skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'd love to find further works like this."

The blog that this article is from, "Letters of Note", is full of interesting letters from interesting people.
“Safety issues” prompt trade-in program for off-brand iPhone adapters
Michael Hastings (whose murder I incidentally nearly witnessed

A rather large assumption on your part, no?
Are You A Founder, CEO, or Entrepreneur? (2009)
And Institute for Justice. They fight more of these on a pro bono basis than the ACLU does.
http://www.ij.org/executive-summary-2
No, I had a great group of friends in Seattle that I'd get outdoors with. Managed to find a climbing partner in Toronto but just stuck to the local climbing gym while there. Haven't had a chance to meet anyone in Mountain View yet who climbs (also haven't had a chance to do much else apart from work the past couple months). Hoping that will change soon and I'll be able to get back into some of these things.
I had never heard of this before.
The stated goal is to simplify difficult regular expressions, but the examples seem to be more complicated than the corresponding regexes. Maybe I'm just old school.

I'm not sure that someone who relies on this would be able to debug the resulting generated regex when something doesn't work as expected.
It's wrong to place SPDY in the same class as WebM: it actually provides a significant, meaningful benefit versus the status quo. The performance benefits alone are worth deploying it for most sites and it's having a big, positive influence on the standards process as people learn from real-world deployment experience and start discussing how it makes web development better.
At risk of being trolled into oblivion, I have not found unity to be all that bad. Keyboard shortcuts seem fine to me. Dock on the left is only annoying when I pick the mouse (actually trackball), which is rare. I use OSX and have found its window system a bit better than that at least (not saying it's the best, but it is what I use often).
Have you considered the value in OSHW is not necessarily in enabling well-trained engineers so much as making "effective engineers" out of hobbyists? Sure, one trained in electronics can look at a PCB and surmise its function - but for one not trained, they would do to understand what each section of that design does, and why it does it. "Why would part X be used in this design? What is its function?"

OSHW to me, is more enabling the long tail of invention. To be fair, I think a lot of the users of OSHW development platforms are looking for the right combinations of components to make their software designs effective. I see a lot of stuff out there that is little more than re-packaging of a dev kit in a cheaper to produce form, but with software that enables it to fulfill a new purpose.

So, yes, a lot of us do see OSHW as a meaningful activity with a meaningful outcome. I'm sorry that you think it's pointless for people to share their electronics designs (Sheesh, can't everyone who wants to make something buy something else that does exactly that and copy it by looking at a board?) Truth be told, we could say the same thing about software: I can observe what it does given any specific input, therefore I could replicate it - who needs source code?!
I imagine you would just swap out the name server IP.
What is greater: e^pi or pi^e? Six ways to solve this w/o a calculator
Thank you. How many people didn't make the cut? Unknown.
I really like this idea. I think young collaborative ideas starts at coffee table most of the time and grow big.
I'm really tired of a warez organization using this site as its news broadcast point, to be honest.

It's always nonsense, and we should be better than to humor this. We're the people they steal from.
I disagree that prose doesn't exist anymore as it once did. It is merely that there is not that much of a market for prose. America, for better or worse, consumes the kind of fiction that is sappy, feel-good. Ultimately, intellectually unsatisfying to me. However, there are books out there, soul-wrenching books that explore the human condition. The condition that cannot be defined in simple terms of good, bad. Where Eat, Pray, Love doesn't end happily.
That looks like a slightly less hellish version of Ksplice's working environment circa 2010: https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/resource/ksplice-iap-14.jpg

(I hope they at least got more office space out of Oracle post-acquisition...)
Ah right. Thank you!

I think i'm going to learn better how to write like this. I've just had an epiphany.
Idk who told you that but I work better in my room or office when it's raining out, than 100degrees of sun it gets really uncomfortable to sit and program :( nevertheless I love this design good web designer for sure!
It's unclear why the desktop effects are on by default in the first place without hardware accelerated drivers. The first boot up of an ubuntu image results in my swearing at an unresponsive terminal.

But at least I can see through the window! We all know that's a usability must.
Depends on the size of the company I guess. At large corps, it's hopeless.
Not really, because with an office building the people who want to put their 2 cents in are going to be working inside it and want some input on their working conditions. They're not just arguing to feel smarter about something, but because they're going to have to live with the outcome.
Why else would you download Ubuntu if you didn't want to use Unity? Distributions really only differ in degrees of desktop environments and package management systems anyway.
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Hopeless in theory?
If I write an app for Windows XYZ, my users can continue to run it as long as they keep using Windows XYZ, not as long as Google decides to keep running a service.
They sold 15000 "KS 2G" in 10 days.

