skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'extremely talented c/c++/unix developers'... 'able to build complex systems in about one third the time most competent people think possible'

This language conveys so much more competence than the standard 'seeking unix ninja rockstar' stuff that seems to be de rigeur these days.
Would be interesting to build an open source Trello based on Meteor :)
ECC events are triggered by any memory error, be it the occasional cosmic ray or a not so good memory module.

It isn't difficult to tell these two possibilities apart. Sometimes I get an ECC event on some server, and then it never happens again (or it happens in a different module), which doesn't warrant a replacement. Now, if the same module triggers another event, what's the chance of two "cosmic rays" hitting the same module twice and flipping a bit on it? It's better to just replace it (which is covered by warranty or maintenance contracts, so it costs us no additional charge).
Turbulenz engine on WebGL Podcast
I tried out Dvorak for a while, but then every time I had to help someone with their computer, or go to a client site, I was struggling to adjust to the 'normal' QWERTY layout.

I'm a Colemak user and while your point is on the mark (I do feel a bit stupid when typing on a qwerty keyboard now) I feel that using Colemak is still worthwhile for me as I spend over 90% of my typing time on my own computer and I type so much every day that I feel its worthwhile for me to optimize for that case, even if it makes the other cases much worse.
Quick (non-security) updates means less testing and more potential bugs and security problems. This is fine for a dev workstation, but less fine for a production server. Personally I use Debian on my servers since it gives me a solid base I can trust and then I manually install the few pieces that I need more up to date versions of.

In my case that's Node.js, Redis, nginx and occasionally python 2.7, and of those I'd be installing Redis (I often run beta releases) and nginx (want to compile in my own modules) by hand on Ubuntu as well. Sure this is slightly more work, but it gives me more control and I feel a more stable server environment.
Is no-one else worried about these TOS applying to their email attachments?

you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps).

EDIT: I guess it's a moot point if you're already using Gmail.
Excellent, now all I need is a railscasts equivalent and I'm ready to test the waters.
Same link has been posted here several times. At least two times earlier.
Musicians fight Pandora’s push for lower royalties
A BUNCH OF MUSICIANS have put signed a letter that asks the music streaming website Pandora to spare them a thought and give them a leg up into the growing digital economy.

The 133 artists include Blondie, Bryan Adams, Sheryl Cole, the Doors, Katy Perry, Rihanna and Brian Wilson. They are represented by the Music First
I'd really like to do this sort of thing. But given my current income (1k $ per month) and living expenses (about half goes to rent, food, etc.), I'm not sure I would be able save enough for a month of backpacking to neighbouring countries, let alone another continent :(
It's faster than BSD grep, but (in my experience) slightly slower than GNU grep. The productivity boost though, is enormous.
Look at how similar this copy looks to any other SV startups these days (minus some buzz words like "Cloud", "Social", "Disruptive", etc). It goes to show that hiring (well) is hard. Even harder to gauge whether or not a company is worth applying to from the job descriptions alone.

Phrases like: "You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems" are so vague and ambiguous that if I honestly saw this post from some guy named "Bezos" in '94, I would have written off as a jokester.

At least in '94 they haven't started using the word "disruptive" as if it's something you can do to a whole industry overnight. Thank goodness.
The first three paragraphs are just a marketing-speak.)

The last one is more interesting. Have you noticed that your solution was in a splitting workload, not in sharing it with other processes?

In general, splitting (dividing/partitioning/isolating) is a good idea, sharing (sharing resources) is a bad one.

Sharing, unless your data is read-only, like a txt segments of code, is a source of problems, not a solution. Partitioning, on the other hand, is a universal, natural way.
I agree with you. I don't understand how this comment got so high with such short-sighted arguments, I would expect people here to have a little more insight.
Yes, the idea of using modules is nothing new. It's old-school and well-proven. Many people have argued about adding pascal-like module support to C at some point or another at the coffee machine. But having enough (political) momentum to actually change C(++), and overcome extreme inertia and calcification is new. LLVM is the greatest thing to happen to compilers in a long time, it really opened up compiler development like GCC somehow never did (see http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/the-design-of... for a likely explanation). And having a giant like Apple behind it helps, of course.
I'm not on a machine that I can use freely to test, but maybe you shouldn't use -exec? use xargs instead. I don't remember it being slower than grep that much...
Are there any other utils worth installing from that tap? Awk? OpenSSH?
Indeed, and we don't need an extra 30+ posts in each thread that don't add to the discussion but simply point spelling/grammar errors.
"just fine" is something all companies I have dealt with would agree with, at least when it comes to servers.

Running closer to the metal often means higher development costs, which vastly outweigh the performance overhead abstraction layers they incur.

