skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care how un-sexy perl is by current standards. It's damn efficient, even for new projects. Also, it's not hard for a developper worth its salt to get productive in perl.

At the moment I'm playing with some threaded perl to parse very large text files - part of the code was developed by a C++/Java/js fan, who just realized it was the best tool for the job, and created that after a few days of playing with perl.
How are 50,000 people in New Hampshire going to change anything? That state has two representatives in the House of Representatives. What are two people in a corrupt legislature supposed to do?
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - Generally attributed to Malcolm S. Forbes.
There is an entire market around the buying and selling of so-called "uninformed flow". While others do this as well, I would give a word of warning to all those potentially interested in this. If you aren't buying something, you are the thing being sold.
The biggest general problem is that people thought of shipping the site the same way they thought of shipping an aircraft carrier -- you write the code, hand it over, and you're done. It wasn't treated as a running service. So, for example, when the site went down, there wasn't a group of people responsible for bringing it back up.

That's what Mikey and the other Site Reliability Engineers fixed. They set up a war room with an engineer from each and every subcontractor, and the war room had three rules:

Rule 1: "The war room and the meetings are for solving problems. There are plenty of other venues where people devote their creative energies to shifting blame."

Rule 2: "The ones who should be doing the talking are the people who know the most about an issue, not the ones with the highest rank. If anyone finds themselves sitting passively while managers and executives talk over them with less accurate information, we have gone off the rails, and I would like to know about it."

Rule 3: "We need to stay focused on the most urgent issues, like things that will hurt us in the next 24-48 hours."

Once you have that process working, it's the same as optimizing software: you find the current bottleneck, fix it, find the next, etc. The Time article mentions two -- the lack of DB caching and the bad ID generator. There were dozens of things like that. And still are!
That's a pretty common requirement for many classified positions in the real world (not having to attend pride parade, but being out about your sexual preferences).
It's about making the trade with your eyes open. I am a "just wants to code" type, which is fine, because in the organization we have guys who just want to sell, and guys who just want to make presentations, and guys (presumably) who just want to do the squillion other tasks that make a large organization tick over. I don't feel exploited at all.
In software consulting, people are generally measured against utilization. It isn't as purely formulaic as commission based sales, but there's usually a utilization target of some kind. If your target is 80%, and you find yourself only 70% utilized, you won't expect a good bonus or raise. If it's 50%, you start looking over your shoulder.

I think in general it's a good idea to tie compensation to the benefit people bring to the business. Giving some kind of bonus to people for the profitability they bring to the firm is great. You just have to be careful that you're not screwing up teamwork or getting people too focused on the wrong things. (You don't want to incent short term profitability at the expense of customer satisfaction)
I suspect they don't need to expose themselves because they are holding large amounts of both Bitcoins and cash, so they can simply sell them to people at whatever price they want to. It's not like they take your USD and then have to run out and buy Bitcoins to cover them. They do have to worry about the value of their Bitcoin and USD holdings becoming worthless, but that's something all Bitcoin and USD investors have to worry about.

If they are taking some risk, by making commitments that they don't have backed with currency, it's trivially easy to calculate their exposure and figure out how high their fees need to be to cover it. That's a problem actuaries solved decades ago. Currency exchange is not a new business.
In addition to not being a branch of government, it is also not clear that the Fed is at all "sensible". I don't doubt that the Fed is full of smart people, but they seem to use their smarts to find ways to put a band-aid on the mess the last Fed chair made by keeping interest rates too low, too long.

Digital currency is a huge threat to the Fed if successful, so it will need to be dealt with in some capacity. Right now, I suspect they are hoping it is a fad or a toy that will go away. Gox certainly doesn't help change that impression.
The better solution is that you can change the settings about who can send you connection requests since this "senior professional" feels that they're such an affront when received from strangers
This should be fixed by the browser. If mouse is hold-clicked on scrollbar and the height of the document changes. the position of the mouse should change as well.
What's the problem with that?
I see you decided to omit Matthew 5:18. Don't pretend it doesn't exist. They are the actual words of Jesus if you believe that the Bible was inspired by god. See my other comment here for more.
I'd also be interested to know if it would use the 2x version if I zoom in the page 200% on a non-HiDPI machine.
Yeah... I'm not a Millenial, and I might have been tempted to forward the response with a "WTF?" preceding it to a few select friends.

Seriously, I've received a few LinkedIn requests from obvious scam accounts or some kids I that I never met, but we have a connection or two in common. The scammers I ignore.

