skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because he felt it was turning into cryptome.org during the crypto wars. (Obsessive, posts anything related to the subject.)
It won't account for the whole 30-40% but some people work on weekends. I work at a hospital where there are probably thousands of people using IE8 every weekend.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
I love the music in the YouTube video. Anyone know of bands/groups that do something similar?
Apple and Awe
The most popular tablets are $200-$300 now. Good luck trying to enter that market with Windows tablets where the CPU alone costs $300+.
For this very reason, I used to map my right Alt key (alt-gr) so that, for example, alt-gr + e was left parenthesis
I use (mobile) IE voluntarily because it's the only browser on my preferred mobile platform. I have no complaints, it works as well for me as Chrome on my Android phone or Safari on iOS devices I've used.
For me, the difference in CPU between gzip and lzma is more expensive than the bandwidth difference. I'm much more often processing constrained than bandwidth constrained.
It's really a 1 step process - the engineering lead has to work with whoever is making the requests to reasonably document expectations. It helps immensely to have a paper trail. It also helps to say, "If this goes in, what goes out?" and to push for changes earlier than later. "If you change your mind in a week, it's low cost. If you change your mind in 6 weeks, it will force a slip."

Most people will respect an engineering manager that pushes back if the engineering manager can show quantifiable progress, and can deliver. In the absence of progress metrics or a reputation for delivery, the engineering leader does look like an obstructionist.
OTOH, the Apple flagship store in Chicago is on Michigan Avenue; in New York, 5th Avenue; and in Paris, right next to the Louvre.

Apple is positioning itself as the luxury brand you can afford.
Also, could you name me one startup that became successful thanks to McKinsey?
At first glance bubble conf looks pretty great, but 300 euro entry fee (one day), really?
People do that because the word "hacker" denotes status among geeks. There's also no solid criteria for it, so anybody can call themselves a hacker and immediately raise their social profile without worrying about being called out.
Your N=1 study does not provide statistically useful results.
Not sure I follow. I'm essentially asking how this question is addressed with the single word answer of "functionally."

I think a lot of this comes from the terrible division of "layers" that we have introduced in most common metaphors. Often we have to go through gymnastics to get all "mutations" back to a base layer where we can view them as "events" and then have pure functions that operate on these events.

Consider, the common division of "Storage, Logic, Display" that we try and hammer out in some form or fashion. It becomes all too often that one can not come up with a good way of describing these systems where events only propagate along a single direction in these layers. As such, we often find small silos of "storage" in the logic and display area. (Similarly, we have a small silo of "logic" in both storage and display, quite often.) Coming up with a mechanism where there is a single "storage" location for an entire application often introduces complicated logic.

Carmack had an interesting take on this idea for games programming, where the current logic "state" would be held immutable such that all calculations were only allowed to work on the current state. Kept those calculations easier, but introduced a new layer of effort to make that possible. Now, I think his argument was that this layer of effort could be seen as almost a constant factor that has shrunk in cost compared to the scaling cost of the number of actors involved in a modern system.
He very much does. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud (last comment was a month ago).
The background music and game sound effects are mellow, subtle and beautiful!
Not quite as fluid as some people think. Gold has been tacky for a while now, at least in the states.
Back in ze old days, you could follow a ton of people, wait a while to see how many follow back (it used to be quite a lot), and then unfollow all the ones who didn't. Rinse and repeat and you get a lot of followers.

Eventually you'd unfollow a ton of people so that your follow/follower ratio looks healthier. For example, an account following 10000 people with 10000 followers doesn't look very authoritative. An account following 40 people with 10000 followers looks quite serious/valuable.

