skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually during the advertising blitz this was pointed out that all of this wasn't funding education but instead the teacher pension system. Not that most voters listened.
Very cool, man. I'm going to try this out sometime tomorrow.
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I wonder why Play is so bad then.
You're right. Slackware doesn't. They're notable for that, and I don't think any other mainstream distribution (if Slackware even counts as that) excludes it.

At least in the multi-user environments I manage, PAM works well, and we maintain some custom PAM modules to do things like handle unpaid accounts with warnings then lockout.

It's a little complex but I don't know of any viable alternative -- setting up Kerberos on Slackware is a big pain last I checked. Maybe not relevant to single user machines, but that's not the context we're talking about here.
I'm not currently doing development on the software myself so I don't know the file size for sure at this moment; however, I believe it's similar to Redactor which is known for its small size (not sure if it's more or less now because we've just cut more size off of our deliverable).

As for number of files, I believe it is 1 Javascript file. The required HTML and CSS is compiled into the JS now to reduce number of files to transfer. I don't know how many images it is right now but if it is more than 1, then we will likely eventually compile it down to 1.

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On the first of every month there's a "Who is Hiring?" post
made by the HN user 'whoishiring'. It gets comments from a
lot of companies looking for people (April 1st had over 400
comments). I enjoy reading all of them simply because it's
fun to see what others are doing. In the most recent, there
were some companies hiring in India.

Since these submissions have so many comments, there is a 'more'
link at the bottom of the page. Due to the way HN only caches
data for a short period of time (the dreaded "unknown link' message)
your best bet is to load the first page, scroll to the bottom, and
open the 'more' link in another tab. Keep repeating until you
have all of the pages loaded in separate tabs.

HN User: whoishiring

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring

The "Who Is Hiring?" submission for April 2013

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472746
I love this, but I was a little disappointed it wasn't a joke article. Read the right (wrong) way that title has the vibe of a sarcastic HN-bait parody. Maybe the immense laughter I got from this a few months ago seeded the thought of HN spoofing rather deep in me! http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=193b767bbb3b0eb0d949d592...
Hack propaganda piece? He has almost 30 years experience in the public school sector. Isn't that relevant and valuable? You use the words client instead of student, which is actually the first time I've seen that in writing.

" the clients are all free to shop for the services of another provider". I don't even know how to respond to this one. What percentage of people can afford private school? Did you even read this? He resigned due to the increasing amount of government regulations and his lack of control over his own classroom. How many "private practice" teachers even exist? 10%? 5%?

"recognize that plenty of people like the current system just fine". That wasn't the point of this article by far. It was one teacher's experience, not an editorial on how everyone hates the system. But if you bring up the point, please cite your sources. Show me what government employed teachers like the current system just fine.

I really can't believe you referred to a student as a client. It just feels to me completely against the spirit of education.
Try posting at Hacker Street India also..http://hackerstreet.in/
Have you ever looked at Sandboxie? I like it, but it's probably not as secure as a VM.
wonder if there's something that would be copyable from the browser to the clipboard/pastebuffer/what-have-you (and pasteable to your terminal emulator) that would constitute a ^C?
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I've been following Watsi for a while now and was excited to hear they made it into YC. I've always had a bit of a crisis trying to find a balance between humanitarian work and our craft as programmers. As a programmer, the odds are likely that your impact is localized to corporate or consumer products that have little to no effect on the quality of life of others. I'm tempted to go the Peace Corps route when I graduate, but I feel the opportunity cost is too high and that my skill set would not be useful.

Watsi seems like an amazing opportunity to resolve these issues- are you guys looking for interns or volunteers?
Not to dismiss this but have you EVER seen an honest financial product or advertisement for such?

I mean to get that result you'd have to throw bankers and marketeers in jail for bad behavior and that's never going to happen, so what exactly is their downside?
One rule they are not breaking is the mandatory huge stack of legaleese at the bottom of the document...
I doubt it.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, etc., etc.
I even own a Tesla S and think the advertising of this program is terrible. I can't side with Elon on this. They definitely need to add some kind of qualifier like "$500 / month with savings." or "TCO equivalent to a $500 / month lease on a normal car."

15k/year assumption in the fuel savings calculator vs the 12k/year buyback program rate is hopefully an oversite rather than on purpose...
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He looks like Steve Buscemi.
Prenda Law. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204665
They were caught recently trying to use the identity of a janitor they knew as a defendant. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130402/12223322549/deep-d...
> Is this nVidia's driver?

