skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to guess that a lot of these were the fake AV and similar rogueware. Most of these were pretty good at changing regularly to avoid naïve signature detection, and most vendors acted really slowly because it wasn't "malware." They're not really special in any way that requires a fundamental change to allow detection, though.

I'm not going to dispute that AV vendors have become complacent recently, but 10-15% is on the low side. Most families of widespread malware are detected by most solutions within a few months (yes, that slowly.) It's probably around 80-85%, but, at the same time, 90%+ of the really dangerous (and especially targeted) malware is more often than not in the remaining 15-20%.

Ultimately, what this article and your comment insinuate is that you can uninstall antivirus and be "just as safe." That is not true (except in rare cases where the AV software itself is vulnerable and provides a way to escalate privileges.) I'm all for getting rid of shoddy blacklisting, but we need a replacement, such as innovations in OS security models (a la Chromium OS.)
This was the awesome kind of explanation about what went wrong and what was learned that I wish everyone would do.
For what it's worth, I've used Python professionally and in several classes. I certainly don't have much experience in it, but it would be odd if I did--why would I use a language I don't particularly like too much?

You only say there are no horrible gotchas with tuples because you've never spent hours hunting down a bug and finding that you forgot a trailing comma. More pertinently, changing something like

("foo",
"bar",
"baz")

to

("foo")

actually breaks the code. This style is used often in configuration scripts (e.g. for Django) and certainly got me before. I don't really see what generator expressions have to do with anything.

The performance problem isn't a problem per se--the performance just isn't good. But this does not mean it's bad! That was really the whole point of my post; the performance, like everything else about the language, is unimpressive. In my experience, even naively written Haskell tends to perform better while being shorter and easier to write.

My point with Lambda the Ultimate was more general--I've noticed that the more programming language oriented a community is, the less people like Python. The people who spend the most time thinking about and working on different programming languages--the denizens of Lambda the Ultimate--are the ones who like it least. It's very much like music that musicians don't like.

What I meant by lowest common denominator is that you could get virtually anybody, regardless of skill level, to use Python. C is far more tricky--and has far more odd edge cases and ways to shoot yourself in the foot--than Python. It trades this for lower-level hardware access and performance, but this makes it far less of a LCD language than Python.

This is not a matter of "cool"--and it's not even a matter of Python being a bad tool. It's a matter of Python not being an outstanding, or, honestly, even a good tool. And, as I said, this is perfectly fine; there are plenty of reasons to choose a solid tool you know well over something that may even be strictly superior. I can even understand why people would like this; many people like something approachable and bland over something seemingly exotic but also exciting.

But this does not fit with Python's general hype. People trot Python out as the gold standard of language design and are rather proud of themselves (as the post starting this whole discussion parodied) without having the substance to back that attitude up.

And all this goes back to the original thesis: Python is not actively bad, but it is also not actively good--it occupies a rather uninteresting middle ground. This is only surprising in light of its somewhat incongruous reputation as one of the best languages in certain circles.
"The smaller the program the more attention you get."

There's a math mistake here. The amount of attention you get depends not on the number of startups but on the ratio of full-time advisors to startups.
You do realize that our body keeps going via chemical processes? Genetics can cause insufficient absorption of certain nutrients, and given the long term consequences of chronic deficiencies, testing may not be such a bad idea after all. Also, knowing your blood work means that you won't be stuffing yourself with pills you don't need.
I thought it was funny that this blog post didn't mention getting outside as a potential solution. That said, it's not like it's a dichotomy: I take a daily vitamin D supplement, try to eat as much catfish and salmon as I can, and try to get out in the sun as much as possible.

That said, getting out in the sun is a fairly nuanced debate. Most dermatologists will tell you not to, because of the risk of skin cancer, and because of the lack of peer-reviewed research showing that the benefits of skin-based vitamin D production outweigh the potential for skin cancer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/science/sunscreens-and-vit...

