skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please post the numbers for that box with vanilla (non-parallel) std::sort, on the whole array, as well! I'm curious!
I wouldn't have such faith in address space layout randomization. It's an excellent protection, but it makes addresses of code into security-sensitive information; for it to be effective you'll always have to work to prevent leaks of code addresses.

And shameless plug: Rust is designed to be the solution to exactly this sort of thing. The compiler is designed to prove that you can't have pointers into memory that you freed. Obviously, Rust code has to integrate with native libraries, and there can still be bugs there, but it should reduce the attack surface considerably.
Presumably the military has met (and solved) this problem already, so it's just a case of getting the RF equipment small enough.
Surely this depends on if they can continue to produce smash hits like minecraft.

While I love the idea of 0x10c I don't know if it will replicate the success.

It's something I find it hard to explain to people who don't understand things like programming and emulators. It could just be too hard to have the sort of mass appeal that minecraft did.
Haha exactly my thought!
MCM has been shipping out RasPis next-day for a few months now: http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi
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This is exactly what OEMs will do with any alternative OS using the market differentiation as excuse.

I can hardly wait for OEM specific Linux distributions, each with its own way of doing everything.
Still not as good as 'The IT Crowd' in the UK.
"Did you know if you type 'Google' into Google you will crash the internet?!"
Push state without onpopstate.. genius.
As an actual example, in the GitHub penis incident, HN seemed mostly supportive of the target:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342
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Are these GNU find extensions? I spend a lot of time on solaris, and I don't remember seeing a delete option. Thanks for the tips though!
DCM Capital Selling Themselves
I'm a fan.
That's interesting. I surely am a geek (I'm a programmer, I do tabletop rpgs and computer games, and I know a lot of bizarre trivia), but I never noticed that BBT was laughing at me.

I never before heard of Community, I'll try it so I have some comparison.
Kongregate announces $10mm mobile publishing fund
crap game is fairly subjective here, it seems to have burnt enough man hours to suggest that it does have lasting appeal.
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If anyone's interested, drop me a line - jim@kongregate.com
As of right now, I'm still considering BFL vaporware. They've moved that goalpost far too many times for them to be taken seriously.
I'm surprised to see an article that requires a paid subscription on the front page of HN.
I agree.

(I think part of the reason is that some startups have more team members, which takes up more resources in the office.)
Not quite the same thing but a bad idea for the consumer nonetheless. Our loans are price-index fixed. There is a consumer index calculated by our benevolent government organization that calculates the index based on the sale value of common household goods and essential costs like the price of gasoline. This mean that if the government raises gas taxes (like they did here - twice) that in turn causes your loan interest to rise. Ingenious, right?
This is a very common copy/paste Internet meme. Google the title and you'll find it has been everywhere for a while.
Google searches expose racial bias in search ads
Black Hornet Nano UAV helping keep soldiers safe in Afghanistan
HP doesn't write or supply any drivers - they are all 3rd party packages rewrapped by HP.
You nailed it! May I add:
15. Update the freakin' app every other week.
16. This goes on, until you get the message that the new version of the app is not compatible with your OS.
By the same coin, only about ~1/3 of the colonists were "Loyalists". The remainder didn't necessarily want the revolution but would have aided it had it happened, or would have been OK with the status quo had it been left that way.
The media often misrepresents these things. I'm not saying it's a conspiracy, they might simply want to make things more interesting than they are.

At least this was my experience with the recent student protests in Montreal. I attended a few of these protests and my roommate many more. They were mostly peaceful. The ones that weren't were in response to dubious police behavior such as locking protesters in a street and not letting anyone out for extended periods of time. This happened maybe once or twice over the course of a year. I felt safe moving about Montreal.

Now if I looked at the media, especially foreign media, it was another story. Had I not been in Montreal to see things first hand, I would have imagined a warzone. I would have been afraid to visit or live in Montreal. It was amazing to see the students portrayed as violent protesters when they went to incredible lengths to insure everything was done peacefully.

I experienced this same phenomenon, but not for protests, living in Toronto during the SARS epidemic. The city was running perfectly, no one was panicking (I think we had something like 22 potential cases). The only noticeable difference was that I saw a few face masks in the subway. If I listened to foreign media, everyone in Toronto was panicking, thousands were infected. Once again, it was represented as a warzone.

Having been there, I can say it wasn't in both cases. The media often misrepresents stories to make them more interesting. Having read the stories about Iceland (which are rather mild), if the trends I observed hold, it must have been really peaceful protest.
It keeps the company in check. It reminds the company that expenses come with the business. It forces founders to be mindful of what they're getting. It makes everyone realize that they're being invested in as much as they're investing too.

