skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder about the rotational speed changes of the payload mass more than the wind. The counterweight will tend to speed up and slow down as the mass of the payload is accelerated and decelerated (during climbs and descents respectively), but I keep hearing that the counterweight is just a mass.
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Also makes it dead easy to download and embed into projects! Hurray for single source files.
That is only if the FBI holds onto them forever. However, unless something has changed, I was under the impression that they plan on auctioning them off just like any other seized asset

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/01/16/the-feds-...
a quote comes to mind:
"""
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
"""
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
That's interesting because i have always thought SDN are what you are describing as NFV.
there are a number of applications that are sane and dont have a postgresql connection pooling built-in (eg. django introduced it on 1.6)
There's this introduction to algorithms course by MIT course ware which I found useful while I was learning. You can see it here: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
The video lectures are pretty good!
To classify a company as a "startup" I'd go with either Steve Blank's definition (An organization in search of a repeatable and scalable business model [0]) or Jacobellis v. State of Ohio (I know it when I see it [1])

Sure, AirBnB certainly appears to have hit the scaling part. But I bet they're still trying to find new models and new markets. Hilton, Marriott, Starwood and others dominate the corporate travel market. Dropbox appears to be moving towards photo sharing on the consumer side and config/settings sharing on the tech side.

Startup, not startup. Probably irrelevant. I know that there's value in having companies who think like a startup as vendors. Procurement departments aren't structured to be allowed to think that way and I think that's bad for the companies they serve.

[0] http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...

[1] https://casetext.com/case/jacobellis-v-state-of-ohio/paragra...
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If you just want to make a game, you may not want to bother learning WebGL directly. You can use an engine like PlayCanvas[1]* to build a game and you don't have to worry about the low-level stuff.

[1] https://playcanvas.com/

*I'm a co-founder
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He's a flash developer trying to stay relevant
Such a requirement may not be limited to US exchanges. AML provisions require that any exchange (not just those in the US) that support the conversion of Bitcoin to/from USD register with FinCEN. If they were to refuse to cooperate with US LE agencies' efforts to confiscate bitcoins that were the proceeds of crime, they could be judged to have assisted in criminal money laundering.
Counter-points

1. Pivoting away from revenue is pretty stupid thing to do.
If you are buying from me, and so is Tom Dick and
Harry, I am getting a strong market signal.

2. The team is so good they might get acqui-hired and you are worried your multinational company is now relying on them - well there is a solution to stop another company acqui-hiring them....

3. Customer service sucks most places. Some use it as a differentiator (Rackspace), but a lot of the time customer service should be automated (lost your password?). And "on-boarding" new customers by hand - this is gold that some startups are learning about

4. I will happily send you an invoice and set up a monthly billing run. It just won't be for 29 dollars a month :-)

But yes - I agree with your main thrust - we should make it easy and simple to get a yes turned into a paid invoice from a corporate budget holder.
You don't have to seize them. You can just declare that funds will not be accepted from any wallets that receive Bitcoin from the flagged wallet. If an entity with enough market power started flagging wallets, services would quickly build in functionality to reject funds from flagged wallets.
You probably talking about Linux, there are other types of dynamic loaders out there.
I've been looking for something like this. Originally I had planned to do it with Python, but Python only seems to allow one interpreter at a time.

Does anybody know if it's easy to make new functions available to PHP that would call into the C main program?

It says "Built with more 470 function" how does that compare with standard PHP? If I take some PHP I've previously written or a library, is it going to run with minor modifications? Or is this a subset of PHP?
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MSNBC (via https) is probably not the site you're looking for
Right, but we're talking about a non-state actor attacking civilian targets like power stations. Mandela fits any reasonable definition of terrorist.
There's a WebGL2 spec in the works, but not sure if it's based on OpenGL ES 3.0 or 4.0/Next. Since it's taking so long to finish it, I'm hoping it's the latter, since 3.0 didn't bring that many improvements, and ES 4.0/Next/whatever they want to call it is supposed to launch soon, I think.
dont prepare statements?
If you are a startup offering 24/7 support, then staffing a 24/7 support desk needs to be part of your plan. It basically means cycling or dedicating two of your team members into the two 8 hour shifts that don't overlap with your primary operating hours. If you are getting a number of large enterprise signups, this should be easy to justify. These people could have useful roles (like QA) they are also performing.
> I was commenting on the misleading wording of cmdkeen's comment

That's just it though; it wasn't even misleading. They were:

- Materials relevant to UK national security.
- Materials present in a UK airport.
- Materials about to be sent (w/ Miranda) across UK borders.