Wearing sunscreen will inhibit vitamin D production, so getting some sun while wearing high-SPF sunscreen is not going to help you as much as unprotected exposure (per the dermatologist in the aforementioned article)

So the question becomes: do you believe the "vitamin D hypothesis" that vitamin D deficiency was the driving force behind the evolution of human skin color? The hypothesis is that northern Europeans evolved lower melanin levels in their skin through a combination of high latitudes and a diet deficient in natural sources of vitamin D:

http://anthrogenetics.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/a-support-for...

So the question of whether you should go out in the sun (unprotected) in order to generate vitamin D becomes a question of whether you are more worried about the potential health complications of vitamin D deficiency or skin cancer.

Choose wisely!
As a person of Scottish descent I joke that I can get a sun burn by holding a picture of the Sun near my skin :-)
It looks to me like the supplement is D3 and the one you get from UV exposure is D3, so no, spending time outdoors doesn't give you any better Vitamin D than the supplement. Of course, exercise has other benefits.
If people were rational...they would be more scared of [driving] than terrorists,

This was the pre-9/11 mindset. Don't forget. Nobody wants to bother figting the terrorists. Before they came to your shores. There is a big difference between rational strategy and having your head in the sand. Its called a lack of imagination. Until flight 93, nobody bothered...just like you suggest
Vitamin D supplements are generally D3 by design because that's the form most readily absorbed by the body.

That said you're probably better off getting it from catfish or salmon (which also contain omega fatty acids, a "good" fat which you might otherwise consider supplementing if you aren't getting enough in your diet)

And of course it's not a dichotomy, you can supplement D3 daily and also try to eat a lot of fish!
With the possible exception of life safety systems, credit card processing, stock exchanges, and other "High $ per second applications" - I just don't see getting HA right on transactional databases as worth the effort. Properly rehearsed, a good Ops/DBA (and, in the right environment) NOC team can execute a decent failover in just a few minutes - and there aren't that many environments (with the exceptions listed above) - that can't take two or three 5 minute outages a year.

The alternative is your HA manager decides to act wacky on you, and your database downtime is extended.

For some reason - this rarely (almost never, in my practical experience) is a problem with HA systems in networking. With just a modicum of planning, HA Routers, Switches, and Load Balancers Just Seem to Work (tm).

Likewise, HA Storage arrays are bullet proof to the point at which a lot of reasonably conservative companies are comfortable picking up a single array/frame.

But HA transactional databases - still don't seem to be there.
How do you propose he try harder?
This patent looks too broad. It's a joke, challenge the patent. Then sue Uniloc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OReilly_v._Morse
WOW from PG himself! I agree and this was not a jab at YC. But you guys now are taking like 80 companies and I'm not sure how much of your personal time is allotted to each company. I'm sure you guys have a ton of great mentors and we probably apply to you if AngelPad fall through. But you have to appreciate the perception. You are the face of YC and Thomas is the face of AP and as an founder you think to yourself how much time I can get from PG vs. Thomas?
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That sort of misses the point though. The movies aren't going to make anyone love their enemies, but they can definitely subvert hardline values.

The idea that they're superficial trash is almost a description of why they work.
The change should be going through DNS now...
I think it says a lot here that I read that whole thing and still have no idea what you do or why you're touting it about like this.
I was tested and was deficient, now I take it every day and my levels are normal. Two buddies of mine got tested later and were also deficient, dangerously low even. We live in Portland, Oregon, so sunlight exposure is generally low, but I'd say it's a good idea for anyone to get tested.
All fair points! BTW, the intention was not to name drop but to show how much referral capital I had to spend just for one incubator. MD/PhD reference was to show the solution of referral capital goes back a long time ago.
We were going to do another post about co-founders and our company.
Yup - downloaded the database.com pricing page to start and hadn't gotten to removing unused images etc. removed this and some other stuff.