He says those servers probably won't be sold out forever (they're waiting for some parts by Intel)

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/364434044354048000
The feature was added after I posted that comment. They are watching!

https://lobste.rs/s/wnqz13/tag_filtering_now_available_to_lo...

https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/commit/249dd85ec3e0d36f6d87d...
The issue you mentioned is indeed quite sneaky, but getting a page full of ads when mistyping a domain name for example is very 'in your face' I'd say.

I don't really understand how it could be interpreted as 'sneaky'.

I think what truly might be bothering people is the fact that someone out there is just trying to profit off of them, some through less/more sleazy ways than others.
Marc - I'm building something I think you'd find interesting and would love to chat with you. Shoot me an email? lorendburton [at] gmail
I'm curious to see what the Hacker news community thinks about this. I'm in the process of designing my business cards and am wondering what title to give myself.
Oddly, it may actually be several orders of magnitude faster for large files :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

http://hothardware.com/News/Homing-Pigeon-Faster-Than-Intern...
>I ended up with a used Toyota Camry because I could drive it around the city without worrying about scratches and dents.

Not letting your possessions own you :)
Meta. Sorry :P
So it could only recreate from past paintings, and then they give it a personality 'algorithm'? Not sure I get what's so special about this...
You do have a point. I just feel alot of us write what we think as opposed to what we really feel. There's a fear of being judged. It's guarded writing. I'm halfway through a book on writing at the moment, and the author states that good writing is what is written without fear of judgement or rather in ignorance of it.

I think in today's times, that's really hard to do.

What's written in personal diaries and journals, is very different to what's communicated in an email even if the words are intended for the same effect.
But if you have a contract, you can at least expect the product to exist for the term of the contract.
But why 2.0 SP2 and 3.0 SP2 has a different lifecycle if 3.5 SP1 is installed vs if it is not installed?
At a time :)
Does anyone know if there has been progress in volatile memory tech? I'm hoping for 1TB RAM chips with 10x faster access times than current RAM. It will enable PC gaming to deliver unmatched immersive experiences, among other applications.
The Ink-free caught my eye. I would like to be available something like yesterday's `dirty dot' 9-pin dot matrix printer
with a stout solenoid print head gun to impact tactile enough like Braille pages for the blind, but alphanumeric. Has this happened, still available?
This is probably not what you're looking for, but (as a relatively unrevealed piece of beautiful prose) I find this excellent: http://i.imgur.com/QHjoz.jpg
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If only new jobs could be this good hahah...

I'd add "do you get introduced around the office?", and "go out to a bar on day 1". Never done that second one, but think it could be either a really really good, or really bad idea.
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I remember memristers were supposed to do something like this.

Anyone have an idea if this is related or unrelated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
yah I like breaking updates. that thrill whenever I do pacman -Syu
There are information theoretically unbreakable message authentication codes[1]

The main point of quantum crypto deployments (at least now) is to protect against future offline attacks (possibly using quantum computer). So in practice, I don't believe these authentication schemes are deployed.

[1]https://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/theory/images/9/9e/Lec11.pdf
Linux Mint still doesn't support expert install,[1] which is a basic requirement of mine. (I think it should be renamed to intermediate install.)

One reason why I prefer expert install is because the last time I tried the standard install, it didn't seem to allow /home to be encrypted with dm-crypt, only eCryptfs. I encrypt /home with dm-crypt because when I last searched for comparisons of eCryptfs and dm-crypt performance (2012), I read that dm-crypt is faster.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

[1] http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=133968

[2] http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/ssd-linux-benchmark

[3] http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1110088-AR-1110066AR56

[4] http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/the-best-file-encryption-...

[5] http://askubuntu.com/questions/100752/how-does-ecryptfs-impa...

[6] http://askubuntu.com/questions/138820/why-is-ecryptfs-so-slo...

[7] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/53191
I love the idea of an single, legal individual owning a media outlet instead of a blameless media conglomerate.

>"The paper’s duty will remain to its readers and not to the private interests of its owners. We will continue to follow the truth wherever it leads, and we’ll work hard not to make mistakes. When we do, we will own up to them quickly and completely."

Considering the transparency that AWS provides its customers into its operations, I think we can take this statement seriously. Hopefully we'll see the same kind of service to their customers as AWS, and a shift in the industry to compete with more responsible reporting.
ComputerScience - Understanding Amortized Analysis
To be fair, I think there was a mix of altruism and self-interest with both technologies. Without WebM being a credible alternative, I think we'd have seen H264 licensing tighten up considerably.

And the fact that SPDY was developed unilaterally doesn't take away from Google's generosity in making it available to the world. It's generally well-regarded, and Google haven't attempted to limit it's use by other browsers in any way - much the opposite. Can you imagine Microsoft doing the same when they were the dominant browser?

