skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of think I said the opposite. I said the kind of thinking that works for such start ups (you must admit plenty do exist) leach into companies where such thinking does not work. In fact, I said that the world is fueled by things like thermostats, medical devices and the like. We have plenty of start ups in the Bay Area (and the world) pursuing things like new medical devices. I get worried when some of them seem to borrow from the 20-something, brogrammer mentality, or equally (but oppositely), buy into silver bullet type things like agile or what have you. Everything has it's place; Jobs did not agile, pivot, and story point his way to the Macintosh, no one could have. OTOH, his approach would be death for somebody trying to test launch a really neat social app idea, where we would all be appalled if they weren't shipping weekly. Different tools for different jobs.

And so, back to the OP, and the frequent sentiments expressed on HN, there is value in engineering, a skill that is hard won and built over time, and there is value in knowing how to run a company (again, excepting a few savants, something that requires experience). Do not allow the existence of genuine counterexamples to cloud those facts.

edit: clarified a few sentences.
There's also a lack of cartoons to even attempt to watch outside of the Cartoon Network. Parents were worried about their kids watching too much cartoons, but seem to mostly turn a blind eye to overusing tablets, phones and PCs.
Biking is a major activity in both Utah and Colorado. Denver or SLC would be great places for a serious cyclist -- they definitely offer more interesting terrain than Austin.

I agree that dependent on the level of immersion necessary, serious improv practitioners may find places that aren't the cities you listed restrictive, but there are well-attended improv troupes in other areas.
I could see Adobe and Microsoft sicking their army of lawyers on this site. I also see it is US domain/hosted which could be yoinked regardless of German law.

I would recommend a more bulletproof domain, and hosting in Germany or with PRQ in Sweden, who has lawyers to defend DRM claims. A good German host is BS web run by Henning Brauer an OpenBSD developer. http://www.bsws.de/en/

Also I think you're right this might fall under import/export laws
ICF is intrinsically pulsed (magnetic confinement like ITER is completely different). You use a laser to spherically compress a 1 mm diameter spherical capsule. The capsule implodes, stagnates, and blows (releasing energy in the explosion). Then you do do it again 0.1 seconds later.

NIF uses an "indirect drive" design. Instead of directly illuminating the spherical target with a bunch of lasers, you blast the inner surface of a gold cylinder with the shell at the center of the cylinder. The cylinder gets hot, emits x-rays, which are absorbed by the capsule. The x-ray drive tends to be "smoother" than direct illumination.

The big problem with ICF is hydrodynamic stability. It is like trying to squeeze a water balloon with your fingers. If you don't squeeze it perfectly symmetrically, it will squirt through your fingers and pop rather than getting compressed by a factor of 20.
"So are we to "Free Ross" because he was a great guy who had people killed? Ran a site dedicating to breaking laws?"

Nice juxtaposition there. Most people will agree that ordering hits is bad. Running a marketplace for selling drugs, on the other hand...
I've been thinking a lot about this lately and I can't come up with a clear and fully appropriate medium to actually challenge government overreach in a significant way.

It seems to me, viewing history as an example, it used to be possible to legitimately petition the government by means of demonstrations, protests, contacting legislators, etc. Now that's been completely replaced with lawsuits. Only by one party with significant means and resourcing sueing the other and waiting a long time to reach the Supreme Court do things get accomplished.

As this has to do with the drug war, however, I think things are slowly changing. If the Prohibition of alcohol can be any guide it will take a large enough public outcry along with voting people into office that share your point of view. All that takes time, money, and at least some way to sway the public (generally meaning control in some kind of large media company that the public believes/trusts).

