skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably. But mining had huge risks.
The cave collapses. The air you breathe was horribly toxic. You traded life expectancy for more money. I imagine you did a fair amount of harder labor and walked more than an Amazon warehouse.
And there is a damn canary chirping all the time.
Well, since the Commodore 64 wasn't released until I was 18 yrs old, my answer is no.
Cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
For those who are equally disturbed by some of the graphs, Herb Sutter's "Welcome to the Jungle" makes for a great read: http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/
Suck squish bang blow.
One thing you could do is remove any slow links on your network. For most people this will be their wifi. For example, if your WAN connection is 50Mbps and your wifi connection is 30Mbps, oversized buffers will cause latency. But if you switch the wifi to N and now you get a consistent 50Mbps the buffers won't get in the way.

Getting a faster net connection would similarly push the problem further upstream.

Also if you get a Netgear WNDR3700v2 or WNDR3800 you can run the Cerowrt firmware which is being developed as a platform for algorithms to solve bufferbloat.
The right ways and very wrong ways to attract female developers
I've had multiple jobs like that. The funny thing is, after a while you can't ask for work TOO often, because management will find out your function isn't really needed, and they'll terminate you.
Another thing I observed is that the person you're replacing apparently was always super busy with the job. Which makes me superhuman in productivity, or that person was probably keeping up the appearance of being busy. Probably the latter!
Ember for Mac launched
Some Observations on IT
latest commit says "Change Module License to Samsung Proprietary"

https://github.com/rxrz/exfat-nofuse/commit/dbf695748ab5e90a...
The Soviet Union went out of business in 1991. Why do we still have a mechanism that was built to target a closed totalitarian system armed with 20 megaton hydrogen bombs? The NSA is out of date and out of place.
Or you can use a full browser with extension to do the scraper. In this way you are up to date with the latest browser release.
More info - http://rules.house.gov/bill/hr-2397

Amendment #100
That is both depressingly Kafkaesque and heartwarming at the same time. I could see a lot of cool projects coming out of six period like that. It's almost a small scale negative income tax experiment :P
Machine Learning Speeds Up TCP
> While top clockspeed was not our priority, our product roadmap includes more CPU-heavy features. These include image optimization (e.g., Mirage and Polish), high volumes of SSL/TLS connections, and extremely fast pattern expression matching (e.g., PCRE tests for our WAF). These CPU-heavy operations can, in most cases, take advantage of special vector processing instruction sets on post-Westmere Intel chips. This made Intel's newest generation Sandybridge chipset attractive.

and

> We were willing to sacrifice a bit of clockspeed and spend a bit more on chips to save power. We tend to put our equipment in data centers that have high network density. These facilities, however, are usually older and don't always have the highest power capacity. We settled on our G4 servers having two Intel Xeon 2630L CPUs (a low power chip in the Sandybridge family) running at 2.0GHz. This gives us 12 physical cores (and 24 virtual cores with hyperthreading) per server. The power savings per chip (60 watts vs. 95 watts) is sufficient to allow us at least one more server per rack than we'd be able to get if we went with the non-low power version.

So a combination of additional instructions and power savings.
The bar to entry was much higher, both for a project and a potential contributor. But that's not just because of no github

Projects had to find a home (sourceforge ended up a major player here) and for most, fill out some large form to be accepted. Then they had to get noticed - slashdot or similar, since there was very little "social" effect on the project host.

When a project did try to get noticed, it had to already be "good" enough to get people interested. Practically nobody would stumble on a half-implemented tool, because there was nowhere to stumble there from. And it wouldn't get the push and discussion on newsgroups or websites if it was half-implemented.

Contributors had to first find the active developers. Many times, that was not on the issues list or a newsgroup, but on an irc channel mentioned in passing in a readme file or on a newsgroup ("I was talking to bud on #ourproj about the thread scheduler..."). Once you found them, you could try to "break in".

