skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw a few projects where "developers" were not religious about tech.. they still using ftp for php files deployment, "BUT HEY! THE SHIT IS DONE!" :).
I don't want be sarcastic, but i think every startup team should have at least one engineer who will know what to do, at every iteration of the project.
This is an entirely bogus history. She had a tech co-founder and cut him out. I met him back in 2009. https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=8860093

Why lie about it?
The Untimely Death Of Antisocial App Rando
I'm also 31, and I don't think this article is talking about us. I think it's talking about people who are 15-20 years older than us.

I do agree that I am way more experienced, knowledgeable, and have a much more healthy and mature perspective on business and software engineering than I did when I was 22.
Malaysian Prime Minister: Missing plane crashed in Indian Ocean
I believe the comment was saying it'd be better for everyone else, not that it'd be a viable model for VCs.

> Perhaps better for everyone (but the VCs)

In an abstract way this makes some sense - more competition, more niche & targeted companies to suit more needs, and an income distribution that's much flatter (naturally) across the board. In the real world, it only takes one person (e.g. Bezos) aiming for something bigger to keep this model from ever thriving.
The analogies in the post seem a bit overly complicated to me. Keep it simple.

Let's say I have an empty glass (memory allocation). I know ahead of time that the maximum capacity of that glass is 8 ounces. A buffer overflow is what happens when I overfill that glass. If the amount of water in the glass stays less than 8 ounces, no problem. If it overfills, I don't quite know where it'll go. It might get into something it shouldn't be in (security, program instability, etc).
In Future, Data May Help Predict Even Wars
"What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143036769/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...) covers the story in great detail.
Because that's how you get in the news.
According to Wikipedia they passed 10 million users in August 2013, 90% of which are American women.
I agree with your general point, but PSGL is pretty much never used. I only know of a couple of small indie PSN titles that used it, mostly to ease the porting process from PC. It's way too slow for the big games, who use a lower level API called LibGCM.
Prime Minister of Malaysia: MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
No. MozDef analyzes logs and events that are shipped to its data pipeline by servers and applications.
OK so after you turn off GhostRank and block all new trackers by default, how is it different?
Ehh. I'm not convinced this point really matters. If you ship a great idea first, you shipped it first.. no?
Does anyone have evidence of this claim that doesn't require a LinkedIn account to view?
s/older/experienced/. Grey hair does not engender wisdom.
I never had trouble with AMD
Missing plane lost, Malaysia says
Perhaps a more appropriate word is "rebalancing"; I'm sure that the code has been refactored to some extent, but the balance issues are what are salient to this article.
Samsung design
It's about as relevant as what size shoes she wears.
How KArma should be measured
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How Karma Should Be Measured
Measuring karma was a heavily-debated topic for a while on HackerNews. The goal is to provide some measurement that both accurately measures overall contribution to the community and encourages consistent engagement. Several solutions were discussed and a few were even tried. For example, pg tried to replace the overall karma score with an average score. All three combinations (total only, average only, and both) were juggled around in the top right corner, until eventually the simple total was used.<p>While all these attempts were good ideas, I think there is an even better metric that should be used here: the Sharpe ratio.<p>Risk adjusted returns
When you look to invest in an asset, it's often important to consider the risk of an investment as well as the overall historical returns. Assuming you have no external knowledge of the asset, looking at the volatility of its returns is a pretty good estimate of risk. Ideally, you'd like to see super high returns with no volatility– just a steady stream of money rolling in day after day.1
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New Analysis Indicates Flight 370 Ended in Southern Indian Ocean
Why does it let you lower your offer? e.g. 1st offer is $300, and my 2nd offer is $200. Yet at each stage, the website lowers its price.

The algorithm shouldn't be dropping the price and the bidding process shouldn't let you drop your offers.
That's an IDS, a specific security measure, akin to firewalls, AV, IPS, Vuln Scanners.

MozDef seems to be trying to make a relevant/niche ticketing system to run over the top of a SIEM (Security Information and Event Manager) which in turn runs over the top of IDS/IPS/AV/FW etc etc this allows single view and correlation between events i.e remote login from contracter over VPN using chinese IP address, escalating privileges on a unix box, new admin account on DB, increase in data flow outbound from DB, none of these events is individually significant but together its pretty obvious something might be wrong, thats why you pay good money for a SIEM.

The issue most companies face is they have awesome security intelligence platforms or SIEMS but then have to translate it into awful business process ticketing systems (like Remedy or Jira) not designed to handle such critical and quick moving issues.
Or that people were really happy with the origin..