You're right about some things getting messed up by virtualization, but you're over-estimating the impact this has on running an online service.
Python Programming Tutorial for newbies(Paid)
Korg iPolysix & Ableton Live
Philosophically they're quite different. Every layer follows a different approach: templates, controllers (views in Django), urls, model definition, ORM etc. A lot of this comes from the core philosophies of the languages, whilst Ruby and Python may be closer to each other in philosophy than either are to say Java, they still have substantial differences.
I'd say that most of your points are debatable. They can be divided into two groups:

1) Changes that give you relatively little gain from a security point of view at the cost of massive usability. I'd be happy to run production servers without these changes, and so I claim that these are debatable.

2) Changes that stop inexperienced admins accidentally compromising their servers, at the cost of usability/complexity. Debatable because they're less about security and more about not shooting yourself in the foot. Eg. fail2ban. I use ssh keys only. Brute forcing my ssh won't work, and I'd prefer to not allow outsiders to cause firewall rule changes on my servers based on a script that parses log strings with regular expressions. I trust ssh's security more than I trust fail2ban in not having a vulnerability.

> And lastly, if you're really paranoid, run your webserver inside a Linux/UNIX container

This is pretty much what AppArmor hardening does. LXC (Linux containers) are implmented via AppArmor. A compromised httpd daemon restricted in this way won't be able to much anyway (eg. open outbound ports or go to other areas of the filesystem). And this is what Ubuntu ships by default for many daemons.

> Also many distributions ship FTP, which is insecure by default.

Nowadays this stuff is only installed if you requested it, which is different from "ship"ing it. If you use distribution defaults, you won't have an FTP server installed. If you choose to install one, you'll get the weakness whether you use the distribution, tune it yourself or install from a third party source.

> In short; distribution's don't ship secure defaults. They ship a happy medium between usability and security. However if you have an internet facing box (particularly one not hidden behind a hardware firewall, as many budget set ups are not), then the happy medium isn't secure enough.

Secure enough for production. I have plenty of servers on distribution defaults that haven't been compromised (and I have experience in dealing with others' servers when they have been compromised, so I don't think I'm oblivious). You may prefer adding additional hardening, but it is unnecessary and relies on you knowing what you are doing.

Finally, you've missed my biggest point. For someone new to running servers on the Internet, who can he trust for guidance? You, me, a random guide on the Internet or a distribution vendor?
Although if I read that today, I would think the company is being unrealistic and overreaching.

Granted, they made it, but this kind of language would not build faith in a company if I were to read a job ad for them.

The added Alan Kay quote would further fuel my doubt that the submitter is just another worthless startup guy thinking he can get the best of the best with some shallow knowledge of what hackers think.

I would have been wrong this time, but I don't doubt for a second there are hundreds of ads like this for companies that crashed and burned shortly after.
UK servers
http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml
Oh yes, I am all for having modules in C and C++.

I was just calling the attention that some Go devotees seem to think their compile times are something new.
Clever. Inordinately stupid, but clever.
claws-mail as well. It's a fundamental feature if you're trying to do real work with email. Now if only gmail allowed us to respect the netiquette and had an option/labs for bottom-post by default.
You should tack a "LC_CTYPE=C" in front of grep to get comparable results. A multibyte CTYPE can slow down grep up to factor 30.
I don't even remember the last time I saw a Linux server crash... at least I can't think of any occasion in the last 10 years or so that wasn't directly related to some hardware failure (firmware bug or actual dead hardware).

So, I don't understand what you mean by Linux not being safe and reliable...
For a similar but much faster tool than ack,
which simply wraps `find` and `grep` in the UNIX tradition, see:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/findrepo
Quick updates also decrease the likelyhood that there will come a point in time when you say "damn, we really need the new version of XYZ, let's just compile it and install it ourselves...", which involves problems of its own: you now have to monitor security updates for those system components yourself, rather than simply running the package manager to pick up security updates. It's a tradeoff, and I think Ubuntu handles it fairly well: you can either get the regularly updated ones, or the long term releases.
I think it is a stretch to say that a country that is half as wealthy as CA is in the same ballpark. To flip this around, if you made half of my salary, I would not say that your salary is in the same ballpark as mine.

I like your point on US debt, but the US is in a unique position in that it can print money if needed. Because the odds of a default are so infinitesimally small, I don't think it warrants any discussion when considering the fate of CA's financial issues.

Greece is in trouble because it entered the EU, lost control of it's currency, and as a consequence, cannot attempt to use inflation to minimize their debt. To make matters worse, their economy is a train wreck (professional guilds, rampant tax dodging, heavy reliance on government programs) making growth in the face of austerity nearly impossible. CA has neither of these problems (A dynamic, innovative economy and a strong federal government to rely on for assistance (as compared to the relatively weak-willed EU)).
Yep, I was quite annoyed when browsing to their site that I can't find any screenshots at all. And as someone mentioned, a video would be nice as well.

