skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some good points in the essay but I have to admit that for me the reason I like C is that it's the first language I ever really did any serious programming in and the first language that made me think hard. Because of that it just feels like home when I come back to it and I can never really evaluate it without that bias. Its the simplest model of the machine that you can get without going down to assembly. Its the same reason I like riding and fixing bicycles. In both cases sparse resources have kept the design to the bare minimum.
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But you can't have your girlfriend sign for your package.
>You're describing a security disclosure program.

No, a security non-disclosure program. Disclosure is when you tell people. Telling a spy agency in no more "disclosure" than telling a Russian trojan dev.
This Harvard sleep summary page [0] gives a few references at the bottom for similar sounding studies.

[0] http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/variatio...
Gecko plugin peer here: Unfortunately, no. NPAPI has two modes: windowed and windowless. In windowless mode (roughly): we proxy input to flash, and flash renders into a buffer we provide it. In windowed mode, we create a native OS child window for flash and let it handle input and rendering directly. In this mode, without a way for flash to pass "unused" keys back to us, it will require some ugly hacks to steal hotkeys from it reliably.

Most sites run flash in windowed mode, and for good reason - flash's performance sucks in windowless mode, and it cannot make use of hardware acceleration (IIRC). Since Adobe's NPAPI flash seems to be essentially in stability mode, it's unlikely this will be improved :(

Now, in current multiprocess mode, we actually force flash to use windowless mode -- because support for windowed mode isn't finished yet (bug 923746). But the aforementioned performance issues mean that we'll probably remove that restriction once we support windowed mode in multiprocess.
Are you positive of the accuracy of that? There's some dispute in the Twitter thread.
Agree with this. Brand is a big advantage in public perception and it's easier for top-school grads to get coveted meetings/intros since they are part of the "family." But at the end of the day, all that matters is the quality of the work. And there are tons of people who never attended MIT/Stanford/Harvard/etc. that are extremely successful at what they do and have built.

Like you said, great schools attract smarter people (not all of them!) and that makes for a more competitive environment, which in turn churns out more driven/analytical kids.

I know a TON of idiots who went to Stanford and Berkeley. And I know a dozen or so extremely successful entrepreneurs who never went to college.
I think it's a good occasion to stop with the rat race to fulfill small chores for a moment and think about larger goals. With that said, I almost always failed meeting new year resolutions. I think the problem for me was being in school that always burned me out with homework, assignments and exams. Once I got out of 24/7 academic pressure, I was able to work on longer term goals.

I finally achieved some new year resolutions for the first time this year.

I had 3 goals.

1. Success: Write a book on Ruby. I finished writing and I am just editing right now.

2. Failed: Create an app and get 100 active users. Launched dmtri.com, but failed to get 100 active users.

3. Success: Hit the gym. I've been going to gym regularly.
I'm guessing you know how daft you sound. She frequently registered the lowest ratings in opinion polls of any PM. Ever. She was for much of her time despised by the majority, regarded as dangerously idiotic by the civil service and as an embarrassment by her own parliamentary party.

Do not fool yourself into thinking she won on her own volition. She won because of external influences, at least some of which were the fault of her opposition.
It's only because data does not have legal status as property. It doesn't keep people from feeling a similar degree of ownership over the data they store with Google et al, though, and I think it points to a democratic desire for these data-retrieval acts and implementations to be more than goodwill. The third-party doctrine is only a convention, after all.
I must confess that your first sentence aggravates me. It comes across as an accusation that I am not qualified to have made the comment that I did. With that in mind, yes, I have.

But that's irrelevant.

Anyway, you missed my point. My comment did not imply that it was obviously not the FDA's responsibility to make contact. (Nevermind the fact that at the end of the day, it was in fact the FDA that did reach out to 23andMe.) I did imply, however, that turnover at 23andMe and Anne's marital issues were ludicrous reasons for it to have been the responsibility of the FDA.
Is Campfire shutting down, too? I think that was the last 37s service I stopped using, about 6 months ago.
Stealing Time
Tomahawk has been doing this for quite awhile, both as a standalone payer and on the web: http://toma.hk/
If your program is going to exit anyway, there's no need to call free() on allocated memory. The operating system will reclaim all of the memory it granted to your process when it exits. Remember that malloc lives in your process, not the kernel. When you ask for memory from malloc, it is actually doling out memory that you already own - the operating system granted it to you, when malloc requested it. And malloc requested it because you asked for more memory than it was currently managing.

If your intention is to continue running, then of course you want to call free() on your memory. And this certainly makes sense to do as you exit functions. But if you're, say, calling exit() in the middle of your program, for whatever reason, you don't need to worry about memory.

