skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We started with 1 RackSpace Cloud Server, their most powerful offering, for our development. Our thinking was we'd use cloud servers to scale. Well, RackSpace's top of the line cloud server is, for our application's needs, a total dog. Getting reasonable performance required a server 8 times more powerful than RackSpace offers. And at the rate RackSpace charges for their top of the line dog, we can buy the server we need in 3 months. So, at launch we had 2 servers: one for DEV, one for LIVE; each being 32gigs RAM, 32 cores, & 1.5T disk. Now, 1 year later we've expanded to 6 servers in a half rack with hardware firewall, fully raided up fileShare and passable redundancy.
This is just one on the list of a few I've seen. There was also the infamous remote execution of USSD codes and another major exploit via the document reader(If I remember correctly some people where hyping that as an NFC attck).

I understand bugs and exploits happen, but this proc interface and the USSD attack were just silly. I'd just like something designed inside a culture of security.
Competition in a crowded field?
I've been working in financial services for 10 years as a developer. I've written almost the same risk management system "from the ground up" about 5 times for different companies. My current company has received offers to buy my program and is considering it, but I know if they did they would never really compensate me as I deserve. They would probably not be able to commercialize the program without me. So, I'm thinking of taking off on my own to do it again, but this time forming a company and licensing it.
The scary thing is that it's a field crowded with some pretty big names and I'm afraid I'll have problems getting any traction at all. There is no system out there that does all of the things that ours does, but all the pieces are out there in one form or another so it'll also be hard to really differentiate myself from the crowd. Is this crazy?
I found learning to code easier than learning to write in my native language. I think some people are just better suited to some subjects.

That said, I never did enjoy writing but always enjoyed programming, so I think an earlier commenter hit the nail on the head when he said it's down to having enough interest in a subject to learn things properly:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933004
>The US has a peculiar attachment to its current constitution and it's founding fathers.

We have an attachment to the document because that's the blueprint for our government. A nation of laws and not men. The founding fathers some people are more attached to than others.

Many people (like me) believe if you're going to have a written constitution the meaning of the document is fixed, so you have to use secondary sources to be clear on how it was understood when it was ratified. Thus the arguments about "what did the founding fathers really mean".

>The hell what they meant, they were wrong!

No, they weren't. They understood tyranny, having lived under it. You'd think after the 20th century people would be a little leery of investing too much power in their government, but I guess Santayana was right after all.
Dumping a C++ object’s memory layout with Clang
Apple replacing Nvidia  with AMD? What are the possibilities?
i will always have this bookmarked...

http://www.graphwar.com/
Nice post, OP. Now let me tell you about those times when your suggestions are exactly the opposite of what you should do:

Tell me as early as possible

Why? So security can show me the door today and I'm unexpectedly without a paycheck for weeks? Although OP may not do this, lots of place do. Beware.

Finish what you have started

The more I leave unfinished, the greater my revenue opportunity (via consulting).

Don’t slack around

OK. As long as you pay me and thank me for all the extra work and overtime. Oh wait, that may be one if the reasons I'm leaving.

Complete the paperwork

"Paperwork" is your albatross, not mine, so I simply don't care.

No outbursts please

This should always be true anyway.

Give honest feedback

Be careful. "Honest feedback" is high risk, low reward. There's a good chance you're leaving because your "honest feedback" has been ignored before. Why should now be different.

Stay in touch

Pay me to. See "Finish what you have started" above. You're in business. So am I.

Frankly, if I was inclined to be nice enough to comply with OP's requests, I'd probably be staying on. Too many employers are in a time warp, creating situations that force good people to move on and then pretending they never happened with posts like this. It's too late for this, soon-to-be ex-employer. Better to just let lame ducks finish their commitment and focus on their futures.
You could easily modify this proposal to use the Upgrade header for greater safety in interacting with older systems or use TLS-NPN.

Can you give an example of prioritization in practice?
Why do we think that coding is at all unique in this regard? Have you looked through your standard fare cook book? The leaps from step to step are sometimes astounding. Yet folks are usually able to pick that up. Same for sewing. Show me the typical sewing pattern and it looks like someone dropped some lines somewhere. How is anyone able to learn that?
OWC Helios & Accelsior SSD: The Best of Thunderbolt's Potential
Fascinating, author that has Microsoft as a customer and who's company president worked at Microsoft is spreading FUD about Android? Almost feels like Astroturf...
When I quit my first job, my former employer made a point of conducting all exit interviews with someone who was in no way an authority figure for the person quitting (I did mine with the receptionist).