I don't care if psychologically $35k sounds better than $50k minus expenses to you. It makes for better founders and better companies. You should think about it from this perspective.
Surely the same thing could have been said about Minecraft, having little to no mass appeal, before it became a huge hit, no?
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Wow, you could not have misread Mojang any worse. You must be intentionally obtuse here -- I refuse to believe that you're this ignorant.

You feel like some washed up older guy pissed off that his idea didn't make it, content to sit and pooh-pooh anything else that comes by. "My idea was so great, but no, stupid little blocks is what idiots around the world want" is the vibe I get from you.

"Crappy game" "bullshit stats" "spam it"

You're jealous and content to sit there and throw your sour grapes at anyone who dares actually like Minecraft.

Honestly, you're an insult to the spirit of this site and the people who come here. To shit all over a start up that is wildly successful for no other reason than you dislike it -- Shame on you.
Belgium-based, Viking-named startup wants to vanquish mobile data costs
Pakistan Domain Registrar Hacked Again, 23000 Domains Affected
We've been conditioned to want apps. Or... many people have. iPhone is synonymous with 'apps'. My grandmother understands 'apps' (well, mostly!)

I was on a project last year, and we built a mobile website (could work in iPhone/Android and probably winphone, but we didn't test). Got a lot of immediate "yeah that's great" from some people. Partners reached out for potential customers/sales - every single one returned with "where do I get the app".

Us: "http://foobarsite.com.

Them: "Cool, but I can't see where to download the app!"

Us: "You don't - you just go to the website"

Them: "But I need an app!"
http://codetheory.in/remote-mobile-web-application-debugging...
You're absolutely right. I'm currently researching the cryptographic elements of bitcoin for this exact reason: ecash schemes actually rely on the power afforded by cryptography. In my mind, the economic disruption is actually less exciting.
When I'm done the research and it goes to press I'll keep the HN community posted, since there seems to be quite a bit of excitement here on Bitcoin.
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An attractive female that makes dorky men do stupid? You don't say...
The only such app I use is the WSJ on the iPad. It's handy for reading the entire paper contents on plane trips back when I used to fly once a week. The rest of the time, web apps seem adequate for the dozens of periodicals I read online.

But now it seems every Tom, Dick, and Harry needs to have a mobile app. "Welcome to the South Florida Sentinel -- press OK to download our app, or tap the tiny link 'No thanks, take me to the article'"

It seems to me Mr. Morris was a bit over the top in his expletive-laden diatribe. I mean, you don't HAVE to download any apps, right? Just go to the website, or else don't go there at all. No one has a monopoly on the news.
I do not advocate piracy, and do believe that people should be paid for their work. However, you are wrong. Theft means that the original owner no longer has the item stolen from them. Copying something from them most definitely leaves them with the original. That is one way in which piracy is not like theft. I would much rather someone download a copy of my code, than grab all my drives, make a copy, erase them, then return the drives. What you said is "theft is wrong" && "piracy is wrong" => "Piracy must be theft". The trouble is, you cannot apply the same concepts to physical and digital world. Once again, not arguing that pirating software or other content is good, just that it is not theft.

Secondly, and this is a point that I don't think is discussed much, piracy to me is an effect of market value. For example big music labels will argue that if I distribute a Britney Spears MP3 on a file sharing network, that they lose $0.99 * # of potential buyers. This is false. The market value of this piece of content is much lower. People would not pay for it if the only way to get it was through, say, iTunes. Basically, someone might want it for free, might consider if for cheap ($0.10/song), but not want it for the price set by the market.
Oracle to Buy Acme Packet for $2.1 Billion
We've had similar issues. You usually just threaten to "come to fucking <insert country> and burn the support center down" and they will escalate it to the right people and it will get resolved.

Fine example: Sony just replaced my spare TV which was 2 years out of warranty.

As for my ThinkPad, I bought two. If this one fails, I will just get the other one out and use it whilst repairing this with bits from eBay for not much money at all.
"Isn’t air conditioning in temperate climates an unnecessary waste of energy? ... wouldn’t it be more efficient to just open a window instead? "

Good luck with that in Florida. Open a window, it gets hotter.
Great work Kushagra. Very useful stuff.
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And this happens with some regularity. The number of orphaned branches on the blockchain is surprisingly (to me, at least) significant (last I looked, around a dozen).
That is an eloquent explanation. However I recognize parts of my character in all the characters in TBBT, and I enjoy it for that exact reason! I am fully aware that I am laughing at myself. If somebody else wants to laugh at me too, go ahead.
Glad you guyz liked it and thought it to be useful :)
I have to agree with the other comments that you seem to have prematurely narrowed your options. The requirements that you mention are pretty broad and don't really pick out Riak or Cassandra in particular.