The earnest strangers, I tend to tell, "Hi! Thanks for the connection request, but I think LinkedIn works best for me when the connections are people I've actually worked with in one form or another."

This job bank woman stepped way over the line as far as I can see.
Not yet, but integrating with apps like dropbox or similar etc is a nice feature, I'll add that to the official list.

PPSP's key features are:

- live streaming using an innovative method that can be easily secured

- optimised for fast start

- using a standard protocol (UDP) for maximum carrier friendliness

- efficient storage of hash tables via binmap

- use of merkle trees for verifying content without needing the whole hash table to be transferred to every client

- LEDBAT for playing fair with other bandwidth on the client connections

More details on these https://github.com/skunkwerks/swirl/blob/feature/docs/doc/me... and also in the IETF spec http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol
Thanks for the explanation. My mind had been blown for a couple seconds. :)
> I'm not really interested in getting pulled into a 200 year old debate.

Why not, if the debate is still valid? These issues weren't so much "resolved" as put aside in favor of more government power or postponed (in the case of slavery, equal protection). The mere fact that the debate is 200 years old is simply more credit to its importance.

The constitution is imperfect (like our government), as it itself acknowledges, and is "correct" only as Lincoln said that it serves a nation "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all (men) are created equal".

As someone else once said, don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.
The excessiveness of the response suggests that the writer has some kind of mental health issues. If you're in the "help people get jobs" business, this is exactly the type of connection that you should want.
As a former system admin for 20 years, my mind boggles at the idea that they only had email monitoring. It really illustrates what's wrong with "DevOps" - the people doing it don't have the basic common sense that a dedicated system admin would have to have out-of-band notification systems.

Also, only one master database? No dumps to offsite storage? No secondaries? Crazy talk. This is SysAdmin 101 stuff.

> No longer will infrastructure be a “feature” to be
> weighed and prioritized against others in our backlog.
> It’s the foundation of everything we have, everything
> we do, and it will be treated as such."

I'm glad someone is learning this lesson. I wish it wasn't under those circumstances.
The law is what defines the consequences, your pedantry is pointless.

> Bitcoins aren't protected under any law

False. Just because something is new doesn't mean existing laws don't apply to it. Bitcoins are property and property is protected by law regardless of when said item was invented. We don't have to create new law to cover every new invention man decides to own.
Any prominent Bitcoin site is going to be the subject of continuous attacks at this point. If Coinbase has vulnerabilities like Gox did, chances are they'll get found.
There's a link to the footer, and the footer links are in a fixed footer that is always visible. Not super-pretty but I think infinite scroll just means no footer.
> Whitelisting is free for all small- and medium websites and blogs. However, managing this list requires significant effort on our side and this task cannot be completely taken over by volunteers as it happens with common filter lists. That's why we are being paid by some larger properties that serve non-intrusive advertisements that want to participate in the Acceptable Ads initiative.

No room for abuse there. /s :)
I think the problem is time, not the law. I read this article a while ago, and it really opened my eyes as to how much, despite massive effort by the copyright lobby, society is changing away from the idea that copying is theft:

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/the-generational-d...
"...cheaper...to just move to a better school district..."

Unless, of course, you're stuck underwater in a house that you'd lose lots of money on if you sold it.
Why use new/delete when you have make_shared and make_unique?

Like 99.99999999% of the time you can use those. Like the only situation where I think they might be not enough is for some weird uses of placement new.
I'd love to talk further with you about that.
When I start my own company I will definitely take credit for the business I build. For the past 15 years I have been paid to build things for other people, I have been praised and I have been well paid, but I certainly don't claim credit for the creation of the companies that employed me. Even as a co-founder in my current position, there is a huge difference between coming on in a paid position and taking the risk to build something from nothing.

Developers sometimes get big heads because there is so much dead weight in the corporate world pulling paychecks for bullshit. I get that we build stuff that creates real tangible value. But just as people sometimes misunderstand the challenge of our work and the value that we bring to the table, it's easy to dismiss business-oriented entrepreneurs as just being privileged or having inside connections—all of which may be true, but until you have the stones to go put everything on the line and found your own company you don't have a leg to stand in terms of proclaiming who is bringing what value. Without the founder, nothing happens, period.
>> Only certain religions can use, say, peyote in ceremonies.

