skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Do these people exist?"

This is spot on. When you hear NetBSD developers arguing about proposals (or commits, ex post facto, like here), there is often mention of "users". But these are mostly fictional.

I think it's safe to say most NetBSD users are comfortable working with C.

I reckon it's not much different with OpenBSD: most changes they make are for the benefit of the developers themselves, to suit personal preferences, than for the benefit of other "users". (And that's perfectly acceptable, I think.) Of course, these changes can benefit users beyond simply those who make them and those who approve them, but those users are not the ones driving the changes.
How Tale of Tales lets creativity, collaboration rule game development
Holy f^^k, imagine Snowden running for president, I think he would win. The people love him, he is not corruptable and he could make a terrific president.
sprintf buffer overflow in the string library https://github.com/LuaDist/lua/commit/52eff16f51750cf47afaa5...

This library is not included in NetBSD as far as I can tell: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/modules/lua/?onl...

But it's an indication that it shouldn't be included in a Kernel.
I see a bunch of comments on how useful this is, but I just uninstall applications that have ads that are intrusive. I'd love to get back to the point where I could buy software and pay the developers to make a living. Apparently everyone thinks they need to be Google now (ad supported).
Or perhaps, he's a politician trying to distance himself from the negative public opinion that has resulted from that PR?
250w should get you close to 35kph on flat terrain. The limit is 25kph due to the legal laws not physical ones. The upside is it should be able to do 25kph up a steep hill just fine and there range numbers are reasonable. Edit: Ok, not all that steep a hill.
The batteries don't rotate.
Hi, I'm a web develop from Jakarta. $114/day is really big here. Our IT/CS fresh grad usually get a salary ranging from $250 to $300/month.
> When you're pissing your diapers in an old people's home, what good is your retirement money?

As I've understood, the point is to blow all your retirement money between the age of 65(standard retirement age), and as you so eloquently put it, the age when you are pissing yourself in an old folks home. With a little luck, you've got about 30 years there.
Lastpass acknowledges this and tells you that a shared password can be retrieved, but for most employees, it would be more work than it is probably worth to view that password. Also, as another commenter pointed out, as soon as a employee leaves the company, Lastpass makes it VERY easy for one person to change the passwords and everyone with access gets their version updated automatically.
USV Goes To The Bay Area
It's time for Linux on the Bay Trail :) Seriously, this could be a good alternative to Windows 8, especially with the increasing amount of games with Steam for Linux.
Strange that there seemed to be no mention of why the US government shut down in the first place: they failed to raise the debt ceiling on time, right? And who has primary interest in US debt? Other governments, like China for example.

So if Silicon Valley were to become the true seat of power in the US, how would they approach international relations? And how would they handle the military? And what would they do in the event of a war?

This does seem like an article written about an off-hand, not so serious comment. But it touches a nerve on something I hear echoing around my world (and I don't live in California) -- people believe Tech companies are the new driving direction of the economy and they think that makes them the new direction of power. I can't help but feel it's the wishful thinking of a new middle class.
I guess we'll just agree to disagree. A non-zero percentage of people will be stuck on XP because they don't know better or don't own the machine. I would much rather have those people use Chrome than IE8. They are far less likely to become part of a botnet if they have a modern browser.
Search Engine Yandex Launches "Cocaine" To Compete With Google App Engine
Like the $249 Haswell-based new Chromebook from Acer? The only problem there is the paltry 16GB SSD.
I disagree with the author's central claim (where's the REPL?), but he makes an interesting point.

C++ has matured to the point where it has 95% of what a scripting language needs. It wouldn't be hard to write a thin wrapper that provided the final 5%, and it would come as a welcome convenience to programmer who are used to working with the C++ libraries.

Oh. Wait a moment. It's already been done. It's called Lua. Ho hum.
If by regulations you mean enforcing property rights and laws against murder, I agree.

In a free market the initiation of force is not tolerated. The Bhopal disaster you cited is a perfect example of an initiation of force.

