skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, nginx is simply relaying data over an active connection on each. There is an open socket between the client and nginx, and nginx and the backend, for every WebSocket.

There is not a port limit issue, however, as nginx can create more than one connection to a local backend server using unix domain sockets. But the backend server has to then manage multiple open connections, as well, one for each WebSocket.
Is there a window manager for power users that don't like tiling window managers? Half my windows are too big to be tiled (browser, IDE, Inkscape, GIMP, etc.) Plus, I have the desktop background for a reason: I want to see it. I don't want an austere screen paved over with windows like a city with no grass. I like my large windows to not be completely maximized, so I have some empty space. I like having my windows a little disorderly, not quite properly aligned, for the same reason Japanese Go boards are a little too small for 19 stones to fit: nature doesn't create orderly grids.

I really miss sawfish, though. I like Alt-Tab to activate the actual window instead of a little a row of icons (it'd be even cooler if it would turn the inactive windows greyscale). I like being able to turn off window decorations per app. Sticky windows don't flicker when you change desktops, like they do on Lion. And, of course, a config file for the things you always want in the same place.
Everyone needs to read the rest of the site. It's one of the most interesting domains I've ever come across. Fascinating guy through and through, and his short stories are excellent.
Discussion of this scenario on Physics Forums here:

http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=672650
I have high hopes for the automatic NUMA balancing work. We are getting a lot of cores per socket capable of generating a lot of traffic per core and the disparity which was already pretty large continues to grow.

That said the scheduler does pretty well, it beats manually binding without a lot of experimentation.
Bill Gates: Windows Phone strategy was 'a mistake'
Hi RailsReady. I highly advise you to move off launchrock and use a a custom site for signups. What does it say to me about your technical skill if a simple sign up website is out of reach? You can even continue to use Launchrock, but use the embedded widget in a custom site. Also, there are several rails tutorials about a easy sign-up page for a startup, one is here http://railsapps.github.com/tutorial-rails-prelaunch-signup.....
Samsung Gets Ready to Attack Nokia
Essentially ...

"Mind you, to say that Microsoft isn't leading with Windows Phone is a bit of an understatement. According to recent research from comScore, Microsoft's share of the smartphone market actually shrunk during the three months ending December 2012, leaving it with a paltry 2.9 per cent."
getting 4 hours minimum with lemur ultra i7 ssd 8gb ram. I'm satisfied with that.
One of my favorite sites. If you aren't familiar with it already, it will probably lead you to lesswrong.com. Also worth a good amount of time input.
The graph shows the percentage of history files the command appears in, not the total frequency the word appears in the histories.
Who are you referring to? Could you provide a link?

I don't see anything in these comments that looks like homophobia. Maybe they deleted it.
yep and the latest one has a ton of great stuff for sharing.
I had occasion to correspond with Gwern recently. It is always enlightening to talk to somebody who is smarter than I am.
That is indeed a distinction important to this particular case, but not my general point. I should have been more clear.
Sweden has the world's fastest 4G
Mythbusters banned from talking about RFID vulnerabilities
Monsanto uses the terminator gene technology to stop the seed replication beyond first generation.

No, they don't [0]:

Because some stakeholders expressed concerns that this technology might lead to dependence for small farmers, Monsanto Company, an agricultural products company and the world's biggest seed supplier, pledged not to commercialize the technology in 1999.[2] Customers who buy patented transgenic seeds from Monsanto must sign a contract not to save or sell the seeds from their harvest,[3] which preempts the need for a "terminator gene".

Also, regarding this:

It's like me having to pay royalty to Apple for buying a used macbook :).

No, this is like your Macbook being able to make copies of itself, so that after you buy one, you've got a new copy every year for the rest of your life.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technol...
Firefox 19 download for Windows, Mac, and Linux now available
An Arcade Game that Rewards You With Beer
I wonder if the current little spike in the bitcoin price (from https://mtgox.com/) could be attributed to this article being posted on HN
From their forum here: http://www.duo3d.com/forums/viewthread/9/

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Well first and foremost the biggest difference is we believe that everyone should be able to make and understand our sensors. That is why we focus on a DIY solution keeping the cost as low as possible. We also believe that people should have these devices as soon as possible and not have to wait. That is why we are going for a Kickstarter project so we can get the community involved in making awesome open hardware.

As for the technical details we use a independently discovered and developed methods to perform our tracking. Further more we are not only limited to hand/finger tracking but our algorithms allow for other potential tracking scenarios that are still unexplored.
We're focusing on building a hosting platform, not a signup page. Thanks though!
Does F2FS requires special hardware? Can I format my SSD with F2FS in near future?
I guess I just don't see the huge problem in allowing people who have paid to download the videos. You already have this person's money. If they cancel their subscription then they no longer get access to new videos; you can sell long-term subscriptions with early termination fees to prevent users from subscribing one day out of the year to get all the new videos. The videos are going to be on The Pirate Bay regardless of the presence of DRM. The user who pays and wants to cheat can as if not more easily share his password with his friends than the videos themselves.