That's like saying countries that based their "constitutions" off of another countries did it because they don't like that countries constitution. What's more likely is that they really like it but just wanted to tweak something.
Okay, I see that now. I don't understand the inclusion of it though - the main thing that will happen by including a list of "interesting news stories" would be that the user leaves your site quicker b/c they found something interesting. It's an odd choice IMO - if someone wants "news" links, they already know where to go find those, no? By putting it prominently on your home page, you've decreased your focus as a "Dribbble for software devs" and made it "The left side of our page is Dribbbble-like, and the right-side is where you can find some cool links." Which is fine - just understand that you are diminishing your brand/impact when you do that.
> I also avoid anything AMD.

AMD has excellent, free software, in-kernel drivers for all of their current GPUs. If you boot a linux distribution with a recent kernel the graphics drivers, including accelerated 3d, will "Just work". No need to install anything.

The performance is also close to the Catalyst, proprietary drivers: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_radeo...
I second this. And if you decide you want to go really in-depth on recommender systems, I suggest taking a look at "Recommender Systems Handbook" (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-0-387-85819-7). It's basically a collection of scholarly articles on on the topic, so the approach is academic. But it's also the best resource I'm aware of for understanding what's state-of-the art across a range of aspects of recommender systems. (Also, although the price is a somewhat hair-raising $179, there are PDF copies of the whole thing floating around that are easy to find with a google search.)
It crashed in the southern Indian ocean. The media circus around this has been very undignified. I hope they are able to find the black box to end the speculation and give the families some closure.
Connery seems to make his mark by being a professional douchy complainer. Just saying take whatever he says with a dose of "if I didn't write it, it sucks" type attitude.
I overall agree, except for one important caveat: one of the main incentives for high-tech investment in France is the "crédit d'impôt recherche", "tax break for research". It's very effective, as it pays ~ 50% of salaries + charges for employees performing R&D duty.

But the fiscal services systematically target those who take this tax break, and it's pretty random whether they'll cancel it retroactively, up to 3 years after you received it. For startups, which often spend most of their money on R&D salaries, such a recall is often fatal. And qualifying for it makes or breaks many business plans. So it adds a considerable risk to an activity that's more than risky enough, in a country that already suffers from risk averseness.

Unfortunately, the department of taxes & finances a.k.a. "Bercy" is where the best graduates from ÉNA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_d%27admini...] go, and ÉNA is also the alma mater of most French politicians: finance civil administrators often control politicians more than the other way around, so the latter don't seem capable to control the formers' destructive power.
+1 for jQuery: All calls works in older browser.
Be nice to have a site one could go to for layman explanations for common situations.
Without the prudes the word would lose its power, so maybe we should keep them around.
If it was real-time and included other shoppers and the threat of not accepting meant the threat of loss... then maybe you have something.

Otherwise the artificiality of bargaining when the bottom is effectively predetermined seems like a waste of typing.
What tool was used to create this graph?
Does anyone know?

I often find the need to create such a diagram.

I am hoping the answer is not Photoshop.
Hydrocarbon based fuels are 1850's tech. It boggles my mind people even still use it.
I don't understand, do you mean that the stats I provided are based on data usage? In that case you are not correct. They are all StatCounter web hits: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile+tablet+console-browser-ww-...
From an ease of use standpoint, maybe, but from a "less-likely-to-be-compromised" standpoint? TC every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Big-company encryption software cannot be trusted anymore. (If it ever could have been...)
> There's not much point comparing working conditions between Europe and the US when one of these places has widespread unemployment and there is literally rioting on the streets, as was the case not very long ago.

Which continent are you talking about now? Sounds like both?
Look up their stats on quantcast and compete, tells a different story.
Energy Levels under Ketosis – Fats, Carbs, and ATP
On your last paragraph, we agree.

Moreover, your a), b) say some of what I think better than I said it.

Otherwise you have a good critique of traditional
statistics.

On traditional statistics, I voted with my research
and did work that was distribution-free, also
multidimensional, unusual for distribution-free. I did wonder
if there could be another way, and what you wrote
about Vapnik suggests that there can be.

This thread now is much deeper into the analysis of
machine learning algorithms than I noticed in
what I saw of Stanford professor Ng's course and
several books and papers in PDF I downloaded and
scanned. I would guess the level
of Vapnik's work would be that of a graduate seminar
and not a ugrad computer science course and that the
mathematical prerequisites would filter out nearly
everyone with a ugrad CS degree and nearly all
their professors. Why? From some of my experience getting
a paper of mine reviewed, measure preserving totally
blew away several editors in chief of famous
CS journals and chaired professors of CS at
famous research universities; one such person wrote
me "Neither I nor anyone on my board of editors
has the mathematical prerequisites to review your
paper.", and a second such person wrote me
a similar remark. The math prerequisites were not so
advanced, say, just at the level a graduate course
in probability via, say, Loeve or Neveu and fast
and easy reading for, say, E. Cinlar, P. Billingsley,
L. Breiman, J. Doob, A. Karr, E. Dynkin, etc. But the paper was 'CS' because it
was on a CS problem. For AI, I cooked up the paper
to improve on some of our work with 'expert systems'
for the problem. I have to suspect that work
in machine learning that needs some of Loeve
or functional analysis from, say, Rudin will
not be popular in CS departments.