The reason this works is that people are notified of people who follow them but not of unfollows (they may have changed this but the fact is fewer people are notified of unfollows if at all).
Good read. I get the message: done is better than perfect. However, in this specific example, it's pretty terrible advice to sign a contract that leaves you in a compromising position just to get a job. You'd probably be better off signing no contract at all.
It's not javaphobia. I think the point is that Go produces a statically-linked native executable, while VM-based languages like Java adding many dependencies and also reduce memory which left for the application itself (assuming z-nodes running on the same nodes as application).
Well, I honestly don't think of hackernews comments as a direct communication method. Think of it as a commentary.
> calculated risks

Yes, you shouldn't agree to every crazy clause that is in a contract someone sends you. But you also shouldn't get sucked into lawyering. Your lawyer is paid to say "What about .." but it is kind of a YAGNI thing: the lawyer meeting is a part of getting work done but don't let it be too big a part.

That's the calculated part of your comment and personally, reading this post in the past helped me to see that.
Personally, I just paste it either to the URL bar or with ctrl+shift+v (Chrome, Chromium) into a text field (thinking browser, writing an email)

ctrl+shift+v doesn't work with Google Hangouts, thought.
The title remembers me of the Sosumi sound that came with Mac System 7 onwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Does this mean that most MFE degrees lead to risk management instead of quant trading?
The Most Important Document You Probably Aren't Keeping
Any reason why you're using memchache for your static assets? If not, put your static assets on S3 instead.
On the other hand, recipes don't maintain global state, so they expose a functional interface (ingredients->result). A lemon meringue pie for lunch is assumed to not influence the taste of roast pork for dinner.

Yes, functional programming is analogous to cleaning your kitchen. You heard it here first, folks.
It is human nature to be more motivated by the threat of loss than the possibility of gaining something of equal value.

Regardless of our predilection, neither is wrong, nor right. It simply is. Being aware of it however, gives us choice.
I downvoted your post because it only contained a link to a web comic. If you had provided some of your own opinions on the blog post or why the comic was relevant to the blog post, I would have refrained.

I like to explain my downvotes when the downvoted post is not an obvious troll.
Shopsense raises seed round from Kae Capital
Mumbai based Shopsense, has raised seed round led by Kae Capital .
Cool concept, an encrypted in memory hypervisor, many relevant buzzwords used throughout the site. Yet the main questions that will probably be brought up include,
is the source reviewable? at least the encryption portion
and specifics on the encryption itself as today even major companies aren't trusted much when it comes to encryption.
And still there are "modern" games and services telling me that my password "May only contain letters and numbers" Really? Are you stupid or something?
Show HN: I made a name generator for D&D
The article says they are pushing for 20TB drives by 2020. That means they are saying 7 years from now we will be using the same technology but the drives will be larger. They are clearly talking about non-SSDs in the article.

SSDs are ok for now but they are still not even close to being reasonably priced. A 1TB SSD is like $650, completely gouged.
How does that work? This is exactly what I was writing about WRT no extreme measures and "grandma walks into store and walks out with phone". No grandfathered plans, no work discounts, just joe6pack price.

I go to ATT.com, click on wireless and the cheapest contract voice is $40/month and the cheapest data is $20/month and I'm continually informed I'm the only living human being who doesn't text, so thats another $20/month plus taxes. So thats $80/month for the absolute minimum. 300 megs of data a month? Really? I don't think you could keep up with app updates alone much less actually "do" anything with only 300 megs/month. So you're more realistically $90 for 3 gigs or $110 for 5 gigs, before taxes of course.
He didnt really follow the essence of that quote with NeXT then, did he ?
Which means, going for market share makes sense for some companies, but not for all of them. Imo competing in the lower end of the market isnt going to do them nor their brand much good. Their focus on the premium segment seems to still be the right directio to me.
The Go Paradox
Here's What Could Go Wrong With Apple's New Fingerprint Tech
Security without convenience is mostly useless IMHO.
Terraria takes inspiration from Minecraft, but it is not a clone of it.

Zynga's "The Ville" is a clone, for reference. [1] Terraria is what happens when a dev sees a neat game mechanic and thinks "Oh wow, I know what I can do with that" and extends it, which is to be embraced. It's how whole genres are launched and how we got some of the greatest games in the industry.

