skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://aljazeera.com/

http://bb.com.br/

http://cbsoft2013.cic.unb.br/

http://dx.com

http://english.aljazeera.net/

http://facebook.com/

http://globoesporte.globo.com/

http://hisham.hm/

http://inf.puc-rio.br/

http://jaor.net/

http://keplerproject.org/

http://luarocks.org/

http://mail.google.com/

http://n01/

http://ohloh.net/

http://puc-rio.br/

http://queremos.com.br/

http://reddit.com/

http://submarinoviagens.com.br/

http://twitter.com/

http://u.hisham.hm/

http://voegol.com.br/

http://www37.bb.com.br/

http://xisdobah.com.br/

http://youtube.com/

http://zap.com.br/
Yes, this too. So, to sum up: it should only run isolated from everything else and be used as a service.
I never got to interview for a startup. Is it common to have a 1:n interview? At every single big company I've interviewed with, interviews were always 1:1.

He threw out 1:n interviews being bad as if it were the norm.

I also have no idea what he meant by this:

"All of this for a position that will involve working remotely (you are working remotely, aren't you?)."

Stopped reading after that because it didn't sound like he and I were in the same industry at all.
Dev-to-dev interviews for senior level positions at high profile organizations 
Background: I'm a proficient programmer with extensive experience in my chosen ecosystem. I'm a hard worker, loyal, have a good work history, and can communicate well with others. I don't even have any problem getting work per se, I've turned down a few offers in the past months because it's not exactly what I want.

So, I'm ok with the idea that finding the right job will take time, but I've been at this for several months and I've done enough interviews that I feel like I'm seeing a quite-distressing pattern forming: specifically in my dev-to-dev interviews for senior level high-profile positions the person interviewing me acts in ways that are consistent with acting/feeling threatened, which in turn manifests itself as them actively/openly undermining and discrediting my qualifications and/or my work experience. My best guesses as to why these other developers are acting/feeling threatened come down to:

1. Because I am older than them (I'm 40)

2. Because they do not have as much experience as myself in an area, and somehow admitting this to themselves, which is not a big deal to me (it's not like I rub it in), would be a very big deal to them

3. Because they have to be the smartest person in the room and cannot abide someone else being equal and/or superior in any fashion

I don't understand the full extent of why this keeps happening, and even less sure what to do about it. I don't feel like I've been doing anything special to "deserve" this type of treatment, and imagine that it's pretty common stuff to have to deal with for anyone interviewing for these type of positions. I'm just hoping to find some answers on how to overcome this obstacle and get a good job at a good organization.
It's a PRNG based on a trapdoor function where apparently the NSA has the key. With that key they can recover the RNG state from just a small amount of it.

Thats a backdoor by most descriptions. This isn't just a bug.
Sex and Politics at Google: It's a Game of Thrones in Mountain View
"Implies" might be better than "assumes"; what is actually incentivized (or, perhaps more accurately, not disincentivized) by the absence of a strict loser-pays system isn't "frivolous" lawsuits, per se, but lawsuits which it is less than certain will succeed, of which actually "frivolous" lawsuits are a small subset.
Ballsillie and Lazaridis were the problem. They just sat on their cash cow and milked it. They also apparently didn't have a knack for selecting great managment. I remember in 2010 trying to figure out why BB sold the Curve, Tour, and Bold.
The Fed announcement may or may not have been known, but the fact that there would be an announcement at a given time was known. The market always jumps one way or another at the last moment before an announcement, because it's the last chance to place your bets in what is essentially gambling. There was no information propagation delay because there was no information. Sometimes the blind consensus guesses right, sometimes wrong.

