skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure thing. Up front: I've only read Simulacra; I wouldn't call myself well-versed either. So if you have read that, the following "should" make sense, reserving the possibility that I'm off-base in my interpretation of Baudrillard - a possibility I readily admit is a real one.

Others in the thread have probably pointed out by now that the linked NPR story leaves conspicuously absent a key point in the "private buses in SF" narrative, i.e. that the recent ire (past week or two) flared up when some Vanguard type filmed himself pretending to be an obnoxious "let them eat cake" Googler. The next day, the even bigger story was that that video was a fake (not a hoax but a "true fake", to use Assange terminology). Indeed, were it not for the true faking of the perspective of one "side" of A Divided San Francisco, this NPR story, titled "Private Tech Buses Drive Tension" couldn't exist. Couldn't. So what? So whether the original was a lie or not has become definitively irrelevant - the length of its shadow is the same. The point being not that NPR is lying or something like that, but rather: that the Symbol has progressed on through to the fourth stage, that of the fully realized Simulacrum, now totally divorced from the "map-reality" (you remember the Borges fable about the nation-sized map at the beginning of the book?) which begat it in the first place. It now exists only on a plane of interaction with other Symbols (e.g., this is part of a series on Income Inequality, which, of course, has no non-wholly-symbolic connection to private buses) which have also divorced themselves of their original connection to reality and which also only interact with other Symbols. Baudrillard, you will recall, names this plane the "Hyperreal." Real because it is.
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Launch X431 Creader VIII Comprehensive Diagnostic Instrument, not only includes full function of OBDII /EOBD, but also support more functions of four systems of main car models.
Is it just me, or does it seem apocryphal that it requires an 8X revenue jump to get drivers to drive in the snow? To me it seems the market clearing surge ratio during a snowstorm is around 3X. So is Uber being straightforward in saying they are just taking their usual small cut (surge or no surge), or are they taking their small cut and the distance between 3X and 8X as well?
The hard part is finding a device that can run 4.3 for testing. Technically, you could launch an app that supports iOS 2 or 3 all the way to iOS 7, the hardship is testing! Unlike Android post-Froyo, Apple's emulators have never been that accurate. in both cases, memory and device limits on older hardware become the significant bottlenecks.

That and with every OS X update you lose another simulator major version each year. Typing from memory, so I could be wrong: 10.6 had everything. 10.7 lost 3.x, 10.8 lost 4.x and 10.9 lost 5.x simulation. I had to install VMs to run emulators, how sad is that?

All this would be fine if Apple allowed developers to downgrade as post-Xcode 5 hinted, an option removed when the jail breaking started.
On the one hand, that kind of thing would probably bring the community down, but on the other, given how this site is such a tech company nexus, would that even be surprising?
Often if you are representing a large company or product you have to go through some brand approval process with your presentation, so spec summaries frequently get the standard marketing descriptions added. It seems stupid in context, but the concern is often the slide being shown out of context.
A third possible explanation could be (I do not know enough about US-Brazilian relations to know if it is plausible):

Before we thought you were an ally we could trust, so we were going to buy your overpriced jets to strengthen the friendship. Now that you have showed your true face we are going to go with the lowest bidder instead.

Saab has lost several bids due to countries buying worse planes from the US for diplomatic purposes.
Looks nice. Special kudos for managing much of the wp-config though the built in config constants.

