skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if you want to descend down the rabbit hole - "What every programmer should know about memory":

http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

The serialized version is at http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/
The ZDNet do not say that Microsoft aren't reading and interpreting what people write in private chat. ZDNet just say its "almost certainly innocent" because its done automatically by a machine for the purpose of increased security.

I for once disagree here that such actions are innocent. When peoples private conversation is read and interpreted, even by a machine, most people still get a feeling of lost security. This in turn causes a real problem from lower personal security, increased mental stress, and social self-imposed restrictions.
Essential info: Do you talk more like a Belieber or a Kardashian?
my real name isn't listed here, but my username is about as real as my identity gets online. my username here @gmail is my primary personal contact email that all my other addresses forward to, and although i don't list a name it would be easy to track back to my real name should anybody care enough to try. my username is a pseudonym, but it isn't a disposable one.
If you're looking for alternatives, I recommend anything with off-the-record (OTR) messaging. http://privasectech.com/2013/05/who-can-read-your-chat/
I agree the Cold weather has to do a lot with the behaviour of the people. Also Iceland is one of the Ten Least Crowded Places in the World.
Again, what is the difference between this and clicking a link? Instead of showing a link , they show a button is it? Adding a bunch of crap into email body is worth that?

This is right out of Microsoft's embrace/extend playbook.
Something that is not always readily apparent about an online community (or tool for socializing) is that features do not define the utility of the tool. Because the net benefit of the tool is the socializing and sharing, the culture within the community tends to define how the tool is used and how users benefit.

Facebook has a culture of sharing entertainment of any kind with people you know.

Google+ has a culture of sharing experiences and photographs with people that share your interests.

Some of this culture evolved from how the tool was built, in particular how you lump people into circles relating to topics of interest and channels of physical connection, as well as how the content is displayed to the users.

Most users will decide on the community culture they want to be a part of.
my github user name!
This might explain why Andrew is on the team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5311724
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You're sending the IV as part of the data, and the IV is not encrypted. The message being sent is time.time(), which is hugely predictable. The padding is easy to attack, and the inclusion of the IV means you'll get the first data block too.
>and till recently

"and 'til recently" or "and until recently"
"It was with this in mind that I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin', a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce."

I'm going to need at least a 50%-off coupon before I consider picking this one up.
I'd like to point out that Octopart customer base is probably tech friendly (as they are an electronic parts search engine), I would be more curious about numbers from an app geared toward general consumers such as Yelp.
SSH into a secure common server and use talk(3) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)) ;-)
There are too many Steve Johnsons in the tech field, but I don't have a better pseudonym, so I try to make my real name count.
my username is obviously anonymous but i realized the power of open identity after coming on HN. Now you can see my real contact info. in there.
I'm surprised by how many technical people are butt hurt over every subsequent shutdown of a service after Google Reader. It sucks to invest time and effort into something that was assumed to exist, however naively, forever. On the other hand, if we were to hold on to every design and implementation we've ever created without the ability to throw it away, no matter whom or what depends on it, our technological progress would probably be slowed.

Could you imagine if every piece of code you wrote once it was functioning, couldn't be thrown away and you had to support it forever once it existed? That would blow.

It's much like backwards compatibility decisions. Sometimes you gotta break free.

Just breathe, remember it's not the end of the world, and if you're on the self entitlement band wagon, you're going nowhere fast.
Yes. The discussion on HN is always engaging and there's not much temptation or incentive to go off on a dumb trollish tangent as has been the case in other corners of the Internet. It's always nice to talk to people off of HN that I've met here, too.

edit: somewhat ironically, HN is a place where I'm least tempted to look up a user's bio during a discussion. Someone has to say something extremely outrageous/amazing before I click on their username and commit the "argument from authority" fallacy. Otherwise, I like to read the discussion without having any preconception of who the poster is.
No, but it's pretty trivial to figure out who I am.
I use my real name as my username in discussion communities. Always have all the way back to my first AOL dialup username.
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> Sure, sure there are other open-source options out there that aren’t Hadoop, but for example Impala 1.0 just came out...

Although Impala isn't technically Hadoop, it's daemons are co-located with each your Hadoop Data Nodes, and talks directly to HDFS and HBase. Also, there is no ETL process with Impala, you could drop a few billion row flat files into Hadoop and query it within a few minutes.
There's lots of value in being personally identifiable online, I was asked about writing a book last year, the person found me through someone that had seen my reddit comments and connected my person to my name, for that reason I always use my real identity when commenting online (unless there's a specific reason I need to be anonymous).
GPS.

