skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a cool project, but something here sounds familiar a) doesn't use a known algorithm like sparse tress or b) a million GB of memory.

...wait a second. I swear I've heard this before.

Why does everyone who works with voxels act so secretive about how their rendering works?

No one cares.

No one cares.

No one. Cares.

Really. No one is going to steal your clever memory optimizations. They don't care.

If you've done something clever, explain it. Maybe you'll get a hi-5 from someone. Being all, coy about it is just irritating.
China Arrests Big V's - Popular Verified Weibo Accounts
Good comment.

To clarify, I only sell a single information product, and the reason for publishing it was simply to diversify my online income instead of being solely reliant on HTML5 sponsorships. Overall, it has only made up about 10% of my total revenue, so it's not a big part of the equation.

That said, I'm certainly not against selling picks and shovels.
"It's extremely hard to come out badly if you are prepared to hold a property long term"

You seem to equate some appreciation in house value with "not coming out badly". Well, if that's all you want, then fine. You can consider things as not having come out badly.

However, if your definition of "not coming out badly" is actually more like, "having done better financially than renting" then it's a much more complicated question. Renting can leave you with better financial outcome even in cases where a hypothetical purchased house appreciates greatly. Not always, of course, but appreciation in value of the house is just one among many factors in the rent vs. own equation.
Ok? I guess it's time to find a new news aggregation.
There really isn't any way around this. The first pass over your data is going to be slow while the inode data is examined, but it will be cached for the next pass. If you do this before that data gets removed from the cache it will be much faster.

imac:~
$ time find . | wc -l
419191

real	0m37.865s
user	0m0.385s
sys	0m2.611s
imac:~
$ time find . | wc -l
419195

real	0m10.503s
user	0m0.330s
sys	0m1.430s
Téléchargement des ISO de Microsoft Windows Vista
I would be amused to know how many of those people screaming outrage at rdrand run proprietary video driver blobs or use other closed source operating systems.

Priorities, people, priorities.
GP didn't ask why he hadn't heard about it, he asked what it was.
That was quite an enjoyable article actually, they certainly had fun with it. Clever idea as well, they had a good chance of hitting their target market.
I didn't add xxd on my local FBSD (installed last night) setup, and my remote FBSD shell has xxd installed by default...

$ uname -rms
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p7 amd64

$ xxd -v
xxd V1.10 27oct98 by Juergen Weigert

Perhaps different builds have different things included?
1. Meritocracy is a myth. This is probably worth a read. http://www.garann.com/dev/2012/you-keep-using-that-word/

2. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. That does not mean they are free from consequences when they share that opinion publicly.
sillysaurus2 is talking about the Flame malware, which used a previously unknown MD5 collision attack technique:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/06/flame-certif...

Why are you finding it unsettling? I think that's exactly what the NSA do: stay ahead of everyone else and take advantage of what they know. In this case, a different MD5 collision attack technique was invented by Marc Stevens at about the same time frame, so you couldn't even say that [whoever wrote Flame] was ahead by a lot.

I have found it more interesting that they knew about the Microsoft design errors that they exploited to break the update mechanism. And, of course, wondered if the design errors were not forced.
Sometimes it's better to waste renewable energy than to build storage
Apple Store is down in preparation for today's event.
I guess you need to make sure your devices are wiped or left at home.

A backup just means you have your own copy of what just got taken off you at the border for no good lawful reason.

Having my own copy would not reassure me of much.
I disagree with you, but you're not wrong. Taking the pragmatic approach to trust is perfectly valid, and the only short to medium term option at present. I personally find it distasteful, but that's my academic bias showing.

However, Thompson's essay is both a practical attack and an abstract idea; I find the notion of trust with self referential systems more interesting than the specifics of how to detect a backdoored compiler.
I remember with IE9 developers were mad that Microsoft fixed some bugs in its IE8 emulation. Which was a problem for those css "hacks" that relied on bugs. Guess they can't win :)
People argue that, with REST, versioning should be done in headers and not the url. Maybe that?
Apple's Latest iPhone Puts Focus Back on Fingerprint Security
Is the fiduciary model a common thing for freelancers? I'm not sure of that.

