skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't there some way to get hypertext into man pages? Eg extend nroff. Then you don't have to have a parallel system.
EEPROM -

Electronically Erasable Read Only Memory

It's re-programmable (i.e. by re-flashing it).

edit: I should add that motherboard manufacturers could prevent this type of attack by "locking" the BIOS for flashing unless it was explicitly unlocked by changing a setting in the BIOS menu (some have this already, I believe). The problem at the moment is that the BIOS is writable at all times, even when the OS is running. This makes BIOS updates easier (i.e. you can make a Windows application that can do so, for example), but the problem is that this allows ANY process with Admin access to alter the BIOS as well.
Which, as the parent said, does not seem to describe this bizarre malware. As described, it is so exotic that it requires some serious suspension of disbelief for a lot of people.
Fab.com’s ‘loud-mouth misfit’ co-founder calls it a day
That conclusion is absurd and totally wrong on so many levels. It's the same as saying:

"This is one of the reasons that demotivated me from developing commercial software, the constant pressure and lack of respect towards the taken decisions."
Not "just" rom, EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable) Read Only Memory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEPROM
Interesting point. On that note, does a JVM exist that can run on bare metal?
I do upgrades on some machines, but for some servers (firewall, dns, print server), it just takes a lot less time to do a fresh install. I keep the configs, keys, etc. under source control and can put it all back faster than doing the upgrade.

It is also pretty good practice for anytime those servers go bad. It helps to be able to put temporary replacements in service from whatever I have lying around. I can save the hot spares for machines that have user data on them (e-mail, file servers).
As the article states, it is a holdover term from a time they were Read only.
If you can write CFD code, you can figure out linked lists.
Agree, it seems like a complementary tool for people who know how to code. I also would have loved to have this tool a couple of years ago to help explain certain concepts to my boss (an HTML/CSS naysayer), i.e. 'these are the kind of layout things that can be abstracted'.
Ken I won't tell you what we're paying down here for tuition then ;)
This idea already exists. RPX Corp. Costs a fortune though! Can be 6 figures a month...
The site doesn't give a lot of information. Where to you go if you want to know more?
Why? He's kwin maintainer based on merit. He'll continue to make decisions the way he did before.

What you're suggesting is that insults are acceptable. And if you read his posts correctly, he already explained that his decisions were based on technical merit. However, if the other side totally fails to be able to handle being judged on technical merit, then too bad for them.

In brief this is what he's saying.
If you are willing to get in touch privately, I'd like to check up to see what happened w/ your situation.
And where have you seen proof of constant bugging? Can you point me to some public discussion?
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This is handled in the parser. There are two productions, identifier and reserved and the two don't intersect. Reserved identifiers like true and false match more eagerly than regular identifiers.
Unlike Canada's two other highly reputable schools (U of T and McGill), Waterloo's reputation derives largely from the quality of its graduates over the last few decades, not from the fact that at one time they were the only university in their respective regions. Old money vs. new success. I say this as a U of T grad.

The McGill that earned McGill's reputation hasn't existed since people were going around in horse-drawn carriages.
This would make sense if it disaggegated itself into containers (ie, for rail/ships), but the moving the barge itself not so much.
My experience (late 2007-2012) echoed yours. I'd meet people from Western Canada who hadn't heard of Waterloo, but anyone who'd been in the valley for a while would have a story about someone they'd worked with from Waterloo or how much they like hiring newgrads.
Do you at least ask for a raise first?
What I usually see in the credits for AAA video games is a handful of programmers - 5 - 10 - for the game itself, a bunch more for the engine - if they are credited at all. Most 'programming' done in video games is actually scripting, i.e. player touches button, door opens.
These articles are always written from the same perspective: collectors who invested in a particular item when the market for that item was at its peak and now they are shocked that it didn’t retain its value. It isn’t all that different from buying Dell Stocks in 2000. You don’t realize it is a bubble until it is over.

From running Zistle.com I can say that in sports cards at least, these 'bubbles' in price are often correlated to current events. I can guarantee there is a spike in the prices for Ortiz cards right now and in 6-12 months they will go back to normal.

These articles totally miss the fact that the savvy collectors in the market are always the ones selling the cards during the peak and not buying. During Linsanity, there were Jeremy Lin basketball cards selling for several thousand dollars and now you can pick them up for a couple of bucks. Savvy collectors knew that this was their moment to make money and they took advantage of it. That was the peak of the market. If you want to know who is profiting in the collectibles market, it is the people who pay close enough attention to what is hot right now and not people who wrap items up in their closet for 20 years.
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What's paranoid about his management style?
What's the largest possible volume of a taco, and how do I make one that big?
If you are seriously suggesting that Tim Cook would have been ousted had Apple not gone down this road, I think you and the rest of the world are just going to have to agree to disagree.
Exactly this. I left one of my previous employers after I got passed over a second time for a SDE1 -> SDE2 jump. It's been two years since I left the company and I've been repeatedly approached by their recruiters for SDE3 positions ;)

Sticking around for promotions is a fool's errand.
Possible? Sure. Likely? Not remotely. Additional overhead? Not in my experience. Sounds like more speculation. At this point I'm comfortable with the bet I made in calling it out.
In an early phase of MIT's EECS transition from Multics (going away, Honeywell sucks) to UNIX(TM) on MicroVAX IIs, i.e. some users, but not as many as latter.