I was of course very polite, I didn't want to burn any bridges and could still consider going back there some day, but I also was honest when telling them that main reason (that was in their control) for me quitting was that there was no development process (i.e. scrum) and the first thing on their to-do list should be to hire a good head of development.

They did this a year after I left and from what I've heard they have kept the rest of my team and even attracted some new talent. Maybe there are cultural factors at play as well (I'm in Stockholm).

They invited me back later for beers and starcraft 2, so I guess they don't hate me too much :)
Because end users couldn't care less if an app is build using native sdk or web technology; is it multi-platform or not.
All they care is how it works.
As for developers: some only know web tech and are not willing to learn native—their loss. Some buy an idea of developing universal web-tech based app for two or three platforms will save them time. I doubt that very much. Either you get a crappy app on all platforms, or you spend more time polishing it than it would take to go native for all platforms from the very beginning.
The public vs. private aspects of the Federal Reserve seem to be quite a muddle, per articles in Wikipedia:

Federal Reserve System: "The Federal Reserve System's structure is composed of the presidentially appointed Board of Governors (or Federal Reserve Board), the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation, numerous privately owned U.S. member banks and various advisory councils."

Federal Reserve Bank: "The Federal Reserve Banks have an intermediate legal status, with some features of private corporations and some features of public federal agencies. The United States has an interest in the Federal Reserve Banks as tax-exempt federally created instrumentalities whose profits belong to the federal government, but this interest is not proprietary. In Lewis v. United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that: 'The Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA [the Federal Tort Claims Act], but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations.' The opinion went on to say, however, that: 'The Reserve Banks have properly been held to be federal instrumentalities for some purposes.' Another relevant decision is Scott v. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, in which the distinction is made between Federal Reserve Banks, which are federally created instrumentalities, and the Board of Governors, which is a federal agency."
I'm sure you do, my comment was more for the benefit of any unhappy young people that might be reading.

Also I think you might mean "backhanded compliment," although off-hand works quite nicely here as well.
Thanks, I'm going to fix the post right now.

I have been confused by the fact that I got errors while I was not constraining the type in the right way.
This is actually common sense.

In fact, Chrome was based on this idea and it comes with bookmarks bar hidden by default.
You clearly have no intimate knowledge of guns and how they work, so why do you keep posting as if you do? That's a great animation, but I know how a .223 AR-15 works because I own one and have shot it many times. As it happens, I also know how a revolver works whereas you apparently haven't seen that animation.

The revolver would not have put 11 rounds in each kid, but it doesn't need to. 1-2 works just fine. The magazine for the AR-15 generally holds 10, 20, or 30 rounds and in this case it was almost certainly 30. If he did 11 per kid, lets round to 10, that's 3 kids per reload. 2 bullets is more than enough, so the 6 shot revolver can also do 3 per reload.

There is something called a speedloader for revolvers, which is just slightly slower than a magazine to reload. This guy [1] while not really going too fast, reloaded three times and shot 24 well aimed bullets in 45 seconds (starting at the 1:15 mark). I'd say that qualifies as many many round in under a minute with only a few pounds of pressure.

The second video [2], while obviously a world class shooter, shot 12 rounds, all on target, with a reload in the middle in less than 3 seconds.

This person could have very easily committed exactly the same horrific tragedy with the revolver. You just didn't know it until now. Unless having 10 bullets in a kid somehow makes it worse, this could have definitely happened with a revolver or 2 instead of an AR and a few semi-auto handguns.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9Lahi-TqQ
[2] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tFQ1H4Awg
I have a collection of bookmarks, that I haven't quite gotten around to organising! And they span about three machines and many web browsers. In their current state they aren't brilliantly useful for me.

I've always thought that bookmarks are a great idea. It's the bookmark interface in the browser that sucks. I think people use tabs a substitute for bookmarks for that reason. A tab is more in your face than a buried bookmark. It's a visual reminder.

Turning off the bookmark bar might be a good idea, if it's full of links that you barely touch. Would it not be a better idea to use that space for your most visited sites, or to list your recent history, or a filtered history?

The one time the browser bookmark bar was invaluable for me was when the keyboard broke on my computer. I could still surf the web quite well up to a point.

It's all very well saying abandon bookmarks. But free searching requires you knowing what you want to search for. Bookmarks can be mnemonics.

Sometimes we need prompting and/or signposting.

If I read something on the web, like a tutorial, and I think it has value. What chance do I have of remembering every domain/url, or even the magic keywords that got me to the article in the first place? That's when I find bookmarking useful. Recalling that bookmark is the tricky bit.

As I see it, browser's are focusing on rendering and javascript performance, and neglecting the actual user interface.
This is a big cultural divide. It's a big divide within the U.S.; it's even bigger with people outside the U.S. who haven't experienced the gun culture first hand, much less grown up with it.