Since 95% of the OSS projects you'd actually find were already "good enough", that meant there were already a good number of active contributors that had formed a clique and were understandably protective. In many cases, you had to work hard to get them to accept that you might help rather than be a burden. That meant hanging out on irc or newsgroups and trying to impress.

Once a project was abandoned, there was nearly no way to contribute, you'd have to fork it. Unfortunately, your fork would have to beat the searchability of the original project with even more buzz, or people would find the abandoned one and have no inkling that your fork existed.

Obviously this is an over-generalization... there's no way to really encompass how all OSS was, even if I knew -and many major OSS projects were not at all like this, since each had it's own ecosystem and quirks.

In general the discovery of projects, and the ability to contribute, has grown in leaps and bounds around the time of github. But that is due also (to a very large extent) to other tools such as blogs, social sites, news sites (eg hacker news), and better search with google. Really, github is just a part of a huge increase in online interaction between people.
The last point you raise is one of the reasons that I think the drive to bring as many "proverbial grandmothers" to Linux presents a very serious concern.

Imagine if Linux distros started getting treated like Android does? Android got those legions of "regular" users and participants that everybody seems to want and it is not a pretty scene because of it.
Well this seems about 10 years too late.
An MVP is not a cheaper product -- it's about smart learning, says Steve Blank
I really love the infinite scrolling. I think there should be a bit more contrast. It is hard to read the light colored orange on white. Also the visited (light light orange) is a pain. And maybe highlighting the points a thread has would be a nice feature too. Maybe another darker color for that.
I see their point but... But OK, what else realistically can they expect? Yes, it sucks a lot especially when all the media around you is telling all those success stories and make you feel like you are the lowest class, destined to work that kind of job for the rest of your days. Although your position is not that bad. There are millions of people who would do literally anything to have it. Or they do same/harder jobs and are still starving.

Raise the wage? I don't think Amazon would like to cut their profits to make your life better. Raise the wage and increase the price? Well then you might not have your job at all.

It sucks but your alternatives are way worse - having no job and worrying about making the ends meet everyday.

And that's exactly why there are so many Eastern Europeans in the UK. Because an average Eastern European would not complain much about walking 15 miles a day and would be really happy that he has ANY job.

(I'm from a poor family where all relatives are working in sweat shops)
That's an interesting distinction. I'm not sure enough information is available in most cases to tell. Without knowing the personal finances of the founders, it's hard to say if bootstrapping means they started with $0, $10k, $100k, $500k, $1m, or $10m in the bank. The implication is often that it's closer to the low end of that list, but people who start companies after doing something else for some years often have a substantial cash pile they can use to self-fund. Especially true when people bootstrap a 2nd company after exiting the first; then it can be closer to angel-investing in your own startup.
Mt Defiance (handling criticism)
Even so, they are doing it this way because it is a late amendment to the directly related Defense Appropriations Bill. They can hardly stick clarifications to the Patriot Act on to it. It would be great to "treat the cause, not the symptoms", but they didn't have the immediate opportunity to do that.
No, and no.

A fair percentage of people who start developing software early end up being passed by people who started later. A seemingly large factor of this is kids learning bad habits on their own and not being able to correct them later, or having a much more difficult time correcting them. (I'm not saying that is the case here, just generally.)
You can fix the problem in your home network buy using a recent OpenWRT package and installing qos-scripts, and capping your connection to ~10-20% lower than your provisioned speeds, this will enable fq_codel.

You can also change your tc scheduler on linux kernel 3.3 or greater to fq_codel.
Show HN: Chrome extension that takes screenshots on tab refresh
I actually used something similar when I was running a web design business from home but it was so much harder to personalize actions all across the customer life cycle, I should check this out. It's great to be able to change CTA's for a customer that has already signed up for my newsletter, instead prompting him to sign up for a webinar :)
Just to clarify, I'm not a socialist by any measure, nor are the authors I mentioned.
It looks so crisp and nice, but the upvote arrows are soooooo bad. If you could replace those it would be amazing.
Nope! But it would be great if the general population had some proficiency in programming, even if they don't choose a career in computing.

