skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Operations Engineer/Developer
20 grand isn't that much. Go hang out on mrmoneymustache.com or earlyretirementextreme.com and you'll see plenty of people with twenty grand set aside for "risky investments".

It's especially true right now, as depression era children have all retired after a lifetime of deeply-ingrained frugal living.
I didn't make the first argument and don't agree with it.

To me (not a lawyer) creating a commercial parody should not disqualify a work from being fair use per se. Campbell clearly backs that up.

The copyright act says the law should analyse:

"(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;"

The Girls parody is for a commercial nature, as was Pretty Woman. But the purpose and character of them are different - Pretty Woman was created as a piece of art that was created to parody Oh, Pretty Woman. The Girls parody was created to be the soundtrack of an advertisement for Goldiblocks.

There seems to be a slippery slope: should advertisers get free access to the oeuvre of popular music to use without cost, provided they change the nature of the piece? That would seemingly break "(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."

But that's just my gut feeling. I'm obviously not an expert here.
I suggested moving syslog support into open source nginx, and it's been accepted. Maybe show some support for it here http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/409
You’ve Got Mail… about STDs
By kids I meant teens.

Regardless, I've noticed the same thing on YouTube, they really need to fix that. Why are you running an add for car insurance on a video obviously geared towards children? I mean, why are you advertising at all on videos clearly geared towards children.
No, just as with Slashdot, I see it as very vocal but a definite minority, at least in terms of posts and comments.
"built to do multi master replication" is a pretty naive way of putting it. Couch does not (by default) support a multi-master cluster setup. The way in which couchdb supports mutli-master is "you have different servers that sync data and conflicts are resolved on application level". And I wrote "data" for a reason because there's stuff you need to sync yourself if you want to have multiple couchdb servers appear as one to the outside.
Nice app! How long did this take you to build?
I don't know a whole lot about backblaze; as they are a backup service, is there a good reason why they couldn't ramp up usage of tape drives? Perhaps keeping recently uploaded backups on-disk, and shuttling older ones to tape?
Not just that, the tiny piece of equity you do have is hypothetical "future money". I've been in multiple startups where you're trading salary for equity, and none of those stock options are worth the paper they're printed on now. You may get lucky and your stake actually becomes worth something, but those cases are the very, very small minority.

I'd take the extra $10k a year over stock 95% of the time, thanks. Or how about a matching 401(k)? Those are the kinds of compensation that show consistent returns right away, and aren't a roll of the (rigged) dice like employee equity.
Do your research. What he is accused of is considered rape only in Sweden. It wouldn't be considered rape in the US, the UK, or any other country except that one.
I disagree that limiting a website for discussion on a small set of topics - an "information bubble" - is necessarily a bad thing. A web site can be designed to become a platform for a wide variety of topics (like Reddit) - or it can be designed for a small subset.

The internet is the platform that provides the variety: Hacker News for some topics, and for example RCGroups, SpaceFlightNow, or hundreds of other topical forums for others.

While it is silly to complain about "community X is going downhill", I do miss the old "information bubble" that HN was many years ago. The YC alumnus Reddit has taken over the role of a general link-sharing and discussion on every possible topic platform for every topic - but there is no longer any website (that I know of) focused on the advice, thoughts and discussion of technology startups mostly by founders of technology startups.
It seems like this is not a bubble but a storm surge, with the 'wind' being the massive amount of liquidity looking for a positive return on investment.

It's disproportionately being moved into IT because it's one of the few markets that still seems to have the ability to generate a positive ROI, although that's probably been priced in already by now.

That would mean that when the market recovers and 'regular' investments like housing, construction, manufacturing, finance etc. start generating returns again the current craze will just die down rather than pop like a bubble.

It seems to me like the difference between hoarding tulip-bulbs during the mania to get rich vs. hoarding them during World War II to have a source of food as a last resort.
Modern life 'turning people off sex'
could you elaborate on what you mean precisely by "talent waste" and "misdirection"?
Hah, typo! I meant, "charging" not "paying".
I doubt it. Server farms consume an unreal quantity of drives. Desktops consume 1 drive per person.
Make it into a docker app please. I would love to be able to set up a bunch of these commonly used registries as a distributed app I can run on my machine with very little overhead. Have it set up to pull in bulk changes as a cron job or via torrents maybe?

Having my own personal NPM and own personal RubyGems would be awesome.
It's heavily based on Jerry Tessendorf's "Simulating Ocean Water" paper, so it only does open water: interaction of water and wind using Phillips' Spectrum.