1) http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/08/10/clone-wars-z...
Great job handling the traffic spike by still giving us links so we can check out your game.
I doubt the market sell off yesterday had anything to do with how well the products will sell (I'm guessing we will soon hear that it is "The best selling iPhone ever").

Rather, it is more likely to do with downward pressure on profit margins of the iPhone. Sure the plastic cover of the 5c will help, but there are still a bunch of expensive components inside.
You are Randal L. Schwartz and I claim my five pounds.

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>I just looked at real world photos on Ars of the new models and from my POV the 5C models look like they are designed for kids.

That's a western male perspective. In Asia (including India), adults will jump to get those colors. (And women in the West too).
You may enjoy Jef Raskin's "The Humane Interface" assuming you haven't already read it. It expounds at length about this.
Or.. 35% of IE users work during the weekend.
DuckDuckGo Tools and Resources
I could, or I could just have my collection available when I decide to listen to it rather than have to think to put it on a smaller device beforehand.
> Don't login to anything from other people's computers (net cafe, shared computer in a hotel, etc)

Even over SSL connections?
Even Wells Fargo did/does this as well, and limited password length. At least when I still had an account with them.
"No one is teaching founders which information they should give out to strangers and which information they have a right to keep to themselves, and frankly, the judges are more at fault than the founders."

Being ignorant is the founders' fault, not the "judges". As a founder, if you want to become less ignorant, figure out what you should/should not be telling. Hide a Dagger behind a Smile is a good book on tactics; along with 48 laws of power, with the former being more applicable.
The Story of Building an Education Startup
Not taken in a mean way. Was an honest question in my post. :)

Not sure how much I care for effect systems, just yet. Though, I think there is a high chance that is exactly what I want.

My main observation from such things as baking directions seems to be that functional (being a highly declarative style) is great for high level, but that you need a way to carefully logic about the lower level details as well.

To go with my baking example. The declarative would be, "Dinner should be enough pizza for X people..." This is great and all, especially if you are strictly at the management "high level" view of the task at hand. (Especially since this is likely to be part of a whole other set of declared outcomes. "Party room with X tables, etc...") However, one is not going to be able to actually get pizza for the crowd this way.

Now, one might say that at the lowest level one can have relatively "pure" functions such as "dice onions." It certainly seems this is where most blog posts spend there time. At the overall high level declarations and the low level functions. Often pointing out that one could even implement this with the "order from local store" keeping the high level meaningful and completely divorced from the lower level. My problem is most of these posts/papers completely lose track of the area where the actual steps to make the pizza, or arrange the party room, take place.

That is, at some level imperative works because it actually is easier to model in your mind. Why does nobody focus on identifying where that level of abstraction may be? Or do I just have a broken mind? :)
You've never popped open a text editor and started writing things down? I have a dozen notes scattered all over my hard drive because I do that all the time to capture ideas. For some people, it's quicker and easier to open a tab than to open microsoft word. More stable, too.
Minecraft is a clone and evolution of Infiniminer.
There are a few lessons

1) redlining a contract too much can destroy deals. Some lawyers do this instinctively but you should talk to your lawyer and review the changes and make sure all are important to you.

2) when you are starting off in business you can take more risks. but, i think that when you are established, it pays to be more cautious.
That's one of the most interesting takes from this. Everyone was claiming cheap and they went for margin instead.
Just trying to understand Docker and hence the question. How is it different from the HPUX or Solaris Package managers? Maybe this question itself shows my age :)
This article has to be paid propoganda (er, PR). [1]

______

[1] Other articles in this (gag!) series:

The Rest of the Leaf Series:

Part 1: The Acquisition

Part 2: The Summer Drive

Part 3: The Winter Drive

Part 4: Frills and Maintenance

Part 5: The Data

Part 6: The Future
Great to see indian startupss working on it
this is an attitude that you need to earn, not the kind of attitude that you should start out with...