If you actually had leaked information there's no reason you'd need to wait until the very last moment, that's when people who know nothing place their bets and their actions would be more likely to mess up your scam than cover up for it.
There are a couple of open source projects for visual regression testing -

Wraith, used by BBC: https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith

Huxley, by Facebook: https://github.com/facebook/huxley
Linux Easter Eggs
There's a wildcard element in any court case that involves a jury. But that's a cost of having an impartial jury of your peers, which is a core American value. I'm pretty sure that a lot more harm comes from worrying about being sued than actually being sued. A few years ago a small business owner was worrying himself sick because he was being sued, certain that he would lose his business. He still has his business.
I'm starting to wonder if I'm completely doomed selling to consumers. Consumers seems so fickle, they won't pay for anything software related it seems, even if it helps them a lot. Like they'll put down hundreds of dollars for a language class, but they'll sweat over a $5 app that would help their learning in said class.

Here's an example of a common attitude. Some guy launching his app on reddit (not me):

"Just use this: https://ankiweb.net

It is free and is better than OP's crap app.

you want money for your crap = keep you shit. i dont need it."
Anyone know if Toptal is legitimate? They advertise all over LinkedIn. I contacted them and it seems like they don't really have a personal approach or connection to the dev talent.

I need to slot myself in on a calendar for a skype call, and no reply to my questions? I can't find any reviews on them either.
I'd disagree about poker.

(1) The house takes a rake from each pot in cash poker games. Often the rake is much less or nonexistent in tournament games.

(2) Scarne wasn't particularly a poker expert, but he had one bit of simple advice: if you want to win, play against people who are weaker than you. Las Vegas attracts the best players in the world (who might win enough to make up for the rake playing against 'average' players) so you're going to have a hard time winning in all but the lowest stakes games.

In general it's hard to find a good poker game. If you go looking for one in your community, it's very possible you'll find some guys who'll cheat you by signaling each other about their cards, and there's nothing you can do to prove it is going on. This goes on all the time in Vegas poker rooms, and the casino has no motivation to do anything about it.
amazon.de (Yep, i'm from Germany)

bxxxx.xx (Censored, self-incriminating)

cplusplus.com

dominos.de (Now i'm hungry)

en.wikipedia.org

file:///E:/movdb/editor/editor.html (Private HTML/JS-Project i'm working on)

google.de

humblebundle.com (I like indie games)

images.google.com

jolicloud.com (Tested a couple of days ago, never used again)

kde.org

lavabit.com (Gone :( )

msdn.microsoft.com

news.ycombinator.com

omdbapi.com

portknox.net

qt-project.org

reddit.com

steampowered.com

traveltainment-group.com (this is where i work)

unlocker.emptyloop.com

vole.cc (should keep an eye on that)

www.webtravel.de (What the heck?... I have to talk to our WebDevs)

zattoo.com
> If you can keep something secret, why would you bother patenting it?

Because you can't know that someone can't reverse engineer what you're doing. The patent gives you legal recourse and a limited legal monopoly.
really? ok...I mean...really?
Pick up the phone and tell someone why they are great.
I'm sure I don't know most of them (e.g. I have no idea how Prolog does error handling), but I know of:

* the Haskell/ML statically typed approach, error possibility is type-encoded through an Option or Either type; even in cases where it is possible to implicitly ignore return values[0] the compiler will warn or error; the standard library provides high-level operations to pipeline results (build a pipeline of operations which will only transform non-erroneous results, and will let errorneous ones go through)

* the Erlang dynamically typed approach which makes use of tagged pattern matching to make value assertions trivial. It is not shorter than the Go version when fully handling things, but assertion can be used to fault processes during development or when in-process user-visible reporting is irrelevant (fairly common in erlang) yet remain easy to find and replace with more involved handling if needs be

[0] because haskell strives for purity, ignoring return values in non-monadic code makes very little sense and I'm not sure it's possible at all short of unsafe* functions. It is possible in monadic code (e.g. do blocks)
Under a true free market doctors as a group wouldn't be able to use political connections to cover themselves.