You may want to ask, What are your requirements for data consistency? Will you need to build reliable abstractions on top of your data store? If so, you may want to look at other options, such as FoundationDB.

Stephen Pimentel, foundationdb.com
It's quickly mentioned in the article, but the laugh track in the show is what makes me HATE "The Big Bang Theory". It drives me crazy, it ruins ever joke for me, and it also makes it very hard for me to follow the plot of the episode when there is a "laugh pause" after every 1-5 words in the dialog.

I find much more humor in a show that has hilarious jokes/PUN's and doesn't need to stress them so much. For example, Arrested Development, is one of the best comedies ever done (in my opinion) because the complexity in their jokes and there is no need to stress the idea of when to laugh.

If "The Big Bang Theory" goes by the idea that the laughing from the live audience helps them determine what to cut parts of the episode, they should just film it without the live audience then air it to a screening crowd separately to decide what to cut and keep. Why dilute the show for other viewers not watching it live with that extreme annoyance of constant laughter? I just don't get it.
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I think there was probably more evidence in favour of minecraft being a success. For example widespread popularity of lego and other various sandbox games.

Minecraft is also relatively simple to understand, pick up and place blocks. I assume that 0x10c will have a much steeper learning curve.

Though it was certainly a long shot that minecraft would be as popular as it is today, the question is whether lightning can strike twice?

I'm sure that 0x10c will still a profitable game but I doubt it will have sales numbers that approach minecraft's.
Like most entertainment, BBT is a parody, exaggeration, and simplification of real life. I find a lot more relevant humor in it than in any other sit-com I've watched -- to the point where I could anticipate the joke because I had had the exact conversation with my friends.

In the episode where the female characters go to the comic store (described in the OP), they then have an episode long argument on exactly who can move Thor's hammer, which I'm sure rang true to any comic reader.
Ask HN: Why do many consider email as "broken"
This is a common saying I found occasionally in blogs, tweets etc.

I truly cannot see what is broken with email.

In terms of signal vs. noise, it produces the best values comparing to social media.

I think email is a tool I use even more than my text editor.

So what is that I am missing, and what are the alternatives?
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The reason more people don't do it is because:

A) it's difficult. Since the vast majority of miners didn't get in early, they weren't able to get in on the "gold rush" that enabled them to ramp up hardware in accordance with their output. When mining first started, you could find blocks with a decent CPU. Since then, dedicated rigs have become almost a necessity if you plan to make any kind of money at all.

B) Electrical efficiency. Since the recent decrease (reduction from 50 bitcoin per block down to 25 per block) and the rise in popularity of bitcoin (thus rise in difficulty of finding a block.. it scales naturally), the "cost" of finding blocks has gone up. By that I mean it requires more raw computational power to mine, raising the bar on both the hardware needed to be relevant AND the amount of electricity consumed during the process.

There are a lot of calculators out there. They will give you some insight into how much you could make (or very likely lose) depending on your local electricity pricing.
It should be noted that the author states that this htaccess rule "block[s] access to any file containing the string wp-config.php", but the rule itself is designed to block any temporary editor file matching the pattern he describes in the article regardless if it is named wp-config.php or not. Your nginx rule does the same.
More CSS Tooltips - http://cssdeck.com/search/?q=tooltip (just sharing)
(One of the better explanations I've seen).
Indeed, the bitcoin.org website claims that the blockchain is the central innovation in Bitcoin (since the rest of the ecash crypto has been around for decades)
If the penalty for generating a CAD file with its strings in the wrong encoding is that no importer will read it because they're being strict in what they accept, then no exporter that does so will last very long in the wild.
You should consider that most (all?) of the tiny RC equipment comes straight out of China. Given that, I suspect that they had to build the thing from the ground-up. Did you do everything from choosing materials to designing your own gearbox?
How would the media know that their viewers don't care about Iceland if they never told their viewers about Iceland in the first place?

I don't understand why people insist on using the "shadowy figures gathering in smokey rooms" straw-man, Herman/Chomsky's propaganda model has been around for 25 years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
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Good luck with that in most of the country.
I would join the Growth Hacker Hub on LinkedIn...
Thanks! 30 seconds of reading and I have at least a basic understanding.
The animations work for me in Chrome dev (26).
What i mean is that democracy can be "hacked", e.g.:

1)First empoverish people, them give them presents (like a government job) and then just keep them at those (sheep) jobs voting for whatever your will, or else they lose their jobs. This is to what i see as the current trend.