Only thing I don't like is the renaming of the root `wp-config` folder to `app`. I'd much rather have the app reflect the underlying wordpress conventions than to change it to look like something else. Yeah, consistency, but boo for barrier of entry or having to remember that `app` == `wp-config` when not everything we get to work on will get to use the shiny fandangled tool.
Science fiction's dark star: Alfred Bester at 100
It was given at some LLVM conference so most people in the audience are probably compiler people who will probably know a lot about compilers and less about GPUs.
The link to BTC value comes from the author's speculation that miners will be willing to pay 90% of that value to mine it. So at $1000 USD, a miner will be willing to use $900 USD in energy. (Unless I missed something he completely ignores the cost of hardware.)
Well this is interesting. Everyone including the Americans are up in arms about the NSA thing....right up until it gets blamed for a lost bid. Some weird psychological bias at work here though I can't quite put my finger on it.
Codd nailed it with the relational model.
Took a quick look at their insertion sort algorithm. It looks wrong, doing unnecessary swaps, when moving elements up. For and extra O(1) memory your can avoid that.
You're assuming 3 gripns will be able to find the f-22. F-22 shouldnt have to ever get close enough for an enemy to see/find them. F22 determines who will be able to see them.

5th gen fighter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_jet_fighter
Cornell 3D prints a working speaker -- coils, magnets and all
Why not start from scratch in go? C and go are different programming languages with different standards etc. Why rely on shoehorning the C version into go?
thats such an awesome forum, i've signed up.
How I Organized Puerto Rico’s First Hackathon
In a sense they are. Most of these companines are limited by what tech they can and cant export and who they are allowed to export to.
Yes, this is indeed one of the questions that the article addresses in the "Alternatives" section.
From the document itself: "Despite Go’s simplicity, there are many subtle cases in the optimizations and other rewrites performed by the compilers, and it would be foolish to throw away the 10 or so man-years of effort that have gone into them."
A sliding lens cover is an exposed moving part, more prone to breakage and filling up with gunk, and also makes it more likely to smear the webcam with finger oils.
Being an avid "nixer" I immediately thought of the following:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=...
When I look at the chart with a logaritmic scale and draw a line it ends up somewhere between $5000 and $10000. Let's see what's going to happen.

But yea, past performance is no guarantee for the future.
Don't make any 4+ year commitments if it's not something you truly want to do.

"My current view is that my only way out is through entrepreneurship. I need to keep trying until I hit upon something that works. I know I have a few potentially good ones but I don't have enough money to launch them correctly. I have to boostrap from small ideas to larger ones."

This seems to say it all - what you want to do/be. So do/be it. If you don't have enough money to launch it "correctly", the launch it "incorrectly" and work your way to "correct". I'm currently bootstrapping from small ideas to larger ones, and while it isn't exactly kush, it's doable. It takes awhile and isn't going to be the answer to "how do I make a quick buck?".

I read somewhere that VC's on average fund people that are 40+, it's just not sexy and thus newsworthy (trying to find source). Also, if you have issues with people with larger than average ego, then you might need to avoid VC's as well...

Edit: Also, vet your current good ideas. Talk to entrepreneurs, investors, business people, potential end users about them. Even ask the judges at the pitch competition individually their thoughts (even if there was some ego amongst them - individually they could be awesome).
Hackers Broke into the Washington Post for "a Few Days"
Besides the immediate appeal of bootstrapped compilers, we're also going to have a tool to turn C code into Go code when this is done. I imagine this might breathe some new life into some stagnant projects.
OK, but where the hell are they going to get 2.5 months of highly motivated attacks by highly skilled people? All the people I would want looking at this aren't going to waste such a huge chunk of their time analyzing some random phone app trying to make a name for themselves for a chance at a cash reward.

Bug bounties by big name companies that are actually after bugs rather than publicity haven't miraculously made all their software perfect. And they don't have an end date either.
I believe the guy was only using what was available around him. Oak apparently provided the best bang.

Who knows what else that we could use that would scale.
Why is France so concerned with Brazil...?
Scariest comment of the thread, surely.
This is cool. Are there any numbers on how it compares size/speed on some test data structures to msgpack/json/etc?
Wait! One of the founders was a currency trader at GS?! Doesn't that make them trustworthy?
I couldn't agree more! I've even spending years writing my own css and html editor, just because I want my text editor work like Firebug or dev Tools - allow me see real-time results! Well, if you ask me, it's called LIVEditor ;)
This applies to all of New York State. Taxes aren't low, but cost of living is definitely very low. There's lots of Universities upstate too (both to colocate with, and to try to hire talented grads from).
I am having difficulty picturing this situation.

