skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got a feeling that I first heard this story in the paperback version of the Jargon File - The New Hacker's Dictionary (3rd Ed). That book alone is a pretty great compendium of stories from the 70s and 80s.
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CloudFlare's CDN bits require you to give them DNS delegation of your stuff, last I looked.
Hooooorrrray! I can finally be useful in the space!
"Waste heat" is not a problem for the foreseeable future, by the way.

The mean insolation arriving at the surface of the earth is ~1000 w/m2. The Earth has a surface area of about 5.1×10^8 km^2 or 5.1x10^14 m^2, so the incoming energy from the sun amounts to about 5x10^17 watts.

World electrical power output is only about 2 terawatts = 2x10^12 watts, or 1/250,000 of the heat received from the sun.

Clearly it's going to be a long time before we have to worry about "waste heat" on a global level.

As your source says, do the math.
Sorry, but after a little research I don't think you're correct.
In reply to your question about stuff micro ISVs need to know to get profitable, I'm currently expanding this post: http://www.layeredthoughts.com/startups/12-rules-for-buildin... into a full book with an essay per rule (and some extra rules) I'm about halfway done and hope to have it done by summer.
I wont argue that private college in the US isn't brokenly expensive for most mayors. I'm not even saying that college is a good idea for most of the population anywhere. What I am saying is that for some important fields of knowledge that it would be good to teach to some not small fraction of the population, college is a good solution; maybe the best that has been actually tested. Of course not going to college would be a great choice for a lot of people who are going there. But it is also the right choice for a large number of people.
You don't get interrupt handlers, for one thing (though I think there are projects that do allow complete userspace drivers), and as binarycrusader mentioned, it's incredibly dangerous to give any process full access to the entire physical memory space. A single vulnerability in that process gives the attacker the ability to write to all of system memory. This can be mitigated somewhat by mmap()ing only the smallest possible region of interest, then dropping root privileges.
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Speaking only for myself, it comes from a combination of selection bias and general mistreatment at the hands of others.

When you see someone who has three degrees in various flavors of computer science (BS, MS, PhD) who doesn't know about what happens when you use "==" with two floats, it builds.

When your boss tells you that he won't pay you any more because you don't have a degree, it builds. When you find out he's paying the three network engineers 3x what you get and they don't even really understand TCP/IP (so they wind up coming to you for everything), it builds.

When you see someone who is hired as a sysadmin because they are clearly such a great computer scientist and can do anything, and then who can't manage the simplest of Unix maintenance requests, it builds.

Any time someone tries to use their degree as a club instead of a wall covering, it builds.

That's just me. I can't say why other people feel that way.

For the record, I only got my degree two years ago this month. I mostly did it because I really needed to "walk the stage" at last. Everything else was secondary. Now that I have it, does it make me any better than others? No way. If anything, it puts me behind the 8-ball having to pay off these stupid loans for the rest of my life.
So I get the emotions about not mixing your professional and personal life. But tell me how do you meet people then? Do you meet at the coffee shop or at the bars. Most of the guys are shy and need some kind of platform for the first conversation.

There is also an element of trust for girls to go on a blind date with a guy whom she knows works in some reputed company.
Constant movement is not necessary, hence the walking around 5 minutes per hour.

I agree standing desks are not for everyone.
First off, to the person who submitted this article, thank you!

Next. Sometimes people work in technology are interested in how the world works, about beautiful things, about life and how it interacts with the rest of the world. Yes, sometimes we also have this feeling that things that strike and inspire us and stimulate our intellect might be of interest to others. I come here not for the technical articles. I work in this field and those will inevitably float through to me. I come here because I wish to read and savor the thoughts of incredibly amazing people. It is discourteous to decide explicitly how this community will evolve. If you or anyone really feels that there is no place here for humanity, art and articles on culture, you can very well flag the article. If it looks like that is happening enough. Those of us who enjoy such things will find another home to continue this journey.
Really interesting! Here's the related paper:
http://www.europhysicsnews.org/index.php?option=com_article&...

I'd love to try to reproduce the Young's double slits experiment at home with silcone droplet walkers! The paper says that the silicone oil is 20 times more viscous than water . Any idea of household oils with similar viscosities?
Given there's nothing that can currently use more Lightning bandwidth than USB 2.0, and apparently 3rd-party manufacturers don't have access to anything except USB 2.0 and slow TTL serial, it'd be surprising if it did support anything else. Also quite expensive - Apple's hardware USB implementation is almost certainly third-party IP they've bought in and dropped into place unamended, modifying it to multiplex another protocol they don't need is a waste of money.