Other resources may be a problem, though. The the operating system will reclaim things it controlled, and granted to your process - memory, sockets, file descriptors and such. But you need to be careful about resources not controlled by the operating system in such a manner.
That's why, when you are about to step into the FDA's purview, you hire people who have experience running a quality system which adheres to FDA guidelines or, at a minimum, a consultant with similar experience. Ignorance is not a defense, and in practice, it doesn't really matter; they can shut you down, you can't do shit about it.
Maybe the homebrew libs (libogc) support OpenGL? I doubt that you can use to original Nintendo SDK to write homebrew.
Not needing a dedicated cooling unit would go a long way in decreasing size and cost of manufacturing.
Thirty out of thirty-eight economists agree on the usefulness of Bitcoin
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why
When my glass is full, I empty it. When it's empty, I buy an other one.

Started socializing (as in "going in bars with friends") this year, but I really dislike my behaviour.
So next year, I will try to REDUCE it.

Moderation is everything.
What reasonable interpretation, "only allow right-wingers to sanitise history"?

I apologise for the clumsy phrase. The semantics of that doesn't matter, I just want to know what mathieuh is trying to say by calling special attention to "liberals" and not mentioning anyone else.

I suspect trolling. Mandela was deeply "liberal".
Which part of this is "Google-Backed"?

I mean, I understand Google backs this, but aren't Twitter, Rackspace, Newegg, also similarly backing this? Why was only Google mentioned?
Yeah, and it's not very relaxing.
I don't know where the line is exactly, but I don't think Sam Adams blew up a school bus or dozens of passers by in downtown Pretoria with a car bomb.
If I lived in SF I'd totally jump on this. I was so productive in college because I lived right next to a gym and my dining hall had unlimited eating from 7am until 8p, every day.
I'd say letting that server bounce and having the watchdog/load balancer work to keep you at capacity is the best option there. You are going to need that infrastructure anyway and if you can't malloc enough for one more client, who is to say that the existing stuff is going to be able to continue either?

You should count on any particular instance bouncing when that happens, and design your system to survive that. You should also invest some effort to figure out why your system can get into that state. Consider if any particular instance should be attempting to accept more jobs than it has the ability to handle. I shouldn't be able to trigger an out of memory situation on your IRC server just by connecting as many irc clients as I can.
No, Illustrator is fantastic for its usage cases. (As I'm sure Inkscape might be)

We were talking about Photoshop replacements. Despite the name, it's very much a hybrid raster/vector tool now, unlike how the GIMP was described above.
What I found interesting from reading his autobiography is that he didn't consider non-violence to be an end in itself. Rather he viewed it as one tool among many.

Edit: found the citation. http://books.google.com/books?id=RHwLqVrnXgIC&lpg=PT189&dq=l...

>Others said that we should approach this issue not from the point of view of principles but of tactics, and that we should employ the method demanded by the conditions. If a particular method or tactic enabled us to defeat the enemy, then it should be used. In this case, the state was far more powerful than we, and any attempts at violence by us would be devastatingly crushed. This made nonviolence a practical necessity rather than an option. This was my view, and I saw nonviolence in the Gandhian model not as an inviolable principle but as a tactic to be used as the
situation demanded. The principle was not so important that the strategy should be used even when it was self-
defeating, as Gandhi himself believed. I called for nonviolent protest for as long as it was effective. This view prevailed, despite Manilal Gandhi's strong objections.
> Lambda is a talent agency for exceptional developers, designers, and technology professionals

This scares me off completely. Not that I doubt that I am good at my job. All morality aside, who are you to know who is? A Rails dev and an investment banker.
I think we're allowed to be ignorant of the politically correct gender issues surrounding grammatical usage in a codebase. To do otherwise is to bikeshed

I read this (from your grandparent comment) as meaning 'discussion of gender/grammatical issues is bikeshedding' - and that to me sounds like you think it shouldn't happen because you don't care about it, which is effectively opposing the idea. If that's not what you meant, I'm sorry for the misinterpretation.
Bob Dylan's song is about Rubin "Hurricane" Carter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_Carter
In hindsight, yes.
As a renter with a good job and excellent this article really makes its point clear: invest in some apartment ETFs
He was a true communist and a good man.
He lived up to his ideals.

