skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that you need to be aligned with the companies vision, but I think conforming as others have mentioned would kill the very fire that would make you a great entrepreneur. You should come up with ideas and start testing them on the side ASAP. If you find a winner, then start working on it. When it takes off quit. If you have to work solo and find an idea that allows you to do that, then fine. You can't wait for an exit from a startup, and that seems to be one of the things you are doing that's unwise.

"Code-cowboying" is just fine if you do it on your own time. If you were doing it on your own time and they had a problem with it, then they clearly have a problem. Otherwise, it's not as clear. Politics are a real part of life, and that's why many people flock to startups (in addition to hoping for a payday) and to doing their own thing. If they aren't actively doing it, then they are dreaming of it. While I don't side with those that say that you should become political, I think it's worthing knowing how to do so just to buffer yourself against those situations where you must.

The responses to this question were strange. Everything about them is promoting conformity to the very thing that puts out the fire in most young engineers in favor of conformity to "The man." I can't agree with that. There has to be another way.
I doubt she cares even a little.
Search for the problem, not the solution
Move #14 (Nxc6) does not make sense. Why did Magnus do that?
Or "they" which has a good probability (at least, much better than 'it')
Yes, and rewriting is the real pain, actually.
Or thinking about the wrong attack, and giving up. Or just thinking hard about how to define something... Or... Research is hard.
11 months is almost a year.. Tingles my OCD.

The committer:

"Could you please wait until 23 December to merge this patch so we can say it took 1 year to accept this translation update? i don't like to say 11 month, and i think we can wait an other month, we already waited 11 ;)"
Are you assuming it is one single person behind the pseudonym?
Creating an ad system where you post what you can offer to do and what you want, like an offer and demand system, and allow to search by location.

Orient this on activities and jobs, and allow people to post their interests so that people can find people that have the same interests in the area. You'd only need to ask users what they want to share, and disallow for people to search beyond their area.
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From US District Judge Denise Cote: "Taking basic practices in human commerce and culture and adding "do it on a computer" language ... would lead to the absurd result of allowing the patenting [of] the computerized use of even the most basic abstract ideas."

Indeed.
radiation adsorption occurs at an atomic level too fast for anything chemical to happen WRT the adsorption, so a peculiar arrangement of atoms can't have any effect on overall shielding levels other than bulk density (like how much "stuff per inch" depends on what stuff is). The hack of the system is the very peculiar arrangement of atoms for this specific fungi can make productive use of the gamma energy which most living things can't do. From a nuclear standpoint long after the gamma is ancient history the chemistry can get started (theres a big timescale mismatch). A plain old mushroom or any ole biomass will block the gammas as effectively as this one. Of course a plain old mushroom or biomass can't live in that location; nothing to eat.

It would be like building a firewall that acts like any other firewall, except under DDOS conditions it uses a whole network of diodes and stuff to store up the electrical energy of each attack packet. This doesn't work with routers because they take maybe "hundreds of watts" to run but the received laser power might only be "hundredths of watts". For a fungi that grows slow enough and has no competition in its niche, gammas are apparently enough.
Are you speaking of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"?
yes, bitcoin originated in germany
The term Hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson, probably 1965. Check out his book Computer Lib/Dream Machines. He envisioneers the internet quite well.
The reason for this: as a modern Western society, we no longer have much in common, we no longer have communal rituals, and we share very little in values. Thus people drift apart and worse, "friendship" has come to be an act of convenience.
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coinmap.org has a pretty slick interface for people to search for brick and mortar businesses accepting bitcoin. Although it is incomplete. It would be nice to have BitPay and Coinbase share their merchant data with coinmap so the industry has a better, complete search tool for consumers. Only way to promote consumer appetite to spend vs. hoard bitcoin is with better awareness of merchant acceptance.
Take a look at the HP Moonshot servers for comparison: http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/products/...

These boxes have internal slots for 45 blades. The current generation blades are Atoms and run a variety of Linux OS offerings. Future blades will be geared towards memcache, GPU, and other types of clusters. I got a couple of these at work for eval a little while back, and it's a pretty interesting package.
It'll get significantly easier soon enough, but at the moment it's no easier to load your PayPal with money.
Haha, I still edit some of my HTML in TextEdit or some simple txt editor... It just opens so much quicker than Dreamweaver...
How would you legally define "software patent"? If you figure it out, please let the Supreme Court, the CAFC and the USPTO know, because currently nobody really knows.

As for "ammunition", look up the Berkeley Patent Survey [1]. The only damning thing you'll find in there, though, is that entrepreneurs in software on average don't think they present a competitive advantage, so "only" 60% of software startups file for patents. And it's typically because investors ask for them.

