skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much for criminal intent. I mixed all kinds of crap together to see what would happen when I was a kid. Glad I didn't grow up here!
> Tiny self-replicating machines which produce other things to atomic precision

Don't expect it to happen soon - we can't even make big self-replicating machines yet.

We don't even know what machines would look like at such a small scale. Structures behave very differently than they do at human scale; fundamental components like ropes, gears and pulleys might not be possible.

And then there's the problem of programming these machines; you can't exactly put an AVR inside them.
Why Are We Failing at Software Security?
Yes, initially even I was a bit tentative about the product. I wasn't sure if this could be a viable business model. But the response and reception was simply amazing. Thanks to the HN community, I believe that we have had a good start but we still have a long way to go. Thanks a lot for those kind words! It means a lot!
"We started drive farming--buying external drives from retail stores, cracking open the cases, and placing the drives in our servers."

As a bootstrap lover, this is awesome even though critics can question this especially since they are a backup company.
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I have about 50,000 stock options in Tumblr, comprising about 0.027% of the company, at strike $3.80

I am looking for a certified investor who is interested in buying the shares underlying my options.
It should be a lot faster, homebrew compiles most packages.
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I'm going to make a wild guess that the C6/C7 states are intended to be used in notebooks and other battery powered devices. For desktops the rest of the system will easily loose 5W somewhere else.
More atoms starring in movies by IBM (1977):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
This was an example of a website built with Go for a talk given by Andrew Gerrand recently.
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The vast majority of power efficiency losses are in the copper interconnects within the chip, not the copper pins.

Oh also, if you want fewer power pins, get ready for more heat and way more expensive CPUs. The pins are placed to be as cost effective and efficient as possible to power the individual chip modules (many of which will operate at different voltages). Also, it's way cheaper to convert power on the motherboard than within an already incredibly constrained CPU package.

Edit: "vast majority" as far as power and other connections to the board go, the transistors create way more heat than the interconnects.
Wow! Congrats! Really glad that Resumonk could be of your help. How can we reach you for a testimonial? We can't see your email address in the 'About' section of your HN profile.
That is exactly what I mean. If you draw a salary from an employer then you are in an entirely different situation than if you're relying on your output to directly pay your bills.

If you've never been in a situation where you have to sell that output to customers then you know less than a shit about what piracy can do to cripple a small business and should shut your fucking mouth about which market to serve. I'll take care of those that put the food on my table, thank very much, and you can give throat-fucking forced blowjobs to any random stranger if you want.
Just how much of the system is getting shut off in these new C-states? A lot of the best power supplies have a single 12V rail, and the 3.3V and 5V rails are provided by stepping down the voltage from the 12V rail. It seems like any PSU with that kind of design wouldn't be affected unless the total system power consumption drops below 6W, which would require shutting off at least the expansion cards, disk drives, any power-hungry USB devices, and potentially the case fans. Even 4 DIMMs plus the keyboard and mouse necessary to wake up the system might be sufficient to keep the power draw high enough.
The issue is even having those LEGOs to begin with, rather than worthless new [pink, sparkly] fashions for her Barbie. Personally, I was obsessed with American Girls because of how they represented historical times and had stories about their experiences living back then, even though my parents couldn't afford the dolls themselves. I also enjoyed having a dollhouse because it allowed me to problem-solve spatial situations while keeping design/foot traffic in mind. Having one that was modular/extendable would have been amazing, too. Little stuff like that.
Back when I looked at OpenBSD a decade ago, I liked the OS but upgrading from one version to the next seemed to be problematic. Anybody had any experiences (good or bad) with upgrading modern OpenBSD?
So bets on how long it will be until MariaDB is scooped by Oracle?
With regard to what actually is there: You may find Edward Fredkin's[1] work on digital physics[2],[3] interesting.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fredkin

[2]: http://www.digitalphilosophy.org.

[3]: http://busyboxes.org/
Is there a reason to choose MariaDB over Percona or vice-versa? They're both drop-in replacements for MySQL and both replace InnoDB with XtraDB (which Percona makes).
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Fair enough. On the other hand segments of the market who think of the computer as a blackbox that is a bicycle for the mind are even less likely to care about any individual specification. Most people I know who build their own PC's are trying to optimize for some spec that manufacturers dont usually care about - loudness, gpu performance, low power draw, size, aesthetics.
> On December 18, 2012, Twitter announced it had surpassed 200 million monthly active users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
We used this during a load test and it was able to find insanely small concurrency issues like integer increments, its quite amazing. If your doing go, use it
We are very far from that in most product categories. As an example, a CNC stamping machine can ingest sheets of aluminum and produce parts at an amazing rate. Spend a little money on a set of dies and you can produce parts faster than you can clap your hands. A similar situation exists in injection molding or die casting.