Why not? Political donations and lobbying are protected speech, are you suggesting that doctors shouldn't enjoy the exercise of their first amendment rights?

the free market would demand he be put out on the street to never practice medicine again

LOL no, on several counts. First, you can't have a truly free market in medical care because the knowledge gap between consumer and provider is so great. I'm a smart, educated person but I'm really not competent to assess the quality of a doctor in most cases, which is why peer review organizations like medical boards exist to begin with. Second, in a really free market you buy at the time of your choosing, taking into account all factors such as quality and price. A great deal of medical care is not elective, but the purchase decision is forced upon the consumer by circumstances such as illness or injury. Not only are the purchasers under intense time pressure to make a decision, they must often do so with less than normal competence. Thirdly, you assume that peers and hospitals are in full possession of the facts at all times, and that deception is impossible. Deception has a price like everything else, and if you assume that people are going to ignore the economic incentives to lie or feign ignorance then I have a really great deal that I'd like to offer to someone like yourself...a deal whose value most people would not be able to appreciate, if you know what I mean.

It eventually becomes crony capitalism

A no true Scotsman fallacy. Markets have to exist in the real world, not one populated by angels.
I too clicked looking for the tptacek comments…

But I also expressed the view that no one would have used this. I guess it makes a lot more sense now: It seemed weird to put it in the standard, as no one was going to just use it. I'd been guessing that they hoped that it would be made an option and then they could do some negotiation attack to force it. I was missing a more obvious explanation: Someone was already willing to ship it, but they wanted the plausible denyability of it being a standard, because it looked too suspect otherwise.
You as much as said it's not a goal at all, whereas it can absolutely be an instrumental goal (which is what I'd read the parent as responding to, and how the issue is often - though not always - framed) without being a terminal goal.
VimDeck, use vim as presentation tool
2) Was one of the biggest. I went to their first-ever developer conferences in San Jose and the very few people who bothered to show up, who were most internal IT-type people from big BlackBerry users like Morgan and Merrill, were in open revolt about how shitty the APIs were, how easy it was to develop a nice-looking application for the iPhone, and how appalling the new touchscreen handset was.

Keep in mind this was in the very early days of iOS when they had almost no features and their APIs were a mess. RIM still had advantages over iOS back then, but they didn't have either the user or developer experience to exploit them.
I put a 'Butt Computing' Greasemonkey script up here http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96029 back in 2011. Nice to see some folks are as immature as I am. ;)
You can add badly run company to the list as well. They refused to acknowledge any problems until relatively recently. Even after a senior exec went public with an email describing the problems (link: http://bgr.com/2011/06/30/open-letter-to-blackberry-bosses-s...), they still continued to deny and paint a rosy picture (which steadily got worse) to the investors and internal staff.
This article is interesting enough to submit but I will note one annoying thing: it says "Past the veneer of primary colors, inside the walls of Google's Mountain View campus, Google is a hotbed of sex and political infighting."

Any time one examines a large group of adults, or really any post-pubescent people, many of them will have sex with each other... because it's fun. Why this should be a surprise, beyond simple salaciousness, is beyond me.
My wife loves our Samsung washer and dryer. She's a fanboy
Enigmatic developer Chris Sawyer on remaking Transport Tycoon for mobile devices
It doesn't matter if their flagship phone that's out today is better than any mobile device that comes out in the next ten years. The customer has a grudge against them and decided they're losers. I could only image how much people would be for cancer if BB came out with a cure.
dye your hair?
I'm not sure exactly what you're talking about. When the initial constants for Dual_EC_DRBG were generated, the NSA had the opportunity to generate them in such a way that they would be able to predict all future outputs after observing just a few bytes of output. I don't see how this (1) doesn't qualify as a potential back door and (2) means that the NSA 'could not' insert a back door. The back door here is the knowledge of the 'secret key' that they could know (by virtue of the constant generation). Of course, it's just an alleged back door here; we don't know the truth.

By the way, the 'less-than-technically-competent journalist' here is Matthew Green, a cryptographer. So I think he's plenty technically-competent. Also, they're called elliptic curves, not 'elliptical' curves.
I don't disagree, but that's hardly a roadmap, or teachable.

