skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big improvements to btrfs came in 3.12. The 3.13 changes are rather minor:

a mount option to specify the maximum delay before committing writes to storage (default 30 seconds, no maximum, warning for 300+ seconds -- make sure you have battery coverage for whatever this is set to plus a few seconds, and try not to crash...)

a mount option for emergency use that will force the rebuild of the UUID tree

userspace tools that read FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED can now use that on btrfs; no functionality change, really, just making the info available in the same way that ocfs2 does it.
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It depends how you write the blacklisting/tainting rules, which may depend on money laundering regulations and legal standards of proof. You can say that transaction outputs are all tainted if one input is tainted (an or rule), outputs are tainted only if all inputs are tainted (an and rule), or outputs taint equals the average input taint. Mixing can defeat two out of three of these rules.
I use Clojure at work and I'm an active participant in the Clojure open source community.

The mention of Carmack is somewhat misplaced in that he decided languages like Lisp and Scheme that didn't offer the leverage of types like Haskell.

So perhaps languages like ML/Haskell, maybe even Rust, are more to the point?
Oh yeah, I agree. I guess I failed to address that in my original comment, but the analysis is actually cool and it's a valuable submission.
The only things you can do are: 1) search trademark registrations and 2) register your mark.

Oh, and hire a lawyer to handle it all from the start so they'll know what they're defending should it come to that.
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What If Money Was No Object ~ Alan Watts
Anyone running php, move the location from /cgi-bin/php. We've seen a few takeovers with unpatched systems to run miners. Not everyone can take their server down and changing the location according to apache/nginx at least stops the bots from finding you immediately.
Next step: dim the house lights and redlight the desk lamp in the cube of the person that broke the build. Add a Battlestar Galactica-type klaxon alarm for extra fun.
Blockchain link or it didn't happen.
Yes, it was the XOR patent that opened the door to all the software patents that followed.
Coinbase is down
or is it just me?

EDIT:
http://status.coinbase.com
Yep, this can be a lesson to developers who read this. If your web application must write to files, keep them outside of the DocumentRoot!

edit: I know a lot of HN'ers are fans of Ubuntu but, FWIW, SELinux (default on RHEL and derivatives) would have prevented this.
I am in a similar situation although lately I have been forced to become a freelancer on the side as well.

I was forced into entrepreneurship for the same reasons cited. Being burnt out from past jobs and no longer being able to find work, where software developers were treated like laboureurs, ready to be tossed out at a moment's notice when they can no longer perform well due to the excruciating hours already exploited thanks to the political party who protect nurses and plumbers but not software developers who obviously can freely negotiate their wage in the free market that they keep fantasizing about and telling people so they can get the votes, that employers will not exploit the sparce job space in BC and that somehow raising the living cost is more important than retaining the tech industry which is slowly bleeding talent to other provinces or United States.

It's a shite state of affairs but I'm far from just giving up. I don't need to be holding a nine to five just to pay the bills. We developers have technical skills that needs to be treated with respsect and if one cannot find a fair open and free market without government interference, one must find it on the internet and rest of the world where it operates more efficiently.
So Long Scrum, Hello Kanban: Why we made the switch.
looks great and a great idea. don't forget tag support to allow users to group hikes by region (i.e. hikes around "yosemite") as the content increases.
That's correct, repositories themselves are not named. You can change the name of the parent directory without consequence.
Well, the idea is that for a fee, you will provide each restaurant with a custom phone number, maybe from twilio, but email would work I guess, but that doesn't seem as cool to me. Textamonials has an appeal, but I guess email can as well. You would probably have to have a feature where owners can either turn on or off, that when turned on, will send a follow up email back to the customer after they write a review saying "thanks for the testimonial, here's 10% off your meal!"

EDIT: To better explain it, because that was from my phone, I think it can work if you charge restaurant owners lets say $30/month in exchange for a custom backend and phone number, that allows customers to send their testimonials, and the backend is where the owner can approve of which ones get published to his site. THe backend would also be where the owner can turn on certain features, like the "rewards" feature... So, for a testimonial, a customer may get no reward, or 10% off his meal. That would be up to the owner. Of course, a phone number is only allowed one review, so you would have to keep track of each number. In the end, I think it's a very plausible idea though.
I've been looking at a couple different 'push' style monitoring solutions, including Sensu. Does anyone have any experience between Reimann and Sensu, or any of the other similar alternatives out there which they'd be willing to share with the community?
Oddly enough, there's already an app called "Candy Land" that has nothing to do with the board game.
No, there was no real connection to the logrotate application. The miner that was running simply replaced argv[0] with "logrotate", presumably to look benign if/when the administrator took a look at the list of running processes.
I believe he's comparing the less than above board things dotcom has done to the sidestepping of the law that AirBNB actively endorses. Basically saying that HN is all about companies like AirBNB because they hatched here while they aren't that much better when it comes to working within the law and playing by the rules. I could be mistaken though, correct me if I'm wrong yapcguy. Not saying I fully agree just trying to make sense of his post for you!
Founder's stories and startup life - my Beacon project
Looking for support from HN for my Beacon campaign - for anyone who'd be interested in reading founder's stories and posts covering successes/lessons learned.

