skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short, uninteresting answer is that it's a work in progress. Initially we built FIFO into our caches because it was easy to build and didn't interact badly with flash disk craziness (write amplification specifically). You can read more about our old caching system mcdipper at https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/mcdipper...
Who, other than certain parents with opinions they can't scientifically justify, says anyone isn't "allowed to play" Quake 3?
It sounds like ansimionescu might have been told that Broadcom isn't a good place to work.
I'm pretty sure your logic is flawed. Someone is already screwed, its sort of why police can confiscate stolen goods even if you paid for them.

I'd like to know if it would be feasible to regulate in someway to claim ownership of said coins and have them returned should they turn up in some sort of regulated clearing house / exchange. Caveat: I know this is in no way possible right now, yet as soon as this block chain gets large enough we are going to have some form of centralization going on, and with that I am certain it will be regulated in some way eventually. That is, if it lasts that long.

What exactly is the plan to deal with a multi terabyte block chain anyways?
Let's not call AnsaldoBreda an example of good engineering...
"The Fed" says they are outside their jurisdiction.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/27/janet-yellen...
I've been on both sides, but on balance I'd say I have relatively little sympathy for industries that (a) consider "product innovation" to consist mostly of designing contracts that will trick consumers and (b) regularly lobby to change the rules governing bankruptcy, financial procedures, bank transfers, fees, etc. There are multiple industries that may be so described. Perhaps someday software will eat the world, but finance already has.
This is almost a universal problem with firmware and chip engineers, who are generally older and more experienced, and thus apparently can't be taught new tricks. There are also issues with bureaucracies in each and every semiconductor company (which are on average decades old) so firmware is usually hot potatoed around by management and ends up lighting the customers' projects on fire almost every damn time. I don't have enough fingers to count how many times I've encountered problems in a project and wasted weeks treading water, eventually to find out that the code examples weren't tested, a parameter that closely effects very sensitive silicon isn't documented, or even that I can't so much as get the documentation for a licensed USB peripheral that is non EHCI compliant (who knew such a thing even existed anymore).

Everyone from Broadcom to Qualcomm (and many more) are guilty of this and it is a very rare treat to find a chip that is well documented with firmware and code examples that work and give you a full picture of what you can do and where the pitfalls are.
I am using C++11 with the NDK.
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How would you peg its value to the dollar? How would this be better than PayPal?
Aaron Levie: The rules of business are changing.
I run scraping with Batch, CURL, SED, BCP and SQL Server 2012 or MySQL. My scripts basically download the source code into a text file, run a regex with SED to get content and then put the info into a DB with BCP. I don't take into account any HTML codes for text so such a technique would break my scraping technique.
The other post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7271704
Why was Fox News so able to induce such hysteria in these people, though? (Admittedly, that's less comfortable to think about than just complaining about what Fox does.)
Too true. It is interesting that rationally speaking, considering windfalls or lottery winnings "house money" is incorrect--money is money. This attitude can lead you to cognitive errors that cost you more money in the long run.

On the other hand, if we think about the coping strategy for people who've been Goxed, I can see where if you can disregard the winnings as "paper gains" it is much easier to get on with life thinking "I only lost 10k."
Without a doubt. It's all about values and priorities. Each language was designed by a guiding philosophy, some set of values that shaped the way it was designed and the way in which it should properly be used. As a result, one language is going to promote some values over some values. This in turn will start to constrain (in a positive way) how you think about a problem. You'll think in terms of the language's paradigm (values) and this will cause you to see what's good about one paradigm over another.

There's no silver bullet, just different priorities.

Trying new languages will help give you a well-rounded perspective and will have you porting ideas from other languages into your current language often with benefit.
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> We already have a system in place for every organisation to give part of their money for the public good: taxes.

Yes, but without any personal discretion or choice. For example, I personally think a woman's access to birth control and abortion is an essential right, but because this is by no means a popular viewpoint, I donate directly to charities that support my views.

Taxes aren't a way to support specific, desirable public goals, they only maintain the status quo. If your view had merit, Bill Gates would try to pay taxes to encourage redesign of condoms to improve Third World family planning outcomes (one of Gates' current projects). But Gates knows this won't work -- as far as a vocal minority of American are concerned, family planning is the work of the devil.

> As a democratic society, supposedly we already have mechanisms in place to decide how to spend this money for the public good.