I just don't see what it's buying you -- and it's providing less value to the user who can't as easily watch the video offline or on as wide a range of devices, which reduces the number of users you can attract at a given price point.
This is true and we're putting together more details. More to come.
> Keeping him away from law-abiding citizens for two decades was accomplished.

>Don't get me wrong. It is a sad story. And I sympathize with someone who didn't see a better way for himself than crack dealing but what about all those other people, the society at large, who don't want to be afraid to walk after dark, don't want their property vandalized...?

What makes 20 years the magic number after which Harris could be safely returned to live among law-abiding citizens? A key point of the article is that we're keeping people locked up long after they become unlikely to commit more crimes. It's not saying that lawbreakers shouldn't be incarcerated at all. You also have to consider unintended consequences of long incarceration, such as the effect it has on children, and the fact that it perpetuates the cycle of poverty that led Harris to crack dealing in the first place.

Other western countries deter crime and protect the public with far shorter sentences. Why wouldn't that work here too?
Lessig to give lecture on "Aaron's Laws" Tuesday 2/18. Webcast 5P EST
The author should hire a hacker for 100k/yr and let them work on whatever "is fulfilling" to them then, as it must be nice to look down on "optimizing your paycheck" when student loans exist. Fwiw making cool stuff and money are not mutually exclusive.
The only thing I don't like about that is that I wish there was a box I could check that says "I'm buying a Windows laptop, but I'm really planning to run Linux on it. Please keep investing in Linux hardware support for this line of laptops."

Actually, the world might be better if all manufacturers had that checkbox.
Not just that, but on any computer running Linux, you can just use loadkeys.

You can also use xmodmap, but that's not going to work outside X11 (if you tend to do much work without X)
How come most comments are about UK? The link is about how freedom of speech has been strangulated in India by a university which is not recognized by law.
How Samsung is out-innovating Apple
I agree. I can't edit the story link but here is a better link: http://www.duo3d.com/about/ (same page but video does not auto-play)
Well, the size of the screen matters as well. The Nexus 10 would be a better example in my opinion.
How I organize my digital world
How Rovio made half its money in 2012, & why you should do what they did
I feel the same as grandparent, but it's a blurry line. Ideally, promoted ads should be recommendations. Buy more than just reach to a demo, instead ensure a qualified voice authentically highlights your benefits - more akin to social recommendations from friends than banner ads.

This is rarely attempted in a world of publications that depend on ad volume and outsourced ad buyer supply, but examples exist. The webcomic Penny Arcade recently ran a Kickstarter to achieve freedom from ads, but found itself answering questions like "What if I love ads?" (http://www.penny-arcade.com/2012/07/20/what-if-i-love-ads) because they'd built a reputation of only advertising products they would feel comfortable endorsing even without an adbuy (can't find a direct link to when they talk about this, but it's out there somewhere).
When you join the unviersity you must have signed any terms of service. That usually includes statements like, internet from univ will be used only for academic purposes. This is why they block the websites
The Samsung DROID Charge (that I got a week after it's original release, because it had "the best battery life of the Verizon 4G Android phones". Didn't know yet that that still meant it was shit) had me seriously considering giving up on Android, but somehow I got convinced to try the Samsung Galaxy S3. The phone is amazing, and it's really difficult to imagine that the same company somehow made both phones, a mere year and a half apart.
Nginx's development branch is generally considered production ready [1]. I trust the nginx core team not to introduce potentially problematic changes. As an example, the recent spdy integration [2] has lived in a parallel branch for over half a year.

The dev branch is officially upgraded to stable infrequently, maybe once a year.

[1] http://blog.bigdinosaur.org/nginx-dev-or-stable/

[2] http://nginx.org/patches/spdy/
Burger King Twitter account hacked, defaced
Thanks for fixing it.

Have you considered avoiding dipping into the repl to do these kind of fixes? You don't owe any of us any sort of uptime guarantee, and you're a much better programmer than I, but it strikes me as odd that you would hack against the live server instead of create some tool that would make it so you couldn't take down the whole site when making this kind of fix...
It's both :) I studied math too.
The Bitcoin price has been dramatically spiking for the past two weeks. Very curious as to why.
Firefox 19
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/19.0/
It works with normal SSDs.
Lecture on how to convert Blu-ray to Xbox 360
DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper is a flexible and all-featured Blu-ray ripper which can rip Blu-ray title to various video files playable on next generation consoles like PS3 and Xbox 360, HD player like WD TV Live, or mobile devices like iPod, iPhone (iPhone 4), iPad (The New iPad), etc. And it can also extract audio out of video.
Blu-ray Ripper has creative and flexible settings and options to let you freely edit and customize the output files as you like.
DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper will help you to rip and convert Blu-ray to Xbox 360 with high quality and fast speed. More details at: http://www.dvdfab.com/blu-ray-ripper.htm?ad=hcj
> A Dell can't run OSX.