Edit: I misremembered... It's actually only 25% of all software startups in the survey, but 67% of VC-backed startups.

1. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1429049
I wish more hackers would understand that you don't fix sociological problems with technology.
Well for one I dont see any price advantage of ARM compared to Intel. ( In this area ) 8 Core Atoms are Cheap enough. The Atom you are referring to are First Gen Netbook Atoms. Which are indeed very bad without any serious software optimization. The Atom i am referring to is the newest Avoton C2750. Which will soon be available in the OVH new brand SYS range.
Assuming every thing else stays the same, Memory, SSD/HDD, Network etc, the cost difference between a Atom Server and a ARM server are in the range of early double digit figure. And there isn't a $5 ARM broad. The ARM SoC provided by Marvell Amanda would have been double of that already. So the cost difference for a rented dedicated server between ARM and Intel Atom would be at most a few dollars difference per month. Not to mention Atom is still a lot of more powerful. Website usage have spikes, no one wants a server that could barely handle the load it is getting at today.

ARM has the advantage in Smartphone and Tablet where there are no software compatibility concern, and it is working at 100s mW range. In Servers these two advantage disappeared.
Look at the MOSAIC v.0.1, thats how simple should be browsers.
Was just kidding. Sorry...
On a large commercial shared host...
Okay. I have a client who is hosted on hostgator, if you find any issues let please let us know!
And I guess Netscape v.0.9 is the design inspiration for latest microsoft office design ;)
You're going to miss out on a lot of good things in life if you persist with this hyper-cynical attitude. How you managed to arrive at such a twisted misinterpretation is baffling, but it's a comment on you, not the book.
I sure wish I had the free will to agree with you.

Unfortunately I'm predestined to incorrectly ignore your arguments, maintaining my misplaced belief in free will.
I've been working with an awful shopping cart product with template 'tags' that produce HTML containing <center> and many other unsemantic abominations.
You also see <font> tags still come up on stack overflow... Old tutorials will never die, it seems.
> copyright violation

I tend to be on the opinion that all forms of art are in the public domain by default, unless explicitely stated. So, there would be no breach of copyright here.

However, there is a clear breach on privacy rights, and I'm scared no one in the article or here seems to think that this is the reason why Moore should be prosecuted. The author says than more than half of her contacts are on the site against their own will, for something that is private to their life. That alone is not OK. Copyrights have nothing to do here.
Exactly. I have quite a few clients where management and executive shareholding staff actually work for a different company than the rest of the company.

Typically, this is called something like CompanyName Management Ltd. which sources all its products from CompanyName Ltd. The management company owns the other company, but they are two separate legal structures.
1) The Pill. The washing machine. The various reductions in mortality in childhood and childbirth. And hundreds more.

Technology and society are inextricably linked. Democracy, for example, is significantly enabled by technology, as is the liberation of women from servitude.

2) I said "can we fix this?". I didn't say anything about using technology to do it.

For example, my original point #2 - a book ain't exactly a technological advancement at this point, but it might be one of the things that would help most.
Coined '63, published '65 according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson

I'm old enough to have read Computer Lib ('74) when it came out, I have a first edition which I imported into the UK by sending some sort of international money order to a US bookshop. For some reason I also have a second edition.
"Lunacy in the name of religion"

Umm... That's par for the course....
I think this has been tried, although I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head.

It'd be really interesting to find out why it didn't work well.
Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays
If we could turn it into a NUMA machine with 48 CPUs, that would be a totally different story.

This particular version seems to only support 1Gbit Ethernet, so I don't know how well that will work.

Still, we're talking about 192 cores with 384 Gbytes of RAM, that's got to be useful for some kind of workloads. Can you get that kind of density with Intel or AMD?
Actually the closest comparison seems to be Viridis.

http://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/default.aspx

Both have 12 cards per shelf, each card containing four quad-core ARM processors. The Dell Copper cards are a bit beefier, at 1.6GHz and 8GB and 1.4GHz vs. 4GB for the BL Viridis, OTOH, the Viridis processors are 64-bit and the shelf is 2U instead of 3U, which might more than make up for the other differences.