The form you filled out when you sent the money had carbon copies, which are retained. If data from the form was mis-typed later, they should be able to check their copy, or you might be able to retrieve a copy from the outlet or receiver or something.

I assure you that no-one in WU is trying to steal $50 from you. Mistakes happen, but there is a paper trail, so if you really care, escalate. They operate under the supervision of your country's financial regulator, whom they are deathly afraid of, and are hardly going to risk their banking license pilfering fifty bucks.
>That the sound difference is such that it can be captured with any of the setups pictured in the paper is impossible. There are systems designed for frequency isolation that do megahertz sampling rates which you could convince me are capable of reading the 1's and 0's out of a 286. The frequencies of modern electronics that is simply not possible.

They are claiming to pick up a rather large algorithm change in code that runs for dozens of milliseconds to extract a single bit. A loop taking a bit over 26 vs. a bit over 28 microseconds in the example (or something reasonably close to that description). Why would this need such high-end equipment to pick up?
And Obama will prolong this depression by how many years?
That doesn't prevent spying when you are using your computer, which could be really embarrassing if you are for instance looking at porn. Also, sometimes you want to leave it one when you aren't using it, like when you're downloading something.
Great idea. I think the pricing is way too cheap for on-site though. You might be able to get away with < $50 for some kind of screenshare, but there is definitely a market for what you're selling and the current market is priced way higher.

usertesting.com costs $49/participant and there's nothing interactive about it - you submit a list of questions, and they send you a ~15 minute video of someone testing your product. Your service is more valuable, and your costs will be higher too.
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Agreed. The biggest growth area in banking and finance is compliance & legal. A startup doesn't have the financial resources to make a bulletproof compliance and customer service department.
Apple has had a renaissance lately. I believe they are more of a world company based in Cali.
Bitcoin is not an official currency in the eyes of the law. Therefore, there are almost zero regulations that would apply to Bitcoin transactions, other than contract law.
Or that their other people with more specific skills were too busy doing other things. Like, you know, pretty much any other tech shop.
The Chinese Room argument is unconvincing.

The man in the room may not understand Chinese, but he is using a dictionary, which to a casual observer appears suspiciously thick. Just how thick would the dictionary need to be in order to provide a sensible response for all possible lines of enquiry?

Searle's argument reduces a room which understands Chinese to a dictionary which understands Chinese. A strange loop indeed.

With regard to serious systems attempting to solve AGI — are you aware of Jeff Hawkins' work on hierarchical temporal memory?
Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights
Hackers break into Washington Post servers
It’s interesting that it’s not mentioned. I might suspect it’ll be C, as otherwise they’d need to build a new C parser in Go to even get started. Why not use a mature one, and add the Go transformation?

Edit: to be more precise, they’d need to get the C syntax tree in some representation first. Then pass it over to a transformer. The latter could be in Go, but it seems foolhardy to reinvent the former.
The $50 was not worth spending literally hours on the phone with them trying to get the issue resolved. The point is that bitcoin has real value as a painless money transfer mechanism.
This techcrunch article was utterly predictable.
So it sounds like you have as much technical talent as anyone who's launched a successful tech venture...so will a com sci degree help? No, you're obviously hitting intractable institutional biases here...looking back at college, I see a lot of its value in networking and exposure to new ideas, but I don't see non-traditional students benefitting to the same degree...so why waste time and money.

Regardless of your technical aptitude, the fact is is that, particularly in web dev, companies are all too happy to hire novice bootcamp coders for near 6-figure. Maybe there really is a huge scarcity of Rails developers, and perhaps it's worth focusing on that to at least get your foot into the modern development industry, but again, it's hard to anticipate how many walls will be unfairly in your way because of the age discrimination you've described.

