skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This applies to start ups also. The mentality is that it's nothing but coding 12-14 hours a day and anything less is, well, less. I try to fight this type of thinking by showing how others have done it rationally and how it truly is just another engineering challenge that can be solved with proper techniques.

But what doesn't help is the hordes of people that seem to be invading the industry, yet again, in search of riches and just want to learn the bare minimum. Get in and get paid so they can get out. The analogy I often use is poker. For some it's just a way to strike it rich and the lure of those riches draws a lot of people in. But for some of us it's a way of life. We wake up in the middle of the night yearning for the game. And no matter how much we make we'll never walk away because we love the game so much. How can you explain that to someone who just wants to hit aces, scoop a pot, and then leave a "winner"?

Put simply - how can we bring rational thinking back to startups? How can we convince others that experience is important, engineering and architecture are important, tools are important, and it's not just some quest for riches?
Hey sleepybrett, we're trying to get early feedback on the project before we release it, as well as compile a list of people that are interested, so we can involve them in the open source development of Eyeball.

No, that's not an affiliate link... Just the cheapest place to buy them. I have no affiliation with that company whatsoever.

It's difficult to demo the 3d map running in the browser with screenshots (that's why I tried to show two separate angles), but I'll put together a video and upload it to the site later today.
I'm looking forward to seeing an official response from Linode on this. Hopefully they are fast and honest about it. I've been a happy customer for quite a while, but this is definitely a concern.
He didn't really mean HFT. At least I don't think he did.
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Every one of these reviews that I've been involved in has been conducted by a couple of guys with laughable abilities.
Found this one in my feeds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV96zjowHhU

Kind of seems like most of the videos uploaded today have it.
Until they're hacked, too...
Actually, by now (1 hour later) it's no longer NSFW I'd say - enough cursors cover the naughty bits up so it's a bikini of cursors... :)
Well said. It's a fact of life that companies get hacked. So it's no surprise that it eventually happened to Linode. If you flee somewhere else, all you're doing is hoping that the other company you run to won't get hacked rather than using any logical thought.

I can think of two good reasons why you should flee Linode. It remains to be seen if either are actually true, and until indications say yes, then panic is unwarranted:

1. If it becomes apparent that Linode is far more vulnerable to hacking than other hosting providers. But one hack alone does not prove this.

2. If Linode grossly mishandles the situation. There have been a couple of allegations to that effect so far, but nothing substantial. I don't see any reason to claim that they've done this yet.
The article's title claims it's going to show why the people making the games are white, but the article makes no attempt to actually do so. (And, no pointing out statistics is not the same as explaining why).
This is ridiculously unprofessional.
Well, Windows 8 is a great start, but surely they realize that they are going to have to behave more like an iterating start-up to keep up the pace with other OSs.

Their dominance is waning if not in number, in thought share. They woke up to this fact with IE, so I figure they can figure it out for their Windows group too. Here's hoping, because I like Windows 8!
Why good storytelling helps you design great products
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Maybe I'm weird, but I know exactly which binding credit agreements I'm in and how they're paid, and definitely none of them get paid using another binding credit agreement. :)
Why would you store credit card numbers? Almost every processor has some method to store them with the processor and all you need is a token.
Great, now I am feeling paranoid although I don't see any unauthorized charges on my card. Does anyone know if debit cards are legally protected the same way as credit cards with 0% liability.
Like the "scan" that said our linux boxes were running an out-of-date version of IIS.
Really? For me that phrase definitely means "movies starring Adam Sandler". A lot of (most of?) the movies written/produced by Adam Sandler also starred him, but that doesn't exclude other movies. I definitely think of Punch-Drunk Love as an Adam Sandler movie.
thanks mangrish,

quant. How could you tell? I'm conecting with an aggregator cause the direct market feeds are monopolistic price gougers. It's an easy switch if we make it up that curve.

I'm not sure if I even understand what middleware is (I'm a quant), but I think the answer is the disruptor!
Oh my god, this is priceless. Sadly, this is like a manual of what happened in my past job.
The quality of PCI security audits is a continual aggravation to everyone I routinely talk to in my industry. I've told more than one client: if you need a QSA audit, get the cheapest one you can. If you need a software security assessment, don't use a QSA firm.
Note that you hire those firms yourself, and they work for you. They want you to pass the audit and will work to make that happen.
Lead with Pain
This really strongly depends on how you define words like "content" or "unhappiness". If you define them using the lower-brain functions, then your point stands and Total Happiness means everyone has sufficient amounts of beer and television to avoid realizing how empty and stupid their lives are.