the reality is bad things happen sooner or later and this attitude banks entirely on linear growth. the bigger you are the harder you fall, so if you're hiring employees without knowing whether you can afford them or not, then that's just wreckless and shouldn't be praised or encouraged.

it's almost an 'all or nothing' approach where you reinvest everything you earn indefinitely because you want the snowball to keep growing. sooner or later, the snowball will start melting or you'll have to push it uphill and this philosophy will have to be 'put right' by sensible people who only spend what they know they can afford.

it's a bit like playing the lottery and the guy that wins is giving advice to those who want to win - "play every week, buy as much as you can, that was my secret"... yeah, well that will work for some people, but for most people it won't work.
I found LightTable* as a great way to grok functional programming - you can actually see how data moves around. Really brilliant.

*Lighttable IDE: http://www.chris-granger.com/lighttable/
Right, Nature, the scientific journal. The way it's worded, I thought this was going to be some kind of proof that Krebs was incorrect.
> Compression is done on the server, and (hopefully) once per unique response, which is then cached.

Only works for low-dynamicity response. Or fully static assets.

> Decompression is fast.

I quoted numbers. LZMA decompression takes twice as much CPU time as gzip in the best case.

> I don't think memory is an issue when we're talking about decompressing some HTML/CSS/Javascript

Memory is not a function of payload size in compression algorithms, it's a function of compression parameters. xz -9 will have ~65MB of memory overhead regardless of the payload size (and LZMA is flexible enough that you can craft a single payload requiring gigabytes of working memory, xz's man even warns about it).

> CPU is barely an issue, considering how powerful modern mobile devices

CPU transitions are extremely aggressive on mobiles. The more CPU time has to be spent decompressing payloads the less the CPU can be in deep hibernation state and the more battery you burn through.

Not a tradeoff which makes much sense considering >3G bottlenecks tend to be latency and processing more than bandwidth for "basic" HTML/CSS/JS web content (and really most things outside of video streaming)

> New phones seem to have as much power and as much RAM as my 5 year old PC.

Phones usually can't page out, and aren't tethered to a wall.

Also depends which "new phones" you're looking at, the Firefox OS-based ZTE Open has 256MB RAM and a 1GHz single-core Cortex A5.
I'd like to learn more from these spam-bots about how they are making money off my passwords. Perhaps I can quit my (wonderful) day-job and sell v1agra.
Should we trust the NIST-recommended ECC parameters?
"In Asia (including India) adults will jump to get those colors" no they won't (due disclosure: Indian living in India).

They might 'jump to get' good value for money. The IPhones have never been seen as good value for money in the Indian market, and have truly miniscule market share. Bright colors won't help.

These kind of generalizations - emerging market customers are fools who can be bamboozled by bright colored cases and very expensive phones that are one generation (or more) behind the truly cutting edge phones - shows Apple is clueless about how to succeed in emerging markets. Which is ok - they can stick to America/Europe and make tonnes of money.

We'll see in a year or two if they can crack the Chinese markets, with these plastic phones. I doubt it somehow.
My risk-averse nature has been the #1 challenge in my startup life of the last 11 months.

I was worried about taking on a partner for 3 months. Finally I just decided to skip that - it meant I'll grow slower.

I was worried about sending sales and marketing emails for 4 months. Finally, I decided to announce my beta launch and offer discounts for anyone who signs up. One customer signed up and paid for a year's subscription.

Because I had a customer, it forced me to stop dreaming about the perfect product launch and just do my beta launch. Which happened 3 weeks ago.

Now I worry about losing that one customer because my beta product is not perfect. Im also struggling with getting more customers. Why? Because I want to create the most perfect email marketing funnel. I've been procrastinating on this for a month now.

