skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really, really, isn't. Try using emacs on windows for any length of time, see how you get on.
I would say you could fit right in, especially if you started in a company that works on iOS apps directly- you could prove your capabilities by showing your completed projects.
Sounds pretty unethical.
20 domain names for sale. Which is your favorite?
What I've found is that some companies will invent whole new mailing lists which are opt-out so you get the spam mail and have to log on to the site to unsubscribe. It's like playing Whac-A-Mole but for email.
I had the same question.

(Also, I realize that you're asking about the linked HTML periodic table, not the periodic table of elements.)
Not all software strives to be anything other than really awesome for a single platform, where those assumptions are actually helpful, not detrimental.

It all depends on the use case. Having everything is pretty much the same as having nothing.
By the time the patent application is being sought, the invention is already made. As such, the patent is only there to encourage more inventions. The question is then, should a democratic countrey give out such monopolies, while knowing the harm it will do to a majority population that won't gain any benefit for 20 years, for a maybe increase in new inventions?

Or to put it in concert fashion, should a farmer sacrifice a family member to a sickness today, just so he might be able in 20+ years buy a generic version when the price has gone down? If put to a vote, would the majorly of the citizen inside a country vote to vow never allow anyone die just because they are too poor to pay the medicine, or do they rather want the chance of increased new medicines which only a small minority can afford in the next 20+ years?

What would the democratic vote say? My bet would be on the living and not on the patents.
Wait... how is this not just a different form factor of the DS? Is there a better article for this?
What Are Twitter Conversations? [video]
Haters Are Gonna Hate, Study Confirms
thanks, I am not in the camp that believe is utter purity of HN, but things can go overboard. Good to see this.
We Don’t Work For Free, A New Anthem for Interns
Or alternately make the sender do something computationally expensive before their email can be accepted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system
There is Tarsnap. While it has licensing restrictions that prevent it from meeting the Free Software or Open Source definitions, the source code is available to study and build yourself. It's run by Colin Percival (cperciva here on HN, former FreeBSD security officer and designer of scrypt, bsdiff, and other useful tools), who many consider quite trustworthy. Data is stored on Amazon AWS, which you may not like, but since it's all encrypted client side all they can really do is traffic analysis.

The big advantage of Tarsnap is that it supports efficient encrypted deduplicated snapshots; it only stores block that have not been stored before, so you can have many versioned backups using much less space than they would otherwise.
What Makes Us Human?
there are all kinds of random shitty pages on c2.com.

Emacs is an editor extensible in Lisp. Nothing more. Just like Autocad is a cad program extensible in Lisp. Autocad is also no Lisp OS. Just like Quicksilver is a publishing program extensible in Lisp. It's still no OS. Just like Audacity is a sound editor extensible in Lisp. Still no OS.

An OS is Movitz. Written in Lisp. Runs on Intel and talks to the hardware. Talks to the graphics card. Keyboard. Network card.

Please, not every shitty Lisp interpreter which can print to the screen and take user input is an operating system. Not every Lisp program which can send mail is an operating system.

How do you know that some Lisp is actually an operating system? A good rule of thumb is this: Is the network stack talking to the ethernet interface written in Lisp? Is the file system and the block level interface to the disk written in Lisp? Is the routine which formats the disk written in Lisp? Is the routine which puts a file system onto a blank disk written in Lisp? If that's the case, then you have a winner. Then it looks like it is a Lisp OS.
you can get a pretty good Emacs-as-an-OS feel with the combo of Emacs, Conkeror, and StumpWM

That is the setup that I use at home, and it. is. GLORIOUS.*

*YMMV
"Tell me more about X" then leave the phone on the table. They take surprisingly long to hang up.
This article was interesting:

http://tkf.github.io/2013/06/04/Emacs-is-dead.html

The lack of multi-threading is #1 on his list, and it seems to me for good reason. If one of my emacs buffers locks up (which can happen for any number of reasons), the whole session is hosed.