The only way to get started is for people to get together and say they want to do it and start doing it. Apathy and complaining about it goes nowhere.

https://twitter.com/pogue25 if anyone wants to get started :)
LOL!
Peaceful protest.
I like the idea :)
Probably more important. Going to a good school is great, working on cool projects and gaining work experience is awesome.
Ars has a down-to-earth analysis of this:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/the-straight-truth-ab...
I watched a clerk test a $10 this afternoon.
DRM is fundamentally impossible on client-controlled devices. Being a criminal is not fundamentally impossible, nor is not being caught.
82 inch screens @ 1920 X 1080
Typical Android
I think what you're doing is really neat. I'm also a high school student and I'm always excited to meet others my age. I'd love it if you could shoot me an email over at zach@zachlatta.com.
A musician friend of mine attests to this. From the musician's perspective you are unpaid for your work; but unlike piracy your new listeners can only share their experience with other Spotify subscribers, further decreasing the likelihood they'll be paid.
Please, go outside, play and run around. Learn to skate, get a boyfriend/girlfriend. There will be so much opportunity for work later on in life. Definitely spend time coding if that's what you love but don't make it your everything. Develop other aspects of your personality/intelligence/body equally. Best wishes!
If that is the case of the author, thats probably true. I viewed this more as a discussion in the theoretical of what could be accomplished. Post a paper about how it could be done, and perhaps some more inclined (and anonymous) individual might do the work.
Not really true. There is no corruption. White House internship doesn't pay anyone and is one of the hottest place to work for since days. It's entirely a decision people make. You don't want the money but the experience, you can go for it. No one is forcing you to take a job without salary.
If I were the real DPR, my priorities at this point would be securing the commissions if at all possible, and hiding: taunting the feds with a signed message does not prove anything other than someone else had access to the key (Ross could still be the 'real' DPR), and it immediately tells the feds they left a loose end hanging. A hypothetical real DPR could have no way of knowing what incriminating evidence has been left on the server, be known by Ross (who might want to strike a bargain and maybe reduce his sentence by 1%), or available in Ross's belongings.
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The thing is, I really like coding, and it gives the same amount of fun as trading pokemon cards probably did to you.

Interning is a way for me to use my skills in the outside world versus just working at home.
Advertising revenue seems larger in the USA in general. It is worth considering that most advertising based services are US based eg: Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Facebook.
I wonder how it evens out spikes in the readings. I can't speak for others. But as a male who is interested in this toy, I'm curious how it would filter out the signals I use in my, not sure what the proper word be. Anal muscles? Anyway, since I would be concentrating on contracting them, I'm not sure how the toy would interpret it.
I've heard this before, and have no background in crypto so I can't dispute it, but I'm unsure as to how this makes sense. Certainly if I encrypt something with AES, and then encrypt it with Twofish, using different keys each time, how is this different from encrypting any other arbitrary data with either of those ciphers?
While I agree that perfect DRM is fundamentally impossible, I have no evidence of perfect criminals either.
using jumbo frames kind of goes the opposite way the author has intended, right??
in their tests they are aiming for highest PPS - not the most efficient use of the link...

i would agree that an interesting test would be to see how much data can be transmitted in 1 minute with jumbo frames combined with the smaller gaps...

edit: oh and 15Mbps is decent enough, would love fibre to the home though.
"Great. This domain name is as perfect as perfect can be! - 80%"

Why 80% if it's perfect?
How does this compare to the official JetBrains plugin, La Clojure?
I happen to be working on exactly this. I call it "microsubscription".

The idea pops up periodically because it's an obvious one. But nobody has made it stick yet. Not Kachingle, or Sprinklepenny, or Contenture, or Readability.

Naturally I think I have the twist that makes it work, but the base rate on this is so far pretty underwhelming.
Why would he be when it's mostly cross-browser? It means you dont need to draw the triangle and throw it into a .png or your sprite then deal with all that crap. You have a triangle that you can use to point at things AND you can modify the borders to change the size of that triangle on the fly. Yay.
Yes, the specific case of a fallback is possible, but not the general time-lock case. I think. I was discussing this a little with the Bitcoin developer mentioned there, Mike Hearn, but I quickly got out of my depth and the conversation petered out.
> It's just that the western nations decided to go stupid about fission

I have many highly intelligent friends who subscribe to your view. Unfortunately they forget that fission is only as safe as the weakest link, and the consequences of failure are severe, especially when near a water source.