This thread has become a good start on a grad seminar.

Just now I can't follow up on the leads here;
instead I have to finish off the code for
two Web pages and get my new Web site live.
Would be interested in hearing what data they've collected that pushed them to make that declaration. Everything I've heard so far this morning is that there is mounting evidence, but nothing concrete.

Given the length of time the families (and the rest of the world) have been left hanging, I certainly hope there is slam-dunk evidence that this is the case, and that amendments and alterations won't be forthcoming.
Meta question detected, I must agree. But it's also very crude and shallow compared to physical interaction.
The examples in the answers show that it's not true "you don't quite know where it'll go" - you (or rather, an attacker exploiting buffer overflow) know exactly where it will go and that it won't just make a random mess, it can be used to make precise, targeted alterations to program execution. That's what makes it dangerous.
That's nice, its still a rebrand of MacZFS and is still missing some key features (like TRIM).
http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive :).
The future of AngularJS [video]
Gibson's "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed" comes to mind.
What did you ate? Your bedroom was stack with food supplies for weeks? Or is it that someone cooked and you had some minimum amount of interaction with him?

Another difference is that you have seen difference between day and night. Once you have computer, you can get music or games or almost any kind of sensory you would need.

Another difference is that you had control over it. You could go out once it you started to be personally uncomfortable and you probably started because you felt a need for some solitude.

Anyway, when I had to work alone for long time, it had similar effects to my brain as it had on yours.
Maybe it's possible to pre-load a lot of textures and stuff since PC GPU:s has so much RAM
Looks great, good job - I signed up.
From reading this, I get the feeling that the author has had very focused exposure to "front end" web application development. Particularly from his view on server side rendering vs. client side rendering. For one, his bullet points are hacks to support javascript heavy web applications. Something that most sites really don't need and could easily find antithetical to other goals (Search Engines anyone?).
And she takes credit for it personally.

Gotta promote the team members or it looks like they're replaceable cutouts.
Slide 8: no one cares. Slide 9: not interesting. Slide 10: 30k monthly uniques. What happened there? That is all I really care about.
Some things will screw you, especially if it has cutting-edge hardware. My last laptop had switchable-graphics (Intel and Nvidia graphics cards), it took a few years for that to be reasonably supported. Of course that's what I expected.
Very interesting, although someone claims the history to be bogus.

I currently have a website that gets over 500k Uniques per month and over 5m pageviews a month, so it's interesting to see what the future could hold!
How to Move Your Marketing From Hunter To Gardening
From the statement:

Inmarsat, the UK company that provided the satellite data which indicated the northern and southern corridors, has been performing further calculations on the data. Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370’s flight path. Based on their new analysis, Inmarsat and the AAIB have concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and that its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.

Looks like the data was there all along but unextracted.
The slides say she got a team...?
Perhaps it's the lack of certain types of data? If they've had cooperation from all countries within flyable range and searched every landing strip and airport by satellite (and surely the USA has quietly put their spytech in operation here), then is it possible to conclude that the plane must have landed in the water somewhere?
> I don't expect people living in a world where criminals can be "cured" will condemn our use of prisons either, because we can't "cure" criminals yet!

Sure, but there are prisons and prisons: based on what I saw, I would very much prefer to be in a prison in Sweden than in the US or in France (to select rich countries where prison SHOULD be better).
Check out my Cubby example. I saw the accepted answer and the others and then added mine. Thought the others were still pretty technical or too long. [http://security.stackexchange.com/a/53912/36538]
I don't if you are talking about the same risk issue or not: for example, I submit a lot of links every day and 99% of them have 0 extra votes. This decreases my karma but I think those links are interesting for the HN community and I take the risk to post them.

It would be really difficult to quantify the risks: I am a bot or a human? are these links really interesting?
3D Printed Drone Army Could Have Found Malaysian Airliner, Claim Researchers
While it seems extreme, I'd love to see more public officals put them selves up for similar 'stunts': spend time in a prison, live on minimum wage, use a bicycle for your daily commute, be tazered, experience waterboarding.

When people can speak with knowledge about some of the horrors and dangers that we put our populations in, then I'd feel a lot more comfortable, and trust them to be more engaged.
but dismissing this as a non-issue is disingenious.

