skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a big hassle because many of the things that cause you to get up from your computer will both distract you and require your hands: spilling coffee on the table and running to get a paper towel to wipe it up with; stopping your baby, in the same room, from touching something they're not supposed to; retrieving the next season-DVD of a TV series from your bookshelf. It would be far better if the computer "failed safe", so to speak.

Auto-lock/"screensaver mode" (wow, remember when computers had screensavers?) sort of does this, but the time the computer is most vulnerable (especially in any semi-public setting) is right after you dash away, not after it's been sitting idle for 15 minutes. When a computer's owner could come back at any minute, the best time for a social engineer to strike is the moment the owner leaves.

The last case especially (watching a marathon of some show with some friends) reveals an interesting bit of etiquette: it's rude to lock your computer in front of friends--it implicitly suggests they're likely to mess with it, and that you don't trust them enough to mess with it in a way that's merely funny, rather than potentially harmful. The great thing about an automatic proximity-based lock would be that, in going to the bathroom or whatever, the computer would always lock--so there'd be no decision to make which could be read into. (This is oddly similar to rhetoric regarding the incentive-structures of birth control pills vs. condoms.)
That's really unfortunate. I was having visions of literal gold farming becoming a viable real-life vocation. :) 500 trees per ring is probably too inefficient to make it worthwhile.
This is what happens if you think in one language and write in another. :) Yes, I am from a bit south of Germany, from Slovenia.
Do you know how much those GPU's cost? This isn't a $1500 home gaming machine, it's a standalone server. And spending $3-$5k on a Dell server with dual video cards is completely reasonable. Some of the Tesla cards run for $3k+, by themselves!
I think that he's a really smart guy who actually would have figured out the problem if I had not interfered.

The word credibility was a bad choice on my part. It's hard to write a better description of myself because its embarrassing. I can be really frustrating and people frequently develop a strong feeling of disgust toward me. I'm right often, but that alone isn't the problem. Every once in a while I point out the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. Sometimes I meet people and I'm right in the middle of tearing their work to pieces and that is forever their first impression of me. It's too embarrassing to go on.

And so this can lead to a kind of occasional willful blindness on the part of people who just can't take it if I'm right yet again. I hope no one sees this since I'm going into way more detail than I had intended. I think he may have said to himself, "if he's right, he'll be able to claim to all his friends that I owe him my fortune. I can't bear that. I think I'll stick to my lawyer on this one."

I just wanted to post a story that would show how I had lost my boss a lot of money. I tell people my faults as a personal observance. I see now that the readers here are very astute and I should have either told the whole story or held my post.

Just as an aside, I think my boss was quite disgusted with the whole situation. If i recall correctly he left shortly after the second payment. He definitely didn't hold me in any greater esteem at any point. Honestly I hope he forgot that I was involved.
Before Google Wallet was "heavily integrated into Android and Google Play" there was a service called Google Checkout that was "heavily integrated into Android and Google Play". This service was replaced by Wallet, the parts highly-specific to Android were migrated, the rest of it was mostly scrapped, and what little remained was reborn as unrecognizable Google Wallet services (such as Wallet Objects). This all happened this year, and anything using Checkout that wasn't Android was given six months notice to migrate, in most cases to third-party recommended services (such as Braintree, which was since purchased by PayPal). Again: Checkout was "heavily integrated into Android and Google Play" in that they purchase process for apps used it; developers even had to have Checkout accounts to sell apps, as the sales were directly reported through that interface and accounting backend. Why, then, are you so certain that the same thing wouldn't happen to Wallet?
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This is very interesting - particularly sharing feature. As video shows http://paulgraham.com.letsrecap.com url (Not just paulgraham.com), does it work for all sites?
How much does a 4 Tesla rig cost?
So then how do you go about making money and else?
The article was not very clear.

R&D ventures was an offshoot of R&D labs which is a seperate vehical entirely from TimeSpace and their early stage investments.

The ventures team was created to monetize the work from R&D. However the group was not able to perform as well as they were expected to. In the end the team cost more than the revenue they produced.
You get ECC RAM, but mostly you're paying for drivers. They are usually slower for gaming, but provide better accuracy and usually crush consumer cards in pro performance.

Interestingly enough, EFI flashing a RadeonHD 7970 gets it recognized as a FirePro D700 in 10.9: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1594669
No, they are not required to make a full copy available to the court in order to enforce copyright.

The US Copyright Office has a FAQ document which explains what registration does:

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

A more detailed explanation is in this pamphlet:

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf
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Yes, it worries me too, but it seems the tide retreats slowly.
> Facebook is 62 million KLOC on the main site, excluding the backend. And I'll argue that Facebook is one of the most complicated sites out there, feature-wise.