At that density, the big differentiator is likely to be power (and therefore heat). Viridis claims 5W per server, which is even better than the SiCortex boxes I worked on. I don't see a number for Copper, so my gut tells me it's probably more. The question is how much more.
I don't think these are ARMv8 (64-bit). Applied Micro should be the first one to the ARM server market with such chips, and I think they will be available soon:

http://www.apm.com/news/appliedmicro-announces-general-avail...

http://www.apm.com/products/data-center/x-gene-family/x-gene...
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C: In the Princess Bride the Dread Pirate Roberts chooses a successor which will use the same name.
if you use a mixnet that is higher latency between hops than tor you can create a network that even a global adversary can't penetrate passively. i2p-bote and mixminion being two real world examples.
The quick 'n dirty recipe to test the disk write speed isn't ideal, since there's the buffer cache which significantly skews the results. A much better way would be:

> sync && time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1M count=10000 && sync"

Then just divide 10000 (or whatever value you choose) by the number of seconds elapsed and you should get a much closer approximation of the sequential write speed, taking into account completely flushing the buffer to disk.
> Extract tar.gz in new directory: tar zxvf package.tar.gz -C new_dir

For quick reference, since it seems to be hard[1], these are the flags you'll most need in tar:

c = create
x = extract
v = verbose
z = gzipped; compressed.
f = file

So for example `tar xf example.tar` will extract that tar file. Or `tar cf example.tar .` will pack all files in the current directory to example.tar. For compression and verbosity, it would be `tar zvcf example.tar.gz .`. The .gz at the end is optional, but now others can see what kind of archive it is. Extract .tar.gz files with `tar xzf example.tar.gz`.

For bonus points, here is a poor man's version of scp/rsync:

# sending computer
tar czf - . | openssl aes-128-cbc -k 'secret' | nc -l 1
# receiving computer
nc 192.168.1.102 1 | openssl aes-128-cbc -d -k 'secret' | tar xf -

[1] Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1168/

Edit: replaced all asterisks with a period (.) since it would become italics. Tar is recursive by default, so it should work the same.
NTRU public key crypto released to OSS community (alternative to RSA and ECC)
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Nice piece. This definitely resonates:

"Braces should go on the next line. Braces should go on the same line. Use tabs to indent. But tabs are evil. You should use stored procedures, but actually you shouldn’t use them. You should always comment your code. But good code doesn’t need comments."
This is incorrect and misleading right off the bat. Ctrl+Z does not "send process to background." You will almost always need to use the bg command for that after suspending the running program.
Likewise, it is spelled Unobtainium, bot Unobtainum
This book is absolutely fantastic. I devoured it in 2 afternoons, unable to do anything else. More exciting than some fictional thriller.
I think sometimes it is hard to understand people who are just in a different place to us. We have values, and those change over time, and they reflect the values of society, which change over time. Is someone living true to their values so bad?
If you're interested in this phenomenon, you might like Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

http://www.phenomenologycenter.org/course/status.htm
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That was exactly my experience, I taught myself HTML this way before I had even used the internet.
Nice post. A few more of my own:

1. There is no substitute for the hours spent coding. Sure, you can waste a lot of time, but there's a high correlation between hours spent and skill attained.

2. You can do almost anything with almost any tool. The energy spent debating tools would probably be better spent building something.

3. One of the biggest differentiators between a good coder and a poser is the willingness and ability to go several levels down. Deep understanding comes from deep diving.

4. One of the best ways to deep dive is to benchmark. The milliseconds gained will be a byproduct. The real benefit is your understanding of what goes on under the hood.

5. Write a framework. You may never use it, but you'll never be the same programmer either.

6. Almost everything you do will take longer than you expect, no matter how experienced you get or how good you get at estimating. If it doesn't, then you're not taking on challenging enough work.

7. Once you regularly deliver great value to others, you will often feel like an imposter. The compliments will exceed what you think you deserve based upon how hard it was for you to build. That's OK. Accept it and enjoy it. It's payback for all those hours you slaved away and no one knew what you were doing.

8. If you maintain a sense of wonder and delight every time you get something new working, you will probably never get burnt out. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

9. When you look at your old code, most of it will suck. That means you're always getting better. But some of it will still amaze you. Embrace and harness that energy. Try to recreate the conditions under which you wrote it.

10. Name your variables properly. That will always be half the battle.
Because people refuse to use hand-written machine instructions!
It's not a joke, it's Obamacode. Allegedly there are 500 million lines of code running healthcare.gov. That figure is, of course, wildly inaccurate, not unlike most everything else concerning Obamacare. But their PR people passed this number to journalists in an effort to blame the sheer complexity of the project rather than run-of-the-mill incompetence.
The danger is two-fold: firstly the USA is losing friends abroad, 'allies' are realising that at best they were slightly favoured underlings but never equals. At least this is explicit from the outset with China.

Secondly, America's power and influence is fading, slowly admittedly, but fading nonetheless. Like here in the UK your turn will come when you realise what it is like to be yesterday's bully boy. Ours came with the break up of Empire, yours may come when the world calls in your debts or builds walls to isolate your corrupt financial structures.

