skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Mac OS since OS 7.1 when I was ~14.

All through high school and my Bachelor of Software Engineering degree, and now working full time, I'm completely dumbfounded when Windows or Linux users talk about device drivers.

What a shocking waste of time.
Investors have won? What? Founders have never had more power relative to investors than they do now.
Blasting Cap Danger
A good friend of mine is Sherpa too, and used to do assist Everest mountaineers, he now lives in California. Kindest man you'll ever meet. He said he would carry gear all day long, and without shoes. I asked him once why no shoes? He said the mounters wouldn't buy them for him, so he didn't have any. Not sure how common that is, or all of the circumstances, but it did not sound like the mountaineers regarded him as more than a donkey in human form.
I share that sentiment. I read the first page, and thought "Shit, this guy just used a whole page full of words and hasn't expressed a coherent argument yet". I quit reading at that point. Life is too short.
Exactly. You only go to a VC when there is a real need for capital to purchase equipment or pay salaries. Though the vast majority of "startups" can be done by one or two people coding and selling part-time. Hell, I've managed to develop businesses with less than $50. Profitable businesses.
Ethernet is built into the SOC [1] and brought out to a phy. It can do gigabit Ethernet. With the wireless dongle in the USB plug it was doing 10.5MB/sec (megabytes per second) according to scp.

[1] http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/am3358.pdf
Sure: http://static.usenix.org/events/sec06/tech/shah/shah_html/jb...

The covert channel discussed in the paper doesn't control network traffic directly but if you were maximizing bandwidth and didn't have to hide from an intrusion detection system you would almost certainly want to do so.
Hi bhauer,

> concurrency higher than 256 yields very little of interest. The reason being that we are fully saturating the server's CPU cores at 256 concurrency [1].

Well websocket connections are becoming more and more popular. Maybe that's a different benchmark.

But the level of concurrency is pretty important. It basically tells the story of what happens to a "slashdotted" server. If nothing crazy like that happens than most servers might be ok, just maybe have a little higher latency. It is when shit hits the fan that different servers start separating from the herd. Some gracefully slow down, some scale smoothly across CPUs, some start throwing socket errors.

Who cares about these issues? Well anyone who becomes successful. If there are no visitors and no customers and only a GET request here and there every 10 minutes, then those places could really just use any server. A simple Perl or Ruby one will do. Now those that grow and see customers they will be interested in what happens in cases like that. There is a traffic spike at launch of new product so now there is a 200% increase in traffic for that one day and it tapers off.

Maybe we just come from a different background and that's why they focus is on different metrics.

> It doesn't make the server any faster at completing those requests.

But I am not sure what story does benchmarking the servers at an artificial level of concurrency tells us. Maybe it helps those that have a throttling/balancing proxy that always sets the number of connection to 256 at most and otherwise balances out the rest to other servers... And I am not sure if a the heuristic that "If it can handle 2456 requests/second with a single connection at a time" can be extrapolated and implies then it can "handle 2456 concurrent connections in a single second".
We do have troubles discussing things.

Unfortunately, the world is so complicated that we can't make an informed decision based on speech/writing alone, and verification of achievements is one of the easiest and most accurate ways to judge credibility.
Ahh the classics.
Standard FR-4 from the looks of it, it does fit inside an altoids tin although I've not installed one due to needing to cut out the holes for the peripherals.
As long as they provide the option to enable it, I actually don't see what's wrong with this. If someone can't figure out how to change that preference, then they are exactly the type of person who shouldn't be running random executables off the Internet.
Nothing is a little too strong, but Linode for sure doesn't.
Yes, I said that.

s/surprised/bemused/, I suppose. AAA games are srsbzns.
Multi-device development with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript (book review)
It comes with a gui?

There isn't really any huge advantage (at least for gVim, I run linux...), it's just nice to detach it from the terminal.

Mostly, I can change the window size without it affecting the size of my terminal, and add some extra tweaks if wanted.
I suspect the biggest reason this hasn't happened is that the big studios want engines that can also target consoles, which don't have publicly available SDKs. It would be hard for a project to ensure that they weren't constantly breaking the console ports when they might not even be able to run nightly builds and share the logs publicly.

And, of course, software patents are a constant threat.
michaelochurch has blogged on this matter:
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/programmers-d...
Why not create your own subreddit? You can even control who has access.
Do you mean there's a need for https://wefunder.com/ ?
Your attitude speaks for itself too.
I don't think it's "weirdly shitty and alien" at all. That is just a widespread perception that people have because they think having a UNIX-like system on their local machine somehow influences their ability to develop remotely on a UNIX-like machine. Once you've tried it, it doesn't feel strange at all.
So you gave up your dreams?

