skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone doing anything related to a universal memory abstraction in the Linux kernel? He speaks for around 5 minutes at the 20 minute mark about a unified memory architecture, and I just say hell yes. I think it might become one of the largest problems in the apu / dedicated card world, and just in general it is always an issue in a transition from dedicated plug in hardware cards with their own memories to integrated solutions using system memory. Having real universal reference would make all that a non problem.
My worry is that they will read the lines about how wiretapping couldn't be used in that type of investigation, etc., and decide that the real lesson is that terrorism can't be completely prevented unless we do even more surveillance.
In your best case scenario, what about the reduced expenditure on shipping trash to places where landfills are open? E.g. I believe NYC ships a good bit of trash down to the Carolinas.

Also only 54% is currently sent to a landfill, so that would reduce your energy return to 524 GWh. That's about 20 years worth of new power plants coming online. (It appears most years the US adds about 20-25 GWh in power generation capacity a year)
Hahaha love it. I've seen these everywhere and they do give people the psychological perception that its the latest cool thing.

I love the fact that you turned it into an actual 'app'. Props for making me laugh this morning.
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> it's not like they can just dictate to carriers whatever they want.

Why not? Apple does. And because Apple has paved the way since 2007, it should be much easier for Googorola. All it has to do is make a phone that consumers want. That way the telcos won’t be able to ignore it.
I think the gloating is deserved, particularly as a message for the HN community as it currently evolving. There was a fairly large pile-on of people vehemently disagreeing with tptacek despite him presenting an entirely reasonable argument that turned out to be close to the truth. Declaring victory on this one may help the community to remember to not just blindly believe anything written on the internet due to the fact it conforms with their strongly held concerns and beliefs.
I agree, and I love SICP, but it also assumes a general familiarity with undergraduate-level mathematics, up through calc 1 and linear algebra, as well as some basic number theory, that many people probably do not have and will immediately be intimidated by. Even though it does not rely heavily on these subjects, they are strewn throughout the work: the book was written at a time when the sole academic path in computing was as an engineering discipline, and the students all had a common background. The field of programming and, I would argue, computer science at large, is much more diverse now, and I think the text could have a broader reach with slightly different examples and exercises, and perhaps a bit more elaboration. Learning to model problems when you are both unfamiliar with the problem domain and the modeling tools is daunting, to say the least.
The number of people who don't know where the CVV code is located is dwarfed by the number of people who are roughly familiar with their card and would instead be confused by an unfamiliar-looking form.

You learn where the CVV is the first time you successfully buy something online. You learn how this specific form design works the first time you enter a website that uses it. Which do you think is going to be happening more frequently?
I'm talking about programmers, not computer scientists. That is, people who actually accomplish things in the real world by hacking on software, rather than pontificating about it from their monadic ivory towers :) The latter have "abandoned statement-based languages," but the former absolutely have not.
Flash is still the standard for "rich media" ads, despite the lack of mobile coverage. HTML5 ads are growing fast but still very small.
Same here. A whole lot of blank white space. Had to do a Ctrl-A to find out there was white text on a white background. Same on Chrome, Firefox and IE. I thought perhaps our work network was blocking a stylesheet or something.
Great idea, but Forbes is anything but legit.
and the most hyped feature of the new google-motorola motoX is that it has microphones on 24h without battery drain...
Producing a compiler that is robust on a single platform is relatively straightforward. You just bash away for a while; with wide usage the corner cases will be exposed and you can converge to a finished system.

Add multiple platforms, and it gets more difficult, because each platform has quirks and peculiarities you don't know about until you get a bug report.

Add optimisation of languages that are difficult to automatically reason about, and it gets harder again.

Multiply the optimisation difficulties by multi-platform difficulties and yes: it is hard.
Yeah because a mismanaged city project in a dysfunctional city is a great example of the actual technology, especially when you hire totally unqualified companies to do it. But hey, we could have spent all that money on a Wild West Museum instead or maybe just prayed some more for a balanced budget.
I am always extremely wary of any configuration changes that alter encryption algorithms. A simple typo can mean going from the exclusion of a weak cipher to the explicit inclusion of it.

One of the performance perks comes from the session cache. Is there an effective way to share that cache between machines serving on the same hostname? For instance: ten servers all serving round robin requests for www.example.com.
What percentage of on-camera orgasms in pornographic films are real?
Also needs Disney, seems so many websites are featuring Disney as one of their main clients as a selling point.
See: "eBay Payments by Billpoint"

for a classic example of how even in the most optimal scenario, the platform doesn't always win when it tries to compete with the ecosystem.
That is not what the word threat means.
"Every question a user has to ask themselves during the checkout process is another reason for them not to complete it."