Again, I'm not saying they introduced either of these technologies from pure altruism. But I am saying I'm glad they exist, and Google's approach to IP is a welcome breath of fresh air (so far).
I love it. I must learn more about what prose is. I did not pay attention in school. I was not excited by prose then, but i am excited about it now.
> It can access that data 20 times faster than the best breed of flash memory

> could also perform its storage functions at 20 times lower power

> non-volatile

> 10 times the endurance of NAND flash chips that it could replace

If this is true, wow, but I have a hard time believing it.
I don't think it's that they missed it our that other newspapers are immoral, but simply market forces are guiding them to a state where they have no other choice to cut corners.
Thanks! Just fixed it :)
This was originally posted on Steve Blank's site here: http://steveblank.com/2009/05/15/supermac-war-story-11-the-c... -- not sure why the WSJ chose to recycle it four years later. This is probably the third or fourth time it's been on HN.
I don't know how things work in India, but in the US you would definitely want to set up some sort of business entity, even if it's just you for a number of reasons. Is it hard to form a business there, and would doing so help you accept payments? Could you sell it to customers who are in India to get things started?
Can you please explain what [8] does show, then?

[8] seems to show that the ENTIRE IP RANGE is assigned to nsa.gov. Just seeing that some innocuous-looking services are running on some IPs in that range doesn't mean anything for or against.

The government uses Outlook, has phones ... and even owns businesses (sometimes surreptitiously, like CIA front companies).

In fact, if the intelligence apparatus of this country didn't own or directly control at least one ISP, I'd be very, very surprised.
There is one thing i hate of Mint and is the fact that it doesn't support dist-upgrade. Looking in the user guide of mint they suggest to "reinstall from scratch the os when there is a new version of Mint".
Seriously, wtf. The direct os upgrade is one of my favorite features of linux and they just windowsized it.
When The U.S. Government Knocked On Tim Draper’s Door About That $6 Million
http://gyazo.com/318f8f103ab97c6df7d268d5d74950ca Did the US govt just admit they can time travel, and have several methods to do it? Page 13
I thought Microsoft could kill a Windows app they didn't like these days. Maybe I'm wrong, and your point stands for earlier versions of Windows and Linux.
There are real conspiracy theorists out there who are batsh*t crazy, it is quite difficult to tell which ones are actually reasonable. The illogical fallacious arguments are spewed from both sides of the debate.

Also, its possible to be a statist who is disgusted with the government's behavior; its not black and white as the libertarians would try to convince everyone is the case (the NSA is spying us...and we have to pay taxes!). Ya, some of us are pragmatic.

So without a better alternative, we are free to shake our finger at the gov without advocating violent revolution or even deep systematic change. The devil you know...

Of course, living in China gives me quite a different perspective on it all. The US could definitely do much worse, and it is important to stop going in that direction.
They haven't mentioned the price or may be I missed it. That may be the important factor.
I switched to LMDE after I discovered Debian 6 used Gnome3 by default...I actually really like MATE, the "start menu" is really good, and it is easily customizable to make it look like Gnome2 otherwise.
Big Leaps in Linking Computers and Brains
The Fantasy Factory: What it’s like to work at Dyrdek Enterprises
So much bullshit.
Just as you don't go outside in WA to write code when it's raining, you don't go out to write code in AZ when it's 100+. The A/C inside buildings works just fine. :) Anyway, each person with his/her own likes.
“The typical software engineer isn’t dreaming of the day he can quit the rat race. They use their money instead to gain a little bit of control over what they work on and what they do.”

The more money you save, the more leverage you have in avoiding work that sucks.
Can someone take the time to explain to me what this means for someone who has an interest in developing Android apps that may make use of Google APIs? I don't know how quotas work and why it sounds like you could request an increase when you hit a limit, wouldn't they want you to move to a paid tier?

Does this mean that as soon as your app becomes popular, you are doomed to fail?

I've looked briefly at a few Google APIs and they seem strange. So there's no longer a straight search API, you have to put some params on a "custom search API" that only has something like 100 searches per day? But on the other hand, hit the Google Local Business API and you can make 10k requests...and then there are APIs that were shut down all together, like translation. This is really weird to me. Is it supposed to make any sense?
Right! Isn't this "Hacker" News? I personally am offended that I didn't have to recompile to change my dns servers.
I had to contact someone about something in regards to my Adsense account. Submitted the ticket 4 times - once every week. Got automated responses, and no human reply.

My G+ account has been "under review" for 4 months (no shit). I feel helpless because there is no way of contacting a human (or even a machine for that matter) about this.

I had a glitch with one of my apps on GAE, again no support!

For a company this big, you'd expect them to have decent support by email AND by phone.
Most of us here are software engineers and are used to analyzing a problem and finding the least complicated method of achieving a goal to solve that problem. Yet conspiracy theorists seem to think that no one else in the world solves problems. I think your examples above are perfectly reasonable "easier" solutions.
That is flipping amazing if true.