If you define them using higher-brain functions, your point falls apart precisely because scientific progress is itself a source of potential contentment.
This seems to also affect software engineers. I used to split my time between 18-24 month consulting projects and then would take 3-6 months off to travel. I've been lucky to see all of the US and parts of Africa, Europe, Japan, Australia and Mexico. This was pretty easy to do in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, after the last time I traveled, it took quite some time to find another contract. It seems much riskier in the current economic climate.
For those with NoScript trying to sign up, you have to allow the main page as well as "shtatics".
The emotional peace of mind is the exact thing that FlightCar and Airbnb are creating by encouraging this aspect of sharing. Yeah shit can go wrong with your car--that's with anything sharing-based though. As the saying goes, "Shit happens". But at the end of the day, sharing is a good thing and people are opening up to the aspect of it more and more. Essentially, the idea that you are sharing with others is the peace of mind. Hasn't warmed up with everyone, but it has with some and will continue.

As someone else pointed out, I'm sure FlightCar will change their pricing as it gains more traction. For now, the pricing is just a reasonable and simple model.

If there's one thing I disagree with from PG's comment, it's his prediction that this could be the economic story of the decade...no, it has the potential to be the economic story of the century. Not FlightCar by itself, but all these companies disrupting different industries through the simple idea of sharing--it's revolutionary and still young.
It addresses the "attacker has a list of hashes that'll take him a while to compute matches for" aspect of things.
Steve Jobs Giving The Best Advice On Success And Failure [video]
Oh, and the years of Linode assessment were adequate?
While I loved the video I need to do a bit of a meta rant on the rising ui trend that I personally find apalling:

why on earth would I like a version of a page I read on iPad to have a horizontal scrolling complimented with back button jumping between sub pages instead of taking me back?

Is there something fantastic I'm missing here with this newish approach? For me it breaks the time tested and familiar vertical scrolling that I've been doing for the last 15 years and doesn't add any value.
They don't.It's a lonely life..
I responded to this below. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5553198
I'm assuming you never got to the "Afterword" (perhaps due to anger or frustration?), as it is at that point that the author reveals that the entire article up to that point is the exact opposite of what he supports.

This does of course make for the argument that perhaps this style of writing is not suitable for skimming, though I'd agree with another comment on this post that after reading the part about 95% of 3,875,000 equating to approximately 1,000,000, I was definitely more perceptive that something silly was going on.
Wouldn't it be possible to use WebGL to display the point cloud?
Stripe is amazing... I trust them, someone hacks me, awesome, you got password hashes and stripe customer keys, all worthless.
That's a lot of metaphor there. No matter the "chips", and "pushing", it's still the legislative branch that makes the laws. There's got to be a limit to the blame you can assign someone for failing to convince someone else to do something.
When was this alleged hack supposed to have happened?
Unlike Linode, they accept PayPal.
Agreed. This women 2.0 thing has been super annoying. Meanwhile every women I know who kicks ass at their craft doesn't have any problems with "marginalization". People who are competitive and competent tend to just fine in competitive careers. I never knew anyone who deserved to be at the top who got their by asking someone to make some rules so they could get there instead of you know... just being awesome.
buy a bunch of stuff (eg: gold oil, water, food, cars) now on credit and sell it for more than you borrowed after the dollar's value tanks?
I agree with everything you've said except for one thing: Giving it up. EIther making games or making music.

Both of these pursuits are entirely compatible with having kids and a normal job, so long as you pursue them in a way compatible with your lifestyle. You don't have to go on the road and live out of a van to be in a band; you can pick up some cheap hardware and software and record at home. Record a vocal take, change a diaper, add some reverb, let Dropbox sync the file for your bandmates to add to tomorrow.

Same thing for games. There's no reason you can't make an indie game when you're older and have more responsibilities; you just need to work with the right kind of team, on the right kind of game, with the right kind of scope.
His whole page is only 256kb total. That's nothing (and very normal) compared to many sites that are 1mb of code and various style sheets over riding each other.
A lot of the cheapness of these devices comes from the non-modulatity of them, basically the fact that the entire system is on one small chip (system-on-chip/SoC). You can't really have both this historic low-cost of items and expandability/modularity at the same time. Increasing the modularity means more interconnects, more complex case designs, etc, etc, which means much higher prices, not lower ones.

You could argue that all of this comes at a mucher higher shared long-term cost in terms of more garbage, global warming, etc, and you'd be right, but good luck offering a highly expandable, "green" device alongside the latest SoC-device out of China (selling at 10% of the lowest cost you could possibly produce the former device for) at your local Walmart. People are simply wired to make decisions that benefit themselves in the short term.
Why wasn't this turned into a third party Octopress plugin?
Off topic but still relevant, but doesn't it seem a bit primitive that companies have to store you CC# for recurring payments? The one number that uniquely identifies your account and everyone you want to re-use it has to keep a copy. Couldn't the credit card company issue some unique ID to each vendor for recurrent payments? Ex. the vendor issues your CC# to the CC Company for charge and recurring process. The CC Co. responds by replying back with authorization and an ID unique to that vendor that says "Use this number for charging this customer again, but it will only work coming from you, so if you lose it, it can't be used elsewhere". The vendor then discards your real CC number.
It's already happening.

