skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can we be sure that the attack wasn't inspired/originated by the site itself? Similar to how an EVE bank exited with everyone's funds after operating for almost a year[0]

[0] http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/12/biggest-eve-online-s...
Presumably, you are using the G+ profile. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

What your blank G+ profile will do is connect your YouTube video views, with your Google Map searches, Google searches, GMail, and whatever else you do. If you log in to G+ on a cell phone in NYC, they will know it. Then you take your cell phone back home to SF, they will know that G+ profile was logged in from NYC and SF.

You're sharing the fact that you're the same person doing all these activities across various services, various locations, various times, various devices, and with various people.
Also, this wonderful page too: http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
It exactly what you're looking for. No automated tool, library etc; In fact, you will need to have a automated tool: the Pascal compiler for compile your compiler. But I guess it is not a problem, right? :p the tutorial is really nice I’m at tutor6 right now and the guy really teaches step-by-step each little thing about we are going to working on. The toturial is unfinished but don’t worry, you can learn a lot with the contents he has provided so far. (sorry english, not my native language)
No kidding about building a new house in California. I was quoted an estimate of $250k by a builder just for for permits to build a 2200 sq-ft. home.

Additionally the used home that I did buy would be illegal to build today (as the house is nearly double the size of what is allowed on the lot by current zoning).
It does look like GMail, but the veneer is fairly thin. It is slow and buggy. And the transition for existing users was poorly thought through. It is Gmail with 90% of the look 75% of the features, and 50% of the polish. I'm a daily user of both, and have defended Yahoo Mail in the past, but GMail is obviously better now that they are so easily compared.
As though lives are more likely to be lost because 23andMe is putting more information out there than are going to be lost because of all the years behind we would be without extra information.

Take down the giants upon whose shoulders we could be standing upon and be happy that no one is so tall that they can fall and hurt someone.
I'm building a tech specs/req for a gov project. It's exhausting to distill the information down into a presentable format.

This makes _my_ job easier, thank you.
So the concept of this is to create a misleading page such that the CEO of a company would be tricked into signing off on an otherwise overpriced
service?

Towards the bottom it reads:

>Depending on the size, this could be as low as 7 cents per GB, per month - which is cheaper than Amazon S3.

However, after looking at both the pricing and signup page, it appears as
though the lowest you can get is $0.08 per GB, and that's only if you buy
10TB of space. That's also for a SINGLE off-site location. This is the
equivalent of "Reduced Redundancy Storage" at Amazon, which starts at
$0.076 per GB. However, if you want to compare apples to apples, you would
compare it to the 10TB pricing.

10TB Single off-site @ rsync - $9,500/yr

10TB Single off-site @ AWSs3 - $8,011/yr

10TB Multiple off-site @ rsync - $16,625/yr

10TB Multiple off-site @ AWSs3 - $10,009/yr

Every time rsync posts something on HN or Reddit, its always filled with FUD.
No one said unencrypted. Also, encrypted wifi can still be captured if you know the password to your own network.

Learn something: http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/17200/sniff-wpa2-network
We are all against OVER-simplification. I think what you meant to say was: "This article wasn't in-depth enough for me."

Maybe you should ask the author to add some further-reading references to the article?
Where I work now (.edu) I am seeing more and more people use personal webmail (mostly gmail) for all their email instead of the enterprise offering (outlook/exchange). The reason is just so they don't have to deal with the IT bureaucracy.
Copious amounts of caffeine. I actually bought a very nice espresso machine with high quality coffee as a motivation to get up early, and it worked.