Also, that "Crossbar Chip Design" graphic made me chuckle. It is nearly meaningless by itself, and is placed so far away from the context it's discussed in, it almost remains that way unless you're trying to connect it.
I believe Joel Garreau was the guy who said that a company's new location will be as close as possible to a CEO's house without affecting his property value.

A recent article on the topic:

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19239/ceos-want-fas...
Well, hopefully some competition will prompt Hynix to get the ball rolling, instead of just squeezing the last dollars out of current flash technology...
Its like saying, A horse is a winner if there are more bets on it in the race.
Being able to go at your own pace (and course content quality) is why I think Udacity is a better course provider than Coursera (even though Udacity is clearly loosing in market share).
Did you see the front page of the Daily Telegraph (highest circulation of any paper in Sydney) yesterday?

On the first day of an election campaign the headline was:

"Finally you now have the chance to KICK THIS MOB OUT"

http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2013/08/05/1226691/2756...

That is undermining democracy.
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Anyone having the time to help me?
Spiros -- can you hook me up next time you're on this coast?
They also don't compare the read speed (17 MB/s) to existing flash memory. They showcase an amazing write speed, but most applications access data a lot more frequently than they create it.
Cool, so it'll be on the Nokia 1030, right?
Having just joined the site and carefully read your privacy policy: could you please clarify either here and/or on the site whether or not you are permanently storing any of the text of the conversations? It seems to me that the policy states that only directly identifiable information (e.g., names and email addresses) will not be stored. I apologize if I'm being paranoid here, but this greatly effects my ability to use your website. I suspect that I'm not the only one.

Also, your website does not seem to keep me logged in (in Firefox). Even directly after logging in and being able to view my messages, the upper-right corner still contains the 'Login' button.
I got a rush of nostalgia seeing the manual "^seem" correction on the third scanned page. I haven't had to do that for around 30 years, and despite doing it many many times before that, I had completely forgotten about that process.

(It's a good letter also.)
If you are a consumer facing site, every single customer of yours will have a point where they know nothing about you and need to decide whether to go with you or a competitor. That's the kind of thing that A/B testing is good for.

However if you've got an "enterprise product" that people have to use because their management tells them that they have to, then this does not apply to you.

So what you say can be true. But is probably true for fewer companies than think it is true about them.
yeah but it sure does generate clicks from people who don't know how the system works though.
As I understand it, one of the (more interesting) characteristics of memristors is that they can do computation. They don't mention anything like that here, so I doubt it.
Crossbar believes it can write data to its chip at 140 megabytes per second, compared to 7 megabytes a second for flash. Read performance is 17 megabytes per second, with a random read latency of 30 nanoseconds.

The write performance sounds good, but the read performance seems very low. Also I don't know where they get 7 megs per second for flash. Sounds like the picked the worst performer to compare to.

I'd be more impressed if they had something on the market.
I wish he had discussed the "Lone Wolves" more. There were only three of them, and 2/3 of them were the same score or better. What does that say over the "Mob" answer? How common are outliers like this?
Somewhat off topic, but would you mind sharing a little about what volunteering for a hotline was like? I'm considering entering a training program to volunteer for one in my area, but am not sure I am prepared for this.
I think you're probably confusing it with something similarly named. See http://www.cs.umn.edu/news/news.php?id=1293 which confirms it's being offered for the 1st time.
And those two were chosen because they were clients of Wealthfront, which likely was involved in the writing of this article.
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“What stands out to me is the nature of how pervasive and dependent police really are on civil-asset forfeiture—it’s their bread and butter—and, therefore, how difficult it is to engage in systemic reform,” Vanita Gupta, of the A.C.L.U., says.

What is this, some medieval state? Are the local lords so unable to fund themselves through taxes that they extort passing travellers?
That is a beautiful picture.

I don't understand why it's easier to simulate each individual atom than it is to simulate things with structure. I would assume a simulation would regard the long yellow strands of dna as dna rather than the component parts.

I'm used to a world where having structure implies constraints. With constraints, simulation can avoid a bunch of special cases and is therefore faster. I find foobarbazqux's approach of simulating each atom upsetting. But that's ok. You guys seem to think it's the way to go, and you all get results. shrug

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I don't think simulating water is easy, but i believe it's likely easier to simulate water than it is to simulate all possible states of the constituant atoms.
This article makes a lot of extraordinary claims. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

In this case, that means a reputable tech reporter from a reputable publication has to say "this is the real deal" before these guys can be taken seriously.

(I'm not doubting that they have any tech, it's just that they seem to be promising something with no downsides, which in most cases means a marketing team has spun out of control.)