My record is three weeks on the road with no conversation deeper than ordering a meal or checking in to a hotel. And I'm not really all that introverted.

I did then use gumtree to find some folks to travel with, but still, just saying 'travel' is not really a cure-all for introversion.
Basically with a bit of work you should be able to implement something approximating a tty type interface over this, which means that you could (theoretically) sit in the car park running a metasploit session on an evil box hooked into the target network in a very difficult to detect manner.

It also provides all kinds of interesting potential capabilities for anonymous communication across crowded networks. This could be great for co-ordinating drug deals or suchlike but is probably better still for co-ordinating protests and exporting information when GSM's down.
> Google have a bad track record in implementing things and then abandoning them for one.

Google Reader drama isn't ever going away on HN, is it? The loud minority keep bringing it up regardless of what innovative products Google develops.

> I want my email to be a consistent experience - not to get some different behavior if I access through a certain device.

One decade ago most clients poorly supported HTML email, if at all. It was an inconsistent experience. Understandably it was new technology, so most of us patiently waited until the standard was adopted by email clients.

Same thing here.
About 1% of the posts I write are mildly controversial and I'm sort of happy to know that my person is not associated with them. On the other hand, there are probably more posts that I want to be associated with.
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Incorrect. The word "till" is perfectly fine English.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/till
Nope. I do all my online interaction as epochwolf.
Repository redirects are here
1 session per account is pretty useful, that way it's less likely users will borrow their account to other people. IP restrictions is another soloution.
I came to bash him, he should not be flung as an example for young people. His behavior was toxic. That he would get a second chance in a lowly job under tight supervision, and showing good behavior for a few years, yes. But here it's putting someone who cheated accounting to mis-represent the value of his company to investors directly advising decision-makers. He also let his sales people lie to customer businesses.

It's not even about what he does or says anymore (for a while, time will pass), it's about flinging a guy who struck it rich by cheating in front of aspiring entrepreneurs. He could repeat "don't cheat" as much as he wants, his position is the single proof that cheating works, it's more powerful that words.

here is an explanation of the accounting thing: http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/08/14/memo-to-se...
For some reason I'm extremely hesitant to post things under my real name. I don't really care if people know my name on an individual basis (and it's not like I'm a high profile poster anyway), but I am squeamish about it generally, and feel too self-conscious to post anything if my name is associated directly with it. I've tried blogging under my real name and always went back and deleted everything, it caused me too much anxiety. I'm not like that at all in person. Are there others like me around here? I think it's the permanent nature of what goes online that bothers me about it - there is a freedom to pseudonymity that, when not abused, is quite wonderful.
Well, that's one of the major sucky features of the cloud. It's out of your control.

If you want to use a typewriter you can. If you want to still use WordStar or WordPerfect you can (so long as you have hardware it'll run on).

> It's much like backwards compatibility decisions. Sometimes you gotta break free.

I agree that clinging onto backward compatibility feels like we've hurt progress. Especially since that compatibility was with x86.
Yes. I wish I could change my username, though- I used it on a whim when signing up for what I considered to be a dummy account at the time. Woops.
"I came to realize that there was a real need to present business wisdom in a format that is more accessible to the younger generation."

Pretty cool actually. If anything YC & HN inspire young people to dream and get engaged in business press & conventions. There's a real lack of this knowledge and worldview by the uninitiated, even amongst peers dabbling in amateur entrepreneurship for whom business inspiration are motivational meme pictures.
I had to read that three times to be sure it wasn't a terrible joke.
Why can't I see a Chromebook Pixel in San Diego?
I have, on several occasions, wanted to check out a Chromebook Pixel. I have a Cr-48, which I love, but I also have a Retina MacBook which I love more, mainly for the speed and screen.

There's no way I'm buying a Pixel without putting my hands on the product. They are selling in Richfield, Minnesota, three stores in NY, two stores in LA (LA and Burbank), and two stores in SF (SF and Oakland).

C'mon Googlers! There are nerds down here too!
Their blog had been on Posterous. Posterous shut down. One of their partners made Posthaven to replace Posterous and to never shut down. Not a shocking choice.
Shouldn't your neighbors be able to open their eyes in their own backyard without having to rely on their blink reflexes to protect their retinas from burns from your anti-drone laser system?
Cool work ! I was just trying to start doing this, but was lacking this thing you just made. :) ... The only suggestion I have is, instead of the two static images at each stage if you could create simple animated gifs that explain the exercise a bit more clearly, it will be great to share with friends who don't probably understand by just two images.
I do not think HN frowns on inflammatory speech if worded deftly.

If you are inflamed, your speech should be inflammatory.

