skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of them although close.

You don't have to take my opinion seriously. I could work in Tescos and be splurging false information out on the Internet. I could be an elaborate hoax!

However, please don't write off people as "just some enterprise business that isn't exactly known for its technical competence" because we all know that startups get it right all the time as well...

As for do I know versus do I think, there is the third option do others know and that is all that is important when it comes to getting paid...
It was given for dramatic effect, as he adds, the Prescott had an extremely long pipeline.

It's not really relevant to compare to other more modern processors, because those both exist and have a traditional architecture. The Mill both does not exist and does not have a traditional architecture (at least in the prediction regard).
Have you watched all of the lectures? Your questions are answered in them. The Mill is not at all like other VLIW architectures.
It depends where you worked.
I suppose HN is also infiltrated. Those damn 'hackers' must be reading Hackers News, right? I hear some are even 'small government' types. I can understand why people think that must be the reason every NSA article disappears of the frontpage after 40 comments...
My question is, how did anyone find out this combination? Is this part of the documentation that anyone can get, or is there a rogue Xbox developer out there sharing this information with 4Chan trolls?
I go where I'm needed :-)
I can't downvote anything, despite my account being active for more than a year. I would most definitely downvote a lot of stuff, but HN just won't let me.
TLDR: Primarily looks for a good market. Without a market, fund only if founder top 0.01% (whatever that is).

An insightful, actionable blog post. A true gem in the HN treasury.
Fair enough. Yesterday night I also added the following in the first paragraph of the README file (and detailed description in Chrome store): "As of December 2013, the extension comes with preset blacklists totalling over 45,000 distinct hostnames."
Relevant (from 2010):

"Detecting Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Activity in Second Life and World of Warcraft", Angela S M Irwin, Jill Slay - University of South Australia

http://ro.ecu.edu.au/icr/5/
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This is a fine example of Stack* giving huge rankings to very bad answers. Big O is about execution time not complexity. (And describing execution time as "time complexity" as some comments do is ridiculous. A lot of something is not more complicated than a little of something. 4 isn't more complex than π -- and no, I'm not saying the reverse is true either.)

A plain English explanation of Big O notation shouldn't take more than a few sentences. It's not that complicated, especially if you don't get into nitty gritty.
Say there are a couple hundred servers in various games they're observing and participating in (not an absurd number given that one person with a 40-hour week could play quite a bit), it's reasonable to assume multiple agencies might overlap servers.
Ubuntu was not the first product that would have sprung to my mind...
Have you considered whether weight might be the limiting factor on number of coins in a truck rather than volume?
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Some sort of etherpad clone.
Amazon drones are 'fantasy,' says eBay CEO
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possibly the worst website i've even seen on hn
Thats a good point, but I've always found the killer app for big O notation is something the answer claims is wrong impossible:

"You can't compare an algorithm to do arithmetic multiplication to an algorithm that sorts a list of integers."

I rarely if ever implement just a multiplier or just a sorter. I end up implementing systems. And if everything in the system is linear or small poly but step #7 is exponential, then comparing Big O for unrelated algos is extremely valuable for me to estimate how long the overall system is going to take and where optimization effort should be placed for best improvement, etc. Don't waste time on making something linear a little faster, when I could be trying to refactor something exponential into something merely poly, somehow (assuming its even theoretically possible per some big O evaluation). Or refactor the whole system to be only poly.
Nginx is now the no. 2 webserver, ahead of Microsoft-IIS
The back-end to GOV.UK is designed to be very configurable by non-technical users, and many of their routes are dynamic. While Puppet could be used, the process of automating those edits, then rolling them out to all the servers, but in batches so that no downtime is experienced with restarts, configuring load balancers to be aware of this, etc, etc, the whole process has lots of points that could fail.

It really sounds like a dynamic front-end that is aware of the routes would be a much better idea, far less that can go wrong.
Google says I was at:
Yiwu, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China, 322001

I wasn't.

I'm guessing that data is pared against a MAC address of a router that once was in China, that is now in the UK.

I assume that my android phone saw the beacon and paired that data.
I'm really surprised Elon Musk only got 11 votes.
Aaaand it's wrong like 99.9% other explanations:

f(n)=O(n^2) is actually NOT f(n) asymptotically grows as fast as n^2, it is f grows “no faster” than n^2.

“As fast as” is f(n)=Θ(n^2)

Edit: oh, and Big-O is not “a relative representation of the complexity of an algorithm”
This is not as silly as it appears.

I spend a lot of time 'in' an online game playing with one of my relatives. We have a collective circle of online friends and we know when something is up with any of our friends. If they have not logged on all day that is a cause of concern. Equally, if someone is going to be away from the game for a few days then they will let everyone know. I doubt they would email the same to everyone in their address book.