It depends what you are trying to sell. If you have used all known tricks to convince user to buy "lose 50 pounds in 2-weeks" product, then yes unusually good looking CC form nothing circa 97 can discourage user from converting. On the other hands, many times you offer product that user truly wants, and when your checkout is broken, they will send you a long explaining email, showing you how far they would go to get what they want.

>Beyond that it has to load images dynamically based on card type which on a slow or interrupted connection

I noticed that too, but thats mostly because this post > 420 upvotes. All you have to do is load them all in div style = "display: none" on body onload and viola! all are preloaded and hidden, waiting for your browser to use one from your cache.
The point is they're not paying. Showmakers want them.
Do me a favor and read Andrew Chen's brillant piece on this topic.

http://andrewchen.co/2013/06/03/new-college-grads-dont-sell-...
It seems obvious that if drugs such as cannabis are held to the same standard as decidedly more deadly, legal, drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, then the accompanying crime statistics are bound to be less.

Pot heads aren't known for their violent tendencies, as compared to alcoholics.
Well, it seems many people are convinced this is just a clever cover up. To some, it must make more sense that the NSA, with limitless access to personal data, can't tell whether someone is actually plotting a terrorist attack or not, so they send the local PD with no search or arrest warrants to have a friendly 45 minute chat.

It seems the NSA is our new Area 51 and "JTTF" are the Men In Black. People want to believe. Much like alien UFOs were to secret spy planes, these fantastical claims coming out now are likely to the actual secret spy technologies. Great cover and distraction from what is actually being done.
> Well, OK, but we’ve been using these text-based tools for a year or two now, and I don’t see many radical advances taking place in how we use or combine them. Are you sure you’re not chasing an illusion here?

I'm not claiming recent advances. I'm claiming existing power that has been around for decades, which we would lose if we compromised the text tooling available today.

Have you read TAOUP? Do you understand the extent of the power that existing text tooling gives us today? Are you experienced in the advanced use of the existing tools, so you are able to make comparisons about their power?

> As long as everything is limited to manipulation of freeform text files, perhaps you never will. That doesn’t mean better tools aren’t possible; it just means they aren’t possible within the constraints you’re choosing to impose.

This is backwards. We move forward when people show how it can be done. Please show us how we can improve diffs, patches and merges by moving to semantic data structures over text, without compromising any existing capabilities. Even just illustrating specifics of how these tools might work, rather than implementing them, will do something for your argument. The onus is on you.
> Why do people do this?

My guess is: so they can utilize the free tier for a year. After that, I agree it makes almost no sense.
This is my favorite advice on this topic, The Noel Smith-Wenkle Salary Negotiation Method:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~shipman/org/noel.html
Absolutely mindblowing video shot from the Space Shuttle during launch (2012)
Search for a "perpetual calendar" or "eternal calendar". They used to be reasonably common as desk accessories and are still made as promotional items.
That would be a valid argument if the GP was a physicist, I guess. Why should GR be a prerequisite for CS?
I suspect that, for many people who love this book, the answer to why your complaint didn't bother them is simply that they don't share the complaint. I certainly don't remember thinking the exercises were of a different level than the main text, or off-topic, or confusingly worded. So it's not that having exercises "that might as well have been written in French" doesn't faze me, it's that I don't think that was the case.
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This article [1] also mentions finding lists of program names from LinkedIn profiles, especially this one [2].

[2] mentions:

ANCHORY, AMHS, NUCLEON, TRAFFICTHIEF, ARCMAP, SIGNAV,
COASTLINE, DISHFIRE, FASTSCOPE, OCTAVE/CONTRAOCTAVE,
PINWALE, UTT, WEBCANDID, MICHIGAN, PLUS, ASSOCIATION,
MAINWAY, FASCIA, OCTSKYWARD, INTELINK, METRICS, BANYAN,
MARINA

The names of the programs aren't classified; if they were they would not show up on LinkedIn. What the programs actually do is classified information.

[1] http://front.kinja.com/job-networking-site-linkedin-filled-w...

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-miller/39/741/a49
40 grams per month is slightly more than one joint a day.
Some people consume more than that, some less, but 40 grams a month is nowhere near the amount held by dealers.
Hope its the lighter part, because wouldn't one of these companies sue for using their logos when there is nothing to link?
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I think it's worth the time to spend a little while with an IDE that PEP-8 checks your code in real-time. It really forces you to think about better formatting and breaking up complex statements. In your example, if my declaration is running that long, I put the first line break after the open-parenthesis. Then all parameters end up in a nice block, and I've found that to be very easy on the eyes when going back to look at forgotten code. Generally speaking, I've found that adhering to the 80-char limit has greatly improved my code formatting and readability. 100 is okay with me too, though.
This is a great opportunity for education, then, correct? Tools have existed that would ameliorate this entire issue for a long time. We need to get people to start using them!
According to what I read about our history, the US tried to get rid of tipping early on, in an effort to have a more egalitarian society, but people couldn't stand the idea.