Notwithstanding that, one thing I'd love to see is an FTP client mode something like FileZilla.
If the question is whether to drop everything and follow your passion, e.g. game development, you can ask yourself what will happen to the typical person who decides to follow that passion. The answer is obvious, they run out of money.

Then you can try to adjust the starting conditions, and ask what happens to the typical person who decides to do gamedev while having a day job. The answer is again obvious, they stay afloat financially but fail to complete the game.

And so on, you keep adjusting the starting conditions until you find a scenario that works for the typical person. This is similar to the startup advice saying "make a product that people would buy even if it wasn't very good".
Right. That mostly has to do with FATCA, the legislation Congress passed to try to get US persons/entities to stop hiding money overseas in tax shelters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FATCA
Apple drops MAC address tracking from iOS 7
How many collectors of watches are in the market vs those looking for antique Soviet memory modules?
What's disappointing about SpiderOak is the inability to do two-way sharing of your data - so it's not really usable in a corporate setting.

Oh, you're saying it wouldn't be possible with client-side encryption? I say it should be, using a mix of symmetric and asymmetric encryption:

- have all data of a repository encrypted using a symmetric key, at first known only by the repository owner.

- the symmetric key gets sent on the cloud host's server, encrypted using the owner's public key.

- every new device or share with a new user will require a previous user (in this case the owner) to decrypt the symmetric key using his private key and encrypt it using a new public key that the new user / device has sent together with its access request.

- the cloud host simply grows a table of encrypted symmetric keys, with one entry per device/user, besides the actual encrypted data. note that the cloud host still can never decrypt the data, as long as the private keys never get sent around.
This was awesome post. As a Startup Weekend organizer myself this is what I needed
You may be interested in checking out ShipBuilder - it is an open-source Heroku-clone PaaS.

ShipBuilder is written in Go, and uses Git, LXC and HAProxy to deliver a complete solution for application platform-as-a-service.

http://shipbuilder.io

https://github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder
No, I don't think you are the wrong type of person for a developer role. You're obviously engaged in building things, and your portfolio of work can speak volumes. You could always show off your work and mention that it's profitable, and some interviewers might forgive your lack of experience when they actually watch you code. Alternatively, you could start by volunteering at a startup and gaining the relevant experience, or take a course from a school like Coursera, General Assembly, or your local university which will teach you more formal principles. Hope this helps.
Hm decent article
>People aren't mathematical entities. On average, you're a fool, because most people are fools. But if I start out treating you that way, you're right to be upset.

That's true, but the two cases can't really be compared. Groups of people are, very frequently, in nearly every discipline and line of work, treated as mathematical entities. It's how governments determine how to allocate resources and funding in social programs, and how advertizing and marketing work.

In a public company, one of the main goals is to make as much of a profit as possible. Reducing costs is paramount to keeping profits in the green, and when you're operating on the same scale as YouTube, even a tiny optimization like this can translate to huge savings in the long run.
I'm British, I'm very much in to my comedy, I reckon we Brits do the best comedy, and....... I cannot begin to recommend Louis CK enough.

For me, he is one of the best of his generation, including any one we Brits have. I personally see a lot of "British" in his humor and over all act. I think most British comedy fans, and fans of British comedy, would warm to him with in 5 to 10 minuets.

Best of all though, is his whole attitude to getting his work out there, and doing it himself. He takes risks, and does so with his own money. As a result, he controls his own work, and his success rests purely on that. Of course he got well paid, and well deserved, breaks. But he used that to finance his own thing, his way. He seems to just earn money so that he can fund his next project, and keep his creative ball rolling. He even published the finances of his online DVD experiment.