So I guess the short way of saying it is that pure coding skills alone won't be your edge, and a degree will not change that. At least when it comes to getting recognition from recruiters and employers. However, code can be your edge in helping you pursue, produce, and promote entrepreneurial ideas, but "Just have and execute a really good idea!" is not terribly helpful advice.

But I wouldn't feel insecure at all, if I were you, about whether your coding experience is relevant today. I was in college less than a decade ago and we started with C and most of my engineering labs were doing things like building and designing the kind of adder circuits built decades ago...That kind of thought process and desire to tinker with things doesn't go obsolete with new programming languages.
I have that already with libraries like caolan/async and node.js convention of first-argument-error + callbacks. Now, of course I would like to have that features natively, but not at the cost of having more (ugly) syntax. My point is that if I have to learn new syntax, I would then use the time to learn a modern and efficient new programming language.
JBlow must be a real genious and really good at what he does. I mean that serious now and not being some smart ace. Some people use that to their strategy, to their focus or game plan. I see myself in this way most of the times, in some events where I really don´t feel like talking about my business or wanting to hear yours. I just want to be there for the booz and a good time and get the hell out..and that´s it, if they want an email or contact do so, no problem but I don´t care to talk business at that time, I do it when I am focused!
I'm eagerly awaiting its inclusion. It isn't as simple of a task as it would seem. Unfortunately, you can't simply disable all of the passes in LLVM. Some aren't optimizations at all and are transforms required for subsequent optimization passes. MachineFunction passes are even trickier. Some are strictly necessary for correct codegen.
Uhh... When people say physical access to your box, they mean someone can physically tamper with it in arbitrary ways. This is not the same as being near the box. Otherwise we would just say that all phones/laptops are insecure.
In C, then translate that to Go of course ;)
I suppose it makes you feel more involved, rather than just watching a bunch of cool cutscenes that you have nothing to do with (common in stylish Japanese RPGs like Devil May Cry, etc)
Surveillance review board recommends US shift to cyber defense
> which would be a situation not dissimilar from classic Smalltalk environments - especially writing the GC in the target language.

Like the Jikes RVM? IBM Research did some really cool stuff. Anyways, anything is possible when you go meta.
I was surprised to find this in wikipedia [1]:

A strain of bacteria, or any microorganism that causes illness or has a superficial resemblance to an insect or bug

I think it's quite confusing to call bacteria, bug. But I'm not a native speaker. Is this common usage?

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug
Likely an outlier, but for me it would be data science applied to synthetic biology
There's big money to be made launching satellites.
The Alcantara Launch Centre (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alc%C3%A2ntara_Launch_Center) is in theory the biggest competitor to the French launch centre in Guiana, where most of the European satellites are launched from. I say in theory because although they share the best geoloc in the world when it comes to geosync orbit launches, the Guiana centre is a fully functional space centre while the Brazilian counterpart is not much more than a naked launch pad.

But with the right partners and some investment the Alcântara could become a real treat to the French centre in Guiana.
> Charlie Stross writes in the article kindly submitted here: "Bitcoin violates Gresham's law: Stolen electricity will drive out honest mining. (So the greatest benefits accrue to the most ruthless criminals.)" I try to follow most of the Bitcoin threads here on HN, but I've missed that argument before.

You've missed this argument because it's an awful argument. It's a misunderstanding and misapplication of Gresham's law. It seems like the author simply wanted to use the phrase "bad X drives out good X" without bothering to understand what Gresham's law actually applies to.

Even if the greatest benefits of mining accrue to botnet operators, that doesn't affect the incentives faced by other individuals or groups weighing whether or not to invest in mining rigs. The incentives are: are the fixed cost of hardware and variable costs of power and labor outweighed by the value of the bitcoins mined. Does not matter what other miners are doing. Because of the fixed supply of bitcoins and the increasing difficulty, botnets may have an advantage. However, because bitcoin is deflationary, the rising price of an increasingly supply-constrained asset might offset the diminishing returns. That's a risk investors are going to have to weigh.