Besides, if we're talking about hypothetical future hardware, there's nothing to stop someone doing the same with micro-USB. (In fact, manufacturers already have in the form of MHL.)
Sounds like an awful apprenticeship, since you are unaware of what you don't know.

Did they use source control?
Oh good idea! Yeah I need to think about how we could merge the game and the navigation better :)
Thanks. I need to look at what kinds of things can be done with Google Fonts.
Some background. This is about "demos" and the "demoscene", which are about very, very small programs (e.g. maybe 100 kb at the high end) designed to generate comparatively very sophisticated visual effects, often using many clever tricks and hacks and typically on older hardware (like the commodore 64).

For example, here is a video of the "Super Larrson Brothers" demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMNZa8KjZ4 And here is the code itself: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51163 it's 170kb and runs on the c64.

One technique used in demos is VSP or "Variable Screen Positioning" which allows for displaying a bitmap at an arbitrary horizontal position, with wraparound, it's used by several demos including the one linked above. However, using VSP can sometimes cause a c64 to crash or lock up, and now the cause of that has been found, enabling workarounds which avoid the problem.
Why does this code print “hello world”?
Unless there's money to burn a career should be treated like a business. For many people getting a CS degree would be a big net loss. One can certainly master Dirichlet allocation from the comfort of home, no fees required.
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So what did the OP really mean by this:

Not that degrees matter anymore. They do not. Experience does.
You are strawmanning. I wasn't claiming that all the knowledge that comes from people with advanced degrees is useless.

Most people don't need an advanced degree to contribute to society. Proportionally, only a small number people are needed to make transistors and develop mathematical concepts for computers compared to the amount of people using their work.

While it is necessary to have people with PhDs conducting research to have progress, hackers and doers (which base their work on the research) are also needed to exploit the results of research.

It is also possible to not have a degree and still succeed in life, and do things that you love.

Moreover, I think that nowadays it is becoming easier to get knowledge (that traditionally was only accessible in Universities) for free on Internet. I think traditional education system is extremely limiting and archaic. It permits people which excel in only certain kind of environments to conduct research.
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It's not clear that it can support "absolutely ANYTHING" for values of anything that are any greater than can be achieved with USB 2.0 OTG though. So far it hasn't.
Do you have a version of akumulate.com floating around. We are a small business with an asset tracking problem. Just got burned by ManageEngine's AssetTracker and would like something more in depth than SpiceWorks offers. Perhaps I can tour and buy the code base for modest amount for internal use?
catb has some nice ones, for instance:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
That's very nifty, I learned a bit about hardware in there.

C64 modding wikipedia page has more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64_demos

VSP (Variable Screen Positioning), also known as HSP,
allows arbitrary x-placement of a bitmap, with the bitmap
wrapping around at the border.

It appears that it is possible to quickly shift the starting memory location of the buffer that contains the video memory, which means the rasteriser shifts everything around. This allows smooth horizontal/vertical scrolling - the program only needs to write the changed column/row instead of the entire screen.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42580&sid=c...
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You hit the nail on the head.

Except they also have the "back to work scheme" which means they don't even have to pay them to stack shelves in safeway (or Morrisons as it now is).
You seem to be looking for "problems" where non exist. There could be 15000000 people monitoring it. It can still go down.
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I have not written my first Go (or Scala) program yet, but I have written some F# code and loved the language (and the fact that everything is an expression too). It does have som complex features, and special syntax appears very often, but after reading just a bit of documentation, I can easily understand the core concepts and syntax.

On the other hand, Scala gives me a completely different feeling: when reading the docs and samples, I often ask myself:

How can I mentally parse this?

It's nice that I can abbreviate some common constructs (when writing), but when reading code, how can I tell which concepts are being used? How do I look up these operators when they could come from anywhere (global, first operand, second operand, implicit conversion, etc.)

How do I know when parentheses, dots, curly braces, are mandatory or optional? Could the compiler misunderstand me in complex situations? Where does this construct really end if so many things are optional? At least F# uses indentation, so I know the compiler will warn me if I wrote something that is not quite right according to the precedence rules.

There are too many implicit things going on, how do I know which meaning of _ (underscore) is meant here?
Acids are dangerous indeed. In case of hydrochloric acid you don't even need to splash yourself to get hurt. The fumes are enough to damage your eyes or respiratory tract - gaseous hydrogen chloride dissolves in the moisture covering eyes and mucous membranes, producing hydrochloric acid.
Dead within a day or two of a solar flare !?

Honestly I had no idea it was so active up there.
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I can't find your product from your Profile. So you're doing a shit work of getting the word out. Honestly. Marketing is EASY. It's Incredibly easy. You've just been scammed thinking it's hard.

