skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know, the only issue with large messages is that while they are being sent, they'll reside in memory. But that's true even if you break up the message into smaller pieces and call send() in smaller chunks all at once. So, it's really a matter how much data you pass to the browser via send() calls at any time. The more you do, the more gets buffered in memory.

I'm not really sure what is optimal for chunk size, but I think the real target is about keeping the buffered amount low, but non-zero. Lower means less memory used, but zero means you missed out on bandwidth you could have used. Choosing a chunk size probably doesn't have a large impact on that, but you won't know for sure until you try different sizes. It would be interesting to see an article that experiments with different sizes and different buffered amounts and tests the results.
When the video/text ratio of a site rises above zero, I stop visiting.

Fixed that for you.
You will apparently have to, since you wont be able to pry them from the keyboard
> I had a couple people tell me though that "it never changes". Which is ridiculous because it's obviously not true, and depends totally on how you interpret the questions, and that's based on how you're feeling when you take it.

The official MB position is that your type itself doesn't change, even if your answers do. Your perception of yourself and of the questions can change, but your type itself does not.

Frankly, I don't buy that, I don't see any strong evidence, from theory or practice, to suggest that it must be that way. However, IMO, it's a pointless subject. Whether you change or not really has no impact on anything. Just use the typing system and take the most accurate results you get. If your score changes, whatever.

Note: I'm a very strong MB enthusiast and I think it's a fantastic personality typing system. Oddly, I've never taking the actual MBTI (that is, the actual test), though.
Perhaps think of something inbetween too. Someone who sells online then attends farmer markets/artist events/trade shows/flea markets and wants to do physical transactions.
I would argue that you're one of few in that case.... Many people download software(oftentimes from shiesty sources) and run as root... There are countless walk-throughs and tutorials that have 'sudo' in them.
I liked this piece, too, but I thought the comparisons to Steve Jobs were misplaced and detracted from the overall argument. I do think that there's a lot to the argument that the tone of much of the criticism about her is a function of the fact that she's a woman who's also a technician.
The 6 Startup Stages Entrepreneurs Must Face
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Can't guarantee that, can you? Say you run it as non-root and it sits there waiting for 'sudo * \n' and captures whatever you type after. Your non-root software could then execute itself with sudo using the password that it's captured.
Core memory is non-volatile. If you hooked it up to a computer, you could read out what was written into it. Theoretically.

NASA recovered the Challenger's core memory out of the ocean and was able to read it out months after the disaster.

"On March 19, 1986, NASA announced that four of five Challenger General Purpose Computers (GPC) had been recovered from the Atlantic and moved to the IBM Federal Systems Division facility in Owego, NY. The GPCs were cleaned under controlled conditions and submerged in deionized water at Kennedy Space Center prior to air shipment March 16, 1986, to Owego. The GPC ferrite core memories were examined for any possible residual data -- a process that at the time was expected to take several months. This information was in the form of data--not onboard voice--and this path was pursued to add any possible additional information to the accident investigation. Many weeks later, it was found that the additional data frames did not measurably add to the information already gathered during the investigation."

Ref: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/conspiracy/q0258a.shtml
Would you care to send me an email? I'd love to ask someone who worked at one of these companies a few questions.

joelfriedly@gmail.com

Thanks!
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Why would she bother? I guess, I didn't read those as digs. I don't especially bother to fit into social clubs either. It may be a blind spot.
@btilly My articles on how the lawsuit was going weren't "inaccurate". The district judge ruled against the copyrightability of the declaring code Oracle asserted, and that decision is on appeal. The parties have completed their briefing, numerous amici curiae ("friends of the court") have made submissions, and the appeals court will hold a hearing in a matter of months.
Hmm, after looking up your profile I am now wondering is that:

It absolutely would, and guess what we use at work :-0

Or

It absolutely would, now get off HN and fork it. I want a pull request by Monday !

:-)

Nice one.
I agree. Generally you can get completely obsolete very cool old hardware for not much of a premium on raw shipping cost. Yes, in theory, museums should want this stuff, but they don't. And it doesn't matter if the board cost $50k originally and is military-spec and uses crazy high-end components. Most sellers just want an alternative to throwing it out.

There's a guy on Youtube who buys stuff like this and takes it apart to see what weird stuff they did:
http://www.youtube.com/user/mikeselectricstuff
Interview with Bernd Kreuss of TorChat
Virality Prediction and Community Structure in Social Networks
Visualising cloud streaming with Gephi
Do you feel like that's a really useful comment and added anything to the conversation? Bitcoin is fascinating but represents what % of global transactions today?
For me, moving from Seattle to Kigali was all about just deciding to do it. After the decision was made it was far, far easier. I've got a wife and kids too. I think if this is something you want, just taking the plunge without thinking too hard about it is the only way it can really happen.