I'm sad he is gone.

http://i.imgur.com/CwLZLY5.jpg / http://s1.lemde.fr/image/2013/12/05/644x322/3526517_6_2605_n...
You should probably flag the comments instead of the story, then. This is hardly gossip about someone famous, or shallowly interesting news.
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It's not about good and bad, it's the difference between a game like WoW and a game I can play on a touchpad. Very different. The lack of horsepower is an obvious issue, but do you know how many keybinds I have in a game like wow? About 30-40. How about the precision of a mouse and keyboard vs a touchscreen? Screen size (lack of)? Some games are just too complex for these sorts of input devices and there's really no benefit to running them on a portable device. I'm not raiding while outside having a smoke.
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Superconductive power transmission lines are huge. You now can move electricity anywhere with zero loss. I've seen loss numbers for the US electrical grid as high as 20%. Imagine if we got 20% more power to use from the same generators?

MRI machines are a second use case. Currently, most MRI's use a superconductive metal to run gigantic currents through a coil to create gigantic magnetic fields which they measure. In order to do this, the MRI needs to be cooled enough to make the coil superconductive which requires at least liquid nitrogen and sometimes liquid oxygen. This is what makes MRI's expensive. Without the cooling requirements, they would likely be as expensive and thus as common as X-ray machines.
Audit and verifying the security of software the size of Microsoft Windows without source code is like auditing and verifying the security of the international space station with only the help of a hand held telescope.

Sure, it looks like its not leaking air. It has not dropped down to earth yet, and all the videos posted on their website looks to show it being fine. However, if I ever went there and depended on its security, I would demand more.
Yes, I also remember the bloody, vicious civil war he advocated after his release from prison that finally brought down Apartheid.

Oh, wait. That's not what happened at all, is it?
I think this is a good illustration of the value of process-based goals over outcome-based goals. The things under control, you completed. Those not under your control you did not. Sounds pretty cool to me.
Heh, np. I"m not in the area so I won't be able to sign up, but this seems like one of those "holy crap, why didn't someone think of this before" kind of ideas. Good luck with it :)
> The poverty line has been suggested as a break-even point in some BI proposals

I haven't seen any proposals that have explicitly targetted a particular break-even point -- most BI proposals I've seen have targetted near-poverty-line levels of BI, which suggests a substantially higher break-even point.

(I've seen a few discussions of targetting a no-nominal-income-effect point considering BI and any necessary revenue measures, typically around the median pre-BI income, but that's not exactly the same as targetting a break-even point as you've described it, as break even is no real income effect, after considering inflation effects.)
fetchmail is a complete POS. Don't use it.
> Actually, the above oath will maximize the number of people killed if the sworn engineer happens to be working on a weapon.

That depends on the weapon. If a weapon malfunctions and kills its operators, that will help maximize casualties. But it would still be a failure on the engineer's part. If it's supposed to kill its operators, then it wasn't.
>> What's missing is any explanation of why the author considers the precursor question of "Why would Apple even think of buying Nintendo?"

The other question that isn't asked - "Why would Nintendo allow themselves to be bought by Apple?"
I don't think we should completely abandon high-level words when conflict arises. Instead, we should focus on isolating where our disagreement lies. In this way, we will identify when a particular word is being used differently and can de-reference that. This allows us to continue to get the benefits of high level language, and continues to work when 'medium level' language causes disagreement.

Also, I have found that it is often easier to first describe an idea using high level language, then clarify what you mean. For example, even if we disagree on exactly what 'fair' means, by first describing my idea using the word 'fair', I give you a rough outline of my idea that provides context when I describe it using lower level language.
No, the campfire comment was me just making an editorial comment that it feels like that product is being neglected.
Question from one of the uninitiated: I heard that the Bitcoin block chain is already many gigabytes. How is this expected to scale over time and are there any challenges for the network if it becomes too large to quickly/easily share? (Or not since only the tail is really needed?)
"I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I've cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

-Nelson Mandela

edit: also, "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

Your statement on Mandela is un-nuanced and simplistic. We all evolve through life, hopefully for the better. Mandela clearly became one of the great 20th century champions of peace alongside MLK and Gandhi. None of them were perfect human beings, but that doesn't diminish their greatness at all.
As long as we're complaining about things that a lot of websites do, can I mention something annoying about the "Tab Closed; Didn't Read" site itself?

At the bottom of the page, it has a links marked "Previous" and "Next". "Next" takes you to the previous entries, and "Previous" takes you to the next entries.
Yes, as it's tort law the measure is usually that you have to show beyond reasonable doubt that something is true in order for it to be considered fact by the court.

I did point this out in the post but it's kinda implicit within the topic of law that courts require proof.

For the avoidance of doubt - any public disclosure which you can show beyond reasonable doubt to have been made prior to the priority date of the application may be used to invalidate the patent. [Jurisdictions vary but AFAIK this is now true both before the USPTO and EPO and member state's offices].