The relationship between Native American Tribes and the US government is a bit more complicated than you are indicating here. Native American Tribes are afforded an extra degree of sovereignty and authority, and are actually recognized as "domestic dependent nations". This is where the exemptions for their religious ceremonies come from.
A brilliant goal, but don't get hung up on it. I strongly suspect that writing code is a skill that will permeate through the entire job market over the next decade or two - the ability to write simple code will be as important as good communication or basic maths. Everyone will need it, from secretaries to construction workers to CEOs.

What you are doing is going to be much bigger than just software engineering. And that's awesome. :)
This is neat, but I think if peercasting software which is "good enough" can be built on top of WebRTC data connections (mandatory encryption and forced TCP are at least two drawbacks) I think it will win in terms of public adoption if is inferior in other technical aspects simply because people will end up using it without knowing it.
I don't think the browser is technically able to move the mouse cursor, I imagine that happens at the OS level. Anyone have a counterexample?
This is the correct answer. FDIC insurance is needed because when you give your money to a bank, they turn around and lend it out to other people, so when you want to withdraw they may not be able to collect enough to pay you out.

I suspect when you deposit 10 BTC in Coinbase, they actually just hold it for you. Honestly, given how volatile Bitcoin is, and the general upward trend, it would basically be insane for them to try to invest it in any other assets.
Getting an email from a recruiter is a whole lot different than getting a job offer.
All that happened is that her own words got posted publicly. Any humiliation that occurred was solely of her own doing.
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You're only addressing half my argument. Just because we can invent the wheel once doesn't mean it's a good idea to make the problem it solves overly complicated for no good reason.
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What is the biggest issue right now architecturally?
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What is the first stop in the presidential primary?

New Hampshire. Specifically Dixville Notch, NH[0]

It has massive media coverage because it is the first stop for both parties[1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixville_Notch,_New_Hampshire
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_primary
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It is a mechanism to figure out if a resource is no longer in use and can be released - that sounds like the very definition of garbage collection.
I'm constantly amazed at how hierarchical email return etiquette is. I constantly see people only returning emails to people that they see as more powerful than them. If fact, I've found that it's the engineers that are best at returning emails, and everyone else that is terrible at it. Even when they've requested your participation in the conversation. I have an email triage system. Priority emails I respond to immediately, important emails within the day, and queries within the week. In that way I respond to all my emails. With others, it's just like there's a giant email black hole that my emails fall into - never to be heard from again.
Moov Wearable Fitness Device
I had a professor mention concept like this during microprocessor class. Basically idea comes from efficient organization of CPU cache. Using LRU queue, instead of having 4 way associative cache with each memory location tied to a specific spot in one of those 4 banks. Issue with LRU queue is that you would need to search all memory tag locations to determine if any of them store correct address. That is a boatload of transistors to accomplish it within latencies demanded of CPU cache, so we have cache with only 4 [1] locations to search for each memory address. It looks like micron figured out a way to place some logic close to memory chips to search entire memory for matching pattern. Would be interesting to know how they did it.

[1] Number of locations to search depends on associativity of the cache. I used 4 way associative cache in my example.
Reminds me how much I dislike infinite scrolling.
You can rationally attempt to quantify the effects of peoples wants and desires even if those themselves are not necessarily rational. Note the difference to: "you can rationally attempt to quantify peoples' wants and desires"
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The issue isn't just kids, it is the way these games are designed to prey on peoples' psychology the way gambling does.

See for example the factoid that 0.15% of players spend over 50% of the money in f2p games (and these games make tons of money):

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-02-26-15-percent-...
If you do a search for "Cellular Automata Machines" on Google Scholar, you'll have a good start.

The idea of cellular automata was first developed by von Neumann and his colleagues back in the 1940s.
Pretty cool graphics. But I don't know what to do with or take advantage of it. How do I validate that I am actually understanding what I am suppose to understand?

Idea: Can you make a list of questions, exercises, or problems can be answered by interacting with the model.
THANKS for sharing this. Wouldn't have discovered it otherwise and definitely a positive refresher with new points beyond his TED talk.

For anyone still sitting-on/queuing/water-latering Lessig's main TED talk on money in politics, as a vidder I created a remix of it to help improve engagement and intensity, using soundtracks by Zack Hemsey and a few video clips from other sources for support:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-vGYR8S58
I never really shared it beyond the organizers behind Lessig so I hope someone more useful than the avg youtuber can benefit from it here...
I'm saying that even if it was clear, it probably would have been ignored (maybe even amended) anyway. Control over the nation's currency is so powerful that it is inevitable that someone will try to usurp it.