The government legitimizes the initiation of force on those who have done nothing to violate the rights of others -- similar to the disaster you cited. It seems you have a problem with companies initiating force, but not the government. Why is that?
Also, may I register my complaint to the Powers That Be about titles being edited yet again? I chose the title I did to highlight the aspect of the essay most of interest to HN readers; by editing the title to the original, you are partially responsible for the hostile reaction in the comments here where only one person actually replies to the content.
I don't think these things (Lua zealot, above points) are mutually exclusive.

I think this is mostly for prototyping though. I can't imagine running this in a production system. If it fosters exploration (via Lua, or the Lua interface to the kernel), it's a net win (no pun intended).
Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras Reportedly Joining Forces With Greenwald
> "Bitcoin was apparently designed by good cryptographers and peer-reviewed before it was released"

I think this understates the effect of outliers. If you consider the incredible ability of Srinivasa Ramanujan to, quite literally, dream up ground-breaking theorems, then it becomes a lot more plausable that a single dedicated, highly unusual individual could produce Bitcoin.

The same argument applies to OpSec. 99.99% are lacking the means (technologically or, more importantly, mentally) to maintain perfect cover. But it's the 0.01% outlier we're interested in. Comparing to existing cases is, by definition, invalid.
How to remain 100% anonymous on the internet?
Article title is wrong, these are Litecoins not Bitcoins.

This might pay off mining 60LTC per day and hoarding them. The guy who started Litecoin now works for Coinbase, which may adopt Litecoin and will no doubt start a gigantic speculation bubble this Indonesian dude can cash out with
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/litecoin/
You linked to a 24,000 line diff to point out what exactly?
Thanks, Techcrunch. I just set a cron job on my gentoo box to emerge world at 4PM PDT, to honor Microsoft's Windows 8 bugfix.
Not to mention the wars overseas and the war on drugs. The U.S. is the most incarcerating country in the world (ignoring North Korea).

I'll trade my roads, my Linux, my Android phone, whatever in exchange for the ending of killing those overseas and domestically.
I think public employees to the public knowing how much a particular job/role at a particular location on the salary ladder at a particular agency. But unless they share their particular role/ladder location with friends, I don't think they are opting into sharing their exact salary; only their salary range.

The people that I know who work for the federal government simply say "I'm a mathematician at NASA", not "I'm a GS-13, Step 4 mathematician and BTW, I got a bonus of X last year."
It took me a while to get used to it - I found I had to start out with minimal settings and slowly turn them up. I find I can sleep much faster now with it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6562385
Indeed it was - deliberately so :) That was, in a way, part of my point.
A far better rationale is that it makes fast prototyping easier. You write three lines of Lua, stuff into the kernel, and run. Did the blinkenlights blink? Yes, good, now translate that code into the C driver.
FlyKly guys: Welcome to HN. I know that a lot of this thread is going to look like we're hating on your product. (Personally I think that if you deliver it with the level of finish you're aiming for, it will be pretty cool). Mostly we're not, this is how we roll. For geeks, we've got x-ray vision when it comes to most new technologies so we see right down to the basic principles (which are almost always simple) right away. These are almost never the most interesting parts of new product releases but will elicit the predictable "pfft, Thomas Edison did it in 1913...". Water off a duck.

What we will do is pour our thoughts like water through your product and ideas. Anything that's not perfectly thought through is going to leak. I hope you'll take the criticism in the (mostly good) spirit in which its offered and use it to build a better product.
>he is not corruptable

He's a human being, not a paragon of virtue. He has his price just like anyone else. Cult of personality can be a dangerous thing when electing a leader.
Honor Thy Player’s Time
Haven't they been keep saying that about JAVA - Just Another Vulnerability Announcement?

Mac just turn off JAVA completely in user space and NetBSD is putting Lua in kernel?

NSA: "I have a dream! Someday, a script language will be in BSD kernel, so I can ping an script into the kernel"

:-)
Why not put Windows on Windows?

Metro's UI happens to support dynamic layouts. If were allowed to exist within a window, it would coexist a lot more than what they're doing now.