No, it is not.

Looks like this is a reverse engineered user space shim that runs between nvidia kernel driver and a modified version of MESA for OpenGL.
Chrome 6+ appears to support SNI on XP

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=43142

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication#Browsers...
Please, whine more about what we're paying schoolteachers.

Your words are doing so much good in the world.

SO. MUCH. GOOD.
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That might be close enough prior art to get the patent ruled obvious.

I mean, it ought to have been discarded as obvious in any case, but maybe sticking this in the PTO's face would help. Do you have any evidence?
So an internet provider inserted ads into web pages and two bloggers blogged about it.

I hate this ultra-low signal to noise style of writing anyway, but using it for a tech piece is more than ridiculous. This isn't a 1970s western movie, nor does it appear in the NYT arts & culture section.
Where are these price figures from? I'm not quite sure they're right.
I have an X1 carbon with both i7 and 8gb ram. Perhaps this restriction only applies to older models? Mine is the newer model with 1600x900 display.
If you're saving $250 on gas, then your total cost of ownership is $950 per month.

Also, if the resell value after 3 years is higher than your other option, then the TCO is reduced even further when analyzed over that time period.
Entirely off topic, but I can't grasp the guy's accent. New Jersey guy trying to sound more like he's from NC but not entirely managing?
yeah this is not clear where that message will be shown in the Hacker news...and how cud we understand that the particular query has been asked to whom??
The number three has a nice virus file (W32.Drop:Banker.15ja.1201).
I am glad they are such a cool company today, yesterday (yes, I worked my ass off on Sunday) I had to work with one of their products - a company I do freelance work for bought a domain and some hosting from them.

Instead of cPanel or Plesk they had some home made solution, basically 80% of the links were dead,
and the whole application only consisted of approx. 10 pages. Bravo!

I called the tech support, I've talked with 10-12 people, 9-10 of them were supposed experts at the technical department. Only one of them said he knew what an A record is, but he had to redirect me to yet another "expert", but he informed me it will take a "lot of time to access this man". A lot of compared to what? I was on the phone for like 1.5 hours already! I suspect this guy was eating his lunch at home but he was a resrouceful chap so they had to phone him with "tough" questions. I feel sorry for that guy working with idiots! And if he is unlucky enough he doesn't even get paid more.

The tech support story is not necessarily related to this article but I had to shout it out. I will probably write a blog post too. On the other hand, the fact they undertook developing a software which has perfect open source alternatives, and they let the end product become an epic fail, seeing these "we are so cool and competent" ads makes me puke.

Please, PAY YOUR TECHNICAL EMPLOYEES TOO, not just the marketing guys and DON'T BE DUMB, if you want to develop software give me a call because I can cut your costs by 90%, your managers are dumb.

Ohh, thank God I feel so much better now.
Please. Statisticians have been doing this for over 300 years. Cooking up some infographic on your Hadoop cluster is not the paradigm shift you are making it out to be.
Ahh. This brings back my memories of my teen years of reverse engineering. I enjoyed it so much I almost decided to go into malware analysis. Breaking crackmes, reversemes, spending hours writing code in C and dissecting what compilers came up with at all levels of optimization. Finding packers/protectors and figuring out how to remove them by hand and then building an olly script that would do it automatically. Cracking all the software you own (legally) just because. Back when CD cracks were still needed, I actually made my own, and it felt great.

I did all of my hacking on a Windows machine but now I use OSX almost exclusively. Does anyone know of roughly equivalent tools in this world? Maybe I'll take up the hobby again.
It certainly sounded that way from his careful description on the phone call:

"If you said you hooked it up to the Internet, and in one button, you can scan and e-mail directly out—yes, you have violated the patent that we own."
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Thanks! That's good to hear!
Hi, I was a speaker at the first Google "Solve for <X>" conference (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8qcDQaY8Mw).

In general it's an invite only conference. They invite about 15 speakers and overall ~60 people to the event. Very high level people - from the google co-founders, many google[x] employees, google svp's, investors (Steve Jurveston, Mark Andreessen and other) and google friends.

I got there for two reasons:
1) My company (http://genomecompiler.com) is a Singularity University company and Peter Diamandis referred us
2) We fit the bill for a moonshot (huge problem, breakthrough technology, radical solution)

It's in a very pleasant cordevalle resort and they treat you to great housing, food and discussions. Like late night slide show from the international space station with astronauts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Garan and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Coleman

Like sitting in dinner table with Sergei and hear Peter talking space flights and astroids just to have him launch a astroids mining company after a few month. Or listening to Google Glass head talk about electronics in contact lenses (!) a few months before google glass was released :-)

Anyhow - I love what they are trying to achieve, both in this effort and in supporting Singularity University - to get people to solve humanity grand challenges with the fast moving technologies that are coming online. Be a support group and cheerleader for you while you're in the ups and downs of extremely "out-there" startup.