I'm a bit reluctant to download an app with so little information except from a sparse bit of text.
This isn't related to the question that your parent comment asked. That comment was asking why the Amazon and Apple map products are mobile-only, with no website component. Not sure how a comment about embedding Google maps has anything to do with this.
I agree, based on this ad, I would discard the company as an overreaching startup founder with a vague idea of how to reach out to developers and destined to fail within the next two years.

In this case though, I would have been wrong.
I notice these Mac tools becoming a bit stale.
sort is derived GNU sort, but from some ancient version.
I guess this might be due in part to these tools now being GPLv3 ?
Real-time x86 windows game emulated on ARM Android tablet
This is awesome and really great to be able to read the source (like other have said). Why is it called an "open source" app? It doesn't seem to have any software license in the GitHub repo.

This means it's just a "source available" app but normal copyright applies. I think this can be a bit misleading but nonetheless congratulations!
nice introduction article (on mostly how to setup nginx); the title should reflect this instead of focusing on 'safe and secure' ... if one was to store something valuable (lets say cc info) you would want to go far beyond what this article covers. #justsayin
"hundreds of megabytes of KDE runtimes" is absolute FUD. libkde4core is 2.5MB on my system here. Even all the KDE libraries that you would need are only going to be in the 10s of MB. Did you actually do a test to see how much you would need?
Apple fires IOS 6 Maps chief
GADGET DESIGNER Apple reportedly has fired the executive in charge of its IOS 6 Maps app, while it continues to work on improving it.

Bloomberg reports that Richard Williamson, who oversaw Apple's mapping team, was shown the door on Tuesday by SVP Eddy Cue. This follows the surprise exit of IOS executive Scott Forstall, who had overall responsibility for Apple's failing Maps application.

The Inquirer (http://s.tt/1v6TV)
How Spotify managed to keep an agile mindset despite being 250 people [pdf]
If you are looking for a list of significant USENET posts, including this one by Bezos, go to: http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html The list was created in 2001, when Google Groups reconstructed a huge archive of USENET postings.
Yes, playing with values and seeing the graphical result change is an excellent way of getting the intuition for taught material.

I came across this example (http://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics/e/exploring_mean_...) from Khan Academy that helps students understand mean and median of a data set. (There are exercises for other summary statistics too.)
This can't end well, I won't ever plug anything into my laptop if it is hidden in a wall.
See: http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/
20 Year Usenet Timeline (2001)
Am I the only one who thinks that SSD are useless since most of the time the processing will be bottlenecked by the network overhead?
Agreed. Its like I am filtering what I am reading and making sure I read my selected texts twice, it gets into my head right!!
Yes. There are specific laws that punish hiring decisions allegedly made because of race, gender, etc. There are laws that require government entities to treat all citizens equally, regardless or race. There may be (I'm not a lawyer) specific laws that forbid discriminating walk-in customers in stores or passengers in transport services.
But, AFAIK, there are no laws that forbid having a principle of not ever buying (or investing) from companies run by black CEO's - it may (and should) be a PR disaster, but it's legal. There definitely are no laws that prohibit general discrimination for an unspecified purpose not specifically listed (such as hiring, etc).

If I have missed such a law, please do enlighten me.

As far as I know, I may pass a company directive that we'll only buy stuff from companies run by homosexual mormons born on friday the 13th; and that will be just as legal as those companies that have declared that they will only buy stuff from local companies. I may create an investment fund, stating that it will only invest in companies with Christian (or Islamic) values and it will be just as legal as creating an investment fund, stating that it will not deal with companies allegedly involved in bribery.
Why Corporates Hate Perl
You get refunded for your unused time.

Please notice that the minimum time block is a day. If you spin an instance, you pay for the whole day.
Undirect - Chrome extension that removes Google redirect search result
Regarding the housing numbers, Bernanke is printing $85B per month to buy mortgage-backed securities as part of Operation Twist/QE3. He's pumping the bubble back up; feels good now but the final pop is going to really hurt.

http://qz.com/14060/qe3-is-forcing-banks-to-lend-and-its-working

It’s never been so profitable for US banks to give
mortgages. Yet they’ve almost never been so reluctant to do
it. So now, the Fed is forcing them.

Much has been written about the Fed’s announcement of its
latest effort to support the US economy with a new round of
money creation and mortgage-bond buying—QE3—on Sep. 13. But
few have recognized that it amounted to a shot across the
bow of some of the biggest financial institutions in the
country.

Here’s why. The Fed is aiming its unlimited buying power
(since it can literally create money) at the market for
mortgage-backed securities (MBS), the pools of mortgages
where nearly all American home loans eventually end up. And
the one of the largest holders of these MBS are the banks.