Suddenly there would be no penalty for developing apps that use it, and desktop users would still have the ability to help the tablet market. On top of that, you wouldn't need that 2x taskbar anymore.
...not to mention it's not a replaceable wheel - it comes together with the whole bicycle.

Are you sure about that? http://senseable.mit.edu/copenhagenwheel/wheel.html

> The Copenhagen Wheel turns the bike you already own, quickly and easily into
an electric bike with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities.

Albeit, the big caveat being point 4 you mention of course! :)
I would say, no, not at all. Rewriting your entire userland is not similar to adding a script interpreter to be used for writing kernel extensions.
"It goes up to 20 mph (25 km/h) for a 30 miles (50 km) range."

The speed conversion is way off. But the distance conversion is pretty good. Wonder why that is.
wait for it... the exact section of the code that contains the "sprintf" I mentioned will pop into your screen. Just be patient.
LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman On Two Realistic Outcomes Of Teaching Everyone To Code
Considering the acceleration of the motor is controlled wirelessly, I wonder if you could attack it so it e.g. accelerates uncontrollably.
Plan on buying the Dell venue 8 pro the day it comes out.

-x86? check

-bay trail? check

-long battery? check

-stylus support? check

-high ppi? check

-under $300? check

Perfect notebook replacement. Not a laptop replacement but as a companion device it is perfect.
That's quite an ode.
If the neutrinos have enough energy, then they can just produce a lepton-anti-lepton pair. But for low energies the simplest process is creation of a virtual W pair, that annihilates to two photons. Trying to explain a bit, because of the uncertainty principle you can borrow energy from the vacuum, as long as the resulting particles are destroyed quickly enough. So for intermediate stage in a process you do not need to exactly satisfy energy conservation, but instead the resulting cross section is suppressed and the reaction becomes more unlikely.

But the neutrino less double beta decay works somewhat differently. In a normal beta decay, a nucleus transmutes to a daughter nucleus, a electron and a anti-neutrino. ( X, X' are the nuclei, nubar the anti neutrino, e- the electron.)

X -> X' + nubar + e-

In a neutrino less double beta decay, this is what the article is talking about, the anti-neutrino then reacts with the daughter nucleus to produce yet another nucleus and an additional electron. Here the energy to create the two electrons comes from the mass difference between the initial nucleus and the final nucleus.

X' + nubar + e- -> X'' + 2 e-

But it is only possible if the anti-neutrino is actually a normal neutrino, since otherwise the second reaction would need to create a positron, which would mean that the initial and final nucleus are identical, which means that there is no mass difference to create the electron positron pair. So detection of a neutrino less double beta decay is immediate proof that the neutrino is its own anti particle.
Im writing this post right now in my Linux OS.. actually i created Linux based internet providers in the nineties when i was a teenager, since Linux was just a baby :) (I actually prefer Freebsd, but the billions of dolars invested in Linux drivers standout sometimes and leave me no option)

Actually i dont touch a XP for years.. i was just doing a analisys.. sometimes we need to put the things we love or hate aside, to look through the eyes of others..

Most people here at HN are creating things for other people to use, so its good to understand good and bad points even if its not the tech-fashion of the day, are closed and come from a company with dubious practices like Microsoft..

When compared with Linux, XP look definitely bad and old..
but the post was more about people updating the old with the new, when the new was also windows.. so sorry for provocating such a misunderstanding.. i deserve it :)

Anyway, thank you for your support and friendly help! i hope with this good attitude of yours you can convert more people to the open source world, and make somebody free even when they dont know about it.. thanks!

(Bonus: Im creating a crazy sort of "OS" based on Linux(+ Chrome) right now.. and that was just to emphasize how i love it :)
Jules Verne wrote a fragment that's pretty much this exact thing in 1857, modern bicycles have changed little since 1885 and Edison showed the basics of electricity in 1879. This stuff has been in the public domain for close to a hundred years! Also Verne wrote about flight in 1887 and this doesn't have it. So while it DOES have GPS and bluetooth, it still seriously underwhelms in the flight department.