There is definitely still a whack of CSS that doesn't apply :)

Thanks!
> All of society actually ultimatly depends on violence as the mode of enforcing order.

It's funny how for the last 400 years or so all men and women who have been speaking and writing about politics and about how the world should be run in general have been trying to hide Hobbes and his ideas under a very thick rug. But his ideas keep creeping back in. Maybe because he was right?
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"The market"?

The market consists of buyers and sellers. Since a bed typically lasts over 10 years, a typical buyer buys fewer than 7 beds in a lifetime. That's not enough to get educated or even keep up with change.

So in fact the market consists of sellers and what they can get away with. Nothing to do with being reasonable.
Digg failed; he threw his employees under the bus.

He went to form milk, that failed and he took money from people. Oink failed.

He got acquired to work on G+, very quickly after got booted to Google Ventures - and apparently didn't do too well there.

A lot of people have put him out there in good faith, figuring he was not a one-trick-pony - and that he had more in him, yet, now, we are talking about how he failed at investing in a runaway success.

So, really, why? This guy is like the valley's version of Kim Kardashian where Digg was his sex tape.

Look - I appreciate that he has done well for himself. But he has not created anything amazing, nor done amazingly well for others.

After all this, his best accomplishment is interviewing Musk, perhaps.

Its a waste of energy. let me know when Kevin really innovates.
Your mileage may vary. But 10 years ago I was writing the same things you and others are here. My perspective changed. I'm just sayin.
I am not really sure the current state of things, but to "get real" I feel any GC needs to be able to handle:

- multicore/multithreaded
- heap sizes of 20-200GB and larger ideally

Think about it this way... We have the same goal, of diminishing the use of manually allocated ram to the smallest possible place. Think of the GC vs malloc as compilers vs assembly language. Assembly has it's place, but it's no longer because compilers cannot generate efficient object code in a vast number of circumstances. Lets do the same for GC!
Thanks :).

PS didn't mean to be harsh, I really appreciate it when others take the time to tell me that sort of thing, as it helps one to improve, but maybe you see it differently.
The whole point of that article I linked is that things like hardline Islamism can't be combated through the use of movies. From that same article:

> Pakistan’s ideology is based on Islamic ‘nationalism’ where it views itself as part of a greater ‘Ummah’, but is certainly not recognized by the members of the ‘Ummah’ as its leader. In other words, Pakistan does not have native ownership over its own ideology, which inevitably leads to Pakistan associating itself with other, more influential members of the ‘Ummah’ like Saudi Arabia and Iran, at the obvious expense of its own subcontinental origins.

Neither Pakistan nor India wield a significant influence in the Islamic world - that power belongs to the aforementioned Saudi Arabia and Iran. No matter what may or may not happen in Bollywood, its influence in Pakistan/Afghanistan/etc. will always be overshadowed by Saudi & Persian mullahs. The reason why mullahs from those countries have the sort of transnational power they do is because of the unifying nature of Islam, across ethnic, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.

But the further west you go from India, the more the "influence" of Bollywood declines (and it is quite rapid). Regardless of whether the top Bollywood actors are Muslim, India itself is almost 80% Hindu, and that will never be forgotten by those in the Middle East watching Bollywood movies.

Although to those of us in the West, it may be easy to lump India and the Middle East into the same "cultural" category, that couldn't be further from the truth. Shared "conservative" values only go so far, and their respective histories are quite different.
As far as I know, every employee gets a MSDN subscription, which comes with tons of Microsoft software for FREE. Plus, they dogfood their own products. They dogfood Windows, Office, Hotmail (or Outlook.com), SkyDrive, etc, and dogfooding is "free". If you hadn't known, now you know.