I was wondering how hard is for a non US contractors/freelancers to open a US bank account and then use something like stripe to collect payments. Or maybe collect the money through the bank. That's a real need: a way to easily get paid without using Western Union or the like.
Cat Door Quality
It's MIDI with limitations and cute cartoon characters that tap into our nostalgia. I say it's a fair hack to show off!
One of my favourite traceroute replacements, that is installed by default on Ubuntu: mtr !
> How do you make them pay?

OK, in extreme circumstances then seizing the land, selling it, then giving any residual (after taxes are paid) back might be necessary. The problem in this thread is, the residual didn't get given back, and it doesn't seem they followed due process.

> Having children is a huge investment, driven by unsophisticated people, prone to stupid fluctuations, which can destroy the lives of normal people when it does something funny

There's no "child bubble", in which people all want to have children when the price of children goes up. I don't follow the analogy. Wait ... you mean it's a financial risk? Good point, maybe children should be taxed, but since having children isn't always voluntary, and there's no way you can stop a person who can't afford the tax from having a kid (at least, no ethical way), then it's' probably not such a great idea.

> And aside from the policy ethics I strongly doubt your model that property taxation is a significant 'tempering agent'.

It just makes sense. As you've asked, I can find some economists who think it's a good idea. Here's some review - http://www.enhr2011.com/sites/default/files/Paper-Haffner%20...

One of the things it cites:

http://search.oecd.org/officialdocuments/displaydocumentpdf/...

Basically, yes a tax on value reduces volatility. Maybe. It's a credible idea, though it would be nice to have some more research. Transaction taxes are not such a great idea. Tax breaks on houses increase volatility.

And it's not a tax with regressive outcomes. Really poor people rent. I'm just saying "unsophisticated" to mean "people who don't trade for a living". Most people who invest in housing aren't professional real estate investors.
That's great! I'll check it out. Any ETA?
Right now our office has two workstations, two desks, two chairs, a water filter (not cooler, only a filter, made of clay), paper, pens, two potted plants, and of course, all relevant cables.

We don't even have a place to put a server... We already freak out enough fearing people will steal the workstations and test devices! (we are in Brazil, last year there was 20 mass robberies, 90 cops executed, several random murders, and 3 different incidents resulted into homeowners ending in hospital after being shot with military-grade rifles in common robberies)
For a young, healthy person, is there any reason to spend beyond the basic "bronze" plan?
No, it installs as part of vim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6361210
The amount of people turning it on would trump the people turning it off.
May I say, as someone who controls millions of dollars of digital media spend for staid brands like J&J and Mars, I've ALWAYS wanted to do this.
Are the games for web only? Are they working on mobile browsers?
It wasn't the CTR that was the problem; though. It was the product not matching the advertisement. There are 9M LGBT in the US, alone. It's fairly likely that there is a demographic for this kind of ad, so why not have it available; not everyone is going to want to see a girl spread eagle.
Show HN: GoJS - Interactive Canvas Diagramming Library
Seems to make no mention of spouses and children.
True, but claiming an education != having proof of it. Sure you're employable, but it's more difficult.

Plus, if the potential employer checks your credit history and sees you defaulted on your student loan, they may make assumptions about your behavior or character, having a definite impact on their hiring decision.
Qt has layout managers. There is no need for such things.
Ask HN: Is offshoring software development effective?
I'm sure people here have been in my situation: a wavy hand CEO who touts the myriad benefits of offshoring. I'd like some help with tempering his enthusiasm.

I have some opinions of my own, and some anecdotes from friends and colleagues, but I'd love to hear more insight from fellow developers.