Ha! Tell that to my hackintoshed Dell Mini 10v :-P
Whoa! 4? My life is chaotic enough with just one :) How do they feel about the moving around?

Wife and I talked about moving in a couple of years, but I'm reluctant because of the kid.
Have you considered the Zenbook Prime? They have touch and non-touch models at 13 inches with a full HD display.
Not to mention Publius:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
I too do prefer them layered over the arrow keys. But, hey, I'm an Emacs junkie, so, I love modifier keys :D
We could do a binary search.
The work to derive the palette? Do you mean RGB to HSL and back? That isn't particularly CPU-intensive.

One of many implementations: http://axonflux.com/handy-rgb-to-hsl-and-rgb-to-hsv-color-mo...

I imagine you could precompute the entire 24 bit range if you really wanted.

I mean, this thing has a failure mode where it says it can't find your IP address. That makes no sense until you look at how it was implemented.
Microsoft simply could not dictate to the telcos like they did to the PC manufacturers in the 1990s. The telcos decide what phones get sold to consumers. Kin, for example, was killed because no telco wanted it.

Telcos like Android - its free and they can skin it.

Microsoft has been arrogant and toxic to every one of the mobile phone manufactures that partnered with it.

It is ironic that Android, with its free software Linux kernel, is crushing Microsoft worldwide in the most dominating fashion!

If smartphones are true personal computers, then Microsoft is toast.
Yeah, 84.38.212.89 (or whatever coffee shop I'm posting from) is my correct IP address. I guarantee it. o_O
The Google Watch:

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/01/05/google-smartwatch-co...
If I understand correctly, user namespace support was the major thing missing for the secure use of Linux Containers (LXC). This should bring widespread, extremely rapid container-based virtualization under Linux closer to a reality. Redhat is nominally backing this via libvirt, but mainly offers paravirt-based solutions. IBM who authored a lot of the kernel code seems to be interested the same stuff for large-scale servers. We live in interesting times.
You are paying the price for not having loads of stickers and crapware. Im fine with it, and I want Dell to know that there are Linux consumers ...
I was in academia for 8 years and working with scientists to build prototypes. Although work is interesting in universities, most programming jobs are dead-end career wise. I quit my job a year ago to build iPhone apps and learned quite a lot as an entrepreneur. Hopefully that should help me with the interviews.
Man, SR is one of those things I look at in awe. I'm not sure I'd ever have the cojones to have something shipped to me...

The comments on the blog post are sad in a "Good god people are effing stupid" sort of way.

Also, if you're getting on Tor, I recommend Tails [1]. Most people aren't aware of all of the things they need to be wary of when getting on Tor and not leaking their identity.

[1] Tails: http://tails.boum.org
What would [be] the reason for U.S. poverty?

Lets start with discussing the US legal definition of "poverty", which puts the line at some 20x world median income.
Realism and Gloom
Why would we go this route? Why not just define a bytecode spec and be done with all of this nonsense? Mozilla is perfectly free to implement the bytecode by compiling it to a restricted subset of JS (in fact, it might make a lot of sense to do so). Defining a simple register or stack based machine and producing bytecode for it would greatly simplify the job of implementers, it would make defining the specification and determining compliance with the standard very straight forward, and it would let us eventually do web programming without being tied to a specific language.
Set some time that you are working on your own thing. That might mean staying up 2-3 hours after your mate has went to bed. See if you get get up 2-3 hours before her. Use the "real" time for real life stuff. Work around it. I've done it for years and launched several successful products while maintaining a happy life of a husband and father of 2.
The morality of sperm donation
I was written May 2011 from the top of the article, but some of the footnotes have been updated recently.
Here is a direct link to the 76 page report: http://intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf
What is most interesting about this article is how to set up the Tor browser.

Privacy is very, very, important - especially for those who are oppressed, and even for those living in democracies.
This is funny, but I really wish these Anonymous guys would either disappear or get 'real' jobs using their skills to build useful things. They're really hurting the image of what it means to be a programmer/tech enthusiast these days. Whenever I tell people I'm a software engineer they say "Can you hack? Hack my computer!" and I just have to shake my head.
The Glorification of Busy
Show HN: Search engine of all Internet-connected devices
Take Control of the Box Model with box-sizing
Look at the transaction volume as charted by blockchain.info. You will see a good correlation between that and the price of bitcoins.

A good part of the recent bitcoin transaction volume is due to online gaming startups that use bitcoins, especially to work around US online gambling restrictions.