Beacon is like Netflix for news. They use a clean, no-ad reading interface with the ability to directly fund writers through their platform.

About Me: I'm a contributing writer to an LA-Based news pub called TechZulu. We cover breaking tech news among other topics, but I've found most of my passion in learning the stories of the people behind the businesses. (Some examples below):

- Interview with Jim Farley, Ford Motors CMO - (http://bit.ly/1m0Or6w)
- Interview with Emir Aboulhosn, Ready SIM CEO - (http://bit.ly/Kh86ju)

Through this project, I'm looking to refine this concept and give entrepreneurs a venue to share their stories and what they've learned.

Specific to this campaign, I'll be finding and contacting this year's W14 batches from notable incubators across the country (YC, Techstars, etc.). If you're interested in these stories, please consider supporting my campaign.

Note - I'm not directly affiliated with Beacon other than using their services, But I do think they have a cool concept and platform and hope they find success.
Which part of the post used that color? The body text is #424242.

http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/#%23424242-on-white
Yup - we encountered the same stuff (great explanation) -- here is an example of something we did for a major brand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGAfHi5wF1o
I was able to reactivate with the same device.
I would really love to see "pf" on Linux.

When I began using Linux, "ipfwadm" had just been incorporated into the kernel. It was replaced in 2.2 by "ipchains" which was replaced in 2.4 by "iptables". Now we have "nftables".

I'll admit to not knowing much about nftables but from what I've read about it in the last few days, it's still not even close to what OpenBSD's "pf" is capable of.

Ahhh, well, I can wish, right?
Yep, and that's been interpreted such that - just in case - we add a link on every page of software.intel.com to http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/optimization-notice

Whether or not the current page has anything to do with compilers.

Also, judging by the URL they made it an 'article' instead of a 'page' again... I'll have to see if I can get someone to fix that.
I wish there would be a cleaner V2 version of megahal out there. I loved that thing but the last time I've implemented it into eggdrop (which is hopelessly outdated too) I was sweating blood and never wanted to touch it again ;)
Thank you for the replies. A follow-up question, how does any GC/runtime/VM know which parts of the memory are actual data vis-a-vis pointers to other parts of the memory? Some sort of global pointer table, perhaps? If so, why cant the hypothetical GC lib define an API to share said pointer-table?
Very interesting. I got very excited about MemoryCoin Autonomous Corporation. Machine hires humans!
Of Microsoft's simple solution was "working" (something like the original Chrome before Google made it into IE:The Next Generation with their proprietary pile-ons, the gnashing and wailing would not have happened. It was their proprietary crap defacto monopoly browser that led to the complaints.
It sort of makes sense when you consider trademark law to largely be about protecting the consumer -- to prevent intentional deceptively similar names (or logos, trade dress, etc...) from causing the consumer to buy a product thinking it is another, or from a different company than it actually is.

It also has the effect of protecting the mark owning company from another company producing poor products which then become attributed to the original company. But arguably this also protects the consumer.

Basically it boils down to consumer confusion -- since there is this gigantic company that is world renowned, it will cause confusion if in Brazil the iPhone trademark is not assigned to Apple.
hence, sosumi.aiff
http://www.medstartr.com/ built by Alex Faire, may be a better fit but it's a pretty small audience. Have you gone over the project with a regulatory fine-tooth comb?
Markets are complex systems and defy simple explanations, but many analysts make a living from ignoring this fact and making it seem like everything can be summed up in a 10 second soundbite. That sell was a drop in the bucket compared to the volume dogecoin has seen on the exchanges in the past 24 hours. Rumors abound about why the price has skyrocketed but I think that it boils down to a few things:

- dedicated, welcoming community
- coin ecosystem: well-orchestrated launch, smart developers
and pool operators, etc.
- increased hashrate, second now only to that of bitcoin and litecoin.
This is partly from the community and partly from speculators:
success breeds success.
- lots of good publicity
IIRC I've read something that said Go was going to move away from segmented stacks in future versions. I have no idea about the progress.
I totally agree with you. Security is the no. 1 concern before we start a public launch.

The issues you mentioned is very basic that should be avoided in the first place. VPS should be well maintained by the owner himself or have professional service to help.