I was hoping for a story about how you found investments in your own startup.
I think you're correct. If only corporations owned more of this country, there would be less pollution. After all, industry has always taken great care of their own land. Former industrial sites are often prized by their new owners because the land is usually quite pristine.
We want to own the content and not rely on a third party.
Looking to grow your Startup? Here are 6 Talks to learn from the best.
Uh... the next big ideas aren't going to be the first thing out the door. If they are smart they would create something for passive income with low maintainability while working on the real product.

There is a meme where running a startup is like gambling where the only option is going all in, both for participating in the startup and for the ideas they execute. Quit huffing the glue, and pass the glue.
The below statement has to be sarcastic right?

Hire a freelance developer to build a prototype - Many freelance developers love working with entrepreneurs to develop MVPs and prototypes

Why do you think that? It's honestly a part of my consulting work that I really, really enjoy.
I got Cubieboard. It's pretty much same specs and it has SATA.

https://cubieboard.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/produ...
No, it's not just ASCII text. Only miners (like Satoshi's headline in the genesis block and Kaminsky's ASCII Bernake) are able to include ASCII data in blocks, everyone else needs to somehow encode it in transaction data.
Hey Ryan, how about P2? http://ma.tt/2009/05/how-p2-changed-automattic/
"Environmental destruction happens because government restricts property rights and creates commons which belong to no one. For example, when the river waters belong to no one, people feel free to dump into it. As soon as the waters have an owner, the owner has an incentive to protect them."

It's the other way around. When property is owned by all, we take care of it better. Think of parks.

There are already companies who own lakes, rivers, areas of land; and pollute the hell out of them. They used these areas as waste dumps. Which, in the end, end up hurting us all.

Go to any pork farm in NC and have a look around. You'll see first hand what ownership of lands by "the" company does to the land.

Living space: how many landlords you know that actually take care of their properties now - without getting their arm twisted?
Pretty interesting, not that it mattered much, the same day I opened my nook tablet was the same day I rooted it. I find it odd that the hang up was that there was only "10,000" apps available for it, from the rare occasion I recall browsing the nook app store you would never know there was more than 40 apps available.

I wonder how all this is sitting with Microsoft? After their 300 million dollar investment into B&N last year I had assumed that the Nook was going to be Microsoft's channel into the sub 300 dollar tablet market with a really stripped down version of Windows 8 RT with some Nook flare slapped on. Microsoft must be pissed.
"Investors have won"

Congratulations, after ten thousand years of struggle, the ruling class has finally won for good, permanent victory has been declared by - Venkatesh Rao.

Marx says in the Communist Manifesto - "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes."

Marx had a point here about the long time span. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, written several thousand years ago, rulers are advised to capture new slaves from far-away, rural areas, as these slaves tend to be more passive. These issues have been around for a while - from that time, to the time of Pisistratus, and Spartacus and the Roman Servile wars, and the struggle between the optimates and the populares, to the German Peasants revolt of the 16th century up to this modern day - one may have noticed how large and militant the May Day rallies in Spain and Greece (unemployment is 26% in both countries) were. US drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan or the Boston marathon bombings - these struggles carry on over time.

If one reads a lot of Marx (something John McCarthy said was a sign of a wasted youth), you see the point that just when some system is said to be completely victorious, it has usually peaked and is on a long downhill slide until something new comes along. Louis XIV was called the Sun King and is quoted as saying, L'Etat, c'est moi, but less than eighty years after his death, Louis XVI was guillotined in front of a crowd of revolutionary sans-culottes.

Final victory is here for the investor...well, we will see about that...
Given the importance of backwards compatibility for corporate Windows users and the history Microsoft has with the Justice Department, I find such a situation very hard to fathom. Microsoft is not Apple - they cannot use the Reality Distortion Field to get away scot-free with imposing draconian restrictions on their user base.
> I had to go into my preferences to enable the ability to run software downloaded from the internet

Wrong, the default Gatekeeper setting is set so that:

- you don't have to if the software is recent and signed by the developer.

- you don't have to either for unsigned code: as explained in the dialog that pops up, you can right click instead and choose open, which will pop up a similar dialog alllowing you to whitelist this app only.

Threfore, don't ever turn off Gatekeeper in Preferences.
This article kind of reminds me of the stories bands and actors used to tell about hollywood. Moving somewhere, living cheap then hitting it big - albeit on a shorter timeframe.

"How can a company that earns no money be worth a billion dollars?" - Hotmail. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it :)
Coinlab sues Mt. Gox for $75 million
I can't believe no one has linked to this yet -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88vTsKdysoo
OST to PST Software is an amazing tool that safely Convert OST to PST
Dynamic scoping is true. But I've never encountered any problems in my large newLISP projects, because I'm working in small modules (newLISP calls it Context).

Like a Scheme closure a newLISP context is a lexically closed space.