But that still isn't a case of Gresham's law.
I'm not trying to be hyperbolic but that's really shocking for a company that is trying to play a role as a financial institution.

You're not being hyperbolic at all. You're just used to the standard Hacker News "only haters expect businesses to be competent" type of handwaving response. But this thread is about money, that makes it different.
Reverse engineering Snapchat to store files
The following is not sarcastic: be more cynical. What would you want, if you were a university president? Startup branding. They want you to walk around talking about how SUNY-whatever is where the startup culture is at.
I knew I remembered the GeneralPlus name from somewhere -

"Many Tamagotchis Were Harmed in the Making of This Presentation"

PDF: http://recon.cx/2013/slides/Recon2013-Natalie%20Silvanovich-...

Video (original? talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOJfUcCOhJ0

Video (newer talk at ReCon): http://recon.cx/2013/video/Recon2013-Natalie%20Silvanovich-%...

Natalie Silvanovich did this kind of reversing on a few Tamagotchi products with great success.
>Speaking from experience: Western Union is awful. Absolutely horrible. They basically stole $50 from me
> Avoid them at all costs.

The point is that you wrote a very damning indictment of a company, accusing them of theft, and I pointed out they could probably fix your issue if you actually cared, even without the receipt. You then admitted you couldn't be bothered going through the process.

So what you wrote was basically a load of crap. But hey, bitcoin!
Nobody is saying it's evil or objectionable, they're just pointing out that it would be in Brazil's interest to exploit the issue. That's just how the world works.
Hi Kindmatt,

You're comparing us to a mass produced cotton futon which has a radically different cost structure to manufacture than a foam mattress. In fact, the actual cost to manufacture that linked product, based on pricing we have for those, is around $30 to $55 for a queen. That would put that product somewhere around 500% markup at the retail price. There is also a big difference in the quality of material, as an example, if you cut open that futon--they remove the zippers--you'll see it's filled with scraps of fabric instead of new cotton batting. They do that to cut product costs further to keep the margins high. Those are being produced by Wolf Corp in Indiana who is a Serta partner. Just the quilted cover for our twin size costs more than that to produce.

Organic cotton costs roughly double. So if you buy knitted fabric at $6 a yard, organic fabric will cost around $10-12 if it's a more than 50% of the composition. So the pricing difference is drastically more than you mentioned. You typically use 4-5 yards to make a mattress cover so you're talking $25 increasing to $50 just for the cover fabric. For a futon like you linked, they're using a low oz woven twill that costs less than $2 a yard typically totalling about $8 for the cover.

The poly foam we designed currently has a density of about 2 lbs. Which is on the high end for foam quality. You can learn a lot more about densities on the Mattress Underground. I'm not willing to disclose ILD, compression modulus or formula recipes because those are currently trade secrets and we honestly don't see a good reason to disclose them at this time. Not to mention that the only people we've found that are interested in those details are competitors.

You are more than free to contact us and ask us questions. This thread is starting to get old so you might get a faster response if you email me direct jt at tuftandneedle.
zero, as in ZeroCoin ;-)
> Are you only doing one thing on your computer? No.

You seem to be implying that doing multiple things on a computer means that every single side channel will be masked by noise indistinguishable from random. This is obviously false. Cryptographically secure random data doesn't just appear out of nowhere.

I'm not even concerned with the credibility of this article; side channel attacks are old news and will continue to be a threat for a long time (I'm guessing we don't even understand physics well enough yet to eliminate them completely, so there will still be new breaks all the time for the near future). Luckily, everyone is still too busy trying to remove their remote code vulnerabilities to deal with real issues like side channel attacks.
Oh, totally. You'll notice over time that Hacker News is the only way to contact google support without spending thousands of dollars on adwords.