For a better architecture, a web server should be separated from the app server and database server, because the HTTP port is always open on the firewall, while the rest can only be accessed locally.

I have a blog page showing step by step how to configure application development environment on Windows and deployment environment on Linux. Maybe it's helpful.

http://bingobo.info/blog/contents/how-to-configure-applicati...
even worse with Apple and Sony placements in House of cards if you want. Personally I have been noticing awkwardness since the 80s mostly because directors don't have a clue about real IT use cases, mostly they try to impress, that's all.
My midrange old laptop (Intel Core2Duo, 1.4GHz, Intel SSD) boots in about thirty seconds from cold to X login with sysVinit. Again, Debian Stable, nothing odd going on.

There are tools to look at what your laptop is doing during boot time.

I've seen the systemd and upstart propaganda, and find it unconvincing.
So we're pretending moving a few miles inland is not living on the two major US coasts.
The problem with old JBoss versions is that their configurations were insecure by default with several potential attack vectors available. If you didn't know about this and just deployed your JBoss out of the box, chances were good you'd get "hacked". Newer versions (>= 7) fortunately solved that issue and are not that easy to take over.
Some people might value the aesthetic of "handmade" or human-interaction, but from a practical standpoint there is no advantage, and most jobs don't fit into that description anyways.
Excellent article, as always!
Great explanation about the power of incentivized human maintenance.
iBeacon competitor for Android
How does the Intel compiler compare to others today? We tried using it for game development years ago and it had too many problems to make it worthwhile (e.g. pathological behavior with some C++ code).
You're disregarding the necessity of a "small non-profit" not wasting time running broken tests, which is not necessarily optimized by complicating the bejeezus out of everything.
You can't redistribute it (even though they include GPLv2'd code with it).

That's not exactly free.
That's not exploitative. If people want to pay women to be waitresses or whatever, let them. They are not harming anyone else.
Adding a captcha for the editing mode would be a good call, at the moment anyone can add anything, looking forward to the future of this site!
No, there's far too much cachet to living on the East or West coasts.
Outside of any executable location, not only DocumentRoot. Latter is just an easier and more popular target.

I mean, all writeable directories (if any) must not only be not runnable by some server (like Apache with mod_php), but also be on devices mounted with noexec, like this is the case with /tmp.
Sorry, NIH. And we won't see dtrace either
Had to do a double take just to make sure I read the title correctly. Still thinking: 'Surely you can't be serious..'
The link is 404'ing.
I think things like this just pan out to ludicrous.

Although, really, is it because Candy Crush seems smaller to me than Apple Computers?

Is it because it is so much harder to enter the hardware market than the app store market?

It ends up being incredibly difficult defining the line at which you stop I find when I think about it.

Anyways, I never liked the game much and haven't played it in ages so I deleted it in mock "protest".

I guess I wouldn't mind so much if they trademarked it, then went after people using things that looked like their candy, or games using the name with similar concepts. But the candy casino game?

I assume Apple doesn't keep track of every single trademarking that goes on with every app developer and King must be initiating the requests.
47446.

Most of them were fiber providers who you can't actually get fiber from. I work for an ISP that does service this area and we tend to keep up on what's available in our service area.

Don't get me wrong -- I realize you're attempting a massive undertaking but, based upon the searches I did, there is a lot of incorrect data in your database.
Can you spoof AMD CPUs to return "GenuineIntel" instead of "AuthenticAMD"?
I'm a little sympathetic to King here because of the degree to which other developers have ripped off Candy Crush. A couple minutes searching the app store for "candy" turned up five examples ranging from "strongly based on" to "deliberately sowing confusion." One describes itself as a "popular candy 'match 3' game," another even uses the distinctive Candy Crush UI font.

But of course they throw away any sympathy by going after totally unrelated games. Did any player actually think they had downloaded a Candy Crush slot game?
Aaarrgh! Is this satire or cluelessness? I can't tell anymore...
Op said he is not technical. C# is a fine language, but not if this isn't your profession. Python is.
Paypal is interesting and a niche success, but wasn't deeply visionary. SpaceX and Tesla are cool, and may even end up being market successes - but they still have a ways to go before proving themselves.

I'm a Musk fan, but Jobs had a huge body of work in fantastic products/movies that his enterprises created under his leadership.

a trend which is showing no sign of abating and every likelihood of levelling out in much the same position the Mac ultimately did

There's your problem right there. You're somehow equating number of clone devices out there to Jobs's visionary ability to create entirely new markets with products and services that were then copied endlessly.