My partner is an aspiring film maker, but knows how to parse a CSV in python and do pattern matching, he was looking for funding and needed to pull all of the "x.com" domains out of a giant spreadsheet .. for him, simple, export as CSV and string match the email field.

This simple skill alone, put him miles ahead of the other film makers in his class, the others were using "find" in excel and copy pasting, he was done in 15 minutes, the others took hours.

There's so many examples where account managers, secretaries, business analysts, chemical engineers etc benefit from simple data matching. They're not going to write the next facebook, and are not interested in a "programming" / "computing" career, but data extraction and simple programming is becoming a basic skill like reading and writing, and it's all good I say!
What's wrong with disrespecting those who created the licenses, and the legal system? Maybe if we were disrespecting them sufficiently early on we wouldn't be in a mess we are currently in and the open source community wouldn't need to have a special name because it would be just called developer community?

> We live in the real world, not "The Matrix".
So why does it feel like it's the other way around? Why does it feel like we are living in a world pull over by our eyes by lawers that restricts sharing our creativity?
Consider also the option of getting funding from a first customer. Many, many people have signed a contract on the basis of a napkin pitch before -- for example, approximately every consulting engagement ever. You can even sell the same napkin to multiple people in parallel. You can then take the contracts or memorandums of understanding to a bank and say "Hey, these represent money in the future, can we have money today?" and have that happen.

I apologize to all the business guys who are looking at me in slack-jawed amazement right now but they don't teach this stuff in engineering school.
It's just a ballpark figure...
True and I agree, but those games aren't considered AAA (since the definition of AAA is based on money spent as the sole criteria). Plenty of games have been AAA, of above average quality, and longer than 10 hours in the past 4-5 years (though I don't rush through games and like to enjoy the little details). When they are, I gladly pay for them[1] (probably more than I will ever be able to play lol). As I get older, I find time is harder to come by so I maybe I'm just more picky about what games I'll buy and then invest time in than I was when I was a kid.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Borderlands 1 and 2

Saints Row 3

Far Cry 2 and 3

Bioshock 1

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Rage

Fallout 3

Fallout New Vegas

Tomb Raider

Crysis 1 and 3

Sleeping Dogs (despite the keyboard issues)

Portal 1 and 2

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim

Dishonored

Mirror's Edge

Metro 2033

Hitman: Absolution

Mass Effect Series

Fable 3

[1] http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025283419/games/
Infinite scrolling is good, until you want to use the search box!
Perhaps the idea that research facilities could become self-funding via IP was well-intentioned, but I agree that it was (is) ultimately counter-productive. It is counter-productive in several ways, including discouraging free scientific communication, creating barriers to entry, and establishing a tragedy of the anti-commons, ...
Attention “Hands-On” VCs--Startups Aren't That Interested
I was thinking about maybe adding a "Low contrast" option to the menu or something like that, which enables a version of the theme with easier to read colors.

What do you mean about highlighting the points in a thread? Making the count below the title more visible?
Ubuntu forums were hacked
Copyright and IP is such a mess that everything is "shady" for any entity if looked from the right (or wrong) angle or country.

I don't think that there has been actual harm and malicious intent in the redistribution of the apps, just the fact that few people can afford the legal counsel fee to understand a licence.
It seems like a sign of shallow gameplay/mechanics. Supreme Commander, Master of Orion 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age (kinda), Mass Effect... Homeworld 2. You could spend - I'd guess at least a hundred hours or so - playing each of those games to see all their content and play around with all the options they offered you.

Story seems to have become a sort of distraction from the things that make a good game. So the story can be told in ten hours - what about the fun potential of the rest of the game? How many times am I going to play the thing? How much enjoyment can I extract?