Assuming you mean 62 MLOC, I have no problem believing that the backend implementing federally-operated healthcare exchanges for the 27 states that didn't set up their own state-level exchanges is on the order of 10 times as much code as Facebook has when you exclude Facebook's backend.

> I wonder if this is actually combining all 50 states' health exchanges (and their third-party insurance API connectors), which MIGHT make sense, given an average of 10 million lines per state site.

The federally-operated exchanges at issue are "only" for 27 states; the remaining states operate their own exchanges. But, yes, obviously any count of the LOC of the federal backend is going to include the exchanges -- that's what the backend is.
I love my t430s. After using it for a few months my wife's aluminum MacBook feels awkward and heavy.
So is the 8 core. I suspect they'll simply offer two "base" models, from which you can select an option to double the number of processors, and thus cores. Just like you can select a different processor on a MBP.
It's a variant of the Chi-Rho symbol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho
Sure, because blocking HTML5 ads is soooo easy.
We make money by charging companies who are willing to hire our students. This does not cut into our students' salaries.
Indeed: "That's because Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers. The shareholders put up the equity, and instead of owning a claim on a steady stream of fat profits, they get a claim on a mighty engine of consumer surplus. "
Right after seeing Bender dance, that was the very first thing I noticed as well.
I would say the same. You need to be a local to know your way around. Until you become one, you are going to miscalculate your arrival time. This is why good developers are exponentially better than bad developers.
Of course not. Only he can unlock his coins, and he can use them as a bargaining chip.
Sorry, but how is this necessary? Given the talent crunch, it's not exactly hard to find a job. (Recruiters are already too aggressive.)
A port scan won't pick this up, if you're coming in from the Internet. This is still behind the firewall, and even if it did pick up that, on your internal network, your router had an open port, that'd not be new information, as all routers have a web configuration interface.
I've found setting up a hot corner (I use the bottom left on OS X) works well for locking quickly. Quick flick of the wrist locks it no matter where the cursor is, and unlocking it is basically muscle memory for me.
I suppose you are right; that's why those truly paranoid filesystem drivers delete the keys from memory after a minute or so.
Huh, maybe cooldeals and recoiledsnake were the same entity; looks like both stopped commenting at exactly the same time.

But the more salient point is, were he/she/they completely wrong in their accusations? Were all the examples he/she/they presented of articles dropping off the frontpage just instances of flamewar detection, or natural HN ranking at work, or something else?
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When you get as big and as powerful as Microsoft you could almost see the company as a country. It's akin to America and its export of culture (hollywood, music, tv shows, etc..).

You will find people that embrace it (large majority all over the world) and others who despise it with a passion and still others who are indifferent. There are those that dabble in it once in a while to see what the fuss is all about and those that actively resist it to make sure their culture doesn't get polluted.

I would say for the most part, the HN community is like Quebec in Canada. Largely in love with their own culture and heritage (in this case open source stacks and Linux) with a strong feeling to keep it that away. But, Quebec also knows that English culture and the English language won't go ahead as its too pervasive so they try to do their best to keep it in check. Just as in Quebec, you have people that love the English culture and follow it but not too publicly.

I have noticed HN crowd is likely very SF focused and the biases tend to skew that away.

Well, so much for the analogy but at the end of the day, its part of the territory when you become as big and successful as Microsoft. The same ASK HN would be relevant if the company was changed to Google, Apple, IBM and so forth.
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It is completely normal to hire someone you're willing to invest in.
If you're going to a job interview, and don't get the impression that they're willing to invest in you. Then you should take that as a warning.
It assumes that the average person aged 65 will live to 84, meaning as many will die before as after.
Good catch! I think it tried to format my double hyphens as a dash. Should've thrown it in a code tag.
The back end is the entire API.

But I tend to agree the size claimed has to be way off.

They might be including database rows as "code" who knows.
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It is also possible they are including the insurance provider database rows as "code".
Yes, one of the reasons I ended going Windows 7 instead of Apple was that they only supported OpenGL 2.1 for a very long time.

Apple systems still leave a lot to be desired if you are serious about 3D work. And the new Mac Pro does not seem to be worthwhile of a 3D workstation.
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Actually, traditionally people have always talked about Nokia phones in terms of numbers. 6300, 3310, 1200, 1208, N95... Sure it's kinda difficult for new comers etc, but i guess at one point Nokia was big enough to have the luxury of everyone knowing their products by numbers. Though, as you point out, they should consider a better nomenclature, especially now that they aren't that prevalent anymore.
Genetic modification to the rescue! Would be even more valuable if they can do it for toxic metals like arsenic and mercury.
Quick question...Healthcare.gov can't rely on AWS or other cloud services, right? At some publicly owned companies, I've heard from dev friends who say that one of the reasons, bandied about by their IT people, that they can't move important things onto the cloud is because of regulatory reasons. I imagine such a mindset exists inside government, and much more so given that it is private health data that we are talking about.