# kill % 1

Instead of %1. So I zapped the initializer, parent of everything else, logging everyone out without warning.

I had more than enough capital to avoid anything more than the deserved ribbing, but it was my Crowning Moment of Awesome devop lossage; harsh but minor screwups in the decade previous had trained me to be very careful.

I've avoided being handed the horrors of many other posters by primarily being a programmer. You full timers earn my respect.

ADDED: Ah, one big consequential goof, related to my not being a full time sysadmin but knowing more than anyone else in my startup. Buying a Cheswick and Bellovin style Gauntlet Firewall from TIS ... not realizing they'd just been bought by Network Associates, who promptly fired anyone who knew anything about supporting that product.... (At that time I didn't even know about iptable's predecessor, although given it was a Microsoft shop....)

I was fired from that job in part because I was the least worst sysadmin in the company, totally consumed with a big programming and database migration effort (Microsoft Jet -> DB2 -> DB2 on a real server), and gave opinions that others sometimes accepted and implemented without due diligence. E.g. I said "this is a competent ISP", not "you should also use their brand new email system" (which I didn't even know existed) ... visibility all the way up to the CEO is of course not always good....
That reminds me of this story of a family who "invested" $100,000 in Beanie Babies:

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/how-one-family-went-b...
Ignoring adverse selection, having insurance means "There is someone with a shitton of money and lawyers ready to go toe to toe". This means there are better targets. Much like a home security system: easy enough to circumvent, but easier to just move to the next house.

Of course, if all of those who sign up are willfully infringing legitimate(ish) patents, the calculus changes a bit. Perhaps the insurance company would insure against particular patents?
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Trust me, you will be back to ubuntu. They are actually good and competent.
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While I agree on limitation of indexes - you get 3 - table name, partition key and row key, you can 'nicely repeat data' by embedding it via serialization.

I ported my db from mongo over to storage tables. I was embedding data, so I didn't have to do two lookups, and when I moved over to storage tables, I wanted the same thing, so simply serialized via protobuf - works a treat.
In a two party system, being in office a long time isn't necessarily a sign of being loved by your constituents, it can just be a sign of being disliked less than the alternatives that get offered when elections come around.

And there's few political organizations in the country better at producing candidates unacceptable to the the statewide constituency they are offered to than the Republican Party of California.
Well it's not quite so transparent in its naivete, since a lot of people have tried and failed to create decent visual editors for HTML & CSS in the past.

This particular editor does seem a significantly better attempt than previous efforts though, namely that it seems to be written with a understanding of the equivalent, idiomatic code.
I know the feeling. I collected quite a few baseball cards in the late 80's and early 90's and spent lots of time sorting, categorizing, making sets and attending shows. I ended up losing most of the cards due to Hurricane Sandy last year, but most of them were worthless anyway. Looking back, I guess the fun of collecting and trading cards with friends was the true value.
Good to see them getting some renewed hype. They were on a roll for a while, but the buzz seemed to die down.
It's not just how good they are. They have a different attitude from students from elite US universities. More practical, less arrogant. I'm not sure whether it's a Canadian thing or a Waterloo thing though.
If this is indeed the work of Flexycore, there are some explanations here, although they don't go into a lot of details either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEAz9fRoDmA&list=UUowARqiVYk...
Depends on your end goal I suppose. Not everyone wants to learn development. Some people just prefer getting things done and this tool certainly has potential to help in that regard.
How much time do you spend on HN?
yeah national average productivity jumped up by 50%
I'm the co-founder with the family restaurant…

We showed it off to a number of marketing managers of local restaurants in Boulder, CO and have since sold subscriptions to a number of restaurants in the area. Since the launch, we've gone through a number of tweaks and actually end up removing "features" fairly often. We know that restaurant owners are busy, but we continue to understand what they care about and what information we should drop to make their days easier.
I've not done a direct comparison but it feels solid under load. IO bound processes seem to balance IO fairly i.e. no bad neighbour problem where one process will starve another and a fork bomb won't take out the system even though I managed to hit a loadavg of 80! It still was very responsive.

Secondarily, I have a VM on BigV which seems to suffer less pauses and oddness than Ubuntu 12.04LTS did.