As far as I have ever seen, most people don't mind sorting the trash, the different bins just aren't there.

In places where there is a single recycling can, I can't remember anyone throwing recycling into the trash can, with righteous indignation, muttering about the extra cost to their personal time.
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They don't make anyone do anything. They only offer a bulk buy deal with many of the patent holders. The patent holders are the people who might bring legal action.
I think this is truer than people here will give you credit for; a huge chunk of the most vocal participants of these threads are outrage tourists; they're --- not being hyperbolic --- disappointed to find out that the whole USG isn't behind these events; it makes the narrative boring.

And I think you're right about the second point. The hyperbolic conclusions people jump to about these stories are, effectively, ambit claims for the surveillance state.
What's wrong with food banks? Let's look at the options to handle a person without a job or savings.

1. ignore them, of course

2. give them a job

3. give them money

4. give them food

1 is awful, 2 is infeasible, you can't magically find a productive job for everyone, 3 and 4 both seem fine to me. Would you have them all buying food in stores instead? That seems like it'll take more money to get the same amount of people fed.

What would you prefer?
Actually, eliminating all terror attacks is pretty straightforward - stop the endless sensationalist reporting that turns audience fear into the main event.
Bitcoin, just like a quantum bit, in all states at the same time!
Consider this completely speculative timeline:

9:15 am - employee arrives at work, late again. Employer decides this is the last straw.

10 am - employer meets with employee, tells them their services are no longer needed and to clean out their desk

11 am - employee has packed all personal supplies, but still a little shocked and not quite ready to get up and leave.

11:01 am - employee notices computer is still logged in. Searches "pressure cooker bomb" either accidentally when trying to find "pressure cooker reviews", or intentionally as a result of news story.

11:02 am - IT guy uses remote program, preparing to log employee out and remove credentials. Notices the "pressure cooker bomb" search results, and passes them on to the boss who passes them on to police.

It's certainly possible the employer was being vindictive; it's also possible that the ex-employee entertained the thought of bombing the office. But we have no real reason to conclude either party was actually malicious, only that they were possibly malicious.
It doesn't tab between the input boxes or even show the boxes until it's detected the card type based on first four digits. On initial load you get an input box with "XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX" and nothing else. It does not look like an average credit card form and a lot of people will be confused "where do I put in my name" when they first see it.
No surprise for Samsung is doing this. Abusing community by ad is the only their real professional at.
Correct. These guys [1] actually are prohibited by corporate charter from working on offensive technologies.

1 - http://www.battelle.org/
I'm reviewing a fairly large amount of Java code this week for a client; being hollered at on HN is a respite.
"Kinect is sort of like a zero-button mouse with a lot of latency on it."
Thanks!

> But some people who should know better just don't want to listen.

So true...
Maybe you'd still be wheezing from all of the road dust you'd been inhaling in the carriage the entire ride.
Who wants to bet they can snapshot an instance on AWS and then boot it up on their own cloud?
Actually, this would be news to most people. Do you disagree?
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I hope my comment is taken in the spirit in which it is intended, which is one of gleeful mockery and not gloating; unfortunately, the dumber HN acts, the dumber I end up looking for being here.
If my understanding is correct (and it very well may not be), it is similar in Amsterdam; tourists have more restrictions than locals. Their laws still seem to benefit their tourism though.
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You reserve capital when you do an A to keep your pro rata, so a $3mm A usually needs 6 or so committed.
This is really good.

However, there is a few things that makes me not want to use it.

Firstly, no security code.

Secondly, it's hard to tell which fields aren't being filled out. Especially the YOUR NAME in particular. Maybe you should make these fields red, or when you complete a field it automatically goes to the next field. For example, when you finish typing in your credit card number the cursor automatically goes to the expiration date, and when you finish typing the expiration date it automatically goes to the name. Just a suggestion.
This is an interesting take on it: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2013/05/tsarnaev-todashev-story-h...
I spent a few months living in a coworking space as well. Exhausting is right. I managed to keep it a secret but the most exhausting part of the entire thing was lying to each and every person that I knew- (I was ashamed to be in that situation in the first place so I didn't tell anyone, and would pretend to live one town away.)
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Your link doesn't work.

Do you mean "can't" as in "I've blocked it for myself" i.e. "won't"? :)
Being mentioned doesn't mean it was a positive mention, or even prominent.