As for the climate, I can say that in Rwanda it is amazing. Pretty much beautiful weather every single day. It's near the equator, but at elevation. So it hovers around 80 degrees most days with a gentle breeze. It can get hot in the middle of the day, but not uncomfortably so. Rainy season brings torrential downpours for an hour or so twice a day -- which is always welcomed.
Also the strings in Spaceboy from Siamese Dream, for all you other 35 year olds out there...
"There was one interesting thing I learned from Carlson’s article: Mayer was inspired in high school when she read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness with a great teacher. If you’ve read the book, you’ll know it’s about a wary ingénue in the corridors of corporate and imperial power who encounters a grotesque, power-mad egomaniac with delusions of grandeur, who has set up a personality cult around himself despite having deserved nothing of what he’d come into in his career, until he is overthrown by the “brutes” he’d attempted to control and suppress.

Remember that the next time you read a business-press takedown of Mayer."

It is literally impossible to tell what this is supposed to mean. When we remember this, what are we supposed to make of the memory? Is Mayer Kurtz, here, and the business press the brutes? That would sort of make sense, but why would Auerbach say that? Is Mayer Marlow? That doesn't make much sense. Also, what's so all-fired great about being inspired (he doesn't by what, or to do what [1]) by Heart of Darkness?

I respect David Auerbach a lot, but he seems pretty susceptible to Slate Disease.

[1] Elsewhere I was told that she was inspired ... to decorate her classroom in a jungle theme. Whoop-de-do.
Ditto, the arrangement and group colors make this a very navigable space.
If you equate quality with pleasure, sure. If you equate quality with lack of subsequent pain and discomfort, no.
Theorem:

Features need to be trimmed now and then for a piece of software to survive in the long term - otherwise it evolves towards infinite complexity and feature bloat, and subsequently ossifies.

If you're one of the 1 in 100,000 youtube users that enjoyed this feature, you're upset that it got removed.

But for the greater good you should just accept you were unlucky.

The alternative is a system (and UI) that gets more and more complex over time to the detriment of everyone

Discuss.
She's a woman. She's a CEO. She's guaranteed to have a target on her back. See http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/ceo-archetyp... for a description of what is still reality in the working world.

That said, people I personally know who have worked with her are luke-cold. But I'm sure that the same people would prefer her over the average Yahoo exec in a heartbeat. And I'm more optimistic about Yahoo's direction now than I was before she came in. Morale is up, traffic is up, motherhood has apparently not distracted her. (To be honest, I was one of the doubters when she came in. A qualified doubter, but a doubter.)
Only to vulgar, childish individuals. The target demographic for this is businesspeople leading honorable lives.
Can anyone explain how the form grabbing for Chrome works? For a code base as large as Chrome's, how would one go about finding the function(s) involved with sending POST data? There was a thread on HN about a month ago about Hand of Thief which sparked my curiosity. I was able to write a crude form grabber for Firefox, but couldn't figure out how to do it for Chrome.

For Firefox, I know about PR_Write (There's some information for how to form grab Firefox under Windows which I found applicable). Since PR_Write function is in a shared library, you can use LD_PRELOAD to get Firefox to call your custom form-grabbing PR_Write, which can then call the original one.

Not trying to do anything malicious - just genuinely curious.
Let me fix that title for you...

Do whatever makes you happy (without taking reality into account) is a lie (well, not a lie, just a wee bit stupid and naive).

Like people who go to university with NO IDEA what they want to do when they get out and then whine about not having a job and a huge student loan when they graduate.

Think. Decide. Do. And take responsibility instead of looking for someone to blame for why you are where you are in life.
What's the difference between an american provider and an european one from an african perspective? Neither is local. You seems to be putting all non-american countries in the same basket.
Protect at least 30 to 60 minutes each day
This project was founded on the 2013 NYC StartupBus. Awesome work team ExVersion!
For anyone interested... if you want good posture, if you want to really be in shape, there are a million fads out there, but the best book by far is "Starting Strength" [1]. (It's also one of the best-selling on Amazon.)

It essentially focuses on just the squat, deadlift, press, bench press, and (later) power clean, devoting around forty pages to each, and explains why you really don't need much else. They're quite difficult to get right, but the incredibly in-depth explanations will especially appeal to programmers who like understanding how things work.

I say this just because the book completely changed the way I approach the gym, and it mirrors what the article author says about the exercises he used.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-3rd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp...
See other reply below. And to answer your question, yes, they use HTTPS.
But psychiatry and psychology do not have much in common.

Psychiatrists are medicals doctors treating the organ "brain". It's pretty much interchangeable with neuroscience. And before once changes, one should reason very carefully, because they are completely different, and medical school is very hard, while one says that psychology tends to be easy. Also there is not much new about this approach. It's probably as old as psychology. Maybe one could say psychology developed from the former. Pawlov for example was a physiologist.