Thanks!
It probably is superior (I haven't used it, read a few tutorials just to check it out), I'm just saying that there are people who don't need all the stuff Unity provides and are very satisfied with GameMaker.

I remember using GameMaker years ago, and was very pleased when I made my first "game", and all I did was use couple of basic features. For the things I am interested now (simple 2D games), GameMaker seems like the best choice. When Unity 4.3 goes out, I'll check it out and see how it compares to GameMaker based on my requirements.
Moxie Marlinespike of WhisperNet has explicitly said that he leaves his devices at home when traveling because of this.
Anybody have a raw URL for the official video stream?
$ whereis xxd
xxd: /usr/local/bin/xxd /usr/local/man/man1/xxd.1.gz

I don't see xxd anywhere in my ports tree.

Haha... What a trip.
This is the sort of thing that I'll end up wasting half a day trying to get an answer to.
You might only think you're healthy. You'll be the first to test out the claimed pre-existing conditions benefits of Obamacare.
After reading this, I will make sure and constantly remind myself that I will respect everyone.

Doing any more will make one more of an activist than before,

doing any less will make one less of a decent human being.
Thanks for the link. Am very interested in this space.
Speech and Consequences
I had to click inside the "Crash me" box to get IE to hang.
You got it right. Allows for a more programmatic way to create/update/delete webhook subscriptions rather than having the end user copy and paste webhook URLs around.
Apples and pears.

There was not a time when the mass population had their own generators, then flocked to supplied electricity in preference. They never had power independence.

Water was originally done locally, rivers and what not, but hygiene and health became a game changer. The benefits were huge and clear.

The whole history of all three are so different, you cant reasonably compare any of them.
I think they are just suggesting that services which are being polled frequently instead implement a rest-like subscription service which would accept an endpoint and then push the data to all of the subscribed endpoints when it changes. In many cases it is more work from the developers of those services but would reduce their bandwidth and server load immensely.
Institutions using Hadoop for educational or production uses
Sorry it's harsh, but I tried to be as honest and constructive as possible.
Why is there so little non-porn advertising on porn sites? If CPMs are low, and conversions are good enough, what's up with the ROI gap? Is this really the cost of social outrage? I'm really curious to see if anyone has any theories/answers...
This one lacks the trailing slash, which looks different (by string equality) but cannot point at a different resource from the server's point of view.
Nooe, HATEOAS is about links. The official-sounding thing that this would violate is the "server should be able to organize its own namespace."

That said, I don't think this actually mandates any URLs. I read that part as just a suggestion for how it could be done.
Haskell has hoogle [0], that lets you search by type signature. If you already know roughly what kind of function you want, it's a lot easier to sift through a tiny handful of (or even a single) functions that match a given type signature.

ISTR Forth had something similar, or maybe I'm just thinking that in Forth, words are almost uniquely defined by their stack annotations.

[0] http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
Yes, there are some ways to simplify. You can get rid of the "UUOC". Instead of

cat data.txt | grep -v '#'

you can do:

grep -v '#' data.txt

or you can simplify further by moving the grepping into awk, so that the full command becomes

awk '!/#/{print $2}' data.txt | sort -n | uniq -c

sort -n is good to use for sorting numbers. You could probably pull the sort | uniq -c into awk somehow, but I have already demonstrated the full extent of my awk knowledge. One of these days I will get around to actually learning it.
I'm curious to see how this affects the startup community, especially since I'd imagine cost-wise, this affects the startup community disproportionately (20-40 year olds who fall into the "In many states, premiums are expected to increase by 15-50% for people under 40 years of age" category). Either salaries will have to rise to compensate for that, or startups will have to pay for those higher costs themselves.
There isn't one, according to the linked page.
> The one that is beyond the pale is a quote from Mel Gibson.

Actually, its a mockery of a Mel Gibson by projecting a quote from Mel Gibson about (IIRC) his ex-wife into a notional sequel to Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ, with Jesus being put into the position of the subject of the original quote.