So it doesn't model the interaction with land in any way.
Great read, I'm somewhat surprised Hulu being owned by the mega corps ABC,FOX,NBC etc.. would be using open source technology such as Python/Lua and Mysql/Redis shards, for some reason I always think these corporations are always pushing some huge J2EE/Oracle/.NET type of stack.
Overall point is good, but while I could believe someone could come up with a reasonable idea every day of the year, coming up with a good enough name for each one that's worth registering seems unrealistic. If you can do that, you could have a mind blowing career in branding ;-)
Now I know how you Unix guys must have felt like...
I wish there was more of this type of information about injection molding, that seems like more of a dark art than electronic assembly.

What do you guys think of having the component manufacturer source the parts? I've seen some that purchase parts directly from Digikey, but I'm not sure if they pool together orders for discounts, or if they just handle the purchasing so you don't have to. It seems like they could get a better deal than I could (I always assumed that a manufacturer would try to source locally in China and get stuff for dirt cheap, but they buy from Digikey too - seems kind of strange).

Does anyone know any good US based contract manufacturers? All the ones I've seen are ridiculously expensive ($17 for a 4" x 1" board with ~60 components, as opposed to ~$6 at Myro (thanks theunixbeard for catching that error)). I'd love to get something made here in the US, but I can't eat another $10 for my lights - especially for a service like assembly (where the quality seems like it won't matter that much - the light will work or it won't work). I've been toying with the idea of a stretch goal on Kickstarter to assemble some delta bots to do the electronic assembly (it'd be about $1200 for a single bot, whereas contract manufacturing is about $2000, but I'd have something to show for that money with a pick and place machine). Having a machine where you could throw a stenciled PCB on in any orientation, then pick and place the parts onto, and cook it on the spot (moving the camera up and watching for reflow) would be pretty awesome.

It's sticky being in the 'middle' - big enough where you need to use services rather than hand assembly, but small enough where you don't really have any purchasing power. The road to production has a big no man's land in the middle.

Ch00f has a great write up on the process of going through with contract manufacturing, and some of the hurdles he saw with the process - http://ch00ftech.com/2013/04/16/making-55-of-something-witho...
This is an hypothetical case, a thought experiment. I wasn't actually asking you to come to my country, don't worry child.

So yeah, in this thought experiment I'm a prosecutor and I'm calling you a rapist. Would you or would you not come to my country to answer questions?
They only have to QC them with the controller they ship with, instead of a hundred different PC's or motherboards. Not sure how much of a difference in cost that is.
I wish the Lockitron folks had read this before they started...

I think they're, what, 7? months behind schedule due to hardware issues. I get emails about it, and they're super nice, but 7 months is a long time.
Kickstarter to give a snowpark to some rich and sunny valley
> That would mean that when the market recovers and 'regular' investments like housing, construction, manufacturing, finance etc. start generating returns again

That's a bold assumption in itself already.
You don't say you're not money oriented in a job posting unless you intend to not pay a competitive salary for the skills you're asking for and the workload you intend.

It's pretty upfront about the fact that if working for Penny Arcade isn't a huge plus point for you, you're not the person for the job. That's supposed to be part of your compensation.
How does that bear any relationship to my argument?
I will throw in that, from my experience, external drives usually contain lower quality disks. This is fitting; external drives are primarily used for sequential access on a sporadic basis. E.g., backups, movies, archives
if you're not ready to sell now, why have a "buy now" button?
http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...

A glance at the graph above should explain everything. Though many assume the slope of the "perception graph" is monotonically negative, the slope is actually positive.
To all devs out there
A few thoughts of main about my work.
"Subconscious mindshare is the name of the game."

That's why the reactive mentality of the ad was particularly uninspiring. Dissing pink is not edgy, brave, or memorable. It's been done, it's over already.
Apache HTTP Server 2.4.7 released
Chef Versus Docker at RelateIQ [video]
Is it really that difficult to run a handful of LAMP stack sites?
The job posting is designed to discourage people not confident in their abilities. They'll ask pointed questions in the interview process that will expose any lie on your CV. Do you need to be a "Do-Everything Rock Star" to do the job? Not likely. Do they want someone who will work their ass off for less than industry standard pay? Probably. Will it really be that hard? Probably not. They've survived for 15 years without a dedicated resource. While the job posting may speak of an incredibly intimidating position, I sincerely doubt that the person that gets it will be up all night troubleshooting complicated python scripts.
I get that it's super cool to shit on Penny Arcade. It drives a lot of traffic to website and sometimes they deserve the vitriol. If they were a start up promising a new social media blah blah blah bullshit I'd have a big old hate hard on too. They're not. They're an established 15 year only internet media company that's looking to bring talent in house. The expectations of the job posting are absurd for sure. I think it's only meant to weed out fan boys that run their own CounterStrike server and think they could be the PA IT guy.
That looks nice, but I will never download it for fear of wasting too much time on HN.
What to Buy, and What to Skip on Black Friday or cybermonday
Although it would only be available for a fraction of prices, delta in "quantity available" between scrapes could provide some data.