If you're trying to create a limited government, there are ample reasons to dig a deep moat around money, fill it with poisonous snakes and spiders, and line the walls with Dementors.
Perl works in all the new, and not-so-new, ways.
I was mistaken. I must have clicked through to a page.
The phone isn't for normies like you and I. It's targeted specifically for people in the defense industry who have a need to connect to SIPRnet and other similar defense/government networks. People commenting here think they are prospective customers who will be spied on, but the truth is you will not be permitted to buy or use this phone.
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I don't currently know. The socialized medicine is not the problem. We once had a system, that the full records where hidden from the health funds. But I think, recently this principle was weakened -- but not because of "socialized medicine" but just because of the infamous "electronic health card" -- governments like to play with new technical gadgets (that bring more costs and bureaucracy and no gain).
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Do that and tell us how many people use your language. We'll be waiting.
The OS has APIs that applications like the browser can use for that, e.g.:

Win32: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms64...

X11: http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/input/XWarpPointer.html
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I'm surprised at how many people here seem to like infinite scroll. I personally can't stand it.

Imagine having a book where no matter how much you read, it never seems to end. No milestones, no sense of progress. Just page after page after page.

It just feels... icky.
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But you don't know which reference is the last until you actually get there - that is why you used reference counting in the first place, because you were unable to statically determine which reference will be the last one. So every time you abandon a reference it might be the last one and you might have to spend extra cycles to free the resource. This is no more deterministic than a garbage collector.
So, is the question how can technology greatly reduce the costs of campaigning? Would this allow for campaign finance reform where more restrictions are placed on candidates in return for funds and publicly funded technology tools to enable far smarter campaigns (like what Obama's re-election team did with voter turnout)? Could technology change the costs of voter outreach to a point where the funders become irrelevant?
Wrong. If the Feds try to prosecute someone from Colorado for pot they have now created standing to overrule the Federal law. They can cut their own throats if they like, but that is not in their interest, they are fighting against a rising tide and they want to hold on as long as they can.
Video Camera Features and iPhone 5
Who does not have a camera or camcorder professional can use the iPhone 5 without any fear! This is because the image quality and interaction Apple has always been good, but with the launch of iPhone 5, just got better...
DanBC has the better comment (currently below this one) - I'm not qualified to respond, but it deserves one. Upvote him.

I just wanted to point out that (from their mobile sites) I couldn't find a single story about this on CNN, FoxNews or MSNBC. (4:36pm CST)

Last time I made a fuss about the media I had Godwin's law and Occam's Razor cited in replies/counters as why bias in the press is purely organic in nature. As this story has 1800+ comments on the Guardian, reached the top of Reddit (before it was removed) and is here at the top of HN, I would say that the fact that there is barely (or 'no') coverage of this story points to an invisible hand. To clarify: I didn't say "reporting" I said "coverage."

To not milk what is the most sensational story of the year is against the very link-baity nature of these companies. While I don't watch cable news - I might be VERY wrong in that arena, but something tells me I'm not. I can't attempt to understand the forces at play, but they are there.

In other related (under-covered) news: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/24/what-was-fcc-news...
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Why using CVSS for vulnerability management is nuts. How to fix the vulnerabilities that truly matter, and how to create and measure an effective security practice.
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Sometimes in life we need to be broken down before we can get to the next level. The following is a true story. Early morning, British Columbia, 2005 Just like I did every morning,
Ahh the classic "Look how inappropriately this young woman has dressed in our 22 image all angles spread".
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Ok, thanks for clarifying that.
Only if they completely change how the protocol and the blockchain works so that you can somehow invalidate previously confirmed transactions. Then they need to make everyone upgrade all clients or suffer a hard fork. In the end, this would have to invalidate all the transactions that are dependent on the "evil" ones, reversing a boatload of transactions pretty much arbitrarily throughout the blockchain.

This means that if the purported thieves have transferred their coins to e.g. an exchange, potentially any of the transactions the exchange has made since then could be reversed, cascading from there.
I don't even know how to get a second page of HN results. Never had the need. Infinite scrolling creates a daunting never-ending feeling. I like the sense of accomplishment after scanning/reading through a fixed list of results. Infinite scrolling makes that carrot forever out of reach.
Also, visually, the up page# down could be shown on the right hand side. [http://try.discourse.org/t/discussion-happens-so-much/127/98] and with a bigger font. that's more clear. putting it in the bottom is hard to read.
What have you done to your language that the native syntax for creating and deleting objects is a code smell?!
What??? Java is bad because it can't store data as code? (a) That's stupid (b) That applies to every other language in the world which isn't a lisp or scheme.