Even RPGs, where a good story is important, most of the time is spent on quests and character interactions and on playing around with equipment and stats and so on. If you're just speedrunning an RPG's story, it doesn't generally take long. It's the game around it that takes the time.

At the end of the day, I'm not that interested in being passively entertained with the story. Maybe if the stories were better it would make sense as a form of passive entertainment. But games are like movies these days, and movies these days tend to have stories that aren't worth watching. If I wanted a good story, I'd go read a book or fish out some DVDs or something. I largely buy games for the stuff that goes on around the story, the game part of the thing.

Heck, at £3 an hour I could go and sit in a cinema for 10 hours at a comparable cost. £30 is like - I could buy 6+ hours martial arts practice, or go and do some archery, or go canoeing, or buy the materials to make myself a new desk, or.... £30 is not an insignificant amount of resources. It's not clear to me that the pay-off even makes sense anymore - though it did for things that you could play with for longer.

10 hours strikes me as ... there's probably not a lot there to play with. How many toys of any complexity are your bored of a mere 10 hours later? It may be a very polished experience but, how inventive can you be? ... I like finding tricky combinations of things and actually playing with stuff.
Nice one.

BUT!, it's strange, maybe because I'm SOO used to HN (like I'm soo used to Google), I had to change back. Is it just a case of "you'll get used to it"?
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I like it, and I do think that teachers often get worse press than they should on HN. But gratefully as I remember the excellent teachers I had in grade school, I also remember the drudges and petty tyrants.
I think deception is a valid tool for creating chaos and chaos is a valid tool for bringing down systems.
Show HN: jsFiddle++, a better jsFiddle
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I think so. Maybe try it out for a day or so. If anything's wrong, please let me know what you think!

Oh, by the way: even if you like the features but not the theme, you can easily disable the theme only from the settings menu at the top (the gear icon in the header)!
The majority of Android ROMs (at least from the likes of XDA) are hosted at one of a few places -- goo.im being (probably) the most prevalent. There is 1) little to no warez (I've never seen any), 2) no CAPTCHA and 3) no pop ups and only text ads on goo.im.

Another popular one Dev-host (http://d-h.st/) also features none of the cruft you complain about.

CyanogenMOD (http://get.cm/) is hosted through several large partners and has no captchas, ads or warez.

MIUI's community fileserver (http://files.miuiandroid.com/) also has none of this.

AdroTransfer (http://androtransfer.com/) also has none of this.
JavaScript debugging: Break on Property Change of an Arbitrary Object
Why are you talking about infringing on the GPL? OP infringed on a "proprietary exfat driver, written by Samsung", not on GPL licensed code.
I don't remember anyone denying that drone strikes result in civilian causalities. But guess what we did before we had drone strikes? We did cruise missile attacks, targeted bombings, arming of rebels, and often full scale proxy wars. Drone strikes kill a lot fewer civilians than the alternatives we used during the Cold War.
Very creative pictures, but if you want the real thing, merely visit:

http://www.ansys.com/

and bring a thick wallet (like, don't bother unless you've got 4 to 5 figures). And a lot of patience because the real tools have a dwarf fortress shaped learning curve.

A fine idea would be an open source-ish replacement for these type of tools. Good luck avoiding the patent minefield.

Its interesting that there are lots of really good and popular and "famous" computer algebra manipulation programs competing with mathematica type proprietary software, but not much free good, popular and "famous" finite element analysis and electromagnetic modeling type stuff.
C++ 11 features in Visual C++ 2013 Preview
Oh yeah, I'll try replacing those soon.
Nice, but I find it a bit too hard to read. On my Stylebot style, I reduced the orange to just a highlight colour. I find it pretty pleasurable to use. Feel free to take anything from it that you want: http://stylebot.me/styles/2800

Some of the selectors in the CSS are very contrived. I found it was the only way to select what I wanted in a document made of tables within tables with barely any classes.