Anything less will be intellectually dishonest.
I didn't really think about it, but the username I chose is one that I really try to use universally on any online community where I'm using a fictitious name, and is ultimately tied to who I am.
Try using Windows XP or later in safe mode... the start menu is near to worthless now...

Try this in Windows 8...
Your facebook link is broken, it is (https://www.facebook.com/lindo) and should be (https://www.facebook.com/Lindo). Notice the capitalized 'L'
The three days ago one didn't come up when I first put the URL in, though the 500+ days ago one did. Quite possibly I was simply lucky in that I posted near the start of the UK work day, thus making it likely to get noticed by people in Europe and then the US, also quite possibly there's a bit of extra magic in how HN deals with dupes and how quickly it forgets about submissions that get no love.
I almost never hide or lie about my identity in person. I don't view my online life as separate or different than in person life. So, I use my real name almost everywhere.
This is what a lot of the former engineers on the Enyo team have been working on. However, Enyo is a living and growing project, now under the sponsorship of LG Electronics. If you want to see what their older implementation does check out http://enyojs.com/.
I just put my very short real name.
Using a pseudonym may be great, but there's always the temptation to be more abrasive, offensive or obnoxious when using one. The longer you keep an identity online in public forums the more information you tend to leak through side channels and should your identity end up compromised you risk having a lot more exposed than if you never covered at all and thought (mostly) before posting. I've chosen to use my real name here because of the level of conversation when I joined and because I've associated HN initially more with the traditional hacker world than the blackhat type. Those of you using pseudonyms could do worse than learn from the Grugq[1].

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU
http://www.polymer-project.org/faq.html#is-this-project-rela...
Pretty cool. I wonder what the startup pantheon will achieve as it matures.
Zynga wants me to change the name of my product
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Yes it was embarrassing for NZ to be scared of this joker.
I didn't really understand the features, but just for looking up definitions it goes a lot faster and less frustrating than the major websites i've used.
Yes, sometimes. Only if I'm at least 10% interested, though. I won't click an ad for thanks if I have 0% interest and will immediately bounce.
This is not the same as Enyo. Probably not even close. Agreeably they are both Component Frameworks but the similarity ends there. Enyo's component description is in Javascript. Polymers is in HTML. And that is what sets them apart.
After the 1st excercise it starts at 7 seconds rest and then 26 seconds for the next excercises (Chrome/Win).

I also wonder why the images or better the whole site isn't responsive? I would also add a link to one of the sources.
Looked into it and discovered it was a simple lack of the pyyaml python module. Should probably put that in your build instructions and have the configure script throw an error.
For people who have experienced this, it's worth noting that planar fasciitis can also be caused by your sleeping position. The stretching advice still applies but you can also modify your sleeping position to remedy the pain.
Google Now still doesn't support a lot of cards for Apps accounts either.
We're currently running Impala in production with a table that currently has over 4.5B rows which powers an internal log analysis website. We don't have any hard limitations for concurrent queries, and no vacuuming since the data lives within Hadoop. We've been pretty happy with it so far.
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I didn't before. I do now.
Managing free memory is indeed an interesting problem. Besides the simple free-list approach sketched by the author (sidestepping the first-fit vs. best-fit search strategy, which affects fragmentation, too), I always found the buddy-list to be particularly interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_memory_allocation

Unfortunately, the article is not a very good explanation, I remember having seen a drawing of the data structure, but cannot recall from where...

edit:

It turns out that the mentioned jemalloc internally uses buddy lists as well.
I agree that for the best results, changing it up (also called Muscle Confusion - http://athletics.wikia.com/wiki/Muscle_Confusion_Principle) is also necessary.
Instead of making your own workout (which most people are not qualified to do), we've built an app that asks for your goal, level, time, equipment, etc. to build you a personalized routine that changes as you go: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pumpup-workout-coach/id57307....
The hardest part of working out shouldn't be coming up with the plan.
Unethical != Evil
Andrew Mason founded an enormously popular company that went public and generated hundreds of millions in revenue.
Regardless of any other issues anyone might have with him or Groupon, you don't get to that point (especially after the dot-com bubble) unless you know what you're doing.
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That's the only thing I could come up with as well.
Which is not helped by a follow-up of "the most interesting thing about this news item (or, at least, the only thing worth my time to comment on) is that I was correct, generally speaking, and shall now espouse my belief that I'm owed recognition for it."
Yes, but...