Amazing opportunity and the time of my life.
"Rather a broad generalization, don't you think?"

In fact, it was gratuitously restrictive, as you noted in the subsequent sentence.
Huge fan of Tesla....but this advertising is misleading and very disappointing.

Come on Musk, you set the high bar for yourself. We expect better.
And so an NKS prediction comes to pass.
>as soon as I can decide which version to get

Is there a question though?

Max battery + all options including wheels and leather, except "pain armor" and probably "rear facing child seats".

Roof is tricky, don't know it it's a good idea or not.
I'd agree with that. But why couldn't the abstraction for "save" be the floppy disk symbol?

Just pretend the floppy disk never existed, and that the floppy-save symbol is just a completely abstract symbol. Doesn't it still work? As long as a symbol is unique, easy to identify, and easy to reproduce, it does its job. I'd argue that floppy symbol has stuck around because, on a purely visual level, it's hard to beat.
The only thing that irks me here is how the cost of fuel is deducted from the cost of the lease:-

If I'm paying $1200/mo for a lease, and any fuel / maintenance costs are on top of that amount. If I get an S-Class for $1200/mo, the fuel would be (for example) $200/mo on top, the total being $1400/mo. Increment accordingly for maintenance.

Tesla S is $1200/mo. I don't need fuel, hence I don't pay anything on top. It doesn't magically become $1200 - $200 = $1000/mo. You're still paying $1200/mo. Plus the cost of maintenance and electricity.

Talk about manipulating numbers.
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Check out cacs.org where the author is a board member for more information on ca govt.
And then you also have to pay other carriers to deliver SMS to their custemers.
Still mourning LidPop :(
The half-billion-dollar idea
This site looks great! I'd like to submit again to bookmark it in my HN account.
Actually, they give it to you for the year when you renew as well. So if you renew yearly, you get a year ssl as well.
The point of certs is to stop an attacker just sitting in the middle and handing out their own cert and you not being able to tell the difference.
Check out IDA Pro, I think it's the go to tool for reverse engineering on all platforms now. Haven't been looking into it for a while though.
Jesus Christ, Silicon Valley
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>the perfect platform for an "old folks home" entertainment system

This was actually a subplot of Million Dollar Maybe, a 3-year old Simpsons episode :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Maybe
1024bit certificates are only valid until December this year. Then we have to use 2048bit, destroying the benefit we get from faster computers.

You need SSL accelerators or pretty fast hardware to handle more than a few thousand SSL handshakes per second on a single machine. This is one of the places cost comes from.
Even the big guys can't fight back with prior-art pitch. History says this.
> To the extent that school districts pick up the cost, kids in school today will be hurt because more dollars will go to pension costs and fewer dollars will go to classrooms. To the extent that the state picks up the cost, residents will receive fewer services. Either way, voters will get little for the tax increase they approved in November.

The only real problem here is how this was presented. As worded, it sounds like Crane is arguing that the tax shouldn't have gone through. But the pensions were guaranteed, and taxes are how the voters pay for things. What the voters will get for their tax increase is fulfillment of obligations they've already promised. What they're "getting" is teachers in classrooms rather than rioting in the streets. The article comes across as whining about having to pay for things already bought.
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> If you're saving $250 on gas, then your total cost of ownership is $950 per month.

Of course it doesn't.

It means the total cost of ownership of the other vehicle is $250 higher.
i think most, if not all this advice (and more) can just be gathered from running your page through Google's PageSpeed Insights (or their chrome plugin). not only that, but it comes with a huge bonus that it gives you exact direction regarding your specific case. less reading, same results. https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
The code (actual instructions) that beats C++ in their example is being generated by their experimental "stream fusion" framework. And NOT by a generic Haskell compiler.

And now the question, do you really want to an unproven and unstable Haskell framework? While there are stable alternatives (lake Eigen, Theano, etc) available?

So no. Haskell (production ready Haskell) doesn't even come close.
TIn several European countries that I've lived in, you would not be allowed to make claims of this kind in your advertising - it's regarded as abusive of the consumer. The first amendment gives advertisers wide latitude with the kind of claims they make, and even fairly blatant exaggeration is OK as sales talk is expected to involve a degree of 'puffery'. I like the first amendment but as a consumer I sometimes find the almost universal use of bait-and-swtich tactics in American advertising extremely tedious.