You have a distorted idea of democracy. Democracy is not a centralized decision-making process in which various views are amalgamated into a single choice of action for all. Not to oversimplify, but democracy respects the rights of individuals and diverse groups to act in a way that doesn't interfere with any other group's similar rights. On this basis, private charity accurately represents democracy much better than centralized taxation does.
At least if your money is held in an FDIC insured bank and the bank goes under, you can rely on the government to insure your investment. With bitcoin you have no such thing.
It's not the fed you have to worry about, it is prosecutors and senators trying to make a name for themselves with unnecessary law and regulations.
Please read my response to doughj3, who is referring to the copyright assignment to the FSF required by some GNU projects.

Then, read this explanation from Eben Moglen about why the FSF does copyright assignment. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
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You realize that would put Google out of business?
Yet, thre are plenty of people doubting it here.
Fossil: Simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management
I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but this is my recollection of Buttercoin's history. Please reply with corrections, and I'll edit.

Mtgox crash about 1 year ago, when their trade engine could not keep up with the large number of transactions. Later we found out that Mtgox could not handle more than something like 50 transactions / second. Buttercoin was a developer's response to Mtgox's crash. To build a better mouse trap that could handle 100x more trade volume than Mtgox.

https://buttercoin.hackpad.com/FAQ-QTRSMzlkLD6

It was originally supposed to be open source, to improve the underlying machinery for all bitcoin exchanges. There were some really bright and ambitious people involved in the beginning too. Somewhere a couple months in, the core developers took VC money, and decided to launch their own exchange instead. I haven't kept up with the project enough to know if they are holding to the initial open source exchange source code promises, but I'm not surprised at all that they want to cash in on becoming a big centralized exchange.

It'd probably be hard to be VC funded, while also giving away their competitive advantage (highly scalable trade engine source code) for free.

https://buttercoin.hackpad.com/FAQ-QTRSMzlkLD6

http://www.reddit.com/r/buttercoin
Where is there hypocrisy in that? I just can't see any.
Agreed, trust and confidence //that it can be spent//. I don't think "trust and confidence" against terrible scenarios was a requirement 1,000 years ago, (FDIC formed 1933) yet people still had currency that was centrally issued and sometimes even based on gold/silver.

What you're really saying is "A currecy requires a central authority to absorb losses like the FDIC because it makes consumers want to use banks." I mean clearly, you aren't saying the FDIC should insure cash under peoples' mattresses in case they have a house fire that literally burns their wealth, right? The "backing" you're referring to only counts if you put it in a bank that complies with the FDIC, not by mere merit of owning the currency itself. In fact, there is absolutely no reason a person couldn't create a bitcoin bank and offer THE SAME PROTECTION. But who wants to do that when there is no Uncle Sam to pick up the tab for you?

EDIT: TL;DR: Bitcoin and keeping all your money as cash are effectively equivalent risk. In both cases, if you lose your wallet, you're screwed with no recourse. Hence, it is not by merely being centrally issued that risk automagically disappears.
I don't think they're trying to hide anything, maybe just haven't gotten around to creating an About page. Both founders used to work for Microsoft: https://angel.co/buttercoin
Can you point the advantages of this being "super-cool", i am afraid I'am bit puzzled :s
"The Fed" =/= "The Feds"

While it may be outside the Federal Reserve's jurisdiction, there are many other federal agencies.
Might this just be an example of someone who is getting old and cranky?

As you get older things start to change and it's harder to move with the times and the world doesn't seem to make so much sense; so it's comforting to consume media that tells you that it isn't your fault but the rest of the world.
Thank you I didn't even consider this.
Not at all. Further, Reddit forms hiveminds with strongly idiosyncratic opinions that squeeze out other valid views, and it's likely one of these which is going to determine the direction of donations.
How on Earth would you be able to (easily) tell if the scripts loaded into memory are the scripts at the legitimate URL location? Eg:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/lib/bitcoinjs-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/lib/jquery-2.1.0.min.js"></script>
<script data-main="/js/main" src="/js/lib/require.min.js"></script>
MtGox might not be responsible for the delay. All I know is that he started the process months ago, they kept saying that "money was on the way", and he eventually received it.
Yes this seems to be the case, thanks for your reply.
Addiction really is the operating word here. It's what keeps you in front of the TV in the same way it keeps people in front of slot machines. The worst part is the thesis of conservative media; that while you do everything right, some nebulous liberal agenda is taking away everything that you hold dear, and are entitled to as a working person (ignoring all information regarding demographics and welfare recipients). Fox News makes good money off of convincing people who feel they are victims of the world at large that they are in fact autonomous conservatives/libertarians.
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In the enterprise? You're right, not at all.

At home? After the utter drubbing that Win8 took in the Media? When the owner of the biggest gaming platform on the OS has said they want to move away from it?