I'm not talking about crumbling old soviet-era reactors or even older Japanese ones. Witness Australia's only nuclear facility: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/01/2914548.htm?si...

My fave quote from the article: "None of our instruments could measure it - it was way off scale. We cleaned up everything and we still couldn't get the dose down."

You called out the need for more reliable, safer, and smaller plants. I would argue that there needs to be a significant improvement before fission is publicly acceptable.
I had an engineering internship when I was 14. Definitely missed out on whatever kids my age were doing that summer, but I was too much of a nerd to even have wanted to do anything else. I think it worked out for the better, and I hope it does for Shalin too.

To Shalin: Kill those SAT's and get into the school of your dreams. It is absolutely worth it.
Or spend the money to hire somebody who knows what they are doing. Whatsapp has 300 million monthly users and charges $0.99 per year I'm sure they can afford somebody.
Meltdowns Hobble NSA Datacenter - Power Surges Destroy Equipment
Same here, and it was a pretty light drop (onto wood). Actually, the back glass broke without any cajoling whatsoever--I put it in my pocket after I took it out of the box, and fifteen minutes later when I took it out the rear glass was cracked.

I now have a non-functional N4. I'll see what the N5 looks like, but I'm not too thrilled with the prospect of another LG phone.
How's Linux on the surface pro? I'm worried that it'll be a device driver scavenger hunt.
Keep on trucking. I started working full time as a SE when I was 16. The job provided a nice relief from highschool and helped build up good working habits before I left for college. If you are interested, see if your school would be willing to allow for a work study so you would be able to pursue such things during the school year.
Prepaid micropayments has been tried. It doesn't work because it requires people to think and they hate that.
'we knew about it, and we promise we were going to tell you, honest'.
It's a tough problem. I personally select we would need a great "free internet die-off" as will be coming as the newspapers further collapse before things become amenable to that sort of model. SOMEONE has to pay for the original content creation...and right now that's usually subsidized by some sort of print publication.
Neuromyths
"The world has become an idolator of this god called money." - Pope Francis
Most one hundred dollar bills are used overseas, where your old ones wouldn't be accepted in most places but a careful bank. Even in the USA, merchants will refuse bills that they aren't comfortable verifying.
Yes, depending on price
In Python:
[x+1 for x in range(100)]
is not a loop but it prints out the numbers 1 to 100
map(lambda x: x+1, range(100))
is also Python and more legible to some people but the former is more idiomatic.

The key to fizzbuzz is to make the decision for a number x, whether to map it to itself or fizz or buzz or fizzbuzz. Given a function which does thatm, just map it over whatever list of integers you want. Still no loop.

Modern functional programming style does not generally write loops; that job is left to the compiler. Python does allow one to write loops, but it is fairly well known that doing so causes your code to run slower because you are fighting against the compiler and the underlying VM.
Note: You only need to specify 3 borders.

Eg. a triangle pointing down:

.triangle-down {
border-left: 7px solid transparent;
border-right: 7px solid transparent;
border-top: 7px solid #444;
}
This kid is living his dream and having a great time. There's no rule that says he has to want any of those things. We should all support him for being who he wants to be.

My parents said similar things to me, and I grew to resent them for it.
It is worth pointing out that composing two block ciphers like this only adds one bit of security, due to the meet-in-the-middle attack (assuming that the composition is otherwise secure, etc.).
During my internship, I ran almost every single day and I love do other activities besides coding... I agree with you that I shouldn't make coding my everything, I still love to do it when I have free time.
The 1000 CHF is quite a bit bigger than the other ones. Keep in mind that this is worth more than $1000 now, extremely useful for transporting lots of money the old fashioned way.
I was initially annoyed at the second-hand nature of the article submitted - " … the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman reports that it has major electrical problems"

But the wsj article is paywalled.