Also, I've been experimenting with f.lux to shift my screen to be more red than blue after sunset. Supposedly the blue tint on screens reminds the body of sunlight and makes you more awake. I don't know if it works yet, though.
We don't, at least not usually. The mission design is for the satellite to go up to 80,000 km where it will do an orbital plane change then settle back down into a geostationary orbit. It actually uses less energy to do it that way than to just do an apogee raise up to GEO then a plane change.
Can't Gmail be set to login and use other POP3/IMAP and SMTP accounts?
One of my favorite tricks is how naturally mixins can be implemented (scroll to the bottom): http://arcturo.github.io/library/coffeescript/03_classes.htm...
Hey nitrogen! Thanks for the thoughts. We actually do have all of these options. Just log into Sqwiggle and click your own video which will put you into "Busy Mode". From there, users will have to ping you to chat.

Thanks!
-Matt (Co-founder)
As a condo owner, you also own a representative share of the land the condo is built on (not an actual plot, but an interest in the total value of the land). The condo can depreciate, but if the land appreciates, the overall value of your share can appreciate.
The log mechanism Prof. Stonebraker prefers, command logging vs ARIES, almost all newer data stores use command logging w/checkpoints (i.e., redis, mongo) and ship changes to other nodes similarly.

After running a large production redis environment, having a large redo log makes startup/recovery painful. I'm not convinced command logging is the most efficient in all scenarios especially when doing counters where the command is more verbose than the resulting change.
Still, it's impressive that it can transcribe both English and non-English words without knowing beforehand which language will be used.
I think it's just down-right unprofessional. I don't work in SV, but if the president of my company wrote something like that he would have been laughed at.

Making things "cutesy" and "funny", is just an obnoxious way to hide your true intentions. It's disrespectful to the intelligence of the people you are talking to. If you're the boss and you insist your subordinates use some product, then straight up say that. Don't try to be "nice" about it because it sounds fake and insulting.
"[NYC] is home to fashion, art, film, literature, theater, banking, and more."

Maybe its just closer to Europe?

More seriously, agree with the article. SF's strength is also its weakness: a huge concentration of bright like-minded people focused on similar objectives.
https://www.orankl.com/
12 year-old launches Minecraft server
Likewise, can we get some data providing (e.g.) negative indicators that race is a factor? A lack of correlation between gender/race and achievement would be useful.

As I said upthread, I don't think the burden of proof should rest solely on people who're questioning whether SV is basically a meritocracy. Either it's relatively easy to demonstrate that the claim is sound, or we have a lot more discussion ahead of us.

The important piece is not even so much to say categorically that "it's not a meritocracy," but to make the claim for data reciprocal. Ideally both positions should supply data, and in general I don't believe people expect data from folks who say "SV is meritocratic." People will rush to poke holes in people's arguments who claim the contrary, but I see a dearth of data & skepticism supporting the affirmative case.

If we're all supposed to be skeptical nerds, maybe we should apply a little more skepticism towards positions that, to skeptics like ourselves, would seem self-serving (i.e. it's basically is a meritocracy and therefore we needn't worry or take action).
More than 900 participants so far. Some statistics on the current, raw data in http://floss2013.libresoft.es/results.en.html
Minor quibble: banks do earn interest on reserve balances since 2008. The rate maintenance strategy was changed at that time to address cost instead of quantity.
sure, quit doing CT scans if false negatives or, more importantly, if false positives rate are too high.
"forgo". See http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/forego.html.
I have to second this, I had an unpleasant experience with them when trying to sort out a geolocation issue, their support team had no idea how to correct the issue & it took their developers a week to figure out how to fix it (apparently), it was a further week after the issue was resolved that I got a follow-up message from them telling me that it should be fixed.

And when I indicated my dissatisfaction with the experience I got 2 e-mails (and, when I declined in those, a phone call) asking me to change my "moderately satisfied" rating of the experience because Google doesn't consider "moderately satisfied" to be on the "satisfied" end of the spectrum.

It sounded like their support people weren't given the right tools to do their jobs & get harshly auto-performance-rated based on satisfaction surveys.
Leader of the Daleks Gets Linkedin Account and 600 Automated Contacts
Please remove the shameless promotion for the vape. It makes the whole post look like linkbait (even if it isn't)
I loved Yahoo! products. Back there in 1999-2000 Yahoo to me was a cool, humble, yet pioneer company. Their chat was cool, at the same level of ICQ. Their mail was cool too. The search was decent.