Last time I applied for a job was after just shy of two years of contract work full-time. They asked for a portfolio which I sent over. I was confused when they asked for more as I had already picked my best work. After supplying some more samples I asked the hiring manager why they had requested more and was essentially told they were looking at not only quality, but also quantity. They wanted to make sure I had been doing this for two years.

Personally, I think this is good. Saying you're freelancing when you're actually unemployed is no less dishonest than saying you have a degree you don't have or you worked at [X] BigCo for six months longer than you actually did.

I worked my ass off when I was a consultant and I'd be pretty upset if John Q. off the street has been resume blasting everyone for six months while drawing unemployment and saying he's been "consulting."
"Mozilla, if you act on your plan to block third-party cookies in your Firefox browser, thousands of ad-supported small businesses like us may be forced to close."

Yes, small businesses. Like the ones the people on your board of directors work for: https://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/iab_board
like IDG, NBC Universal, Ziff Davis, Microsoft, New York Times, Weather Channel, Facebook, Forbes, Conde Nast, AOL, and pretty much all the most popular sites in the english-speaking part of the internet...
Hmmm, Linode claims they emailed their customers about the password reset, but I never got an email (nor in my spam folder)
To dismiss this breach seems odd to me. The tech community in general has placed a lot of trust and faith in Linode over the years. The shareowners at Linode have surely been great beneficiaries to that. Part of that "unspoken agreement", if you will, is that Linode be competent at what they do and that means keeping your data and information secure.

If even an iota of what I read in the abridged IRC log is true, Linode doesn't seem to care much about security or protecting Linode customer data. I mean, storing "encrypted" card numbers alongside private/public keys? Really.
I think we should really wait to hear from Linode until we completely dismiss them, at least.
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Ah this is so shit. I want to support Linode, I've had nothing but a good experience. But I just had to check my credit card to be sure they hadn't lost my details. I've NEVER had to do that before with anyone - they've got to respond fast here because if I don't trust them with my CC then I can't leave five-figure contracts at jeopardy hosted on their servers.

I've been living comfortably on Linode servers for over three years. This is like suddenly being evicted and having to pack my stuff up and find another apartment.

I have to wait for some sort of verification for this but if true then I have to leave Linode. I have client sites hosted here - not for cost reasons, just because I like Linode.

For the sake of $5 a month I can't even take the slightest risk of being criticised for using Linode. And this lack of transparency could be a nail in the coffin here.

I don't want to waste a couple of days on this but that's what's going to be involved if this is true.
This helps explain why I'm starting to feel the games industry isn't catering to people like me as far as storylines go.

I find that AAA games are often very disappointing in as far as they're full of one-dimensional characters, terrible cliches and limited understanding of anyone who isn't young and male. (I'm relatively young and male, but enjoy stories that aren't entirely filled with people like me.)

There's a market for video games with a storyline written by someone with some maturity. It might even pay for sane office hours...
> What are the main challenges that explain why it hasn't been completed yet?

Because its pretty hard to define even what "decentralized currency exchange" means, and, particularly, to identify a mechanism by which you could do order matching in such a system so that wouldn't leave you with just a bunch of disconnected exchanges that are far less efficient at market clearing than a centralized exchange.
Age doesn't matter.
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After 4 days 6 hours it did 36,720 iterations.
After 10 days it failed on 37,112 iterations.

It takes 10 seconds per iteration. My calculations say it would have failed after 4 days and 7 hours. I wonder what happened to the other 5 and a half days.

Very cool experiment. It's this type of testing that makes me feel reassured in mechanical engineering. It's about reassuring that a car air bag will work after years of inactivity, or a car seat belt buckle will not break under pressure in a collision. The only way to know is to test, test, test.
Latency arbing is a scourge, and makes limit orders practically useless. Quote stuffing, would be illegal if trading were still done on little slips of paper. Imagine dumping 10,000 slips of paper on the trading desk, and then shouting "just kidding!" In the words of Lawrence from Office Space, "You'd get your ass kicked" Or even worse, 10,000 empty bids. That's why people hate HFT.
"Plurality" then, still the odds are on the white guy for any random task. I'm not really making a judgment, just trying to frame thoughts on the significance of the correlative factors. For non-random tasks (such as game development) we can certainly look to see why the variance of the population diverges from the variance of the general population and hypothesize to our hearts content.
Not really. Facebook knows more about me than the STASI did about most of its citizens.