Works nicely on UltraSparc machines (U30 and U60 tested) as well which is a bonus. I still find them superior to Intel even if they are power hungry and rather old now. Context switch time seems pretty low on Sparcs. Not sure if it uses hardware contexts or not though - haven't looked at the code.
Maybe this isn't relevant but I've often wondered if it could be useful for people looking to raise money on Kickstarter to put a cap on the amount they raise. If you really only need 75k is it always a good thing to end up with way, way more than you asked for?
I like /mnt/scratch/ for that. If I was using systems with lots of others, I'd make it clearer with /mnt/tmp/.
Well, this is by design of FOSS.

FOSS is about freedom. One can do whatever they want. I don't see what is sad about this. The drama is what is nonsensical.
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I too think it's a bit more. Speaking as a physics major in co-op, the co-op program has taught me (and I'm sure will continue to do so) a great deal in terms of entrepreneurship as well as software. It's taught me a lot of things I wouldn't know about running a company had I not actually been in one/heard people who've started one talking about it.

Combined with the people who are here, waterloo is dripping with a sense of vigour that if you go looking for it will send you to great heights.

Think about it this way:
Your buddies are starting companies, earning many thousands of dollars and changing the world in important areas; are you simply going to sit around and graduate? I think not.
To elaborate, I think they began using Cloudflare just the other day, as a solution to the DDoS. I was able to get through by the time I checked it in the morning from home, but after getting to work I still couldn't access it for hours while the DNS change propagated.
I suspect that most HN readers are those who have "made it", relative to many in their respective societies. The professions that are often represented here are usually well-compensated, and there are successful entrepreneurs here, to boot. So I would expect people to be a bit more sympathetic to your anecdote.
Thanks for sharing this, it's easy to get stuck in our Silicon Valley bubble. Thought it was really interesting how CodeAcademy was framed for mass media.
I was 30 when I started teaching myself to code. Had a music degree and a good amount of success in the music business. I spent the first 18 months or so wandering all over the internet just trying to figure out what I was trying to figure out. Now I'm 35. I have a good job, a family, a house, basically all the support structure you would want in your life to help you along. This stuff is still, to me, incredibly hard, and I have an insane work ethic and a decent amount of intelligence and everything I need to learn.

So no, most of them probably can't.
Cribbed from a recent Quora answer of mine:

The Waterloo (CS/Eng) intern ecosystem is immensely strong. First year students generally work at the best companies that they can, often taking smaller startups where they are able to learn the most. There's a steady transition to final co-op terms, where most classmates end up working in Silicon Valley, Redmond, NYC, and their own startups. It's a great place to be if you want to be part of the brain drain.

Like many well-known American business schools, UW has the fortune of having graduates opting to return term-after-term to hire interns. Since UW interns are full-year round, this creates a dependency of companies to hire interns (compensation is less than full-time employees, but it's still nice).

While I understand that other schools may have 'almost' co-op programs, Waterloo's is the largest one in the continent (and perhaps the world too). By having multiple exposures to different employers, the school provides successful students the ability to quickly ascend the ranks of the corporate ladder while receiving academic instruction on how to be better at their jobs.

I understand a common problem at other universities is that courses are not always relevant to the real world. By placing students constantly in contact with production code, there is a strong backlash against badly taught and irrelevant course material. Waterloo is grounded in the real-world, as I think most of us live in it.

My only complaint is the geese and the timezone. I'd prefer to be on the west coast, but Waterloo is home (until Winter term).
Rails 4.0.1 has been released
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and those figures are worthless
A is a reference to B which is a reference to A.

So A is just a reference to A, and B has nothing to do with it.
I'm not an Ubuntu user, but I thought that it was possible to use other desktop environments like KDE, XFCE, LXDE etc.
see also: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/mir-in-kubuntu... for more details.
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This is something big tech companies have known since the dot-com era (Amazon & Microsoft have been recruiting from Waterloo heavily for over a decade).
Nice app.

I think Comp Sci classes should take these have baked start-ups and let students take a crack at them.

So after you add your destinations what are you supposed to do?
I concur. Accessibility takes a backseat yet again.
No, he is being to dramatic, I think he wants attention.
Concerning crappy Ubuntu UI, try Linux Mint. I prefer it to both Windows and OSX (best of both) after minimal customization, ie vertical maximize on title dblclick.
CF can cause a small DoS as it does some aggressive pre-fetching. So your server needs to handle short bursts really well. Not to mention whitelist CF's IP space both in the firewall and nginx rate limiting.
Yeah I guess I don't really know what I'm talking about... but having had to open Xorg.conf a couple of times over the past few months I'd be happy to leave X behind.

http://xkcd.com/963/
Eh, this tale of ultimate unattended service reminds me of my favorite Daniel Boone the frontiersman quote: "I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."