Yahoo! lost some of their coziness image and product. I loved their HTML3 look, to be honest, and most of the stuff the guys did. I wish I can make products for them and bring their productivity and usefulness back.
>they are simply (non-linear) function approximators that have a nice fitting algorithm.

Couldn't "function approximator" describe most machine learning approaches? And a nice fitting algorithm is of course the goal.
Do you really need an 80 inch TV? Have you considered the top of the line 65 inch Panasonic ZT60? It's the best looking TV available these days.
Have a developer's license for Gravity Forms and BackupBuddy and install those on pretty much every site.

If it's some small bit of functionality I will try to write it myself or do some creative copy/pasting. Most plugins are bloated with a lot of extra unnecessary stuff.
Bitcoin is hobbled as a banking reserve system as it is deflation biased and fixed in quantity, making it extremely difficult to accommodate any crisis.
Depends on what "luck" entails. Success is measured by something--for the sake of argument, let's sake acquisition price. But there have to be proximal factors; to be a bit reductive, no one is arguing that large companies pick randomly for the world of startups and them for millions of dollars. Perhaps the most immediate proximal factor is number of users or revenue or...whatever. You wouldn't say, "if it was just luck, companies would preform just as well whether they had users or not".

So the question with luck is how far down the causal ladder you start considering things inputs (i.e. things which may or may not influence the outcome) instead of outputs (i.e. things which might be the result of those inputs or of luck). So with YC, is that getting or not getting into YC is an input variable that we could check against success, or is getting a YC spot one of those proximal factors, and the luck was just in getting that, at least in part?

So the "is it pure luck?" question isn't very well defined, but the GP's argument might still be useful in answering it. Moreover--larger questions of luck aside--it would be helpful in determining whether the YC selection process is actually useful. But probably only if they didn't tell anyone about it.
This site is asking for my credit card but I don't see any SSL or VeriSign insignia. I want to support this cause but I never provide a credit card on a non-secured site, am I being paranoid or misunderstanding something here?
How is "different genes have different impact on different mental tasks" anything like a phrenological explanation?
Well, standard Yahoo! Mail has IMAP and POP support, so they could theoretically pull it into Gmail. They could also forward it. But I'm guessing all of those options are a violation of company policies.
Right, right. Let's skirt past the idea that men may be in any way responsible for the industry they dominate, and focus on the fact that women aren't creating enough GitHub profiles or having enough hackathons.

In addition to shifting the blame, this is a convenient way to avoid taking any sort of responsibility for our own behavior or our peers, so congratulations on squaring that circle.
Inflation caused purely by banking operations is as rare as a unicorn.
Thanks for replying - I interpret "proceeds" as "gross proceeds" so was confused; it might be slightly clearer to say "net proceeds" or "profits". Either way, very cool idea!
How would the website know?
How do you get a reaction on HN?
Intelligent response. Perhaps you should learn more about the labor theory of value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
Pertinent link: http://www.freetoolsassociation.com

Click on '2GS Best of' and then 'Demos' to see some of the IIGS demos.

Also : http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platform[]=Apple+II+GS&pag...
The thing that sucks about web mail is that when your browser closes, you might never see any of your messages again.

Let's say you get fired, due to a blazing inferno of inter-office politics at IniTrode. Let's say you are wrongfully fired. Let's say there was a damning e-mail sitting in your inbox to prove it.

Whoops! When you got fired, you lost access to your e-mail login. All your mail sits server-side now, and you have no proof of your transgression.

With an IMAP client, you can stay in the habit of retaining a stale cache of messages on your local machine. But if you drop that habit, in favor of a web interface, well ...beware of political lightning strikes. You might find yourself the victim of a lockout.