Just a factual side-note:

"Outlaws" sometimes kill each other but they have yet to massacre kids in a school.

_cough_

Just this past spring: A gunman has shot dead a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17426313
it's possible that it was a method all along, just callable as a property? I haven't looked at the source.
I would say wifis.org is "cutting out the middle man" and you don't share with an anonymous global community, but rather locally with someone you probably (get to) know. Also, its potentially free.
Personally I see the biggest use case in moving and temporarily needing a wifi connection until your real ISP can hook you up.
Can you estimate or do you know (approx.) how long it takes for an order to arrive in the US once payment is made?
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And the average house isn't as nice, doesn't have year around nice weather, and isn't in a walkable neighborhood. I'm not arguing the cost isn't an issue, but the OP's standard of living numbers made a lot more sense here (2x)
Congrats, Kenneth!

Any hints on how to solve these incompatibilities between HTTPie and Requests v1.0 appreciated: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/issues/113.
Thanks! Sure, I didn't mean to imply that once you learn Linear Algebra you are all done - just that it you really need it and will make your life much easier once you do.
Yeah, I didn't include a ton of stuff - nothing on EM, trees, boosting, etc. Prob the biggest thing missing is something explicitly about regularization. Maybe I will add something there.
Please feel free to add stuff you think others might be interested in down in the comments section of the post.
Thanks again for the comments and taking the time to read through it and don't forget to sign up for a free account!
You appear to be one of those "people persons". Awesome, great for you! Still though, please don't project your personality traits to everyone and try make them sound as absolute ideals. Avoiding talking with people "about more than work" and generally keeping an arm's length from "company culture" (whatever that means) is a major reason some of us have started (or can't wait to start) working remotely, more than location or any other factor.
I think that OnLive is a very bad example to use when talking about web gaming, because, well, it wasn't web gaming. It was an attempt to shoehorn gaming platforms onto the web- little surprise that it failed.

That said, web gaming right now isn't good. But if WebGL becomes popular then there's no reason for it not to become a perfectly usable platform.
Punch cards and Mariner 1's $135 million software bug
Kudos for the nice design. I think this minimalist, flat, spaced-out, subtle-palette approach is great for for tools that people spend their whole day in.
What about Calfornia's $300bn+ debt?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/california-debt-higher-...
I've never used an open source library where I didn't end up having a question of "how exactly does this work?" (or related "If I do this thing, am I being redundant or interfering with normal operation?". Even with good docs. Requests is a good example of this, I didn't really fully understand what details were and were not kept in their sessions and what I needed to do w.r.t them and some testing I was doing (using requests, not on the lib itself). So I went code spelunking. I didn't think the code was bad to begin with, but if the code is cleaned up, and it would be even easier to do this, kudos on them. They made a future me or someone like me more productive!
Well housing costs are just one part of cost of living but sure, it costs less to live elsewhere. Generally salaries in the SF Bay Area are higher in part of offset that cost. Wikipedia [1] claims Louisville has a median salary of $36,484.

So a question; "If you wish to work at a remote location, are you willing to take a salary that is commensurate with the median salary at that remote location?"

I find people are somewhat split on that question.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky
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Agreed, but it is a high risk low reward thing so it is bad as a general advice.
>This is the option where I live (France).
Well if it wasn't for the Americans and our guns you would be ruled by Nazi Germany. It might be a long time ago and off topic, but it really wasn't that long ago and it's not that far off topic.

>It's just that I still can't see how guns aren't related to mass shootings.

That's obvious, they just aren't related to mass killings. This technology has been around for > 100 years. Look up the 1911, still one of the most popular semi-auto handguns on the market. These killings have only happened recently. That tells me something else is going on, it's not just that we have guns.

We've also had the mass knife rampages mentioned, as well as suicide bombers, etc. Almost all of these people end up killing themselves as well. Nothing is going to stop them from strapping a bomb to their chest and killing an entire classroom or gym full of people.
This. I'm so sick of receiving marketing emails from companies to whom I sent a one-time informational query, not to mention the marketing emails sent to addresses gleaned from public directories like Jigsaw (of which I am _not_ a member).
They didn't know who it was connected to at all before getting information from Google. Claiming that they both had clearances, and gave up a right to private email is trying to forgive these things after the fact.

Unknown individuals should be assumed to have privacy rights. You can't break into someone random person's house, then find out that they committed a crime, and say that the warrant-less search was now a-ok.
Sega: (https://github.com/danluu/sega-system-for-fpga)
They can block SSH now? Wow.