Search for it on google and click the link to read the original article for free: https://www.google.com.au/search?q="Meltdowns+Hobble+NSA+Dat...
Doesn't matter. Having a good to decent SAT score enables one to get into a better college/university. As long as you don't spend more than 1 summer prepping for it, it's worth the time investment.
Well as I say, I believe I have some twists that will make it work.

I also have a fairly substantial step forward in the tracking technology which underlies it -- the usual methods are borrowed from advertising systems and they are open to all sorts of falsification attacks. It didn't matter because nobody got any traction.
I'm curious as to why FireEye chose not to disclose the library. What would you call this kind of disclosure?
Thinking about it, we should probably make up a high school-age HNers group.

My email is adam.davies@outlook.com for more details.
Currently this is only a basic SEO auditing tool, mainly on-site factors. I built this last night using PHP & WordPress as my starting point. Going to make this much more sophisticated over time, and the goal is to keep it free. Think of this version as a bare-bones "On-Site SEO Auditor", it's a great starting point for SEO work.

Right now it provides the following checks: Current Pagerank, Website URL, Blacklist Records, Website Speed, Domain Name Rating, Homepage Title Rating, Description Rating, Keywords Rating, Rich Content Rating, Image ALT Tags, Image Titles, Title Headers, Robots.txt File, Inbound Links, Outbound Links, DoFollow Links, NoFollow Links.

What else should I check for? Any ideas?
I agree. I got a lot better at coding, and a real life experience. What more could I ask for?
It'd be even more awesome if you could actually make complex shapes with these triangles.
I've no certainty here, but I strongly suspect that it's a Perlism that PHP partially took.

In Perl, $a == $b would be true -- just like in PHP. However, in Perl, you use string comparison ($a eq $b) when you want to compare strings. PHP doesn't seem to have string comparison outside of ==.
Cursive is based off a fork of La Clojure from a long time ago. Since then I've rewritten 80% of the code in Clojure and added a lot of new functionality and fixed a lot of bugs. There's lots of new stuff in there, but the main highlights are Paredit-style structural editing and good nREPL integration (for local and remote REPLs). Jan Thomä also kindly let me bundle the leiningen plugin so that's provided out of the box and I'll be making a lot of improvements to that over the next couple of weeks. All the beta testers have said it's a great improvement over La Clojure. Unfortunately La Clojure has never been a priority for JetBrains, which is what let me to start work on this a while back.

I'm planning to release this as a commercial PyCharm-style IDE, at a similar price point. I've done this in consultation with JetBrains, in case anyone's concerned about that.

Edit: some clarification.
Yea, a lot of MS's protocols and file formats from the 1996/1997 era has this flaw for example.
Great! Hope you enjoy it, I'd love to know what you think and what you'd like to see in it.
Readability made three errors, in my opinion:

1. They charged too little. Far too little.

2. In an attempt to be more viral, they took payment for websites that were non-participants, with the theory that this would entice them to sign up to receive payment. What happened is that they ended up with a pile of zombie cash that they could not touch.

3. They routed everything through their servers, meaning that a large fraction of their costs was controlled by third parties. This is connected to 1.
> A few high-security ways of storing bitcoins, such as a "brainwallet", a way of converting a bitcoin address into an easy-to-remember phrase, could still bypass their authority, but there is no indication at present that Ulbricht has used them.

A simple encrypted wallet would have the same level of security...
Yes, that's definitely a nitpick.
I would be more concerned with the RAM these libraries consumed. Some may just use code pages, but others may use large amounts of BSS.
Just installed it...very happy to see structural editing! Aaand immediately I want more features! Can we have a feature to allow any function (that follows some specification) to be bound to a key so that it can be applied to the selected expression ? This would allow for functional editing or even editing based on core.logic and core.match.
Also can we have function application graphs (which functions use which other functions) ? BTW I will gladly pay/donate for/to your work - nice one!
The last paragraph of the article is a tragic comedy.
If these writers, for instance, said anything about success in jumping it would be something like this: “The jumper must have a clear aim before him. He must desire definitely to jump higher than the other men who are in for the same competition. He must let no feeble feelings of mercy (sneaked from the sickening Little Englanders and Pro-Boers) prevent him from trying to do his best. He must remember that a competition in jumping is distinctly competitive, and that, as Darwin has gloriously demonstrated, THE WEAKEST GO TO THE WALL.”