America was once admired and respected. Now it is increasingly like some blundering fat tourist in a brothel, people pretend to be nice to you because they want your money. But really, nobody is your friend.
Considering the Cryptolocker executable does absolutely nothing to elevate itself to admin or exploit the system in any other way, it sounds you're arguing in favor of a walled garden system where only preapproved binaries may run.
The only, ehm, evidence you've put forward is claiming to the authority of "reviewers". I guess that works for you.
Are there any ARM servers currently available to Normal People?

I got excited when I first saw the headline because the last time I looked I didn't see anything available in the hobbyist/small business price range.
I don't think it's a bad thing, unless they are really stealing the source code/layout of the page. Most successful businesses are not original ideas, but just slightly better/different iterations of an existing idea. Now I am sure that building a website for South Africa has it's own challenges, e.g. number of languages spoken, slow internet connection to the rest of the world, different cultures, etc. Why not have an South African version of X?
Wouldn't insertion sort be even better then? As far as I recall insertion sort is always better than bubble sort, easier to understand too so I do not see why bubble sort is so popular in CS courses.
Intel astroturfing contact is out in force today
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"Error establishing a database connection" :(

Here's a Google Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5z9gUWv...

Content is typical blog style content and even comments come from Disqus, so ther should not be any reason to connect to a database with every request.
I'm not from the US, so don't really know why there is so much focus on the website rather than the healthcare itself in the US news. But now I'm wondering, what language is healthcare.gov written in and did they put every keyword on a new line?
Speaking of genome sequencing, if "immutable" and problematic group differences exist, genome sequencing is a crucial step toward making them mutable. (And if they do not exist, genome sequencing will help establish that.)
In my late twenties, a combination of things helped me somewhat (I am still lonely, but not nearly as much)

* Psychotherapy (it takes time to find a therapist that clicks, though)

* Antidepressants

* Not trying to hide it from my colleagues / family (the period when I did that was a miserable one)

* A few well-intentioned friends from work

* Family support

* This guide : http://www.succeedsocially.com/

* Meetup et al.
Given ARM reigns the mobile space, and if it gains traction in the server market, it will put tremendous pressure on the PC market which lies in between.
Have you ever thought about joining local sports clubs? Preferably team sports as it's a great environment to meet people regularly and share a common interest, practice, participate in competitive activities against other teams. Well, I probably don't have to explain sports to you.

And even if you aren't a sports guy, depending on where you live you might be able to find a group of people interested in the most obscure activities. The point I'm making is just that it is a lot easier to make friends if you start by sharing interests and just regarding friendships as a natural byproduct instead of the primary goal.
In contrast to what she is saying, there is a true path. The true path is: use whatever the coding standard for that particular company or project says. There is nothing more annoying than people having different formatting settings and having each commit/diff being 80% formatting changes and 20% actual changes.
I use the keyboard almost exclusively and it's annoying to have to tab through everything just to get through the article list. It would be nice if I could push the arrow keys to navigate the article list (similar to google search). Thanks
So, this statement assumes that anything bigger than ~ 13k half-lives (how did they get this number?)

And in the case of the decoded sample this is ~ 1300 half-lives
From what I've heard, Satoshi's coins are spread around a lot of 50 btc wallets, and they're not so much known to be Satoshi's as suspected to be hers because there seems to have only been one person mining the blockchain at the start [1].

As other people started running the clients, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell Satoshi from any other miner.

So though Satoshi may never have spent the bitcoins mined when she was the only miner, she could still have mined and spent many coins once there were a few hundred other miners.

[1] http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-fo...
Not even preapproved binaries. No binaries at all should run by opening them from an email. It's simply a usability design decision by the developers of the email reader.
The answer might sound logical to you but all this time I thought the expansion was Hyperlink REFerence. My HTML education started in 1998 or 1999 from reading a PC Magazine series of articles on how to program in HTML. I don't remember how I got the wrong info and frankly didn't bother to care about this difference but I clicked this article with a smug face and reached the bottom feeling childishly embarrassed.
Twitter explains how Netty 4 gives reduced GC overhead
What list is MG Siegler on?
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I agree with all of the points of the author. I'm currently in the process of teaching myself iOS development (nathanmorgan1.wordpress.com - for anyone who's interested) and have experienced some of the issues the author addresses first hand. I'd like to say little on 'teach yourself to code' programs.

I often see these type of programs criticised here but personally, I can't say enough good things about CodeAcademy and it's ilk. Even though I'm learning iOS development its learn Javascript tutorials proved invaluable for me. It's true, I wasn't building a 'real' project but the courses demonstrated to me that I had an aptitude for coding and encouraged me to keep going with their light-hearted approach and 'rewards'.

When I came to start learning iOS development, I had a range of transferable skills and knowledge that I could call upon, for example I was comfortable with loops, declaring variables and manipulating/defining objects.

So I think while these courses won't take you from beginner to employable or experienced, they do serve their own purpose.