Everything disappears with a lost login, when it comes to the web interface. Not so with traditional e-mail clients.
> In the startup world, this analogy doesn't hold for a number of reasons. If you are genuinely skilled, you will succeed. Perhaps not on the first try, but you will succeed eventually.

This is complete bullshit on its face.
The best part about being out of yahoo employees being out of touch is they want to stay with outlook. Hopefully Marissa can go G+ on them and force them to switch... they login to outlook one day, and then boom its purple.
What are you talking about? If you don't have anything intelligent to add to the conversation, don't post a comment. Learn about what Jon Stewart and others that follow Marxist theory mean when they refer to the value of labor being the most important thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
> as a company it’s a matter of principle to use the products we make

Oh dear. You know, if you can't convince your people to use your offering, that's a signalling mechanism, if you make people use your offering that's denying you that mechanism,
Hackers vs. Software Engineers
I read 'hosting'.
>Only in situations where society has power over individual choice[.]

That is every situation in which exists something fairly describable under the name "society".
Insertion sort does swap elements in place so requires zero additional memory. It is like bubble sort but with better good cases and is as easy to implement. I recommend reading the Wikipedia article about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion_sort
Google uses "go/xxx" for internal URLs. Yahoo uses "yo/xxx". Who copied who? ;)
Call it "Doctor-assisted martyrdom" then. I'll be a martyr for the cause of not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on something pointless.
This does depend how you define the tech scene. SF only really figures if you're thinking web. Once you're into traditional software businesses or hardware the Valley proper is far more significant.
A Cop Killed My Child. Please Help Me.
While I'm not entirely sure how I feel about the "me too" altcoins, Gridcoin[0] was created for exactly this reason. Solving blocks contributes to grid computing for real world problems. Using ASICs would prevent them from switching, though.

[0]: http://www.gridcoinnetwork.org/
Intel "the chip giant" reportedly wants $500M for delayed streaming TV effort
That's not what the small businesses I speak to are saying...
Not to tear you to shreds, but Microsoft sure did great at popularizing tablet computing, next generation phone supercomputers, hardware industrial design, stores with the highest grossing margins per square foot in existence, and raising their market cap 50x to 100x since 2001.
Unless you are visiting companies or Stanford, it may not be terribly exciting ;-)
A lot of them also wind up in eastern Russia, even though the steering wheel is on the "wrong" side.
Like everything in life... Practice Practice Practice.... best advice to get good at what you do.
honestly the 9+ months of summer we've had is starting to get a little tiring. i want to start wear my hoodie again.
Well, split brain means two parts think they're both active. At that point, nothing can be done (short of manual intervention), because both parts are faulty, and likely, a bunch of others are failed.

But, to avoid split brain in a failover circumstance means that a replica won't come up unless it gets a majority of votes. There's no way for any other replica to also get a majority of votes, therefore only one replica will come active. No split brain. This, of course, assumes proper operation of the cluster management protocol.

(this is CP operation)
David Karp agrees with you

“you’d have to be out of your mind to live in Palo Alto.”

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/david-karp-is-...
Well, Gmail isn't all that free, in practice. I imagine a lot of the people around here have enough email to have capitulated to Gmail's inevitable demands for cash. I did.
Because there can be only one victim, right?
That would be not a problem if they didn't enforce to be REAL id. Although as I changed my first and second names to random characters, they at first suspended my account "until I fix it", but after some time removed suspension and now I am someone whose name starts with small letter, than capital, then some more random letters and few numbers.
here's some chilling evidence:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the...

we've only known about this migration spot since 1975, but
even in that evolutionarily-brief time, we saw as many as
an estimated _billion_ butterflies yearly, every november.

but the number has been falling.

last year had the lowest total we've known -- 60 million.

this year? 3 million. even toward the end of the month.

it's almost impossible to pretend that's not significant.

the insects we cannot see so readily, or track so easily,
are probably suffering the same kinds of collapses, but
we just don't know. we just plain do not know. it's sad.

-bowerbird
Those very morally justification that demands 12 year olds to work and earn a pay if they want to learn physics, rather than just letting them learn.

