenshoe/naked short, and retail investors got left holding the bag.

Maybe it's not "fleecing" per say, but it's not the kind of financial engineering an enterprise thinking about delivering long term returns to its investors would do.
I don't think people are generally aware of how awful io9 is, or any of the other science news out there. Even worse is that most science news is pump-and-forget. I don't know how to fix that, or make more people aware in a useful way. Give me the paper or give me death!
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