Getting the word out is easy, getting paying customer is based on the value you offer. You failed #1, you won't get paying customers.

Of course they won't come. They don't know of you, but that's easy to fix. People just assume it's hard.
I like that idea, but agree it would be hard to manage. First-come, first serve can still lead to monopolizing the room. There would need to be time limits, but again, that requires management. And if I'm in there and "on a roll", I would have to have to leave just because of a time constraint. Unless I could just go home and continue working.
Yes, I've read this several years ago, but you didn't read my links. Because my link use actual arithmetic, while McCarthy only says that those who don't use arithmetic are condemned to fail, then happily proceed with vague numbers and absolutely ZERO actual data.
We actually never modified the codebase to handle business assets. We were in the discovery phase to find out if we can repurpose the code. When we shut it down, it was still a product for managing personal assets.
akamai is about 100x the size and probably 200x the price.
Crap, there I was thinking developing Go for my employers was "real programming"! I guess I should go add a lot more boilerplate and un-needed complexity, maybe rewrite it in a true enterprise language like Java. Then it would be a big enough project to need an IDE, making it a "real" project.

Maybe I should just delete all these repos I've worked on for my job, the cluster management tool, the pedestrian simulator, the GSM radio emulator, the VM monitoring infrastructure, the distributed key-value store. They were written in Go, so I guess they weren't real programs.
To my knowledge, HN hasn't added any new features in years. I think the people who run this site are pretty happy with it the way it is and don't want to change it, despite many suggestions for improvements. So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to do anything about it.
I've never had any piece of software become so indispensable so quickly as workflowy did. It's hugely flexible, dead-simple to use, and easy to use on all my devices.
Nah - I reckon they went with the poop deck jokes as well and just later on did some basic maths on the weight calculations
Actually I added one about an hour ago.

This is an interesting suggestion but it would not be on our top 100 things to fix.
Actually the implication that most people seem focused on is that China has fewer restrictions on export (its even mentioned in the article). So if you have a stealthy UAV that can be bought, and you can arm it with a hellfire equivalent, then you can do much more damage to the "expensive" US infrastructure than the cost to acquire the drone + missile. Every additional strike you get out of it increases the ROI.

Since it is already insanely expensive to run wars like the one in Afghanistan, if you can bump the cost up over the tipping point then you "win" by your opponent being unable to afford the cost. This was how the Afghans "beat" the Soviets, and how the US "won" the cold war. (scare quotes because in neither case did the Soviets surrender to an opposing force, they just stopped participating in the war effort.

So if the US has to spend a couple billion dollars a month to make war against an enemy that is spending 100 million dollars a month, eventually the US loses.
>We were creating a solution for which there was no problem.

As a lawyer I have always had a similar idea in mind for a '"mint" for assets."

I know you tried to pivot and already made the always difficult decision to shut down, but your UI looks great and please consider the following:

Let me just sell you on the market first, there are about 40 million US citizens 65+, 2.5 million US citizens die every year, and 55% die intestate (without a will). I could not find any specific number, but as a practicing attorney I can tell you it is not uncommon for those that do have a will to have multiple versions and people (typically family) fight over assets, and it can be an expensive fight.

At this point you should know where I am going, a "mint" for assets would be an unbelievably useful tool for probate lawyers and estate planners. In terms of the business just quick ideas: 1. license the software to probate attorneys, 2. cut out lawyers and be your own non-legal entity providing these estate planning services (similar to legalzoom but you have a niche on estate planning).

Feel free to email me, I am non-technical, but this is a unique occasion on HN where I might have a little knowledge to offer.
I suppose it is a silly question but how long can water be exposed to radiation before no longer being drinkable?

(that is the shielding before it is turned into the other kind of shielding)
One would assume paying a company for an OS should be tested via the developers. Juniper SHOULD have tested that route scheme since they sell mission critical architecture.

However you are most likely right, CloudFlare should have test ed it before rolling out.
Ah Modula-2. Used it in one of my undergrad CS classes, ca. 1986. Never touched it anywhere else since. Back then every semester was a different language. Used at least C, PL/1, Pascal, Modula-2, Scheme, assembler. The language itself was not covered in the lectures, you were supposed to figure that out on your own time.
> When your boss tells you that he won't pay you any more because you don't have a degree, it builds.