Also, I totally feel you on this! The underlying HTML for HN is absolutely terrible.
No no! They knew I didn't have any work to do - that's the scary thing. It was a small company (50 - 100 people) and the boss knew exactly how much work I had at any time. I had to sit at my desk and read a book. That was right. Offering to help other people was wrong. Unpaid leave? Also wrong.
This is probably the answer you're looking for:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/default.aspx?PageIndex=2...

TL/DR; The font has to support all the needed characters, plus not have have overhang etc which keeps the font from 'going outside the box'.
So basically company can take your gpld code, extend it, slap their license on the whole thing it and redistiribute binaries without the source code and nobody can slap the gpl back on where it should be because it's a gray area?
Earth from 900 million miles
Running the Netalyzr tool mentioned in the article on a residential BT Broadband ADSL connection in the UK gives several warnings about unexpected DNS lookups. Checking manually, there is, indeed, some evidence that BT are running a man-in-the-middle attack on DNS requests. Has anyone else noticed this?

$ dig www.google.com 8.8.8.8

[snip]

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.google.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.google.com.	2	IN	A	31.55.163.185
www.google.com.	2	IN	A	31.55.163.184

[snip]

;; Query time: 47 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 23 14:31:49 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 160

However the IP range 31.55.162.0 - 31.55.163.255 is owned by "BT Public Internet Service". This strikes me as odd.

8.8.8.8 is Google's public DNS server. Either their servers are resolving www.google.com to a BT owned IP address (perhaps for requests coming from the BT network - which does seem unlikely), or somewhere in between my machine and 8.8.8.8 there's something intercepting the DNS request and spoofing the reply.

If so, I wonder what they're trying to achieve. HTTP traffic to Google redirects to HTTPS by default, and Chrome has HTTPS pinning for the site. If the reports in the newspapers that David Cameron is trying to involve himself in pornographic Google search terms are true then he's not going about it particularly effectively.
It does need some more contrast. Also, while I do appreciate the elegance overall (I'm a UI designer as well), the vertical space could be tightened up a bit to get some more comments on a scree. Perhaps adding some options to the extension to allow toggling between a "Tight" and "Airy" stylesheet?
You're missing the point. This is about reducing the barrier to entry to programming; not just by abolishing the standard stereotypes that only boys do it but by providing affordable computing for children in a way that they could feasible save their pocket money to buy a machine and get going.

I saved for my first machine when I was 14 by keeping my lunch money and only eating a bag of crisps a day for over a year; this kid doesn't have to do that..
I always use http://hckrnews.com/ and not the normal frontpage. Many small gems without many upvotes get lost on news.ycombinator.com.
John Hagel on How Businesses Build Around Innovation
A Better Secret Court
I also think the Marxist concept of owing "something" to the historic process is missing in a lot of extreme selfish philosophies.
Skepticism in science is the right approach. Not blind, dogmatic skepticism of any idea that disagrees with orthodoxy, but informed skepticism that demands compelling evidence for surprising claims.

Maybe a computer analogy would be useful: Imagine reading an article about someone working on a revolutionary new image compression algorithm. He claims that it's lossless and that it can achieve at least 99.4% compression on arbitrary photographic input. But all he's willing to say about his technique is that it's based on wavelets, and he has no actual evidence to show. How excited would you be?

> You can achieve a X goal by doing Y, but to say you can achieve only by doing Y is wrong.

The trouble in this case is that the guy at NASA has said that his warp drive ideas are based on Alcubierre's work. Alcubierre's results are very explicitly constructed within the framework of general relativity, and that framework puts some pretty strict constraints on the content of space-time near an Alcubierre bubble. So it doesn't matter whether he's satisfying those constraints by doing X, Y, or Q: anything that met the necessary conditions would be one of the biggest scientific achievements in our lifetimes. (It would dwarf the Higgs discovery, just for instance.)
Volvo Invents a Solar Panel That Unfurls From the Car Trunk
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Don’t Let Founder’s Syndrome Kill Your Next Venture
What killed occupy was the police forcibly removing them.
On not seeing luck