Patio11 is trying to give people something actionable, I think.
Ask HN: recommend a book that explains how computers work down to the silicon
My favorite part about this is that Gruber has been repeating the speculation that the chip was not manufactured by Samsung. He turned out to be wrong. When others are wrong with their "Claim Chowder" (as he likes to call it) he shits all over then. But this is all you get from him when he is wrong: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/09/20/a7
US killer robot policy: Full speed ahead
"The length of time that Dual_EC_DRBG takes can be seen as a virtue: it also slows down an attacker trying to guess the seed."

If a system's seed is weak, one attack is to try all likely seeds, run them through the PRNG to generate keys, and see if any of the keys work. A slow PRNG indeed slows down this process.

For instance, it would have slowed down the attack on the Taiwan Cryptocards, which exploited patterns in the seed that appear directly in the key, reported here: http://smartfacts.cr.yp.to/smartfacts-20130916.pdf
I think this is the most interesting (and telling) one: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=android%2C+iphone%2C...
We definitely have a very personal approach. If you contacted us, there's a good chance we responded.
You seem to be implying that anyone uses BSafe. Does anyone use it?
I think it's probably very easy to rise into the upper levels of management at EMC while being a complete moron.
Yes, and then use doc-present:

https://github.com/dengste/doc-present
Kipling's The Palace is also fitting perhaps even more so for those building today's successful platforms: http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_palace.htm.

WHEN I was a King and a Mason - a Master proven and skilled

I cleared me ground for a Palace such as a King should build.

I decreed and dug down to my levels. Presently under the silt

I came on the wreck of a Palace such as a King had built.

There was no worth in the fashion - there was no wit in the plan -

Hither and thither, aimless, the ruined footings ran -

Masonry, brute, mishandled, but carven on every stone:

"After me cometh a Builder. Tell him I too have known.

Swift to my use in the trenches, where my well-planned ground-works grew,

I tumbled his quoins and his ashlars, and cut and reset them anew.

Lime I milled of his marbles; burned it slacked it, and spread;

Taking and leaving at pleasure the gifts of the humble dead.

Yet I despised not nor gloried; yet, as we wrenched them apart,

I read in the razed foundations the heart of that builder’s heart.

As he had written and pleaded, so did I understand

The form of the dream he had followed in the face of the thing he had planned.

When I was a King and a Mason, in the open noon of my pride,

They sent me a Word from the Darkness. They whispered and called me aside.

They said - "The end is forbidden." They said - "Thy use is fulfilled.

"Thy Palace shall stand as that other’s - the spoil of a King who shall build."

I called my men from my trenches, my quarries my wharves and my sheers.

All I had wrought I abandoned to the faith of the faithless years.

Only I cut on the timber - only I carved on the stone:

"After me cometh a Builder. Tell him, I too have known."
I thought Intel's prices went down whenever you mentioned AMD (or now IBM). Do the prices go back up if you actually buy from AMD?
Yes, do this instead. Seriously, unless you're showing me his-res images from The Louvre, just give me the content as quick as digitally possible.
Those problems might not have been insurmountable. But the app situation was at the very least an illustration of why they were doomed from the get-go. When you require someone to send in a notarized photocopy of your government ID card before you'll let them develop software for your platform, well. . . I don't even know what to say. That policy spoke for itself.
I can recommend thumbor: https://github.com/globocom/thumbor
Samsung has long sourced externally for parts. Despite being (one of?) the worlds biggest LCD panel vendors many of their TVs had non-Samsung panels in them at least a few years ago. It was particularly the mid-low ranges.
I guess this is not the year FreeBSD gets a decent package manager (for binaries).. :(
Maybe next year.
>specifically in my dev-to-dev interviews for senior level high-profile positions the person interviewing me acts in ways that are consistent with acting/feeling threatened

If a person is hostile or fearful, that tends to make the person he is talking to hostile of fearful, so one possibility is that one of these "negative" emotions is "leaking out" through your body language or tone of voice.
For example, if you are tall, make sure you are not hovering or looming over the person to whom you are talking.