If I worried a lot less, things would happen so much faster.
It's not the connection, it's the browser, the keylogger on the os, the screencapture software they might have installed, etc.
There are tricks you can use to remember a strong password. As far as "trivial to intercept, easy to lose, not hard to guess", the point is mute over the network as long as the target system uses something like iptables rate limiting or MaxAuthRetries and LoginGraceTime in SSH.

If it's a local resource only then all an attacker needs is time and computing resources, but, that's true for key based authentication too.
The main reason why Amsterdam isn't a startup hub, and won't be for some time, is really simple: money.

First of all compared to SV there is no easy access to capital. Want to raise 100k (an insignificant amount by SV standards)? Well you better get a good price for your kids in the black market because there's barely any VC to speak of and banks do not give money to anything more complicated than a clothing shop.

Next is housing. Amsterdam is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, but it's also one of the most expensive ones. Living inside the city ring (what people typically understand when you talk about Amsterdam) is extremely expensive. A 50-sqm-one-bedroom appartment will easily cost you $1500 (over 1000€) and for the average person that means almost 50% of your netto salary. Go under that and you're not really living in Amsterdam proper but the newer, and much less desirable, outer boroughs.

Finally there's the issue with compensation. Amsterdam is plagued with yuppies in the finance/consulting/sales sectors for one reason: it's what pays. In consulting 60k is almost entry level, and I'm talking about middle of the road companies. A senior engineer, someone with more than 5-7 years of real experience, is lucky to break 55k and will never get a raise once there. Lack of talent you say? Go 120km to the southeast and you have access to fairly hardcore technical guys. If you need more you have Germany right next to it which also has lots of technical talent. There is no shortage of talent here, there is a shortage of pay and of interesting work. And let's not get into the highly unfavorable contracts offered, like mandatory non-compete agreements for up to two years and automatic ownership of everything you make in your own time with your own equipment.

In short, nothing will change unless there's more money flowing around.
jQuery is more of a library than a framework, and I don't see anything wrong with starting with it, since most of what it hides is the warts of the DOM API, not core Javascript concepts. I think the other replies were worried more about Knockout/Angular/Backbone that do a lot more hidden magic and can make it very unclear what's part of the language and what's part of the framework.
DNS maybe good for lightweight service discovery, people have been doing it for ages. However I wont waste anytime trying to dress it up as an answer for real world config management problems (distributed, hierarchical, model-agnostic, consistent .."stuff")
It is a truth of business that contracts are mostly for defining expectations and escape routes, but as long as the client is satisfied none of those clauses will be enacted, especially because most businesses have more important things to do then go to court.
It's certainly in the 4HWW book. Probably in the context of ignoring emails.
Any chance of coordinating with Debian and Ubuntu to get up-to-date packages into the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories?

Ubuntu has a backports repository which would be an appropriate venue for the latest and greatest of nginx, phusion passenger, etc.
I would say it's easier to get a job in risk management (likely in investment banking) than quant trading coming out of an MFE degree. This is primarily a consequence of how the MFE programs are set up, what they teach and the network of the professors etc.
Your SO is oscar the grouch?? Realistically though just alter your schedule or ask her to alter hers.

Switch to a bucket of water being dumped on you to wake you up. After she has a nervous breakdown that the bed is soaking wet suggest that you tried temperature changes, sunrise alarm clocks and darker shades. But she was against all of them.
> The current model of the phone can still compete, it's good enough.

Screen sizing is the only place the iPhone might show weakness. Apple is holding the line on smaller phones... we'll see if it continues to work out for them.
Crazily enough, this is built into most DNS implementations. It's called Hesiod-class records: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod_(name_service)

If you've ever wondered why DNS requires the "IN" (for "Internet") in all its record declarations, it's to make this distinction. The other two options are "HE" (for Hesiod), and "CH", for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaosnet.
Message-Passing and Concurrent Program Design
I would be annoyed if I had to sign up/login to Amazon just to look at what they sell.