Number of cheap clone devices out there produced by third party manufactures was never Jobs' goal. How is IBM doing with that whole computer clone business, by the way?
Broadwell will perform better, but Intel may decide to charge more for it. That's what they did with Ivy Bridge and Haswell.
Yes, PHP has weaker security but fast implementation because it allows direct database access from the front pages. There are a lot of discuss about it. I always disable PHP on the HTTPD to avoid potential issues.
I read the first article you linked to, but couldn't find any reference to rape threats by Men's Rights Advocates. That some women receive rape threats on the internet is an entirely different matter. There have also been episodes of feminists faking such rape threat comments. Let's stay on the sane side.

In any case, I only know Karen Straughan (Girl Writes What), who seems very reasonable to me. Not sure how she is associated with A Voice For Men, but she did call for donations for them recently.

And, let's step back a moment: did animus9 write any death threats to women, or did he indeed write anything about men's rights before being accused of being an MRA member? Then why are we having this discussion again?
My girlfriend yelled at me today when the last chocolate pudding went missing. I calmly explained to her that fridge-oriented cyber-attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated.
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=3...
Isn't Candy Crush just a rip off of Bejeweled though?
You still have to drive the display. If you are just sending minimal information, you then need something to process that data and output the 12 terabits/sec.
I agree, and I've always thought that the people opposed to it are getting the 'security by obscurity' thing all wrong and taking it to ridiculous levels. Denying information to your attacker is virtually always a good idea. The only exception is widely-used, core stuff like encryption algorithms, web browsers, server framework, etc.

So sure, change the port and all, just as long as you're aware of what it does and doesn't do. I don't think anyone believes that you can allow root login with a password of 12345 if only you change the port, but it can be a good layer in a well-designed system.
At this point, does intel need that function to make AMD's CPU cores look bad?
Article is from 2009 but Agner's CPU optimizations manual is still very useful.

http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_cpp.pdf

Instructions on how to patch Intel's CPU detection routine to do your bidding is in section 13.7, pp. 132-133.

The 2009 article also has this interesting tidbit: "It is possible to change the CPUID of AMD processors by using the AMD virtualization instructions. I hope that somebody will volunteer to make a program for this purpose. This will make it easy for anybody to check if their benchmark is fair and to improve the performance of software compiled with the Intel compiler on AMD processors."
http://www.kickstarter.com/
I have no experience with Sensu, but I can tell you why we went with Reimann: we are processing non-server events.

We have instrumented our iOS app very heavily, and we publish those updates (encrypted via libsodium) to our backend over UDP, which then pushes them into Reimann.

We really like it so far, although I agree that setup could be easier. It's just so incredibly flexible. That said, the machine it runs on is 4x the cost of our main server, thanks mostly to the Java tax, but also the extremely high number of events we push through it.

tl;dr Reimann is very flexible when you want to move beyond monitoring servers to many different kinds of events.

UPDATE: Forgot to mention, docs are reasonably good and the developer is very passionate about the project. I have high confidence in its future.
I guess you just have to call him "Steve Jobs"
I've ran into it in practice a few years back, while making WRF (math intensive atmospheric modeling software, I'm maintaining non-commercial soaring prediction site for the bay area) to work on my AMD cluster. Had to patch the executable compiled with the Intel compiler in order to make it work unhindered on AMD's. The patch was just zapping 'Genuine Intel' detection code in the compiled executable... That 'post-linker' patch is available here: http://www.swallowtail.org/naughty-intel.shtml
I'm not sure the young are that stupid when it comes to dollars out of their pocket.

Penalties the IRS can charge for not signing up (to sites many found difficult or impossible to do so in the first place) are minimal this year, and get really big in year 3 as I remember. But it remains to be seen that this is politically feasible, there aren't many people who are closely watching this never popular in the first place train-wreck who think they'll stand.

ADDED: I guess you're also not familiar with the Jacksonian part of the US (roughly Greater Appalachia with plenty of the south). We don't volunteer for the military just because of the compensation, but because its our duty.

A greater point to make is why are the young listening so much less to their elders? The '60s "don't trust anyone over 30" and all this youth culture emphasis has had terrible results. Bringing this around to hacker territory, it was quite sad to watch the microcomputer crowd make so many of the same mistakes their elders made and learned from, and it's utterly damning that almost all our software technology is from a base no older than the calendar '60s.
Did you read the guy's question? He said he is not technical. Java is a fine language (well, according to some...) but modern Java and frameworks are the realm of a professional or at least want-to-be-semi-pro-and-willing-to-invest-a-lot-in-all-the-java-8-things programmer. OP doesn't seem to be Java's audience.
Maybe men's rights advocates mostly fight about unreasonable feminism then.

If you have any links to reasonable feminism, I would be glad to receive them. I am still looking for examples for that.