Realy, other than something you can order, what does this have going for it?
I think the same public/private comparisons for salary, stability, etc. apply in the U.S., at least for some job categories. It's just that, as you said, the private sector pays so well for comparable positions. Salary-wise, I think less skilled position do better with government, but the higher-skilled positions do better in the private sector. If you see a government engineer/scientist/mathematician working alongside a contractor in the same role, the government employee almost always makes less.
For example:

1) Work for a company that does not allow you to post code that you write at work (fairly common)

and
2) Don't have time / don't want to spend time on homework for an interview

Combined with:
a) Do not code for fun at home

or

b) Code for fun, but in something so completely unrelated that it's not useful (8 bit microcontroller code, say)

or

c) Code for fun, but not seriously with any kind of quality

If you gate your interviews on who has public code repositories, you're missing out on a LOT of qualified people.
It gets fuzzy. Enlisted responsibility is not strictly below officer responsibility, it's just different and somewhat overlapping once you get to higher NCO ranks. A high ranked NCO could be on par with a GS-12 in terms of responsibility scope, though perhaps not in pay. I'd agree that low GS grades (say 5-9) are probably akin to E1-E4, but starting at E5 or so (AF) you start gaining responsibilities (either personnel or materiel) that are more akin, not in kind but in scope, to lower ranked officers.
I'm having trouble getting past the fact that this guy was, basically, running a spam business. Email marketing is spam, to a first approximation, and while there are ethical email marketers out there, I don't know enough to be sure that this guy was one of them. Which means I'm getting good advice from someone whose ethics are under a cloud; it colours my view of the whole article.
Well, greenlets can and do have their own isolated contexts, but you're right, they can indeed leak state. Thanks for the clarification.
Also, I would use the e-wheel during the week for my commute to work and come the weekend I could fairly quickly switch the wheel over to my regular one and exercise properly. One bike, two purposes.
KERS for a bicycle. Cool.

Given that old Lotus bike, Im surprised one for the F1 teams hasn't rustled something up. I'd have a chat with one of them and see if they would like to partner up. Especially as they are trying to be all green these days.

Can you harvest from the front wheel too?
Not true. The Specialized Turbo goes up to 45 km/h with some assist.

" e-bikes must have a motor of less than 750 watts and an unassisted speed of less than 20 mph. Because the Turbo is an electric pedal-assist bike, meaning you have to pedal to get any kick from the motor, the speed limit doesn’t apply. In fact, the only reason it tops out at 28 mph is to comply with European laws, which restrict e-bikes to 45 kph. Specialized installed a governor on the Turbo that automatically turns the motor off when it reaches this speed."

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/bikes-and-biking/B...
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recuter's comment already existed when I wrote mine, so it couldn't be in response to me
These guys made an electric bike/scooter hybrid a few years back that had some buzz here in NYC before release, but just seems to have fizzled. I'd be curious to know what happened.
... It's a parlor trick.

The computational complexity going on is minimal compared to the effort it takes to create and maintain the dataset. Accessing it with a formal query language is then straightforward.

The parlor trick is making the formal query language seem as informal and colloquial as possible. But fiddle with breaking it and you'll see you're just running searches on very specific and very specifically tagged data.

Edit: Having thought about it more, the reason it's 'underutilied' is that it's actually not that useful. Your knowledge of its dataset is more important than its ability to provide it for you--witness the person below who knew that it could provide nutrition information.

Your index on its information is better than its index, in other words.
Yep. Google "perceptual hash functions".
This is a bad thing for the industry. Every time someone buys a junky $300 laptop filled with bloatware from HP, Dell, eMachines, etc. they are going to have a mediocre experience at best. Then they buy a $200 tablet from Amazon or Google, a $300 iPad Mini or a $500 iPad that while all of those devices should be less powerful, they deliver a MUCH BETTER end user experience.

HP, Dell, Lenovo need to stop selling the bottom of the barrel hardware with bottom of the barrel Windows experiences. The end business result is they are working really hard to sell a zero margin product only to watch Intel and Microsoft turn a tidy profit.