3D printing is neat but it is very slow, expensive, limited in materials and costly. Surely this will change with time. Still, it will be hard to compete with optimized processes where, as I said, you can produce parts faster than clapping your hands.

Now, for micro markets where you need just a few of something? Yup, that probably works today.
Sorry for the confusion. That copy is about things like Filehippo Updater, not built-in updaters. The aggregation and automation arguments still apply, but it's not intended as a jab at them.

I'm still confused at how making money destroys our credibility. It's a good thing for the people you trust with software updates to be profitable. Pro users paying us for extra features like remote mode lets us offer Ninite free for everyone else.

We don't even run ads on the free site because Pro users pay the bills and we love that we can save people from wasting time clicking Next Next Next.
The Large Hadron Collider's worldwide computer - a giant that never sleeps
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20 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Was 30 by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
C Programming Techniques: Function Call Inlining
Replace PHP
Windows support will be added.
https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka/issues/145
Well, considering during hunting season - 30% of the vehicles on Friday had rifles in them at my school. To the point, where teachers and students were comparing guns at lunch[1].

[edit] I did try to get some sodium to throw in water, but that didn't work.

yep, times have changed.

This is one of those consequences of treating students like sub-humans up to the time something goes wrong and then they are "charged as adults". I am betting some of this is a teacher and principal trying to CYA for a situation that they didn't control or teach very well.

1) I did learn to spin a butterfly knife during school, that probably was a bit far even then
Avoiding a memory leak situation in JS
Switch to Windows Phone
From Express's package page on NPM:

20 765	downloads in the last day
127 921	downloads in the last week
489 285	downloads in the last month

Since it's essentially Sinatra for Node.js, I don't think it's too big of a stretch to say that it will be a part of the stack for some time.

I would say longer than Angular, as browser-side packages seem to have more churn on the basis of adoption of newer browser features.
I've used rsync.net in the past. Highly recommended if you need reliable rsync/sftp hosting.
Also not handling JSON null values: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=2540
How about the MTBF spec?

I exclusively use server or workstation/server class motherboards from Supermicro or Tyan not just for myself but also for my parents, so I can then largely ignore the hardware for 5+ years plus not worry about non-reproducible errors from radiation flipping a DRAM bit. I've done this since 1995-6 and never had one fail in the field except through an act of God (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado).

For this purpose, decreasing stress from thermal cycling is good.

(Yeah, they're grossly overpowered for what my parents do, but since I'm not including my labor in the cost they really don't cost that much.)
> Why is that a website? I just can't believe someone bought that.

It was a demo in a talk by @enneff at Railsberry 2013: https://github.com/nf/go11

The site should update automatically once the repository is tagged.
Why doesn't Google just provide a tool to import a user's full Facebook data into Google+ with a single click?

They could even do it without the user's consent for people using Chrome or Android, or they could pay people to do so (it might cost them 10 billions, but it would be quite a good "company" to "acquire").

Without doing that, or having some killer feature, there's no way that they will take off.
Thank you, resumonk looks pretty great as well. :)
It's an easy library to get into. I was able to play around with basic OpenGL, and the program was cross-platform without needing any #ifdef statements. What's amazing to me is how Laurent basically writes it and runs the website by himself (as far as I can tell).
Show HN: Simple implementation and explanation of Map Reduce using Javascript
How does sunshine figure into this graph, e.g. what assumptions were made about where the solar cells are deployed?
If you must keep with subversion, explicitly authorize the use of git-svn for developers who are using git.

Git use causes smaller incremental commits, which can be squashed into bigger ones for re-merging, but makes for better, more ambitious changes, and easier rollbacks to working code. You get 85% of the benefit by allowing those who can handle it to use git as a subversion client.
Show HN: Price Check Service for Twitter
A new service to perform prices checks immediately via twitter and return them to users. To request a price check, tweet #pricecheck followed by the name of the item you want priced out. Currently providing best prices on Amazon; more to come soon. This service was built with Node.js.
PadMapper wins copyright battle against Craigslist, but not the war
> We committed to working a year without salary.