Yet the best ads they can show me are for dating sites -- something I am not that interested in, and certainly wouldn't pay for -- and totally ignore all my likes. If marketeers had a single brain cell then the ads on my facebook page would be covered in geeky offers, interesting books, computer hardware, etc.

It is the same with Google. A couple of weeks after I signed the papers for my new appartment I got a ton of ads for the same (crappy) appartment site -- even though I didn't need two appartments, I needed cheap paint and a moving van.

I am considering taking a weekend or so and writing a piece of software that can do it better than the current crop of marketeers, because they are as useless as Dilberts boss.
I don't see why disposableness would be intrinsically bad -- however if not dealt with by society, it will most likely lead to environmental damage. Personally I advocate large taxes on dangerous materials and chemicals, perhaps recoupable when recycled.
Nothing on my UK Mastercard.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Crunch time, or working more than 40 hours a week, is Producer Failure. Either they didn't make the schedule correctly, or they let feature creep in.

More than once I've walked around the dev people and told them to go home after 8 hours.
The C&D is old. It applied to an old model of ours where we operated on airport property which was rather grey. Our current operation with a black car, on the other hand, follows all rules and regulations by the airport and in fact pays the airport on every trip.
Not much of a secret, is it?
These guys are looking totally incompetent at this point.

If you believe this Ryan guy, credit cards stored on the same server as the key to decrypt them, Lish passwords stored in plain text, they've known for some time and lied about what actually happened and now they're saying "we won't do anything about it" via email?

"You are of course free to take any steps you deem prudent or necessary to ensure the integrity of your online presence."

Unbelievable.

Edit: not to mention they "made a deal" with the hacker not to tell anyone? What the hell?
We use Three.js to render the point cloud in the browser. We're running into some performance issues (point clouds often have 1MM+ points, which doesn't render very well yet), but we're implementing some heavy compression (voxelgrid filters, etc) and optimizations.

WebGL may be a better option, and I'll look into it.
I'd give another trust vote to Linode, anyway this could happen to anyone.
So advertisers get upset and want Mozilla to support user spying for better targeted ads?!
That doesn't sound cool, only advertisers are signing this.
Can't they have ads targeted by clientele of the site? No need to track people for that.
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I'd say artisanship, craftwork, architecture, or industrial design are all much closer to what we do than either of those.
As a point of interest, miners in Australia are astoundingly well compensated and taken care of compared to resource extraction workers in other countries.
That FAQ is full of misinformation and poor writing. The second point ("What is a cookie?") includes:

"To personalize your web browsing experience and to make the Internet work operationally,"

Make it work 'operationally' as opposed to ...? Anyway, as we all know, cookies aren't a requirement for the Web to work, let alone the Internet.

"websites you visit"

Correction: some websites ...

"place (or allow their approved partners to place)"

No mention that 'approved partner' is utterly meaningless

"a small harmless file, called a "cookie", in your browser."

Congratulations - apart from the slightly strange use of the word 'in', this is correct

"Cookies contain numbers and letters that identify your web browser, but not you personally."

Just utterly wrong

It does not contain your name, address phone, email or other information that can personally identify you."

Well, 'it' could, of course, so another meaningless statement

"Companies use cookies to learn more about user interests through users’ web browsing activities and to remember the preferences you set on their sites, such as the language you like to read, the last items you purchased, and the resolution at which you likes (sic) to watch videos."

"you likes" - seriously? Is this organisation just a kid in his bedroom?

"For example, a cookie can tell a website that you’re a repeat visitor, and then can let the site fill in your username for you."

As, of course, can your browser.

The fact that these people obviously have very little understanding of the issues they're talking about just convinces me we need responsible organisations like Mozilla to help prevent them from exposing us to privacy and security risks.
Debit cards have less protection.

Wouldn't hurt just to ask your bank to re-authorise it anyway? It will change the three digits on the back.
So does Chrome, at least on my desktop.
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Tangentially, have you seen bombermine? It's an online bomberman clone that generally has several hundred people playing simultaneously, a ton of fun. Obviously not a console game, but your Saturn Bomberman reference made me think of it.
Engineers should spend more time telling their managers why something is impractical rather than impossible.

Impossible becomes a crutch very easily.
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This is not completely obvious from their website or from your (very helpful) post: if I buy PhpStorm do I get all the features of WebStorm? Their site says "PhpStorm includes all the features of WebStorm related to HTML, CSS and JavaScript." and that "related to" made me think that maybe there's something else missing. Is it?
They weren't exactly fast and honest the last time a break-in happened. In fact even to this day nobody is quite sure what went down aside from tons of Bitcoins going missing!
There is also a Knife plugin with Solo support: https://github.com/rmoriz/knife-digital_ocean