When I talked about the retention rate, I was focused on employees who've been with the company for 3 yrs or less. In tech industry, especially in software engineering field, people switch jobs fast. really fast. All my colleagues switch jobs every 2-3 years. For companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, this is not good. They now have to spend money to find potential candidates, spend more money to interview those potential candidates, make full-time employees to interview potential candidates (5-8 interviewer per candidate), etc.
Theory of the case: if the stuff is the focus of the experience, as opposed to communication (FB, twitter), it is a better marketing situation (less annoying, generallY).
http://www.quora.com/Quora/Why-wont-Quora-Scale
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I started taking D3 last fall, and it has made a big difference in how I feel. I started with 3600IU for a few months and when I started feeling more energetic and cheerful dropped down to 2600 (2x 1000IU + 600IU & calcium). I get outside quite a bit, but in Vancouver WA the skies are overcast a lot and the low sun angle means you can't get enough for vitamin D needs. I also take a probiotic, an anti-oxidant, a fish oil and a green tea supplement. My diet is mostly paleo. My ancestry is northern European.

For reference, you need to take 50,000IU for several months to develop toxicity (ref: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vitamin-d-toxicity/AN02008). If you are pale skinned and don't spend a lot of time in the sun, you are much more likely to be deficient.

If you really want to see where you're at, have your doctor do a blood test, or go get a micro-nutrient test http://www.spectracell.com/mnt/
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For all the scorn that creationists (justifiably) receive, scientific ignorance in the form of nuclear scaremongering has done and is doing far more damage.
San Diego Airport Car Service and Green Energy usage in Transportation Industry
In most regards, yes. Even at the best speeds possible, going over a wifi connection would be leagues slower.
Apple Announces New Pre-Engraved iPhone
You would probably note that misogyny is/was widespread among the poor across a whole host of cultures then point out that relative affluence -> female education -> breakdown of misogyny.

"Socio-economic standing" is basically a catchall answer that's almost certain to correlate heavily with whatever the more fundamental causes are (education, women's rights, property rights, strong middle class, etc.)
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Well to be explicit, the cannot netboot directly. I've built a u-boot that boots from the network via NFS on other arm based systems. You still need an MMC card to start it all off but once you get the network boot loader loaded and running you can do what ever you want. I started with some code for the Pandaboard that used that trick to boot from a USB attached drive.
> I imagine this varies a lot with app category/demographic.

I guess it varies by region- I've seen lots of phone shops in Taiwan offering "JB" as their main service. In Germany, I've only ever heard of commercial jailbreaking services for the Xbox and Wii (which used to involve soldering).

Also, my $2 hobby iPhone game has hundreds of Chinese players after only selling one copy in China, according to iTunes Connect. In other regions it's a non-issue.
Dev hardware, *board, is for suckers: cheap hardware now a days is consumer gear.
It's popular therefore it must be valuable, right? That metric worked well the last time the net got frothy.
Probably they will start to care, if whatsapp spoofer would become widely available.
I like how after all these paragraphs you've managed to avoid having to offer up your own personal example of a "good" and "outstanding" language. But have no problem labeling other languages as NOT being such, with very poor examples :P

You should get an achievement of some sort. Hackernews needs achievements.
It's got a user demographic similar to FarmVille. Female, late 20s to late 30s, well off. I'd guess some have decided based on FarmVille that this is a good demographic to grab the attention of.

This is be no means a scientifically valid survey, but based on the experience of my married friends when they got smart phones or tablets in their families, women buy, men seek free.
But what do the nazis and the [x] have in common that we dont here? isn't the answer they had dictatorial/failed states? You can counter-example us southern lychings but that seems to be the exception that proves the rule. the demos in western democracies is not the mob of the [x] street.

[edit: subject is mob violence leading to murder, etc]
Ask HN: For new web developer, Java Spring, Ruby on Rails, or something else?
So I wanted to finally take action on some of my ideas and build the website for one of them. I decided to use Heroku since I've heard great things about it. I like how it handles all of the server management and allows me to just code. Being an experienced Java guy, I decided to build from their Spring sample app. Unfortunately, this was pretty tricky. Having never used Spring, I started searching online for tutorials. Most of them are either outdated or are too confusing. Despite that, I was able to hack up a little something, but at this point, I'm not sure if I should keep going with Spring. I know some Ruby, and can definitely brush up on it if Rails is the way to go, but I've heard many people complain about performance and scalability on Rails.