By simply saying "seen in", you invite the reader to imagine a glowing full-colour centre spread instead of a snarky aside by a columnist in the sports pages.
I tried to submit the official Wordpress.org announcement and got "stop spamming us".
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/08/oscar/
Is Wordpress.org domain banned on HN?
> So it's a simple concept that takes no time to learn, and they haven't yet learned it before showing up for an interview. Doesn't that tell me something right there?

It tells you that it's trivia. There is a world of trivia surrounding any topic, and 100% of the time you will be able to nail somebody on not knowing something that's simple to learn if you just pick the right piece of trivia.

> Should I expect them to be knowledgeable of complicated concepts if they are not knowledgeable of simple concepts?

OK, so Cocoa has this OO IPC technology called Distributed Objects. It's really brain-dead simple (like four lines of code to set up), but it's pretty archaic. I have more than a decade of experience in Objective-C/Cocoa at this point and feel pretty confident saying I have a solid understanding of the language and framework — but if you asked me to write some code using Distributed Objects, I would have to go look it up. I'd have it down in a couple of minutes once I knew it was needed, but I could not produce it on the spot because you can't hold every piece of trivia in your mind all the time, and this particular bit of trivia has never been needed for the things I've done.
He'd become NJH II.
The sad thing: I was actually looking for something like this.
Or he's just maximising himself in the hire-by-keyword game that inefficient managers/recruiters use.
Every once in a while Microsoft still does something exactly right. And it makes me wistfully sad for all of the missed opportunities.

Yes, I was one of those who did an all-nighter outside a store waiting for win95.
I remember as a kid in the 70s I saw a car on its roof with two maybe four people in it, this happened at a beach the car I think went too far to the right on a narrow lane and onto a dune then up a steep part of the dune causing the car to tip over.

The car was a purple 1970s muscle car with rear really wide slicks I think it was an AMC AMX.

I distinctly remember (I was probably about 5 to 7 years-old) the loose change on the inside of the roof I guess as a kid seeing quarters it may as well have been gold bars.
You might want to have a look at the HOPE9 keynote with one of the first NSA leakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFtQ6n3WR4

Clearly a very smart guy, that went very far in the NSA -- and for a long time felt he was doing "the right thing" -- but eventually quit because of what the NSA were doing.

edit: He also touches on how compartmentalization leads to people not knowing what they're actually working on/how it will be used in some cases.
And now begins the wait for 3.6.1 before I let it get anywhere near the blogs I host.
I like the use of "outrage tourists."
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Anytime you make something that people like to do legal, crime will go down as those people aren't criminals anymore. And a lot of people do weed. It's directly causal. More importantly, you destroy a huge profit center for organized crime, weed is one of the big cash crops.
Starting a programmer off in BASIC is akin to starting an English major off in ebonics.
HN's increasing inability to apply critical thinking is frustrating. I think it's due to a combination of groupthink, a tendency to be manipulated by their fears, and a willingness to believe what they want to believe.
Gotta pound down the nail that sticks out, amirite?
Haha, very nice.

Bonus points for if the logos change color on mouseover.
Biting my lip so hard it's bleeding.
This again?

Yes.. disabling DHE ciphers will speed things up. Please understand the security implications of what you're doing. The ephemeral Diffie-Hellman cipher suites are the only way to achieve that Perfect Forward Secrecy that's been all the rage lately (sure, there are plenty of ways to screw it up even then, but it's a prerequisite).

At least consider leaving tossing a few ECDHE ciphers at the start of the list. They're plenty fast, and are a good foundation for providing PFS for your users.
Yes, we (my wife and I) were careful about that when we got married last year. But to be honest, I think that's the only case (and the name on my work permit is not even my own chosen Chinese name!)
Didn't the NSA just admit the existence of XKEYSCORE in a press release? [1] They pretty much verified much of what the Guardian had reported, while denying widespread, unchecked analyst access to data. And this blog post reveals a "foreignness factor" which would justify the search.

1. http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/press_room/2013/30_July_2013....
They aren't supposed to be able to do that since google uses SSL by default. But if Google has coughed up its SSL keys, I guess anything is possible.
There's an even better way to stop terror attacks: Stop bombing innocent countries.
I assume their investments will be pretty incestuous with YC's. At least indicated by their Google description:

"Initialized. Home. Create a free website with Weebly. Quantcast."

Weebly (YC 07)
I'm not so sure. It is not all that hard to write a moderate-sized Java program without throwing any exceptions yourself. (You'll probably need to catch an exception at some point, but throwing your own tends to fall on the "optional" side of the fence.)
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