Sounds interesting. Not many of us could do that w/o previous success(s).

> We started in one person's apartment with the understanding we'd get an office in six months. Six months became a year, a year became 18 months, five people became six people...and the guy living there finally said, "Obviously, you guys are not leaving my apartment, so I am." That let us turn the bedroom into our conference room.

Haha, thats hilarious. I wonder how much more productive it would have been to have a more comfortable situation?

EDIT: Care to share why the downvote?
FTA, quoting Robert Pearce: "I fully expect the [motherboard] companies to disable C6/C7 in the BIOS (though consumers could enable it if they chose to) as there are simply too many PSU's in the market space which might not work correctly."

... because the motherboard manufacturers can't figure out how to stuff a 240 ohm resistor across the 12v rail?

Edit to be fair: if the power savings from going from the legacy suspend to the Haswell states is less than 600mW, then this isn't worth it and disabling the Haswell states is the right solution. In my experience though, PC motherboards almost never idle at less than 3-5W.
Washington Hospital Hit By $1.03 Million Cyberheist
I saw a few things around the internet that make this concept seem more complicated than it is.
What you mean is: Millions of people activated G+ so they can use Youtube and other Google services without Google getting in their face every 2 seconds to activate g+
I'm pretty sure that was fixed in both previous betas and tip for some time before that.
Chips have multiple power pins for signal integrity issues. You want the power source close to where it is being used, particularly for IO pads. Even chips with low power requirements will have multiple power pins.
The intent of opening and consuming a champagne bottle is different from the intent of mixing explosive chemicals in a sealed chamber, at a public school. I imagine if a child brought a champagne bottle to a school cafeteria, shook it up and threw it there would be significant consequences as well. Regardless of race.
Remember Boosted Boards? here's an australian competitor
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We're FortyTwo, a stealth-mode well-funded startup in Mountain View, CA. We're working on a consumer web product that will be released in the next 3-4 months. We started about 6 months ago, and are looking for engineers who can hit the ground running and work with our existing team. We use Scala, Play!, Akka and JavaScript. Check out our site for complete job descriptions, and to learn a little about us: http://www.42go.com/join_us.html. Also, check out our engineering blog to see about some of the problems we're working on: http://eng.42go.com/

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• Web/UI Engineer: Building a complex modern consumer web application, while maintaining a simple and elegant interface. You will engage with our product team, designers, and other engineers daily to form a wonderful experience for our users. You'll have many opportunities to contribute to our backend.

• Software Engineer, Mobile: Design and build high quality, modern consumer mobile user experiences. Define and implement APIs (library and network) for mobile apps. Our mobile engineers should be comfortable working at all levels of the development stack (storage, server, multiple mobile platforms).

• Backend Engineer: Growing and scaling up FortyTwo’s backend. At this stage of the company it means going all the way from building clusters of services, optimizing concurrent processing, building data pipelines, working with various types of databases and implementing devops automations. We are building our systems on using technologies like Scala, Play, Akka, ZooKeeper and Guice.

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A while ago they announced that they were going to opensource lightworks. Did they change their minds or is it still in the pipeline?
This post sums up one of the reasons I'm so glad I no longer use windows.
Let me provide some background on ESEA:

It's a paid service ($7/month) that lets you set up competitive matches of Counter-strike (and TF2 and LoL) with other ESEA players. It has it's own ranking system, it's own league/ladder, and anti-cheat system. It has over 20,000 subscribers. It's the most popular of such services for Counter-strike, and has been around for many years.

This incident is really serious. People have reported damaged hardware from this. Mining bitcoins can run quite hot if your system is not built for it. ESEA has been known for being scummy in the past - this is a huge breach of trust and security that I can't believe so many players are overlooking it.

The worst part is their response to all of this. They're playing it off like a joke and think it's no big deal. The $3600 they made came at the expense of far more than $3600 in electricity costs from the community. They lied about the whole thing, and keep changing their story as people figure out more of it. There's more discussion on this on the csgo subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1dgad2/esea...
Technically it's still correct. It's just a release candidate.
here's a slightly different interpretation of LOL from british comedian David Mitchell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_x5cfdwP98
I consider it borderline negligent to use anything other than ECC RAM in any machine where you care about not corrupting your data with a flipped DRAM bit.
So... Do you have a link to nice documentation of hardware support?