With aforementioned relative I know if she is working from home, on business or with time to herself. Her involvement in the game shows that. I know more from her gameplay than I do from emails or from what anyone else in the family has to say. Important family news is relayed in game rather than on the phone or in email. Email might be moved to if something needs to be discussed away from a public forum, but, that first message, in-game is best.

As for online friends, I am not that picky. I have online in-game friends from all over the world and I don't care if they are raving Christian nutters. In real life I would not have time for those that want to quote the bible to me every day, but I will tolerate it in-game, so long as they further my game goals. Therefore I am easier to befriend in-game than in real life.

I get up to things that my friends and family don't get to hear about, they are not to know. However, if I was to be targeted for spying then the in-game communication would show whether I was busy with something else or not. I don't have to conspire with others in-game for the communications to be useful, so I don't think the NSA/GCHQ actually have to be looking for 'bomb plots', just a level of game devotion.
Also considering the lack of exposure and the amount of flack Elite: Dangerous is getting compared to the other space games it's also the gamers who sadly don't care.

Btw here is an interesting interview with David Braben somewhat before the time of Frontier: Elite 2's release.

http://amr.abime.net/review_38271

http://amr.abime.net/review_38231

http://amr.abime.net/review_15452

Here is a reddit AMA from a year ago.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/15od2s/i_am_david_brab...

There is also an impressive universe simulator called Space Engine and they are planning on adding gameplay to it, but it will probably take a long time before it's ready.

http://en.spaceengine.org

There is also Pioneer Space Sim that started as a Frontier: Elite 2 remake, which is also still WIP.

http://pioneerspacesim.net

Also be sure to check out the Elite: Dangerous FAQ

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ#W...
The point is that it hasn't happened and probably never will. No nuclear armed country has ever been invaded. Despite all predictions to the contrary, there was never a World War III and it doesn't seem like there ever will be.
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You are actually right. Unused land you occupy can eventually be yours, to some degree. Its called 'squatting' and while it has issues it can correct some imbalances.

I agree moral absolutism is tricky. But think of it as first principles. You have to argue from something or its all situational ethics, which depend entirely upon your point of view.
Reflectance vs. wavelength curves for aluminium (Al), silver (Ag), and gold (Au) metal mirrors at normal incidence.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Image-Metal-reflectan...

(Found via a comment in the earlier submission[0] and discussion of this item. Thanks to gus_massa[1] for finding that[2].)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246065

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gus_massa

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6874210
Found the "instructions" (obviously don't follow them): http://i.imgur.com/7HZxhzT.jpg
Wasn't Topiary busted because of using Xbox live? Wonder about that informant now
I think they established the reasons for it fairly well in the blog post, and even better in the comments elsewhere. I'd say they are the right tools for the job.
It's in the extension's pop-up menu: click the top-right icon, and there is the option "HTTPSB on/off" (recording continues though even if off, so one can still see what is going on in the page).
I'm not - he's only a businessman, not a political activist, and his companies haven't done anything particularly spectacular this year (Model S was released in 2012).

Remember that the Graun is still a UK-based paper, and we don't idolise business-folk the way the US does.
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I'm not complaining about space exploration expenditures when we still haven't accomplished world peace.

I'm complaining about us wasting money on COMPLETE NONSENSE. If you think "investigating" whether Al Quaeda is communicating versus gnomes jumping on top of the auction house is a valuable use of taxpayer resources, why aren't we investigating whether terrorists are using kebab interval-spacing as a communications medium?

Funding SNAP will feed my fellow hungry humans. Funding the NSA will... Who knows? We just have to take their lying word for it.

Usually I treat posts like yours with a base modicum of respect, but I'd really think twice the next time if I were you.
I'm curious if it's a internet/tech/silicon valley thing, or something else.

One theory: Most of the telecos are mostly USA based companies, where as Google/Facebook/Twitter/Microsoft/Apple/Yahoo have a large amount of customers/business outside the USA.

So to some people outside the USA, it becomes "Don't use Google/Microsoft, the US Government can see what you do", which is different from US customers thinking "If you use this teleco, then your government can see what you do."
And there I was hoping he was finally getting out of the way and letting Scala succeed with more... diplomatic people doing the advocacy.
Isn't Erlang just a (semi-)functional language with Actor Model baked in? I might be wrong but it seems that you just need any dev familiar with message queues and functional style.
Wow, this reminds me of the other time I cringed watching news media understand "the internets" and struggling with the concept of email. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUs7iG1mNjI
In 20 to 30 years, when this becomes part of history, I would be interested in tokenadult asking those same people what they thought of "Gitmo". Then they should ask their children. Later, they should ask their grandchildren.