The reasons to use Windows at home are slowly drying up.
Some of us are terrified of an ever-more invasive government, welfare progams that only ever seem to be welfare for corporations, and the destruction of the important american myth of hard work == success. Some of us keep listening to lies and dreams from an increasingly despotic asshole while american prosperity drifts away. You've lost yourself in fantasyland, not the other way around.
Fox News is a reasonable focal point for this piece, but it's only one small contributing factor. The sad thing is that purveyors of fear and distrust are all over the internet. I lost my dad to some combination of Glen Beck, Fox News, and the "Gold, Guns, and God" crowd.

I caught glimpses of it via his emails from time to time. The first major one being links to radiation pills after Fukushima. Then the obsession with silver hit -- no one in my family knows how much or where he has buried his stashes in our two acre yard, but we know there are at least 4. Then the fear of drones hit, evidenced by my dad saying he was mowing the lawn as a "dog and pony show" for the eyes in the sky. Then the internet had to be disconnected because neighbors might be hacking him. Then the telephone was unplugged because it was bugged. Then he started making my mom write messages to him on paper in the house since the house was bugged. Then he had a restraining order put on him by a preacher who was so unnerved by his ranting. During this whole process he was convinced he was being led by the Holy Spirit and threatened my mom if she told anyone about it.

Things went down hill so fast that I'm still shaken by it. I had to work with my family to get him committed on Christmas Eve.

Maybe this is TMI, but hopefully some will see it as a warning. If you see someone you love going down that slippery slope of paranoia, don't hesitate to talk to them about it at first, and get advice from a trained psychologists if things get worse. Love the person, ignore the content of their ideas... maybe you can help prevent a breakdown.
There is also a github repo.

https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoin
Raspberry Pi GPU Goes Open Source $10,000 Bounty For Quake 3
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Anything that allows drugs dealers, terrorists and pedophiles to run wild is going to get regulated. Anything that doesn't isn't anonymous, untraceable, etc. That's the fundamental problem; even if you were to out-lawyer the people making the laws, that would only stop them until they could make a new law. (Optimistically.)
I don't know anything about mobile, but I've been looking at replacing my htpc ION system (edit: not that it really needs it, frankly it works great) and fanless baytrail boards/cases look very interesting. More cost than a pi + pi codec licensing obviously - but not that much, and all open as you pointed out...
It's more that I might want something. Say if I was at a video game site, an ad for the new Zelda would be welcome. As long as it didn't get in the way.

Also, I kind of wish more sites took the mindset of http://dodiy.org/ but thats kind of a pipe dream.
This is a blog and therefore the author can of course present his opinion in any way he wants, but I'd really like to see this claim backed up somehow. Are there any statistics that show a difference in the distribution of wealth or well-paying jobs between the Bay Area and Vancouver?
> The Lima driver for ARM Mali is open source and runs Quake 3!

But the Lima driver was created by reverse engineering instead of using publicly available documentation.
Original source: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6299

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7320828
It leveraged the News's status as an integral part of the democratic process to undermine and influence that process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli... covers the how.
Hover Zoom is no longer in the Chrome Web Store
what do you suggest in place of ads?
No particular knowledge is required, but all of our new code uses technologies like Backbone, Node, Capistrano, and MySQL.

We also make API calls into the existing system, which is written in Java, so it helps to be able to grasp a complex Java codebase with way too many layers and enterprise systems. :)

But mostly, we're just looking for great software engineers who want to make a difference, not any particular set of acronyms.
Depending on what products you're talking about, you should see if it competes in any way with Google's paid results on product searches. If there is any crossover, the USDOJ might be happy to hear what you have to say.
Yeah, but that learning curve is a real bitch.

As much as I hate HTML I never struggled with it quite as much as I struggled trying to feel productive with Silverlight 2/3 for the first 3 months.

But as you say, once you're finally over the hump, it makes you really despise the utter stupidity of HTML and the w3c's design by committee.
I'm not sure I understand your reasoning. Assuming they run a profitable business, telling them that they should change their business model because you don't like ads is like arguing that Nike should charge less because their shoes don't cost $90 to manufacture. You can argue until you are blue in the face about why something shouldn't be the way it is, but it won't change the fact that despite your pleas to the contrary (and perhaps intuition), that IS the way it is.
I'd be good enough if redditors just split it between the EFF and the NRA.
That seems to vary between subreddits. I've encountered a few quite successful ads (with comments from regular visitors to the sub further supporting the product!). /r/sysadmin comes to mind, but I'm sure there are others.
Calm.com's maximum, 20 minutes is quite a short meditation.
It takes me about 35 mins for a chance at losing my self in space and getting out of my skull (when the brain really starts doing noticeably interesting stuff).