(Not snarky; an honest question to verify my older "machine park" for an install to play around, which I've wanted to do for a while.)
Facebook has a long history of disabling that sort of system.
Investing in staff is a primary goal for the Foundation for 2013. The staff members who have been announced so far are Konstantin Belousov and Edward Tomasz Napierała, with announcements at http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/03/foundation-ann... and
http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/04/freebsd-founda... .

In the past the FreeBSD Foundation has sponsored quite a number of specifc projects; having technical staff members employed by the Foundation allows for new kinds of work to be performed. Operational tasks are one example, and include the release process, handling security issues, system testing, and maintaining project servers. Having Foundation-employed staff also provides ability to provide continuity to longer term projects that require smaller but repeated efforts.
Being surrounded by sysadmins, it's either a sysadmin with a lot of customer experience, or there's a manager that has a lot of people experience. Many of the sysadmins I work with send either very terse or very verbose notes full of jargon, and we need to go un-jargon/uplevel them before they get to the customer.

I agree though, very nice customer communication.
I've recently got all JRE and flash players vanished from my enterprise.

What I love about linux is that almost always you have an interface to manage software (apt/fabric/etc...) out-of-the-box.

Ninite Pro. Ok, not bad. But personally I don't like the "subscription" model.

Making software bundles, rolling them out and updating them can be made by IT dep. itself. It's not such a great and difficult job.

And again, how about clenaup with Ninite? When I decide to use its bundle will it manage older versions of %SOFTWARENAME% for me?
Chase Bank security expert gives tips for secure online banking
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I am not actually saying that the author is pushing forward this sort of thinking, but I do think that the author is wrong in saying that this is "the going idea" as I have never heard that comparison before. My objection is to this common idea that graffiti is "low-art" while something like poetry actually seems much more damaging in terms of proper english usage, yet is regarded as "high-art" (historically). I simply fail to see the connection between texting and graffiti and it struck me as odd that this could be a commonly held belief.
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not surprising when you converted all YouTubes profiles to G+ Profiles this month
We've finished hiring interns for the summer, but we'll be looking again in the fall. I don't know about Toronto specifically, but keep an eye on our careers page and you'll see the positions go up in a couple of months.
Also, you have to remember to uncheck McAfee every time. Even I have missed that option on one occasion.
That makes sense :)
> That volatile culture would be fine, if they weren't so stuck up about "job hoppers" in the hiring process.

I've hopped more jobs than anyone I know, and I've never had a single word mentioned about my average time of employment. I don't understand this notion that companies give a damn how long you've been at places, and I know I'm not so lucky as to have avoided it in the last 3 or 4 jobs I've applied for (and gotten).
> It really bugs me that I have to have an Python interpeter on the frontend web machines (cause I would prefer not to have a C compiler there)..

You don't need to have a C compiler installed for the Python interpreter to work. I hope you're joking...
Awesome points.

> Switching to competitors that don't use these practices are more expensive (i.e. organic), and food is something that people need.

I do agree that people see this as an impediment. However, people use this excuse way too often - as a crutch, in my opinion. We (Americans, in my case) spend a pitifully small percentage of our incomes on food:
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/01/america-food-...
36 governments are now using sophisticated software to spy on their citizens
Tech Comparison: Was Summly The Best Choice For Yahoo?
Was there ever a doubt that MariaDB wouldn't work in demanding applications? It's pretty much MySQL all the way down.
Making the file smaller doesn't reduce latency. The point of a CDN is local distribution, not just load balancing. You also get to share a cache with other sites; if you point to jQuery on Google's CDN, and the visitor has been to any other site using that CDN, they already have the file cached.
It sounds to me that cutting himself off the internet only cut him off from part of his "problem". He saw the internet as isolating and causing him to not live "real" life. However, it seems to me that technology in general was his distraction. Is cutting the internet connection going to keep you from spending 8 hours at home playing video games? Probably not. I almost felt like he was cheating by listening to audio books, or watching tv or playing video games. The internet is simply an enhancement to your computer/phone/game console. It sounds to me like he spent much of the year depressed, and that he struggles with social anxiety.

Barring some catastrophic event, technology is here for good. Shunning it wont make our lives better, finding the balance with it will.