Speaking of rails, California is still building a $68 billion train to nowhere. The state will still declare bankruptcy within years, Prop. 30 or no Prop 30. Most of the people entering CA are not YC founders, but rather high school dropouts, and most of the people and companies leaving are net taxpayers.

Further taxes will only increase this exodus. All of Prop 30's projected revenue is based on the fallacious idea that smart, high-earning people are stationary targets. They will leave, just as many companies have left.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/28/news/economy/California_comp...
Some things may be a factor

- If you hardware says goodbye, your server says goodbye as well. It needs to be physically rebuilt. With Linode, maintenance time means your server shuts down here and reboots somewhere else.

- Can you reinstall your server, pick a new distro automatically?

- Can you add more memory or more storage to your server with a click?
There are several ways to approach this, but one of the more common ones is to use minimum-jerk trajectories:

http://www.shadmehrlab.org/book/minimum_jerk/minimumjerk.htm
Indeed. I tried out Ninja about 6 months ago. While it was very nice I found it just didn't compare to KDevelop in terms of features and ease of use (admittedly I am also using to KDevelop for C++ work).
Apple granted patent for microphone silhouette
"So you think about conditions like these, determine the significance and correlations between all of them, and then come up with an overall model that tells you whether an asset such as a stock will increase or decrease in value"

Knowing whether the stock is likely to go up or down is dangerous without having some model of how much it will go up or down. It could have a 90% chance of going up but with a negative expected return (because if it goes up it will only go up slightly but if it goes down it will crash).

I wonder if this guy understands this? His "up/down" language suggests that maybe he doesnt and his group is only making money by "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller".

Monty Hall and the Birthday problem? Are they still asking these old hackneyed interview questions!?

As a whole everything this guy said in the interview sounds a bit naive/old-hat. Are people really still blindly trading the correlation between MSFT and Oil?

The whole interview reads like what a junior statistics graduate thinks quant trading funds do rather than how they actually make money nowadays.

It's like he hasn't even read Fooled by Randomness....
Ksh_timer
fed has said this will policy position will go forward for the 'forseable future' or some-such

In particular, the Committee also decided today to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and currently anticipates that exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate are likely to be warranted at least through mid-2015.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/2012...
I used Captured and imgur and it's all working fine for me
Do you really think anybody would have noticed a "include 'common/footer.php'" at the end of the file? If you have write access to the download tarball, all is lost. Disabling eval on the deploy machine doesn't buy you anything. In general: If you can write to any file in the deployed app, every bet is off - eval or not. Disabling eval helps you in cases where the legitimate code uses eval and can be tricked into passing code snippets of your choice to the call.
I wrote a mostly-clone of Ack in C: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher . Output format and most flags are the same. Besides the speed, most users won't notice a difference.

I spared no effort in optimizing. Pthreads, mmap(), boyer-moore-horspool strstr, it's all there. Searching my ~/code (5.2GB of stuff), I get this:

ag blahblahblah 1.93s user 3.54s system 313% cpu 1.749 total

ack blahblahblah 9.75s user 2.79s system 98% cpu 12.690 total

Both programs ignore a lot of extraneous files by default (hidden files, binary files, stuff in .gitignore, etc). The real amount of data searched is closer to 500MB.
In parts:

The size of the ballpark depends on the ball game. As far as heights, if yours were half of mine we would not be playing in the same league, let alone in the same ballpark at the same time. But wealth's utility falls off very quickly (cf. log-utility), and to this day Greece is a member of the OECD.

Greek is in trouble. There's no denying that. California, not so much. Still in some. But the worst may have passed already, because it's better grounded: on sovereign US soil, that strong federal government you mentioned. It's a state in a good federation, whereas Greece is in a bad (weak-willed = opt-in) federation.
There are a few things I'd take issue with in this post. I'm currently 5 months in to a South American trip, and developing along the way (frontend dev).

Firstly, a 90L is absurd and far, far too large. My girlfriend and I carry 38L Deuter packs that do the job perfectly, without breaking our backs.

If you're American, travel in South America can be difficult as visa's are required for almost every country. USA, Canada and Australia are forced to be between $80 and $150 when arriving by air in to Buenos Aires or Santiago. Australians also need a proper Brazilian visa to enter the country, and a flight out of Brazil.

It is definitely possible to work while you travel, but the added stress of having expensive pieces of hardware (MBP, iPad etc) with you while you're in these places can sometimes not be worth it.

I would highly recommend working your butt off and saving minimum $10k, potentially $15 / $20k and then leaving your tools at home and getting out there with the least amount of tech as you can manage. Still jump online, network, Twitter, meet folk along the way but focus on what's important; travel.
Love knows not its, own depth until the hour of separation
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