One hopes that it will be a feeling of shame, or at least outrage. Sort of like hearing how Rosa Parks was treated when she tried to get a seat on the bus.
Having worked along side a number of government projects, I can confidently say that all the projects based on "off the shelf" products end up becoming vastly more expensive because you usually end up with hugely expensive support contracts with BT / IBM / MS / Oracle / etc and often the solutions need some bespoke tuning to work the way needed, so you add on expensive consultancy costs to have the software adapted to fit.

Where as developing stuff in house means that you're employing significantly cheaper labour (namely, the rubbish salaries that most get in the public sector vs the private sector) and as a bonus the cost is more likely going to stay within the UK (ie you're not paying multinational companies nor their overseas consultants (Oracle was particularly bad for this as they dumped our stuff in a US data centre and our support contacts were all living somewhere in eastern Europe. So very little - if anything - provided was UK based).

Sadly our government doesn't seem to understand about doing anything in between - or at least not that I observed when I used to work there. It was either entirely bespoke or entirely bought, developed and set up by some overpriced conglomerate (or worse yet, outsourced completely). So going by the trends that I've witnessed, I'd rather the technology playgrounds just so long as they remain developed in house.
I guess I'm not clear on that.
Why I Believe in the Hour of Code initiative.
The voting method was "leave a comment on a story listing the nominees." Only 2000 votes for something like this, on the internet, seems a bit silly.
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The US government can send a drone to kill you.
Allowing non-technical users access to routes is a disaster waiting to happen. The whole thing should have a QA process around it. I'm genuinely surprised it's being run like this.

The biggest point of failure is always humans and you're basically handing them a gun there.
Isn't this just random noise? Just because your portfolio is doing better doesn't mean you know how to pick winners. It just means you're better at rolling dice.
>we don't idolise business-folk the way the US does

Well, only if they are on television shows.
Possible. Some good thoughts there.
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Actually much of the US law only applies to people in the USA. The US 'rule of law' doesn't stop the US government from spying on non-US-citizens like me. I have no "fourth amendment rights"
OP here. Thanks for reading my post and providing feedback.

This post wasn't meant to be a deep dive but more a list of activities ("ship before you feel totally done") and ways of thinking ("the best ideas are usually not universally embraced") that have served me. I have other posts that get very specific - like this one about making email introductions - http://www.jasonshen.com/2011/the-anatomy-of-a-great-email-i...

You are entitled to your opinion about the value of my blog but as I mention in BP #5, people struggle to put themselves in the minds of others. Your logic appears to be "I don't find this valuable, therefore this person and everyone like him should not blog." Based on the number of tweets, upvotes, and personal messages I've received about this post, it has provided tremendous value to lots of people who happen to be different from you.
well the weight of a nickel is about 10 grams. a truck cam do 12 tonnes for a six wheeler or 28 tonnes for a 22 wheeler with 3 axles. thats 600k coins for the 6 wheeler or 2.8 million for the 22 wheeler. am in Kenya so my calculations may not make complete sense, but I estimated for a fact you can't pack metal past 75cm high despite size of of vehicle. thus totally wrong.
Then you can use NoScript or Ghosterly
Fortran is a couple of years older. (And very actively used and developed.)
It's working for me if I whitelist `feedly.com`.
The article is correct. The nit from grandparent is, that it uses some outdated language. So if you do not look to closely in special relativity, you will find that the mass quite often appears together with the Lorentz factor, which describes time dilation. This lead historically to the claim that moving objects are heavier than the same object at rest. But since this does not hold in general relativity, it is nowadays usually assumed that mass is always the rest mass. And so the article reads a bit outdated.
Is it surprising really? This guy has given them a dump of documents that they are milking for every penny its worth.
Are you trying to rank for Google.com or Google.co.in? First of all, if you want Google.com you will probably want to change your hosting to a U.S. based host/server.

It does look like you have been naughty and are doing spam links back in January, then lost 90% of your links - and then your inbound links have stayed pretty much flat since then.

SEO isn't just backlinks, but its on-site optimization, content, social interaction, semantic information...and 100's of potential factors. There is no quick answer and a real expert would take hours to provide you with a complete analysis.
He's not at all a household name in the UK. I've heard of him only through HN.
Hey, thanks for the comment. We are in the business of helping companies hire good developers and I can tell you that our experience has been the same as well.

As you've pointed out, there are some exceptional coders in India as well, but given the number of developers that we supposedly have on the whole, we should have a lot more of them.
But why is copper reddish-yellow? I guess it's wikipedia time.
Here's the thing: I don't even disagree with you. But "technology changes everything" is an argument that, while it resonates with a certain subset of people, is simply not compelling standing alone to many others. The tech community has the challenge of explaining to a generation that went from black & white TV to smart phones (and saw manned space travel, supersonic aircraft, and the nuclear arms race in-between), why in this case the change in technology yields a change in the very nature of surveillance. And everything I've seen linked on HN on this topic fails dismally in articulating this case in a way that doesn't presuppose an audience that already agrees with the anti-surveillance position.
I wonder if NSA has reversed chat protocols for non-MMO games in order to facilitate broad, keyword-based intercept directly from player network traffic.

