skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenGL ES was a way to pass the buck to developers so companies could save money. Since the OpenGL fixed function pipeline could have been implemented to some degree above OpenGL ES (but never was), it forced developers to learn the entirety of rendering from modelview projection matrices, to setting up render buffers, to compiling shaders, and so on and so forth. The small one-page examples that made OpenGL great are now project downloads and video tutorials and blog posts full of errata and workarounds. To me, something of great value was lost in the transition, probably forever.

What I see now are the great failures of OpenGL ES. Having to specify line widths in the shader. Inconsistent support for points. Not being able to predict if a shader will have one instruction too many and fall off the fast path. I've learned it to great depths but the mental pollution I had to absorb in the process has caused lasting damage in the form of resentment and exhaustion.

If it was up to me, I would scrap the whole thing and just give developers full DSPs so they can write their own renderer in a language like a hybrid between Go and Matlab, but with exact specifications and basic hardware guarantees.
http://forums.parallella.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=138
and
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/golan...
> The last thing I want to do when I'm writing code is try to remember some obscure combination of keys in order to perform a simple backspace or copy and paste a line of code.

What is obscure about using the Backspace key for Backspace? For copy and paste, you can feel free to remap Command + [XCV] to Cut, Copy, Paste if you desire. It is three simple lines to remap, or you can just enable CuaMode with:

(cua-mode t)

in your .emacs file.
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It's great to see this topic being discussed. I've often wondered what it really meant to hire people smarter then you and then how to manage them - great insights here.
You would have got more views if you did ShowHN in the title....I think

Kudos to posting on HN.
This is so true. Also, if you can solve a problem for one such customer in a reasonably sized niche you can earn recurring revenue by selling the same solution over and over again. And reasonably sized is probably much smaller than most people imagine.
That's a wonderful visualization, the second graph shows very clearly that the new strategy is working wonders.

I still think Shuttleworth will eventually top-up with his own money, but this should reduce his exposure somewhat ;)
The threading affinity stuff (2.5.2 in the spec) looks pretty awesome.
Typeface creation requires extremely specialized and rare skills (that most people don't even consciously appreciate!) and take enormous amounts of subjective and detail-oriented work. Type designers take their work very seriously as well, true crafts-people.
I don't know how true that is. There are a lot of things in expensive fonts that provide intrinsic quality: more character sets (greek and cryllic for example), openType features like conditional ligatures, more kerning pairs, extra weights, small caps, hinting, etc.
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What Insights Do Expert Hackers Have For Novice Programmers?
That makes sense. Marketing and engagement isn't my strong point (I am a developer), so any advice like that is absolutely helpful. My thought behind the monthly / yearly fee is, if you get one job, it's worth it indefinitely.
Thanks. I guess you do continuous integration manually running tests, if there is no build server to pull latest commit on your repo and run tests?
The thing that annoys me most is that the locals referred to this palisade of cameras as a "ring of steel". Surely it's a ring of glass?
I was politically aware at the time, it was more than a ripple---burglary of the DNC headquarters meant something---but it wasn't big for a long time, and even longer before it became bipartisan.

This is the very first (recorded) vote on the issue; even if it were 100% symbolic, which way it goes, how many votes for it will make a difference going forward. And this is bipartisan from the beginning: in a Republican House, an heretofore obscure Republican is the sponsor with the very prominent Democrat John Conyers as the leading co-sponsor.
Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uTRn2_o...
Running wireshark only shows packets that are delivered to your network interfaces. If people didn't want you to have that data, why did they route it directly into your computer's network port?
Ask HN: Is it time for a privacy rating system for the web?
A simple rating system for the privacy of a particular website. Perhaps in the form of traffic lights as seen for calories on food products in the U.K. Any way which makes it easy for everyday users.

A system such as this could have a very positive effect on making the layman more aware of privacy. It may also act to discourage sites from those "Red" ratings.

There are efforts such as Mozilla Collusion (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/) which acts as a plugin. The problems with these systems is that is puts the onus on the users and totally excludes non-expert users from privacy.

What are people's thoughts/ideas on implementing a web wide system such as this or are there any efforts to do so which I am unaware of?
meh. everything's temporary, technically. the line blurs between that and "not temporary"
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Ask HN: Getting job outside of Europe (as EU citizen)?
Hello fellow hackers,

I'm a EU citizen and was contemplating taking the plunge to work at a startup / small business outside of Europe. My only requirements are English as language of the country and a startup-y city.

- If you did the same, what was your experience? (blogged about it?)

- How does the application process likely look like? (e.g. remote work first?)