I know this is basic stuff, but heck, I spent a long time neglecting to pay attention to it, so I am putting it out there.

Good luck!
This could've been useful yesterday so people could get pinged when the Apple Store came back online for pre-orders ;)
Yeah everyone I've met in the last few years has felt a need to pre-emptively justify their choice of smart phone to me. I guess they get ragged on a lot by their friends for having an outdated phone.
They still have their chances with Android.

All they have to do is make the best damn Android devices.

Considering they have money, they can do it.

Other than that, nothing short of miraculous futuretech invention-acquisition will save them.
Just looking at that chart it seems like they aren't doing that great, how could that possibly be given they are doing so well in the mobile and laptop markets...
Check out Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold for a slightly romantic take, or Malvino's Digital Computer Electronics for an undergraduate view of computer architecture.
The Turkish Coffee Syndrome
Agreed. And as soon as your reaching any figure anywhere near that high, any source of error is going to make a large difference. I'm sure everyone agrees that the cost V benefit ratio wasn't that good though.
Actually, you very well can (try to) backdoor any kind of cryptographic algorithm. A hashing algorithm, an encryption algorithm, or a PRNG algorithm.

Read this article in full to understand just how it works: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/the-many-fla...

Now of course, can you do it in a way that not even a veteran cryptographer could ever notice it? Pretty unlikely.
You can't patent F=MA but you can patent a weapon such that you drop large rocks off of cliffs to bonk people on the head. The patent covers something that uses natural processes and mathematics but not the underlying mathematics or natural process. In software this means something like quicksort could be patented(if it passed the nonobviousness clause) but the mathematics behind it recurrence relations, divide and conquer, big O analysis, etc. would be unpatentable.

If there is a difference between mathematicians vs. inventors it is an understanding that a mathematical description of a thing and the thing itself are two different things(one of which is patentable).
We still don't know who at RSA opened the spreadsheet that carried the malware behind the SecurID breach.

Seems like we've got a reasonable guess now though.
It's not a burning coal plant that's the problem. A tsunami would spread the ash from the coal plant everywhere.

Heavy metals from the ash would be a lot more hazardous in the short term than the radiation unless you were standing on top of the reactor.
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Yeppp:  High performance cross platform SIMD math library
'Grand Theft Auto V' Crosses $1B In Sales
Scientists claim discovery of life coming to Earth from space
With respect to Mu, check out this EEVBlog thread: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/m-thermal... .

As a disclosure I backed just for the fun of it and haven't asked for a refund yet but with each new "update" their "CEO" releases I grow increasingly skeptical that Mu Optics are ever releasing a real product. Not only did their pricing seem too good to be true to begin with but their updates are needlessly vague even with IP concerns in mind.
Since when is covering your face a religious issue?

The proposal forbids a variety of religious adornments, for more than those involving face covering. I have no problem identifying someone in a hijab (headscarf), for example, which would also be outlawed for government employees under this proposal.
Here's an argument against the purpose of patent law being disclosure, http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070321/021508.shtml

But back to software patents, if the real societal good of patent law is disclosure than there is no need for it at all in the software world. As soon as Visicalc sold their first spreadsheet every programmer knew how to build one. There is no benefit to society to grant the monopoly in exchange for instructions on how to build a software idea.
The A7 seems pretty exciting to people who pay attention to these things: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review
An intentionally introduced vulnerability can be considered a backdoor, even if it's not a matter of saying "open sesame" to open the so-called backdoor.
i meant this more in the sense of "what's a piece of code you've seen(or written) that made you excited and made you think 'wow that's really clever!'" It shouldn't necessarily be something earth shattering, could be very simple, just something you genuinely liked. I personally believe enthusiasm (including intellectual curiosity) is the most important quality somebody can have in the workplace.

If your problem with the question is trying to think of a response that the interviewer would want to hear, then you aren't approaching the question correctly and/or neither is the interviewer.
Reminds me of Diaspora's t-shirt expense.

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/104728404