So my question is this: Should I continue with Spring, or switch to RoR or some other web framework?
I would have to say the author of this article probably isn't that good.
Well from what I recall, aren't the majority of the Indian expats in the 'Gulf' arelargely south Indians.

For them, bollywood isn't as important as tollywood or kollywood.
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You tube has 1st amendment to do what they want is the point, they are interferering via pr and public peer pressure. Why is it not like hosni mubarik asking twitter to please STFU during arab spring?
You obviously replied to the wrong comment, or simply read nothing that I wrote.
I don't understand your question. Are you asking whether I think choosing to behave ethically is part of my solution to depression? What do you mean by "do what you think is right"?
Are you sure? Because if you were right, I don't think Intel would use money and resources to make a big announcement that they have caught up with technology that has been around for 13 years. From all other news and PR releases I've read, the wifi transceiver is integrated on the intel cpu dye. I believe you still need an antenna, but at these frequencies those are quite small (3mmx3mm inverted f).
Just because 500 Startups is using AngelList doesn't mean that you won't need to use social capital to get their attention.
TIme to move towards Viber or Kik? Never knew that my number was getting transferred in PlainText.
> This is a cultural artifact. We've reached a point in manufacturing technology where this should no longer be true.

I hope you are not implying what I think you are.

If you are: rabid consumption is fucking this world into oblivion. Just because we can produce/buy more easier/faster, does not mean we should.

"There is no such thing as sustainable growth"
I'm a self-taught engineer, and I first picked up Big-O when I was 16. (That was almost 20 years ago). I've written a linux kernel patch (rejected), toy compilers, and the two big no-nos of software development ( 1: Writing your own lock-free code, and 2: Writing a string library, both of which went successfully into production ). I've built my own microprocessor from NAND gates, and wrote the microcode instruction set to go with it. I've studied VLSI (ages ago), but I've never dug into AI topics.

There is one way in which I feel handicapped compared to my colleagues, which is that I find it generally hard to grab a book on a programming topic and read it cover-to-cover (The same goes for taking classes). I've got to get a development environment up, see how I can break the 'examples', and generally abandon the book to doing my own thing before I get more than a third of the way through.

On the other hand, every time I've worked with more classically trained developers on real projects (and all the cruft that goes with it), I always find that there are corners of the code base that none of them understand, and no one ventures in to find out what's wrong.

Myself, I need to understand how a system works in order to work on it, so I always dig, and tweak here, or tweak there, and so I tend to learn full systems much quicker than my colleagues.

In the end, it's a trade-off, but it's how I work, so I guess I'm stuck with it.
It's clearly a terrible thing to say, but I'm utterly shocked that's illegal. It's not a threat to anyone, it's not harassing a specific individual, etc. Seems to be a dangerous precedent to set.
Wow, I am amazed and a bit disappointed with a lot of these responses. I've seen plenty of young people who are much more mature, intelligent, and hard-working than most 40 and 50 year olds. Yes, in general there is a correlation with increasing age and other positive traits, but there are plenty of exceptions that cannot be overlooked. To overlook someone simply because of age would be extremely foolish.
Both got decent upvote counts
*you're

And I agree completely. Varnish is goddamn magical and a fascinating exercise in a principled approach to kernel-oriented memory management (a mindset I don't normally undertake).
In Star Trek IV, Kirk says to a marine biologist that Spock is strange because he did a little too much "LDS." This was paricularly amusing to viewers who grew up in Utah.
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The point is you apply your social capital to building your angel list profile once and use it over and over again.
He's got an angle, alright.
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