As such, its probably the one least subject to challenge as being indicative of misogyny, since it is mocking the conflict between Gibson's statement and his public shows of piety.
I thought Panda worked the other way around by penalizing the linked site, not the site that's linking.
But your future employer may care about indications of your character and future behavior while under their employ. I've heard of companies running credit-history checks to discern whether a prospect is a risk of embezzlement.

I'm not saying the judgement / assumptions would be correct, but it's quite possible some employers would act this way all the same.

Therefore it's a big incentive to pay your money back.
Family plans are literally 2x individual plans - the maximum, deductible, and other limits are just doubled for the family.

For your spouse - you can identify her rate by entering her in as an individual (her quote is her rate).

Currently - our quoting tool: http://www.simplyinsured.com/small-group/first-quote will also let you see the prices for spouses & children on current small group health insurance plans.
Better yet use 'less +F'. It's as easy to remember as tail -f.

The advantage of using less here is that you can easily interrupt the tailing (ctrl-c). For example, to search. Then just hit 'F' again to restart tailing. But now your search pattern will be highlighted as the data streams by.
Seriously? Is that your point?
Interesting stuff!

I'm curious - have you tried other more full-featured tools like Unity, and if so, what makes you stick with GameMaker?
make a small change:

for host in ... ; do ssh -l root $host "..." & done; wait

and it's very parallel. All that key exchange takes a while, so it's not ridiculously fast, but it's pretty good. If you've got ControlMaster set up already to be per-host, this might very well be very fast the second time.
This is a nasty hack where it is counting the output from find.

What do you do when find cannot handle the sheer number of files, argument too long from the linux hardcoded MAX_ARG_PAGES

We need a dedicated utility that counts inodes.
Here's another (work in progress) spec for managing webhook/HTTP callback subscriptions: https://github.com/progrium/http-subscriptions/blob/master/S...
Hi - I kind of have explained it a little bit in previous comments here - I was going to go more in depth on my website but last night I was running on very little sleep. Sorry! :) The tricks are actually not that interesting but I guarantee I'm not like the Infinite Detail / Euclideon guys. :) It generates the voxels in GPU memory (About 128 MB of memory is used per chunk) - but once it renders the chunk it immediately dumps the non-critical data and reuses that rendering page. It can still access any visible voxel in the 2D rendering (even the various chunk layers), but to access the internal voxels it has to regenerate the chunk or use the procedural generation algorithm to determine what a given point would be like. Collision detection can still be handled pretty well via the larger chunk properties and the depth properties of the rendered chunk. So the real trick lies in procedural generation and the ability to rapidly recreate chunks as needed. It uses ray-casting on a hexagon shaped like an isometric cube, which is nothing very advanced or new. Let me know if I can answer in more detail - I may do a writeup on the techniques time willing. :)
TL;DR - REST Hooks is an API pattern where the API provides an endpoint from which webhooks can be programmatically setup and removed.
> Seeing that most large hospitals pay 50+ million for their EHR/EMR setup, $500/month sounds reasonable.

When I worked for a construction project management startup, this too sounded reasonable: many software systems for this audience were in the six-figure range... we were only asking $100/month or so. ("And a free trial!!!")

We learned that when your monthly price point is the size of an accounting error, no one can take you seriously.

This software was also holistic in nature: everyone, everyone, everyone has to use it for it to work well and as a core part of their organization. It's a superset of the marketplace business problem.

To address these we had to charge more. Much more. This raised the stakes on both parties and also filtered out less serious buyers who would probably fail with our software.

The construction companies who were serious buyers really considered thoroughly whether they could implement the change; we worked with them for, sometimes, months going through how the change would take place. And training, training, training. Usage metrics. Account hand-holders. Keep them using the system.

--

As others have said, medical software is some of the hardest to break into. Medical staff HATE CHANGE, and need to. Change in the short term leads to mistakes and mistakes cost lives or careers. The system is bureaucratic, politicized and slow moving. Anti-disruption.