Is it really necessary to point out that it has to disclose the invention. Or that it has to be public within the legal definition. Do you want to go in to how "prior" should be interpreted?
The thing that struck me about Nelson Mandela as he wanted to be seen in that book is that he tried very hard to see the good in people.

Perhaps it's to be expected that he's forgiving about former sworn enemies who ended up releasing him and stepping aside so he could dismantle the apartheid regime they'd spent upholding, and sidesteps any qualms he might have had about some of the region's truly obnoxious dictators who backed the ANC when they were outlaws. But he also takes the time to note when some of his less pleasant jailers displayed unexpected courtesy.

Some of the exchanges from his original trial are quite remarkable too, especially those involving the prosecutions "expert witness" on the subject of communism
Two people who have been heads of state of their respective countries are Obama and Mandela. Seems mentionable to me.
The block chain is designed to grow (roughly) linearly, while storage capacity grows exponentially. Also, the protocol can be changed to accommodate any technical limitations in the future.
ToffeeScript makes callbacks go away. Its very nice. Far as I can tell not popular yet but makes code much more readable and writable so I take advantage of it.
That is the quid pro quo of patents - early and full disclosure of the invention sufficient to reproduce it [for a practitioner of the relevant art] in exchange for a "limited" monopoly.
Since school busses, cars, and downtown Pretoria didn't exist when Sam Adams was alive, that's probably a good bet.
That is such a blatantly illogical statement I'm shocked to see it on board where the userbase deals in applying logic for living.

AM is an A.
B is an A.
Therefore B = AM.
>For ever fool who loses money in the gold rush, there is a genius who made money.

Emm, this is not how a "gold rush" works.

The whole idea is that there were far more fools who lost money than geniuses who made money. If it was a 50% chance (1 foul for every genius) it would be a pretty damn decent proposition).

Not to mention that those (far fewer) who made money, made them by betting against the fools, and selling them shovels and stuff.
I wonder if Page, Brin and Schmidt (the majority stockholders) would fire Larry, Sergei and Eric.
No one has argued that open source is secure just because its open source.

Open source is however possible to independent verify if it is secure. Closed source is not possible to verify as secure and must be taken solely on the word of the company who made it.
Ask HN: Personal Advice on joining Stanford's Summer Program
Personally, I believe HN people are quite intelligent and I'm quite sure highly populated with entrepreneurs who successfully run their startups.

Me, a computer engineer, went to Stanford in Summer 2012. Amazing experience, met with tons of great people. Took the course MS&E Technology Entrepreneur ship by great Tom Kosnik. However instead of seizing the opportunities, I took them for granted and ended up returning to my country.

This time I want to make a difference. I'm developing my startup (currently at tech development phase). I had quite a hard time deciding what to do, due to having limited money. I definitely want to make it to Silicon Valley but limited money allows me to stay there for a maximum of three months.

In terms of my situation, I would like to speak to investors and after asking many questions on Quora, I understood that the network is required and cold emails won't get me anywhere.

Now, my question is: Should I apply to Stanford's Summer school, even though I've went there before? The reason for this question is, I thought, instead of spending 3 months, paying money to rent and all to other expenses, what about paying to Stanford and take advantage of their network and benefits?

I seriously would love to have all of the comments (whether it says that it is a great idea or total bullshit).
Negative. I have nothing but love for LEO/MIL.

However, when a company has access to state data, and banking data, and social data, and... etc.

Not hard to see how they can build a network.

You think DOD isn't begging Palantir for AMEX's customer data, even anonymized? Or any of the other financial institutions they provide services for?

... probably not. But it's easy to see how they could.
One thing that is different is that (with the exception of Amazon Lockers) they basically don't exist if you don't live in San Francisco.
Try this: http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/12/working-with-154-million-rec...
Yeah they can: They are both the first black elected leader of their respective countries.
> The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist today. We have no option but to continue. We express the hope that a climate conducive to a negotiated settlement will be created soon so that there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle.

...is what Mandela said in his first speech after being released from prison. I'm not sure which half of your comment is intended to be sarcasm, but fwiw those are the words he used.
My read was that Dylan's song was of a similar nature, not on the same topic.
> Believing that the ends justifies the means (as Mandela did) is very dangerous.

Yes, yet disbelieving that is often worse.
The main difference to me is that Amazon has a massive moat (in the Buffet sense) to prevent other competition from building an identical service. What's to stop someone from building a HomeJoy clone and undercutting them even further?
What exactly makes you believe that this testimony is accurate, and not just manufactured by the US government.

It wouldn't be the first time they did that.
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