See here for a short introduction to Contexts
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Introduction_to_newLISP/Context...
How do you figure this is a low priority target? This certainly falls within their mandate and the guy might have been trying to steal legitimately sensitive information!

> Take 20 porn files porn-a.avi (500MB original or 600MB with hidden data) There are so many rips or rips of rips that you cannot have a complete porn-database. And phew 2GB of compressed and hidden Data.

The smallest SSD I own could handily fit that data whole and the bloom filter would fit in an arduino a thousand times over. The NSA's shiny new Utah datacenter had a $2B budget for construction alone, do you really think "rips of rips" are going to be a problem? These guys scrape web traffic by putting a T on major junctions of the internet and duplicating everything that comes down the pipes. You could set all of 4chan to making rips with permuted settings and not begin to stress infrastructure of that capacity.

I don't want to be rude, but you seem to be in denial.
The Ministry of Doublespeak reminds you to simply use two !important !important.
It would be interesting to see a tool that searched the blockchain extracting possible plaintext decodings.
reddit is open source. Is there a reason why you didn't use its codebase and built one from scratch?
Is this likely to actually fix anything? Were the past intrusions via the manager? Or via a compromise of the login to the manager via individual user accounts?

Or is this just a show? Either way, this question itself reflects the fact that they refuse to give proper information and postmortems.
Uh...you clearly have never worked at a startup with a severe need for more developers. And I'm not talking about the next Instagram. There are legitimate needs for more developers in many startups that are working on real problems.

If you can accelerate the growth of your business by taking VC money and hiring more people, why wouldn't you? Contrary to your first statement, there are plenty of startups in markets that are currently in "landgrab" mode.
Why didn't Mt.Gox try to set up a division in the USA?

They make far more than enough money to fully comply in the states I don't understand why they wanted to join with someone else in the first place.
Go and Rust — objects without class
Advice on MVP's from Forbes? C'mon hn
Have you posted this as an issue report to 10gen somewhere? Would be interesting in a link so I can see how they explain, resolve or otherwise follow up on it..
I'm not sure why Jim didn't go with P2. I presume because we're not a PHP shop.
“politically charged statements like this can do a good deal of damage, so I’ve been wary about sharing my views more publicly”

It’s not that the statement is politically charged, it’s just wrong.
I pay $10 to Rdio each month, and paid a lot to iTunes before that.

I definitely don't listen to one sucky song for every one that I like.

Sitting at a desk coding and listening to music in your free time is an easy 200 hours a month.

So all your assumptions are false.
Not sure - Jim will have to answer that.
On modern x86 hardware, integer instructions that act on float values in xmm registers (and vice versa) require a somewhat expensive change of execution domain. That the register names are the same is irrelevant: everything will be renamed into what the CPU works with internally (which is separate integer and floating point domains).

Mixing integer mmx and x87 is even worse, with the crazy emms junk. Not worth it.
err, yes it is just ASCII text. I suggest you run "strings" over the blockchain yourself, which I have done. If it wasn't I doubt anyone would find it.

I don't know if they used Kaminsky's technique or something else but it is plain text.
Hope that there is some sanity in the world?
Why was I just taken to meatspin.com????
And the first thing I see is a penis. Great. Cannot further evaluate at work.
Ryan Howard was a character that started out as a temp in the office and was on for many seasons of the show. He is not played by or based on Ryan Howard the baseball player. However, in the most recent season Ryan Howard the baseball player does do a cameo appearance on the show. Not confusing at all. I think the former character is what the OP was referring too.
So because the majority of users have smartphones, the option for everyone else is "too bad"?

I've had my non-smartphone for six years now. It still works, and while I'm sure I'll upgrade to a smartphone one day, I have no urgent desire to do so.

Is it really that hard to set up an SMS system as a fallback? I'm still able to use two-factor on my Google account because they offer this solution.
so, a redirect to meatspin.
Only if they have read all and not just some of your essays and groked them.

In the country where I live the startup scene is terrible - only buzzwords thrown from all sides and no substance at all. Engineers in startups expecting salaries and benefits of a big company but with nothing from the downsides. In this situation the guys with the hard cash hold a lot of influence.
I am a freelance developer. My core business is to build MVPs. The price and the duration are fixed: 3000€ for two weeks. http://munda.me
This is a good startup idea. Services for improving company culture.

Important to make the data exportable and have a solid privacy policy.
Sorry. When you see XSS, you exploit. There really isn't any choice in the matter.
John J. Chapman, Commencement Address to the Graduating Class of Hobart College, 1900:

When I was asked to make this address I wondered what I had to say to you boys who are graduating. And I think I have one thing to say. If you wish to be useful, never take a course that will silence you. Refuse to learn anything that implies collusion, whether it be a clerkship or a curacy, a legal fee or a post in a university. Retain the power of speech no matter what other power you may lose. If you can take this course, and in so far as you take it, you will bless this country. In so far as you depart from this course, you become dampers, mutes, and hooded executioners.