In this case I think Tesla went too far with their claims and the market (both on Main and Wall street) is punishing them accordingly. The buyback guarantee was a good idea, as is the lease scheme. Of course they want to make the price seem attractive, but I think they could have been frank about a $1000/month lease cost and got the same amount of business or even more. A surprising misstep.
I don't get it. They want me to pay $70/month for what I currently get on their $30/month PAYG plan.
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Presumably so they can shut it down?
"[...] I secured a patent with vague language that could be construed to cover a basic piece of tech that 10 years later became popular."

The simpler version of this is "make/do something with the tech your patent is for within X years, or you lose it."
Thanks, I hadn't previously heard of Julia.
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Sounds like the hardware we used in my high school for Quizbowl. I imagine someone talented with Arduino could hack together a working solution on the cheap in no time (if it hasn't been done already).
And how are we to know who the author of a photograph was, and or when s/he died?

Which is, actually, pretty much precisely the issue with a large number of works presently under copyright: their owners cannot be identified and their copyright status not determined. These are the so-called "orphan works".
Funny, a 'women programmer' piece that starts in 1967. How about 1946? http://www.topsecretrosies.com/Top_Secret_Rosies/Home.html In the latter half of the documentary, we meet the programmers of Eniac. It seems the male scientists were Electrical_Engineers, first and foremost. They left the tedious wire plugging demo for the cream of the ballistics calculating department, Betty Jean Jennings.
Hopper is decent and has been getting better
http://www.hopperapp.com. It's not IDA (yet), but it's decent.
> Why do people use the AT&T syntax for assembly language? It sucks and needs to die [1] [2] [3].

It's just the syntax. Get over it. You get used to it in a few days, and using Intel syntax over AT&T doesn't make your programs any better.

> I would support an effort to remove it from the GNU toolchain.

That would break a lot of existing applications, removing it from the GNU toolchain would be the easy part.

You can still use .intel_syntax directive with the GNU toolchain or use another assembler like NASM or YASM. But in practice it's often easiest to just avoid hassling with assemblers and toolchains and use the AT&T syntax, despite the fact that you might not like it.
I will argue with that: The floppy disk on has grip on our mind, because we, as the user of the medium, have stuck with it for a couple of decades. When I am saying we, I am talking about computer users in the science/business world roughly during the last 30 years (god forbid there are still people using this thing today).

If one take the idea of saving outside the computing world (meaning where the computer is used on a daily basis), then I see two choices for the representation: a bank safe as the old age mean to save (money or valuable in this case) or a folder for document (dead tree medium are not going to die any time soon). I think that a study needs to be done among non computing educated people to understand better what is their mental (pictural) representation of the action of saving is.

All I am saying is that the floppy disk is pretty much a cultural centric representation of the action of saving valuable information for later retrieval.
The article comes across as whining about having to pay for things already bought.

I'm all about funding public education but it's a fact that there's a lot of shitty, shitty deals in pension systems across CA - mostly of higher-level administrators rather than rank-and-file employees, but there you go. There's an opportunity cost to such deals. In my county (Alameda) the county administrator makes about $425k/year - more than the President - and is guaranteed her full salary in retirement, for life. It's nauseating.
No, your antivirus software has a False Positive.
I hate people that trust to AV without any attempts to use their brain. If your AV say to you 'JUMP TO WINDOW' - will you do it?
When someone who truly revolutionized online money with PayPal says they have a revolutionary new deal, they had better not come at me with smoke and mirrors like this. When Elon Musk sat in front of a camera and talked about a revolutionary new financing opportunity where I could get an $80k car for $500 a month I was stoked. I was a lot less stoked when I found out that the "$500 a month" payment was actually as large as my mortgage payment. I've always been enthusiastic about what Elon Musk has done, but this irks me. It's pretty shady when you subtract the value of the Model S at three years in your calculations, but you don't subtract the resale value of any other cars in the comparison. Just because other cars don't have "guaranteed" resale values doesn't mean they have zero resale value.

including PayPal, although they seem to have lost their direction since he left.
No fuel costs? What about the eventual battery pack replacement? That's not cheap.

Similarly the buyback is only for a very short window of ownership. It'll be interesting to see how they remind owners of this window - will it be months in advance, or will it be "Hello, as of today..."?