"With a population of 200,852, Greater Reykjavík comprises over 60% of the population of Iceland in an area that is only just over 1% of the total size of the country."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Reykjav%C3%ADk_Area
That's a bold suggestion given the recent climate here.
I think it would be clearer if the counter was not behind the person.
They enabled federation months after Google Talk came out actually.
Same boat. I don't generally care on a case-by-case basis, but I don't like the idea of someone being able to trivially connect me to years of comment history. Always a chance I'll recant and regret something I said five years ago. Don't particularly want old mistakes or opinions I no longer hold to be on-tap.
A ridiculously cheap and powerful alternative to HTML (or any other static format for that matter), would be a bytecode format intended to be executed in a sandboxed virtual machine. Possibly something like Flash. That should give you all the bells and whistles you could possibly want with a document format.

Now, there still are some loose ends about various screen sizes, preferred font family and size, and of course allowing textual searches, but those parameters should be few enough to be less problematic that HTML is right now.
The most interesting things to me here are the fail-in-place design and the fact that they track FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE so closely. Both of these run counter to what I think of as the "corporate" way to do things, namely an aversion to any parts failing and to tracking something so subject to change.
It'll never make it to court. Simply a scare letter. Safe to throw it in the trash and forget about it.
I wonder how this will impact App.net. Any commentary on that?
You made hundreds of hackers move their ass for 7 minutes today. That is a huge accomplishment.
now it works. strange.
yes, and strangely this is one of the few forums where I feel totally fine using my real identity and saying my thoughts.

perhaps because hn's topics of conversation keep me on the civil and cerebral side
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Maybe now bootstrap can move out from under the twitter account, like they've wanted to.
While most of the recent popular coverage has been full of hype, Aaronson provides a concise summary of what's been going on before taking on the hype which appears to have left the poor man at his wit's end. Honestly I was rather confused also as the skepticism D-wave was met with at the beginning appears to have been replaced with a lot of hype without any mention of the actual physics of what's happening.

The position of most of the scientific community at the outset regarding D-Wave quantum computers was that it was uncertain what was going on at all. Nobody knew for sure if the D-Wave computers were really using quantum entanglement when they ran or not. Obviously a computer that does computations without doing at least some of the weird things allowed by quantum mechanics wouldn't be much of a quantum computer.

It appears that the D-Wave computers could indeed be taking advantage of entanglement. However since the D-Wave computers are not very isolated from their environment, the delicate effects they attempt to harness are sometimes disrupted when the computer interacts with its environment (aka decoherence to use the Quantum Mechanics term).

Overall it looks like D-Wave is making some progress on demonstrating their computer does really harness what's allowed by quantum mechanics. This is exciting, though ironically they have not caught up to their own overstated claims of what their machine does. Perhaps with more work they can better isolate their computer from it's environment and graduate from quantum annealing to reversible adiabatic quantum computing. Or maybe someone else working with some other physical system which has an intrinsically lower coupling to it's environment might beat them to it. An exciting time for the field nonetheless.

Getting a speed up on a particular class of problem could have a great deal of practical importance, but building a scalable computer that fully takes advantage of everything allowed by the laws of physics is the holy grail of quantum computing, and it doesn't look like D-Wave is there quite yet. Still an exciting time for the field nonetheless.
I'm balding and wish I had Mike Lewis hair.
Yes, my username is my full name and I'm reasonably confident saying there is only 1 person with my name in the world.
Marc Andreessen explained the use of those metrics on Rap Genius:

“As someone who was in the room as an observer at the Groupon board when the decision to use these metrics was made, I think Groupon was honestly trying to provide additional information that investors would find useful, which mirrored the way management thought about running the business.

However, no good deed goes unpunished, and widespread media paranoia about business metrics still lingering from the 2000 dot com crash combined with other missteps on Groupon’s part combined to make the use of those non-standard metrics highly controversial and ultimately negative for the company.”
I'm in an endless loop with my self arguing if I should be more open about my identity on the internet. But in the end I value the ability to post and say whatever comes to my mind higher than the ability to promote stuff.
I look to tech leaders to demonstrate personal responsibility and accountability; it's part of the engineering culture, and we shouldn't hold our leaders to lesser standards.
I voted no.

On HN, it doesn't really matter, because there is a high degree of respect and "real-world" treatment on here, which is refreshing, when compared to other online communities. I sometimes wish I would've used my real online identity, but then again, I'm just starting out in programming, so I don't have a lot to contribute.

Generally speaking, though, I never use my real identity, because quite a few users on popular sites (Yelp, for example) are into doxxing, humiliating/ridiculing, and generally, trolling people, even when these people do not say anything disrespectful or disingenuous. It is one side of Internet popular culture that really kind of depresses me.
But that's basically not different than rebasing a public repo regardless of submodules or subtrees - all hell breaks loose