Solutions:
1) 6 hours max work hours, instead of 8. More creativity, no unemployment and more happiness, health and society involment (e.g. making friends and "art").

2) Simple law, like the one i proposed before, and easy to learn. Test it with a 6 year old. When people start an ecosystem around crime it will only generate more crime, since the ecosystem wants to thrive.

3) a github like collaborative space for science, cities, etc. Goal, e.g. : to establish a moon colony, or to eliminate diseases or pain, or get to immortality. Btw dear rich people you will die someday and your statistical chances are to reincarnate in some baby in a poor country.
Hmm, I like TBBT and disliked Community. Go figure.
You know, all these allegedly deep and smart "worldly wisdoms" that people who "made it" like to share in hind-sight do not show you the countless other people who said something similar and did not make it or lived by totally different priorities and still made it. Taking the initiative and not being crippled in your actions by fear is generally not a bad suggestion but there is so much more that goes into becoming so successful and a lot of that really is out of your hands at the end of the day, whether you like that or not. Attributing it to one mindset or quote is really oversimplifying things, no matter how good it can feel to read something like that.
I don't get the hate either, even if it is true that they are "laughing at us". I can laugh at myself for being weird.

According to my friends, Sheldon's tireless and obnoxious pedantery is a perfect caricature of me. When he drops some furniture he is carrying to debate the point that pulling it up the stairs would reduce the required vertical force by exactly fifty percent and not about fifty percent, he is doing something weird and nerdy that I could also see myself doing. It is still funny.
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Start with these to get the idea: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com http://tinyhouseblog.com/ http://mypatriotsupply.com

Shop at the Dollar Store, Goodwill, Aldi, etc. Look for foreclosed, abandoned, and other dirt cheap real estate; search Zillow.com for sub-$1000 properties (not a typo). Plant a garden. Move. No excuses.
"Help each other not ourselves" Amsterdam startup event
Very clever. FWIW There are some issues when the node is near the edge of the window. The browser will display the contents of a title attribute atop the browser chrome, but your tooltip will be hidden.
Without the exploration of seemingly ridiculous ideas there is no progress. What does not work ultimately evaporates into history. The truly useful remains. And during the transition some ignore it while others adopt, experiment, learn and contribute.

And, of course, there's yet another group that can do nothing but whine.

That's not to say that this might not have some value. However, for some reason, if I was the first guy trying to rub two sticks of wood together to make fire I think the whino's would be kind of annoying.
Another attempt at throwing the bath water out with the baby.

If people are not using email correctly, try training them! Email is more than just a create and a reply button.
Last year's challenge was the best ever. Looking forward to 2013! Highly recommended.
you just have no idea what you are talking about.
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There isn't a single piece of substance in what you just said, just a bunch of vague proclamation and accusations about "public brainwashing" by the "MSM". Your post reads exactly like a hand-wavey paranoid conspiracy theorist except you're saying you're not a conspiracy theorist. Maybe you should be a bit more specific instead of this rambling nonsense about how you are enlightened and all the regular people are brainwashed.
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Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
> It's something I find it hard to explain to people who don't understand things like programming and emulators.

"It's a space game where you have to build your own computer. Unless you don't want to, in which case you can download one of, like, a million that people have already worked on for months and years."
Well , Java itself is implemented in some lower level language so the JVM can potentially have heap/stack overflows of it's own.

Java does make it harder for the end user programmer to add these sorts of vulns to their own code though.
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Yii places all config information (and any files that shouldn't be accessed by a visitor) in a folder called "protected" that is behind a "deny from all" .htaccess file. WordPress should consider something like that.
Jacoby Jones had two very electric, exciting plays. Flacco was consistent and steady throughout most of the game. I wouldn't have batted an eye if they had named Jones, or Anquan Boldin the MVP.

Quite simply, it's tough bordering on impossible for a position player to match the output of a good quarterback. Even if you propose that Jones receives 100% credit for the kick return touchdown (he doesn't, the blockers deserve a fair amount), and 75% credit for the receiving TD, he didn't do much else in the game. Flacco threw two other TDs and completed 67% of his passes. Like usual he was cool and not very "exciting." His only really memorable pass was when he was flushed out to the right and seemingly threw it away, but hooked up with a terrific Anquan Boldin down the sideline.

Flacco was less exciting but more consistent and just did more.

I can't say for sure why he was named MVP, but he certainly deserved it.
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