SSH tunneling to a proxy server worked flawlessly for me when I was living in China back in 2006. I guess the GFW has gotten a bit more sophisticated since then.
Our estimated delivery times are:

- United Kingdom: 2-3 working days

- Western Europe: 4-5 working days

- Eastern Europe: 6-7 working days

- US and the rest of the Word: 7 working days

We hope to be able to improve upon the US delivery time early next year.
It's completely different. FONERA aims at creating a global network of free wifi everywhere. To participate you need to buy a FONERA router. Wifis.org is simply a way to communicate with the wifi network owner. You just need to rename your SSID and your neighbors can now email you.
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Wrote this for fun. You can send message that are encrypted and message that self destruct. It uses javascript and does all the encryption in the client browser.

Anything saved on my server is encrypted bytes. Even with access to my server I cannot read what people are writing.

It seemed like a good idea, I have one ad on the page where you pickup the message. Not sure of a path to make money.

Any thoughts on anything, from UI to just in general is the idea ok.

Thanks
Have you actually done it? It's not that hard at all compared to a native app...
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Perhaps if you read it as "Why I Won't RELOCATE to Work for Your Startup" it doesn't come off quite as pompous.

Is it any less pompous to say: "I would like to hire you, but you have to leave where you live and everyone you know and come to me?"
just a guess but if .json was implemented as a property and deserialization fails, you would get an AttributeError instead of the error reporting that there was a problem with deserialization. leaving it a method call would allow for the real error to bubble up as normal.
Darpa is looking for a 100Gbit link
Our company spends the majority of it's advertising money and time on sponsoring conferences. Can definitely see it not working for some companies, but works great for us and helps fund great conferences for the community as a whole.
Everyone hated it.

There's a tech community confirmation bias at work here. I can't see what the ratings were like before the most recent version, but Gmail has a 3.5/5 rating on the App Store right now. I suspect that a lot of "ignorant" non-tech users found it to be fine.
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I think the cutting costs and distractions are extremely important variables when even thinking about trying to quantify the benefit of remote workers. But of course your productivity drops when you're in the office when you're not usually. People are taking advantage of one of the few times you're on-site, increased distractions already. The environment you're working in on-site is no longer what you're used to working in. Meaning you don't put up with distractions as well as you would if you worked there every day. And your body doesn't really go into 'work-mode'.

It goes the same way for someone who works in the office every day then decides to work at home. When I've had a dedicated office space in my home and worked there for an extended time, I always feel like I missed out on some social aspects that I needed from the office environment, including both productive and unproductive communication, but my productivity went up. But now that I've been working daily in an office, and I do not have a dedicated space at home, when I do end up working from home, i'm far more distracted. I think it's easy to look at either side and flail your hands attempting to qualify as well as justify what you're doing. But it's not that cut and dry. In your experience working from home may make perfect sense, but I still don't think it's easy to quantify the benefit of remote workers. For a lot of people working remotely is distracting in a different way, and you end up giving up a lot of essential in-office interactions, sometimes without ever realizing it.
> after all that shamanic dance trying to get all this to work you will wonder, what's the point.

Shamantic dance? It's trivial to the point of being a non-factor. You wrap your app in Phonegap, and make json requests to the web if you need data from there. Otherwise, it is stored and runs on the client.

> Not many predict that desktop apps will be replaced by web apps soon, but for some reason this a popular view regarding mobile.

For most things, desktop apps were replaced by web apps. Which is why Facebook doesn't maintain a desktop app (or Hacker News for that matter). HTML5 proponents have never made the claim that it will replace all native apps. Instead, it will replace data/list style apps like Facebook or productivity apps, which frankly, make up the vast majority of apps in the app store.
How Building Websites Is Changing Right Before Your Eyes
I know some folks working on the 700Mhz spectrum had some ideas there, I wonder if this can get them funded.
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Personally I like the anonymity of funny SSIDs. This just seems slightly desperate (not helped by the example on the landing page: "I just moved into this building and saw your Wi-Fi. Want to grab a beer?"

I really do want to like this idea, but I just can't see the benefit of it. Worse still, there's nothing to stop me adding my own e-mail address to my SSID and short-cutting wifis.org entirely.

That said, the concept has potential, but I think it needs to branch in a slightly different direction. Maybe the site can be used to search for people who offer up their wireless as free hotspots. Or have interesting intranet services (eg clubs could have some of their local bands content available to download, but only from their Wifi intranet for wifis.org members). At least then they've created an infrastructure where a community can grow in a way similar geotagging. As it stands, I suspect people will sign up and then forget about this service in a couple of weeks time. Which is the opposite of how social networks grow (where people are encouraged to return frequently).

Actually, I might set up that wifi geotagging idea myself...