It is a non-issue if you have to opt in. Also, they make money off of GhostRank data by 'consulting' on how to better present ads to encourage selective turn-off of adblocker
One of the most common theories floated around about why younger programmers are so "preferred" is that older programmers tend to get stuck doing things a certain way or not adapting to new languages or programming paradigms.

The big issue is that you see this with people in any profession, and of any age. People naturally stick with what's comfortable to them, even in their twenties. It could be that tech is such a rapidly changing field that this gets so much attention, but applying this to a certain age demographic in a single profession is only doing tech a disservice.
> punchgirls

That's an odd name.
U.S. Scurries to Shore Up Spying on Russia
It's ever since the pg incident and reinforced by the github gate, the valley is in a "see we welcome women, women are great and we've always loved them" mode. Folks are already calling it "gender washing."
> I have long told recruiters that I'd need something in the $250k

I wish more people were like you.

Disclaimer: I do the same.
You and this LinkedIn user don’t know anyone in common

:(
Does anybody know the context in which this lecture was given? It looks like some kind of spa or new-age retreat to me.
Thank you HN for instantly voting this up to the top.

A woman builds a big business from scratch and rather than wondering why it took so long for her to get funding we instantly latch on to a second-hand report that she might've had a falling out with someone before her site even started taking off.

Ignoring the fact that this isn't incompatible with the presentation at all or that there's plenty of male founders who we know pulled shitty moves in the beginning; why exactly did we vote this up this quickly?
The CMOS battery often has nothing to do with BIOS settings, on many modern laptops it's stored in the BIOS flash memory, with no such reset sequence available.

If properly secured, physical hacking is not as easy as it used to be.
Dbinbox – an inbox for your Dropbox
Which is a great thing, due to the massive lack of female founders in the tech world.

Males and females look at things differently, too, so there must be huge markets for female founders, who really understands women much better than males does.

This was a perfect example, too, as shopping is something the female population really... Excels at. :)
And no self respecting tech news site will admit its wrong once it's got that ad revenue
On my desktop, a certain desktop produced by a popular linux system reseller manufactured a couple of years ago, modern ubuntu seems to just reboot the machine when I select 'suspend'. So I leave it on all the time. An annoyance, for sure. I have hopes that it will work better in the next LTS release of ubuntu.

On my T430 laptop, suspend seems to work when I close the lid just fine.
Thomas Piketty
Are you kidding? The ledger analogy is perfect for laypeople!
The cracking was the game. The actual game starting was just the victory cut-scene.
Can anyone comment on the storage overhead of JSONB key names? One of the worst things about MongoDB's BSON format is that 8M instances of the following record:

{
"user": "test",
"isValid": true
}

will at a minimum cost 8M * (4 + 7) simply due to field name overhead. MongoDB isn't smart enough to alias common field names, and this has remained as one of its biggest problems.

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-863
You can do pretty radical modifications of code too if you're willing to move it somewhere else to get the room to enlarge things. It turns out that almost all x86 instructions are position independent; there's only a few that are. Then you jump from the original location to the patch, run the patch, and jump back.

Gratuitous plug - that was my doctoral research (among other things, hot-patching in safety checks on a running Apache binary), and I wouldn't mind seeing it get used for a good purpose. The code's available at www.dyninst.org.
MH370's flight ended in southern Indian Ocean: PM – 3/24/2014 – Flight Global
For the WSJ, access doesn't pay off
A safer Bitcoin exchange
Turkish Finance Minister Defends Twitter ban measure
Symfony2 Guzzle bundle for cURL API calling
Let's hope it becomes one of those 'fake it until you make it' stories then...
It's also pretty common in headlines for all sorts of demographic characteristics. For example, just taking a random example from the HN search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4830140 ("22-Year-Old Irish-Born Founder")
I got to meet Ted Nelson a couple of years ago when he gave a talk at a designer/developer conference in Brookyln [0]. He was talking about hypermedia document transclusion, and directed graph mapping of hyperlinked documents. I was one of the ~5 people in the room who got really excited. The other 200 or so... well, let's say they didn't get it.

A lot of the things these guys talk about are really, really abstract concepts, and it takes a special kind of creativity to realize what a big deal they could be. Since most people don't have that (and since it's even rarer among people who market products)... we get repackaged word processors.

[0] https://brooklynbeta.org/
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One project I've used in the past is https://github.com/JerrySievert/mongolike

It provides a Mongo-like API directly on Postgres, using normal tables/columns.
I've used it in some projects in the past on some projects and it's fairly staightforward, and makes it easy to port an app from Mongo->Postgres.
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"This publisher has not implemented Quantcast Measurement. Data is estimated and not verified by Quantcast"
I think HN has a very low tolerance for bullshit, no matter what your background or situation is. If you had a tech co-founder, then parted ways with them before getting funding, then advertise yourself has being solo with no co-founder people are going to call you on it.