It's just a convenient excuse. If it wasn't a degree it'd be something else. The boss was negotiating, so negotiation skills are what's needed in this situation, rather than a degree.
My intuition is that this is only true insofar as sensory augmentation up to this point has been mostly useless. The reason you don't see delivery people or mechanics or whoever with headgear isn't because it's dorky (although of course it is), but because it just doesn't help that much. We live in a world that has been very well designed for people with the usual basic senses, so adding more on doesn't give you that much more information.[0]

So miniaturization is important, but I think the real improvements to be made are in software. In the coming era, these devices are going to start offering real-world superpowers. People who never forget a face, or where they put their keys, or anything really. People who can have a quiet conversation in a noisy room. People who can do basic computing tasks subconsciously while having a conversation. People with "spider-sense" who never seem surprised by anything.

These tools will still look dorky, but the advantages they offer will be so great that the people who do use them will be very cool regardless.

[0] And I'd augment this claim by noting two examples off the top of my head of people who do use these technologies professionally: surgeons and fighter pilots. Both of those jobs involve doing unfathomably difficult things human beings are incredibly unsuited to do, so they will take every advantage they can get, hang the cost and the aesthetic.
I don't work in a "Google-style" office, but I'm not stuck in an open plan office, either. I have a spacious (for a cube) cube, but it's not quiet, at least not when certain folks are in the office, which is all too frequent.
Every app is different. Some apps need the flow to be different. Some apps need different logic and processing for things. Most apps are not just basic CRUD apps.

There are plenty of CRUD generators, but they are basic and just create bare bone CRUD. A lot of programmers don't even use the existing CRUD generators because they do things that aren't wanted.
If only it worked that way. I think in practice it works by exposing kids to a significant amount of drudgery and pain associated with a bunch of different subjects to cause kids to pretty much hate learning in general. It's a wonder that anyone manages to survive K-12 education with any degree of passion for learning intact.

P.S. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2112

P.P.S. From a lot of different people I've heard the same story of having a hard time re-engaging in learning and especially reading after coming out of formal education. A lot of people have an aversion to the books and authors they studied in school, and often to reading in general. It seems to typically take several years for people to (re)develop an individual passion for reading and to be open to reading those authors again, though some people seem to never get past that aversion.
The distinction is a bit arbitrary. As a customer you should care that their service is geographically distributed, not whether they own the buildings where the servers are kept.
Agreed. I grew up in Alaska but now live in Washington, DC, but I still sometimes fly Alaska from here to the west coast; they're the only airline that has regular direct flights from National to Seattle, for example.
Flash is required just to view the route map?
you can't utilize OSPF, ISIS, BGP, et. al. for high availability? You do realize HSRP is merely for a redundant gateway address, right?

most service provider networks manage via the CLI (generally scripted, for better or worse) and occasionally a vendor-specific API.

while I will agree juniper and cisco are generally the best choice for core/edge routers, there are other 'viable' options depending on your requirements. if you need in excess of 2500 BGP sessions on a single chassis, there aren't many viable options besides a Cisco 7600.

I certainly do not mean to be rude, but I feel you're attempting to speak from experience you don't fully have (yet, hopefully!)
If the activity has enough value on its own to be worthwhile without immediate monetary reward, then it's a good bet there's something valuable about your activity that will ultimately be recognized by the market.

Where is the evidence for that? Where are the broad data that looks at what has been done over, say, the last 20 years and examines what has been recognized by the market and what has not?

You can't just look at things that we now know to be successful, you have to (some how, if even possible) look at what was done and never became more than a hobby.
How MUCH of Python can you learn at this site for free? If I was told to get my wallet out after a few little courses I'd almost feel like I wasted time.
As bad as it is, sometime I really enjoy reading articles like this on Cracked: http://www.cracked.com/article_20286_6-inventors-who-changed...
I would love to have done an apprenticeship in Programming. Australia really needs an apprenticeship program like the one Germany has.
If you get a solar flare, you're going to die quickly.

Solar flare particles are very eager to find something to interact with. But flip side of that it only takes a few inches (IIRC) of water, or a watery substance, to absorb them.

Cosmic rays, on the other hand, are likely to pass right through the entire spacecraft without interacting with anything. The problem is that there are so many of them that, by chance, some will decide to stop inside your body and dance on your DNA. It takes something like a planet to really completely block them.
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> Would you answer this on a bug report?

If I was unable reproduce the bug with the information given, it seems reasonable to mention that. Also, the effort required by the bug reporter to mention basic information on the setup they use is much less than for a web developer to boot up 5 different systems (including iOS and Android) to test out each major browser in them.

I'll have you know that I have been wary of using non-default fonts because of these reports.
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Unless the government can see both what's entering Tor and what's exiting it. Then you're screwed.
Interesting - can any statistician point to the "proper" way to weight such rankings?