If HP, Dell, and Lenovo want to stay in the game long term, they need to stop catering to the low end.
There is no problem with FTP so long as you implement the standard properly (with explicit SSL and PROT P).

But here's the crux of the issue- For better or worse, most people at this time still use FTP/FTPS. So not supporting FTP is like not supporting POP3 in 1998 when everyone is using it.

GoDaddy and Yahoo Hosting, at this time, both support FTPS out-of-the-box and not SFTP. (Yahoo blocks non-SSL FTP connections). GoDaddy only supports SFTP for paid accounts and it requires setup (http://goo.gl/a9UFRP). There's no native Python SFTP library at this time, but FTP-SSL has native Python support. Most non-IT people have probably connected to an FTP site, but probably not an SFTP site. You're correct about FileZilla Server, I was mistaken about that. Still, most Linux FTP servers have added support for FTPS.

In other words, for better or for worse, FTPS is the direction things are heading in and I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Please don't shoot the messenger. We default to SSL (unlike FileZilla) and prompt before fall back.

It would be nice if you could be more positive about our open-source work and constructively suggest that we support SFTP.
If there's enough demand, we can add it.
HDMI? Nope. Also missing from the Lenovo Miix 8 but will be present on the Toshiba Encore 8. Miracast is not an equivalent.
First, figure out what you want to do.

Most people don't do this soon enough, me included. I went to grad school thinking a PhD would be the magic cureall, and put off figuring it out, although I knew 100% I wasn't interested in academia and traditional research didn't interest me. All I did was put off key decisions, which when combined with financial issues set me back 3 years after I left grad school.

I rediscovered a love for web development almost 15 years after I first experimented with it, and I've been a happy camper ever since.
The FlyKly looks surprisingly similar! Anybody know why the Copenhagen Wheel isn't a thing you can buy yet? Was the technology not mature enough?

From their video it looks very similar with phone app, maps, traffic etc. I wonder how many patents they have registered on this thing. Does the Kickstarter account for that?
I guess you'll just have to define what you mean by "boring" then. People who can meaningfully contribute to solving problems are good programmers and good professionals, but they could still be "boring" in the sense that they're not interesting as people.

Let's say you had a coworker who was knowledgable about the problem domain you worked on, produced lots of good code, made great positive contributions to any design meeting or code review he was invited to, always had a free moment to answer questions, but he always brought leftovers from home for lunch and ate by himself and never really made a joke or hung around with the team in a social context and you never got a sense for what his personality was outside of work because he only ever seemed to get engaged when the discussion was about work. I'd say that's a great coworker, someone I would love to work with, but also a very boring person. So why wouldn't you want to work with this guy?
Running of the Bulls from 28 different cameras
That is my dream chair... Unfortunately, they cost north of $1000 here in Australia.
3rd-hand blog spam.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/news/j2j34b/episode-1704-wil...
Hmmm - I've no good evaluation of this page's accuracy, but the first graph here says a 90kg bike/rider needs 250W to maintain 20kmh up only a 4% gradient hill. That's not very "steep". 20kmh up a 10% grade (which _is_ a "steep" hill) requires ~600W.

http://theclimbingcyclist.com/gradients-and-cycling-how-much...
AWS EBS in 4 Steps
Are they using regular Lua? Because LuaJIT can actually be quite fast. Snabb Switch is written mostly in Lua and it features Linux userland ethernet device drivers. http://blog.lukego.com/blog/2013/01/03/snabb-switchs-luajit-... (edit: link to the code https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/tree/master/src/apps/...)

btw. there once was a project which added a Scheme interpreter to the Linux kernel. Sadly it's dead now: http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix/
wow, they use docker
Mozilla has a considerable stake on WebRTC's success, and a good way for them to push it's adoption is to help make useful web apps which rely on it. It would be counter productive, and a huge amount of wasted work, for them to support non-webrtc enabled browsers. As someone who is also actively working with the technology and betting on it's success, I'm actually happy they don't support IE/Safari.