I believe that a guerrilla approach to insurgent medical software is ultimately what will work - things like https://www.radiologyprotocols.com/, where a radiology tech wanted a common repository of knowledge for others in his field. Then, through word of mouth and using it with his colleagues, it gained first use in his hospital, then international use, and now it's starting to take off in the US. (Reminds me of "Big in Japan" first, or conversely Japanese artists having to become popular in the US before being taken seriously back in Japan.)

--

Okay, advice.

Sell it before you make it. If you have multiple hospital/medical contacts, play with pricing. Try outrageous things. If not, just try to work out any sort of deal and have them sign a piece of paper that says they'll pay.

Then build it.

Iterate with the first customer until it's "So Good They Can't Ignore You".

After this, you might get better traction outside the US. There are hospitals in other countries who are desperate for good software and also don't have the money for the large EMR software many US hospitals use.

GOOD LUCK!
Glad we got you to stick around! =]
Hacked? More than likely they just drop the service in 10 months because they are a fly by night operation that lacks any plan? Then their domain gets picked up by a content farm.
Why would it be "claimed"?

Currently in most states - small group plans are already "guaranteed issue" - which means that you will get covered, regardless of pre-existing conditions.

We have insured hundreds of customers with pre-existing conditions under California's current guaranteed issue rules . These are the same rules that are going into effect nationwide for individuals.
It's for developers testing if their programs and apps still function properly. Not for consumers to get early access. Just run it in a VM.
My partner's Muslim. There's plenty of Muslims in France. Everyone in London told me French and Parisians in particular were rude and horrible, but I found them far nicer than the English and have never had a bad experience! I'd say they're more likely to get snooty if you fail to drink with them, which, if you're a little on the conservative side of Islam, might be the case. I have a theory, though, that what most of them are really after is animated conversationalists and philosophical arguments! If true, drink is optional.
He was the CTO. It'd be pretty odd for a CxO not to be involved in any hiring decisions.
A lot of it is "social outrage", but not necessarily actual outrage. I'm a marketing person, I enjoy porn, but I won't advertise on porn sites because a.) I don't want to position brands next to it and b.) Even if I did, people in companies I represent would raise the same issue. But there's no "outrage" from myself, for sure.

There are other reasons too. For example, porn sites are known for shitty advertising (popups, popunders, accidental clicks, etc.) so people like me who haven't researched it at all think firstly are these techniques required to get good results from porn sites (I don't want to use them) and secondly will my adverts be assumed to be shitty just by their placement next to other shitty adverts?
And the EU
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/mlr/your-role/EU-payments-reg.htm

And almost everyplace else in the world.
Enrollment is way down. Spin only goes so far.
Be careful about magical thinking here. They aren't omniscient supermen. The materials on the Guardian implied that these exploits were "fragile".

Given that statement and the insinuations that the NSA had folks participating on standards discussions basically gumming up the works for things like IPSec, NIST standards, etc (effectively crowding the people who know what they are doing out of the room), it's likely that they're created circumstances where accepting defaults or not really understanding how to implement various technologies creates attack surfaces or weaknesses that the NSA has known means to exploit.

Like anything else, you need to think about the risks and controls for whatever your doing. If you're protecting the interests of a government or company likely to be spied upon, you probably want to factor in the ability of a nation-state actor to potentially intercept data into your risk calculus and operational strategy.

For the rest of us, you need to think about what the risks really are -- if you're a politician or other visible individual, you need to be very mindful of your communications privacy and practices. (Google "Anthony Weiner"). If you're posting on Hacker News and buying stuff from Amazon, the NSA decrypting that is a low-risk threat.
Cool idea. Thanks.

A hybrid approach -- earthbag and shotcrete dome -- might be an interesting approach. A ring of earthbag construction as a foundation with a shotcrete dome on top could get you lots of interior space.
Maybe that was a different Genesis Project? I released the Genesis Engine in 2006. :)