Anyway, just throwing in some early conjecture before we get into the ok "if obama's campaign site was so great then why the fuck healthcare.gov??"
Yep, it works for all sites.

Recap saves a snapshot of the page and hosts it, to make sure that your saved selection will be available even after the webpage has changed.
I doubt it's Chrome's fault. I read the whole thing on Chrome for Android. Moreover, Apple doesn't allow Chrome to use its own rendering engine on iOS, so problems with web rendering tend to fall squarely on Apple's shoulders.
Sorry, I guess the karma comment was undeserved, but you will always get more up votes if you say "Bret Victor" in your title, intentional or not.

Good luck with your work and I'm glad my essay was useful!
Compresed ram ships with with distros since some time, eg in Ubuntu 12.04: https://petermolnar.eu/linux-tech-coding/add-ram-to-ubuntu-1...

The LWN article is about it shipping with the Linus kernel.
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In my opinion a flash animation still outperforms a CSS-based animation in many cases. The problem with flash was never that it was inherently slow, but that people abused it to do slow things. On the security front though, you are absolutely right.
So it's actually "receive a warrant, lose your 4th Amendment rights". Uh, yeah, obviously, that's what we want, reasonable search and seizure.

tptacek thanks for being the voice of reason in these infosec law threads.
You've only further encouraged me. I'll start work on it this weekend.
I'll agree with you with respect to laptops. Desktops are a different story. Non-Mac desktops are much cheaper, especially if you choose to build it yourself.
It mainly has to do with the fact that this is the second article from SVN to make the HN homepage today, and we can expect to see a continuous stream of articles being submitted until the book launch.
That's not "unbelievable" and doesn't "make your eyes bleed" unless you've never looked at the source of a webpage before.

The first file is a couple open source libraries the site's using concatenated together, probably automatically by a good deployment process. It's nothing but Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery, a few jQuery plugins, a JSON parser and a couple arrays. Other than extraneous whitespace, there's nothing that needs improvement in there. The warnings you're pointing out aren't in code written for this site; they're in the jQuery carousel plugin.

That second file is well-formatted, well-structured and human readable HTML and jQuery doing some very basic DOM manipulation, and each block of JS code appears near the part of the document it manipulates. The front-end code is easily better than 99% of what you get from contracted-out work in government or elsewhere. In fact, the markup, class names and JavaScript read just like many modern startups' sites.

I don't think you looked at any of the code you purport to be criticizing. I also don't think you realize that the front-end website you're trying to poke at isn't part of the same code base as the troubled and over-budget marketplace application. The front-end site was built by a small 12-person startup, Development Seed, with modern methodology, tools and libraries, openly on Github, and is really not much more than a well-designed static brochure site. They worked out of a garage and finished in less than 4 months.

The code others are speculating about is the backend enterprise application, written by an entirely different company, CGI Federal, that runs the marketplace portion of the site. We don't have access to that code.
That's definitely false. PRAM only contains firmware settings and boot parameters. It isn't big enough to contain drivers.

If the display driver is at fault, grandparent wouldn't even see a mouse cursor.

I don't know anything about 'properly cleaning the kernel caches', but it's clearly not a problem since grandparent was able to continue by rebooting.
It should be worth noting that if you run Adobe's Creative Suite (version 6 and below), it has some compatibility problems for a number of users, including me[1] while running it on Mavericks. If your business depends on this software, I would advise you to wait for a few more months until these bugs are fixed. Overall, very excited!

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6538803
...and, additionally, connecting several ports to the same network segment/switch in many cases gave you immediate, effortless load-balancing.
OWC looks like they have some decent Thunderbolt drive options now: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/

Barring that, if you're looking to add lots of storage, there are a lot of FW800 ($30 adapter) options. Also there are some ridiculously cheap USB 3.0 options but they look like they have lots of problems (build quality, firmware).
I know what you mean though. I have chrome plugins installed that prevent autoplay, flash, widgets, facebook, and a whole lot of other things. It's awesome I can have 40+ tabs open and not have to worry about lag.
Ironically, this submission is at #8 even though it has 290 points and was submitted just 4 hours ago

Meanwhile the #2 item was submitted 5 hours and it only has 90 points.