Or that morally justification that only allows a rich 12 year old child to listen to music from all around the world, and learn to be a great musician.

Or that morally justification that only allows a rich 12 year old child to watch movies and become a move creator of culture and thus learn from the past.

Or that morally justification that only allows a rich 12 year old child to experience a wide range of video games, so he later get inspired to make new fantastic and wonderful games.

Or that morally justification that only allows a rich 12 year old to use images programs to create images of art, or advanced physic emulators to become the next Einstien.

After all, the creator of copyrighted works need to get paid, and restricting 12 years old in learning is the only moral superior way to force such payments.
It's beautiful. Love the abstract patterns in the background. Don't serve much purpose but it compliments the look. Great work!
Perhaps using techniques similar to how sites can tell when AdBlock is used. For example, checking for the existence and sizing of a given element and ID.
From my understanding the only party that can make money without taking it from others are governments, though they do take as well.
Name that Blue
Exactly this. Even it's a VP in a big corp, in their mind they can be seen a "CEO". This is one of those things good CEOs do for their subordinates - they empower them.
How are salaries/living expenses in tech different in SF and NYC? Assuming you are living in SF or NYC, of course. Are they higher in NYC or lower or vice versa?
Is there a "battle"? I mean, a battle to me means there is a likely winner, and people are pushed into making decisions and taking sides. In 15+ years working at tech companies, I've never had to "pick" - I choose to live in SF - thats it.

Further, I've literally never, ever, heard a person who is actually running or employed at a startup consider it a battle.

But it does seem like a good headline for getting lots of clicks...
Just like North Korea. It's a perfect, magical place. Confiscatory taxes and monetary policy ensures near perfect equality. Full employment. Free government health care. All state run media, no Murdochs or FOX News. All businesses run by the state, no exploitation. The lowest domestic carbon emissions in the industrialised world. A vibrant cultural scene that is free of corrupting American imperialistic influences.

And yet leftists don't move there. It's baffling. Every single U.S. big government liberal talks a great game, but not one of them is willing to put their money where their mouth is.
The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
What's up with the weird coding standards? Include files named infinisql_*.h and #line statements... strange.
I am 80% sure I saw a "go/xxx" URL on a banner in a Microsoft office building in 2005, so it could be they both copied someone else. That said, it's a pretty good convention so I'm not surprised it got copied to multiple places, wherever it started.
Hi, amalag. Yes, Clustrix is very similar to InfiniSQL (not to mention having been around longer). I believe that InfiniSQL has vastly higher performance at least for the type of workloads that InfiniSQl is currently capable of. InfiniSQL is also open source.

I hope there's room for competition in this space still.
as cool as this is, it was dated august.

it's still (practically) impossible to do a proper LINPACK benchmark with open source tools on AMD GPUs, although this is a step in the right direction, and more importantly, a big blow to CUDA.
If NYC stays strong expect Long Island to grow with it. Office space is dramatically lower on the island and projects like "Nassau Works" look to centralize the tech hiring, making it easier to transition to more living space for less money.
Hi,

I'm Nicolas Nemni. My friends and I have founded a new startup that will begin operating in January. We will handle some VERY sensitive data about our users, such as sexual orientation. Due to the threats directed at LGBT people worldwide (in Russia for example), our concern is to protect their identity and associated sensitive data as much as we can.

Since we are currently bootstrapping, we have a limited budget. With that said, we are looking for someone who shares our passion for the project. If you are good fit for our team, you may invited to join as our Internet and Data Security Chief. Right now, if you are interested to work with us, we can pay you to set up the structure and to find our main security bugs before launch.

We are looking for a security specialist to secure our:
- Computers (5 Mac Os X based computers)
- Network (does not exist right now)
- iPhone, Android and web app

If you are interested, please use the form below.

Thanks,
Nicolas :)
The whole world is not waiting for the #1 economy in the world to tank with its currency.