/e Well, no they are not interchangeable. A psychiatrists does not research about bionic eyes. But the way they see human psyche is pretty much.
Social discovery as an Economy
Why should code downloaded in the browser context read your CD drive? Seperation is good. Even cut paste can go via a trusted intemediary.
Retain the case, but don't use it when testing for uniqueness. That way, I can type "accounts for proctors' attention.xlsx" and the filesystem will know what I mean. But when I list the contents of a directory, it would show up with its original casing.
Male Perspective on Lack of Women in Startups and What Women Can Do About It
I'm glad you are kidding about this, but thedailywtf.com is full of examples of people who weren't.
Salmonella in Spices Prompts Changes in Farming
Copy Protection for 3-D Printing Aims to Prevent a Piracy Plague
Ehhh, What?

Afford is a perfectly applicable word to use in the same context as luxury... In fact it is among one of the most applicable words.

Oftentimes the determining factor when purchasing a luxury item is whether it is affordable... Your personal definition of "afford" might be different then the Oxford dictionaries definitions, but then we're talking semantics.
Is The Web Driving Us Mad
That's arguably backward. The MBTI was developed to help people place into jobs, but it has not proven itself to be a useful indicator of that. Conversely, all it is is a personality measurement. When you analyze the type system, it's actually a fairly decent one. (Probably the best we have today, but that doesn't mean much if you think they're all bad.)
The have yet to enforce it, not even once, they are just reserving the right as to better shield themselves from potential legal liabilities.
Good. If you're in the business of transforming and disrupting a business, having "friends" (who are really not friends, but people with shared interests) is a bad thing. A "friend" at that level is someone looking for a quid pro quo. (ie. "You protect me/my fiefdom, and I smile and say nice things.")

If you're an exec and want to try to marginalize your boss in the press by complaining about her "princess" ways, recall that the sword cuts both ways -- in the old days, annoying a princess landed you in the dungeon or gallows.
This looks like the sort of product that makes me wonder why no one thought of this before. Or has any other online e-commerce platform did something like this before?
Same thing on iOS, really. The weather in notification center meets most of my needs, and when it doesn't, I click through to the Apple weather app.

The only third-party weather app I use now is Dark Sky, which answers a different question: when will it stop raining?
Fun with Applicative Functors, (Haskell) Pt. II
You've got me sold :) How old are your kids? (mine 1, 3 and 19...). If you want to make some quick money you should take out a life insurance on me just before I explain the plan to my s.o.
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man, i'm sorry, but your stretch your personal unfortunate experience too far. Such broad statements require good links. I already posted this in the other place : http://nccam.nih.gov/health/chiropractic/introduction.htm
I'd have personally thought the number used in the fast inverse square root (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root) would qualify as a 'magic number', everything else is just a hardcoded value.
If you exercised more, you would have more energy to burn.

Few things leaves you feeling more physically exhausted than being in bad shape.
Ask HN: Someone just tried to break into my home. Security tech recommendations?
I heard a noise that sounded like my fence swinging open and (foolhardedly) went out with a flashlight looking. This morning, I see that the screen has been pulled out from it's lining on a ground floor window. The window wasn't locked, so they could have easily gotten in. I'm struggling with what sort of measures I need to take.
Well she's got everyone talking about Yahoo again and that's something no one else has been able to achieve for 5 + years (unless it was as a footnote to how not to do things)

She's paid by stockholders to improve the value of the company. Not win popularity contests. So that's the way she will/should be judged.
I feel like this validates my comment? The two notions regarding criminal law you post are not maddening, but thoroughly reassuring.
No, no, that is the wrong takeaway! It is not a brave thing at all, that is the point I'm trying to get across. The end result may seem big, but it was from many small steps, no bigger than you are capable of. My advice, just take that first step, get involved in software taking place in the developing world, see what you can do to help. It's just a matter of small steps from there.
I think the caller pretended to be a cop. Pretty sure they made a movie about it recently...
Well, legally consistent application is very important. If getting an 80% if the cutoff for candidate A, and getting a 65% is acceptable for candidate B, then you're now setting different standards for different candidates. What if those different standards align with something like gender, or religion? It may not happen on purpose, but it's a problem.

Statistically, you've created a model for consistent application, and if you don't consistently apply then the anticipated value of the tools you're using is now in question as the model has a large source or error involved now.

I don't mean to say subject evaluations have no place in the process. Think of each part of the selection process as an independent stage. The candidates can pass the objective tests, perhaps with a minimum cutoff score, then pass the subjective judgment test. Or vice versa (though that may limit utility further).
What do people think about this? Certainly an interesting concept, but also something I think that could be hacked around if someone was highly interested in reproducing a design.
Sure, lots of things influence the government. But the point is that none of our legal concepts actually exist until the government decides to make laws and enforce them.
"Maybe our children can WWOOF if that's still a thing when they're of age"

WWOOF is a marketing term / organization for what amounts to being an intern on an organic / permaculture farm.