- Which countries have a reasonable work visa process? (US likely out?)
That's a very valid point about private prisons, but a completely wrong one. Let's think for a moment, would they indeed be acting the way you describe. To understand this, let's find out who funds private prisons. In the current system, a government does. Private prisons indeed have an incentive to keep prisoners for as long as possible to extract the maximum amount of money from the government. Since government doesn't spend its own money, it doesn't care nearly as much as each one of us would for every cent we have.

In a system I advocate, private prisons are, just like police and firefighters, funded by private citizens. A private citizen doesn't want to pay for the prisoner being held longer than it is truly required for him to become a decent member of the society again. If such a private prison decided to cheat its customers and extract more money by holding prisoners longer than needed, a customer may decide to stop paying it or switch to another prison (that is, switch to another protection agency). In many cases, people would not be send to prison at all, because it wouldn't be economically feasible from the protection agency customers point of view.

Now tell me, what's so extreme about my position? Why is it not reasonable?
Since I'm not the author, I did not put Show HN.

As well, I used Show HN a couple of weeks back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928066) for my own product (https://www.wisecashhq.com/) and it mostly flopped (despite getting on the HN homepage many weeks before thanks to one of my users posting the sample webpage I had at that time).

So well - not sure!
It's a 32bit chip anyway, can they even support more than 4GB of RAM? (or even all of that - PCs couldn't, it was 3.5 - 3.7GB visible to apps)
I personally really don't care about the money (no lying, I swear).

I care, though, about the fact that money brings me time, and as such more freedom to do whatever I like.

These two statements are contradictory. The whole point of having it is that it is stored value that can provide you with the things you actually need; time, in your case.
Yeah, but the reason its the hedonic treadmill is because when you ask people of any income bracket if they have enough money, they almost all say that they need 15-20% more.

It may be that you are correct in your assertions around financial security, but the notion of the hedonic treadmill is broader than that.
He says he reported the bug previously and got no response...

So, it's very much "like Apple would have ignored his bug reports..."
I don't see myself paying for the service with only a handful of jobs available, but I like the idea and I would pay for the service if it provided quality jobs.

Have you considered offering the service for free to early bird adopters? As an example: those who join now get a free pass for a month/year. It would really help with adoption in this initial phase.
Compare yourself to the rest of the world, and you already have made lots of money. Congratulations! Now you can relax and just enjoy your life.
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Could someone explain what program Mark used in The Social Network movie when he was viewing the traffic for facemash.com? I've never seen that kind of clean logging before - at least not for php/apache. http://i0.wp.com/wenshanren.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/w...
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Ask HN: anybody here makes a living selling on ebay/amazon?
Hi,

simple question, anybody here makes a living selling on ebay/amazon?

Regards,
Wiktor
Sorry for OT

That doesnt sound healthy, you should reverse your reversed circadian rhythm. I dont buy that this is given to you and you cant change it. When i get up at 6 a couple of days in the row its hard at first but after a while it wake up at 6 without an alarm (provided i go to bet early enough). If i stay awake until 2 all the time, i wont get up before 9. Thats a habit and you can change it.
Nice looking site and congratulations on your launch!

The only problem I can see is that nobody will pay to join a job site until there are lots of jobs available, yet companies won't go out of their way to post jobs on your site until you have a large pool of candidates who will apply for the work they post. Consequently, I'm worried that, by charging people right away, you're going to end up stifling your site's growth.

What if you adopted a model whereby everybody gets a basic profile and can apply for x jobs a month? Subscribers get better profiles and can apply for unlimited jobs. I know it sounds a lot like other incumbents in the space, but I think that model works for sites like this.
Yes and I sort of regret not doing that now to help with the jobs. I may go back and add that in now and see what happens.
You should read part three for better context: http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/life-in-bo...
I don't see it contradictory since my freedom and time is not solely brought by money; money is just one ingredient (in the middle of knowledge, confidence, etc etc).

Similarly, I don't care much about H alone, but I definitely enjoy H2O!
MS Paint. What a classic.
That's what annoys you the most? I'm way more annoyed that they are planning to continue to deploy the darn things.
Taking this too far can be painful. Would you rather be in a startup surrounded by mercenaries or idealists? Or someplace inbetween?
I don't see the connection...
I've donated useless $20 for nothing(except goodwill funding of the project), so additional $50 for the device would be something I'd choose any day without hesitation.
I would suggest 600,000 (pounds? dollars?) is actually more than you need - assuming you did 15 * 40,000 - as you haven't factored in interest.
>On the other hand, it is probably easier to apply for citizenship in Russia and the Russian passport is more convenient for travel.