Most websites don't relay this info to the end user but it could be used on those that do.
What's your problem with conspiracies? You seem to think it's synonym of "myth" or something like that. It's not, many conspiracies have actually happened (read some history) and continue to happen.

Besides, he hasn't said it's not a conspiracy. Just that this crowd doesn't fall for conspiracy theories with little evidence. Meaning there is massive evidence on this one.
I'd hardly call him the original author - A. it's based off Jerry Tessendorf's seminal Ocean Wave simulation paper from Siggraph 2001, and B. the code's very similar to Keith Lantz's non FFT version here, just in JS and WebGL shaders instead of C++:

http://www.keithlantz.net/2011/10/ocean-simulation-part-one-...
> ust to clarify - the bulk of the work here is done in GLSL shaders on the GPU, not with matrices in JavaScript.

I noticed that, which I thought was pretty cool. I was playing with it in Chrome on OS X when I realized that it wasn't doing too much to my CPU, even when I cranked the simulation up to max.
I will pay dollars right now for a curated classified ad experience that isn't the wasteland of CL.
computers have now become so powerful that this stuff is easy. you can implement it in a way which, aside from platform, is really quite naive and wasteful - and still get applause.

most programmers can come up with a much better solution to this problem if removed from google and forbidden access to gpu gems.

this is at least well presented though...

its a shame the code has been posted. whilst i normally assume that demos like this are unlikely to be smart or impressive these days - this time i know for sure. its actually a good deal worse than i ever would have imagined.

i'm still quite torn whether all this horsepower is a good thing or not.... on the one had we get a demo like this without much in the way of understanding or resourcefulness. on the other hand we have hundreds of man hours being wasted at dev studios because clever efficiency is rapidly becoming a thing of the past...
> Setting up a manufacturing process for a drug is often non-trivial, so if the original manufacturer stops producing a drug, it may not be worth anyone else's while to (a) create a factory, and (b) get their version of the drug through safety testing, etc.

So what you're saying is that drug patents add only a thin/negligible benefit above and beyond natural barriers to entry? I guess that's a good trade then--i.e., here's a "monopoly" (in your uncontested market) in exchange for the recipe of the secret sauce. From society's point of view, all that's left is to tune the expiration of the patent to coincide as closely as possible with the competition completing their tests and first factory without dissuading applicants.

Alternately, if competition is never going to reproduce the secret sauce as described in the patent, may as well do away with them since they could be scare would-be competitors from entering the market.
Only if you add a few zeroes. From the bug thread:

This sounds like someone pushed the old shas into the new
shas in some repo, which would be a ~1.5million commit push.
Serious question: What can you usefully do in C without a compiler? Write your own self-hosted compiler somehow?

I reject the notion that people who are skilled at using a set of tools are "talentless amateurs" because they don't know how to work without those tools, or create the tools from scratch.

How good is a master carpenter if you took away his hammer and saw?
Also, lots and lots of ad hominem.

Ad hominem is when you say, in effect, "You butter your toast on the wrong side, so I'm going to discount anything you say, you wrong-side-butterer, you."

It's not ad hominem to point out that a a specific claim ("I don't even really like toast," while sitting on a throne and dais made entirely of toast) is calculatedly disingenuous.

The argument isn't "This guy's a hypocrite and therefore he's wrong about absolutely everything," which would arguably be ad hominem. The argument is "This guy doesn't even believe what he's telling you right now, maybe you shouldn't believe it either."
"a steady income guarantee" plus access to good mentorship/infrastructure/etc.

Having done both, I find there's a level of engineering growth that you miss out of by doing freelance work. Most freelance work won't involve supporting millions of requests a day. There's value in that exposure.
Now you just have to be talented at producing garbage!
Apple and the Gambler's Fallacy
And yet, today command line skills are alive and well and will continue to be that way for thr foreseeable future. I don't see tablets as ever replacing a computer. It's like this article suggests: They are great from the consumer stand point but you aren't going to get programmers and server administrators using them to do their daily tasks.
You said "it's not exploitation; it's a trade." I'm saying the two are clearly not mutually exclusive.
I'm pursuing something even less structured -- forum posts. It may be a lost cause.
Well today I learned. I never knew that. Stupid mathematics and its inconsistent notation.
NSA using students as cheap labour
For the sake of job security, I propose using the comma operator to put the entire loop body within the for() parentheses, and replace the block with a semicolon:

// Pure C99 (prints an invalid character at the end)
for(
FILE *f = fopen("/etc/fstab", "r");
!feof(f) || (fclose(f), 0);
putchar(fgetc(f))
) ;

// C99+POSIX
for(
int fd = open("/etc/fstab", O_RDONLY), c = 0;
read(fd, &c, 1) || (close(fd), 0);
write(1, &c, 1)
) ;
Curious if the software would also weigh a person who never flags higher or just what you are describing.
Interesting. I've never once found a standard drive model inside an external.