IMO anyone who observes HN reaction to any Microsoft topic (that isn't a virulently anti-Microsoft submission) knows that these topics will get pushed down to the back pages. In some cases, the reason may be flagging, in other cases, it may be the flamewar reason (that pg cites above)

Regardless of the reasoning, it is unfortunate that pg is unwilling to admit that this is a problem (and unfortunately, he does also reflect the thinking of most HNers). Fwiw in terms of disclosure, I was an SDE, then dev-lead at Microsoft in the 90s/00s and dev-manager for a few years later on, but I left the company in 2007 and since then, I've been running the company I founded.
Sorry .. I did not intend to imply the flamewar detector was going to delete anyone's comment. It was going to do one of two things:

1. Turn off comments

2. Turn off comments and hide all comments to date.

You can't have it electing to remove one comment or another. At most it could delete a top level comment that was the spawn of the flamewar. But still, I say hide all comments and turn off further comments. That way we still get the benefit of the story.
> Why do professional programmers write code like this?

Because we 1) for some reason or another we _must_ use C or C++, 2) we're coding for a single CPU platform, and 3) we need to get the friggin' job done in this century.
Oh my gosh, I just read the definition of imposter syndrome. I have to tell you. I have eight children in a small three bedroom house that is falling to pieces. We live paycheck to paycheck. I don't own a suit, or dress shoes.

I would say you need to have success to think you don't deserve it, so I'm pretty sure I don't have imposter syndrome. It was awesome that you suggested it though, I'm going to make a joke about it to my wife. You have my best regards.
Source: BSD and MIT-licensed software.

(Unless I'm misunderstanding, you can charge for GPL software, you just cannot charge for the source once they've got a binary. You also can use your own fork of GPL on your hardware without releasing any source.)
I've seen outages lasting a couple hours from components like transformers breaking, but that's a different issue from the grid itself not producing enough power to meet demand. Can't speak for Prescott Valley though.

Interestingly, the only article on a Phoenix area blackout due to high load I was able to source happened in the winter... probably caught SRP totally off guard:

http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Rolling-blackouts-sparked...
http://endpoints.io/autocomplete

no, this code snipppet showed how to make an autocomplete server in 10 lines, and deploy it ready for use in under 1 click without the sysadmin hassles.

thanks we're looking for more examples & would love suggestions. but you can replace the ^ code with anything a nodejs app can do in the same editor. you get a full fledged linux environment running a nodejs server pulling the right dependencies based on 'your' code. more stacks coming soon.
All the threads about this 500m line claim has been filled to the brim with people highly skeptical about the claim. No, "HN" does not believe the 500m LOC claim
> Wow. If you tought a memory stick pretending that it's a keyboard was a serious enough problem, just wait untill somebody thinks loading random drivers from the device (or the web!) is a good idea.

Oh, come now. Any competently-designed USB penetrator will have your system owned seconds after you plug it in, with no further interaction from you. Running drivers from the device poses no additional risk beyond what you've already taken.
I missed Phil's talk. I'll check it out once the videos are posted.
Most consumer routers actually work fairly well as APs. Once you've turned off all the routing functionality, which are the most complex and resource intensive bits, they seems to actually be pretty stable. I'm currently using an Asus RT-AC66U, which is complete overkill, but I wanted reliable AC wifi and it was the best option at the time. Prior to that I was using an Asus EA-N66R AP.

As for how this relates to the exploit discussed here, your only using it as an AP, you'll very rarely need to login after the first setup since it really isn't doing much, just Wifi <-> Ethernet bridging. If using a consumer router the WAN port isn't connected to anything, no outside access to worry about (unless you did some funky forwarding on the pfsense box). You should also disable management via Wifi. That limits any access to a wired connection to the network, meaning someone is already in your apartment to physically patch in with an ethernet cable. Any security bets are off at that point. If you want super extra special security you can setup firewall rules on the pfsense box that only make the AP's IP address accessible from a particular port.

As dumb as this exploit is on the part of netgear, remember that to exploit it the attacker had to have already broken the WPA2 security to access the wifi or physically plugged in with ethernet. The first vector can be avoided by simply turning off management via wifi.
libGDX is awesome! Without knowing anything about it, I built a simple Bejeweled Blitz clone (but with a hexagonal playing field) in one weekend. Too bad it's kinda stalled now, making very slow progress, and I don't even know why.

Here is an HTML5 demo with the current state of the game: http://smartician.com/hexathon/
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Flamewar detector sounds like a bad solution IMO. Why not warning/banning system to handle comments? As long as the argument is factual, without fallacies (and not subject to Poe's law), I would be glad if we could keep the discussions open even if people have radically different views.

If you indeed insist on closing the comments on flamewar detection - good courtesy suggests keeping the comments open for public review.

As for the conspiracy folk, why not make a multiple account detector and ban such folk?
If he gets convicted of a felony it is pretty certain he won't be able to work on high frequency trading systems that compete with GS, which is likely all that they want.