Anyway, don't take my word for it, youtube has loads of his stuff. Give it half an hour and see what you think. You may well think he is a load of crap, after all, you do seem to like Michael McIntyre....... ;)

(For those who dont know, Michael McIntyre is the comedian who other comedians love to have a dig at because his is hugely successful. Its the usual "sell out" and "old jokes" ribbing that goes on. Truth is of course, MM is a very clever highly honed and polished act that has mass middle appeal, and as a result makes shed loads of cash as he appeals to the masses, and sells. Of course, artistically, he is dumbed down mass appeal pulp, but IMHO, that is as valid as challenging fringe appeal. I suppose pop music compared to jazz!!! Or.... MM is MS Windows compared to Linux... )
it really broke google talk/hangouts on mobile. it isn't any better in the browser, either.
The company is called "Code Path". I'm pretty sure by "engineers" the post means "software engineers".
Thanks =) I guess I should be a bit more careful with dangling pronoun references.
I quickly realized how little value the endorsement system in linkedin was when my uncle endorsed me for Groovy. In my mind I like to think he was picking it as a personality trait and not a skillset.
The whole point of broadcast TV operating at mains frequency is because it makes interference less noticeable, accdording to sources like [1].

[1] http://www.adelia.co.uk/frame-rates-ntsc-pal/
While someone might die tomorrow for lack of medicine not invented yet, someone will die today for not being able to buy the patent licensed medicine. While it might be deadly not to provide that incentive for invention, question does lay if its moral to let people die today, just so some other people might not die tomorrow.

Of course, evergreening is an extra evil in itself, and lets not forget that pharma also get a extra special monopoly after the patent has expired just for doing drug trials.
You may want to look up the definition of "fraud."
I don't know about comedy, but they recently offered a "Humble ebook bundle", which included the first novels of different series. It's a great way to find out if you like the series and want to purchase more. Just like it's a good way of purchasing games, and I'll gladly pay much more than the average to support indies. I think it has really worked out both for sellers, buyers and Humble Bundle so far.
Production costs for US-made Moto X are on par with iPhone & SGS 4
I've taken these tests - they're terrible. You're told not to try to game them, and this is just trying to get a feel for who you are...but there's often clearly a "right" answer.

And even when there isn't, there is to the person reading it - if your "type" rejects their values, you must be broken somehow.
Regardless of if you've passed your fixed cost point or not, once you've exhausted the market for people willing to pay $25 for, say, Little Inferno, then you have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain by clearing the market again, this time at a lower price, until you hit the humble bundle and people who wouldn't send you $10 are sending you $5.

As an overall business or project you may or may not end up with a net profit when its all done, but your figures will only improve if the marginal cost of sale is zilch and you can clear the market yet again at a lower price.

Someday someone will invent a working microtransaction system (LOL people have been saying that forever) and all this HB stuff will hit it again for ten cents each (Hey, ten cents times ten million sales isn't all that bad for a days work, and sales always increase as price drops, so I could see it...)
No, but you are diluting the value and understanding of the original.
I think it's great! I've got a dozen recommendations for PPC if I ever decide to learn it.

Alright, the system's a joke.
Conversations are now easier to follow on Twitter
My friend/coworker who made this also made a video explaining how this works in more details: https://air.mozilla.org/intern-presentation-seys/
And did you have to ship it as a package? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work with a mailbox.
If it made cool clicking noises, I'd be more interested. It makes a standard quiet cherry noise. Now if it was a complex white ALPS switch or something completely new, we'd be talking something genuinely interesting (or at least actually rare/difficult to come by).
I have been interested in your company since I first heard of it a while ago so I am glad to see it is doing well. How is the infrastructure in Rwanda with regards to ecommerce? I have investigated doing business in Kenya but two of the biggest problems there are 1) online payments are not easy since few people use credit cards and paying online with M-Pesa is clumsy, and 2) there are no street addresses so it makes certain types of ecommerce difficult since there is no address to deliver a product if you are selling a physical one, or doing any type of pickup/delivery service involving locations. How are these issues dealt with in Rwanda?
My brother-in-law (an insurance salesman) endorsed me for XML. There'ya'go.
You have to have a Technet (soon to be removed) or MSDN subscription to get early access to Windows 8.1 RTM ISOs.