Snowden won't be doing much traveling. The second he shows up in a country that cooperates with the US or boards a flight, he's going to get picked up. I think he's going to be traveling by wheel from now on.
More like "here are some of their employee files that were taped to the front door, and which I leafed through out of curiosity." Anything that is URL-accessible without password protection cannot seriously be compared to being behind locked doors or even on private property. It's in public view.
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Being gay isn't illegal in Russia, “gay propaganda” is. This doesn't make the law less absurd.
Shared.com Takes On Mega, Dropbox With 100GB Of Free Storage Space
"palisade" seems like precisely the mot juste
http://cl.ly/image/2U45141L3E3N / http://cl.ly/image/081l2v2W3E3H
"First of all, many Europeans are finally grasping, to their great dismay, that the word “cloud” in “cloud computing” is just a euphemism for “some dark bunker in Idaho or Utah.”"

It is not as though there were no warnings:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
I noticed the same thing. I've read a little about the Voyager probes (what geek hasn't?) and from my recollection they have to schedule time on some HUGE radiotelescope array in order to communicate with the Voyagers. But I have been known to misrecollect...
Exactly. This is an American (well, former) screaming from a soapbox that whatever USA-conspiracy theory in mind is factual. This is a free pass to use him as a puppet.
From scientist to developer
> The site was put back online yesterday.

No it's not.
Are you kidding? First, depleted uranium is not just about the "fauna and flora", it's about children being born with horrible birth defects and other untold human damage.

Secondly, your entire argument attempting to justify what we did in Iraq omits the most salient point: the fact that we shouldn't have been there in the first place. So, nothing we've done there is justified, including the death and maiming of our own soldiers.

Thirdly, you conveniently omit the hundreds of thousands or more of the innocent Iraqi civilians who were killed. I would say that people of Iraq certainly died en masse.

Your ignorance might be forgivable if you weren't so arrogant about it, and not so cavalier about human suffering and death.
The second resume does not feel appropriately designed, it looks like a menu at an upscale restaurant, mixes too many emphasis styles and typefaces, does not create a hierarchy, and just does not look nearly as good as the author thinks it does.
I am a total novice when it comes to chip design; but aren't there obvious tradeoffs with any architecture? Isn't it really hard to have a silver bullet that is super powerful / wide in its processing path and efficient for power?

I would imagine that for mobile, the "insert favorite gpu metric here" per watt would be more important than the aggregate metric.
I can only recommend for any programmer to get into graphics/game programming even if you dont have any prior knowledge. The required skills are vastly different from web development for example. While in Web Development its alot about Architecture, Services, binding countless of Technologies together in the right way, game/graphics programming is alot more about programming clever and well-performing algorithms and math. Add some network programming (multiplayer) to the mix and you have one more extra level of complexity to master.
Gave me alot to learn!
>Acting shady hurts your brand.

The Ladders has a long history of actually being shady, viz.

"Liars at the Ladders"
http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/newsletter/oe20090120.htm
He claimed that most societies(and at least the Western ones I've had contact with match that pretty well) shun exposing sexual organs to children. I don't see why the rage. This is not a controversial comment to make.
What do you mean by overseas? Europe or not Europe?
Typographers need to (some do) accept and distinguish between print and web typography. Too much is claimed with little justification other than "cause that's the way printers have been doing it for 200 years". The world changes, need to evaluate and adapt.

Also, this mixed in writing / content advice. Would be stronger if it was just typography.

btw as a user I fucking hate curly apostrophes and emdashes.
Read your post. Interesting. Do professional fonts, then, come in restricted versions with fewer options at a lower cost (just to differentiate between professional and amateur users)?
while the current generation whines about any sort of adversity, earlier generations sucked it up and enjoyed the challenge.

Or... we could reverse which side we're being charitable to:

while the current generation more often demands appropriate behavior, earlier generations just "sucked it up" because they wouldn't have had establishment support if they had spoken up. Millions of female/minority employees with tremendous potential (and the companies that could have employed/promoted them) lost out.
I just want to point out that if Snowden would have been spying for Russia or China, he would not have any these problems. Countries don't return people who spy for them.

His knowledge is very likely still valuable and he could turn into traitor any day and Russia would take good care of him. He would get money, pension, citizenship and nice Datcha to live in. He is this predicament because he has not given up his principles.
I stand by what I think! You can downvote me another 1000 times, if you want, but that doesn't make your anonymous voice heard. Tell us instead why you think this is "so" wrong, sir?
All I could think about is having the ability to work on side projects full time with pay.
> "I don't see that coming soon"

I disagree. There are many signs that at least some people are moving in this direction. Think of things like SpaceMonkey, OwnCloud, various plug computers, the 'Raspberry Spring' (small embedded ARM devices) and many others besides.