The bitcoin economy is very rapidly growing from a miniscule base, first in illegal and gray-market trade, and then in international trade where low transaction costs and lack of credit card fraud appeal to global merchants.
I was so ready to snap one of these up, but it turns out Ubuntu 13.04 runs so well on my MBA that I have no need to switch hardware to stick with my Linux setup. That having been said, the Dell now represents a step-up for screen resolution.

Now if only this Dell or the X1 Carbon would rip off MagSafe, my decisions would be easier.
Don't fear abstraction - that's as far as we'll get in plenty of cases, especially when we're talking about the epistemology of the sciences; in any case, there's always an element of human control involved - once opinionated humans are put in charge of articulating abstractions, we tend towards elegance, orthogonality, the stuff that makes you grin.

Fear leaky abstractions, though.
Microsoft existed in the PDA space to keep Palm from growing.

Lets face it, the secret sauce to smartphones from a technology POV is the web and web services. Microsoft had disbanded its IE team after the release of IE6, and thought that they had put the Internet problem to bed.
Older kernels refuse to mount a filesystem with feature flags they doesn't understand; see INCOMPAT_INLINE_DATA in https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Disk_Layout
Hmm, so as we adapt and excel at our new surroundings we lose skills that are no longer necessary?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5242429
The full text of the bill makes clear that this should apply to private networks as well:

"...via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network."
Oh,I'm late
I find it quite interesting that Android default browser (and thus WebView) is the only modern browser that still does not support WebSockets. I wish Google shed some light on why this is. Unupdatable Android browser is the modern IE6.
His article on bitcoin is a great read as well. http://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better
BTW I have moved from t420 to x220 (smaller display, but IPS) and, having quickly adapted to a bit less real estate, could not be happier. x220 IPS screen blows away everything save for retina.

And yes, no proper laptop should ever be sold without a trackpoint and a proper keyboard! :)
Isn't Browser essentially unmaintained in favor of Chrome (which itself is somewhat crippled compared to the desktop version)?
FCC broadband monitoring data shows half of ISPs fall short of advertised speed
I would like to quote a past comment http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/m0i93/_/c2x87tb

- the volume of attack coming from Chinese IP addresses but are essentially non-Chinese in origin is substantial. The windows xp piracy rate ends up in a very low uptake of windows update, leaving quite possibly the largest population of vulnerable hosts in the world. Attacks end up being false-flag even if not intended

- Attacks that are genuinely Chinese in origin tend towards being citizen initiatives. Imagine if you lived in a jurisdiction where instead of being treated like Garry McKinnon for attacking American infrastructure, just nobody gives a fuck. The reverse also applies, but has a limit that Chinese is not widely understood by American 'hackers'. Any Chinese skiddie can cause an international incident by trying out their tools on an American company. Universities that run courses in infosec, of which some are military, are commonly accused origin IPs for attacks. The likelihood is that complacence, rather than official sponsorship or policy is the prime driver behind this phenomenon.

- Instead of trying to build out \cough\\ cybercommands, Government sponsored CTF tournaments identify and reward talent, without bringing it on-board the National Security apparatus. Talent is left out in the community on the understanding it can be found if needed.

- The 'Chinese Government' is nowhere near as cohesive and controlling as is depicted in Western sources. Government sponsored economic espionage activities that are out of proportion to American efforts against the rest of the world will originate at the provincial level. Chinese industry is very regional, with whole provinces specializing in specific industries, hence the benefits of economic espionage is highly regional in nature too. It is not in the central government's interests to sustain the Chinese hacker folklore, nor would it be within their ability to rein in any provincial government involvement.
(throwaway account)

I've spent over $50,000 USD on SR in the past year, and I'm happy to answer any questions people have about the site or community.
"I know the crowd I'm talking to puts a lot of stock in the vehicle logs, but we're missing the communication logs we'd need to know what really happened or who said what to whom."

You should read the discussions. I brought this up many times:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240527

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240237

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5228442

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5223681

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5223448

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5222275

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5220019

You can find these by searching for call logs niggler in the HN Search
Definitely biased here, since I work for Voxeo Labs, but Tropo is free for development, supports SIP, SMS, Shortcodes, TFN's ITFN's, ect. We also have great support ( 24/7 ) and fantastic documentation. Our product is also available on premise, should you want to go that route. It is also being deployed into many large carrier clouds, such as AT&T, Deutsch Telekom, ect.
Why would a bytecode spec be simpler for implementers? Is there some part of the spec of asm.js that looks hard to implement to you?

And why would a bytecode spec be better for other languages than this approach (which also supports that)?
The funky Fn/Ctrl placement is a Thinkpad thing[1].

IMO, the classic thinkpad layout nailed it. Unfortunately, this has been replaced by the chicklet layout. I love the big delete button on the x220[2].

[1] http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2011/01/500x_l...

[2] http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/story/30/40/092594/thinkpad_x2...