Germany has banned Windows 8 and I assume that applies to 8.1 as well: http://greatdox.com/wordpress1/2013/08/28/germany-bans-windo...

The future of Microsoft is sketchy now that Ballmer is retiring and Microsoft made many mistakes:
http://greatdox.com/wordpress1/2013/08/28/steve-ballmer-to-l...

Your best bet is to keep developing for Windows 7 until Microsoft fixes the issues with 8.1, and it seems to be good advice. Always try to stay one version behind with Microsoft products and then only upgrade to a new Microsoft product after you know most major bugs are fixed. If not, you could be stuck with a lot of support issues and Microsoft bugs your customers complain about but you cannot fix as they are part of the operating system.

If you can make 8.1 apps, all the better for you, you should get a head start over others. But be aware that since 8.1 comes out in October a lot of your clients and customers might still be using the preview version and not have full access to your RTM version.
It all depends on your tolerance threshold and the trade-off's that are involved to make an acceptable decision.

If you expect apt-get install mysql to fail in the future, there are plenty of mitigating factors (storing the build/deps on your local repo, building from source..)

My point is, you can always find pathological cases. Discussing them is great as a straw man for improvement, but not really useful beyond it.
The notion behind tests like this is to get a feel for your personality, in order to assess "fit". Not necessarily to disqualify people but, for example, if you're not much motivated by money, but are interested in challenging problems, and you're being considered for a lucrative but dull-as-rocks position...it might not work out.

That's the idea at least. In practice, I haven't been impressed by them at all.
Mind Meld: Researcher Apparently Controls Colleague’s Finger from Afar
The problem is the bad guys have botnets. They're already not really paying for their CPU time.
First off, it's not so black and white. Many developer know some Linux but wouldn't trust themselves setting up a secure production server. I consider myself part of this group.

Using Vagrant, we can still:
* Write software that depends on POSIX-only applications, such as Redis and, yes, Docker
* Share development environments-that-look-like-production with other developers, thus avoiding "works on my machine" bugs.

You need very little Linux knowledge to do this. Just apt-get, a text editor and the occasional HOWTO/blog post gets you very far.

Additionally, with Docker-on-Vagrant, we can easily:
* Simulate a multi-server environment locally without hogging resources
* Do effective versioning on dev environment configuration before sharing stuff with colleagues
* As a result, learn Linux administration with easy rollbacks after fuckups.

All this without an on-team Linux guru.

Of course, once you go live, you'll need a decent sysadmin/devop type to un-suck the installations. And backport that to the dev setups. Or, just go to some PaaS and have the security/efficiency part done for you. But that's not my point: my point is that even without running your own hardcore-linux-guru-devopsed production environment, and without anything more than basic Linux skills, you can get a lot of value from Vagrant+Docker.
Excellent points...as the creator of the chart...I was not totally aware of that.
Interesting how different strategies within the same set of rules are looked down on. Thanks for the explanation.
I turned off the ability for endorsements to automatically appear on my LinkedIn profile. Instead, I highlight the skills I want to highlight.

The fact is your endorsements are going to trail your most recent skills by years in most cases, and so unless you've been doing the same thing year in and year out, endorsements present a distorted picture of your overall skill set.

This is especially true in technology, where your most recent skills are generally your most valuable ones.
possible? yes. The better question you should ask yourself would be "does the use case make sense?"