Sure, these don't fulfil all of your criteria but the fact that they exist at all indicates that we're on the right path.
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I was on my mobile, but yes this is what I meant
So what about looking at files in a hospital? Nothing wrong with that right? No-one can say anything bad about writing "Mr. Walsh had his testicles removed!" in the local paper. Right?!
I think DoS is covered by clauses other than just authorized or unauthorized. You can't legally DoS people even if you are an authorized user.

> that security lapse.

I don't think you can call this a lapse. It's not like they had passwords but forgot to change them. They designed it without any security.
Yes. We did not find a good one when we looked, so we mail a lot of checks manually for now.
What are the objective measures of UX? Isn't the USER experience inherently subjective?
I have to say, this whole NSA Snowden revelation has shaken a bunch of us out of our little fantasy bubble, and we have lost all faith in Google and other internet services providers to protect our private information.

But the real catastrophe here is that these U.S. companies have suddenly and irrevocably lost the trust of the rest of the world, as the article rightly points out. Software is one of America's last bastions of competitiveness and our stupid government has managed to undermine even that.

So long, Internet. It was fun while it lasted. I just hope there will still be a few good paying jobs left after the crash, maybe in the field of cryptographic communications; that seems like it's got a lot of potential in our post-privacy era.
> In time I found being called intelligent didn’t help me in business.

Also won't help you get a date. The reasons are not uncorrelated.

Beyond a certain level of intelligence (which varies depending on your industry--it can be very high in some fields) what helps you in business is empathy: being able to assess what someone wants and being able to use the analytical skills you do have to give them that.
On that note, do realize that the vast majority of personalized hand-written cards you receive are written by taskrabbits who are trying to give that "personal" touch [1].

Mixpanel is one of the worst offenders of faux-personalized email. "I see you logged on today - were you able to accomplish what you wanted?" "I noticed that you were checking out the funnels feature. Can we set up a time to chat?" Go away.

[1] https://www.taskrabbit.com/sf-bay-area/search?search=handwri...
Selling out all the "limited" tiers still lands them $7 million short. I hope they make it (I backed the $600 tier), but I'm still doubtful.
One of the important points here is that each price level (aside from the last one) has an allotment of 1250 units. So, while most people won't buy at $625 vs $675, so long as $625 is available, it provides incentive for people to buy now vs later and risk the lower level selling out.

Edit: Although, the $625 level is now "1296 out of 1250 claimed" - so I'm not sure what that is about.
It's always been a steroid hormone, has it not? I didn't realize there was any controversy about that. Personally, I don't care if it's a "black cat or white cat, as long as it catches rats".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship

There is an entire class of businesses who's primary goal is not profit. While they must be run like a business, i.e. turn a profit or else they will fail (same for non profits) that isn't their only goal.
[By 1979 half of the gasoline in the US was unleaded](http://66.147.244.135/~enviror4/about/ethyl-leaded-gasoline/...). So by the early eighties it was mostly gone. So yeah, I slightly misspoke saying it was mostly gone in the 70s, but it was halfway gone by then.
Yeah, I realize my comment was overly sensitive. Sorry 'bout that. :)
625 is sold out already. Any idea what the likely BOM cost to Ubuntu would be for this?

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Samsung-Galaxy-S...

Suggests 400$ is achievable, which should leave them plenty of room for profit at 600 USD. Given the dropoff when the price goes up to 675 from 625 here: http://vertior.com:9000/ and the lack of marketing / distribution costs you'd think they'd do better just to leave the price low.
Suppose that 'pip install foo' did not run a setup.py. Now eventually you are going to run some code from foo. If you weren't, why are you installing it? At that time, you could have 'arbitrary code' running on your machine.
Its not too late!! Chuck a banner up on the HP
a profitable employee is one who generates the most income

it is important mainly to identify which employees are not profitable, especially in fixed price projects.

do you run a devshop?
Comparing commercial and non commercial web application security scanners
A lot of non commercial (free) web application security scanners are available on the market, but do they perform as good as the commercial ones?
Makes color palette from a picture
Makes color palette from a picture.

simple PHP project.
Could that not have an unintended effect of flooding job posters? There's no barrier besides the monthly so I might as well apply to everything.
"Supposedly" :)
Calling emacs text editor is huge understatement.
Syncing over the home network wouldn't be enough; one of the big features of Dropbox is that you can sync devices anywhere. Eg: my phone, my office PC, and my home PC all share the same Dropbox folder.

Since we're not all IPv6 yet, the cube will need to set up a secure tunnel out of the home network to a public endpoint, probably on a server run by your company. All syncing would have to go through that server, preferably with end-to-end encryption so the server can't access the data. (It can still be captured for offline cracking, though.)
Does this job board focus strictly on developer roles?