Those were the material facts of the day Miranda was detained. 'cmdkeen wasn't being "misleading" by not including the months of actions that led to Miranda being there with those documents on that day, because they really are irrelevant to the point he was talking about.

If Miranda should not have been stopped because of press freedoms or whatever, then that would have been just as true if Miranda had been personally handled the documents by a GCHQ mole that morning, as if he'd obtained them in Brazil weeks earlier from Greenwald.
I don't know that well how Linux dynamic loader works, my comment was based on what is possible in other operating systems in general, and what has been done in operating system research.
It isn't connected to a blockchain, which is a distinct advantage over bitcoin.
But she's totally killing it in the Valley, right?

Changing the world through A/B testing.
If people can't find stolen bitcoins how can the FBI find bitcoins from illegal activity?
You're not. It's two different meanings of the word. You aren't "responsible" for the running of the business because you've "taken ownership" of the autocomplete widget on the search page. You're getting paid for your ownership of the autocomplete widget, you're not getting paid for your ownership of the corporate direction.

If you're getting paid, you do need to be getting paid because of some responsibility you're discharging, after all.

You can tell it's two different "ownerships" by what happens if you quit. One you retain, the other is simply redistributed to some other developer. They're not the same thing.
Impressive. I've been using Tumblr in a similar way, with my self-hosted blog as the "host network".

I'll download the app and play around. Any plans for a web-based posting tool?
This is not about revolution. That would not be prudent; the inevitable destabilization frightens people into agreeing to more centralization of power.

This is about widespread ignoring of government, which is then forced to agree to save face.
I tried to dig into the source to see, but can anyone tell what algorithm they are using to propagate the ripples? Normally this would be a Finite Difference Time Domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-difference_time-domain_m... but I'm wondering if they didn't just use growing circles and a sine wave.
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Not too many bills from 1972 are still in circulation.
>Technically adept attacker

It was a 15 year old kid
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...
Yup. Usually I remember the rubric being about $30 back to the publisher on a $60-$70 title. MS/Sony each take a cut and so does the distributor (Steam, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc). Plus, as pointed out in comments below, there's also the fact that not all copies were sold at full price. So you're looking AT BEST at $120M in revenue, plus Irrational had TV ads and other large costs in addition to their staffing.
You raise an important point, but I think you state it too strongly. If the FBI shows a tendency to hold an increasing number of bitcoins (on average, over time) it's a deflationary pressure even if they're not "the same bitcoins". It's similar to other demand by people who want to hold, I guess, except that the FBI doesn't need to pay for theirs at market rate.
Hi, I just answered your question above.
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Not only was he carrying those secret documents, he was also apparently carrying the decryption key written on a piece of paper for those documents. Truly a master of OPSEC and INFOSEC, that guy.
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I think the correlation is very weak. We've had very high cost of funds in times of low-inflation. All the bankers care about is if they can make more money lending it out as a mortgage than they can putting it somewhere else (after factoring in risk). If there is no low-risk inflation hedge, then they could very well lend out money at rates below inflation (after factoring in their risks), since that could still be a higher return than any available lower-risk investment.
Actually they have around .5 to 1%. 10% of already mined BTCs would be ~1.2 million coins.
Attack the ideas, not the person.
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This assumes that people will continue to "upgrade" their hardware at roughly the same rate they do today. My sense is that 10+ years ago we leveled-off on the order of (1GHz, 10GB RAM, 1T, 1Gbps, 100W, 1 core). (Sure, the last 10 years has given us a small factor improvement across the board, a bit more with power and disk, but it's not really a game-changer). HP probably believes that people will be sticking with older hardware much longer, which means they can't subsidize the ongoing work of software updates with new equipment purchases any more.

Or I could be completely wrong and HP is trying to boil the frog in the same way banks do with their fee structures. Either way, it doesn't seem like a smart move in the absence of a compelling "if we buy server boxes, they better be HP" story.
Ask HN: How do you share code for stackoverflow questions.
Often times, I stumble in my web development and need an expert to answer, so I ask on stackoveflow. However, explaining a question without the other party recreating the situation is a tough problem. So, my question is...how do you share your code and development/test environment with others on internet?