Yeah, that Chesterton, what an anti-capitalist.
I'd be interested in seeing some screen shots to get a feel for its integration and new features.
Yes, that's kind of how it is here. Unless you live in the handful of cities that have really stellar public transportation, you are a hardcore motorist.
I used the subreddit that was related to my app. I gained about 10,000 downloads from being on the Front Page there, and now I average about 150 downloads a day.

I would say that free marketing techniques (basically embracing the online communities) are the best way to share your product - especially apps.
Covering their own asses so the framework dev doesn't come after them is the only reason I could see.

The pixelization just reminds me of 'dodgy plumbers' on 'current affairs' shows or somesuch. I'm sure someone will recognize the pictured app eventually.
Could you describe the countermeasures without giving away the scheme?
As a 19 year old software engineer who started writing code when he was 13 because it was fun, I don't think this quite hits the mark.

I didn't give up everything in life to be a programmer, but it was my passion (and it looks like it's this guy's passion as well). It is fun. I still played outside, had friends, and lived a childhood. What I got out of it are skills that are in demand, a head start on life, and adult, mature friends who kept me out of trouble and helped me build a fun, happy life for myself.

I owe everything to programming. I was a kid from a small town in Alabama and now I'm a happy software engineer in Los Angeles. I got to go to the first Clojure Conj conference when I was 16, speak at the second at 17, and get an internship that led to a job at around the same time. I met the best friends I could have ever met through it and have had more fun that I could have ever imagined having as a direct result of it.

That said, we're not entirely at odds. It is important to keep yourself healthy and such and not let it completely take over your life. I just felt it important to provide a different perspective on the matter.
This strikes me as extremely inappropriate. Don't publicly advertise tools for subverting the state.

OTOH, I can't imagine how anything could possibly be more appropriate. I think everyone should publicly advertise, and work on, tools for subverting the State.
Not sure if it's the same for everyone or not but I'm having issues playing the videos on Chrome.

The videos either just stay on the Dropplet background with the music playing, or it just goes away. In all this the BG music keeps playing though like it's playing like normal.
If the Japanese can't do it safely, it can't be done safely.
I'll be looking to get those up ASAP - the cat got out of the bag a little sooner than I expected!
I'm old now, but can remember when I was young in the early 2000s.

If you were young in the early 2000s, you are not old now. You are barely approaching middle age.
Ask HN: Worked for a failed startup, how to justify it existed in the past?
I have worked for many startups. One of the startups i worked for doesn't exist at all now. Being the internet startup, only proof that it ever existed was domain names and the application it hosted. Now that the domain name has a different owner and it has become a personal blog after it shut down[The owner sold the domain].
If you are applying for a BIG company in the future, obviously the recruiter would take a look at the company's profile of each every company i have mentioned in my resume.
This would obviously hit the developers career very badly.
What would a developer usually do in this weird situation?
Just checked out your service, looks great.

I would sign up, but I really want to see a service before giving over my information. Screenshots, video, really anything. I dug around a bit hoping that you might have some screenshots in the KB or blog, but no luck.
I think parallels are blatant. Such money-worship is exactly what most persons today equate with success, and that same religious fervency is precisely what is destroying the world at large. I think real success entails principles that Capitalism will always be oblivious to. The pursuit of money is not at all what life is about.
>The big problem with ICF is hydrodynamic stability. It is like trying to squeeze a water balloon with your fingers. If you don't squeeze it perfectly symmetrically, it will squirt through your fingers and pop rather than getting compressed by a factor of 20.

Well said.