I've done some fun genealogy and per census records going back centuries young people have done this kind of thing, so as long as organic / permaculture farms still exist, our kids will be able to intern if mutually acceptable.

Beyond peasant labor there's an implied educational aspect where most WWOOFers want to run their own farm some day and are touring around learning how. If you're not learning anything new anymore, its time to move to the next farm. Unless you got a masters in Ag Sci its probably not a fair comparison.

In the ancient apprenticeship structure, its basically being a journeyman in the field of organic farming.

I've read a lot about it from having a goal of redesigning my backyard according to permaculture guidelines, although not having the time/weather/money combination optimized to really accomplish anything. One of my neighbors has an excellent permaculture designed backyard, which is both appealing to the eye and interesting to think about.
For the sake of argument though, if the point of the test (in OP's case anyways) is to determine culture fit, should it matter what the "right" answer is if the rest of the team got it "wrong"?
Sorry, I feel like I've miss-stated my point. I'm not saying the policy of "determining whether one is passionate" is a good way of determining whether someone should be hired(in fact I think it's quite retarded).

All I was trying to say is that A bricklayer would not go through the same vetting process that a programmer would, whether that process is effective or moral is irrelevant to my point. I was just saying that the fields have completely different hiring processes and comparing the two objectively as if they are similar is nonsensical.
Whenever you're denied video for not having Flash, try making your browser spoof an iPad User Agent. That works here on InfoQ and on many other sites.
Who buys this crap?

If I a company builds hardware that can profitably mine bitcoins, it will keep the hardware and do the mining itself rather than selling it into the market.
"you like that Miley Cyrus is twerking or you aspire to be a photographer"

Or I aspire to be Miley Cyrus's twerk photographer.
It's not as big of a deal when you're using ZSH autocomplete... but I agree, I like my filesystem lowercase and devoid of spaces.
Just look down http://www.infoq.com/author/Rich-Hickey . Probably the most famous talks are "Simple Made Easy" and "The Value of Values".

I'm also a big fan of the talk on persistent data structures, simply because it was my first introduction to them.
While intellectual property is almost entirely a legal creation, government is not necessary for property to exist. Indeed, John Locke considered property to be a natural right along with life and liberty.
Right. But from where I'm sitting I see the end result of all your little steps and that end result blows me away. I know that you can do stuff like this (Emigrated to Canada, not exactly the developing world but you'd be surprised at the poverty there in some places, worked and lived there for 5 years to mixed effect).

The brave bit to me is to leave your comfort zone in such a decisive way. Feel free to disagree, I'll call you modest and brave ;)
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I always assumed that was to placate business customers who might have (justifiably) worried that Windows 2000 was related to Windows 98, rather than descending from NT 4.
Yep, I agree, I wasn't trying to say that the process of determining whether someone is "passionate" is the correct way of doing things.... For an intelligent person the system is easy to identify and cheat anyway...

I was just pointing out that a bricklayer won't be vetted for "passion" whereas a programmer very well could be.... Whether a programmer should be(especially given that "passion" is basically an impossible to measure metric) is an entirely different discussion.

My apologies for presenting my point in such a confusing manner.
I was going to respond that to the parent, but you beat me :)

Imagine hooking up and figuring out you can read it? Even better, imagine it contains nuke launch codes (in the best soviet-from-secret-agent-movie tradition)?!
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For 48 I'm in excellent shape, thank you. In fact if you're over 30 I'll race you on any bike of your choosing ;)
I sincerely thought this was an April Fool's joke. Though, that's just a knee jerk reaction to the name and the appearance of the thing. I'm genuinely curious as to which consumer demand this product is meant to fulfill.
All she has to do is bring a little of Google (the corp, not the employees) into Yahoo and you should see earnings rise. Anything over is the cherry on the top. If Yahoo can't innovate, then it has a solid, profitable niche in Internet services that are reliable and don't change too much over the years (which has always been Yahoo's clientele.)
I've considered DropCam[1] for just the same reason in the past. There are quite a few less expensive cameras available, with night vision even, that support archival/streaming to mobile devices.

[1]: https://www.dropcam.com/
I went to Rwanda last year and it was by far one of the most beautiful countries I've visited.

Being a "Mzungu" ("rich" person- note I'm not really rich, but am compared to most Rwandans) was definitely something I didn't expect. For some reason, I had no expectations about class prior to going.

It's really cool that you started this company there and are looking to help Rwanda from the inside out. Good luck to you- if (when) I go back to Rwanda, I'll be sure to come check out kLab.
Others have done this before. See Shopkeep POS, Breadcrumb by Groupon, Erply, Vend, Square, etc.