(Assume the code is open source..so no restrictions on sharing it).
I agree with both of you, and I wish there was a better word than "ownership". That term has implications that are inappropriate for a single feature. You don't own the autocomplete widget -- you're responsible for it but you don't own it, the company owns it.
I would like to combine them and talk to a human next to waterfalls, oceans, waves and beaches :-)
The post is not an attempt to smear bitcoin based on how it is used, it is expressly to point out that bitcoin does not share the special status that cash enjoys under U.S. law.
It is nice to see people finaly talking about orbital elevators
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The key is to kill off all crew except for one of the central gunners (the blaster is best because it's the weakest of the two). The prevents repair of all the systems (except one weapon) but without activating the AI which makes the fight more difficult again.
Not at all impossible. With the right mix of weapons (e.g. lots of burst lasers) and a high evade percentage it goes down easily.
In this case using nginx allow and deny statements was much easier than doing bit fiddling in Lua and returning 503s. Any time spent researching other options would have been time not spent determining the problem.

Often getting to the root of the problem as quickly as possible while simultaneously keeping the site up (practical) wins over always using correct HTTP response codes (pedantic).
I disagree. I think its important to take 'ownership' of your work. Its the best way to obtain visibility in your organization and (for me at least) creates a sense of satisfaction and pride.

If I was just a cog in the machine of the corporate wheel churning through small tasks on a daily basis it would be hard to keep motivated. In fact a lack of ownership for work is what allows large companies to carry so much dead weight for so long. Employees stagnate and start coasting.

I do however take your point to heart and realize taking ownership does not mean I am up til 2am frequently trying to meet unrealistic deadlines.
We Don’t Research. We Build.
It ran fine on my Intel HD 3000, which I think is ~3x slower than your card.
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The FBI does not own anywhere close to 5% of all Bitcoin in existence. Nevermind 10%.

There are ~12M Bitcoin out there right now. There was a total of ~30k seized through Silk Road. That's 0.25%
You are forgetting that open source projects don't have deadlines, pissed customers that might go elsewhere, people that get fired by not fulfilling the quarter targets, ...
Why would they be? You have a right to privately report something to a police officer.
I don't think there's a screenwriter in the world that knows how to do hacking and security stuff realistically.
You're right about focusing on quality over quantity, but if someone builds 101 apps in a year and uses each app to hone skills and improve methods, it's a great way of doing exactly that. You have to practice, even if you want to stay on the same level. The people who level up use practice to learn the best way of doing something.
OpenCrawl has TBs worth of info.
Yeah, 15 reviews for a Top 10 App Store app...

Use your fucking brain man...
Ask HN: How to best structure FundersClub investments?
I am curious what the best practices are for structuring angel investments from the investors end (such as when investing into a FundersClub fund or similar).

Is it preferred to place the investment under an individual name, or is it better to invest through a personal C Corp or LLC vehicle holding company? As relates to taxes and write-offs, I am assuming there is a lot more flexibility if done through a business entity?

Is there any good intro reading material for the newbie accredited investor that wants to throw some play money at a few startups but wants to make sure it is optimally structured?
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Author here. The water effect is a simple 2D heightfield simulation, which is explained pretty well at http://www.matthiasmueller.info/talks/GDC2008.pdf. It essentially just moves each vertex toward the average height of its neighbors, which turns out to propagate waves that look like water ripples.

The caustics are also pretty simple. Basically you take your heightfield mesh that represents the water surface and project each vertex independently along the ray refracted from the light through that vertex (using the vertex normal) and onto the pool floor. So you now have a mesh that is completely on the pool floor and contains lots of tiny triangles. To render caustics, just make triangles that got smaller brighter and ones that got bigger dimmer. I think I used the ratio of the projected area to the original resting area.

The reflection and refraction raytracing is all hard-coded for the geometry in the scene, which makes it really easy. It's just a simple sphere and box intersection test. The "ambient occlusion" is done by making parts of the objects darker when they get near each other.

State of the art for real-time water uses a full 3D volumetric representation for the water like in this paper: http://www.matthiasmueller.info/publications/tallcells.pdf. This lets you get waves that can fold over themselves like real waves. I haven't seen any other realtime methods that have caustics as good as the ones in my demo though.
The modern world is not so terribly different. Most modern readers probably won't make it past the first paragraph.
One big reason is that it gives people the most important info they need up front. If they care about details, they can keep reading.
Is any of them good for SSH (MOSH) access to computers behind NAT?
I created this over a year ago with the intention to use it for:

1. An interactive camera tutorial.
2. A tool to help choose which camera to buy, emphasising the image quality and shallow depth of field that a large absolute aperture gives you.

Since I have no immediate plans to continue with this, I thought it would be cool to share the source code for anyone to play around with.

Enjoy! And feel free to ask me any questions.
Regarding the customer service part, I'm not sure to understand what's the logic behind such a thought process.