As a practical matter, a mere failure to speak out upon occassions where no statement is asked or expect from you, and when the utterance of an uncalled for suspicion is odious, will often hold you to a concurrence in palpable iniquity. Try to raise a voice that will be heard from here to Albany and watch what comes forward to shut off the sound. It is not a German sergeant, nor a Russian officer of the precinct. It is a note from a friend of your father's, offering you a place at his office. This is your warning from the secret police. Why, if you any of young gentleman have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.

I have seen ten years of young men who rush out into the world with their messages, and when they find how deaf the world is, they think they must save their strength and wait. They believe that after a while they will be able to get up on some little eminence from which they can make themselves heard. "In a few years," reasons one of them, "I shall have gained a standing, and then I shall use my powers for good." Next year comes and with it a strange discovery. The man has lost his horizon of thought, his ambition has evaporated; he has nothing to say. I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don't be gagged. The time of trial is always. Now is the appointed time.
The Southern Democrats moved over to the Republican party long after the Reconstruction, starting in the 1960s.
Now that we know floats have coarse granularity on large scale, why not reduce the scale first?

float fr = (int)f;
if(f-fr>=0.5f)fr+=1.0f;
return fr;

It works for all the examples in the article.
I'm not saying that I've created a good solution. I'm saying that the author is trying to create a problem out of nowhere.

Thought it would be an article to teach people how to manually do float rounding according to a specific fp encoding scheme... :-(
Good job standing out!
> A bomb is a bomb. Whether it's thermonuclear or a "works bomb" is irrelevant

Bull. Shit.

Is a dry ice bomb also "a bomb is a bomb" and therefore plainly as illegal as any other bomb? What if I use coke and mentos instead? What if I use alka-seltzer instead? What if I didn't use anything at all, and merely gave the bottle a good vigorous shake then slammed it down onto the curb? What if I use alka-seltzer but instead of a soda bottle use a film canister instead? What about popping a paper bag instead of a film canister?

Or is it merely the word "bomb" that makes something a considered a plainly illegal bomb to you? What if instead of a brown paper bag is is an origami paper bomb? Is a rubber water bomb now illegal? Is a non-pyrotechnic stink bomb a "bomb" on par legally with a hand grenade? Is making the hallway stink bad now a felony? Is itching powder a chemical weapon? Should students be wary of photo bombing each other?

This seemingly magical equivalence between "bombs" before the law only exists in your head. It is the product of an acceptance and internalization of the zero-tolerance mindset, not critical thinking.

> Not my words, I certainly didn't equate the two.

You sure seem to think they are equivalent before the law... You keep on mindlessly repeating "a bomb is a bomb", what else could you possibly mean?

You also seem to think the apparent illegality of the works bomb changes the situation for some unstated reason. Nobody is questioning that some seem to think it is illegal; obviously the prosecutor thinks that it was illegal. We all know this. What we are upset with is this plainly abusive application of the law. Officially, the validity of application of the law will probably be decided in a courtroom. Unofficially, everyone here but you seems to recognize it is abusive and absurd. If they get away with it, it will be a travesty.

> I also wasn't the one who equated a "works bomb" as you called it to popping a paper sack behind someone's head.

You're right, she didn't pop a paper sack near somebody's head. She popped a soda bottle near nobodys' head...

> she knew it was illegal because she knew it was a bomb

The first does not follow from the second, and she disputes the second. EVEN IF both of those are true, the reaction she has received is wildly out of line. Damn near everybody but you seems to realize this.
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Correction: Shenzhen is Like Living in a City-Size TechShop where if you breath the air, you get cancer.
Fascinating, where do you find these bonds and/or info on them? Do you work for a financial institution that have internal proprietary access to such information, or is this publicly searchable?
Meatspin.
Have you heard of O'Hare or Midway? [Formerly] Meigs Field? All of these can accomodate private aircraft.
Sanitize your chat messages. Maybe with something like this:

https://npmjs.org/package/sanitizer

It sucks that someone took advantage of this that quickly.
I lived 3662616 seconds on this part of the earth
penis... try again.
The impulse buying tech nerd within me sees a $45 computer with potential for being able to make anything and I am stuck for ideas as to what I could use this for. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Un 40 por ciento de la población en torno a las antenas de telefonia
Yes, that's real mature. Thanks. Well well.
Technically, and financially it was all good.
However marketing wise not a good move. Your post proofs this. And I kinda agree.
Hey Kanzure,

mail me please.

Jacques
I don't understand your point. You can make UIs with CLI tools as well as IDEs? My post was trying to say that the GNU toolchain is portable across all major systems. Switch to it and you never need to ask what tools you should be using to develop on XYZ.