Linux containers are ephemeral, which means that you will lose all data from your email server on a container restart. If you're just setting up a postfix SMTP server in a container, and forwarding the guest's port 25 to the host, I don't see why not. You probaby won't have any app scaling support or the likes, though. I could be wrong about that. I've never attempted to set up a clustered SMTP server configuration before.
I understand MD5 should never be used. But I'm not talking about rainbow tables. The 1000x benefit comes even when crackers are using GPUs.
> in any case where the evidence was obtained illegally

It does make sense. Who's to say that the evidence in question wasn't planted?
Actually it was supposed to be $5M. (I authored the chart)
There's a different degree of specialization, but it's still there. And just because you can do something doesn't mean it's in your comparative advantage to do so.

In his case, someone who mines the bitcoins is implicitly making a bet on the future return, whose desired risk profile may be different from the hardware maker.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping which has involved companies like FreeConference.com, Google Voice, and others who route calls through rural carriers using standard long distance area codes. Through a quirk of the 1996 Telecom Act (since fixed), the rural carriers were able to charge access fees of up to 20 cents a minute. The carriers had revenue sharing agreements with the companies driving the calls. Multiply this by thousands of callers, where everything is handled over VoIP by a rack of servers and it was quite lucrative.

More reading: https://www.google.com/search?q=free+conference+termination+...
I've been actually trying to upgrade my skills as a software developer. I am currently a level 5 Wizard.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/justin-nash/26/7aa/163
The dyson motor doesn't show any sizes, but 100k spindle motors are not impossible to make. They're commonly used for PCB production

> Some of the high performance spindle motors used on large-size mass production PCB drilling machines are capable of running at 200,000 rpm or higher.

from http://www.mitspcb.com/edoc/spindle.htm
Introduction to Mobile Advertising
The Imperfect Craft
Pick your favorite topic and think about all the things computers can do for it that they don't right now. That's pretty exciting.
Tried signing in with a gmail account and it wanted me to create a password. The gmail bridge seems to be functioning normally at persona.org, so what's the deal?
I've read a few business related books/taken several courses and it's actually taught that HR should have the largest role in hiring.

The rational:
1) HR is the manager of the human resource.
2) HR should determine and screen employees for possible risks.
3) HR is at fault if the screening is not achieved.

Relying on a test such as personality is pretty B.S. though. Most tech guys compared to the general populous will receive low scores for being social or extroverted. Which should directly translate into being a lesser productive team member (by being unable to communicated his/her ideas). In actuality, introverted individuals often can communicate well or in a manner which is suitable to completing a task such as the man who was not hired in this example.

What HR really needed to do was to just talk with him, clearly he didnt' seem like a threat and was capable of working with a team so it really shouldn't have mattered.
The brick is likely put in the trash and the direct mail company isn't charged. You're mostly just annoying your postman.
I guess Microsoft's main concern is opening up another vector for patent lawsuits by shipping hundreds of millions of VP8 decoders. Google doesn't indemnify against VP8 infringements so why would Microsoft pick up the tab when they're already paying for H264?(Which they got sued over by Googorola btw).
Once upon a time people made fun of Emacs for being bloated:

Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping

I think those people would have fainted at the thought of some of the Java IDE's these days.
Linked-in is a bit like craigslist in that it has huge network effects, lots of flaws and is hard to attack.

Still, I believe that there is a window of opportunity for a determined group to disrupt linked in in much the same way that Google attacked Altavista, by offering substantially better quality combined with a different business model.
I endorse anyone who mentions these silly things to me for "Natural Horsemanship".
paraphrasing: How not to destroy company culture.
Very cool! Small fast-spinning objects have practical use as 'spinning rotor pressure gauges'. They're the true pressure transfer standard at very high vacuum. You can buy them.

Beams et al. were spinning steel ball bearings at megahertz in the sixties. (For the fourier-inclined, the readout uses a cool trick. They bounce light off the bearing and track the frequency of the ~50th harmonic, increasing the size of the frequency shift.)

600 million RPM is 10 MHz. Beams reached at least 1 MHz, and their circuitry could do 8.

http://rsi.aip.org/resource/1/rsinak/v33/i2/p151_s1

Thank you, OP, it's been fifty years since this field has seen a change.