When you're a giant corp, you can afford to be slacking on CS. But when you're a small structure with a limited amount of stability and cash flow, why would you take the risk to screw your PR ?

I'm biaised, I'm doing specialised tech support for a Giant so I it's obvious to me.

I've been looking to move to a smaller company (Ie a startup) and I found not so many positions, most being standard CS and nothing technical which is surprising.
Might be because I'm in Europe though.
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Yes, most of the built-in functions (over 470) are foreign C/C++ functions installed exactly using the same interface: ph7_create_function();
Can you use Python 3?
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And how would this work in practice. Let's assume you have one "clean" Bitcoin and I have one stolen/flagged Bitcoin. I'm now sending you 0.1 Bitcoins and you don't know that those are flagged.

So how would this influence your remaining Bitcoins? If you send 0.1 Bitcoins to someone else: Would you sell the stolen Bitcoins first? Would you sell the clean Bitcoins first? Are all of your coins tainted by a given percentage?

(Yes, I know that just receiving those coins would create a separate input that you can ignore in order to avoid tainting your coins. But at some point clean and flagged input will be merged together into a single one.)
LuaJIT can output bytecode as .o files that you can just link. It is not very well documented but its pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
Not really. Only tangentially.

Unless the claim is that the Ministry of Defense laid off their CIO - which is the role she’s playing. They’re just in the process of looking for a new one, which doesn’t happen overnight.
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> The reasoning for not using hi-tech refereeing equipment in football is apparently a desire to keep the game played at the top level the same as that played in streets and fields the world over.

That's already gone with goal line technology. In fact, it was never the case - how many street games/underage kids games even have assistant refs?

> The friction of imperfect decisions is also considered part of the drama of the game, rather than a flaw.

That very much depends on who you ask. Personally, I'd like to see some technology come in (in high profile games played in stadiums already equipped with tv cameras) to help get rid of the more ridiculous refereeing errors.

The most comical example I can think of contrived, convoluted FIFA rules is the Zidane red card in the World Cup final 2006[1]. Allegedly an assistant ref saw Zidane headbutt another player on a tv monitor, then alerted the ref, who red-carded Zidane. Technically the ref didn't follow the rules, as to send someone off the ref or assistants have to have seen the incident in real time. This means the average football fan with only basic knowledge of the rules has a better view of controversial, game changing decisions in high profile games than the ref (fans can watch instant replays in slo mo whereas the ref has to watch at full speed, sometimes with an obstructed view of an incident.)

[1] http://www.football-italia.net/42269/ref-who-saw-zidane-hit-...
In general? No.

When the teleprompter reading person applies for a security job they're supposed to do alone? yes.
The description of security by obscurity in this article reads a lot like Kerckhoff's principle, which when employed correctly is actually a virtue. Not to defend cybercrime, but completely covering your tracks (digitally or otherwise) is a very tricky problem - one that people have long tried to solve with both malicious and benevolent intent - and failings in that vein aren't necessarily of the level of amateurishness that the term implies.
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i'm not so sure that's true. if you fail to deliver in time your open source project will become vaporware and people including developers will go elsewhere for satisfaction
Do any startups do it right?
I implemented a basic water simulation a very long time ago. The water was approximated using a matrix of vertices where each vertex behaved like a spring and affected its neighboring vertices. So for example clicking a spot in the water would pull the closest vertex down and it would spring back creating a domino affect with its neighbors, their neighbors' neighbors, etc. It looks like this is using a similar technique which is why you occasionally see those steep "spikes".
HE-AAC (AAC+) sounds surprisingly fantastic at 32kbps.
This kind of arguments is at risk of being condescending. It is perfectly respectable to spend you day working on boring tasks just to get a pay check. In fact a lot of more desirable jobs have large amounts of drudge, admin, and pointless meetings. That is a consequence of doing activities in a group for something greater than your own vanity. Hobbies remain fun because they are less consequential; you can afford a little indulgence. Making things for other people creates risk; which is mitigated with boring repetitive procedures.
Don Hopkins! I've read the pie menus paper more than once in my academic career, and it took this post for me to make the connection between The Sims (which I played in my youth), pie menus, and you.

So, since I have the opportunity to fanboy out a second: thank you for your contributions, both to gaming and human-computer interaction.
The BBC is pretty left leaning. I expect the vast majority of BBC workers read the Guardian.
Probably this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHGCkgaCZM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUo_qR2Ii-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NujZbQza5jw
Arch uses glibc - though the two projects are currently merging anyway.