Namely games that don't send chat traffic through a centralized server. Perhaps older games that had lackluster releases and are currently ghost towns in terms of active players. If bad guys are trying to fly under the radar, those are probably a smart bet (relatively speaking) compared to games that are popular. Most non-MMOs don't even require an account, let alone billing details.

It would be laughable if firing up some ancient, crappy game that nobody plays is all it takes to dodge dragnet surveillance. On the other hand, I imagine dragnet surveillance never was intended to catch smart people (only blackmail them), and terrorists by definition tend to be dumb.

Obviously if someone is already targeted, reverse engineering game chat protocols becomes irrelevant. Analysts would just read screenshots and key-logger data courtesy of NSA TAO (or whatever GCHQ's equivalent is).
Took them forever to discover Ft. Longcat in Second Life
assuming everything else were controlled for (and i have no idea how you do that) then you'd expect the "noise" in num-wallets-returned to be about sqrt(num-wallets-returned). in other words, in a city where the "real" rate is 4 returned, you expect to see that number varying by about 2 each time, so maybe 4, 2, 7, 3, 1...

so the results here really don't mean much.
It is the fallacy of relative privation, or appeal to worse problems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
Yes, but this time they have really found the silver bullet (honestly!).

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Why wasn't this picked up by the duplicate submission detector? There is already discussion on the front page of Hacker News.
That made me laugh and I've upvoted you for that, but no, it's serious.

Various governments are already throwing money at Open Document Foundation (France, Germany come to mind) to support LibreOffice so why shouldn't we throw a few quid at nginx/apache?

Or should we go and write our own office suite?
Google aren't providing the weather APIs.

The problem is using Google Play Services for location instead of GPS (the satellites).
Sorry to say but this post really rubbed me the wrong way. Let me explain...

Her important headings for "doing a startup in your spare time":

- Managing tasks
- Sharing links
- Talking to other founders
- Emailing customers
- Blogging
- Weekly catch-ups

All of this stuff sounds nice, but face it, it's all fluff. We really need to talk about the elephant in the room, the single most important item in a part time startup: how to get stuff built. If you can't get it built in your spare time, none of this other stuff will matter.

Building anything of value tends to be difficult; doing it in your spare time is incredibly difficult. Here's why:

- In spite of you best efforts, you will be too tired after your day job.

- When you're "in the zone" you won't be able to work on your start-up. When your working on your start-up, you won't be able to get "into the zone".

- You won't have long enough blocks of time to get large chunks done.

- Your attention will more easily be diverted to other things (the day job).

- It takes so much longer to have a deliverable, you will lose momentum and interest and get easily distracted or drawn to something shinier.

So what should you do? 3 things, religiously:

1. Determine your "Big Fat What". Have a precise definition of exactly what you're going to build. That's right, you must write requirements to yourself. Following the path of least resistance simply won't work for a part-time start-up because you will never be able to sustain enough momentum. Writing requirements forces you to have better discipline and better plan, and it's also the kind of work that fits nicely into those 2 hour blocks of time you have during the week.

2. Determine your "Big Fat How". This is when you translate your requirements into technical specs. You know, program definitions and flows, page layouts, data base schemas, etc. Yes, again you will be writing specs to yourself. Steps 1 & 2 are kinda like linear algebra; you'll spend a lot of time doing seemingly mindless unnecessary steps to get to the where you really want to be...

3. Build it. You do this on weekends when you have large enough blocks of time to crank. But your capability to build will only be as good as your preparation. As you struggle with Step 3, you'll appreciate Steps 1 & 2 and get better at them. Then you'll be surprised at how much progress you can make building in your spare time.

Once you have something built (a true feat in any part-time start-up) then (and only then) do OP's suggestions come into play.
i thought this was an onion article.. america has become quite sad.
Yes, thats ~weird how they are two sets and apple omits contributing a 'voice' in support. I stand corrected on the point cetainly, wrt the letter at the end.
Two duplicate submissions in a row. I wonder if HN has had a software change that disabled the duplicate detector.
shrug if you want to communicate one-on-one covertly there are simply too many options to cover.
He said most. Look at what the Anton CPU can do with just force fields and spring modeled bonds. They have found some cases where quantum matters, buy not all.
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They have to monitor the cesspool of XBox Online screeching 14 year olds?

I feel sorry for them.