I mean, of course they are standard form factors, standard interfaces, etc- they are standard 3.5" hard drives- but they are always some odd model number I've never heard of with a 32kB cache, 1 month warranty, and 3600RPM. (slight exaggeration).
However these days, the very principles that the country was founded on are used as a shield to lull the well-fed and entertained population into a false sense of security about the benevolence of the government.

I don't think these principles are used as a shield, I think they have been redefined and given the euphemism of "national security" to hide what the new definitions are, if there even are definitions beyond 'whatever we want to do'.
Awesome job guys. Could not be more impressed by your team's continual improvement of this rock-solid DB.
People value being not having to manually download and install software. You can either take advantage of this, or you can complain about it.
It's good to see a publisher trying a new business model other than advertising and paywalls. I like to see companies leveraging their core competency and providing it as a service. Priceonomics is killing it!
I don't think he meant background checks on the people, rather on the project itself. The biggest issue with the submission wasn't the fact that there was an ex-employee, but that the project itself (Upshot) was demoed at a meetup a month ago. If they would have done their homework they would have known that Upshot was an old project and obviously not created for, or at, the hackathon.
this is magic? isn't this precisely what the hardware was designed for? i wouldn't call this GPGPU personally - this is very much graphics.

GPGPU is more about e.g. doing multi-precision integer arithmetic on the GPU - where the processors are used for something which doesn't fit the 'streaming processor being fed vectors' pattern which the architecture was made for (of which this demo is a very good example) - quite literally 'general purpose'.
I also like how almost all of their development process is done completely in the open: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues

I hope that it ends up as a MongoDB killer within the next few years. They certainly deserve success.
Think You Know Touchscreens? Think Again. [VIDEO]
I said minor as in legal minor in the US... Sorry, english is not my first language, and although I tried to write in several ways, this was the best I could :( (I don't remember the exact age of the murdered, only that he was a minor)
"I got dough to blow, but I wanna blow it right" - Drake

Big advertising budget won't go to internet simply because TV isn't attractive anymore.
I'm beginning to think that a sniper rifle is the best answer to these trolls.

Props to Newegg for fighting the good fight.
> Consider that you are just practicing cargo-cult security though.

No, I really am not. But as I didn't describe my reasons, you don't have the context to understand them.

Frankly, if Netflix has 4-character passwords, I would expect it to be relatively easy to compromise their accounts live with a carefully put together campaign. If Netflix gets their username/pw database dumped, I expect we'll see their policy change as the passwords are trivially cracked.

Not only that, putting together a safe & sane password retry system isn't the easiest thing every, and doing careful fraud detection based on geolocation/ip etc isn't the easist thing ever either. Particularly when I don't have someone working full-time on security.

Further, what you also didn't know is that the password strength functions as written have knobs I can adjust if things are too onerous.

So having harder passwords goes a long way towards 'better security' on the account side for little effort.

I would advise you to be more cautious about making unsubstantiated statements based on ignorance in the future.
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I think one of the reasons the introvert/extrovert axis has come into prominence recently is that quiet, reserved and particularly technical people find it useful.

I'm speaking mostly of my own experience here. I've been seeing a shift in the world of work in the past decade away from the idea of the specialist into the all-rounder. People would often tell me in interviews/appraisals that it didn't matter how good I was at my job, the most important thing was my ability to communicate.

There's an increasing pressure to socialise everywhere - from open-plan offices and group nights to ever more frequent team meetings. The place I last worked introduced a yearly evaluation that required people to be popular across departments. One person I know was told "your work is top-rate, but other department heads haven't heard of you, so they won't vote for your bonus." The next year, he had to spend his time doing meet-and-greets rather than working on technical issues.

So here it is: Mostly, I want to get my head down and solve problems. I don't mind focused meetings, but I really find forced socialisation tiring.

The whole concept of introversion is a dream for me. It allows me to succinctly explain why I'd rather just get on with work. I have no idea whether it's scientifically accurate or not, but I do think that challenging it on that front is missing the point. Even if it's wrong, I'll still need a word for what it means.
Because they don't want to?

It's really nice when people open source things, but people don't have to do so, especially if they hope to make a little money off it.
Server farms store data for actual people. So sit back and think about how much unique data you have on servers somewhere. Add it up and I dont't think the total data storage at all data centers everywhere in the US add up to more that 20GB per person in the US as we are just not that interesting even at 5x redundancy your still at 1/30th a drive per person. Don't forget at 300 million people that would still be 10 Million drives which is a lot of servers.

PS: The NSA could be recording every phone call ever made and it's still not all that much actual data.
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