@zenbowman @tucosan
I mostly meditate alone on my computer chair and it can work totally fine, I have many friends that do the same every day.
I would get rid of the 2 mins, and add 30,40,60,120 mins. If needed, fold out on hover.

Sure our devices can be noisey, but just like when sleeping, people can stop the noises.

Physical exercise is a great idea, and goes well with meditation. Also there online communities for meditation and practice these days, which is a good way to build reinforcement as we're social creatures.
Reddit is one of very few websites I unblock from Adblock because they aren't annoying, intrusive, obnoxious, or otherwise a pain in the ass. If you can do it out of the way, keep it classy, and not tag me like a wild animal to be tracked, Im fine.
> supposedly we already have mechanisms in place to decide how to spend this money for the public good

Even if they were working (which they're clearly not), just because 51% of people want to fund wars for egotainment, the kiddie-porn collecting NSA, and the rest of the American Empire outreach program does not mean that it is just to require everyone do so.

(also: alright Reddit Incorporated, put your money where your mouth is and let Wikileaks be an option to vote for)
google, facebook, yahoo and pretty much 99% of the sites who serve more than a 1M pageviews. People who talk like the "grandfather" have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. It seems like a good idea in their head, but that's only because they see it only through their eyes and they have 0 experience in the publishing business.
XX (or is it Dos Equis) and Oldspice would beg to differ, and they didn't even advertise there. I've found reddit to be rather accepting of advertising as long as it is done transparently. IAMAs by celebrities every time they star in a new movie aren't treated with hostility - just put the fact that you're in a new film in the submission text.

There have been many HN posts and comments about successful paid ads in specialized communities.
They aren't really a charity; they sell a product from a manufacturer (the Broadcom SoC) and were started by Broadcom employees. So, in a way, this "charity" is really just a marketing subsidiary of Broadcom.
This. Doesn't even work on Safari on my iPad: it only shows a blank page.

I seriously think this Web 3.0 fashion has gone way out of hand, like in the early days of the web with amimated GIFs, auto-play, and other awfully unusable gimmicks. Every web designer should open this website every day, and ponder:

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

P.D.: On a bitter, petty unrelated note: this footnote strikes me as trying too hard to be cute: "Buttercoin is lovingly crafted in Palo Alto, California". I don't think a Bitcoin exchange should be equated to, I don't know, some organic high-end coffee brew, or the latest Jony Ive creation... It just leaves a weird taste in my mouth.
Your diet must be very Fox News heavy.
I find the father and the writer to be insufferable. The father for, as portrayed, his clutching ignorance, the writer for being a born-again snob.
Go home NPM, you're drunk!

(add all the latest drama, and you're basically just asking to be forked..)
A penny? Only small publishers get a penny (or less) per ad. The price of the ad is proportional to how annoying it is. (Wait 10 secs to skip).
An instruction through PostScript? Keep in mind PostScript is interpreted, so adding an instruction to the interpreter to update the firmware is... Really stupid on their side
I'm not buying these conclusions - on a quick scan, the "strange expression" isn't wrong: the code is scanning to find the first character that isn't a colon. The check against the zero byte is harmless, and I could imagine other static analysis tools insisting on it (as cheap insurance against scanning off-the-end).

As for the "shifting negative integers is undefined behavior", this is a technically-true statement that's been practically-false for quite a few years - does anybody still use a machine that doesn't use two's-complement integers?
I'm talking about the sources of it's random input, not it's source code.
And those of you that think this believe Fox News has your interests in mind? Where does them making money off of selling subscriptions and political campaign ads at ridiculous markup come into this? What a coincidence. They're not only one of the most expensive channels a cable company has to pay for, but they're also heroes.
The main touchy-feely moment for me here is that a notoriously closed, $17-billion company was brought around by a friendly, gentle approach to convincing it to be more open. Group hug for Broadcom.
Do you find it somewhat presumptuous to argue against the business model of a business you've never visited?
Solution 1: Upgrading npm actually does nothing and also complains about a cert error.

Solution 2: is a terrible idea for people who have their own private registries or proxy caches. Also a security issue in general...

This leaves you with needing to upgrade node, which may or may not be possible due to operating system/platform constraints. Luckily we were using this https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js/ which makes life on ubuntu ok.

We set up our own proxy cache, at this point im thinking about increasing the cache time to something like 2 weeks.
Do you contribute to those websites in other ways? Reddit now allows the purchase of Reddit Gold. OkCupid allows you to pay $5 to never see ads again. Wikipedia periodically asks for donations. I wonder if those options will proliferate in the future.